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TEN PAGES.
SCHANTON. AUOUST 13, W.
The pitch fork statesman of South
Carolina denounces lioston in "the
licad centre of ult devilment " If lie
had the proper persons In mind, Till
man may !iao lieen more than half
tlKlit.
The Dreyfus Case an Object Lesson
I In Legal Methods.
fne AnRlo-Saxon hko enn well af
ford to ntud tin piocesset pursued In
the Drefus tilal nnd dcrlvo from the
Htudj new appreciation of AiirIo
StiNon luiispiudence. t'utslile of the
boidereau and leiu-t doslei (how
much of whli h Is kciiuIiic anil how
inuih forKed noboelj appear to know)
there has been, In the pioeeedlUBM of
this calcinated cuse. of evldenie as r
understand the term, piactlcally noth
ing at all. A number ot witnesses
hae been culled Thej base liui
lailRUed the couit at ple.isuie or
letlfd shafts of wlttleism 01 innllio at
Miiious pii-onapcs concerned In the
case with scnnliiK imriunltj . thrj
iinr nif.slonateH nlllrnied their belief
In the :il-onei s buIU ot just as em
phatlcillv set foith their cunlldcncp In
his mnocpiici. but of cleai, tatiKlblc
evidence, ot een ot tnlilj well .itlthoti
tliated circumstantial evldctue, we
havpsfen mention of llttb in mini
In nil Anglo-HuMiii lomt the pils
oner ciimsrcd with nlme is pievumed
to be Innocent and given the benefit of
cyel J doubt until pioof of his guilt has
been adduicd In s-ullklent cleatniss to
iiinvliue twelve- mm thecuetlially his
peets i:in In an AiiKlo-S.ixon couit
maitlal the jurv Is absolutely lmp.u
tinl In attitude and iiumncr cIuiIuk the
mrlnvr of the ildence and the oppor
tltnltj fm the slftlliR of testimony Is
Mitimlly unlimited on either side, while
offensive peisonalltles 01 abuse ot in
llldunls riming the piogiess of
the trial Is not toleiatid Hut In
the rufus ease we ate Heated to
a speetiule liseinbllnK nothliipr so
much us a mi lodiama In whlih the
Miiious actois aie each yilnjhiK a p.ut
with theii ees on the s.illcilis One
ila the bulges Incline tnvv.it d the
lirlsoiier, the net It is noted among
the fieo.uentiis of the mmt and vni
louslj (omniented upon that the judges
aie disposed to fawn the ptosecution,
nnd fioni bout to hour nubile juedii
tioti as to the ultimate etdlct flui
tuates with each new ciriumstani e In
i motional development, while of the
substantial thins which we call ml
denit theie Is as we have said, not a
bit huge enoUEh to be visible unriet a
mlscioscope
What is one man's food may be an
other man's poison and it by no means
Inflows that the I. itln race Is prepared
to make a suci essful adaptation of the
foundation ptltulplcs of Anglo-Sixon
juilspiudeiue Still, the expansive
ptopettles of this juilsprudcnce as ic
waled In hlstoiy tluough Its success
ful establishment among vailous races
and In dlrfeient climes givu liope that
It may In time llnd lodgment, oven
among the Latins. And It Is ceitalnly
nesded bj them.
Anothet proof that petullar Ideas aio
hemming; moie and mote prevalent Is
furnished bv the case of the tetlied
iiimv olllcet who tefuses to accept
J.'.OOO a jeat from tho government.
A Spanish View of the Amorican
Army.
The Washington Post pi hits a tians
l.itlon of the speech 111 which Lieuten
ant General Pando lecentlv defended
before a sectet session of the Spanish
mites his mllltaiy actions In Cuba It
contains some points which aie ot In
tel est to the Ameilcan people
At flu beginning of our wai with
Si aln. Pando and Hlanco had a dis
agreement ovet the pinper policy to
be pursued by the Spanish fences In
una. Hlanco wanted to stiengthen
Havana tit the expense of the lest of
the Island Pando wanted to defend
the Island as a whole, drawing sup.
plies from tho American continent by
means of filibustering expeditions.
Savs the latter. "I considered the
l'nlted States, as a n.itlun, vetj- strong
in some spheres ot life, but as a mili
tary power much lnferloi to Spain I
hnri based this knowledge upon a pio
found study which I had made during
the past twenty yeais of the military
power of the United States, having
sent for that puipose to that country
many competent poisons, Including na
val engineer otlkei, and seveial pen
plo at my own expense, who had pre
pared for me special data, and kept
me carefully Informed ot every change
and movement In military affairs.
Thtough Information furnished by
these sectet emissaries, I stated, and
will stand by my statements, that tho
United Statis had not an army, and
would never have an army without u
complete nnd radical change In their
organic life, and their deeds have dem
onstrated that I am right. I still
stand by my opinion and statements
f cumulated long ago"
"A little later ho said: "It Is true, the
Yankees vanquished ua but their vie
toiy was not because of out feeble
ness as a military nation. It wan be
cause we were completely disorganized.
The responsibility for otlr defeat JIcs
with ourselves; not alono with out
geneials, with our military men, but
with the government as well. It was
my opinion, which I still hold today,
that had tho war continued, we would
have been tho victors, und tho United
States would have been vanquished, a
fallen foe at our feet. I believe It.
The fault rests, In a great nieasute, In
. tha Impossibility ot organizing and
iductlng a campaign under tho au
islon of a directing force at such
o great distance from tho field of opera
tions I do not believe that an atmy
can exist, be It the army ot Spain, of
the United States, or of any other na
tion of the world, whore the chief of
the nt my, the effective and absoluto
chief. Is the secretaiy of wat. How
would It be possible for a secretary ot
war tu direct from Madrid two laln
palgtis, one In the Occident and one In
the Orient, with waters Immeasurably
dividing, and conditions so variant
from out own? In the natural course
of events mlstnkes arose and disagree
ments were Inevitably engendered be
tween the secretaiy of war and the
commander In chief, ns was the case
with all the generals who were sent
out to Cuba, because the military ofll
rers In the Island, as well as those
away from the Island, desired a con
tinuance ot the war. Vv'e (ould Bee the
weakness of the enemy clenier than
j ott, and when peace was nearly at
hind, we begged for and would have
suffered one month more of war, and
had the war been continued four weeks
mote, wi- could have dictated our own
terms of peace to the United States"
General Pando spent the last weeks
of the war In organizing expeditions In
t'anndn. Mexico nnd even In the United
States designed to smuggle supplies
Into Cuba for the Spanish hi my lie
savs he had arrangements made for
fourteen ship loads of aminiMiltlou and
other ntcessniy niateilals. together
with plans fullv matured for lunnlng
the Ameilcan blockade, when the au
thotltlis at Madrid, against his pet
sonal protest, nnd, In fact, against the
unanimous volte of the m my, decided
to sign the protocol and bring the war
to an Ingloiious end. Pando's speech
Is pathetic In its helpless protest
agilnst elvlllnn Intermeddlng with
mllltnry nftairs and nganst the coi
tuptlon and Incompetency of Spanish
civil ndmlnlstiatlon Its note of wound
ed ptlcle Is also somewhat touching;
but In spite of the twenty years' study
which he confesses to have made of
American mllltarv conditions It Is pos-slblc-
that Ooneral Pando underrates
the lecuperatlve and the adaptive ca
pacities of the Ameilcan soldier We
bail, It is true, let out arm organiza
tion go to seed and neglected almost
every piecaution which a military na
tion would take, jet the enormouB re
set ve enetgy of out people accom
plished mliaclcs when the time came,
and If Pando will htudj tho new Phil
ippine utmj he will petcelve a differ
ence between It and the chaotic. Ill-fed
and disorganized fence which, In spite
of mismanagement nt lieadutu ters, by
the sheer biavety ot Its human units,
took the lortlllcatlons aiound Santiago
and compelled Spain to suricndei.
The United States Hoird of Geogra
phic Names, which fixes the olllclal
spellings for the government, is at
odds with the piesldent over the spell
ing of Porto Ulco. The Hoard demands
that the old Portuguese manner,
Puerto," be tetalned, the president
Insists upon Americanizing the spell
ing as well as the Island itself. The
countrj stands by Its president.
Noith Pole Hunting Does It PnyP
Walter Wellman's ictiiin to Not way
fioni North Point e.xploiatlons, phjsle
ally cilppled pet haps foi life, after a
setles of hurish!H which cannot bo
tegaided as othet than a costly pi Ice
to pay for the new knowledge of b.ir
len ico fields and polar fauna gained,
leialls the expression of opinion which
Mr. Wellman made the day befote he
set sail on this visionary pursuit of
the unattainable
'I have no quairel,," said he, "with
the people who think Hip quest for the
not th polo u foolish and useless one,
who enn see no good to come from it,
who regard evety man who attempts
It as a hate-bialned chap who would
nun h better remain at homo and at
tend to his bie.nl and buttct getting,
as othei sensible pel sons do Theie
ate people who can see nothing to be
gained for humanity In tho wilting of
a gieat poem or tiagedj or song; and
what is the effort to reach tho noith
pole but the wilting of a poem of ad
ventute, of coinage, of conquest of
the difficulties of niture"' It must be
granted that tho discovery of the pole
will not open up new mines or fields
of agtlculture or opportunity for the
exploitation of inllwajs and trolleys,
but I for one would be sony to think
these are the only worthy objectives
of man's activity. I prefer adherence
to the doctrine so well expressed by
that greatest of all arctic tiavelers,
lit Nansen, that It Is beneath tho dig
nity of man to poimit 3,000,000 squat e
miles of the earth's surfce the eaith
that was given him for his home, thai
he might know and master all of It
to go unexploted."
Hut why the pole alvv a s the pole?
Why will not some other spot In the
unexplored region do Just as well? To
this Mr. Wellman frankly replied: "It
happens that man has for centuries
sought the mathematical point which
matks the northern termination ot the
uxlfc ot our earth. Innumerable lives
have been ilsked nnd a few of them
sacrificed In the search. There have
giovvn up about tho quest for tha pole
a tradition, a literature, a sentiment,
a spirit of ilvalry between the nations,
und If anyone Imagines tho search Is
going to stop till tho objcctlvo point
Bhall have been t cached he docs not
know human nature. This Is why tho
pole Is of greater lmportanco than any
other spot In the unexploicd region
It Is considered the center of the un
known, the tj.itcul point whose char
acteristics mark those of all the re
gions Ijlns about To reach It will be
a triumph of sentiment and adventure
a victory of man over the dllllcultles
of nature. It will bo a service to sci
ence, too, for philosophers agiee that
there are problems concerning our
eaith which can never be solved till
tho axis Is touched.
"I will frankly admit," ho added,
"that tho value to science of the rtls
covoiy of tho pole may be overrated.
Hut It may be underruted. One never
knows till ho gets there what Informa
tion of prlmo valuo Is to bo had at a
temoto point. It Is ceitalnly tn Just
this spirit of demanding to know, and
of persisting In the search, learning
ull that In to be learned, whether at
tho depths ot thu sea, the topi of moun
tains, down in the earth or up In the
skies, from the deposit! of geological
cycles or the comparative study of tho
age-olcl fossilized remains, that man
has, step by step nnd little by little,
built up the sciences which are gradu
ally giving him mastery ot all the
earth und Its surroundings, Its prin
ciples. Its materials and Its multitudin
ous scctets. It seems to me there Is
quite ns much Justification for an effort
to ascertain what exists nt the top of
our own earth ns there is for building
great telescopes with which to pry
Into the secrets ot worlds beyond. The
latter is simply costly, while tho form
er Is both expensive and hazardous.
Hut what a fine lot of lords ot crea
tion, masters of the world, we should
be were we to stop for that!"
This is n plausible argument, and
since It rests mainly on sentiment
there Is no positive way to demolish It,
The wot Id Is made up of vailous peo
ple, some of whom need adventure ns
much as otheis need food and sleep.
We need not quarrel with them, but
taking a practical view vvc must admit
that to date north pole hunting has
not paid. Judged by results It Is a
disappointment and a failure. What
It may be Is, of course, entirely conjeo
tutal. In Wellman's case, Just think
what a lot of warm American history
has been made since the June morning
one jenr ago when ho left his com
putable post as Washington corre
spondent of the Chicago Times-Herald,
on the edge of tho flare-up with
Spain, nnd set oft for the lee fields of
Trail,! Josef land. And of all this his
tory Wolbnan, the newspaper man
nnd expert chronicler of contempor
aneous events, was at the time In com
plete Ignorance, besides having a brok
en leg into the bargain.
Uvery man to his fancy, but this
faniy Is not our's.
A Baltimore physician has Invented
a contrivance lor banging criminals
which he claims will never fall to
break the neck of the subject and la
far supetlor to the old-time seven-loop
hangman's coid. This discovery is
timely nnd should bo well iccelved in
the world of science. The inventors
have In past been spending so much
time In the creation of car brakes and.
bicycle attachments that they have
neglected fields of Invention where per
haps they tould be of real set vice.
England does not seem to take much
stock In the announcement that the
Tiansvaal government will grunt lim
ited franchises In the gold fields. This
suspicion of the good Intentions of the
Hoeis may have been moused by the
Intimation that the usual cotporatlon
couitesies would be expected In return.
Senatlr Tillman cheerfully expresses
the opinion that all Republicans should
be hanged for stirring up the negroes
of the South. It goes without saying,
of couise, that the shilanthioplc sena
tor believes that the negroes should
ulso be hanged.
Now that the Sampson-Schley con
troversy has been silenced, tho coun
li j Is threatened with au Otis-Hale
debate.
Colonel 1'dty du Clam shows an ln
ellnutlun to give the whole snap uway.
The Van Wyck bootnlet failed to ai
llvu at the "teething" use.
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus,
The Tribune Astrologer.
Astrolabe Cast. 4.1b a. m , for Saturdu,
August 13, liJ'J.
j) StSP
A child uorn on tills da) will probablj
bo uble to detect a smile on the counte
nance of ex-Major Uallej when the lat.
tei leads thu latest uuvvs from city hall.
'iheius moro genuine poetry In a piece
of well baked peach plu at this season
than nt ull the gushing rhjmtrt concern
ing nitdsumniei uiijs.
Muny a nuin who is wrapped up in him
self would unroll at once should he leal
lzo what u small packago he makes.
Almost every woman would rather bo
fashionable than comfortable
A woman who does not Insist upon hiv
ing the lust word Is generall) suffering
flora throat affection
A sharp man is often noted for blunt
conversation.
Ajacchus' Advice.
Do not take too many liberties with the
man who dois not want to light.
COMING HOME.
The admiral's flug Is at the peak,
The snowy sheets are spread, (
The last salute has died away,
Thu last uoocl.bje Is sulci,
Aiross tho Indian ocean
Ills flugshlp rides tho foam.
The message speeds beneath the sea
That "Dewej's coming home!"
On hills unci plains, where dwells the
Past.
And Hlstoiy had her birth,
l'BH't und Asia, drowse and dream
The undents of tho eurth!
And jet their aged cjes are turned
To senn once moro tho wave.
W hero high aloft his banner floats
Tho pennant of the brave!
Tho Red sea's waters welcome him;
Winds ftom Atubla sweep
Across tho sands to greet htm;
And, rousing from his sleep,
Tho Sphinx beside the pjrarnlds
Lifts his crave, eves to see
Par off i strargo new banner float
Tho Unslgn of tho Tree!
Ho skirts tho storied Isles of Oreece,
And In the starlit right
Ojlmpus for Olympla weurs
His crown of silver light;
And from tho desolated shores,
Mourning her stilcken sons,
Spain hears the admiral's proud silute
Prom grim Gibraltar's guns!
Then straight away the flagship sails,
Due west nnd hnmcvvnrd bound.
A nation waits jou admiral,
The hours movo slowly round.
The harbors gunB will thunder
And the martial drums will beat;
Hut bow jour thanks and hasten
Por home. and rest arc sweet!
Tho bugle's quirk "assomblj" sounds
Prom mountain penks again,
And heroes ot a hundred years
Rlso at tho thrill lefraln!
Onco more nt hard-fought ilennlngton
Stark answers to tho call,
And Warner's men fall In again
To greet the admiral.
Mncdonough's Yankee tars will mnn
His phantom fleet agnin,
And In your honor rldo once more
Tho waters of Chumplatn;
While autumn from the mountain crests
Flings her brlsht banners free,
In welcome to our udmlral
Tho Hero of the Sen!
Horry Ripley Dorr, In Dpston T'an
scupi.
HUMAN NATURE STUDIES
Ancient but Good.
A j on tl, fill graduate of the Harvard
Law school went out west and opened
an ofllco In n small frontier town. 1IH
first client was a man uccused of steal
ing a horse. The case cutne to trial be
fore an old Judge and a Jury composed of
bewhlskered ranchers, and, though theto
was no doubt of the guilt of the defend
ant, he had a regiment of friends who
swore be was fortj miles nwaj' when the
horse was stolen This evidence tho
prosecution was unable to break down,
and the joung lavvjer plumed himself on
a. certain acquittal Tim Jury retired,
nnd flvo minutes luter lame Inck Into
court,
"Have vou ngrecd on a verdict?' asked
tho Judge.
"We have," answered tho foreman, as
he shifted a can he carried on his hip
"Wo find the defendant not guilty, an'
recommend the defendant's luwjnr, owln'
to his ou tb an' Innocence, to the mercy
of the court "
Agulnaldo's Boastfulness.
Hven General Agulnaldo has acknowl
edged the nbllltj of General Punstcili us
n lighter, sajs the Topeku State Journal
Not long ago tho latter received the
following message from the president of
the Philippine republic.
"You did splendidly at Unluniplt, but
regardless of jour superl Hive lighting
proclivities, i am going to take Pan Per
nnndo from your troops on next Thurs
day night "
Doubtless General Ptmston chuckled nt
tho choeolute-faeed Imp's midiicltv Anv.
wnj, when the rebels, advancing on three
sides of tho eltj, ciimo within range ot
tho Yankee outposts, thev received a de
cided! v wurm greeting The "lawn fete,"
OS Colonel l.lttlc culled It, lasted nbout
two hours, when tho Insurgents retired,
leaving possibly 0i dead unci wounded
on the Held. Tho American losses in
both killed and wounded would not ex
ceed twe nty-flvc.
The Frog Had Disappeared.
A good storj" Is current Just nnw In
London concerning that burned univer
sity professor, Sir John Sanderson, who
was knighted tho other day by the
Queen, nnd ns tho title, has been repeated
In certain of tho scientific papers, 1 sup
pose we may take It us having the uu
thotlty of truth Sir John Is very nb-sent-mlnded
It seems that a week or so
ngo his assistants left him In his labora
tory wrapt In cnntemplutlon ot a frog,
of which the heart was exposed Reside
him was a sandwich which was to con
stitute his lunch When the assistants
returned thej- found Mr John still ab
sorbed In contemplation, not of the frog,
but of the sandwich The frog hid'mjs
terlouslv disappeared -Mnrepilso do Ifon
tenoj, In Washington Post,
A Fable for Croker.
There once was a candidate for con
gress out In a frontier and he wus sere
naded tho night he was placed In nomi
nation In acknowledgement of the
compliment ho niaclo a spcich In which
ho was at pains to explain Just where ho
stood on leading political questions of the
hour. In concluding his somewhat ex
tended remarks, ho said. "Such, my
fellow -citizens, are my earnest convic
tions in refereneo to great national nnd
stuto Issues. I have only to add thit If
thej' don't suit thev tan be changed"
We nro not sure whut this fame icacn
es, but Richard Croker m.ij Hko to cut
It out nnd paste It In his hat New York
Mall and Uxpress
His Tribute.
A storv Is told ot nn old German who
never failed to attend a m IMiborhood fu
neral, if able to do so, and who alvvujs
sought an opportunity at tho side of the
grave to sptak a word of eulogy for tho
deceased On one occasion, ut the burial
of a townsman of rather unsavorv repu
tation, tho old German wus present and
the other nttendants wondered whut good
thing he could sav of tho dead rinully,
going foiward and looking down Into the
grave, tho old man remarked, "Well, he
was a good sehmoker, anjhow "
MEBELY TN JEST.
An Opinion.
Little Han J Pa, what's an Innocent
bystander'
Pa A bltmo fool sererallj. Chicago
Tlmes-Herald.
Neighborly Charity.
Mrs. Dlx When my husband nnd I
quairel wo never allow the children to
witness It.
Mrs. Hlx Win-, how In tho world do
j ou manage It?
Mrs Dlx Wo ilwuvs send them out of
doors so they can bear nothing.
Mrs Hlx Oh. nnw I und'" stand. I've
often wondered why jour children weio
on tho street nil the time Detroit Jour
nal. A New Dilemma.
"Did I hear jou laj. conductor, that
tho locomotive was at the rear end of tho
tialn?"
"Yes, ma'am We've pot n locomotive
at each end It takes an extra one to
push us up the mountain "
"Dear, dear, what shall I do' I'm al
ways so sick If I rldo with mj back to
the locomotlvo'" Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A Gentle Snicnsm.
Jones You never hem of a servant girl
getting struck bj lightning
Brown How do jou nccount for it?
Jones Thej 're never In ono pluco long
enough Columbus Journal
The Uses of the Flag.
"Do jou understand the uso of a flag
of truce?" Inquired tho man who was
Btudylng the Philippines.
"Certalnlj," was the answer "It's very
valuable In getting tho enemy to conio
near enough to bo shot ut "Washington
Star.
She Had a Reason.
"I thought the doctor said she ought to
go to the seashoro "
"Ho did, hut tho slego of sickness she
had made her so thin that Mio sulci sli
knew- she'd look like u perfect flight In a
bathing suit, t-o sho went to the moun
tains Instead." lit ookljn Kagle
The Force of Habit.
"How are jou getting on with your
automobile?' asked Miss Cnnjene
"Well," answered WlllloyWlshlngton, "I
can run the machine nil right, but It will
tlmebo a long time before 1 can get over
saying "Keddup nnd 'whoa' to It."--Wnhslngton
Star.
Of Courso Not.
Upper Whut do jou think of Cumfcr's
new venture?
Chipper What Is ho doing now?
Upper He has Invested In a new wax
works aggregation nnd Is traveling about
the country with It.
Chipper Pshaw ' Of course he hasn't n
living show. Richmond Dispatch.
Which OneP
Treddj-," said the teacher, "jou have
spelled the word 'rabbit' with two t's.
You must leave cno of them out."
"Yes. ma'am," replied Frtddy; "which
one?"-Tlt-nits.
Down On Him.
wns nil right, but
"Delia
I got her
mother down on me."
"How?"
"Well, she siys I stood nnd held th
screen door open until the house got full
of nits." Detroit Prce Press.
A Man of Letters.
"The joung fellow who fixed the al-'hn-
bet In ltd present shape," said Itlvus,
"must havo had a strong dlstiust of
greenhorns."
"Why?" asked Rrooks.
"Ilecnuse he arranged It so he could nl
wajs keep on I on the J "Chicago Trlb-une.
PENN'S SUCCESSFUL DOCTORS.
Prom the Philadelphia Rulletln.
The result of the examinations by the
Stnte Hoard of Medical Hxumlners,
through which alone graduates In medi
cine in ij bo permitted to practice In tho
stuto of Pennsylvania, hns Just been nn
nounced The t'nlv orslty of Pennsylva
liln. makes the sime exttnoidlnnrj' show
ing In 1S.09 as wus the cuso In 1S0S. Of ono
hundred and fiirty-thre'o students exam
ined, only one fulled, und the general nv
erngo of the wholo nunibc r was S6 an uv.
eruge far In excess of that obtained by
students of nny other Bchool of medicine
The graduating class of tho Bchool of
Medicine nt tills institution numbered 21f,
of whom nbout 133 resided In Pennsjlva-
nla. The fact that some men from other
states will remain hero to practice .their
profession or to he-come resident phjsl
clans In tho various hospitals accounts
for the grtatcr number who took the ex
amination than who reside here.
Tito fact that tho 1'nlverslty of Pennsjl.
vnnla has furnished nbout thlrtj-four per
cent of tho entire number of candidates
for tho boird's certificate nnd les than
two per cent, of the number of failures
makes the record ull the more remark
able, especlallj when the exceptionally
high average obtained by all the men Is
taken Into nccount
The details of the examination nre ns
follows-
No No. P C. Gen'l
Hx'd railed, of Average
Colleges. Failures.
U ot IVnn 141 1 MJ fiCOO
Women s. Phlln.. 28 0 000 8122
Medlro-Chlr'crl .. 01 II Id 1 71 'it
Western Penn ... P. 7 r2 7101
Jefferson 31 1 OS 8 7821
Miscellaneous ...74 22 21 7 7f HI
Baltimore Med ..7 4 11 72 Si
Gen'l avera go . 427 R2 12 2 80 31
NUBS OF KNOWLEDGE.
While Americans nre entlng apiece on
nn nv er.igo of 65 to W pounds of sugar a
ear and our cousins In England nro us
ing SO pounds per capita nnnuallj-, tho
n er.igo citizen ot Germany consumes
but 21 pounds a year, tho Austrlnn but 15
pounds, the Prenehmnn but SO, the Rus
sian IB pounds tho Italian 7 pounds, tho
Spaniard 11 pounds, and the people of
Greece, Servla, Bulgaria and Turkey from
3 to 9 pounds a jeur.
The larsest book In the world 1? In tho
Cnlnese department of the Urltlsh Mu
seum, nnd consists of 5 020 volumes This
wonderful production of tho Chlneso
pres wns purchased at ew jears ago for
?G 000. and Is one of only three copies In
existence It Is nn encjclopaedla of tha
llteraturo of China, covering n period of
twentv -eight centuries from 1000 B. C.
to 17000 A D
The most expensive book ev cr published
Is tho oftlcl.it hlstorj- of the wnr of the
rebellion, which Is now being Issued by
the Vnlted Stntes government, at n cost
up to d ito of 2,800,000 Of this amount
neirlv one-half h is been paid for printing
and binding the remainder to be ac
counted for In salaries, rent stationer,
and miscellaneous expenses. Including the
purchase of records from private individ
uals. It has taken ten vears to com
plete this work, which consists ot 112 vol
umes There nro In Germany now 401 beet
sttgir factories, -where In 187S there were
221. Thej- produce 1,72' 000 tons now,
where twenty jears ngo thej- produced
SS1.S2S tons. When they began it took
10 82 tons of beets to make one ton of
sugar; now It takes 71 In other words.
thej- have bj Impioved methods becomo
ablo to cot n 13 per cent, of sugar from
a bulk of beets that twenty jears ago
jlelded but 121 per cent. On tho start
54 tons of beets were nil n fnctorj- could
work up In a eluj : now the average for
each factory Is 2T1 tons In 1S7S thev
pot 203 pounds of raw sugar from a ton
of beets, In ISIS they got S10 pounds.
PERSONALITIES.
Wu Ting Pang, the Chlneso minister at
Washington, Is a Cnntonese, who was ed
ucated In law In Kngland nnd admitted
to the Kngllsh bar. He wears tho plc
turesepie costume of his countj- the
queer boots which nre never seen In this
part of the world save en n Chinaman or
In u museum, the lontr flowing coat, the
loose jacket and round blnck satin hat,
tho front of which Is usuallj- adorned by
a handsome diamond His manners are
genial und cordial, ho Is npproachablo
nnd resposlve, nnd has a host of Ameri
can friends.
Dr James I.egge, professor of Chinese
In tho t'nlvcrslty of Oxford, who has re
cently died at the ago of 82, was, It is
said, In tho habit of rising ut J a in.
and allowing himself only five hours of
sleep Brunei, the famous engineer, for
considerable part ot his life worked
nenrlv twenty hours a dnj-. lr George
A Klliott. nftcrward Lord Heathfield,
who was In command throughout tho
grat slego of Gibraltar, which lasted
four jears, never during nil that time
slept moro than four hours out of the
twentj--four. He lived to tho ago of 81.
"As I get old," said Humboldt, "I want
more sleep four hours at least. When
I was joung two hours of sleep were
iiulto enough for me ' On Professor Max
Mullcr hinting that he found this a hard
s.ijlng Humboldt Slid. "It Is quite a
mistake, thought It Is vcrj- widely spread,
that we want seven or eight hours of
sleep. When I was jour nge I simply
lay down on the fcofa, turned down my
limp nnd nftcr two hours' sleep I was ns
fresh us ever" Ho lived to bo 81
-gpcccr- m
Some time ago I had my attention called to Ripans Tabules for
heart trouble caused by indigestion, by one of my friends who had been
using them for some time. I never found any relief till I began using the
Ripans, but I have found great relief from them, and can say that I
am cured. At times I feel slight symptoms of it when I eat a little too
much, but that is my own fault. I always keep the Tabules on hand,
and take one whenever I feel indisposed the least bit. I never will hesi
tate to recommend them to any one in this bad state of health.
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tar
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Fastens papers in a jiffy,
feeds itself and improved in
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than ever. .We are stul sell-
nig tue i'lanitary rencu
Sharpeners. The only sharp
ening device which never
breaks the lead. On trial in
your office for lojdays free of
charge. We have numerous
other novelties in ofilce sup
plies, together with a large
line of Blank Books and
Typewriter's Supplies.
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STATIONERS ana UXGRAVCUS,
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Will a 15-Jewdd
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130 Wyoming Avenue.
Temperature Tamers.
Tlcnty of things right here to mnko
the hot wenthcr not only endurable
but enjoyable.
And tho price nt which wo offer them
Is not going to mike nnyono hot, ev
cept tho mnn who charges a higher
ptlce for equal o.uallt-, and ho Is nu
nrnotis. Just think of these and get cool.
Kefrlgeratora at reduced prices.
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225-327 PENN AVENUK.
Lnntlher Keller
LiriE, CEMENT,
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i nrd nnd Officio
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iaiiutwuu,t
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FINLEY'S
New Fall
Dress Goods
We open today
our first importation
this season of choice
novelties in
Crepoms9
ierges9
Cheviots,
Tweeds etc,
Also a magnificent
line of
Plaids for
Siaitirigs
amid
Skirts,
All Exclusive De-
signs.
S30and512
LACKAWANNA AVENUE
The Modehn JUnnw-Anr; SroRs
Sterlleg
Raoges
Have the "Sterling" Transpa
rent Ventilating Oven Door,
"Sterling" Patent Lift Hearth.
"Sterling" Oval Drawout
Grate, "Sterling Oval Fire
Box and many other good
features.
Be sure and see the Sterling
Range, You'll want no other.
BOTE & SMEAR CO.
1 19 N. Washington Ave.
-4
The Hoot &
Cooeell Coo
Heating, Plumbing,
Gas Fitting, Electric
Light Wiring, Gas
an Electric Fixtures,
Builders Hardware.
04 Laeteaima Avenuo
HENRY BEL1N, JR.,
oeueiul Agent for tu Wyamiux
District V
set
HI'
inn nt, UluatlucHportlux, duioUe,4l
uuit tu Kepuuuo CaemlcAl
10 iipiujr'i
era explosives.
iifrt) 1 ue. Cun nnd l'.xptoJi;i.
Louui 1(11 Council llulldiuj.
ijorikulja.
1 AUK.MHIM
TIIOS. POUD. - - Plttston,
JU11N U SMITH &. BON, - Pljmouth,
,v i: MCIiUaAN, Vllke.-lUira
mrs
POWDER.