THE SCRANTON TJUBUJNJS-SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1899. ' Publlnhul Daily. Hxrcpt Sunday. byJTho Tribune Publishing Company, at Fltty Cents a Month. New York Offlco:g Kg NBtj D Bole Agent for Foreign Advertising Entered nt the Postomcp rjt Sernnton. Ta.. m Scccnd-CInss Mali Matter. Whfit rpneo will permit. The Trlbuno Is always glad to print short letters from Its frler.ds bearing on current topics but Its rule Is that there must bo olgned, lor publication, by tho writer's rojjwo. SCRANTON', BKPTKMHKR 23, 1803. REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. State. Justice of the Supremo Court J. HAY BROWN, of Lancaster. Judge of tho Superior Court JOSIA1I It. ADAMS, of Philadelphia. Rtnln Trensurrr LIKUTKNAJvr v-ui ONKL JAMES K. HARNETT, Washington. Election day, Nov. 7. of Hcpubllrans Interested In-tho nom ination of a good county ticket Ws fall should go to tho prlmnrles between 4 and 7 o'clock this evening, take tho ballot offered, pick out tho best nams on It and mark accordingly, regard less of the yawplngs of politicians wl'h axes to grind. Mayor and Police. -sr 1ST US consider, for a moment, the Issue raised by the mayor I of this city in insisting that the members of the police force must bo obedient not only to his official orders but also to his Indi vidual whims; that they must be per sonally plenslng to him and In sym pathy with nil his little factional Jeal ousies and spites clso he will wield the mighty axe of his high olllce and cut their heads off without benellt of clergy. Wo are not going to ask our readers to debate tho merits of the mayor's proposition; we will even concede that as politics goes ho is within the line of occasional precedent in desiring to make of the police employes of the city a personal machine, implicitly obedient to his minutest caprice. Hut James Molr's entire capital In poll tics for the past live years, and like wise the chief stock in trade of the faction behind him, has been ono long, plnlntlvo and vociferous howl against bosslsm." so-caVed; against the "pernicious activity of the police in politics"; against tho nlleged setting up of one-man power. They have posed as tho reforming prophets of tho people; they have played to the gal leries by pvery hook and trick of the nrtful politician's game and now Heboid the result! Molr Is no sooner made mayor than nil hfs fine sounding inaugural pledges are cast to the winds and tho municipal "machine" goes on just ns had been alleged of It before, with the single exception that the man nt the throttle seems hardly big enough to handle the Job. Governor Roosevelt has promptly straightened out a tangle In the Dewey land parade which promised to make trouble. General Roe, chairman of the parade committee, insisted Mint the G. A. II. veterans should form In tho rear of the procession, because they do not carry arms. Governor Roose velt insists that they shall march at tho head of the procession because they carried arms when arms were most needed, and has Issued orders accord ingly. As between Roe and Teddy wo place our confidence In tho latter. Fitness the Proper Test. OUT IN Massachusetts a num ber of enthusiasts have or ganized for the purpose of launching a presidential boom for Major General Miles. Their circu lars of information call attention to his superior record ns a soldier, lay emphasis upon tho alleged discrimina tion of which he Is represented now to be the victim and exhort all his admir ers to rally In an effort to land him in the presidential chair. Without taking this effusion too seri ously, It cannot bo amiss to point out that whatever substantial elements of truth there may be in tho assertion that Miles has not lately received a fair show, there is no conceivable con nection "between that controveisy and the question of Miles' lltness for tho presidency. We do not elect presidents In this country because wo want to spite somebody, but because they Im press a majority of our people as pos sessing certain qualities or represent ing certain policies and principles thought to be advantageous to the general welfare. As a military com mander, General Miles Is an estab lished quantity, conceded by all un prejudiced experts to rank among tho nblest of our professional warriors: but thnt he Is also a statesman of ex ceptional ability, information and ex perience has, to our knowledge, nevir been asserted and if asserted could not be proved. Tho spirit of these remarks applle3 equally to Admiral Dewey, whom soma persons are still trying to connect with a presidential nomination. It does not detract from the high esteem In which this eminent Amerlcnn is now so justly held that his training nnd range of ex perience and study have been almost entirely In tho direction of his chosen profession nnd not at all In directions which would qualify him for the suc cessful administration of tho varied executive and advisory duties of tho presidency of the United States. Wo Pan easily believe from tho qualities He has demonstrated that had his llfe 'work been performed In the field of statccmanshlp Instead of upon the sen, he would have become as successful In civil life ns ho hag become In tho naval servlco of his country. Hut there is tjmely truth and ndmonltlon In his own remark that he Is now too old a man to attempt a change of professions. Wo are opposed to tho unrollectlng hero-worship which, In reckless kind ness of emotional Intent, would try tp fit round pegs Into square holes or square pegs Into round holes, regard less of tho feelings of oither pegs or Holes or of the general consequences. If ournomory of history 'is correot, not ono of our purely military presidents linn boon satisfactory or successful to tho oxtent that wo Imvo a right to ex pect from men occupying their exalted olllce, and there Is no encouragement from tho past toward a revival of tho mistake of choosing presidents for ri Hons separate from demonstrated fit ness. Let Miles remain a soldier and Dewey n sailor and let us keep In tho ofllco of president for four years tnoro the man who lias shown that In his way, over a broader and an Infinitely more dlllleult sphere of ilutlesj ami lu sponslbllltles. ho Is nt least tho equal of both If not, Indeed, their superior. "lighting" Hilly Mason, who a few months ago wns so anxious that tho United States should declare war upon some one, now claims to bo ashamed of his country for lighting with tho Filipinos. "Fighting" Hilly seems to be nnother example of the warrior who lost his title during the? Spanish war. Building on Sand. F WK HAVE kept n correct count, six Indictments for crim inal libel are now pending I against Little and O'Toolo of tho Scrantonlnn. There are two kinds of news papers and two schools of jour nalism which are at right angles to each other and one of them sooner or later will have to go. Either tho con scientious and intelligent Journal which gives heed to its responsibilities ns nn educational force in the com munity must fall under tho general ban occasioned by tho Irresponsible and conscienceless scandal mongers of the sensational press or the latter, by force of public opinion and Jaw, must bo cleaned out. Thero Is no middle ground.' A decision of this Issue Is not only necessary to the future of Ameri can journalism but it Is essential to the safety of tho Individual citizen, whoso privacy is now completely at tho mercy of tho inquisitorial busy bodies or professional blackmailers and cut-throats of tho obscene typo of newspaper which mistakes scandal for enterprise, abuse for brilliancy and tho llnshy notoriety of tho pander for permanent success. Wo assert the Instability and the prccnrlousness of the gutter typo of journalism. Scandal, personal abuse, furious demagoglsm and ap peals to tho basest aspects of human nature do undoubtedly succeed for a tlmo in attracting considerable no toriety and In creating a stir which the unthinking mistake for success; but it is a mushroom growth; there is noth ing substantial to It; the llrst adverse circumstance brings the whole puffy structure tumbling down into hopeless collapse; and all connected with it ac quire the ineffncablo mark of moral leprosy and dishonor. It will now bo in order for the Span ish government to pardon Admiral Montljo who has been disgraced for the disastrous defeat at Manila; and bring a true bill against Itself. At the Nebraska Republican conven tion in Omaha Thursday tho speech that caused the greatest cheering was delivered by Rev. Mr. Mallley, chap lain of the Firs,. Nebraska regiment, who in i espouse to repeated calls said: "I am no politician, simply a preacher. Frequently I am a dissenter In relig ion as well as politics. I have voted against the sentiment of whole com munities. In fact, I never voted tho Republican ticket. I nm against the administration If it is wrong, but in time of war, after our old flag has been llred upon by an enemy whom we are trying to save and civilize, then I am for tho administration. 1 followed the First Nebraska over the rice fields of Luzon and shot the best I could Now I have come homo to vote and work the way I shot, for the admin istration." There spoke a practical pa triot. In tho appointment of Adelbert C. Fanning, esq., of Troy, Pa., to 1111 the judicial vacancy caused by the death of Judge Peck, Governor Stone has made a selection creditable to himself, satisfactory to the people of the Fortv second judicial district and fair to thi bench of Pennsylvania. It Is in every sense an admirable appointment. Six veterans of the Tenth Pennsyl vania have re-enlisted nnd will soon bo on their way to Manila. This may indicate that tho distribution of the Huston tracts has not been attended to with proper care in Pennsylvania. Tho Democrats of the Hay state suc ceeded in getting together the other day at Huston In a manner that made it dlllleult for the police to pull them apart. Tho Democratic campaign "key notes" this year ure as discordant as tho strains of u last season's barrel organ. 1 m TOLD BY THE STARS. Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus, The Tribune Astrologer. Astrolobu Cast: 1.3S u. m. for Saturday, Sept. 23, UW). C9 3 A child bom on this day will notico th.it u boycott Is powerless against tho attractions of tho ten-cent nuitluce. An English paper nays that It pays to bo funny. Thu writer evidently means by this that tho cheerful man can get along with lest to eat. Ono stroke of a hammer will ruin tho most expensive mirror; but It generally tukes beveral to drlvu a null. The inability to successfully cover up tracks has spoiled tho reputation of muny a promising llur. When tho tit to of "Elcctrio City" no longer fits Bcranton, by all means let t bo known as "Convcntlonvllle." That It Is impossible for a man to look dignified when tackling a glass of ico cream soda. Breakfast Clint. 1 let Con you tell mo why summer Is like pride? Hhe-Glve It up. Why? Ho-Because It gocth beforo fall. A Fatal Omission. "I'm nfiald we'vo offended Mrs. Lo renzo Van HenssahuT," Kild tho editor of the Society Luminary to his assistant. "Wbv, 1 noted tho arrival at Newport of Mrs. Van rtenssiilner and family." "True, but you did not my that they took with them a retlmiu of tervants." Puck WHAT DEWEY SAID TO VON DIEDERICHS THE EXACT TRUTH OF FAMOUS EPISODE. THIS Told tho German Admiral's Lieuten ant That it tho Germans Wanted War They Could Have It In Five Minutes A Misunderstanding with Prlnco Henry Which Was Subse quently Cleared Up. Chicago, Sept. 22. Under date of Nice, Italy, Aug. 20, tho Hecord pub lishes the following letter from Joseph L. Stickney, the ex-naval olllccr and war correspondent who Is coming homo as Admiral Dewey's guest on the Olym- pia: Probably no other Incident connected with Admiral Dewey's campaign In tho Philippines has a greater amount of Interest for Americans than has the manner in which ho dealt with Vlce Admlral von DIedcrlchs of tho Germnn navy. Hearsay tales have been pub lished without number, but they have all lacked some of tho Important facts, while many of them have been con cocted with little reference to tho truth. In order that the so-called "German episode" may bo handed down correct ly to the historian of the future I pre sent the following sketch thereof as it was given to mo on the deck of the Olympia by Admiral Dewey himself. Speaking of an enterprising biographer who had written a condensed "life" of tho admiral tho latter said: ADMIRAL DEWEY'S VERSION. "I received a biography of myself yesterday from a publisher In tho United States who wished to know whether he had got the facts about my life correctly. I couldn't afford to let it go In the way It was written when I received It. It misrepresented many incidents particularly, for lnstance.my experience with the Germans in Mn nlla bay. You were there and know all about what happened beforo the eyes of every one. I was maintaining a strict blockade of Manila and had to know, of course, tho character and Identity of. every vessel that entered the bay. The fact that a ship flew the German flag was no proof that she was really a German. Consequently when any craft came Into the bay or moved about In it it was not only my right but my duty to learn beyond question whether she really was what she np peared to be. In carrying out my or ders my commanding officers acted dis creetly and tactfully, giving no offense to the naval representatives of any power except Germany. I do not know why Vlce-Admlral von DIedcrlchs should have felt aggrieved. I always attributed his protest to a lack of knowledge of International law. This view Is borne out by not only tho cir cumstances of the case but by his note to me, written after having received the letter In which I defined my atti tude toward the warships of other na tions, as lie Informed me that ho should lay my letter beforo the commanding officers of other squadrons In the bay. Ho got small comfort from nny of them. SUSTAINED HY ENGLISH CAPTAIN "Captain Chichester, tho 'senior offi cer present' of tho British navy, told h'm that I was only only acting within n." rights, but that I was entltlel to a great deal more than I had required from the foreign cruisers. As Von Dlederlchs seemed Incredulous Chi chester showed him the orders he had received from tho Hrltlsh government. In which he was specifically notified that ho was to assume no rights of entrance to ports under our blockade unless I should bo willing to grant them. Von DIedcrlchs wanted to talM u copy of Chichester's instructions, but the captain told him he had l?t him see them for his personal Informa tion only, nnd that he would not allow them to be copied." "Admiral, In the story about the Von Diederlchs affair that I wrote for Harper's Monthly last February.I gave a hearsay account, told by ono who, I believed, was in a position to know the exact facts. I have since learned that there were some inaccuracies In that stovy? Are you willing to let me publish the correct version?" "You were mistaken." replied the ad miral, "In saying thnt I sent Brumby to convey my message. Admiral Von Diederlchs sent his flag lieutenant to roe with a list of complaints that ho wished to make against tho war I treat' d the ships under his command. They had exhausted my patience. T had been forbearing In tho extreme, nnd this protest or complaint wns too much. Tho German officer who brought the message was on the after deck, and when read It I stepped to tho door of my cabin. He camo pait way to meet mo and stood In tho door way. As nearly as I can remember my exact words were: "What Is It you want? Do you wv.nt war? You know what that means. If you do. you can have It In five min utes. Wo are a peaceable people, but wo have got Into a fight now and wo nro ready to go on. If necessary wo nro ready to light tho world. You mav tell Admiral Von Diederlchs that I am blockading this bay, and that I shnll tako such stops as are the right and duty of the blockading ofiloer. ABOUT SHANGHAI IUNQURT. "Thro has been nlso," continued tho ndmlr.il, "a good deal of sensatlonnl talk about tho banquet given bv Prince Henry of Prussia In Shnnghal. It hasi been reported thnt T left tho table 1 rause no toast was offered tho presi dent of tho T,nlted States and that Prlnco Homy was obliged to Fond mo a written apology. After tho toast to tho emperor of Germany which, of course, took precedence of ull other toasts-- tho health of the czar of Russia, was proposed by Prince Henry. Now, tho Prussian navy was represented nt tho banquet by two captains only. As I was a commodore, commanding tho Asiatic stntlon. I outranked those Rus slan officers, and tho chief mnerlstrato of rav country should have been toast ed beforo their emperor. Tho provident of tho United Stntes was Roasted and alo tho omperor of China, although there wero no Chinese guests present. I snld nothing nt the tlmo, but there after neither I nor my officers appeared nt any of tho entertainments whoro Prlnco Henry was present. "Flnaly he noticed our absence, and nsked why he had not seen more of up. Tho gentleman to whom he spoke told him thnt I could not run tho risk of ii flmllar lack of courtesy toward the president again, and that I was seri ously offendof. Tim next morning Prince Henry enme aboard tho Olym pia In civilian clothes to call upon mo for the purpose of expressing his re grot nt the Incident. Tin snld ho had made a mlstnlro through lack of knnwl- J edge of naval etiquette, and that ha hoped I would overlook It. I (told hlin not to give tho matter another thought and wo parted In the most friendly manner, after nn Interesting and agree able conversation. Thero Is no founda tion whatever for the statement that I have any unfriendly feeling for Prlnco Henry or Vlce-Admlral von Dledrlchs. For that reason the words recently put In my mouth Implying n olur upon Prlnco Henry and tho omperor of Ger many vre specially distasteful to me. I was talking without thought of being reported, nnd therefore, I cannot recall exactly what T did say, but I could not have used language of that natnic, since It did not represent my Ideas," WANTS TRUTH KNOWN. Admiral Dewey does not hesitate to exprcri privately opinions concerning public questions of great importance, but ho carefully refrains from speak ing upon matters of International In terest except upon due reflection. That he should have given mo the forogolng with no restrictions ngnlnst its publi cation, Implies that ho feels that it Is tlmo lo clear himself of th'o charge of stirring up Ill-feeling between the United States and Germany by utter ing sneers at the German Imperial fam ily. The Von Diederlchs Incident Is set right, In Interest of truth, for tho bene fit of future historians, and publica tion of the exact facts nt this late day can do no harm to any one. NUBS OF KNOWLEDGE. Missouri sold $221,117 worth of corn-cob pipes last year. The Congo region exports about 3,OV),000 walking sticks a year. Of a thousand persons, only ono reaches the ago of a hundred years. Denmark claims thnt there Is not a singlo person In her domain who ennnit rend nnd write. For tho last ten years thero has been an Increase of 2,000 annunlly In tho num ber of Great Britain s Insane. Twenty years ago Egypt had hardly a slnglo good road. During tho last six years over 1,000 miles of good road were built. A Brooklyn man named Frederick liraun owns a collections of skeletons, il lustrating tho crnnlums of every living raco and many long extinct. Elcctrio automobile street sweeping ma chines will bo used In Paris and tho old clumsy dust machines will bo dono away with. It Is now proposed to construct a canal connecting Germany with European Tur key. Tho financial success of tho Kiel cnnal has given rise to this subject. Tho death rato In Syracuse, N. Y., for flvo years succeeding the securing of a good water Bupply has been 13.40. For the flvo years previous thereto It was 1C.S9. Fewer pensions were granted to soldiers In tho Spanish war than was expected, tho number being 203. There are now KU.510 names of pensioners on tho rolls. Tho schooner Polly, now lying In tho port nt Bangor, Me., sound and oo.v.vorthy In every way, Is said to bo th'. oldest American vessel In existence which Is still sailing. Notwithstanding the much earlier dis covery of tho principle of the pendulum, tho principle was not applied to clock making, in England, nt least, till the sev enteenth century. In tho National Museum Is a woman who Is nn authority on manials, and ono of tho most . skillful entomological artists In tho world Is a woman em ployed by the Bureau of Entomology. Somo Paris friends of ono of the vic tims of tho Bourgoynu disaster havo of fers the sum of $.50,00 as a reward for nny one who will give an Impetus to the dis covery of life-saving apparatus. Natural gus conveyed In bamboo tubes was utilized In China years ngo and one Chinese writer mentions boxes which re peated the sounds of person's voices that were dead a machine similar to Edison s phonograph. Complaints wero made in Seattle, Wash., recently, that tho flre-alr.rm sys tem of tho city was working very badly. Investigation of tho boxes showed that yellow-Jackets had clogged many of them by deposits of clay, which had hard ened. All our senses do not slumber ilmul tancously. They fall Into Insensibility ono after nnother. First the eyelids ob scure sight, and tho sense of taste Is tho next to loso susceptibility. Sincllln?, hearing and touch then follow. Touch is tho lightest sleeper and most easily aroused. Near tho town of Capljlnn, in Bosnia, archaeologists have exhumed a new Pom peii In the form of a Roman camp. All tho walls aro well preserved, and somo of the rooms aro decorated with flno paint ings, while weapons, lamps and various other objects havo been found In them. An engineer In Tunis Invented a deep sea diving apparatus which has been tried without accident at a denth of 171 feet near Cherbourg. The inventor de clares his purpose of searching for the hull of tho Alabama, which lies whero she wns sunk by tho Kcnrsage, off Cher hours harbor. GREAT THOUGHTS. Music washes away from the soul tho dust of everyday life. Aucrbach. No nation can bo destroyed while it possesses a good homo life. J. G, Hoi land. Out of clothes, out of countenance, out of wit. Ben Johnson. The nbsent nro never without fault, nor tho present without c.cuo. Bacon. Any ono may do a casual act of good nature; but a continuation of them show it a part of the temperament. Sterne. Tho discovery of what Is true nnd the practlco of that which is good are the two most important objects of phllosopy. Voltaire. A politician weakly and amiably right Is no match for n politician tenaciously nnd pugnaciously in tho wrong. E. P. Whipple. Did Yom Ever Try Ordering a suit of clothes a few weeks before you needed it ? Better try. Better business conditions tliis Fall will mean a big rusli of business for tai lors for good tailors, at least. Try giving us your order before this rush begins. Wo Jo Oav5s9 213 Wyoiilfflg Avenue. . Arcade Bulldlnjr Joeas -Loear's Soesc In inviting you, cordially, to our supremely beautiful showing of Millinery, Coats and Suits on Wednesday, Thursday and Fri day of next week, we do so with the assured confidence that never has any mercantile establishment in this country made grander or more perfect preparations for so important an occasion. HI III! ! .MMI .1 I till'""" fJL Yon Cannot Vm No matter how hard you try of a better place to buy your office sup plies and stationery than at our es tablishment. We carry our lines as near complete as possible. We cater for the up-to-date trade and if its a good thing in office wants we have it. We still put the planitary pencil sharpener on trial in any offiice for ten days free of charge, Our line of Stationery and engraved work is as dainty as ever and wish you to in spect our lines. Reynolds Bros STATIONERS and ENGRAVERS. Scranton Pa. is vorn HOUSE VACANT? IP so, TKY A "FOR KENT" AD. IN THE TRIBUNE. ONE CUNT A "WOKD. s The Modern T Lf Hinrw Hrawwn V i - V JJ. J vu i? 2. Should attend the Cooking Exhibit today and see the GREAT MAJESTIC STEEL RANGE at work, During this week every lady visitor to the Modern Hardware Store will be presented with a ''Ring" Paring Knife free of charge. Pillsbury Flour will be used at this Exhibit. FOOTE & SHEAR CO. 119 Washington Avenue. 0- m 19 AW I fffi II yfP 077, 111 I have a friend, in fact he is my brother-in-law, who is the outside man for a New York crockery warehouse, a sort of salesman, purchas ing agent, collector and what not. He used to suffer from a catarrh of the stomach. When he woke in the morning there would be a gripping, a contraction, a tightness of the stomach, which, he said, seemed to be clogged with a slimy, phlegm-like substance. Carlsbad salts always did him some good, but now he uses a Ripans Tabule. He only takes one when occasion requires, just one now and then. When this man, his name is Spalding, was asked to describe the effect of the Tabule on him, he said : "Why, it brightens me up. It has an effect like dry air; makes me feel something as I used to of a spring morning when the air was crisp but tempered with sunshine. I don't know bow they produce such an effect, but that is the way they work with me., Lome's SoeSc THie Hiairrt & Coeeell Co0 Heating, Plumbing, Gas Fitting, Electric Light Wiring, Gas an Electric Fixtures, Builders Hardware.- 04 Lackawanna Arams Lmtlher Keller LiriE, CEMENT, SEWER PIPE, Etc. 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