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THE SCRANTON TlUBUiN 14-MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1809.
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TEN PAGES.
SCRANTON. DECKMIU3H 11, 1809.
Saturday cvonltiR'a Hlreet enr acci
dent ut the West Luckuwnnna avenue
crossing; forcibly enipliuslzcs the need
nf a viaduct nt this place. With a
movement of freight trains ncross tho
nvonup ncnily four times ns great now
ns nt anyi prior time and a cpntlnual
increase ot pedestrian and vehicular
traffic, the time is nt hand when tho
viaduct proposition will need to bo
taken up In rurnest nnd pushed
through to completion. The snfety of
tho people demands It.
Safeguard City Funds.
" f HE LAW.we understand, pro-
Ivldcs for the paying over
monthly to the city trens
tirer by the mayor of all
finis cnllectod. Non-observance of thin
Inn has In the past occasioned enn
fuslnii .Hid Its honest observance In
future should lie Insisted upon.
Tlicstfitement presented by Control
ler Unwell to select council at Its last
M'sslnn Indicates that for several
months the mayor had In his posws
slon in a manner not contemplated by
law funds belonging to the city. The
aggregate of tbese funds was sufllc
Ifntly largo to make It worth the city's
v hlle to secure, when due, the full use
of them. It Is not, to our knowledge,
charged that the withholding of these
balances has been dictated by any wish
on the mayor's part to reap personal
benefit; on the contrary, It must be as
sumed that carelessness alone was re
sponsible. Hut should a dishonest man
ever get Into the mayor's olllce nnd hold
back these balnnces for the. purpose of
pocketing Interest upon them, a scan
dal would be Inevitable; nnd the way
to prevent that Is to require monthly
settlements. Had this requirement pre
vailed during the administration of
Mayor Halley, there would have nrisen
no necessity for the adoption nt the
last meeting of select council of n reso
lution directing the city solicitor to
proceed against that ofllclal for the re
covery of money alleged to be duo tho
city In the matter of lines not yet ac
counted for. Had It been observed by
Mayor Moir, he would havo been spared
the necessity for the explanation of his
(ourse which npjieared In print on Sat
urday. This Is in no sense a political issue
but a matter of simple arithmetic.
When money is collected for the city,
the city should get- the use of it and
not any particular olllclal In the em
ploy of the city. Such provision for
the proper accounting for all city funds
should bo made as would botli cut off
dishonest use of said funds, should
such use ever exist, and likewise pro
tect nn honest olllclal from the possi
bility of getting into embarrassment
through the carelessness either of him
self or of his subordinates. In such a
demand there can be no unfairness to
any man or any party.
The lnte Judge Ward was peculiarly
fortunate In his picking of proteges
for advancement In the legal profes
sion. From his ollico were recruited
some of the brightest ornaments of
the Lackawanna bar. He was him
self a great lawyer ami a line type of
citizen; but in nothing did he" show
to better advantage than In the help
ing hand which he extended to the
junior members of his profession. Tho
preceptor of such men as Judges fiun
ster nnd Kdwards and fJeorge S
Horn, leaves behind monument
Willi h local history will peipetuato.
The Water Question.
Dt-'itl.W, TIIK present lull In
the Interesting controversy
vecently excited over the
water question. It may be
well to re-lnvile the attention of tho
public to what we conceive to bo the
nub of tho whole matter.
We have not yet arrived, and we
may never arrive, at a point in the
community's relations with the Scran
ton (ias imd Water company where
the question of the city's taking over
of thut company's plant Is a practical
question. Those who discuss that topic
are indulging simply in the pleasures
of debate. A city government which
cannot clenn the streets, provide sew
ers for infected localities, afford a
paid lire department, properly pollc.
the residence sections, grant franchises
on a basis of equity or keep tho police
court's financial records In Joint with
the law Is not in position to under
take large projects of municipal owner
ship and control. A time may come
when this will be feasible in Scranton,
but it U not In sight yet.
Nor Ijas the time nrrived for th.
adoption of the Melvln ordinance or
a similar ordinance fixing arbitrarily
tho rates which tho wnter company
shall charge; A step of that character
is not to be taken savo under the
"pressure of public necessity clearly" es
tablished nnd not otherwise to be re-
llevort. 7'he, .courtB, we may bo sure,
would nullify all parts of an ordinance
going beyond the well-defined line of
public equity; and before Inviting a
test In court the community must, If
it would win, equip Itself with a sub
stantial und accurately measured
grievance.
What, then, is tho starting point ot
the present outcry? The Introduction
of meters In -water connections for in
dustrial and commercial use. Tho
conditions governing tho domestic use
" of water evoke no complaint. The.
charges for commercial and Industrial,
V and chiefly for industrial, use are alone
"in rju,estlon.yThe board of trade has
undertaken to donVlnco Mr. Scranton
, that It would be advantageous to his
Water company7 to tfuote to manufact
urers easier terms on a water supply.
It la golns to sen4 a. committee to him
to have a talK upon the subject. The
board's -object Is to ndvunco the city
of Scranton. Mr. Scranton's object, we
assume, Is to advance tho Scranton
Wnter company. Hut are these ob
jects Irreconcilably hostile and is It
necessary, before a conference to har
monize them Is held, that the air
should be filled with thunder nnd the
heavens with lightning flashes?
Wo cannot believe so. Neither side
In this controversy has the right pri
marily to question the other's motive
or exhibit excitement before tho con
ference has taken place. There is
complaint at tho meter rates and these
complaints are proper subjects of In
quiry nnd Investigation. Hut tho first
thing In such a case Is to get together
nil tho facts. After these have been
fully collected and compared, If abuse
remains nnd amicable settlement is de
nied, then will bo the time for thun
der nnd lightning.
How would the citizens of Scranton
like to have the vastly Important mat
ter of sanitation, which Is none too well
attended to jiow, put In charge of a
committee of councils and thus made,
In nine Instances out of ten, the sport
and byplay of peanut politics?
That Wreck at Paterson.
IfHIS AFTERNOON at Patcr-
I son the Inquest of the cor-
JL oner Into the accident nt
that place on Nov. 29, which,
was begun on Friday night, will bo
continued. Tho testimony heard on
Frlduy brought out nn fact of Import
ance not already known. It was said
by one witness that a flagman. of train
No. C, the one In which many passen
gers were killed or Injured, started
back to signal train No. 08, the one
which did the mischief, as soon ns
No. C stopped, but 90 was too close at
hand. Another witness said that the
flagman might have jumped oft befora
train 6 stopped, but It does -not appear
that Jumping off before the train
stopped had been customnry or that
it was called for In tho rules; nnd In
view of the fact that the trainmen on
were believed to know that train fi
was Just ahead, It may rondlly have
been supposed on board C that 9C was
being run cautiously and under easy
control.
So far as we can see at this dis
tance from the scene, the proper ob
jective point of tho coroner's Inquest
will be to ascertain why train 98 was
running within the city limits of Pat
erson, around a sharp curve, near the
station and In full knowledge that No.
0 was not far ahead, at a rate of speed
which ordinary Intelligence should
have condemned as unsafe. Was this
the fault of the men In Immediate
charge of the train or the manage
ment above them, or was it due to'
peculiar circumstances not subject to
human control? The clearing up of
speculation touching these Inquiries
Is necessary both In respect to the
fixing of responsibility for this par
ticular wreck and as a lesson.
I'ntll the judicial processes of In
vestigation shall have been completed,
honest men will suspend Judgment.
No man has the right to assume that
the Investigation will not be thorough
and Impartial. Nor will any man of
discretion, however keenly he may be
wounded In feeling on account of the
destruction wrought by that wreck,
subordinate fairness to Impulsive re
sentment. With the election ot Governor Taylor
settled, It Is to be hoped that Ken
tucky will set a better example of self-go-crnment
for our ambitious colonies.
Faith Not Declining.
TO THE proposition recently
put forth and voluminously,
(llseuFsed In the New York
Sun that tho men and wo
men of this generation are experienc
ing a decline of religious faith a prop
osition assumed by very many able
philosophers of our time to be correct
our venerable friend, P.ev. Dr. N. O.
Parke, of AVest Pittston, one of the
patriarchs of Pennsylvania Presby
terlanlsm, enters vigorous dissent.
"Is It true," he asks in a letter to
the Sun. "that men or women have
ceased to attend tho sanctuary or have
lost their faith In the Bible as our rule
of faith and practice'" and ho replies;
"Personally, I do not believe they
have. I believe that the Hlblu and tho
ordinances of God's house never had a
firmer hold on tho masses of our pea
pie than they have today.
"The Presbytery In Pennsylvania,
with which I have been connected
since Its organization, Is next to the
largest In the state: nnd, In this Pres
bytery wo have heard of no abate
ment ot the Interest felt In maintain
ing the ordinances of God's house. Tlv
I'.lblo critics and the heretics ar"
talked about, and, to some extent,
lionised; If that Is what they are
after they have It, and prosecutions bs
fore the General Assembly ure help
ful in that line. Hut these llonlz-id
ministers, chiefly professors, who ap
parently covet martyrdom, nre to the
church of God In ojr land very largely
as driftwood on the swollen river that
Is moving its waters to the ocean.
They are not to be Ignored, but they
are not of as much Importance as they
and their friends imagine. Our
churches nnd our pastors, our organ
ized church workers, were never doing
better work than they nre doing now.
"It certainly' is a fact that In the
church's history, as I have read It,
there has been no time when there
was moro of a spirit of toleration
among tho professed followers of
Christ than there Is at tho close of the
nineteenth century. Thero has been
no time, too, when tho Hlblo was more
universally acknowledged as the word
of God, and there are now more tons
of Ulbles published annually than aC
tho commencement ot the century.
Moreover, there has been no time when
the membership of tho entire church,
Including men, "women and children,
was bo fully engaged In christian work.
Tho Young Men's Christian associa
tion, tho Sabbath school, tho Christian
Endeavorers and the missionary so
cieties aro features ot the age, und
they were never more In evidence than
they are now. Nor has there been a
time when money was given ub it is
given now for missions at home and
abroad, for church erection, for edu
cational institutions and (or every
type of samarltan work. Tho deliver
ances of tho. churches of every nanus
on the subjects of Sabbath observance,
temperance, marriage, social nnd po
litical purity, have never been more
In line with the teaching of the Illble.
It Is true that Iniquity abounds; Satan
Is not bound: offences have come and
they will come. Pride nnd envy and
Jealousy nnd worldllness nnd selfish
ness pre In the hearts of men, ns they
always have been; but only a child,
In view of the work that the church
under its Divine Lender is doing, can
usk, 'Is Clod dead?"'
Tho proelnlmers of a decline In faith
may bo sincere In many Instances, but
In all Instnnces they nre mistaken In
their estimates of contemporary
events. This Is nn age of fnlth mani
fested In works. The works of right
eousness wen; never larger.
No reason has been presented from
any quarter tending to show why tho
proposed location in this city o a six
mill tin plate plant capable of manu
facturing G.O0O boxes a week should not
result profitably to the subscribers for
stock and to the city at large. Tho de
mand for tin plate nearly always ex
ceeds tho supply; Scranton Is a good
distributing center for the eastern mar
ket; nnd If to the natural advantages
of the city were added, ns it is reason
able to assume would be added, capable
expert management of the processes of
manufacture nnd modern methods In
tho sales department, success could
hardly bo avoided. We accept the Judg
ment of the gentlemen who are back
ing Mr. Torbet In the promotion of this
contemplated new Industry and trust
that it may speedily materialize.
Pittsburg has produced the latest
npostle of "Darius Green," In the per
son of n Mr. Whitehead, who has In
vented a flying machine. Unlike tho
scientific models of the day, Mr. White
head's machine has wings and wheels,
and on the ground looks like a huge
bird. When Mr. Whitehead gets his
machine In operation he expects to pre
sent nn appearance ns Imposing as that
of a Pittsburg politician at a state con
vention. -
Instances have been reported where
diphtheria nnd scarlet fever signs have
been removed from the front to tho
rear of Infected houses, thus depriving
the public of due warning. This Is dis
tinctly contrary to law; and we will
forward to the health officers properly
authenticated complaints from our
readers setting forth such a condition
of facts.
The recent fire at Heading, In which
one woman lost her life and several
girls were badly injured, again points
out the necessity of having fire-escapes
that are fire-escapes, Are all of tho
Scranton factories and hotels properly
equipped In this respect?
Mr. Gran, the operatic manager,
figures up his losses In the endeavor to
create a musical sentiment In Chicago
nt $30,000. He still avers that he can
not understand Chicago.
The country will be Impatient for the
next few days to learn what Consul
Macrum has up his sleeve.
The Star Document
oi the Whole Lot
From the New Haven Register.
WITH each new day the
value of the retxirt ot
Secretary ot War Root
become more Impressive.
As the doctors would say, the realiza
tion has "set In" that It is the most
businesslike, thorough and uninfluenced
report from that department at least
since the close of the civil war. "He
aeen his duty and he done It."
o
For a dny or two after Its publica
tion, this report seemed not at all like
ly to meet a new and moro flattering
experience. It appeared as If It, too,
would answer the purpose merely of
an ofllclal expression and thereupon
lose Itself In the great mass of depart
mental literature. There were, how
ever, a few men who read It carefully,
word for word and who Issued forth
from the self Imposed task with the
very decided conviction that hero wan
a report wholly out of the ordinary In
Its form and point of view, a report
which revealed the presence back of It
of a man who manifestly saw no gal
leries to play to and who therefore
stuck to the business of clearly and ex
plicitly setting forth the conditions and
needs of the regular army. We cer
tainly do not Intend to exaggerate, and
we do not think we do when we de
clare the report, In our opinion, to be
the most convincing of all ofllclal state
ments In regard to this entire off-continent
problem. Wo are quite sure It
will be found elastic enough to answer
all of the quack arguments our antl
lmperiallstlc friends can conjure up for
many months.
o
Tho chief quality of course of the
Root war report .Is Its common sense
and business simplicity. It Is that
which strikes the reader and at once
convinces him that the cheap spirit
of Algerlsm has Indeed taken wings
and departed from the department,
and that the department itself is under
the control of the strongest man since
Stanton's time. We should find, for ex
ample, no such recommendntlon nB this
proceeding from a machine made and
driven secretary: "Whereas It Is nec
essary to employ Americans (In Porto
Hlco), except In the chief otlices, a sys
tem of civil service examinations should
bo provided, under which requests
from the governor of Porto Hlco, for
suitable persons to bo nppolnted, may
be tilled." Secretary Itoot Is seeking
tho simplest and speediest way of put
ting that Island upon us political feet,
and known, Just as we all know, though
few of us are honest enough to admit
It, that an essential of uniform prog
ress and administrative honesty Is a
system of civil service examination.
Otherwise. If not nlready under a dif
ferent expectation, the Island will be
filled with ne'er-do-wells, with a record
for loenfl political sefulns which
they point to as cause enough for such
ofllclal preferment ns they covet. Sec
retary Hoot sees this nnd would an
tlcluate Its evil.
o
There are a lot of Illustrations In this
report of the man's freedom from par
tisan bias and organization control. He
treats the economic questions, which
have already arisen between Cuba and
Porto Hlco and the United States, as
something to be settled upon a broad
nnd natural basts, nnd not at all upon
exclusive grounds. There nre a great
many who will shift, uneasily In their
chairs, ns they read this: "I wish most
strongly to urge that the customs du
ties between Porto Hlco and tho United
States bo removed," and yet every
sense of Justice demands that that
should be the point of view of nil pro
posed legislation, In reference to econ
omic oft-continent problems. It Is with
like dlrcctnesA that Secretary Hoot con
siders the nrmy post canteen, which so
many well (mentioned Christian people,
carried among by emotions which will
not bear analysis, have condemned as
a clasp of the flesh between tho devil
nnd Uncle Snm. This report sweeps
all of this religious misrepresentation
aside, without for a moment giving
any attention to its possible political
value, nnd declares that the canteen, In
stead of being demoralizing, "has pro
moted the temperance, discipline,
mornla and henlth of the enlisted men,
nnd that In the Interest of morality
nnd effective service It should be re
tained." o
We have thus commented up.in this
report because It seems to us to pos
sess tho quality which needs most to be
Impressed upon political parties and
public officials, namely, that of com
mon horse sense nnd directness. The
surest way to party success is the
straight and narrow business way; the
surest way to retain power Is to give
the very best possible administration for
the least money. This Is not the Piatt
way nor the Croker way, and these
men have been .successful in a sense.
but it Is tho way ot every man In
American history who made and Is ac
credited with a career and a prominent
place In history. It will be found, for
example, before the next presidential
campaign Is over that this simple business-like
report of Secretary Hoot
will do more to offset nnd upset the
schemes of the opposition to the exist
ing order ot thing.? than all of the ofll
clal public utterances that have been
or will be made. A comparatively un
tried man has won out because he did
his duty with his cyis upon it, instead
of upon politics.
NUBS OF KNOWLEDGE.
A native Maori chief, tho descendant of
cannibal kings, Is now completing his
medical education In Chicago.
An attempt on a large scale Is soon to
be made to stock the abandoned farms
of Malno with cattlo from the West.
Coffee as a beverago had a slight start
of tea In Lordon, for the first coffee
house was opened about the year 1032.
Today moro than 80 per cent, of the
cost,ot running thin government is caused
by wars, past, present nnd prospective.
Builders while excavating In Hrussels
recently unearthed a boat which is sup.
posed to bo nearly, If not quite, 2,000 years
old.
All tho European navies nro practicing
shooting. Our soldiers taught them tho
necessity for good shooting In the Span
ish war.
Tho two counties of Brewster and Pre
sidio (Texas) having a Joint area of fi.000
square miles, have, It Is suld, fewer than
3,000 inhabitants.
Lord Kelvin In a lecture stated that
as a result of recent Investigations It was
estimated that the earth hud been the
abode of life for about C0.0o0.000 vears.
According to the Canadian Hank tho
yield of gold from the Klondike this sea
son Is about Jv.dOO.OOO. which Is one-third
less than the output last season.
In some parts of Holland a birth Is
announced by fustenlng a silk pincushion
on tho door knob. It tho pincushion is
red tho baby Is a boy and If white a
girl.
Herlln booksellers nre strictly forbid
den to sell school children books stitched
with wire, as several' cases of blood poi
soning have been traced to scratches
from rusty wire.
The Austrian minister of commerce Is
contemplating tho Introduction of motor
cars for conveying mall bags to and from
railway stations, and also for the col
lection of letters from the mall posts.
Th American brldgo Is flinging Its ma
jestic spans and arches across the rivers
of many lands Egypt. Siberia, Japan,
China, Peru and others and a group of
twenty-six skilled American builders has
Just departed for Rangoon, Hrltlsh India,
where nn American company has ono of
Its construction In progress.
A SONG OF THE STORM.
The lake's dark breast
Is all unrest.
It heaves with a sob and a tlgh;
LIko a tremuluus bird
From Its slumber stirred,
The moon Is a-tllt In tho sky.
From tho silent deep
Tho waters sweep,
But faint on tho cold, white stones,
And tho wavelets fly
With a plalntlvu cry
O'er tho old earth's hare, bleak bones.
And tho spray upspilngs
On its ghost like wings,
And tosses a kiss at tho stars,
While a water sprite,
In sea pearls dluht.
Hums a sea hvmn's solemn burs.
Far out In tho nlcht. i
On the wnv'rlng bight,
I sco a dark hull loom;
And its light on high,
Like a Cyclop's eye,
Shines out through the mist and the
gloom.
Now tho winds well up
From tho earth's deep cup,
And fall on the sea and shore,
And against tho pier
The waters rear
And break with a sullen roar.
Up comes tho gale,
And tho mist-wrought veil,
Gives way to the lightning's glare,
And tho cloud-drifts fall,
A sombre pall,
O'er water, earth and nlr.
t
Tho storm king files,
His whip he piles,
And bellows down the wind,
Tho lightning rash, . ,
With binding flash,
Comes pricking on behind.
Hlse, waters, rise, ;
And taunt the skies
With your swift-fllttinc form.
Sweep, wild winds, sweep, '
And tear tho deep
To atoms In tho storm.
And the waters l'ant,
And tho wild winds swept,
And blew out. the moon In tho sky;
And I laughed with glee,
It was Joy to mo
As tho storm went raging by.
Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Limtlher Keller
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A New York journeyman printer writes : " On Saturday last
1 went to sec one of the best if not the best physician and sur
geon in Brooklyn. After paying some money I owed, we spoke
of my boy of ten years whom I had along with me. The boy
tvas not feeling well, his stomach appaarcd to be out of order and
lie was getting thin. I told the doctor that I had given the boy
1 Ripans Tabulc the night before. Then I told him what the
Ingredients were rhubarb, ipecac, peppermint, nux vomica and
soda and he exclaimed ' What's that ? What's that?' Upon
repeating the formula he said, 'Good, very good. You could
not give him anything better. The rhubar.b is what he needs
for the stomach, and the nux will tone up the system. Con
tinue giving him one each night and he. will be all right.' He
gave nie no further prescription for the boy and charged me
nothing for the advice."
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FINLET
HOLIDAY .GOODS;
A Fine
ilk Umbrella
As a CMstinas
is as appropriate as anything
we can suggest.
We had this in view when
we made our selections and
the goods fully meet our ex
pectations, The handles, of Natural
Woods, Plain and with fine
Pearl, Sterling Silver and
Gold Mouutings,are the most
artistic and unique of any
line we have ever shown,
"The wearing qualities are
beyond question."
The"Golf, "Tally Ho" and
"Automobile', are among our
latest handles and these we
are showing in exclusive de
signs, and in regard to prices,
you can take your choice from
$3-75 to $17.50. Select now,
while the line is unbr,oken.
Should you want the Best
One Dollar Umbrella pro.
curable, our $1.35 quality
will be yours at this price for
just ten days.
Fine line of Children's
Umbrellas from 50c up.
510 and 512
LACKAWANNA AVENUE
Holiday
Opening .
Calendars,
Booklets, Bibles,
Prayer Books.
Gold Pens,
Gold Ink Stands,
Leather Card Cases,
Fountain Pens.
and a Handsome As
sortment of 1900 Diaries
In fancy bindings, suit
able for Cliristmas Gifts.
Reynolds Bros
Office Supplies Our Specialty.
339 Wyoming Ave
HOTKL JKUMV.N.