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TWELVE PAGES.
SCRANTON, DECEMBER. 29, 1000.
The Now York reformers do not ex
lioct to entirely stamp out vice, Vut
lliey propose to arrange things so that
their country cousins won't be ulile to
lmvo much fun when they visit the
city.
Keep the Peace !
VIGOROUS and uncompromis
ing enforcement of law Is
called for In those parts of
the city where disorderly
chai actors assemble In large numbers
to hurl missiles at passing street cars,
Jostle and endanger passers-byand use
' language offensive to public decency.
These rowdies do not help, they hurt
the cause of the strikers. The latter
have been sustained by public opinion
partly because of the element of Justice
in their complaint at the unreasonable
hours of service required of them but
largely on account of their excellent
behavior. To compromise them unfair
ly by fool bolsterousness and violence
Is to work them a cruel Injury.
But the question of law and order Is
biouder than any special intetest; It is
fundamental. Every man, woman and
child in this city is inteiested in having
lawlessness suppressed, In having pro
perty safeguarded and in having our
public thoroughfaies kept clear for the
orderly transaction of business.
Let the hand of the law fall firmly
upon every disturber of the public
peace. Let every friend of honest labor
put forth his power to restrain in its
lnclpiency the tendency to substitute
mob splilt for common sense.
Secretary Walsh, of Iowa, wishes it
distinctly understood that every gath
ering of Democrats In his territory U
not for the express purpose of booming
Air. Bryan as a presidential candldats
for 1904.
Dodging the Constitution.
ACCORDINO to Walter Well
man there is absolutely no
hope for the enactment of
Representative Crumpack
er's bill to reduce the representation of
those southern states which have un
dertaken to nullify the Fifteenth
amendment. And the reason assigned
for this evasion of the plain mandate
of the Constitution is that the Repub
lican lenders at Washington are nlun
nlng the creation of a white man's Re
publican party in the south.
"Men who knows the south well are
satisfied," Mr. Wellman reports, "that
a revolution Is going on in that sec
tion, and that nothing but a blunder
on the nart of the Republican party
can stop It. The south is becoming
more and more Republican in its lean
ings as to the questions of the day.
It is for the gold rtandard, for expan
sion, for protection, for the Nicaragua
canal, for a vigorous foreign policy, for
colonialism or anything else that will
build up the Ameilcnn republic and
afford markets for American products.
On every vital question of the day the
sympathies of a majority of the lead
ing men of the now south arc with the
Republican party. The best men of
tho south aro as much disgusted with
BryanlHm uh the best men of the north.
Their disgust was shown in the recent
election, partly in the small majorities
for Bryan, but more pointedly in the
small total voto cast in. nearly nil of
the southern elates.
"From talks ivlth many southern
men, who know the sentiment in their
unction, I am satisfied that tho men
of brains nnd business in tho south
feel deeply humiliated by tho fact that
in tho recent campaign their hands
were tied; that they lyere unable to
vote their real-sentiments; that while
they believed In nothing that Bryan
Hfood 4for and did believe In almost ev
erything that McKlnley stood for, they
'.were forced to keen still and to walk
up and voto like sheep. Why? Tho
'nigger question," and the belief which
,'.jiaa pprung up on.uccount otvlt that
' ' h southern man cannot bo bolh a Re
publican and. a gentleman. Southern
,, men admit thutthls 'nigger' domination
question la a ghost, a llgment of the
Imagination, and that no real danger
of negro control, In states, municipal!
,"ifles,"or anywhere, now exists, Rut
- fronvthe old days when It was a living
" 'question thoy havo'acqulrcd prejudices
and habits of thought which drive
them on In tho old rut, even to the
ridiculous extent that they cease to be
' discriminative, Independent voters, but
Intellectually and morally slaves to
' their antl-'nluser' cult.
, '"No one expects the south is going
tl to be revolutionized to tho extent that
It wll become Republican as It is now
Democratic, But It Is believed that
this old fetich of tho 'nigger question'
may bo so destroyed that southern
nen, like northern men, will be able to
vote according to their opinions nml
their Interests. Thoio "will bo jcul
campaigns In the south, elections which
mean something, not mere hollow
fornii, as iv present. If occasionally
tho Issues aie such thut a few southern
elates go Republican, thut will bo suf
ficient, an It la not so much support
for the Republican party anyone la
seeking as It Is emancipation of the
best people of the south from the In
tellectual slaVery Into which they have
fallen. On these grounds the Repub
lican leaders refuse to countenance Mr.
brtimpncker'a bill. Instead of puni
tive legislation they Intend to do ev
erything In their power to encourage
tho best men of the south to Join the
Republican party, and to; strike down
the rtile, once defensible but now fool
ish, thnt n southerner forfeits social
standing when ho becomes a Republi
can. Southern men have always
claimed tha't If they could get tho
negro question out of the wav the
south could lie rationalized nnd nation
alized, so Mint campaigns and elections
would have the same significance w'lth
them as In tho north. Now that a
number of southern states have appar
ently solved the negro question through
conitltutlonnl amendments the con
taining powers In the national Repub
lican party nie determined to meet the
south half way with the olive branch
In hand."
This view of the situation Is un
doubtedly an nccttiate one in Its state
ment of Intention". There nre many
Republicans of Influence who have no
particle of sympathy for the Jug
handlcd disfranchisement schemes now
prevalent In tlio south yet who con
cur In the opinion of the Indianapolis
Press that "It Is impossible to settle
the race question with a club," and
who therefore favor a solution along
the lines of time and peaceful evolu
tion. Unfortunately there Is the plain
"shall" of the Fourteenth amendment;
a word absolutely without qualification
In its mandatory significance. Is it
safe to set or encourage a conspicuous
example' of flat disregard for a consti
tutional injunction? Would it not be
preferable at least to make the at
tempt to enforce or repeal the Four
teenth and Fifteenth amendments?
It Is now becoming difficult to de
termine who is doing the pursuing In
the South African campaign.
Not a News Trust.
MUCH has been said In pa
pers outside the Asso
ciated Press In the at
tempt to make the public
believe that that great co-operative
news-gathering and news-distributing
institution is a "trust." It is a dodge
of the "outs" against the "Ins"; it has
no foundation.
The whole question has Just been
most exhaustively pased upon by the
Supreme court of Missouri, a state
conspicuous for its antagonism to
trusts. The Missouri court differs flat
ly from the Illinois Supreme court
which held some months ago that the
corporate form of the Associated Press
before its recent reorganization was In
restraint of trade. Following are some
pregnant extracts from the Missouri
opinion:
"It Is a part of every man's civil rights that he
be left at liberty to refine business relations with,
any person whomsoever, whether the refusal rests
upon reason or is the result of whim, caprice,
prejudice or malice." Cooley on Torts, 278. Bus
iness relations must be voluntary in order to be
consistent with civil liberty.
Every one is at liberty to Rather news; and the
fact that one has greater facilities or finances lor
gathciing or transmitting news, or that the busi
ness his crown into one ol great magnitude,
widespread in its ramifications, or that mere In
corporation lias been granted a company organ
ized for the purpose of gathering news does not
and cannot ol itself give the state the right to
regulate what before incorporation was but a nat
ural right. Were the rule otherwise than an just
plated the effect would be to deprive a person
of a right to pursue any lawful calling or to con
tract where and with whomsoever and at what
price he will.
The ruling was upon the application
of the St. Louis Star for a writ of man
damus to compel the Associated Press
to furnish its news report to that news
paper. Counsel for the applicant con
tended that the Associated Press was a
monopoly but the court scouted this
Idea, saying very pointedly, "the addi
tion of one more monopolist to a mon
opolistic organization would not lessen
Its monopolistic features or abate Its
vicious tendencies. But there Is noth
ing here in which a monopoly can at
tach. The business Is one of mere per
sonal service, an occupation. There
is no right of property in the news it
self." Tho Associated Press was grant
ed "no special or exclusive right or
'privilege by the state, nor has it re
ceived any benefits from that quarter."
Nor has the Associated Press "acquired
any additional right by reason of Its
Incorporation to that it possessed bc
foie." The opinion quotes with ap
proval the decision ot the New York
court thnt the "rontiact between the
members of the association is mutual
and Is for tho common benefit, and so
is supported by sufficient considera
tion." Tho provision of that contract
that none ot tho members shall con
tract with hostile news associations is
held "not to exceed the proper bounds
of self-protection."
This ruling by tho highest court of
one of the most ptomlnent Democratic
states is respectfully submitted to tho
octopus editor ot the esteemed Scran
ton Timed
It fs fttated that ex-Secrctaty Algor
proposes to dig up tho at my beef scan
dal by writing a book in which ho
tjxpects to vindicate himself by dem
onstrating that he was not responsible
for any of the much-discuvsed evils
of the Cuban campaign. As In tho
canning trouble hostilities are not
liable to bo accompanied by typhoid
or other Ills of that wurfaro, the pub
lic may view General Alger's literary
enterprise with unconcern,
The arrest and Incarceration of Mrs.
Carrie Nation, a Kansas white rib
boner who went Into a saloon and
smashed StOO worth of painting and
mlirors, shows that there Ik llttlo dif
ference In final results In Kansas be
tweon an exhibition of abnormal tern
peranco cnthuslusm and a genuine
Christmas Jag.
The fact that tho Boeis will not stay
crushed has arouse'd a suspicion in
London thut the cables have been
uifed principally for "Jollying" pur
poses. Professor Jame, of Chicago, ap
peals with the authenticated uFsertlon
thut death front snake bite Is not
nt'titly bo common us rcrorted. On Inn
to the tiupeiubuiulaugc of snake bit
medicine In Professor James' district
he can scarcely be considered a com
petent authority for the universe.
There Is tittle encouragement for tha
third party movement In the Prohibi
tion vote cast at the last election. To
be sure, It was 7iI,6Sr. moro thnn tho
vote for Loverlng in 1S9S but It was
also less by Gfl,698 than the vote for
Bldwell In 1S92. A a ptotest the Pro
hibition party Is respectable but as a
pi act leal Inllticnce In public affairs It
Is vnln.
General Leo's recent talk nt St. Louis
In which he remarked thnt the Ameri
can flag would always float over tho
strategic keys to the Island of Cuba
would doubtless make mischief but for
tho fact that the Cubans as well as all
others probably realize by this time
thnt General Lee Is not tho whole
American people.
When Bryan Intimated at a Jeffer
son banquet the other night that he
could have accomplished much In aid
of his pet theories In splto of the Re
publican sound money congress, ho
demonstrated nnew that tho voters ot
the nation made no mistake last No
vember. Mr. Bryan's policy Is unchanged but
there Is no question that tho great
majority of his former followers are
on a dog trot in nnother direction.
Colonel Rryan's Intimation that he
l satisfied to bo In private life jus
tides the supplementary remark that
fo arc the people.
Those who buy In haste, like those
who marry In haste, are liable to re
pent at leisure.
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TALKS BY THE PUBLISHES.
EACH Saturday for the past few weeks we have
had something to say concerning the flat rate
(or advertising." Such a rate has many ad
vantages to an advertiser, whether he wishes to
insert an ad. (or a lew dajs or to make a con
tract (or a longer period. In the first Instance he
can run an ad. of any size (or a day or a week
without paving a prohibitive price (or what some
publishers term "short time" business. On the
other hand, he can agree to use 1,000 or more
inches within a year at a reduction per inch and
can use those inches just as he likes. He can
publish a small ad. every day or a larger one
every other day, or once or twice a week, or he
can drop out entirely (or a time, using his ac
cumulated space in quarter, halt or full page an
nouncements. There is a doll of satisfaction, too, in knowing
that he is receiving exactly the same treatment
as cveiy other advertiser in the paper. You can
not help having a certain respect (or a man who
has a price which he refuses to cut, courteously
explaining that he is treating all alike, and when
ou find a man does cut the price he first names,
arc you ever sure that he has given you his low
est figure, or that your neighbor is not securing
a still lower rate? The Tribune docs not send
out men with imperative instructions to "get
the business," meaning, 11 you can't get your
price, get the best price you can, 'but "get the
business."
The Tribune pilnts its rates (or advertising at
the head of the first column on this page. The
prices were fixed after most careful consideration,
and are only raised a fair peremtage above cost
of production. There is a vast difference between
these rates and those o( the old style card. I
doubt if one advertiser out o( twenty-five ever
saw the rate cants of other local papers. And
even if they had they would bo but little wiser,
as none ol those cards was made to keep. As an
example, hero arc a (ew figures taken from the
card o( a Seranton paper and compared with The
Tribune's flit rate:
The Other Paper. The Tribune.
4 ins., 1 mo...$ 02.00 $ 20 00
4 ins., 1 yr. .. 012.00 101.CS
20.00 per mo. 10 tH per ino.
0 ins., 1 mo. . 7S.00 30.00
0 ins., 1 yr. .. 4o3iX) 2W.52
30.00 per mo. U.V0 per mo.
JO in"., 1 mo. . 130.00 K 00
10 Ins., 1 ,vr. .. TSO.flrt 48.1 CO
03.00 per mo. 40. 'i0 per mo.
1 col., 1 mo. . 270,riO 111.80
1 col., 1 i. .. 1,077.00 1,000.20
U0. 73 per mo. 8 1. S i per mo.
Po ou believe, Mr. Advertiser, that such prices
as are mentioned in the left hand column were
ever made with any idea o( enforcement? This
Is not an obsolete card in (act, it was issued
later than The Tribune's. Is there an advertiser
in the city ot Seranton paying $20 per month (or
a '4-Inch ad. on a j early contract, even in pre
ferred position? Gentlemen, it jou are paying
more than $15 a month in a paper of this kind
jou arc paving more than jour competitors. 1(
It is necessary to "get the business," the price
is $12.
Is it not better and fairer to have one price to
all for the same service rather than to do some
business at cost and make others pay all the
profit?
Think it over!
Weekly Letter on
Municipal Affairs
XXX. A COMPARISON OF THE
THREE LARGEST CITIES IN
THE COUNTRY.
New York, Dec. 20.
HP UP. 11IREE most lorrupt and wickedest
I titles in the Sew World aie New York,
Chicago and Philadelphia and the great
(t of these Is Sew York. Collectively
they may be called the politician's paradise.
This is largely due to their ripld giowth and im
mense wealth. The assets of Sew York rlty
alone foot up to more than fXtll.ooo.OOO, which is
nearly 200,000,000 more tlun the largest
(itlcrt in the United SUtes, exclusive
ot Morten, are worth. Thcso ten litlii
have .1 total population ot mene than
0,000,000, as opposed to Sew York's 3,400,
000. The assets Include the amount ol cash in
the trtisury, uncolleited taxes, cash and bonds
in sinking fund, valuation of all public build.
Iiiks, buds and apparatus, biuh as the city hall,
police, fire and park departments, public schools,
libraiirs, art galleries, etc., Jails, work houses,
reformatories, etc., hospitals, as.vlums, alms
houses, etc., doiks, wharfs, markets and vari
ous other public; utilities. The total assets ol
Chicago amount to (140,000,1X10, and those ol
rhlluilelplila to $5,000,000, exclusive of libraries,
ferries, Tirldges unci $1,000,000 that has been ap
propriated (or the improvement ol the water
sjbtcni.
The income o( New York In JSOO, was over
$m,noo,noo; Cnlcago, it.ooo.OOfl; Phllulelphla,
$.10,000,000, Sew York's Incomo exceeds the ag
gregate Income o( the next ten largest cities
In the country by more than 111,000,000, nml it
tho largest, by tar, of any city In the world.
The expenditures are equally enormous, the city
haviugdisbiirsrd more than J, 180,000,000 in 1SO0,
while the next ten largest cities got rid of a
trifle over JMOl.noo.ooo during (he same period.
Chicago's expenditures amnuntcej to over $.10,.
000,000. and Philadelphia's about 23,000,Oi1,
'Ihese flgurrs rover construction and maintenance.
The total Indebtedness o( New York city, In
cluding the bonded and floating obligations,
amounts to KIQi,im,W, which Is about JOO.OOO,.
OOO moie than tho next ten largest cities. Clit
cajo's total foots up to more than 31,000,000,
while Philadelphia's Is over $.iiJ,OOO,00O. 'Jhc net
debt o( thcbc tlirco cities is f251,O0O,0flO, $2!l,000,.
000 and $11,000,000, revpcctlvely. As 11 offset to
this fabulous debt, and as a bails (or the Incomo
which must be realized to support thesa cor
porations, the tin cc cities have an assessed valui
lion ol properly, as follows: New York, real,
$.,0.12,113,101! peibonal, 13I5,OOi3,5. Chicago,
real, if 2oO,2itJ,0.-.S ; peional, ijtfl,0.11lMI, Phila
delphia, real, $S7D.2',3W; peisonal, JI,(U9,010.
New York's valuation ot rcii..li based on 70 per
cent, of the lull value ami ll'e personal on 100
per cent. j Clileugo, 20 per cent, real and per
sonal; Philadelphia, M and 100 per cent., re
spectively. The police forces of these three cities are no
toriously corrupt ami Inefficient In the matter
ot detecting and preventing crime. That of the
metropolis Is undergoing on Investigation under
the irarchtlght ol public sentiment, aroused by
the Insulting ot a clergyman ot the Episcopal
church by several officers. The revelations al'
ready made, In msny Instances, vvhleli show
the complicity of the lorce'wllli the crlmlnil
nd vicious element, are almost bejoml belief,
Chicago Is not much better, and o( Inte the
criminal members of the (one have taken an
active bind In public robbery, two of them
lnvlng received their dlicharge for that offense.
That the force Is effeminately weak Is evidenced
by the nightly hold-ups ol citizens by the crimi
nal clasfi. The high handed rule of the polke
force, of Philadelphia was forcibly dimonstrated
n few months ugo by 1111 effort on the part of
the director o( public! safely, who Is the virtual
head ol the dcpirlmclit, to blackmail one o( the
first citizens of tho town. The fact that the ofil
clal was not InimedUtcIy removcljkby the chlet
executive Is positive evidence ot Iho complicity
of tbe administration.
The Sew York force luiinbers 7,037 men. A
total ol 138,875 arrests were mule In ISO!), over
41,000 being lor drunkenness. This ire old Is not
so oslonUhlng when the fart that then are more
than 1,000 licensed retail llmior saloons In opni
tlon Is token Into cnnldcriitlon. Chicago has H.lM
policemen, who nude Tl.llll arrests In 1800. It
has the evil Influence of over 0.000 saloons lo
rombat, Philadelphia's 2,37.2 policemen made
r.2,185 arrests the rime jear. It has 1,700 a
locns. Iho compirnllvely (.mall number of sj
looni In this city ilue lo I hi- working of the
high license law of I'eniuvhanla,
The fire elcpirtmenls of thrse eltliM redound
to their glory, for theio Is less rcnniptlon and
less opportunity for It thin in the police tie
pirtiiicnt, Those three cities have 2,101, 1,100
and 701 men In their respective departments.
The depigments of Chicago and Philadelphia are
manifestly bss adequately equipped, with bolh
men and nppiratus, than Sew York, although
the rate per capita loss would not seem lo Indi
cate that. The fact that the loss Is less Is
more lo the ciedlt of the chiefs of the lespectlvn
depirtments than to tho city administration, and
does not alter the fait that here should be a
largely Increased force of men employed nnd a
greater supply tun modern apparatus. The New
York derailment his been undergoing thanges
during the l.u,t three jenrs which have woiked
to Its harm because they have been vl n politi
cal character. Immediately upon the resignation
ol Chief Homier, three vears ago, the force began
(o eleteriorate, owing to the corrupt Influences o(
Tammany Hall.
Tho parks of Sew Yoik, in area, nearly equal
those ol Chicago and Philadelphia, although
Ihoso cities have large park systems! but the
valtntlon of the Sew York parks exieeds the
combined value ot the others by more tlun
three times.
As a municipality, New York has very llltle
money Invested In public libraries. Its properly
in this field being valued at only $100,000, .is
contrasted with 2,40.1,20 in Chicago. But
when hospitals are compared, the balances swing
In favor of New York again, its hospital prop
erties being valued at more than $10,300,000,
while Chicago's does not reach llMl.OOO and
Philadelphia's amounts to only I65,000. Sew
York runs bath houses valued at $280,000, while
those of CTiicago and Philadelphia are worth but
$1S,OW and .1,000, respectively.
All three cities own water works sj stems, that
of New York being valued nt ?115, 320,743! Chi
cago, $J2,407,G21, and Philadelphia, 2,.17O,O00,
which Is to he Incrcired by $12,000,000 soon to
be expended (or a complete nitration plant and
additional supply. Chicago is the only one of
the three which owtis an electric lighting plant,
and it was forced by a chain of circumstances
over which it had no control to construct that.
It is xalued at nearly f2,O00,O00.
Luckily (or these great cities thero are potent
Influences for good besides those o( the churcnes
notthc least of which Is that exerted bv the pub
lic school si stem. Here is where New York leads
again, as tho total valuation of its land, build
ings, apparatus, etc., devoted to the uses of the
public school amounts to Sl'.OOO.OflO. Chicago
has $22,000,000, and Philadelphia, sS,000,000 in
vested in publio school property. This includes
24 high schools and 402 other schools in New
York, in which nearly 11,000 teachers are cm
plojctl; 22 high schools and 3"i other school,
employing about 0,000 teachers, In Chicago; 0
high schools and SI" other schools, with over
4,000 teachers, in Philadelphia. These schools
are maintained in New York at an expense of
abdut $4,000,000 annuilly; in Chicago, nearly
f 1,000.000, and In Philadelphia, close on to
S7O0,0O0.
First Place as an
Exporting Nation
Washington, Dec. 2S.
TIIK UNITED STATES seems likely to stand
at the head of the world's list of exporting
nations in the jear MOO. One by one the
great nations have fallen behind In the race
for this dl-tinction until during the past five
jears only the United Kingdom and the United
States could be considered as competitors for
the distinction of being the worlds greatest
exporter of articles o( home production. In 1S04
the United Kingdeim led tbe United States by
nearly $250,000,000, and in 1807 the United
States hail so rapidly gained that she was but
$00,000,000 behind. In 1S')8 the United States took
nrst place, our expons in inai jear cxeceiiing
those ol the United Kingdom by nearly $100,000,
000. In ISOil the United Kingdom again stood
at the head of the list, her exports exceeding
those ol the United States by nearly $.13,000,000.
In the eleven months o( 1000, whoso figures have
been received by the Treasury Bureau o( Statis
tics, the domestic exports of the United States
exceed those of the United Kingdom by $5,47.1,
070, and should this rate of gain be maintained
in December the United States will in the jear
1000 show a larger exportation of domestic pro
ducts tlun any other nation in the world.
Even this distinction, however, of heading tho
world's list of exporting nations but partially
tells tho story of the wonderful growth of our
cxpiut trade as measured by that of other na
tions. Comparing the growth of our exports dur
ing the list quarter of the tcntury with those of
the other gttat nations of the world, wc arc
able to belter measure the wonderful progress
shown. Prance shows no Increase in her exports
of domestic merchandise, in the closing quarter
o( the centuiy; CJermany shows during the samn
period an increase ot about 50 per cent., and
Iho United Kingdom shows from 1875 to 1000
un Inirease of nearly 40 per cent., while tho
United States during that time an Increase of
practically 200 per cent,
0
The fallowing table, compiled from official
reports, shows the exports of domestic mer
chandise from the United States and the United
Kingdom, respectively, In each calendar year
from 1873 to 1800, and eleven months o( the
jear 10O0;
Calendar United
j car. States.
1S73 $ 407,20,1,7.17
1S7H 573,7.15,801
1877 M)7,.V;i),4U3
1878 7-'i,2SO,h2l
1870 731,050,735
18.S0 875,501,073
United
Kingdom,
$1,OS7,407,OUQ
0711,410,000
007,1111,000
08,500,000
9.12,000,000
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1,138,87J,000
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1,160,082,000
1,1.11 ,010,000
1,017,121,000
1,0.13,220,000
1,070,1141,000
1,141,303,000
1,211,412,000
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1,103,747.000
1,002,102,000
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1.108,071,000
1,130,882,000
1,1 5,U2,O00
1,217,071,039
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1SSI 814,102.031
1882 740,011.30')
18S3 777.52.I.71S
1884 , 7-)3,70S,"0l
1883
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1887
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1880
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70J,310,(.'I2
070,507,477
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8I3,P'0,G0.1
1801 037.,3.I1,5.U
1802 02.1,2.17,315
180.1 , ,.,, 85I,7!',I1
1894 ,.,,, 807,312,110
1S05 807,742,415
1800 080,8."ai,0si)
1807 , 1,070,8.14,2'm
IH'H , 1,23.1,3111, SJ8
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1900 ,,,,,, 1,303, 013,78')
'Eleven months.
BEE THE CENTURY DICTIONARY
Editor of The Tribune
Sir; On the 2.tli ot December I rinplojcil a
1111m to paint a sign on my ottice dour, After the
woik was done 1 discovered that ho had used
two "IV in tho word "couiuelor"; upon rall
ln his attention to the eirnr, he referred me
to thn Kcaiiton Tribune of that date, on page
(our, under the beading "lavvjers."
Webster ues one "I," but If jou havo good
authority lor the use ot two, It will save him
tlic trouble of repainting tho won).
Very truly jouis,
I', II. Carpenter.
Forest City, Dec. 28
" THE WORLD jjjjji
ONE HUNDRED YEARS
AGO TODAYjMjMjM
tCopvilRht, 1130, by It. U. Hughes, touu-vllle.J
TWO Itr.MAttKAtlM: books from the pen of
Johann tlottlleb richte, one ol the most
eminent modern (term in meta-phvslclans,
appeared. One was "Vocation of Man,"
whkh lor beauty ol si vie, rlchtirw ol contents
nml elevation ol thought, may be ranked with
the "Meditations" o( Descartes the other, "The
Exclusive or Isloated Commercial State," a trea
tise Intensely socialist In tone and bitterly op
posed lo (nc trade ami competition, Inculcating
In (act, organlred protection.
fiujtnn de Morve.111, the distinguished French
chemist, who had previously discovered the effi
cacy ol hjilrodilorlc gas as an atmospheric ills
infectnnt, became master of the mint In France.
I)e Moivem U doubtless responsible for the pro
verbial hatreil accoidetl all lightning rod agents.
Ills fellow-cltlretis, accusing horn ot "presumptu
ously disarming (be hand of the Supreme llelng,"
sought to destroy the lightning conductor on
Man rail's bouse and were restrained (rom car
rjlng nut their Intintlons by the assurance
"tint the astonishing virtue of the nppara'tns re
sided In tho gilded point, which had purposely
been sent from Hume by the Iteuv Father."
Morvesu was sevei.il joins In advance of his
neighbors In tho ue of a lightning rod of his
own construction.
Poljljplnr, a method In one of the branches
of printing, was Invented. 'I lie apparatus some
what resembled a pllo-drlvcr. 11 lisil two up
right guides about six feet high, and a pulley at
the top, which elevated lij- means of a rope a
heavy plate In an inverted position. At the
foot of the machine was a substantial Iron bed,
upon which the operator placet! some molten
melal. He then pulled the lope until the ma
trix with Its weight attached was elevated to
thp top of the machine, when It was suddenly
allowed to fall. The result was Blmllar to that
made on metal by means ol a die a perftct re
production ot a matrix in relict, which was
mounted on a metnl stand to t.vpc-hclght. The
method was said to be more rapid than the or
dinary stereo! pe process.
Count BerawlasM, a Polish dwart, though fit
yeais old, continued to attract attention through
out Europe. He was a little gentleman of great
actompliilnnents and elegant manners. He meis
ured only thirty-nine Inches in height. K sis
ter, named Anastasia, was so much shorter she
could stand under his arm. Tloth were honored
guests of the courts of the world.
The promise of Adam Goltlob Oehlenschlager,
now 21 j-ears old, and who later won for him
self the title of the greatest of modern Danish
poets, was already widely felt. He had Just en
tered tlic University of Copenhagen as a student,
but bad been publicly Invested by Tloggesen, who
was leaving for fiermanv', with the laurel that
he himself was resigning.
David nicardo, the celebrated political econo
mist of England, stumbling on Adam Smith's
great work, first began n study of the science
that led him to fame and fortune. He was now
22 j-ears old.
Osal Tutu IJuamina, an ambitious nnd enter
prising man, who appeared early to have formed
a desire of opening communications with white
nations, became King of Ashantco In West Af
rica. Paul Sandy, founder of the English school of
water-color painting, retired from the position
of chief drawing master to the Itojal Military
academj" at Woolwich, England, after a term of
thirty-two years.
NUBS OF KNOWLEDGE.
The German Empiie in IS 10 had 1,1.10 strikes.
Cincinnati is the greatest hardwood market in
the United States.
Maine has 175 (actories in which fish and veg
etables are canned.
In Cincinnati there is talk of automobile lines
to compete with the street cars. '
Holland lias nine miles of canal for cverj- 100
square miles of surface, 2,700 miles in all.
The German Agricultural society of Berlin has
offered prizes of $100, $75 and J50 for plans of
model pigsties.
The bolo, or Filipino knife, Is almost like the
American com knife, only it bos a slight curve
in it and is pointed.
In Illinois wages not .vet earned cannot be as
signed. Courts hold that Niieh assignment would
be illegal and void.
A course of lectures (or journeymen electrical
workers has been arranged to be given at the
New York Trade school.
The state o( Ohio spends $11,000,000 annually
on its 1,200,000 school children. Of this fund
Cincinnati pajs $1,000,000.
The growth of the telephone sv-stem in Rusia
is now considerable, althiuglt It has been slow
as compared with other countries.
A cm ions criminal law exist In flrrccc. A
man who Is there sentenced to death waits
two years before the execution ol the sentence.
Itcccnt sales o( real estate in Cialveston slrbw
that current property values arc held at only
about one-half tho figure prevailing prior lo the
storm.
Properly qualified teachers of whist are in such
demand In New York that those known to 1 e
competent have more applicants as seholirs
than they can possibly attend to.
A movement ! on foot in New York to have
the tily buy Faunce'a tavern, the sole Itevolu.
tlonarj relic In the downtown district. It was
theic that Washington bade faicwell to his offi
cers Dec, 4, 187.1.
There Is a quaint little fish which haunts the
weed trat-ts of the gul( stream and there builds
Its nest ami lays Us eggs like a bird rather
than a fish. This animal the antennarius
iinitates In color the weed 11 lives in, and, like
the chameleon, constantly changes its color.
An experimental power garbage crematory i'l
to be built in Chicago. The idea in mind la
to ascertain whether the heat developtd by
burning the city's garbage can be utilized to
make an attenuate return upon the capital In
vested. 'Ibis plan is in operation in several
European cities of smiller dze.
Servants In (ieimanv have their "character
books" duly stamped by tho poliie, and in these
am written lull particulars of their rondutt when
In service. 'Jh cmplojer keeps the book mull
the servant leaves, when It Is handed over, after
an account ot the sen art's behavior and the
reason (or leaving have been cnicrrd.
A flesh Impression o( tint Immensity of London
Hut little world by Itself Is gained from the
statement that In 1899 the Killed anil wounded
In tho London streets numbered 9,801, of whom
207 were killed" outilght, No battle In the
South African war can show so large a total
of losses in this list of casualties in tho streets
ol peace fill London.
A OIRL OF POMPEII.
A public! haunt they found her in:
She lay asleep, a lovely child;
The only thing left iindeUled
Where all things else bore taint of sin.
Her charming contours fixed in clay
The unlvtrsal law suspend.
And turn Tlme'a chariot back, ant) blend
A thousand years with jesUrdaj',
A sinless touch, austere yit warm,
Around her girlish figure pressed,
Caught the sweet imprint ol her breast,
Ami held her, surely tlaiped, from harm,
Truer than work o sculptor's art
Comes this dear maid of long ago,
Sheltcr'd from woeful chance, to show
A spirit's lovely counterpart.
And bid mistrustful nirn be sure
That form shall (ate of flesh escape,
And quit ol earth's corruption, tlupe
Jtielf, imperislubly pure.
Edward S. SUrtln.
Situations Wanted,
"M Vj'VV'tV.VVSrtAAVV.
WANTED-WORK UV TIIK DAY FOR MONDAYS
and Tuculavs, as laundress; would liko ofrtco
to clean; tan glvo best of ilty references. Ad
Uicni M. Jl., 70-i Elm street.
SITUATION WANTED-BV AN EXPERT LAUN
tlrrss, to go out by tho day or take wash
ing home; best of city reference, uicj Pleasant
street. Call or addrcts.
BOOKKEEPER WOULD LIKE POSITION; TIIOR
oushly reliable; single or double entry. Ad
dress Bookkeeper, lilt Fairfield street.
Always Busy
But we are glnd to take
the tlmo to wish you a
happy now century.
The greatest Shoe sale
of any age will be our
HEW CENTURY SALE
of honest Shoes. Preprtr
ntlons for 'It begins today.
Wo begin tho new cen
tury by closing our shoe
stores evenings nt six
o'clock sharp, Saturdays
excepted.
Lewis &ReM!y
114-06 Wyomiag Ave
Thone 2152.
Free delivery.
We carry the most com
plete line for office and
pocket use.
Calendar Pads of every
description. If you have
a stand we can fit it.
Reynolds Bros
Stationers and Engravers,
Hotel Jermyn Buildino;.
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The
People's
Exchamisreo
A POPULAn CLEAIUXG HOUSE (or the
Benefit o( All Who Have Houses to
Itcnt. Real Estate or Other Pronerty to Sell
or Exchange, or Who Want Situations or
1 Help These Small Advertisements Cost ,
One Cent a Word, Six Insertions lor Five
1 ents a Word Except 'Situations Vtanttu,
niucn Are inserted free.
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Help Wanted Female,
WANTED STENOriHAPHEU WITH SOME
Knowledge of liooklceepiug. Situation out o(
city. Address, stating reference), experience and
salary expected. Addrcv. 11,, Tribune.
Salesmen Wanted.
ENERGETIC S I.ESMAN SCHOOL SUPPMES;
country woik; ?100 salary and commission.
R. O. Evans ,: Co., Chicago.
SALESMEN WANTED TO SELL OUR GOODS
by sample to wholesale and retail trade. We
are the largest and only manufacturers in our
tine In the world. Liberal salary paid. Address,
CAN'-DEX Mfg. Co., Savannah. Ga.
For Bent.
I OR RENT AN OLD ESTABLISHED SALOON
on Main street, Curbondale. Possession April
1. Inquire H. T. Maxwell, Hlk Mill, Jermyn.
KOR RENT Pine OFFICES AT REASONABLE
prices, Paull building. Inquire of janitor.
FOR RENT-STORES,
son avenue.
APPLY 13J1 SANDER-
For Sale
vvr-evs-'
CARRIAGES FOR SALE
1 lull leather tup Landau S? 150 00
1 Berlin 130 (M
1 Ilrcwitcr Laud.iuKt, rubber tired, good
as new 400 00
1 five-glass Laud ill UTS 00
1 five-glass Ljuthu, just done up M0 00
Address, Goiman's Livesy,
FOR SALE A DELIVERY COVERED WAGON,
has been In me about two inuntlis. suitable
for a grocery store, dry goodi stort- or othei
mercantile purposes. Apply lo William Ciaig.
FOR SALE-(ToOIl DRIVING HORSE, FIVE
years old, weight 1150. bound. L.111 be icon
at Gorman's livciy.
FOR SALE-BRICK BUILDING, NO. 411 LACK-
awaiina avenue, corner Washington avenut,
being tho property recently occupied and now
being vaeatetl by the Hunt & Connell Company.
A. E. HUNT,
FOR SM.E-CONTENTS OF HOUSE I'URNl
ture, carpets, bedding, etc. OJJ Washington
avenue.
Wanted To Buy.
WANTED-SnCONDIIAND SLOT MACHINES;
must be in 40ml onlcr, state particulars at
to make and price, Address L. M,, general ele.
livcrv, Sci anion, Pa.
Furnished Rooms,
. vw.
IVW V W VW-" VWV.
FRONT ROOM, SECOND FLOOR, FOR TWO,
Willi imam. I I'l .Miami mciiue,
FURNISHED HOUMh '10 l.ET-KLEG STI.V
(iirnMied rooms; strain hcatul; cvcitliln.r
new, clean, rov ami huini like. Ilicaklast if de
sired. Sll Adams avenue.
Board Wanted.
BOARD WANTED-FOR THREE ADULTS AND
one small child, In Kspce. table Jewish dm
lly. living Ir. lint-class neighborhood. State
price, W, A,, Tribune office.
Money to Loan.
MONEY TO LOAN ON' BOND AND MORIGAGE.
tny amount, M, II, llolgale, Commonwealth
building,
ANV AMOUNT OF UONEi TO lOAV-CjUICK.
straight loans ui Huiltliiu ami l.oau. At
from to ll per lent. Call cm N, V. Walker,
ail 215 Cumirll hulhJin:.
Recruits Wanted.
MARINE CORPS. U, P. NAVY, RECRUITS
wanted Ablc-bodlc J men, serlco em our
war ships In all parts o( the world ami on Isurt
In Ihe Philippines when required. Recruiting ol
fleer, 103 Wjomlug avenue, Siiantou.
Personal.
INFORMATION WANTED OF I'UIMO HORIUTI,
who was a resident cl New Yoik I it -N. .,
prior tu 1SU3. It he is dead, his In lit will heat
of cumething to t'lcir jdvmtiuc lo addrc-sJiic
Jos. G. LleHle, Gen. P. O. llov, WI, New .oik
City, N, Y,
EXCELSIOR
FOB 1111
FIEEY'S
The Last
Days of
December
Will be devoted to
closing out every
thing that can be
classified as
Holiday Goods
on account of our
annual inventory
which we commence
the first of the new
year.
Snould you still
wish to make a New
Years present, you
can save money by
selecting from what
is left of
Toilet Articles
Si
ALSO
Silk
Etc., EUC
510-512
LACIAWANNA AVENUE
LEGAL.
NOTICE IN PURSUANCE OF RESOLUTION 09.
Select Council, there will be special elections
held on January sth, 1001, In the (ollowinj
wards:
Fifth ward One person to serve is Select
Councilman to fill the unexpired term ol Rich
ard Williams, resigned.
Sixth ward One person to serve u Select
Councilman to fill the unexpired term ol Edward
James, resigned.
Fourteenth ward One person to serve ai Select
Councilman ti fill the unexpired term ot Pete
McCann, resigned.
JAMES MOIR, Mayor.
.icranion, Dec. Z4tli, ltwo.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN Ap
plication will be made to the Governor ol
Pennsylvania, on the 'iitth day of March, A. I).
1P01, by Cvrus D. Jones, G. F. Reynolds, Charle
bchlager, E. II. Sturgcs, John T. Richards, T. C.
Von Storch, Samuel Samtcr, Richard O'Brien, M.
J. Healey, W. O. Fulton, C. S. Woolworth, M.
P. Carter, Thomas Sprague, and others, under
the Act of tlic General Assembly ( Pennsyl
vania entitled "An Act (or the incorporation and
regulation of hanks of discount and deposit,"
approved the 13th day of May, 137S, and the sev
eral supplements thereto, for a charter lor in
intended banking corporation to be located in
Seranton, Pa., to be called "The People's Bank,"
with a capital stock of One Hundred Thousand
Dollars (100,000) the character and object ot
which are to do a general banking busneos, and
shall have the power anil may borrow or lend
money for such period as they may deem proper,
may discount bills o( exchange, foreign or domes
tic promissory notes or other negotiable papers,
and the interest may be received in advance, ant
shall have the right to hold in tnist as collat
eral security lor loans advances or discounts, es
tates, real, personal and mixed, including thsj
notes, bonds, obligations or accounts of tho
United MateM, individuals or corporations, and
to purehnj.", collect ami adjust the same and to
tlpoc thereof for tbe benefit of the corporation,
or for the pavments of the debts as security (or
which the same may lie- held, and (or these pur
poses, to have, po&stns and enjoy all the rights,
benefits and privileges of said Act of Assembly
niui supplements thereto.
ARTHUR DUNN, Solicitor.
ELECTION NOTICETHE ANNUAL MEETING
of the Mockholdcis ol The Seranton Stnva
Works will be neld at Ihe office ot the company
in Serai Ion, Pi., Saturday, .Inn. 12, ltxi, nt 2..13
p. m. II. E. WATSON, Secretary
OFFICE OF THE SCRANTON BOLT AND NUT
Co..
Stranton, Pa., Nov, 20th, 1M0.
A meeting of the stockholders ol this company,
will bo held ut Its general office, on the twenty
fourlh tlay of January, A. P., 1001. to lake
action on a proposed increase ol the capital
ttock of tbe company from rn.fx)0 to ?2W,(YI0.
L. M. HORTON, Secretary,
THE ANNUAL MEETING FOR ELECTION OP
four trustees for Kcjstono Academy will be
held al thu building in Fnrtoryvllle, on Jan. 7,
at 10 a. m . E. M. PECK, Seeretar),
hTOOKHOLDERS' MEETING-IN ACCORDANCK
with the By-Laws ol the company the an
nual meeting o( the stockholders t( The Pennsyl
vania Casually company will be held nt the ot.
flees of the company, Nos. 701 to 7il Connelt
building, on Tiicwlay, Jan. n, itioi, at 2 o'clock
p. in., lor Hie purposp 01 electing directors for
the ciiMilng vcar, .and fur Ihe transaction of such
oilier business as may properly come before the
meeting F, II. KINGMH'RY, Seeretar)-,
BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED AT THE OFFICE O?
Flunk G. Wolfe, Hoard of Tinde building, (or
the rnn-tructnn of 17 foundation piers for the
rolling mill plant n( Tlinm k Ilerht, comer o(
Jtirksnn Mi cot untl LangstafT avrnue, Rids will
close We ilne-day, Jan 2, 1000, at 2 p. m. The
mini any merics. the right to reject any or all
bids.
SEALED PROPOSU. WILL HE RECEIVED AT
Ih.t office- ol the ferreiary ol the Seranton
Poor lljard until 13 o'clork noun, Friday, Jan.
4, llioi, for the trillion anil completion of 1
Gale lvdgo In be Imaled at Iho entrance to
IIHMdc Lome, , near dirk's Summit, P.i In c.
foiiljnoo vvllli plans and spti'ihYatloni now ready
In tho hands of Ednard II Davit, architect.
Cuniiell building, Nraitton. I'a '(he sum of (.(t)
or ic'ltlflfd check shall be rrirlioe.1 with each
propihil, which sum shall ho forfeited to the.
pr district in cr.- nf relmil or omission on th
part 1 1 lie eimtractor whose proposal shall hi
accepted lt I'n'iuti- Ihe contract within ten day
alter the awarding id the siuie.
Tho huard nt-encs Hit- right to reect any or
all I1I1U Bv order of
( It WrON POOH BOARD,
('. J. Iiillcspie. hccularj,
Dec-. 27, l'T0.
Lost.
IaOsr-bMAI.L, WIII1E FOV TERRIER, WITH
black spot on light hip; reward for infor.
nation or return. Hotel btcrllng, 1M Franklin
avenue.
f'h
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