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SCRANTON. At'i-.rST 9. 1P01.
Cf.nKrrwmjn WrlRht nppoan to hnve
rut thf Sti.rueliBniiH county "antls" to
fltep in thf flr.t round.
Where Reform Is Needed.
THK m.tny toilets of thf rlty
whn.se nlalitly labors require
that they should gain sleep
In the hours of daylight, as
well as nervouH people. rotnpMin of the
hurkster nuisance which becomes more
unbear.ihle dally as the season of home
firnvvn fi tilts and eset,tl)les advances.
The amount of Inns power possessed
by some of the emlf rs of g.uden truck
would he h matter of wttiprlse to an
lnvetlKitlnff fi Iptitlst ?leep is impos
sible within a block of one of these
vnral wonders. ye.t app.irntly not sat
isfied with the ffort of their yelling
some of the ciaft hiue Intioditred tin
horns for the purpose of lmpartlnK .id
dltlonnl emphasis to the announcement
of their pieseiite In a neighborhood
In the portions of the r-lty whete board
ing houepp ate plentltul the huckstot
Kener.illv utilizes his reserve foup and
puts on additional steam In inukinK
Known the contents of hl! vvason
In New York It Is said steps have
ben taken to put tm- .oft pc'aj upon
the huckster's .veil and the peaie .'.nil
pood order of the resldnce portion of
the city h'te thereby been enhanced.
There is no ii-ason why the huckster's
howl should not also b. inoclltled in
Fcranton As a rile i p,.,ipn , ,0
luy of the ',tn-i t uiultr ate on ihe
lookout and h would prohably sell ns
many poods by conducting business
in a peaceful manner as by attempting
to outshine the 'linkers" of a midway
show. By all mean.? let the huckster
he regulated.
An exchange intimates that the
"aunties" are a trifle backward,, In ap
plying the title of "Third George
Washington" to General Malvar, the
successor to Agulnaldo.
Density of Population.
WE HAVE little Idea 'of this
country, says a writer in
the New York Sun, what
gteat density of popu
larlon really means. According to the
last census there Is in the United
States, exclusive of Alaska and Ha
waii, an average of ; fi inhabitants to
the square mile in other words, our
density of population Is far smaller
than that of any country of Europe
excepting Norway and Sweden. Rut
crowded ns nUrope Is. In compatison
with this coiiiitiv Its people seem to
have abundant elbow room when they
ate .ontrasted with the hundiods of
millions living In India and t'hlna.
l"r. A. Mipan. the illMlnguMied geo
prapher and one of the editors of
JVrolkerung der Erde, oMlmntts the
population of China at over 3.V).nn,il,ono,
not Including the sparsely peopled ie
pion outside of China proper. China
lsonly about us large as Russia, but
it has neail a many Inhabitants as
the whole of Einope. New Jersej,
with an aveiage ot i 3 Inhabitants to
the squaie miif., i;, tnr tMui lnost
densely peopled state in the United
States, be In? sui passed only by Rhode
Island and Massachutetts. If one.
half of our count! y was as densely
peopled as New ,Ierse with Ith blp
c.tles and tmpoitant towns that half
of the United States would have Just
about as large a population as Is
crowded Into China. Rut China, like
nil othei large countries, has Import
ant areis In which the nonniminn
is comparatively small, if we would
know what density of population
really means in China we must go to
thejow. irh plains which, though
only-a small part of the country, con
taiaXnearly a third of the people, or
aboiJt 110,0.00,000 souls.
There are only two plains of great
mpprtanre, the most of China being
q mountainous or a very rugged coun
try. Tone, .of these, plains stretches in
a brjiad belt near the sea from a little
foutrj of the Yangtte liver to the
north or Tekln. It Is crossed by the
Hoflnr river, whose terrible floods have
sometimes killed millions of people.
The "other plain, in the low regions of
the Vangtse. does ont extend far from
the river and its larger tilbutatlcs, nnd
It 15. narrow In nil pans, for moun
tain hem it In. On these plains about
a tljrd4pf the people of China gain
theieilvftTg for the most part by tilling
the &,
Iftthe 76.000,000 Inhabitants of the
United States lived In the state of
Texas and. -to.000,000 mote people were
crow-Tied among them we should huve
a polled tn this country of the den
cltyjif population on the two plains of
China. Thete is nothing like It even In
India. No wonder that tillage In China
Is of the nature of garden culture, that
each householder has only two or three
acre of ground, that mountains in
mot parts of the country are terraced
and tilled and that .EastCJilna has
beeni denuded of its timber so that
every foot of the soil may he culti
vated. Th masses of the people In any
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country, herded together like the Chi
nese, would perhaps be as poor as they
ate. 0ei population Is a dire evil and
the Chinese ate suffeilng from It.
Whete the farmer tills only h gaiden
spot that produces scatcely enough
food for his family, he has little to
sell and can buy little. Siuh minute
sub-tllvlslon of the soil as pievalls In
China would keep any people poor; no
matter how highly the commercial
aptitude of the Chinese may be de
veloped, their part In trado will al
ways be small In proportion to popula
tion as long hs they me mostly farm
ers, each tilling only two or tluec actcs
of laud.
It begins to look as though Historian
McCIay would be obliged to go upon
the lecture platform in order to vindi
cate himself.
For n Universal Language.
-Tr-HERE WAS recently held In
I Pnrli, sny the San Francis-
j co Post, a great reunion of
learned men, whose put pose
was to form an International congress
of academies. The Idea Is that thete
should he a body composed o' repre
sentatives of every gru nemlemy, in
stitute, unlversltv mil p!-,nnnf soci
ety of the whole clvlllr.ed world, all
working together In the general Inter
ests of every blanch of knowledge. The
congress of acailcmlex will be a genenl
registry olllce of learning and discov
ery, or, one might put It, Rn Interna
tional dealing houe of science.
Its most Impoitant function will be
to keep tab on the prepress made In
every liitshwav and byway of research
and thought ail over the world. It
will sum up the actual position of
knowledge In every subject, organize
research on new lines and enable Iso
lated workers to avoid wasting time
and labor on lines afready fully o.
plored The scientific worker In Lon
don or Rerlln will be able to profit
at once by the authoiltatlvely recog
nized net results of a worker in the
United State", or vice versa. It Is not
too much to say that the whole move
ment of science and learning during
the coming century should be immeas
urably accelei.itcd by this new Institu
tion. The Idea realized In Paris t not a
new one. Henjamln franklin advocat
ed It In Pats to Voltaire. And long
before him the great German philos
opher and scientist I.elhnitz lud sug
gested some such International alli
ance of learned men. It has taken 200
years to realize what seems to be so
simple and obviously useful a sugges
tion. Leibnitz might well have been
satisfied to .see how warmly his coun
trymen of this cnr of grace have
espoused his irlea and how brilliantly
Geim.iny was lepiesented In the con
gress. But what Franklin would have
said to hi, countr.vmen Is more dubi
ous. For, whatever the ica.son ma be,
only one American was delegated to
this assembly Prof. Gondalo and, by
a singular piece of bad lin k, he fell
111 In Switzerland Just befoip the re
union, and was unable to attend.
Into the proceedings of the congics
there Is no need to enter at length. As
a matter of fact, nil that was not
highly technical was purely picllmln
nry. Rut there vvai one Interesting
question opened. The congress of ac
ademies detei mined to tackle the diffi
cult matter of a unlveisrl language
The need of such n language is being
felt moio and more evciy da. As
trade Incomes mor" and incur- extend
ed, taking in eveiy country in the
world, the language question becomes
a formidable dlfllculty. A large Amer
ican linn will. In the course of a year,
have to write and receive letters In
every dialect spoken wheiever Ameri
can goods nre used. Instead of having
i employ main- translators, waste a
quantity of pilceless time, nnd In the
end do business unsatisfactorily, it
would be Infinitely better to have one
recognized business language, adopted
in every country and learned as a mat
ter of coui.se- by every one who pro
posed, either as u cleik or principal, to
enter coinmeice.
Seveial eperlmrnts have, of course,
been made in this diit-ctlon. Perhaps
the most ptnmlnent was Volapuk. Rut
Volapuk Is now as dead as the tradi
tional (loot nail. The reason s eaMly
stated. It lacked authoiltatlve sane
tlon: and It was lll-coiistiucted In this
respect, that, being puiely lantanle.
having no relation to any existing
tongue, it laid a heavy burden on the
memory. Relatively few people caied
to learn a dlfllcult language when th j
were not sine that the day after they
had acquired it a new and better eys
tern might not appear and be moie
generally adopted.
A philological committee of the con
gress of academies will study the ques
tlon in all Its bearings and expects in
the course of n few rais to work out
or adopt from outside some artificial
language which will meet the condi
tions of universal success. Such a lan
guage will have to he absolutely simple
In construction. with no elaborate rules,
easy of pronunciation on phonetic
lawa by every race likely to use it,
easily learned by being composed ns
far as possible of root woids common
to the guatest possible number of lan
guages. These conditions are not so hard to
meet as It might seem. Pronunciation
and grammatical rules aie f-lmply n
matter of unlveial agreement. As for
aiding tho memory by the use of toots
common to many languages, they can
be found In the Latin words which
abound in nearly eveiy tongue. English
is full of them; French, Spanish and
Italian ate almost exclusively mnde up
of them, German has a good ninny.
lAready a languuge flas been foimed
on this principle. It Is called Espeianto
and Is the creation of n Russian scholar,
arwl Count Tolstoi deflates that after
only three houts' study ho learned to
icnu ii hb iruenuy arc uis own tongue.
Any one with a smattering of Latin
would certainly mnster It In n week.
It may be that Esperanto will bo adopt
ed by the united academics If it he,
the congress will use all Its Interna
tional Influence to get It officially ac
cepted by every country; perhaps even
to have It made a compulsory subject
In publlo schools all over the world. In
that cae every educated man In the
next generation would be nhle to com
municate with all the educated people
he hud to do with In any land.
Of course, the universal tongue would
not kill existing languages; that Is ns
Impossible ns It would be regrettable:
It would simply be a more or less per
fect vehicle for the conveying of the
ordinary affairs of life and of trade be
tween repieenta lives of different tucrs
Tho ever active Pntorson anarchists
are planning nn unique entertainment
for August IS which will represent the
assassination of King Humbert nnd the
suicide of tho murderer Rrescl. Large
led placards have been Issued an
nouncing the event. While this Is a
land of extreme toleration, It seems
nbout time that the leading spirits of
anarchy In Pnteraon were loaded Into
tho patrol wagon,
President Cnstro ha.i displayed sa
gacity scarcely excelled by General
Kitchener In handling war bulletins.
M. Santos-Dumont Is still, unable to
get his flying machine out of the liquid
nlr class.
The corn crop will doubtless recover
In time to be harvested.
Inventions Lost
Through Accent
from the New York Pre
F.Mr. and fortune await the min ho will
rodlcoier anv of the manv selentlfie se.
i rets which hae been lost in the last
txentj voire In Hut time rmnv valu
able imenilon- have been lost liv reon of the
widen deith or the deliberate defsn ol the In
ventor Ideas "hkh no nvnev on bnv brik
hsve been shevin to tho world for a short time
and then hive been withdrawn.
o
Yrars aso ,Inhn Vjj mouth, of WoUerhamp
ton, fnghnd, incented a plan for untiring; the
force of heat and exhibited cine of Hie simple,
rheiprt and mol useful engines ImanlnihK
run bv that power Then h 'lellheratelv de
prived the world of Its benefit. He was in
enslnecr ami Interitnr, and befoie he Invented lili
heat ensltie had patented a dniin smcpssfu ,ip'
pllancc which ti!l bear ln name. Wajmouth
devoled himself to hirnewlne the heat rf an
ofdiniirv fire and rnaVlnj a new power out of
it The idea was laucilieil at bv all his friend',
but ailir foui vcars' experimentlne ho produced
a statinniry licit encni" that ce double the
power of it uteam ensinc of the nine size at one.
thlid of the cost, and aLo a small model heat
loromnthn, liree enoujh to draw a truck wllh
a mm In it lie lncl'-d a committee of end
ners and scientists, inning whom were Professor
Iluvlej and Toihes Pinwu, to witness the work
of his new invention Tlio- did so and declared
flat the two euslnes worked to perfection. The
Invention mul" i sreit si'r at the time and
Wav month hid inj number of offers of bus
sums for It Hut, tor ni appirent leisnn, Wiv
mouth refused either to bring out the Invention
himself nr to sell the s-del. He said tint le
was stti-flcd "Itiplv lo have mcireded in vvhit
he hid midert ikrn. Hid shortl.v befoip his deith,
two jeirs .ifler, he destcoved all the papers
and plans for explaining the e.vslrm and re
moved the CMcntial pirts of the enfflnes The
eiiKines are slill In the possession of Wav
mouth's lelrs. but no one ever has been able
tn mike anvtuing out of them.
ci
Mlll tritiKCY was the famous los.s of the recipe
for the manufacture of dhmnnds fifteen jears
aire llcibrrt H irncr, who alone dlseovered
and held the secret ot diamond makinc, did not
live to wreck Hie diamond industry, as people
thought he would, mid the circumstances of the
loss were mvstrrimrs and tru;li Inferior rill
minds can still be produced artlfloiillv, but
onlv nt a rnt of about ten times their value.
Wnrper, nltT voir of experimenting, wss ab'e
to turn out a genuine diamond, of luce sire
mid it the llrst water, at the- c.ot of the small
friction of (he complete stone's worth. II-',
like Vtaviiiniitli, minufai lurrd his diamonds be
fore an audience of wienllsts, and produced
thrco fine stones, which were tested and pin.
noiinced faultless, Two of them are still in ex
istence, and aie th cieitevt curiosities the
jewel wirld his ever seen Hut within a fort
iiiulit of tills triumph, blore anv of the new
stones wen- put c u the mirket. W'ainer dis
appeared from bis house in Ilarle.v Mreet, Lon
don, lecvlng no tiace whatevet So complete
was his diuppni nice that from that dtv to
this not the smallest explanation lias been hit
upon.
o--light
veirs ajo a wonderful new metil nihil
"tiliuin" wis heralded vvldelj is a greit and
useful disrnverv. It was an alio; of various
metals electrlcillv treiled .and was ,W per cent
lighter than -tccl, stronger, tougher an I costing
.in per cent, less to produce. It was discoveted
bv (irantlv Adims after four jears of studv and
experiment It wis suluVi ted pnblirlv to all
sons of test and stood the all Tillum w is
going to rcvolutlonlre ronsimrtlon rtillwav
trains constructed of it vvo-ild lie ahle to travel
at double their former speed, and all snrls of
ei'.'ei) tool would be keener and lighter when
nude of the new men! Mi,-un.,i1jp'( cirrlages
evervthlng wis to lie made of "tilium " Over
rome liv the micnltwl of his success dim
lost his reison, and as lie had kept the erret
ef the tnanufactuie of Hie metal entirely to
himself it was lost to the world when his resson
fled He died a ravinx lunatic, and no papers
explaining In method weie ever found ll
the tools md models which dams romtructed
of "tnlluni" eilll exist, hut so fir no man
bis I een able to ijii,ier the method by which
the amalg tin was blended
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The ixtraoidinirv "perpetual limp" of Henry
Mills, which he Invented, pcrfecrrd and proved
the vvoith of twelve jeirs ago, xva lost In a
different miniier. The Mills limp was an In
eandesient light, produced without nnv using
up of materials It hid nothing to do with com
bustion, and the "flam.-" of it was perfectly
ecbl It was ceitalnly one of the most won
dcrful Invrntinns of the me, and not at all ex
penfive Mills made two of these limps and
demonstrated their ibsolute aufre.; lmt m ex
traordmaiv thing hapoened before Hie inven
tion was put at the ditponl of Hie public On
the night of Mmh :u, )sl. Mills' laboratoiv
In Hampstoad, rnglind, was broken Into, hoth
limps broken to frjfments, and all the papers
describing the invention, Involving veara ef
work, stolen There was not Ihe smallest rlue
In the burglars Kven the reison of it s not
known whether It was malice, jealousy or thefr.
No vse has been made of the stolen papers
Mills, who depended en those pipers, set to work
again, but two minths later he fell 111 of ty
phoid and died, and the world was thus deprived
of his secict.
o
Six vcars ago an Kncllshmin named Sluvv.
bridge announced tint he bad Invented a new
explo,ve, to whUli he gave the mine of "fill-
mile" Kxpeiimentss with "fnlmlte" proved
that In an oidlnary serfico rifle It could send
a bullet six miles, and it was shown that a
projectile fired b "fulmlte" possessed ten times
the ienetratlve (one of jono propelled by
"cordite" It was a tenlhly destructive explo
sive, and rne of the good things about It wis
that it did not strain in any wav the gun In
wlich It was used The British government en
teied into negotiations with Slnvvbrldgc for the
purchase of his Invention, tint he was killed in
an explosion In his laboratory before the nego
tiations were completed The explosion wreck
ed the entire bouse, and the Are which followed
deslroved whatever papeis describing Ihe nun
tier of nakln,' "fulmlte" the Inventor m.y
have left.
si
lt was shrer vinll or perl ips "c us.eilnes.,"
tint kept (irant 1'lnlav fiotn givlnj to the world
the benefit of his invention for the total aboli
tion of smoke. He evolved a simple svsteiu by
which any die or light roubl he made to con
sume its own carbon, and though lie demon
strated the usefulness of the Invention many
times, he obstinate!) refused to put It on the
market or to sell the secitt of it Ilia own
house, Just outside C.lasgnw, was fitted with his
s.vstem, which did not cost him 7.V for tho
entire buildirg, and no Jot ef smoke ever was
emitted there All his fires consumed their own
tmoke, and h was fond ef showing the ef
flcacj of his invention to his guests, hut never
would he explain the working of It, and he died
two jears ago, rarrsing hl secret with him to
the grave, A week before his death he had all
the "anti-smoke" apparatus stripped from hit
house and destrov cd.
HIOHTB OF LABOIl.
From the Philadelphia rtecord
The conflict between the afllllsted teel cor
piMllons and the Amalgamated Association
promises to have at least one good result, amid
much evil, In Mnilly establishing the rights of
Isboe on a basis that can be shaken neither by
arbitrary eniplnvers on the one hand nor on the
other by coercive combinations of workmen on
strike. It was lone before the laws cl any
Industrial countries tolerated or recognized as.
sociatlons of workmen for their mutual pro
tection. In England formerly combinations of
labor and strikes were treated as conspiracies
and the Issders were arrested and punlshel,
The Trench Constituent Asenbly of I7. vvhkli
managed the ttevolutlon, vvaa certainly not
Inimical In srlrlt to the rlthts of werklngmen
Yet the Assembly In rccowmlclrg In each cltlren
lh rlsht to ofTer or refuse his labor and to
bargain as to Its conditions at the same time
prohibited Mm from co-nine to an understand,
ing even with other workmen for a rommnn ex.
exercise ot this Irdlvldual right t nder the
First Jcenublic ef France the law punished
strikes even though unallendel by violence or
fraud and founded on ei'iuj This legislation
was inspired not so much by favoritism to
employers as by the feir that "coalitions" of
labor, as they were called, would exercise tjrin
nv oier the freedom of Individual werklngmen
not belonging to them It was not until IV.1,
under the Second Kmplre, that the French liws
against labor unions were abolished on the
oeeision of an application of them to a peaceful
strike of Tails r Inters.
In this count-v, as well as In Hnglind, the
progress of legislation in behalf of labor unlrns
has been much more ripld F.verywhere In the
I'nlted States the right of worklngmen to com
bine and to strike against anv grievance Is fully
recognlied on the ole ccnelltlon that the strike
shsll be attended by no infringement of personal
rights and by no Injury to property So complete
Is this recognition bv emplojers that in most
of the mills of the Steel trust the worklngm
belong to the Amalgamated association In
this strike no dispute Is made as to the rliJtt
of the Amalgamated association to control its
own meinheis emploved by the sleel companies
Nor, so far as observed, is there anv disposition
in the steel companlea to tluow- out of en
plovment worklngmen helorglng to the union
This serves to Indicate the power which organized
labor has attained In this countrj.
Put there is a third party In Interest, and
this Is the non-union worklngmen around whom
the steel strike actuall.v center These men do
not wish, for reasons -if their own, to enter
the Vmahamsted association er to fill urde
Its control, which is their property. In their
own terms; and In thl they are entitled to the
amplest protection of ihe law. Kterv attempt
then to coerce or "itimlelate or molest then in
niiintalnitu this light nf labor should be ste-tly
nil picked b.v the mil islers of the law.
PRAYING AND FISHING.
Frrm the Patterson, N J , I.venlng News.
Mr Ilarrv Nightingale of the Paterson Supply
companj and Mr John Nightingale superintend
ent of the Stern. Pohlv and Herman mill, and
their fithrr. .limes Nightingale, are all old
successful fishermen who love the sport vcrv
much Some weeks ago Ilirry Nightingale got
.a permit from Mr. Mackenzie in New Yoik to
go fishing on FrinMIn lake and they invited
rtev I II Callaway to poln the partv, an in
vitation which the Pev gentlemin gladly ae
cepted, and last Stturdav the four men started
off In a beautiful suirev and vcrv e-vm were
on Franklin lake In one of the many flahlng
boits.
Mr. r.illaway has been in the rity for more
thin twentv one jears and never caught, or
tried to catch a fish before last Saturday in
these I'niled States. Mr Nightingale showed
him how to put a worm on his honk and after
the partv hid rowed about the lake for an hour
Mr fiallaway earnestly and Mcredlv prajed In
these word.
'O Thou Jesus ol Nuireth, Who brought
fi'h to Thv disciples on the sea of Oililee bring
to me i fish at this time "
Inside of two minutes a pickerel 12 Inehea
long welching 2'i pounds elzcd the worm on
Mr ttilla-v ij's hook and after a good deal of
eplishlng it was sifrly landed In the boat.
During the remiinder nf the dav Mr. Oallaway,
who never tiled to catch a fish before In these
I nlted Mates, ought exactly as tnanv as the
other three experienced and Miccessful fishermen
The pislor savs his success was a direct answer
to praver Tins mine pastor rn he has been
pricing for more than rine months for a son
and that son was born in his home last night
md the mother and habv are both well He
.as If we all did right and prajed earnestly
we should have more t-uccesa than we now en-
ky.
THE PRESUMPTION OF SCHOOL
BOARDS.
One of the profound mjsteriet in this world is
the marvelous psvcho'ogical change that comes
over rcp"ot ihlo, intelligent, and otherwise wise
livmrn when they are elected by their fellow
citirens to sene on school committees Persons
who never dream of superintendent an electric
pi int. niinigiiig a ruthnad, building a bridge
over Niagara, lennng an aunj, or commanding
a lilp, enler the duties of a school committee
with the astonishing rn sumption that they can
with safetv minister directly to the welfare ef
children, mold socletj into right living, and
shape the destinies of, a nation by meaiu of com
mon education; that they can make courses of
jstudv select teidierr), examine pupils, and
nianige the Inlinul md pedagogical affairs
nf a school sjstcm This pievailing state would
be rlrilMiloui, were it not so awfully sole.nn.
'Ihe presumption of itchool boards is the acute
distress of the nation, it is the culmination of
bad palitlK, the vcrv worst by product of
democritlc evolution For this presumption mil
lions In nionej are wasttd every year, countless
children sufTrr. and free government Is imperil
ed -Col. F. W. Parker, In Quincy (Mass.) Ad
dress. PERSONAL DRIFT.
flcronlmn, the noted Indian, has announced
his conversion to ihrlstlaniti and is to all ap
peanncotvinost devout
Admiral end Mrs, Pewey have ergsged apirt
menta at the Hotel Wentworth, Portsmouth,
N II . for a part of Auginl The Admiral ia
well known in that city, as his first wife was a
Portsmouth woman However, this will be his
first visit since the battle which won him fame.
Itev Mlnot J Savage is th latest celebrity
to raise warning voice ajalnst the felly of
overwork He declares that about half the
world's effoit is wasted, and tint we should be
better off If we should epcad in dignified idlenesa
somo of the tune we devote to useless labor.
vV A Clark, of Montana, bas said to have
entered into partnership wllh ,r4nd Duke Michael
to work copper mines in the I ul mauntains.
It is alleged that the Orand Duke, who own
the mines, offered Mr Claik a sluie in them if
be vrould take control This offer resulted in
.Mr Clark investing tj.fSsi.fifFfl in the propertj-.
The Duke of Sparta, lieu apparent to the
throne of Oreece, was :u ycare old on July 21st
He is luckier thin moat people, however, for lie
maj be said to have two birthdijs, the otl.ei
occurring on August 2d, for In Crcece the old
calendar, as in ona or two othei countiies, has
not been entirely nineded bj the new.
Chief astronomer F. W. Djson nf the flreen
wlch Oherrvatory arrived last month in fan
Iranclno en Ins homeward Journey fromhumarta,
where he observed the total eclipse ol the sun.
He has vislrted the l.Ult obcuvatery, ami in
tends inspecting other American observatories
be foie he returns to i:,igland
Kmperor William has appointed Profesair
ljich Prygaltki to command the ticrmau South
Polar expedition, The objective point -if the
expedition Is Kerguelrn. and thence snuthwaid.
In case South I'olar land Is discovered a scientific
station is to be erected and maintained f.ir at
least ono jcar. The expedition most return in
the spilng of l'sll at tha latest
I.ady llemilone Dlackwood, who was one ol
Ihe nurses decorated by the cuecn at Marl
borough house, is the second daughter of the
MaiiuU of Duffrrin and va. Her eldest sisler,
whose nanie curioiislv enough is also Hermione,
in the wife of llnland Munro Ferguson, while
the jnungest, Lady Victcrla, Is mauled to Lord
I'lunket. Her eldest brother, Lord Ava, was
killed outside ladvsmltli at the beginning of
last jear, and another brother, Lord I rederlck
Temple, was wounded a few month, ago in South
Alrica,
Binghamtoi Privat. Training School
for nervous, Pack yard and Deaf Mute Chil
dren. Manual Training, Physical Culture,
Needlework, Music, Kindergarten, Articula.
tlon. Open jear round. Circulir. Prlcea
moderate. 8. A. DOOL1TTI.E,
ii Falrriew Avenue,
Our Outing
Sale of Shoes
With prices we are as
thankful to give as you
are to receive.
500 pair Youths' Leathef
Bicycle Shoes, tan
and black 75C
500 pairs Men's Tan, high
and low cut, usually
$3.50. This sale.... X.5U
200 pairs Ladies Black Vlci
Kid Button Shoes warranted
to be worth 1.50.
This sale 75C
Lewis & Reilly
114-110 WYOMINQ AVENUS.
Cedar
Chests
It is now time to
put your wintercloth
ing and bedding and
you need something
that will keep away
moths.
There is nothing
better for this pur
pose than the Cedar
Chests that are car
ried in all sizes by
Hill &
Connell
1S31 Washington Avenue.
THiRD NATIONAL BANK
OF SCRANTON.
Capital $200,000. Surplus $525,03).
United States Depositary.
Special attention given to
BUSINESS, PERSONAL and SAV
INGS ACCOUNTS, whether large
or small.
Open Saturday evenings
from S to 9 o'clock.
Wm. Connell, President'
Henry Belin, Jr.. Vice pres.
Wm. H. Peck, Cashier.
Refrigerators,
Oil Stoves,
Screen Doors,
Gas Stoves,
Window Screens,
Hammocks.
325-327 Penn Avenne,
if I m
A Second-Class
City with a
First-Class Stock of
Out Glass,
Sterling Silverware
Clocks, Etc,
Suitable for
Wedding Gifts.
Mercereati & Connell,
132 Wyoming Avenue.
ENTRIES CLOSE AUGUST IS.
After August 15 no
will be
The Tribune's
Vis.....M , M,
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EDUCATIONAL CONTEST
v
The Tribune's Education.il Contest has been open twelve
weeks and still has four weeks to run. There is plenty of time
even yet for new contestants as is demonstrated by the fact that
last year two of the winners were only in three and four weeks
respectively.
The eight special rewards are offered to the young men or
women who secure the largest number of points in the contest.
They are required to canvass for subscribers to The Tribune and
nre credited with one point for every month's subscription se
cured, a year's subscription counting twelve points.
Two of the winners will secure lour year scholarships, valued
at 81,000 each, for the work of a few weeks. Why shouldn't
one of them be you ?
The Special Rewards
Scholarship in Lafayette College $1,000
Scholarship in Swarthmore College 1,000
Scholarship in Stroudsburg Normal School 675
Three Scholarships in Scranton Business
College, $60 Each 180
Two Scholarships in Scranton Conserva
tory of Husic, $75 Each 150
$3,005
Each contestant failing to secure one of these special rewards
will be given ten (10) percent, of all the money he or she turns in
K n The first two scholarships do net Incl'id meals, but the contestants sscutlnj
thrs will be elven tin (10) pr cent, oj all tho money lie oc she turns in to Tin
Tribune, to assist in paving thU expense?.
There are four weeks yet ot the contest and it is not too
late for any energetic young man or woman to enter. Some of
l.iit vp.ir's: wiranprs: voire nnlv in thrpn nr fmir weckc.
Send a postal to The fnbune for full particulars, including I
hnnH;nmiIv illiietrntpd liranli'lpt. AHclifss
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Editor Educational Contest,
Tribune, Scranton, Pa.
P. J. HONAN,
Merchant Tailor.
319 Lackawanna Avenue.
SCRANTON'S BUSINESS HOUSES
THESE ENTERPRISING DEALERS CAN SUPPLY YOUR NEEDS
OF EVERY CHARACTER PROMPTLY AND SATISFACTORILY.
L. SOMMAR. Ilulldins Contractor
Emplojs union msn Estimates chfertullj'
eiven. rtemoclclln? and repairing a specialty.
3SO WASHINGTON AVE.
HAVE YOUR
WATCH FIXED RIGHT
WE ARE SATISFIED WITH A SMALL
PROFIT.
BERNHARD, jeweler.
:i5 i..ck.u wvv AvnTi:
EDWIN S. WILLIAMS.
CONTRACTOR. BUILDER
ROOM SB COAL EXCHANQE,
SCRANTON. PA.
OH Jledal
Cc Photographer
Ctiildr.'n s V.
Artist.
FOR
SALE
ni'ttl.lKS and VV 0
ONS o( all Kinds,
nlso Houses and
llmirliPK I, its .it
bjr.Mins llOHhb
Cl.ll'PI-n and
CROOMI.n at
M. T. Kcllcr's
I..a kauannaCurrujc
orks.
farrell's
Transfer
Moves freizM 1 urm
tin? and BJBX'iuc
Mffl, Pianos nd Ma
chtneiv
217 I,acc,aanni vie
J. B. WOOLSEY c& CO
CONTRACTORS
AND '
BUILDERS.
Dealers in
Plate Glass and Lumber
op all hinds.
LACKAWANNA
UNDERWEAR STORE
Will ce' all theli samplrs o' line imported
Madras Kimts lor men at i )c . -rth tl ,n f-
WALTER E. DAVIS,
214, Sie. 2IO PAULI BLDG.
Attorney-nt-Law, Scranton, Pa.
MRS. SARA ALLYN,
MANICURE.
CHIROPODIST AND
SCALP TREATMENT
M sot Meais nuildine Parlors open Monjjy.
Thuicday and Saturday ecenms'
E. JOSEPH KUt.rri.-L,
rear Ml lackauanna avenue inanulicriner ot
Wire Screens ot all Kinds, dill) prnpirid fni
111 rprinj 'ca.on We mike ail k nds I poult
ereen, elr
PETER f,riHP,
General Contractor, Huilder and Dealer in
liullnini; l"ne c emeni,n or rcnais a spe
cult)
Telephone IWl
Olftce. .',.'7 Wailnnston avenue
more new contestants
received in
1 , Jf
Allis-Chalmers Co
Successors to Machine Business of
Dickson Manufacturing Co., Scranton
nnd Wllkcs-Barre, Pa.
Stationary Engines, Boilers, Mining
Machinery, Pumps.
HOTEL TERRACE.
Parlor Hotel Accommodations unsurpassed
f-pecial eUMVfi:R HATES to permanent suests.
(let them Tahlc Doard W H VVHYTE
Hanlevs
Bakery,
420 SPRUCE ST.
Successor to
HUNTINGTON
We maka a specialty ol fine breal stuHa.
Orders for Salads, Oysters, Croquettes, etc.,
promptly filled.
A lull lino ol I-ce Cream and Ices.
W. A. HARVEY.
Electric Wirins and Fixtures.
Electric Hell and Telephone Work.
309 Commonwealth Buildno
CIlIinMC WsLAMS SPECIALTY.
DR. S. GERTRUDE EVAANS
OSTEOPATH.
13? nnd 12H Washington avenue, Fcranton Pa
Ottl. o hours ,) to 12 m , 1 30 to S SO p. m
Only practirin; lady osteopath In Northeast
ern l'ennsvlcania
FRED H. WINTER.
aS4 CAPOUSE AVENUE,
Maple firocerlM and Provisions. A lull line
cl vegetables, etc, received dally
THE SCRANTON VITRIFIED BRICK
AND I ILE MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
Makers ol Pavins Urlck, etc M II Dale
n.irral ales Agent, Otflce 8J Washington ave
Works at Nay Aug, Pa . I; & W V II It
Kinqsbury & Scranton.
Manufacturers' Agents
MINE AND MILL SUPPLIES.
District Acents for
John . IlncblniKS hons (o s vVirc Itope and
l'lcc tri al Wire Outta Pen ha and llubber Mftf,
to'i Ilcltinc, Parkins:, Hose and Mechanical
llubber floods hiiowlton Parkin; Carter's
Oil Clothing Itnom .110 Paull Bldg
SEOURITY BUU.OINO 4 SAVINGS UNION,
Heme olfce, CO? JOT Means Buildine, transacts a
general building and Iran buslne) tluoughout
il'i' stale nl Pennsvlvania
x JAMES J. MURRAY,
c-urcessoi to ib Hunt A Cornell Co, in tin
end sheet metal noik ani sentlUtion Carton
tuiiac.es, irpaira anl genenl tin vsork u
specialty No U I icacvanna avenue
WLSOV 4 COMPANY.
Pashlonahle Tailors (Hotel .lermvn MuiMIng),
S'1 !-piiie street Scnnin Pa Milts rreNSed,
Pi .ents pants pres'erl in rents Clothing re.
Pan I nlled for and delivered Se'V Phone Wl
l,WW. M.H..H"1" IHWM "WWW
ASK YOUR GROCER
FOR KIRKPATRICK'S PURE
SPICES AND FRESH
ROASTED COFFEES.
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