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The fnftnulhg tnt.li iJiowh llu lirlcr tier inr!i
cuc-li livfillun, iicp to be iiwl wllliln one jiuri
limb when most needed
B yearn foroRhaclow enr-
enrnliiB power und brlni?
xlous problem of old nee
j inalnfcmliieo, To do thin, ns we fcalil
yi'Hlerdjiy, Is it proper elinrKo upon Ih
duetrj'. Kni'-BlRhted employers nre see
Hik tljls. Aiming the cerluln develop
nl' of the twentieth century none
is' iu0ri hopeful In Its promise of tran
iulllzliiir Itiiluenee upon the troubled
ItMiur situation, 1'or the niovo whlJh
h linn mitdu at thin uppnrtunc tlim
President Triicrdnle and tliqso Blmrlng
responsibility with him, deserve iho
v 0 finest plilill.r upinoviil.
If the nCtcr-cleelloli resolves of dc
feutb'it politicians to lie good should
only be kept, what a tine world Itits
would be.
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TEN PAGES.
SCRANTO.V, FKHItUAUY 22, 1002.
' JMeSSra. Keller, Paine and their hkho
clatcsT'In common council who resolute
ly opposed the lobbying of subordinates
for Increase of salaried asked for over
the heads of department chiefs, were
on solid Kround. A claim ivhlch does
not linve the sanction of the men held
responsible is a koocI claim to let alone.
End the Agony.
FROM the communication In
yesterday's Issue it is fair to
infer that the executive board
of the strlklnc street railway
men intend to keep up their present
attitude indefinitely. That", of course,
is within their legal right, it has been
said that these executive officials are
receiving more pay while running this
hopeless strike than thpy could earn if
the strike were declared oft and they
themselves sent back to their regular
employment. How true this is we have
10 means of knowing. It should bo In
vestigated by tliosn most concerned.
The determination of these strike
leaders to bold out when every disin
terested observer sees clearly that there
Is no chance whatever for them to carry
the points for which they contend justi
fies an appeal over their heads to the
men whom they have been misleading.
For four months in the neighborhood of
three hundred men have been carried
along in idleness on empty promises of
a victory that every day became more
and more improbable. In this period
settlement could have been reached a
number of limes on terms more ad
vantageous 1o the strikers than any
now or hereafter open, but for the in
terference of these leadeis. Has not the
time now ionic when c-ommon sense
should bo asserted by those of the rank
and file who are tired of idleness and
cutthroat judgment-note relief doled
out in driblets, and a stand taken which
will nt oiko relieve themselves and the
long-suffering and much ubused com
munity? We think so. It is not now a ques
tion of loyalty to the union. It is a
.uiestion of loyalty to self and to those
iependent. The union made its fluht
and lost. "Why should it keep on in
Teasing that loss? In spite of the loud
sounding rhetoric of the executive
board there is not a thoughtful man In
fjeranton who honestly believes that
the union has any longer the ghost of
a chance to regain the ground that It
has lost. That being true, why not take
the horse sense view and put an end to
the agony?
There Is some choking and hard swal
lowing in the Schley press over the
president's decision; but in the main
the verdict is accepted and the whole
affair gladly dismissed.
The Lackawanna's Pension Plan.
IRECTLY in line with wiiat
was said yesterday about the
equity of providing retire
ment pensions for faithful
labor comes the annouiuement, ex
plained In detail In another place, of
the installation of a pension system
by the UiLKuwunna Railroad company.
By this step President TruesUale ex
hibits another evidence of the far
sightedness of hlu management.
Xo fact Is plainer to the attentive
student of economic tendencies than
that this question of knitting employer
and employe more clnrely together by
substantial ties of self-Inteiest must
receive the earnest thought of adminis
trators of large commercial and Indus
trial trusts If they would escape from
continuous friction, annoyance and ex
pense. It Is not enough that the man
agers of our lurgo corpuratinus should
adjust satisfactorily" the relations of
the Investing Interests over ivhlch they
preside? business necessity requires
that they should give equal heed to the
equities of the labor1 whose activities
come under their supervision. At pres
ent much of this labor Is groping
Mindly for betterment of its conditions
And fulling an easy" prey to designing
men who misdirect Its energies, to Its
own and to the community's loss. Tho
Intelligence which is bringing Into be
ing tho admlrablo organizations of
capital that today proiulso to put the
'fbimnerre of the world under American
subjection is also capable, If t tries,
of. bringing' ubout equally satisfactory
"relations with the thousands ivho toll
Ih Its employ,' The first requisite to
substantial progress In this direction Is
.the development of a feeling among
,Ui(eo werkJngincii' that the "managing
er.i! litis an honest and earnest concern
in its well-being.
"Wo can think of no approach along
this lino more likely to succeed than
that embodied In the pension plan
above referred to. It Is not a charity,
It la not, in n.y objectionable profes
sional sense, a benevolence. It Is a
simple proposition: of business equity
and fair play. It assures to faithful
ro-oneiujt(u in, jUie railKs" u filiu're In
the mollis so urrunued as to uu uvuil
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With Record to the Viaduct.
" D "IIK lectirrenco of the viaduct
H proposition suggests that this
JL time It be handled prudently.
As to the need of siieh a
structure tlieie ennnot bo two opinions.
Its construction, is a necessity. The
thirty odd thousand people whose lives
arc. endangered by the eontlnunnco of
the present conditions of travel . on
West Lackawanna avenue have an un
challengeable right to demdnd'that tho
city shall do away with this menace
and accord to them the same security
which prevails elsewhere.
Rut there Is a right way and a wrong
way to go about even the most desir
able of public Improvements, and It bus
happened heretofore that the promoters
of the viaduct have favored the wrong
In ""pieferenco to the right way. If any
Individual, firm or corporation were
contemplating the Investment of two
huhdred or more thousand dollars in
an enterprise, the first step would be
to ascertain as accurately as possible
Just what It would cost. No manager
of a private business expending his own
or his employer's money would be con
tent to enter into any contract until
tho details had been carefullv worked
out. Not only would the first cost bo
figured carefully, but all the later con
tingencies would bo taken into account
so far as possible to foresee them. In
short, when the word was given to go
ahead little or nothing would be left to
chance.
"With regard to the viaduct, however,
the custom has been to move first and
figure afterward. In not a single In
stance in which this proposition lias
been before councils and people for con
sideration has there been an aoDroxi-
mately accurate attempt to estimate
tho city's liability for damages. Not a
citizen today knows or Is prepared in
telligently to guess whether this liabil
ity would exceed or fall within half a
million dollars. No two guesses agree.
No two plans agree. There is a nat
ural and proper demand for a viaduct,
but hardly a bit of matured detail. Had
practical sense instead or hurrah poll
tics governed in this matter we do not
doubt that Iheio would have been a
viaduct and a good one in use long ago.
"What Is past cannot be recalled: but
it is within our power to use better
judgment in the future and this should
be Insisted upon.
The start made by Councilman Roba
thiin Tluusday nlgjit In presenting a
resolution directing the city engineer to
prep.ue plans for a viaduct on tho
southeily side of the avenue is an in
telligent one. Plans for a stiucture
eoveiing the entire street arc already
in existence. Plans for a private right
of way ran be had at any time. With
these various plans to choose from It
will be possible for councils to consider
this matter deliberately and so to act
that nothing afterward will arise to
cause regret. The magnitude of the
undertaking calls for prudence and de
liberate judgment, not impulsive leap
ing In the dark.
Senator Patterson, who calls Judge
"nt a liar, is a wild eyed Denver Pop.
That Is enough said.
Where Does the Public Come In?
UK decision of tho depart
ment of justice at Washing
ton, at the direction of Pres
ident Roosevelt, to ask for a
judicial opinion as to the legality of the
recent merging of the Northern Pacific
and Great Northern railway systems
by the exchnngo of their resp?et!ve se
curities for the securities of a new cor
poration organized for the puipose and
known as the Northern Securities com
pany, renders timely a review of the
known r.icts of that transaction.
They are set forth with admirable
clearness by Piofessor Rdward 1). Jones
of the university of Michigan in the
Current Rneyelupedla for December.
At the outset It Is necessary to know
thnt the railway business west of Chi
cago Is controlled by three groups of
capitalists: the Clould Interests, Includ
ing more especially the southwestern
roads; the Hurrlman syndicate, Includ
ing the Union and Southern Pacific;
the Chicago and Alton and some oth
ers; and the Hill-Morgan Interests,
traversing more especially the north
western country. I,asl year the rumor
gained currency that the Chicago. Rur
llngton and Qulney railroad, which up
to that time had been In a measure
Independent of tho three groups, in
tended to build a line of Its own or
gain n connection through to the const.
This caused the Uurrlmaiis to bid for
Burlington stock, In order to forestall
such an Invasion of their territory, Hut
the Hill-Morgan people objected to tho
Hnrrlmuns Invading the northwest ter
ritory and began also to bid for Rur
lliigtou. The latter got control of Rur
llnglon, but no sooner did this take
place than the former set out to check
mate them by getting control of North
ern Pacific, How, under tho stress of
this war for control, Northern Pacific
soured up to $1,000 a sharo und how, to
avert n punlc, the contending parties
hud finally to get together and com
promise ino wel remembered fuels of
recent Jiiiuuclal history.
Out of this cluumstaiice thu North
ern Securities compuny was born. Roth
sides had loaded up so heavily with
these securities bought in at fancy
prices thut to unload would mean to
wreck the market. In that emergency
arbitrators were called In, and ufter
carefully weighing the matter they de
elded that tho only safe way out of the
dilemma was the organization of a new
company to take up these securities
and administer the properties ivhlch
they represented. The charter powers
of the new company are, however, most
sweeping In character. They resemble
the powers of the United Stales Steel
corporation and vest the company with
authority to take over an unlimited
number of railway properties. While
no proof of a purpose to exact unfair
rates from the puhlle exists, Hie fact
that tho principle of the merger makes
such exaction possible at any tlmu and
robs the community of all hope of Im
mediate redress had lead to u loud call
from the people of the northwest for
legal steps to test the combine's right
to exist. The bill In equity which At
torney tlcneral Knox Intends to lite
within a few days Is drawn so as to
bring the matter ralrly before the
courts on the allegation that the meig
er la In conflict with the Sherman anti
trust law.
Without doubt the principle underly
ing the Northern Securities company
that of Industrial co-operation for the
avoidance of needless competition and
duplication has come to stay and In Its
coming, in spite of what alarmists have
taught to the contrary, has brought
many economic blessings. Rut before It
can be applied to the business of Inter
state transportation n few points now
In dispute must bo cleared up. If there
is to be concentration of railway control
so that it Ilea within the power of a few
men to regulate absolutely the trans
portation of nn entire community, state
or group of states, then the public must
have a court of appeal. This power
Is loo Important and too liable to abuso
to bo lodged wholly In hands beyond
reach of public opinion or public Jus
tice. If It Is to be delegated to any
man or set of men the basis of such del
egation must be, not their own enrich
,mcnt primarily, lcgardless of the larg
er welfare of the public, but a prudent
safeguarding of the common weal. It
becomes the duty of government to see
that this is assured. Otherwise we
should soon have intolerable monopo
lies unrestrained by law.
FACTS ABOUT OUR
NEWEST ISLANDS
-piii:
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tinder the law application to the
Pennsylvania free library commission
from twelve taxpayers In any town not
having library facilities or in any rural
district, will secure for six months the
use of a library of fifty volumes, cover
ing history, travel, fiction, useful arts,
etc. Thirty-four of these libraries are
now In circulation and thirty additional
ones are being made jeady for early
use. Undoubtedly this is a work of
large possibilities in educational use
fulness. It is a wonder philanthropists
like Mr. Carnegie do not try to do more
for the small towns and Country settle
ments. They need help most.
Here's gratitude for you. The Pltts
buig Times, tho organ of the Fllnn ring,
the beneficiary of the latest ripping,
lays all the blame for Tuesday's over
turn on the governor, "whoe consum
ing ambition, Impenetrable hide, dull
persistency and fat wit," it claims,
made any other verdict Impossible. If
that kind of talk measures Fllnn's cali
ber then the people of Pittsburg have
made no mistake in firing him.
Judge Crumpacker, the courageous
Indiana congressman who Insists that
one vote in Mississippi, for example,
shall not have six times the voting
strength in congress wielded by one
vote in Pennsylvania, has ju-t been
unanimously renominated lor the
fourth time. And he will be elected.
The people of Indiana appreciate his
style.
We are again reminded of tho her
culean task before the modern "fath
ers of their country" who expect one
day to occupy a niche in the hall of
fame on the same floor with the grand
patriot whose memory Is honored today.
T
Former Secretary of State Foster
thinks it will be many years before an
other visit of foreign diplomats to the
president of the United States to inter
meddle with American conduct shall be
permitted. We should hope .so.
Tho latest plan for Cuban reciprocity,
a flat reduction of -10 per cent, on all
tariff duties, both ways, would un
doubtedly prove. In the long run, the
best Investment that the United States
ever made.
From press reports It would appear
that China's grand old woman could
avoid confusion by an advance sale of
seats on tho occasion of her next recep
tion to the diplomatic corps of Pekln.
Those who say that nothing illl bo
done toward equalizing representation
In congress forget that nothing Is ever
settled in tills country until it Is set
tled right.
Those who can rend Into tho presi
dent's Schley verdict a condemnation
of Secretary Long certainly have great
gifts of Imagination.
It becomes more apparent daily that
young Alfonso's crown Is to be made
a target for bricks.
Special t'orrwpomlcncc ot The Tribune.
UimIiIukIom, I'cb. !l.
llANISH wj1 liiilleV I. Hie lllle
if a tiionngrnpli by the trranity liu
milt ttt .ltll.,l.td t.l.l.l. ..Ill ......n.n
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!H ll tt.irl nf llm tnlllif nnittii, It.nn nf
Ibe Munlliiy .Sutiiiii.iry el Cinninerta nml I'lncuc.
II ittviilhiH the Mnnilit Imhuleil hi the iriijuly
i.itlllnl iriMly nf Hie t'nllcil Slule-i .nut llrmmirk.
by Mhlih (lie M.uiili nf St. 'I lioiti , HI. .loliti nr.il
M. ("mix nre In be Inuisfinnl tu the t'n'lril
W.ilr. TIiiimi lhinil, U dimu, ta off Hie t.ivl.
nn loilit of I'mlo ltko nml nre In tail k nitre
.itrinhm of Hie inmlno clciitlmi of wlileb Culu,
.'imi.di.i, ll.illl nml l'orlo llko .ire the uln
ilpjl rciri'.icnt.dles; while they nlio form a ion-liccllni-
link between the (tauter nml llm t.-sier
Alillllcn. hi. Tlmm.H, the' best knon of Iho
Rrnup, lbs nn miles ilu,, r,i,t of Hie northeastern
e.hriiilly of l'orlo llko; St. .tolin llei 12 miles
ftiit of St. Tliotn.ii; while St. (,'rolx lie nluut 80
mllei iioulli of St. John mid 81, ThoinM, nnd GO
nilln coulheiit ot the Fouthomtern point of
l'orlo Men. Two finnll foluiiih already belong.
Iiir lo the L'nlleil h'tnte. Vleoici nnd Cnlebra,
whli b wrie obtained Ihrough the cesJon of
l'orlo llleo, He directly between Porto Itlco
und the newly added sroup.
Ilic lihindi nre nn.il! wllli a comparatively
mii ill ii ndticlng cnpuilly, thrlr cblel Importance
being by reason of their hirbors which llicy cf
fcr nnd their value ni.a strategic m well n gen
eral commercial standpoint, it. CroW, the larg
ct of thorn, li nlmtit 'JO miles long nnd from ore
to live mllea wide, with nn urea of nbout SO
miuarc miles mid a population of about 20,000.
It Is also flic mo'.t pioduetlve ot the island, a
cnmlilei.iblo area being devoted to the produc
tion of sugar nnd tropical frulK and agrlculluio
being the occupation of a I.nge proportion of
the population. There are two loivm on the M
nml, l'lcdiledcd, with a population ot .'1,700, and
ChrWi.imtoil, with a population of (!,. 'I ho
lillcr is localid upon the chief harbor of (he
Wand, which however, li clinked with mud and
of lcw importance than the haihois of ellher of
Hie other lidantk w. .Mm, the wuillcH of tl.r
Miind-i, hui an ulei of but about 21 square milci,
and ii population of only about 1.000. and a com
paratively Miiall (iillivahle .nca, IN chief value
lieinir In 11 tmQ.IMI(tl, r... l...i... .i.
n -- -- ,-w ...... ... iv 1 .., IIIIIHUI llll III.", ft, II,J
natiu.it luilior of (.'oral bay being dccrlbcd in
one of the best protected natural li.irboH In the
Writ Indies, but nt present little used. St.
Thonut, which lies nearest to Porto ltko, li by
fir the most impoitant In its piesent avallablllly
for harbor purposes the harbor of Charlotte
Amili.i having hern for more than a century rec
ognized :h one of the best. r not the best lat
eral hirhor In Ihe entile West Indian gioup, Mil
having been dining all that time it lentral poult
ai ,i Intlmr for icfugo and point of exchange
for nierclunill-p and a coaling station for vessels
from nil pirli of the vvoild. With p.K'-.i.'ci
through wliu li il is easily icachcd, .1 good depth
of water, and euollcut piotccllon fioni the bur
lic.iiie to which that legion Is subject, It lin
long hecn legauhd a an cxtiemelv vabnblo
baibor, and when Penmail. in the only put of
the nineteenth cenluiy undo It j ftco pint it
became the tlKtillintin. ,mt,,t r.. ,t. ..,.
!".... tv. iiii; VUI.IIIIVI vw
of the entire West Indian group. As a roiua-
quence nearly the entire population of the Island
ii chMi'ird mound Ihe jioit of ChaUotti' Am ilia,
fully 10,(100 of tho U.fiftt) population living in (his
city, and less thm 2,000 being engaged In agiieul
t ure.
'Ihe iutioiluctioii of -.learn and electi Icily with
in the pat few- yc.as have iciluced giiMllv tl.e
impertince of si. 'Ihonias i. a point for the dis
tribution of eomiiiene, since now all of (he
iMjiiiU in the gioup .no visited bv legulail.v plv
ing .-.lr.inMiips, M. rnili! supplied hj th'i,
process, lnsti.ul of K.,lsr i mupccllt ! to lel.i' upon
the supplies fomu.lv ili.iwn fiom ,st. Thoiii.li as
n ihsliibiiting point. The iinpoit.imo of the har
lioi, liowevn, as a siippl.v, icpjir, coiling anj
naial station has not been leduc'ril, but intli-r
iuiie.is.i; and win, jaopei development it will,
it is believed, prove of gioat value, while Hie
piuilmtiv.- po-'iliihtic-, of Ine islands, t-peciilly
St, Ciois, In Hie diss of nitiele.s s laigclv im
ported b.v the I'nil,. I St ilea, Hopical pioductluiis,
will not be inioiisiilerable.
'I he popiilitlon is ihHly ciihurd, ilesccnd.ri(.s
of femur hlivps who who llhnalcd in lss,
laigli-h bcilnr the c bief I.tn. n i.vn ...,1....
pcolalb in the h-lainl r SI. Thomas, which his
been fur in.in.i vear.s a ic.,oit foi vessel, noni
lai'Ii,h-pr,iking iiuintiics.
flic unpen, into sr. mm,,s ,,,,,, .,,,
amounted to ?3.1,000 and lliose of St, Croix about
i I (l,lX. They tonvlst chlelly of food-stun" ami
tnnmifiictiirci. The. ctporti of 81, Tliomis In
lOOO amounted to nbout (2.1,000 and (hove of St,
Ciulx $27I,000. The exports of St. Tliomii Vveie
ot a inhcelUncoui diameter, Imgcty manufac
tures destined for neighboring island while IhnsJ
from St, Croix wcte chiefly sugar and oilier
tropical pioduils for the v'nltcd Statci mnrhcl.
Ot the W.l.noo worth ot Imports Into St.
'I lioni.ii in IHW, ito.l,2Mj were from the foiled
Stillest frli8.no-.! from (licit HtlUlnt ,( 1 1 wire
fimn oilier Weit lndlesj $.1:t,o.s from tlciminyi
$2V!72 from llclglumt ?20,7I2 fiom llrltUh
Nuith America, and ?II,I0J from llcuiuaik. Of
the imHitts, lite most lnirtiuit were Hour, Ml,
770S cotton goods, ?00,:iHt hardware, $ll,lll
mm, Jl'1,872: cigars, $13,007; butter and mar
garine, s)10,f!)7i chreie, $7,201 j lard, IJ'i'.'jI, and
other provisions, 21.'-S.
ANOTHER VIEW.
l.'dllor of The Tilbune
Mr: "tfnder Ihe Monroe Doctrine, we could
not allow any I'.uropenn power to acqulip the Dan
ish West India Islands, therefore, we could not
In fairness, ourselves refuse lo buy thcni, when
they were for sale."
After these words in Hie senate, from .Senator
Paeon, of Georgia (I)i'Ui.), there was not n single
objector, and the treaty of purchase at $.",000,1100
was unanimously ratified.
We gel a clear warranty deed of the property,
the Islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix and St, .lohn.
They rover mi area ot 127 square miles, with a
population of 80,000 Denmark lias held them, mi
profitably, since '1071, but In our hands, with
our energy and up to date methods, our nearness,
both in our mainland, and in l'otto Jtico, the
Hand revenues will soon tell "another storj,"
as Kipling sajs.
Charlotte Ainelle Is the largest pi ice on the
island of St. Thomas. At present, only 1.", per
crnl. of the population is white, hut the color
line ii not drawn, in business or churches. The
blackmeii and women are of n superior idass.
Intrimarriige is not unusual. Whites and blicks
sliaic rights and privileges equally. Kducation is
lompulsoiy for children nf both colors, between
the ages of seven and thirteen. '
Kverjbody speaks Knglisb, and It Is used in
the schools und courts of justice, though the .of
ficial language is Dutch.
Chat lotto Ainelic has a fine harbor, large coal
wharves and a dry clocli. As Senator Ciilloin said
In the senate, "the strategic value of Hut harbor
is of great proportions, as It command the-military
situation In Cuba, as far as is necissary,
and if we build our canal nciass the Isthmus ot
I'anaun, this hmbor will gu.iid its approach."
St. Thomas Is not of ngriciiltiir.il Importance.
Its 12,000 people are miinly fed from the Inited
States.
1'icderiksted and Chiislhinstcil ale Hi" ihiof
towns of the island of St. CroK. '1 be stores
and shops aie cf one stoiy, like thosa on the
island cf St. Thonns. They have Kpiseopal, Mo
l,n Ian, Catholic, Dutch Reformed and Meth
odic chinches and a s.viugoguc the nicmbeishlp
i.s about cqi.al of whites and Micks. A full
blooded nesio is one of the Dutch Reformed
deacons.
The Danish army has been maintained at about
2Vl men, s;nt out to stay six years.
St. Croix island has thirty -two sugar estates,
and all the produce goes to New Vol I:.
St. John island lias a population of 700, nearly
all blacks. 'Ihero Is much gia.ing laud on this
Hand. The thief judge of the islnid is also
chief of police (foice of two), paymaster, truant
school piluiipal, wharf master und custom house
oftlicr. (P.iohbah).
'Ihe i-linii'ti' is ptiicly tropical, the leniperiture
in summer lauding from SO to 111 ileal res.
In 11)01, our sales In the island', im reased ;.17,
2.SS. We 'hipped 1.1,271 bands cf fiom nt a value
of $IV-JI while all other countries sold onl) 12
hands nf the value of S.1V1.
Coaling stcameis is the piineipil indiistre of
the islands. About thirty steamers coal tliete
eich nlontli. Last .voir they tool; on P0.S13 tons
uf lonl, of which S0.271 tons came from the
Tinted States.
Home life is pniel, and a liisli estimate n
bdd of the foully iclalloii.
With the nc.iihy piowrous I'i rio Uico us r.n
.isoeiite, guide and cneigi-or, t lien ale great
possibilities- foi good in Ihe "Territory of the An
lilies." W liter .1. Ballard.
Sibfiii'dady, X. v., I'cb. 20.
OUTLINE STUDIES
I
OF HUMAN NATURE
TOLD BY THE STABS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacohus,
The Tribune Astrologer.
&$
Ajtiolabc Cu.4: 2.31 a, in., for Saturday, Kb
luary 22. JtHiJ,
A ebild born on tins da) should have proper
admiutlon for Hie father of Ids lountiy.
Tho misery of a dyspeptic nun is as nothing
compaied with that of his fiiends,
Hope iiu illy spiiugs clrin.il hi tho bu-a-a if
Iho man vvliosa genius Is only rciognlr.oil by the
fliugu on Hie bottom of his pants.
'ihe more Iguoiaut a nun is rrgaidlng the tub.
ject, Hie more tenie la usually Ids criticism.
One of the dements of uices in nun is the
ability tu Keep honey eu his tongue when Hiero'a
gall hi Ills hrait.
home people are continually wonying In ex
pti'tatloii that the uucputopwll happen.
At the Opera,
lies S.i you think the giiitljuun must ho her
husband t
hhe-rndoubtnlly. lie has nut tuiAe-n tu her
during the culling,
COMPLAINTS CONTINUE.
From the Carbondale leader.
There Is still tome giowllng in many quarter
about the manv mistaken timb. In il... uriniin..
of the ballots for this city, and the ilreum
stances are pointed to as another strong pircc of
cvldciiei! of (he iic.il of a county loinnils.ioncr
Irom Ihe "upper end," who knows the roldiuU
unci Hie ilftliu of thy district.
He Know It All the Time.
A guitlimin f.om o if Hi-1 lcuby .laies
v.'ho was in Memphis l.i,t weak, told a goo 1 story,
which will illustiatc the tav manner in whi.-n
gossip n,oy be stalled. He said that -rvvr.il yeais
ago there was a iniiiistu oi the gupel hi his
iicleslibriliocil who was noted foi his piety. About
two ycais ago there iam a change, and the
iniiiistu, whom we will call Itev. Mr. .fores, was
tiJiicfuiccl to n dluYicnt part of the state. O-ily
the d.'y before lie auiicd in Muuphls theie had
been another chain;!', apd Mr. Jon-j was given
the ili.ipliinc.v of Ihe slate penlteiiliaiy.
'lli.il day, the .Memphis vMior relate.,, ho
happincil tu run acioss one of the ministers old
paiishnncis, and, think. ng he would be intere.t
ed ill the latti'i's good foitune, sulci:
"Say, Smith, elld you heir Hint Hv. .Ml, .loui'i
had been sent to the penltentimy V"
"(food foi him," responded Ninth, laicnlcaUy;
"I u I ways thought he would get thoie some day.
lie was nlwny i suih nn nll-ilied ra-cal when he
was mound heic, I knew he would wind up he-
liliul the liai.s,"
Whin his astounili'd iiifoiinaiit lenieinbcii'il lhat
Sinllh had been known as one of Hi. .lone.'.s
gieatest luncbiiuii, he imilil baldly gel up Ilia
iciiu.iae to tell him of lim utor, Memphis tclui
tar. How Traceville's Bival Got Hta Be
vejigc. Itcilirit .1, Tiac-ewell, cauiplioller of the trcas
m.v, beat a nun for ciii'.'Urs some time nun.
'Ihe man vent to bmisville and became editor
of a newspaper. When Trneewell was appointed
the .man got his revenge. He wioto n long
editorial In which he spoke in terms of the
highest praise of Tueewell, telling what a lino
man ho was and how- woithily the honor had Um
bestowed. Then he wound up:
"We know- our fellovv-citlrem In this and
adjoining states, where Mr. Tiacewell ii so well
lnonn. will he ghd too. Mr. Tiacewell I.s .i
man who never foi gets old fi lends. Ho lias i.o
less than twenty-live fine, high sali'i led places at
his disposal, anil will undoubleilly distribute
them among ills filinds and nclghbois. Wo under,
stand Hut Mr. Traccvu-ll is naturally modest ill
this legaid. lie doi'.s not want tn otfer any of
thu plates to his old fiiends, he has so many;
but he Is now In a position to leceivc epplliatlons
which he will welcome, and whLh will secum
highaluss government jobs,"
The fait is lhat Traecivoll lias no patronage,
not even one deiksldp. Kvei.vbody icaihed b.v
Hie paper took the iditmlal uitl.'le for gospel,
and Tiacewell has hail moie double than pos.
sibly could lomo to him in any other way.
Wa-ihlnglon ioriepuiideiue, New oik World,
No Book Learning Needed,
During a school tea the other day a kindly old
eloitor wjs ri'gaieling one of Ihe young guests
wllli evident alarm, t'lidl.maycd by tho doctor's
glanics, the young siliolar lapldly deinoll.heel
plate aftrr plalu of bieaei und butter am) cake.
At last the eloitor could blind It uu longer,
(lulng up to the young lascal, he said:
"My boy, have you ever nail any book which
would tell you what tu cat, what to drink and
what tu mold!"
"I.oi' bless yir. fir," rcpllul (lie young gentle
man, "I don't wunt no book, Why, I cute, all 1
can, I drinks all l can and I avoids burstln'."
Indianapolis Sentinel. ,
Small Wonder Ho Tottered.
A couple; of men bought tlikets ot one of (he
ilty ticket agents yesterday for Dawson City.
After the giatitled rulhoad nun bad gathered up
the money, IJ2I0 In all, one of the ineu said that
another fellow would lie In later for u ticket to
the same point. The 'two men had scarcely left
the room when another man walked up to tho
counter and u.kcil for "a ticket to Dawson."
With Hie uvturunitf of the late puicluseis of
liikuts to IUwdoii City in Ids mind, thu ajcnt
Iwiuvil another ticket to the tame fji-uu place,
folded it up and put it fn uu enielupe. As he
laid the ticket down the stiangcr demanded:
"How imi'.IiV"
"One hundred and twenty clollais plci.se."
"What's thitr" fairly shiidceil the strau-er,
lis he tottered baikwaul nnd came near falling
tliiougli the plate gl.-ra window. Then it de
veloped that the man wanted a ticket to Dawson,
Jllnu. si dollars and some cents. Dululu News
Tiibane.
Why Laurier Couldn't Deny It.
.Sir Wilfild l.iurler, the Canidiin pivmler, was
mi a .'peTcbinaklng toui of Ontario during 'he
U'n-iit bye-elections in Hut piovlnce anil the
piovince of (jiiclirc. 'Ihe elections were bitterly
contested, and elfoits were made both by the
l.lbiiuls anil ("oiisi'iiatives to stir up race and
ldigloiii piejwiice. A Quebec Liberal, whose ac
iiualntance with Sir Wilfrid was only polltl'il,
tint this telegiam to his leadei :
"He port In circulation in this county tint your
chihlien have not been baptized. Tcl"graph
deuiil."
To whiih dlsp.ileh the premier sent this reply:
Sony to say upoit h concct. 1 have no
children."
The Bishop's Trout.
lllshop roller wis ictiiinlng to loan one Hun
ilay night liriiilly Hied with nuny elulies ijcm
In the nnithirn iji r of Ins dioiesc, when a
friuiil, who had just boarded Hie ti.iln, handed
him a flu.' biskct of trout, the ii-.-ult of a elm's
spent with the remark lhat he thought the
bishop bad wiakt'd the harder of the two and de
ten cil the cat eh.
tin Holiday inoinlng the bishop was met by his
hoiisi-Ucpcr, wliu imputed at once, "Oh, bishop,
how will you have those Hunt served which you
caught ycste-idayf" New York Times Magazine.
'IT'S MORGAN'S,1
I came to a mill by the river side',
A half-mile long nnd nearly as wide,
With a forest of stacks and mi arm) of men
Tolling at furnace and shovel and pen.
"What a magnificent plant I" I cried.
And a man with smudge on his face lepllcd,
"it's Morgan's."
I entered u train and rode all il-;-On
a regal coach nnd a light of jy
Which reached its arms all over the land
In a system too large to understand,
"A splendid pioperty this!" I crleel,
And a nun with a plate on his hat leplied,
"It's Morgan's."
I sailed on a great ihlp, trim and true,
l'loui pennant tn keel and cabin tu irc.v,
And Hie ship was one of a monster tied J
A firl-ila navy could si a no lompete,
"What a beautiful craft sho is!" 1 cried,
And a man with akimbo legs leplied,
"It's Morgan's."
I dwelt In a nation filled with pride,
Her peoplo vveie many, her laiuU wcic wide;
Her iccoid in war in science ami crt
I'rovcil gieJtnr., of muscle .md mind and heart,
"What a giand old country it is!" I cried,
And u man with his chest in the air replied,
"It's MoiganV
I wrnt lo heaven. The Jasper walls
Tuwried high ami wide, und the golden lull i
Shone bright beyond, Hut u strange l.evv .imk
Was over the gstc vU., "Private I'ark,"
And u saint with livery on leplied,
"It's Morgan's."
I wrnt to Hie only place left. "I'll tile
A chance upon the lirlmstoii" lake,
Or perhaps I may be allowed to sit
On the gliddle floor of the bottomless pit."
Hut J leering lout with horns on Ids face
Cried out, as lie forked me olf Hie place,
"It's Morgan's."
s,non. j
Always Busy
Gum Boots that arc good
for Men and very gdod for
Wornau, 3i'ze 4 to' 8, at $ 1.25,
Wo do not call them Men's wa nro
Honest.
JCook to it put our Siloes
on thy feet, they are batter
thau Putting Money in thy
purse, they cure thy ills and
save Doctor Bills.
Lewis &Reilly
114-116 Wyoming Ave.
Office Desks and
Office Furnifur
HbMH'
New and Complete
Assortment
Being the
1ABGEST FUItHITURE
DEALERS IN SCRANTOK
Wo carry the greatest assortment
of up-to-date Office Furniture.
You are invited to examine our
new line before purchasing.
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ijiyuyiii
121 Washington Avenue.
WM
ll waists
nl lie is.
1 i'fl 10
bid Hi
Tliey nro more lieiinttful nml drcsi
ler tlinn nny Hliovvn heretofore;
Krcnter range of styles nntl ninny
entirely new doHlgnH. Probably tbn
most prominent mill most nppropii
ato of the tailor made effect Is the
Gibson Waist
Made of fine finality Merccrlzr-d
Madras; cnincit In white; and tlifl
populur similes of the kcuhoii.
White Silk Waists
TIicfp nre very handsome; lii.'rJf
of Bootl eiimllty Taffeta Silk, elus
tor of tucks and hemstitched o,
front and back, and laco trimmed1,
nh-o AVlilte China Silk Waists, with
chiffon trimming'.
White Lawn Waists
Are strikingly dressy In design;
iitndo of line imported lawn with
nllovor embroidery, tucked front
and back, latest Negligee tucked
col in rs.
Others with fancy trimmed V
sluippd front In lace nnd embrold
eiy; nlfo line with low necks an''
f-bort sleeves. ,
Fancy Colored Waists
Arc of the most popular maUe;
tucked fiont and back; come in
plain colors and stripes. Some ot
materials .
.Mercerized Oxfords,
Silk (jingiinms
Fremli liimitics,
Mercerized Madras,
510-612 Lackawanna Avenue.
NOWHERE ELSE ON EARTH
Can the Seeker After
HEAL1H AND HAPPINESS
Tind Such Rich Reward.
CALIFORNIA
ISA WINTER PARADISE.
Best Reached Via
"SUNSET LIMITED."
(I'Af.ATi.u. hot::i, ox whi:ki.s.)
Leave New York Tuesdays, Thurs
days, Saturdays.
SOUTHERN PA3IFIGG0,
R. I. Smith, agent, 100 S. 3d St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
tOWAFARMSf4JcERREit;I
AHUt iCtOT ILFAIUiV,ittfACrs;i
OcSH BALAh
. ,J J J, eg, 2 r $ $! Jt J ! tj 4
.j, ajfiitJlilLi J.JtlCU ON J,
a ALL STERLING SIL- 1
VER ARTICLES OP 4
Toiif War?,
Manictir?
Pieces and
Desk Hir
Disbings
I
j, j A & ! 4 ! i J i 4 J ! $ 'i ! !
Tlicio uoqeN aip nil rooiI cdvy u eight,
such as c always curry in stoclf.
Mercereau & Connell,
132 "Wyoming: Avenue.
WeyTmwcgtesaBJiaggiwBg;
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I The Markets
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Our
Curtain
and
Drapery
Department
!HJffiriiT7W,a'''ytMTi
.i
B
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the WorlcSoe.
Have been drawn upon to
complete the assortment.
Every day sees rare and
beautiful Lace and Drapery
Fabrics placed upon the
shelves.
Variety will be the spice of
life in this department. From
the reasonable priced goods
to the richest imported lines,
it will be our aim to show
the customer a stock which
will be superior, not only in
quality, but also in variety.
Just a word about the lo
cation of this department.
Take the elevator to the sec
ond floor, then turn to the
left. Here you will find the
best arranged and most beau
tifully furnished Curtain and
Drapery Department in the
city.
It will afford us great pleas
ure if you will call and look
around.
IB
Williams & M'AnuIty
129 Wyoming Ave,
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