The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-06-01
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Coffee Cools.

Coffee Cools.
Someh ow the conviction appears to
be general among laymen that the
prices nowadays asked for type writing
machines and stylish bicycles are ok
cessive beyond reason. Apropos of the
effort Of certain StroudsDurg citizens
to secure the location in that thrifty
borough Of a new bicycle factory, it ia
related, as tin5tancing the large margin
between actual cost and market char
ges on some grades of wheels. that mt
Elmira 100 wheelmen recently banded
together and solicited bids from vari-
Gus firms on all order for 100 wheels.
Thus they were enabled to get for $5S
apiece wheels that purchased singIr at
retail would have cost ex city &l2j
each. Such extortionats, high water
prices as prevail today will doubtless
become subjects for laughter "a few
years hence, when patents expire and
restrictive agreements cease to bind
wheel firms together. It's the old story
Of the sewing machine over again.
Competition is bound to make charges
take a tumble,
The prediction is credited to Chair
man Gilkeson that Republican
lions in this state may hereafter be
held alternately in Philadelphia and
P%ittsburg. When Scranton gets its new
regimental armory, o consummation.
by the way, Gevoutly to be wished, it
will be necessary TO add a third city 10
this list. Republicans Of the northwest.
ern counties would not object to travel
ing all the way to Pittsburg to n state
convention, once or twice in II lifetime.
but they are not inclined to yearn for
that sort Of thing as a regular and fire.
quent habit. In any event, Scranton,
as the third city in the state, with pro
jected new hotels that in respect OF
entertaining capacity, will place US on
an equality with either Philadelp hia or
Pittsburg, and With q hospitality
thoroughly demonstrated, deserves to
share in any contemplated future dis
tribution Of convention honors. We
enter a claim thus early, in order TO
have Scranton's wishes in this matter
explicitly understood.
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1t is possible that this prediction Of
Mr.. Gilkeson will not be relished by
Harrisburg; but If the change bs made,
Harrisburg will have simply itself to
thank. For nineteen consecutive years
the Republicans Of this state have met
in annual convention at the state capi-
tai, and for exactly nineteen years they
have suffered from lack of sufficient
sccommod atoms, There has been
scarcely q year in this list that did not
see the stuffy Harrisburg opera house
crowded to suffocation long before one
half Of those who desired to gain en-
trance could secure it. And yet, with
these repeated object lessons before
them, the tranquil inhabitants of that
hypnotized Community have taken no
steps to build an adeq uate hall, and
have even expressed surprise whenever
the need OF one has been suggested. Il
is time that the half million Republi-
can voters Of this commonwealth got
better treatment than they have been
accustomed to receive in the backward
village that Harris founded.
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The continued absence of all clue to
the whereabouts or motive Of Henry
Harding. the Tuukhanpock lawyer.
whose recent disappearance was GER
tainly mysterious. recalls with singu-
lar viyidness I. G. Crawford's striking
novelette, in the Cosmopolitan some
time ago. 1t was entitled ''The Dis.
appearance Syndicate"and purported to
be the disclosure Of a vast social
scheme, engineered by a syndicate Of
men highly skilled in the occult sci
ences, for the reformation of society
through the calling to the syndicate's
aid Of specially gifted mon whose per-
sonal business routine had grown
wearisome to them, but who were,
nevertheless, too honest and too con-
servative to disappear suddenly in any
manner that would cast suspicion on
their integrity, The gradual steps
taken by the the syndicate to lure
these dissatisfied men into its service,
and to bring their courage up to
a point where 1t would assent to a
complete Transformation of Identities
were most artisticallY conceived; but
the browning characteristic Of Mr.,
Crawford's work was that the syndi-
Gates aim, 30 far from being selfish or
unscrupulouc. was notably altruistic,
moral and philanthropic. None of its
employees was permitted to ''dissp-
pear" until he had thoroughly arranged
his business and domestic affairs so
that no n should suffer through that
disappearance further than the mental
or emotional shock Immediately Incl
dent to the departure. AS a fancy
flight into the speculative possibilities
of the new metaphysics taught by the
Asian philosophy this sketch by Mr..
Crawford was singularly daring, orig
inal and clever. One could imagine al
most that Mr.. Harding actually condi.
toned his disappearance upon the
fictitious requirements 30 effectively
laid down in it.