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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15
COMPULSORY EDUCATION.
The Fnrr Bill Secures Reforms of the First
Magnitude in Education and Ought to
Become Law without Delay.

The Fnrr Bill Secures Reforms of the First
Magnitude in Education and Ought to
Become Law without Delay.
From the Philadelphia Press
The Farr compulsory school attendance
bill as 1t has been put into final shape by
the conference committee takes great
step forward in the educational legisla-
ton of this state. For the first time, In
this measure the state will recognize three
things, at least In principie-first, the duty
of parents to send their children to school
under penalty; second, the necessity or or
ficers to compel this attendance, and,
third, the need Of school census.
AS to attendance the requirement OF this
bill is the most beggarly minimum with
which a. Christian and civilized state
ought to be satisfied. From to IL each
child Is required to have sixteen weeks OF
schooling q year, little enough In all con-
science, but even this Is great advance
on the past. The state permits two miles
distance from school to be sufficient ex-
cuse for absence any child "otherwise In
structed In the common English branches
of learning for like period of time" Is
exempt from compulsory attendance and
ample and easy appeals are granted for
release from the fines imposed on parents.
These provisions may need more stringent
regulation in the future; as 1t stands the
requirement of schooling for children Of
sixteen weeks from to 13 years OF age Is
a vast deal gained.
For the better enforcement of this at
tendance school boards in cities, boroughs
and townships may appoint attendance
officers" who are to get not over 81 day
and have power to look after, apprehend
and place in schools designated by their
parents children who dodge the minimum
of sixteen weeks of schooling in a year.
Truancy schools can be organized for such
chudren; but these must be In public
school buildings. Here, too. Is a needed
reform-not all that might be desired and
less than will be provided a few years
hence, but a great Improvement on the
present condition of affairs.
A school census has long been one of the
needs OF public education in this state.
The police take 1t in most cities. The
school authorities should be empowered
to make It, But the important thing is
that a school census should be taken. The
Farr bill provides that the assessors take
a school census In the spring, when they
register voters. For this work assessors
are to be paid n per diem compensation
equal to the compensation paid under eX-
listing laws for assessors Of election" This
practically gives an assessor another set
of questions to ask when he makes his
house to house visit in the spring. Once
begun--and this Is, after ALL the impor-
tant matter-this school census will i'm
prove and grow more accurate under the
pressure of public opinion, and from the
start it will show how inadequate are
school accommodations and how irregular
| is school attendance.
This bill secures reforms of the first
magnitude in education and ought to be-
come a law without delay.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15
limb in all occupations, and an efficient
employers liability law.

limb in all occupations, and an efficient
employers liability law.
At a time when both the old political
parties appear to be somewhat uncer-
tain as to their immediate future, and
hence hesitant to take up new issues,
this kind of specific announcement Of
principles by the labor interests pos
sesses at least the pleasant merit or
novelty, and 1t Is fact to be CRATE
fully noted that fully three out Of every
four Of these declarations are wise and
desirable, whereas 1t is fair to believe
that the more soclallstic of the de-
mands-such, for instance, as the In
come tax and the government owner
ship of public works-will in time eX-
pire through the sheer force OF spread
ing intelligence among the laboring
masses.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15
SCRANTON, MAY Is, 1895.

The American people. from tradition
and interest, FAVOR BIMETALLISM, and
the Republican party demands the use Of
BOTH GOLD AND SILVER AS STANDARD
MONEY, with such restrictions and un'
der such provisions, to be determined by
legislation. as will secure the mnintcn.
nncc of the parity of values of the two
metals, so that the purchasing and debt.
paying power of the dollar, whether OF
silver. gold or paper, shall he at all times
equal" Republican National platform,
Junc 7, 1892.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15
Watcr Power aud Electricity.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.

T'TOWI INC 7 IIlIIdUeIPIIIH IHVuIrcf'
Some months ago a New York engineer,
employed by Pennsylvania board OF
trade to estimate the power that could be
developed from the falls on the Wallen-
paupack river at Hawley, in this state,
made a. careful examination of the stream
and its fall. His conclusion was that IA,
900 horsepower could be developed for In
dustrial purposes. 1t Is now announced
that New York capitalists have taken an
option on the land fronting the falls and
propose to establish there a plant for the
generation and transmission of electric
power. There can be no doubt that as
soon as the times improve the attention of
experts and capitalists will be turned to
the possibilities that are to be found In
our neglected water powers.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15
An UnfOunded Hope.

An apologetic organ of the adminis-
tration announces that Secretary
Gresham is very anxious to retain his
place, in the hope Of being able yet to
pull the Cleveland administration out
of it's present hole. Realizing that the
greatest single element of the admins
trations present unpopularity is It's
lack of positive Americanism, 1t Is said
that the secretary will endeavor 10
bring about condition wherein he can
assert himself vigorously, without
danger of getting hurt. The apologize
organ does not state the case this way,
but that is what it means. 1t used the
following language:
Glad as 1t would be of an opportunity to
win popular approval by demonstration OF
its national spirit, this administration IS
not weak enough to be going about hunt
ing uuarrels with our neighbors, nor 10
take advantage Of any petty ripple upon
the diplomatic waters to hoist sails ana
rush toward war. The president ana Sec
retary Gresham are strong enough to be
patient and to meet every case upon ts
merits without effort to make an opening
or to play part for the sake of bit or
passing popularity. President Cleveland
is not as clearly aware of the Unpopular
ity of the Administrations foreign policy
as is Secretary Gresham. In the nature
of things he does not keep in as close
touch with public opinion and is. besides,
somewhat hardened to criticism. But
misfortune in Hawaii has thrown a cloud
over the whole, and he is human enough
to hope for better things in the future.
During the coming two years it is not i'm
possible an opportunity will present itself
in the natural order of things for the presi-
dent and Secretary Gresham to convince
the country that they are pretty good
Americans after all.
Honest repentance, coupled with sin
cere amendment, is at all times to be
encouraged; but it is possible that the
American people would be suspicious
of a jingo policy adopted solely with an
eye to domestic party politics. The
time for Mr.. Cleveland to have asserted
his vigorous Americansm' was when
such an assertion was needed to pro-
tect the honor and dignity of the Stars
and Stripes. His failure to do this re-
vealed the true caliber of his states
manshp; and man once found want
ing by the practically unanimous YER
dict of his countrymen will hardly be
so indiscreet as to try any new tricks.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15

The Philadelphia Press charges that
in the matter of re-apportionment Gin
dividual interests are allowed to take
precedence, and to put the party in an
indefensible position Our contem-
porary may have the floor for the pur-
pose of exposing the interests thus
protected
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15

What has become of the $S,OOO,OOO of
state reserve money recently lying idle
in selected banks? If the common
wealth is otherwise too hard up to do
its duty toward the public schools, why
doesn't it fall back on it's surplus!
Better cripple the surplus than cripple
the schools.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15

Before the state Of Pennsylvania goes
into any such foolish business as pairing
down its already economical appropria-
tions for free public schools, 1t should
put itself up at auction and sell out
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus, The
Tribune AstrOlOgcr.
Astrolabe cast: 1.4S a. M for Wednesday,
May Is, 1895.

Moon rises 129 a. m.
A little girl born at the dawn Of this day
VIII lead an existence that's happy and
gay;
Through the journey of life she'll affection
command,
And sunshine will scatter with unstinted
hand.
In fact a child born on this day will
possess the amiability Of a church quar-
tette singer.
This is neither q lucky or an unlucky
birthday from a financial standpoint; and
success or failure, like the result of an
Eastern league ball game, Is not safe to
bet on.
In these days Of rush for Industries that
enliven suburban localities, the protest
against Messrs. Hewitts horse-cooklng
enterprise at Taylor must cause general
surprise. There is no question that a
horse-boiling establishment lends strength
and distinctness to a neighborhood.
Ajacchus' Advice.
Spurn not galoches on this day.
Be not discouraged at the temperature.
Remember that things are still very warm
down in Cuba.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15

Did the Scranton Traction company
cease the sale of .workingmen's commu-
tation tickets because 1t could not af-
ford to sell those tickets at the former
discount, or simply through general
cuSSedneSS?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15

In his recent peregrinations we trust
that Hon. John Frost has not visited
disaster upon the tender presidential
boomlet Of Don M. Dickinson.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15

New debt, is necessary; but no cur
tailment of popular education. That is
one thing which the people will not
tolerate
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15
Let Us Hone Nay.

Colonel Eugene Fields Column.
When "Trilby" is called in off the road
the public will be regaled, we suppose,
with O. dramatization of the book which
Grover Cleveland is going to write.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15
Quite q Pert Nation.
nm n washington Special,

From Washington Special.
According to the official estimates Of the
bureau of statistics treasury department.
the United States has started the month
of May, 1895, with population of a round
7O,0OO000.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15

The Cleveland administrations regu-
lation of the weather bureau IS another
addition to it's list of monumental fail
ures.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15

Pittsburg Is in the throes of an anti
smoke nuisance agitation. Pittsburg
should use anthracite.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15

The failure of the "Greater New
York" movement need not necessarily
discourage the greater Olyphant.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15

rot on Is the very one," Indignantly re-
torted the prisoner.--Texas Strings.
II some people went as far to meet their
bills as they do to meet trouble, there
would not be SO much debt in the world
Atchlson Globe.
It's always the other man who hasn't
any excuse for being late. Whenever the
man himself is late he couldn't help It,
New York Recorder.
IL notice." said the tall. pale girl with
the high forehead, "that there is much
progress being made now in photograph
ing the stars" "Oh. yes" answered the
fluffy girl. "They use them for cigarette
pictures"
Crummer-Bighead is a very deep
thinker.
Gilleland-Yes, SO deep that his ideas
never rise to the surface.-Town Topics.
DIADEM IN VERSE:
Some stand and talk on woman's rights,
Expending time and zeal,
While others go ahead and get
Their bloomers and a wheel.
where are you going, my pretty maid?"
"Unto my wedding, kind SIR" she said.
"And your name Will be what, my pretty
maid?'
DennlS, my parents tnlnk, sne saiu.
Buffalo Courier.
They saw their wedding presents
With something of despair.
They'd thought to sell and get some cash.
But no duplicates were there.
Washington Post.
FROM THE MOUTH OF BABES.
A little 3-year-old was dressing her
doll. For some reason everything did
not work to suit her. and she exclaimed:
"Oh, 1 am by-gusted, this button won't
butt!'
"Why did God forbid Adam and Eve to
eat the forbidden fruit?" asked Sunday
school teacher of one of her class. "For
fear they might fall out Of the tree and
hurt themselves" replied Johnny Fizzle
top, who had his arm in u sling.
A lady had just been calling on Katie's
mamma. Katie liked to sit near the caller,
whose dress was well perfumed. Katie
had always been fond Of cologne, and
when the lady was gone, she said to man.
ma, How nice her dress breathes!'
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15

Total ,799, ,O26,7 $50 SIC, ,759, AL. 200
He estimates that all of the IS, Asa, 49,
$50 produced since 1850 is yet in exist
ence, and suspects that of the preced-
ing amount 81, 100000 has come down
to us, thus making the worlds present
supply Of gold as large as $500, ,OOO 900.
But In the light Of this claim, what
becomes Of the favorite contention of
the gold monometallists that silver
was virtually-although not technical.
ly-demonetized along about 1850 by
the leading commercial nations because
1t had become so abundant? The same
logic, applied to Professor Laughlin's
figures, would suggest the present ad-
visibility Of demonetizing gold, lest It
should become too cheap and common.
Yet 1t is fact of common experience
that gold is almost wholly confined to
the great financial centers, and is sell
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15
Bimctallism Is Our True Policy.

Professor Lawrence Laughlin, the
ablest champion of gold monometallism
IN the United States, and, as matter
of fact, the only one on that side who
has yet realized the necessity of dis
carding epithet for impersonal argu-
ment, makes the point that there is an
abundance of gold in the world, with
which to do the business of the world.
Upon the authority of DR.. Soetbeer
and the present director of the Ameri-
can mint, he estimates the production
of gold and silver to be substantially as
follows:
Gold. Silver.
1aos-1S5O ..... 1894, ,55S 900 1875, ,45O, 900
lS5l-1S93 ........... 5,4Si,473750 1881 ,027, 200
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15
REDUCED

To close few patterns Of Chamber Suits.
which W. eFe dropping from our regular stocH'
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-15
Daily and Weekly NO Sunday Edition.

Users, rates THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE ns the best
advertising medium In Northeastern Pennsylva
lila. "prnters' Ink" knows.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-12-21
YOUTHFUL DEPRAVITY.

The students of Union College who were
lately discovered to be burglars were nine
teen and twenty-one years old. The four
boy bandits who wrecked the mail-train on
the New York Central Railroad last month
were all eighteen or nineteen years old
Neither the Union College students nor the
boy bandits showed the slightest business
sense in their operations, or any sort of
appreciation of what they are about They
were crazy young fools, all of them; GRIM
inals rather through the exceptional mon
strousness of their ignorance and folly than
because of anything that seems fit to be
called deliberate criminal purpose. For
foolish and depraved boys the age between
seventeen and twenty-five seems to be the
most hazardous time Of life. Lads of that
age are freed in great measure from par
entail restrain, and have begun to take care
OF themselves. They have come to feel in
their strength the most dangerous physi-
cal impulses to which men are subject.
They can see the possibilities of crime, but
they have very slight and inadequate APP
probation af the wages and consequences
OF it. If it happens that they become
criminals they are apt to be the craziest of
all criminals who are not absolutely insane
-lIarpers Weekly.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-12-21

The Maryland Agricultural College Ex-
pertinent Station has just completed the
equipment of creamery for experimental
purposes and is now about ready to start in
upon this line of work. The equipment
consists of a creamery building containing
main work room, an ice house, a room for
deep and shallow setting of milk, con-
slant temperature and cream ripening
room, refrigerator, an engine room, IA
milk testing room, a room for cleaning
and washing utensils, an Office and vesti-
bule.
In this building the station will have
the necessary apparatus for conducting
work upon practical basis according to
the most modern and approved methods,
and at the same time have facilities for
testing new apparatus or methods as they
are offered.
A new COW stable and herd OF cows
have been added to our equipment. The
COW stable is fitted up with variety OF
stalls and cattle ties illustrating the most
modern and approved methods in this line
The work will be under the supervise on
Of the chemical department OF the station,
in charge Of II. J. Patterson, che mist and
vice-director.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-12-21
The Great Tobacco War.

Many of our readers know of the war ex-
listing between the manufacturers of plug
chewing tobacco, but few, perhaps, familiar
with the cause.
For years some Manufacturers have been
making enormous profits by giving con-
sumers small piece of plug for ten cents
Recently very large manufacturer, seeing
that the time had come for better things,
has placed a new brand called Battle AK
on the market, which gives the consumer q
very large piece of most excellent quality
for the same price. This has raised a great
storm among those who are hurt by it, but
it gives joy to those who use the goods In
Battle AK they get a greater quantity for
their money, while the quality is equal to
the finest of ether brands This has natu-
rally had the effect Of greatly decreasing
the business of those who have held to the
old way, and it has materially curtaied
their enormous profits On the other han d
Battle AK now taxes the resources of three
large factories, which, by running night
and day, are still unable to make the goods
fast enough to satisfy the enthusiastic de-
mand.
The people want good thing and the
most OF it that they can get for the price.
The manufacturers who do the best by
them will get their trade. Their rivals
naturally do not like it. They raise a
mighty howl, but the AK will cut them
down.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-12-21

The market is full of cough mixtures,
but one trouble with most of them is that
when they do little good the patient has
to take so much that he gets to loathe the
taste. The Pineola Balsam is superior to
other cough remedies because it is agreeable
to the palate and its good effects are i'm
mediate, In few days an ordinary cough
is gone altogether. Bronchitis and asthma
are more stubborn, but they too are cured
by Ely's Pineola Balsam. remedy worth
trying. Twenty-Five cents is all it costs.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-12-21
Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic
Railroad Company.
SCHEDULE IN EFFECT SEPT. 3OTH.

Siht ID LIE IN EFFECT SEPT. 3OTH.
Water and rail routes to Ocean City and al
points on the Chesapeake Bay and Tributaries.
FOR HEALTH Pleasure and Business.
uncNccllcd facilities for both Passenger and
Freight traffic.
Close connection with the trunk line rail-
road ,nSurng convenience to the traveller and
the luick dispatch of all frcights.
Fifteen commodious and handsomely fitted
out steamers. Comfortable state rooms. Good
cuisine Polite attendance.
Steamers leave piers B. and n Light street
wharf, Baltimore, as follows
HALLWAY DIvISION-4.aU p. m, daily except
FOR Claiborne and stations to Ocean City.
= CHoPTANK RIVER LINE-sp IN; daily, except
landings to Denton. Returning, leave Denton
at R.O III. daily, except Saturday; Cambridge
?. IN; Oxford, 7.30 p III; Easton, $50 p IN,
arriving in Baltimore at 5 am,
WICOMICO RIVER LINE-5 p. m, every Tues
day, Thursday and Saturday for Wingate's
Point Deals Island and landings to Salisbury.
Returning. leave Salisbury at 30 p m, every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, arriving in
baltimore Mt am.
NANTICOKE RIVER Line p. m, every Mon
day. Wednesday and Friday for Deals Island,
and landings to Seaford, Del. Returning leave
Seaford at IL noon, Tuesday, Thursday and
Sunday, arriving in Baltimore at 5 a IN.
GREAT WICOMICO AND PIANKATANK RIVER
LINEs-5p. III. every Tuesday and Friday for
Great Wicomico River, Dividing, Indian and
Dymer's Creeks, Little Bay, Milford Haven
cave FreepOrt ut o a. m. every Monday and
Tuesday, arriving in Baltimore at a. m.
Steamers leave from foot of South Street as
follows:
PoCoMoKE RIVER LINE-5.30 p. m, every
Tuesday and Friday, for Crisfeld; Tangicr
and Snow Hill. Returning, leave Snow Hill at
a IN; Cristield, p M. every Monday and
THURSDAY, arriving in Baltimore at a m.
M ESS0NG0 RIVER LINE-5.;U p. M, every
Monday ana Thursday for Ford's, Crisfield,
F1nneys, Onancock. ChescOnessex, Hunting
Creek and Messongo. Returning, leave Mes
songo every Wednesday and Saturday at 8 a IN
Crlsfield p IN, arriving In Baltimore at IN,
OCCOHANNOCK RIVER LINR-5N p. m, every
Wednesday and Sunday for Crisfed, Harbor-
ton. Evans, Boggs, Cedar View, Nandua. Con-
cord, Reeds, Davis, Shields, Rues. Ret ming
leave Rues every Tuesday and Friday a. $50
r., Crisfield, p. III, arriving in Baltimore at
IN, Is. l.. FLEMING,
Gen. Pass. and Freight Agent,
WILLARD THOMSON, General Manager.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-12-21
XMAS GIFTS FOR THE BABY.

A big, bright, laid rubber ball.
A woolly lamb which says ba-a.
If the yonngster is old enough. give him
a set of blocks.
A funny jumping jack, which the baby
could move up and down a line.
A rattle with a rubber handle, and the
round top covered with jinglng bells.
One OF the fnnny Brownie dolls which
are the latest substitute for the rag baby.
A string of spools wound with gay col
ored cotton are sure to afford amusement.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-12-21
PRESENTS FOR CHILDREN.

Cornet.
A football.
toy desk.
A dolls house.
Parlor croquet.
dolls tea set.
A dolls bureau.
A silver thimble.
Leather leggings.
Electrical wagon.
A base ball and bat
White Angora muff.
Black wool leggings.
Small set Of ten-pins.
Miniature push-carts.
A dolls baby carriage.
A pair Of felt slippers.
A small express wagon.
A box Of anchor blocks.
Diminutive billiard table.
A wicker cradle for doll.
Hook-and- ladder in iron.
A miniature laundry outfit.
Hose wagon in bright red.
A red sled with iron runners.
A set Of dolls house furniture.
Rob Roy muflers OF surah silk.
A small trunk for dolls clothes.
Soldier suits in embossed leather.
Cameras for amateur photography.
A small table for dolls tea parties.
A small wooden rocker painted red.
A locomotive and four coaches in iron.
Swings to be suspended from the ceiling
A small tin range with cooking utensils
Tallaho coach that runs automatically
A large box of Greenaway writing paper
Organ grinder and his outfit in miniature
A nail file in silver that closes up like 1
knife.
A little pen-holder, inkstand and desl
blotter.
Box of tools large enough to be service
able.
School bag of stout canvas with leathe
initial.
A case of modelling apparatus, with clay
ready for use.
4 knife, fork and spoon of white metal
with Dresden handles.