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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08

sis, mere empires unable to foretell
the consequences of their own medi-
cines.
Having thus put the enemy to rout
with its own weapons, Judge Hanna
concludes that ''if farmer should raise
a crop of corn in the frigiid zone where
corn had never been raised, and
where all traditions said it was impossi-
BILE to raise It, the possibility of raising
complished would have been estab-
lished, and 100 or 1000 subsequent fail
ures would destroy that possibility and
that principle, but would simply show
that insome manner the conditions nee
essary to success had not been met. SO
with Christian healing. It's failures,
when they do occur, are taken up and
commented upon and heralded abroad
with the gusto of delight, while its sue
cesses, though as a thousand to one,
are passed by with the silence of in
credulity and prejudice, and the posi-
billty Of so healing is unblushlngly de-
MED. Phariseeism Is yet the rule of
mortal conduct, and prejudice yet con-
trolls the world"
1t would be interesting to have some
representative physician lock horns
with the Boston controversalist on this
subject. The lay public is entirely
willing to let the professionals fight it
out among themselves.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08
Defending Christian Science.

So much is said, these days, in con-
demnation of the practice of healing
the sick by prayer that it is at least
fair to accord hearing to the other
side. Apropos of the recent arrest in
Kansas City of Mrs. A. J. Baird, q
Christian Science doctor, "for practic-
ing medicine without a license" Judge
Hanna, editor of the Christian Journal,
of Boston, thus proceeds to carry the
war into the enemy's country:
II person gets sick doctor is called.
II the,case Is a dangerous one and the pa
tent recovers, the doctor gets unstnted
praise, and his reputation is at once added
to. Few persons, even among those who
believe in the divine, think of ascriblng
the recovery to Gods mediation or power.
They ascribe it rather to the supposed skill
of the physician. But II the patient dies,
the physician is relieved OF all RESPONSE
bllity, on the specious plea that death
was Inevitable; that no human power"
could have prevented 1t, and that It was
Gods will that it should occur. Thus it
is that all favorable results are credited
to human skill. while all unfavorable and
disastrous consequences are charged to
the account of the divine Will" II ought
not to require very profound thinking ia
satisfy one of the fallacy and rank injus-
tice of this sort of philosophy.
If 1t be true" continues Judge Hanna,
''that drugs and medicines are of divine
remedial intent, as matter of further
human reasoning we are forced to con-
IL
quate and uncertain We are driven to
this conclusion from observation, from
indisputable facts of everyday occur
renee, and from the repeated declara-
tions of the physicians themselves" In
proof of which the judge quotes from
the writings of a score or more of emf
nent physicians expressions showing
the experimental and uncertain charac-
terof the scienceof medicinal healing by
means Of drugs and material remedies.
He also quotes from the writings of
champions of the allopathic school,
showing the contempt expressed by
them for rival schools, and vice versa.
Indeed. through two columns, the Judge
subjects the regular practitioners of
medicine to about as scathing cross
fire as ever a witness received at the
hands Of an expert cross-examiner; and
proves that, despite all their high
sounding phraseology and assumptions
Of wisdom, they are, In the last analy-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08

mont near Carbondale. Samuel Meredith
Is buried at Belmont In Mt. Pleasant town.
ship, this county. He was chairman of
tho revolutionary committee of safety OF
Philadelphia 1775; major of the. famous
silk Stocking company of Philadelphia
that enlisted for and participated in the
battles OF Trenton and Princeton, general
Of the fourth brigade of Pennsylvania
troops at the battles of Germantown and
Brandywine; twice n member of the Penn
sylvania colonial assembly; delegate to the
continental congress in 1887, appointed sur
veyor of the port of Philadelphia by Pres-
dent Washington in 1883, and soon after, at
the request Of Alexander Hamilton, treas
urer of the United States, being the first
person to occupy that Office.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajncchus, The
Tribune AstrOiOgcr.
Astrolabe cast: 2.i9 II. m. for Wednesday.
May S. 1895.
3 @ gAa


Moon rises 73S p. m.
a child born on this day will be blessed
with brains or an excellent voice. 1t Is
not probable, however, that the two will
be found in company.
If the schemes of the gold bug are prop
erly carried out. we trust 1t will not be-
come necessary for the ordinary man to
go up In a balloon in order to get within
speaking distance of the single "honest
dollar"
Jocko Fields admits that it Is much
safer to sass" the umpire from the grand
stand than from the diamond
Thus far Chief Ferber appears to stand
without n rival among city officials as a
judge of horse flesh.
Ajacchus' Advice.
DO your planting when the moon Is full
This applies 10 pet cats and dogs that
make night hideous, as well as to garden
seeds.
Keep thyself quiet and drink not fiery
liquid in the expectation of cooling re-
suits.
Do not engage in quarrels this day un-
less you know your man.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08
It Cannot Turn Back.

The one thing which will have a ten
dency to reconcile the people of the
state at large to the institution, by the
state senate, of an inquiry into the
workings of the Bullitt charter in
| Philadelphia is the plea of those who
| oppose such an investigation that it
would "liberate secrets designed to in
| jure the Republican party What
ever may be true as to individual mem
bers Of that party in Philadelphia, it is
| absurd to contend that the party as a
public scrutiny of a public matter like
the government of great city. If that
government has been properly con-
Quoted 1t should challenge an inquiry;
but whether it challenges or resents the
proposed investigation, we do not see
how the senate can now turn back.
Every newspaper in Philadelphia.
and every other reputable medium of
| public opinion, has at some time within
tne phSt Two years lNUlCHteu q DeleI
that the Philadelphia councils are cor
rupt; and that under the Bullitt charter
1t is difficult, il not impossible, for the
public to institute needed reforms in
that branch of the municipal govern
ment, except through the agency of a
| special senate committee. A few of the
| newspapers now virtually retract these
| assertions, fearing the factional conse-
quences Of such an inquiry; but in the
| minds Of the people the original accusa-
tions still stick, and give emphasis to
| the argument of those who advocate
the adoption at Harrisburg Of the Pen
rose resolution.
1t is Of more concern to the Republi-
| can party Of Pennsylvania that 1t should
deserve the confidence of the people
than 1t should retain the favor of those
| politicians in Philadelphia who are act
ing just now as If they had something
| to cover up.
4
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08
MIR. CIIITTENDEN REPLIES.
lie Claims That the Wage. Garner Would
Profit by Sticking to Protection aud the
Gold STANDARD.

Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The concise summng-up OF my last
letter by "Bimetallic Republican" in your
Issue of the ith inst. by the statement
that some people know great many
things that are not so" puts me I'm SYM
pathy with the mood of st. Paul when he
admitted that the doctrine he preached
was foolishness to the Greeks and n
stumbling block to the Jews: but jew and
Greek as nations have passed away and
the doctrine stll stands. The assertion
that called out this strong statement was
this: 1T seems to me mistake to as
sumo that this has ever been n silver coun-
try since 1901, etc" The law IL quoted
quite fully and apparently correctly 20
show that 1t has been, but unfortunately
there are trade laws as well as national
laws, and where they conflict 1t is not the
trade laws that suffer. The original ratio
of 1893 of 10 to | overvalucd silver In the
same manner. but to n less extent than
the ratio of l6 TO 1-advocatod, presume
by "Blmetalllc Republican," overvanes
silver today The result was then, as 1t
viii be now, If tried-silver bullion taken
to the mint, coined, exchanged for gold
and the gold eXported-but our forefathers
apparently did not want to so on silver
basis, so they practically remained on n
gold basis by stopping the coinage of Ril-
YER dollars.
Jefferson's order (D to the mint IN 1884,
which seems to surprise my bimetallc
friend. and which, of course, was as un-
constitutional as his embargo act, pro-
duced the following result
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08
Important History Rctold,

From the Wayne Independent.
How hard matter 1t is to establish an
historical fact In the minds of some! 1t Is
doubtful II all our exchanges will yet give
Honesdale credit for the first locomotive,
the "Stourbridge Lion" and some will
not admit that Homer Greene is author
of what My Lover Said" Now they say
that William Meredith, treasurer of the
United States about 1883, is buried at Bel
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08
A BALLADE OF LOST GIRLS.


There are Gladys and Mae and Lenore
And Katharyn Kathlyn of late),
But what under heavens blue floor
Has become Of the names out of date?
There may be Matte or Mate
But these one regards with dlsdnin--
What has become of brave Kate?
And where In the wide world Is Jane?
At the tea parties Melitas pour
And finger the teapots and plate,
You meet Melisands by the score;
With Maries you 30 to skate;
In vain do you linger and wait
For girl with n name short and plain.
Where is Lily and Rose the sedate--
And where in the wide world Is Jane?
Yseult Smith! oh, let me improve.
With Gunevere Boggs be my fate?
Or, Thias, Maise or Honore-
Some unpronounceable name for mate:
There are Elyze, Fanchon and Nonette
And Zoe and Famine and Elayne--
Have Cora and Nell quit the state?
And where in the wide world Is Jane?
Princess! In this tete-a-tete
You'll likely refuse to explain
But where the (pardon mel dickens is
Kate,
And where in the wide world is Jane?
Chicago Record.
~ I4a q . a- . H-.lfI
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08

If this table teaches anything 1t Is that
while silver deprecated one-half, wages
nearly doubled in gold If the wage
Garner is level-headed, he will let silver
keep on depreciating and stick to his gold
wages and the tariff.
c. Il. Chittenden.
'The official order bears date May l.,
1906, but the diminished coinage of 1904
and 1906 Indicate unofficial restriction.
For text Of order, see Finance Reports for
1901
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08

Umpire Gaffney will be sustained in
his effort to maintain discipline on the
diamond. The day of the rowdy player
has gone by in base ball, even If the
rowdy player has not yet reached a
realization Of the fact.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08

The principle, indeed, we may say the
only, objection to the Chicago Times
Heralds big display story about an
anti-Harrison combination among lead
ing Republican politicians is that it
isn't true.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08

Now to claim that this was a bimetalic
country from 1904 to 1887 when the mints
were so closed TO the coinage of silver
that in fact not a single dollar was coined
except probably the stock on hand In 1904
seems to me to attach undue Importance
to the law and no Importance to the facts
That large quantities of subsidiary silver
was coined Is true, but this coinage Is
always silver and copper, never gold. 1t
Is legal tender only for limited sum. 1t
Is always carried as an unavailable treas
ury asset. Its place could not be filed
by paper currency, and even when coined
1t went to the melting pot steadily until
debased nearly 10 per cent. 1t has no
more relation to the question of proper
currency basis than the postage stamps
used as currency in 1862. In 1887 perhaps
tired of holding gold by main force, con-
gress debased it 3l9 per cent. under sill
YER, cheating the creditors of the corn-
try just that much, but opening the min,s
with perfect safety to silver. which was
worth Sla cents more as bullion than as q
legal tender dollar.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08

The Quay county matter is slated to
come up in the house today for final
action. We suspect that good deal
of genuine relief would be occasioned
by the announcement that this bill had
been finally settled, one way or the
other. 1t is time for other issues to
have a chance.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08

II is possible. and we trust true, that
the large stockholders in the leading
coal-ca'rrying railroads are beginning
to perceive that not even Il wealthy
railroad corporation can long prosper
by the execution of a policy which in
flicts needless loss upon one Of the
largest industries that contribute to the
roads tonnage. The outlook in the an
thracite coal trade is once more meas
urably reassuring.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08

The New York Sun on Sunday re-
printed from the San Francisco Argo-
naut the correct text, correctly credited,
Of Homer Greene's beautiful poem,
What My Lover Said" Carry the
news to Samuel w. Boyd!
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08

The new management OF the Chicago
Times-Herald. while expressing very
positive opinions in it's editorial col
umns, many of them different from
those to which the readers of that paper
are accustomed, continues to print the
news with absolute fidelity; and reports
an increase instead Of an expected de-
crease in circulation. We see no reason
to question the truthfulness of this re-
port. That day has clearly gone by in
this country when men bought news
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08

There need be no fear that the Re-
publican party will ever permanently
suffer from plain and courageous per-
formance of its obvious duty.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08

The business of an umpire being to
umpire, 1t may be remarked that UNI
pire Gaffney evidently knows his bust
ness.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08

Those ball clubs which expected tC
find q bonanza in Scranton are ad
vised to guess again.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08

So now it appears that the Quay
county agony is to be prolonged for
yet another week. 1t is high time this
issue received its finishing touch.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08

Senator Penrose just now appears to
be in the enviable position of the man
who laughs last
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08

Premier Sagasta declares to the edi-
tor of the Now York Herald, who went
all the way to Madrid to interview him,
that Spain will spend its last drop of
blood and it's last peseta" before it will
relinquish Cuba. If Spain would do less
shedding of blood and more honest gov
erning in Cuba, she would have less
need to talk in this delrious fashion.
Spanish dominion in Cuba is a survival
of the middle ages; and the chief regret
we have in the premises is that the
United States has not yet been afforded
an adequate reason for kicking the
Spaniard out.
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DUCED

To close few patterns Of Chamber Suits
which we are dropping from our regular stock,
we offer Suits reduced as follows:
REDUCED
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08

My friend says: 81 find that prior to 1873
there We're $l05 600, coined in the United
States and that was in silver dollars"
Now, with no unkind application of
Josh Billings wit, | infer that this was a
slip Of the pen, as the actual amount was
S,03l ,23G, one-fourth of Which was coined
in 20, II and ~. l regret that my friend
paid so much attention to the historical
introduction of my letter and ignored its
argument. From the accession of JEFF
fersl)p to the exit OF Buchanan our
finances are a dreary history of blunder-
ing ignorance, of wrecked fortunes and
pauperized workmen. If any one cares
to study it, Bolles Financial History of
the United States,' at the library, is
very endurable work. ! regret also that
my friends historical researches should
not have prevented his stating that "silver
had been demonetZed. as ii were, by
stealth in 1873. The bill was discussed
in f1Ve separate sessions of congress and its
action fully understood. The past is gone.
but the future is at the door and de-
mands decision. i would like to restate
my argument against free silver coinage
or alleged bimetallism at 1G to /. 1t is this:
That the present currency consists of
gold, silver, bank notes, greenbacks, etc,
about $1,50OOO0,OO0; also of $i,35l 900 600 of
bank deposits, which in their effect on
prices, wages, etc, are currency; that
these bank deposits, in the form of checks,
do 81 per cent. of the recorded business Of
the country today; that the free coinage
of silver would reduce the purchasing
power of these deposits So, 1893, 1000 at
once and would contract the currency to
that extent: and that our 5000, 0OO, 600 of gold
would also disappear as currency. If we
should then coin all the silver produced in
the United States it would require fifty
years to supply from that source the
amount of currency now in use.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08

IT Is amusing to note with what Sc
reno content that good old Tory, George
w. Smalley, strokes the fur of the
British lion and swings the Incense of
HIS praise before Minister Bayard and
the other English advisers of President
Cleveland. According to Uncle Small
ley, we have in the lCorinto affair
played with undertaking correctness
the honorable part of the impartial
friend to both sides" In other words.
we have seen Nicaragua held up and
robbed in broad day light and have
neither collared the robber nor disap-
proved the steal. We should be suit
ably appreciative OF the British esteem
thus won at the expense of our own
conscience.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08

If these propositions are true, no sane
man will advocate such a contraction.
If not true II can be easily and quickly
shown. / Will add for the considera ton
of "Bimetallist" these general reflections:
There are three things that stimulate and
diversity the Industries of n nation as
surely as some drugs accelerate the action
of the heart. They are a protective tar
iff cheap silver standard and depre-
ciated paper currency. The first Is for the
good of all, for the wages of the workman
are paid in dollar that purchases the
same amount of foreign goods as the
wares shipped by the capitalist The
other two rob the wage-earner by fore
ing him to pay the heavy premium pe-
tween his wage-dollar and the money de-
manded hy the foreign seller. To the
wage-earner, the silver basis will bring
plenty of work and open at once the mar
kets of the world. but he can produce the
same result in the same>way by notify
ing his employer that where he now pets
81 in gold he will accept 45 cents in that
metal. A friend tells me that congress-
mems desks are Uttered with petitions of
the knights of Labor for free coinage
The statement Is Incredible The wage
earners were promised two years ago.
low taxation, cheap goods and the mar
kets of the world. Lost time and reduced
wages have already cut off their earnings
one-third. VIII they bite another baited
hook so soon? This Is a wage-earning
country. The wage-earners receive Sl3.-
900, 900 to $li,0OO0 100000 in a good year.
while the product of silver Is only $50. .OOO :
600. Why not preserve the greater inter-
est?
This silver discussion has produced a
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08

papers because of their agreement with
what the editor wrote They nowadays
whnt, above all things else, complete
and impartial news; and are quite
competent to form their own opinions
concerning that news. If the editors
opinion should chance to agree with
their own, well and good; If not, they
can always have the satisfaction of re-
flcctng that at least one editor to their
knowledge has missed his vocation.
The philosophy of the Kindergarten
system of child-instruction is beauti-
fully expressed by Miss Clark in these
true words: "To form is nobler than 10
reform, and every child in whom we
plant the seed of higher thought and
nobler living will in his turn add to the
strength and unity of the structure
which we raise; and as generation after
generation passes away, there VIII be
left those who have ceased to see
through a glass darlily, but shall see
God, Through natsre, face to face A
civilization which spends millions in
breeding fine horses and developing
rare flowers and plants ought not to be-
grudge the paltry thousands asked for
the culture of the mind of the child, at
that plastic age when the child 'is the
father of the man.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08

Is what We arc doing. We push II along morn
ing, noon and night. Sometimes its n Lawn
Mower and sometimes its our entire stock OF
Hardware. and it is Refrigerators Garden
Tools Garden Hose. Lawn Seed and House,
hold Hardware all tho time.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-08

The above Suits are first class in workman
ship and finish, and are cheap at our regular
prices.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-20
CUBAN WAR CLAIMS.
The American Cabinet Devising
Way to Cut Them on.

way TO NUN lAcm OH.
Washington, July 19-secretary Olney
arrived suddenly and unexpectedly in
Washington to-day and summoned coun-
Gil of the cabinet officers in town which
lasted for two hours. Mr.. Olney left
Falmouth his summer home, yesterday
morning for Boston and departed from
that city for Washington late In the ar
ternoon. He reached hare about noon
and went almost Immediately TO the war
department. where he had an hours talk
with Secretary Lamont Shortly before A
O'Clock Mr.. Olney called on Secretary her
bert at his office and the two walked over
to the state department, where Secretary
Carlisle and Attorney General Harmon,
who had been summoned by telephone,
Joined them soon after
For two hours the four cabinet officers
were closeted in Mr.. Olney's private or
flee and during that time rumors Of
many sorts and conditions fioated about
the corridors of the state, war and navy
buildings. One of the rumors was that
President Cleveland was i'll at Gray Ca
bles. This one, the cabinet officers prompt
ly denied. They refused to either confirm
or deny any other story that could be
invented for them as an explanation Of
the meeting.
The Spanish minister also came to
town to-day, and that thickened the plot.
The minister, however, was perfectly
frank as to his business in Washington
at this juncture. He came to attend to
some personal affairs and would leave
again as soon as that business was tran
acted.
Secretary Olney protested Ignorance Of
the presence in the city Of the Spanish
minister until he was informed by the
inquiring reporter The conviction has
become settled however, that the confer
ence had reference to Cuban affairs and
that 1t had been decided by the Presi-
dent to take action that viii prevent
claims by Spain against the United States
for violations of the neutrality laws, and
that Mr.. Olneys visit and the cabinet con
ference this afternoon was for the pur-
pose of devising ways and means of pro-
tecting this government in that regard.
Mr.. Olney will leave Washington for
Falmouth tomorrow morning at II
O'clock