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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20
THE MOTH AND THE WORM
'Tis an old allegorical saying,

'Tis an old allegorcal saying,
Which hope In all ages has spread,
That the soul, like n bloomy winged miller,
Unfods from chrysalis dead
All. fain would yield to this fancy,
This miracle sequence of birth;
For hold that the souls dearest treasure
VIII be It's remembrance of earth
And OH there's doubt that assails me,
Whatever my priest may affirm;
Does the butterfly think you, remember
The days when it crawled as a worm?
What Is life but season for loving,
What Is self but the essence of years
Distilled from the blossoms of pleasure,
Infused In moisture of tears?
What avail to inherit the ages
With naught of the struggle before,
To know that my love shall not perish,
Yet / shall behold her no more?
What avail were this fretting and striving
II memory vanish with breath,
When Love is the priest of the living,
And Hope the apostle of Death?
What matter a far away morning
If memory end with today?
'Twere ais well to face death everlasting
AS past to be blotted away. .....
You may prate of an infinite future,
You may dream Of those cons of bliss,
But the home Of the soul' were failure
without recollection OF this.
am selfish because / am human,
want not q part but the.whole:
And tell you that only tyrant
Could blot out the past from the soul!
4 New York Sun !.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20
Gold M0n0nmetallisn1n
OR Real .Binnetallisrn1.
The Opinions of am Eminent Scrantonian
Upon This Tlooted Point

more nearly to gold. STILL the fiuctua-
tlons of silver have, in the long rum
been so great as to make it a dangerous
standard. If the commercial nations
of the world-which practically means
all nations now, for we can no longer
ignore the Asiatic nations nor the Latin
peoples-shall agree upon silver as q
standard, at a specified ratio to gold
such action will undoubtedly boom the
value of silver, and while the agree.
ment is kept by all of them. it will
nominally give it the designated value
But what will such an agreement be
but gigantic combine or trust and
to be Jumped by the nation that can
quickest get into shape to make good
spec out of it? How much would you
Mr.. Editor, invest in silver under such
combine for permanent income in
vestment? Finally, can the CONNER.
cial law of value. as regulated by the
commercial law of supply and demand
be ignored in fixing the standard OF one
circulating medium?''
Another View of the Question.
The same mail which brought to us
ehV ipi NSoiHS iclltl SOlOIltl IiIltI
cock brought also the following com.
m,nication from Uric Townsend, OF
this city:
"The present discussion of the finan.
cial subject forcibly illustrates the
truth of the saying of Lincoln:
but you can't fool all the people all thC
time The explanation for the money
panics given out by 'iinanciers,' and
the remedies advocated to restore con.
dence,' while they are cornering and
fleeing the government fool us nc
longer. It's the business of the 'hnan.
ciers' to have single gold standard, -
and paying one at that SO it is
quite natural that they should advo-
cate policy that is advantageous tc
themselves But how are the interests
of thosejengaged in ot1er pursuits than
financiering affected? We will at least
have a fair and free discussion of the
subject, and the paper that has the
courage to present both sides need have
no fear for patronage"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20
AMONG THE MAGAZINES,

The leading feature in Chap-Book for
April 10 is al article by Edmund Uioss @
on THE Popularity tf P,etry," in
which the author cautions the modern
victim of the divine afflatus to sing his
song and dream his dream without
thought of vulgar gain. Thereby he
will not be disappointed. Ella w. Peat
tie in this number contributes an alle-
CORY the point to which, stripped of fine
verbiage, is that it is the woman who
sins and suffers who is really the love-
able woman. One wonders If Mrs.
Peattle would instruct her daughters
that way. Chap Book, by the way,
wakes quite indignant at being called
the provocative of Chips" "The BIZ
belot' Moods" ETC., and Justify as
serts its own independence. Chap
Book, we are told. circulates $1,000 CO.
pies and the end is not yet Well, it is
neat new and daring. 1t deserves sue
cess.
We turn naturally from Chap-Book
to The Bookman, the third number of
which lies before us. The BookmaN in
this number has no single piece de re-
sistance;, but it's numerous short arti-
cles are uncommonly interesting and it's
literary notes are crisp and really in
forming. An illustration and two-page
sketch Of DR.. Max Simon Nordau, who
has so pOnderously larruped this fin de
steele period in his new book, "Degen-
eration," is perhaps the most timely
feature, unless we accord priority to
Critic Saintsbury's capital larruping of
Nordau himself. Two unpublished
drawings by Aubrey Beardsley are
given in therteXt of an article defending
that peculiar genius from contem-
Dorary criticism and they are wonder
full connections of outline and color.
These features are but a drop in the
bucket; those who like bucketfuls had
better purchase The Bookman for April
and read 1t through.
Success seems to be attending the eY-
pertinent of devoting a pretentious
monthly publication to occult, philo-
sophie and scientific research" at all
events, the Metaphysical Magazine for
April, in which the experiment reaches
it's fourth number, Is filed with con-
tchtS tuIIilTuuiy Sulteu u minus .tnaI
think. Among nine principal articles
each fraught with study and ideas we
can notice at present only r. G. Alb
bolts discussion Of the modern civlli-
zation and its relation to flesh diet.
Perhaps at first glance, one will be puz-
zled to know just what connection mod
ern civilization can, have. with the eat
ing of flesh; but Mr.. Abbott soon as
sures us that there is q very decided
connection between the two. Flesh
eating, he strenuously insists develops
coarse, beefy and sensual peoples;
whereas a vegetable dietary has ten
dency to promote refined and we'll
rounded physiques. Since he holds that
the. soul or psychic man develops in
unison with the physical man, he nat
urally wants the coming generation to
discard ffesh-eating and take to leaves,
tubers, fruits and roots. We shall at
another time present his argument at
greater length, .a
From the .Appletons' press we have
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20
WOND

SOUTH SCRANTON, Pa, Nov. 10 1904.
Mr.. G. w. Campbell-Dear Sir: ! have
given my boy, Freddie, years old, some of
DR.: Campbell's Magic Worm Sugar and Tea,
and to my surprise this afternoon about
o'clock he. passed q tapeworrn measurin x
about So feet in length. head and all. have
u in bottle and any person wishing to see
it can do so by calling Mt my store. had
tried numerous other remedies recommended
for taking tapeworms, but all failed In my
estimation Dir. Csmpbell's is tho greatest
worm remedy in existence.
Yours very rospectfully,
FRED HEFFNER, 782 Be.ch st.
Note-The above Is what everybody says
after once using. Manufactured by G. w.
Campbell. Lancaster, Pa. Successor to DR..
John Campbell s. Son.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20

Apropos of an editorial in The Trib-
une on Monday last, entitled "A Dec
laration of Dependence" Colonel +. l..
. Hitchcock. of this city. favors us with
the appended questions:
"First-If, as you argue, silver has
not deprecated, but gold has appre-
ciated, e., silver at so cents is really
gold at $l.33. why does not the same
rule apply to the present price of wheat,
coal, labor and other commodities
which are suffering from low prices;
and why may we not put wheat. coal,
labor and these other articles of trade
back to the old values, by the same
system of legislation you are invoking
in favor OF silver?
"Second-Five years ago aluminium
was worth somewhere about So per
pound, now 1t can be bought for 20
cents or thereabouts Is the decrease
in price due to the advance in gold, as
in the case of silver, and. If so, what is
the relative price of gold? If not due
to the advance In gold why not. if the
depreciation of silver is? Why the diff
ference? The same inquiry applies
with equal force to nickel and copper;
and perhaps with greater force, for
both the latter metals are used as coin
to limited extent.
"Third-You ask Is 1t honest money
that grows more valuable day by day?'
Is it honest money that records debt
of ten bushels of wheat and compels
payment of twenty bushels?' Let me
inquire what about corn, hay, potatoes? i?
These crops have steadily advanced in
price under the same pressure upon
silver which you would have us be-
lieve has carried wheat down more
than fifty per cent. The corn crop is
greater in value by some millions Of
dollars at ordinary prices than wheat.
Let me turn the tables and ask, Is it
honest money that records debt of ten
bushels of corn and permits payment
with five bushels? Yet this ques-
ton as truly represents the pres
ent situation as does yours. If
twenty bushels of wheat are
now required to pay a year old debt of
ten bushels, five bushels of corn will
now more than pay a like debt
Of ten bushels a year ago. What then?
Has the slaughter of the white metal
had the curious effect of knocking
wheat down and corn up? Rather does
questions? Debts are not recorded in
wheat or corn, but, just as in the days
Of Abraham, when he paid for the burial
plot purchased of the sons Of Heth-
and Abraham weighed to Ephron, the
silver -" four hundred shekels of
silver, current money with the mer-
chants (Gen. xiii. 16.)-they are re-
corded in current money with the mer-
chants Varying conditions may enable
current money to exchange for more
corn and less wheat and vice versa, but
the trouble is not usually with the cur
rent money but with the article ex-
changed for, as affected by the law of
supply and demand. Is not your ques-
ton tinctured with the old idea
of reputation made familiar during
war times by those who howled for the
payment of the government war debt
bonds in greenbacks, worth thirty sents
on the dollar? Fiat money, good enough
for the farmer and 50 forth, ergo, good
enough for the bloa'ted bondholder"
'Fourth-Can money value be legis-
lated into existence?
"Fifth-What makes commercial
value?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20
STILL in EXISTENCE.
The World Renowned and Old Reliable
Dr.. CampbeIl's Great Magic Worm
Sugar and Tea

Every box guaranteed TO give satisfaction
or money refunded. Full printed directions
from child to a grown person 1t is purely
vegetable and cannot positively harm the most
tender infant. Insist having DR.. Camp
BELLS; accept no other. At all Druggists, 25c.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-05
HIS NIECE IN THE sTEERAcu.
Vevera's story of the Conduct OF the
EIbe's Crew DIscredited.

NeVer"'s story of the Conduct OF the
EIbe's Crew DIscredited.
London. Feb. 4-The Central News saws
the London manager of the North oer-
man Lloyd Company resent the crjt,-
cisms upon the crew Of the steamer FsIbe
made by Carl Hoffman and Jen Vevera
Two OF the rescued passengers Of the F,lbe
with reference to Vevera's attenpt n
save his niece, the manager states that
Nevera, who Travelled as a saloon nassen-
ger allowed his niece TO travel In the
steerage, and suggests that this fact ouegh >
to cast discredit upon his story
Bremen, Feb. 4-According to official
returns furnished by the North German
Lloyd Steamship Company 2s5 persons
We're drowned I'm the Elbe disaster ~
the crew, which numbered ib5 fifteen
were saved. Out Of forty-nine saloon
passengers, four were rescued and only
one OF the Isl steerage passengers es-
capped.
The fishing smack Verena has arrived
az Lowestoft, having on board one of the
steamer Elbe's mail bags and the bodv
OF a man which she picked up near tba
spot where the disaster 10 the steamer
occurred. TIE body was that of FreiderIob
Ernst OF Madgburg, a tween deck pas
seLger. life belt was fastened "a tba
We're found passport and several lsevs
Mr. Monatt, the owner of the steamer
Crathie, has returned to his home In An
erdeen from Rotterdam, where he has
been making inquiries in regard to the
collision of his ship with the Eibe. Mr.
Moffat says that the story that his shin
left the steamer at once Is untrue. she
was so seriously damaged that IL was
feared she would sink Her cantaIn
thought the other steamer was standing
by to give the Crathie assistance should
she require IL. The whole of the forecas-
tie of the Crathie was torn
away and was hanging along
side, the Elbe knocking a hole in Inc
side Of the vessel. As soon as the can
tain got the wreckage cleared away he
steamed back to the place where the
collision occurred and remained there
until daylight. The last he saw Of the
other ship she was burning red lights
and he thought she had gone In the diree-
tion Of London. The captain, Mr. Moffat
says Is convinced that he did everything
that was possible under the circum-
stances. The captain and crew of the
Crathle are detained at Rotterdam pend
ing an official inquiry.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-05
BURGLARS BLOW UP A BANK.
IN CRACKING THE SAFE THEY
WRECK THE BUILDING.

They Secure $4,000 Dollars in Cash
and 10000 Dollars Worth of
BOndS-ShOts Exchanged With the
Cashier as They Make Their Es-
cape a snlOOnkeeper and a
Hanger-On OF the Gambling Dives
Arrested on Suspicion.
Fremont. O., Feb. 4-Five masked men
entered the town Of Milan last night and
at 4 o'clock this morning blew open the
vault in the Lockwood Bank. The ex-
plosion was so great that it wrecked the
building in which the bank was located
and awakened the people. The citizens
poured into the streets in time to see the
thieves drive OF in buggy toward San
dusky They took some $4,000 in cash and
$1,000 in government. Nickle Plate. and
Sandusky, Milan and Norwalk Electric
railroad bonds.
Cashier Stoddard heard the explosion
and rushing out with his gun. he was con-
fronted by three of the burglars, who told
him to stand off and fired at him. Stod-
dard returned the ire. They took the $50
O'Clock train at Sandusky for Cleveland.
Cashier Stoddard Will not tell the exact
amount taken. 1t was known that there
was considerable on deposit.
Sandusky, o., Feb. 4--The police have
arrested two men on the charge of being
implicated in the robbery of the Milan
bank this morning. The buggy in which
the robbers escaped TO this city was
hired last night from Herb & Hocke's 5
livery stable by Edwin StOughton, who
runs a saloon on Water street. Slough
ton was taken into custody soon after
the Milan posse came to the city in hot
pursuit of the robbers In this company
was Sol Hirschberger a young fellow
who has been hanging around the gam
bling dens Of the city for the past two
years. Hirschberger was also arrested.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-05
ARMENIA's HoRRoRs.
Four Hundred Armenians KILLED at
YuEgat in December, 1898.


London, Feb. 4.-The Daily News cor
respondent in Marseilles. says: "Advices
from Constantinople show that Ximenes,
the Spanish traveller from Armenia. who
recently denied the stories of the massa-
cres, and has been acting Informally in
London for the Sultan. has telegraphed
that he is unable to arrange terms with
the executive of the Anglo-Armenian AS
ISOLATION. This failure has fortified the
position Of Rustem Pasha, Turkish am
bassador in London, who throughout has
warned the porte that Ximenes could
not hope to win over the British, who were
more likely to believe their consular re-
ports than his unsupported statements.
The Franco-Russian-B British entente Is
maintained despite the strenuous efforts
made at the Yildiz Kiosk to create dis
sensiOns."
The Daily News correspondent In Con-
stantinople. says: "There are now at hand
the details of recent outrages elsewhere
in Asia Minor besides Sassoun and Moush.
For instance, in December, 1898, at Yuz-
gat. owing to the quarrels of Armenians
and Mohammedans, the local authorities
arrested 400 Armenians and soon after the
Mohammedans attacked beat and killed
these Armeniaas in the market place.
Armenians complained in writing of these
outrages but those complaining were i'm
mediately imprisoned, and forty of them
are still in prison. Many Armenian have
been imprisoned recently for possessing
Bibles not marked with the censorship
staun
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-05
THREE KILLED BY A BOILER.
SIXTEEN OTHER MEN INJURED ny
THE EXPLOSION.

One of the Victims Leaves n wife
and Nine Children and Another a
Wife and Three CbiIdren-One
Hundred Men Standing About the
Engine House at the Time of the
ENpiosiOn-The Driving wheel
Thrown 200 Feet Into the Air.
Portions of the Engine and Boiler
Hurled 800 and 400 Feet.
Providence, r. l.. Feb. 4-PatriclS
Hehir. 80 years old. his cousin. John
Hehir, S5 years old, and Mike Dahr.
age Il, were killed and sixteen others were
injured by the explosion Of a boiler at
Earl Carpenter & Sons ice houses at
Mashipaug Pond this morning at $50
O'Clock. Patrick Hohir leaves a wife and
nine children. and his relative leaves a
wife and three children.
At the time there were 100 men standing
about the engine house waiting for or
ders to begin harvesting. John Nelson.
the fireman, and the engineer were
given instructions to start the engine. and
they did so. The boiler which has been
in use since 1865. was filed with water
and the gauge indicated 60 pounds pres
sure. The arst cake Of Ice had been car
ried ten feet on the run when the end
less chain caught, and at the same instant
the boiler exploded. The driving wheel
was thrown 200 feet In the air and falling
struck the run, demolishing IT, Portions
OF the engine We're thrown 400 feet over
the ice houses. The boiler proper. weigh
ing three tons, being torn from its foun-
dalton, was hurled by the force Of the
explosion 300 feet and through the end
or the first ice house, whose partition
was three feet in thickness. In the house
the two Hehirs were at work. The boiler
struck them as IL passed and both were
killed. Michael Dahr died while on the
way TO the hospital. The others taken
there are Thomas Casey, Herbert Smith,
William Morton. Thomas Nelson, the
engineer, Martin Regan. Henry Butler
colored.
All but Nelson are In a serious condi-
tion, and It Is feared that Morton, Casey,
smith and Regan win die. All Of the in
tured and killed resided in this city. The
fireman, who was standing at the boiler,
escaped without injury The others were
only slightly injured ana were taken to
their homes.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-05
PEACE TO PREVAIL.
Guatemala Agrees to Most of
MexicO's Demands.

Guatemala Agrees to Most of
MexicO's Demands.
City of Mexico, Feb. About 1900 work.
ingmen marched through the streets of
the city to-day and eventually gathered
in front of the national palace. They
greeted President Diaz with loud cheers.
and presented him an address praising
the governments attitude in the boundary
dispute with Guatemala. In his reply the
president said that the diplomatic con-
troversy presented no new features that
would render war inevitable. The en-
thusiasm with which he was received
gratihed the president greatly, and in
private conversation, he told the working
mems committee that he should always
feel bound to them for their demon
stration of loyalty.
1t is stated semi-officially that the out
look for peace is more hopeful than ever,
Guatemala having in the main agreed to
Mexicos demand The general opinion
now is that there Will be no war The re-
ports in several papers that war would be
declared to-day were mere guesses.
Moreover, war can only be declared by
congress, and that body has not even been
convoked. Stories of a Central Ameri-
can alliance gainst Mexico are discredited
here, although it is probable that Hon
duras, Costa Rica and Nicaragua agreed
to lend moral support to Guatemala.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-05
A GAIN IN THE RESERVE.
The Treasury Department Paying
Interest on the New Bonds.

The Treasury Department Paying
Interest on the New bonds.
Washington, Feb 4.-rhe treasury gold
reserve to-day gained 100000 from nat
ural causes-custom dues and assays
standing at the close of business at $42,-
6SS 7S0 No gold Withdrawals were re-
ported to-day.
The treasury department is paying
this month 100000 interest on the second
issue of 600 bonds made last fall
to recoup the treasury gold reserve. Not
one dollar received from that sale of bonds
now remains in the treasury. all of and
more having been withdrawn during
the past few months. The quarters in
terest on the first loan of $50 600, 600,
amounting to a like sum, is also being
paid this month.
London, Feb. Att is announced that
a London syndicate has agreed to take
$50, 900 of the new issue United States
bonds. The question is still pending
whether or not it shall be a gold loan
1t is expected that the negotiations will
be closed tomorrow.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-05
A CAR RUNS INTO A RIVER.
Three Persons Drowned as Result
of the MOtOrman's ReckIessness.

Three Persons Drowned as Result
of the MOtOrman's RecLIessness.
milwaukee,, Wis, Feb. A trolley car
loaded with passengers ran into an open
draw on the Russell avenue line Of the
Milwaukee Street Railway company's
line this morning at Kinnickinnie bridge
The passengers were all dumped into the
icv water. A thousand people were on the
spot at once and the people in the water
were fshed out as fast as they appeared
on the surface.
The dead number three-Miss Nettie
Eblman. Miss schmidkunz and John w.
Kennedy.
Several Of the eleven passengers were
slightly injured.
The motorman, Kennedy, did not try
to stop his car until five feet of the draw.
He then set the brake. but the car slid into
the river. 1t plunged head foremost on
the ice and stuck there, half in and half
out of the water. Kennedy was prom
inent member of the local street car union
ana leaves widow and family.
Miss Ehlman is the daughter OF William
A Ehlman the weel-knoWn musical di-
rector. She was an accomplished lady
about "a years of age.
Miss Schmidkunz was employed in the
bottling department Of the Schlitz Brew
ing Company.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-05
NEBRAsKA's RELIEF WORK.
seventy-Five Car Loads OF Provis-
ions Piled Up at Lincoln.

Chicago, Feb. IA special from Oma-
ha says complaints OF the manner in
which the business OF the state relief
commission is being administered are
thicker than ever now, that the severe
cold weather Of the Nebraska winter has
set in. In not a few instances these COM
plants have been traced to professional
paupers. whose persistent mendicancy is
rewarded by support Ia idleness. but it
is equally true that those deserving Of
need are left out because Of the lack Of
sufficient methods Of relief on Feb.
seVenty-five cars Of goods for the succor
Of the destitute We're held in Lincoln in
the Burlington warehouse, awaiting ship
ping orders. Potatoes were frozen hard,
kraut had burst the barrels ia which IL
was packed and the brine was leaking
over goods stored around It, Fresh beef
was piled carelessly among other articles
of food and the heterogeneous collection
of supplies gathered in Il impetuous gen
erosity of the thousands who have con-
tributed to 1t gave evidence of the sur
prislng lack of system In the conduct OF
the relief commissions affairs. Before an
appropriation was made by the state the
Burlington road had ceased to haul the
cars free, but the other roads in the state
continue to bill relief free on the ap-
plication of Secretary Ludden Of the com
mission. The state has appropriated S50.-
OO0, most of which will be used in paying
freight. 1t is now the intention Of the
legislative committee to hasten the work
as much as possible.
Hundreds of letters are received every
day the commissioners begging for
assis t.snce, and with the immense amount
of material stored at Lincoln. the author
tiles are determined that the relief must
Ia