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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25
The Snubb;1g of Bismarck,

Without assuming TO understand the
motives of the Socialistic opposition in
the German reichstag to the presidents
motion warrantlng the delivery of an
official message Of congratulation to
the venerable ex-chancellor. Prince Bis
marck, it is entirely safe to say that
this Churlish action will have worse
effect upon those responsible for it than
upon the distinguished oGtogenarian at
whom it was aimed.
1t newly reveals the ugly seriousness
Of the socialistic leaven in sOldiery-
ridden Germany; its thinly disguised
ferocity and lack Of fine discrimination.
forces. headed by an impetuous en-
peror, to renew their efforts at repres-
sion, and the result, as felt by the
average citizen of the fatherland, will
be increased taxation and augmented
severity on the part Of the abounding
military and civic officials.
To an American spectator, the wonder
Is that the people endure all this. But
the American would perhaps think
otherwise If he had behind him the his
tory of a dozen centuries teaching the
patient subordination Of the citizen to
The state. VIII democracy ever pre-
vail in continental Europe? Perhaps
not as we know It. But it seems to us
inevitable that a revolution will occur
in the relations Of state to citizen-a
revolution of which these grumblings
Of socialism and blind obstruction are
but the faint and far-ahead Fremont
tions.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25
One Ihonsnnd Years Hence.

From the Boston Globe,
Tell my daughter that she must not
forget thrt dinner will DE an hour earlier
today. Shn Is In Egypt
"Yo,. num- Telephones phono-
graphic signal to Pyramid Station No.
sO,g9)J)
II SEQ the airsh!p from Market street,
Japan. nearing the window. Bring my
husbands slippers and dressing gown"
"Ycs, mum"
Now touch the buttons A. l., r, r, V,
" and X. / think that win be all we viii
want for dinner. Here comes my daush-
ter on her bi-wind flyer just in t!mo.
Can UP No SSSS."
Eyes, num-"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25
Nrew Where lie Gould Find out.

From the Buffalo Commercial
DR.. =. was riding In the suburbs OF "uf-
falo with his small boy and stopped at n
tavern to water his horse. The child
watched the operation intontly. and evi-
dently thinking it clumsily managed,
plped out: papa, why docsn', the horse
take the pail up with his feet and drinltF'
why, he isn't mode That way" "Why
not?" "Well God didn't see 1T to make
him So" "Why didn't God make him so?"
"Ah! that beats me. How should know"
The infants respect for HIS father clearly
suffered. HIN" he said, after n mo-
ment's hesitation. "rll ask grandma
She knows Cod
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25

Rev. DR.. Worden, Presbyterian pas
tor of Detroit, knows of men "who
spend ten or twelve years getting ready
to secure place in some luxurious pull
pit. They want to be fawned upon and
flattered by the rich, and do not care
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25

Senator Lexow, OF New York, has
the satisfaction Of knowing that If his
probing committee caused Tammany to
be bounced from office, his reckless obe-
dience to Platt dictation in the matter
of the police reform bills is going to
make it easy for Tammany to crawl
back
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25

Life has its compensations. The de-
feat of woman suffrage in Massachu-
sets is no sooner announced than we
have the Illinois Legislature considering
u bin to tax bachelors.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25

We assume, of course, that when our
esteemed Providence contributor, Mr..
Bowen, In Saturdays ode to the Lack
awanna river urged 1t to fondly
breathe its fragrance to the air, he
meant no reflection upon the board Of
health.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25

Suppose that the Honorable James
Kerr should succeed in capturing the
scalp Of the Honorable william Har-
rity. What would it profit him?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25

the front with a demand for some sort of
recognition. But the voices of the Lu-
2erne men are dumb, and save for an oc-
casionl squawk that they emit every now
and then, it wouldn't be known that we
are represented at all.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25

Treachery in the ranks of the Cuban
patriots may delay but 1t cannot over
come the inevitable; which is, first
Cuba's independence, then its annexa-
tlon to the United States.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25

The Richmond Times says It doesn't
care a rap for the Monroe doctrine.
But that Is less strange when we reflect
that the Times hasn't cared a rap for
anything worth mentioning, since Lees
surrender at Appomattox.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25

The number of capable Chinamen in
official life is so few these days as to
redouble the general qualification over
Ii Hung Changes escape from assassl-
nation.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25

The Republican legislative majorties
should not forget that preservation
is the first law of politics, as we'll as Of
Datllrp
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25

As to the report that Governor Nc
Kinley has moderated his ultra-pro-
lection views. that, after all, would be
only keeping step with the people.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25

From the Wllkes-Barre News~Dealer.
The foreign government that should at
tempt to lay hands on American soil would
get such n trouncing at the hands OF Uncle
Sam that It would not know where It was
at in n very short time after hostillties
| nnnnnI
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25

From the wilkes-Barre Ncws-Dca

From the Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer.
Sometimes II Is difficult to know whcth-
er Luzerne county is represented at Har-
risburg or not. Lackawanna certainly IL.
for her representatives lose no opportun-
ity In presenting her claims to recognition.
and 1t is cold day when they are not In
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25

The safest way, after all, to settle
this public school question is to elect
fair-minded and intelligent men to
membership on boards of control.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25

poetic justice in the alleged coincidence,
should it prove true, that while Eng
land was planning a smart grab of
strategic territory near the route of the
contemplated Nicaraguan canal, her
traditional rival, Russia, was complet-
ing an alliance with Japan which will
mean the wane of British and the rise
of Russian supremacy in the Orient.
Porcine diplomacy often overreaches IL
self in just such striking manner.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25

to do Christs work" 1t Is gratifying
reflection that pastors of this type are
rareties in Scranton.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25

later time. 1t Is not possible for the
government at Washington to resent
this exclusion directly; but IT, in the
event of default by Nicaragua in the
payment of any claim of money, Eng
land should, following her usual GUS
tom, undertake to seize Nicaraguan
territory, that would seem to offer an
unequalled opportunity for such an as
sertion Of the Monroe doctrine as would
forever settle the question of the su-
premacy of republican influences in the
western hemisphere.
The issue, in brief, may be stated as
follows: Prolonged supineness on the
part of the American state department
and equally noticeable Indifference
among the American people to foreign
affairs have caused the aggressive rul-
ers of Great Britain to plan a daring
raid upon the territory adjacent to the
proposed Nicaraguan canal. Once sue
| cessful in this design. England could
laugh at America, whose control of that
important transisthmian waterway
when it shall have been built would
thus be effectually voided. Therefore.
England pushes its exaggerated claim
with shrewd view to provoking II
| crisis at time when she fancies the
American people, in their general dis
gust at the Democratic domestic ad-
ministration, will be unwilling to OBJ
struct her purposes.
1t is u pretty bit Of strategy; but it
will not succeed.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25

From the Wllkes-Barre Times.
Scranton's representatives at Harris
burg seem to be corrallng about every
thing going while our men seem to be
hypnotized.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25

The probability is that the tariff aues-
tion will not cut a large swath in the
next presidential campaign.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25

The civil Service reform bill prepared
by the Chicago Civic federation has be-
come a law in Illinois. It provides that
upon application of 1000 legal voters
resident in any city, the county court
must authorize the submission to pop-
ular vote, in that city, at the next ensu-
ing general election, OF the question,
shall civil service regulations govern
appointments to and promotions in mu-
nicipal offices not elective by the pco-
pie or by certain boards, such as school
boards?" The law is a comprehensive
one, and Is designed to limit the abuse
Of public service by partlsans using it
for the reward of unfit henchmen. It's
operation will be watched with interest
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25

A question of the utmost difficulty is
likely soon to confront the Legislature,
in the necessity OF fitting S35, ,OOO coo
worth Of expectations to $4,000 O0O
worth Of available, cash funds. 1t is
reported that the general appropriation
bill providing for the expenses of the
state government and the public
schools and the appropriations to the
various state penal and charitable in
stitutions will wipe out every cent of
the nineteen millions which the state
fiscal officers estimate win be the reve-
nue. for the next two years, leaving
absolutely no prospect Of those insti-
ttions not under state control rccelv-
ing any aid. The check-rein on legisla-
tive extravaganza has evidently not
yet been sufficiently frightened.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus, The
Tribune AstrOlOgcr.
Astrolabe cast: 2lO a. m. for Monday,
March 2b. 1895.
GFs

A popularity of children born under this
cast Is that when grown to adult size they
will believe their own romances, some
what after the manner of the star
Spanglered banner cranks Of the A. =. a.
The young man who starts the week
with firm decision TO pay his just debts
may have less money by Saturday than
he would otherwise have; but he win have
more genuine friends
1t Is well known that Sandow Is the
strongest man alive; but even he isn't
strong enough to push back the certain de-
feat that awaits his namesal;e in the city
solicitorship fight.
Ajacchus' Advice.
Always count 10000 slowly before sign
ing u paper you haven't read.
1t Is possible for an Independent In poll
ties to fool both parties some of the time
but when the paths part and he drops
into the bog, neither side seldom feels in
duty bound to help him out.
When thinking Of eleyating the stage,
take IL vacation.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-25
SCRANTON, MARCH 25, 1895.
THE SCRANTON OF TO-DAY.

Come and inspect our city
Elevation above the tide. 740 feet.
Extremely healthy.
Estimated population, 1895, 1O3, 900.
Registered voters, 20. 500.
Value OF school property, 100000.
Number of school children, 1000.
Average amount Of bank deposits, SlV,-
0O0,000.
It's the metropolis Of northeastern Penn
Rylvania.
Can produce electric powerrheaper than
Niagara.
No better point in the United States at
which to establish new industries.
See how We grow:
Population in 1860. S6O................... 9,e25
Population in 1870. S70................... $500
Population In 1880. SS0.................. 1850
Population in 1890. 90.................... 75.2lJ
Population in 1894 (estimated). ..... lO3. 900
And the end is not yet
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1895-09-12

The Bureau d Educasioa being
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1895-09-12
THE CROFT & BARN,.EE:.Il!.I! MERcAN1l

the national Headquarters ~ Ill our
own schools. is slssys considering the
most modern educational sys,cms, 70
be recommended to the various local
boards. Perpendicular penmsnship
is a new departure which il is pres
ent considering. This method has al
ready been adopted in Washington,
and other cities. One Of the latest
educational ntions is q cheap pro-
file map to be furnished each pupil,
engaged in the study Of geography.
These charts are made of cardboard,
which is pressed 10 resemble \ plaster
cast. Some are covered with q wash
able coating. Cities, boundaries, riv-
ers, ETC., ara to be traced by pencil.
The pupil is thus given vivid idea
Of the physical features of each coun-
try. The latest educational system
expected to revolutionize the schools
Of the world is Correlation The
Bureau Of Education has been inves.
tigating this for several months. Pro
motors Of this system believe that
economy is needed in the culture OF
the youth For instance lessons from
history, classic languages, geography.
geology and other sciences, ETC., stu.
died 10 their historical consequences,
can be more rapidly and wildly TN
derstood.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1895-09-12

IA Germany. This % On account OF
the long summer excursions, which
women could not conveniently con-
duet A great part Of the harvest
vacation Is spent in long journeys
around the country, and sometimes
into foreign countries. Corporal pun
ishment is allowed in German schools.
Attached TO many Of the German
schools are asylums where parents Of
the work ing classes can leave their
children in the morning and call for
them on their return from work in
tie cv, ming. la these are found
gymna,tic apparatus and tools for
light manual training worS. They
are somewhat like the plsyroom Of
the Childrens Building at the Worlds
Fir. ii nilsr institutions are kept
by women. Who take care of young
babies dusing working hours. These
are also connected with the schools.
SCHOOLS FOR RABIES.
la GRANGE public schools are provi-
ded for babies only 2 years old. These
are conducted as kindergsrtents and
are always under the charge Of women.
Parents are not obliged to send their
children TO the infant grades, but
most Of them Ike advantage of this
excellent system. Between 6 and IA,
however, all boys and girls in France
must be in school, according TO a law
strictly enforced. Corporal punish
msut is strictly forbidden in France.
In that republic, as in Ge' many.
school begins daily At . o'clock and
lets out about !. The pupils return
again In the afternoon, when they are
taught anging. sewing, drawing,
manual training and such studies as
will hot tax their brain. The school
wear begins 10 October aud lasts until
the following September, there being
bat one months summer vacation.
Ga account Of the prepondsreuce of
Catholicism in France. however, there
are many religious holidays besides
Christ mas. as, for instance, Passion
Week. Thursday, instead OF satur-
day, rs free day.
On beuning school ia Francs each
boy and girl is given blank book. in
which he must write the first exercise
of the month IN each branch of his
studies. This always shows his pro-
gress and standing, and is a part of
the official records. The French have
lately introduced military drill into
all of their primary schools, thus every
youDgster of the male persuasion has
brass buttons, guns aud swords to his
hearts content.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1895-09-12
BUCkNER WlTHDRAwS.
The Grand Old Nan no langer ?
Candidate for the senate

Gen. :. Il. Buckner last week pub
lished the following card:
TO the Democrats of Hart Coun-
ty: You paid me the high compliment
last year of nominating me as your
candidate for the United States SEN
ate; in the resolutions accompanying
your action, you deprecated as dan
gerous to the success of the party the
interference on the part of Senatorial
aspirants with Legislative contests.
The danger which you apprehend
now confronts us. In many Legisla-
tive districts personal interests are
arrsyed against party success; and
though | have adhered strictly to the
principle which you enunciated. can
didates supposed to be favorable to
me are, nevertheless, a target for op-
position lii the party. Under these
circumstances | deem it my duty
to recall my acceptance of the nomi-
nation which you so generously gave
me.
Thus unirammeled with any can
didacy Of my own, l can the more
earnestly urge the support of the en-
tire Democratic ticket and advocate
the platform of principles as constru-
ed by every member of the party at
the time OF its adoption.
s. B. BUCKNER.
Glen Lily. Sept. 5, 1872"
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1895-09-12

repeated injection Of altenuated rab.
les vsccine, has rendered dogs and
other animals unsuscep IDLE to the
action Of lethat doses of rabies virus.
Drs. Willems and Richard Ruth
erford, Edinburgh, snd other veteri
nsrians have inoculated cows with
pleuro pneumonia virus, have pro-
duced characteristic local and general
phenomena, and have found that
most animals thus operated on are in
susceptible to subsequent incubation,
and do not take the disease when
plated with ANIMALS suffering from it.
W. TSDaughtrey.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1895-09-12

In a recent letter to the manufactu'
ers Mr.. W. +. Benjamin, editor OF
the Spectator. Rushford, N. Y. says;
at may be pleasure to you to know
the high esteem in which Chamber
lanes medicines are held by the PEG.
pie Of your own State. where they
must be best known. An aunt Of
mine, who resides ut Dexter, Iowa.
was about to visit me tcw years ago,
aud before leaving home wrote me,
asking il they were sold here, stating
if they we're not she would bring q
quantity with he,, as she did not like
TO he without th',m." The medicines
referred to are Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy, famous for its cure of coughs
and colds, Chamberlain's Pain Balm
for rheumatism, lame back, pains in
the side and chest, and Chamberlain
Collie, Chole,a and Diurhes Remedy,
for bowel complaints. These medi'
cines have been in constant use in
Iowa for almost a quarter Of centu'
ry. The people have learned that
they are articles Of great worth and
merit, and unequaled by any other.
They ARE for sale here by Orme Bros.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1895-09-12
SCHOOLS IN JAPAN.

The excellent public school system
Of far off japan to great extent tell
the tale Of the recent rapid rise of
nation to high plane of enlighten-
ment. TIE pupils of this empire are
taught according TO the combined
principles of the French and Ameri-
can systems, with some original add.
tons. Japanese boys and girls are
for the most part educated together,
Japan provides public kindergartens
for children not less than three years
of age. the parents, however, each
paying 81 month to provide part
Of their maintenance. Eve n in these
low grades the little ones are required
to indulge daily in conversations on
morals. In the higher schools girls
are taught such subjects rs "modes of
preserving howels, mode of burning
incense, mode OF folding papers, sit
ting etiquette, ettiquete at tea party,
standing etiquette, all included un-
der the study Of etiquette, and in sd-
dition under the heading o. "house.
hold management" they get "hygien-
ic training of children, nursing of
patients, attention to furniture, gar
ments, washing, hair dressing, income
and expenditure, and employing SER
wants" Where lis there to be found
bette, course for "the new wo
mani"
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1895-09-12
Obituary.

Died, In Hopkinsville, Aug. 20,
Lillian Richards Thomas, wife of j..
Nick Thomas, of Marion, KY, dau-
ghter of john w. Richards, formerly
of Clarksviile, Tenn, nov Of Hop
kinsville, Ky. She was born At Indi-
an Mound, Tenn, June p, 1876.
Wherever known, her peculiar
sweetness. of nature and Pafsty q
character endeared her to all Rev.
Seattle successfully baptised, received
her into the church March "a, joined
her in matrimony Nov. 10, "a, to the
love of her childhood, and now, Aug.
80, '95, performs the sad funeral
rites.
So it is from the cradle to the grave
the pages of lite turn, alternately,
for jos or sorrow. Time has won the
race he ran with her, and laid her
away in a shroud.
There is lutte unstrung and a
harp without strings" but time can
never drown the melody that wanders
DER the heartstrings at her name, or
dim the golden halo of beauty which
a pr, cious memory weaves around this
loved form.
Back into the near past we see her,
a lovely, fair browed, trusting bride;
pink roses at throat and belt and in
her hand; flowers and rose draperies
everywhere; roseate hopes and fra
GRANGE of roses mingle their sweet
ness; venerable pastor, hands ,me
attendants, music that thrilled with
happiness all hearts.
Now the same church and
grey-haired pastor, the same organ
that pealed the joyous wedding march
youthful voices now chant a requiem,
and the bride comes slowly up the
aisle to the very spot where so short
a time before she stood a bride; not
now leaning confdingly on the arm
of her choeen one, but the bride OF
Death!
In the narrow casket, with white
roses in the folded hands aud on the
pulseless heart, she is borne in sad
ness by her eight bridal attendants,
now her pail bearers.
Piled high above and everywhere
are flowers, with white ribbons hut.
tering softly; lilies. white, and fair,
and pure like her, send forth their
fragrance as incense on the altar OF
love, devotion and woe for this bright
young being-this lily broken from
its stem in all its white purity and
loneliness.
Ozark red towers OF pain now
glow by the wayside of those bereft,
yet only pail of tenderest mem DRY
hangs its heavy STOW white folds be-
tween the living and beloved.
1--WE plant sweet flowers above the
spot
Where rest our uniorgotten dead,
And while the roses bud and bloom
We beautify their lonely bed;
We rear the snowy. marble shaft
That every passer by may learn
How sacred memory keeps her trust.
In vot,ve gift and stored urn.
Que kiss on warm and loving lips
Is worth thousand funeral flowers
Aud one glad day of tender love
Outweigbs au age Of mourning hours.
F* IS
Pembroke, Ky.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1895-09-12
BRITISH METHODS.

John Bull, from whose kingdom
we hear so much proud and pompous
talk, has only given his children free
schooling within the past twenty five
years. As a whole, the English pub.
lie school system is now much like our
own. Corporal punishment, however
is very generally employed. As for
vacations, the young B,itisher, like
the German youngster, gets only his
week at Christmas, Easter and Whit
.untide. and three weeks only in sum-
mer, commencing with the first week
in August. In London school opens
at o o'clock, adjourns for lunch at
noon, and holds another session in
the afternoon from 2 until half past
4 o'clock. And woe to 1.-THE English
boy who plays truant. If after Ger
tain number Of warnings he fails to
make q satisfactory record OF attend.
ance at school, he Is arrested by an of.
ficer and brought before a Magistrate
who sentences him 10 imprisonment in
the "trusnt school," The average
length OF his confinement is ninety
five days.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1895-09-12

PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.