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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-15
LEGISLATIVE TOPICS.
A Poor Stock in Trade,


Lebanon Report The Scranton Trib-
une rightly characterizes the bill to guar
antee worliingmen the right to join labor
unions" as playing to the galleries. A
more ridiculous bit of legislation could
hardly be enacted and yet the commit
tee has favorably reported the bill pro-
posing II. 1t is no doubt destined to be
enacted and pigeon-hoed among the many
acts on the dead-letter list. The object
of such legislation is branded on the face
of it to be u bid for the labor vote. apd it
is one of the wonders that the labor ele-
ment should be so easily hoodwinked by
this clumsy attempt to cater to them.
Anyone with a remnant of common sense
must realize that such an act out-steps
the proper bounds of legislation. 1t is
one of those measures which attempts the
impossible. For how can an employer be
compelled to keep an employe? laborer,
especially, must know only too well the
thousand and one preteXts, which can, at
any time and without warning, serve as a
ground for dismissal from which there Is
no appeal. In this case the employer can
simply deny that he is violating the act
and what is the workingman going to do
about 1t? 1t Is by the enactment of such
silly statutes as these that our legisla-
lures bring discredit upon the common
wealth, and upon the law. But 1t is their
stock in trade and to deprive them of the
privilege Is to rob them of a living.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-15

The statement that low temperature
weakens the intellect suggests the pro-
priety of providing a few extra radia-
tors for the common council room.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-15

The energy displayed by the Scran-
ton Truths Harrisburg representative
in writing down" Representative Farr
continues, with increase; but 1t looks
very much like energy wasted.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-15

Electrocution az n substitute for hang
ing seems to be go I'm Pennsylvania, ac-
cording to information received from Har-
risburg. Cottons bill providing for elec-
trocution will be reported afilrmatively.
II is practically the same as the New York
law.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-15

If Scranton is not to have q paid fire
department, it might be a good idea
to provide for the better enforcement
of discipline among the volunteer com
panies.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-15
SCRANTON, FEBRUARY Is, 1895
THE SCRANTON OF TODAY.

Come and inspect our city.
Elevation above the tide. 740 feet.
Extremely healthy.
Estimated population. 1891, lO3,OO.
Registered voters. 20599.
Value of school property. S50,OO.
Number of school children, l20Oo.
Average amount of bank deposits wv
o0O0 900.
It's the metropolis of northeastern Penn
Eylvania.
Canproduce electric power cheaper thah
Niagara.
No better point in the United states al
which to establish new industries.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-15

1t will be a mistake to "LeXow'
Philadelphia by way of Harrisburg.
Philadelphia should be governed, in
spected and renovated, when necessary,
by Philadelphians.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-15

For an entire week the people Of Pitts
ton have been deprived of street car
facilities because of the unwillingness of
the Willles-Barre and Wyoming Valley
Traction company to remove the accu-
mulated snow and ice from its tracks
without throwing them into ugly heaps
in the wagon way alongside the tracks.
Nor does there appear to be the likeli-
hood of AN early resumption Of passen-
ger traffic on the Pittston line The
situation Is a novel one; but it would
soon take on different aspect IL the
authorities of Pittston borough were to
declare forfeited the rights and fran
chiscs of the street car company within
the borough. There ought somewhere
80 be redress for the conduct of q cor
poration which after obtaining public
franchises for a song, upon the plea
that it's business will accommodate the
public, then turns round and says. in
the expressive language of the late
Mr.. Vanderbilt, ''the public be id"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-15
Voting for Ignorance and Avnricc.

Philadelphia Press: The Pennsylvania
senate by refusing TO give the constitu-
tional majority to the bill extending the
school term to seven months doomed the
rural schools of this state to the same
disgraceful condition in which they are
now left by u law which Is below that of
any state in wealth or population compar-
able with Pennsylvania. Senator Haines,
of York, and Senator Green, of Berks,
with assistance from Senator Critchfiald.
united In defending the ignorance which u
short school term breeds and the avarice
which keeps children shaving in the field
and dairy when they ought to be on the
school bench 1t Is not the cost of the
schools which leads counties holding l0O,-
900 children to limit their term to six
months: it is child labor, worked for gain
when the child should be studying, which
| the constituents of these senators refuse
| to give mp. Unfortunately all the state
suffers from the policy of these counties
which are careless Of the priceless future
| of their children as long as n little can he
saved in farm labor by working for an
| other month children of the spelling book
age Since the rural counties utterly re-
| fuse to improve their schools the in
| creased appropriation proposed by n re-
| distribution of state money should be
| fought by every expedlent,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-15

deep: or G,S7l ,9i5 1854. 900 cubic feet of
Snow crystals, each cubic foot contain
ing millions upon millions of separate
particles, wrought into the most beau
tiful of fantastic shapes and forms.
1t is n reasonable estimate to sup
pose that two cubic feet of snow weigh
q pound and, when melted, measure
one pint. AT this rate, the recent snow
fall was equivalent in weight to 51,717,-
9S6,496 tons. or considerably more, in
weight, than the present output of all
the anthracite coal mines in the world
worked at the present capacity for a
thousand years. If this snow Were
melted and placed in Il reservoir, it
would make 1929, ,496,G24 gallons of
water. or enough to supply one-siXth
of the population of the United States
for an entire year, without any neces-
sfty for ecoEomizing. If we could mag
Inc it pumped into a pipe so large that
one foot of pipe would hold one gallon
of water, this pipe would reach almost
100 times around the earth at the
equator. 1t was quite large storm.
We must confess, after all its ran
dom rhetoric that we are wholly UNI
able to perceive why the Scranton
Truth opposes compulsory education.
Simmered down, its position seems to
be neither more nor less than one of
sticking obstinately to an early mis-
take
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-15

Where two rogues run for council
choose the least.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-15

the amiable disposition of the gentle
men in question which restrained them
from denouncing Persch on the spot
and in assuming, before an applauding
public, the attitude of offended inno-
cence A law to prevent corporation
promoters like Persch from taking lib
critics with men like Porter and Martin
look to Senator Boies Penrose to intro-
duce it.
We suspect that the Honorable
Thomas Collier Platt is, at this writing,
badly disappointed man. The ap-
polntments made by Mayor Strong have
not only ignored his favorite claimants
of office but have put in the most in
fuential position a man who is the
most inveterate anti-Platt Republican
on Manhattan island. William Brook
field was the chairman of the Republi-
can county committee when Mr.. Strong
was elected mayor; and as reward for
that victory Platt had him ousted. The
mayor now makes Brookteld commits
sioner of public works, a position in
which he will have the appointment
in all of LABS employees, of whom lib
are laborers and mechanics and the
others superintendents engineers and
clerks at salaries ranging from $500
to $1,000 per year. 1t is said that Platt
will be accorded Crumb of comfort in
week or two; but crumbs are not the
diet that the Tioga boss feeds on. How
ever, Platt Is not the man to refuse
even a crumb, if he cannot get more.
The revelation that Labor Leader
Mark Wild accepted Il $500 cash pres
ent. through John Mcbride, from coal
operator who was grateful to wild for
settling a recent strike would seem to
indicate that the secrets of this pro-
fession are at last beginning to leak
out. 1t is a profitable business this
one of the labor agitator; as many Il
fortune will attest. And the poor,
hoodwinked day laborer, as usual,
pays the freight"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-15

The custom, among physicians, of
avoiding newspaper publicity often re-
suits in the withholding of due credit
to skilled members of that profession
for services which are of inestimable
benefit to the community in which they
modestly toll. 1t is often not until
personal illness interrupts their daily
ministrations that the community
reaches proper realization of its large
Indebtedness We note with extreme
regret the illness of such a physician
in Pittston, in the person of DR.. J. ].
Walsh, a brother of Rev. Richard
Walsh, of Moscow. DR.. Walsh's illness,
as we chance to know, is the direct
result of his martyrdom to professional
duty. Rather than disappoint the
many families who depended upon his
skill, he oyertaxed his own vital
strength to the point where at last
it summarily gave way; and now he
lies PROSTATE, as much a hero, albeit
in more modest manner, as was ever a
soldier stricken in battle, face front,
at the post Of duty. We cannot refrain
from giving this frank credit where we
know it to be due.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-15
The Saturday Tribune.

The man who wants to be thoroughly
happy will need to read tomorrow 8
Tribune. It's twelve handsome pages
will literally TEEN with good reading
some of it grave, some gay, some divert
ing, some instructive. You have prob
ably noticed that this Saturday edi-
ton of ours is steadily growing better.
You already know, OF course, that it is
the best Saturday issue of any news
paper in Scranton, which means in
Northeastern Pennsylvania.
But that doesn't wholly satisfy us.
There is no reason why the best city in
the state should not have, at least once
week, the best paper in the state.
We have an idea that the intelligent
readers of this section will appreciate
the opportunity which The Tribune is
giving them to obtain, for cents, a
paper well worth 10; and that, for Sat
urday, they will know how to evince
their appreciation of the best number
of any newspaper in the entire state.
1t costs us double money; butit doesn't
cose the purchaser even one extra mill.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-15

ENTERED AT THE posToFPIcE AT SCRANTON. PA. Al
sgcoNp-CLA MAIL MATTER
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orcd if the people Of the section had ex-
hibited the enterprise in pushing before
the world their resources that other less
favored sections have employed. The
Anaheim settlement is one of the Oldest
in the southern part of California The
preference shown for the vicinity by the
pioneers is probably one of the best bits
of evidence that could he adduced to
establish the merits of the country about
there, for at the time land was SO cheap
and easily obtained that the men
who came to coax wealth from the soil
could easily secure that which promised
the most generous returns for the labor
expended, and seemed to offer the most
congenial opportunities for home build
ing. In great. measure the history of
the town and the character of its residents
Justify this view. Up to the period that
other localities began to present, through
the medium of liberal advertising, their
attractions to the public, Anaheim en-
ioyed steady if not indeed rapid growth.
And the thrifty. substantial, well to do
class OF people constituting her population
prove that the exertions OF those having
faith in the place have been rewarded.
There are few more comfortably situated
and highly contented communities than
the old German colony. The easy circunl-
st nces of the people do not, however,
furnish any good reason for indifference
to the future and the conceament OF any
lights under bushel measures. Let Ana
helm join the procession and modernize
some more.
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Poor Richards Daily Sermon
CLEAN THE STREETS

ByIalLAnseanss clean. the streets. No
amount of decorations will cover the dirt
in the thoEop gbfares-the thoroughfares
that are now tlronged with visitors from
all charters of sae state and nation.
Clean the streets thoroughly and con-
sciensiously, and keep them scrupIlously
clean untr the. last of the Fiesta visitors
haveshaken the dust of the city off their
feet. Let there be no dust for them to
shake off when they depart.
The city council meets tomorrow Let
it see to it that the streets are cleaned.
Saturday they were most unclean, and
yet crowded with visitors. Ere Monday
night the streets should be as clean as
constant sweeping can make them, and
the sweeping must be kept up all the
week 1t will not. be sufficient to clean
them once each day. Let them be contin-
ually.swept and cleaned-say three times
day at least. To do this it is not neces-
great cloud of dust and filth to disgust
visitors. Let all that be done late at
night There is a better way to keep toe
streets clean during the daN-the way the
Merchants associatiouaof San Francisco
have kept Market street clean during
the past few months and for
was paved. The Merchants association
employs gang OF ''sweepers, each armed
with stout, long handled brush and a
scoop shovel. They work all uay-and
by their work the thorough fare is kept
iecently clean all day. Some method like
this should be employed during La Fiest ,
week. No otlier single thing will make
AS favorable an impression upon the visi-
tors rs will clean streets, and with dirty
streets the costliest and daintest features
of the great festival viii! take on a tawdrv,
cheap appearance.
Dust-covered gold does not shine as
brightly as clean and polished brass.
Though we display the riches of second
Indies in our royal pageants and gorgeous
fetes, and lrave not clean streets our pa
geants will be spoiled by the dirt under
foot and the dust in the air.
No matter what it costs. Los Angeles
should have clean streets this week. 1t
will be her lasting disgrace if she does
not have them, stain upon her bright
name and an unpleasant memory in the
nostris of her guests. Must is the word.
We must have clean streets. See to it, We
city fathers. On your heads be the glory
of our can streets Oh the odiun OF their
filth
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bert, J. W.. Ware, Jonas Bean, IT,. II.
Dickson Gilbert, G. p. Lyndall,
f. d. Jewell, G. I. Lawrence. L. Ed
wards H. b. Kerry, l. d. Patton, Will
A. Knighten, c. I. Paul John Williams,
d. b. Camp, G: W. Hartman, David
Fixes, Samuel Worcester, Lee W. Wells,
w. A. Lothrop, b. W. Lawson, G. w.
strine, f. II. Steele f. NJ. Stone, A. G.
Cough VIM. Yawger, II. e. Ketchum,
J. A. Olcott, r. M. Wood, Hiram W. Tib-
belts, James Holmes.
The following lib were initiated last
night:
Frederick LEX. F. P willoughby, E.
A. Branch, Phil P. Kramer, c.. C. Kel-
Ter, A. R. Hockett, Thomas W.
IPugh' D. f.. Horgaan, Robert Robe 1T
S. Wadswort6, Perry B. Wilkinson,
J. Whitfield, r. l.. Hazen, +. w. Stein,
Jr:. Joseph l.. Purdy, w. G. Thornton,
william c. Pennoyer, Samuel w. Rider,
G. II. Brown, d. e. Koonts, Frank A.
Taylor, Lester S. Moore, Edgar G. Aiken,
G. l.. Dean, James NJ. Wilson,
Crew, Thomas F. Laycock, William l..
Star. Thomas r. Bagley Thomas W.
Easton, Frithiof E. Fredericks. Albert
Slaught, Charles Strese, Samuel Krischner,
J. p. Russell, J.. Brown, N. A. Stanley,
r. S. b rden, Charles +. Pitman, Roscoe
l.. Stillwell, David S. Johnston, Henry A.
McCauley, Pierce il. Kittell. Solomon E.
Booker, Thomas Wood, William f. Ken
nedy, Rupert Borden, Zue G. Peck, AL
bert V. Willard, Herman b. Marshall.
Fred Wullf, Frank NJ. Harrigan, George
H. Buckingham. Charles II. Elberson,
John w. Vaughan, John n. Squires, Jas.
T. Neighbors, Frederick W. Faust. Jas. s.
Wilde, Arthur S. Perry, John r. Gilbert,
A. S. Wilson, +. r. Camp. Pete Bur-
feind. VIM. l.. Wilson. r. f. Beckett w.
H: WEIGH, J. r. Titus: George Blake,
Richard Thomp son, Chas. Anderson,
s. Norwood, U. S. g. Todd,
G. l.. Alexander, A. A. Crank,
7. A. Cross, A. A. Hopkins Jesse W.
Doss, J. P. Baldwin, l. C. Parson, Joseph
W. Avis Jesse ~ Baker, Caleb A. Var
nell, Jas. w. Jones, Edwin r. Turner,
Frank S. Love. F. II. Cunningham. l.. b.
Jackson, c. A. Rehlow, J. G. Paterson,
W. NJ. Miller, Edgar J. Cole, Frank J..
Swanson, John Galloway, William p.
Morgan. William Johnston, John Noonan,
+. r. Longley, Jacob V. Ham, Hubert B.
Lyman, James II. Parker, II. G. Nc
kenzie, r. O. SHELTON, Frederick Baker,
George W. Stamp, Henry T.. Newman.
AT the request of the new lodge the
initistory degree was conferred by Semi
Tropic Lodge No. 81.
The officers were as follows:
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1t will probably please the lively parti-
san to lay his failure to get hoped for
profits this year to the Wilson bill. at
though last year and the year before he
did not think of laying ii on the McKin
lev tariff. The re-establishment of the
higher figure in the tariff will meet the
appreciation of every loyal Californian,
whether he is Democrat or Republican,,
for if special privileges OF that sort are to
be granted we wish to have our share
with the rest, but no party will vent nre
to establish such tariff as would have
been necessary to save us this year.
With all its drawbcks, this year is bet
ter than last, and that better than the
year before. And for next year better
luck vet, let us hope.
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AN EASTER FOR ALL

Today, from end to end of Chrsten-
dom and wherever in the wiIds of savag-
cry the zeal and herosm of self
sacrificing Christians have planted
the EN- blem of the Son 'of God,
the story of the resurrection will be
have faith in the saving power of Christ
and gratitude for the martyrdom of One
who died that others might live, the old,
oft-tod tale of how the Man of Gallee
COMPOUNDED His enemies and conquered
the grave will charm the ears and gladden.
the hearts Of worshipful multitudes. In
the career of Jesus might be read les
sons for the day Lessons that if well
learned might harmonic the relations of
men, and make as easy the existence OF
the present as He made glorious in the
minds of millions the life of the future,
People may conscientiously differ regard
ing the divinity of Christ, but few intelli-
gent, dispassionate thinkers can fail to see
in the character. acts and precepts of the
Nazarene the picture of the ideal man.
Strong in physique, comcly in appear
ance. clean in mind, fluent in speech,
equabe in temperament and Just in prin-
ciple, history offers Him alone as meet
ing all the expectations centered i'll
the noblest creation OF God, man.
Jesus OF Nazareth is easily the
first citizen of the world. If men
desire him as savior. they must ac-
cept him as philosopher, teacher and
a statesman. To degree, in way and
with an effect never attained by any who
had preceded him, and none since. he
implanted the truth that only in the
happiness of all is found the peace and
contentment of each that IN recogni-
tion of mutual rights and the perform
ance of common duties could society en-
temporal in application. and that of God
spiritual and that allegiance to each in
its sphere is essential and right. He
was great in the complete sense OF great
ness. In ordinary men heroic occasions
may inspire lofty courage and develop
spirit of self-sacrifice that will endure
suffering or death; but the same men
when met by the small oppositions and
interrupted by the petty annoyances of
life would grow churlish in manner, vexa-
tlous in spirit and unkind in act. But
Christ rose superior to minor troubles
and disappointments of life with the
same dignity, composure and equan-
unity that encountered the indignities of
the bigoted rabble and the agony of a
humiliating crucifxion. = Serenity of
temper, earnestness of purpose, love of
humanity and charity for the erring were
His cardinal virtues, and if this Easter
can help to make them as glorious to
mankind as they were in Him, it is
worthy OF com memoration by men of all
beliefs
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-04-14
NEW LODGE OF ODD FELLOWS
The Record Broken as to the Number Of
Members
The Initiation Done by Semi-Tropic Lodge
and Conducted by Professor Hutchison.
The nembers

Yesterday at p. m. another Odd Eel
lows lodge was instituted in this city,
The exercises we're conducted by District
Deputy Grand Master j., III. Gingery al
the new |. o. 0. Il. hall on Main street
near Second. The new lodge starts of
under very favorable auspices and has
eiehty-two charter members.
The charter members consist of mem.
bers of Eastern and foreign. lodges who
have severed their connection with those
lodges to Join the new lodge.
Besides the charter memb ers about loo
new members were initiated at the hall
last night.
A great crowd was present and the en-
thusiasm was contagious.
The new lodge will be known as Amer
lea Lodge No. 3s5, L. o. o. F.. and is Of
ficered as follows: n. g.. C. p. Lyndall;
ham; Treas. p. p Wilcox; P. s., C. O.
Morgan; W, D. B. Camp; Con-. T. 0.
Edwards r. s. n. g., l.. S. Butler; l.. S.
n. c., J. II. Martin; r. IS. V. g., Will
liam Peabody; l.. S. v. g., II. W. Smith
r. S. s.. S. A. ID. Janer; l.. S. s., E. r.
J. NJ. Ware; Chap, W. A. Knighten.
The following are the charter members
of the new lodge:
c. d. Alderman, J. w. Bradbeer. H. s.
Gates, Chas. L. Coburn. X. J. Cannata,
G.. W. Dodge, II. ?. Doles, X. F. Frazier,
J. A. Fatberolf, August Franklin, W. S.
Frost. l.. ii. George, b. w. Griffith, j.
NJ. Griffith. A. $. Milice, Vim. Peabody,
II. l.. Pauling. w. G. Shaw, j. G. Sharp,
H. Strathman, &c. p. Shields, Jacob
Schessinger VIM. l.. Ward, J. J.
White, +. Il. Watson. Solomon
White, U. Zimmerman. p. p Wilcox,
l.. NJ. Gilman, w. J. Goss, Carey Hop
kins, f.. Holcomb, J. s. Nennum, b. F..
johnson, W. G. Jones. I. M. Lancaster,
q. W. I.ettier, A. II. Longley, e. Il. Nc
Dowell, !. H Martin, &C. Modic, M. n.
Newmark. Thomas Gilbert, Sherman
Lawrence, G. M. Cooper, Sutton Turner,
ii. NJ. Smith, G. o. Morgan, U. r. Gil