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terest. The only difficulty was: How
could he pay that debt? The English
man was stronger than he, and braver.
And stabbing him in the back in the
dark, was not apparently very feasible.
The way from the Schloss led down
to the valley by a road cut in the side
of the mountain. A mass Of rock and
unscalable escarpments rose sheer from
the path above-a precipice with eterni-
ty at the bottom fell sharply down be-
low. The road was full of these acute
angles and hazardous curves so well
known to continental travelers-angles
and curves which were veritable death
traps and where the marvel was that
anyone should escape with his life.
Two half-broken. loosely-harnessed
horses, mainly guided by the voice of a
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H..
[Date Undecided

They were not Adventures of the
rulgar type-that is, adventurers in the
tense of holding a different social posi-
ion from that which they assumed.
rhey We're gentlemen of good family;
out fortune hunters to whom the in
come was of more account than the
woman, and who made pretense of Il
owe they did not feel. For Gerald's
somewhat brutal attitude of command
was love-making in his way-a way
analogous to that of the savage who
irst knocks his intended wife senseless
md then carries her off to his own hut
n the bush-his conquest. lover wife
md victim all in one.
She had her choice then between the
TWO. In Gerald she would find a spirit
,f domination that would crush her to
he earth-a materialistic, unpoetic
Kind of nature that would leave her
,oul as arid as the parched sands of the
Libyan desert-a tyrant, a master, y
.onqueror. In Giulio di Siena she
would have infidelity, intrigue, jeal-
busy, and what to an English woman,
accustomed to much open-air exercise
md absolute freedom of movement,
would be practically incarceration.
In the princess she would have a
nother-in-law who would rule her with
rod of iron, and never take her to her
aeart as q daughter-who would perse-
cute her to become a Catholic: who
would ridicule her English ways and
iecry her nationality; who would make
lp for her husband sneglect by system
,,,bi hac
,ne shred of spontaneous freedom, and
who in all of whose prosecutions here
md glacial barriers there, would be
loined by her married daughter, La
contessa Maria del Sole (who would re-
peat and exaggerate all that her moth
.r might say or do). OF the two the
balance of unhappiness would be on the
side Of the Italian, but neither man
would treat her well, and in a mar
Rage with each alike would be her mis-
cry.
The two aspirants had nearly come
10 that duel, with the buttons off,
which seemed as If 1t must eventually
take place, over the fifth seat in the
carriage, which meant who should sit
outside with the coachman. The fric-
ton had been so great, and the courtesy
disguise so thin, that the princess had
half-laughingly proposed drawing lots
for the chance. But, perhaps because
she had proposed 1t, perhaps because
he disdained to put himself in any
sense on an equality with the despised
italian, Gerald had rejected this ar
rangement. With as much haughti-
hess as sullenness he had flung up the
contest by mounting the box, whence
he revenged himself by turning round
and engrossing, so far as he could, Ida's
whole attention by his persistent talk.
He spoke to no one else. If the prin-
cess or the baron cut into the converse
ton, he ignored each as II neither party
existed; save when obliged to answer a
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question directly addressed to him, and
then he answered in monosyllable, and
his voice was more like a bears growl
than ever before. If it We're the baron
who spoke to him, on any subject inde-
pendent of the matter in hand, he con-
tented himself with a reply that effect
ually put stop to all such advances,
for this time, at least He was more
unpleasant than could have been be-
lieved, as the princess said in her pretty
broken English, and, 50 far as he could.
he spoiled the days pleasure for all
concerned, anxious as he was to punish
all and sundry for the infection of that
undesired association. For this, too, as
for some other things, the baron owed
him, more than one; and in his own
mind resolved to pay his debt with in
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-27
When he heard of this sudden fight

ScIdiu lduE iti ulouo.
That cur! that coward! he said, con-
temptuously. He has shown his true
colors at last. and we are well rid of
him. Now, Ida, we can be happy, and
you will be my wife before the year is
out"
On which strength came to the girl
through her very terror
Your wife," she said, her large eyes
wide open and full of horror. II would
rather die first! If cannot marry the
baron l will marry no one else, and
certainly not you who treated him so
ill.,
So there 1t was. The fortune hunt
ers We're baked of their bag, and the
young heiress escaped the Scylla of
brutality and the Charybdis of decep-
tion she went home a sadder if not a
wiser woman, free to bestow herself
and her fortune on whom she would
as. when the right man came along, she
would certainly do.
IThe End1
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Between SCyIIa
and Charybdis
BY MRS. E. LYNN LINTON.

(These short serial stories are copy
lighted by Bachelor. Johnson & Bachel-
er. and are printed In The Tribune by
pecial arrangement, simultaneous with
heir appearance in the leading daily
ournals OF tho large cities).
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Children Shrink

from taking medicine, They
don't like its taste. But they are
eager to take what they like
SCOTS Emulsion, for instance.
Children almost always like
Scott's Emulsion.
And it does them good.
SCOTS Emulsion is the easiest,
most palatable form of Cod-liver
Oil, with the Hypophosphites of
Lime and Soda added to nourish
the bones and tone up the ner-
vous system. The way child
rem gain flesh and strength on
Scott's Emulsion is surprising
even to physicians.
All delicate children need it.
Dontbs persuaded to accept suosatuteI
Scott & Bovine, N.Y. All Druggists SOC. and 81.
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A Battle of Giants.

When Rev. DR.. Parkhurst recently
that his work in New York had scarce
ly begun, he disclosed a proper and
gratifying comprehension Of the magni-
tude of the task before him. Scarcely
Tammany was crushed by an unex-
ampled uprising of the people, and yet
in that brief period public sentiment
has found time to thoroughly adjust
| now preparing to nestle down softly
| into cherubic sleep. Thus 1t fulfils a
prediction made weeks ago in the sa-
trical publication, Town Topics, when
that clever journal said:
With the abandonment of the active
prosecution of police officers the excite
ment of our citizens will droop and die
Without the daily newspaper accounts OF
Mr.. Goffs brilliant performances before
the Lexow committee the glee of the pop
ulace will simmer down. All will grow
quiet, the calm broken only by the merry
chink of coin, the badge of our civiliza.
| ton. We have been very well pleased
| with the scandal and by the manner IN
which the newspapers have handled It.
1t has been as captivating to read about as
a murder, or as whole series of murders
Nothing since the dazzling performances
| of Jack the Ripper. in London. has held
our attention 50 firmly Now 1t is al
over, however and we look to the news,
papers to amuse us otherwise. japanese
and American atrocities are apparently
everything they have at hand just al
this moment, but something else will he
found within few days. In the mean
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-30
LEGISLATIVE TOPICS.
The Book COmpany's Reply.


The American Book company has pub
lished a reply to recent newspaper at
tacks attempting to show that they had
charged different prices for their books in
different parts Of Pennsylvania. They
deny the charge and challenge any school
board which deals with them to cite an
instance which shows any such discrm-
inaton. They explain that the obvious
reason why some districts have paid out
more money for school books than others
under the free text book law was because
some districts bought Il partial supply
utilizing the books owned by the pupils
while Others changed the books in use and
bought complete supply of new books
They prove by their printed contracts and
prices that the same offers We're made
and accepted in all parts of the state, and
by all districts which purchased books Of
them; that their prices have been not only
uniform but as low or lower than those of
any other publishers. Taking up the
specific instances cited in the newspaper
attacks, they show that where different
prices actually prevail in different places,
the books are not their publications, or,
that prices were misquoted; and In some
instances, the comparison was unfair in
that the prices named were not for the
same text books, but that all cases where
the same books were sold by the American
Book company, they were sold at the
same identical prices. The company also
call attention to the legislative investiga-
ton of 1890 as to the existence of So
called school book trust" and that the
result of this investigation, as expressed
in the report, adopted by the Pennsylvania
legislature, demonstrated that the Ameri-
can Book company was not and Is not a
trust" but legally constituted busl-
ness concern whose definite plans and
purposes are to furnish the best school
books at lower prices than had hitherto
prevailed,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-30
The Olyphant Bank Trouble.

The defense offered by Cashier Stone
of the Olyphant bank is, as we under
stand 1t, that ne increased the banks
capital on fictitious notes. intending to
lift those notes by the proceeds of the
sale of the additional stock. This ac-
ton, while technical forgery, is not
necessarily as censurable crime as
would have been the diversion of the
same amount of money to the cashiers
personal account. 1t differs little, in
principle, from the common form of
commercial speculation known as stock
watering; and would be pardOned If
not applauded in many lines of busi-
ness whereas, in this one, it has led TO
exposure, arrest and public humilia-
ton.
At the same time it is founded on a
fa.lacious business principle princi-
pie which Is especially dangerous when
applied to banks. 1t assumes that an
honest business can be honestly trans
acted upon fictitious basis; that a
bank may bank on assets conjectural
rather than upon bona fide securities
already in hand. This idea, We frankly
admit, is the result of common weak
ness in human nature. Very many Of
us practice 1t daily, by contracting
obligations on the strength of what we
hope to be worth, at some future time,
instead of on the strength of what we
are really worth at the moment of the
transaction. If a thorough eXamina-
t!on of the Olyphant banks accounts
shall show this to have been the only
wrong step in its management, Mr.
Stones connection with it will undOubt-
edly excite sympathy rather than vim
dictiveness. His deed. in any aspect,
would be censurable and the voice of
warning should be lifted against its
repetition; but in this Interpretation of
1t, there is room for honest leniency.
1t is proper, however, to point out
the need of additional vigilance in the
laws governing the supervision Of state
banking institutions. In the present
instance the bank examiner performed
his duty promptly ana efficiently, but
ior the same reason tnat commends
his WCrk, his authority and powers de-
serve 20 be increased. along the lines
Contemp' q ted in the Dill row pending
In Harrisburg to CT .ate a separate
banking department with larger au-
thority and Increased facilities. Honest
banks, whether state or national, court
the most rigid inquiry by those having
the right to make such examination;
and directors in these banks welcome
fair legislation placing prudent safe
guards about the money of bank pa
irons.
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time, for heavens sake do not let any
dollars get away.
We are not prepared to say to what
extent Mayor Strong has contributed to
this tired and somnolent feeling among
the Gotham populace. Our own ma
ton, formed after due consideration of
the allowances proper to be made in
ton, is that he has, in the single act of
retaining Superintendent Byrnes, done
more to disappoint public expectation
than could have been achieved during
several years full of ordinary mis-
takes. The significance of that reten-
ton is, if anything, that while petty
boodlers and small fry corruptionists
who probably do not know how to be
honest are to be pursued relentlessly,
the chief and central figure in thirty
years stretch of police iniqulty, the
polished villain in the play, the edu-
Gated pet of Wall street millionaires
who, while spurning to take pennies
wrung from barterers in the shame of
women. is not above pocketing the
thousands that come to him in the form
of tips from the princely gamblers on
change is to be set up on still higher
pedestal, and clothed with new laurels
and responsibilities. The effect of such
retention, coming as it does in the i'm
mediate wake of the prediction that the
destruction of Tammany is merely the
trading of an old curse for a new, could
not be otherwise than discouraging and
diSheartening. 1t precludeS, for the
present. any thought of securing for
New York city an honest police force:
and negatives, in a day, the hard work
of long years of earnest and strenuous
reformative effort DR.. Parkhurst was
grandly right when he declared 1t to be
impossible to 'reorganize rot" and a
police system with Byrnes in command
will have rot as its insignia just as
surely as it has had it during all the
years of his past control, upon the in
controvertibe principle that a stream
cannot rise higher than its fountain
head.
DR.. Parkhurst's greatest fight is prob
| ably just ahead of him. In his earlier
| struggle all he needed to do was TO
| lay bare the facts. On their face they
| carried their own comment. But now
| he must encounter a triple enemy. He
| is still face to face with the old foe,
| which was not killed but only stunned;
he must allow for sharp popular reac-
| ton from the tense feeling incident to
Il desperate campaign and lastly he
must single handed, grapple with the
| willy and insidious influences of selfish
| politicians like Thomas c. Platt, who
| have behind them, in their efforts at
misappropriating a great moral victory,
| the mistaken sentiment and the formid-
party. 1t will not do simply to tell the
truth about Platt. People are 50
clouded with party prejudice that they
| will not believe that. He must be
fought, fought hard, fought desperately
and with a versatility of resources
equal to his own remarkable equipment
as a politician and strateglst.
1t is likely to be a tremendous battle
against uneXampled odds; but some
how we have an instructive suspicion
that Parkhurst will win. The ethics of
civilization will have to be recast If he
| doesn't
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-30
THE CORPORATION PROBLEM.

AS Solved by Senator Cullom.
'"rhe condition of the people changes
with every year In their wants, necessi-
ties and obligations. The number OF cor
porate bodies is daily increasing. As such
corporate bodies they should be rigidly
governed by law. There should be no at
tempt or disposition to wrongfully attack
or interfere with the rights Of corpora
tions as such, but they must be compelled
to treat rights of individuals as fairly us
they would be dealt by. The end and OBJ
ject of all popular government Is the
good of the whole people, and 1t should be
the especial duty of such government to
care for and protect the rights OF the
great masses of those who toll.
IF there Is any lesson to be learned
from present depressions in trade 1t is
that there Is no diversity, but the closest
community of interests among all classes
of our citizens. The same causes which
have entailed losses upon the men of
wealth and upon our great corporations
have brought proportional losses and
greater suffering to the working people.
Whatever means we may adopt to
bring about return of prosperity must
equally affect all for good. The EN-
ploye has an equal interest with the stock
holder in the earnings of the corporations.
for he Is as dependent upon those earnings
for his wages as the stockholder for his
dividend. AS both have declined together,
SO they must advance together
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Scranton Is All Right.

The following remark by a Wilkes
Barre paper, the News-Dealer, is typi-
cal of much loose comment about this
municipality: -Four hundred thous-
and dollars Is the estimated cost OF
running Scranton for the next year
This Is a pretty steep figure for a city
of less that 100000 inhabitants, and II
it is persisted in for some years the
chance Of the city going into bank
ruptcy Is very good"
These people who think that Scran-
tonlans are abnormally taxed condi-
tion their comparisons either upon the
village basis of government or upon
old cities in which the original invest
ments for such public conveniences as
sewers, paved streets, municipal prop
erty and the like have been made and
settled for years ago, and in which the
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-30
WHY Not Buy by Weight?

Philadelphia Press: "A bin passed the
state house of representatives last week
which declares that the weight of a bushel
of onions shall be fifty pounds. Such bills
as these illustrate the dissatisfaction
felt with the system of sale by measure,
and the desire to make weight the stand
ard. We have many such acts. A bushel
of charcoal must contain Is pounds If Of
hard wood and Is If of soft wood a
bushel of anthracite coal must contain 76
pounds; of coke, 40 pounds; of potatoes, IS
pounds; of rye and Indian corn. Sc pounds;
of clover Seed 62 pounds; of wheat. co
punds; of barley, A pounds; of buckwheat,
iS pounds: of oats, 81 pounds; of coarse
salt So pounds; of ground salt, 10 pounds,
and of fine salt, 62 pounds. How much
simpler, easier and satisfactory it would
be to discard the dry measure altogether,
which has not virtue enough to stand
alone, and sell and buy everything by
avolrdupois weight, as Is done now in
some states. and which conduces to hon
esty and fair dealing. Custom Is against
1t here, but all recent legislation on the
subject favors the use of weight instead
of measure bill now pending In the
house proposes that eggs shall be sold by
avordupois weight hereafter instead of
by the dozen, which will give the big eggs
the due advantage over the little ones
and promote exactness, even justice, In
retail dealing"
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pIatt an Obstacle to Reform.

Interview with DR.. Parkhurst.
The new enemy We have found is Tom
Platt. | would rather fight five Crokers
than one Platt. His very element of de-
cency makes him doubly hard to encoun-
ter. You can nearly always tell where
to look for man who is all villainy
He is always where you can put your
hand, but men of the Platt kind are keen
er and always gone when your hand
drops. one machine was riddled, only tC
find Il second one, more complicated, right
in the middle of the path. 1t goes to AL
bany with bills to defeat our purposes
to make bipartisan police board for Mr.
Platt's use in his own peculiar kinds OF
manipulations. But we are vigilant, ana
vigilance in this type of warfare is the
most important requisite of victory
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Ever and Ever SoIOnp Aro

He told her a story, twas all SO sweet,
Ever and ever so long ago:
And he knelt him down at her precious
feet,
Ever and ever so long ago.
And he said: Il would have my life all
this
one perfect joy!' and he sought to kiss
Her finger tips-it was, oh ,,such bliss!
Ever and ever so long ago.
She foolishly hearkened to all he said,
Ever and ever so long ago.
TIL he kissed her lips SO ripe and red,
Ever and ever so long ago.
Then he knelt no more, nor kiss would he
Her finger tips; loves slave was she;
The men are the same as they used TO be,
Ever and ever so long ago.
Amusing Journal.
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the same trouble will arise If the business
Is turnedover to county commissioners who
are OF the same caliber; that the machn-
cry by which our jury boxes are filled is
not of vast Importance, and that 1t all
depends upon the men who manipulate 1t.
If juries are not of the right sort any
where in the commonwealth the public
are primarily responsible, for they select
the men who furnish the juries.
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chief item Of expenditure now is for
running expenses.
This city is young and growing. The
bulk OF it's expenses is for improve
ments and for the damages consequent
thereto. Some day these expenses will
have been liquidated, and then-look
nut
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-30

The ante-mortem statement of a
woman dying from malpractice should
be admissible as evidence against the
author of her undoing. No woman on
the verge of eternity would be likely
to lie; and the truth, in such cases, can
testimony of the one party to the crime
who is at liberty to tell the truth. The
law excluding such testimony is d.
rect shield for most damnable kind of
crime
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ImnOrtnnt. il True.

From the Philadelphia Times.
1t is definitely known that the harbor
master and health officer appointments
have been hung up by Governor Hastings
until after election day. This Is the Sc
verest blow thus far aimed at Boss Mar
tins domination, for he has personally
solicited the naming of Joseph Klemmer
and Theodore b. Stub for these places
This action clearly shows Senator Quay's
power at Harrisburg, and Is an open
demonstration of the fact that he is in
the fight to a finish to bring about the
overthrow of the man who stabbed Pen
rose at dark in the back.
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AboIishing Jury commissioners.

A bill abolishing jury commissioners and
placing the duty OF selecting jurymen in
the hands of the county commissioners
has been favorably reported by COM
mittee of the state senate. The county
commissioners performed this function
for years before the present jury COM
missioners law was passed, and the last
named law was regarded as reform
measure. If 1t has not given the best re-
suits, It Is because mere politicians have
been elected as jury commissioners. The
Philadelphia Ledgerls Is right In saying that
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-30
Too Little Business in Politics.

FTOTU CTlt 81. IuUI CdII.
Very often, when business matters are
under discussion among men, we hear
the remark: THAT may be business, but
1t isn't politics" And it is regrettaby
true that very often business and politics
are diametrically opposed-that all busi-
ness sagacity and ordinary good judg.
ment are excluded from the consideration
of party councils, and that parties array
themselves against our business interests
on grounds of purely partisan expediency.
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The clique of city writers on specula-
tive topics which has been recently in
fluenced to write down the anthracite
co1i trade would give better value for
its money if it would first take a
primary course in the rudiments of
would embarrass it, sincA it would
bring it into the presence of actual
facts
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Declines an Appointment.

Harrisburg Patriot: James Il. Ehret,
of Pittston, has declined "A position In the
adjutant generals department rendered
him by General Stewart. Mr.. Ehret IL q
justice Of the peace at his home and finds
his office as profitable as clerkship at
the capital. He was a delegate to the
state Republican convention and is per-
sonal friend of the adjutant general"