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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-11-15

Atwood Rough Boucle Effects.
showing some entirely new shades.
These goods are ~ and A inches wide,
and cannot be duplicated at same
rrlUe ...... .-.s...--..........0oc. YARD
IS pieces IN this assorted lot Of La
fIls' Suiting. 90 inches wide. strictly
AI-W0ol some were 81 n yard; a few
scotch effects among them. .4Sc. a yard.
our 81 Boucle Cloakings. 81 inches
u.ls. they are a choice lot. showing
some handsome colors for Children's
Co1ks. 25c. has been chopped or
each yard. and they stand
v,u...................... a yard
Just received our New Corduroy,
c-,ors OF Navy Blue Green, OF Drab,
e. inches wide; these are entirely
new ....... ....... ......-....i5c. yard.
Rich line Of French F1annels. q
inches wide; these goods are always
stylish and pretty. a yard.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-11-15

We have cut prices in our Novelty
Suit Patterns-they are a handsome
lot-and have reduced them from 81 TO
s. a pattern.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-11-15

Lamps with all the newest designs.
b. and II. best made.
Lamp-Globes in all the fashionable de-
corations.
Sterling Silver Spoons and Forks for
oysters DC.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-11-15

Hardly ever do you have such a
nice opportunity 20 get the colors and
quality as we offer in our All-WOol
Broadcoths. 30 inches wide. tie regu-
lar 81 grade or......................75
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26
The Row About Venezuela.

Little less than one year ago the
country was startled one day by the
appearance of a presidential message
concerning a South American bound
ary dispute. The message asked con-
gress to appoint a commission to in
vestigate certain points i'm the dispute
and congress with practical unanimity
almost Immediately assented. The
message suggested that when this COM
mission had once reached an opinion
as to the proper divisional line between
Venezuela and British Guiana it would
resist by every means in it's power. as
wilful aggression upon it's rights and
interests. the appropriation by Great
Britain of any lands. or the excise of
governmental Jurisdiction over any ter
ritory which, after investigation. we
have determined of right to belong to
Venezuela
This was the aspect of affairs last
December. Today. as the Rochester
st-Express points out. the matter
I'll IdSnIOn. Inere rs
to be a committee. half American and
half British, appointed to decide the
facts of the case. and. on its findings
England and Venezuela are to try to
agree on the boundary line between
that republic and British Guiana. Fail
ing agreement. the whole question is to
be referred for settlement to q tribunal
Of three consisting of one representa-
tive appointed by Venezuela. one by
Great Britain. and one by the two con-
testants jointly.
1T will be observed" says the Post
Express. that we have abandoned all
pretension to fix the true divisional line
between Venezuela and British Guiana,
and are no longer so powerfully i'm
pressed with the sacredness of that
boundary that we are ready to defend
1t. IL need be. with the entire military
force of the United States Mr.. Olney
got round at last to the position which
Mr.. Frelinghuysen had taken thirteen
years before, that the true function Of
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26

very acme of what 1t is possible for
him to do"
In reply to the wall Of Downing street
that English Interference might mean
war. the veteran statesman said: Il
deny that England must abandon her
own right to independent judgment
and allow herself to be domineered by
the other powers. I do not believe that
Europe will make war to ensure the
continuance of massacres more terri
bic than ever recorded in the dismal.
doplorable history Of human crime"
OF course 1t can be said that Mr.. Glad
stone speaks In freedom from official
responsibility and that his emphatic
words have the weight only Of one 'pri-
vate citizens opinion. While this is
true it also is true that the opinion
thus voiced is the opinion of every other
honest and earnest Christian citizen
and the voicing of 1t by one so rich
with honors becomes scarcely less than
a command from people to ministers.
No doubt Lord Salisbury would like
very much to find still another way out
from the Armenian dilemma so as not
to force European diplomacy to crisis.
but the chances are that. sooner or
later, he will have to toe the mark.
So far as the anthracite region is
concerned, Organism Seems to have
been effectually impaled on the prongs
of Ben Tilman's pitchfork.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26
Twin Shaft Commissions Work.

Those who expected n sensational re-
port from the special commission ap-
pointed recently by Governor Hastings
to investigate the Twin shaft disaster
We're of course disappointed. The hear
ings Of the commission having been
conducted in public, 1t naturally fol-
lowed that the conclusions reached by
it would follow in principal lines In the
direction of those formed by inteli-
gent observers at the time. The testi-
mOny brought out before the commits
sion left only one opinion 80 far as
the immediate responsibility for the
accident was concerned. 1t pointed to
an error of judgment on the part of the
superintendent in charge; and the fact
that he paid for that error with his
own life as well as with the lives Of
forty-seven others, effectually silences
SO far as he Is concerned the voice of
criticism.
The recommendations of the commits
sion with reference to future require
ments in aid of safety i'm mining de-
serve and will no doubt receive care
full legislative consideration. They are
logical deductions from the premises
laid before the commission during the
progress Of it's inquiry. Perhaps moth
ing In those recommendation Is new,
yet all are shown by the Twin acct
dent to be desirable. and it will not
require the enactment of additional
laws to cause all reputable mining COM
panies ito bend every possible energy to
the redoubling of precautionary energy
toward the safeguarding of limb and
life. The notion so studiously fostered
during campaign times that the owners
Of mining property are as n rule indif-
ferent to the welfare of the men who
gain a livelihood working in that prop
erty is disproved if by no higher con-
sideration than the fact that loss of life
in mining very rarely occurs insep-
arably from serious damage to prop
erty. In the case of the Twin shaft
accident this was so conspicuCusly
proved that we venture to say 1t would.
as an economic proposition. have been
far cheaper for the owners of that prop
ery to have retired every one Of the
forty-eight doomed employees on PEN
sion for life than to have sustained the
pecuniary loss which the accident
itself, without regard to humane con-
siderations, inflicted.
The commission does not, however
recommend one proposition which in
our judgment would in all probability
prove beneficial. 1t does not say. as
we suspect some of its members indiv-
idually think. that the state could well
afford to multiply by two the number
of its mine inspectors, and require of
these officials a. scrutiny of workings so
close and so often as to render general
squeezes unlikely to escape detection.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26

Weather and Other Predictions for
the Coming Week.

Sunday, Sept. 97.--Weather rainy. A
child born on this day should keep In the
employ of others. A female will be un-
fortunate in wedlock. Ask favors in the
morning.
Monday. Sept. 2S-Sun Sc degrees from
Jupiter. Wind and rain. A child born on
this day will be quick in anger, head
strong and unlucky. Beware of quarrel
ling and avoid females.
Tuesday, Sept. 2s.-Sun semi-square to
Herschal Wind and rain. A child born
on this day will be clever, fortunate and
will be respected; female, however. will
be unhappy In wedlock. Court, marry,
buy and speculate.
Wednesday, Sept. S0.-Venus sextile to
Jupiter. Weather fair. A child born on
this day will have to work hard for liv-
ing. Ask favors of elderly persons and be
careful in thy dealings
Thursday. Oct. 1-Mercufy trine to Mars.
Wind and perhaps rain. A child born On
this day will be quick and acrive, but not
very fortunate. Be careful.
Friday. Oct. o.--Mercury semi-sextilc to
Herschal. Weather wet A child born on
this day will do well to keep in the en-
ploy of others and attempt nothing on his
own account. Seek work before noon.
Saturday, Oct. S.-Snn SO degrees from
Saturn. Weather fair A child born on
this day viii, be clever. but not partcu-
larly fortunate. Travel and transact busi-
ness before / o'clock y. m.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26
One Significant Circumstance.

| One would think that on its face the
| fact that so large a percentage OF the
| business men of the country are OPP
| posed to Bryan and free silver would
| he sufficient to convince the average
voter that something must be serious
| ly at fault in Bryan's programme. The
| man who will stop to think must soon
perceive that if the free and unlimited
coinage of silver would do for the COM
mon people one tenth part of the good
which Bryan predicts that it would,
| there would be every reason in the
| world for the great majority of merch-
| ants and manufacturers to support free
coinage with all their might, because
anybody knows that the common peo-
pie are the ones who constitute the
great bulk of the country's buyers.
Give to the average merchant or manu-
| faCturer the patronage OF what Is
known as "the great middle class" and
let this class be fairly prosperous, and
| he can afford. If necessary, to snap
his finger In the face of the so-called
plutocrats.
This being true it follows that the
merchant Is not as the Populist ora
tors sometimes assert, dragoOned by
the moneyed interests into supporting
the sound money ticket, but that he
does this from sincere conviction that
the triumph of free silver would bear
down heavily upon the common people
and thus hurt his principal source of
trade. 1t may be asked how the busi-
ness men Of the country justify such a
conclusion; and the answer is that
they have good authority for their be-
lief. In fact almost all the testimony
upon the subject which would, in a
court of justice, be admitted as re-
spectacle and credible. supports their
conclusion. The only testimony to the
contrary is the bold assertions of such
men as Bryan, Altgeld and Teller, who
simply ask the country to take their
word for it.
But whether the great statesmen and
experienced economists who favor
seekers who laud free silver are cor
rect in their predictions as to the ulti-
mate effect of the free opening Of
Americas mints to the silver of the
world at 1G to l. 1t Is a fact of present
significance that an overwhelming per-
centage of business men would take
fright at the election of Bryan and that
the consequence of this feeling would
be a disastrous panic. The latest issue
OF the Dry Goods Economist, an influ-
entail trade paper illustrates our point
when 1t says that manufacturers in the
east are now receiving orders with these
conditions attached: Cancel, If Bry-
an wins;" or I'VE shall not want these
goods unless Mckinley wins" or ship
the inclosed order If the election goes
against Bryan" This Is true in equal
degree of all other sections, except per-
haps the silver-mining region in the
west.
1t may be the policy of wisdom after
three years of distressful times to de-
liberately invite new dispensation of
panic. but we must align ourselves
with those who cannot see the matter
in such a light.
Bryan himself is college man, but
those Yale rowdies probably made him
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26
Salisbury In q Corner.

1t Is doubtful if the last has yet been
heard Of the Turkish question in Eng
land. Lord Salisbury's hope to es-
cape from further responsibility in the
premises by causing 1t to be said for
the foreign Office that any attempt
by Great Britain to curb the Turk
would involve the nation in a gigantic
European war seems destined to be flu
tile and sin rgularly enough the man who
appears most likely to frustrate it is
none other than Salisbury's old-time
antagonist. William +. Gladstone.
The sage Of Hawarden does not relish
the anemic diplomacy which for fear of
political complications palters with so
urgent moral duty as is involved in
the Armenian massacres. Speaking on
Thursday at Liverpool, before an i'm
mense and an enthusiastic assemblage,
he moved the adoption of q resolution
urging the government to affirmative
and aggressive action In the Bosphorus.
and In commenting upon the subject
went on to say: "The present move
nient Is based on the broad grounds of
humanity and Is not directed against
the Mohammedans, but against the
Turkish officials, evidence of whose
barbarities rests in credible. official re-
ports. Now. as in 1876. to the guilt of
massacre is added the impudence of
denial. which will continue just as long
as Europe Is content to listen. doubt
II 1t is an exaggeration to say that 1t
was In the sultan's palace and there
only that the inspiration has been sup
piled and the policy devised OF the
whole series of massacres. When the
sultan carries massacre into his own
capital under the eyes of the ambassa-
dors. he appears to have gained the
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Aiacchus
The Tribune AstrOIOger.
Astrolabe cast: 1926 a. nl., for Saturday,
September %, 1896.

- g ~
A child born on this day will bear in mind
that there is to be no forcible extension
of the muscles of Mr.. Merrifi"ld's lower
limbs during the present campaign.
From present indications straightjackets
will be needed for some OF the most prom.
inent pupils in the Times school of cam
paign education long before commence.
ment exercises take place.
The Peoples party of Lackawanna de-
serve praise for condemning the system OF
government or fate that distributes wealth
unequally. If we could all become rich
there would be no cause for complaint.
For melting Squire Feehley to poetry.
the editor of the Times Forum of the
People" deserves to be indicted for cruelty
to readers.
Don't you care if Bryan doesn't come.
Aren't we going to have Hughey Jennings
in our midst Monday?
BY the way what would Billy Bryan
have said to our miners On the subject OF
free coal?
Autumnal Rhymes.
Though "amber CIDER doth now inspire
When poetic fancies lag.
A little later the liquid may fire
The genius with an embryo jag.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26
Clearing Business Skies.

The gold reserve at washington is al
ready beginning to reflect the probabil-
ity of Major McKinley's election and
the ending Of uncertainty as to the
stability Of our finances. 1t Is now al
most up to the highest point attained
during the past FIVE years. lacking only
a few dollars OF being sl25, 100000. The
fact that there are few calls for re-
demption and that the tide of outflow
by export of former months Is rapidly
changing into o tide of influx Is a
pretty strong indication that the busi-
ness world is accepting as practically
assured the maintenance of the pres
ent standard.
In discussing this subject the Wash
ington Star. an able independent au-
thority, declares that the heroic man
ner in which the United States have
been liquidating their foreign indebted
ness, paying not only the interest on
their foreign obligations, but large por-
tions of the principal. leads to the be-
lief that gold will continue to come this
and the renewal Of investments. 1.-THE
net payments due on interest freight
and other current accounts have been
estimated" it says, Eat S145, 725 900 an
nually. The actual payments shown
by the returns Of foreign commerce and
gold and silver shipments up to 1899 av-
eraged for several years only about $7O,-
900. 600 annually. This indicated that
half Of our annual dues TO Europe We're
left here for reinvestment. a startling
change took place for the three years
ending June 30. 1896. The record of
those years showed net payments to
foreign countries of $6260OO.OOO in mer-
chandise and the precious metals. This
was a rate of about 100000. 900 per year,
and indicated that not only were the
full interest and freight payments be-
ing eXacted by Europe, but that S76.-
100000 of the principal of our debt was
ures for the first two months of the
present fiscal year have run at an even
higher rate and have added $4,000, 900
to the net payments Of the past three
years. This great excess of shipments
of American merchandise. gold and sill
yer. is regarded as affording a sound
basis for the importation of gold, so
long as confidence in our purpose to
pay gold is not shaken"
There can be no doubt that those cir
cumstances portend in the event of Nc
Kinley's election decidedly improved
condition of business confidence and
hopefulness. That is nearly ell that is
needed to insure a return Of prosperity.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26

the United States was TO urge arbitra-
ton on both parties to the contro-
versy." In other words, perhaps ex-
cusable asperity under the provoca-
tion of Lord Salisbury's epistolary in
science has melted down with the lapse
of time into rational and conservative
common sense. and the danger of war
has faded entirely from view.
But IL in some features the message
Of last December was a nlistake-as
most persons, upon soberer considera-
tion, now bclieve-it was not mis-
take without compensations. 1t gave
us a chance to show to tina world how
quickly at the sign Of dagger from with
out the people Of this republic can sub
ordinate minor differences and get to-
gether for national defense. 1t revealed
to the contemptuous diplomacy of
Europe that the Monroe doctrine, If to
thepl an idle platitude phrased only
for an hour. it is to 7c,000,000 fearless
people a live and reverenced mandate OF
patriotism, that must ever be reckoned
WILL IL " "oS fe.i' 'e'
sequently untenable. it was at all events
a mistake in the right direction, and
one that will not fail in the coming
years to command large measure of
wholesome admiration.
1t is gratifying to observe that the
nomination of John F. Reynolds, of
Carbondale. for representative in the
Fourth district has been well received.
no less by Democrats than by Republic
cans. Apart from the fact that his op-
ponent. Mr. Fadden. stands for an ele-
ment in Democratic politics with which
a large pefcentage of the Democratic
vote Is not in sympathy. there seems to
be substantial agreement among the
substantial men of the district that Mr..
Reynolds is personally the better quail
fled one to represent the districts in
terests at Harrisburg, He measures up
to the highest requirements and would
be a representative of whom Carbon
dale city and the whole district might
well feel proud
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26

Only Popocratic paper like the
Times would deem it funny to print a
doggerel campaign burlesque on the
Lords PRAYER
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26

Congress-WILLIAM CONNELL.
Commlssoners-S. w. ROBERTS, dlLEs
ROBERTS.
Auditors-A, f., KIEFER, FRED L.
WARD,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26
LEGISLATIVE.

Senate, 21st District-COL. W. J. SCOTT.
Representative, list DistrictaJOHN X:
Sd District-DR. n. C. MACKEY; 4th
District--JOHN +. REYNOLDS.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26
POLITICAL ECONOMY,

"Do you think" said the young man
who has gone into politics. that a man in
my position can afford to be Indifferent to
public opinon?'
II don't KNOW" said Senator Sorghum,
thoughtfully. How much is your private
ncome"'-Washingto Star
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26
TiIIn1an's Good Work.

One of the choice bits of advice sup
Piled by Senator Tillman during his
recent brief but picturesque tour of the
coal fields was addressed to working
men in the following language: IF
your bosses ask you to vote for Nc
Kinley, tell them to 60 to hell; If they
bother you further. send them there"
OF course the bosses" are not in
terfering with their workmen, because
even If they were disposed to. the
secret ballot would render interference
futile. Tillman's talk was really an in
element to murder II as a result of
it there should be bloodshed at any poll
within the limits Of the territory trav-
ersed by him. 1t Is an open question
whether he would not be subject to
as an accessory before the
fact.
Quite naturally, however, such
methods as this are having an effect
opposite to that intended. Re-
ports from Schuylkill county, the seat
of greatest Republican detection, are
full of encouragement. Men who two
ago were thinking seriously of
voting for Bryan or free silver are now
that to do so would be
mistake. Polls of the county show that
the slump in the silver sentiment is
steady and general.
Bryan can thank Tillman for much
Of this.
One of Tillman's coarse threats
while stumping through here was that
if it didn't get free silver the south
might again secede. We don't think he
expected with that to catch the soldier
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26
the REPUBLICAN TICKET.
NATIONAL.
STATE.

President WILLIAM M'KINLEY.
Vice President-GARRET A. HOBART.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26

The probabilities are that the next
senate will be tie on the silver ques-
tion. with Vice President Hobart there
to cast the decisive vote
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26

son to suppose that Mckinley would not
be as strong for Americanism as Bryan,
and as true to the future against the
DaSt,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26
COUNTY.

Congressman at Large-GALuSHA a
GROW. SAMUEL A. DAVENPORT.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26

The fact that William ]. Bryan has
received a respectful hearing in every
city except the seat of Yale university
suggests that it might be well to steer
the next contingent of self-sacrificing
missionaries in the direction of New
Haven.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26

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