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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-03
The New Home Rule Plan.

To Americans the new home rule
scheme proposed by the English radi-
Gals seems rational and in accordance
with shrewd policy. This project goes
under the title of Home Rule All
Around" and its main feature Is the
division of the parliamentary session
into two periods. During the first per-
iod those members elected from Irish
constituencies are to meet in Dublin for
the consideration of measures touching
Irish local affairs; the Welsh members
are to sit for similar purpose in Car
diff; the Scotch members in Edinburgh
and the English members in Westmins-
ter. During the second period all these
members will assemble in general
session at Westminster for the con-
sideration of broad imperial affairs and
the ratification, amendment or rejec-
tion of the local measures reported
from the fractional assemblies,
1t may with some degree of truth be
argued against this divisional PROPOSE
tion that since the power of final re-
view is to be left to the imperial parlia-
ment sitting as at present, the net gain
to the Irish, Scotch and Welsh peoples
in it's adoption would be limited to the
sentimental advantage to each of hav-
ing the semblance of a parliament of
their own. That, however, is not incon-
siderable, as was shown when the
Welsh readily yielded allegiance to Eng
land upon the condition that the heir
apparent to the English throne should
be born in Wales and first adopted as
it's prince. But account must also be
taken of the fact that should public
opinion in the United Kingdom de-
cisively ratify the proposed division, il
would operate as a check upon the in
reference, save for good reasons, OF
parliament in whole with the work OF
the fractional parliaments and thereby
assure to each constituent part of Great
Britain and Ireland a fair degree of
actual autonomy, subject to interrup.
tion only when inimical to the interests
of the federation in gross.
This new scheme of home rule for all
has not yet been presented in detail tC
the British electorate. How it will be
received is therefore a matter of con.
lecture wholly. That the conservatives
will oppose it for the shrewd party
reason that it menaces their suprem.
acy IS assured from the outset. but
can they involve it in ridicule before
the people? Is it not cleverly designed
to appeal to the growing democracy OF
the English people and may it not bow
over the party which seeks to obStruct
it? These questions will in all likelihood
be answered within the next few
months.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-03

nine millions Of dollars during the last
three years 1t need not be said that
such waste of the policy holders
money is discreditable to the managers.
Happily there are many companies
in which the conditions are better, but
they are injured also by the competi-
ton and recklessness of such as are
trying only to be the biggest company.
The mutual principle used to be In
high favor, but II cannot be said to be
now. The sagaclous business man
would rather trust his interests In the
hands of one hundred stockholders and
twenty-five or thirty directors than in
one or two officers entrenched behind
the proxies Of a majority of their men,
bers. 1t does not appear safe or wise
to give a proxy to any one holding
office in a mutual company, and 1t
ought to be unlawful for an officer of
any mutual company to receive or vote
on a proxy. Such a reform would be
in the interest of the members of all
mutual companies and would tend to
economy in management expenses. AL
though the commissions paid to agents
are probably higher than they ought to
be- not one in ten secures even fair
income from his labor. The waste and
extravaganza to which we have alluded
must be sought for elsewhere, and in
the interest of the insuring public we
hope the tremendous leak may be found
and stopped.
In the past the justification for the
existence of. what are called assessment
life insurance companies was found in
the fact that the regular companies
charged such high rates as to bar out
all except the rich. This is no longer
true. as many companies now sell pure
and simple life insurance at the lowest
| cost consistent with safety, which is
| but little more than half the old-fash-
| ioned life rates. The assessment COM
pany was always uncertain, and is al
ways in danger of dying before the in
sured, and inasmuch as they have
| served their purpose they might as well
go out of existence at the first favor
able opportunity.
The subject of insurance is one the
| principles of which merit closer study
| than is commonly given to them by the
| average business man.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-03
AN UNDERS rUDY.

The devils hoofs were muddy
With sleep his eyes were dir'
lie sought an understudy
To play his part for him,
Whilst he took rest and washed and
dressed
Within his palace grim.
although am expected
To need a lIeathing spa,e,
No duty is neglected
Till some one fills my place,
And works." al 9th he such i'll for me
That evil grows apace."
There was a pous woman
Who dwelt bel cath the sun,
In willing service no man
Did more than she had done;
She strove to preach, to train and teach,
And counsel every one.
She clothed the poor and needy
In suitable attire;
She nuTsed the sick and seedy
And raised them from the mire;
No cody work she seemed to shirk
No pleasure to desire.
Yet llghtened she her labors
$50 called of Christian love
BY stories of her neighbors
Too subtle to dispIove.
AS any sucking dove.
She cheered each dry committee
With tales of absent folk,
And let nor truth nor pity
Impair her little joke,
TIL loves were soiled ana lives yere
spoiled
By every word she spoke,
With talk her tasks beguillng,
She blackered peoples names,
Nor dreamed that such revling
Annuled her sanity claims
And turned to naught the good she
wrought
(AccorCing to st, James,.
The devil saw the matron
And merrily cried he:
I'm proud TO be the patron
OF gossips such as shel
Whilst lie still she'll work my will
And be my deputy"
Ellen Fowler in London Speaker.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-03
Life Insurance.

Wherever the daily newspaper goes
there is interest in the subject of life
insurance and life insurance companies.
OF late there has been considerable
discussion as to the propriety of in
suring the lives of children, and we are
glad to say that those who have in
vestigated the subject are practically
agreed that 1t is a wise precaution on
the part of parents, and attended by
no harmful results, inasmuch as the
amount of insurance on a child's life
Is only about enough to cover the usual
funeral expenses.
The larger and more important mat
ter now is the unnecessary, excessive
costliness of this and every other form
of so-called Industrial insurance. It's
cost Is nearly twice as much as it needs
TO be, and the excess is mainly due 20
the expensive method adopted for the
collection Of premiums. These should
be paid at the local office Of the COM
panies by the insured. If this plan
should be generally adopted millions of
dollars would be saved annually by the
working people. 1t is estimated that
not less than thirty millions of dollars
of life insurance is carried in our city,
and we can readily believe that this
sum is not more, but rather less, than
1t would be If stated exactly. Ten of
the foremost business men of our city
carry one-twentieth of this entire sum
on their own lives.
That there is room for improvement
also in the methods generally adopted
by the larger companies there can be
no doubt. Such a reformation as would
be easily apparent to the managers
would, if secured be of immense hene-
fit to the policy holders and their fam
lilies either in diminishing the annual
outlay for this purpose or increasing
the ability to afford a larger protec-
tion to the family,
The practice of deferring the pay
rlent of dividends to policy holders for
loog periods does not appear to be In
their Interest and besides it furnishes
an additional temptation TO the man
ayers to make an unwise use OF the
surplus so accumulated.
The percentage of expense in some qf
the larger companies is now double
what 1t was fifteen years ago, and Il
should be less instead of more, because
the volume Of business is now more
than double what 1t was then, having
kept pace with the growth and pro-
yress Of our country.
The actual expenses of the manage
ment Of three companies last year fell
'ut little short of twenty-five millions
,f dollars, and one company has spent
'or the same purpose nearly twenty
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-03
NOT YET IN THE RACE.
From the wrkes-Barre Times.

From the Wilkes Barre Times.
The Scranton Tribune assumes from
the fact that the Luzerne county Repub-
lican convention incorporated in it's plat
form a resolution favoring Hon. John
Leisenring for the gubernatorial nomin-
alton next year that Mr., Leisenring has
formally announced his candidacy. Such,
however. is not the case. Although II is
generally understood that he will, II
nothing occurs to change his present
purposes, make an effort to secure the
honor, Mr.. Leisenring has not an
nouncod ,.iat such IS his intention.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-03
JUDGE WILLARD'S REsIGNA-
TION.
From the Philadelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press.
The resignation of Hon. Edward, NJ
Willard. Of Scranton, from the Superior
court has been fOreshadowed and will
create therefore no surprise. The pay Of
a Superior court Judge, $500 a yeai, falls
far short Of the earning capacity of a law
yer of Judge Wizards ability and repu-
tation, while the dignity and consIdera-
ton which goes with the position prob
ably do not compensate Judge Willard for
the inconvenience and discomfort of hav-
ing to shift his residence five times a
year as the court moves its sitting from
Philadelphia to Pittsburg, Williamsport,
Harrisburg and Scranton. Judge Willard
is not the first lawyer to discover that the
honor of being a Judge does not in every
case compensate for the limitations which
the ermine imposes upon the wearer
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-03

Say! George, what kind of wheat has
legs?
Legs! Wheat does not have legs. Where
did you get that idea?
In the papers.
You must be mistaken.
No. l saw in the paper yesterday that
wheat jumped over a cent" now how
could it jump without legs
Z-z-Z-ling.
Hello! Mary! Are the girls well today?
They are.
have a conundrum for you, Mary.
Well.
What is the difference between a cloud
and a candidates pocket?
Too deeD Give 1t up.
Why, they say every cloud has a silver
lining; but the silver lining of the candi-
dates pocket has generally disappeared
before this time in the campaign.
Z-Z-Z-ling
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-03

The governor of Indiana, who is him
self farmer advises wheat-growers
to hold their wheat until they can get
$.25 a bushel To do that II would not
be necessary to hold it long. Put blunt
ly,wheat is something that Europe sim
ply must have, and they can get 1t
nowhere save from America. 1t is ours
to make the terms.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-03

Senator Wellington, Of Maryland
now lives for the one purpose of get.
ting square" with those Republicans
who recently exercised judgments OF
their own-a circumstance which indi.
Gates that in a political sense he has
not long to live.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-03

Resolved, That the platform adopted
at the National convention of Democ-
racy in 1896 be- endorsed fully and
without reserve."-Plank Second In the
Platform of the Lackawanna Democ-
racy, adopted Aug. "a. 1897.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-03

The fuss which Colonel Conger. OF
Akron, o., is making because, accord
ing to his version, Mark Hanna, in 1885,
refused to help Foraker Is uncalled for
What IL Mark did refuse? That was
eight years ago. He has done a heap
for Foraker, Ohio and the entire Re-
publican party since then.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-03

The proposition of the Telephone
company to base its charges in future
upon actual service rendered seems on
its face to be sensible one for all con.
cerned. But the company will please
not make those charges too high.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-03

If any part of the Klondike gold fields
belongs toUncle Sam he should prompt
ly take steps to enforce his title or else
keep still. There has been a little too
much gable to the galleries on this
point.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-03

Not in years have the streets of
Scranton been so generally torn up as
they are at present. But it is a good
sign. 1t betokens progress. Every
tearing up means some form of public
Improvement; therefore, don't get
angry,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-03

If there is a chance to submit the coal
strike to arbitration on fair terms the
men should by all means embrace it.
The strike has progressed far enough
and it's continuance through obstinacy
would inflct a serious loss upon the
testants,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-03
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

State Treasurer-J. S. BEACON, OF
Westmoreland.
Auditor General-LENI @. MCAULEY,
of Chester.
Election day. November 8.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-03

by the threats Of erratic and immature
employees" Are we to ipfer, then. that
It was scared into offering the olive
branch to President Andrews?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-03

that he neglects to intersperse some
thinking in his talking.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-03

Mr.. Ritter's idea of political sacri-
flee seems to be that it should not be
made to no possible purpose.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-03
off the stage,

Friends of Mr.. Lenahan deny that he
apologized at Reading for being thrown
off the stage,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-03

Day before yesterday the Providence
Journal said: The corporation of
Brown university will today decide
whether it is competent to manage It's
own affairs in an honorable and busi-
ness-like manner or has become so
weakened by age as to be frightened
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-09-18

1t is said that a lemon bath is a good
thing for those who suffer from the
heat. Slice i've or six lemons and throw
them into boiling water-about a quart
will do. Then pour that into the cold
water in the tub and put yourself in
after it. The effect is said to be very re-
freshing. Exchange.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-01

from lack of knowledge on the part
Of those who live in the more remote
sections of our country. trust that the
Tennessee Centennial Exposition will
be as much of blessing to the peo-
pie of the west and north as I am sure
it will be to the people of the south"
Another, and very valuable opinion,
was recently given by the renowned
artist, George w. Chambers, of St.
Louis, who, after visit to Nashville,
wrote as follows: "Of the buildings al
ready completed it would be invidious
to speak, comparatively. and, indeed,
unnecessary, where all is so admira-
bly, planned and designed. And yet i
cannot omit brief word concerning
the Parthenon. Not in its praise, for it
needs none. nor of its history, for that is
trite. nor yet of the wisdom of choosing
it as being adapted for the purpose, for
that will be evident to all who enter it.
The thought had on looking at it was
that, strangely enough, 1t would per-
haps be less of a surprise to southern
visitors than other buildings. 1t will
be perfectly familiar to them, and that,
not because they have seen pic
lures of It, but because south of the Ma
son and Dixon's line this is the type of
architecture that was chosen for the
stately homes as well as for state and
public buildings. That choice of the
classic Greek for all important work
domestic and national, is distinctly the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-01

world which as a world has run its
course. Beautiful as she appears to
us, as she glows and sparkles in the
twilight sky, it is distance alone that
gives her her seeming loneliness and
endows her with eternal youth. In
truth she is far otherwise. All the come
illness she may have had in the morning
CT her prime, when the solar system it,
self was young, has gone from her never
to return. As the japanese prettily put
1T of woman, the cherry blossom has
passed into the leaf. For she is no longer
young; she is old, wrinkled, dead Or
shall we not better say she sleeps,
though it be with the sleep from which
there is no awakening? For it is fit
ting that she should still seem so fair
to us. when she goes athwart the
cleaning in the slowly fading sky-ft-
ting that the planet of love should
seem lovely to the end.-Atlantic
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-01
TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL
Not Exce1led by Any Of the Re-
cent European Fairs.
William Jennings Bryan Commends
the Spirit Which Made the EXPOSE
ton PossibIe-The Grounds
in Spring Garb.
Especial Nashville crenn.) letter.

Especial NASHVILLE (Ienn-) Letter
The Tennessee Centennial EXPOSE
ton, the white city that has risen at the
wave of a wand at the capital city, is
to-day a veritable hive of industry; a
whole army of men are employed in
getting the buildings and exhibits
ready for the opening day, May 1, and
everything will be ready. Even as
everything stands at present the
exposition is much nearer COM
pletion than Atlanta was after it
had been open for month, and there
are nearly seven weeks yet before Presi-
dent Mckinley will press the button
that will set in motion the greatest eX-
position ever held in the south. It is
really hard matter to write about the
exposition without the use of number
of adjectives, because what everybody
says must be true, and all speak in the
highest terms of the great work already
performed.
One method. and the best, of judging
of the excellence of the work Is to COM
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-01

at time practically none would ever
come back. Eventually. therefore. un-
Ger this continued state of things, all
the water would be withdrawn from the
illuminating side and piled up on the
dark one in the form of glacier ice.
On the bright side of the planet there
would thus be no oceans or seas or
rivers or ponds, not even water vapor in
the air, while glaciation would more or
less completely cover the other. The
side we see would be one vast desert:
the side we do not, perpetual fields OF
ice.
Some corollaries from this are inter-
esting. One of these is that there
should be no visible polar caps. since
there would not be polar caps, but a
polar hemisphere. And this would be
forever hid from US. for nothing but
orbital or aXial libra tion-that is, a
swing of the portion of the disk under
iliumina bring it into view,
and in the case of Venus the orbital IL
bration is insensible and the aXial one
one apparently so.
Another ingenious corollary has
been suggested. 1t is that the phos-
phorescence, as it is called, of the dark
side, a faint light upon it which has
hitherto evaded explanation, may be
caused by the reflection from the ice
fields there Of the light received from
the earth, the other plane Is and the stars.
In Venus, then, we gaze upon q
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-01
HANDY MANURE CART.

chine wheels, and as they were so far
apart 1 could not conceive of them as
belonging to a1nover-especially at this
time of year-so concluded to investi-
gate it if I could succeed in tracing
the tracks to the hiding place of the OBJ
ject in question.
On arriving in sight of the barn I
found the object of my search. 1t proved
to be a cart placed on an old pair of
moving machine wheels. And the farm
er, at that moment, had it backed up
to his stable door and was loading it
with manure. Every few mornings
when the box was full he hitched his
team to the cart and drove to the field to
unload.
The rough pen sketch accompanying
this will show its construction. In size
the box is about six feet long and five
feet wide and two feet deep. - c. L.
Reamer, in Ohio Farmer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-01
VENUS A DEAD PLANET.
The Beautiful Star OF Love is Old
Lifeless and Cold.

L1fe1eSS and Cold.
Observations at Flagstaff, A. T., have
led to the conclusion that the planet
Venus always presents the same side to
the sun and is, therefore. lifeless. Here
are some of the deductions about the
condition of the planet:
If there were water present on the
planet and, we will suppose, originally
on both sides alike, it seems proba BILE
that its career would be as follows: AS
the heated air assembled from the CEN
ter of the illuminated side it would be-
come chilled as it expanded and. be-
ing unable to hold its moisture, would
proceed to deposit it in the form Of
showers. Most of the moisture it held
would thus at once be parted with, but
not all. A little would be carried round
by the air to the dark side, where, eS-
periencing a yet greater degree of cold,
it would be felt as ice, and as ice there
il would remain; for the amount of mois-
ture which the exceedingly cold air
On it's return journey could support
would be minute quantity; so that al
though the ice would tend slowly to
evaporate, very little of the water va
por would find it's way back to the
bright side.
There would thus be constant drain
of water from the bright side to the
dark, for however little might go over
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-01
AMONG THE POULTRY.

Eggs at cent apiece will pay.
Four ducks are plenty for one drake.
Usually fat fowls are uncertain breed
erS.
Dark feathers usually cover a dark
skin.
With early broilers sex cuts no
figure.
Lazy hens lay on fat, but busy hens
lay eggs.
If breeding for profit breed to please
the market.
Dry-picked poultry generally brings
the best price.
Coal oil applied to the roosts will kill
all kinds of parasites.
Hens often fail to lay in winter be
cause they are too fat.
Hens that are laying regularly should
have little extra food.
Provide the laying hens with plenty
of shen-producing material.
Tobacco stems put in with the straw
in the nests will prevent lice.
Young pullets rarely make good
mothers; old hens are better.
Early Matched chickens should not
gNt chilled this month, or brood dis
eases Will be the result.
The best table fowls-the games.
Dorkings, Houdans and Langshans-
do not have yellow legs.
Milk, fresh or sour, buttermilk,
SKINNED milk, mixed with meal makes
a good feed for poultry.
The best and most natural floor for
the poultry house is dry earth, kept
clean and dry.-St. Louis Register.