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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-05-26
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WASH GOODS.

Wash OOODS.
Finest collection we think you'll find
anywhere To select from-goOds here to
prove it-goods that will show not only
advantage of wide range of styles, but
such choiceness at the prices as we urge
you to consider the importance of 10
your pocketbook. We're doing this
wash goods business with a siDgleness o.
purpose that brings the whole store en-
ergy TO bear on that one point-making
ii pay you 10 buy here-and we depend
on goods and prices to demonstrate that
it does. Send for samples.
40 inch Batiste, Z, :. 10, I2lc pretty
colorings-splcndid for shirt waists.
Best American Dimities, 81 to I2lc.
Finest imported Dimities, 10, 20, DC
hundreds of different styles.
Organdie Rayures. l5c-new and beau
tiful things for dressy wear-iInpoItcd
from France, where the finest Organdios
are made.
French organdies- finest to lie had, -,
30, 35c-most at 30c.
Wash God Is at 10 ard l2lc that viii sur.
prise you for prettiness and money s
worth.
Write us about any other
Wash Goods-and Silks-and Dress
Goods-we1I be glad to send sam
ples-they're the kind of facts that
bring us business-and show where
you can save money.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-05-26

Exquisite Paris and New York trim
med hats at Mrs. Kate B. Coffroth's.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-05-26
Jos. Horne & Co.


Our buying, necessary to re-stock
our store after our recent Ere, was
the heaviest ever recorded OF one
firm at ono time. The prices show
the advantage. of this. Bargains
are as thick in our new store as
grasshoppers in August.
SCOTCH LAWNS, fast colors,
good qualities, neat designs, only
Three cents a yard.
Jaconal Lawns, regular IL i-2c
kind, for
Seven cents a yard
Dainty Dimities, Of a grade new
er sold for less than II lie yard,
Eight cents a yard.
CHECKED TAFFETA SILKS
all sizes and kinds Of checks, and
all colors, usually $l.00 yard, for
Seventy-five cents a yard.
Foulard and India Silks, grade
costing usually all the way from
75c to sl.00 a yard, for
Fifty cents a yard.
And so on through the whole
store. In dress goods and table
linens, particularly, we have offers
to surprise you Get samples, and
don't forget to mention this paper
when you write.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22
Figures That Don't Lie.

The Tribune desires to acknowledge
the receipt, through the courtesy of
Worthington c. Ford, chief OF the ma
tonal bureau of statistics, of a copy
of the Statistical Abstract for 1896 and
also a copy of the Monthly Summary
of Finance and Commerce of the United
States. These two compendiums of
statistics with regard to our countrys
population finances, commerce, agri-
culture, mining, railroads and tele-
graphs, immigration, education, pub
lie lands, postal service, prices, tom
mage, ETC., represent in miniature the
activities of all our people and are
simply Indispensable to students of
contemporary economics. Although
many public documents may justly be
regarded as representing a waste of
money, the publications of the bureau
of statistics merit the widest publicity
and the most cordial support from con-
gress. There should be authorization
for at least a doubling of their now too
limited number.
At the beginning of the Abstract is
a table summarizing on per capita
basis the financial and commercial
statistics of the country by years from
1867 to 1896 inclusive, This is most in
teresting, but a comparison of two of
the years included in the table suggests
itself as being especially opportune. We
shall ask attention to the statistical
state of the country in 1892, the year
when the Republican party was cast
out of power by an overwhelming ma
jority of the voters of the country, and
in 1885, the year when by an even larger
and more impressive majority, it was
summoned to return to power. Hele
are the figures:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22
The Price of Gas.

In it's role as a defender of trusts the
New York Sun ably counterbalances
much of the rabd and unreasoning
demagogism which is at the front of
the contemporary opposition to concen-
trations of capital in our industries but
it itself sometimes falls into errors
which injure it's clients case. 1t makes
one of these, e,mistakes when 1t opposes
the right of our people through law to
establish regulation of the price of il
Illuminating gas.
THE fact" it says, that the legis-
lature cannot fix the wages of the la
borers nor the cost of the materials
employed by the companies in their
operations is not considered as having
any bearing on the question. The price
of gas is to established by law, and
the companies must do the best they
can with their employees and the fur
nishers of the materials they use. That
since they first began operations the
price at which they have sold their
product has steadily diminished from
$40 per 1000 cubic feet to SIPS per 1000
cubic feet while their plant represents
investments worth many millions of
dollars more than their original cost,
is used as an argument against them.
The newspaper decree has gone forth
that they are making too much money,
and that they must be compelled by
law to make less"
This is an ingenious defense, but it
overlooks certain essential points. In
the very first place, no gas company
can do business until it gets permission
from the community to occupy the pub
lie streets. It's franchise is it's most
valuable asset. Usually that franchise
is exclusive, and secures for it's owner
protection against competition. Now
the average cost of making gas is pret-
ty we'll known. In Boston it costs 3G
cents by the thousand cubic feet and in
Philadelphia, 81 cents. Therefore, when
companies exempt from competition by
grace of the community use that eX-
emption to eXtort from the commune
| ity, by whose courtesy they are al
| lowed to do business, prices manifest
| ly out of proportion to the cost of max
| ing and distributing their product, il
| becomes the duty of the public to. pro-
| tect itself. The most equitable way
so far as the companies are concerned
in which this protection can be as.
sured is for the legislature, after tho
rough investigation, to establish q Ger.
tain maximum rate. This would leave
them in the possession of their valu.
able privileges. The other method, thai
of municipal ownership Of franchises
subject to lease by public auction tc
! private bidders for stated periods ant
under stipulated conditions as to price
may yet be forced upon the citizens o,
many American municipalities
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22
Inadequate Protection Against Fire.

Saturday evenings fire in Hitchcock
court brought vividly to the attention
of residents of the hill the need of n
hose house in closer proximity to that
poorly protected section of the city.
Here is q residence area of more thah
a square mile occupied by property
owners who contribute larger amount
of taxes to the city than is derived
from any other section of equal size'
and yet the valuable homes upon II are
practically at the mercy of any chahce
blaze.
This is said not in criticism of the
fire department, which on each occa-
sion calling it to the hill has responded
as promptly and as efficiently as II
could. 1t is simply a recognition Oh the
fact that to compel the property own
ers of this area to wait, when their
possessions are threatened by fire, un-
til hose carts and chemical engines can
be drawn for a mile or two up steep
grade is to inflict upon them gross and
ireycusable injustice. Had the fire OF
Saturday evening attacked any one OF
the valuable residences in its vicinity
instead of being limited to two small
and somewhat isolated barns the loss
would more than have paid for the
euuipping of a separate hose house and
for the maintenance of a new hose
company for several years. 1t was not
due to any wise liberality of councils
that this fire did not destroy a whole
block of some of the citys finest
homes.
The present estimates committee of
councils having already slaughtered
the request of the chief of the fire de-
partment for such additional appll-
ances as would tend to facilitate the
work of the present companies when
responding to calls in the Ninth and
Seventeenth wards, it becomes an i'm
portant question whether the residents
of those wards should not take steps
to bring their needs more clearly to
councils attention. 1t would seem
that they ought soon to realize in what
peril they now rest by virtue of the
past indifference of our city legislature
to the fire problem on the hill.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22
dlSf a Word or Two
Of Casual Mention

The defeat of the venerable War-horse,
NJ. l.. Blair, in last Tuesdays Fifth ward
aldermanic contest, though only what
might be expected from the staunch Re-
publicansm of the ward, still is regret
ted by the alderman's many warm per-
sonal friends. The old man has clung
to the office for twenty-one years He
believed that he would die and still be
alderman of the Fifth ward. lie thought
the place was his as long as he wanted it,
and when he was defeated in caucus he
was of the honest belief that the people
his friends had been tricked With that
idea he decided to be an Independent. He
solicited names for his nomination pa
pers and he used to tell in the pro-elec-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22
Newcomers from Canada.

1t is possible that the alien labor
clause of the new immigration act,
which was aimed especially at Canad-
ians who work in the United States but
live in Canada, will have an effect diff
ferent from what the Canadian author
tiles profess to expect. They have re-
peatedly declared that it's enactment
would be followed by reprisals at OF
taWa, and through the dominion press
and in letters and interviews in our
own papers have asserted that such a
policy would undo a great portion of
the sentiment which has in recent years
been built up in Canada in favor of
closer and more friendly relations with
the United States.
But a Montreal correspondent of the
| Sun presents a different opinion.
| Says he: THE menace of Mr.. Laurer
that he would pass an alien labor law
| to retaliate against American labor
| does not amount to much. For one
| American workman who comes into
Canada to search for a living, a hun
dred Canadians are driven over the
| border to find their existence in the
OIlltu oldlcS, l. llt SSlllltliCll az
! Washington who may be visited by Sir
Richard Cartwright and Mr.. Davies
| need not be alarmed by any threats
they may make on behalf of Mr. Lau-
rier on the alien labor question From
| Halifax to Vancouver there is one uni
versal wave of depression in the labor
market, and but for the outlet afford
ed in the United States, labor troubles
would be assuming a very disagree
able form over here"
| The inference to be drawn from this
| is that that rather than remain in idle
| ness on the northern side of the bor-
| der the Canadians affected by our alien
| labor clause will make virtue of ne
cessity by moving into the states and
there declaring their wish to secure
! American citizenship. The fulflment
American labor in it's belief that the
exclusion clause would reduce it's COM
petition, but it would at last keep the
! bulk of the wages of the newcomers
in this country. / would, moreover,
simply hasten the natural drift of
population from Canada southwards-a
drift which has for upward of two de-
cades kept the number of the domin-
ions inhabitants down almost to a sta
tionary figure
The problem from any standpoint is
a complex one but we shall doubtless
soon be privileged to gain wisdom from
experience acquired during it's solution
--------
Complaint is general throughout the
commonwealth, and especially in coun-
ties having a large percentage of ignor-
ant citizens, at the operation of the
present jury system, and member of
the Allegheny county bar proposes these
improvements: Have the law changed
so that the president jurge shall APP
point two men of high standing in the
community, of different political faith
who shall with one of the judges OF
the common pleas act as a board tC
! select names from the county commits
sioners' book of taXables. Exclude
from jury service both city and county
| employees and other holders of political
Office. ana finally, have the names
, drawn from the jury wheel by the judge
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22

the United States Supreme court and
there makes the point that If the OFF,
GERS and crew of this staunch ship be
not punishable as filibusters, they
should be convicted of piracy, the pen
atty for which is death. We think we
see an American president ordering the
execution of a group of American citi-
zens for the crime of initiating Steuben
Kosciusko, Rochambeau and Lafayette.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22
SCRANTON, FEBRUARY %, 1897

Exactly ten days hence the United
States will have a president in whose
experience, discretion and patriotic i'm
pulses it can place implicit confidence.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22

There is a kind of immigration far
less desirable than that which is COM
posed of illiterates, and sample of it
is threatened in the report that the
eX-Princess de Chimay contemplates
bringing her malodorous gypsy Rigo
to these shores.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22

1t having been decided in Florida
circuit court that the steamer Three
Friends, which is under suspicion of
having conveyed arms and ammunition
to the Cuban insurgents, committed no
offense inasmuch as from a federal
standpoint war is not in progress in
Cuba, the attorney general appeals to
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22

The Harrisburg Patriot is Informed
that The Tribune never said or inti-
mated that the more money congress
spends the less it costs the people" 1t
did say, though, that congress- appro-
priations are not increasing on a per
capita basis. This is! billion dollar
country.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22

sr-S ~ EIt"
S{gS " Ta
child born on this day will purchase
little hatchet at an early age and Will
never tell lie when the truth will do
just as well,
People who complain of i'll ventilation
in churches can usually endure a long
session in theater without a murmur,
Titles unaccompanied by an American
helress do not cut much ice in this age.
General Harrison probably has no use
for the presidency today.
Ajacchus' Advice.
Do not be afraid to venture off the
perch occasionally. 1t is better to be a
has been" than a social on political 0.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22

in person. This would seem to be who'll
" feasible, but so long as three ignorant
men could still get on a jury to every
one man of more than average intelll-
gence, the level would be too low.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22
Postal Savings Bank.

Children are large patrons of the postal
savings banks of France. out of over
AGO. 900 depostors in these institutions, ac-
cording to official reports, SO5S9 are min
ors,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22
SP RING HITS
At CONDAD'S.
NOW eaaasxM
THIS Is NO JOKE.
Book Binding

Neat, Durable Book Binding is what you
receive ii you leave your order with the
SCRANTON TRIBUNE BINDERY, Trib-
une Building, North Washington Ave.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22

If Weyler hopes to bring his cam
paign of nfamy to climax IN time 10
receive the official congratulations of
an American president he had better
move rapidly. The day of his ascend
ancy at the white house is Fastening
to its close.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22

1t is asserted by naval experts that
not less than six months would be re-
quired by the Turkish government to
scrape the barnacles off its old, tub-like
warships, and at least a year to pump
out the bilge-water and fumigate the
microbes. Greece evidently knew what
she was tackling.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22

Pennsylvania is to be punished for be-
ing too safely Republican?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22

A study Of these figures will be like
ly to explain very clearly why the peo-
pie have decided to restore, as nearly
as possible, the political conditions
which existed prior to the election of
Mr.. Cleveland in 1892. 1t discloses
plainly, by the official figures of Mr..
Cleveland's own administration, that
the defeat of General Harrison in 1892
was a mistake for which the people of
this country are still paying dearly,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22

housekeps drifting
S
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22

ton days how mo one refused--every one
signed" Major Blair still has the love
of his people in the Fifth ward. Some
will never forget his kindness in dis
posing cases. He used to say after he
had saved some poor wretch from i'm
pending punishment: There's enough
bad in the world already, and you can't
make a bad man good by grinding him"
owing to this generous method he was
charged with neglect of duties. His con-
stables were his bitterest denouncers,
simply because they oft times saw a
dollar in prisoner and then failed TO get
it because of the alderman's lenien2y.
o
There Is not likely to be any opposition
to Martin n. Lavelle being reelected city
clerk. He is one man who does not need
political influence or civil service or any
other old thing to retain him in his posi-
tion. He can have it as long as he wants
it and as he likes the position about as
well as the position likes him it is prob
able that many years will pass before We
will see them separated. The reason he
is permitted to keep the office without
challenge or question year after year,
through all the various changes of muni-
cipal government is that together with
the genrally conceded fact that he Is
most thoroughly fitted for the office, he
manages always to be neither a Republi-
can city clerk nor Democratic city clerk
but simply city clerk He is a Democrat
and does not hesitate to declare his con-
Victions, but he Is never partisan when
he is fulfilling the duties of his office.
.
Occasionally one finds a real gem of
humor in the contemporary daily press
and such we Gull from our pink-eyed con-
temporary of yesterday. 1t reads like
this:
SHOULD Chief Robling want more pa
| trolmen he may find many people willing
| to wear . "star" for nothing"
Could anything be more deliciously hui
morous? In fact it's far too funny for
| general circulation and that probably ac-
| counts for its appearance in the pink-eye,
| OF course not many will understand just
what the humorist means, but that's a
| popularity of genius 1t is seldom UNDER
stood, so why quarrel with this one on
| that score?
The approach of the Corbett-Ftzsim-
| mons fight has so thickened the sporting
4 blood of the fellows" hereabouts that
! they can scarcely let a night pass with
| out having some kind of "go.", Last
week there We're two fights uh the Valley
and one down in Pittston, and several
| others are being talked of in whispers.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22

Representative Martin is quoted in
the Pittsburg Dispatch as having pro-
posed to build a new capitol with the
proceeds OF a state tax on houses of
ill-repute. We suspect that this is a
mistake. We don't believe there is a
laW-maker in Pennsylvania who would
countenance such a suggestion. This
state is above that.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22
TO TRANSMIT REPORTS.

Sec Sit shall be the duty of the chief
of the bureau of mines to take charge of
and preserve in his office the annual re-
ports of the mine inspectors and transmit
a copy of them together with such sta
tistical data compiled therefrom and
other matter relating to the work of the
bureau as may be of public interest prop
erly addressed to the secretary of inter-
nal affairs for transmission to the gov
ernor and the general assembly of this
commonwealth on or before the fifteenth
day of May in each year. II shall also
be the duty of the chief of the bureau
of mines to see that said reports or a
copy of them are placed in the hands
of the public printer for publication on
or before the first day of June in each
year, the same TO be published under di-
rection of the secretary of internal affairs
as other reports of his department are
now required by law to be published;
and in order that the chief of said bureau
may be able to prepare, compile ana
transmit his annual report to the secre-
tary of internal affairs within the time
herein specified the mine inspectors are
hereby required to deliver their annual
reports to the secretary of internal affairs
on or before the fifteenth day of March
in each year, In addition to the annual
reports herein required of the mine in
spectors, the said mine inspectors shall
furnish to the chief of the bureau of mines
SuCn SpeCldl reports OF lllOllldllOH Oh
any subjects regarding mine accidents or
other matters pertaining to mining in
terests or the safety of persons employed
in mines as he at any time may require
or may deem necessary in the proper and
lawful discharge of his official duties.
The chief of the bureau of mines shall
also establish, as far as may be practica =
BILE uniform style and size of blanks for
the annual reports of the mine inspectors
and prescribe the form and character Of
subject matter TO be embraced in the text
and the tabulated statements of their an
nual reports, The chief of the bureau of
mines is hereby authorized to make such
examinations and investigations as may
enable him to report upon the various
systems of coal mining practiced in the
| state; method of mining; ventilation; ma
| chinery employed; structure and charac-
| ter of the several coal seams operated
| and of the associated strata; the circum-
| stances and responsibility for mine acct
| dents; economy of coal productions; coal
waste area and exhaustion of coal terri
tory, and such other matters as may per-
| tain to the general welfare of coal miners
| and others connected with coal mining fRA
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22

Department.

Collection for Spring. 1907 and arriving. New
Wons,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22
HIS ASSISTANTS.

the interests of coal mine owners and
operators in this commonwealth.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22

Some interesting figures as to the
probable future production of the South
African gold fields are presented by the
famous American mining engineer, John
Hays Hammond. He estimates that
the Witwatersrand district alone is cap
able of yielding $4,000, 100000, while in
the adjoining districts $1,000, 600, 600 ad-
ditional is in sight Although the out
put of the Witwatersrand for 1896 was
only SS7 600 or about 16 per cent. of
the worlds annual production, Mr..
Hammond feeels convinced that South
Africa will soon contribute to the uses
of civilization from $lUO000,000 to $780,
100000 worth of gold per annum. These
figures. If even approximately true,
would seem to dispel one of the fears
of those who oppose the gold standard
on the ground that the available guam
tity of the yellow metal is inadequate
to the worlds monetary needs.