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The Forrest City times., 1897-12-10
Granted Patents.

The following patents have been granted to Arkansas inventors: John w. Armstrong and N. Nj. Berry, Searcy; wagon standard; James II. Ellis. Pres cott, burglar and fire alarm; w w. Johnson, Beebe. pan litter; w. F. Whar- ton and F. T. Freeman, Bentonville, robber and burglar trap
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18
aiIway Earnings.

Nothing shows more plainly the
reaction from a boom period and the
effect of the recent financial depression
than the passenger statistics of the
Union Pacific railway. While this sys-
tenn has never been above the aver
age in passenger business 1t has in the
past six years dropped forty-four per
cent. Freight traffic has in that time
suffered a heavy decrease, but where
passengers formerly brought more than
20 per cent. of the receipts from opera
tions they now. show no more than IT
per cent.
In 1889 passengers on the Union
Pacific proper furnished $4,324 $50 of the
total gross earnings of $l9,775,555. They
furnished $4,224, ,4S6 of the 1890 total
of 500, 4SS, POS, but in the last year only
50, 45S,64 of the total of S1i,3S2,291.
on some lines the passenger travel
has diminished from a fair volume to
practically no travel at all. For in
stance, the Brighton & Boulder branch
in Colorado from csrrying 700 pas
sengers one mile in 1889 came down to
1100O In 1898, and reached the number
of 33.2S4 in 1896. In Kansas as compared
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18
POOR LITTLE VIOLET.

II was so lonely" violet said,
As he nestled close to an eagles breast,
80 tired, too, of the dusk and the dew,
God sent you, II ink. to give me rest.
Bear me away to the gates OF day,
To heights that forever are glad and
green,
And soft on your breast as bird in its
nest,
Let me learn what living and loving
mean"
The wind crept cold by the eyrie's edge
That night, in his cavern beside the sea,
The bird slept well, but the pride of the
dell,
Forgotten and faded. cried, "Ah! me!
For the sweet, sweet dream by the shad-
owing stream.
For the lonely life that used to hate
For the dusk and the dow so tender and
true!"
But the wind made answer TOO late;
TOO later
Today in the calm Of his cod content,
High on the cliff the bold bird sits,
And never a thought of the harm he
wrought
Through the sunny space of his memory
fits;
But the wind in glee creeps up from the
sea,
And finding the violet doomed and dead,
Watts It away from the gates Of day,
And buries II down where the dusks are
shed. New York Tribune.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18
SAVE THE SAyISGG'
From Leslie's Weekly.


Whenever great public interest is mani
tested in any new discovery Of mineral
wealth there are hur rdreds of sharp men
who organize schemes by which they can
get hold Cf the savings of the thrifty poor
under the pretense that for each dollar in
vested in their enterprises small fortunes
will be gained This was the case thirty
years ago when new petroleum fields
were being prospected, and 1t is the case
today with the gold-fieIds in Alaska and
the Northwest Territory of Canada. Be
tween now ard early spring hundreds OF
enterprises will be advertised, and the
public will be asked to contribute many
millions of dollars in mere prospecting
ventures.
This is gambling of the worst type, as
the shares will surely be made out in low
figures, so that every one can purchase.
1t is. indeed, nothing but new form or
lottery, and we suspect that, hit or miss,
the only gamers in any of these ventures
will be the smart adventurers who open
offices to send out florid prospectuses and
to receive subscriptions. They Will surely
do well if the public be but lured by their
tales of the wealth that Is waiting the
coming of their agents. We have nothing
to say against men of means, who can
afford to lose. taking as many flyers as
they choose in this far northern land CT
gold but we mcst seriously counsel the
poor, the thrifty, END the hard-workins
to keep their savings in.thc banks, where
they can be had when that probable
rainy day shall dawn and a lean cupboard
open for hungry brood.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18
Our Consular Service.

II is announced by Carl Schurz in the
form of a prediction, that President
Mckinley meditates another whack at
the spOils system. This is to assume
the shape of an order very materially
enlarging the scope of the eXamina-
tions provided for those nominated for
consular places, the aim being to secure
a better average consular representa-
tion abroad and pave the way to a rest
ing of this service upon a basis of per-
manency, irrespective of changes in
domestic politics.
1t is but fair to the president to say
that in thee consular appointments
which he has already made he has,
upon the whole, insisted upon a high
average of personal qualification en-
tirely additional to political indorse-
ment. The selection of consuls he has
made personal duty, not delegating it
TO any subordinate in the department
Of state. While it has not been expect
ed that in the fillirg of the hundreds of
Offices in this branch of the public SER
vice he could at a leap clear the ac-
cumulated traditions of a century that
make these appointments in a certain
sense senatorial perquisites, yet it is
entitled to be entered to his credit that
he has invariably insisted upon the
senators recommending men with re-
spectacle promise of public efficiency
and not mere camp-followers hunger
ing for any old job.
In this respect, indeed, he has not
been alone among our modern execu-
tives. Both Harrison and Cleveland
sought to emphasize personal fitness
and succeeded upon the whole in inn
proving the personnel and the stand
ing of our representation in the foreign
commercial centers. Their success was
only partial, that is, they both failed
10 reach their ideal, which was a
permanent service. with a system OF
promotions that would attract to it q
body of specially trained men capable
In time Of coping with the expert diplo.
matists and consular officials of oul
principal commercial rival, Great Brit,
ain. But they failed because publ,
sentiment had not yet been prepared
TO sustain their more advanced concep
tions of proper service. Since theI
the chief commercial organizations o.
the country, including the Nationa
Board of Trade and the National Asso
citation OF Manufacturers. have agitatet
the matter until now II is our belle
that the president would be justified il
applying the order indicated hereto
fore.
The question Of n consul,s fitness by
right should not include the politica
factor at all. Damooracy and Repub,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18
SUNDAY BICYCLING.
from the Philadelphia Bulletin.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
There are few classes OF persons to
whom the bicycle has been of such ines
timahle value as to a certain type of
modOol sermonizers. 1t has furnished
them with material for countless dis
courses, and many and thrilling have
been the moral lessons which some of
them have drawn from it. Not long
since a certain minister had what he
called a bicycle Sunday. The novelty Of
such pr 'ceeding brought large crowd
OF curious people to his church. Most
of them came on bicycles and in bicycle
dress. A bicycle orramented with flowers
was placed Immediately in front of the
pulpit and wher the lime for the sermon
arrived the minister mounted the bicycle
and preached frcm it, His discourse was
on the bicycle, and he drew many lessons
relating TO the spiritual life from the
different parts OF the bicycle. At the con-
clusion of the service a bicycle hymn
was sung, and the congregation went
home, II not spiritually enified at least
greatly entertained at such an unusual
service. Another minister in direct op-
position to his brother OF the bicycle
Sunday, recently has declared in awful
and solemn language that ito ride a BIZ
cycle on the Sabbath day is a sin, as 1t is
breaking the Sabbath"
o.
Now, whatever motives may have
driven both OF these diyines to such ex-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18
The Harrisburg Platform.

Not having troubles enough of their
own, a number of Democratic organs
in. Pennsylvania are concerning them
selves about the Republican state con-
vention, which Is to meet at Harris
burg one week from tomorrow. Ihey
are curious to know how that gather
ing will treat the recent legislature IN
its platform, what views 1t Will an
nounce concerning civil service reform,
and in what language it will indorse
the administration of Governor Hast
ings. .".1
Time will tell; but if the Harrisburg
convention shall be guided by com
mon sense it will not hesitate to eX-
press it's convictions in straightforward
English. The day of the straddle plat
form has gone b. in communities as
intelligent as Pennsylvania. People
nowadays like frank avowals: and they
soon detect the ring of pretence or of
insincerity. So far as the legislature
is concerned the state convention
would be thoroughly justified in con-
demning its inattention to duty, its
proneness to extravaganza and its re-
creancy to the programme of reform
iadorsed by the convention of 1895 and
= eaffirmed last year. The Republican
party is well able to correct its own
mistakes and to take care of those
who abuse its trust. Nothing good is
t. he expected from the minority party
as now captained in this common
wealth, no matter what promises it
may make.
With reference to the course pursued
by Governor Hastings in hating vic
ious raids upon the states substance
there can be only one form of platform
reference which will accord with the
opinions of the great majority of the
PARTY and that is unequivocal COM
Inendaton. AS the representative OF
the party and the people in the execu-
tive chair he did his duty and the party
and people. through their representa-.
tives in state convention assembled
will applaud him for it.
So far as civil service reform is con.
cerned. we have the precept of Sena
voiced in the resolutions which he of
fered at Harrisburg two years ago
Further than that, we have the in
dorsement of it embodied in the st
Louis platform. and the benefit of thu
official policy pursued by William Nc
Kinley in the most important executiv,
order issued on the subject since tn,
enactment of the original law. Their,
can be no possible doubt as to tn
proper attitude of next weeks conven
tion toward this issue.
our Bryanite friends are invited t.
suess again.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18

A Philadelphia milkman has been en-
deavoring to test the popular illusion
that this is a free country, by under
selling his competitors. The other
milkmen, it seems, expostulated with
him in vain, and he built up fine GUS
tom. Then he came to grief. In his
complaint before court this week he
tells a tale of woe which would sound
fitting if dated back in the middle
ages. 1t appears that one night in a
lonely place he was set upon by other
dealers and terribly beaten, besides be-
ing robbed of $400. A much safer plan
for this mans competitors than high
way robbery would have been to organ
ize a milk trust and do" him under
cover of the law.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18

licanism should end at the shore line.
Once beyond, 1t should be Americanism
wholly-the upholding of American
treaty rights, the protection Of Ameri-
can citizenship from foreign insult or
imposition, and the alert, persistent and
insistent safeguarding and promotion
of Americas export commerce. To in
form our merchants and manufacture
ers promptly and intelligently concern
ing the conditions of the foreign mar
kets and then to help them to secure
and retain a foothold in those markets
this should be the American consular
officials constant aim; and to facili-
tate it's achievement we as a nation
should continue him at his place of
duty during the period of his efficiency,
with adequate recognition of good work
done and ample incentive for improve
mpnt.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18

1t does not require printed words to
assure the guests within our gates tha'
they are welcome to Scranton and tha'
nothing within reason will be neglect
ed to make their stay a pleasant one
That the objects for which they nave
assembled may be realized and tha'
from their present visit beneficial ac'
ouaintances and valuable knowledge
may result is. we may safely say, the
cordial wish of all our citizens.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18

~ @ GT
A child born on this day will be of the
opinion that man who Is not liner"
has no business in Scranton.
Hopeful candidates can now discern
rainbows in the sky where only fog will
probably appear few weeks hence.
Now that j. Nelson Graves has been
heard from, let the campaign be declared
formally opened.
Mr.. Harrity doubtless realizes that Boy
Orator Bryan is getting to be big boy
now.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18
WIDE VS. MARROW TIRES.
From the Lancaster New Era.

From the Lancaster New Era.
Exhaustive tests made with wide tires
have demonstrated, without room Tor
doubt, their superiority over those OF the
usual width. These tests have been made
over macadam, gravel, dirt roads, ploWed
fields and meadows. In nearly every in
stance the draft was found to be lighter
with six inch tires than with the ordinary
ones. On macadam roads, IA tons could
be hauled with the same draft required
to haul one ton with narrow heels. On
gravel roads the relative difference was
2,6l0 pounds to 1000 on narrow tires. on
hard dirt roads the difference was 2,7b6
to 1000. On dirt roads cut into ruts, the
results were in favor OF the broad tires,
after the second run, even when the
broad wheels were run over the ruts made
by the narrow tires. on mud roads,
spongy on the surface and soft under
meath, the broad wheel drew one-half
lighter than the narrow ones; but on the
same roads when soft and sticky on top
and firm beneath, the narrow tires pulled
materially lighter.
Narrow tires show TO advantage in a
few instances, especially when the sur
face of dirt roads Is too wet and sloppy
to compress under the broad wheels and
is under,aid with a hard, dry substratum
also when the mud is deep and sticky
enough to gather on the wheels. But
this condition prevails only for a short
| time every year. When meadows and
pastures are soft, tests show that from
5000 to 1900 pounds may be hauled on
broad wheels, while only 1000 pounds,
with the same draft, can be hauled on
narrow ones. Stuhble fields and plowed
ground invariably yield better results to
broad tres than to narrow ones. These
experiments are at variance with COM
| mon opinion. Six inch tires on farm
wagons and country roads will be found
| far more satisfactory than two-inch ones.
| BY substituting the former for the latter
an improvement in the public highways
could be effected and be matter for sur
prise to those who have never seen what
! a change the substitution of the one for
| the other can effect.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18

Senator Quay's health is so much
improved that he will not go to Hawaii
just yet, nor will he retire. 1t appar-
emily just needed the prospect of a
political scrap" to tone his system
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18

1t ought not to be necessary to call
meeting of the legislative junketeers
to secure the payment of their expenses.
Let each man who junketed pay his
own debts.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18

Governor Hastings denies that he is
a prospective candidate for congress,
and says he is not worrying about the
future. In that he is wise. He can
we'll afford to let the other fellows do
the Worrying
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18

Worse things might happen to the Re-
pubHcan party than the failure of Mr..
Hanna to secure a legislature disposed
to return him to the United states senate.
The ascendancy of his methods and ideas
in the Republican management is unfor-
Republican.
Yes, very unfortunate-to the enemy.
Mr. Hanna's only crime is success.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18
Ajacchus' Advice.

The Times should not spend too much
time "standing by the guns" Better get
something to pul! out the spikes.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18

Not the least gratifying fact connect
ed with the business situation is that
although there is an unprecedented
movement of loaded cars from grain
back empty. With the money secured
in exchange for his wheat the western
farmer is buying eastern merchandise
and causing a rapid acceleration of
prosperitys return in all sections of the
country.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18

tremes, it is hardly possible that either Of
them by such means will greatly influence
even n majority of their own congreya-
tions. In the first instance, the natural
idea of reverence implanted In the heart
OF the creature when ne approaches MS
Creator Is outraged, and In the second
such teaching in regard to Sunday Is OPP
posed to the whole practice of the Chris
tian church for over a thousand years.
The early Christians not only put aside
the Sabbath, with all its minute cere-
monlal. but Instituted another day to be
observed in honor OF one Of the glorious
mysteries corrected with the life OF
Christ. The very use Of the word Sabbath
In connection with the Christian dlspen-
sation is a misnomer, as It is impossible
to find any similarity between the Chris
| tian Sunday as observed by the Christian
| church of all times and the strict Sabbath
| of the Jewish people. Such day was un-
known among Christians until 1t SNs es-
| tablished by the severe and pea ES'hdl
| ing Puritsns
Nor did the early Protestant reformers
| have such views in regard to such strict
| observance of the day, for Luther said,
| IN speaking of the observance OF sunday;
| "If 1t be set upon a Jewish foundation
then bid you work, ride, dance upon 1t;
and we read that Calvin used to play at
| bowls upon IT, Sunday, the Lords day,
has indeed its divine Obligation when the
mind turns its thoughts to the contem-
plation of higher things, and when the
cares, tho worries and the perplexities OF
| life are for while laid aside. The body
| also needs its rest and recreation. And
| no innocent amusement can be out OF
keeping with the proper Observance OF
the day. 1t would be well for the strict
| Sabbatarian to poi der ever the words OF
| Ignatius of Antioch, the pulpit of St
John, when he says: mo longer OBJ
serving Sabbaths we keep the Lords
| Day."
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18

John Garman talks as if he really had
a party behind him.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18

1t is certainly now in order for the
Washington correspondents to give
John Sherman a rest.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18

1t is notable fact that bank clear
ings last week represented a gain of
8 per cent. over the week previous:
35 per cent. over the second week in
August, 1896; 30 per cent. over the
like week in 1885, 46 per cent. over
1884, "A per cent. over 1893; and were
larger than those of the corresponding
week in either 1892, 1891 or 1890. Fig
ures like these make the calamity howl
ers tired
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus,
The Tribune AstrOIoger.

Astrolage Cast: lis a. M, for Wednesday,
t.ugust is, 1897.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18

with the boom periods the falling off in
passenger traffic is even more marked.
All OF which goes to prove that the
American public can economize when
the necessary crisis presents Itself and
that touring for business or pleasure
was one of the luxuries sacrificed by a
large number of people in the past six
years.
That railway earnings are looking up
is shown by the comparison of figures
for the first week in August from thirty
lines, over those of corresponding
week in 1896. OF this number only nine
announce a decrease. The Canadian
Pacific gives the encouraging gain of
$4,000 which possibly may be in part
attributed to the exodus to Klondike.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-18

Now whatever motives may have
driven both OF these divines to such ex-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
GAS WELL BEYOND CONTROL.
Enough Fuel to Supply All Pittsburg
Wasted In the Air.

NEW MARTINSVILLE, W. Va, Dec. 2S.-
The biggest gas well in the world is loose
again and entirely beyond the control of
it's owners, 1t is spouting gas from the
bowels of the earth at the rate of mil
lions of feet an hour. The gas is under
such pressure that it rises into the up
per air practically in a solid column. 1t
is the South Penn Oil Company's Cunning
ham WELL located about five miles from
Smithfield. Wetzel county. 1t was drilled in
about Dec. /, and then showed for a rival to
the famous Big Moses well, heretofore the
largest producer. of gas in the world. Efforts
were made to control the gas, but every
effort to place cap or plug at the mouth
of the casing resulted in the tools being
carried skyward as though they were feath-
ers 1t was believed then that the pressure
was not less than six thousand pounds to
the square inch. In the hope that the we'll
would blow itself out till 1t could be con-
trolled 1t was abandoned TO wait till the
pressure decreased. In the course of a few
days there was formed what oil drillerS call
a bridge, solid plug Of rocky cement, per-
haps ten feet deep in the pipe. While in
this shape there was no gas escaping, and
hopes of its pressure being reduced were
in VAIN So the drillers rugged their drill to
bore out the bridge. This was accomplished
last night. and the result was startling.
Suddenly the drill went through into the
gas reservoir. Then there was a kissing,
Niagara. Almost in an instant the tools flew
into the air two hundred feet and fell broken
bers, ropes. sand pumps and other imple-
ments about the well. The gas breaking
loose had cleared the earth of derrick and
all machinery as it came. The stem was
broken into 1ive pieces. 1t is estimated by
the owners that the gas now going to waste
would be sufficient to furnish fuel for the
whole city of Pittsburg, factories, mills and
all, with a quarter to spare. 1t can be heard
for miles. The owners are in quandary
how to utilize their property.