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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-23
Railway Supervision.

The National Association of Mer-
chants and Travellers, an organization
having it's inception in Chicago and in
Guiding in its membership some of the
leading wholesale firms of the country,
has put itself on record in favor Of the
enactment by congress of legislation
to Clothe with vitality the now almost
impotent Interstate Commerce commits
sion and to suppress Understanding.
Concerning the latter practice it is
proper to say that while superflcially
ii may appear to be to the public's
advantage to secure from scalpers cut
rates for passenger transportation, yet
in the long run honesty in this matter
as in all other directions would prove
to be by far the best policy. The ticket
scalper necessarily bases his business
upon foundation of dishonesty. There
is dishonesty on the part of the pas
senger who takes advantage of spe-
cial rates to secure a ticket which af-
ter partial use is sold to a scalper; and
there is dishonesty again on the part of
both the scalper and his patron when
they plot to mulct the railroad COM
pany under the false representation
that the purchaser of the unused cou-
pons is the original party to the con-
tract with that company. 1t is we'll
argued by the association above re-
ferred to that if the practice of scalp
ing We're abolished, the regular pas
sengor fares might be reduced, many
veXatious ticket restrictions might he
rescnded and excursion rates for as
sociations or other purposes might be
more easily granted and accompanied
by less red tape.
As to the need Of replenishcd power
for the Interstate Commerce commits
sion, if the principle of government
| supervision of interstate commerce is
not to be abandoned incontinently,
that, we take it, is self-evident. Rail-
way discrimination is now practiced
almost universally. The large shipper
| profits at the expense of the small;
| markets are unsettled and railways
| that would deal fairly are prevented
| from doing so by the uncurbed arti-
| fees of less scrupulous rivals. The
only safe remedy short Of government
| ownership and conduct of the entire
| business Of transportation-a remedy
which might turn out to be worse than
| the authority adequate for the public s
| protection.
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The Trenholm Plan.

EX-ComDtrOllerTren scheme Of
currency reform rests on three propo-
sitiOns % the fusion of grcenbacks
and Sherman notes into one form of
paper redeemable in gold; (2) the legal
ization and government supervision of
clearing house operations with a view
TO enabling banks remote from the CEN
tral reserve cities to deposit securities
in designated banks in those cities and
then issue non-taXable circulating
drafts to the amount of such securities
on deposit, such drafts to be Cancelled
and the securities back of them re-
turned when redeemed; and go the
conversion of the silver now in the
United States into a reserve fund for
the guarantee of outstanding silver
dollars and the cancellation of out
standing silver certificates over and
above the present value of the silver
bullion represented by them.
The gist of this plan is to be found
in proposition number two. That is
an apparently feasible and simple way
to cure periodical money famines in
remote districts where banks are too
small to be able to keep on hand a
large amount of currency and too few
and too widely scattered to enable them
selves to adopt the clearing house idea
directly. 1t is not clear to the layman
how Colonel Trenholm proposes to
make it worth while for the banks of
acceptance to set up as the savior of
these remote drawer banks; a schedule
of charges for this philanthropic service
If Incorporated in the plan would
bring the matter down to a more def
mite business basis. But it is obvious
that such an arrangement as he sug-
gests would supply in large degree the
call for a currency with the property
of elasticity; there would however re-
main the question whether drafts pay
able to bearer by a distant bank would
circulate with sufficient freedom in the
community of issue to take the place
Of real money.
OF the two remaining propositions it
is enough to say that they are of minor
importance. The enactment by con-
gress of a law authorizing the secre-
tary of the treasury to cancel the
greenbacks upon their redemption, sub
ject to reissue in the form of gold GER
tihcate, would avoid the necessity for
further worri0cnt along that line; and
the proposition To scale down outstand-
ing silver certificates to the bullion
value Of the silver they represent would
involve such a fluctuating basis of vol
ume that 1t would be wiser in the end
10 call them all in; cancel them, and
substitute therefore a treasury note.
using the accumulated bullion to pur-
chase gold for an enlarged gold re-
serve. Any way the subject is viewed,
the government is in for a big loss in
consequence Of the depreciation in the
market value Of its stored silver bull
lion; and If silver is hereafter to be
discarded as a money metal the best
thing the'gsvcrmrent can do Is to get
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-23
Congress and Its work.

That the first regular session of the
FiSty-fifth congress which is to begin
one week from next Monday will be an
important one is to be expected; but
it is easily possible for the public to
entertain undue expectations concern
ing It. This should he guarded against.
The question Of the tariff having
been satisfactorily settled in its chief
details in an extra session and the
committees named, the house when it
reassemblcs will have before it no pre-
dominant subject for debate save the
resolution comforting belligerent rights
upon the Cuban insurgents, and this
ought to he put out of the way, either
by its prompt adoption or by an equal
ly prompt rejection of it soon after the
sessions beginning. 1t is desirable
from every standpoint that this reso-
luton should not hang fire as a con-
tinuous irritant
Currency reform in comprehensive
manner being out of the question at
this session by reason of the political
complexion of the senate, there exists
small reason why this subject should
long occupy the attention of the house.
Other matters of broad interest which
it should consider include the addi-
tional restriction of immigration, leg
islatiun for the relief of tine railway in
tprcsts of the country, which have
suffered greatly by reason of the Su-
preme court decision Voiding traffic
pools, the legislation recommended by
the heads of the various executive de-
partments for the better conduct OF
the business of their departments, and
the regular Appropriation bills. These
comprise a programme of work entire
ly sufficient to occupy the energies of
the house until time for adjournment.
In the senate the Hawaiian treaty
stands easily first in interest and i'm
portance. and the public expects its
early ratification. The arguments
thus far elected against such action
have been without exception tlnnical
and CaptiOus, and the objections raised
have been so trivial as to necessitata
small delay in disposing of them. The
senate will probably thresh over the
subject Of the currency with especial
emphasis on the silver issue, and the
chances in favor Of the adoption of
Cloture, whereby the public business
may be facilitated, are not bright; but
the least that the senate can do is to
ratify the treaty anneXing Hawaii
That act will counterbalance much
waste of breath in dilly dallying de-
bate.
We observe that there is renewal of
the threadhare accusation that con-
gress in session is menace to the well
fare of the country. 1t is not so. The
Fifty-fifth congress has demonstrated
already that it is conservative in its
impulses and business-like in its
methods. IT will possess in large de-
gree the confidence of the nation
which it will repay by a prompt per-
formance Of duty and an early ad-
jOurnment.
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No Cause For Gratitude.

1t is difficult for the average citizen
of this country to find in SPANS release
of the Competitor prisoners any war
rant for American gratitude or any
cause for n moderation of the aggress-
i've sympathy which Americans instinc-
lively feel for the cause Of the Cuban
Insurgents. The fact that the presi-
dent is depicted in Washington dis
patches as viewing with especial pride
his success in getting these five Ameri-
cans freed without bloodshed after
sentence Of death had been pronounced
upon them and after they had lain for
is months in Jail at Havana, is credible
only as indicative Of our governments S
marvellous patience and willingness to
endure from Spain treatment that
would be tolerated by no other nation.
The Competitor was an American
blockade runner caught in the act. She
carried arms for the Cuban insurgents
but as Spain holds that there has been
no war in Cuba. the most that this
offense amounted to was smuggling, for
which a death penalty is unwarranted
either in American or in Spanish law.
The charge of piracy brought by Spain
against the captain and crew of the
Competitor was not sustained by a
shred of evidence even in the lop-sided
court martial at which these men were
tried at Havana, in May, 1896, in viola =
| tion of the protocol Of 1877, which
| guaranteed them civil trial with full
! opportunities of defense. Hence their
| original sentence to death constituted
| in itself an act by Spain which this
| government could rightfully have re-
| sented by a peremptOry demand for the
| prisoners immediate release. The fact
| that it took Spain nearly two years Ia
| realize this, and to reach a state of
mind wherein she could offer amnesty
in the hope of gaining benefits in re-
turn, clearly absolves this nation from
any reciprocal obligations and merits
| instead our contempt. 1t is an instance
not of honest desire to right a wrong
! but of disreputable craft. To ask the
! American people 10 stay their hand
! from Offering aid to Cuba because Spain
has done under slow compulsion an
act of Justice which we should have
forced her to do more than year age
is to add to injury a species Of under
handed insult not at all to the relish
of the Yankee character
There has been on the part of the
administration at Washington a gal
liant attempt to win popularity in
Srain. Let us hope that its course in
this matter will soon be revealed in
such light as also to Justify equal and
even greater popularity in the United
States.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-23
THE ONION AND DRAMATIC ART
From the Times-Herald.

FROM the IlmeS-terald,
Several weeks ago bank i'm Shipshe-
Uana, Ind was visited by burglars, who
blew open the safe and secured a large
sum of money. a famous pack of blood
hounds was brought from INDIANAPOLIS
and turned loose upon the robbers trail
The man hunt lasted only a few minutes.
Suddenly the leading dog began bowling
dismally and refused to so farther and
II was impossible to continue the chase.
A prisoner now I'm Jail al Ligonier Ind
has turned states evidence and given
the police all the facts concerning the
bank burglary and the subsequent es-
cape of the men. He says the blood
hounds were thrown off the scent with
out any trouble by rubbing an onion on
the shoes worn by the burglars. lie
adds that no bloodhound can be in
duced TO follow am onion trail.
If this discovery is verified, what is
to become of the terrible man-hunting
bloodhounds which ever since the days
Of "Uncle Toms Cabin have figured so
extensively I'm saffron literature? What
Is to become of Eliza and that wonderful
trip on the floating ice? Who henceforth
will be thrilled by the bloOd-curdling
haying Of the hounds l.. U. II. when he
knows that Eliza could easily bid de-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-23

The editor of the Atlanta, Ga, Com
mercial, Benjamin NJ. Blackburn, in
announcing his candidacy for congress,
frankly says: II believe in a Demo-
crat having some ideas Of his own,
and favor q great many things that
l believe to be fruitful of good results
to my people that are not to be found
in any platform, l am in favor of
lynching brutes for the usual crime,
because l believe that it is our rellg-
ious duty to keep Southern homes pure
and undenled. I believe the South was
right in the sixties, and that the sentl-
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nance to pursuit by using a lowly but
self-assertive onion?
The play must be revised. The river
Of ice may as well be left out altogether.
Just at the critical moment when the APP
preaching hounds are in full cry Eliza
the new Eliza-shall open n lunch basket,
take out an onion, wave It triumphantly
and cry Saved" just as the curtain
falls. Why not? If the stage hopes to
keep abreast of the age 1t must pay
attention to those realistic details which,
combined make perfection In dramatic
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-23
TELEGRAPHING WITHOUT WIRES.
Democrat and Chronicle.

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
The Marconi system of telegraphic COM
munication without the aid of wires was
illustrated by Professor A. l.. Arey in the
first of a series of university extension
course lectures, at the Free Academy last
night, before an interested audience. Pro-
fessor Arey was greatly handicapped by
several unfavorable conditions which con-
frOnted him in his experimental work ;
both in having to make use of a crude
apparatus, and also in the depletion of
the liquid battery, and the necessary sub
stitution of dry battery for his receiver
The transmitting apparatus used to ilius-
trate the Marconi or Hertzian wave
method, consisted first of an ordinary
sender, from which the current was sent
from the telegraphic key into two-inch
brass balls inserted into either end of a
cylinder. Between the balls Is a cham
Der filed with liquid vaseline. The cylin-
der is held horizontally by metal rods ex-
tending to two zinc plates upheld ny
standards.
When the current is applied the effort
made by it TO pass from the first ball
through the Vaseline. which is strongly
non-cOnductivc, to the other ball, causes
a strong electric spark, and the zinc
plates being set in motion the electric
wave is started. Like a wave of sound or
tiOns, and reaches the receiver. The re-
Ceiver, which is connected with a battery,
consists of a small metal tube called a
Coherer, containing brass and silver fill
ings. Under ordinary circumstances,
metal filings are not good conductors,
but when pressed together they consti-
tute q most sensitive conductor. The
waves created by the transmitter crowd
these filings together. Then it becomes
necessary to adjust or tune" the re-
ceiver so that it makes the same number
of vibrations per second as does the trans
mitter on the receiver an ordinary tele-
graphic relay operating an ordinary
sounder is used.
Owing tc the fact that the apparatus
was not perfected, through Professor
| Arey's inability to obtain certain parts
i'm Rochester, and also on account of the
| failure of the battery for the receiver, IL
| was necessary to place the receiver much
nearer to the transmitter than would
have been the case under moro favorable
conditions. The signals We're clearly re-
| peated at a distanCe Of 35 or 40 feet, how
ever, and the praCtcabilty of the method
was demonstrated i'm a manner that dis
PEELED any doubts that those present may
| have possessed.
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Comfort tables.

Full! size Comfortables,
both sides fancy at csc, $I.5o,
$2.25, S2.75, S3.25.
French Satine Down Quilts
at $3.9S; special price for this
week only.
Also a choice line of Silk
Comfortables.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-23

In the opinion Of the pittston
Gazette" lit is reasonable 10 expect that
newspaper which freely gives sup
port to its party candidates should re-
ceive from the members Of that party
the fullest measure Of their moral and
material support" And it might have
added with equal Justice that the al
legged newspaper that sells out its party
candidates and foments party mis-
chief should not be touched by menu
bers Of that party even with a pair Of
tones.
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mcnt Of her people will sustain me to-
day. l am opposed to any system that
gives brutal and cowardly sycophants
the right to shoot down innocent labor
as was lately done in Pennsylvania"
These words are a trifle more radical
than were the utterances of the New
orleans editor who. in an interview
had with a reporter in New York. re-
| Gently asserted the determination of
the people of his state to deprive the
negro az any hazards of the rights Of
citizenship conferred upon him by the
Constitution of the United States. But
they point in a similar direction. If
"the South was right in the SIXTIES
it follows that the North is wrong in
the nineties; that slavery ought to be
restored, in fact if not in name, and
| that regardless Of the fundamental
| laws of the nation, which Editor Black
burn, if elected to congress, would have
to take oath to uphold the colored man
| must be kept down.
We dare say Blackburn's platform is
a winner in his community. And yet
we call Spain uncivilzed!
1t is unfortunate that as the day for
| congress TO assemble approaches there
| is an increasingly active effort to drag
| the Cuban problem into party politics.
! We call this unfortunate for two rea-
sons; first. because matters involving
a foreign policy should be considered
| whenever possible on a plane superior
| to that of domestic partisanship, and
| secondly because if Indefinitely con-
| tirued inaction and delay are to be
| accepted as distinctively the Republi-
can policy with reference to Cuba the
| administration will place its party fol-
| lowing at a disadvantage.
one Of the current reports in relation
| to next years gubernatorial battle as
| Scrts that there is a growing DISPOSE
| tion amorg Republicans in the north
| western part of the commonwealth to
| rally assertively around the candidacy
of Hon. Charles w. Stone of Warren.
| If true, and it probably is, the report is
| to their credit. Charles w. Store is a
! Republican in every way fitted to be
! governor of Pennsylvan;a.
one can symnathize with that New
Mexico judge who, when a jury acquit
| tea notorious murderer, discharged it,
| saying: Gentlemen, l find it entirely
| useless to prosecute crimes in this
| county. You may go home" There
are occasions when his remarks seem
| almost to have a local application.
| The Chicago woman who hid $4,000
in a barrel and had it stolen will now
| trust banks, when she gets anything
to cntrust to them. Her tuition has
been dear but it has also been ef-
fectiNC.
Talk Of election contests is cheap.
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Beware Of paying too little for
your clothes; a form Of economical
extravaganza which will cost you
dear in the end.
Cheap" is the one argument ad-
vanced by four-tifthS Of those who
want to sell you clothes.
The market is literally flooded
with So-called "CuStom-made"
clothes, backed up by advertising
which is an insult to the intelligence
of the community.
Don't be tempted by these offers,
which your common sense should
tell you will never be fulfilled.
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Good cheer to Cuba's new president.
Bartolome Masso, and may he soon be
able to move his desk and belongings
into suitable executive mansion at
Havana, with not a Spaniard in sight.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-23

rid Of its uncoined silver as soon as
practicable and proceed to augment its
reserve supply of gold.
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Robe and Wrapper Blankets (Rever-
sible), brocaded patterns for Ladies'
Wrappers. .Gentlemen's Bath-Robes and
Smoking Jackets.
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SCRANTON. NOVEMBER %, 1897

In this season of preparation for the
holiday trade we beg leave to remark
that The Tribune is pre-eminently the
advertising medium Of Northeastern
Pennsylvania. It's readers are buyers.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-23
MUNcHAUSEN NOT A MYTH.


The fact that the German people have
Just completed n celebration of the CEN
tenary of the far-famed Baron Munchau-
sen, the paragon of harmless liars. at
fords the New York Sun chance to di-
rect attention to the circumstance that
the baron really lived. He belonged, says
the Sun, to one of the most ancient
families of Germany, and his descend
ants gave to Hanover and brunswick
many distinguished statesmen. He was
born in 1920 in the magnificent domain OF
Bodcnwerder. He was educated with
great care. like all the young mobiles OF
his time, and when he was youth he
became n page in the service of his lord,
the Duke of Brunswick. His determined
character and singular intelligence made
him prominent. The Duke of Brunswick
was charmed with him, and when he was
20 years old he became a lieutenant in
the Riga regiment of Russian cuirassiers,
of which the Empress Anna afterward
made him the colonel. Munchausen was
an excellent officer. He was conspicuous
in two campaigns against the Turks,
wherein he displayed brilliant military
qualities and unquestionable bravery. At
last he got married to a charming Lii
vonian lady named Jacobine Won Dun
ten. Thereupon he abandoned the mill
tary career and retired to his country
seat
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@sSsStore closed Thursday Thanksgiving
Afternoon
Ba
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All-WOOl Blankets.
(Also Crib and Cradle sizes)-Borders-


Cur line Of California and Elder
Down Blankets Is always complete.
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1t is unlikely that patriots who with
stood Weyler will succumb to Blancc
and "the long green"
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FIN lie Y s
BLANKETS and
COMFORTABIES.
For this week we quote the
following low prices:
Cotton Blankets.
Bargain Sale.

1914 Columbia Blankets ............ SOC
ia Silver Queen Blankets ...... 75c
Ia Gloriana Blankets ............ CSC
ia Arcadia Blankets ..........".S1 So
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The Old South Redlyfyus.

Before Sagasta can suppress Weyler
he will have to reconstruct Spain.
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Munchausen was always popular in
Germany His old domain at Bodenwer-
der is still preserved as a place of pill
Erimage, and his marvellous adventures
are more read and more enjoyed than
ever. They have inspired many artists,
among them Gustave Dore. who found
good material in those original compost
tions. They We're translated and adapt
ed into several languages. In France,
for example, everybody has read the
Adventures of NJ. de Crac," which has
had such glorious success in our juvenile
literature. 1t is nothing more than an
adaptation of the Adventures of Baron
AIunchausen."
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Then fortune abandoned him: his sto-
ries were turned against himself. An
Englishman among his guests took 1t into
his head to gather up all the nonsense
that he used to talk about. He published
it in a volume which was full of satire.
The little book had an enormous success.
Five editions of it were published in Lon
don in two years. After that it was
translated into German and reproduced
with malignity in innumerable editions in
his own country. Naturally enough, the
baron did not like the fame that was
given to him in that shape. He appre-
ciated thoroughly the ridicL.c with which
his ill-natured historians surrounded HIM;
and when his good wife died he was
foolish enough to marry for the second
time, in spite of his advanced years.
This was new misfortune for the baron.
His second wife was faithlcss coquette
who covered the old mans forehead with
shame and almost completely depleted
his Golfers. He had to go to law with her
in order to get rid of her. Soon after
ward he died. The stories that he used
to tell to amuse his guests We're the
cause OF all his trouble.