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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-24
PREMONITORY.

Spring is coming, spring is coming!
/ can feel the lum-te-tumming
or that metric ebullition that the season
mandates
Feel the lyrical vibrations
That i'm limtless creations
Every editorial sanctum and the balaam
bag DER freights.
By the generating sonnets
BY the talk of Easter bonnets
And the resurrected seeds that pose in
every market STALL
BY my ovcrcoats opprt ssion,
BY the growing bike procession,
I can certify the springs aoout to make
its annual call.
And in full appreciation
of old Natures propagation
OF the program me that doth year OF year
her normal labors sum.
I've concluded. Notwithstanding
My convictions, so commanding,
That I'd best resign my whims and let
the thing proceed to come.
Boston Courier.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-24

pressly saying that was not in possess
sion of the facts on which the house
acted. and therefore was not criticising
its action. and that both the president
and Secretary Long possessed the full
confidence Of the country.
Giving Professor Wilson the full
benefit Of his corrections the position
assumed by him toward this matter
still strilIingly illustrates the idealistic
and impractical bent of his mind. 1t
requires very little penetration to per-
ceive between the lines of his explana-
ton that the idea of strengthening the
executive branch of the government in
time Of emergency brought grief to
action taken by congress wasn't the
quickest. most direct and most effect
i've way to meet the emergency then
and now confronting the country. But
he pines because it did not dove-tail in
with his scholarly constitutional the
ories. Apparently he would sooner
have New York blown up and the cap
itol at Washington burned than, by
cutting across lots" to arm the presi-
dent with power and authority to save
both. on this principle Professor Will
son would not throw water on a burn
ing house until he had first analysed
the water and cleansed 1t of microbes.
This is the Wilson of old. He EVIL
IDENTIFY cannot distinguish and appre-
ciate the difference between a theory
and O condition.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-24

Polo denies that he said Spain
wouldn't fight If we should recognize
Cuban independence. What Polo or
Spain says or thinks on this subject is
no longer a matter of consequence in
this country. Irrespective of it Cuba
must be free.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-24
TEN PAGES.
SCRANTON, MARCH "a, 1898

All talk of the retention by Spain of
a nominal sovereignty over Cuba is
arrant nonsense. The American offic-
ial who should try to force such a COM
promise would simply doom himself to
public execration.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-24

covery Of immense Importance. IL mall
leable iron and steel could be produced
direct from pig iron by process so rapid
and simple II could not fail before long
to effect an entire revolution in the iron
| trade. And such 1t actually did many
years before Bessemer closed his long and
successful career.
The chemistry Of the Bessemer process
Is simple, so simple In fact that the Won
der Is 1t was not sooner applied to the
making of steel Bessemer at first called
II 'the manufacture of iron and steel
without fuel" While this title was mis-
homer, II answered his purpose in plac-
Ing the process before leading iron work.
ers of Great Britain. This is how he ex-
planned the method of conversion: by
forcing atmospheric cir through the huid
metal the oxygen is brought into contact
with the several particles of the iron and
the carbon which it contains. The carbon
and oxygen combine to form carbonic
acid which passes off by the throat of the
vessel through which the stag Is also
thrown, leaving as the produce a mass of
malleable iron, which is run off by the tap
into ingot mods placed to receive It,.
Thus, by single process requiring no
particular manipulation and with only
one workman. from three to five tons OF
eral piles of malleable iron in from thirty
| to thirty-ftve minutes, with the expendi-
ture of about one-third part of the blast
now used in fiery furnace with an equal
charge of iron. and with the consumption
| Of no other fuel than is contained in the
crude tron." In fact. the chemical action
OF the oxygen, carbon and other elements
| kept up sufficient agitation and tenn
peraturc to maintain the fiuidity of the
n he xnsoC Al of
o
Before the Bessemer process came into
use the production of steel in Great Brit
| ain was only $4,000 tons a year, and the
| average price was $3.50 a ton. In 1871,
when the general condition of trade was
greatly depressed. the Bessemer mill
| alone turned out 5000 tons of steel at an
average price of $50 ton. The coal con-
| sumed in producing this was less by $500. =
| 900 tons than would have been required
to produce the same quantity of steel by
| the old, or Sheffield, process. The pres
| ent reduction in the price of steel manu-
facture through the use of the Bessemer
process IL, for England about $50 000, 900,
and for the world over $500 000, 600 a year
| Or equal to the entire output of gold
| for the same period Sir Henry Bessemer
made an immense fortune out of this !n-
vention and had many honors showered
| upon him; and any person who may feel
| disposed to begrudge him any OF these
| need only look about him and see what
steel has done and is doing for man. The
| thousands of miles of rails that stretch
| across nearly every country in the world
and the hundreds of big battleships and
merchantmen that plow every ocean,
should alone put all carping at rest and
prompt the most disgruntled of men to
| place a wreath on the new-rounded
grave that henceforth must mark the rest
| ing place of all that was mortal of the
| great Bessemcr
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-24

men Tom Reeds reconcentradoes."
But Reed is a. benevolent tyrant.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-24

A Montreal correspondent Of the Sun
has been investigating the feeling of
the people of Canada with reference to
the United States and he affirms that
most of the spread-eagle talk about
undying loyalty to the British flag and
most of the stone throwing at Uncle
Sam come from office-holders and their
dependents, while the producers and
taxpayers of the dominion are becom-
ing more and more discontented. This
explanation of the situation is certainly
very plausible. How the mass of Cam
adams could sincerely relish being kept
out of the markets of the United States
and over-taxed to pay fat pensions to
friends of dynasty having it's home
1900 miles beyond the sea, while all the
time the brightest talent in the domin-
ion is being drained by emigration into
the states; is more than an ordinary
Yankee can decipher.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-24

The Maine's death list has been ofic-
tally estimated at 266 and the monu-
ment of these brave sailors will soon
be Cuba made free.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-24
Recognition of Independence I.

The diplomatic consequences of Amer
lean recognition of the Cuban republic
are thus explained in the Washington
Post:
The proposed recognition will not
change the status of General Lee. lie
will still be the consul general of the
United States at the Spanish port of
Havana, and will remain such until liav-
ana passes into the control of the in
surgents. The republic OF Cuba Will be
regarded as all that part of the island not
under Spanish control. United States
Consuls now in the cities and towns Will
still remain accredited to Spain, but
they will undoubtedly hold unofficial re-
lations with the insurgents, ana in case
city or town is captured and held by
the Cubans for reasonable length of
time. the consul at that place will then
be accredited to the republic of Cuba. In
fact. the condition viii be very similar
to those which existed in this country
during the civil war. British consuls
VINO were residing in Richmond, Charles
ton and other southern cities, stll held
their exequaturs from the United states
government. but were unofficial British
agent in their relations to the Confed-
cracy. They communicated with the Brit
ish minister at Washington through the
lines Just as the cOnsuls in Cuba will
undoubtedly. unless in some eXigency of
military movement, Communicate through
the lines with Consul General Lee at
Havana.
This explanation. we take it. pre-
supposes that when the United States
government shall have recognized Gu
ban independence it will go no fur
ther. But unless it should prove rec
| a..
it's traditions. how could it consistently
| stop at that point? In the message Of
| President Monroe to congress in 1923
outlining what has ever since been
| known as the Monroe doctrine, this
| language was used: with the gov
ernments who have declared their in
| dependence and maintained it, and
whose independence we have on grave
| consideration, and on just principles
| acknowledged, we could not view any
interpositlon for the purpose of oppres-
| sing them or controlling in any other
manner their destiny by any European
| power in any other light than as the
| manifestation of an unfriendly dispo-
sition toward the United States" If
1
! this country shall on just principles
acknowledge the independence of the
| Cuban republic it will hardly make the
mistake Of holding that the Cuban re-
| public represents only a part of Cuba,
| dividing with Spain the remainder.
Unless the Cuban provisional govern
ment should itself consent to share the
| island with Spain the presence Of
Spanish troops on hostile errand in any
part of Cuba would constitute, it seems
to us, direct violation of the principle
and spirit of the Monroe doctrine, and
we should be in duty bound to notify
Spain accordingly. This would bring
the whole subject to an immediate is
sue and permit the prompt carrying
out of the will of the American peo-
pie that Cuba shall be free in fact and
in name.
Spains title to Cuba has been for
feited by Spain's unexampled misrule.
Why pay further Difference to it?
|
| Congress will make a mistake if II
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-24

How Can II" hang much longer upon
81 Would"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-24

The next gubernatorial primary battle
will be fought in Lawrence county on
Saturday. Charles w. Stone ought to
have the Lawrence delegates.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-24
HATS
AND
CAPS.
Hats and Caps

are here i'm the most be-
wildering profusiOn and
dantiest of shapes, and i'm
every desirable color. as
we'll as white, i'm Silk,
Chiffon, Null, Swiss, Etc,
Etc.
For a few days only, we
we will devote extra room
for the display of these,
and as many of our finer
numbers are "Patterns"
we would advise you to
make your selections
early, as there will be no
duplicates.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-24

Congress will make a mistake if it
shall permit the currency question to
arise in debate at this time and i'm
peril the splendid unanimity of feeling
which. under the stimulus of foreign
emergency, has so recently caused the
disappearance Of party lines.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-24

The Tribune's telegraphic news
is from three to five hours fresher
than that of any Philadelphia or
New York paper circulated in its
field. Those papers go to press at
midnight; The Tribune receives
news up to 8 a. m. and sometimes
later. All the news in The Trib-
une while it is new.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-24

New York Office: $50 Nassau St.,
~ s. NREELAND,
Sole Agent for Foreign Advertising.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-24

ENTERED AT THE PosToFFIcE AT SCRANTON.
PA, AS sECoND-CLASs MAIL MATTER.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-24

KEEP YOUR EYE ON OUR WINDOWS
FOR BARGAINS
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-06-17
ReaI Estate rraDsfere.

Fl. j. Courtright, Sheriff to Chas.
B.Staples, Trustee, dated March 81,
lands in Pike f; consideration $1,000.
j. B. Westbrook, Treas. to Hanah
P Labar, dated June 8, 26 acres, j.
Smith.est, Lehman; consideration
taxes.
Soloman Rubin and wife to Lille
Cohen dated Jan 9, So acres Christ
ian King, Delaware consideration
81.
j. B. Westbrook, Treas. to Fl. Null
Ter, dated June 8, 1923 acres, Daniel
Brown Porter consideration taxes.
J.B. Westbrook. Treas. to Valen-
tine Hippsman, dated June 20, 145
acres, Mathew Carey considerati on
taxes.
Philip A. Miller to G.. F. Rowland,
dated June 36, so acres pit. Peter
Powell consideration $500.
Paterick Cox to same, dated Dec. Q,
81 acres Lackawaxen consideration
$3.50.
Albert G. Rowland and wife to
same, dated April 1, "A interest in
5 acres Lackawaxen consideration
$3.50.
Joseph Atkins to Joseph Shook,
dated June 9, 40 acres Palmyra.
H. s. Whitmore and wife to Ezra
A, Case, dated March 9, lots in Mast
Hope, Lackawaxen consideration
500.
j. B. Westbrook to Joseph And
Gregg, dated June s,S5 acres August
Neske, Lackawaxen consideration
taxes.
James Milham and wife to Estate
Joseph Atkinson et.al dated May 26,
220 acres Warrantee, j C. Westbrook (;
copsideration nominal.
James Fl. Heller et.ux. to Samuel
Finkelstein, dated Dec. 81, so acres,
Jacob Arndt, Greene; consideration
$S5OO.
Margaret Hornbeck and husband
to John W. Frazier, dated June IA,
lot in Dingmans con. 5000.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-06-17

The ladies of the Church of the
Good Shepherd held a fair and fes-
ii val Thursday evening.
Armstrong & Co. have the finest
lines of shoes ever exhibited in Mil
ford, and at prices that defy compe-
tition.
Henry schaffer, of Blooming
Grove, who was confined in Jail on
charges of illegal liquor selling, was
on Tuesday released on bail
Ladies' Aid Society of the Presby-
terian Church met Wednesday this
week with Mr.. Geo. Warner They
enjoyed a pleasant ride and bounti-
full refreshments, did lot of work,
and had a good time generally.
List of unclaimed letters remain
ing in the Post Office at Milford for
week ending June IL: jerome
Toomey, S. Haldeman, VIM. N.
Steeley, Jesse Hunterdon. Ask for
advertised letters, giving date of
list.
The State Bar Association will
meet at the Water Gap July 7and s.
The President, ex-Attorney Gen
w. S. Hensel, will deliver an ad-
dress. Efforts are being made by
the members to arrange a wheeling
trip up the valley.
John NJ Aldrich estimates that
his crop of Strawberries will reach
60 or 20 bushels. The season has
been favorable and the crops have
been generally good in this vicinity.
This luscious fruit is therefore not
only plenty but cheap.
Efforts are being made by the
Milford Fire Companies to arrange
for a Fourth of July cole bration
here. This is proper and the boys
should receive prompt and substan-
tial encouragement in order that the
affair may have the dignity COM
mensurate with the occasion.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-06-17
PERSONAL.

J. A. Myers spent Sunday with
friends at Port Clinton, N. Y.
Stephen st. John Gardiner, of
Shohola, was at Milford Saturday
DIR. Clarence Kler, of Florida, N Y,
visited relatives in Milford this
week
Prof. j. Kleinhans, o. NJ Wells,
and Harry Angle are in camp out in
Porter.
Thomas Sykes of Philadelphia, is
in town looking after business in
terests.
Col. John Baldwin returned to N.
Y. this week, after a brief visit to
Milford.
w. j. Sadler, of Shohola, will
remove in the near future to Wayne
County
Arthur B. McCarty has his bath
ing house opened for use and his
boats are in good shape for service.
A number from Milford visited
New York Thursday, taking advan-
tage of the Erie's week day excur-
sion.
Mrs. c. e. Stewart is at present
sojourning in Salt Lake City, Utah,
and will spend the Summer in Colo
RADIO.
Nettie, daughter of Judge T. Y.
Hoffman, of East Stroudsburg was
married to Albert d. Wanamaker
June Is.
CIV Pierson, of Blooming Grove,
visited friends in n } over last Sun
day and Monday took in the land
sales at Milford.
Prof J. G.. Watson of the Milford
Schools, with his family, will leave
for Dover N. J. tomorrow where
they will spend the summer vaca-
tion.
w. w. Roe, of Newton, under
taker in charge of the funeral of
Mrs. Westbrook, with j. H. Lud-
wig, of Montague, made the PRESS
Office a pleasant call Wednesday,
JAS. w. Pinchot passed a short
time at Grey Towers recently. He
will build a gate hruse at the en-
trance to his grounds, and also a
trout pond on the stream in the
meadow below.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-06-17

Our genial friend, Col. A. e. Lew
is, believing he has an unsettled
claim of long standing, upon the
other counties-of the sth District, +"
announces himself candidate in
Pike. With this action we are not
disposed to cavil, nor to doubt his
claim, but we must dissent from the
reasoning by which, aside from the
''claim" he leads up to the con-
clusion that there should be a Dem
ocratic Congressman in this Dis
trict. He says in his card that "our
friends in Congress are mainly re-
sponsible for bringing things to an
issue of arms" Now as the Re
publicans happened to be largely in
the majority in that body it seems
natural to assume that he means
that party when he says tour
friends, for certainly the minority
cannot be held to that accountable
ity, or does he refer to the Demo
Gratis as the old lady did to herself
when her husband was successful
as candidate, by saying, "Now me
and John is elected the Constable. :"
ergo" he argues, sit is only right
that they (me? should have some-
thing to say about the disposal, :"
ETC., and to this end it is important
that this District shall be rescued
from the hands of the opposition. :"
To what end(?) if he means by ''our
friends" the Democrats now in
Congress, for if that little band was so
potent in shaping the issue, the same
number would be ample ito have the
say about the disposal of our vic
tories. " With all Difference to the
abilities of the aspirant, in what re-
spect would the District be the
gamer in substituting him for our
present representative Both are
for sound money, tariff matters
are now in abeyance, and so far as
we know there has been no criti-
cism by our Democratic friends of
the able manner in which our pres
ent representative has conducted
himself and, as he has been in part
an active instrument in shaping the
present situation in all fairness he
should be allowed to aid in complet.
ing the work.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-06-17
cHlLDREN.s DAY.

Appropriate exercises were held
in the Presbyterian Church last Sab
bath Morning, conmemora ting the
occasion. The School assembled in
the lower room and the larger pupils
first marched up in a body singing
a hymn, followed by the infant de-
partment their tiny voices uniting
in making pleasing melody-singing
by the Schools and responsive
readings followed, ,interspersed with
Solo by little Geo. Heller in which
he acquitted himself with great cred
it.
Wee Emily Warner recited in a
perfectly distinct voice and charm
ing manner an appropriate selectio n
after which brief addresses were
made by Pastor Nichols and Super
intendant Barckley. .
A pleasant feature of the occasion
was the distribution of Bibles pres
ented to those who had memorized
and satisfactorily recited the West
minister shorter catechism. Those
receiving them were, Hattie Decker,
Lilly and Elsie Mott, Linda and Edna
Kler, Ann Baker, Eta Decker, Clara
Krob, Flora Rochotte, Nettie Ter
williger, Hattie Horton, Bessie Van
Etten and Cora Struble.
The Bibles are handsomely bound
and contain maps, concordance, illus
'ations and are self pronouncing
The collection taken for the bene-
fit of the Presbyterian Board of Sun
day School work amounted to SIS.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-06-17
PROCESS OF CUBAN WAR.

The fact has been divulged that
transport ships loaded at Tampa
June 6and 2, sailed for Santiago
last Sunday, with orders to converge
about 25 miles from the starting
point where they would be con-
voyed by the battleship Indiana and
several gunboats. There are seven
teen thousand men ON thirty trans
ports
There was fight between Lieut..
Col. Huntington's marines last
Saturday afternoon, and Spanish
guerrillas and regulars, at the en-
trance to Guantanamo harbor, which
lasted thirteen hours. Reinforce
ments finally landed but with a
loss of four killed one wounded on
our side.
Monday night the dynamite cruiser
Vesuvius threw three shells each
loaded with 200 pounds of gun
SCpuOh GU % lOEb Ou a I'LL db Gu0
western entrance of Santiago har-
bor The fort was blown up, but
the total damage is not known.
The marines and Cubans fought
together at Guantanamo and drove
the Spanish Guerillas from their
positions. Their camp and water
supply we're destroyed.
Two Cubans were killed and one
American injured.
Forty dead Spaniards were found.
Fifteen thousand U s.. troops have
been ordered to start for Porto Rico.
The war loan of two hundred mil
lion has already been subscribed.
The House voted on the Hawaiian
annexation resolution passing it by
200 to 81. Thirty Democrats voted
with tho majority and only three
Republicans voted against it,.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-06-17
Treasurer's sale.

The Treasurer's sale of unseated
lands took place at the Court House
Monday. A number of tracts were
sold, and some twenty lying in diff
ferent parts of the county were pur-
chased by the State Forestry Asso-
citation 1t may be of some benefit
to have these lands protected from
fire, and re-forested, but taxpayers
will find 1t in the end an additional
burden to make up for the loss in
taxes. There are comparatively
few counties to be directly affected
in this way, but the benefits are ex.
pected to extend generally, and it
would seem that the sections deriv-
ing benefit, l. O., the whole State
should compensate in some way, the
two counties at least, Pike and Mon
roe, which are less able to bear the
diminution. The other Counties
benefited bear no part of the burden.
1t may be too late now to remedy
this hardship, but our representa-
tives in the Legislature should be
called on to explain why they were
silent when the bill was being pass
ed. It was easy to see what the ef-
feet would be, and men who are so
remiss as to stand by without MAX
ing any attempt to protect the inter
ests of their constituents, are unfit,
either by reason of neglect or in
competency to properly perform the
duties which devolve on them as
representatives of the peoples inter
ests.
Had the matter been urged at the
proper time there can be no doubt
but that the fairness of the propo-
sition to compensate these counties
for the loss of taxes would have
met with approval and some ade-
quate provision been made.
This county has in the past suffer
ed untold loss through the cupidity,
stupidity, treachery and ''commer-
cial infirmitiesn of her representa-
tives at Harrisburg, and if she de-
sires to be relieved of such incubus
she should send men TO represent
her there who at least measure NJ
TO the average in intelligence and
honesty.