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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02
y. NC. A. PROGRESS AND NEEDS

Editor of The Tribune -
Sir: | am sure your editorial of today
headed "A Word Of Reminder" calls for
the grateful thanks of every Young Men S
Christian association man, because of its
kind spirit and excellent intention. But,
while conceived in spirit of helpful
ness and therefore Intended for the best.
you will please allow me to correct you
as to the conditions existing at 220 Wy
Oming avenue.
1 am glad the Wilkes-Barre association
has decreased its debt $4,000 during the
past year. Such liberality speaks VOL
umes for the Christian men and women
of our sister city and shows faithful
work done by the secretary and officers
of the association. But, Mr.. Editor, had
the said Christian men and women of
Wilkes-Barre done as well as the same
kind of people of Scranton under similar
circumstances they would have had no
S2i, 900 to raise, for our association was
presented with its splendid property alb
solutely free of debt and our generous
friends have responded so freely TO ap-
peals for support that we closed our
books last year practically free of debt
and l doubt not will do the same this
year, although by reason Of changing
our financial anniversary to January l
we are behind now.
Now, Mr.. Editor. having said this
much by way of correction, will you allow
me 10 trcSpdsS upon your space TO say
that there is room for generous move
ment which will be of great present and
future help OF our young men, and that is
in the direction of a complete change in
our gymnasium? We want a natatorium
and new bathing facilities in general and
we want new furniture and carpets. We
have plans and specifications for the i'm
provements in gymnasium and better
still. We have in bank 81, 200 contributed
by the young men at the time of the
membership contest two years ago and
held sacredly for this purpose. We need
in round numbers $4,000 to do the work
in splendid shape. Is is not a good time
for it to be given to us?
A. w. Dickson,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02
The Gubernatorial Problem.

The refusal Of Attorney General Nc
COrmick to be a candidate for governor
illustrates his political astuteness. Mr..
Mccormick possesses in his personal
equipment every requisite for that high
office. He is honest. He is able. He
is shrewd. If elected governor he
would be governor from the word
go. Jobs and deals would encounter
a continual frost under his ad-
ministration. There would be poll
tics, but it would be politics of
the intellect, not of the sand bag.
Above and beyond all the politics of the
place there would be fearlessness in
the discharge of duty such as the COM
monwealth would find most advantag-
eous and most refreshing.
Yet with all this frankly conceded,
it remains to add our belief that his
candidacy at this time would be in
expedient. He is too good a man to be
sacrificed in a hostile convention; and
he is too prominently marked with fac
tional antagonisms to be in all re-
spects the most available leader of a
harmony campaign. 1t is not derogatory
to him to say that under the peculiar
circumstances which now prevail in
state politics, the need of the party is
rather for gubernatorial candidacy
which, while lacking nothing in hon.
esty of purpose and strength of con-
viction, shall not invite but rather dis
courage the lifting of the too ready
clubs of factionalism and personal vim
dictiveness which for so long have con-
verted Pennsylvania politics into a
transplanted Donnybrook. More than
the governorship will be at stake
in the next election. Besides that
there is a legislature TO elect and there
are congressman to be chosen and
many county offices to fill. If at the
head Of the ticket is a name carrying
with it the hazard of factional reprisals
the ticket as a whole would be likely
to suffer. The importance of un-
jeoparded Republican national su-
premacy is such that it would be most
unfortunate We're the Republican party
sary risks.
What is needed in Pennsylvania is
the nomination of a man who will draw
strength directly from the people with
out the interposition or exploitation OF
factionalsm. Wise party direction will
party a loaded-dOwn candidacy which
the party can carry only with reluct-
ance, if at all.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02

The Scranton fire department is GER
tainly to be congratulated on it's effec-
tive service at the fire on Adams ave-
nue. yesterday morning. The building
destroyed was situated in part of the
town that has often been designated as
tinder-boX row, and it has been pre-
dicted on many occasions that nothing
could stop a general lconiagration should
one of these houses become ignited on Il
windy day. The fact that a dangerous
blaze could be checked in a row of in
fiammable structures during a gale like
that Of yesterday morning is evidence
that the Scranton fire laddies have no
superiors in battling with the flames.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02
MORE THAN TALK NEEDED.
From the IIazleton STANDARD.

From the Hazleton Standard.
Scranton is gathering in industries by
the score, while we here in Ha2leton are
doing nothing but talking about it. Scran-
ton has set the pace of progressiveness
for every town in the coal regions, but
1t takes something more than talk to es-
tablish industries. Action is what is
needed.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02
MANNERS AND MANNER.
From the Lancaster Examiner.

Readers Of correspondence and IN
quiry columns must have noticed how
much space is devoted to questions of
etiquette. Perhaps the most popular fea-
ture of certain journals Is their corre-
spondence columns. These are full each
week OF questions and answers relating
to correct dress and social department.,
which are eagerly read by many other
besides the inquirer. One woman writes
that she is invited TO a lun leon, and
wants 10 know If she should keep her
hat on at the table Another wants to
know what colors will be most worn this
season. Nor are all the inquiries from
women, though II IL natural that the
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02

Senator Mason's threat to contribute
some more burning words to the Cuban
cause does credit TO his sympathetic
soul; but as we understand 1t. oomez's
chief need just now is for rifles, cam
mons and shells.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02

as to the differing gravity of different
crimes, and that the era of the old
fashioned, self-reliant citizen ordering
his daily life in the light of his own
conscience and the fear of God may
give way to a period of automatic citi-
zenship exercised by book and rule.
There is very little doubt that the world
would be Just as well off with half its
present number of laws; and perhaps
better.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02

1t may be a trine warm out in Aus
tralia with the mercury 100 in the
shade, hut if our Australian friends had
ever attended a Scranton Democratic
convention they would doubtless now
be wearing ulsters.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02

equalization. to be sure. is never per-
fected; but in the long run only that
community gains actually which has u
sufficient representation in the state
legislature to enforce its special de-
mands over the protests of the nom
sharing districts.
Let us try to get back to the good,
old-fashioned truth that the best help
in life, except that which is bestowed
from on high, is self-help.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02
Great February Sale
of rNuslin Underwear
Now in progress.
note the price. $


Gowns with embroidery trimmed and sailor collars
unequaled
Skirts with tucks and embroidered
Sca
Is doz Cambria Corset shaped 12Hc
Corset Covers shaped
high
from.
|5o doz Slips ..
We lay special claim toward
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02

Judging from his umbrella. Attorney
General Mccormick evidently interprets
the political barometer to portend a
storm
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02

After getting a German caricaturist
sentenced to two months in Jail, En-
percr William turned around and par
dored him. We have always disbeliev-
ed in the pardoning power.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02

dream; but we don't wonder that so
many folks dream it, seeing how un-
| interruptedly the calamity howlers
keep going.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02

A descendant of the celebrated Baron
Munchausen has arrived in New York.
He intends to go west and engage in
the real estate business.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02

President Mckinley is not naturally
a p-on-the-shoulder man, but we
advise his free silver critics not to
back him too far into the corner.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02

1t will be observed that the anxiety
for another Spanish-AmeriCan recip-
rocity treaty is visible chiefly at Mad
nj
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02

so soon was it done for, what in the
name of all that is sensible was the
Teller resolution ever begun for?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02
Election Day, February 15.

The recent growth of the business of
The Tribune Publishing company hav-
ing necessitated a subdivision of the
issue Mr.. Alexander Craig assumes
charge as business manager and Mr..
w. w. Davis takes personal direction
of the job. bndery and mechanical de-
partments. Mr.. Craig comes to this
city from New Haven, Conn, with a
first-class record in the management
of newspaper business and we bespeak
for him a cordial welcome.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02

What reason had anybody in New
York state ever to suppose that Sem
ator Edward Murphy, jr., cared aught
for principle?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02

The idea that Great Britain has
backed down concerning China should
be impaired to the marines.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02

Bruiser Corbett threatens to quit the
prize ring. We hear no laundering
public protest.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02
REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET.
For school Director.

Three Years-PETER NEULs, Eleventh
ward.
Three Years-D. /. PHILLIPS, Firth
ward
Two Years-E. d. FELLOWS, Fourth
ward.
Two Years-F. S. GODFREY. Eighth
ward
One Year-F. S. BARKER, seventeenth
ward
One Year-ELIAS L. EVANS, Fifteenth
ward
Election Day, February 10
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02

he is still several pounds shy of the
political heft of William F. Harrity.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02

The fellows who shot off those Han
ma bribery charges evidently forgot to
lnnd their guns.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02

greater number of them should be. A
man who for the first time In his life Is
to be an usher at q wedding writes, or
gets an obliging sister to do II for him,
asking what fashion approves in mems
clothing for such occasions. And so II
goes.
Mesa free press., 1898-02-04

has declared dividends in favor of the
creditors of insolvent banks as fol-
lows: Ten per cent. to the First Ma
tional Bank of Olympia, Wash: 10
per cent, the Bennett National Bank
of New Whatcom, Wash; 3.24 per
cent, the Columbiana National Bank
of New Whatcom, Wash.
Contracts have been signed by which
10000 acres of land near Chico
Marysville and Red Bluffs have been
secured, and the work of erecting
three immense sugar factories will be
started at once. The syndicate in
control has a capital of $4,000 900.
and intends making the venture a sue
cess, If money and experience can do
1t.
The Union Lumber Company of
Bakersfield has incorporated. Cap
ital stock, $4,000. w. J. Donert, C..
P. Mcleod, Paul Gates and others are
the incorporators. This company will
displace Doherty & Mcleod, and will
operate the Kern County Lumber
Co.'s mill on Breckenridge. They
have let a contract to cut 1000, 900
feet of logs.
Registration at Stanford University
for the new semester for the three
days ending Friday, shows large in
crease over the registration last year
at this time. The total enrolment is
go, which is 200 above that of the
third day of registration after the hol-
idays last year. OF these, "a are new
students, as against Al last year. This
makes the enrolment for this college
year 1902, as against HOO, the largest
enrolment of former years. Registrar
Elliott expects at least seventy-five
more students will register during this
semester.
President Jordan of Stanford Uni
versity will be present at the River
side county teachers institute to be
held at the county-seat in March.
Besides his position as a noted edu-
Gator, President Jordan enjoys the
distinction of being the principal
American naturalist appointed on the
fur seal commission. He has spent
two seasons in the far north investi-
eating the seal rookeries. While in
Riverside he will give lecture on the
fur seal question, which will be illus
trated by magic lantern slides.
Mesa free press., 1898-02-04

Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, the noted
divine, of Washington, d. c., and
Mrs. Elore McCutcheon Collier OF
Allegheny City, were united in mar
riage January %. The present Mrs.
Talmage is the reverend gentleman's
third wife, his second having died
several years ago.
This will be great year for Gov
errors. These officials will be elected
in Alabama, California, Connecticut.
Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Mary
land, Massachusetts,, Michigan, Ne
braska, New Hampshire, Nevada, New
Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Penn
sylvania, Rhode Island, South Caro-
lima, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin and
Wyoming.
1t is reported on good authority
that BLACK Jacks" gang will never
be heard from again. The entire gang
of outlaws was surrounded in the
mountains near the Mexican boundary
line by the different posses, includ-
ing the posse sent out by the Mexican
government. A fight occurred, in
which one of the robbers was killed
and four captured.
Thomas A. Edison, Jr, has in
vented machine for utilizing the
wave power of the. sea. When in
place the machine will be twenty miles
out to sea, and consist of series Of
gigantic air pumps. The air COM
pressed by these will be used to run
dynamos. For $25,000,000 he can con-
struct plant, he says, that will fur
nish 100000 horsepower, enough to
supply the entire State of New York.
Nikola Tesla announces an impor-
tant discovery. He says that he has
perfected vacuum tubes of such high
Illuminating power that they may be
used in lighthouses, and that they will
enable the photographer to work by
night as well as by day. The results
which Mr.. Tesla has attained have
been achieved by the use of his
vacuum tubes and his oscillator. The
light which he is able to produce by
this means is as bright as that Of the
MONDAY sum-
Mesa free press., 1898-02-04
EASTERN NEWS ITE1S.

Prospects are good for long strike
by Colorado coal miners.
Southern frosts have cut off vege
tables from the New York market.
Mrs. Astor gave big ball, and New
York society has something to tall
about.
A new Peoples Party, disclaimins
all affiliation with the Populists, ha!
been formed in st. Louis.
The Rev. DR.. Michael j. Cramer, 6
brother-in-law of Gen. U. S. Grant, il
dead at Carlisle, from angina pectoris
The investigation of Hanna's alleged
bribery shows how the thing was done
by telephones strung on the same
wire.
Commander Ballington Booths
pretty secretary was sandbagged by
backsliding Salvationist, who mis-
took her for, her sister.
A railroad tunnel at Fairview, Ariz
was set on fire by sparks from an en-
CINE and two men were killed in at
tempting to subdue the flames.
The representatives of an eastern
syndicate, supposed to be the Ameri.
can Mailing Company, are in Louis
vile, trying to buy up the local brew
cries.
A blizzard was raging Sunday in
Wisconsin, which choked Off the rail
roads. Ohio is looking forward with
dread to floods, almost certain to do
tremendous damage.
The joint commission appointed al
the Baltimore conference of the Meth.
odist Episcopal Church has reported
recommending steps to be taken look
ing to a union of forces.
Things became so warm at Fort
Sheridan for Charles H. Waddell, the
only private who testified against
Capt. Lowering, that Secretary Alger
has been forced to grant him an hon
orable discharge.
The ten thousand cotton operatives
OF New England unite to resist the
cut in wages. The mills at New
Bedford shut down, and the strikers
will receive the support of the whole
body of operatives.
jubilee celebration of the fiftieth
anniversary Of the birth of the move
ment for the emancipation of women
will be held in Washington, February
IA to 10, inclusive, by the National
American Woman's Suffrage Associa-
ton.
Mesa free press., 1898-02-04

There is no need whatever of cap
ital to open and develop the gold
mines of the Yukon Basin, either in
Alaska or the Northwest Territory.
The surface or gold diggings are of
such nature that labor only is re-
quired to operate them. The appli-
ances are picks, shovels, a hosting
bucket, windlass, cordwood for fires
and a couple of sluice boxes. A few
hundred dollars will equip any of the
claims with the necessary machinery"
Of course, money is needed to pay the
men wages, but that will come out of
the claim when the washing season
arrives. No money whatever is re-
quired for plant. The numerous COM
panies organized to mine in that 1e-
gion may need money to buy claims,
but they need practically none to work
the mines. Hydraulic mines here
need ditch system, pipe lines, reser-
voirs, bedrock cuts, failing fumes,
etc. Drift mines need expensive
long tunnels, and quartz mines need
pumping, hosting and milling ma
chinery. But the shallow drift claims
or the summer diggings Of the Yukon
region need none of these things. The
claim once acquired needs only labor
to get out the gold. Representations
that capital is required to operate these
mines are entirely false. No person
should subscribe for stock in COM
panies asking for capital to work such
mines. 1t is not needed for any such
nlIr.nOso
Mesa free press., 1898-02-04

That the curiosity seeker sometimes
finds more than he wants is shown by
a recent experience Of Mark Twain.
Mr.. Clemens has been viewing from the
gallery with artistic appreciation the
performances Of the Austrian Reichs-
raths. When the show broke up in a
general row, he was violently welted
over the head by Czech deputy. OF
course 1t was q case of mistaken iden.
tity and an apology followed, but it is
safe to say that the humorist will be
satisfied to gather his further impress
sions Of Austrian legislation at long
range.
Mesa free press., 1898-02-04

1t Ii well understood that japan is
steadily preparing to lock horns with
Russia for the control of the far east.
The island empire Is building a large
and powerful navy and Is steadily i'm
proving its military strength. The
presence Of Germany adds to the OBJ
stacles which Japan would have to
overcome Should Germany side with
Russia. which she might readily do If
her interests should lie that way.
Japan's chances Of success would van
ISM and the sacrifices she has made to
secure Corea would be entirely lost
Mesa free press., 1898-02-04
TIMES AND MINING.
The New Canadian Mining Laws.


The Dominion government has pro-
mulgated the amended regulations re-
garding placer mining in the Cana
dian Yukon.
The following summary of the most
important provisions covers the
changes made:
Every miner and every employee of d
mine will be required to take out a
miners certificate, the fee for which
will be $40. In the case of company
it will be $50 or $100, according to the
amount Of capital stock. A miners
license will confer a right to mine
fish, hunt and to cut timber neces-
sary for mining. Provision for obtain
ing miners certificates will be made al
number Of cities and towns in Can
ada.
The general size of the mining
claims will be $50 feet; discoverers
claims, 500 feet. Every alternate ten
claims shall be reserved by the gov
eminent of Canada, which may dis.
pose of the same by public auction.
Sub-aqueous mining leases will be
issued in five-mile sections, with a fec
Of 500 per mile per annum, and the
usual royalty on the output of gol6
therefrom.
The fee for recording and renewing
mining claims will be SIS. Any number
OF miners not less than five, who may
be located in district more than 10(
miles distant from the Office of a gov.
eminent mining recorder, may appoint
an acting recorder, who may re-
cord claims, and who shall, within
three months, transfer his records an6
fees collected to the nearest officia.
mining recorder.
A royalty of 10 per cent. on the colo
mined shall be levied and collected by
government officers appointed for the
purpose, but provision is made for the
exemption on the annual product oil
any mining claim up to $500, SO that
claims which do not produce more viii
not be liable for royalty.
Provisions are made to prevent
speculation in claims by throwingv 6
claim open to entry which has not
been worked for a certain number Of
days, unless reasonable cause is shown
for failure to work it, and others pro-
viding that a record shall not be is
sued for more than one claim in the
same locality to any miner.
There are other provisions guarding
the public interest, and at the same
time affording ample and appropriate
facilities for mining the wealth of The
Canadian Yukon.
Mesa free press., 1898-02-04

when the potato crop is short" said
an old farmer, 81 never have any to
sell, but when there is great hue and
cry that potatoes are going to be
scarce and plant lot Of them, the
bottom drops entirely out of prices.
Two or three years ago there was no
end to the comments on the decadence
Of the horse. He was going out of use
forthwith, the bicycle was supplanting
him for cheap purposes, trolleye and
rapid transit had finished him up as a
suburban necessity, and the few people
who simply wanted him to ride about
with were taking their exercise in
some other fashion. OF course. as a
draft animal he must still be In evil
dence, but this was about all that was
left to him. Horse raisers went out Of
business or turned their attention in
other directions. 1t didn't pay to grow
ordinary animals, and the average
hard headed farmer is not very much
given to doing improbable things
when he knows they do not pay. Even
with the greatly decreased demand for
horses, which is the natural result of
electricity and steam, the supply has
run very low. Horsemen are beginning
to discover that there Is a possibility
of something not very far from a horse
famine. And just here comes a curious
working of the law Of supply and de-
mand. That which it Is difficult to Sc
cure Immediately arises in market
value, and good horses are growing
scarce and expensive. Especially is
this the case with saddle horses. 1t Is
said that really first-class saddle ami
NAL will bring almost any price one
chooses to ask for him on account of
the scarcity. One Of the most profitable
Of industries for the next few years
where land Is cheap and pasture good
will be the raising OF horses, and these
should be good ones. 1t costs justs as
much to bring up the cheapest kind Of
q colt as to raise good one, and the
wonder Is that there Is not some con-
certed action taken toward clearing the
country of some of the wretched stock
that still exists. Horse breeders asso-
Citations could do excellent work in this
direction"
Mesa free press., 1898-02-04

The proposed telegraphic communi-
cation between Iceland and the Shet-
land Islands would give the world
daily weather reports from Iceland.
The weather predictions made in that
far region would not affect the attend
ance at a picnic, say on the Penobscot
or the Sacramento, but they would
show that the ends of the earth are
getting nearer together. Such approx
nation means progress.