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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-22
Affairs in Spain.

There is nothing known to foreign
correspondents at Madrid regarding
the decision of the cabinet on the
peace question. 1t has given us singu-
larly little concern all along what that
decision would be. We are steadily
advancing towards a solution of a
problem which is causing so much
speculation in Europe. If Sagasta does
not sue for peace, his efforts to pro-
long the war will depend upon our
recognition of a time when it may be
safely and honorably ended. Our
army is ready to sail for Porto Rico.
We do not expect any serious opposi-
ton to our immediate investment of
that place. Admiral Sampson was se-
verely criticised for bombarding the
Porto Rican forts of San Juan, but it
was as well to have partially disabled
them then, as the work will have to be
thoroughly undertaken now at any
rate with the disadvantage of delay
ing debarkation. II is not generally
known when Watson's squadron is to
begin it's Eastern journey The Span
ish people in the seaboard towns real
izing that its arrival is imminent, have
taken a hasty departure with their
goods and chattels to places far from
the range of our guns. We can COM
miserate with these poor people. who
are the victims of the moral cowardice
and political stupidity OF the Spanish
government. Even in the history Of
Spain it would be difficult to find a
parallel for the faulty exhibited by
the rulers and leaders of the people at
the present juncture. Blanco, as Sa-
gasta knows, is not lighting with the
American army or navy. Famine and
starvation are the gaunt spectres which
he has to face. We may leave these
two ghouls to do their work. They will
do it more effectively than we can at
present
The escapades of the German fleet at
Manila gave the queen regent some
relief, probably, She has more than
any other person high in affairs of the
peninsula placed her hope in foreign
Intervention. 1t is not unlikely that
her tenacity of faith in that delusion
has had its effect on her government
She is said to be a strong woman with
will of her own equal to its political
influence in determining questions Of
national policy. 1t seems, at any rate.
that the aged Sagasta is hypnotized by
an influence which is not apparent on
the surface of things. Time after time
has he resigned, or made an effort to
do so, and as often has he tumbed
back into the trough of the political
billows to rise again as inane and i'm
potent as before, like half-submerged
bottle. There never has been a govern
ment so demoralized that there were
not political adventures ready to ac-
cept the burdens of its administration,
and Spain presents no exception to a
universal rule, The fact seems to be
that the queen regent believes that
when Sagasta goes the dynasty of her
son goes with him, and she is right.
The activity Of the Carlists 10 really
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-22
Commerce Of The
Hawaiian Islands.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.


Washington, July u.
n INTENSE interest In the Hawaiian
Islands, especially in their commerce,
is apparent from the requests which
| are reaching the Bureau OF Statistics
from all parts of the country for she
recent publications of the bureau relating
to the commerce of the islands. The
people of Hawaii bought last year nearly
eight million dollars worth of goods from
all parts of the world. and as over 75 per
cent OF this was from the United States
II is not surprising that the people of this
country should want to know In detail
what these purchases were, and especially
what class of goods were imported from
other countries of the woriu tnan the
United States. In view of the demand for
this detailed information the Bureau of
Statistics will, in its next monthly publi-
cation, the Summary of Finance and
Conn cree" present full list of the ar
ticles imported into Hawaii in the year
1887. both quantities and values and the
country from which each article is i'm
ported.
While these statemnts presenting the
quantities and value of each article i'm
ported into Hawaii are too elaborate for
complete reproduction in newspaper
form, it is practicable to enumerate the
most importan. of them They are
herewith presented in the belief that they
will prove of interest to a large number
Of manufacturers and merchants. indi-
eating as they do, not only the CONNER
cial possibilities by way of expectation TO
Hawaii from the United States, but also
the possibilities which may await manu-
facturers in certain lines in those islands
The following table shows the total
iinportations, including specie, into the
Hawaiian Islands by countries, during
the year 1897:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-22
Heroine of the Seneca.

The name of one woman at least be-
sides that of Clara Barton will be in
dissolubly connected with the annals
of the present and that is Miss Jean
nette Jennings, who, wearing the badge
of the Red Cross, was an angel of
mercy on board the Seneca, laden with
one hundred wounded soldiers from
vided for the reception of the suffer-
ers as they were taken on at the last
moment. The greatest deprivation was
the lack of water, for want of which
the men endured tortures. Miss Jen-
nings worked heroically, taking almost
no rest whatever. and secured the aid
Of many passengers who were on
board. Her fine executive ability and
forethought in securing some stores
before sailing saved the lives of many.
A significant feature of this voyage
was that the only passengers who re-
fused to be disturbed or to yield some
of their own comfort for the benefit of
the wounded were the military repre-
sentative of the Turkish army and his
suite. The Turk who massacres and
oppresses the poor defenseless Ar
menian because of religious views is
not apt to be strongly moved to COM
passion by the sight of a wounded or
dying soldier OF the hated faith. There
is a difference between the methods of
America and Turkey as we'll as-Amer-
lea and Spain.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-22
BEFORE SANTIAGO.
(July, 1881

tJuly, 1879
Who cries that the days OF daring are
those that are faded far,
That never IA light burns planet-bright
to be hailed as the hero's star?
Let the deeds of the dead be laureled, The
brave of the elder years, rH
But song, We say, for the men of today
who have proved themselves their
peers!
High in the vault of the tropic sky is the
earish eye OF the sun,
Ana down with its crown of guns a-frCwn
looks the hill-top to be won
There is the trench where the Spaniard
turks, his hold and his hiding place,
And he would cross the space between
must meet death face to face.
The black mouths belch and thunder,
and the shrapnel shrills and flies;
Where are the fain and the fearless, The
lads with the dauntless eye?
Will the mor'nt tind them wanting?
Nay, but with valor stirred!
Like the eashed hound on the coursing-
ground they wait but the warning
word.
"Charge!" and the line moves forward,
moves with shout and swing,
While sharper far than the cactus-thorn
is the spiteful bullets sting
Now they are out in the open! and now
they are breasting the slope.
While into the eyes of death they gaze
as into the eyes OF hope.
Never they wait nor waver but on they
Chamber and on,
With up with the flag of the stripes
and stars, and down with the flag
of the don!'
What should they bear through the shot
rent air but route the ranks of Spain.
For the blood that throbs in their hearts
is the blood of the boys of Anthony
Wayne!
See, they have taken the trenches!
Where are the foemen? Gone!
And now "Old Glory" waves in the breeze
from the heights of San Juan!
And so, while the dead are laureled the
brave of the elder years,
A song. we say, for the men of today
who have proved themselves their
peers!
Clinton scollard, in Leslies Weekly.
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more theatrical than portentous. When
the revolution comes, as come II will,
Don Carlos will not, we believe, profit
by 1t. He can do nothing to recover
Spanish prestige, Spanish influence, or
an inch of Spanish colonial territory.
lie is an element of disturbance, and
of course no inconsiderable one. He
has undoubtedly the power of the
church behind him, but a military die
tator, should he arise, will have the
army, which is of vastly more import
ance. Weyler is O Republican, and he
may be able, II so disposed, to rally
the disaffected Republican, Socialistic,
and anarchial forces to his standard
as well as the army. They are a
numerous body in Spain, and there is
no end to their Vaccinations. If he
holds by the regency 1t may weather
the cyclone. He is more dreaded and
influential than Campos, but more en-
igmatical and uncertain in his politi-
cal Affiliations. This is how matters
stand. The Spaniards have nothing to
lose or gain by a change in the form
Of government. They have become so
accustomed to reverses of late that
they have ceased to be exciting even.
They know that scarcely anything
more can be lost to Spain than she has
of the mercantile cities of the south
will make an agreeable interlude dur
ing the bull fights.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-22
A STUDY IN CoNTIGUITY.
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
These are the days of wailng over the
departure of the United States from an
assumed principle of anenAing only con-
tiguous territory to this country. People
who believe in the Little America find il
highly convenient for their argument
against Hawaii-now, happily, only a
reminiscent sob-and against any other
extension of interests which the present
war may make advisable, TO discover for
themselves a precedent in history, even
If they have to ignore Alaska and say
II Is only little way Off and doesn't
amount to anything, anyhow. If Mani
toba wanted to join the Union, and Eng
land and Canada applduded the step
they would discover that there was some
thing in nature which made the forty
ninth parallel of latitude the divine limit
of American sovereignty, and that
Alaska again was only a negligible ex-
ception. But that is another story. We
didn't start out TO discuss the vagaries
of the Little Americans, but to see what
some of our notions of "contiguity" were
in one great area of expansion.
When, in 1903, we annexed Louisiana.
Chic, Kentucky and Tennessee were the
extreme western states, and we had only
a wilderness between Us and the settled
portion of our new domain. To go to
New Orleans even from Nashville was u
river journey of hundreds of miles, and
from the seat of the national government
was an undertaking OF weeks duration.
Louisiana was nothing like as "contigI-
| Gus" as Alaska is today or as Honolulu
may be next year. 1t could be called
Contiguous" only in that our wilderness
touched its wilderness, and made bar
rier much more difficult than the sea.
But California offers ever a better illus
tration of "contguity." When, in 1876,
Commodore Sloat hearing of tine out
break of host,lities on the Rio Grande,
took possession of Monterey and San
| Francisco on his own responsibility he
was further away from his governments
authority than Dewey has been at Manila
with the cable cut. The outpost of the
| United States was then Fort Leaven-
worth, and 1t took General Kearney be-
| tween six and seven months to take what
was left of LOO men from the Missouri
| river to the Pacific coast.
We took California, and In 1850 made IT
| a state, and II was the least contiguous"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-22
Against the Canteen.

The Methodist bishops, whose names
are mighty not only in their own de-
nomination but among the brainy rep
resentatives of all sects OF the Chris
tian religion, Evangelist d. l.. Moody,
the Women's Christian Temperance
union and the Army Christian COM
mission have made a protest against
the army canteen. Among the argu-
ments recently urged is the object
lesson Of the naval victory at Santiago.
Just before the battle the Spanish sail
ore were supplied with liquor to give
them nerve for the conflict. The
Americans had no such stimulants.
The alcholized muscles of the Span
iards gave unsteady aim, while the
normal muscles Of our men found no
difficulty in making their shots tell in
the most vulnerable points. The
Americans were not quickly exhausted
as the results told. This argument
may or may not hold good in the case
noted, as it should be remembered that
the Spanish sailors had been insuf1-
ciently fed and were under great pre-
vious fatigue. However, the senti-
ment of advanced thought is probably
against the canteen. Undoubtedly the
mothers of the land desire to have
their boys as far removed from temp
tation as possible. and it should be
remembered that very large percen-
tage of the volunteers. at least, are
but boys in years and experience. The
ethics of army life are not. perhaps.
such as to improve a mans morals
all round, and the absence of the can
teen, while it will not abolish drunken
ness among soldiers, will at least re-
move the temptation from their i'm
mediate vicinity.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-22
STONES PLATFORM

1t will be my purpose when elected 10
so conduct myself as to win the respect
and good will OF those who have opposed
me as well as those who have given me
their support. / shall be the governor
of the whole people of the state. Abuses
haye undoubtedly grown up IN tho leSls-
latire which are neither the fault or one
party nor the other. but rather the
growth of custcm. Unnecessary investi-
gallons have been authorized by commit
tees, resulting in unnecessary expense TO
the state. 1t will be my care and pur-
pose to correct these and other evils In so
far as / have the power 1t Will be my
purpose while governor of Pennsylvania,
as It has been my purpose in the public
positions that I have held with God S
help, to discharge my whole duty The
people are greater than the parties to
which they belong. l am only jealous Of
their favor ! shall only attempt to win
their approval and my experience has
taught me that that can best be done by
an honest, modest. daily discharge OF
public duty.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-22
MANIFEST DESTINY.
Louisville Courier journal.

Louisville Courier-Journal.
The bucolic dreamer, whose migrations
are bounded by the apple orchard on the
one side and the willow brook on the
other, and whose life is a never-changIng
pastoral of happy fancies. would preserve
forever the republic conceived and estab-
lished by Washington and Franklin. For
all his scientific explorations and dscov-
cries, Franklin had no glimpse of steam
even as it was known TO Fulton and Ste
phenson, or of electricity as it is known
to Edison, and Washington. deVislng
ways and means for struggling people
fringing the Atlantic seaboard could
not possibly foresee the contractions
which electricity and steam would bring
into geography. We are eighty millions
of energetic, aspiring. ambitious Ameri-
cans. Presently We shall be a hundred
and fifty milliCns Can any thoughtful
man believe that this tremendous force
may be isolated from the movements of
mankind and fed on sowans like their
grelt-Grandfathers of the Revolutions
the Spanish war was not expected or de-
sired But, impelled by hands invisible,
1t was upon us before we knew it; and 1t
Will leave us pretty bag TO hold Snail
we rip this bag open and empty its con-
tents, or shall We adjust ourselves TO
them, and, so adjusting ourselves, ad-
minister the obligations they will impose
the best we know how? But even If we
should wish 10 escape them, now can WeF
We shall have to reckon with the COM
merce of the country. always enlarging
and seeking outlets. Is il nothing to add
ten or twelve millions TO the free trade
area OF America? We cannot sink our
ships and eXtingulsh. our navy. Nor can
we relegate ourselves to the rear of the
advancing column of civilization which
is moving beyond our own borders. AL
ready we are grown too strong TO be let
alone in case we seek the isolation of
which we hear so much and he who
thinks we have no duties before us as
nation and as a people except to grow
rich and fat, and so to mortify withal,
recks either the word of God or the ways
of man.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-22
Lewis, Reilly 4 Davies,
ia AND11s WYOMING AVENUE

state ever admitted to the Union. The
nearest state was Texas, which stretched
an arm of unsettled plain far to the
westward, while Missouri, Iowa and Ark
ansas were its other nearest neighbors
Between them was a thousand miles of
desert and mountain, where bleaching
skeletons marked the few trails and hos
tile savages threatened the adventurous
traveller. The best route to Washington
was by two voyages over the high seas
and a trip through a foreign country
across the Isthmus of Panama, and over
that road went congressman and govern
ment officials to and from our distant
state. 1t was only in 1855 that the Pan
anna railroad was built, and it is not be-
yond the memory of man that up to the
completion of the Pacific railroads much
anxiety was manifested by thoughtful
statesmen lest lack of "contiguity" should
cause our Pacific states to separate from
the Union.
Now, instead of a waste of land we
have the much less forbidding waste of
water between us and Hawaii or Manila
And to get to them by sea we do not
have to traverse foreign territory. Cap
tain Mahan has called the ocean that
broad sea common along which, ana
along which alone. in all the ages
prosperity has moved. Land carriage, al
ways restricted and therefore always
slow. tolls enviously but hopelessly be-
hind, vainly seeking to replace and sup
plant the royal highway of natures own
making" We toiled through sands and
mountain passes to a far from 'contigu'
ous'' California, and we need not worry
much at the thought of little Journeys on
natures smoothed highway to Hawaii
or the Philippines.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-22
The Only Parallel.

There is perhaps in all history but
one case which may be termed paral-
lei of that in which America proposes
to settle much of the problem of mod
ern warfare by returning at her own
expense the Spanish prisoners to their
native land.
This incident occurred in the conflict
when Russia united with Austria
against France, who was endeavoring
to assail England in India. The allies,
under that thunderbolt of war, Suwar-
row, engaged to the number of $4,000
with the French at Lake Como in 1893
with victory, but on the field of Mas
sena, France was saved by most VAL
orous feat of arms and the great army
of the mad man, Paul l., of Russia,
was terribly reduced.
Napoleon had now returned from
Egypt and desired to effect an eX-
change of prisoners. France held ten
thousand Russians, and the allies also
had many French soldiers in their
hands Both England and Austria re-
fused to give up these for the Russians,
Napoleon, in deep derision, cried:
what, Do you refuse to lberate the
Russians, who We're your allies, fight
ing in your ranks and under your COM
manders? Do you refuse to restore to
their country these men to whom you
are indebted for your victories and
conquests In Italy and who have left
in your hands a multitude of French
prisoners whom they have taken?
Such injustice excites my Indignation"
He then added: Il will restore them
to the czar of Russia without ex-
change. He shall see how | esteem
brave men"
True to his word the First Consul
then assembled the Russian prisoners
at AK la Chapelle. where they were all
furnished with the complete new uni
forms of their own regiments and
equipped with weapons of the best
French manufacture, Thus the Rus
sian captives returned to their homes.
Paul l., then enjoying temporarily a
lucid interval, appreciated the deed
and Immediately abandoned the alli-
ance and wrote with his own hand a
wonderful tribute to the victor.
The motive of Napoleon, as can be
readily seen, was far different from
that now employed by this country
He foresaw the diplomatic advantage
of such magnanimity and was not mis-
taken in his belief, for the bitter feel
ing then aroused against England
seriously hampered that nation in her
long and thereafter unaided conflict
with France.
In the present remarkable solution of
the disposition of Spanish prisoners Sc
cured in the surrender of Santiago,
America looks not forward to the re-
suits of her strategic movements be-
yond relief from difficulty of guard
ing and providing for the embarrassing
army of Spaniards. She has no desire
of gaining favor from Spain, no ambi-
tion to use this means to indirectly
secure territory, no necessity for seek
ing praise or sanction from any quar-
ter of the globe. Nothing save the
calm assurance that the plan Is best
along humanitarian lines and that it
offers economic expediency influences
her In this step. AS the war itself has
been unique in its object, so this latest
development occupies a place almost
solitary in the annals of the world.
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-22
Total domestic exports. .s3 92s,lS7 st622 5S1

The imports from Great Britain amount
ed to last year 1866, 1926 the most i'm
portant among them being cotton goods
amounting to over seventy thousand dol
lars; linens, twelve thousand; steam
plows, thirty-six thousand dollars; other
machinery, about twenty-six thousand
dollars; cloth bags, about one hundred
and seventy thousand; iron and steel
rails, thirty-seven thousand and twenty
one dollars; other railway material, nine
thousand, one ninety-one dollars; crock
cry and glassware, twelve thousand one
hundred and seven dollars; roofing iron,
forty-five thousand eight hundred ninety
dollars; Photographic material, about
eight thousand dollars wooden goods,
about fifty thousand dollars lace, ten
thousand forty-rine dollars; ribbons, two
thousand two hundred forty-five dollars
linseed oil, fourteen thousand. seven hum
dred forty dollars. From Germany the
imports during the past year amounted
to Sl92,932.l9, the principal articles being
building material, about s25,O0O; ma
chinery, $4,000; dry goods, about $4,000,
and railroad material, about $1,000.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-22
FIN LIE s
ONLY
Four
Days
l'NWU Y o O
OF Our rluslin Under
wear Sale.
Our Great July Sale
of Ladies' and Misses
Fine Muslin Under
wear will last but
FOUR DAYS LONGER

The style, quality of material and
workmanship of our line is too we'll
known to need any comment further
than that we are overstocked for this
time of the year and have to make
room for our Fall lines that will soon
be ready for delivery.
Every garment in stock has been re-
marked at reductions varying from 10
to 25 per cent. below regular prices for
this sale, which will positively close
on Saturday of this week.
In the annexed list are several mum.
bers which we will discontinue and the
prices quoted barely cover the cost of
materials.
One Lot Gowns, our regular CSC quail
ity during the season.
TO CLOSE OUT AT 69c.
One Lot Gowns, nicely trimmed and
a good number for sl.25.
SALE PRICE soc.
One Lot Gowns, extra sizes and hand
sonely trimmed, worth S150.
SALE PRICE $119.
One Lot underskirts, plain and good
quality muslin, regular price SOC and
CSC. SPECIAL PRICE 39c and 49c.
One Lot Drawers, neat embroidery
trimmed. SPECIAL PRICE 25c.
One Lot Drawers, plain tucked. extra
quality, were soc and Csc.
SPECIAL PRICE TO CLOSE 800
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The spectacle of Spanish prisoners
enjoying cool sea breeze3 and excellent
food at the north while our own troops
swelter under a tropica. sun and fare
eumptuously every day on hard tack
and similar delicacies, is somewhat ex-
asperatng to say the least.