The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-11-01

there were only two poisonous snakes
north of Mason and Dixon line and
they are the copperhead and the rattle
snake.
At today's session the courses being
delivered by Miss McCloskey, DIR.
Mowry and DR.. Schmucker' will be
continued. Tomorrow DIR. Schaeffer,
state superintendent of schools, will be
present and will give two lectures. he
will also speak on 1nursday.
THE EVENING LECTURE.
Last evening DR.. Mowry delivered
one Of his famous lectures in the high
school auditorium, taking as his theme.
"Napoleon's Easter, 1903 and What
Came of It." The doctor was In the
best humor and kept his audience in
terested from beginning to end.
His lecture was the story of how the
boundaries OF this country were pushed
westward from the Mississippi to the
Rocky Mountains and how in 1903
territory longer than Germany, France,
Spain and Italy became ours. He de-
scribed how in 1903 that Napoleon, the
little corporal from Cosica, had been
elected first consul Of France, and how
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Spain by which the latter country
ceded to France this vast tract west Of
the Mississippi river.
He told how when these negotia-
tions were in progress that Spain
closed the port of New Orleans which
had been opened to American com
merce as a port of deposit This
caused the producers in the south to
form a plan to capture New Orleans
by force of arms but this was stopped
by President Jefferson sending a com
missioner to France for the purpose of
purchasing the port for this govern
ment.
DIR. Mowry then graphically described
a scene in Napoleon's palace of st.
Cloud on Easter Sunday afternoon.
1S03 when he summoned his secretaries
of war and of the treasury, William
Barbe de Marbois and Berthier and
consulted with them as to the advis-
ability of selling the whole country
west of the Mississippi to this country
for the purpose of filling the depleted
treasury in preparation for the war
with Great Britain.
PURCHASE ARRANGED.
He then spoke of the diplomatic man.
ner in which the matter was introduced
to the American representative s, their
amaZement at the enormity of the mat
ter and the final purchase of 900. 900
square miles of land for SlJ,00O,0 900. He
spoke of the historic scene when Ma
poleon signed the treaty and his pro-
phetie remark as he laid down his pen,
There, l have this day insured for
ever the future Of what will be the
greatest nation in the world"
DR.. Mowry trtely remarked that
there are many men living in that ter
ritory today who could draw their per-
sonal check for the amount paid for
this land. He further said that we
have not stopped there but now have
a clear title to an archipelago in the
Pacific. He referred to those people
who see in this expansion the destruc-
tion of this country and asked that
they have little confidence in the in
tegrity and good craftsmanship to be
found in this glorious country Of ours.
In the course of his remarks Dr..
Mowry made a statement which no
doubt will be received with surprise
by large number of people. He said
that the claim has been made that
now that we nave control of the Phil
ippines the sun never sets on cur pos
sessions. He said the sun never set on
our possessions before we ever thought
of the Philippine Islands. lie stated
that before The sun sets at night in the
Aleutan Islands off the coast of Alaska
that the people Of New England have
finished their breakfasts
This evening a musical entertainment
will be given in the high school aud
itorium under the direction of Prof.
John T. Watkins. The Orepheus club,
Schubert quartette and Charles A.
Hartley, the celebrated ventriloquist
will appear.