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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-06

uTANTED-TO LOAN MONEY on DIA-
w monds. watches. jewe.ry. hardware,
musical instruments. bicycles, clothing. dry
goods. furniture. exc highest cash prices
paid for second hand goods OF all kinds also
The above goods for sale ut half tn. usual
store prices All business tranSac lions strictly
confident Al. His number ana location,
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Jones. Two rings on 1917.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-06

I OST-A POCKETBOOK CONTAINING 4
IL small amount of money and valuable pa
perS Mt Rock Island & Peoria depot. Finder
can keep money, but return pocketboOtl ana
other contents TO X. 1. q T.. ticket office. and
20 questions will be asked.
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house.
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VI gage loans by w. II. Eastman, 17I2 Sec
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-06

GALES MEN, CALLING ON ANY LINE
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anywhere Give references The American
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| WTANTED-GOOD.R RELIABLE OIL SALES
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Quaker Oil and Implement company, Cleveland
Ohio.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-08
MACKEY.

From the Lebanon Report (Anti-Quay).
n. c. Mackey is a member of the lower
branch of the state Legislature from Lack
awanna county. Up to Friday he had
voted for NJ. S Quay for United States
senator but upon that day MaCkey
switched over to some one else. In one
of the Sunday newspapers he gives his
reasons for changing--and here 1t is.
Mackeys friends wanted to control the
Scranton poor board and this control
could have been given him by Judge
Archibald of Scranton. The judge it
seems is a Quay man and had asked
Mackey to vote for the McCarrell bin in
answer to which Mackey telegraphs ''lf
you would please me, appoint O'Malley
poor director"-a message that must be
taken to mean-nly vote on the McCarrell
bill is dependent on my control of the
Scranton poor board. Judge Archibald
did not appoint O'Malley poor director
but named an enemy to Mackev, who
instanter becomes rigidly virtuous and
votes against Quay. We have no Criti-
csm to make upon Mr.. Mackey's change
of vote, but his reason for the change
stamps him as q political thing unfit
to sit in any legislative body or to repre-
sent anybody. 1t is just such creatures
as Mackey that make of legislation a
mere barter and sale.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-08
Sampson VS.. Schley.

Information from all quarters bear
ing on the merits and demcrits OF these
two naval officers has now reached the
public and it is at least possible for
the public to form a final opinion with
reference to the matter The conclu-
sons which we have reached are:
%. That William 7. Sampson is a
careful, methoNical and efficient officer,
conscientious in all his work and pains
taking rather than brilliant. That he
has been put by an Unconditional dis
position in a false light of begrudging
to suboIdnaLes credit due them when
such was not his intention or desire.
That he is not to blame for having
been jumped in command over men
who originally ranked above him.
and that the navy department has a
clear, legal and moral right to choose
for responsible work agents in whom
it has superior confidence. whether this
necessitates jumping or not.
(2) That Winfield Scott Schley is
a man Of warmer impulses, but in moth
ing the superior of Sampson as an exc
cutive officer. This does not imply
that he has been justly censured for
disobedience Of orders during the search
for Cervera. His reasons for his ac.
tions are plausible and credible. 1t
is easy enough to give orders from
distance, but local conditions neCessar-
lily affect their execution. The fact
that Schley's record during his more
than two-score years service in the
navy is clean and good; the fact that
he commands the devotion of his
men and the admiration of his
friends: and the further fact
that when the crucial time came at
Santiago he was in the thickest of the
fight and with his ship helped very
materially to destroy the enemy all go
TO prove the wisdom of his promotion
from commodore to rear admiral.
80. That neither Sampson nor
Schcy is entitled to a monopoly of the
honors; that the best individual record
in the North Atlantic squadron was
made by Captain Clark of the Oregon
and that if the next congress wants
to confer especial distinction on a man
fully entitled to ii by reason Of both
character and service it could not do
better than to create the position of
vice admiral and give an intmation
to the president that it would like to
see Clark nominated for that place.
We are quite willing to let this whole
subject 90 at that.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-08
NEWS AND COMMENT.

Says the Philadelphia Press: 1T is sim
cerely to be hoped, now that Mr.. Kipling
is on the high road to recovery, that his
illness will not have been in vain In the
matter of a change of heart on his part
toward the American people. No people
could have been more sincerely sympa-
thetic with a deep, real, heartfelt sym
pathy for one whom two hemispheres ac-
claim as a genius than have Americans
ever since the author took to his sick bed.
And this sympathy is OF the peculiar ma
ture Of American manganimity, since the
object of this hearty solicitude has never
hesitated to malign the American char
acter considered en- masse. This abuse
has not been of the nature of an early
offense unapologized for, but persistent,
the most fragrant case being the publlCa-
tion of contemplate anti-American
quatrain in the English edition Of the
Seven Seas and omitted from the Amer
lean edition, since Kipllng knew and his
publishers knew that in this country the
vogue of the Seven Seas would be even
more profitable than in England. As
people we have overlooked all this, II
Mr. Kipling can stand in Quebec and see
in the inferior civilization OF Canada a
nobler spirit than that enhoused In the
New England hills which meet ones gaze
on the distant horizon, we are perfectly
content, since for once we convict the
author of malobservation, Of lack OF in
sight; so for his own sake II is TO be
hoped the sick bed viii not have been in
vain. Let him read and reconsider"
An idea OF the development which has
been made in the postal service is impart-
ed by this quotation from the New York
Evening Post: I'm 1883 1t took congress
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-08
DUTY and Cost,

The public will note with apprecia-
tion the fact that some of the leaders
of public opinion who were inclined
not long ago to substitute passion and
maudlin sentimentality for serious ar
Gument in their consideration of this
country's new relations have now
cooled off sufficiently to direct their ap-
peals against Expansion" TO the rea-
sOning faculties of their auditors In
pansionists" to engage them in debate.
one of the arguments offered with
great confidence by these conservative
Americans is that the control OF de-
tendencies Is going to prove a highly
expensive undertaking. 'In 1897" OBJ
serves the Philadelphia Ledger, after
noting the existence of a deficit of ST.
25000O in England's current colonial ac-
count, this country was without an
imperial policy, and it's expenditures
were, in round numbers, 1855, ,00O, 900; in
1898 the country took up the white
mans burden in Cuba, Porto Rico,
Guam, Philippines and Hawaii, with
lne result lnat the expenditures were
increased to about 100000 900. Thus is
1t made to appear. from the English
and American deficits, that an imperial
policy comes high, even to a country
that has had long and informing ex-
perience Of it. To this country, which
has had no knowledge no experience
OF it, it is likely to come very high
Whether it win be found TO be, after
trial, worth the candle, the candle being
so very expensive, is a question which
only the future can answer"
1t sometimes costs individuals a good
deal TO do what their consciences tel
them is right. The world would soor
cease to so forward II questions OF
duty were everywhere TO be subordin,
ated to questions of expense. Unless
the Philadelphia Ledger is satisfied IN
its own mind that the country had nc
right or duty behind its expenditures
On last years war it has no right in
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-08

The devotion Of woman has been sig
nally illustrated in the trials through
which Mrs. Rudyard Kipllng has just
passed. These have envolved a degree
of heroism and shown character SUI
perior by far to any which have formed
the theme of her distinguished hus-
bands pen, and we shall have reason
to expect In Kipling's work in future
a more exalted and appreciative esti-
mate Of wifehood and motherhood, for
which he has hitherto had little to say
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-08

morals to complain of those expendi-
lures and II that war was a lust and
righteous war are we to be scared
away from accepting its logical conse-
quences by the fear that to accept them
might prove eXDensiye2 The game
may not be worth the candle as y
game; but IL in addition to being a
game 1t is also duty under the cir
cumstances owed to civilization, shall
we take counsel of our avarice rather
than our conscience? The war for the
preservation of the Union cost more as
a business proposition than 1t has yet
been worth; but was it a game not
worth the candle?
We are not conquerors but trustees
II we are faithful to the trust our re-
ward will take care Of itself. To be
faithful Is the main thing.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-08
He Needs q Rest.

Those who think that the office OF
president Of the United States is an
easy one to fill may possibly get a
new idea on the subject from the sub
Joined paragraph taken from the New
York correspondence Of the Philadel-
phia Ledger:
Secretary Leonard of the Methodist
Missionary society, who returned from
cuba and Porto Rico on the steamer Car
acas, is very pessimistic about the condi-
tiun of things there. From his point of
view, Cuba is almost entirely without
morality or religion. The most dcplorablc
illiteracy prevails. Only one person out of
forty-1iye has attended school. Two
thirds of the children are illegtimate.
What to do with the Cuban army is n
great problem. Most of the soldiers know
nothing but war, and do not want to re-
turn to civil life. The 600 voted them
by congress will be quickly spent in dissi-
patton, and then most of them Will prob
ably become bandits. He does not favor
sending missionaries this year A news
paper correspondent who arrived on the
same steamer brings a far different re-
port regarding the Cuban soldiers. He
says they are far better prepared to re-
turn to civil life than even on own SOL
ing description of the peaceableness OF
the Cubans, and refers to the good order
maintained in Havana at the reception
to Gomez as greater than would have
been experienced i'm New York on Il simi-
lar occasion.
Here are two men, both experienced
observers, whose testimony as to con-
ditions in one Of the new dependencies
is directly contradictory. Presumably
both are honest and sincere and the
disparity between their deductions is
simply illustrative of the wide range
of advice and suggestion which the
president of the United states has to
expect every day of his life on every
conceivable topic coming before him
for official consideration-and the num-
ber and variety of these topics are
continually increasing in a kind of geo.
metrical ratio.
Is it any wonder that Mr.. Mckinley
wants n rpSt2
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-08

fifty-three hours to send word from Phil
adelphia to Braintree, Mass, to notify
John Adams that he was elected vice
president. In 1890 there were only seVen-
ty-iive postoffces in the United States
In 1900 there were 903 postCtiices, the rate
of letter postage as follows: Under forty
miles, cents; over forty and under
ninety, 10 cents; over ninety and under
$50, l2h cents; over $50 and under 800, II
cents; over 300 and under 500, 20 cents,
and over 500 miles, Is cents In his mes
sage, December 5, 1898, President McKin-
ley refers to the fact that our postal SER
vice now involves an expenditure of SloO-
100000 a year, numbers 1900 postofiices
and enrolls 100000 employees For nearly
twenty-five years of the present century
the New York postoflice was kept at No.
20 william street, in a room II by 10 feet.
There were li4 wooden letter boxes In
the window According to the latest
postoffce report: There were sold In this
city during 1898 over 900 stamps,
I5,OOO,OOO postal cards and 50,OOOOO cnve-
lopes; In the mailing and distrlbutiog de-
partment 6l9,9il,17S pieces of mail matter
were handled In the early part of the
present century the residents of Murray
Hin had a long ride for their mail; now
1t is inserted into the pneumatic tube and
in seven minutes it is at the Grand Cen
tral station.
1t was left for stationmHster at q lit
tie wav station in New Jersey to solve
the problem of putting the familiar no.
tice on splitting on the floor" etc, into n
more agreeable If less forcibe form, and,
though less forciblc, 1t is as equally ef-
fective, If not more so, as the notice that
generally greets us. In the station at
Newport, n. j., the New York Sun In
forms us, this genius has posted the fol-
lowing:
If on this floor you choose to spit,
Just pause, my friend, and think Bit,
Last night, vhen all was cold and still,
I carried water up the hill;
Washed this floor by the silver moon,
That you might use our new spittoon.
Few persons have any idea how slight
an electrical current is required to op-
crate a telephone receiver. 1t has been
calculated that one foot pound energy, or
the force necessary to raise one pound
foot, ii applied to u telephone receiver
would produce an audible sound for 5000
| years. 1t can be readily understood,
| therefore, that electric disturbances pro-
duced by electric light wires and street
railway circuits in the vicinity of tele-
| phone lines are the most serious difficult
! ties the telephone engineer has to con-
| tend with,
Emperor William of Germany on Sun
| day sent this cable message to Mrs. Rud-
yard Kipling: "As an enthusiastic ad-
mirer of the unrvalled books of your hus-
| band / am most anxious for news about
| his health. God grant that he may be
| spared to you and to all who are thank
| full to him for the soul-stirring way in
which he has sung about the deeds of ouI
| great common race"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-08
Get Down to Business.

The Pennsylvania Legislature has
completed more than half Of the ses-
sion as limited at commencement and
not an appropriation bill has yet been
reported from committee nor. to our
knowledge, has single act of general
merit gone to the governor for his sig
nature. Some work may have been
mapped out in the various committees,
but so far as results show the session
has thus far been absolutely barren
The two months during which the leg
islature has been in session have been
given over almost exclusively to fac
tional contention and plotting; and un-
less this shameful record is soon
amended public disgust will visit it.
self in whirlwind fashion upon all par
ties to the hold-up. An election OF a
senator should occur without delay and
the session be released for general
business.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-08

is dead and therefore cannot affirm or
deny the truth Of the report that he
considered Dreyfus innocent, but ac-
quiesced in his unjust punishment in
preference to running many more i'm
purtant men. Yet this seems to be
among Frenchmen very prevalent
view of the Dreyfus affair. It is i'm
possible for the Latin race to conceive
the idea of justice divorced from COM
promises resting on expediency.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-08
LIQUID Air.

Those who are interested in the
romantic in science should by all
means read the article in the March
McClure's on Charles II. Triplers dis
coveries in the production and use of
liquid air. It has been known for years
to the savants that air at a tempera-
ture lower than 312 degrees below zero
assumed, under compression, a liquid
form; but inasmuch as the first pro-
duction of fluid atmosphere cost $500
a pint little was done along this line
of experiment until Mr.. Tripler de-
vised an inexpensive process.
Under the Tripler process, the initial
output of frozen air is used to gem
crate power whereby more air is frozen,
and thus the production becomes prac-
tically automatic, the only cost after
the first cost of the plant being the
pay of the labor of running it. There
is no item of expense for raw mater
ials since the only raw material used
common airs to be had for the
asking. This liquihed air which Mr..
Tripler produces is a flaky, crystalline
product which no sooner enters a temp
erature warmer than 312 degrees below
zero than it boils, so to speak, with
intense energy and diffuses itself in
gaseous form, multiplying in bulk 500
fold. 1t is this expansive property
which gives practical value to the
Tripler discovery, since it holds out
the promise of unlimited power for all
the purposes now subserved by water,
steam, gas or electricity at a mere
fraction of the cost of either. Well
may the writer in McClure's say:
1T Is bewidering to dream of the
possibilities of a source of power that
costs nothing. Think Of the ocean
greyhound unencumbered with coal
bunkers, and sweltering boilers and
smokestacks, making her power as she
sails, from the free sea air around her!
Think of the boilerless locomotive run
ming without a firebox or fireman, or
without need of water tanks or coal
chutes, gathering from the air as il
passes the power which turns its driv-
ing wheels! With costless power, think
how travel and freight rates must fall
! bringing bread and meat more cheaply
| to our tables and cheaply manufac-
| tured clothing more cheaply to our
backs. Think of the possibilities OF
aerial navigation with power whicl
requires no heavy machinery, 10
storage batteries, no coal. If one would
practice his Imagination on high flights
let him ruminate on the question
What will the world be when power
| costs nothing?"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-08
SCRANTON, PA, MARCH s, 1899.

The heated Temperature engenderedin
certain circles by the recent develop
ments in the domestic relations Of Rev.
Joseph X. Dixon, which is discernible
in Scranton among other places, sug-
gests to disinterested observers Of this
infelicitous episode the wisdom Of mod
Grafton in comment and the beauty
Cand also scarcity of Christian charity.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-08

During the three years ending last De-
cember the worlds supply of the stand
ard metal was increased by $S40, 0OO,-
900. In the year 1898 there was an ex-
cess of gold imports into the United
States over exports of Sl4l 956,S9S.
ContemporaneOus with these years Of
natural produCtiVenesS there has been
a revival Of business, commercial and
industrial activity such as this country
has never before witnessed. 1t is inl-
possible to ascribe this reversal Of the
situation of two years ago to any one
cause, natural, financial or political.
We only know that out of the coinci-
dent occurrence of certain events the
gloom of March 4, 1897, has given place
to the prosperity of March, 1899; the
doubt and depression of two yeare ago
has been replaced by confidence and
buoyancy; idleness and discomfort have
been In two years succeeded by work
for the industrious and increased wages
for the employed in every line of pro-
ductive activity. From 1892 to 1896 the
American people were engaged in the
severe and chastening occupation Of
liquidation and retreuchment By the
spring OF 1897 they had reached bed
rock and were prepared for the turn in
the tide Of their business affairs. by
the presidential election of 1896 they
had laid the foundation for the revival
Of national prosperity upon the i'm
movable rock OF a sound currency ana
an honest dollar. BY the congressional
| and state elections of 1898 they clinchci /
the verdict of 1895 and made the senate
| proof against free silver or other finan-
cial folly for at least six years to coma,
| There is therefore every reason to face
the future with confidence that the ma
tiOn has entered upon a period Of pros
| perity unprecedented in its history and
| full OF enduring promise because based
on natural causes and honest princi-
UieG
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-08

If Admiral Sampson expects to con-
tinue the fight against Admiral Schley
indefinitely, he will do well to engage
n press agent at once. In the news
paper accounts of the controversy,
Sampson seems to lose tuft Of his
locks at every round.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-08

Richard Croker spurns with naughty
scorn the insinuation that either he or
his son, Richard Jr., has been in
Wilkes-B Barre on a still hunt for stone
quarries. Mr.. Croker's agility in get
ting after rocks has probably led to
this misapprehension. but it was un-
kind to locate his son in Wilkes Barre.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-08
ONE OF UNCLE SANS
MEN AT MANILA A
LETTER FROM HIM HAS REACH
ED FRIENDS HERE.

1t Is Dated Jan. 5 and Shows That
at That Time an Out Break With
the Insurgents Was Expected at
Any Moment-Trick General otis
Played on the Spanish Soldiers.
Soldiers Are Fond of otis and
Think He Is the Right Man in the
Right Place.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-08

II China has the spunk to persist in
her peremptory refusal to surrender a
slice of valuable territory to Italy on
demand, conditions will probably shape
themselves so that the refusal will go.
our government wisely decided to re-
strict American activity in this mat
ter to the protection Of American in
terests; but it is easy to perceive how
the protection Of those interests might
at any moment compel us to draw a
chalk line in imitation Of European
freshness.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-08

As an experiment at Manila, Admiral
Won Diedrichs has proved almost as
troublesome 10 the German government
as a cargo Of "embalmed' beef
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-08

Premier Silvela's first session at Mad
rid was as lively as a Scranton coun-
ell meeting.