The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-18
PERSONALITIES.

| The salary of the Archbishop of Can
| terbury is 100000 a year.
Some of the Democrats who have seen
! Mr.. Bryan lately say that he is waxing
| fat; that he is making money fast; that
| he is now worth about 100000, and that
from his recent book he received royal
! ties amounting to $4,000.
The late Rev. DR.. Hall of the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian church of New
York, during the last years of his life,
received the largest salary ever paid to
a clergyman in the United States, which
| was S200 600 a year, with a manse. Mr..
| Beecher received $4,000, without the
| manse.
| A great granddaughter of Betsy Ross,
| who made the first American flag, is liv-
| ing in Washington. She is Mrs. South
| wick Guthrie. Mrs. Guthrie remembers
| her great-grandmother, who died when
she was a child of five. Mrs. Ross was
| ninety at the time Of her death, but
when she made the first flag she was but
25 and quite girlish in appearance.
Lord Charles Beresford in citing H.
lustrations of the causes which have con-
| tributed to the decadence of China tells
| of a Chinese general who is supposed to
| have 10000 soldiers under his command
| but who keeps only 500 in service. On in
| spection day thousands of coolies are
| hired at eleven cents each, so that full
| lists may be returned to Pekin and a
| years pay obtained for the larger num-
| ber.
! Sir William c. Van Horne, late presi
| dent of the Canadian Pacific Railway,
and Thomas q. Shaughnessy, present
president of that Canadian corporation,
were born in the United States and re-
| ceived their railroad training in this
! country. James j. HILL one of the four
| or five great railroad organizers and
managers in the United States, was born
and spent the early years of his life on a
| bleak Canadian farm.
At the battle of Shiloh, Colonel Hen
derson, the probable speaker of the next
| congress, got lump of rebel lead which
has been source of trouble to him ever
| since The surgeons cut off his leg on
| the battlefield to save his life and made
| a poor job of it. The wound never
| healed, and four times since has that leg
| been amputated, the last time less than
a year ago. The quality of Colonel Hen
| dersons nerve may be judged by the
| fact that on that occasion he declined to
| take ether, but sat up on the operating
table and directed the operation himself.
| Three times before it had been badly
| done without his supervision, and this
! time he intended to have 1t right. In
many respects Colonel Henderson, writes
| w. L. Curtis, is the opposite of eX-
| Speaker Reed. He has a soft heart, which
! Reed has not He will cry like a baby
at the funeral of a friend or when some
! poor old soldier tells him a story OF sOr-
row and distress, and he has even been
| known to wipe his eyes at the theater
over the imaginary wrongs of the hero
| ine. Mr.. Reed never shed tear,
r. z. Scott the inventor and million
aire of Cadiz, Ohio, who is a candidate
| for the Republican nomination for con-
| gress from the SiXteeEtE district, has is
| sued a card to the public in which he
| says: "I propose that the nomination be
put up at auction and knocked down to
| the highest bidder 1 will lead off with a
| $4,000 bid for the place, and, to beat the
| Garfield law, not give anything to get
| elected, but if elected, will donate the
| salary as it comes due TO sending four
| students from each county to college,
| giving them $500 each or $3.50 a year, or
| IL any county prefers may have two
students at $500 year. If n congress-
man should pay for the honor, why not
do 1t in a legitimate way and tender a
| great good to the community, instead Of
prostituting our ideas of liberty and con-
| stitutional government by buying votes?
| If we want bossism and corruption, let
| us be honest and cut sham out Let us
| get together and say we are a set of pol
luted scoundrels, we like 1t and prefer
| to keep 1t up. If you do this | Will agree
to put more genuine corruption into the
canvass than any other man or suffer
| defeat at the polls"