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Morris tribune., 1899-01-14
Silent Nuns,

There are several communities of
silent monks-as, for instance, the
Trappists-but these are not at all
surprising in comparison with a
community of silent women, such as
are to be found in the convent near
BiarritZ These silencieuses, or 81
lent sisters, never speak except to
their mother superior and then only
upon necessary business When they
are at meals, book is read, and ev-
cry Friday they eat their dinner
kneeling If one of the sisters loses
her father or mother, she is not told
of the loss. The mother superior
simply assemblies the community
and says, The father or mother of
one of you is dead y In this way
the silent women cease to have in
dividual interest in anything or
anything to talk about. Seven hours
are spent in prayer and the rest of
the day in cultivating gardens and
doing different kinds of laborious
work They wear white flannel
clothes with cross of black on
their backs when at work on week
days On Sundays and festivals they
wear black.
Morris tribune., 1899-01-14
Health value Of a Hobby.

A well known doctor is convinced
of the health value of a hobby. He
says, If you cannot find pleasure
in the study of the very many won
ders that surround you, if you care
not for geology, natural history or
astronomy, collect walking sticks,
buy and cherish old and cracked
china, fiji up albums and scrap
books, or even gather together au-
tographs and postage stamps; any
thing sooner than be idle =
Morris tribune., 1899-01-14

ACTIVE SOLICITORS WANTED.
EVERYWHERE for THE Story of the
Philippines" by Murat Halstead. com mis-
stoned by the Government as Official
Historian to the War Department The
book was written in army camps at San
Francisco. on the Pacific with General
Merritt in the hospitals at Honolulu, in
Hong Kong, in the American trenches at
Mauiia. in the insurgent camps with
A gtilnaldo. on the deck of the Olympia
with Dewey, and in the roar of battle at
the fall of Manila. Bonanza for agents.
Brimful of orig ina1 pictures taken by gov
ernment photographers on the spot.
Large book. Low prices. Big profits.
Freight paid. Credit given. Drop all
trashy unoffidial war books. Outfit free,
Address, F. T. Barber, Sec'y. Star Iusur-
ance Bldg, Chicago. 45t16
Morris tribune., 1899-01-14
HUNGRY IN LONDON.
Eard For Stranger to Get Meal After
Midnight.

Is q >
Gard For Stranger to Get Meal After
Midnight.
Americans who have penetrated
as far away from home as London
remark, as one of the more striking
peculiarities of that metropolis, the
extraordinary difficulty in getting
something to eat there after mid
night, says Harper s Weekly. There
are perhaps so open all night res
taurants in New York, and in all
considerable American cities pro-
vision is made for people who have
occasion for food when most people
are asleep. The restaurant wagons,
which have come to be familiar in
most American cities, do business
from sunset to sunrise or later, and.
in themselves form a sufficient safe
guard against nocturnal famine.
London seems not to have developed
even these itinerant Ravens.
Mr.. Julian Ralph lately commune
Gated to the London Mail a distress
ing narrative Though happy in its
ending) of the anguish of an Ameri-
can gentleman who left Paris with
Aothing more than cup of coffee
in him, omitted to take food at Bou-
logne or on the boat CT find it's
throwing money overheard TO eat
crossing the channel''), and who
found himself in London after miu-
night, $50 hungry that I was all
one clamorous appetite with hat
on and a suit of clothes " There was
not a bite of anything at his hotel
He had not telegraphed. He was
recommended to consult a cabman.
Cabby took him to proprietary
club, where he was at first refused
adInittance and afterward told that
he could get in by signing an appli
cation for membership and paying
an initiation fee, but as there was
no food in the house except few
sandwiches he retired
A house near by was said to con
tain food, which could be had at a
cost of a guinea for chop, guinea
for potato and SO on. That didn't
do, either Then the cabby, touched
by the anguish of his fare and as
sured that the plainest food would
more than satisfy man the sides
of whose stomach were knocking
together like castanets, drove to "a
little green cabin stranded in the
roadway in Piccadilly, y frequented
and sustained by cabmen, and there
the suffering American got the steak
and potatoes and bread and tea that
his system clamored for. The food
was good and the company genial
and well hammered, SO the story
ended with the return of a happy
man to his hotel, but he still Won
ders that the habits of London
should be SO very different from the
habits of American cities. #~
Other Americans have been heard
of whose experiences have stirred
iN them the same surprise. One of
them is Mr.. Ralph himself, who
says: Why London does not de-
mand all night restaurants I don't
know. except it be that the English
have developed the home, their love
of it and its capacity for giving sat
isfaction as no other people have.
And England, be it remembered, is
all English. -
Morris tribune., 1899-01-14
VGstiblled Trains Dining Car
TIME CARD--MORRIS,

ACCOM-. DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Morris tribune., 1899-01-14
Skin Diseases.

For the speedy and permanent cure of
letter, salt rheum and eczema, Cham
berlain's Eye and Skin Ointment is
without an equal. 1t relieves the itch
ing and smarting almost instantly and
its continued use effects permanent
cure. It also cures itch, BARRIERS itch.
scald head, sore nipples, itching piles,
chapped hands, chronic sore eyes and
granulated lids.
Morris tribune., 1899-01-14
That nenends.
Il don't understand. =

Hoax-Is this your little baby9
Joax -Sometimes.
Il don't understand.
why, when we're among my.
relatives it's mine, but to my wife's
folks it's never anything but our
Mary's baby. - Philadelphia Rec
ord.
Morris tribune., 1899-01-14

DR.. Cady's Condition Powders for
horses are the best tonic, blood purifier
and verlnifuge. Price. 25 cents. Sold by
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20
The Trust Issue.

Speaking of trusts, President Adams
of Wisconsin university, asks: ut
would be impossible to claim that there
is liberty if the man with a shovel and
the man with a cart cannot agree to
combine their interests and work to-
gether. But such a combination in its
essential features would be a trust as
much as any other. Is congress to
say that 100000 may combine with
half a dozen men, but Sl,0OO,0OO may
not combin, with a thousand?"
Certainly not. But congress, for in
terstate business, and the various
state legislatures for the business
which is transacted within state linn
it's, are to say that neither the little
combine nor the big is to violate with
impunity the common principles of
business equity and honor without
standing in peril Of correctional disci-
pline, through fine, restriction of privi-
lege or complete forfeiture of charter.
This is the future of the trust ques-
ton.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20
Favorable to Archibald.

With the Democratic convention out
of the way, the men who write about
state politics for the Philadelphia
newspapers have turned again for sub
ject matter to the Archibald supreme
court boom, and are giving, from day
to day, a bewildering variety OF fore
casts and opinions, no two of which
agree. These representations are
politically valueless, but they at least
suffice to keep the name and career
of thc Lackawanna jurist before the
people, which is helpful
with the Republican state conven-
tion unlikely to be called until the cool
days of September, there Is no occasion
for premature excitement concerning
its work. hut as the situation stands
today. Judge Archbald's friends have
every reason to feel encouraged and
every incentive to push forward the
campaign of education decided upon at
the recent mass meeting held in this
city in his interest.
with the Democratic nominee repre-
scntinc the southwestern section of the
commonwealth, the western represent
ed hy Justice Dean, of Blair, the south
eastern represented by Justice Green,
Of northampton and Philadelphia hav-
ing three members out of seven, the
geographical conditions are at last fa-
vor&bl, t. the success of a candidacy
representing lifelong neglected anthra-
cit" counties; and when, in addition,
there Is general recognition of Judge
Archbald's fitness quite without re-
gard to locality, the situation, we say,
is uncumronly cheerful.
Let the merits of the Archibald can
didacy continue to be made known
throughout the commonwealth. Its
hour seems at hand.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20
Strike While the Iron Is Hot.

While SCrantOn's direct interest in
the export trade is not so large as
that of certain other communities, it
is sufficiently important to Justify the
Board of Trade in cooperating to the
extent of it's ability with the promoters
of the National Export exposition, the
scope and extent Of which were well
set forth last evening by Mr.. E. p.
Cowell in the address which we repro
duce in substance on this page.
AS he points out, the time is cer-
tainly propitious for such a reaching
out for new markets The United
States has recently been advertised as
never befOrc--nOt alone in war and
war-lke accomplishments, proficiency
in which, among certain classes of
foreigners, is the necessary prelmin-
airy to improved commercial relations;
but also in almost all the branches of
manufactured production. Our goods
have gone further, made a more favor
able impression and attracted greater
attention during the past year or two
than in decades previous; and it is a
sound maxim to strike while the iron
is hot.
The National Export exposition is
an admirable device for striking the
hot iron. It's success will reflect itself
in American business prosperity in all
lines of trade.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20
Cuba and Congress.

In what might be called administra-
tion organs there is appearing through
out the country a demand that the next
congress give the president power to
lay down a definite policy for Cuba and
end the suspense which is now the one
great obstacle 10 Cuban development
The fact is noted that while to all ap-
pearances Cuba is already pacifed to
the extent that war has ceased and
brigandage been reduced to a mini
mum, and that while the sanitary con-
dition Of the island is now better by
far than il has ever been before and the
arrangements for the prompt and hon
est administration of the islands af-
cairs are superior to any hitherto in
vogue;-in other words, that while
American occupation has established
the political institutions of Cuba on
a modernized basis, yet in an economic
sense the island is still at standstill
New capital does not invest old capital
is apprehensive; public and Industrial
works, so urgently needed for the en-
ployment of the men who are now quit
y
army, are not being opened up and
productivity speaking there is a state
of suspended animation, The richest
spot in the world is yielding crops
barely sufficient to sustain the island s
decimated population and there are
visible few signs Of immediate improve
ment.
What is the trouble? Uncertainty as
TO the Islands future. The men who
own property will take no measure to
improve it until they are satisfied that
there is to be stable government
capable Of protecting them in their
investments and putting upon them
burdens of taxation no larger than
honest administration requires. The
men who have inactive capital to in
vest in opening up new enterprises will
not take the risk of the chaos which
they foresee as a speedy result of
American withdrawal. The result is that
throughout the island such property
as has escaped the ravages Of the in
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus,
The Tribune Astrologer.
Astrolabe Cast: 41S a. m, for Tuesday,
June 20, 1899.
&s G s

A child born on this day will notice
that the sweet girl graduate with the
largest roll of hair on her forehead does
not always possess the greatest intel
ligence.
Many who imagine that they are born
leaders of men are better fitted TO walk
with a hickory stick in front of a yoke
Of oxen.
Much depends upon the condition of
the scorers liver whether the batsman
makes a base hit or some one gets an
error.
Flattery generally produces a pleasant
effect on the subject, even when he is
aware that it is fattery.
Now that the huckleberry season has
opened no one ought to care a fig for
the peach crop.
There seems to be considerable proxy
about the city solicitorship OF Scranton,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20

A revolt against f. Benjamin An
drews as superintendent of the Chica-
go public schools, which is just now
making itself felt in the Windy City,
illustrates the difficulties of the con-
scientious superintendent who strives
to make the schools of a city what
they should / DR.. Andrews is de-
nounced as au'ocratlc ana fought on
account of his alleged assumption Of
authority, all because he contends that
the practical head of the schools should
have hand in employing the teachers,
in deciding the conditions of promo
ton and supervising educational af-
fairs generally. The politicians resent
this, as do their incompetent proteges
whose tenure of position it threatens
but educated opinion sustains the sup
erintendent and it Is believed that he
will win. In theory, at least, a super
intendcnt should superintend. If he is
not competent to do that he is UNIT to
draw pay while nominally filling his
Office.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20

surrectionary wars or the torch of the
marauding bandits stands today tenant
less and non productive, an ominous
testimonial to the paralyzing effects OF
uncertainty and dread.
That congress, in pledging the United
States to withdraw its troops and in
fluence from Cuba the moment that
pacification is accomplished, acted un-
wisely Is now generally conceded. The
congress which took this action acted
before II had full knowledge of the sit
uation. The same body. II called to do
this thing over again, would today act
very differently because 1t knows now
that Cuba is long way removed from
the capacity for stable self-govern-
ment and because 1t realizes in the
light of experience that the fewer the
initial pledges in an unfamiliar en-
terprise the fewer the subsequent en-
barrassments and the greater the free
dom of effort That which is done can
not be recalled, but there Is no reason
why the next congress should not, as
the Philadelphia Press suggests,
supplement and correct the work of tho
last by announcing with emphasis that
the United States will not withdraw
from Cuba until Cuba is Enthusiastically
fitted for self-control and that, in any
event, it will guarantee the future pro-
lection of capital invested during our
military control. An announcement like
this is needed to dispel the mists which
are fast gathering around Cuba's
economic outlook.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20
REXFORD'S.
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Ever stop to think what a con-
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the privacy it secures you at hotels
the hundred and one uses tc
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Every one warranted. One dol
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20

Relative to the Hogdson- -Schey con-
troversy, the New York Sun affirms
that Hodgson said to Paul Dana, in
Rear Admiral Philips presence, that
Schley at Santiago said: Damn the
Texas; let the Texas take care of her
self" This, With the other evidence
now in the public's possession, raises
an unavoidable question of veracity
which the navy department is in honor
bound to investigate. Let there be a
court of inquiry
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20

why should private and official ad-
vices from the Philippines so radically
disagree? while General otis is al
ways just on the point of closing the
whole thing up, the private advices are
unanimous that a long compaigH with
double our present force will be need
ed to pacify the island Of Luzon. Isn't
it about time for the war department
to awaken?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20
A Questionable Compliment.

He-"Dearest. you are my very life"
She-"Coming from you at this time
that's hardly complimentary"
He-"And why not, pray?"
She-"Becapse you were but moment
ago quoting that life is as tedious as an
oft-told tale "-Detroit Free Press.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20
THE TRAMP NUISANCE.


Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
Josiah FLINT has been Investigating
the relation between the tramps of the
United States and the railways of the
United States and has published the re-
suit of his investigation in a recent num-
ber of the Century. Mr.. Flint is espe-
cially equipped for this task. He is a
qualified and recognized tramp who has
long been free of the Guild of Hoboes.
He made his observations under cxcep-
tionally favorable conditions. He knows
its ways, its language, its modes of
thought. He has travelled the length
and breadth of the country as a tramp.
He was recently employed by a railroad
president, who for three years had been
hard at work endeavoring to shut out
tramps from the lines under his control
and wanted an expert opinion as to the
success of his efforts. His conclusions
are important and worthy of serious at
tention.
-:o:-
He says that there are $1,000 tramps
in this country; that every day in the
year at least one-third of tAls number
are on their travels; that the tramps Of
the United States now travel exclusively
by rail; and that they succeed in beating
the railroad companies 0f the United
States out of millions of dollars worth
Of transportation every year. As t costs
railroad exactly as much to transport
tramp as to transport a paying pas
senger this conclusion Is certainly OF
practical interest to the railways AMI
their stockholders. Even more impor-
tant is Mr.. Flint's conclusion that the
whole country suffers serious loss and
damage because of the free railway
transportation of tramps. He shows
that the railways make tramps by pro,
viding for them a temptingly easy meth
cd of trampiug; that they spread the
tramp nuisance over a muCh greater
stretch of territory than could be COW
cred by it IL the tramps were forced 10
take to the turnpikes; that they make it
next to impossible for the police TO To-
cate a criminal who is also a qualified
tramp; that they help to make the great
cities centers of criminallty, just as they
help TO make them centers Of trade and
population that We're 1t not for the gen
erosty of the railways toward the
tramps, the tramps would be far fewer
and far easier to deal with than they
are now.
-:o:-
It appears, then, that II Is exceedingly
desirable for tho well-heing of the COM
munity that the tramp should be driven
off the aill cads. II has been practi-
cally demonstrated that this Is perfectly
feasible by concerted action OF the rall-
way companies. This being so. the time
has come when the public is justified in
demanding such action by the railways.
For the American tramp has come to be
a portentous and an intolerable nuisance.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20

Robert p. Porter is the latest Amerl-
can to lament that our beef-packing-
efforts to skin the army He says
their foreign trade has been ruined
Knavery generally winds up in dis
aster. Let the beef packers practice
honest dealing and their trade will
survive all attacks
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20

The number of unterrifed leaders
who seem anxious to secure seats in
the German presidential boom band
wagon, must be rather discouragipg to
Colonel Bryan.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20

The Suez canal earned $17,50O,OO0
gross and over $9,OOOOOO net last year,
or more than 20 per cent. on the par
value of the capital. And yet people
question the earning powers Of
trans-isthmian canal in Nicaragua.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20

A boy of Is up in Connecticut con-
cluded to die for love of a girl who re-
PEELED his advances. 1t is probably
just as well that the matter was thus
settled, If he had grown to manhood
the chances are that he would have be-
come a wife-beater
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20

The Elmira Advertiser advocates a
curfew ordinance. One would have
supposed Elmra was usually quiet
enough TO make the passage of such
laws needless.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20

James Jeffries may now think that he
is good man." but wait until de-
cision against the home team causes a
demonstration from the western
"bleachers" at Athletic park!
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20
FIN LIE " s
One Week Devoted to
Shirt
w WaiSt
Selling
At Reduced Prices:

I'm order to get our stock
of Colored Shirt Waists
down to normal propor-
tions, we have made q
general reduction all along
the line and on
SATURDAY MORNING
our entire stock will be at
your disposal at tempting
prices.
The acknowledged SUI
periority of our line (which
is practically unbroken as
to sizes and a5sOrtment),
together with the lowness
OF price, should be induce
ments for the biggest
week OF Shirt Waist SELL
ing of the season, and we
have provided accordingly
by including every num-
ber i'm stock, comprising
Cambria, Percale
Scotch and French
Ginghanns.
Corded GinghamS and
PiQueS, Lie.
Sale opens Saturday
and continues for one
| week.
$40 and 5l2
LACKAWANNA AVENUE
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20

The Carlists are again rising. They
have just surrendered 1000 rifles at
Arcachon.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20

The success of the exposition is al
ready assured from the several stand
points of attendance of buyers; Of dis
plays of representative American pro-
ducts, and instruction and amusement
features, ana in management under the
auspices of the Commercial museums
and the Franklin institute. Applica-
tiOns for space are coming in so rapidly
that it is necessary this week to make
allotments of space; therefore, those
who are interested in this subject
should file their applications promptly
to insure favorable consideration.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20

Now that our government has COM
menCcd to issue rations of canned roast
beef to the Filipinos the difficulty in
that section may be solved sooner than
most Of us anticipate.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-20
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