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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-30
SAYINGS OF JOSH BILLINGS IN
ENGLISH.

Health is n loan at call.
a mule is a bad pun on a horse.
Wheat is q serial. / am glad of It.
A iib is lie painted in water culors.
Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.
Did you ever hear "A very rich man sing?
We have made justice a luxury Of civil
lization.
Wit without sense is a razor without
handle.
Old age increases us in wisdom-and in
rheumatism.
Face all things; even Adversely is polite
to mans face.
1t is easier to be harmless dove than
q decent serpent.
Beware of the man with half-shut eyes.
He's not dreaming
Time is money, and many people pay
their debts with IL.
Benevolence is the cream on the milk
OF human kindness.
People of good sense are those whose
opinions agree with ours.
1t Is little trouble to u craven image to
be patient, even in fly time.
Half the discomfort of life is the result
| of getting tired of ourselves.
Humor must fall out of a mans mouth
! like music out of bobolink.
Necessity is the mother of invention,
but patent right is the father.
Passion always lowers a great man but
sometimes eleVates n little one
Most men are like eggs, too full Of
| themselves to hold anything else.
Pleasure is like treaclc. Too much of
| it spoils the taste for everything.
Men nowadays are divided into slow
Christians and wide-awake sinners.
There are people who expect to escape
hell because of the crowd going there.
Manner is a great deal more attractive
than mattcr-ospecially in a monkey.
l have known folks whose calibre was
very small, but whose bore was very big.
Mice fatten slow in church. They can't
| live on religion, any more than ministers
| can.
| No man can be n healthy Jester unless
| he has been nursed at the breast of wis
| dem.
| Many a man has lost n good position in
| this world by letting go to spit on his
| hands.
Adversely to man is like training to a
pugiist. 1t reduces him to his fighting
| weight.
| There are two things in this life for
| which we are never fully prepared, and
| they are twins.
| If virtue did not so often manage to
make herself repulsive, vice would not be
| half so attractive.
| When lambs get through being lambs
| they become sheep. This takes the senti-
| mcnt out of them
Some men marry to get rid of them
| selves and find tnat the game is one that
| two can play at, and neither win.
! Fashion cheats the eccentric with the
clap-trap of freedom, and makes them
| serve her in the habliments of the har-
| lcquin.
| Monkeys never grow any older in eX-
preston. A young monkey looks exactly
| like his grandpapa melted up and born
| again.
| There are farmers so full of science
| that they won't set a gate-post till they
have had the earth under the gate-post
| analysed.
| Man was built after all other things
had been made and pronounced good. II
not, he would have insisted on giving his
orders as to the rest OF the job.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-30

York Prison association, Mr.
Il Charlton It. Lewis, after a
careful investigation of the
prisons of Cuba, recently reported to
the secretary of war that they are
grossly over-crOwded. "Assassins,
brigands, pickpockets and young men
charged with disorderly conduct or
merely suspected of slight Offenscs
are" said he, "hcrded together in abb
solute idlencss and unrestraincd in
tercourse. With no change of cloth
ing, no blanket on semblance of bed,
many hundreds sleep On bare stones,
where filth and vermin are kept down
only by constant sprinilng with disin-
feCtants. In some prisons the only
disinfectaut known is insect powder
and cases of tubcrCulosis, some Of
them far advanced, infect the rooms
and doubtless spread the seeds of the
disease. Moral and physical cOutagion
is promoted on a vast scale together.
Most of these prisoners have been
proved guilty of no offense. In this
hell upon earth they are held indetl-
nitely, while The judges of first in
stance investigate the charges. Each
of the judges has a secretary, who can
often secure a dismissal. but the pris-
oner without money or influence must
wait"
The effect of this report is thus in
dicated in a Havana dispatch: Gen
eral Wood says that one of the first
things he looked into after his arrival
was the management of prisons. In
vestigation has proved that, even
among American prisoners, there has
been an average detention of five
months without trial. There are many
things calling for immediate attention,
particularly in the matter of sleeping
accommodations. Reforms will be
promptly Instituted in this respect,
and hammOcks will be supplied, so
that the prisoners will not be COM
PEELED to sleep on the bare floors, as
is now the case with those who are
without friends or money Only a few
who are able to pay for them have
cots. He intends to make weekly visits
until majority of the existing abuses
are abated, and he is trying to devise
means that will insure prompt trial
for persons accused. General Wood
thinks than when his order goes into
effect calling upon all judicial officers
and military commanders to send com
plete lists of prisoners awaiting trial
the congestion Of untried prisoners
will he relieved within fifteen days
thereafter, and he does not intend that
similar conditions shall arise again"
What a pity there are not few
more Woods in connection with the
municipal governments in the United
States.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-30

Unsophisticated persons who have
read Professor Sherwood's remarks
upon trusts will no doubt wonder why
anything could ever have been said
against the combinations which, un-
der his eloquence, appear to represent
the acme of philanthropy. People who
are sufficiently posted upon current
events, however, to be able to avOi
the gold brick agent, will keep in mind
the stubborn fact that a combination
is seldom formed in business or politics
save for the purpose of getting the
best of the other crowd.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-30

Messing abuse that was being heaped
upon a colored girl who had been fire.
quently punished.
Mrs. Eyler, it will be remembered
was under the searchlight of investi-
cation some time ago on charges of
cruelty practiced upon the young peo-
pie in her charge and was able to de-
monstrate to the apparent satisfaction
of the committee of inquiry and many
others that she was an innocent ana
much-abused woman. The manner in
which the champions of the matron
will explain this last incident of un-
pleasantness will be awaited with in
terest by those who formed opinions on
the Katie Barlow affair.
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question is whether or not the COVER
nor had a constitutional right to ap-
point him. I have not had time yet to
give that question the special study
which its immense Importance deserves.
When have done so l shall know how
l shall vote. For that consideration
and that consideration alone will deter
mine the matter. This also is the case
with a great number of other sena-
tors"
The senate Of the United States is
better for the presence in it of a man
of this kind.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-30

\ Chicago woman claims to have
been swindled out of 1000 in her eff
fort to obtain a suitable husband
through matrimonial agency. This
Will be a matter of surprise to many
1t has not been generally understood
that anyone possessing an amount of
cash largely in excess of the registra-
tion fee ever consulted a matrimonial
agency when looking for life partner.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-30

1t is a matter of surprise that the
inventor of the corkscrew boat, which
is expected to develop speed of fifty
lyn. Kentucky, heretofore, has been
considered as unrivalled in the matter
of speed by means of the corkscrew.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-30

A Paris fortune teller has predicted
the death of Queen Victoria during the
year 1900. If the fortune tellers keep
on prophesying the death of the queen
few years more some one win be sure
to have predictions verified.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-30
Helped His Business.

Citizen-I suppose horseless carriages
have greatly injured your business?
Liveryman-On the contrary, l now
have more to do than ever.
CitiZen-How is that?
Liveryman-Well, you see all my horses
are kept busy pulling broken down auto.
mobiles back to town.--Ohio State Jour.
nal.
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Mrs. Eyler Again i'm Trouble.

Mt "s &..s s:s":::s %sSS9; %4''?a 's: 2: %';s; g;
4 y n. Trenton, n. j., Industrial
School for Girls, has just
had another experience. One of the
white inmates of the institution made
a murderous attack upon Mrs. Eyler
the other day with a butchers knife,
and came very near settling the ques-
tion that has puzzled the governor and
board Of trustees so long. BY the time
ly arrival Of police officer the matron
was saved from death and the Offend
ing girl has been placed on a diet of
bread and water In the darkest dungeon
OF the institution to mediate until the
matron or some one else Wills that she
shall be released. From facts that can
be CLEANED, It seems that the girl who
made the attack was one of the good
pupils who had never given the OFF,
cials of the institution trouble, but
mas prompted by indignation at Wit
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-30

Hon. Elliot Danforth, of the New
York Democratic committee, has
learned that the Democrats of the
South are willing to take Mr.. Bryan rs
a candidate without sterling silver trim
mings, therefore his recent Southern
trip has been to certain extent a
success.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-30

An exchange says that Congress
man Roberts has either the courage
inspired by a clean conscience or the
bravado Of bad man." Perhaps it is
only the bluff of a bold politician.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-30

ought manifest that anthracite
much cheaply than yield reasonable
class this community which branches industry
the anthracite should
a
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-30

The latest Panama canal scheme has
gone through the New Jersey trust
mill. Something definite upon the sub
ject may now be expected,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-30

EX-Commssioner Flanaghan now
realizes "how sharper than a SER
pent's tooth" it is to have a thankless
party.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-30

Paul Kruger went into war suffering
from ague, but he is now becoming as
confident as a man who has town lots
for sale.
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Reasons for a New Coal-Carrying Railroad.

of individual operators
anthracite transportation tide
ley and Kingston railroads. peculiar significance attaches to
Yesterdays egraphc reports
shipments of the Pennsylvania railroad originating its lines east of
Ptsbug Erie December 23d 1892 being
stanially the the contention
nave been gradually and in rapidly dpng
eastern markets The of the Pennsylvania rail-
road referred follows:
Anthracite 365O423 tons 3SO3343 tons
Btumnous d459 tons lss1s0ss tons
decrease shipments anthracite
little s shipments of bitumin-
of 243s4lo increase in
shipments There
son to that the business done by the Pennsylvania railroad in
not soft coal for several
certainly producers
of anthracite COAL but all who interested in the prosperity the
anthracite regions earnestly and obery consider the causes wh
lead this alarming substitution of bmnous and
anthracite
already
claimed individual
transportation companies make unreasonable dscm
naon bumnous against anthracite
the principal devong
their the line of transportation is to-
the by the
pnes carried what is known the go cent bas that
the tdewater
and transportation receiving
~ The proposed road has already entered into contracts Tor the
shipment of large quantities of coal basis and will
make freight much 1t
estimated this 20
operators
ing would necessarily the thus
public areing continued substitution
of soft coal for anthracite
shown by the following table, compiled from official
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TWELVE PAGES
SCRANTON, DECEMBER so, 1899.

The Molineux trial begins to resemble
a LaCkawanna county election contest
in the matter Of staying qualities.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-30
NEW
YEARS
GREETING
LEWIS, REILLY&D DAVIES


Wish the peaceful, honest
people of the world a Happy
New Year. We are happy
because we live in one of the
most prosperous cities, in
one Of the best counties, in
one of the largest states and
the greatest country that
man is privileged to live in.
Among the cities, towns,
etc., that we wish to remem-
Der in a particular way are
the following:
Wilkes Barre. Delaware
Kingston, Water Gap.
Bennett. Mauch Chunk.
Forty Fort. Preston Park.
Wyoming. Lake Como.
Parsons. PONntelle.
Miners Mills. Belmont.
Mill Creek. Pleasant.
Latin. Uniondale.
Hatesville. Forest City.
PittSton, CarbOndalc.
Duryea. White Bridge.
Lackawanna, Kingsley's.
Taylor Foster.
Avoca. 'actoryvile.
MoosiC. Nicholson.
Minooka. La Plume.
Hancock. Dalton.
Starlight. Glcnhurn.
Conklin. Clark's Summit.
Great Bend. Chinchilla,
New Milford. Nayfeld.
Afford. Nay Aug.
Georgetown. Dunmore.
IIaWley. Winners.
Horesdale. Maplewood.
Waymart. Lake Ariel.
Elmhurst. Jermyn.
Moscow. Archibald.
GOudsboro. WintOn.
Tobyhanna. Peckville.
Mount Pocono. Olyphant.
Pocono Summit. Dickson City.
Cresco. Throop,
HenryVille. Scranton.
SpragueVille. Binghamton.
Portland. Conklin Center.
Stroudsburg.
May they live long and prosper is the
wish of
LEWIS, REILLY &DAVlES
The hcrest and most extensive dealers
in boots. shoes, rubbers, etc, in North
eastern Pennsylvania.
114-1l6 Wyoming Ave.
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Y, would
o'clock They
drill breakfast
soldier
unusual with them three
to
valve"
a
rt
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-30
Outrage and Correction.

. HE PRESIDENT of the New
York Prison association, Mr..
Il Charlton II. Lewis, after a
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-04
BRADSTREET'S REVIEW.
A Slump in Prices-The Iron Market Is
Quiet.

Quiet.
New York, Feb 3.-Braustreets to-mor-
row will say: A falling off in specula tive
interest Is noticed in number of mar
kets this week. without. however. bring
ing to light any important impairment of
the underlying strength of the general
business. The outburst of last week in
wheat ana cotton in fact. must be re-
garded as furnishing vent for outside
speculative interest, because these sta
pies did not suddenly gain in strength
from causes located in these trades but
the activity was really result of an
overflow of speculation from the stock
market
The important price recessions of the
week are those noted in wheat and other
cereals. except oats. Immediately instru-
mental in bringing about this reaction
might be mentioned the final government
estimate of last years crop, placing 1t at
675,OO0d00 bushels, far in excess of earlier
estimates by the same authority, and ex-
ceeding all but the most sanguine of
trading estimates, which had generally
fixed upon $50 GuJ,000 bushels as the proba-
BILE maximum yield. The advance in
wheat checked export trade, but an i'm
provement In this direction is reported
at the lower range of values. A sympa-
thetic quieting down of interest in cotton
is noted.
The feature of the iron trade this week
is the announcement of the selling of
practically the entire output of the Lake
Superior ore mines for the coming year.
Large pig iron consumers appear to have,
temporarily at least, withdrawn from
the market and the iron markets as a
whole are quiet. An active demand for
finished products, however still continues
and steel plates, iron bars, rails, structur-
al and car material have been in active
request. with some important advances
reported, more particularly at Western
points.
feature, heavy advances lang reported
in "copper" tin, spelter and lead.
The strength of the lumber market is
feature and the scarcity of hardwoods
is still complained of. Leather is firm on
a slight Improvement in the tone of the
boot and shoe trade. Cold and stormy
weather, while interfering to some extent
with the wholesale distributive trade, has
been beneficial to retail lines, which have
made good sales of heavy clothing and
footwear. Spring trade has shown
further advance at a number of markets
and the outlook is regarded as a favora-
BILE one.
Wheat, including -four shipments. for
the week aggregate 6,5S5,41S bushels
against 4.977.922 bushels last week. 1885,
03o bushels in the corresponding week of
1898, 3,16s.746 bushels in 1897, 2.907a54 BUSH
els in 1896 and 2,020521 bushels in 1895.
Since July l this season the exports of
wheat aggregate $50. ST. 09 bushels against
$50, 1884 bushels last year.
Business failures for the week number
207 against 2fs last week and 297 in this
week a year ago.
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THOMAS RYAN ACQUITTED
Was Evidently a Victim of Cir
cumstances.
THE JURY INSTRUCTED
The Young Man Has Been Kept in Jail
Since the 23rd of October on a
Charge of Robbery Which
Was Not Sustained.

Thomas Ryan, a young miner, was
tried in Judge Clancy's court yesterday
on the charge of burglary and the evil
dence showed so conclusively that he
was an unfortunate victim of circum-
stances that the Judge ordered the jury,
at the conclusion of the evidence, to
return a verdict of not guilty. Ryan
had been in Jail since the 2Sd of last
October. The evidence seemed to show
that he came to Butte the day before
his arrest from Anaconda, where he
claims to have a number of friends.
Together with a friend named Sullivan,
he was looking for work in this city.
sullivan was rooming at the x. l.. N. Z.
lodging house on Lower Main street and
Ryan was stopping at the Arcade.
Ryan intended to change rooms and
went to the Arcade and got suit of
underwear, which he claimed to have
purchased in Anaconda. He wrapped
them up in bundle and then went
to the X. l.. N. T. house to visit Sulli-
van, but could not find the number of
the room Sullivan had given him and
he gave up the search and went to the
Imperial theater, where he had fire.
quently seen his friend hoping to find
him there. The proprietor of the lodg-
ing house, a man named Spring, saw
Ryan go out with the bundle under his
arm and at once concluded that he had
stolen something and followed him out
and accused him of stealing. Ryan told
Spring he was a liar, but Spring had
him arrested. When I man named Fall
mer, who roomed at the X. l.. N. T..
heard of the matter and found that his
room looked disturbed and discovered
that suit of his underclothes was
missing, he claimed that the suit Ryan
had belonged to him, but he could not
positively identify it. Spring claimed
that after his arrest Ryan had made a
practical confession of guilt to him By
pleading that he had been drunk
Ryan was crying nearly all through the
trial. At the conclusion of the testi-
mony his attorney, Mr.. Gilchrist,
moved the court to instruct the jury to
acquit, which was done.
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Canneries Shut Down.

Vancouver. B. c., Feb. sit is stated
that the banks have shut down on the
Is canneries in British Columbia, owing
to their inability to carry on business UNI
der the present Dominion regulations.
Three bank managers are quoted as say
Ing that with the present regulations
Gamers cannot can and all the smaller
concerns must so to the wall.
1t means loss to the province of $4,000
900 and loss to Vancouver alone of
100000. G. l. Wilson, the largest individ-
ual Gamer on the Fraser. said:
Il have sold two of my canneries in
Canada and am looking for site in the
United States About 20 of the so Gamer
les will move to the United States should
this laundering Canadian government in
sist upon enforcing the regulations with
the idea of barring American fish and
fishermen. The rest will go out of bust
ness
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BUTTE News.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT
May Lathrop Begins Another
Suit for Damages.
BILLBOARD FELL ON HER
She Sues the City and the Grand Opera
House Company for S11, $50.
Frances Begins an Action
for a Divorce.
BILLBOARD FELL ON HER

May Lathrop yesterday commenced
another suit for damages against the
city of Butte and also named the Grand
Opera House company as a defendant.
On the 4th of las. November, Miss La
throp was walking a.org the intersec-
ton of Utah avenue and Platinum
street and big opera house bill board
was blown upon her by the Wind. She
was seriously injured. the injuries to
her spine, hip and lower limbs peirg
of a permanent nature. She was cor
fined to the hospital for three months,
and she demands judgment for Slice.
The plaintiffs in a suit Of F. Aug.
Heinze and A. P. Heiaze against the
Boston & Montana company, yesterday
petitionCd the court for an extension
of 20 days in the time for making an
examination and survey of that portion
of the Dayton lode claim, the proper
ty in controversy between the parties.
An e: tension of the order permitting
the survey is also asked for so as to
permit the plaintiffs to survey and ex.-
anime all the I'm leg :Uuaa workings
in the Gambetta lode in the possession,
of the defendants and of all the work
ings in connection with the Leonard
shaft in the Piccolo lode claim. Aft
daVltS were MADE by James McF'arlane
and George Robinson to show the ne
cessity of an extension OF time and for
making the additional surveys.
Frances Leslie Spear yesterday began
an action for divorce against David D.
Spear on the grounds Of desertion and
non-support. She says they were mar
ried at Fort Madison, Iowa, September
"a, 1890, and that they have one child,
a girl eight years old While they were
living in Chicago in June. 1897, the de-
PENDANT wi1fully deserted the plaintiff
and has contributed nothing to her
support since then. For a year before
he left her, he caused her great men,
tai pain and distress by using abusive
language to her.
Judge Leslie of Great Falls will pre-
side in department 1 of the district
court to-day and will hear the follow
ing matters which are on the calendar:
Estate of Andrew J. Davis petition
of Joseph Coram and hearing on claim
of H. A. Root; estate of Susa A. Smith,
settlement of account; estate of John
H. Berry, petition for letters: estate of
Frederick Huxham, petition for letters;
estate of A. C. White, petition for rro-
bate of will; estate of McNamee min
ors, petition for letters; estate of N.
B. Davidson. return of sale of personal
order to show cause; estate of Albert
]. Lee, petition for letters; estate Of
Thomas Macarthur, order to show
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-04
Winner Takes All.

Grand Rapids. Mich, Feb. 3.-After
working the wires nearly all day, Martin
Julian and ORourke have settled the
dispute over the $500 check put up by
Sharkey to cover Fitzsimmons' forfeit.
The check is to be changed to cash to-
morrow and all parties are to meet in
Chicago or New York next week to sign
articles for the fight, which is to be for
Is rounds or more, the winner to take ALL
the fight to take place before the club Of
fering the best purse, barring the Lenox
Athletic club of New York.
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Rehind Closed Doors,

Washington. Feb. 3.-The war investi-
cation commission continued the prepara-
ton Of the report to the president behind
closed DOORS as usual. to-day. No reply
has been received to the telegram adj
dressed by the commission to James Far
nan, at Chester, Pa, requesting him to
come here for the purpose of testfying
as to the alleged embalming of beef for
the army, which it has been said he saw
while at South Omaha last year. A mem
Der of the commission said to-day that
the report is nearly ready for submission
to the president