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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-06

EXPERT GOLD AND COPPER SHARE
ADVICE.
To ascertain values of mining shares,
write me for particulars and rates. Ben
iamin A Block. Times building, Denver
Col Financial and banking references.
MONEY TO LOAN on furniture, persona.
property collateral securities; rates IL
per cent per month for first-class loans
Worcester Collateral Loan Association,
State Mutual building room $685. Charles
e. Burnham. treasurer.
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G. CHANDLER,
Investment
Securities.
Room 529, State Mutual Building.
WORCESTER, MASS.
NOW 10 GENTS, EAK $1.oo.

worcestershire. Owns Il mines in Mon
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prospeCtor, with better chances. Com
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Send for details to f. A. Williams. sec'y,
Peoples Bank building. Denver, Col.
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Ever carries off the bile and improves
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ON TRACK in Heart Of City.
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RAILROADS.
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Frederick G. Chandler returned home
yesterday from a visit to his zinc pro-
perties in Missouri. They are located
just outside of Joslin and rank among
the most promising finds IN the zinc
fields.
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THE COTTON MARKET.

New York, June 5.-Cotton futures
closed quiet. June, SIS: July, 5.92; Aug,
8 g; Sept, 5,S9; Nov, "a; Dec, $50; Jan,
602; Feb, sos; March, 500; April, 6.12;
May els
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SUCCESSFUL
INVESTORS

are those who purchase the first Issue Of
stock IN a company of merit; the Hartford
and copper properties; development v 5G.E
discloses enormous bodies of conner "a
gold ore, which assay $40 to $3.50 Der ton an
ton at sea level. a limited amount ~
treasury stock will be sold at o cents nsr
share par value 81; prospectus and fnr-
ther INFORMATION on duplication HART
FORD COPPER & GOLD MINING 90
Exchange pl.. room So. Boston.
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TREASURY STATEMENT.

Receipts, June .......T "a 479 205 40, 900
Estimates, June .....I2l5 1886 AGO % 900
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INSURANCE.

State Mutual Life Assurance Co,
Insurance in force Jan. 1, 1899. 1853, ,2lS %
Liabilities Jan. !, 1899. ........ 18'2l5, 4l0 IN
Surplus Jan. l, 1899. 1,46S $50 96
Loans made on real estate MORTGAGES,
A G. BULLOCK, President,
HENRY NJ. WITTER. Secretary.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-18
PERSONALITIES.

Queen Victoria sternly forbids smoking
in any part of Windsor Castle.
Mrs. Richard L. Bland is collecting ma
terial for a life of her late husband the
famous congressman.
The Rev. George Decker Grundy, who
has just celebrated his ninety-second
birthday is Englands oldest vicar.
DR.. G. S. Burroughs will retire from
the presidency of wabash college, of In
dianapolis, early in the fall to go TO
Oberlin
The Austrian Count Oppersdorf has
| given $4,000 for a monument TO Kaiser
Wilhelm l., to be erected by Zumbusca
| in Strassburg.
The intention of the Earl Of Dunmore
TO explore New Caledonia is said to be
| not wholly unconnected with the recent
| reports of marvellous gold discoveries in
| that colony.
Senor Don Eduardo Lopez dc Romano
the new president of Peru. was sent 70
| England by his parents when he was
only ten years old, to be educated at
| Stonyhurst college.
A years leave of absence has been
| granted Professor J. Mark Baldwin, of
| Princeton. in order that he may see the
| Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychol-
ogy' through the press in England.
TIL noted German actress, Agnes Sor-
| ma, who was in this country last wear,
|
in Paris during the exposition, where she
will appear at the Gynnase theater.
| DIR. j. Walter Fewkes, of the Smthson-
ian institution, Washington, will go TO
| Arizona next month to continue the in
vestigationS Of the Moqui Indian life,
which have engaged his attention for the
| past ten years.
| United States Senator Hansbrough, of
| North Dakota, acquired his education in
a newspaper Office. In 1870 he was an
| apprentice in the composing room Of the
San Francisco Chronicle, and gradually
worked his way up till he became news
editor of the paper.
| Colonel John Sobieski, who is living un-
pretentiously in Ncvsho, Mo-, is the sixth
| iineal descendant of King John Sobieski,
OF Poland, the hero who became Chris
| tiacity's champion when the Mohammed-
ans were at the gates of Vienna. The
Colonel worked his passage to New Yo:K
at the age of IL, served in the Civil war
and got his present rank in the Mexican
army. His father led the revolt of 1916.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-18
How to Curb Trusts.

~ Ut OF THE multiplicity of
words at the Chicago trust
conference some wisdom was
evolved. Professor John Gra-
ham Brooks. of Harvard university
presented a definite contribution TO the
general fund of information and sug"
gestion when he pointed out that, IN
asmuch as the tendency toward con-
solidation of business enterprises could
not be outlawed it is desirable to sur
round it with concrete safeguards, OF
which he proposed
% Absolute publicity of methods ara
accounts.
(2) The removal of every artificial
advantage given by the tariff.
C3) Prevention of discrimination by
railroads in favor of large shippers, es-
pecially trusts.
These propositions involve difficult
but not impossible operations of law.
Publicity of methods and accounts may
be exacted as a condition of charter
privileges and it's advantage would lie
to expose over r-capitaliza ton and pro-
tect the unwary from deceptive invest
ments in watered securities. When the
state grants charter it confers upon
the recipients of the charter certain
advantages, in consideration of which
it may not unreasonably assert the
right to exercise such measure OF
supervision as it shall deem essential
to the public welfare. Whether such
supervision would be effective would
depend upon the honesty and intelli-
gence with which it should be eXer-
cised, but effective supervision need
not he considered impossible.
Removal of artificial tariff advant-
ages is in line with the true theory of
protection, which aims simply to equal
ize competitive conditions, protecting
the home producer and home laborer
from injury at the hands of foreigners
| but not establishing home monopoles
with power to extort from home con-
| sumers artificial profits. When a par
| ticular tariff rate ceases to be pro-
| tective and becomes an instrument oi
| oppression 1t should be lowered to the
| protective level or dispensed with Ell.
tirely. This should not be an impos.
sible task for honest and intelligeu.
craftsmanship.
Lastly, prevention of discrimination
by railroads means that common car
riers, which owe their existence to pub
lie concessions, shall be held strictly Il
a policy Of fair dealing with tie public
This is unassaiable in theory and i
will become reasonably effective in
practice whenever the powerful force o.
an educated public opinion shall b,
brought to bear with determination
upon the makers and upon the en-
forcers of the laws relating to intra
and Interstate commerce,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-18
A Man We Like.


We like you, Tommy Lipton-Sir and all,
sir--yes we do;
You're what is called in Fellowship
genuine true blue:
You've stood square by your colors, and
we like man for that;
SO here's a hip-hoora for you, while off
comes every hat!
In you the gentleman reveals the uni
versal plan;
You're manly as a sportsman ana you re
manly as a man;
We like the way your jib Is cut, your
mainsail and your spanker;
In fact, Sir Tom, we like you, sir, from
topmast down to anchor!
We like your honest brogue, Sir Tom;
we've had II here so long
'Tis firmly interviewer with our poetry
and song;
What Byron said to Tommy Moore was
earnest as twas true,
And we repeat to you, Sir Tom, his
Here's a health to you"
We like the Shamrock, too, Sir Tom; she
comes in with the rest:
But we rather like the Columbia little
bit the best;
But when the mighty trial comes, and
both begin to spin,
We want-like you, Sir Tom-we want
the better boat to win!
But, most of all, Sir Tom, VIC want,
whatever else betide,
That sportsmanlike good fellowship shall
first and last abide;
So, while you touch the harp, Sir Tom
the Eagle in the blue
Screams with our one united voice-"Long
life and health to you!''
w. S. S., in New York Tribune.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-18
September Masquerading.

She borrowed summers emerald dress,
She twined gay flowers in her hair
Her eyes shone clear she sweetly smiled
We could but own her fair.
And so we gave her answering smile,
Nor stopped to grieve for summer fled,
The whole September played her flutes,
And warm, bright hours sped.
We roamed with her DER woods and
fields,
And loitered by the shimmering tide,
And with each days felicity
Were more than satisfied,
But oh! one morn her eyes were dim,
Her hair was gray, her smile had fled
Her trailing robes were lustreless-
We grieved for summer dead.
Truth.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-18

light rails, n limited quantity OF rolling
stock OF bad quality and a still more
limited number of employees. In a word,
all was prepared for a sleeping coun-
try. What must be Zone now? 1t will
be to change the light rails for heavier
ones, to renew the roadbed, to lengthen
and 30 increase the number of sleepers,
also TO build switch stations at small
intervals on the line in order to in
crease the number of trains, and TO
change the wooden bridges for iron
bridges. 1t has also been found abso-
lutely necessary to build large ware
houses TO preserve cereals at various
points along the line"
This significant development has ex-
tended in other directions. We quote
from another consular report: The OBJ,
one of the worlds biggest rivers. emp
tying through the gulf of oh into the
Arctic ocean, has 102 steamers and 200
tugs running already. On the Yenisei,
ten steamers carry the mails regularly.
The mouths of both these rivers were
visited last summer by English and
Russian ships. This proves the prac-
ticability of connecting eastern and
western Siberia with Europe by water.
The mouth of the OBJ is to be deepened
and wharvcs are to be built On the
coast of the Usuri country there Is
regular postal communication between
Nicolajevsk, Eladivostock, and inter-
vcning places, as well as connection
with japanese ports and Port Arthur
From Odessa and st. Petersburg to
various Asiatic ports runs the so-called
volunteer fleet, established in 1873. 1t
has fourteen steamers with 115,5OO tons
displacement. In war they = can he
armed; in peace they carry freight,
travellers, migrants and troops"
The American who desires to be
abreast of the worlds large movements
will need to keep watch upon Russia.
II is to be the land OF future surprises.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-18
Not to Be Trapped.

~ WING TO the squabble of GER
tain labor agitators in Chica-
~ go, which threatens to in
volve the president of the
United States, it is announced that the
latter may feel compelled to decline
TO take part in the ceremonies connect
I'd with the laying, on October /, of the
corner stone of the new government
building which is to be erected in that
city InasmuCh as this was to have
been an occasion of very widespread
interest, graced by the presence Of
President Diaz, of Mexico, Premier
Laurier, of Canada, and other men Of
international renown, it is desirable
that the facts of the squabbling should
be made known. We offer them up
on the authority of the Chicago Times
Herald, which says:
when it was decided to erect a new
government building in Chicago there
was the usual advertising for bids
and the usual award of contracts. A
Maine concern received the order to
supply the stone and this concern en-
ploys non-union labor. A fight was
at once begun by local labor unions to
force the Maine people to discharge
their non-union men and to engage
union men in their places. As the
Maine contractors were masters of the
situation in their own state it was
impossible to beat them in a straight
encounter, so the effort was made to
coerce them indirectly. Officials Of the
government were invited with threats
TO intervene in the controversy and the
bugaboo of politics was invoked
"The government, which had given
out It's awards on business principles,
was held by it's contracts, and II was
not compatible with its dignity, its
honor or its interests that it should per-
NIT itself to be used as a club by a
party to a private dispute, Legitimate
ly the question was still a question
between the contractors and their en-
ployes alone. 1t was known that the
president had been asked to Chicago to
lay the corner stone of the new build
ing. His presence here was to be made
the occasion Of great public cere-
mony. The city was to be the scene
OF a splendid festival, which would
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-18
The Golf Maid.


As we sit and dream in the silent porch
Together, my pipe and I,
A cloud of smoke from the old brown
bowl
Floats up to the dapple sky;
And watch through its dim, enchanted
haze
A little sunbonnet go
In shadow and shine DER the grassy links
That lie in the vale below.
For early and late, all the long, bright
day,
1t is busy fitting there,
With q caddie wandering in its train,
While the white ball flies in air;
Il sunbonnet ancient of pattern, such
As Priscilla's sweet self wore
When she walked with the homesick Pill
grim maids,
Long since, on an alien shore.
And the jolly lads in the Jackets red
There's never a one goes by
But he slacks his pace and he turns his
head,
And he feels his heart beat high
At the glance he gets and the bloom he
brings
To the roguish face within
That sheltered scoop, with its soft strings
tied
In a knot beneath her chin.
But bide my time on the silent porch
For I know whom she loves best,
And that by and by, when the game is
done,
And the day lies in the west,
She will hang the sunbonnet on her arm,
And the peeping stars will see
What a soft light lies in her happy eyes,
AS she wanders home with me!
M. L. w, in New ORLEANS Times-Demo-
Crat.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-18
From the Age of Gold.

Enthralled within the sculptured stone
she slept,
TIL one strange kiss some unknown
barrier broke:
Then through the marble bosom warmed
and crept
Lifes wine-and 10! she woke,
Such was the legend, dearest, once they
dreamed,
Long, long ago, in their lost Age of
Gold,
When wiser, sweeter, truer than they
seemed,
The childish tales they told!
For was not I, who slept and knew it not
All, was not l. who dreamed my whole
life through,
When my dumb lips your saddened lips
first sought,
Awakened thus by you?
Arthur S. Stringer, in the Bookman.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-18
To Uncle Paul Kruger.

Keep your powder good and dry, Dom
Paul;
Never close your weather eye, Dom Paul;
Have your rifle clean and bright;
Look to fore and after sight.
They are planning day and night
You will need to watch them all,
Dom Paul, Dom Paul.
Shoot to kill 'em when you shoot, Dom
Paul;
They are coming for the loot, Dom Paul,
They'll be gathering you in,
Just as sure as sin is sin,
For they know you have the "tin"-
You must battle for 1t all,
Dom Paul, Dom Paul.
Then get out your little gun, Dom Paul;
For YOU don't know how to run, Dom
Paul,
Don't discuss about the right,
When a rattlesnakes in sight,
And his pizen head shows fight,
Don't you do a thing at all,
Not a thing to him at all,
Dom Paul, Dom Paul.
james Jeffrey Roche in Boston Pilot.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-18

crafty a host of patriotic American
citizens from the locality and from
abroad. Chicago was bound by every
consideration Of courtesy and self-in-
tcrest to so manage the celebration
that II should be without hitch or dis
agreeable incident Of any sort.
at this point the unions threatened
to abstain from participation in the
affair i'm body and to hamper the
work of entertainment wherever they
could by calling off their members
from every employment that had 20 do
with the reception of the visitors.
Worst Of all, they resorted to nasty
trick. The Bricklayers' and Stone Ma
sons union voted TO Issue n card of
honorary membership to President
Mckinley with n distinctly dishonor-
able purpose in view. He was to be put
in a dilemma. If he accepted the card,
which he might do as the courteous
response to n courteous act, then he
must not lay a non-union stone under
penalty of being placarded as rene
gade and a scap all over the country.
inc lusd WAS ludl Ai 'iiS ""' A'''
pressure might be bought to bear on
the contractors"
The Times Herald is Of the opinion
that il the president shall come TO
Chicago he will not come as the SER
want of any particular organization
but as the guest of the entire public
and that he should be treated as such
and not be forced into a local contro-
versy in which he has no official or
personal concern. This conclusion Will
be generally approved. Intelligent
public opinion should rebuke the agi-
tators whose conception Of courtesy
is so diseased as to prompt them to
law measly little traps for the chief
executive of their country.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-18
The Ultimate Arbiter.

Wv VAR BETWEEN England
NN and the Dutch element
in South Africa has not
been declared nor begun,
hence the hope of peace has not been
wholly abandoned: but the trend Of CIR
cumstances is manifestly toward war.
The situation i'm many respects resem-
bles that which preceded our recent
clash with Spain. For weeks prior 10
the opening of hosthities. while the
conservative element publicly argued
and longed for peace, the knowing ones
quietly got ready for war and that Is
what England is doing now. she mas
a number of transports on their way
with soldiers to the theater of disturb
ance: other troops are being put III
readiness for the summons to march
Jt is not the policy Of an experienced
canpaigner to proclaim warlike inten"
tions before the preparations are in
readiness. but things have gone too FAR
ON England's side to permit of any re-
cession; on the other hand, the Beers
are fanatical in their obstinacy, and
pacific solution will be little less than
miraculous.
Concerning the merits of the con-
troversy there is little to add. The
Beers have the letter of the argument:
the English have the spirit of it, The
Beers are sincere in their defense of
independence, but their independence
would not be in jeopardy if it had been
exercised literally and intelligently.
The widened view of the last decade Of
the nineteenth century does not accept
the theory that nations are free to
practice tyranny with impunity simply
because they are nations, not individ-
uals. There is developing a humane
instinct which draws line Of cleav-
age between justice and injustice with
out respect to local boundaries and
forces the one to battle against the
other in an irrepressible conflict, the
confines of which are co-eXtensive with
the inhabited portions of the earth. 1t
is because the Beers have not shared
in this civlizinE instinct but have
sought to cling to the despotic theories
of the past that they are today in the
shadow of the sword of discipline and
correction.
Abusing England as a land-thief does
not remove the fact that in her main
purposes England represents in this
controversy the voice Of the world s
best conscience. She is to see that a
decent and a respectable majority shall
not longer be flouted and robbed by 4
pig-headed minority ClOaking it's plans
of oppression i'm forms of law. She is
to open to civilization country partly
closed by antique prejudice and OBJ
stinacy and do for the large interests
of mankind repugnant but necessary
police service. If mingled with this
high resolve there be ignoble motives,
1t is only another way of calling atten-
ton to the fact that human nature al
best is far short of perfection.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-18
CURRENT VERSE.
The Girl of 1890.

She can sing n ballad sweetly,
And can fascinate completely
With O. look.
She can dance the waltz divinely,
And can entertain you finely.
Can she cook?
She can write a poem aesthetic,
And can read II so pathetic
That you weep.
To the woman's suffrage question
She has given deep reflection.
Can she sweep?
But In spite of her endeavor
TO become a maiden clever,
She's so sweet
That my heart she's fairly captured,
And l lay 1t down enraptured
At her feet.
Written by an Inmate of the Maryland
Hospital for the Insane.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-18
The Land of SURPRISES.

T>WENTY-THREE thousand
acres of untouched coal
u land. rich deposits of graph
lite and iron ore, the latter
with a 60 per cent. yield. and silver and
gold mines Of unmeasured possibili-
ties are among the resources of West
ern Siberia, as reported by one of our
European copsuls; to say nothing of
the dormant value of this great empire
In an agricultural sense, which is ines
Unable.
A peculiar result of the opening OF
this great country to modern commerce
through the construction by the Rus
sian government Of the Trans Siberian
railway is noted by an attache of the
American embassy at st. Petersburg.
who first gives these figures Of the
amount Of traific on the completed por-
tion Of the road:
Description. 1896. 1897. 1895
Passengers .....,......2i4,OO 900 $4,000 9iS3OO
Freight Uons) .,.,....l0l,G66 4il6G6 6l6,G6G
During the first two months Of tho
present year the amount of freight
transported amounted to 22933S tons;
and in the month Of May, on the Cen
tral Siberian railway alone, 1900 cars
OF freight were waiting two months for
their turn, being directed 10 a famine
stricken district in the direction Of the
Trans Baikal. During the first two
months of the present year 10000
worlSmen and settlers were carried
alnng, tba Giharian limo T,ln attach.
adds 1.-THE great railway never expect
ed such success and has been built
economically---ste hills. sharp curves,