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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-14
Anthracite Prospect Abroad.

A contributor TO the Wilkes Barre
Times frankly scouts the possibility
of doing much in the way of selling
hard coal to the peoples CT Europe.
Says he:
"In the first place the demand for
anthracite is very limited, it being ex-
ported only from Great Britain TO Ger
many, Holland, Belgium and France in
small cargoes, and amounts to about
100000 tons per annum. 1t is used
largely for mailing purposes or whore
a quiet, dry heat is required in a special
kind of a heater. For household pur-
poses it is not in demand and would be
worthless unless the American stove
was also introduced, and that means
revolutionizing social conditions; while
for steam purpose, stationary engines,
locomotive engines and for marine pur-
poses it would require a radical change
of fire bars and alteration in the sys-
tenn of draught.
THE coal for the steam purposes
named, in Germany, Holland ard the
Belgian ports, is largely drawn from
the Durham and Northumberland coal
fields with a very short sea trip. 1t is
only a little inferior to the Welsh
steam, and it is sold at 1Os. Cd TO 12s.
Sd. f. o. b. and the freight is from IS.
Id. to IS. per ton. 1t is shipped Ey
small steamers from 400 to 1900 tons
burden with ample opportunities for
return cargoes. Taking the price at
les. Cd. delivered, or 1896, how is it pos
lible for us TO compete? Then when II
ZONES to the Welsh steam coal, ad-
mittedly the finest coal in the world
when doubled screened, as can be seen
from the reports of our own naval men
ately published, we have much the
anne conditions to buck up aainst
rhis coal is delivered to Havre, Cher
oourg and the Westerl French ports
Nantes, Rochelle. Rochefort, Bordeaux
End Bayonne, by steamers from 300 Ga
1000 tons at about 19s. delivered, cr
4.46. The small quantities being very
convenient and some OF the smaller
steamers running away up the French
hvers. There Is los of flour ana othe'
produce shipped hack while the bulk
" the steamers return cargoes OF lrou
ire from the Spanish ports in the South
Wales steel works aud also the Scotch
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-14
CALLS FOR THE BEST"

Ii every day was Sunday, and all of life
was love,
And neither in the earth below, nor in
the sky above,
A cloud was ever gathered to eclipse the
light of hope
And the lilies in the valley and the roses
on the slope
Were ever blooming sweetly and the
land was ever filled
With the tendrest notes of Nature that
the songster ever trilled;
If tear of sorrow never came to dim
the laughing eye,
Then pleasures would grow palling to the
senses, by and by.
If the sun could shine forever, and the
day was always fair
And Nature e'er a laughing Miss, with
flowers in her hair;
If life was naught but pleasure, unknown
TO gloom and pain,
And there were no storms of trial and no
sorrow floods of rain;
If there were no fruits forbidden, no joys
to be denied,
II the heart was never tempted and the
soul was never tried;
If there were no thorny pathways, like
the bravest feet have trod,
The heart would grow Indifferent and
wander Off from God.
It requires n night of darkness, Just to
make the day complete,
And behind each wall Of trouble waits
a benediction sweet;
Then remember, as you struggle up the
HILL though steep 1t be,
That beyond its Alpine ruggedness lies
fairest Italy:
Each scar received in fighting for the
cause OF truth and right
Shall be badge of honor on the breast
Of Honor's Knight;
The world may have its burdens, and it's
grlefs and tears untold,
But If there was no cross of sorrow these
could be no crown of gold.
Rufus McClain Fields in the Memphis
Scimitar.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-14
NUBs OF KNOWLEDGE.

In France there is one saloon for every
thirty adults.
There is only one sudden death among
women to eight among men.
Dough is the latest adulterant of cof-
fee. moulded in the shape of coffee beans.
During the past fiscal year 1,429 YES
sells of 32O,S76 tons, gross, were built in
the United States.
1t is calculated that the shareholders
of the United Kingdom outnumber the
railway employees by about 10000.
The disproportion of the sexes is still
very great in Australia. In West Aus
tralta, g. g., there were Cnly $1,000 women
in a population of 1GS 900.
In nearly every street in Japanese cities
is a public oven, where for a small fee
housewives may have the dinners and
suppers cooked for them.
Today $4,000 persons and 1000 900 are
employed in the business of making and
distributing newspaper clippings among
those whom they concern.
The stairway leading to the tower Of
the Philadelphia City Hall contains 593
steps, and is said to be the tallest con-
tinuous stairway in the world
The largest mass of pure rock salt in
| the world lies under the province of Cali
long, 20 broad and 2jO feet in thickness.
The English Bible society, which in
| these matters acts with the American
Bible society, has translated the Bible
into Tagal, Vicol and Ilacuno, three Ian
guages in the Philippines.
Since Jan. 1 ninety colleges, academies
and seminares and eight art galleries
in the United States have received gifts
| amounting to S27072, ,35S, not counting con-
| tributions of less than $1,000.
1t is calculated that the railway COM
panies of Great Britain pay a daily aver
age of $500 in compensation, about 60
per cent being for injuries to passen-
gers, and the remaining 40 per cent. for
| lost or damaged freight.
The Russian government has decided
to pay the dues for passing the Suez
canal on all Russian merchant steamers
| for the next ten years, The object of
the government is to increase Russian
trade and navigation in the Pacific.
Admiral Dewey's salary amounts to
$3.50 a day; President Mckinley's is
equal to $l31 a day; cabinet officers, the
vice-president and the speaker of the
house get $22. % day; senators and con-
| gressmen, $3.50, and the chief justice Of
the Supreme court, $29 a day.
According to a report just issued by
the treasury bureau OF statistics Great
| Britain in 1897 exported to her colonies
| merchandise of the value of more than
$iOOOOOOOOO, or about one-third of the
| total of her expectations, and took from
| the same sources S4500O0,0OO worth of
| goods. or about one-tifth of all her i'm
ports.
| During shipment of the parts of
| Atbara bridge on its way to Egypt, q
portion of one span was lost. A cable
gram announcing the fact was received
| at the works of the builders, the Pc lc"yl
| Iron works, at o'clock in the afternoon
| of one day. pwo hours later the mate
| rial was laid out" and by o'clock the
next morning the duplicate parts were
steaming away from PencOyd on a rail-
| way train, finished and painted.
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Skilled Officers
Only, for Manila
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
CID HUS far the administration has
adopted and is pursuing very
proper and intelligent system
u in the matter of appointing
officers for the new regiments going
to Manila. 1t is of the utmost import
ance that such officers should be men
of military training and experience,
and it is encouraging to observe the
promptness with which the lessons of
1898 have been taken to heart. 1t real
ly begins to look as though our gall
liant soldiers will be put under the
charge of officers who know how to
care for them in camp or barracks as
well as to lead them into battle. Per-
sonal courage is perhaps the most
abundant article at the disposal of the
president. Professional requirement
is not to be had in such profusion.
1t occurs to US, however, that the
war department will do we'll to avail
itself of the seasoned and expert mat -
rial to be found in the regular list,
not only here at Washington, but in
army posts and stations generally
throughout the country. The great
need of volunteer force is officers ia.
miliar with staff duty--of1icers who
know the routine of the various di-
visions of our military establishment.
Men who have bravery and dash; who
can direct charge or hold a disputed
point in battle are plentiful. But off,
GERS who know how to provide fer
their soldiers; to see to their proper
equipment; to expedite the filling Cf
acquisitions and to enforce the rules
OF sanitation in camp-otticers of this
kind are not so easily secured. The
history of the war with Spain taught
us that very large proportion of the
suffering and hardship encountered by
our troops was the direct and logical
result of ineXperience on the part of
company, regimental, brigade and dl-
vision officers. And since it is hardly
to be expected that the training ana
the opportunities afforded by those few
months of active service will have
made accomplished military men of
all of them, it might be well to fur
nish to the new Philippine army a
strong infusion of regular officers
trained through long service in staff
positions and therefore capable Of in
structing their coadiutors in the in
tricacies Of army routine. One or two
officers Of this kind attached to each
regiment or brigade would be of in
| finite service, both to the department
and the troops.
o
Fully nine-tenths of the complaint
and suffering during the war with
Spain last year can easily be traced
to the ignorance or inaptitude of col
onels, captains, quartermasters and
commissaries. We should avoid a re-
petition of those disastrous blunders,
especially since experience and inves-
| tigation have shown us how to do so.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-14
PERSONALITIES.

The income of William Gillette. tho
playwright it is said, exceeds
100000 a year.
President Sales, of Brazil, is a base
bail enthusiast, and is trying to encour-
ago the American game in Rio Janeiro.
jeremiah Curtin, the Translator Of
Sienkiewiczs Sovcls knows every lang"
uage and most Of the dialects in Europe,
and Is self-taught
]. p. Bryant the Bardwell, KY, mill
lionaire, owns the largest strawberry
patch In the world. 1t covers leo acres
and has made his fortune.
Admiral Sampson has had watch case
made of iron from an old Spanish can
non, captured at Manila. The metal was
sent him by General Funston.
George Brandes, the Danish critic.
says that Ibsen recently gave him an odd
reason for liking Russia, Their spleu-
did system of oppression" said the dra-
matist, 'engenders such a love of lib
erty."
Governor Roosevelt Is one of probably
a very few public men who have kept up
their knowledge of other languages since
leaving college. He reads a certain
amount of French, German, Greek and
Latin every week.
William Oxley Thompson, the new
president of Ohio State university spent
ten years in getting his diploma from
Muskingum college, being so poor that to
get one years study he had sometimes to
work three years to save the money re-
quired.
Admiral Sampson says the best training
for a naval life is "hard work from the
very start" This was his own lot, for
his father was a day laborer, who sawed
wood from house to house near Palmyra,
N. Y, and the son began life by splitting
and piling the wood his father sawed
Dr. Daniel Folkmar formerly lecturer
in sociology at the University of Chicago
has been appointed as professor of an
thrOpology at the new University of
Brussels, Belgium, being one of the few
native Americans who have held a for
eign professorship. He has also just
received the title of doctor of social sci
ences from the university.
In explaining how President Mckinley
can bear up under the enormous amount
Of work that he does Secretary Porter
says: Il believe 1t is due to his perfect
training, acquired by a quarter of a CEN
tury of continuous public service. All
the great questions of the day are as IA .
miliar to him as the A + C's. He knows
the exact standing of all the men that
call upon him or correspond with him.
lie possesses In remarkable manner
the faculty of quick analysis and deci-
sion. He renders a verdict in two min
utes where most men would require 15."
Four years ago w. ]. Bryan belonged
to the great middle class of Lincoln
Today, according to the schedules filed
by the various precinct and ward asses
sors, he is the richest man in Lincoln, so
far as holdings of personally go. And
Lincoln contains several men who are
supposed to be close to the million mark
Mr.. Bryan reports himself the possessor
OF three horses and carriages, valued at
$50, one billiard table of the value of S.,
four watches and clocks worth $25, one
sewing machine at s., one piano worth
$50, gold and silver plate worth $25, dia-
monds and jewelry valued at $50 house
hold goods at $3.50 and money and credits
in bank, $500, making a total of $3.50.
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SCRANTON, JULY Ii, 1899.
Mrs. MAVERICK.

Announcement is made. apparently
on authority, that all efforts of this
government, through the unofficial but
earnest activities of its representa-
tives, to secure the release of Mrs.
Florence Maybrick from her English
prison having failed to make the nee
essary impression on the British au-
thorities, the case, so far as our gov
ernment is concerned, win be dropped.
Individual efforts to secure the unfor
tunate prisoners release may continue
as heretofore, but If our foremost
diplomats cannot succeed in this di-
rection the outlook for others is not
promising.
1t is a curious circumstance that
although nearly every American Citi-
zen has at some time or other felt
sympathy for Mrs. Maybrick few have
made even a cursory examination Of
the facts. The attempts of the wo-
mans friends to create an impression
of her complete innocence has there
fore been more largely successful than
the evidence seems to warrant. At
tiful young woman, American born,
who had recently been released by the
death of her husband from a mar
rage which had been most unhappy
for her. Maybrick, her husband. had
been a cross, jealous and mean-sprited
man, several years his wifes senior.
1t was proved that she bought poison.
1t was proved that she had had low
er whom she had visited in secret,
whom her husband had suspected and
about whom they had quarrelled. 1t
was shown in a letter written by her
to this lover that she was giving May
brick poison and that she was expect
ing his death On the stand she ad-
mitted having once put arsenic in
Maybrick's chocolate, but said it was
done in response to his suppliCatiOns.
The discovery of arsenic in the dead
husbands stomach completed the
chain of evidence upon which the
British jury found her guilty Of mur-
der in the first degree and her sex
caused the sentence to be modified to
life Imprisonment. The fact that May
brick had some years prior to his
death been addicted to the arsenic eat
ing habit was the only one which the
defense offered in rebuttal. This
might account for arsenic in May
bricks stomach, but hardly for the
reference to it in Mrs. Maybrick's let
ter to her paramour. Briefly.
However, the question of the wo-
mans innocence or guilt of the actual
administration of the poison is not now
as essential as 1t once was. 1t seems
clear that if Maybrick was poisoned
he did not come very far from de-
serving such a fate: and that if his
wife was a poisoner she has by this
time, when we take into full account
all the alternating circumstances,
been punished enough. On the other
hand, if we assume her innocence of
the crime of murder, surely her pun
ishment for the other offence has long
since filled the measure of justice. Our
British cousins in this case are stand
ing, it would seem, somewhat too firm
ly on the letter of the law But. af-
ter ALL it is their responsibility, not
ours.
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Major Levi Wells. who has been re-
appointed dairy and food commission
er, is expected to keep up his good
record in running to earth the nefar-
ious individuals who seek to flood the
market with adulterations of eatables.
Major Wells is a native Of Spring Hill,
Bradford county, a locality noted for
its inexhaustible crop of rattle snakes.
He is fair sample of the Pennsyl-
vania farmer with a fat bank book
wears Uncle Sans chin whiskers and,
it is alleged, can detect the presence
of ham fat and tallow in pail of but
ter at a glance.
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VERY ANNOYING.

From the Detroit Free Press.
She looked indignant and hurt after
they had emerged from the tunnel and
the sunshine streamed through the car
window.
What is it, dear? Don't make such a
display Of temper. Did he dare to kiss
you while we were in the dark?" and the
fond mother gently patted her daugh-
ter's head as they whispered.
"No, he didn't, the coward" and she
founced into another seat,
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CONSIDER THE HEN.
From the Punxsutawney Spirit.

T IVIII IIIV t UIIA0UIdWIVy pTIII ~
There Is something almost pathetic in
the faithfulness to business and the un-
waVering diligence of the ordinary hen,
when she gets her heart set on Matching
out brood of chickens. She will sit all
day on an old doorknob and dream Of
the happy day when she can strut around
in the back lot with a dozen or so of
fuzzy chicks at her heels, scratching and
clucking and swelling out her feathers
with self-importance. In order to satisfy
this motherly instinct she is not only
willing, but frantic, to deny herself all
Of the ordinary pleasures of life. She
doesn't care for a good time" She is
perfectly content to stay at home and at
tend TO her maternal duties, and has
no concern about how her feathers arc
adjusted or whether her comb hangs
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THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-FRlDAY. JULY IA, 1899

straight When a hen is laying and not
thinking of family matters, she takes
pride In her red comb, and is frequently
seen oiling her feathers and trying to
make herself look attractive. But YOU
"old cluck" Is perfect type of the de-
voted mother. Her whole being is alb
sorbed In the one thought of rearing her
family, and even If required to hatch out
brood of ducks or turkeys she bends
to her task with the same enthusiasm as
though she had laid the eggs herself
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-14

United States Minister Loomis has
returned from Venezuela and gives a
glowing report of the conditions of
what he terms the most beautiful coun-
try in the world. What Mr.. Loomis
has to say will be given an attentive
hearing. Anything that can be said in
favor of that hotbed of turmoil, polit-
ical intrigue and all round rascality
should certainly be received with
pleasure the world over.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-14

and North Of England Iron Works is
an important consideration. A feature
that is not generally known. and
which must not be overlooked, is that
a great many of these steamers are
owned by French and German com
panies with their own shippers and
buyers resident in Great Britain.
80 far, therefore, as our anthracite
coal competing, that is out of the
question, for the demand is not large
enough and never will pe, but the best
grade of our bitumlnous coal, such
as the Pocahontas, might possibly COM
pete for the Mediterranean trade. Here
again American freightcrs would have
to overcome the want Of return car
goes, whereas the English boats gem
orally contract to take a cargo ont and
return with grain from the Danube,
Odessa and other Black Sea ports, and
currants, etc, from Greece. The Eng
lish tramp steamers being Of a handy
size. work around the world, starting
with a cargo of coal say to India or
Canada, and returning finally from
America with a cargo of grain. In es-
tlmating the profits based upon pres
ent prices, it must be expected that the
moment we begin to compete, down
will go both the prices OF coal and the
cost Of freight on the other side
Still, nobody can tell what the
American business man can accom-
plish in the face of seemingly dis
couraging odds until he tries. it is no
crime TO fry
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SIDE LIGHTS ON HISTORY.

From the Chicago Tribune.
do / want the earth?" echoed Alexan-
der the Great. 81 should say l do. [
want all the earths there are!"
But, my master" urged one of his
confidential advisers, you couldn't dis
play them to any advantage. You
haven't the space"
1t was then that Alexander wept.
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tween this date and the date of the
next presidential election is, as Secre-
tary Alger would say, "thin air." Sen
ntor Morgan, worthy man that he is,
has been made the unconscious victim
of midsummer fantasy.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-14

Judging flom the present state of af-
fairs, the pleasant-looking portraits of
Secretary Alger which appear in our
exchanges must have been made from
photographs taken before the war.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-14

Should Waldorf Astor's plea of nom
residence to escape payment of taxes
succeed, there will be a new job of
repairs for Governor Roosevelt to bring
to pass on the statute book at Albany.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-14

When Aguinaldo has been crushed
ana his American allies have talked
themselves to death people may again
be expected to take some interest in
the published base ball scores.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-14

In the minds of anti-expansionists
there is apparently no difference be-
tween the independence that allows
one to enjoy liberty, peace and pros
perity and the independence which is
the license of anarchy and piracy.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-14

The Klondike prospector and the
man who attempts to break the bank
at Monte Carlo stand about the same
chance Of success.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-14

Aguinaldo need not despair so soon:
when other resources fail he can get
a living in the dime museums.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-14

Senators Gallinger and Chandler
seem TO be in condition to receive 20
round exhibition offers from promi-
nent athletic clubs.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-14

Unless the press correspondents have
recklessly tampered with Aguinaldos
recent speech, he is a greater Iunatic
than was at first supposed.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-14

The Democrats are again carrying
Ohio by a large majority--in their
minds.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-14

"If my critics can point to one thing
in my official career that | have done
that | ought not to have done l SHAH be
very glad to surrender my present Official
duties. Interview with Secretary AlgcH.
How about that Roosevelt letter?
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custom tailor, doing business in Ithaca, N. "
relates the interesting of sister of his who had
catarrh in the head and of the stomach for years. and
had changed her place of residence number of times
trying and hoping get rid of it. She had tried
of the best doctors, but without any help until finally
her brother sent her Rpans Tabules They bene-
fitted her from the first She has taken six boxes of them
in all, and is entirely cured.
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