The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-27
NEWS AND COMMENT.

/ I'VE w y AND NUNWEN ls
! The attachment between conscientious
editor and his ncwsI aper is not unlike
! the love of a parent for his child. AS an
| Illustration the Chicago Times Herald
/ tells this incident in the life of the late
/ Joseph Medill: As t. well known. Mr.
! Mcdills health has intcrfCred with his
! constant presence at the Tribune Office
| FOR several years. X was currently ru-
! mored that he had grown weary of the
| burden of his cditorship and was pre-
| pared TO sell his interest, settle his al
| fairs in Chicago and retire to the gentler
! climate Of Southern California. Negota-
! tions were accordingly opened with Mr.
| Medill by Il gentleman desirous OF pur-
| chasing his interest I'm the Tribune. MIR.
| Medill entertained the proposition to sell
| but halted as to the price, upon which
a matter OF some s25OOOO separated the
| parties. Finally they came to terms on
! figures not far from a round S2OD,OD for
| Mr.. Medill's controlling interest In the
| Tribune. Everything was in readiness TO
| close the transaction and the check to
| bind it was In Mr. Medills hands. But
! the touch of the check seemed to cause
an instant revulsion In the aged editor 5
| feelings. He seemed TO realize that the
| Tribune was something more to him than
the cold dollars he had set upon 1t. Il
| can't do it," he said. Take back your
| tiltChs can part Will Nll' IilDhiN'
You might as well ask me to sell my
child"
So the negotiations were broken off and
| Mr.. Medill continued to be the guild
ing spirit of the Chicago Tribune until
| his death.
Under a rule adopted by the navy de-
| partment in naming new vessels battle
| ships are given the names of states. W.
| have now in the navy the battleships
| Iowa, Indiana, Massachusetts, oregon and
| Texas The ships of this class under
| construction have been given tho names
! of Kearsarge, Kentucky, Illinois, Ala
| bama, Wisconsin. Maine, Missouri and
| Ohio. The last three have just been con-
! traCted for and were authorized by the
! navy appropriation act for the current
year. The three battleshps authorized
at the last session, and the construction
| of which IL likely to he delayed until fur
ther action can be had by congress in re-
! gard to armor plate, will be the largest
vessels of the navy and will have a dis
| placement of al least 1900 tons. No steps
| have yet been taken for giving them
| names, and It is suggested by the Wash
| ing correspondent of the Philadelphia
| Ledger that a movement should be start
| ed In Pennsylvania to have one of them
| named for the great Keystone state. ut
| seems fitting" says he, that one of these
| battleships should bear the name of the
| state from whose resources practically
| all of the materials that enter into the
construction of modern war ships are
| supplied and fabricated. and within
whose geographical limits the greater
| number of the vessels constituting the
new navy were built"
The new law in Kansas which provides
| that uncolectibla judgments obtained
| against firms, corporations or individuals
nY1 hnl nf hn tn4 t11 h.A gp1I
public auction has not, according to the
! Philadelphia Record, proved very sue
| cessful in its operation. In Cowley coun-
| ty the other day such a sale brought $500,
and the bin for advertising was S1i50,
| leaving the taxpayers out of pocket just
| 81, $50. 'When n Pop takes his hand from
| the plow," observes one Of the state pa
pers, land puts it to the statute book
| the weeds Of folly are almost sure to
choke out the seeds of justice and COM
mon sense"
IT appears from tabular statement of
| the internal revenue bureau that the TO-
tai receipts under the war-taX law up tc
| February l. 1899, amounted to $G2 012, ,i9l
The distribution of the tax was as fol
lows: For stamps on checks, documents
and patent medicines, SIG. 2S5, no; beer, $50.
04,400; special taxes, 4,23S ,SO7; cigars and
cigarettes, 80 5020jS: tobacco and snuff
$3S027i. This indicates an annual revcnuC
of upward OF S1O6,0OO0O 900 from the war raX
John Shermans first visit to Washing
ton was made in December. 1916, wher
he was % years Old. Washington ther
had 10000 inhabitants. MIR. Sherman rod,
in a stage coach from Mansfield, O., tt
the national road south of Newark ant
thence over that road by stage to Cum
berand. Md. From Cumberland he rode
to Baltimore and subsequently to Wash
ington in steam cars, the journey by raj
taking the greater part of two days ant
the entire journey nearly week.
| Professor James Dewar, of London. wht
discovered the process by which air can
be liquefed and thus made possible tn,
wonderful experiments upon which Pro
tcssor Tripler L. now engaged, will soor
receive through the American embassy
the first gold medal ever awarded by III,
Smithsonian institution. The medal 4
three inches in diameter and its buhO,
value is more than $500.
Turkey has been engaged in war thirty
| eight years of the present Century-con
siderably more than one-third of the time
Spain comes next, with thirty-onc years
| of war; France has had twenty-ScVer
years: Russia, twenty-four; Italy. twenty
three; England, twenty-one; Austria. sov
enteen; Holland. fourteen; Germany
thirteen; Sweden, ten; Portugal, ten
| Denmark. nine.
| Galusha A. Grow, although thrc,
months younger than John Sherman, en-
tered congress four years ahead of th'
great Ohio financier and had he beel
kept there would doubtless have equalleC
or eXcelled sherman at every point. II
natural ability he is easily Sherman
equal