The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-25
NEWS HND COMMENT

Are judges underpaid? This is what
chief Justice Peters of Maine, says: Il
nave been on the bench continuously for
twenty-five years and my salary at first
$1,000. and since 1887 $500, has never for
single year paid my years expenses, or
anywhere near it. The nearest 1t has
ever come to making the two ends meet
was in 1874, the year next after my APP
pointment. when my expenses of support
were Sil6. And this sum did not in
clude house rent Il own my housel, but
did include house repairs, nor did it IN
clude taxes, nor expense of board and
travel when at court away from home
nor money paid for law books. nor gifts
10 friends and relatives, excepting small
current charities. The next nearest to
this was in 1850, when my living expenses
making the same exclusions of deductions
as before stated. were A159. Tho displr-
ity in all the other years of my occupancy
or seat on the bench between receipts
ana expenses were greater than In the IN
stance named. And while 1t may not be
worth while To expose the facts In detail,
l Will say in general terms that for the
period of more than quarter OF CEN
tury during which have been member
or the court, and wholly In the service Of
the state, my ordinary living expenses,
not including any of those items cnumcT-
ated above, exceed all the amount of sal
airy received by me from the state by
more than the sum of $4,000. And still
am not aware that I am regarded by
my friends and ncighbors as living at all
eNtravagantly."
For many years, says an FL Paso, Tex.
letter, the question OF the annexation of
that city to the territory of New Mexico
has been agitated. El Paso is more re-
mote from the rest of Texas, so far as
business Is concerned, than Chicago or
st. Louis 1t has nothing in common with
Galveston or Fort Worth or Austin. Be
tween these cities and El Paso are sew
eral hundred miles of plain country given
over to sage brush and cactus. Along the
valley of the PecQs and down the valley
of the Rio Grande where irrigation is
possible agriculture may flourish and
cattlemen prosper, but aside from these
sections all the country tributary to El
! l'asO is north, west and south. The lat
| est proposition is greater than that of an
neXaton to New Mexico; it involves the
annexation of half of New Mexico, Il big
| slice of Texas and two counties of Ari-
| Hona TO lGl Paso and the formation OF
new territory and eventually a new state
| out of the sections thus brought togcth r.
| inc plan is to form 4 territory out OF the
counties of Cochise and Graham i'm Ari-
Lincoln, Eddy ard Chavez in New McXi-
co, and that portion of Texas west OF n
| line drawn from the east line of New
Mexico to the Rio Grande river. OF this
new territory FL paso is to be the me-
tropolis and capital city.
Lord Charles Berce ford. the British adj
miraI who is now i'm this country. is the
| hero of many good stories lie has been
I In all E
land and water. in war and i'm peace.
once with Sir Harry Keppel, then his
admiral, he was driving to town liz IA
| dog-Cart There was tOllgate on the
way and Beresford rendered a gold piece
which the tOlman couldn't change, He
demanded the exact amount and failing
10 get it, went unConCernedly into the
dollhouse leaving the gates locked. Lord
| Charles and Sir Harry didn't hesitate q
moment but went briskly to work. They
| took the gates off their hinges, strapped
them TO the back Of the dOG-Cart and
| logged on to DevOnsport before the toll
| taker was alive to the mischief in hand.
| Next day charge of larceny was pre-
! ferred against the admiral and Beres-
! ford, who was then his flag lieutenant.
! The local magistrates listened gravey to
! the recital of facts and then dismissed
! the complaint on the ground that there
| was an absence of criminal intent.
People who will not be able to afford
| the luxury of visit to the Paris cXpOSi-
| ton OF 1900 may, at least SAYS the Phia-
! delphia Ledger, make the trip to Buffalo
| in 1901 and sec the Pan-Amcrican cXposi-
| tion to be held there Many Of the eXhb-
| its of South American countries in the
| Paris fair will be transferred bodily to the
! Buffalo exposition, which will thus, III
measure, he another edition of the great
| French fair. Buffalo has raised 81 Ou0 OO0
Tor its exposition The state of New York
has enacted favorable legislation. Gov
ernor Roosevelt is giving it his cordial
support, and congress is to appropria te
S'W,WW for government exhibit The
Buffalo fair, therefore, promises to he i'm
/ every respect well worth seeing. Buffalo,
as a commercial center, ranks among tho
irNt dozen cities of the world. 1t has a
population of upwards Of H0O,Op and is
beautifully built on Lake hvc. within an
hours ride Of Niagara Falls. all of which
Will Increase the attractions of the expo
Sition.
When the criminal courts resumed work
IN Italy after the holiday recess the at
torney Senral in his opening speech gave
some interesting comparative statistics
concerning crime, which are not very
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