The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-08
NEWS AND COMMENT I.

lL w - hID NouuLN
Lieutenant st. Sauveur the French
military attache VINO was an Interested
witness of the Santiago campaign, Is en-
thusiastiC in his praises of the American
private soldier "If / had an army corps
of them today" he declared recently.
"Alsace and Lorraine would not belong
to Germany tomorrow" He added: "Tho
| American soldier is the best in the world.
especially the volunteer, but the higher
officials, tho rich mems sons. the commis-
| sary. they arC-ah, rotten. | believe yo"
| say in English. 1t is Il Shamci II Is Ter
| ribC the privations the American troops
were compelled to undergo. A French
soldier is paid less than cent a day and
| AN American soldier gets 80 cents "A day.
I would rather be in the army of France.
| The American private is actuated by tho
| highest motives. lie Is open-heartcd ana
! he has "a life which he Is willing To lose
| for the flag. But the others, the men OF
! the gold lace and opaulcts, they are not
! like those of France, where experience
| and training count. They are faNoriteS.
! General Shaftcr stayed aboard ship three
! days after the first battle on Cuban soil
| General Wheeler, General Chaffcc and
| others are the real heroes. IN my opinion
! General Shaftcr was wOcfully lacking Tor
| the position he held His troops were
! handled in the transports like cattle. Ne
groes were landed first on the cnemy's
coast. Why were not the tried and true
warriors in the van? The glimmer of the
almighty dollar was all too evident In the
Spanish war. The treatment of the Amer
can troops was Il disgrace TO so rich a
! country"
The imaginative Mr.. Cocn who was GO
ing to hyprotize the president into IN
dorsing "A $50 100000 five per cent bond
issue which the said Cocn would then
| generously purchase of the Cuban as
sembly for sl2O0o,OOO. pockctng the diff
fcrencc--a proposition which absurd as it
appears. nevertheless sutiiCcd to befuddlc
| the speculative patriots az Havana ior
| several weeks, almost causing an armed
clash with the American authoritics-has,
it seems. reputation for eccentricity,
| According to W. l.. Curtis he once pro-
posed to construct an enormous float or
raft two or three miles square, fill 1t
with earth, decorate it with trees and
shrubbery and erect upon it an enormous
hotel with CaSiros, gardens, drivcways,
theatcrS and other places of amusement
This float was to be towed out 200 or %N
miles into the Atlantic and anchored lie
actually obtained considerable financial
backing for the enterprise and issued goE'
gcous and entertaining prcspcctuscs ana
|
less Cuban should beware of such as he
| To reach Scranton from Manila tbs
news must travel over course of some
thing like 1900 miles The chief station:
en- route are as follows: Manila to Bo
Iinao, on the Island of Lu2On, overland
telegraph; Bolinao to Hong Kong, cable
| Hong Kong to Saigon, in AMMAN, cable
Saigon to Singapore. Malay peninsula
| ,.,l,I ,In. Cinr rnr IN
Madras to Bombay. land telegraph; BON
bay to Alden, Arabia, cable; Alden tC
Suez, Egypt. cable; Sucz to Alexandria
land telegraph; Alexandria to MarseilleS
via Malta. cable; Marscillcs to Havrc
Franco. land telegraph Havrc tn Brigh
ton, England. cable; Brighton to Lon
don. land telegraph; London to Nalcncii
by cable and land telegraph: Nalenci,
to New York by ST. Johns cable New
York to Philadelphia TO Scranton, lane
telegraph.
An engineer named Gcrmain in th
French ministry of posts and telegraph
has just brought out AN invention which
ne claims will revolUtioniZe the telephone
BY an ingenious adaptation of the tele
phone wire the microphone is made I
develop and intensity the vibration re
ceived so that il is unnecessary to plac
u receiver to the ear or stand with III
mouth closed To the transmittcr, and con
Vcrsation is easily carried on betwcoi
two persons, both of whom may be sew
eral yards distant from the instrument
The invention has been several times of
hcially tested and pronounced com
pete success. 1t is Familiarity known Il
the "hieh speaker
The town of Wcsthofen, in Germany
still enforccs an old ordinance which for
bids any one walking in the street wiz
a lighted cigar.
Since James Whilcomb Riley fooled III
critics with his initiative poem, "Lcona
ME" alleged finds" OF Poe verse hav
been at "a discount: nevertheless d Cali
fornia contributor to the San Francisc
Examiner name not given. declares tina
the following came 10 him in Poe's hand
writing, and We reproduce it for what
is worth:
THE SEA or SERENITY.
From the Mountains OF the Moon,
Ger her silent, silver valleys,
Lit by carth-light soft in June,
| And Aurora BOrealis.
! ] and Isabel the sanity
Mute upon the mountains top
Listened to the sweet dews family
Into neither caNCrns drop.
7 And Nc spoke not aud we moved not
In our musing melancholy:
: | Deep we loved, ah! We loved not
As they love i'm worlds unhOly.
> There the earth hangs full and golden
Ger our planets pallid plain,
, | And all memories OF the Olden
, Days of the Earth swan back again.
| | With a soft, a sad insistonCo,
Flowed Il stream of melody
I | Through the ether. through the distdnc
I Flowed for Isabel and me.
, | From the zenith, blazing white,
Green and purple, Opalescent,
Blue aud crimson SUITS with light
> Bathcd the nadir, iridcsccnt.
| Many million triple suns,
: | Violet, ana lilac, burning
Whore the crystal zodiac runs,
: ON its golden aXles turning,
! | Brighter than the Gmes Of tindor
Glowcd the ruby sphere terrestrial
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