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The daily news., 1900-04-05
Quiet PrevniIs In NIcaragua.

WAsHIHGToN, April !. dispatches re
caived bv Acting Secretary Allen from
Captain Meade. commanding the cruiser
Philadelphia, and Commander Duncan
Kennedy, commanding the Detroit, re-
mort that no trouble exists in either Mic
araC7la OF Costa Rica.
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IHENFNN April "a snow storm
. ..A-ral throughout Southeastern
Hvnming and Western Nebraska.
.. .-s has been a fall Of ID inches Of
..V ~iuce Tuesday. Railway traffic
.-lfvtd
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LACIAI MASSAGE.

a.r~ can be- wiped out. Wrin-
.. ba prevented. Cheeks can
f-b,d out. All this, and
.H ba done 10y massage.
call on Mis- keeler a
'- & k-uSe'S Millinery. on
lay. after that date al ll2 West
21TlI
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n. A. RUCKER is INDICTED.
Revenue Collector and His Clerk Are
Held For Libel.

ATIANTN. April 4.-A~ a result Of an
article which appeared in The Rcpubh-
,au Leader. Henry 4. Rarher. collector
of internal roycna,. and W /. Moseley,
4 clerk in hi, office. have been Indicted
bv rh grand jury on the char-" Of libel.
Rucier l. 1aiR 70 b. owner of The Re
publican Leader. a newspaper Published
in this city In a recent article II was
stated that Augusta +. Smith, teacher
in the state school for negroes at Savan-
nah. had been divorced from her hus-
band. and that the cause Of the divorce
was that she had been unfaithful
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THE CLEVELAND INTERVIEW.
Ito EN-President Did Not Endorse
Dewey's Candidacy.

rEE>cEToN, April 5.-EX-Presi-
r... cleveland was interviewed this
..-ning and denied the purported
r..-view with hlm in which it was
far-d that he endorsed Dewey =
saaiiacy for the presidency. Mr..
D.,veland says be positively refused
.. -ay anything on the subject and
.l l- still unwilling to express hi
nIon. Recently his views on the
> >.-a-sguan Canal were distorted be-
...l recognition. He said that IL
...- wilful misrepresentation con-
-..I I,~ be- ehall be compelled u close
. doors against all newspaper men.
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NA~HINGTON. April 5.-The Quay
rt.-; case was taken up to-day.
>-aa;or Gallinger is arguing against
-..-Iay him.
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Our Mems Spring Clothing is up
to-date in every way, The JuO.
White label wonldn't be on them if
they weren't. Whites.
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DURHAM Cigars have
no equal. For sale at
D'Alemberte's.

Crossett's Young America s. shoes
for young men, the best shoe IN the
world for the price, at Whites.
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NtV YORK, April 5.-Cotton i
-...d to-day as follows: April
..4 May, g.34; June, 9.32; July, $3.50;
.-.-.. 922
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ir>-rkNTISoPLE, April 5.-Os-
.... pasha died yesterday.
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PIow Up Grain to Plant Cotton.

KERSHAw, :. c., April From the
way fertilizers have been hauled out the
farmers expect to make the largest cot
ton crop that has been made in years.
Nine cents cotton has run the farmer
wild and in a good many places grain
will be plOwed up and cotton planted
instead.
Fortune favOrs the brave" II j.
also favorable to those who UUrifl
their blood at this season by takinc
Hood : Sarsaparilla.
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All leather suit cases and hand
Satchels with leather lining at
Mhita's
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We UjU soon receire IL
fine lot Of patent IOtndOsO
GUOnin9S, WGjt for them.
MGrStO1 g. Finch.
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0M,,y

Pistach;O Cream Wafers-sOme-
thing new. Your dealer should navs
them.
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Douglas Shoes at Whites.

Do not fail to read the advertise
ment of TEETHISA in this paper.
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An elegant assortment of truak>
and valises at Whites.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-31
THE SCRANTON TR1BUNE-sATuRDAY MARCH a1 1900

mills in Minnesota. but rs chairman Of
the Committee on Foreign Relations Il
was not expected that his vote would
be influenced by local trade conditions.
Well, the end Of all clamor and sense
less speculation of disastrous political
results is at hand. When the senate
votes next week the agitation will
cease. because the speculators will have
no further interest in keeping II alive.
Delay has done no harm. In the mean-
time the annual appropriation bills are
being railroaded to completion and by
the first week in June. In all probable
ity. congress will be ready to adjourn.
The national conventions will meet
soon thereafter. and by midsummer the
old fight between Republican prosper
ity and Bryanism will he hummlng
along to the complete satisfaction Of
the Republican party and with every
assurance to the country of an indefi-
mite continuance of Republican pros
perity.
The party that IL hell for war in
time Of peace and hell for peace In time
of war" will ignominiously end short
lived existence with the close OF the
approaching campaign. Pennsy.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-31
PERSONALITIES.

Paul Potter. former journalist and new
dramatic author. has formed syndicate
to control the English and German plays.
Leo XIII. has now been more than 70
years priest. more than half a century
a bishop and almost half century a
cardinal.
James p. Sterrett. who retires in Janu-
AIRY from the chief justiceship II the
Pennsylvania supreme court. was once
the law preceptOr Of Senator Quay.
of the survivors of the Balaklava charge,
requisitioned by the government for the
Transvaal.
Miss Birdie Raum. Columbia. Mo-. Is
freight agent for the Wabash railroad.
She meets every train through the day
and superlntends all the freight and
transfer business.
Professor Archibald Coolidge. of the de-
partment of history of Harvard uni
versity, and his father have given the
university library their valuable colec-
tion of 10000 volumes bearing on the
Crusades.
Miss Eva Grace Smell. granddaughter
of Amos j. Smell. the Chicago million
aire. who was murdered ten years ago,
Is going on the stage. She is 20 years
old. beautiful. and has a fortune in her
own right.
Judge John A. Barnham, who is men,
toned as the successor in the senate of
Senator Stephen NJ. White is one of
the best known jurists in California, and
is said to have been the richest lawyer
in the state.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-31
THE CRoAKER.

Once on the aige of a pleasant pool.
Under the bank where twas dark and
cool,
Where the bushes over the water hung,
And rushes nodded and grasses swung,
Jest where the crick flowed outer the bog,
There lived a grumpy and mean old frog,
Who'd set all day in the mud and soak,
And just do nothing but crcak and crOak.
Till blackbird hollered, II say, Yer
know
What is the matter tier below?
Are you in trouble, er pain, er what?'
The frog seq: milne is "rful lot;
Nothin' but mud and dirt and slime
Fer me to look at jest all the time;
It's a dirty world" so the ole fool spoke,
Croakity-croakity oroakity-croak.
"But yer lookin' down" the blackbrd
said;
Look at the blossoms overhead,
Look at the lovely summer skies,
Look at the bees aud butterflies;
Look up. ole feller Why, bless your
soul,
Yer lookin down in a mus rat hole"
But still. with a gurglin' sob and choke
The blamed ole critter would only croak
And a wise old turtle who brooded near,
Sez to the blackbird: "Friend. see here :
Don't shed no tears over him, fer he
Is Jest low down cause he likes ter bc; ;
He's one er them kind er chumps that's
TO be so mis'rablc-like and sad:
I'll tell yer somethin' that amt no joke .
Don't waste Yer sorrow on folks that
croak." Selected
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-31
Compulsory Arbitration.
n VIEW Of the large number Of
labor troubles which are occur
ring throughout the country in

n VIEW of the large number Of
labor troubles which are occur
II. ring throughout the country in
consequence of more prosperous
times, 1t is interesting to examine a
measure for compulsory arbitration
which is on the statute books of New
Zealand, and whivh forms the subject
of timely special article in a recent
issue of the New York Herald. We
have gone to Australia for model in
ballot legislation; who knows that We
may not in the same country find a
remedy for the strike nuisance?
In New Zealand there Is a division
of the country into industrial districts
and for each district there is a board
of ccnciliation, composed of an equal
representation of employees and EN-
ployers with a presiding officer ap-
pointed by the governor general. Tha
hoard of cOnciliation is a primary trib-
unal and when trouble arises IT, any
industry between the employers md
the employed. upon application of
either party the board is empowered
To use its good offices to effect a friend
ly settlement. It Is clothed with suf-
fcient powers to render its services ef-
fective in the majority of differences,
which have their origin chiefly in mis-
understanding.
But when this primary tribunal fails
there is a higher court with greatly en-
larged powers, known as the court OF
arbitration. The court Of arbitration
consists of three persons, who hold
for three years. appointed by the gov-
ernor general, and Of the three ap-
pointees one must be chosen by him
from men nominated by the working
men and one from among men nomi.
mated by the capitalists. The third Is
Judge of the Supreme court. The
moment either side with a grievance
or any apprehension OF a strike ol
lockout, summons the other before the
,nrt, 1t becomes a punishable offense
'o' ,"N -orkmen to stop work or the
'"'''' lose down. Both must
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-31

cry or invention In his leisure hours.
outside of his regular line Of duty. al
though he may be on shipboard or at a
navy yard and working with the tools
and materials of the government. he
should enjoy whatever pecuniary bene-
fits may be derived from it,
1t would seem that no hard and fast
rule should be laid down but. that each
case should he decided in the light OF
it's peculiar circumstances. One rule.
however. is pertinent in general way:
and that is that the enploye who wish
cs to advance himself can do SO more
surely by making his services of In
creasing worth to his employer than
by dcvising ways and means secretly
to cheat that employer or to sell him q
divided service. On the other hand.
the generous employer is not unwilling
to encourage original thinking and in
ventive ingenuity on the part of his
employees and can usually find ways to
do this without unfairness to either
side.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-31
A Question in Equity.

a n INTERESTING point in
equity has been raised by
"A the courts at Frankfort.
: n Germany. in a decision. Just
handed down. that an employer is en-
titled to all the inventions of his en-
ppyesr and to any other fruits of the
thought and labor which he pays for.
sThis question:" writes w. T.. Cur
tis, has been before congress for sew.
eral years in connection with certain
inEcntions in ordnance by officers Of
the army and navy. and there are nu-
msrous bills now pending to define
property rights in inventions made by
slfh officers. Senator Chandler, Tor
example. claims that, having educated
tllese officers, having paid them salar-
led and having provided pensions for
them, the government is entitled to the
fun benefit of their entire time and tai
ent; but the secretary of the navy. un-
der ruling of the attorney general,
holds that an officer is individually en-
titled to the results of his study and
ingenuity unless his invention is pro-
ducsd in the regular line Of duty to
which he may be assigned by his SUI
periors. For example, IL an officer is
detailed TO make exArriments and sug-
geet IMPROVEMENTS in sun or any
other.pArtso of the armament o. .ppara :
tus of a man-of-war. the goverfn,e.,,
should enjov the entire results os his
iabors c-but. on the other hand. II Al
efficer should make a valuable discov'
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-31


A child born on this day will rejoice
that he is not old enough to he sam
moned az 4 witness before the Scranton
Lexow.
The faculty of being able to forget a:
the proper time Is often more valuable
than a goo,i memory.
Mans vanity IL never an indication OF
his mental weight.
When a poor man makes lucky strike
he is always surprised tn find how many
men were with him. all the time
Some men are born lucky; others get
elected to the councils when quite young.
Some promising Young men remain In
that condition all their lives.
Whether or not ignorance is bliss often
depends on the subject.
Ajacchus' Advice.
DO not he blinded by prejudice. Get
out on the streets of Scranton and give
the dust a chance at your eyes.
DO not be too ready to question the
motives of a reformer. lie may be OF
salary and inspired by ii desire to earn
wages.
DO not attempt to argue away the hal
lucinations of n crank. Take a club.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-31

To Samuel Dickie, the Prohibitionist,
Is credited the assertion that at a din
ner in st. Louis he saw President Nc.
Kinley actually taste four different
kinds of wine. On the strength of
this assertion Al members of a Metho-
dist conference which met in Whining
ton. Del. the other day. voted to con-
denim the president as a tippler. 1t
is proper to say, as a matter Of evil
dence, that Mr.. Dickie's assertion is
fatly denied by the Epworth Herald,
temperance newspaper; but the
raising of such an issue helps to illus
trate how pleasant a job the presi-
dent Of the United States has.
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hotel for workingmen in
Il New York. both as a finan-
... cial investment which Is
now earning a reasonable profit, and
as a contribution Of genuine value to
the philanthropy of the time. is having
the natural result of encouraging men
of means in other cities to initiate the
enterprise The latest instance of such
imitation to come to our notice is re-
ported in the Pittsburg Times.
In that city. according to the Times,
three projects are being matured
simultaneously which have for their
end the establishment of more COM
Portable living places for families or
unmarried men of limited incomes.
One is to be a model tenement or
apartment hotel. The other two are
for hotels for men alone. "A
clean. home like. moderate priced ho-
tel for workingmen in a down town
section of the city will" says the
Times, "be an assured fact within a
short time if present plans are carried
out. The building planned is eight
stories high. having an attractive front
with large windows, high ceilings, ele-
vators, electric power and lighting IA
cilities, and accommodations for 300
guests. The house will be conducted
"a. the lines of any first class hotel,
but there will be no bar attached.
There is to be, in its place, large,
we'll lighted reading room and library,
supplied with as large collection Of
good books and the current literature
Of the times as means will permit Of.
There will also be a restaurant in con-
nection with the establishment, where
the guests can secure meals according
to their means. In the new hotel, the
influences that will surround the men
inducement to self-culture. 1t is in
tended to have the hotel a distinctive
ly self-suppOrting one, and there Is to
be nothing in the line of charity or
mission house. The desire is to make
the place attractive to men of inde-
pendent natures, who would not for
an instant tolerate the idea that they
were DelnE maze depenuent.
Such enterprises as these, the num-
ber and scope of which are continually
increasing at a rate we believe faster
than the increase in population, rep
resent a part of the better side of So
ciety's account with the sociological
problems represented in the modern
city. Intelligent benevolencc along
these lines is doing much to overcome
the evils incident to the crowding OF
great masses of people together with
in narrow limits. The necessity which
has called into being the Mills hotel In
New York city and which is prompting
the establishing Of similar institutions
in Pttsburg has fortunately not yet
become acute in Scranton: but a long
step toward preventing it's develop
ment will be taken when the new
Young Mems Christian Association
building shall offer home like lodgings
to young men at rates which will con-
stitute genuine benevOence.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-31

In view Of the rumor that in return
for their services in South Africa Lord
Roberts is to be made a duke and
Lord Kitchener an earl. some Ameri-
ward is to be conferred by the Ameri-
can congress upon the commander who
more than any one else engaged in the
war with Spain facilitated victory for
the Stars and Stripes. Is william Il.
Sampson to be entirely ignored?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-31
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
Legislature.
First District-THOMAS J. REY.
NOIDS.
Second Dlstrict--JOHN SCHEuER, JR.
Legislature.

The Tribune acknowledges with ap-
probation tho compliment paid it by
the Times in giving 1t due credit for It's
part in securing the enactment Of the
asphalt repair contract. whereby the
city of Scranton is assured for ten
years of streets that can. be used by
drivers without danger to life or limb.
Ii the Times will consult the men who
Use the streets of Scranton it will dis
cover that The Tribune's advocacy of
that ordinance has their almost unani-
nous approval
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-31

If we deduct the cost of the armies
Of occupation, which is paid directly
by Uncle Sam. every one Of the new
possessions is already more than self
sustaining. BY this we mean that in
the Philippines. in Cuba and in Puerto
Rico, the receipts exceed the expenses
other than military. OF course these
non military expenses will increase as
the functions of the civil governments
to be established in the islands shall
broaden and as necessary public i'm
provements. such as roads. harbors,
modern sanitary appliances, school
equipment. ETC., shall be developed.
But as these shall increase so will the
ability to pay of the people who are
benefited increase and it may. we
think, very Justly be said that there is
no serious danger that these new pos
sessions will financially be a load on
our hands.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-31

tRING THE debate on the
army appropriation bill,
X Representative Mcclellan
presented without comment
some figures comparing the cost of the
American military establishment with
the cost of the military establishments
in other countries. He had found in
the several appropriations bills for the
current year items for the military ac-
count amounting to s135,29 ,653. This,
he went on, was an average Of $l502
per man OF the 10000 men now in the
army. If to this total was added the
expenditure on account of the war of
the rebellion and other wars, the total
for the current year would be S2a1,-
5S9,342. Austria Hungary, with an
army of $4,000 on a peace footing. a.
pended s56,0o0,0O0; England, with an
army of 100000, expended ss9,OOo,OOo;
France, with an army Of $4,000. eX-
pended s1o5.OOO,oO0; Germany. with an
army of 59s,O0o, expended s136.oO0,oOo,
which included the expenditures on ac-
count of other wars; Italy. with an
army of 1O1 900. expended $23,OOOOOO.
Although the gentleman from New
York expressed no opinion as to
whether the United States is paying
for its military service more than it is
worth, the inference which he evident
ly wished the public to draw is that it
Is. But without explanation his cita-
tion of figures is unfair. He takes for
comparison the extraordinary expenses
of our army when nearly all of it Is
engaged in most difficult campaign
in an unfamiliar country many thou
sand miles removed: a country into
which most of the army's supplies
have to be transported at large ex-
pense: and on this basis, without
pointing out that many of the items in
the sum cited represent the accrued
costs Of the volunteer service now dis
continued he compares them with the
ordinary peace expenses of European
armies which are inactive. II he had
wished to be fair. he would have used
for comparison the expenses of our
regular army in an ordinary season; ;
as. for example, 1892. when 269OO men
cost $3l ,351 ,7S5, of which only s23, 4O4.-
$50 was for the actual support of the
army, cost in round numbers of
$1,000 man. The question of PEN
sions is subject apart.
Now, without reference to what may
he the cost of the military service in
foreign countries. where wages. too,
are low and where the private soldiers
are treated as little better than serfs.
who in America will seriously contend
that $1,000 year is an eXtravagant
cost for regular soldier counting in
his pay. Keep. travel expenses. equip
rnent. salaries of officers and executive
costs--everything, in fact, properly be-
longing in the military equation !
There are very few civilians of any
Importance who would care to put
themselves up as "A target at that price
with all the discomforts of soldiers
life thrown in.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-31

Some Of our nervous contemporaries.
In announcing the recovery of Hon. G..
A. Grow from his recent illness. state
that the machine leaders are endeavor-
ing to perfect plans for his defeat.
Mr.. Grow. however, does not seem to
be losing any sleep over the subjec,
which is causing anti-Quayites and
Democrats so much trouble.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-31

Under it's new ownership and man
agement, the Stroudsburg Jeffersonian
has been thoroughly modernized and
improved until it is now one of the
most creditable and promising weekly
papers in the country. We proffer
most cordial congratulations.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-31

According to one authority the Sugar
trust is actually losing at present
something like $4,000 a day, It's pa
trlotism in continuing in business for
the benefit Of mankind will doubtless
be duly appreciated.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-31

Governor stones estimate is that in
the primaries thus far held the Quay
people have lost one member a1' won
fourteen. No wonder the insurgents
are talking of a fusion with the Demo-
Gratis.