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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-08-25

Messrs. William and Edward Sher-
man, of Newport, r. l., are guests at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. w. d. Ken
nedy, on North Washington avenue,
where they will remain for several
weeks.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-08-25

Mr.. Sidney Williams has begun the
foundation for a handsome new resi-
dence on the lots adjoining the prop
erty of Mrs. c.. w. Fritz, on Madison
avenue, and recently owned by Frank
lin Howell.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-08-25

A party composed of Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Twitchell, Mr.. and Mrs. Dow
ney, of Oswego, N. Y, and Mr.. and
Mrs C. B. Sturges will leave next week
for a camping and hunting expedition
in the forests of Maine.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-08-25

- OCIAL affairs continue to be In
\ a state of desuetude which may
U be innocuous, but is certainly
y not enlivening. Later, we are
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-08-25

DR.. n. Y. Leet is now driving one
of the handsOmest and most stylish
traps yet seen in this city.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-08-25

Mr. Walter w. Winton writes to The
Tribune from Paris. His story is in
one canto, brief and to the point, and
to this effect;
"I am here for a rest and change.
The walters and porters are getting
the change and the landlord is taking
the rest"
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
Quotations on cottonseed.

While the value of cotton seed and its products is increasing steadily every year, says the New York Commercial, the seed itself is not yielding to its producers in the United States a revenue at all propor- tionate. The trade in cotton seed is now in a condition about as demoralized as -it9Yell could be, and there Is a widespread feeling in commercial circles that some radical changes in the method of handling the crop must be made at once if the business is to be rescued from the warning interests that now control it and force the planters to accept prices that too often mean no profit at all to them.
 John M. Parker, the retiring president of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, in his annual report recently submitted, took up this subject briefly but significantly as fol- lows:
 Under existing conditions the farmer is at the mercy of a monopoly which, in or- der to pay dividends on inflated and wa tered stock, grinds him down on the price paid for crude cotton seed or arbitrarily advances the price in certain localities in order to crush out independent opposition. That accomplished, the combine decreases prices to the extreme limit without any corresponding fluctuations in the value Of oil, meal, cake or hulls. There is certainly q parity In value between these products and the crude cotton seed, and by giving daily official quotations for the guidance of the planter this institution will be the pioneer in new field of usefulness and Of
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
....FTOURS FOR WORK....
BY LORD SALISBURY.

Parliament has been asked to have It made penal for any shopkeeper to give employment to any man. however much he may desire it, if that employment lasts beyond o'clock in the evening.
 What Is provided is that any tradesman who desires that his own business and the business of his rivals shall termdinate at 2 o'clock may sketch out a district where he likes, take in whom he likes belong ing to this particular branch of commerce, and if he can obtain two-thirds of his neighbors to combine with him he may coerce by penal enactment the rest of the tradesmen not to conduct their business after the hour of o'clock.
 Such measure has never certainly been on the statute book of England before Hitherto grown-up men have been at lib- erty to dispose of their labor as they liked and tradesmen have been allowed to con- duct such business as they thought fit un- der such conditions as they pleased. But
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in the proposed new law If two to one of any district join together on most fanci- full grounds, and if they can be got together the minority will have to bow to their de- cision, and not conduct their business af- ter the time that suits the majority.
 That Is undoubtedly a very new princi- pie to introduce in the legislation of Eng land Besides that, 1t Is not matter to be decided by a majority, nor decided by the number of people in a district who have peculiar views, but it is to be decid- ed by an odd kind of pebiscite of those who pursue a particular branch of com- merce, and they are to determine the law under which their neighbors may pursue their industry.
 If the thing stopped there I should still say that 1t was very novel interference with the liberty of men to dispose of their labor and to dispose of their capital as they please; and it would behoove Par lament to give a very great deal of thought indeed before 1t sanctioned prin- ciple so entirely novel. In tine first place. l think that the shop assistants are to be considered, but that is comparatively very small matter. They are not the most important persons that are affected by the opening or shutting of shops; some consid- eration a great deal of consideration, is due to the customer
 The consumer Is the important person.
 If the shopkeeper or the shop assistant does not like his trade he can leave it and go to another, but if the customer Is not to have that which he is in the habit of consuming, which is, perhaps, necessary of life, he has no recourse left whatever.
 certain number of districts, probably
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the poorest will be under a law that they may not keep their shops open or pursue their business after o'clock at night.
 In a recent discussion 1 ventured to ob- serve on the unfortunate tendency dn the legislation Parliament adopted rather to regard that which from the members point of view was convenient and agreeable than that which might be convenient or agree able to those for whom they are legislating. No doubt-for the members of the two houses of Parliament-the shutting up of shops at o'clock would hurt very few peo- ple There is no shopping for them after that time, but there may be some matters for which one of the members would desire to enter shop after o'clock. He might wish to go to a restaurant; he might wish to buy a cigar-tllat Is very reasonable proposal.
 There are very few members of the House of Lords who will want except in those se- lected and excluded articles. to shop after o'clock but there are hundreds of thou sands of women in London who spend their day in work and who have not the time for making the requisite provision for their ne-
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
MIR. ZIMMERMAN'S WEALTH.
A Railroad Official Says 1t Is About
 $1,0oo,00o.

Cincinnati Dispatch in New York World.
 The great majority of the fellow citizens of MT. Eugene Zimmerman only discovered within the past couple of weeks that there was a man of that name in this city. MT. Zimmerman has considerable wealth. but 1t is far below the large sum credited to him.
 railroad official, who is at least as prominent in railroad and financial circles as MT Zimmerman Is and whose name it would be discourteous to divulge, said to the World correspondent today:
 Mir. Zmmerman'S fortune is by no means of colossal proportions. l doubt if his wealth submerges the million mark The Zimmerman private car' that has been sent to New York is no more MT Zimmermans private car than 1t is that of any other Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day ton Railroad official who desires to use it."
 MT. Zimmerman's main object in life has been the happiness of his only child Just before his departure for New York to meet the duke and duchess he said: ''I have re nlained single for ten years (Mrs. Zimmer- man died that many years ago) on my daughters account" No wish of his daugh- ter that 1t was in the power of wealth to gratify has been denied to her.
 Within the past two weeks the fathers efforts have been turned in the direction Of a cordial welcome home. This welcome has taken the shape of redecorating and rear ranging the apartments of his daughters in the residence of Mr. Zimmerma1 in Mount Auburn, the fashionable section of Cincin- natl.
 The walls of the duchess apartments on the second floor, fronting on two streets, have been made a light pink with gold frieze. A narrow hallway intervenes be. tween the duchess and dukes apartments. The dukes apartments have been given blue tint with white woodwork trimming.
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
THE LITTLE sIcKNEssEs
Which Grow Into Big Ones.

A little cold in the head is a trifle, but if neglected and it hangs on from week to week and gets into the throat and lungs it is no longer a trifle. It is then no long CT a slight cold but the beginning of chronic catarrh.
 Do not make the mistake of thinking you have no catarrh because the head and nose appear to be clear. If there is cough, tickling in the throat, hoarseness or a sense of oppression in the chest you have throat and bronchial catarrh. If the ap- petite is poor, nausea, gagging and dis gust for food, especially in the morning, you have catarrh of the stomach
 The surest and safest treatment for ev- cry form of catarrh is an internal remedy which acts especially on the blood and mucuous membranes
 Such remedy is the new catarrh cure sold everywhere by druggists under name of Stuarts Catarrh Tablets, a medicine in pleasant convenient tablet form and containing all the best and latest specifies for catarrh, whether located in nose, throat, bronchial tubes or stomach.
 Stuart's Catarrh Tablets are composed of Sanguinaria, guaiacol, Red gum and sim,- lar antiseptics which destroy the germs of catarrh in the blood and no one who suf- fers from any form of catarrh and has seen the uselessness of sprays, douches and powders will ever go back to them att6f once tTylHS SO CoHVohaSHl, pieeSdHt and harmless a remedy as Stuarts Catarrh Tablets and one which gives relief in ss short time.
 Even in cases where catarrE has eff fected the senses of smell and hearing these tablets accomplish a cure because the blood being cleansed of catarrhal germs the mucous surfaces of the nose and throat no longer clog up the respiratory passages with catarrhal secretions.
 All druggists sell ful-sized treatments of Stuart's Catarrh Tablets for the nonInAi price of 50 cents and the regular daily use of them will effectually cure this tropble- some and dangerous disease.
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
Getting Tired of 1t.

From Tit-Bits
 What makes you look so unhappy, little boy?"
 Small boy (sobbing)-Nobody never calls me good unless I am a-doing somethin' I don't like to do.
The age-herald., 1900-12-09

cessitfes and their household goods until after O clock. A bill closing all the shops at o'clock would exclude them from any purchases they desired to make. I know in one case it is provided by an odd sort of special provision, that nothing in the bill it is proposed to adopt is to interfere with the traffic either in hot meat or spbr- ituous liquors.
 I should be sorry to suppose, or to go so far as to say, that-5the whole of the neces- sities of mankind are included in the two things, hot meat and spirituous liquors.
 But let us consider what a woman com ing home from her work has to do who has to provide for husband and children dur ing the next day or week. She has to buy meat-not necessarily hot meat-bread, fish, oil coal, candies-I might go on and give an indefinite list; but it is proposed to shut her out from the whole of that commerce at the only time of the day when she has leisure to pursue it.
 I maintain that there is a far more im- portant body, a far larger body, body whose necessities are greater, body whose claims in legislation of this kind should press more imperiously, and those are the consumers who frequent these shops. If you shut up these shops by legislative &C., tion you at all times enormously increase their difficulty in providing for the neeessl- ties of their daily life It is true, as has been said that the end will be that the shopkeepers will not like 1t, and they will try to go back to the old system. But is that a fair or healthy way of dealing with the prime necessities of the poor? We should leave them to pursue their commerce according to their ancient practice.
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.

Has been used for over FIFTY YEARS by MILLIONS of MOTHERS for their CHILL REIN WHILE TEETHING, with PER- FECT SUCCESS1t SOOTHES the CHILD SOFTENS the GUMS, ALLAYS all PAIN CURES WIND COLIC, and is the best rem edy for DIARRHOEA Sold by druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslows Soothing Syrup" and take no other kind. Twenty-Five cents a bottle,
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great benefit to our agricultural people,"
 Going further in to details, President Parker could have shown now railroad commissions, competing transportation in- terests, oil mill associations and litigation in the state courts have contributed to trade tangle so complicated and serious that there is absolutely no uniformity or stability in the price of cotton seed any where in the South today. Oil mills in South Carolina, for instance, have paid as high as $22 a ton for seed, while on the same day those in Mississippi and Louisi- ana were paying ST and those in Texas only $10.50 to SIP. Meanwhile the prices of cotton in these four States and all over the South were practically identical. In short, the planter has the advantage of the daily cotton quotations in the various markets of the country and sells or holds his cot ton accordingly; as to the price of his seed, he is all in the dark.
 The first step, therefore in bringing order and system out of this chaos should be the establishment of a cotton seed market the dissemination of daily quotations on the raw seed and it's products. Make an open market for these great staples, ele- vate them to the trade dignity that they deserve alongside of grain, cotton, sugar, petroleum, iron and the meat products, and the chief mischief-maker in the cotton seed industry will have been destroyed. The prices of the raw seed throughout the cot ton-producing States should be as uniform as those for the baled lint itself.
 Why, then, should there be any delay in the work of rescuing this great industry from it's present demoraliZation? If the New Orleans Cotton Exchange shall act promptly on its retiring presidents recom- mendation it will set the pace for Q revolu. tion in the cotton seed trade that every in- terest involved ought to welcome and fol- low,
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
One Way to Settle :.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 q see that Mrs. Bifkins has negro help now
 Has she?"
 "Yes; she got so tired of having people ask her if her hired girls were related to the family"
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
Had Him.

From the Indianapolis Press.
 "No young man." said the salesman and aphorismic person, "cia succeed by keeping his eye on the clock"
 How about the watchmaker?" asked the impudent person.
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
ExtravasantIy Beautiful.

From Harper's Bazaar.
 Miss Frocks Is a very pretty girl" said MT. HunSer.
 "Pretty?" repeated MT. Spatts. Miss Frocks is handsomer than her own photo- graphs'
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Xenueful.
From the syracuse Herald.

From the Syracuse Herald.
 Snarley-Is he a vengeful man?
 Yow-Vengeful? I should say yes He wrote me letter regarding the ten I owe llim, and there was 2 cents due on the let ter.
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
Save a Day.

By using the popular Queen and Crescent Route Alabama Great Southern Railroad) when going to Texas and the Southwest
 Quickest time by twelve Q2) hours. Par t!culars at No 2Ol9 First avenue. 12-4-tf
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
Always in One,

From the Boston Transcript
 Grimes-Is your wife fond of pets?
 Harum-I should say sine was. She is al- most always in one.
The age-herald., 1900-12-09

Go where the crowd goes, to Dunker's Saloon, 2O8 and 2lO North goth Street, between 2d and 3d avenues.
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
NEWSPAPER WAR
 WAGED IN CHICAGO
Daylight Edition of Evening Pa.
 per Causes Trouble
MAY BREAK COMBINATION
Hearst's Chicago American Has Bro- ken Into the Agreement Not to
 Issue One Cent Morning News
 papers-Two Rivals Printed

Chicago, H., Wednesday.-(S -(Special)-Two more newspapers and a war involving old newspaper publishing houses and threaten ing the strong publishers -agreement" are the results of the introduction in Chicago of an early morning evening newspaper.
 Hearsts Chicago American, which issues street car edition'' at o'clock in the morning, is the cause of the trouble. This newspaper is sold for one cent and boasts that it prints all the news to be found in the morning newspapers and other news that comes after their last editions have gene to press. Its competition is said to have been felt by it's morning rivals.
 The publishers agreement" which has been the controlling factor in the Chicago newspaper field for many years, prevents the publication of a morning newspaper for one cent by publishers who are parties to it. Consequently, without breaking this agreement, it was not possible for the morning newspapers to meet the lower price of the American.
 Newspapers Published.
 As result two new newspapers have ap- peared. The News-Record, which was the first of these, is issued from the establish ment where the offices of the News and the Record are located. The Press-Tribune is issued by the company that publishes the Tribune. These are practically extras of morning newspapers issued at about the same hour as the American ana SelnuS lor one cent.
 The News-Record has circulated for al- most two weeks in the country to compete with the American in those districts be- fore it was sold in Chicago. Then 1t began to be pushed here The PresS-Tribune Is used for the same purpose, and now circu- lates mainly in the suburban and out-of- town districts, where one cent makes diff ference in the choice of newspaper.
 In the meantime the public is more or less confused. A man who asks for the Tribune is likely to get the Press Tribune, and wonders why he gets a cent more in change The opposite also h; )pens fre- quently.
 An Explanation.
 In Justification to the new newspapers It is said they are issued to please those who insist on buying only the very latest edi- tions and to show that regular editions carried the news which the American prints.
 It is also declared that the News-Record is a new name to distinguish the first edi- tion of the News from the other editions for business reasons.
 The situation has given rise to all sorts of rumors, most of them unfounded. AL most every newspaper in Chicago is com monly reported for sale. MT. Hearst Is supposed to want the Times-Herald; MT Patterson, of the Tribune, to want the Evening Journal; MT. Hearst to be seeking the Evening Post, and MT. Kohlsaat of the Times-Herald, to desire the Tribune. Some of MT. Hearst's principal New York men are ir the city at present, and this gives food for rumors.
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
Texie cigars! Texie cigars

Hermitaue.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-08
UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL.
The Annual Address to the Classes by
Hon. George Rountrec.
Especial to The Messanrr,

Chapel Hill. y. g, May 4.-The an
nual address before the university law
school was delivered IN Gerard hall
tonight by Hon. George Rountree. of
Wilmington. ms OF the states fore
most lawyers.
A large attendance was present. in
Guiding every membe OF the first and
second year law classes. DR.. Alderman.
Introducing Mr.. Rountree, speaking of
him as a scholar lawyer" and friend
Of the university.
Mr.. Rountree arose amid applause.
After making an elaborate sketch OF
our legal development. the speaker de-
duced from that history two great
facts: First. that we owe more OF our
law TO actions OF our judges than 10
legislation: second. hat frequently
questions arise which can be solved
only by study OF law. Many questions
must be decided by consideration of
public policy and practical utility.
MIR. Rountree dwelt at length upon
the responsiveness. the power OF intel
ligent growth OF the common law. He
expressed the hope that a sentiment
which Will bann lynch law is coming
to prevail. Finally he declared that
law is the worthiest of all secular call
ings, Offering AN opportunity for the
Vindication OF human rights and re-
dressing of human wrongs.
The address was a lucid and able
expression Of a great subject.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-08
THE PLANS
For Conducting the National Republi-
a Convention.

New York, May 4.-Joseph H. Man
ley, of Maine, was at the Fifth Avenue
hotel today and had talks with sew
eral local politicians concerning the
seating arrangements of the Philadel-
phia convention.
Some of the local leaders who talked
with Mr.. Manley said that 1t had been
practically settled by the national re-
publican manager hat Senator VOL
colt, of Colorado, will De temporary
chairman of the convention, and Sen
ator Lodge, of Massachusetts,. perma-
nent chairman. It has been also per-
manently settled that a Foraker,
of Ohio, should make the speech re-
nominating Mr.. Mckinley. Mr.. Han
mas plan, it was further stated, was
to bring Governor Roosevelt forward
to second the nomination, but the gov
ernor has not yet consented to make
the seconding speech. He will see
President Mckinley tomorrow, il vas
said, and this part of the programme
will be settled definitely.