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Evening journal., 1900-01-01

~. ts car routes aver
c .vo- ZOO COZ per year IN earnings,
Wiz IL. Iher mail routes average
less than $4,000 per year. This table
also suggests the significant COMPARE
son that, while the average passenger
car Gin use and in reserve) earns but
S10,52S per year, the average mail car
lin use and in reserve) earns upon one
basis Of computation s15,5S6 per year
and upon another computation $le,427
per year.
The ninth table shows that while the
ratio of cost for mail transportation to
the aggregate expenditures OF the POST
Office Department was but % per cent.
in 1873, the ratio had increased TO 30
40 per cent. in 1898.
Having analysed all the tables bear
ing upon the subject Of rates for mail
transportation, attention was called to
a feature which had not been previous
" referred to. An impression prevails
among some that the railroads should
be paid an extra high rate because OF
the great benefit OF the mail service to
the general public. But Mr.. Acker
demonstrated that the greatest benefi-
ciaries Of a prompt and efficient mail
SERVICE were lllt AdAlA OtAAo AhNAAANAf 49,
One Of the important and fundamental
factors which has stimulated our In
ternal commerce to IN unprecedented
degree, and developed In corresponds
ing ratio the transportation traffic. has
been the aggressive advertising enorts
Of enterprising manufacturers and
advertisements in the form OF
newspapers, magazines, price currents
pamphlets and circular letters, and
were It not for this display Of enter
prise and great expenditure OF money
the demand for freight transportation
would be curtailed to an alarming de-
gree: and il the mails were stopped
entirely every railroad sooner or later
would be forced into bankruptcy Mos
firms would consider themselves verl
fortunate IL they could have their adj
vertiaing done for thcm at no cost L
/ themselves. but few would think o
following the example OF the railroad
in demanding that a greater profit b.
made on their own advertising matte
than they make upon their regular
merchandise.
I'D to this time every argument ad
vanced in support of the present rat
OF railway mail pay, has, upon clos
analysis, only strengthened the oppo
site view; and while new argument
will in all probability be submitted b,
the railroad interests which, on tn
surface, may seem very plausible, Their
is little doubt but the inherent charac
ter of the facts themselves will, whel
carefully scrutinized, also convert thes
lnew arguments into fuller and stronge
testimony for the opposite side.
One cent letter postage, whic
means the saving of a dollar year t
those who write only two letter
week; and a cheap parcels post sys
3 TEN, which means a convenience
, every family in the country and grea
3 stimulus to our commercial industries
are the two practical objects whic
warrant such an exhaustive treatise {
{ the question Of railway mail pay, an
5 it is Mr. Acker's hope that when tn
1 situation is clearly and fully compr'
3 hended the railroad interests will joi
b hands with the commercial interest
in securing these important postal &C
e. vantages.
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DIED

BURKE.-In this city, on Friday, De-
cember %, 1899, Myles Burke
Relatives and friends are respectfully
invited to attend the funeral from his
late residence, No. 207 Jackson street,
on Tuesday morning, January 2. High
mass al st. paul's r. c. Church. Inter
ment at Old Cathedral Cemetery, Phila-
dclphia
Philadelphia papers please copy.
MOTHERALL--In this city, on De-
cember 30, 1899. II. Sherwood
Motherall, aged Is years and 6
months.
Relatives and friends of the family
and the employees of the Trump Bro
Tiers Machine Company are requested
to attend the funeral at the residence
of his father, Henry Motherall, No. 100.
Lancaster avenue, on Tuesday after
noon at 2 o'clock.
PHELAN.-On December 81, 1899
Francis Joseph Phelan, aged about
months, son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Franz
p. Phelan, No. GIG Madison street.
Evening journal., 1900-01-01
SzVl BASED ON NOTHING.
Most Of the Fears That Beset Fair
Maids and Matrons.

The cause that implants the spirit
OF fear in the bosom of the gentle sex
Is a subject that may well puzzle the
most devout student OF human nature.
The mouse is considered one Of the
harmless of creatures, and yet It has
been responsible for more cases Of
hysteria than any animal many times
its size.
One woman, who all her life. has
searched beneath her bed before re-
firing, at one time found herself in
possession of a folding moDstrosity.
the intricacies of which she had first
10 solve before taking her wcli-earned
rest But such is the force of habit.
After pulling down the bed she would
carefully look beneath II, for no other
reason than that she had done 80 ever
since she was a child.
A favorite illusion is that OF having
ones legs seized, either from behind
In going upstairs or on getting into
bed. Women have been seen scuttling
upstairs in the dark setting at def
ance all the laws of locomotion in a
ludicrous attempt to keep their legs
some distance ahead of them and be-
yond the reach of a mysterious clutch.
Girls viii also make flying leaps into
bed to eliminate the same improbable.
ity.
Many women search diligently in
closets, bureau drawers and all sorts
OF impossible places before resigning
themselves to sleep. An old house
keeper whose table silver, in two bas-
kets, was always placed in her bed
room after the evening meal, was one
night awakened by what she consld-
cred suspicious sounds from the lower
REGIONS. Cautiously leaving her room
laden with the silver, she pitched both
baskets into the hall below, calling
out as she did so, "Take It all and
please 60" then fed precipitately and
barricaded herself in her room. Need
less to add she found both baskets
and scattered contents the following
morning, a little the worse for the
rough handling she had given them.
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WoRKERs AMONG ooTToNsEEp
New Machine Which Is Designed 70
Monopollzed Their Business.

Monopolized Their Business.
An always interesting sight to New
Orleans visitors has been the large
gangs OF darlSies unloading cotton
seed from the barges at tho oil mills,
piling the sacks of seed on the heavy
trucks and trundling them down the
wharf into the mill, singing Justify the
while. The picturesque side of the
old-time method of unloading seed by
no means appeals to the owners Of the
mills. however. Such labor Is very
expensive, and sometimes impossible
20 obtain. Competition in the manu-
facture of cottonseed products Is very
keen, and unnecessary handling OF
the raw material must BIO done away
with wherever practicable. The big
grain elevators, built right mp to the
doep water, have long ago solved the
problem, but with the oil mills at
Gretna, built back of tho lovee with
their wharves stretching a considera-
bic distance into the river, and with
these wharves sinking and twisting all
the time from the action of the cur
rent and the treaoherous river bed,
the question how TO unload their
barge and carry the seed back into the
mills at a low cost has been until now
a very difficult one to answer.
The Union Mil Company has re-
Gently installed at its large Crescent
mill at Gretna a plant for rapidly and
economically unloading seed from
barees, which seems to meet all the
conditions. The main part OF the sys.
tenn is a belt conveyor, running on
trestle work along the wharf, and
thence under the roof OF tho mill
Along this conveyor the seed is car
riod from the end Of the wharf, $50
feet to a point in the mill, where it IS
weighed and either stored or distrib
utod direct to the crushors. From the
time Il IS taken from the barges until
&C leaves the mill az a finished product
the seed is not touched by hand
The present capacity of the plant Is
about 400 bushels (seventy tons) Of
cottonseed per hour, but this can be
largely increased. IL is estimated that
the construction win pay for itself il
wages saved in less than two seasons
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NOTICES.

NOTICE.-I would call the attention of
citizens who own or harbOr dogs to Sec
ton 3, City Ordinance, 70 prevent annoy
ance from dogs" as follows; IF 2ny
owner. possessOr or harborer OF any dog
shall not before tho Goth day Of January
In every year cause the same to be regis
tered or shall suffer such dog while ON
his premises to give reasonable cause OF
annoyance 10 any person by barking or
bowling, every person 50 Offending shall
be fined five dollars" Hours OF register
ing, $50 q. m. to $50 y. IN.
JOHN +. DOlAN. Chief ~ Police.
Wilmington. Del. December 2S. 1899.
ELECTION.
Central National Bank of Wilmington.
Wilmington, Del. Dec. 9. 1899.
Tho annual election FOR dircct tors OF
this bank viii be held at the banking
house, ON Tuesday. January 9. 1900. be-
tween the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and
u o'clock m.
IT, p. RUMFORD. Cashier.
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PERSONAL.

MADAM BOSWELL. reliable clairvoy-
ant medium, reads entire life. luck Gypsy
charms given. ZIG French street.
YOU PAY HALF PRICE ONLY.-We
viii examine your Eyes Free, and make
you any glass TO order you need for one
half the price you have TO pay anywhere
else In the city or any other city.
All you have 70 know is what other deal
ers charge you and we make or sell you
the same article for One-half Price.
our work Is guaranteed, we do all kinds
OF Repairing and have everything that Is
needed In the Optical Line. Call and SEE
for yourselves.
PROFESSOR WE'LL,
No sl1 Market street
Evening journal., 1900-01-01
A queer Place for The Bird.

The eagle which originally decora.
ted the stern Of the famous schooner
yacht America-which first won what
is now known as the America Cups
now the sign Of the Royal Eagle Hotel
at Ryde, Isle Of Wight, overlooking
the scene OF the vessels triumph over
her English competitors in 1S51.-Tit
Bits.
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A pon Shed.

Ida-Maud Beulah is going out to
cut all the fur trimming from her
skirt.
May-Is It moth-eateng
Idaho, indeedl But her French
poodle shed all his fur and Maud says
she'll have to get rid Of hers TO har.
monte the effect when he trots by her
side.-Chicago News.
Evening journal., 1900-01-01
a Youthful EHuslon.

Senator Thurston, who has taken
goOd-naturedly the newspaper chaff-
ing about his poem, "The White
Rose" decidedly objects to the un.
authorized announcement that II was
written by his fiancee, Miss Purman.
He says it was youthful effusion
written 80 OF more years ago and he
solemnly afirms that he discarded the
poetical role more than a quarter Of a
Gentry since
Evening journal., 1900-01-01
The Lawton feel ell !
.Onf1C9l CO over
nhri,

trade. They have been very busy,
yet every case has received the same
conscientious treatment that it was
entitled to. The people of Wilmington
are becoming educated to the fact that
they get the same treatment here that
they can get by going 70 a larger city
The Lawton Optical Co. carry every
facility for correcting any error of
vision that is used in all 0phalmio
Hospitals, and are up-to-date in all
their methods, using no drops or 10
tons. giving you the services of their
Specialist in their consultations and
Examinations free Of charge. They
are exclusively optical and their
glasses cost you no more than you pay
for them in a store where they carry
glasses as a side line. Don't mistake
the number. tits Sl6 Market St., on
the right as you go in the Opera
House.
Dslmarvia Phone 979. D. & A.
1919.
THE LAWToN OFFICIAL co.
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Journal. Employment wanted, help
wanted. to let. for rent. for sale. board
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three tlmss Tor quarter.
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MARRIED

DEAN-sNYDER.-On Saturday, be
cember &c. 1899, by Rev. w. M.
Schall, pastor Of the First Presby-
terrain Church, Harry Dean, Of Will
mington, and Bertha Snyder Of Har-
risburE. Ia.
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English affairs; LETTERS FROM THE
CHIEF OF EUROPE
itself with reading matter
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1900 Wake up, Whining
toni There is no
Happy sn why more
/. mess should not
New he done in Winning
ton this year than
year. in any past year Of
her existence.
Thousands Of dollars worth
of trade go from our city,
that ought to be kept here;
but complaining won't keep
it. Prove that we deserve
it, and we will get it.
Thousands of dollars
worth of trade should be
brought here that don't
come. We want the trolley
road to Kennett Square and
Southern Chester county;
we want the trolley road up
the Concord pike to West
Chester; we want the trolley
road to Newport, Stanton
and Marshallton; we want
the New Castle trolley road
extended to the peninsula
towns, and we want tele-
phone connection with
every town on the peninsula.
These will all bring bust
ness, and we are going for
our share of it. Our 10 per
cent. discount on heavy
clothing, ready made, and
.-to.order, gues in effect from
today.
Closed every evening at
6 o'clock except Saturdays.
JAS. 7. MULLIN & SONS,
Clothing, Sixth and
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-18
RELIGIOUS NEWS NOTES.

Rev. Harry A. Nye, a member Of the Second
Presbyterian church, preached at the morning
service yesterday.
Rev. George i. Alrich addressed the meeting
at the Railroad Young Mems Christian associa.
tion yesterday afternoon.
Rev. William $. Morgan, Phi. D., of New York
city preached at the mornig service yesterday
in All Souls Universalist church.
Rev. c. B. Henry will present a paper at the
Methodist Ministers association meeting in Elm
Park church this morning on "The Pastor and
His Vacation"
Rev. DR.. Coke, archdeacon o. the diocese, con.
Quoted the services yesterday morning at
Christ's church, corner of Washington avenue
and Park street.
The services at Holy Trinity Lutheran church
last evening in charge of Rev. G. T..
Blethen, of Gouldshoro, who preached in the alb
sence OF Rev. Spieker.
Rev. W. II. Williams, the drummer evangelist
gave three talks at Pittston yesterday. Next
Sunday the Anti-Saloon league speakers will in
wade the churches of this city.
Rev, James I. Kendall, OF Reading, Pa, oc
cupied the pulpit of Grace Evangelical Lu
theran church yesterday morning and preached
very eloquent sermon on christian Determine
ton"
At the Ash Street Methodist Episcopal churcl
last evening, the pastor, Rev. ]. r. Austin
preached object sermon, taking for his sub
| ject "The Hornets Nest" The discourse wa
| fruitful Of much good.
Rev W. F. Gibbons occupied the pulpit o
the Providence Presbyterian church yesterda,
morning and at the evening service the pastor
Rev. George Z. Guild, preached the third ser
mon on one Of Paul's short sayings, 81 an
| Ready"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-18
DEATH OF MAJOR SEYMOUR
He was Killed on Thursday at the
Zand River Near Blomfontein
by a Boer Bullet.

Telegraphic dispatches announce that
Louis l.. Seymour, formerly a resident
of this city but for number of years
past a mining engineer of great promi-
nence in South Africa, was killed at
the Zand river, near Bloemfontein, on
Thursday last, in skirmish between
the British and the Beers.
Mr.. Seymour was born in Whitney's
Point, N. Y, in 1860, and after study
ing civil and mechanical engineering
secured a position with the Dickson
Manufacturing company, which con-
cern in 1882 sent him to superintend
the setting up of some mining machin-
cry in Venezuela. He remained in
South America for three years, and in
1888 went to Kimberly, South Africa,
for the De Beers Mining company as
manager and general superintendent.
He next went to London as consult
ing engineer for the De Beers people,
and after remaining there for three
years, returned to South Africa and
became the general superintendent of
the Rand company's gold mines, prob
ably the most important mining posi-
tion in the world. When the British
Boer war broke out, Mr.. Seymour
company with George Poore, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. b. Poore, of Green
Ridge, organized a regiment of en-
gineers, known as the Railway Pioneer
regiment.
He secured a commission as major in
the English army, no foreigner being
| allowed to become a colonel, and was
| placed in command of his regiment
| He had designed and constructed al
| the bridges used by Lord Roberts
army on its march towards the Trans
vaal. For the past several months HI
| had been with Lord Kitchener.
Captain Fremont Stokes, of Com
| pany f, Thirteenth regiment, whC
worked with Major Seymour in Soutl
Africa for some time, says that he be
lieves Lord Roberts army could no
have advanced so rapidly on Pretori;
as it has were it not for the superior
typographical maps which he know
have been prepared by Messrs. Sey
mour and Poore.
| The dead man was formerly a mem
Der of Company A, Thirteenth regi
ment, and had many warm friends II
this city. He visited Scranton abou
eighteen months ago, spending severa
weeks here. He is survived by
widow, who is at present in Cap
Town, and by two brothers and tw'
sisters, one of whom is now on he
way to this country. The latter is Mis-
Stella Seymour, who was for a mum
ber of years the organist at the Firs
Presbyterian church.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-18
FLOWER SERVICES.
"The Flowers Ministry" Spoken of
by Rev. r. f. Y. Pierce.

Very pretty and pleasing were the
services at the Penn Avenue Baptist
church last night, where Rev. Il. +.
Y. Pierce conducted a flower evening,
choosing as the theme for his sermon,
The Flowers Ministry"
Throughout the entire edifice flowers
were in abundance roses, with laurel
md all sorts of fragrant blossoms per-
fuming the atmosphere and producing
n beautiful effect, all OF the flowers
ncing sent at the conclusion of the
services to the sick at hospitals, and
in various private homes. On entering
the building everyone vas accosted at
the door by two young ladies, who Of
fcred q handsome rose.
The services were Of the usual Sun
day night order, with the exception of
the pastors sermon. Rev. Pierce
spoke of the beauty everywhere about
us, OF the seemingly useless things,
which. nevertheless, merely through
their native beauty do good in the
world. Beauty" said he, lis the Wis.,
ible smilc of God. He Himself is in
visible, but anywhere around us we
can see his smile In the beauties OF
nature. 1t might be asked,
Why did God make the flowers" They
are of no apparent usefulness! They
arc OH the borderland between ma
terial and immaterial life, and teach
n great lesson that as God has the
time 20 see the beautiful ard send 1t
to us, we must seek 1t and loye it,"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-18
cHILDREN,s DAY EXERCISES.
Enjoyable Programme at Elm Park
Church Yerterday.


The annual Childrens day exercises
of the Sunday school OF the Elm Park
Methodist Episcopal church were con-
Quoted in that beautiful auditorium
yesterday morning, in lieu of the regu-
lar service. and were witnessed by a
congregation which completely filled
both the main floor and the spacious
galleries.
The organ loft and the pulpit were
beautifully decorated with American
Beauty roses and profusion of foliage
and dainty wild flowers. These were
laid on with lavish hand presenting
a simple yet beautiful effect. The 1.40o
pupils of the Sunday school were ac-
corded the place of honor in the front
pews, when Superintendent w. A. May,
who acted as chairman, announced
that the opening hymn would be "On-
ward, Christian Soldiers"
This was sung by the immense con-
gregation In an inspiring manner, after
which prayer was offered by c. E.
Bradbury. Forty-three infants were
then baptized by the pastor, Rev. DIR.
c. M. Giffin.
The primary class next sang a de-
lightful chorus, their clear, childish
voices Joining in perfect unison. Janet
Connell then gave brief and prettily
worded address of welcome, after
which the regular children's pro-
gramme was gone through with.
There were recitations by Margaret
Kleckler Ethel Phillips, Walter Nc
Connell and Helen Hopewell, and songs
by Elsie Squance, Dorothy Page,
Gladys Connell, Marion Rice, Robert
Arnold, William Thomas, Earl Rice
and Arthur Anderson. DR.. c. NJ. GifIln
delivered a brief and appropriate ad-
dress. The collection taken UP is to
be used in the founding of Sunday
schools in destitute regions.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-18
HOLY NAME SOCIETY.
Sixty New Members Received at
Cathedral Last Night.

Sixty candidates were received into
:he Holy Name society of st. Peters
cathedral last night by Rt. Rev.
Bishop Hoban, and thirty postulants
We're professed. The bishop was as
sisted by Rev. d. j. MacGoldrick and
Rev. John j. Loughran. He also de-
livered a brief sermon on the three
essential points or objects of the So
Ciety.
The first of these is the prevention
OF the profane usa of the Lords name
and the using of all efforts possible
to prevent 1t being dragged into ordi-
nary conversation. The second object
Is the prevention of perjury, of which,
the bishop stated, there have been
such marvellous examples in our local
courts recently.
The third object is to make a war
upon immortality. In this connection
the bishop spoke very pointedly, and
urged the members to use all the in
dividual and combined effort possi-
BILE to put an end to the reign, as he
termed II, Of the bawdy houses in this
city and the consequent debauchery
of the young.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-18
NURSES WILL GRADUATE.
Commencement of Lackawanna Hos.
pital Nurses Takes Place June 81.

Arrangements have now been COM
pleted for the graduation exercises of
the Scranton Training School for
Nurses. connected with the Lacka.
wanna hospital. They will be held
June q, at St. Lukes parish house,
and will start promptly at s o'clock in
the evening. Rev. Rogers Israel will
open the exercises with prayer, and
the orator of the evening will be the
Hon. H. NJ. Edwards. DR.. James L.
Rea, of the hospital staff, will address
the graduates, and President James p.
Dickson will make the presentation OF
diplomas. Bauer's orchestra will fur
nish the evenings music, and follow
ing the rendering of the programme a
social and reception will take place.
The nurses who will graduate are the
Misses Mary Agnes Doherty, Emily
Katherine Gamewell. Elizabeth Ely,
Carrie Olive Crissman, Julia Agnes
Twarowski and Rose Katherine Stein
metz,