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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-29
UNCONSCIOUS GAIN.

One morning to the meadow run
A father sent his little son,
''The water there is cool" said he;
$50 70 bring basketful to me-"
Obedient, as his father wills.
Right soon the child his basket fills,
But ere he bears it up the brink
The liquid leaks through every chink.
The puzzled urchn tries again,
And dips, and dips and dips in vain.
The water through his osicr sieve
VIII come and go-but nothing gve
Till the small butler, shsmed to tail,
Creeps whimpering back 10 tell his tale.
The father laughed. "a captured Joy
Though briet must leave its mark, my boy
No waste your water was, | ween
For sec, it washed your basket clean"
The boy, increased to manlier age,
Became the pupil Of a sage.
Ills soul ambition beckoned on
To Pmdus and TO Hclicon.
Lager he dipped the sacred spring
Then wcpt because he could not sing.
"Pcacc," said the Sage; "no more rcpine.
the fountain Of the Muse divine
As Justly YOU may thank as they
Who bear its magic gift away.
No less its virtue claims regard
II once it fails 10 makes a bard
NourSnnd has drank and drank again
The noblcst thoughts OF nohcst men,
And though you cannot sing, 50 long
To feel the baptism Of their song
Is life OF purer clearer tone,
Like music flowing through your own."
Then memory 10 the youth retold
'.lls basket lesson learned Of old,
ha
OF highest hope denied is much,
And drops OF wisdom's boundess lore
May sweeten souls that hold no more"
Theron Brown, in Boston Transcript.
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Vacation Schools.

ONE comments by the Boston
Transcript upon the wisdom
~ of vacation schools--a wisdom
that 1t is to be hoped will
yet come into more general apprecia-
tion--ft so we'll the local need that We
hasten to adopt them for our own.
THE vacation school idea," that
paper says, lis no longer in the ten
tative stage. Its usefulness is so
frmly established that it is coming to
be considered an indispensable annex
TO the public school system. Its ad-
vantates, 1t Is TO be noted, affect the
wholS community. The vacation
school not only keeps children busy
and happy during the hours that would
otherwise be passed in deleterious
play In the broilng streets, but it also
relieves the overburdened mothers
and raises the standard of home life.
The wise purpose OF the movement is
to protct children from evil associa-
tions and enforced idleness; to minim-
ize the opportunities for evil infiu-
ences. and to turn the tide of super
fiuous youthful energy into useful
channels. In achieving this, the vaca-
tion school has been a luminous sue
cess The most lawless and disre-
spectful have been transformed
through work made so fascinating that
y is more attractive than play. At
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-29

GERS, delcs,t.s, members ~ the Grand Army,
women's Relief corps, Ladies of the Grand Army
Republic Sons Of Veterans and Daughters of
Veterans and their friends over the Northwestern
railway to Chicago, thence by Lake Shore and
Michiesn Southern to Cleveland The train will
leave Omaha, Sept. :, at y. M, and will
reach Cleveland at 7.30 y. m, sept. = The
Ransss official document ssys that the depart
ment headquarters will he at the american house.
Tho department. Of Kansas will run a head
quarters train.
General M II. Bartlett commander of the
Grand Army department Of West Virginia, and
Colonel J. L. Buckley. both Of Parkersburg' W.
Va. were in Cleveland Wednesday. They en-
gagged headquarters Tor the department of West
Virginia and the womsns Relief corps Of that
state at the Forest City house The department
will require n carriage and six mounts Tor the
parade and will bring with II The Second regi.
inent, West virginia. National Guard band Of
Parkersburg. Of twcnty.six pieces Free quar-
tiers were applied for, for five hundred old sol
diers In addition to these Ave hundred, many
veterans with their families will stop in board
ing houses and private homes, and there will b,
many exCursionists from West virginia in the
CITY.
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tention might also be called to the
fact that the vacation school offers
solution to the problem of the charity
workers who are beginning to realize
that they must turn Themselves with
renewed energy to the preventive side
of their work through better educa-
tional forces in the charcter formation
of children. In training for occupa-
tional forces in the character formation
and the value and dignity of labor,
the vacation school pays for itself
thousand fold The combination of
manual and mental training, of nature
study. OF occasional outdoor excur-
sions and the afternoons spent upon
play grounds is irresistible"
Last year in Boston, 81 school yards
were opened for three hours each day.
and more than 1000 children took part
in the educational play provided in the
vacation school plan. For that plan
does not contemplate hot-weather
examining, but wholesome diversion so
ordered as also to convey instruction
of both mind and morals. The cost
of this work was $4,000 or 81 apiece for
each attendant The Boston school
board contributed $4,000, and private
benevolence did the rest.
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Some Of the Spanish inhabitants of
Manila are displeased because the Phil
ippine commission proposes to govern
that city by three commissioners, as in
Washington, with a tax scheme based
on valuation of property instead of
upon rentals and frontage. They should
suspend criticisms pending a fair test.
Next to city government by one man,
government by three men is preferable
to responsibility so widely divided as to
be practically lost.
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The foreign markets OF the United
tates stand in the following order:

Total ...... ......Sl ,39i 4s3,OS2 Sl,4s7,75j,5j
a decrease of 10000 900 in exports to
Japan is accounted for by an overpur-
chase by the japanese last year of our
cotton and of $1,000 coo to China. by
the Boxer troubles. Our exports to Rus
sia fell off little less than million
dollars, The principal increases in eX-
ports are: To the United Kingdom S97,
100000; British North America. $40 ,O0O,-
900; British Africa, s. OOO. .OOO Germany,
S3,72i, 1868; Mexico, $500, ,3s9; Chill, s.
OO7 7l6l; Peru, 81 ,46i, ,459; Porto Rico, ST.
6l0,025, and the Philippines, $l,3S6, 6l5
BY far the largest increase was to the
United Kingdom, TO which the exports
were s6Sl ,266,263 in 1901, against $685.
Sl9,545 in 1900, the total increase being
nearly sl00000,000, of which over $30,-
900, 900 wasi n cotton, about S55, 900 600
in breadstuffs and about $4,000, 900 in
provisions. The total exports to British
territory were valued at $Sl9, 55l 1892, or
55,s per cent. of the total exports of the
year.
The total imports of the year We're
s27, ,26S16s less than those of 1900 and
S22, 2+3, lS0 less than those of 1891, ten
years earlier. The total exports We're
1913, 3,272,i75 in excess of those of 1900, and
s603, ,2I4747 in excess of those of 1891
ten years earlier. The excess os ex-
ports over imports was Sl2O, $40, ,6i3
greater than that Of 1900 and $685., ,5l7, 927
greater than that of 1891.
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" tement of the steel strike.
If the settlement should he
righteous and permanent, confirmation
of these reports would be most well
come The strike is tremendous tax
upon the resources Of the country and
a source of much anxiety to those en-
trusted with the preservation of public
order.
But 1t is more important by far that
this strike should be settled righteously
than that it should be settled promptly.
One question raised by'it and by most
of the strikes of the past few months,
must he answered unmistakably before
American industry can get back upon
an American basis. The attempt of
the labor unions to draw a dead line
around employment which they have
relnquished and to make membership
in them an indispensable condition of
earning a livelihood is unlawful and
tyrannous, and if it should succeed we
should have no longer government of
equal rights, but an autocracy.
The right of men to combine for mu-
tual benefit is as sacred among labor
ing men as among capitalists. No one
nowadays disputes it. though there Is
fair ground to question the wisdom of
a good many of the combinations now
in evidence, of both capital and labor.
The right of men. singly or in a body,
to quit work. provided in so doing they
violate no contract, is equally ndis-
putable. although the history of strikes
teaches that few of them constitute
profitable investments for the strikers.
But men on strike have no right to
interfere with men who prefer to work,
nor with their families, nor with the
merchants who sell goods to them.
The moment the strikers or persons in
sympathy with them overstep the line
of non-interference and by any means
encroach upon the liberty of the work
ers. that moment a fundamental princi-
pie of the American government is vo-
lated and the love of justice and fair
play which is inherent in the Ameri-
can people will refuse to tolerate such
injustice or give the sustaining power
VI i''iiN "l'I'''N al " bHS IduSt III NiilCI
L is manifested
1t is not justification of picketing
boycotting. epithet-hurling or any other
form Of labor union intimidation tC
argue that combinations of capital, or
the other hand, make unlawful use oi
their power. Two wrongs do not make
right. Government by injunction
is as open to thS manufacturer oi
trader who can establish that his bust
ness Is unlawfully assailed by a capi
tai trust as IL is to the non-unior
workingman or his representative who
can establish that his liberty as al
American citizen is threatened by &
anor trust. Demagogues may how
that the laws of our land are made es
pecially for the rich and influential, bu
men of Intelligence know in their owl
hearts that such is not the truth. anC
never was and never will be-
The people, in good time, will dea
with law-breaking combines of capital
though not by matching lawlessnes
against lawlessness nor by enthroninI
counter combines headed by agitators
In the meantime, they will sympathiz
with the peaceful self-improvement q
labor and eVerlastingly frown upoi
sedition.
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PROTECT THE WITNESSES.
From the 81. Louis Mirror.

From the 81. Louis Mirror.
what all the courts should do Is 10 put check
upon the scope Of cross examination OF wit
nesses. The cross.examination ia often nothing
but q device to besmirch the witness. Often
suit is entered for no other purpose than that
some one may he cross.exanined in such way
as to get before the public certain questions
implying disgraceful conduct. The questions
are all that is needed. The answers don't count.
The witness may deny the charges That doesn't
matter. He or she was expected to do that, and
the imputaton sticks to the victim. The case
may be lost, but the court has been used for
the qualification Of private malice, the wrong is
done and the victim has no redress. The courts
cannot he too strict in their rules for the pro.
lection Of witnesses from the schemes OF black.
mailers and shyster lawyers
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Getting Ready for
6. n. r. EDCampment

cleveland, o., July IS.
Special Correspondence of The Tribune.
M ANY Of the Grand Army departments have
|" already engaged headquarters for the
IVA week of the national encsmpment and
number OF them have made their ar
rnngements TO journey TO Cleveland on special
trains The national headquarters Of the Grand
Army and of most ot the other organizations
which will he in Cleveland Sept 9th to lith
will be at the IIollondcn, hut the department
Of state organization headquarters will be dis.
city. The lobhies and offices OF the hotels will
be crowded from the beginning TO the end Of tie
week of Sept. 0. With nearly all, II not all, II
the departments will come men Of national
prominence whose soiourn in the city will he the
occasion for scenes Of impromptu receptions in
addition TO the formal receptions which are
being arranged ior.
The departments Of the Grand Army in three
western states have issued printed orders to the
many posts within their jurisdiction bearing on
the national encampmcnt in Cleveland That
of Missouri, dated July 20, draws attention 10
Missouri being the home department OF Com
msnder in Chief Rassieur and comments on the
fine appearance made by the posts Of the state
at all encampmenls, General Ras,ieur mas
cepted the invitation Of Frank l.. Blair post
of st, Louis to accompany II on its special
train over the big Four" leaving ST. Louis
on the evening Of Sunday, Sept, s. The com,
mander in chief invites as many department
officers, members Of his stan and Missouri com.
rades as can, 10 accompany him Department
Commander r, S, Wilcox, OF Nebraska, has no.
titled the rests of his state that he has arranged
for transportation to convey the department oih'
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Senator Finn has been wanting to be
struck with certain sort of lightning
for some time. 1t was the senatorial
sort. He got it from Senator Quay, but
not the kind he expected. Now he has
had another stroke, which is still un-
welcome, as it nearly demolished his
own house, instead of the house of his
enemies
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EDUCATIONAL CONTEST

The Trbune's Educational Contest has been open
weeks and still has five weeks There plenty of time
for contestants demonstrated
last of the winners only in
respectively.
The eight special rewards offered the young or
who the largest number of points
They required subscribers Tribune
credited with point for every months subscription
cured, years subscription counting twelve points.
Two OF the winners will scholarships valued
$1,000 each for the work of few weeks. Why shouldn't
of them be you?
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The electricians Of the country will be at the
exposition on the ODD which has been designated
Electrical day Electricity takes precedence Of
all the wondrous features Of the great eXposi.
ton, and hence the visiting electricians will
find much in the unequaled display to interest
them. Friday, Aug. 23 will be Virginia day.
The mayors Of the cities Of the United States
and Canada will I've AZ the exposition on the
26th which has been SET aside Municipal dsy.
Special exercises will he held in the Temple Of
Music. Addresses on important topics regarding
the conduct Of affairs Of municipalities will be
delivered by Mayor Carter Harrison, OF Chicago;
Mayor Hayes, OF Baltimore, Mayor Hart, OF
Boston, and others On Tuesday, Aug. %, Cen
eral Nelson 4. Miles will he the guest OF the
officials of the exposition and a reception will
be rendered the distinguished soldier The
Society OF the Porto RiCan Expedition. OF which
General Miles is the nation,l commander, will be
at the exposition on the same day for a re-
union. II is expected that Admiral Schley, Ma.
jor General Brooke and other distinguished off,
GERS who are members Of the society, will lie
present The Mobiles OF the Mystic Shrine will
take possession Of the exposition on the Slst,
the day following the close OF the 1riennal con,
claye. II is expected that 10000 Shriners will
he at the fair. There will be a parade through
the courts and the Midway and special exercises
in the Temple of Music. The West Point Ca.
diets, with band, field music, hospital corps light
artillery and cavalry detachments, will be at
the exposition from Aug. Ii TO 20.
Among the bands engaged to play at the ex.
position during August, are:
Aug. I. 4-Elgin band.
1.SlMuncipal band Of Havana, Cuba.
l,25--Scints's hand.
l.2j-Carlsle Indian band.
5ll-IthaCa band,
5.25-Phinney's United States band.
26-3l- -Rohertson's band.
2d-Sl--Forty.eghth Highlanders Of To.
TOntO
The programme is varied and attractive. IL
will he cool AZ the exposition in August. Every.
one will want to he there.
-Elbert L. Lewis.
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SCRANTON, JULY %. 1901.

Half a million pounds OF smokeless
powder has just been bought By the
var department. Now let the navy de-
partment use smokeless coal ard the
clouds will soon clear.
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and plgeon-toes and the other natives
will have nothing to do with them.
They doubtless represent the remnants
OF a black socialistic and free riot party
Of generations agone.
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Mayor Black, of McKeesport, says
that II any non-union steel worker tries
10 earn a living in that town he will
arrest HIM It is not difficult to fore
see Blacks finish
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-29

Sir Henry Johnson has just returned
TO London from the Congo districts of
South Africa with particulars about the
ape-like race of men lately discovered,
there. They have dirty yellow skin,
eyes close together low and wrinkled
foreheads. bushy eyebrows. woolly hair,
long arms, short and knock-kneed legs
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BinghamtOn Privat, Training School

for nervous, Back ward and Deaf Mute Chill.
dren. Manual Training. Physical Culture.
Needlework, Music. kindergarten. Artioula.
tion. Open year round. Circular. Prices
moderate. S. A. DooLITTLE.
81 Fairvew Avenue.
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There are a number Of special DAYS which
will draw great crowds to the exposition. The
Midway ConcoSsionaircs are preparing an elabor-
ate programme for Midway day, saturday. Aug
3. There will be grand parade OF all nations
from the different concessions, with magnificent
floats and other accessories, day and evening
fireworks and many other attractions. Tues.
day, Aug. g, has been designated MS Cornell
Ithaca day. The alumnac Of Cornell university
and the citizens OF Ithaca are working to make
the day successful one. On this day also, the
members ~ the Protected Home circle will be
AT the exposition The Maccahcrs will own
the exposition on the 7th Members Of the
order from all parts ct the country will he IN
attendance. The Mlaedhces have splendid
building at the exposition which Is headquarters
for visiting knights and ladies. Special cere.
monies will be observed in the building on Mac.
cabecs' day. On the sth the Governor of YER
mont and his staff and citizens OF tho Granite
state will hold special ceremonies in the New
England building in Observance of vermont day.
The Cuba building, one of the handsomcst and
best appointed in the court oi state and for
egn buildings, will ha formally dedicated on
the 18th. Governor Wood and several distin.
guished Cubans will he present, Insurance day.
the lith, will bring together insurance men
from all parts Of the country. The Improved
order of Rcd Men will capture the exposition on
the 18TH From different cities in New York.
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tennessee and
other state lodges will come in bodies. o'er
10000 Red Men are. expected Tho spndid
Michigan building viii he formally dedicated on
Michigan dav, Aug. %. There will he re-
union Of Canadian and Louisiana people OF
French and Acadsn ancestry on Louisiana day,
Aug. 2l. The idea was suggested by the gov.
ernor of Louisiana. Special ceremonies including
addresses by Canadians and Loulsianans, will lie
held.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-29

VIII the first year Of the twentieth
century produce the 2-minute trotter?
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August Outlook at
the Pan.RmeriCan

Special Correspondence OF The Tribune.
Buffalo, July IS
TIE GREAT RUSH Of people TO the Pan
American exposition Ia expected to besin
4 early in August The vacation season wlll
then be on and busy workers will lay aside
their duties temporarily and seek recreation
UnqucSticnably all roads will lead to the en-
position, where a thousand delights await visit
ors. The attractions provided for the month arc
almost too numerous TO mention Chieiest OF all
is OF course. the inlcscrihaby beautiful and
impressive night scene, when the great tower
and the surrounding buildings are illuminated
by a hall million incandesccnt lamps, and the
incompatible electric fountain, with its con
stant change OF water figures and Colored lights,
is playing. Next in the order is the Rainbow
city by day, with its renaissance architecture,
res;ful colors sparkling fountains, grand canals
and lakes, and myriad flowers. In addition TO
these eye fcasts there are numerous special
events
Beginning on the 9TH there will be two weeks
OF bicycle racing, and all Of the great riders
will participate. Among the stars who Will con-
test for the National Amateur Cycling cham
pionships are Marcus l.. Hurley Of New lork,
and Frank Denny, Of Buffalo. The second week
will bring the appearance Of the great pro-
fessonal riders, and the amateurs will also be
scheduled in a substantial manner. Every pro-
fessonal Of note will compete, and the list
will include Major TAYLOR, the colored wonder;
Frank Kramer, the Jersey boy with champion
ship aspirations; Tom Cooper who rode IN
Europe last years Owen S. Kimhle, OF Ken
tucky, the mile champion; Freeman, the Orc
gonian; Mcfarland the handicap king and
distance slayer, and score Of others equaliy
prominent. Gascoyne and jenkins, the English
champions; Grognet the French Sprlntcr and
Edward Taylore, the Partisan middle distance
specialist, will add an international tone TO
the racing. One Of the great spectacles OF ih'
week will be the race with internal machines
between Champions Bald and Zimmerman.
The frcmen Of the country will be here in
| force during the week beginning Aug. 10, which
| has been designated as Firerens week by the
| exposition authorities. There will be grand
| tournament in the Stadium on tine 22d aud 2Sd
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The Only Durable Basis.

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tbo .at,lar,ant shonl6 h,,
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Schley's Judges.

+ THE THREE men who are
TO sit In judgment upon the
professional career of Rear
admiral SChleN. one. Admiral