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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05
Rural Philosophy.

Al stoehr, while spending last summer in the
country, boarded at the residence OF an old
granger in Clcrmont county, who had decided
views Of his own on every subject under the sun.
Ono day lightning rod pcddlor came along and
persuaded the old man to allow him to sffs
rods on one Of his barns. The old fellow owned
two barns, and had lightning rods put upon the
building as an experiment. The second day after
the rods were placed in position a heavy August
thunderstorm swept over that part of the coun'
try, and flash Of lightning rent the sky and
the bolt struck one Of his new rods. The barn
was not injured in the least, and the farmer wept
for Joy.
THAT saves me money, be gosh" he ex.
claimed.
"of course IL does" answered soehr 81 sup
pose you'll have rods put upon the other barn
at once Z"
"Not by a dern sight" answered the old man.
I'm goin' TO have them rods moved over TO tn
other barn. Lichtilin' never strikes twice in ,ie
same place, y know!"--Cncinnati Enquirer.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05
Outline Studies
OF Human Natdre
A Blow for Betty.

Having graduated at famous Easye.n s,m.
ndr. and always remembering that her father
had started from the scratch and won handily in
the ldcc for business success, she felt justified
III announcing right after marriage that she
would run the whole outft at home, keep books
and render reports once quarter.
II must be admitted that she got a shade of
on almost everything she bought, sent back
everything that was nor up TO the quality or
dercd, and seldom provided in excess OF what
she required.
At the end OF the first year a rather puzzlinG
situation was encountered. BY some myStcr.
ous and paradoXicll pcrycrsion of figures that
she could not unravc, though she lost kcurs
OF sleep and grew holow.cycd in the attempt
she had a surplus of Sl2j, though she WAS with
ont a dollar in the family fund she cccfully
told her husband how well she nai dore, and he
WAS inconSidcratc enough to ask ior a sight Of
the "vclvet," he termed it..
at must be some place" she assured m
~ know business better than you know your
PROB ssiop. I'm just twenty-five ahead, and
III fud out too" That night she sat down at
her books after supper and never lcit theIu Until
called to breakfast Then she wanted little
walk and headed toward the depot. Two hours
later she was awakened to read responsive tee
gram from her father:
"IIaye wired the money You car fool that
jay husband OF yours all right tnonsh, Tut
don't Try any such game on your dad sGain
Far better TO ask right out for what you
want"
She uiumphantly laid the money before her
husband with a request that he have little
greater confidence in her after that. lie re-.
Spondcd by laying before her another telegram
from dad
"Don't know whether you are irving 10 Job
me, but will stand no more for Bettys book.
keeping Discharge her and hire cheap young
man at my expense Detroit Free Press.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05
University Extension Today.

IT UNIVERSITY extension"
- so earnestly urged few
years ago as a method
of bringing the higher
education to busy people who had
| never taken university or collegiate
| courses. after a good many ups and
downs" and a failure or rejection of it
in many places, has, it appears, of
late set itself to more practical work
That is, to practical sanitary and man
ual instruction work among the poor
1t keeps its original title TO which,
so long as what it is aiming to do and
is doing is understood, there is no
especial call for any one to object.
universities" by their very name. are
entitled TO teach every branch OF learn
ing that can he of use to mankind in
it's upward progress.
There a a great many persons who
never took any stock-to use a we'll
u ferstood phrase-in the ''move-
ment's" early attempts to teach polit-
ical economy, history literature and
science AS it develops, by means of six
lecture courses and appended ques-
tions for answer on the final pages of
its "sylla bi," who will take satisfaction
in its new departure We quote part
of an abstract given bv a New York
paper of the third annual report. just
printed, of the Peoples University
Extension society" The report states
that the society finds a growing inter-
est among the poor in it's educational
classes. 1t says that one of the most
important branches of it's work now
is the teaching of mothers how to
care for their children so as to pre-
vent disease. The society has "a staff
of physicians who give lectures on this
subject with practical instruction in
various churches, missions, and day
nuseries, also in at least two public
schools" for such mothers meetings" ="
where after schools hours suCh teach
ings will he given by the society's staff
of physicians.
For the children the society has or
gdnized manual training. That is. IT
has started in on a most important
part of the training of children that
the public schools in almost every part
of the country still persistently and
mischcvously ignore. The report
speaks Of the enthusiasm" shown by
the children of these classes. Basket
weaving. chair Gaming, Venetian iron
work, are mentioned as especially pop
ular among the boys The classes in
cooking. sewing and dressmaking at
tract not only the girls. but their
mothers. to an extent that causes the
society to appeal for more funds to
supply larger number of teachers.
1t has not been found necessary un-
| der this new departure of university
extension" to so in search of pupils
| They crowd in.
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The Present Did Not Materialize

About two years before Mr. sawyer retired
fIom the senate his mail one morning contained
touching letter from a man in Maryland, whose
home had just been Enlightened nv tho arrival
of bouncing boy, relates the Milwaukee Wis
consn The fond parent went on to tell that
the boy would he named Philetus Sawyer Jones,
and expressed the hope that the child would
grow up an honor to the name and the pos
SCISSOR of the fine traits ~ character that dis
tinguished the generous hearted man whose name
would he borne by himself
Senator Sawyer went to the senate chamber
with warm glow in his heart and the deter
mination to send that fond parent nice big
check He felt good that he showed the let
ter to Senator Allison. Tie Iowa man chucklad
as he read it. and produced letter almost iden
tcal, except that the young prodigy was to he
named William Allison Jones
II was too good 10 keep. and they told the
story to Senator EdmundS, of Vermont. That
stately old gentleman melted sufficiently TO smil
ingly produce letter Of similar purport. Then
there ensned comparison of senatorial notes,
showing that the youthful Marylandcr had been
fairly loaded with distinguished names from
Justin Morrill, Jones to Don Cameron Jones
That Maryland infant received no birthday
present.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05
A Paying Experiment.
"HE commercial value oe the
step which the United States
l. took when il demanded that

step which the United States
l. took when il demanded that
Spain should get out of
Cuba or he put out is not yet fully
apparent ard cannot he until the new
conditions have had time to work
themselves out; but some figures COM
piled recently by Walter j. Ballard, Of
Schenectady, y. Y, are instructive as
indicating that Cuban Intervention was
not all loss from the American dollar
standpoint.
Writes Mr.. Ballard to the New York
sun: I'VE have neld cuba as trustees
for twenty-seven months, and during
that period she has imported $l62, goo 600
worth of goods of which SO, 900, 600 were
ports during the same period have been
sll6,000,000 of which we purchased in
the ten months ending April, 1901, the
large proportion Of $3l 900 900. In these
calculations we must not lose sight of
the fact that for the first year of
American occupation cuba was still
suffering serious trade disturbance and
partial paralysis, as a natural conse-
quence Of the Spanish American war of
Cuban freedom and the prior years Of
irsurrection against Spanish oppres-
sion"
In 1895, the year of the war the ex-
ports from this country to Cuba footed
up $9,5fl ,656 In the next year the sum
had almost doubled, being for 1899, SIS
6l6,37L In 1900 it had risen to $265l3,-
400, and for the ten months ending last
April it was S2l, ,55l ,634 Two years ago
the balance of trade between CUBA and
the world was against Cuba by more
than S2O,o00,o0O year That is. Cuba
bought that much more than she sold.
Yet for the first quarter of tho pres
ent year, so quietly has she recuper-
ated, the balance Of trade is in her
favor by S3,72l 900. such wonderful de-
velopment is prophetic of a day when
American trade with Cuba will be in
eXpressibly valuable.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05

down his outside steps he slipped on the ice
covered stairway and. describing an ungrdcefuI
parabola, ALT confused and distressed atom
Of humanity upon tho sidewalk beneath \
strong ann assisted him TO his feet his disarray
was set right and his hat restored TO him by
the railway man, who then with the words. Roc,
never dIcamt that you Of all men would have
been guilty of such thing. ] wouldn't have
sccn it for the world hurried down the street
before tho other could get his breath to make
reply. and ever since the Temperance one has
cssayed an explanation instead o' lecture
when he meets the railroad man, to which the
latter only VouchSafcs a pitying smile and shake
Of the head ard gives other evidences nj dis.
belief that drive the eSplancr well nigh distract
ed."-Cleyeand Plain Dealer.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05
Foreign, But Pertinent.

\ Sunday school superintendent always con
ducts the lesson review in his school. says The
Omaha World Herald lie spends about Ave min
utcS in explaining the lesson, and then asks.
"Now, has anyone question TO ansk?"
The other Sunday he explained the lesson as
usual, dwelling at length on its chief thoughts
and wound up with the usual question:
"Now, has ANYONE a question 10 ask"
A member Of the boys junior class raised his
hand,
"wcll, what is your question:" asked the
superintendent.
please sir, are we going to have a picnic
this SUMNER
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05

OR MANY years, with an in
crease of the aeonies caused
II by II to great numbers Of
people eacn summer, the
poison-ivy has been allowed to spread
itself luxuriantly all over this country
Woods and groves. country highways,
where it crowds and climbs along
fences literally for. miles, carry poison
to nearly every person who unwarily
touches it, to n great number who
do not even touch it, but to whom the
breath of the wind blowing TO them
from over it carries its malefic influ-
ence. 1, looks so much like the wood
bIne that 1t is continually being mis-
taken for it.
The scientists of the agricultural
department and all the other wise men
who are so strenuously busy in eradi-
eating the mosquito. had better set
themselves to the eradication of this
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05

impressed with the story of his doings
in China as it has been told in Cen
eral Chaffee's official report. Minis
ter Congers action as also brought out
In this report, in backing and indors-
ing Mr.. Tewkesbury's proceedings puts
In strong light, without need of any
comment to bring it out, the pity Of
IT. that he should return to China.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05
Why He Got an Assignment.

II will he remembered that shortly before
the outbreak Of the Boer war. Sir George White
met with an accident to lis leg. He had by no
means recovered when hostlites were in sight,
and Lord Woseley told HIM that he feared that
his temporary llmeneSs must be reason for
keeping him at home But Sir George White,
who was taking luncheon with his chief at the
United Service club. had an answer ready which
clinched the matter.
II beg your pardon, sir" he answered, 'my
lee is we'll enough for anything except running
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05

There We're 10000 people at Nay Aug
park Yesterday. The only attraction
was the shade and good air. With a
lake for boating and bathing half the
city would have been there Thirty
cents per capita will construct a lake.
The Tribune ricos to second any
hody's motion To- spend s10o,ooo at once,
on Nay Aug park. DO We hear a
motion?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05

far more noxious pest of the vege-
table kingdom. Once in awhile some
newspaper makes sporadic effort to
rouse the attention of the public and
of the scientific men To the rapid
spread of this virulently poisonous
vine. Such an effort was made by
some Philadelphia papers two or three
years ago, AS the nuisance spread IT.
self mile after mile along the roads
leading through the most beautiful
suburbs of that city. Now Chicago
papers chronicle a similar state of af-
fairs there.
If almost an entire regiment of the
National Guard of any state, while in
camp, were to be made helpless by a
sudden seizure of typhoid or malarial
fever the country would have had a
spasm Of Indignation over the allowing
of conditions that had brought such a
result to pass. But the dispatch noting
that nearly a whole regiment of New
York militia has been rendered almost
helpless by coming in contact with the
"rhus toXicodendron"-that IL, the
poison ivy--is scarcely noticed.
The ivy poison spreads all over the
body 1t gives the unfortunate suf-
ferer often from two TO six weeks of
almost intolerable anguish. 1t is quite
as likely, as scarlet fever is well known
TO be, to leave blindness or some other
incurablo trouble behind it. All of
these things are perfectly well known
to physicians and to scientific men. Yet
n .ther the scientists. nor the owners
of farm lands and country pleasure
grounds, nor local authorities of any
place that has so far been heard from,
have taken the trouble to do anything
towards lessoning the evil. Will the
Agricultural Department the Academy
of Natural Sciences. and the other sci
entific bodies of the land bestr them
selves in that direction?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05

With the opening of July the revised
international money order system be-
tween this country and Canada. and
between the United states and its island
dependencies. has gone into effect. At
all postoffices in any of these countries
orders may he drawn on any postmaster
where else in the countries named.
The hitherto existent troublesome
system for sending money orders from
one of these countries TO another is
abolished, also the extra charges--the
regular domestic rates on money orders
are to rule henCeforth. This is a
decided improvement in postal business
methods.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05

The sentimentalists who are often
heard declaiming that life should be
all sunshine" seem with one accord at
present to have retired into the shade
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05

That branch OF the Christian church
to which the Rev. Gilbert Reid, d.
D., belongs must have read with
amazement his article in the Forum,
entitled THE Ethics Of Loot" That
to which the Rev. Mr.. Tewkesbury
belongs cannot be less disagreeaoly
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05
AlliS-ChalmerS Co

Successors to Machine Business OF
Dickson Manufacturing Co., Scranton
and Wilkes Barre. Pa.
Stationary Engines, Boilers. Mining
Machinery. Pumps.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05

1t is better not to fight the hot
weather. The person who generally
stands the heat best keeps quiet and
lets the elements sizzle.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05

Pennsylvania may we'll congra tulate
Itself on Governor stones veto of the
dill to make divorce easier than it al
ready is in this state.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05

Hotel business at Buffalo appears t
be more profitable than banking.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05
THE FLAT RATE FOR ADVERTISING.

For cards of thanks resolutions Of condolences
and smlr contributions in the nature ~ ad'
Ncr'sing The Tribune miaes a charge OF cents
q line
Rates Tor Classified Advertising furnished on
tpp,iC1titn
SCRANTON, JULY T. 1901.
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This is what may be termed oldest
inhd bitdnt weather."
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05
Poison Iyy.

Hope springs eternal in the Wayne
county oil belt.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05

And the oldest inhabitant remarks
that it was the most quiet Fourth on
record.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05
Turkish Bath Robes
Turkish Bath Sheets

Are in two sizes Of the best quality bleached
Turkish toseling and arc priced at 500 and
81 25 each.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-05
The Spread of I.awlessness

w IE NOTE that majority
~ Of our contemporaries
plainly SEQ and say that
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-17

been brought out in Manchester 4,
land, is meeting with great suooes "a.
is made UP OF two sheets OF oION. Ia.
per stuck together with a ruooei
ton. ,,h
The bee and honey raisers Of s 10y
Germany are having hard time. ali
feel the competition OF the 81 All.
honey factories very much. The en-, =
ticial product contains often ns
than 10 per cent OF natural honey
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September and December: so with Feb
ruary. March and November.
Il has been estimated that II VIII re-
qulre S. men working every day until
1917 to unearth the entire ruins Of Pom
peii.
According to the anthropologist AL
fredo Nlcefore. a north Italian differs
less from a German than he does from
a sicilian.
II is interesting 10 know that there
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General Louis P. Dl cesnola, and the
other Jacob $. Rogers, who recently
left the museum the princely beouest
OF |s,OOO,OOO General Di Cesnolas Cyp.
rlote collection, as has been said form.
ed the nucleus Of the Metropolitan mu-
seum's aggregation, and his services
during the past 80 years have been In
valuable. He was paid for his collec
ton, to be sure, and also has received
salary as curator, but In the best
sense his services have been dislnter.
ested, and II is acknowledged that the
museum owes to him more than It can
ever repay. Born In Italy In 1882 and be-
longing TO noble Pledmontese family
Cesnola fought three years in the Ital-
ian army. including the Crimean cam
paign, and, coming to New York in 1860
married an American lady and served
with distinction through the civil war,
being brevetted brigadier general by
President Lincoln O few days before the
latter's assassination. He was United
States consul at Cyprus from 1866 to
1871, during his term Of office conduct
Ing those explorations which resulted
In the collection he afterward brought
to the United States and sold to the
museum. He has been honored by
kings abroad and by colleges in this
country, his books having made him
famous. Elected trustee and secre-
tary of the Metropolitan museum In
1873 he has devoted all his energies
ever since to the promotion of its in
terests and is the moving spirit OF It's
development.
A man OF different mold was the lat
est benefactor OF the museum, Jacob S.
Rogers, the millionaire locomotive
builder Of Paterson, n. j., who has be-
slowed upon 1t the fortune accumulated
through the business energy aud sa-
gacity Of lifetime and who during his
career manifested little interest in art
save as an amateur. A bachelor re-
cluse, eccentric and reputedly parsimo-
Nous. Mr., Rogers divided his time be-
tween his elegant home In Paterson,
surrounded by a park filled with red
deer as pets; his farm at Pompton,
where he raised blooded cattle, his club
in New York, whore he died. and Paris,
his favorite city The contrast be-
tween the lives Of these two men, the
one devoted to art during his life and
directing his best endeav0rs to its pro-
motion, the other apparently indiffer-
ent to art for arts sake, but at the end
its greatest benefactor, is conspicuous.
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are enough negro bankers in the Unit
ed States TO hold a convention in Buff
falo In late September.
Probably the most extraordinary
Journal in the world is published week
ly In Athens. II II written In verse,
even the advertisements.
A company has Just been formed In
Geneva. Switzerland. TO all the gap left
by ordinary insurance companies and
issue policies against accident and loss
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TIME oft quoted nphorlsm, AIRS
Tonga, vita breyis" Art is long
but life Is short-receyes It's
exemplihcation In the monu-
ments erected TO art at the ex-
pense Of the individual. Men are born
live awhile, then pass away, perchance
leaving the Increment Of their tolls 70
perpetuate art, sometimes unwittingly
sometimes with direct intention In It's
largest sense art may be taken 70 mean
all knowledge or the sum Of knowledge,
though generally restricted 20 a mar
rover range, Al all events its monu.
ments endure while men and nations
perish, and thus the summum bonun Of
knowledge is pepetuated.
These thoughts are suggested, and the
truth embodied is emphasized by the
Rogers bequest to the Metropolitan
Museum OF Art in New York city
which Is itself noteworthy example Of
the absorption Of human energies d.
reoted toward the building Of a monu-
ment destined 20 endure perhaps for all
time. Other museums have been found
ed, have advanced to the dignity Of ma
tional repositories, in which are stored
the records OF mans most glorious
achievements in the world Of art, but
few, II any, have reached so elevated
and commanding a position in so short
time
Incorporated only 81 years ago and
really dating from the purchase Of the
Cesnola collection Of antiquities In 1872,
the public spirited citizens who stood
its sponsors and their successors have
steadily Kept in view their grand ideal
until now, after nearly a generation has
passed away, the museum contains Il
SURPRISING art collection and Is an in
fluence In art culture everywhere rec
ognized. During the first nine years Of
Its existence the museum occupied
small building on Fourteenth street,
New York city, but In 1879 1t took pos
session of the palatial structure situat-
ed, as millions are aware, In one of the
most beautiful sections OF Central park,
opposite Fifth avenue and East Eighty
second street. Compared with the
magnificent structures since erected as
additions. Il Is dwarfed almost into sig
nlficance, for during the years 1879 a
southern extension was added, and
during 1908 a northern wing, giving
the museum as then completed front
age toward Fifth avenue Of 1888 feet and
width north and south of 233 feet.
But even those additions by no means
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dividend Of about $50 francs per 500
franc share
Ia three months no fewer than s.
German generals have been pensioned
and their places filled by younger men.
No century has ever begun on a
Wednesday, a Friday or a Sunday. and
the same order OF days Is repeated CIV.
cry 90 years. January and October OF
each year always begin with the same
day; so with April aud July. SO with