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The Silk Industry.

n ~ ANY OF the retail buyers
MI of silks in this country
l. Il. who have been accus-
toned for so long to
thinking that they must purchase
goods bearing a French label in order
to secure a first-class article, will no
doubt be surprised to learn that the
United States weavers have for some
time past manufactured the larger
portion of the silk fabrics used in this
country. 1t Is also u fact according
to the recent report Of Consul Covert,
at Lyons, that the importatlons of silk
from France are decreasing each year.
1t is an interesting fact that over
10000 people in the United States
make their living from the silk indus
try, most of them being employed in
the silk mills at Paterson, N. ]. There
Is no reason why the trade should not
increase and the number of workers
now employed here be very largely
augmented. The experiments of silk
making in Scranton and neighboring
towns have proved profitable and the
silk mills should be among the stand
| ard industries of this valley in the
near future, as the demand for the
fabric is steady the year around. The
importation during the last year from
France of s9,00O,0O0 worth of silk, and
from Japan, China, Germany, Switzer-
| land and other countries of s16,000,0O
worth, shows that there is additional
In fn, inH Htre fry
| to grow.
The only real drawback to the busi-
| ness in America is the difficulty ex-
| perienced in raising cocoons. Though
they have been cultivated in some
parts of the country, they have only
been regarded in the light of CONNER
cial curiosities. The chief sources of
supply at present are China and
| Japan. and the products of the worm
| may be as easily brought to America
| as to France the chief silk making
| country. An idea of the magnitude OF
the industry may be gained by the
| statement that American merchants
imported from China and Japan last
year cocoyns and raw silk to the
amodnt of $1S,00O,0O0. American in
| genuity and mechanical skill are sec-
ond to none, and applied to siik-weav-
ing cannot fail to make the industry
"a leading one in competition with the
nations of the old world. There is nc
reason why the United States should
not manufacture its own silk, but also
enter the worlds markets as COM
| petitor to France.
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RAILROAD TIME TABLES.
Delaware and Hudson.

In Effect Nov. %, 1900
Trains for Carbondale leave Scranton at 6.20
753 s53, 10 1S a. m; 100, l.29. 244, 3.52, 500
625, 7.57, 9.15, Ills p. M; ll6 a. IN.
For IIonesdale--620, l0.i3 a. M; 2.A and
500 p. m.
For Wilkes.B .BaTe-G.45, 7.is, S.4S OBS. 10.43,
I55 a. m. l2s, 2.ls, $685. 4.27, 6.l0. 7is, l0+1,
IL. 80 p. m.
For l.. V. r. r. points--6.45, 1i,55 a. m; Els.
427 and 1.3O p. m.
For Pennsylvania r. r. points--645 9.3s a.
m; 2.1s and i.27 p. M.
For Albany and all points north-620 a. IN.
and 3,52 p. IN. -
SUNDAY TRAINS.
For Carbondale-9.00 ll.S3 a. m; 2.A. 3.G2,
547, 1852 p. IN.
For Wilkes. .Barre--9.3s, 1l.55 o. m; L5s, 3.2s.
627, s.27 p. m.
For Albany and points north--3.52 p. m.
For Honesdale-9.00 a. m. and 3.52 p. m.
Lowest rates TO all points in United States and
Canada.
J. W. BURDICK, q. p. A., Albany, N. Y.
II. W. CROSS, ID. z, A., Scranton, Pa.
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cne on Lake Windermere. Nearly all these
British islands share in one pecularity-they rise
ard sink at different times Of the year. That
on Windermerc, which is to be found near the
Lodore Falls, remains below the surface during
the winter, but in June It rises and continues to
be "an island" for four or five months. II is
clothed with ordinary marine plants. which grow
on olayey soil Of about a foot in depth, below
that being several feet of peat The rising aud
falling OF the island is caused by gases which
buoy it up and then escape.
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SCRANTON. JANUARY 16, 1901.

From the manner in which the trial
of the alleged murderers of Jennie
Bosschietcr. tho Paterson mill girl.
progresses. 1t looks as though the
short order,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-16

Somehow since the congressional
committee got down to business we
have not heard much of the military
department investigation OF affairs at
West Point
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-16
NO FIRE WITHOUT FUEL.

From the Detroit Journal.
Vice would not thrive so luXuriantly in New
York il it were not irrigated extensively by
those visitors to the metropolis who cry out
most loudly against the wckedness of the place.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-16

There is now disposition to excuse
the fiery remarks of f. Hopkinson
Smith for the reason that his ideas OF
"Uncle Toms Cabin" may have been
gained from witnessing performances
of some of the "Uncle Tom theatrical
troupes that make periodical trips
about the country, accompanied by
real bloodhounds,
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5l0-5l2
LACKAWANNA AVENUE
RAILROAD TIME TABLES.
pennsylvania RAILROAD

Schedule in Effect May 27, 1900.
Trains leave Scranton, D. & II.
Station:
6.45 a. M, week days, for Sunbury,
Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Balti-
more, Washington and for Pitts
burg and the West.
e.3S a. m, week days, for Hazleton,
Pottsville, Reading, Norristown,
and Philadelphia; and for Sun
bury, Harrisburg, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington and Pitts
burg and the West.
2.1S p. m, week days Sundays,
1853 p. m.) for Sunbury, Harris
burg, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington and Pittsburg and
the West. For Hazleton, Potts
vile, Reading, &C., week days.
AR p. m, week days, for Sunbury,
Hazleton, Pottsville, Harrisburg,
Philadelphia and Pittsburg.
j. b. WOOD, Cen Pass. Agt.
J. B. HUTCHINSON, Gen. Mgr.
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THE LITERARY GRAVEYARD

From the Washington Post.
Those persons who are trying to get up a
controversy over "uncle Toms Cabin should
step outside of the literary graveyard and have
look at themselves.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-16

have been able to evade for any length
Of time the sleuths. private and COM
missloned, that roam about North
eastern Pennsylvania.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-16
THE SALT ELIXIR.
From the Glasgow Herald.

FfOW INC NIafsOW TftTdIH
II is now stated that salt eating" Is bocori'
ing very serious disease among women OF all
classes. They are alleged TO carry humps ol
salt in their pockets and nibble at 1t on all o.
easions. Loss OF hair and yellow, shriyelcd skin
are part OF the penalties,
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NOT A NEW SCHEME.

From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
The latest elixir of life proposes to put the
weak and the aged in pickle to preserve them.
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Erie and Wyoming Valley.

Time Table in Effect Sept. IL, 1000.
Trains Tor Hawley and local points. connect.
ing at Hawley with Erie railroad for New York
Newburgh and intermediate points, leave Scrsn.
ton at s.05 a. m. and 225 p. IN.
Trains arrive at Scranton at 1880 .. m. aud
910 p. m,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-16

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE sTOCKHOLD-
ers of the Dunmore Electric Light Heat and
Power company will be held at the Office OF the
company room 5O3, Connell building, Scranton,
Pa, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1901, at p. m, for
the election Of directors for the ensuing year and
such other business as may come before them.
+. NJ. STACK, Secretary.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-16

1t is a very conservative Chicago
newspaper whose editors can refrain
these days from casting an occasional
brick at Ex-Governor Tanners political
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-16

passed off with little or no excitement
at the polls.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-16
FLOATING ISLANDS.


| From the London Mail.
| Any who wishes to see a floating island
| has no occasion TO 20 abroad for the purpose,
| for there are small ones on several
Scottish and Irish lakes. and a weli.known
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-16
Room Wanted.

GENTLEMAN WANTS LARGE, WELL FUR
nshed room; desirable locality, with o
without board. Address e., Tribune.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-16

It is not likely that Pat Grove is in
this part of the state. He would not
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LEGAL.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT A MEETING
of the stockholders OF the Ontario, Carbon
dale and Scranton Railway Company, for the
election Of President and Directors and lnspec.
tors Judges of the next ensuing election, and
for the transaction Of such other business as
may properly come before the meeting will be
held at the General Office Of the Company, Com.
monwealth Building, in the City OF Scranton,
Pa, on Tuesday, January %. 1901, at 2 O'Clock
p. IN. BY order OF the Board OF Directors,
r. ID. Rickard, Secretary.
Scranton, Pa, January o. 1901.
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THE WORLD .SSs%.S.t&
ONE HUNDRED YEARS
AGO TODAYn.S&SSS& =

copyright, 1900, by r. Z. Hughes. LOUIS
ville.l
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Board Wanted.

BOARD wANTED-FoR THREE ADULTS AND
one small child. in respectable Jewish fam.
lily, living ir first class neighborhood. State
price. W. A., Tribune office.
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Senator Quay's Triumph.

ARELY have such vindictive
and persistent fights been
a " made in American politics
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-16

The sequel to that appeal is now re-
corded in the legislatures action of
yesterday. 1t speaks for itself Regu-
larity and candor triumph over in
surrection, hypocrisy and spite But
the victory is attended by response
bility. Quay has won through public
contempt for the methods and motives
of his chief assailants Opposition on
principle to the abuses apparently in
separable from dynastic politics con-
tinues. The occasion is proptious for
a cleansing of the party household and
for manifestation of closer sympathy
with the higher aspirations of the peo-
pie. To the extent that public opinion
has been dishonesty estranged il must
be won back. For this purpose deeds
of reformation are preferable to
promises.
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Rotcs for Classified Advertising furnished on
application.
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JOSEPH KUETrEL, REAR bll LACKAWANNA
avenue, Scranton, Pa, manufacturer Of Wire
Screens
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Seeds.

G. r. CLARK & CO., sEEDsMEN AND NURS.
erymen, store 2Ol Washington avenue; green
houses 1850 North Main avenue; store tee'
phone, 7s2
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New York Office; 100 Nassau 81.
s. s. vREELAND.
Sole Agent for Foreign Advertising.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-04
A Presidential Ticket.

Although the Hon. James Hamilton
Lewis, of Washington state, is not
taken altogether seriously as political
sage, and although the Kansao Cty
convention refused to consider lnn al
all as n vice presidential possibility, his
ticket for 1901. announced to-day. has
right to respectful treatment because it
shows n mind unexpectedly open to the
filamcnts of new ideas, modesty as
unexpected-Mr Lewis is not on his
own ticket-and measure of partial
political sense to qualify an accommo-
dating and mercurial imaglnatcn.
Mr.. Lewis does well in casting over
board free silver and ''militarism"
and, by implication, "antl-imperialism. !"
He may be excused for his desire to
resurrect free trade, on the ground that
he is too young politically to know the
disastrous leadiugs of that road
through the slaughter houses and open
graves of the past. The only accusa-
tlor which he exposes himself to in
nominating David Il. Hill for presi-
dent and Tom L. johnson for vice pres
ident is that of "opportunism"-an ac-
cusation which he courts by the jaunt-
mess with which he heaves to the
waves the treasured idols of two ma
tional campaigns. Hill and Johnson
are not impossible at all as running:
mates on n Democratic ticket.
If the electorate is as willing to for
get differences of principles as each Of
these two eminent citizens. it would
be n vote-getting combination. They
would catch the Democrats coming
and the Democrats going-the old
guard and the young blood, the gold
bug and the silver flea, the banker
and the Populist. the spokesman and
the theorist, the single taxer, the in
come taxer and the man who is nei-
ther. "Hill and Johnson runs the
gamut and pushes the limit. With
such ticket no Democrat could be
read out of his party, as Bryan has
read multitudes. He could find some
thing to suit him somewhere inside the
fold.-New York Mail and Express.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-04

Congress committee, the Hon. Joseph
Weeks Babcock of Wisconsin, who last
autumn introduced into the House of
Representatives tariff-revising bill.
So far, the Democrats seem to look
upon this scheme in uncertainty as to
whether it is the rising or setting sun.
Ambition for tariff campaign has
been too far paralyzed to be suddenly
restored to full strength and confidence.
But the President, in his trip South,
has been speaking of our national
growth, our greater productivity and
our larger market and the need of
keeping the second commensurate with
the first, and the mention of a foreign
market by the author of the McKin-
ley bill sets the nerves of free trade
theorists tingling.
So far as Mr. Babcock is concerned,
n not improbable fate for him is to re-
ceive sound party spanking for the
irresponsible revivification of an issue
mind, regardless of its disadvantage or
advantage to the Republican party in
particular. Practically, the country
that glows with industrial activity and
rejoices in prosperity, as does our own,
can hardly be expected now to under
take tariff revision which, only
few years ago. was the characteristic
stamp of one of our most forlorn COM
mercial periods. No man can foretell
where revision would stop, or whether
the party starting it or the opposition
would guide it to the end. Even re-
duction Of the duties on steel, to which
the Capitalization of the most conspic-
nous American steel works in the Unit
to give some special propriety, If not
likelihood. would be, in all probability,
strenuously opposed by the other steel
companies which, in the aggregate, ap-
rival.
In any event the Presidents speeches
express fittingly the liberal sprt with
which the country. through its admin
istration, contemplates its relation to
the worlds trade, and possibly they
afford for n certain group of the ad-
ministration's opponents bridge over
which to cross the bloody chasm OF
anti-imperialist passion and join the
vast majority of their fellow citizens
in realizing the national benefit of the
policy Of expansion. Mr.. Mctirley's
journey is unifying and enlightenlng
in more ways than one.-New York
sun.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-04
CLEAR AS CRYSTAL.
Chicago River /. Now a Paragon of rur,.

Chicago River is Now q Paragon of Rurit
The arrest of . ship steward for de
filing" the waters of the Chicago riv-
er with soapsuds and potato parings re-
moves all doubt concerning the COM
plete rehabilitation and renovation of
this much -maligned stream. In one
short year the most odoriferous stream
on earth, whose foulness was of world
wide notoriety and in whose bed re-
posed the accumulated and decompos-
ing refuse of a great city, has been
transformed into such a paragon of
purity that soapsuds actually detile 1t.
Time was when copious and frequent
doses of soapsuds in the Chicago river
We're encouraged on the theory that it
neutralized its foulness and tended to
arrest decomposition. But all the soap
suds that could be poured into it could
not cleanse it, so hopeless was its con-
dition of soliditied filth.
But the Chicago river no longer of
fends the sensitive olfactories of the
strangers within our gates. That which
was the butt of merry rdicule and
jest, whose variegated smells We're en-
balmed in rhymes of satire and deri-
sion, is II thing of the past.
The arrest of the ship steward on
Tuesday was intended as a timely
warning Dy tne sanitary DOaru 10 All
who have been in the habit of acting
carelessly in the vicinity of the Chi
cago river. Stevedores who manicure
their finger nails while on the river
will be arrested. Water that is emp
tied into the river must be pasteuriZed
or boiled, and nothing in the way of
refuse will be tolerated. Lake cap
tains who are in the habit of indulg
ing in seaworthy profanity must have
their speech disinfected before they
pass Rush street bridge.
The Chicago river is being washed
and cleaned by the blue waters of Lake
Michigan. The drainage board is going
to keep it clean if it has to arrest ev-
cry stevedore, steward and sailor on
the great lakes.-Chicago Record.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-04
Inspectors of Live Stock.

Z. NJ. Ammons, Asa Sterling and T..
V. Bowles, three members of the ex-
ecutive committee of the State Board
of Stock Inspection Commissioners,
met at the capitol May 2sth and con-
ferred with the committee of stock
men who opposed the appointment of
Claude II. Annis of Fort Collins as an
inspector at La Junta.
The executive committee decided to
transfer Mr.. Annis to Trinidad and
reappoint NJ. \. Lee inspector at La
Junta, position which he held under
the preceding board.
In the delegation from the La Junta
district We're J. n. Beatty. James a.
Lockhart and w. l.. Calhoun of Man
Zanola, j. C. johnson of La Junta, A.
\. Parish of Lamar, and NJ. ii. MUIR
ray of Las Animas. all stock raisers.
They wanted Mr.. Lee appointed to the
place of inspector at La Junta because
he was familiar with the brands of
that district and Mr.. Annis was not.
The Cattle and Horse Growers AS
sociation of Colorado also entered n
protest against the appointment of
Annis, in resolutions which accuse the
governor of trying to pay political
debt by insisting upon the appoint
ment of Annis.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-04

1t would be difficult to name any
contains more of the picturesque or ap-
peals more powerfully to the imagina-
tion than the discovery that two of the
commonest species of mosquitoes are
responsible. the one for the spread of
malaria, the other for the dissemina-
members of family long known to be
somewhat troublesome and disagree
able, but usually regarded as nothing
more than a common nuisance, un-
worthy of any very serious attention.
Meantime, however, mysterious and ter
rible crimes occur. Here a man is
bound and tortured, there whole fam
lily Is murdered, an entire community
wiped out; and the assassins always
succeed in concealing their identity
and making good their escape. But
the patient detectives at work on the
case pick up one clue here and another
there, until at last the eyes of the COM
munity are opened, and it sees that the
two insignificant and despised crea-
lures who have been coming and going
almost unnoticed are in reality the
great criminals for whom the whole
world has been searching. When such a
case is made out against human Of
tenders. Justice Is prompt. Sanitary
science is proceeding with equal ener-
gy against the two guilty members of
the mosquito family.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-04

An interesting discussion has been
begun as to the loss OF heat which re-
suits from taking a cold bath. An
elaborate series of tests undertaken in
London showed that a very decided
rise of temperature occurred in the wa
ter of the bath, but that the tempera-
ture did not continue to rise. The av-
erage time of experimentation was,
say. two minutes. In one trial the ex-
perimenter found that his body heated
the water from so degrees Fahrenheit
to sc degrees in two minutes. The av-
erage result of the observations is that
one gallon of water would be heated
through 9.6 degrees in one minute, and
that this corresponds to no less than
two and a half horse power. The OBJ
servers determined that the normally
healthy man gives off to the surround
ing air heat equivalent to the raising
of eight pounds of water 1 degree per
minute.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-04
Democracy.s Greatest Opportunity.

The Atlanta Constitution has been
standing on the watchtower and this
is what it sees in the night:
"In the failure of the Republicans
to reform the tariff lies the Democ-
racy's greatest opportunity"
We can hear n grim smile cracking
over The face of Horizontal Bill Nor
rison of Waterloo as he reads of the
great Democratic opportunity, and the
Hon. Roger Quarles Mills of Corsi-
cana BUSTING among his oil barrels
and his money bags, cannot conceal Il
grin. These gentlemen have had a lit
tie experience in tariff reform. and
they can estimate how many Demo-
cratic votes there are in it.
A great tariff reformer, retired, lives
in Princeton, New Jersey. Surely, it
is not forgotten in Atlanta how the
Democrats, after all their magnificent
trumpetings of 1892, reformed the tar
iff in 1893; how they repaired and
patched and strengthened the taber-
nacles of robbery which they were go
ing to tear down.
Tariff reform is the Democracy's
greatest opportunity to make an ass
of itself.-New York Sun.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-04

The silk industry Expands to ct
Silk Association of America, the secre-
tary points out that more than five
times as much capital is invested as
in 1870, and there are more than five
times as many operatives in our mills.
We import almost six times as much
raw silk as we did then, but our i'm
ports of manufactured silk have fallen
from nearly dollar per capita in 1870
to about forty cents per capita in 1900.
The fact that we import less is credit
able to our common sense.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-04
Public opinion on the rarin

After some years of the partisan dis
aster whose gravity was heightened by
gravest trouble and humiliation, the
portion of the Democratic press which
but old-time spirit to discuss the tariff.
This has been suggested to them by the
recent actions of a distinguished Re
publican, the chairman of his party's
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-04

In a modest little gray house near
Tunbridge Wells, England. lives Sar-
ah Grand, author of THE Heavenly
Twins" Her work Is done in the sun
ny bay window of a cozy den. The
room is handsomely and tastefully
furnished with easy window seats,
bookcases. rugs, and fine paintings.
On her mahogany desk stands an en-
craving of Dudley Hardy's picture of
the destitute poor of London; this,
that she may never forget the suf-
eering in the world.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-04

Government trials OF plsLs for the
destruction OF mosquito pests have
led to the recommendation of certain
ficient. They are the draining. where
ever possible, of marshes and pools
of stagnant water; the spreading OF
kerosene on all such bodies of water
as cannot be drained, and the intro
duction of sticklebacks, minnows and
other small fish
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-04

The latest convenience in the New
York apartment is private safe, built
into the wall, and so arranged that
only the tenant is acquainted with the
combination. This makes 1t possible
for the fiat dweller possessing val
liable silver, jewels, and papers 10
keep them in his apartment instead of
in the vaults of the safe deposit of the
bank
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-04

The chemist, who, it is said, first
manufactured sugar-coated pills, died
in Philadelphia the other day, and his
princi al achievement is now respect
fully commended to the attention OF
debating societies. 1t is rather large
question. when one looks at all sides of
1t, whether the man who made it easier
for people to take pills was or was not
q public beuefactor