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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-06-29

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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-06-29
AXLE BROKE,
CAR WRECKED
Fifteen Persons Injured at Jermun
on the Scranton Railway Com.
pdnu's Line.
CAR WENT OVER ON SIDE

All Of the Passengers Were More or
Less Seriously Injured-The Injur-
les of Jacob Mendelsohn Of May
field Are the Most Serious Both
of His Legs Are Badly Crushed.
The Motorman Escaped without
Injury, but Conductor Brownell
Had His Back Severely Strained.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-06-29

Trotting Races, Binghamton, N. Y.
Ticket agent of the Lackawanna rail-
road will sell special excursion tickets
to Binghamton a. rate of Sl.9O. Tickets
on sale good going July 4th and 5th
and returning July 5th inclusive. "
Try the new SC cigar "Kleon." ~
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-10
PLANS FAST MAIL SERVICE.
Rabbi Sigmund Frey Claims He Has
Car That VIII Travel over zoo
Miles an Hour.

Rabbi Sigmund Frey, of Wabash,
Ind, who has proposed to the post
master general to transmit postal
matter to Europe in two days, was
invited to explain his invention, but
beyond a few hints declined to go
into details until he received advices
from Washington.
~ have" he said, made the offer,
but supposed that my attorney alone
knew of it. 1t would interfere with
my plans were 1 to state just how
l purpose to achieve the results, but
my scheme is feasible.
II have been in conference with a
celebrated electrician, working out
my ideas, and have progressed to
a point where may put it to a prac-
teal test. Electricity win be the
motive power and the vehicle will be
a car, which, with safety, may travel
over sea and land at a speed of from
200 to 300 miles an hour.
"If the government sees fit to make
a conditional contract with me 1 ex-
pect TO demonstrate the success Of
my invention at an early date.
81 am irritated that the matter has
gotten into the newspapers, but I
hope to take the work up in earnest
with the post office department. I'm
til the contract is made must refuse
to particularize."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-10
CAN'T SECURE CHEAP POSTAGE
By New Ruling of Post once Re-
turned Copies of a Paper Are
Shut Out from Pound Rates.

Under the old regulations it was
possible for a newsdealer to send
back unsold copies of a second-class
paper to another newsdealer at the
pound rate. This privilege was not
extended to the office of publications,
as the regulations were drafted, and
it was supposed to have been made
in the interest of the large news
companies, which in that way could
the newspapers because they could
receive back unsold copies from their
agents at the pound rate, while the
publishers would have to pay four
times as much.
There has been a feeling in con-
gress that this application of pound
rates to the return of unsold copies,
either to news agents or to publish
ers, was a perversion e the original
law, which was intended to keep
down the price to actual subscribers
and was not meant to reduce the ex-
penses of the office of publication.
The order issued by the postmaster
general recently prevents the return
of unsold copies at the rate of one
per cent. per pound. They will have
to pay the regular rate of one cent
for four ounces, the same as ordi-
nary newspapers and periodicals
mailed by individuals. This prohibit
ton as to the unsold copies applies
both to the news agents and the pub
IiSbarS
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-10
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. :

The coal output in Indian terri
tory last year was 1900, 1877, and the
year before 1,4o0,442.
The French olive growers have to
reckon more and more with the com
petition of the olive growers in Tunis.
The way in which American an
thropological museums are growing
is a source of envy in England, where
there is a lamentable Indifference to
the subject.
Compressed air is used in stone
carving. A mason can hitch h tools
into a compressed air power nozzle
and drill into granite like a dentist
cutting into decayed tooth.
Each cell in a mud wasp's nest con-
tains single egg, the remainder of
the space being filed with spiders and
other insects, captured by the mother
and imprisoned there as food for the
larva when it is Matched.
Enormous quantities of ashes from
the southern cotton oil mills, where
the hulls are used as fuel, are
brought to Connecticut annually and
bought by tobacco growers for from
$40 to $45 ton, for use on tobacco
lands.
A large department store in Brook
Ign has recently put in a cold storage
plant for the protection of furs
against moths. Usually the furs are
sent to one of the large cold storage
warehouses, but it is an innovation
for dry goods establishments to have
such plant on their own premises.
The operation of the sandblast is
we'll known. The blast of sand di-
rected against a soft surface etches
the surface, so to speak, quickly and
to any desired degree. A milar proc
ess has lately been applied to the en-
craving of metal plates by an air
blast which drives acid before it
through an atomizer.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-10
TANK SHIPS sTANcH AT SEA.
Their Huge Albright Steel Conn
partments Are Always Kept
Sealed.

For transportation of petroleum
over sea steel tank ships are made
for both crude and refined oil, says a
writer in the Cosmopolitan. Most of
the crude oil exported goes to France
and Spain, where it is treated in
local rehneries, the duty imposed on
refined oil by those countries being
practically prohibitive. For the orien-
tai trade the oil is shipped in cases
two fve-gallon cans Grated togeth-
er constituting a 'case"-on sailing
vessels, as the voyage around the
Horn takes from 116 to 176 days, far
too long a course for steam vessels.
But the transatlantic trade is chiefly
carried on in tank steamers, hige
steel shells in which almost the en-
tire space in the hull is devoted to
carrying oil in bulk. There is a
small dry compartment in the bows
for ordinary freight and the crews
living quarters are put at the ex-
treme stern, with the engines imme-
diately forward of them. The rest
of the hull is divided into from IL to
20 air-tight compartments, each OF
which has capacity of about 100000
gallons. The largest tank ships car
ry nearly 100000 gallons and so
powerful are the pumps by which
they are controlled that such a cargo
can be taken on board or delivered
within six hours.
AS these air-tight compartments are
kept Theoretically sealed from port to
port-instead of being closed only in
an emergency, as on an ocean liner
the oil tank ships are the stanehest
vessels afloat, and many a handsome
sum in salvage have they earned for
their owners by towing into port a
vessel disabled in a storm.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-10
A RICH REPUBLIC.
There Has Been an Enormous Growth
of American Capital In the
Last Four Years.

It is to be noted that the interest ac-
count of Europe against the United
States is steadily diminishing, because
Americans have been using their sur
plus wealth during recent years tobuy
back their own securities. The
process by which this comes about is,
of course, indirect, and not perceived
by the average man, says the Review
of Reviews. 1t represents, none the
less, one of the strongest currents in
the financial and business world for
four years past. The great railroad
corporations in particular are observ-
ing the fact that, whereas their pay
ments of interest on bonds and of
dividends on shares of stock a few
years ago went in large proportion to
foreign holders, they now go in the
main to people living in the Urited
States. The absorption of our best
American railway and other standard
securities by American investors has
been quite widely distributed, but
it has been particularly noticeable in
the case of great financial and idu-
ciary institutions like the principal in
surance companies. Furthermore,
the very process and policy of railway
amalgo nation has of itself created a
large and determined demand for rail-
way securities in this country and on
the part of interests seeking to con-
troll specified properties for the sake
of bringing about their ABSORPTION,
or else their operation in harmony
with other companies. Our trade bal
ances for the past four years have ag-
gregated about s2.4oo, 600, ooo-a sum
about equal to the total OF the bal
ances in our favor for the preceding
20 years. Nothing could better Illus
trate the almost revolutionary nature
of the change in Americas financial
and economic relations to Europe.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-10
SOCIETIES.

CUSTER LODGE NO. 81, I. o. o. F.
Regular meetings each Saturday
night at Z o'clock.at their hall in
ChaIlis. Visiting Brothers in good
standing are invited.
L. J. PAUL, N. G.
J. G. FINNELL, Secretary.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-10
SHYLOCK HOLMES.
Trained Down to a wonder-
full Acutenes@.

My friend Shylock Holmes entered
the office with his customary catlike
tread. He hung his hat on chair and
sat down upon the piano, writes Leon
Hartman, in Judge.
II perceive" he said, that man
with large feet and long whiskers has
been smoking Pittsburg stogie in this
room"
1 did not refrain from appearing as
tonished-I did not want to discourage
him.
HE was a populist," Holmes con-
tinued, land carried an umbrella with
a rip in the cover and Cuban flag
tied around the black walnut handle"
I could not conceal my wonder
'How did you guess all that?' gaSped.
STRANGE" said Holmes. Il could
read your thought. / knew you would
ask me that very question. 1t is very
easy" he continued, referring to my
question. He transferred a piece of
chewing gum from underneath the
what-not to his mouth. In the first
place." he began. fixing his eagle eye
upon the end of his boot, The had large
feet. He stepped on your corns as
he went out. You drew your feet un-
der the chair as / came in. Besides,
there is his footprint. 1t is muddy
out"
/ stared at him, aghast at his wis
dom. His powers of observation are
beyond me sometimes. 1t was he who
detected that red hair on my shoulder
last week.
HE wore long whiskers, because
notice that my comb is full of long,
coarse hairs, exactly one-tenth Of a
shade darker than my own. Do you
follow me?"
| l gasped assent. He removed
tack from the carpet and proceeded:
81 know that he has been smoking
Pittsburg Havana from my extraor-
dinarily acute sense of smell. Not one
in a million can detect the difference
between the smoke of a cigarette and
of a steam engine. can"
] He paused for effect, and, moved by
his tremendous intellect, sat in awe.
st can understand ALL" I said, Tex
cept your reason for believing that he
carried the umbrella you described"
That. my dear boy is the simplest
proposition of all. The umbrella men
toned stands over there in the corner"
1 tainted When I regained con-
seriousness Shylock Holmes lay on the
divan, rapidly taking notes on his cuff.
you were just four hours and 10
minutes coming out of that" he re-
marked. During your indisposition I
have ferreted out three murders, a
bank robbery and plagiarism for the
New York Wild, besides borrowing the
price of a dinner from your pocket"
Tell me one thing more" begged.
What is it?" he asked.
How in the name of the queen did
you know he was populist?"
His lips curled scornfully.
Because there was strong drauFht
in the room as came in" he answered.
That man Holmes is marvel. He
will make me famous some day.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-10
DIRECTORIES.

SUPREME COURT.
Ralph P. Quarles,
|. n, Sullivan,
Charles Stockslager.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-10
AN ARROGANT CASHIER.
Found His Days Cash N
Little short.

Belinda had an experiene the other
day. She had read with some skep-
ticism many times of it having hap
pened to other people, but now that
it has befallen herself, says the Bal
timore News, she is satisfied that
men are, indeed. blockheads.
1t was this way: While Belinda
was in New York this summer she
stopped for luncheon one day when
she was shopping at a modest but
popular downtown restaurant. The
dishes she ordered were very well
cooked; and it was in high good hui
NOR, therefore, that she went up to
the desk to pay her bill of IS cents.
1t was very busy hour and about
ten people were in line before the
cashier when Belinda joined the pro-
cession. BY the time she reached the
severe and intellectual young man
who made change for the establish
ment a long string of people were
following, so the heroine of this
story, who prides herself upon being
businesslike, put the check the wait
through the pigeon-hole in the rail-
ing of the desk.
The severe young man, with a care
fully distracted air, as though he
had counted money for a Sunday
school all his life and didn't have to
pay attention, gave her in change a
$3.50 gold piece, two silver dollars,
ascent and two ten-cent pieces.
Belinda gasped.
"Why. how much have you given
me?" she asked.
''Your change is all right, mad
ame," said the severe young man,
coldly. "Please move away from the
window and don't keep the line wait
ing"
"Butwhat is that gold coin WORTH"
persisted Belinda, who is more ia
miliar with the coin of the realm
done in silver than in the yellow
metal.
II have no time to waste telling
you the value of each piece of money
I've given you" said the severe
young man. in his most arrogant
manner. you'll have to take my
word toat your change is right until
you have an hour or so of leisure to
count it in. Please move on"
/ Belinda, feeling very snubbed,'
moved on. She went out on the pave
ment and reckcned that her cash ac-
count was just 90 cents to the good.
Then she went into a neighboring
shop, where, by the happiest coinci-
dence. lovely shirt waists were sell
ing for 90 cents, and before her con-
science could rebuke her bought one
with the money she had and
then went placidly back to the hoL-l,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-10
Cuts on HIS FRIENDS Ear.

"Count Gabriel Kepezey, a first
lieutenant in one of the Honved hus-
sar regiments" said a dispatch to the
London Daily Mail from Buda-Pesth,
has been formally degraded in
Szegedin before the whole regiment.
He made dining bet that he would
cut off the right ear of one of his
best friends, Caspar Kanyo, with his
saber. He then approached the I'M
suspecting Kanyo and slashed off the
ear.
"Kanyo shot at Kepezey with his
revolver. but missed him. Then, turn
ing to the mirror and seeing himself
without the ear, he turned his re-
volver against himself and fell dead.
The colonel in degrading Kepezey
warned the officers of the regiment
against debauchery and drunken
ness"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-10
OOGES' PALACE IN PERIL.
Historic Edihce I'm Venice Threat
ened by the Waters of the
Adrfatic.

Recent cablegrams from Venice an
nounce that the historic city is in
immediate danger of being engulfed
by the waters of the Adriatic. For
some days a conference has been in
progress attended by the highest en-
cheering authorities of Italy, who
are endeavoring to formulate some
plan by which the beautiful city can
be protected from the sea. The mem
bers agree that the danger is press
ing in the extreme.
The experts have decided that the
palace of the doges is in extreme
peril. The majestic structure faces
the lagoon and nothing but the low
esplanade called the Riya degli Schi-
avoni intervenes between it and the
waters of the sea, which at high
tide during the stormy season cover
the promenade and inundate the low
er floor Of the palace. Gradually the
stout foundations of the majestic edi-
flee have been undermined until now
there is cause for the gravest appre-
hension as to their stability.
The "Palazzo DucaIe" was first
built in $50. This structure, the
scene of so many stirring events in
Venetian history, was burned in 1419
The palace was rebuilt under Mo
cenigo and Foscari. In restored
form it still stands. 1.-THE first ham.
mer stroke upon the old palace oil
Ziani," says Ruslxin, twas the first
act of the period properly called the
Renaissance 1t was the kneI oil
the architecture of Venice-and Of
Venice itself
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-10
rERMa OLE COURT.

Following are the terms of Court in
the Fourth Judicial District of Idaho
for the year 1901:
Lincoln County.
Shoshone...... April LIST, September End
CassIa County.
Albion......A April 18th, September 10Th
EImore County.
Mt Home $50. May 9Th, October 18th
Custer County.
Challis......July 18th, September 30th
Blaine County
Hailey......J June 18th, November 18th
Court to convene at $50 a. M, at
each time and place.
KIRKLAND L. PERKY, Judge.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-10
A shirtwaist wedding.

shirtwaist wedding took place
at Belvidere, n. J., the other day. All
the invited guests appeared at the
church in the latest popular apparel.
bride and groom being the exeep-
tions. .
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-10

A French writer states that of every
1901 900 men of the army or naval pro-
fession 1919 become hopeless lunatics.
Among mechanics the number is only
&c per oo,Oo0.-Chicago Chronicle.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-12
Psyche and the Tenderfoot.

With admiring eyes the tourist Gazed upon the albright figure And the cotfee-eolored features Of the buXom Indian maiden Known as Psyche Bull-that-Bellows As she strolled along the river, By the merry dancing waters Of the storied Uncompahgre Near the village of her people. He was from the cultured precincts Of the ancient town of Boston, Born almost within the shadow or the monument that rises From the crest of Bunker Kopje. And when he observed her closely, Noted that the nose she carried As the vanguard to her features Showed no saddle marks denoting That It ever had been straddled By d pair of rimless glasses, Noted that her jaws were passive, Not assaulting gum of pepsin, All his heart went out toward her, For the change was so refreshing From the cultured maids he'd ogled In the town where he had happened. Little dreamed the tenderfooter That the wild appearing beauty, Clad in skirt of army blanket And In bright red flannel limbings And In shirt waist made of flour sack Was graduate of Carlisle. Where they make refined young ladies Out Of wild, untutored lniuns, And for personal amusement He concluded he would give her What the classics called jolly" Steppng forth he raised his dicer, Smiled until the bright gold filling or his teeth flashed in the sunlight And addressed her thus: ~ 70 peerless Wild sunfower of the forest Fair untutored child of nature, Sllckest jaybird In the jungle. With voice as ripping streamlet And q laugh of ragtiIne music, Somewhat softer than the bellows Of the bullfrog in the bayou, Never have mine eyes encompassed Such sweet, unstudied picture, Such stunning tout ensemble, Done in skunk oil and vermillion, From the studio of nature, All my soul is thrilled with rapture, And the heart within my bosom At it's prison bars is beating, Strong restraining bars of sparerbs Like d captive bird ---''
 Then paused he, For q sldelong glance fired at him Called him down, and thus she answered.: "Aw, come off, you buggy snoozer, With your photographic prattle Pull your freightand do cakewalk For you make me very weary With your vocal demonstrations Executed in q manner That arouses my suspicious That you've rats up in your garret. hlSul uDoul anu Hll tue lHlluScuDe With your Number Seven 1'rilbys Till the echoes of your footsteps Are immersed in wonder distance, Or I'll holler for my paw-paw, Call old Colonel Bull-that- Bellows, And he'll use you for a duster For patch of terra frma," All knocked out he quick obeyed her, And when he had been quite swallowed By the dim and distant wonder z Gave she him the merry ha-ha, And unto herself she .murmured: Say! that tailored freak of nature Must have thought this bunch of grille Was q product of Missouri!'
 From the Denver Post.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-12
4 DM FITTED.

| Church-"What is the principal mu- 1 sical instrument in China-the tyre?"
 Gotham-"No; I believe 1t is the | loot. "--Y Yonkers Statesman.
 Bobby (aged e)-" Harry don't you hear your mother hollering after you? Harry (aged 5)-"Thats nothing. A woman's bound to have the last word you know."-Boston Transcript.
 MT. Crimsonbeak-"D you know that man Goldbugg?" Mrs. Crimson beak-"Yes; rich, isn't hep Yes; he told me to-day that when he was born he didn't have shirt to his back!" Yonkers Statesman.
 Good Gracious!-Mrs. Browne-"The Rev Dr. Waterfall didn't oficiate at your church last Sunday as usual" MT Malaprop-"No, he was out at some college preaching a bacchanalian ser mon, n,"-Philadelphia Press.
 Father" asked twelve-year- Ma ble, looking up from her book. What is repartee?"
 Back talk" answered father. but so smart that you wish you had said it yourself. Philadelphia Press.
 Ties too miserable to live'' "I ad- init he's sparing enough generally, but he gives himself treat on holidays and Sundays" He does?' Yes On these occasions he always reads some of the most tasty recipes he can find in the cook book. k."-Philadelphia Times.
 "I'll have to leave your service, sir" Gaid thq nnaphy1Nan n o.. nate
 I'm sorry to hear that John. Why?"
 Every time l drive you out. sir, I hear people say, There goes the scoun- drel' and I don't know which of us they mean. n."-Philadelphia Times.
 The Saddest Story Ever Told.-The Tramp (between mouthsfuls)-'I wuz wunst q wealt'y married man, mum, but I am penniless now!' Kind Lady
 You poor unfortunate man! Why didn't you put your fortune in your wife's name?" The Tramp-'I did an she learned ter play bridge whist" Puck.
 New to Him.-The distinguished per sonage who had been announced as the speaker of the evening was late in ar irving, and an effort had been made to entertain the audience in the mean time by vocal music and short im- promptu speeches A dozen or more persons began calling lusrily for "Goo- goo Eyes, Somewhat perplexed the professor of philosophy and beles let tres, who was acting as chairman, arose. "If MT. Googoo Wise is in the audience" he said, The will oblge by forward. ."-Chicago Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-12
SLTI'LED.

President Mckinley has felt obliged to notice the third-term talk, and he has felt impelled to do a little talking himself. For instance T will say now, once for all, expressing a long settled conviction, that I not only am not and will not be a candidate for a third term, but would not accept a nomination for it if it were rendered me-
 This ought to and probably will set tie the matter, and those who have been shaking with the fear of a third term can now be still. Although the Presi- dent doesn't directly say that he doesn' t believe in the third-term idea for him self or anybody else his action in re- jecting 1t for himself will not add to it's strength, and his example will have weight in future times. If there is any doubt about what Washington meant there can't be any about what McKin- ley meant
 Now that the third-term notion is disposed of, those who want first term can act freely. We shall soon see signs of their efforts to get the nomina- ton to seek them.