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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-20

A leading member of the Spanish
ministry says that while Spain, being
the aggrieyed party. cannot take the
initiative, she is willing to respond to
a hand clasp Of amlty extended by the
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-20

To refuse credit to honest miners idle
through no fault of their own would
be cruelty in the case of any retailer
able to carry a line of credit. The
pinch comes, on retailers who are un-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-20
Atlantic City.
THE WESTMINSTER
HOTEL RICHMONO.

Kentucky Avenue First Hotel from Beach, At.
lantic City, N. j.; 90 Ocean view rooms; ca.
paeity 400; write t0r special rates J. b. Jenk.
ins. Prop.
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For particulars address,
CHARLES E. FISH, Principal
School Of the Lackawanna,
Scranton, Pa.
DR.. & Mrs. John MacDuffie'S
SCHOOL FOR GIRLS

2sth year. Twenty-Five years under the manage.
ment Of MISS HOWARD. College preparatory
20. 90 girls nonresident. Beautiful grounds,
Tennis courts Instruction in accordance with
highest requirements OF best colleges For par.
ticulars and catalogue address
John MacDuffe, Ph. d., Springfield, Mass.
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Trade witt, Canada.

~ ANADA, it is announced by the
bureau of statistics, continues
~ to increase her purchases from
the United States, despite the
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For cards Of thanks. resolutions Of condo'encc
and similar contributions in the nature of nd.
vertising The Tribune makes a charge OF cents
line
Rates Of Classified Advertising furnished on
application
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-20

United States. Well, we guess that
Uncle Sam can afford to be magnanlm-
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Announcement

During the summer of 1902. in
struction in all the subjects required
for admission to the best colleges
and scientific schools will be given
at Cotuit Cottages. Summer
School of Secondary Instruction,
Cotuit, Massachusetts,, under the
direction of Principal Charles E.
Fish. The courses of instruction
are for the benefit of five classes of
students:
I. Candidates who have received
conditions at the entrance examina-
tions.
2. Candidates who have postponed
examinations until September.
8. Students in Secondary Schools,
who, by reason of illness. or other
causes, have deficiencies to make up.
4. Students in Secondary Schools
who wish to anticipate studies and
save time in the preparation for
college.
5. Students in college who have
admission conditions which must be
removed before the beginning Of the
next Scholastic Year.
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THE FLAT RATE FOR ADVERTISING.
The following table shows the price per inc
each insertion, spasc to be used within one yea
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TEN PAGES.
SCRANTON, MAY 90, 1902.
For governor of Pennsylvania on the
issue of an open field and fair play,
JOHN P. ELKIN, Of Indiana,
masses.
Cuba Libre.

"O THE SURPRISE of most
foreign observers and to the
Il disappointing of many home
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-20

It is encouraging to note that the question Of
street signs has been mentioned again in city
councils. We must not neglect 10 talk about
this matter. or course, we don't expect the
signs, but then it Is an entertaining subject
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-07-31

scientious one. He is a lover of peace;
that contradictory thing, bluff diplo-
mat; thorough scholar and patron
of education; a quiet, studious man,
engaging in a public career from a
sense of duty.
No wonder craftsmanship qualities
belong to the retiring prime minister,
no wonder pride of birth is his. Tea
generations ago Lord Salisbury's an
cestors had voice in the government
of England. Three statesmen of the
family have held the highest place in
the state; William Cecil, first earl of
Burleigh; Robert Cecil, first earl of
Salisbury, and Robert Arthur Talbot
Gascoyne Cecil, third marquis of Sails
bury.
This last Cecil, the retiring prime
minister, was born at Hatfield Febru-
arv 10, 1880. He was educated at Eton
and Oxford, at the latter taking his
degree of bachelor of arts in 1849. On
leaving Oxford a couple of years were
spent in travel, when some consider
able acquaintance was made with the
colonies, his journeyings extending to
as remote a possession as New Zea-
land
He was elected to the house of com
mons when % years old, and at that
early age began his long political life.
He married young against his fathers
wishes, and was allowed by his parent
TO find support for his household. He
proved equal to it, paying his way by
writing for the Saturday Review and
the Quarterly; and these early strug-
giles helped tougher his fiber and give
him training for his later career.
Few indeed are the prime ministers
of England that have added to their
burdens the actual duties of the Sec
rotary of state for foreign affairs, but
the marquis of Salisbury three times
has been premier and foreign secre-
+ary. 1t is as foreign secretary he has
done his most illustrious work. The
foreign office has been his special
pride, and he has done much to make
# the best in the world; to him is due
not little of the efficiency of the
British diplomatic service. AS the
head of the most perfected diplomatic
organization In the world, the marquis
of Salisbury has had full play for his
executive powers; and in the settle
ment of divers International compli-
cations his wonderful knowledge of
world politics and his trained powers
of diplomacy have been called into ac-
tion.
When Lord Salisbury was made for
eign secretary in 1873, during the Tur-
ko-Russian war, the memorable Sails
bury circular did effective work in
bringing arrogant Russia to re-
alization that there were limits be-
yond which it were we'll for her not to
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Charities, Philanthrophists
and Other Things in New York

man out of job is this: The corpo-
ration that pensions its elderly en-
ployes, when it wishes new men will
prefer young ones who can serve it
long before being pensioned.
Burke was shrewd as well as kind
when he devoted his great gift to
Intelligent and respectable men and
women who in consequence of sick
ness or discharge from hospitals be-
fore they have gained sufficient
strength to earn their livelihood, or
in consequence of other misfortune,
may be in need of temporary assist
ance."
The fund cannot be available for a
year or more. But already it's trus-
tees have been deluged with applica-
tions-enough if all were met to ex-
haust the fund at once. And not
every applicant is shamming need.
I spoke of the vastness of charity
work in New York. On the same day
that saw the publication of Burke's
gift the Lewishons, copper operators,
arranged to give 100000 for public
charities; the gift passed almost I'M
noticed. With like brief mention ap-
peared the fact that the Haven fund,
left some years ago for a similar
purpose, had reached $3,O00,00O.
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Mr.. Cleveland and afterward an or
ganizer of capital.
Henry Willard, who built the North
ern Pacific railroad, was New York
reporter.
Joseph C. Hendricks was reporter
on the Sun 20 years ago. He ran
against Seth Low for mayor, was beat
en-, went to congress, made record
as reform postmaster, and is now
the president of the third biggest bank
in New York, power in finance.
Pretty nearly every newspaper or
magazine editor of Importance in the
city was in his salad days reporter.
With rare exceptions the biggest liter
ary names of the day are those of ex-
reporters. Stedman was an old Trib-
une man. Richard Harding Davis
wrote up fires for the Philadelphia
Ledger. R. ". Glider was a reporter.
Judge Taynor, like very large pro-
portion of the leading lawyers of the
day, began his life work as a reporter
Lamont's long suit in politics is 81
lence. As private secretary he was
the best listener that ever guarded a
president from bores. A governor has
excellent opportunities for silence.
OWEN LANGDON.
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France is not the only nation that
has felt Lord Salisbury's hand to be
one not DER soft. When Ii Hung
Chang visited England in 1896, that
willy gentleman, entertained at Hat
field by the prime minister, expected
to have it within his power to wheedle
out of his host better terms for his
countrymen in the way Of import du-
ties upon British goods coming into
China, but he failed. And to-day in
consequence of that disappointment,
there are evidences of the Chinese
diplomats disapproval of the gentle
man that recently occupied the office
of premier of Great Britain.
At Hatfield, all of Lord Salsbury's
leisure time is spent in his laboratory.
His knowledge of electricity is ac-
knowledged by experts. He is very
much interested in the sciences of
physics and chemistry. His interest in
educational affairs has been referred
to. In 1869 he was elected to the dig
nified office of chancellor of the Uni
versity of Oxford, an office which has
been held by many Englishmen of
note.
Lord Salisbury is of commanding
presence, and speaks in grave, delib-
crate manner. AS an adversary he is
much feared; not for brilliant flashes
of wit, lightning darts, but for the
premeditated, singing irony which he
sends out with sure aim. He is con-
sidered a master of invective that tells.
He is very reserved, hates popularity
hunting" and perhaps for that reason
the general feeling toward him is one
of respect rather than of enthusiasm.
The office of premier is unpaid. If
it takes riches to make an American
eligible for the poorly-paid post of
ambassador, certainly money must be
in the possession of one that would
guide the affairs of state in England.
The marquis of Salisbury, it is need
less to say, to-day does not earn his
keep by writing for periodicals. He is
now owner of twenty thousand and
some acres, a castle here a manor
house there.
Lord Salisbury's services for his
country have been summed up thus:
"Since he inferred the foreign office in
1878, Lord Salisbury has been its chief
more than half the time. History will
recognize him as a remarkable man
self-sacrifcing. laborious, cautious,
strong. He has left a tremendous i'm
press on the policy of England. In
deed. it is scarcely too much to say
that under him, and through the work
ing of forces which he did not create or
even control, but which he has helped
to guide. England, the little island. has
been replaced in world politics by the
mighty British empire"
KATHERINE POPE
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advance Lord Salisbury's negotia-
tions in the matter of the delimitation
of the spheres of English and German
territory and influence on the African
continent are numbered among his
most successful pieces of work. And
his firmness with the smaller power of
Portugal in keeping back encroach-
ments on preserves jealousy guarded
by England is counted mastery
stroke.
When the Deryish outbreak occurred
in the Soudan, Egypt was threatened
with invasion, and Kitchener's cam
paign was organized, foreign influence
was exterted against the use of Egyp-
tian money for the struggle. Lord
Salisbury at once saw to it that the
needed funds were forthcoming, ana
Kitchener's work at Omdurman was
made possible Though a conservative
in politics and habit, Lord Salisbury
can act quickly and aggresslyely when
the occasion seems to warrant as
France calls to mind when she thinks
on Fashoda.
While the diplomatic parleying about
the Fashoda question was in progress
France continued to occupy the dis
puted territory in Central Africa; but
when naval preparations were under
way. and Lord Salisbury demanded the
unconditional evacuation of the
French post at Fashoda, Capt. Mar
chand was ordered by his government
to withdraw. Whatever the merits OF
the question, it was victory for Eng
land and her late prime minister.
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A new library building has been pur7
chased by the reading clubs of Black
River Falls and fitted up in fine shape,
and the city library has been sepa-
rated from the high school library and
put in the new quarters.
Leroy Riley, of Mapleton, died Of
heart failure while under the influ-
ence of chloroform at DR.. Wilkinson's
office in Oconomowoc. He was IL
years old and was being treated for an
injured knee.
DR.. L. NJ. Gregory, Of Stevens Point,
for so years one of the most promi-
nent physicians of central Wisconsin,
died at the home of his son-in-law,
DR.. Darling, at Crystal Falls, Mich,
aged rs years.
An ordinance has been introduced in
the common council placing all phys
ically disabled members of the She
boygan fire department on half pay
after 20 years service and retiring
them.
Ellsworth, with 1900 population, is
the healthiest town in the United
States. Only two deaths occurred
there in 1901.
The state democratic committee met
at Waukesha and called the state con-
vention for Milwaukee September 3.
Martin Falk, carpenter, aged 81
years, suffered stroke Of paralysis in
Sheboygan, dying in few hours.
Henry p. Schnuts, 60 years old, was
almost instantly killed at Madison by
the paper train on the Northwestern
road lie was walking on the tracks.
Jonas Oleson, Swede, was struck
by a train near Shopiere and instantly
killed.
The dedication exercises of the new
st. James Episcopal church were held
in Manitowoc.
Alfred Cypreansen has resigned his
position as register of the United
States land office at Eau Claire.
Sydney Olson, who resided in Racine
up to three years ago, was drowned
while bathing at Hibbing, Mimi.
Harry Tracy, the fugitive Oregon
bandit, after his conviction and impris-
onment in the Oregon penitentiary, is
said to have written TO his grandfather
in Grand Rapids, this state, asking the
latter to undertake to get pardon for
him, but all reports of the desperado's
crimes have been kept from the grand
father.
Michael Linehan, of Dubuque, Ia,
was drowned at Maiden Rock.
The heaviest storm of the season
visited Jefferson and vicinity and
crops, especially tobacco, will be near
Nv a complete failure on account of
hail.
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and motherless, that are sent each
year to new homes in the country, in
the smaller towns and cities and on the
farms.
The 20 that I have laid claim to were
from New York city. I saw them in
the Northwestern depot in Chicago.
Nv heart was fixed on fishing trip
into the woods of northern Wisconsin,
and l was thinking of nothing else
when a friend pointed out to me lit
tie procession of these 70 tiny mites.
Down the depot platform they were
toddling, guided by kind-hearted
trainmen and the loving hands of sym
pathetic tourists. Every wee lamb
had protector.
| missed my friend. I found him
later with one of my 70. orphans in
each arm. | tried to convince him that
the two in my own arms were the pref
tier There it is admitted. All the
pleasures of a fishing trip to where
the "muskies" strike, and the reel
sings as they take the line, were for
gotten in the pleasures of the moment
with those 70 babies. l chided nv
friend for his forgetfulness of the an
ticipated pleasures at Tomahawk
lake.
''The pleasures Of the present are
greater than it is possible for the an
ticipated pleasures of the future to
be-" he replied. Every one of them re-
minds me of my own little Muffet at
home"
The wee tots had two special cars
on the train in which L was to travel
northward and once they had been
safely tucked away in the seats, and
the powerful iron horse was pulling
us over the switches of the city, I
hunted up the guardians of the little
ones. There were but three of them.
One a trained nurse whose profess
sional eye detected the slightest sign
of pain in each wee face; another a
motherly soul to whose heart went
straight each little sob caused by
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Gus prosperity and the rapid rise of
new millionaires have made the
gambling house a mint.
Within, the place is much as Morris
sey left it. That's matter of super
stition. There must be no change, or
luck will change, too. When a sofa
wears out it is replaced by another
exactly like it. The lights are more
brilliant, but they shine from the
same chandeliers. Nothing is new but
the faces, and by no means all of them.
Canfeld'g is like Monte Carlo in
some ways. For instance, no resident
of Saratoga is permitted to enter it
except as an employe. This is the
unwritten law which is stronger than
the written laws which prohibit with
out preventing games of chance. So
in Monte Carlo, no native, no subject
of the prince is permitted to be
impoverished and debauched by
gambling. There is hard by the
famous casino a branch of the Paris
bank. The employees cash checks for
gamblers, but they themselves never
see the inside of the casino. 1t is the
unwritten law Their lives are as
austere as they might be in prohibit
ton village in Vermont.
The club seems in Saratoga a
strange anomaly. 1t is a moral vii
lage. clean and orderly. Why the
gambling? IF you had been there as
I was the year of the great reform
if you had been there and had seen
the battalions of empty rocking
chairs upon the miles of vacant
piazzas when the club was closed you
would not need to ask the question.
Gambling brings the guests who
bring the money, the strange ladies
who wear diamonds for breakfast and
decorate their faces with much paint.
It makes business. The native Sara
togian has nothing to do with it. He
doesn't know it exists. He's very
unobservant.
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but all with pretty eyes. Not one OF
all my 20 little orphans but what had
pretty eyes.
Seventy little heads. Some with
golden curls; some with pretty ring
let's; some with dainty little' braids.
Some with brown hair some with
black, but all with pretty hair. Not
one of all my 70 little orphans but
what had pretty hair.
Seventy little frocks. Some of blue
and white and some of pink; some with
trailing vines and some with checks.
Some with little blouses and some
without, but all were pretty frocks.
Not one of all my 70 little orphans but
what had pretty frOck.
Seventy little hats. Some were red,
and some were blue, and some were
white. Some were dainty little bon
nets, and some were the broad
brimmed sunshades dear to every baby
heart. Some had flowers and some
had ribbon streamers. Some-the
boys'-had but a ribbon band, but all
were pretty hats. Not one of all my 70
little orphans but what had pretty
hat.
My 70 orphans were typical of thou
sands of little city waits, fatherless
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a Zig GIFT TOT O"a''T Mr.. Burke was
unknown in any public sense. He
has not been active in business for
a quarter of century. His name was
not in any list of American money
kings. He is a character" He is a
bachelor without near relatives. He
has four millions left to ''go on
with" they will ultimately fall to
the fund.
Personally, Mr.. Burke is just such
another kindly old gentleman as Car
negie will be at 90, if he lives SO long.
He chuckles over his gift, has fun
with it, likes reading the newspaper
accounts of it. He obeys his doctor
better than most old men; perhaps
that's one reason why he is alive and
hearty.
Burke has his peculiarities. He
never sells anything. If he buys
stock it is to keep. His farm in
Westchester county is overrun with
horses that have never been worked
or even shod. Colts that join that
colony are fortunate. In his green
houses grapes rot every fall because
the old man won't have them sold.
Giving them away is all right; selling
them, no! No tree is ever cut.
Fence posts must be bought; the ak
may not touch superfluous locust.
On this dreamland farm is grave
yard for pets. The old man loves all
the animals about the place, and will
not let one go Without was going
to say without Christian burial. But
of that there is no trayesty, of
course.
A simple, kindly old man is this
who woke the other morning to find
himself famous; like many another
man of slender acquaintance, locally
known for unusual generosity.
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charities of New York The bare
mass of benefcence, in requests and
endowments from past time, in hand
to-pocket giving of to-day, is bewil-
dering. Never say that people are
not generous!
But the distribution is strange.
More than half the entire sum is
spent in one way or another for
children. They represent hope. They
''come to something" In their turn
they serve the world. The ill and
the wounded are also more than pro-
vided for New York has too many
hospitals. It's the man or woman
who has ''fallen out of the ranks"
who gets the least attention; the
merely poor man; the old man. The
impulse of charity is kindly, but it is
as if it were some machine implac-
ably, blindly, without malice or in
tention, carrying out the DEGREES of
the law of 1.-The survival of the fit
test" He who's had his chance and
failed, he who never had chance
and is now too far on the way to
utilize it, are strangely lost sight of.
Without meaning to be so, charity is
utilitarian.
We're like cattle started for the
market in a crowded car. Once a
beast gets down he's done for.
The plight of the old man, the mid
die aged man, even, who hasn't quite
shit it off, is worse than ever BE-
fore. He has been kept too long at
one thing. He hasn't the adaptive
ness that made the old-fashioned
Yankee able to turn his hand to any
thing.
More men than women now use
hair dye in this city-not for adorn-
ment, but as a cold business propo-
sition,
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any great trouble in securing homes
for the little ones, and / could readily
believe the statement, for when told
the story of my 20 little orphans to
the wife of our host at Tomahawk
Lake she was wild to have one of them.
''Oh, l should like to have one of
those little girls. She would take the
place of my own little girl who lies
buried in our cemetery" she said, and
in her words there is the keynote to
the success of every one of the home
finding societies. The photograph
of little face that reminds a be-
reaved mother of a lost little one is
sure to weave a net about her heart
that will not be broken after the lit
tie stranger from the far off city has
arrived. WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Cnuse for Worry.

Several young couples in Racine are
considerably worried and wonder If
they are legally married. During the
past six months five marriages have
been performed by ministers coming
from other states. According to law
these ministers should file credentials
of license or appointment with some
circuit court of Wisconsin. 1t has been
discovered that the ministers who
came here never filed credentials with
the clerk of the court, and this failure
is said to invalidate marriages con-
Quoted by them.
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A family reunion was held at the
home of Sylvester Windecker in the
town of Byron in honor of the Win
decker triplets, who have the distinc-
tion of being the Oldest triplets in the
world They are Sydney Windecker,
of Fond du Lac; Sylvester Windecker,
of Byron, and Mrs. Sedate Pier, of
Wausau. They were born at Low
Vile, n. Y, June 8, 1914, and hence are
a little more than So years of age.