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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-26

Usually Plttsburg is accepted as a
synonym for diversified industry. 1t is
something of a surprise, therefore, to
learn that in proportion to its size
Scranton is more of an industrial center
than Pittsburg. We have one industry
for every 1900 inhabitants, while Pitts
burg has only one for every 1,507 per-
sons. Pittsburg's industries may be
larger but when the present unsettled
conditions in the labor market subside
Scranton will be in fine fettle to push
forward
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-26

leading Republican club in Judge
Pennypacker's home ward in Philadel-
phia by unanimous vote has declared
for John Elliin. 1t is the signal gun of
revolution. Keep your eye on Phila-
dolphia,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-26

For cards Of thanks, resolutions of coincidence,
and similar cont ributiens in the nature OF al.
vortising The Tribune makes charge OF 8 cents
line
Rates Of Classified Advertising furnished on
application.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-26

Frederick Lands, of Logansport, who
has just been nominated for congress
in the Eleventh Indiana district. like
his elder brother. Charles B. Lands,
the congressman from the adjoining
district, is newspaper man. He
worked on the same paper from which
Charles graduated into national re-
nown: and like Charles. his silver
tongued eloquence has gained for him
a place among the most popular of
campaign speakers and lecturers. Fred
for a time served as Charles private
secretary. A third brother, Demo-
crat, is a candidate for congress in an
Illinois district Should he win, the
Landises would come pretty close to
forming a quorum. Theirs is con-
spicuous case of merit finding it's level.
Each of the Lands boys has been the
unaided architect of his own triumphs.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-26

safe the contract? Hardly. If such a
proposition were advanced, there would
be no limit to their Indignation.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-26

"Bulr Andrews has declared for
Pennypacker. This Is indeed unkind.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-26
SCRANTON, MAY 26. 1902.

For governor of Pennsylvania, on the
issue Of an open field and fair play,
JOHN P. ELKIN, Of Indiana,
subject to the will Of the Republican
masses. .
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THE FLAT RATE FOR ADVERTISING.
The following table shows the price per incl
each insertion. spnce to be used within one year
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a fiistake of Judgment,

/(TNHE American people,"
90 says Senator Hoar," have
~ got this one question to
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-26
The Juvenile Court Law.

VI N VIEW Of the attack which has
been made upon the constitutions
. ality of the law establishing a
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The Third Week of the Strike.

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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28
METHODS OF DIVIDING s1LO.

all times. 1t would break down the
best made partition if one side was
put in at a time. After it is well set
tied if one side is taken out the press
ure is 10 so great.
When taking out the first slide, have
a large number of braces ready the
proper length and as fast as the silage
is used, put in the braces. Fig, shows
the braces in position from the sides
of the silo to the partition. These
braces should have some pieces at the
ends running the opposite direction
to the material against which the
brace is to support. That IS, il the
silo is stave and the partition horizon
tai to the brace, the end pieces should
be as in Fig. 8. If the timber of the
outside of the silo is horizontal, the
brace should be as in Fig. 6. When
one side of the siIo is empty, there is
no danger of the wall giving way if
these precautions are taken. Next year,
when filing, the braces as well as the
end pieces, should be taken III and
laid away for another year. By this
method, the man with a small herd can
build a moderate sized silo and have
silage through the dry time, as well
as winter at a very small outlay OF
money.-Orange Judd Farmer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28
BARBARIC ORDINATIONS.
Magnificent State Ceremonies nj
the Growing of Kings in
Ancient Times.

Coronations belong to all ages and
all races. Somewhere in the records
of an eastern traveller is a graphic
picture of the installation of the EN-
peror of the Tartars on August "a
1926, relates the St. James Gazette
Kuyuk Khan sat in his gilt chair out,
side a golden tent upon a river bank
and the Tartar chiefs, gathering be-
fore him, prayed and commanded
that "you have power and dominion
over us" Rising from his gilt chair,
Kuyan Khan replied: eff you wish
that 1 be your king, are you resolved
and disposed each of you to do all
that / shall recommend, to come
when 1 call, to go where l send, and
to kill whom | shall order to be
killed?' "Yes," said the chiefs; and
after the king had promised that
henceforth his word alone should be
his sword, the emperor was addressed
as follows: "Look on high and see
, God, and look down on the fell
wherein thou sittist. If thou dost
govern well thou shalt reign in power
and magnificence, and the whole
earth shall be subject to thee; but il
i'll, thou shalt be poor, miserable,
vile and contemplate, and shalt not
have power even over the felt where
on thou sittist."
.One of the most magnificent state
ceremonies of the ancient world val,
the coronation of the king of Abys'
sinia. The daughters of the judges
of the supreme court, holding a cord
of crimson silk breast high, called
upon the king to advance, and, as he
approached the cord, demanded:
"Who are your" II am your king
the king of Sion," he answered; and
the damsels cried: "You shall moi
pass; you are not our king Retir'
ing, and again advancing, the king
declared: 81 am your kng-the king
of Israel" and again his answer was
rejected. Challenged a third time
the king repeated his first answer
cut the cord with his saber and wa,
J acclaimed king of Abyssinia.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28
THROUGH THE PANAMA CANAL
A Domestic Discussion Which BrinEA
to Light, Some Tremendous
Possibilities.

George, dear, don't sit there asleep
with the flies biting you"
Its me the flies are biting, my love.
If l don't object to it, and the flies
don't object to it, why should you?"
replied George, according to the Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
But | want to talk to you about this
Panama canal, George. It's like other
canals, isn't it?"
"Yes, my dear; only it's wider and
deeper and shorter"
"But it's just a ditch, isn'tit?"
Eyes, my dear, it's just a glorified
ditch"
And what will they do with the dirt
they shovel out of it, George?"
'They will dig a hole and bury it,
my love-"
"There, now, you're stringing me.
How long is it going to take to dig it
dear?"
'Oh, a half dozen years"
MY! but that seems a long while to
wait if you are in a hurry to get
through. And | suppose that they'll
break a bottle or something the day
it's done, and then somebody will pull
a string or something and let the wa
ters of the Pacific flow into the Allan
tic. That's fine, isn't it?"
Its really grand, my love-"
"And I was thinking of another
thing, George. You know what a fish
erman papa is, and how he loves to
fish for tuna, but hates to go away
across to California to find them. Dc
you think the tuna will swim through
the canal so papa a catch them down
in Florida?"
"Why not, my love? Ihave not doubt
that all sorts of things from the Pa
cific side will float through-Chinese
scows, and whales, and seals, and wal.
ruses, and polar bears, and"
stop, George, you're a hateful
thing!"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28
WHO is ITf

lance The heat of the sun next day
caused the rails to breathe heavily;
but, as they could not expand longi-
tudinally, they twisted themselves
clean out of the chairs which clamped
them to the sleepers, and the railway
was rendered completely useless for
traffic
A battleship is over six inches long
er in summer than in winter, and an
ironclad in the tropics is nearly a foot
longer than her sister ship in a more
northern sea. One of the most power
full breathing materials employed for
engineering work is concrete. The
aqueduct for the conveyance of the
water for London, extending from Bell
Weir to Hampton, a distance of about
eight and three-quarter miles, is pro-
vided with what are technically termed
expansion joints, at intervals of 80
feet, to enable the material to breathe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28
SOLID EARTH A
Should BE Thoroughly Underdrained,
Because Surface Drainage Is
Not Effective.

Notwithstanding all that has been
done or proposed in the way of road
improvement, the real problem for the
next % years will continue to be how
to make good dirt roads. Model roads,
under the Higbee-Armstrong act, or
any other possible act, will not cover
the state of New York with macadam-
lied roads inside of rs years. The
change will not be perceptible to the
majority of farmers inside of 2j years.
OF course, this kind of work should
be pushed forward with earnestness
and liberality. The trolley meanwhile
will go a great ways'to supplement the
macadam, but both together cannot
lift us out of the slough. We must
study the dirt road question. and not
consider it as of little Importance.
County engineers. taking charge IN
der the pay system, ought to make Il
solution of the question, which the old
pathmaster system did not, and never
could have done. A good dirt road
could never be made by surface drain
ing. It was nc possible--and
never will be possible-than' to make
dry meadows by surface draining.
The farmer knows hal he must I'M
derdrain his, land, and do it thorough
Iy. But if you go into a highway and
drive a spade down in the middle of
your road you will find that the crust
even in the dryest weather is not more
than six inches in thickness. How
long a rain will it take to soften this
or break it up entirely? The result 10
mud holes, and in a wet spell almost
impossible roads, and this has been
the history of our country roads ever
since we took possession of the land
and laid them ont. 1t would continue
to be the story forever under the path
master system. What is needed is I'M
derdraining as well as surface drain
Ing. In some cases a main ditch along
the center of the road thoroughly laid
In six or eight inch tile, would be sufi-
cient. In other cases it would need the
French system of tile bitches on each
side. European model roads have
these deep bitches four feet deep on
each side of the road, and in some
cases there is an additional ditch down
in the center. all tiled and covered.
The expense of such a direct road
would, Of course, be vastly less than
q macadam or telford road, and It
would pay for itself in the saving of a
single year to the farmers adjacent.
There could be no objection to a thor
oughly well laid stone drain, where
tile is costly and stone plenty. In
other words, drain your roads as you
drain your meadows, and they will be
passable driveways and haulways at
all seasons of the year. We note that
where trolleys are built they improve
the drainage, and do it with covered
drs;ps.-E. P. Powell, in N. Y. Tribune.
If possible, let the cows have water
In the stable at all times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28
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ME~::...
U SILO
Has Puzzled Many Feeders
More or Less.

A reader from Canada asks for the
best method of dividing a round silo
which recently came into his posses
sion. Should the partition be put in
crossways of the openings or extend
from the openings? If the partition
extends from the opening, shall it ex-
tend from the center of the opening or
from one edge? Figs /. 2 and 3 show
the three plans. BY putting the par
%tition, as in Figs. ! and ,, the silage
from one-half must be thrown across
the other, which means much extra
work in emptying a silo. The parti-
ton should be placed as in Fig. 3, and
good doors made to fit the opening in
each side. Use paper, or what is bet
ter, felt to make the joints alright.
The reader also asks if it would not
be all right to have the boards cut
and put in the partition as the silo is
filled. 1t would be impossible to make a
partition air-tight when put in in such
a manner. Too much care cannot be
taken in putting in such a partition.
The ends will have to have much work
where Joined to the walls or air will
get through when one side is empty.
The work should be done in a good and
substantial manner as there is great
pressure. Both sides should be filled
simultaneously and we'll compacted at
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28
PITH AND POINT.

One active cause of a shrinkage in
values is the assessors visit.-Chi-
cago Daily News.
A wife can read her husbands
mind all right. The difficulty is in
getting him to acknowledge that she
reads him right.-Atchison Globe.
A Summer Engagement.-"Was
their engagement a happy one2"
"Oh, yes, very! They both married
somebody else."-Philadelphia Bulle-
tin.
"0i how come t. tn conclusion" re-
marked Paddy McCann, 'thot my
humble lot is more holy than bein'
wan iv thin tax shavers on tn state
tax board thot is robbin' tn poor
railroads. "-Indianapolis News.
Checkmating Him.-"Now, mothers
cooking" he began, twas" 81
know, / know" she interrupted. 'Do
you suppose, if 1 discharged Dinah,
she would come to us for four dol.
lars a week?"-Chicago Post.
Magistrate-"Did l understand you
to say that the parties used high
words?" Witness-"Yes, your wor'
ship; their voices were unusually high
and their language was extremely
low-"-Glasgow Evening Times.
His Forte.-Tommy-"Out Of
job?" Jimmy-"Yeh. The boss sait
he was losin' money on the things
was maxim" Tommy-'Wasn't there
anything else you could do arount
the place." ~Jimmy-"I guess not
kAnyhow, he said I didn't seem abl'
to do anything else" Tommy-"Ant
what was you makin'?" Jimmy
mistakes. catholic Standard.
The Wrong Boy.-I read the othel
day of a Dutchman who had lost hi!
child, and who thus related his ex
perience in finding him: 81 lose m.
poy, und I go out und find him sit
ting on the curbstone. L tell hin
come home. He say he Won't. H,
look at me; I look at him. He begil
to cry; I begin to cry. He feel yer,
bad; I feel very bad. I tole hin
stood up; und he stand up. l put m,
arms aroun' his neck-und it vasn'
him!"-A. @. Keasbey.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28
IN The EVENING HUSH.

What witchery dwells in the evening
When the fires burn low snd the shadows
roam
like fitting ghosts where the dim light
falls
In Pickering shapes on the dusky walls?
What spirits come when the heart goes
back,
And moves again DER the darkened
track
That walk with me through the long ago
In the evening hush when the lights are
low?
What shadows DER the dim room creep
To silent mourn or to pause and weep
And place a wreath on some crumbled
tomb
Half lost in the dust of the ancient
gloom?
Forgotten shapes that in silence come
When the ears are dulled and the lips
are dumb,
And only the dream tides ebh and flow
In the evening hush when the lights are
low.
Gray specters out of the vanished Past
Come stealing forth; and all flying fast,
The mystic ones from the Future greet
And clasp white hands as the winding
sheet
Unrolls. quick flooding the haunted room
With the scent of a long dead roses
bloom;
And Memory's visions come and go,
In the evening hush when the lights are
low!
All! Always thus, in the eerie time
'Twixt night and day, I can hear the
chime
From the clock of Fate on either hand
From the curtained Past and the I'M
known land
I nave dreamed about, but never seen;
And 1 bark to both as l sit between,
While the white ones mingling come and
In the evening hush when the lights are
low!
There are ghosts of dreams that I
dreamed when Dung;
When Hope her shimmering bright scarf
flung,
All jeweled, streaming adown the sky,
And Loves bright chariots Numbered by.
Bright dreams they were; but the bright
est now
Are they of the palest and care-lined
When the ghosts of the old days come
and go
In the evening hush when the lights are
low?
The freight dies and the night is here;
The Pickering shadows disappear
To roam again in the far-off land
n beckon me with a spectral hand.
All, well! not long till 1, too, shall be
A silent one of the company,
And haunt the gloom and the firelight's
glow
In the evening hush when the lights are
low.
Lowell O. Reese, in San Francisco Bull"
letin.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28
Sun worshipers in Hard Luck

The following remarks were over
heard on a Strand omnibus, says a
contemporary. A leaden sky was
overhead, the rain poured down I'M
compromisingly, mud was underfoot.
A red-capped Parsee who had been
sitting near the dripping driver got
down rs the conductor came up.
"What sort o chap is that?" asked
the driver.
Don't yer know that?" answered
the conductor. "Why, that's one O.
them Indians what worships the
SUM"
"Worships the sum-" said the shiy-
ering driver. II suppose 'e's come
over ere to ave a rest!"-London Ex-
press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28

IT is THE WELL-WORN SERVAN'
ants, they say, are too independent,
they think they can run the house" they
are not invariably honest. At any rate it is
troublesome to look after them.
Even in the small cities and towns ho-
tells and apartment houses are going up.
All over the country people are giving up
housekeeping in despair. A great many
people consider it more expensive to live in
a hotel than at home. THEY HAVE
NEVER TRIED IT. The people l have
talked with say that in the end THE HO-
TEL is THE CHEAPER. 1t also saves
time, e~xertion, worry and irritation
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28
SECONDHAND SIDEWALKS.
Are Sold by Dealers in Wrecked
Building Materinls-Odd Ar
ticIes of Trade.

"Never heard of secondhand side
walks b%efore?" said a dealer in second
hand building materials, according to
the Chicago Chronicle. "NVhy, where
can you have been all the time?"
"There have been secondhand side
walks as long as there have been deal
ers in secondhand building materials;
and this business has been carried on
in Chicago in a large way for many
years.
"When a dealer buys an old building
and contracts to remove it he buys
everything pertaining to it, out to the
street curb, including the sidewalk.
That's where the secondhand vault
lights and vault covers come from, and,
of course, the secondhand tlag-stones.
"We bring these flags along with the
rest of the material to our yards and
stand 'em up to wait for purchasers.
They are sold for making repairs to
stone pavements and also to lay as
complete pavements. Secondhand
flags are sold for these uses not only
here, but in smaller cities and other
places anywhere within a radius OF
200 or 800 miles of Chicago.
Modern concrete pavements hurt
the trade in secondhand flags? Sure.
ly. Before the days of artificial pave.
ments there was a sale for all the flags
we got as fast as we got them. Then
with the growth of the concrete pave
ments came a truce when the flags
stacked up on us, more or less, and we
used to wonder sometimes if we
should ever sell them.
"And then along would come some.
body and buy a mile of tagging at
once; might be somebody laying out a
property, or something of that sort,
Or we might have a run in tagging and
sell all we had. So that while there
isn't the demand for secondhand flags
that there once was, there is still q
market for them at some price.
Perhaps there are such things as
secondhand street pavements, too!
Why, certainly; though that's some
thing not in our line. Secondhand
paving blocks would be supplied by
contractors who had taken them up
preparatory to laying a new street
pavement.
"Itwould be stipulated, for instance,
in the contract that the contractor
putting down the new pavement
should have the material of the old
one to be removed. He might sell the
old blocks as they were or take them
to his yards and have those that were
very much worm or rounded Clipped
and refaced; Or, for that matter, he
might have such blocks entirely re.
dressed, making new blocks of them
"The paving blocks thus removed
as ne longer suitable for use where
they were originally laid, under the
traffic to which they would now be
subjected, might still do for streets
pavements in smaller cities and towns,
or for various private roadways, and
their cheapness commends them, and
thus there is a market for them all.
$50 there are indeed secondhand
street pavements as well as second
hand sidewalks; but there isn't really
anything very remarkable about that.
If you should stop to consider for just
a minute you would realize that it
would be very difficult to think of any
thing that could not be bought second
hand"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28

EVERYTHING seemed quite pleas
l. ant; it was a magnificent spring
afternoon, the park was at it's best
and I had met Mrs. Ventry, who,
it must be explained, was one of my
Oldest and most intelligent friends.
She had an elaborate French poodle
with her, and both were attired
with exquisite taste. The three of us
were strolling quietly along.
"Joco and l walk every afternoon
for the benefit of our health" she
explained. "The victoria will pick us
up in a few minutes, so you must
give me a full account of your doings.
What an age you've been away! Tell
me the scheme"
shoot the lion in his own country,
/ have been Staying the wild pig in
Morocco, / have"
so, the usual kill expedition" she
interrupted. THAT doesn's interest
me in the least. You know, Hugh,
it's almost preposterous! Here you
are, an intelligent man of 80, more
than comfortably rich, and you have
never yet come to me with an inter-
esting love episode"
81 will make amends now," 1 said,
gravely.
"Tell me-" she cried eagerly.
80, it happened on my way home.
l was putting in a few days at Monte
Carlo. You know La Turbie, the
little place on the hillside behind the
principality?" She nodded. "Well, l
was struggling up there by the road,
with some idea of enjoying the view,
when, about halfway, a carriage
passed. In it we're two ladies', pre-
sumably mother and daughter"
"And the younger one?" cried Mrs.
Ventry.
'Was gloriously pretty! They were
out of sight for a minute, but when |
reached the place I found the car
rage standing outside the inn, empty.
| wandered around and caught sight
of the ladies again. The girl was
climbing a rocky piece of ground, in
order to get a better view. Jove, it
you could have seen her!"
"Yes, yes!" cried Mrs. Ventry i'm
patiently. "She was adorable, made
a pretty picture; but please go on.
There was something else?"
eyes, there was something else,"
/ said. "In moving quickly her foot
slipped on the rocky surface and she
fell. / went quickly to her assist
ance. 1t turned out to be a badly
sprained ankle, and, as she couldn't
walk, I helped her to the inn, es-
corted by mama. There she tainted
from the pain. / was again of as
sistance, and when she came to, L
well, you know, Adela, I studied for
a doctor until an eccentric uncle's
will made me a professional loafer.'
Glow romantic! And you fell in
love with herr"
"Head over ears! If you could
have heard her voice, seen her
"Ankle?" put in Mrs. ventry limo
Gently.
Her eyes!" I finished with a Sc
we're glance. 80, her whole person
atty was charming
"And it was the beginning OF al
attachment? Do tell me how it pro
gressed!"
"It didn't progress" I said gloom
lily. 'In the excitement OF the at
fair l forgot to give them my card
after thanking me and asking me tc
call, they drove off without leaving
me their address. / spent an en-
tire week searching but without sue
cess, | had fallen in love with a di