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Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
EQUAL to the Occasion.

Mr.. Cumso (meaningly)-"My dear,
here is the account of a woman who
was killed by broken steel in her
corset, which pierced her heart when
she leaned over the washtub."
Mrs. Cumso (cheerfully)-"How
shocking! l was intending to wash
out the curtains today to save a dol
lar, but l think you'd better call on
your way to the city and send up the
washerwoman."
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
is Not Worth Mentioning.

woman and glanced off. When they
asked if she wasn't shocked, she ad-
mittsd that she was but didn't mind
it.
$50 many extraneous objects coal
esce to agitate my neurotic adjuncts, :"
she remarked, that the addition of
personal shock from aerial electricity
is really unworthy of an allusion."
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
Diplomacy.

81 always endeavor," said the matri-
monial philosopher, ito take the
wrong side of an inconsequential
argument"
With what object in view?" he was
naturally asked.
"It gives my wife a chance to prove
me wrong, and this so delights her
that find her generously tractable in
all the more important matters"
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
Good Riddance.

Mr.. Naybor-Lee-Did you hear that
nuisance of a cat last night?
Mr.. Lazee-Yes, and l was glad of
a good chance to throw something at
him.
Mr.. Nabor-Lee-Did you hit him?
Mr.. Lazee-Oh, no; but got rid of
that blamed alarm clock that wakes
me up every morning
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
He Couldn't Say.

The timid artist approached the
stamp window. How much will it
cost to mail this?" he asked, holding
up his drawing.
First class?" asked the clerk.
The timid artist blushed.
"All my friends tell me it is" he
replied, but l can't say how it will
strike the editor"
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
Waiting for an Enaaaement.

mo doubt" we say to the gentle
man who has just swum the Niagara
rapids, you will soon appear on
the stage at different dime museums. -
"As soon as l can get booked" he
answers. "The managers tell me
that just now they are thronged with
applications from the recipients of
gifts from Prince Henry"
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
The rhwartinn of David.

Il see that the cartoons represent
us as Goliath said the first trust
magnate, "and the law as David com
ing to do us battle"
"Yes, laughed the second mag
nate; ''but we have fixed all that"
"How?''
"The leather trust won't sell David
enough material to make his sling"
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
Never Had the CHANCE.

A Polish Jew was arrested the
other day, and when taken to prison
was told to strip and have a bath.
''Vat, go in de vater?" he asked.
Yes, take a bath; you need it.
How long is it since. you had bath ?'
With his hands lifted upWsrd, he
answered: Il never vas arrested be-
fore"
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
Another Sort.

Beryl-Was Jack much embarrassed
when he proposed to Miss Antique
Gotrox?
Sibyl-Well, should say so.
Beryl-I suppose he blushed and
stammered the way they all do!
Sibyl-Not at all. His was financial
embarrassment.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
A Natural DEVELOPMENT.

Hello, Stavers! haven't met you
in some time; still bachelor, | sup
poser"
mot a bit of it. I've branched out
in matrimony."
Indeed! Olive branches, of
course?"
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
Superstition of Women.

Miss Wiggins-"Do you really think
that women are superstitious about
Friday?"
Mr.. Higgins If Robin
son Crusoe had been a woman that
black valet would have been called
Thursday"
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
Very Like an Auto,

Whats the matter?" asked the
first horse, you look so disgusted.
Sick?"
Sick and disgusted, yes" replied
the other. 81 feel like an automobile. :"
Horrors! How's that?"
81 heard the hostler telling the boss
l was out of order"
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
Fitted.

Think he's better fitted for Con-
gress than any one else in your dis
trict, do your"
Il should say; he's a natural-born
Congressman. Why, he can take any
old anecdote, twist it around a little
and tell it as if it had been an actual
experience of his own.''
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
Her sartoriaI Pursuit.

THAT Chicago woman amuses me"
observed the first guest at the sea-
side resort.
"Amuses you?" echoed the second
guest.
Yes. She told me that she had
been so busy with her annual divorce
suit that she had forgotten to get a
bathing suit"
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
And Worth the Least.

Eyes, the very things she bought in
Europe and paid the most for the
customs officials let through without
duty"
You don't say so! And what were
they?"
"Oh, a husband and title"
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
-DGElF @|NEIE7lF2K. i
Such a Dreaml

"Geei" remarked Weary Walker,
as he rubbed his eyes and slid down
from the haystack '1 had a lovely
dream, sure enough"
What was it?" asked Tired Tat
ters, coaxing an ant off his neck with
a straw.
Il thought" replied Weary, "dat
dey changed t'ings around so dat
Labor day was de only day anybody
worked"
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
Love in Spectacles.

He-I suppose now that l shall have
10 ask your father for his consent.
She-No. Harry; after the first time
you called pa said l might have you
if | wanted you. Pa and have under
stood 1t for long time.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
She Had Ii. Too.

The artist was painting the portrait
of the daughter of the coal baron.
lp her ball gown she was an inspir-
ing study, indeed.
How do you like my arms?" she
asked, with that true naivete which
comes with great wealth.
you have a divine right" he as
serted.
"Yes," she smiled. 81 inherit that
from papa"
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
Hard to Please.

May can't bear Rocksy. He is
so horsy he always smells of the
stable.
Mother-"Well, there is Scadsby.
He hates horses"
May-"Yes; and he smells of the
repair hop."-Judge
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
Atlas Not So Much.

ATLAS must have been strong to
have held the world on his should
ers"
Eyes, but met thin Boston girl
the other dey who was carrying Bos-
ton around with her wherever she
went. Life.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
One of Many.

Merchant-What did that man
want?
Clerk-He didn't seem to know.
Merchant-What was he kicking
about when he went out?
Clerk suppose he was kicking pc
cause he didn't get it.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
A Mild Explosion.

Three Pennsylvania cows ate a
lot of dynamite the other day."
'And blew up?"
mo, they didn't. 1t was the farm
ers wife who blew up the hired man
for letting the milk get such a queer
fis or"
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
The One Thing He Can't Do.

'Is there anything your president
can't do?" asked the foreigner, aston
ished at the extraordinary versatility
of the present occupant of the White
House.
YES" responded the native "He
can't appoint a postmaster without
disappointing somebody"
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
A Limerick.e

A Limerick.s
A maiden of Chattanooga, Tenn,
Whose name was Miss Bridget D.
Hem,
Was afioat on the tide
When she soulfully side:
81 w'd like t have wan iv thin
Menn."
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
Handicapped.

Madge-How is it you're not going
out yachting with Charlie again?
Dolly-It took both his hands to
manage the boat.-Smart Set.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
Down at the Shore.

Alice-They say there are many
good fish in the sea.
Flora-Yes, and lots of Holsters up
here ON the beach.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04
Diamonds Don't Count.

What am l to do? The diamond
in my engagement ring has flaw in
it'll"
Take no notice, my dear. Love
should be blind, you know"
Yes, but it hasn't got to be stone
blind"
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04

First TrampTha
the
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-27
APoTHEGMS OF A. JUDGE.

Apropos of the recent death of Robert
Malcolm Kerr, who was for forty-two
years judge OF the city of London court
the London Times quotes a number of
pithy sayings for which Mr.. Kerr was
noted, for example:
"Never go to law under any considera-
ton whatever. You had much better lose
your money than go to law AS rule.
it only puts money into the pockets of
the lawyers-the very worst possible way
in which money can be spent"
always put your bargains into writing
Pens are cheap. ink is cheap, and paper
Is cheap. People contradict each other
so much that by and by every CONNER
cial transaction will have to be reduced
to writing. When YOU go to buy "a penny
loaf even, You will have to take an order
for it in writing to prevent a contradic-
tiOn arising"
king David said in his haste, All men
are liars If he had been sitting here for
forty years as have done he would have
said it in his leisure"
"If you have n good case you are safe
with u judge. If you have Il bad one, you
always have a chance with n jury"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-27
Raise Their Salaries.

~ NE OF the really pathetic pas
sages in the recent annual re-
~ port of the secretary OF war
relates to the fact that the
conditions of the service as we'll as its
traditions make it difficult for the most
frugal officer to make his financial ends
meet. The unwritten rule of the war
department is that an officer shall not
engage in business enterprise for him
self. If he has no rich relatives or wife
he must live within his pay. Yet his
associations for the greater part, and
especially ut posts, are with persons Of
means and culture ana every year
makes greater the demands which he
feels called upon to meet. The result is
the military arm. Secretary Root thus
reflects it:
THE frequent changes which are nee
essary for the officers of our small army
and the very great distances which they
are obliged to travel, often make an
order for Il change of station work
really great hardship by requiring the
officer to pay the cost of transporting
his furniture above the limit allowed by
law as charge upon the treasury. The
deterioration of the furniture by fire.
quent removals is also great. ! think
1t desirable that the same course should
be adopted for officers of the army
which is followed by the navy as To its
officers who occupy public quarters on
shore, and that the government should
supply the heavy furniture for officers
quarters. The government, buying the
furniture In large quantities, could get
1t at very much smaller first cost
than the officers can; the furniture, re-
naming permanently in the same quar-
ters, would depreciate much less rap
idly than when it Is moved about from
post to post, and the cost of transport
tatioh, which is now paid partly by the
government and partly by the officer,
would be altogether saved. The saving
to the officer would undoubtedly make
it practicable for him to pay u moder-
ate rental 10 the government for the
use of the furniture sufficient to con-
stitute renewal fund and perhaps to
reimburse the original expense. l hope
that the subject win receive the favor
able consideration of congress"
One might suppose, while reading
this. that the United States treasury
was so deficient in funds that 1t would
be necessary to practice the most rigid
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-27

also that the United states Is a large
consumer of the products Of the Orient
and a large producer of the manufac-
lures and foodstuffs required in that
part of the world explains the fact that
our trade with the Orient is steadily
and rapidly increasing and must con-
tinue to increase.
The sixth and closing address dis
cussed the rapidly growing demand OF
the temperate zones for tropical pro-
ductions, the tropical imports of the
United States alone tamounting to ST.
100000 day. Mr.. Austin suggested
that the capital and energy of the tenn
perate zone will in the near future be
applied to the development Of the trop-
les. Application of recent discoveries
In steam and electricity. and even sun
power, to conditions in the tropics
where man and animal power were
formerly insufficient, coupled with the
increased safety of life and health
which has come from recent discoveries
OF science, will enable temperate zone
man to accomplish much in the tropics
which Il few years ago was impossible.
BY drawing upon the vast supply of
Oriental labor where native labor is in
sufficient the tropics may be made to
contribute their proper share to the re-
qiirements of the world, and new mar
kets developed in those sections as
their producing and consuming powers
increase.
Contemplation of such figures is In
spriting and their widespread disemn-
alton is in every way desirable.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-27
AN UNSAFE CELLAR.
From the PhiladelDhia Press,


1t apepars that the water-soaked ballot
boxes of the Dunmore precincts in Lacka-
wanan county, involved in the contest of
Congressman Connell, of the Tenth dis
trict, were placed in charge of IL Justice
of the peace. as the law requires. They
We're stored in the cellar of the justice s
residence, and it is evident from II state
ment in one of the Scranton newspapers
that the boxes were filled with water de-
liberately, and it had been run off just
before the commissioners appeared to
take possession, so that when the boxes
were opened there was but little water
in them though the contents We're soaked
almost to Il pulp. 1t is declared that the
justice in whose custody the boxes We're
was as much surprised as anybody at
the condition they were found in. If that
is true, his first business ought to be to
get the authorities to help him find out
who had such free access to his cellar as
to permit them To fill ballot boxes with
water and then run it Off again at n
critical moment. A Justice whose cellar
is no better protected than that might
have his cider watered by some miscreant
ut any time And that would be some
thing really serious.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-27

ending with October the shipments from
Hawaii to the United States amounted in
round terms TO twenty-one million dollars
and those from Porto Rico to the United
States to nearly nine millions, against
six and one-half millions in the corres-
ponding months OF last year; while from
the Philippines the receipts were over
seven million dollars and from Alaska
over eight million dollars, In the four
months ending with October. These fig
ures indicate that tho annual contrbu-
tion of tropical products by the tropical
territory under the control OF the United
States will amount in the present year
to about forty-iive million dollars, and
that tho receipts of merchandise from
Alaska will amount to fifteen million dol
lars. making the total receipts of mer-
chandise from the non-contiguous ter
ritory nearly, or quite, sixty million dol
lars In value, and the shipments from
the United states to that territory forty
million dollars.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-27
MAD MULLAH.

Mad Alullah doesn't rake the hay
Because he isn't built that way.
Beneath his brown skin there's a Mood
or very sangulnary blood.
Whooplng he goes with merry glee
TO add to John Bulls misery.
When times are dun elsewhere for John
Old Mul Keeps matters moving on,
Forth from the bush he pops his head,
And 10! A hundred troops are dead!
lie rushes DER the desert sands
With whiskers loose and bloody hands.
His wives he numbers by the score
And daily keeps on adding more.
They charge and drive him back, and
then
He breaks out somewhere else again,
He laughs TO scorn the flag they bear;
They haunt In vain to find his lair.
Year in. year out he's held at bay,
But Mullah's heart Is ever gay.
Upon his fiery steed he flies
IIither and yon meath Afric skies.
lie battles here and conflicts there
And then cuts loose some other where,
A hundred times they've had him caught
And looked to see and found him not
What sadder words OF tongue or pen
Than: "Old Murs out for gore again.
Chicago Record-Herald
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-27
How Long,
OR THE past ten years there
II has been a strong demand
Il. OH the part of the American

NOR The past ten years there
H has been a strong demand
l. OH the part of the American
people for the further regula-
tion OF immigration, SO that it's unde-
creasing rapidly in recent years, might
be excluded. There has recently been
given in the anthracite coal fields a
frishtful object lesson teaching the
need of hating the influx of unassim-
liable aliens.
In response to this demand. bills to
regulate immigration by an illiteracy
test have four times passed the house
of representatives and three times
passed the senate, since 1895, only to
be defeated. In one case this defeat
was due to hostile amendments, which
caused presidential veto. In the 9TH
er cases influence emanating from the
steamship companies was used to
frighten certain members Of congress
and dissuade them from voting for the
bill.
In the present congress, a bill NI r.
1219O was passed by the house on May
27, 1902, the illiteracy test having been
added to the bill on May 22, by vote
of Sc to Z. The same bill was favor
ably reported by the senate committee
on June %, 1902, but the same infu-
ences which had previously worked to
defeat the measure prevented its pass
age last June, and are endeavoring to
secure its defeat now.
In the first session of the present
congress, 5,OS2 petitions for the further
regulation Of immigration were sent in
to congress, of which 4,444 We're for an
educational test Only 90 petitions
against such legislation We're sent in.
How long are the American people
going to stand dictatlon from a few
corporations, who are willing to injlre
our body polite and lower our stand
ard of living for the sake of the steer
age rates from undesirable immi-
grants?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-27
Our Trade With
New Possessions
Special correspondence.

'i'Ni'' 'p'i S-oNt'lNt'
Washington. Dec. 70.
THE NON-CONTIGUOUS territory of
the United States is supplying n
/ large and growing market to the
producers and manufacturers of the
United states. The October statement of
the Treasury Bureau OF Statistics shows
that the shipments of merchandise from
the United States to Porto Rico in the
ten months ending with October, 1902
amounted to practically $40 600, ,OO0-a mil
lion dollars II month-against six and
three-quarter millions i'm the correspond
ing months of last year TO the Philip
pines the shipments in the ten months
ending with October We're over four mil
lion dollars, against a little more than
three millions in the corresponding
months of last year. and two and three.
quarter millions in the corresponding
months of 1900. 10 the Hawaiian Islands,
the collection of shipments was only re-
sumed with the months of June, and tho
figures therefore do not cover the ten
months period, as is the case in the
commerce with Porto Rico and the Phil
ippines: but the annual shipments from
the United States to the Hawaiian Islands
are estimated at about $20,OOO,Oo0 per an-
mum. To Alaska the record of shipments
was begun with June, and amounted dur
ing the four months beginning with Oc-
tober TO nearly three million dollars. The
figures at hand for these four non-con-
tiguous territories-Porto Rico, Hawaii.
The Philippines and Alaska-indicate that
they will furnish during the year about
TO end a market for about 10000. COZ
worth of the products of the United
States. chiefly agricultural and manufac-
tured products.
on the import side, the report of the
Bureau of Statistics indicates that these
island territories are also contributing
largely to the growing demand of the
United States for tropical products. In
the growing demand OF the United States
fol- tropical products. In the ten months
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-27
Lead the List in
Steel Production



Washington, Dec. 70.
4 STRIKING evidence of business
~ activity in the United States at
I the present time is found in a
comparison of pig iron statistics
of the year just ending with those of
earlier years, us compiled by the treasury
bureau of statistics. Reccptly published
estimates of the production of pig iron
in the United States during the calendar
year 1902 put the total production at H.
100000 tons This is an increase of nearly
two million tons over last year, and is
more than double the production of 1886,
three times that of 1856, four times that
of 1851 six times that of 1870. eight times
that of 1876, ter times that of 1872, and
twenty times that of 1865. The steel pro-
duction of the year Is estimated at 15,OO0,-
600 tons, which Is practically so per cent.
more than that of 1900, nearly three times
as much as that of 1896, ten times as
much as that OF 1884, and twenty times
the production of 1878. In addition to this
enormous production and increase over
any earlier year, the importations of pig
iron in the year just ending are ten times
as great as in the preceding year and
greater than in any year of the decade,
and the total value of iron and steel i'm
ported will also exceed that of any year
during the decade.
This phenomenal growth in the produc-
ton Of iron and steel in the United States
placed the United States several years
ago at the head of the worlds list OF iron
producing nations, but has now made it's
production greater than the combined
production of the United Kingdom and
Germany. those countries being by far
the largest iron producers of the world,
aside from the United States. The total
pig iron production of Germany in 1901
was 7.S5G.1i9 metric tons and that of the
United Kingdom, T,9aS,6f long tons, mak
ing the combined productions of these two
countries in 1901. 15,6CO000 long tons, which
is slightly less than the 1901 production of
the United States. The figures showing
the production of these two countries COW
ering the first half Of 1902, which have
just been received by the bureau of sta
tistics. fully justify the statement that
the production in the United States in
1902 will also exceed the combined prodrc-
tion of England and Germany.