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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-08
Neaotiators Had Close Call.

London, Feb. 5.-A Sofia dispatch
says that during the negotiations with
the brigands for the release of Miss
Stone, the captive missionary, the
house in which the American party
was lodged burned down, but that the
inmates escaped with the money to be
paid as ransom.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-08
OnllHalOn.

Tears gathered in her great gray
eyes as she read the contemporaneous
account of her wedding.
'The newspapers don't say one sin
gle word as to the cost of my lin
geriel" she exclaimed. "As if L were
not in the Four Hundred!"-Town
Topics.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-08
Think of the Courage Required,

Happy Hogan-Say, Birdie, didn't ys
never have yer picture taken?
Birdie Blinks-Picture nuthiuT
''Never have de price?"
"'Course 1 had de price-but never
had de nerve."-Judge.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-08
Money Saved. Money Earned.

Mrs. Climber-My dear, Mrs. Highup
has had her portrait painted by a cell
ebrated artist, and haven't thing but
common. ordinary everyday photo
graphs to show.
Husband Ga wise man)-Huhl The
idea of advertising to the world that
her complexion is so bad it won't stand
the camerai-N. Y. Weekly.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-08

81 once treated a mule and he
didn't kick as much as you have"
said the doctor to the obstreperous
patient.
"Oh, well, the mule didn't have to
pay your bill," said the patient,
quickly.-Yonkers Statesman.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-08
The Eject.

Castleton-What's the matter with
Clubberly's automobile? It seems a
little wild.
Fittleton-He got caught in the coun-
try where there was no gasoline and
had to use drugstore whisky.-Judge.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-08
HIs strong PuII.

Beekman Streete-There's man
over there who has made q fortune
through his pull.
Astor Howes-Politician?
Beekman Streete-No; dentist.-N.
Y. Times.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-08
Future and Present.

He-What was the result of your
visit to the palmist?
She-I've got q fortune coming to
me some day, and I'm five dollars out
now.-Puck.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-08
1t continues:

"An admirable speech in the conven
tioR, and one which must have much
influence, is that made by DR.. Richard
McIlwaine, president Of Hampden- Sid
ney College. In it, he compares the
statistics of two counties in the State,
one in a western white county, and the
other an eastern Negro county. He
finds in both a sad amount of illiteracy,
although greater in the Negro county
He then compares the arrests and con-
Victions for crime in the two counties,
and he finds that here the relative posi-
ton is reversed; the white county has a
much larger percentage of arrests and
convictions for crime than the Negro
county. He proves that the prevalence
of ignorance and crime is not to be
charged against the Negro only, but
equally against the white people, His
conclusion is Of the clearest and is most
vigorously expressed. He urges that
there be no more lying and cheating at
the polls, no more false counting, no
effort to shut out a man because he is
black, but that absolute and equal JUS
tice be granted to both races. He would
have every old soldier vote, every man
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-08
Essentials.

There are three things with which, II wise
And knowing where contentment lies,
A man keeps on good terms for life
His stomach and his wife.
Brooklyn Life.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-08

Dora-The papers say you are to
marry Lord Topnott.
Clara-It's base Islander. I'n saIy
engaged to HMM. Y. Weekly.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-08

Entered in the Post Office at Richmond, Va
~ second class matter,
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-02-08
JOHN rlITLHELL, JR., EDITOR.

All communications intended for publication
should be sent so as to reach US by Wednesday,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-30
SCRANTON, JANUARY so, 1902.
REPUBLICAN, CITY TICKET.
Controller--EVAN II. MORRIS.
Election February IS.

We fail to see what the Times is driv-
Ing at in the exception which it takes
70 our comments upon the promotion of
Iona Day. We called that q good speci-
men OF real civil service reform. Isn't
1t? Day has risen from the ranks. In
every place he has been in he has
showed efficiency and ambition to do
all that was required of him. When Il
man had to be taken from the Office OF
superintendent of police who had had
little real experience in police work and
under whose superintendency q condi-
ton of Generalization had developed,
clearly indicating the need of more ef-
fective executive control, the appoint
ing power went to the ranks and picked
what it deemed to be the likeliest sub
ordinate for promotion. There was no
politics in it; simply an effort to work
out the needed results-and they are
being worked out. In what way this
little incident in the progress Of our
city can give offense to the sapent and
hypercritical genius who shapes the
thought bombs of the Spruce street
Thunderer we do not profess to be able
to explain. All that we do know is that
he is displeased.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-30
CHARLES EMORY SMITH
SAYS NO STEP BACKWARD

This great task has been accepted in principle
by the American people. 1t will be executed
Ii there is resistance it will be suppressed
Peace we prefer, but il any one offers war, war
let it be, that peace may the sooner come. As
long any Filipinos kill our soldiers, our sol.
ders will kill them. AS long as the law and
sovereignty of the United States is resisted, mill
tnry force will assert and support both. When
any part OF the Philippine islands is ready for
local self.government, it will get that. When 1t
is ready for more, it will get that II the Fill
pinos prefer waiting, we can wait. Years are
but counters in the game of nations. But whal
the American people begin, the American people
will finish, in all parts Of this great task--
Manila, Havana or the isthmus, Samoa, Porto
Rico or st. Thomas--our hand is on the plow
and the frrrow will be run to the end, that free
institutions may rise where war sows the seed OF
submission to law.
Some Democratic senators think differently.
They urge makeshift independence. They arc
welcome to their policy. As Americans, we re.
gret their blunder. Speaking for the Republican
party, we accept their error and profit by It's
sure consequence. These senators are not sim
cere. In power, they would go on with this
great task. No president, be his party what 1t
may, will haul down the flag on annexed and
subject territory because rebellion is persistent.
Why then carp? Why raise minor issues? Share,
rather, in the great work. Aid as Americans by
a united front in that final consummation when
an American-Filipino will be as proud of his
joint nationality as an Anglo Australian is Of
his; when q great Philippine commonwealth,
free, happy, autonomous and powerful, both with
its own resources and as part OF greater Ameri'
ca, dominates the watery ways OF the West
Pacific and the Asian coast
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-30
r~HE POSITION Of railway tralnmon is one Of

HE POSITION OF railway tranmcn Is one ol
The most important of classes OF labor eN-
isting. The lives of millions of travellers
are in their keeping, as well as immense
wealth in freight transportation. In consequence
OF such responsibilities deyoyng upon railway
companies, they exact q most rigid examination
upon all applicants for positions Of conductor,
engineer, fireman and brakeman.
10 persons applying for employment in any OF
these lines, printed sheet containing some eigh.
teen OF twenty questions, is given the applicant
TO be filed out giving information concerning
his age, experience, positions previously held,
with references, etc. This must be accompanied
with certificate OF character and physical and
mental examination Of the character OF the work
sought demands 1t. The questions asked are:
Name, age. residence, married or single, ii ull.
employed at present, where last worked; cause Qf
leaving, whether addicted to use of Intoxicating
liquors. morphine or opium, or has ever been
addicted to their use; are health, hearing and
eye.seht good; can distinguish colors; give par.
tculats il ever has been dismissed from sit,
uation, etc.
Tile applicant is required to undergo u strict
surgical examination, OF which the railway COM
pany pays the fee il the applicant is rejected,
but If received, it is paid by the applicant from
his first manth's wages. Since the railroad strike
Of 1894, the roads centering in Chicago and
many others, deman clearance card' stating
record and cause OF discharge, from the officials
OF the road where last employed. This was OH
jccted to by railroad men, and was carried into
court as a system OF "blacklstng," which was
decided TO be not illegal. Ii the applicant an
swers the questions asked, all the information
asked will be given.
Except for unskilled labor the railways OF The
United States demand men who have IL good
common school education. College graduates ire.
quently begin in train service as fremen on
freight engines. The better general training and
education man has before entering railway ser-
vice, the more rapid is apt to be his advance
ment Freedom from the use OF intoxicating
liquors is very generally demanded and enforced.
Some roads have established rules against the
employment OF cigarette smokers
The age qualification has also, within a few
years. changed, The employment is restricted to
none under q years OF over 80, for engineers,
if they have had previous railway experience, and
81 10 p years for tremen and brakemen,
Railroad service is very eSacting in its initial
requirements, and must appeal chiefly to the
higher grade of ability in the labor world. II is
a lie-woTk, and should be entered as such, and
not as temporary occupation. Pemanency ID
we'll assured and the rewards are not incommer,
smate with the special gifts it demands, nor with
the sacrifices it frequently entails.
Machinists blauksmiths, carpenters, tcle.
graphers and despatchers tested by their skill.
Flagmen and switchmen need to be men of ca
pacity above the unslilled laborer.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-30
HISTORY AND PROSPECTS
OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY

oncsti that bunch OF loose metallic filings
would be brought into close contact by the Her
| zian waves, thus giving birth to the principle ui
the present "coherer" aud making far more
sensitive detector than Hertz's that any future
| opened UP for wireless telesraphy.
Continuing lIcrtz's work, Professor Oliver
Lodge, OF London, applied and improved tho
Dranley cohcrer and devised o system Of sending
Ineligible signals across short distances but his
work was more research into the nature than ali.
plication OF lIerzian waves Professor Popoif, in
Russia and others devised similar systeins but
these were never developed.
In studying the research OF Hertz, Maxwell,
Lodge and the others who had gone before them,
the idea came to Marcon, in Italy, and Shoe.
maker, in America, that Hertzian waves emitted
In the order OF dots and daslcs and affecting a
distant coherer, thus reproducing the dots anil
dashes in an ordinary sounder, would form a
successful system Of wireless telegraphy. Mar.
coni's work Is well known, but Shoemaker never
achieved great success,
Several years ago, the American Wireless Telc"
phone and Telegraph company was organized,
with the purpose OF developing and commercially
applying wireless telegraphy and telephony. This
company controls the application of telegraphy
and telephony in all countries where it owrS
patents or does not infringe on other patents,
but it is not likely that it will ever try TO com.
pete with Marconi in Europe. 1t Is believed,
however, that it can prevent him from working
in the United States, as IL holds the basic patent
granted to Professor Dolbear in 1856, which IL.
wolves the use OF the ground connections and
aerial wire. TO Marconi's system, and, IN fact,
all present systems, these are indispensable.
The American company has chartered sub.com'
panics, foremost among which is the Federal
Wireless Telephone and Telegraph company. Tho
latter hold; the exclusive right to operate in tho
states Of New York, New jersey, Pennsylvania
Delaware, Ohio, Maryland District Of Columbia
Virginia, West Virginia and North and South
Carolina. Embodying the improvements which
are the result OF tie elaborate and long CON
tinued experiments of Shoemaker, Collins and
Picard, the Federal company is fast rivalling
Marconi in commercial practicabiity. Its aims
are to increase the distance over which the i'll.
strumens will work satisfactorily; to tune the
sets so that each instrument will respond only TO
its mate to render the instruments more reliable
so that when once set up and tuned an ordinary
telegraph operator can operate them; to simplify
the apparatus used, and to send more than
message at the game time with the same instru.
mcnts, thus reducing the cost OF operating rs
multplex telegraphy reduced the cost Of operat-
ing wire systems. 1t is the company's intention
to develop telcgraphy and then turn its atten-
ton to wireless telephony.
May it succeed in its work, that America may
still wear the crown for invention.
Vernon l.. Richard.
Washington, JAN 90.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-30

From the Philadelphia Press.
~ EAiOCRATIC senators making the
same blunder about the Philippines
L II which their predecessors made thirty.
five years ago on all the issues which
grew out of the war. For decade they were
pelpetualy raising questions which the people
and events had settled and debating the principle
OF policy whose principle settled by the
voters and whose details only remained to be
debated and executed
The American people decided at the close of
the Spanish war to continue the national policy
which that war launched the nation. They
decided TO draw sharp line between the citizen.
ship ard political rights OF the new acquisitions
and most previous anneXations. They determined
under this principle TO erter on the wide trial of
dependencies. They engaged in the great, long
and difficult work of fitting these semi-civiliZed
dependencies for autonomous self-gOvem
ment
In our previous history, down to Alaska, in
corporation had come as 4 matter of course, Of
legislative routine. The acquisitions OF the Span
ish war were taken in different spirit. They
were held as Il trust fo- their development and
training, as President Roosevelt has put it, ''ai
ter the fashion OF really free nations" The
United States entered, in short, on the broad
work of sharing in the worlds advance. 1t gave
Porto Rico local government 1t conferred on
Cuba independence, under restrictions. 1t ad
dressed itself to the task, first, of giving order
and education to the Philippines; second, local
government and, third, an autonomous self-con
trol similar in the end to that OF Australia. As
part OF the same broad work of world expan.
sion, it will build the lsthman canal and protect
all South America against European aggression.
These are all parts OF the same job.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-30

a NUMBER of newspapers, pos
~ sibly including The Tribune,
4 N have at various times lament
ed the supposed fact that Cap
| tain Clark, the gallant commander of
the crack battleship "Oregon" which
| made such q magnificent record in the
late war under his efficient direction,
received for his services no recogni-
tion whatever, and came out worse off,
III the matter of rating, than when he
went in.
There is some eXtenuation for this
supposition in the indisputable fact
that he did not get the advancement
he deserved; and also in the fact that
naval matters, especially the status of
naval rewards and punishments, have
since the eruption of the nauseatine
Schley-Sampson scandal been in an al
most indistinguishable state of con-
fusion before the public view. But an
examination of the records will show
that Captain Clark has not been so
thought,
The captains who fought With Dewey
We're advanced in numbers on the pres
ident's recommendation within 81 days
after the battle OF Manila. This car
ried two captains, Coghlan and Dyer,
ahead of Clark. One of these, Captain
Dyer, has since died. On August 10,
1885, the president asked the senate to
promote the Santiago captains each five
numbers, excepting Clark. He was
recommended for advancement six
numbers. On February 26, after Il de-
lay occasioned by the friends or per-
haps we should say the alleged friends,
of Admiral Schley, the presidents rec
concentrations with regard TO the SAN
tiago captains We're acted upon by the
senate and Captain Clark was moved
up six points.
Subtracting the two points lost by
him in consequence of the Manila pro-
motions, Clark's net gain was four
numbers; but since then, as the New
York sun points out, congress has
enacted law to avoid the working of
injustice through naval promotions,
and it is retroactive so as TO apply in
Clark's case. This law provides that
officers jumping over other officers
heads shall be carried as extra num-
bers in the next higher grade and in
all grades above that. Thus Captain
Clark is actually six numbers nearer
the rank of rear admiral by reason of
what he did in the Spanlsh-Amerlcan
war than he would have been had that
war not occurred, or had he not ad-
vertised to civilization the efficiency
of the American navy by q wonderful
journey around the Horn followed by
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-30
The Broom-Stick Train.

Scottish paper tells an anecdote in connec-
tion with the new electric system just opened in
Aberdeen. Two farm servants came to Aber'
deem to spend New Years day. Arriving by
train, they Immediately made their way to the
terminus OF the electric tramway circuit, where,
after looking at the new creation with much won.
der, they decided upon having ride, Getting
on TO the top OF the car, and after getting we'll
along George street, "wull," said man Jock,
"this is groun' invention. In Edinburgh saw
them drive the cars wi an iron rape aneth street,
in Dundee they pu' them wi an engine, but
MIGHTY man, wha wad a thoeht they could ca
them wi fishing rod"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-30

V " I1LE Charles NJ schwab,
AN who from IL clerkship
y in a country store rose
by merit to the presi-
dency of the biggest industrial and
commercial enterprise on earth, was in
Vienna he astonished the natives, il
cabled reports are to be believed, by
the scale of his expenditures. Want
ing to so TO Budapest, he chartered an
entire special train--a thing heretofore
unheard of. He also got an invitation
TO court ball after the eligible list had
closed; drank wine costing 200 kronen
the bottle; wore diamonds that made
beholders' eyes ache, and otherwise
created an impression of lordiness that
would have done credit to Napoleon,
so. at least, the story goes.
We have no doubt that much of this
is mere correspondents imagination
put in for readableness' sake. Schwab
is not as modest as u blue bell; If he
We're, he would be yet clerking in a
country store at 81 per. Yet at the
same time, as swiftly moving events
which all may see should corroborate,
he is no fool. If he "blew' himself at
Vienna and made the croupiers weary
at Monte Carlo, it was no doubt done
for purpose and the purpose, we are
willing to wager, was accomplished
1t is possible that we can guess at
that purpose. Some of the benighted
Inhabitants Of continental Europe,
whose knowledge of physics is about
on a par with that of Dame Partington,
when she tried to sweep back the Allan
tic tide with a broom, have lately been
in the dream of an anti-Amer-
ican alliance, to oppose the thrush of
American merchandise. If Schwab has
been trying to teach them by q few lit
tie object-lessons that your typical
Yankee is not to be circumvented, who
shall say that he has done amiss?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-30

participation in a sea fight which
changed the map.
All of this offers no reason why Clark
should not be made n rear admiral.
Indeed, we think he should be, if only
to let the country have one war hero
who does not fade in the wash.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-30
Let Pennsylvania Fill 1t.

"~IfE BILL creating a new ex-
| ecutive department, to be
II known as the Department of
| Commerce and Labor, which
has just passed the senate, transfers
from the Treasury and Interior depart
ments to the new one the life-saving
| service, the lighthouse board, the light
| house service, the marine hospital SER
vice, the steamboat inspection service,
the bureau of navigation, the United
States shipping commissioners, the
| bureau of immigration, the bureau of
| statistics, the census office, the depart
| ment of labor and the commission Of
| fish and fisheries, also the bureau of
foreign commerce, now in the state de-
partment.
Thus it will be seen that q goodly lot
of work is marked out for the new de-
partment from the start, to say nothing
of the duties which will arise as our
commercial interests in their relation to
government shall multiply. The group
ing of constituent bureaus may not be
altogether logical, but it will at least
take away from the overcrowded treas
ury department. enough work to enable
it to do what is left in a better manner
than has been possible as things have
been during the past decade. The simple
fact is the financing of q government as
large as our own has grown, in which
term is included all that transpircs be-
tween the United States treasury and
the banking and commercial world, con-
stitutes all that any cabinet officer
ought to be charged with. TO ask him
to be responsible for the mass of other
matters now under his jurisdiction is to
load him down with distracting details.
In view of the strong Endorsement
given in the presidents message to the
proposition of the creation of this new
executive department, it is altogether
probable that the house will concur in
the senate's action In that event Penn
sylvania, as the greatest industrial and
in the Union, should be asked to supply
the first secretary of commerce and
labor. 1t can do it.
That Germany is not to have all the
stage is illustrated by the fact that
Miss Alice Roosevelt. the presidents
daughter, after christening the kaiser's
new yacht, is to so as q special guest
to England for the coronation. There
is to be no monopoliZins Uncle Sans
c,:.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-30

The Democrats at Washington are
anticipating lot of sport with Judge
Taft when they get him under cross
examination before Il Philippine investi-
eating committee. 1t is just possible
the fun may not be altogether one sided
The judge is something of cross-eX-
aminer himself
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-30

According to United States Supreme
Court Justice Brewer, juries of eight
men, any six OF whom could render n
valid verdict, are needed to expedite, as
well as cheapen without injuring the
processes of justice. The jury-fiHer win
never agree with him.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-30

BY reason of the Boer war Great
Britain has lost, in treasure, nearly
twenty times the total assessed valu-
alton of the city of Scranton; and, in
men put out of action by death or dis
ability, nearly as many as the total
population of Scranton. Explained in
this way, we gain new comprehen-
sion of the price" that would "stagger
humanity" 1t is high time there were
moves for peace.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-30

The latest phase of the Stone abduc-
tion indicates that the mwashed kid
mapping experts have retained counsel
well versed in international law.