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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-21

Formal apportionment of the repre-
sentation in common council was made
Saturday under the. provisions of the
second class city charter. The number
of members remain at thirty-eight, but
the representation of the Sixth and Fif-
teenth wards is changed, the former
losing and the latter gaining one mem-
| Der.
The law provides that the apportion-
| ment shall be made by committee of
| three commoners and two selectmen
on the basis of resident taxables re-
turned by the city assessors on or be-
fore July 1. The whole number of resi-
dent taxables, it Is provided shall be
| divided by 40 and the quotient shall be
the number determining the represen-
tation. Each ward shall have at least
one member. A ward having resident
taxables equal to this quotient plus a
three-tifths fraction of the quotient
shall be entitled to two members. A
ward having resident taxables equal to
twice the quotient, plus three-ffths of
the quotient shall be entitled to three
members and SO on.
NUMBER OF TAXABLEs.
<ACCOIullS " tIle OI lHe uSSpS-
sors, Scranton has 22,76O resident tax
ables. The basic quotient is therefore
694. Three-fifths of this is 416. To be
entitled to two councilmen ward must
have at least LOO resident taXables. To
be entitled to three councilmen the
number would have to be twice 694
plus 416 or 1904.
The Sixth ward was found to be six
short of the number emitting it to two
members as at present. The Fifteenth
ward showed a good growth during the
year and was found entitled to two
members instead Of one as at present.
The apportionment committee, after
formally making the apportionment,
has no further duty in the premises
except to make a report to the COM
mon council. There is no provision in
the law for reviewing the report as the
work of the committee is only q mat
ter of simple arithmetic; neither is
there any provision for going back of
the returns of the assessors; in fact
there is an inferential prohibition
against this in the clause specifying
that the returns on which the compila-
ton shall be based must be the returns
of July 1 or previous thereto.
Selectman Regan and Commoners
Calpin and McGreevy, of the Sixth
ward, are protesting vigorously against
having the representation of their
ward decreased and are alleging that
instead of showing a falling off the
number of resident taXables in their
ward should show an increase over last
year. They are demanding that the
assessors make a new canvass of the
resident taXableS Of their ward and
threaten that, if it is not done, they
will go into court. Just what they
will do in court towards securing a re-
vision is not stated, and members Of
the apportionment committee declare
that court has no authority to interfere
in the matter
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-21

DR.. Lindabury, Surgeon, diseases of
women a speciality, 215 Connell building.
Hours: II q. m. to p. M; to $50
p. m. ~
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-21
NINE WORKERS
MADE RETURNS
THREE OF THEM ADVANCED IN
THEIR POSITIONS.

Fred Kibler. Went UP Five Places
and Miss Harpur and Elmer Will
liams Two Each-Complete Stand
ing of Every Contestant Who Has
Scored Since the Contest Began.
What Has Been Done Since July 1.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-21
Almost Given Away.

Tomorrow's Tribune will tell YOU
what a small amount of money will Go.
See "Griflin's Art Shop" ad. W.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-21
Standing Of Contestants

1. Charles Burns, vandling 449
2. A. j. Kellerman, Scranton 344
8. Oscar III. Kipp, Elmhurst. 1888
q. Fred X. Gunster, Green
Ridge .............2 .297
5. VIM. T. s. Rodriguez
Scranton .......... 1894
6. Herbert Thompson, Car
bondale -. 80. 80. .227
q Albert Freedman; Belle
Vue 80. .S2l
8. Maxwell Shepherd, Car
9. chas. W. Dorsey, Scranton. 1o5
10. Z. Z. Stanton, Scranton. .. 94
II. VIM. Sherwood, Hartford. 70
12. Homer Kresge, Hyde Park 81
13. j. A. Havenstrite, Mos
COW 60
ID. Harry Madden, Scranton. 80
10. Miss Beatrice Harpur,
thompson ........... 40
10. Frank B. McCreary, Hall
stead ....... Al
II. William Cooper, Priceburg 35
ID. Grant M. Decker, Hall
stead ....:.....::... 81
10. Lee Culver, Springville. 80
20. Hendrick Adams, Chin
ch1lla ............... 33
81. Walter Hallstead, Scran-
ton .... 27
22. Harry Danvers, Provi-
dence Is
20. Louis McCusker, Park
Place 90
"a. Hugh Johnston, Forest
City 90
25. Miss Jane Matthewson,
Factoryville .......... 10
20. Fred Kibler, South Scran-
ton ....... 10
81. G. j. Clark, Peckville. 80. 1S
90. Louis Gere, Brooklyn. 80. 1s
20. M iss Edna Coleman,
Scranton ............ 1S
80. John Mackie, Providence. 16
81. Elmer Williams, Elmhurst. 16
80. Eddie Morris, South scran-
ton ................ ... Is
33. Thomas Dempsey, Oly-
phant ............... 13
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Scranton Investor
/. 2. Connell Building.
STOCKS AND BONDS.


Ten shares Of the Title Guaranty and
Trust Co. stock for sale.
Fifty shares of the United States
Lumber Co. stock for sale at $242.
Twenty-Five shares Of the Interna-
tional Text Book Co. stock for sale at
S140.
Economy Steam Heat and Power Co.
bonds for sale at $95.
Twenty-one shares of Clark & Snover
Tobacco Co. preferred stock for sale at
S133 1-3.
MONEY TO LOAN.
We want everybody to know that We
have money to loan on Scranton real
estate. We loan quickly and cheaply.
You are cordially invited to come and
see us.
Offices open evenings. Use elevator.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10
A CHILD RACE.

The first point that impressed me
during a recent trip south was the diff
ference between a historic race and
child race. The Aryan and Semitic
races, after thousands of years of hard
thinking and dealing with emergen.
cies, are historic races. The Negroes
are a child race. Contact with the 8u-
perior races has only pePmeated to
their level in a few places. They have
the recklessness, the carelessnesa the
Impotence in industry, the lack Of
providence, the sudden gusts of emo
ton, of children. This child race was
planted in the midst of the advanced
race, and now in some parts of the
"black belt" they number seven to one.
The problem of rapidly taking them
over the distance intervening between
them and the advanced race is tremen-
dous.
The second point which I observed
was hat slavery had not fitted the
negroes for freedom. It curbed licen-
t~iousness, by discipline, in some direc-
tions, while in other ways it helped it.
It destroyed the family, the basis Of
morality. They were sunk to a lower
level, and not only was their ability to
raise themselves lost, but the external
prop which held them up was knocked
from under them. This is not an IN
dictment of the negro, but of the slav-
cry which forced him down and did
not teach him how to stand on his OWN
feet.
The third impression which [ re-
ceived was a of the damage we
had done by injudicious interference,
by our partially criminally culpable
policy of reconstruction. As General
Armstrong said, It was a bridge OF
wood over a river of fire. It set eman-
cipated slayes over their former mas
ters. It gave them rights they were
not fitted to use or exercise 1t was
an abstract regard for rights the
working out of which diverted the ne
groes from the only paths along which
their redemption can be accomplished
Professor Felix Adler, of New YORK,
President of the Society For Ethlcal
Culture.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10
THE COTTON CROP.

Theodore H. Price, the New York
cotton broker, sends The Progressive
Farmer the following statement as to
the cotton acreage and condition of
the crop:
The acreage planted in cotton for
the season of 19O2-O3, together with
the fertilizers purchased for use in
connection with the crop so planted,
has been made the subject of a thor
ough canvas by me One thousand
nine hundred and sixty-one replies to
inquiries concerning these subjects
have been received from 675 cotton
producing counties (the total number
of cotton-producing counties being
1922.
The indicated increase in acreage
for the whole area is three and one
half per cent. (312 per cent?, distrib-
uted as set forth below.
The indicated average decrease in
the use of fertilizers is six and TWEEN
ty-seVen One-hundreths per cent. 1871
per cent?, distributed as shown be-
low.
The planting is reported on an aver
age seven days late, but much less re-
planting than usual is stated to have
been necessary.
The condition of the crop is gener-
ally reported as exceptionally favora-
BILE. AS I did not ask for n state
ment of condition in figures or per-
centage, it is impracticable to express
the tenor of my replies mathematie-
ally, but [ feel justified in say that the
majority of my correspondents take a
most encouraging view of the pros
pect.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10

a really deserving and creditable
publication is the North Carolina
Booklet issued by the North Carolina
Booklet Co., Raleigh, and edited by
some of the patriotic women of our
State. Twelve numbers have already
been issued, and if a sufficient number
of renewals and new subscriptions r
received by June 18th, the publication
will be continued another year Each
number is devoted to some matter of
State history, written by an authority,
and printed In handsome booklet form.
The subscription price is 10 cents a
copy, 81 a year. We hope that the pub
fishers will receive sufficient support
TO insure its continuance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10
The Thinkers.
Rx-sECRETARY HERBERT on rpn..,

The address of Hon. Hilary A, T..
bert at the University of North ~
Dina commencement yesterday
the effort of a statesman. It is u,
a careful reading as it appears IN
days Observer. The menace Of +,,,'
and monopolies to the republ;o
startling, as the eloquent snaal''
pointed out. No doubt he found ~
audience before him and no donb4 :
will find his greater audience throrL
the press in entire sympathy with h,
indignant remonstrance against Il.
policy the great combines are Drr,n
ing today of selling their mannfo.
lures cheaper abroad than at how.
and justifying themselves in this H.
it is necessary to keen tbo;,
plants running all the time. That !,
they must discriminate against tbo;,
home people-they must rob their fot.
low-countrymen-in order to omen y,
and exploit foreign markets. The mon.
umental hoggishness of the trusts i,
seen in this. They owe their verv IA.
to legislation of a nationally seIf,b
character in order that home indr.,
tries and home labor might be pro.
tected, as they claimed a high tariR
would do. And yet, after the protec.
tive tariff has made them a~bnormaIIv
rich and strong, they utterly disre.
gard the fact that the home consume,
has any rights and do not hesitate fl
overcharge him, as the Dingley tariff
permits them to do, and undercbarpa
the foreigner. The thought makes
the blood boil-it makes n hot undo,
the collar. Like ex-Secretary Herbert
we cannot believe that the American
people will continue to permit this
outrage to continue.-Charlotte Oh
server, June 9TH.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10
aThe Industrial and EducationaI

"The Industrial and Educational
Interests of our People Paramount to
all other considerations of State Pol
ICY is the motto of The Progressive
Farmer, and upon this platform it
shall rise or fall. Serving no master,
ruled by no faction, circumscribed by
no selfish or narrow policy, its aim
will be to foster and promote the best
interests of the whole people of the
State. 1t will be true to the instincts,
traditions and history of the Anglo
Saxon race. On all matters relating
specially to the great interests it rep
Fesents, it will speak with no uncer-
tain voice, but will fearlessly the right
defend and impartially the wrong con-
demn."-From Col. Folks S~alutatory.
February 10, 1886.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10

The Fertilizer Trust representatives
who have been comforting with the
heads of the German potash industry
for several weeks, have entered into
n arrangement that seems to give the
Trust about all that it desires. As the
press dispatch puts it: "The Virginia
Carolina Chemical Company and the
German potash syndicate have reached
a community of interest agreement,
according to which there is to re no
competition between them, and in the
future potash will be sold to the Vir-
ginia-C Carolina Company on favorable
terms"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10

AT Annapolis a few weeks G Pres
dent Roosevelt, in a burst of enthu-
siasm, declared that "the flag must
come down nowhere it has been plant
ed" He was eviduu:ly a little moe
cool and jddicious at Arlington or
Memorial Day, when he said:
eve believe that we can rapidl-
teach the people of the Philippine Is
lands not only how to enjoy but how to
make good use of their freedom; and
with their growing knowledge, their
growth in self-government shall keep
steady pace. When they have thus
shown their capacity for real freedom
by their power of self-government.
then, and not till then, will it be pos
sible to decide whether they are to
exist independently of us or be knit to
us by ties of common friendship and
interest"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10
MAY BE A CURE ALL.

On May 20, Immediately after the
unwilling of the Ship monument in
Charlotte, Mayor Brown of that city,
sent the following graceful and APP
.propriate telegra~~ to President Pal
ma, who had that day assumed the
Presidency of the newly-launched Gu
ban Republic:
"Mecklenburg, the birthplace of
American liberty, today unveils a mon
ument to the memory of Lieutenant
Ship, who laid down his life at San
Juan Hill for Cuban independence,
and the descendants of the heroes of
the American Revolution send greet
ings and congratulations to the young
republic, Cuba Libre."
Last week the Mayor received the
following reply:
"Republic de Cuba,
"Presidencia,
"Habana, % de Mayo, 1902.
"Sr. P. M. Brown, Mayor, Charlotte,
N. c.:
"Muy Sr. Mic: FL Sr. Presidente
de la Republica me encarga su express
sion sincera de gratitud por la atenta
felicitacion de I'd. con motive de la
constitution de la Republica de Cuba.
ODE I'D. Alto. S, S.,
ON PASO
Mr.. Brown is delighted with the re-
Spouse and Will take it to the nearest
drug store and have it filed the next
time he feels badly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10
A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.

There is no wealth but life-life,
including all its powers of love, of joy
and of admiration. That country is
richest which nourishes the greatest
number of noble and happy human be-
ings; that man is richest who, having
perfected the functions of his own life
to the utmost, has also the widest help
full influence, both personal and by
means of his possessions, over the lives
of others.|ohn Ruskin.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10

Gen. W. P. Roberts, of the First
North Carolina Congressional Dis
trict announces in his policy his OPP
position to the white man paying any
thing towards the education OF the
negro. While the negro may not Do
entitled to an education at the HANDS
of the white man as a matter OF con'
mon right he is on general principles
and we hope that General Roberts VIII
not b.. elected on his platform. he al,
grc0 that to educate the negro You'll
be bit to undo the effect of the Con
stitutional Amendment, which may %
true. Some doubt that the negro %
benefited by an education, yet let 10
give him the benefit of the doubt anu
do all we can to make of him the Oe''
and most intelligent citizen possible
Gastonia News.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10

at, and for these reasons we shall Gull
a few sentences from DR.. Van Dykes
talk. He confined himself to a discus
sion of English literature in the nine
teenth century, period without a
Shakespeare or Milton, but with a
multitude Of stars of hardly less than
first magnitude. Taking up fiction, he
first paid a glowing tribute to Wal
ter Scott who has made us think of
Scotland as SCOTLAND and whose
books ennoble and strengthen. Dickens,
Thackeray and Hawthorne were next
briefly reviewed, after which the
speaker called attention to the in
fuence of fiction on modern life and
the part it has played in some of the
great movements of our time. "Ihe
influence of the novel is hardly less
potent than that of the pulpit, for the
preacher speaks only on the Sabbath,
while the novel is read six days in the
week, sometimes seven. Read novels /;
read them for pleasure-not for the
pleasure which debases or which would
make you ashamed, but for the pleas
ure that ennobles, that gives you high
er ideals of manhood and womanhood
and a wider outlook on life"
Next DR.. Van Dyke spoke of the
three great teacher-philosophers of the
century-Carlyle, Emerson and Rus
kin. They waged a powerful warfare
on shams and the solemn plausibilities
of the world. "Carlyle's most charac-
teristic message was, Work, don't
dare. to die until you have done some
permanent work. Emerson preached
the gospel of the individual. Ruskin,
more versatile, spoke less powerfully
than the other two, but his was an
even nobler teaching-that there is n
wealth but life; the power to enjoy,
to admire, to love-"
The books which treat of the beau
ties of nature were next discussed. The
speaker said that no man should keep
his eyes so fixed on the next world as
to be oblivious to the beauties of this:
that he should hate to have to confess
st. Peter at Heavens gate that he
had learned nothing of the beauty with
which God surrounds His creature
here.
Poetry, the finest form of literature,
was last mentioned. ct is better for
a man to be ignorant of facts than in
sensible to ideals" said DR.. Van Dyke.
II had rather my children should grow
up believing that the world is fiat and
that electricity is a bug, than that
they should grow up without the poet
ry, the sentiment, the ideals, that make
up the best of life" The three great
poets of the nineteenth century, Words
worth, Browning and Tennyson, were
then discussed with poetic insight and
scholarly charm. Wordsworth brings
to a busy age the gift of tranquility,
a recognition of the glory
of the imperfect and incentive to cour-
age and action, while Tennyson has
presented life under law, or spiritual
showing us mans relation
to woman, to his fellow men and to his
country"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10

The Boer War has ended. England
has triumphed, but she has paid dear
b in blood and treasure for her vic
tory She realizes now that Kruger
had the vision of a seer when he de-
olared at the outset that if the Beers
should lose their independence, it
would be at a "cost that would stagger
humanity"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10
MORE ABOUT TIE HErORnArORx.

We are publishing this week two
more letters regarding the Reforma-
tory, both of which reached us before
last weeks Progressive Farmer con-
tanning our editorial on this subject
was sent out. One of these letters OPP
poses the Reformatory; the other fav-
ors it. And it is, very naturally, a
man who has seen the workings of
such institutions, a progressive young
Tennessee farmer, who champions the
Reformatory, while MI. Fleming and
Mr.. Andrews, no doubt, are writing
from hearsay, though with the best of
motives. It is very noticeable that the
men who see the work of such institu-
tions become convinced of their merit.
And in States which once establish Re
formatories they are never discontin-
ued. And since the testimony of men
who have seen and tested a thing is
usually better than that of men who
have only heard rumors regarding it,
we are inclined to attach more weight
to the views of Mr.. Miller than to
those of u two other correspondents.
MI. Miller had not seen our editO-
rial when he wrote, but it is note
worthy that he makes the very same
point that we emphasized last week,
namely. that it is cheaper to pay 1925
a year to set a boy right in a Reform
atory than to pay practically the same
sum for his maintenance in a work
house or prison "to prepare him for
a life of crime"
Moreover, the Henderson Gold Leaf
presents the anti-Reformatory side in
it's last issue. The proportion of young
negro criminals is so much larger than
that of young white criminals, it says,
that "the State would not be able to
provide on institution big enough to
accommodate them" But this is not
d valid argument. There would be, of
course, two institutions, one for each
race. But not all youthful transgres-
sors would go to the Reformatory; the
judges would use their own discretion
in such matters. If the State could
not easily care for all young offenders,
the proportion could be kept in the
ratio of the population of the races
sc per cent white, 81 per cent negro
and only the negroes most likely to be
benefited taken.
The Gold Leaf also falls into the ex-
ploded and groundless error that the
Reformatory would be a good "place
to be taken care of and educated; ;" but
We said enough as to this last week.
As Mr.. Miller points out in his letter,
the training is hard and rigorous
enough to keep the place from being
attractive, while at the same time the
wholesome influences, hard work and
stern discipline, bring out the best
that is in the young offenders. The
officers know they have wild colts to
break, and MI. Andrews and the Gold
Leaf are seriously IN error in think
ing that only easy, namby-pamby
training is given.
In spite of all the dust that has
been raised, these great facts stand
out as firm as a stone wall: The Re
formatory makes good citizens of
three-fourths of the young offenders;
the prison doesn't. The Reformatory
trains away from crime, the prison to-
ward crime. The Reformatory spends
money to strengthen and reform
erring boys and girls; the prison
spends money to make them worse.
North Carolina needs the Reform
atOry.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10

A fairy's wand has no such joy-pro-
voking power as a compliment from a
daughter to her mother. A girl doesn't
know what it can do until she tries it.
Ladies' Home Journal.
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ordering change of pOstOtice.
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shows that payment has been received up 10
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10

Conduct is three-fourths of life
Mathew Arnold.
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Organ Of the North Carolina Farmers Sta te
Alliance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10

DR.. Van Dykes subject was Gilt
erature and Life" but it would be as
difficult to tell the force and beauty
of the address by making a few ex-
tracts from it as it would be to give
an idea of the beauty of some SPLEEN
did tree by plucking a few leaves from
its branches. Nevertheless, the leaves
in themselves might be worth looking