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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-25
PADEREWSKI'S RECITAL
AT THE NEW ARMORY
u WORDS were perfume, color, wild desire

II WORDS were perfume. color, wild desire
II poets song were fire
/ That burned TO blood in purple.pulsine
veins.
How Padcrcwski plays then might dare 10 tell.
How Paderewsh plays! and was It he
Or some disemboded spirit that had rushed
From silence into singing: that had crushed
Into one startled hour a life's felicity
And highest bliss OF knowledgc-that all life,
grief wrong
Turns at the last TO beauty and to song!
Richard Watson Glider, in the Century, 1891.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-25

King Leopold, of Belgium, evidently
thinks that there is enough hospitality
in America for all.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-25

The insurgents are now floating a
story that Senator Quay intends to run
for governor himself, to prevent EN-
barrassment to the party. 1t might do
that TO the party; it would certainly
embarrass the insurgents. But the sem
ator has put on record his refusal to
seek or accept public Office Therefore
the insurgents will have to guess again.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-25

Now that Miss Stone has been releas-
ed, the question arises, What next? Is
the kidnapping of American citizens to
become an established business?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-25

Sap weather is here and maple syrup
will soon be in our midst.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-25

If the published versions of the Till
man McLaurin set-to are correct, it is
difficult 10 see ON what ground Me
Laurin is held in contempt. He said
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-25

Heavy fruit crop prophets are a trifle
uncertain, but the confidence of the
flood prognosticator is appalling.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-25

1t was South Carolina's fault that
Ben Tillman got into the senate but it
will be the senate's fault if he remains
1,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-25

The last is said to be positively Miss
Stones farewell release.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-25

Yes, Anxious Reader, Scranton is
now Musical Centre.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-25
FINLEY s
Shirt VQIS|S !
O| N1le silks.
French Towns
SILK G|1g||01|S,
Me|Ce|iZed M0d|0S
They are more beautiful and dress-
Ter than any shown heretofore;
greater range of styles and many
entirely new designs. Probably the
most prominent and most appropri-
ate Of the tailor made effect Is the
Gibson Waist

Made of fine quality Mercerized
Madras; comes in white and the
popular shades Of the season.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-25
White Silk Waists

These are very handsome; made
of good quality Taffeta Silk, clus-
ter of tucks and hemstitched on
front and back and lace trimmed:
also White China Silk Waists, with
chiffon trimming.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-25
White Lawn Waists

Are strikingly dressy in design;
made of fine imported lawn with
allover embroidery, tucked front
and back, latest negligee tucked
collars.
Others with fancy trimmed v
shaped front in lace and embroid-
cry: also line with low necks and
short sleeves.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-25
Dewey and the Prince.

a n AUTHORITATIVE version
~ of the incident at Hong
y. Kong, where it has been said
ihnt Iri1nn IInnnA, iInsnltal
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-25
The Value of 1t.

" r is TRUE that such occasions as
the visit of Prince Henry have
n. no direct bearing on affairs of
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-25

"A N AIR Of mystery is lent to the
~ preliminaries of the attempt
Il n OF the miners union to
secure a conference with the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-14
Advocates of Reform.

s'Well, what do you think of that. asked
the secretary of the Leisure Hour club as the
members sat around in the Exchange room
in the afternoon after their work had been
done for the day. One Of the members OF the
club had just been reading some account or
the states proceedings in the merger case at
Washington.
81 think all railroads ought to be sup
pressed.'' replied "a member, ii gloomtly.
.'Chasing around over the country and killing
cows! Why, that very road turned me. down
on pass only last week"
Eyes. and the newspapers ought to be sup
pressed, too,,'z growled the senior kicker OIL
the Leisure Hours. Here we are wasting our
precious lives on copy when we ought, every
bleeding one OF us, to be ambassadors or TINS
government to some South American coun-
try" 5Nt
That's, all right said the sporting mem
her of. the club who owned All fine fighting
dog that had Just been potsoned;&,t say that
the government ought to be suppressed.
1.-The government isn't SO bad,' replied the
treasurer of the club, ''the trouble with this
country is the churches. They ought TO DC
suppressed"
.sIt seems to me-" said a member who was
sitting on the table and carefully avoiding the
use Of the cll,pidor in favor OF the moor,
"that the trouble primarily is in the public
schools. They ought to be suppressed ana
the teachers Put to work to earn their money
like other people,"
Say said the commercial editor, who was
yainly trying to estimate the amount OF wheat
still left in farmers hands, If you Fellows
have got anything else left, I wish to thunder
you'd suppress it and adjourn"
The club filed slowly out to visit the re-
porters' room, remarking that the markets
were the biggest gambling INSTITUTION III the
country and ought to be suppressed first OF
ali ass "A. ]. Russell.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-14
WHY MIR. TESLA KNOWS

.- New York Evening Sun. =.
woman who had the good luck to be seat
ed next to Nikola Tesla at dinner the other
evening was struck by the wide and compre
hensve range of knowledge he displayed in
the course of the conversation. From men
tioning incidentally, that his father spoke
twenty-one languages, he passed on from one
subject to another, each widely different. but
with all he was equally intimate. The woman
at last in sheer admiration turned to him
and remarked: .How very much you know,
Mr.. Tesla! had rather expected to find you
a man of one idea, but instead of that you
know something of everything You are more
conyersant with more topics than any person
4 ever met. -
81 have to be-" returned Mr. Tesla, naive
ly; 81 simply have to be in order to keep up
with those college girls that meet dining
out They'r re conversant with everything,
YOU know, to be able to keep up his end Of
the conversation with one of them a man
must be more or less Of walking encyclope-
dia. Why, only the other evening took a
college girl out to dinner-the prettiest kind
of a girl-and no sooner had we seated our
selves than she began talking about Herbert
Spencer and what he said about something
or other on page IA Of his First Principles
If that's its name She knew all about it,
but It was NOR than I did. / began a course
In Herbert. Spencer the next day, SO as to be
ready for the. next college girl met, but she
very likely will discourse upon Ibsen or Mae
terlinek. Oh, no." with sigh; it would
never do for me to be man of one ideal
must keep myself posted upon everything
that q going or r wouldn' t stand a. ghost OF q
chance with these bright college girls.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-14
BROAD-MINDED FARMERS

The attitude Of the farmers. who as
sembled at Fargo last week, toward Mr..
Hill, reflected great credit on them. It
showed how tolerant. liberal and broad
minded are the people of the northwest.
Mr.. Hill represents tendency in rail-
road development that the farmers as
whole do not like. It was conclusively
demonstrated, through the lack of tact
and bad Judgment of some of Mr.. Hills
sanguine friends in introducing resolu-
lions supporting the merger, that the
farmers are opposed to the consolidation
Of the Great Northern and the Northern
Pacific because they do not .believe in
the principle
But the freedom OF, the farmers from
mere prejudice against great wealth and
colossal success, the prejudice the little
man is apt to feel against the great man,
was shown by the ready admission that
so long as Mr.. Hill lived and controlled
the consolidation it might not operate to
the disadvantage of the public.
They are willing to concede that he has
done vast and highly important work in
the Development Of the northwest. Never.
theless, they think Mr.. Hill is wrong in
his work of consolidation. They listened
attentiyely to his long and Instructive ad-
dress. They felt that Mr.. Hill was a
man with something to say that was we'll
worth hearing. They might not agree
with him. But that was no reason why
they shouldn't give him a fair hearing.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-14
of leisure. So our universities are or
ganized and the professoriaIs work laid out

of leisure. So our universities are or
ganized and the professoriaI work laid out
on the theory that everybody connected
with the institution must be loaded up
with fixed curriculum work. Rarely is
there allowed any latitude for individual
original work. Suchfof that work as is
done is apt to be insstolen moments, or,
at least, in sort Of hurry that is in
compatible with the best results.
Therein probably lies the explanation of
the pronounced inferiority of Americans
to other nations in scientific discoveries.
We are in the van in applied science. but
we lag in research. II
We have in America no such institutions
as the Pasteur Institute, the College de
France, the Sorbonne. or the Jardin des
Plantes, where the occupants of chairs
have abundant leisure to carry on their
scientific or scholarly labors.' We have
nothing like the Royal Institution Of
London, or, indeed, the German uniyer-
stiles.
3 The Carnegie Institute will supply the
defect in the American educational sys-
TEN. 1t will offer the most abundant
and expensive means of research to
lwhomsoever gives promise. 1t will pro-
tect and encourage the scientific; ex-
plorer, the scholar with great task,
all who need assistance in advancing
human knowledge 1t is impossible to
overestimate the good that will flow. from
such an institution. 1t should put America
abreast or in the van of the other nations
in scientific progress.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-14
A Noble Effort Fooled.

Where is the man of any political organiza-
ton who is doing more to strangle the octo-
pus Of organized wealth and break down the
constitution of the money power than Cap
tain Van SAINT, the little saWed-oH governor
Of Minnesota? Others have done a great. deal
of talking tor political effect, but the lnyin-
chile and unterrifed captain who presides
over the destiny of our sister state is dealing
the monster body blows that can be heard
clear across the country Nebraska State
Journal. "i aI
From Red Wing to the st. Paul docks,
The shores resound the pant
Of that Mississippi liner .4
The staunch old boat Van SAINT.
The captain stern had hung brick
Upon the safety valve,
The surgeon stood around in fear
With bandage, lint and salve. z
The pistons worked with strain and. jar,
The wheels flew round apace, "
The churning waters swelled behind,
1t was a fearful race.
The news that flashed from Washington,
BY way Of postal card, t,$
Was that James Hill had claimed the state
! To use as his freightyard. tTsaA
The liner snubbed up at the wharf &
The bells all gan to chime
The captain taking out his watch
Remarked: 1--WE are on times" Il
Alas how little did they know
That they were all too late!
A paper had been passed around
That gave to Hill the state!
Some twelve or twenty signatures
Have. been secured, they say. rs
'Mongst Minneapolis business men,
And Hill has gained the day.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-14

Copyright, 1902. by S. S. Mcclure Company.
The Rev. John Rollins did not notice that
his wife was holding out his bearskin coat
the depths of the open fireplace.
The nickel alarm clock licked noisly on
the high mantel-shelf, the only sound in the
hand touched -, and Mrs .Bilger coughed
apologetically. 1902
The Reverend John came out of his trance
cast an adoring look up at his square-shoul-
dered six feet one.
II hated to interrupt your thoughts, Jack
but the stage is due in a minute Were you
thinking of your sermon?''
Not much, my girl" replied Rollins. II
was thinking of that twenty four-mile ride
with Whacker Bill. 1t is honestly the worst
feature of this charge. I like to go over to
Las Vegas. They're friendly set, and
they re always glad to see me. But the ride
that foul mouthed Bill, with his swearing at
every rut in the road! But I'll cure him yet.
feel somehow as If I'd been sent to this
place to save Whacker Bills SOUL and I'm
going to do it,
John Rollins set his mouth in the firm
curve that his wife could remember from the
old football days, long before he had taken
orders in the church.
The little woman clasped and unclasped her
hands nervously.
"I hope, Jack, dear, you'll be very. very
careful in dealing with Bill. He's an awful
character, they ,say--and--''
''Yes, he claims to be the champion bad
man OF the Las Vegas valley. but you re-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-14

American equipment every year. always
buys its machines through the machinery
trust, but invariably stipulates that the
machines must be not only Of American
design, but ALSO sof American snanufac-
ture. The firm has insisted on this stipu-
lation though assured by the trust that
the material used in the United States
and England is precisely the same and
that they employ American foremen. The
actual work of the American workman
is SO superior to that of the Englishman
with all the conditions equal that the diff
ference is plainly recognizable,
An instance Of this kind reminds us
how the glory of American manufactures
is due as much to the skill of the intel
ligent workman as to the cunning and
strategy of American capital.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-14
SHIPS wArER-T1GHT DOORS
New York Times.

New YORK Times.
The first public exposition of a new system
of closing water-tight doors on steamships
adopted two years ago by the North German
Lloyd company, but thus far installed on only
a few of, its vessels, was given yesterday on
board the Kronprinz Wilhelm at pier 81,
North river, before an invited party Of news
paper men and experts.
The new system is one by which every
.bulkhead come sting door throughout the YES
sci below the water line can be closed auto
inatically by the. turn of a lever on the bridge
and within the space of a minute. 1t does
not take an expert to understand that this
closing of water-tight doors and in the small
est fraction of time is one of the most vital
questions in the entire operation of a passen-
ger steamship. Faults developed in this re-
spect after collision or after running upon
the rocks have, been responsible for some of
the most narrowing tragedies of the sea-
The new North German Lloyd system, which
will be installed on the entire fleet of the
company, enables the watch officer on the
bridge to close all open compartment doors
at any time and to reopen them as easily by
hydraulic pressure. In order to close the
twenty compartment doors Of the Kronprinz
Wilhelm 1t is necessary to move g. lever on
the bridge, in doing which an electric bell is
sounded for twenty seconds at every door,
giving warning that the door is about to
close.
Then the doors close slowly, and in order
tina. the commanding officer may be sure that
every door closes, there is a board in the
charthouse on which is an electric bulb num-
her to correspond with each door AS each
door closes tight the corresponding bulb in
the charthouse CLOVIS.
Aside from this arrangement the doors are
SO arranged that in case Of any failure Of the
automatic system the doors may be closed by
hand. in the usual manner The officers of
the steamship showed the visitors over the
entire vessel, and incidentally limited that
preparations were being made to attempt on
the next trip Of the Kronprinz Wilhelm to
beat the record of the Hamburg American
flyer Deutschland After the inspection the
visitors, were entertained at luncheon on
board
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-14

member a certain little sling once did the
business with another braggart, and I'm load
ing up with stones for the same trick"
He smiled cheerily into his wife's anxious
face, kissed her tenderly and crossed to the
door.
''"DOn't worry, little woman. l won't hurt
him or lay myself liable to the law
The Reverend Rollins threw open the door
and gazed down the winding mountain street.
The commotion in front of the postoff1ce told
him that the stage had arrived. He stalked
down the flower edged path to meet it.
When the stage plunged and swayed past
the cabin, Mrs. Rollins waved her hand to
her husband. sitting straight and smiling be-
side the rough driver. Then she ran into
the house, where, burying her face in her
husbands big chair, she had hearty cry
On and on swung the stage, Bill chatting
amably of his former trirmphs, when the
vigilantes represented the law and life worth
living. Nothing happened to disturb his seren-
ity until they had passed Las Cruces, when
they suddenly came upon patch Of road that
made the stage jerk and pillow from side to
side, like ship in the teeth Of gale.
What Whacker Bill said about the road
commissioners of the county would not bear
publication. AS he stormed and raved in the
maddest of profanity, the Rev. John Rollins
squared round and looked Wnacker Bill fairly
in the eye.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-14
ATE THE Ships PETS

The bark Ella arrived at New York last
week. forty-one days from Jamaica. having
encountered the furious northwest gales tnat
hava blown offshore for weeks. Captain Nc
7 ,anghlin reports the worst weather he ever.
saw. Tie Ella not only lost topmasts, spars
and much rigging, but provisions ran short.
and no vessel having been spoken, for relief
the crew had the alternative Of eating the
ships pets or starving. The last to be killed
and eaten was the pet kitten Of the captains
daughter. On Nov. 10 relief was had from
passing schooner, and the crew was saved
from starvation.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-14
ADJUSTMENTS
Primrose s. Dockstader's Minstrels
MT the Metropolitan.

Primrose & DOckstader's Minstrels
at the Metropolitan.
Lew Dockstader comes pretty near being
the whole thing in the minstrel company now
PLAYING at the Metropolitan. He arrives just
In time to save. the first Dart' from being
utterly vain and vapid, and with whirl-
wind of ready l''patter,1' fairly carries the au-
dience along with him in gusts Of laughter.
And he is the bright and shining feature OF
the olio later in the evening. Dockstader is
more than a mere entertainer who can tell a
good story or spring an elaborate. gag. He
puts thought into his work and studies not
only his audiences but the course of things in
the great world. He usually contriyes to
learn something of what is going on, in each
community to which he comes and to hit it
all off in his inimitable talks with the audi
ence. Ills talent for mimicry he turns to
good account, too, and he is master OF many
dialects Add to these qualifications his ready
humor5 and his ability to sing comic song
with unfailing JUNCTION, and you have black
face entertainer easily at the head OF his
profession
George Primrose the senior partner in the
firm, is veteran Of minstrelsy who clings
to old methods and old ways. He is at his
best when shaking a nimble foot in the eluci-
dalton Of new combinations of old steps. He
was erstwhilc clever at a coon song, too, and
neither his grace in dancing nor his effective
ness in such singing has deserted him. But
Mr. Primrose is ornamental rather than use
full in. a minstrel show. iss2*
The first part as already intimated, is
pretty bad The inevitable sentimental songs
are little worse than the ordnary-which is
bad enough. Neill O'Brien -betrays symptoms
of being funny if given chance, and in his
musical moke,' turn in the Solio keeps the
promise. The best thing about this musical
turn is that O'Brien and his partner make no
music at all-they just make bluffs at it. The
olio'i is very much better than the first part. "
Besides the turns already mentioned there are
a very pretty and novel hoop-rolling act by
Ollie Young and Brother; some astonishing
banjo playing by Claudius and Corbin, who
amaze by their dexterity but do not impress
by their music, which loses effectiveness be-
cause of the tremendous tempo (whye dc banjo
players always play so fast?); and a good but
not extraordinary bar and strapeze turn by
zeno, Carl and Zeno. MIR. Primrose also in
PRODUCES two Juvenile proteges who assist
him in graceful clog-dancing turn,
w B. Chamberlain.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-14
WORKING ENGLISH WORKMEN

Of the fascinating stories of the tri-
umphs of the American invasion of Eu-
rope that come across the Atlantic in
shoals these days none is more Interesting
than the account of the construction of
the great plant of the English Westing-
house company at Manchester. This COM
pany is a child of the American company,
and is largely directed by Americans. 1t
was natural, therefore, that an American
superintendent, j. G. Stewart of St. Louis,
should be sent over to direct the work Of
construction. Mr.. Stewart grimly and
with set teeth attacked the problem of
making the British workman do a full
days work. With what success he labored
Is shown by the fact that before long he
had the English average of $50 bricks per
day for each workman raised to 1880, and
to $500 for the very plain work. The plant,
cost 100000, and Mr.. Stewart put it up
in one year, whereas English builders es-
timated that the work would require five
years.
Mr.. Stewart would have none of the
j, Ego easy" tactics of the English work
men. The results were obtained partly by
paying one pence more per hour than the
union rates, though there was no conflict
with the unions, which were recognized
by Mr.. Stewart But he made it clear
as spring water" that he was going. to
have the bricks laid according to his ideas
and that the slowest man on the job was
not to set the pace for all the other hun
dreds. The unions did more or less
growing but they were confronted by an
indomitable man, who proposed to be fair,
but. who believed in hard and honest
work.
Mr.. Stewards success goes far to sup
port Hiram Maxim's contention that the
individual English workman is all right,
but that in practice he is spoiled by the
"cacanny" system and by the false theory
Of a workman's duty. But another report
comes from Scotland which tends to show
that while the British workman may be
capable Of putting forth as much energy
as the American he is not capable of such
careful and accurate work.
Rufus Fleming, United States consul at
Edinburgh, reports that the machinery
trust has secured the British patents on
great many American printing presses
and improvements, or manufactures
them on the royalty plan paying the
American patentees a stated amount for
the privilege of manufacturing the ma
chimes. But. even when making machines
according to American designs, the trust
) found that it could not altogether head
off fts4e American manufacturer. A large
printing and publishing house in Edin-
burgh that has long had Amer ican presses,
folders and stitchers, etc, adding to Its