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SCHURZ ANSWERS GAGE. The Ex-Cabinet Olllelnl Invokes the Deadly Parallel In an Effective Way. Carl Schurz has witten, under date of Sept. 10, a second open letter to Sec- retary of the Treasury Guge in rejoin- der to the latter's reply to Mr. Schurz's first letter. In it Mr. Schurz remarks that the Gage letter "only shows bo what lengths partisan zeal will go in the attempt to frighten the people into the belief that only Mr. McKinley's re- election can save them from general ruin." To Mr. Gage's remark that the Re- publican congress and administration would "probably" find it difficult, owing to possible obstructive tactics of the minority, to use its power before the inauguration of Bryan to make it im-. possible for him to put the finances on a silver basis, Mr. Schurz answers: "There will be no trouble about this if the Republican majority is willing to do it. *** The Republican major- ity in congress not only can, but, if only for its own moral salvation, will do this thing in case of necessity, and you, Mr. Secretary, then relieved of your partisan campaign service, will, as a good citizen, be one of the first to urge it to be done, if you sincerely think the currency law to be as defec- tive as in your recent threat of disas- ter you represent it to be." Mr.j Schurz also quotes Mr. Gage's declaration in an interview on July 15 an answer to the apprehension ex- pressed by him six week's later. "I be- lieve," said Mr. Gage on July 15, "that silver will never drop below par In gold. The crux of the proposition is that adequate measures have been taken by the new law to prevent such a contingency. ** \u2666 In the- event of Mr. Bryan's election I think the gold standard would be resolutely main- tained so long aB the law remained on the statute book." Mr. Schurz declares that the secre- tary of the treasury's letter of Aug. 25 "is an attempt to terrorize the Amer- ican people with a threat of business disaster, that they may be deterred from considering any other question and from casting a vote which would amount to a condemnation of Mr. Mc- Kinley's imperialistic policy. I, for one, refuse to be terrorized. ** * I am convinced that the battle for sound money Is substantially won, and that whatever apparent danger to the gold standard may still arise it must and can be overcome without the people subjecting themselves to a moral thral- dom keeping them from independent and conscientious action upon public questions of equal ana even superior importance." A United Democracy. More than ever before In the history of the Democratic party all factions have been merged under the peerless leadership of William Jennings Bryan for a vigorous and righteous campaign against the un-American and vicious policies of imperialism, militarism, pro- tection of the trusts and the other cry- ing evils which the Republican party is pledged to maintain and extend. Four years ago the party was divided upon the issue of a financial policy, and today the Democracy is once more firmly united and is standing shoulder to shoulder In the support of an issue of higher and more immediate import- ance, because it involves the very foun- dation principles upon which this coun- try is established. Everywhere throughout the country come assurances that many prominent men who left their party ranks in 1896 will this year march under Bryan's banner for the maintenance of those fundamental policies of government which have fostered our growth into a nation, which can rightfully boast of her prominent position among the peoples of the world. The Republican party has criminally committed itself to the policy of land grabbing, which has ever been foreign to the principles of a republic such as this, and it has become the duty of the Democratic party to protect the nation against the foes within, ever the most insidious and powerful. The Republican party cannot with any degree of truth assert that only a portion of the Democratic party is holding up the hands of its standard bearer in this campaign. It is not one section of the country aione or one section of the country more than an- other that is represented in the Demo- cratic party for this campaign. In every state of the Union, including even the recognized Republican states, there is a marked and ever increasing abhorrence of the evils which go to make up McKinleyism, which will draw thousands of Republican votes to the party which pledges itself to halt the government of the United States and drag it back from the perilous course on which the preseut administration has launched It. In view of the expose which even the Republican newspapers have made of the starvation wages paid the coal miners of this state the campaign cry of "full dinner pail" seems something worse than a hollow mockery and a sham. With all their sneering at the phrase, "the consent of the governed," the Republican party managers will find that It is as firmly embedded in the issues of this campaign as it is in the constitution of the United States, THE FLEXICON MOVEMENT. NeiT rrrm-li Way of Mart-bin* l> Old to the Amerlcnu Ilcd Men. Anybody wlio knowß anything at all about modern fighting knows that the North American Indian Is' the man who sets the pace. First the American frontiersmen studied his ways and ndopted his tactics, and the soldiery took It up. Baden-Powell, so the plucky little South Aflcan general con- fesses, first read about American scouts and then took lessons from their teachers, the Indians themselves. But now there Is n slip in the chain and Franco Is studying the Indian without going to the trouble of first ascertain- ing what the best scout iu the world, the American soldier, thinks about It. France Is trying the "fiexlcon march." "Never get the leg straight," are the French instructions. "Keep the back straight, but bent forward. Do not throw the shoulders either back or up." That Is about the way au Indian walks, so Captain Ullne of the Twen- tieth infantry confesses, but, he goes on, he never heard of the trick being tried by military. "I cannot discuss the merits of the 'fiexlcon,'" the captain said, "because I am not familiar with it. From the description It is just about the way an Indian walks. Ills knee Is never ?locked' or thrust back, so as to have the leg quite straight. The Indian never uses the heel to the exclusion of the ball of the foot, but puts the sole down all at once. Not all Indians are footmen. I could name half a dozen tribes which, to my personal knowl- edge, go mounted always and almost everywhere, even about their camp. "The flexicon movement the Frefieh experimentalists are said to be tinker- ing with and copying from our Indians is about the movement a soldier gets when he is fatigued. I am not pre- pared to criticise it." An English army officer, a subaltern, here with the horse buyers, said con- cerning the new movement: "The French are the greatest bun- glers in the world. They get the wildest notions, 'fads' I ought to call them, In their pates. I remember once they de- cided to dress every man iu Madagas- car iured flannel underclothing. Every man iu the place got skin disease. Then they went iu for natural wool, and the men got worse. They admit- ted red irritated the skin and then found that natural wool, being already charged with oil, could take tip 110 more, so was worthless for absorbing perspiration. Now they are fiddling with the fiexlcon movement, evidently trying to step nhead of the United States in overlooking the Indian, and, overlooking the work the Indian docs when lie goes on what we call his 'dog trot' scouting, they propose to imitate his walk. "It is my observation that a soldier requires this fiexlcon movement after he has gone about four miles loaded down with his equipment. The French may teach him to always walk tired to death, but I do not think we shall ever see the British or these American soldiers at It. "Coming home to oneself, one would not like to start to his work In the morning with the tired out look and movement that he goes home witli If he has earned his salt. It Is a matter of pride to pull oneself together for the day."?Kansas City Journal. An Others See I n. The vagaries of American journalism Is a favorite theme with the transat- lantic editor. It Is possible that now and then we on this side of the water do allow Imagination to trespass upon the domain of fact, but never surely have we eclipsed the performance of our contemporary. In a representation of the scene of the Itohokcn fire pub- lished in one of the leading English il- lustrated weeklies the Hudson rivet- Is shown to be spanned by two colossal bridges, one at Twenty-third street and the other at Fifty-ninth street. Where the Imagination of the artist received its stimulus we cannot tell, though we might hazard a guess, but certainly this view was not drawn "upon the spot" or even "front a photograph." The two structures referred to exist only upon paper. That at Twenty-third street was designed some dozen years ago by tiustav Lillentlial. The Fifty- ninth street bridge bears a slight re- semblance to the design drawn up by an army board of engineers for a 3,000 foot cnntalever with a view to estimat- ing Its cost In comparison withthe cost of a 3.0(H) foot suspension bridge. Bad- ly as these two bridges are needed, the cost is prohibitive, for not even the most sanguine promoter dares to assert that their revenues would cover the in- terest 011 the initial outlay of from $110,000,000 to $140,000,000 for bridges, real estate and terminals.?Scientific American. Chrnp Puiiers 111 I.onilott. Halfpenny Journalism In London is not the good thing it looks. Arthur Pearson, whose Daily Express is LOll- - latest halfpenny journal, has re- cently Informed the public Hint he is losing $1,250 a day 011 his paper, tliat the cost of the plant and preliminary work made the first issue worth $500,- 000, that to establish The Express will cost $1,250,000 and two years' very hard work and that the next person who wants to establish a dully paper In London must spend s2,soo,ooo.?Ar- gonaut. MfiKnetinm In Option. It has tfecu discovered that the crys- talline lens of the human eye 1H slightly diamagnctlc, or subject to magnetic re- pulsion. As astigmatism, the com.x-on- est cause of defective vision and the most frequent excuse for spectacles, Is merely a slight distortion of this It has been suggested that treatment with a powerful magnet properly ap- plied may result in forcing the lens In- to proper shape or at least in greatly remedying the distortion.?New York Bun. OPERATORS ARE DIVIDED Continued from First Page. At the present time the miners are masters of the situation and there is not tho slightest probability that they go back to work until they got the word from a convention of the Unitod Mine Workers. YESTERDAY'S CONFERENCE. The individual operators have sent a committee to New York to seek a reduc- tion in freight charges, as they say that otherwise they cannot meet the proposed wage advance. The New York Times this morning is authority for the statement that at yesterday's conference John Markle and a number of the independent coal opera- tors asked the railroads not to make any more concessions to the strikers. Vice President Sayre, of the Lehigh Valley Company, said that he met John Markle and talked with him briefly. "We are now waiting for the men," said Mr. Sayre. "It will take them some time to understand our oiTer, but they will ho all right in a few days." Mr. Sayre added that lie had not con- sidered what should be done if the men refused to accept the offer. A number of the railroad officials who are directly interested in the negotia- tions for a settlement of the strike talk- ed over the situation and one of the officials described the situation as "criti- cal in the extreme." PARADE AT WILKESIIARRK. The parade and mass meeting of the miners at Wilkosbarro yesterday was the greatest labor demonstration over held in northeastern Pennsylvania. The parade, led by President Mitchell and the officers of the national execu- tive board, started a little after 2 o'clock, and it required an hour and twenty minutes to pass a given point. It is estimated that there were fully 15,000 men and broakor hoys in line. Music was furnished by about forty hands and drum corps. Many banners and transparencies were carried. The men from Pittston had a iloat with four men representing "Coal Harons." They were drinking what purported to bo champagne. Directly following was a float with miners dining on bread and water. A stretcher was carried containing a dummy representing a miner who had just lost his life in a mine. President Mitchell reviewed the great army of marchers on the river common. He was loudly applauded by the march- ers. It was after 4 o'clock when the last of the marchers swept past President Mit- chell. Then he and his colleagues were driven to West Sldo park, whore the big mass meeting was held. For several hours a crowd had hoen gathering there, and it was estimated that nearly 20,000 persons were massed in front of the stand when the union president began to speak. The national president was followed by Fred Dilcher, Benjamin James and "Mother" Jones. President Mitchell's address did not outline any future movo on the part of the labor leaders. I.OOAB STRIKE NOTES. There Is no particular change in the condition of affairs here. The number of cars hoisted where work isbeingdono is daily decreasing, showing that the strikers aro gaining recruits. Upwards of 100 young men of Free- land and Vicinity marched to Wilkes- harre yesterday. They left here about 2 a. m. and inarched hack again after taking part In the Mine Workers' parade. Frank Hess, who hails from Blooms- hurg, a deputy stationed at Shaft 40, of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, went to sleep to his sorrow Monday night. When ho awakened next morning he discovered he was minus his revolver and a fine gold watch and chain.?Sen- tinel. John McElwee, whose discharge from the omploy of the Drffton companios by Superintendent Kudllch was noted on Monday, has boon reinstated. With both opera houses open last evening?a political rally at the Grand and a Slavonian ball at Yannes'?the town gave but little indication of being the centre of a great strike. "Admiral Dewey" Slicml* III* Toetli. Admiral Dewey, the little Java mon- key that was on the flagship Olympia during the battle of Manila with the admiral, after whom he was named, is an inmate of the hospital at Lincolu park, Chicago. lie no longer eats philopenas with the children visitors, as peanuts are now barred from his regular diet. Head Animal Keeper McCurren Is now feeding Idm gruel with a spoon on ac- count of the loss of the little fellow's teeth. As the admiral Is now < years old, and as at this age monkeys shed their teeth, he is "gumming" it, awaiting the growth of his new molars. Admiral Is an Intelligent little fellow, and was presented to the park by Major Thomp- son, who was the Olympla's surgeon, lie has been a resident of the park since October, 181)0, and Is a great favorite of the visiting public. ZPIRIHSTT XJSTGr Promptly Done ut the Tribune Office. ROUND THE REGION. 11. B. Howells, charged with forging the trade mark and labels of the Peruna Medicine Company, of Ohio, and selling a substitute medicine of his own for the genuine, pleaded guilty at Wllkesbarre. lie was lined SSOO. This Is the season when mothers are alarmed on account of croup. It is quickly cured by One Minute Cough Cure, which children like to take. Grover's City drug store. Peter McAndrews, of Rappahanock, was run over by a Philadelphia and Reading passenger train near Girard- villeon Monday and was instantly killed. It is thought that he sat down on the track while on his way home late at night and went to sleep. Torturing skin eruptions, burns and sores are soothed at once and promptly healed by applying DoYVitt's Witch Hazel Salve, the best known cure for piles. Beware of worthless counter- feits. Grover's City drug store. While Mrs. Patrick Gallagher was gathering coal from an abandoned strip- ping of the Lehigh Valloy Coal Com- pany, in the southern part of Ilazleton, Monday afternoon, a huge piece of rock became loosened and fell upon her head, killing her. Feelings of safety pervade the house- hold that uses One Minute Cough Cure, the only harmless remedy that produces immediate results. It is infallible for coughs, colds, croup and all throat and lung troubles. It will prevent consump- tion. Grover's City drug store. The following have announced their Intention of becoming independent can- didates in Lackawanna county and are circulating nomination papers for sig- natures: Congress, Frank M. Spencer; judge, Cornelius Smith; sheriff, George Lothier. It is well to know thatDoWitt's Witch Hazel Salve will heal a burn and stop the pain at once. It will cure eczema and skin diseases and ugly wounds and sores. It is a certain cure for piles. Counterfeits may bo offered you. See that you get theoriginal DoWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. Grover's City drug store. The 700 employes of the Reading Iron Company at Danvillo have decided to accept the 25 per cent reduction in their wages, which went into effect on Sep- tember 10, and against which they struck. Do not get scared if your heart trou- bles you. Most likelyyou suffer from in- digestion. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests what you eat and gives the worn out stomach perfect rest. It is the only preparation known that completely digests all classes of foods; that is why it cures the worst cases of indigestion and stomach trouble after everything else has failed. a It may he taken in all conditions and* cannot help but do you good. Grover's City drug store. The following priests were the guests of Rev. Father Phillips at dinner yester- day: Fathers Burgr&af, White Haven; Brchony, Eckley; Malloy, McAdoo; Mack and Fallihee, Freeland; Dover, Beaver Meadow; Bunco, Mauch Chunk; and Peruzzie and Marcella, Ilazleton. ? Plain Speaker. Dr. W. 11. Lewis, Lawroncevillo, Va., writes, "1 am using Kodol Dyspepsia Cure in my practice among severe cases of indigestion and find it an admirable remedy." Many hundreds of physicians depend upon the use of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure in stomach troubles. It digests what you eat, and allows you to eat all the good food you need, providing you do not overload your stomach. Gives instant relief and a permanent cure. Grover's City drug store. John Lapp, street commissioner of Ilazleton, died this morning at the ago of 57 years. A. 11. Stroll has been appointed post- master at Christopher, and R. A. Floyd at Plains, both in this county. The Shamokin Milling Company's mil) and storehouses were destroyed yester- day morning. Loss, $50,000. Shickshinny's new national bank opened for business on Monday. The Woodpecker. There was once an old woman who lived in a little house. She wore a rend cap on her head, a black dress and a white dress and a white apron with the strings tied behind. One day St. Peter called on the old woman and he was very hungry. The old woman was baking cakes on a griddle. The good saint asked her for a cake. She looked at the cake she was baking and thought it was too large to give him. so she baked another one. She thought this one was also too large, and kept on baking cakes which kept getting smaller. St. Peter became angry and told her to fly up the chimney and peck for her living.?Josephine Yosburg In Phil- adelphia Press. ? Subscribe for the TRIBUNE. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. It artificially digests the food and aids Nature ID strengthening aud recon- structing the exhausted digestive or gans. It lsthe latestdiscovereddigest- aut and tonic. No other preparation can approach It in efficiency. 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Transcript of THE IgjTtLiIReady BDYING?!€¦ · SCHURZ ANSWERS GAGE. The Ex-Cabinet Olllelnl Invokes the Deadly...
SCHURZ ANSWERS GAGE.The Ex-Cabinet Olllelnl Invokes the
Deadly Parallel In an
Effective Way.
Carl Schurz has witten, under date ofSept. 10, a second open letter to Sec-retary of the Treasury Guge in rejoin-der to the latter's reply to Mr. Schurz'sfirst letter. In it Mr. Schurz remarksthat the Gage letter "only shows bo
what lengths partisan zeal will go inthe attempt to frighten the people intothe belief that only Mr. McKinley's re-election can save them from generalruin."
To Mr. Gage's remark that the Re-publican congress and administrationwould "probably" find it difficult, owingto possible obstructive tactics of theminority, to use its power before theinauguration of Bryan to make it im-.possible for him to put the finances ona silver basis, Mr. Schurz answers:
"There will be no trouble about thisif the Republican majority is willing
to do it. * * * The Republican major-ity in congress not only can, but, ifonly for its own moral salvation, willdo this thing in case of necessity, andyou, Mr. Secretary, then relieved ofyour partisan campaign service, will, asa good citizen, be one of the first tourge it to be done, if you sincerelythink the currency law to be as defec-tive as in your recent threat of disas-ter you represent itto be."
Mr.j Schurz also quotes Mr. Gage'sdeclaration in an interview on July 15
an answer to the apprehension ex-pressed by him six week's later. "I be-lieve," said Mr. Gage on July 15, "thatsilver will never drop below par Ingold. The crux of the proposition isthat adequate measures have beentaken by the new law to prevent sucha contingency. * * \u2666 In the- eventof Mr. Bryan's election I think the goldstandard would be resolutely main-tained so long aB the law remained onthe statute book."
Mr. Schurz declares that the secre-tary of the treasury's letter of Aug. 25"is an attempt to terrorize the Amer-ican people with a threat of businessdisaster, that they may be deterredfrom considering any other questionand from casting a vote which wouldamount to a condemnation of Mr. Mc-Kinley's imperialistic policy. I, forone, refuse to be terrorized. * * * Iam convinced that the battle for soundmoney Is substantially won, and thatwhatever apparent danger to the goldstandard may still arise it must andcan be overcome without the peoplesubjecting themselves to a moral thral-dom keeping them from independentand conscientious action upon publicquestions of equal ana even superiorimportance."
A United Democracy.
More than ever before In the historyof the Democratic party all factionshave been merged under the peerlessleadership of William Jennings Bryan
for a vigorous and righteous campaign
against the un-American and viciouspolicies of imperialism, militarism, pro-tection of the trusts and the other cry-
ing evils which the Republican partyis pledged to maintain and extend.Four years ago the party was dividedupon the issue of a financial policy,and today the Democracy is once morefirmly united and is standing shoulderto shoulder In the support of an issueof higher and more immediate import-ance, because it involves the very foun-dation principles upon which this coun-try is established.
Everywhere throughout the countrycome assurances that many prominentmen who left their party ranks in 1896will this year march under Bryan'sbanner for the maintenance of thosefundamental policies of government
which have fostered our growth intoa nation, which can rightfully boastof her prominent position among thepeoples of the world. The Republicanparty has criminally committed itselfto the policy of land grabbing, whichhas ever been foreign to the principlesof a republic such as this, and it hasbecome the duty of the Democraticparty to protect the nation against thefoes within, ever the most insidiousand powerful.
The Republican party cannot withany degree of truth assert that only
a portion of the Democratic party isholding up the hands of its standardbearer in this campaign. It is not onesection of the country aione or onesection of the country more than an-other that is represented in the Demo-cratic party for this campaign. Inevery state of the Union, includingeven the recognized Republican states,there is a marked and ever increasingabhorrence of the evils which go tomake up McKinleyism, which willdrawthousands of Republican votes to theparty which pledges itself to halt thegovernment of the United States anddrag it back from the perilous courseon which the preseut administrationhas launched It.
In view of the expose which even theRepublican newspapers have made ofthe starvation wages paid the coalminers of this state the campaign cry
of "full dinner pail" seems somethingworse than a hollow mockery and asham.
With all their sneering at thephrase, "the consent of the governed,"the Republican party managers willfind that It is as firmly embeddedin the issues of this campaign as it is
in the constitution of the United States,
THE FLEXICON MOVEMENT.
NeiT rrrm-li Way of Mart-bin* l>Old to the Amerlcnu Ilcd Men.
Anybody wlio knowß anything at allabout modern fighting knows that theNorth American Indian Is' the manwho sets the pace. First the Americanfrontiersmen studied his ways andndopted his tactics, and the soldierytook It up. Baden-Powell, so theplucky little South Aflcan general con-fesses, first read about Americanscouts and then took lessons from theirteachers, the Indians themselves. Butnow there Is n slip in the chain andFranco Is studying the Indian withoutgoing to the trouble of first ascertain-ing what the best scout iu the world,the American soldier, thinks about It.
France Is trying the "fiexlcon march.""Never get the leg straight," are the
French instructions. "Keep the backstraight, but bent forward. Do notthrow the shoulders either back or up."
That Is about the way au Indianwalks, so Captain Ullne of the Twen-tieth infantry confesses, but, he goeson, he never heard of the trick beingtried by military.
"I cannot discuss the merits of the'fiexlcon,'" the captain said, "becauseI am not familiar with it. From thedescription It is just about the way anIndian walks. Ills knee Is never?locked' or thrust back, so as to havethe leg quite straight. The Indiannever uses the heel to the exclusion ofthe ball of the foot, but puts the soledown all at once. Not all Indians arefootmen. I could name half a dozentribes which, to my personal knowl-edge, go mounted always and almosteverywhere, even about their camp.
"The flexicon movement the Frefiehexperimentalists are said to be tinker-ing with and copying from our Indiansis about the movement a soldier gets
when he is fatigued. I am not pre-pared to criticise it."
An English army officer, a subaltern,here with the horse buyers, said con-cerning the new movement:
"The French are the greatest bun-glers in the world. They get the wildestnotions, 'fads' I ought to call them, Intheir pates. I remember once they de-cided to dress every man iu Madagas-car iured flannel underclothing. Everyman iu the place got skin disease.Then they went iu for natural wool,and the men got worse. They admit-ted red irritated the skin and thenfound that natural wool, being alreadycharged with oil, could take tip 110more, so was worthless for absorbingperspiration. Now they are fiddlingwith the fiexlcon movement, evidentlytrying to step nhead of the UnitedStates in overlooking the Indian, and,overlooking the work the Indian docswhen lie goes on what we call his 'dogtrot' scouting, they propose to imitatehis walk.
"It is my observation that a soldierrequires this fiexlcon movement afterhe has gone about four miles loadeddown with his equipment. The Frenchmay teach him to always walk tiredto death, but I do not think we shallever see the British or these Americansoldiers at It.
"Coming home to oneself, onewould not like to start to his work Inthe morning with the tired out look andmovement that he goes home witli Ifhe has earned his salt. It Is a matterof pride to pull oneself together forthe day."?Kansas City Journal.
An Others See In.The vagaries of American journalism
Is a favorite theme with the transat-lantic editor. It Is possible that nowand then we on this side of the waterdo allow Imagination to trespass upon
the domain of fact, but never surelyhave we eclipsed the performance ofour contemporary. In a representationof the scene of the Itohokcn fire pub-lished in one of the leading English il-lustrated weeklies the Hudson rivet-Is shown to be spanned by two colossalbridges, one at Twenty-third street andthe other at Fifty-ninth street. Wherethe Imagination of the artist receivedits stimulus we cannot tell, though wemight hazard a guess, but certainlythis view was not drawn "upon thespot" or even "front a photograph."
The two structures referred to existonly upon paper. That at Twenty-thirdstreet was designed some dozen yearsago by tiustav Lillentlial. The Fifty-ninth street bridge bears a slight re-semblance to the design drawn up byan army board of engineers for a 3,000foot cnntalever with a view to estimat-ing Its cost Incomparison withthe costof a 3.0(H) foot suspension bridge. Bad-ly as these two bridges are needed, thecost is prohibitive, for not even themost sanguine promoter dares to assertthat their revenues would cover the in-terest 011 the initial outlay of from$110,000,000 to $140,000,000 for bridges,real estate and terminals.?ScientificAmerican.
Chrnp Puiiers 111 I.onilott.Halfpenny Journalism In London is
not the good thing it looks. ArthurPearson, whose Daily Express is LOll-- latest halfpenny journal, has re-cently Informed the public Hint he islosing $1,250 a day 011 his paper, tliatthe cost of the plant and preliminarywork made the first issue worth $500,-000, that to establish The Express willcost $1,250,000 and two years' veryhard work and that the next personwho wants to establish a dully paperIn London must spend s2,soo,ooo.?Ar-gonaut.
MfiKnetinm In Option.
It has tfecu discovered that the crys-talline lens of the human eye 1H slightlydiamagnctlc, or subject to magnetic re-pulsion. As astigmatism, the com.x-on-est cause of defective vision and themost frequent excuse for spectacles, Ismerely a slight distortion of thisIt has been suggested that treatmentwith a powerful magnet properly ap-
plied may result in forcing the lens In-to proper shape or at least in greatlyremedying the distortion.?New YorkBun.
OPERATORSARE DIVIDED
Continued from First Page.
At the present time the miners aremasters of the situation and there is not
tho slightest probability that theygo back to work until they got the wordfrom a convention of the Unitod MineWorkers.
YESTERDAY'S CONFERENCE.
The individual operators have sent acommittee to New York to seek a reduc-tion in freight charges, as they say thatotherwise they cannot meet the proposedwage advance.
The New York Times this morning isauthority for the statement that at
yesterday's conference John Markle anda number of the independent coal opera-tors asked the railroads not to makeany more concessions to the strikers.
Vice President Sayre, of the LehighValley Company, said that he met JohnMarkle and talked with him briefly.
"We are now waiting for the men,"said Mr. Sayre. "It will take themsome time to understand our oiTer, butthey willho all right in a few days."Mr. Sayre added that lie had not con-sidered what should be done if the menrefused to accept the offer.
A number of the railroad officials whoare directly interested in the negotia-tions for a settlement of the strike talk-ed over the situation and one of theofficials described the situation as "criti-cal in the extreme."
PARADE AT WILKESIIARRK.
The parade and mass meeting of theminers at Wilkosbarro yesterday wasthe greatest labor demonstration overheld in northeastern Pennsylvania.The parade, led by President Mitchelland the officers of the national execu-tive board, started a little after 2 o'clock,and it required an hour and twentyminutes to pass a given point. It isestimated that there were fully 15,000men and broakor hoys in line. Musicwas furnished by about forty hands anddrum corps.
Many banners and transparencieswere carried. The men from Pittstonhad a iloat with four men representing"Coal Harons." They were drinkingwhat purported to bo champagne.Directly following was a float withminers dining on bread and water. Astretcher was carried containing adummy representing a miner who hadjust lost his life in a mine.
President Mitchell reviewed the greatarmy of marchers on the river common.He was loudly applauded by the march-ers.
It was after 4 o'clock when the last ofthe marchers swept past President Mit-chell. Then he and his colleagues weredriven to West Sldo park, whore thebig mass meeting was held. For severalhours a crowd had hoen gathering there,and it was estimated that nearly 20,000
persons were massed in front of thestand when the union president beganto speak.
The national president was followedby Fred Dilcher, Benjamin James and"Mother" Jones.
President Mitchell's address did not
outline any future movo on the part ofthe labor leaders.
I.OOAB STRIKE NOTES.
There Is no particular change in thecondition of affairs here. The numberof cars hoisted where work isbeingdonois daily decreasing, showing that thestrikers aro gaining recruits.
Upwards of 100 young men of Free-land and Vicinity marched to Wilkes-harre yesterday. They left here about
2 a. m. and inarched hack again aftertaking part In the Mine Workers'parade.
Frank Hess, who hails from Blooms-hurg, a deputy stationed at Shaft 40, ofthe Lehigh Valley Coal Company, went
to sleep to his sorrow Monday night.When ho awakened next morning hediscovered he was minus his revolverand a fine gold watch and chain.?Sen-tinel.
John McElwee, whose discharge fromthe omploy of the Drffton companios bySuperintendent Kudllch was noted onMonday, has boon reinstated.
With both opera houses open lastevening?a political rally at the Grandand a Slavonian ball at Yannes'?thetown gave but little indication of beingthe centre of a great strike.
"Admiral Dewey" Slicml* III*Toetli.
Admiral Dewey, the little Java mon-key that was on the flagship Olympiaduring the battle of Manila with theadmiral, after whom he was named, isan inmate of the hospital at Lincolupark, Chicago.
lie no longer eats philopenas withthe children visitors, as peanuts arenow barred from his regular diet.Head Animal Keeper McCurren Is nowfeeding Idm gruel with a spoon on ac-count of the loss of the little fellow'steeth.
As the admiral Is now < years old,and as at this age monkeys shed theirteeth, he is "gumming" it, awaiting thegrowth of his new molars. AdmiralIs an Intelligent little fellow, and waspresented to the park by Major Thomp-son, who was the Olympla's surgeon,lie has been a resident of the parksince October, 181)0, and Is a great
favorite of the visiting public.
ZPIRIHSTT XJSTGrPromptly Done ut the Tribune Office.
ROUND THE REGION.
11. B. Howells, charged with forgingthe trade mark and labels of the PerunaMedicine Company, of Ohio, and sellinga substitute medicine of his own for thegenuine, pleaded guilty at Wllkesbarre.lie was lined SSOO.
This Is the season when mothers arealarmed on account of croup. It isquickly cured by One Minute CoughCure, which children like to take.Grover's City drug store.
Peter McAndrews, of Rappahanock,was run over by a Philadelphia andReading passenger train near Girard-villeon Monday and was instantly killed.It is thought that he sat down on thetrack while on his way home late at
night and went to sleep.Torturing skin eruptions, burns and
sores are soothed at once and promptlyhealed by applying DoYVitt's WitchHazel Salve, the best known cure forpiles. Beware of worthless counter-feits. Grover's City drug store.
While Mrs. Patrick Gallagher wasgathering coal from an abandoned strip-ping of the Lehigh Valloy Coal Com-pany, in the southern part of Ilazleton,Monday afternoon, a huge piece of rockbecame loosened and fell upon her head,killing her.
Feelings of safety pervade the house-hold that uses One Minute Cough Cure,the only harmless remedy that producesimmediate results. It is infallible forcoughs, colds, croup and all throat andlung troubles. It willprevent consump-tion. Grover's City drug store.
The following have announced theirIntention of becoming independent can-didates in Lackawanna county and arecirculating nomination papers for sig-natures: Congress, Frank M. Spencer;judge, Cornelius Smith; sheriff, GeorgeLothier.
It is well to know thatDoWitt's WitchHazel Salve willheal a burn and stopthe pain at once. It will cure eczemaand skin diseases and ugly wounds andsores. It is a certain cure for piles.Counterfeits may bo offered you. Seethat you get theoriginal DoWitt's WitchHazel Salve. Grover's City drug store.
The 700 employes of the Reading IronCompany at Danvillo have decided to
accept the 25 per cent reduction in theirwages, which went into effect on Sep-tember 10, and against which theystruck.
Do not get scared if your heart trou-
bles you. Most likelyyou suffer from in-digestion. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digestswhat you eat and gives the worn outstomach perfect rest. It is the onlypreparation known that completelydigests all classes of foods; that is whyit cures the worst cases of indigestionand stomach trouble after everythingelse has failed. a It may he taken in allconditions and* cannot help but do yougood. Grover's City drug store.
The following priests were the guests
of Rev. Father Phillips at dinner yester-day: Fathers Burgr&af, White Haven;Brchony, Eckley; Malloy, McAdoo;Mack and Fallihee, Freeland; Dover,Beaver Meadow; Bunco, Mauch Chunk;and Peruzzie and Marcella, Ilazleton. ?
Plain Speaker.
Dr. W. 11. Lewis, Lawroncevillo, Va.,writes, "1 am using Kodol DyspepsiaCure in my practice among severe casesof indigestion and find it an admirableremedy." Many hundreds of physiciansdepend upon the use of Kodol DyspepsiaCure in stomach troubles. It digestswhat you eat, and allows you to eat allthe good food you need, providing youdo not overload your stomach. Givesinstant relief and a permanent cure.Grover's City drug store.
John Lapp, street commissioner of
Ilazleton, died this morning at the agoof 57 years.
A. 11. Stroll has been appointed post-master at Christopher, and R. A. Floydat Plains, both in this county.
The Shamokin MillingCompany's mil)
and storehouses were destroyed yester-
day morning. Loss, $50,000.
Shickshinny's new national bankopened for business on Monday.
The Woodpecker.
There was once an old woman wholived in a little house. She wore arend cap on her head, a black dress anda white dress and a white apron withthe strings tied behind.
One day St. Peter called on the oldwoman and he was very hungry. The
old woman was baking cakes on agriddle. The good saint asked her fora cake. She looked at the cake shewas baking and thought it was toolarge to give him. so she baked anotherone. She thought this one was also
too large, and kept on baking cakeswhich kept getting smaller.
St. Peter became angry and told herto fly up the chimney and peck forher living.?Josephine Yosburg In Phil-adelphia Press. ?
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