THE SCUAXTOX THIHUXE FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH S, 1895.
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Day in and day ont, tells with a more emphatic voice than any word could, that the intelligent buyers of Scranton
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And why shouldn't they? Go to any importer, o to any factory or pottery in the country, and they won't attempt to match our present
selling prices, no matter in what quantities you buy, therefore prudent economy dictates buying now. With such figures
as these before you, who is strong enough to resist the temptation to participate
in the present bargain plunder ?
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CHINA AND PORCELAIN.
Wc have opened a few crates more of the $'2.?IS tea sets, 5. IK) din
ner sets, aiul and SJ.il toilet sets, which were oversold early in
the week, and which were fully described in the Monday's issue of
The Tribune. They cannot remain long in stock, und those desiring
tliciu had better get a move on.
NEW ITEMS.
l ine l'nglisli Porcelain Decorated Dinner Set, under glazed und
illuminated with gold. Avery handsome 1 1 J pieee set at $12.75. These
are Alfred Mcaiiiti's celebrated goods,. We need say no more.
A few tine China Dinner Sets (not many) are still oil hand. At
SlH.St the value is simply superb.
As dainty a China Tea Set as any person could desire, with quaint
and delicate decorations in blue, $11. SO. Actually worth about $;tU.
After dinner Coll'ees. All sorts of pretty mid unique styles Ulc. up.
Real China Cuspidores, richly decorated und new shapes, :t!e.
Toilet Sets at less than they cost to make. No cud to the assortment.
GLASSWARE, ETC.
Hundreds of our lc. and 2'Jc. Tea Sets (creams, sugur, butter and
spoon holders have been sold. Stock is getting light. Come early.
Fine liht blown barrel shape, engraved o-line ramblers, 4Sc. per
doen. Were 7Sc.
Handsome half gallon imitation (ait Class Pitchers, l!c.
GLASSWARE, ETC.
Water Sets, hand engraved, (i tuihblers, 1 pitcher and tray. Pret
ty imported goods at !M(c.
Hand painted and gold illuminated raised decoration Water Sets,
1J glasses, pitcher and tray, and lovely as a poem, $1,48,
Austrian Chromatic Class Water Sets, 3 colors und gold, hand
painted. SJ.lt.
Imitation cut glass Horry Sets, U-inch dish with 6 individuals, 43c.
Hich imitation cut glass Kerry Sets.'J-inch dish with 12 individuals 97
We've only touched on our glassware. Hundreds of other things
await your inspection and prices are Just us low all around.
LAMPS.
Handsome Vase Table Lamps, with decorated shades to match, and
Al burners, 71c, ilOc. and SI. IS. Central Draft Lamps, the best burn
er made, handsome vase base, with decoruted 10-inch shades, $2.15.
BANQUET LAMrS-Elegant designs, central draft burn
ers, silk and lace shades, $2.75.
ltesides this line we have a magnificent range of lianquet Lamps
in high art designs in brass, bronze, gold gilt, onyx, etc. No end to the
assortment, and prices lower than you dream of.
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HANGING LAMPS-ln chandeliers, shade lamps, hall
lamps, etc., at figures which are sure to make you smile. We dou't
want to carry one of them with us to our new quarters, no, not one.
SILVERWARE.
lingers' highest grade triple plate Knives and 1'orks, $2.98 per
dozen. Handsome R-pieee quadruple plate and gold-lined Tea Sets,
large size, best goods ina&e, $18.75.
Four-piece quadruple plate Tea Sets, u wonderful value, $9.74.
Children's Silver Plate .Mugs, our regular line goods, 89c.
Triple Plate Pickle Castors, 99c.
Triple Plate Butter Dishes, 71c.
Touch us at any point throughout our Silverware Stock, and you'll
find our prices just as interesting.
BRIC-A-BRAC, ETC.
Japanese sugars and creams, ISc. per set. China decorated vases,
per pair, 21c. China Chocolaie Pots, very handsome, 98c.
Our Havilaud China, real cut glass, and general ISric-a-Bruc goes
at a big sacrifice, and the assortment is excellent. No need to quote
figures on such goods. Connoisseurs are invited to call.
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A DETECTIVE I STRy '
(These short serial stories are copyrighted by Bachelor, Johnson & Each
eller.and ar printed InTheTrlbuno by special arrangement, simultaneous with
their appearance In the leading dally journals of the largo cities).
CIIAPTKR lit.
In my case I suppose that something
did, for I "t up ami wrote a ltter to
Mrs. Hrln'Vt-nii In which I told li. r that
1 accepted the case and would do the
b-st I could for tii" accused, and thnt
it looked lik a hopeless affair. In re
sponse to till.- I received a not.- of brief I
thanks. Inclosing a crl:-p five hundred
dollar hill as u r- talnh.i; (: Thai the
pile face ut lh" man's wife hail deter
mined mo Is nut unlikely, fur It onme
h tck to me In the ninht with the
strangest persistency and the mime un
warranted look of tru.it In the gray
eyes.
The trial was set down to come on
about the first of .May, ami there
was about a month's time to K''t ready
fur It. I wast-d almiit a week in the
Conviction that nil I could do was to
dispute the evidence Inch by Inch, and
in the Inst resort show that Clarkson
was Klven to emotional aberrations
nnd was at times Irresponsible. Hut
whenever my mind reverted to the
matter thnt miserable; womnn's face
rose up with ii n awful reproach In It,
nnd then I fell to excusing myself to
myself ns If t had not done rlrht.
one monilnir, with an entirely Inex
plicable Impulse, I went down to the
Mothers
have never found a preparation
so well pdaptcd to the needs of
thin, delicate children, as Scott's
Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil, with
Ilypophospliitcs.
Children almost universally
like the taste of it, which makes
iU administration easy, and it
supplies their blood with the
food properties that overcome
wasting tendencies.
Scott's Emulsion enriches the
blood, promotes tho making of
liealthy flesh, nnd aids in a
healthy formation of tho bones.
Don't lie persuaded to accept a
substitute.
8ca(tfcBowM,N.V, Ml DruggliU. SOctndit.
place In Vnrlck street. I found Mrs.
Clarkson lyinK in one room on the
third floor of a dismally dirty barracks,
with two extraordinarily beautiful
children, scantily but tidily dressed,
playlnK about the floor, and occasion
ally asking when papa would come
buck. She had taken in some kind of
needle workbutton v.oik.
showed me. She had to cover the linn
frames of the buttons with silk, and
arrange them on a card, for which sht
Rot twenty-five cents a dozen, nnd by
the utmost Industry could never ciult'
make two cards a day of a dozen but
tons each. Iler flnKer ends were black
with needlo marks. She looked weary
nnd sick, but she did not complain.
Nothing that ever I had encountered In
my experience as u lawyer or
as a man so moved my sym
pathy ns this woman. Instinctive
ly I knew that she had been Kently
bred; that she had loved n worth
less man nnd this was her penalty for
continuing to love him. I knew that
she woidd cling to him through nil mis
fortune nnd be tlie last to leave lilin
when bis doom came. I felt myself
treating her with a line courtliness that
was Inspired by respect, the respect wo
always feel for something thnt Is a lit
tle above our human rnni?e.
It was difficult to' pull myself out of
this mood nnd come down to the prnc
tli ul business of a lawyer, but It was
neressary.
"Mrs, Clarkson," I snld, "It Is neces
sary that wo look nt this matur In the
most cold-blooded way. We huve got
to iriuke the effort to snve your hus
band beset on almost every side by Hi
most Insuperable difficulties, nnd shut
Into one or two miserably narrow
courses. I hnve got to prove an alibi
or establish his Insanity."
"I)o you mean by Insanity thnt you
will ndmlt thnt ho Committed tho deed
In n mad fit?"
"Perhnps that would be the most
Judicious course, and then throw our
selves on the sympathy of the Jury and
tho mercy of the court."
Klie shook her head with a sad dlg
nlty. "He did not commit tho deed,'
she snld.
"Perhaps not, Thnt mny lie a moral
certainty with you. Hut a lawyer must
huve facts. How are we to prove that
he did not?"
Her answer startled me a little. It
was snld cnlmly, and as If she saw no
dlllli'ully about It.
"Ily proving that some ono else did
It," she said.
I
nave you some one else in your
mind?" I n.-iked quickly.
he hesitated a moment and then
said: "No, but there must bo some mi"
els-. Is that not your llrst and only
task?"
Hhe was standing in front of me.
Tin? two beautiful children were clinK-
Inn'. one on cither side, to her dress.
She reached down and put her hands on
their heads. 7t was a lovely (-roup of
Innocence, und made a touching appeal.
I feel sure that you will do it," she
added.
When I came away, I felt that In
some way my visit had been a failure.
I hud meant to place tho obdurate facts
mm-
Ity Proving Thnt Some (tnc l.lse Did It."
before her and ask her to nsslst me in
WorkliiK out ttiti alibi or establishing
her husband's 'tendency to emotlimal
Insanity. She had looked upon both
HtiggerttionH with a dlcnilied contempt
nml asked me to find the person who
really committed the deed.
I made up my mind Unit I was to get
no practical assistance from the wife,
and In my extremity I sent for Amos
iJnryl, who was thin employed In the
Secret service In Washington,
I hud not seen him In several years,
but he owed his position to me nml he
wns the only detective I l:nev for
whose abilities I bud a profound re
spect, l.mklly lie was able to get
away, and b" came to New York
promptly to see me.
Ihiryl was a great, brawny, raw
boned fellow with a chllil'B simple
mlndedness; one of those men who de
reive you completely In appearance
nnd manner, lie might easily have
been mistaken for tin Adirondack
guide on 11 vlalt to the city. Hut he
was well known to the police authori
ties nnd most of the criminal lawyeni.
lie listened to me ns 1 went over all
the details of the nlTalr, und I don't
think he spoke once till I told him
what Mrs. l.'larkHim had paid; then he
sndled, put his ' long hands In his
pockets, nml stretching out his Inter
minable legs remarked: "A good Idea."
"I huve told you all that there Is to It.
What Is your opinion 7"
"My opinion Is that Mrs. Clarkson
suspects some one else and hasn't told
you. Give me a card to Mrs. Piinevuau,
and three or four days' time."
Just before he left, he snld: "You'd
better give mo a card to Mr. Ureve,
while you are about It. I want to see
that bullet, and I shall have to get nn
order from him."
After two days' tlipa he came back.
It was about ten o'clock hi the morn
ing and ho sauntered Into my ttudy In
his careless mniiner, unlimbered him
self In a big chair, and then as usual
waited for mo to open the conversa
tion. "Well, Amos,", I said, throwing down
my pen nnd wheeling round, "you've
come back a little sooner than I ex
pected. Have you got uny thing to suy
to me?"
"Not much."
He said this with his nggravatlng
vacuity, and stopped. Ono hand was
thrust Into his pocket, the other sup
ported his head In an eusy. Indolent
sprawling position.
"I suppose you have made up your
mind; it Is a waste of time trying to
save that man. Well, I about made up
my mind to that myself, somo time
UK')."
"I o you mind telling mo how you got
Into this case?" he usked.
"As that Is a private matter nnd you
nre not disposed to take any share In
the case, 1 don't see why I should
make you n confidant."
"lild Mrs. I'rineveau ask you to de
fend Clarkson?"
"Ah! Mr. lirevo told you?"
"No he didn't."
"Then, Mrs. I'rineveau?"
"Mr.1!. I'rineveau would not talk to
me. 1 scared her."
"Scared her? you must havs lost your
tact."
"No. I haven't."
"I.im,1c here, Daryl," I said, a little
nettled. "You are one of the cleverest
men In a particular line I ever met.
This whole thing Is In a nutshell.
Klther that man Clarkson shot Mr.
I'rineveau or he didn't. If he didn't
shoot him ho must have been somewhere
at the time, lie says he was drunk und
If so some one must have seen him nt
some resort far nwny from the scene of
the crime. It's u plain piece of work to
find out the man's resorts nnd get hold
of the persons who saw him there on
that day. That's all there Is to It, nnd
I don't mind telling you Hint 1 haven't
a bit of faith in the task, but there's tt
chance."
linryl did not say anything for a mo
ment. He worked his big list 111 his
pocket mechanically, and looked down
at bis heavy boots ns If he were at a
complete loss. Presently he said, drawl
Ingly: "Yes, that would be a waste of
time."
"Then you have made up your mind
that CliuiiHoii In gullly7"
V:JJ-
MUtHOIflXtUtUtnHlilridMllV'IIMIlKIl
ABSOLUTELY PURE
THE OLD RELIABLE
SWEET CAPORAL
CIGARETTE
' Hu ilod tht Test of Tim
M0RE80LD THAN ALL OTHER
BRANDS COMBINED
"No o. I've made up my mind he Is
Innocent."
"Have you seen him?"
"Ye s. Saw his wife, too."
"And he convinced you that ha was
Innocent'."
"N o. His wife convinced me."
I laughed. "You're more susceptible
than I supposed," I said. "She would
have convinced me, too, If 1 hadn't
kept my wits' about me."
Daryl threw his head back nnd pulled
at his lion-gray whiskers a moment.
"I Think 1 know Who Committed That
.Murder."
Then ho snld In a schoolboy way: "1
think I know who committed that mur
der, old fellow."
"Hoyou? Who?"
"Mrs. I'rineveau!"
If he hndto!d me that he thought I
had committed It, 1 don't think 1 could
have been more astonished. I gave an
Incredulous start. "I wish you'd give
me the facts upon which you have
built that uulck and pardon me for
saying It that preposterous conclu
sion." "I haven't got a single fact yet," he
replied. "I'll look for the facts If you
like, later on."
"VVhut In heaven's name then have
you got to warrant such a conclusion."'
"Kinder got the truth. It's different
from facts. Can't foot It up. but you
feel It nil the same. I tillers prefer It
to facts to begin with, for the facts
kinder lit Into 11, easy like."
I got up und took u turn or two. My
nil ml did not easily adjust It Pelf to this
possibility. Ihiryl reached out his long
arm nnd played with the paper weight
on my table contentedly.
"Amos," f wild, "I don't know what
to make of this, and I think that you
ought to tell me exactly how this no
tion got Into your mind."
He toyed with tho paper weight, nnd
did not look nt me. I could see Unit he
was somewhat at a loss how to explain
himself.
"Well," ho finally said, "I ain't good
at tracking my own notions, ns you call
'cm, but I don't mind saying In n glu
ernl way thnt the truth slips Into some
people's systems without their knowln'
how. As a rule It's a woman's system,
and ten to one It's a womun like Mrs.
Clarkson. Why, If her husband had
murder on his clothes she'd smell It
over night. She knows every tilrn of
his big lubberly heart. She knows ho
hasn't killed anybody, and I'd tnko her
word for it. A woman knows a lot ciC
things that a man don't."
"Yes," I said, "she knows how to
play on a man's susceptibilities."
"Mrs. Prlnevenu don't want to play
on my susceptibilities, does she? You
saw her, and talked with her, didn't
you?" - ,'
"Yes. I did." . . .
"And she struck you as a conscien
tious, self-respecting, kindly old party,
didn't she?"
"She certainly Impressed me as a
woman who had nothing to conceal
and was nnxious that lusMce siiouli be
tempered v i'.li men y."
"Very cool, and collected, and digni
fied." "Most assuredly.''
"Well, when she mot me, she gave a
start. 'Who brought you Into the case?"
she said. "Not you, madam, of course.'
says 1, and she gave a little ,twitch. '1
wanted," says I, lo take a look at that
bullet. ' She snatched at the back of
the chair, nnd laid In a lug breath.
'You had better go to my lawyer. I
don't thing ho will let you see il.' 'I'm
not sure that he has it, madam.' I said.
'I have seen It. und It was never made
for a. pistol barrel.'
"Say, old fellow, that's n woman,
nnd she'll beat up Is the end if we don't
use a woman's tactics. She just braced
herself nnd began to act, but tt was too
late. 'Ah,' says she, 'you have some
new theory In tho ease or some new
light. 1 wish you would go to my law
yer with it and If you wish any mate
rial assistance why you can come to me
afterward."
"I call that simply prodigious; she
says to herself: 'Here's a dangerous
man. I'll get Mr. Creve to handle him
and I'll handle Mr. Creve. and 1 11
throw out a hint of money at the same
time.' "
Then Amos Davyl struck the paper
weight that he held hi his hand em
phatically on the table, nnd. t. lining
round, paid: "My friend, th.it woman
had no sooner clnpt her eyes on me
than she understood Ihc truth, and the
truth was this; thai somebody had ar
rived that she couldn't hoodwink. I
tell you. a woman's thinking apparatus
is lightning sometimes."
I sat down lu front of Haryl. "You
nmaze me," 1 said. "Suppose you turn
to tho fads now. The bullet was not
made for a pistol barrel."
"No. The pistol Is a little Krench
plaything. There aiv not twenly-tive
of them in tiie country, for we make
those things better here. Hut It was
made nt u French factory where th"
cartridges are nil moulded. Tho bul
let from Mr. 1'ilneveau's body was not
moulded. It was cut from a piece of
lend and shaped with an Instrument.
You imii see the marks of a line tile on
It If you use a glass."
"Hut," 1 observed, "the bullet en
tered Mr. l'rlneve.iu's side through his
clothing, the hole wis found In his
vest. It must have been II rod from
that side, nnd Mrs. I'rinovoau was on
tho other side."
"See hero." said Daryl. getting up
suddenly. "1 don't mind being a little
rish Just for once, and I'll hot you n
trip ticket to Vlorlda, inhere you can see
my little orange grove, nfter this case
Is decided, that Mr. I'rineveau didn't
wear the vest with tho hole In It when
he was killed In tho carriage. Have
you been up to Sixty sixth street and
Fourth aveniio to look, the ground
over?"
"No."
"Well, I have. It was S o'clock when
Mr. l'rlneviwu wns killed. "J ,h,'r'
wus a steady stiff wljul blowing from
tho northeast with plenty of snow, but
It wus light enough to see westward
across tho open lots to the Fifth ave
nue. If thoro hud boon anybody within
a thouswnd feet the couchmun or Mrs.
I'rineveau could havp seen him. To
suppose thnt a little French pistol could
have carried further than that straight
to Mr. Frlnevoau's heart 1b ono of
those yarns that would make a ma
rine sick. My dear fellow, I've talked
more today than I have In six months.
But Mrs. Clarkson was dead right when
she said the thing to do Is to prove that
some one else committed the crime."
"Can we do It?"
"We can find that person, hut to
prove it well, to tell you the truth. I
don't believe we will, for that person
I is as clever as four lawyers and eight
ordinary detectives, and has had tho
start of us for a year or more."
"Where are you going now?"
"I'm going over to take some things
to that woman in Yarriok street. I
don't believe she is comfortable, and
I'm dead sure she hasn't any friends.
I'll see you in the m rning with some
facts, if I run across "em."
To He Continued
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iMKonle ra of Sleep, Nerve Strain, Morbid
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l ulu in the Head, Sensitiveness of the
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Mind, a Feeling of Anxiety, Sensation of
Hisxlnrss, lieneral Hodlly Weakness, I'oor
Appetite, Constipation, Toor Circulation,
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Proud or Ker, l'aln In the Rack and
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For threatened tlrnln Softening, due te
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In nil eases of Chronic Nerve Strain of
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All NeuriilKlc conditions nre simply ex
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See h Specialist.
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