THE SCBJlNTON TKIBUNE SATUHDAT MORNINU. JULY 6. 189J.
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Of and - About the
Makers of - Books.
Notices of Recent Interesting Volumes and
Chats Concerning Literary Men and Women.
AGNOSTICISM AND RELIGION.
Believing that sclentMo discovery,
properly tindeijstood, la (he comple
ment and not the foe of religion, and
that the prevalent antl-thelstlo spirit
threatens not only Individual future
happiness, but also the very founda
tions of present civilisation. Rev.
George J. Lucas, of Archbald, when
standing- as a candidate for the first
doctorate In dogmatic theology at the
Catholic university of America, chose
s the theme for his dissertation a con
sideration of Herbert Bpencer'a religion
f the unknowable, or modern agnosti
cism in Its most synthetic, and attrac
tive form. His discussion of the sub
ject, now printed in book form by John
Murphy & Co.. Baltimore, must take
high rank in Christian polemics, both
for Its scrupulous fairness to the oppo
sition and for the Incisive logic with
which It asserts the thelstlc position.
It should be added that Mr. l.uias
writes not as a Catholic, but as a Chris
tian: and that the tenor of his argument
responds to the warning voice of the
late Hishop Brooks when he suld: "The
wo: Id is trembling on the brink of
atheism, while men are frittering away
their. lives In championing the shib
boleths of their creeds."
Prefixed to the author's main argu
ment is a history. In 4Z pages, of the
rise of agnosticism from Xenophanes
to Spencer which Is a marvel of fair
condensation. Beginning with an ex
planation of the origin of the word ag
nostic, which, was first used by the late
Professor Huxley, and not very aptly
either, to designate those persons who.
In modern time, represent the opposite
extreme to the pretentious and know
all Gnostics of the early church, the
author proceeds to note the origin, rise
and decline of each separate philoso
phic school which, within the purview
of recorded hlstory.has sought to evolve
a metaphysical hypothesis for existing
things Independent of the conception
of a living God. We have not the space
at our command to follow Mr. Lucas,
as we would like to. through his keen
dissections of the fallacies of each of
these various schools: but we pause to
note a significant passage or two. First,
in his section on Hindu Sensationalism,
since the ithought In tt possesses gen
eral . applicability, the author truly
say: .
When a school of philosophers bid adieu
to the principle of God's existence, th?y
promise fair to leave alt else that is noble
In truth beside. The history of philosophy
points to no non-theistlc school which has
not torn piece-meal all that Is exalted in
man, the grandeur of his higher nature,
his superiority over matter, the essential
difference between him and the lowr
forms of Kfe and the imperiahableneas of
the higher part of him when the lower and
material part of his existence has begjn
to perish. Divorce from the verity that
we know God to exist, is divorce from all
the fountain principles of true philosophy,
morality and religion.
Referring to. Aristotle; "the father of
modern realism' Mr. Lucas writes:
Aristotle was a physicist only per aecl-
dens, he was first and last a metaphysi
cian. 1 think every person will admit that
there has never been a man. and most
probably never shall be, however super
(mlcent he may be in Intellect, who can
dispense with the experimental science of
his time, and wing his mental flight Into
the highar planes of revolutionized prog
ress of the ages yet unborn, and see things
In those ages which his contemporaries
cannot even dream of. The great scientlilc
genilusts have, as a rule, made but one no
table discovery; this was effected at times
by chance, often after long and weary
years of search, most often because the
age had grown up to and was ripe for the
new point of progress. The reason is
simple, the physical sciences depend on
experiment and observation. If these are
not at hand. Intellect has no lamp to guide
It, Inquiry no path to follow. Aristotle's
physics were not his defects, but the Im
perfections of that age. It was not an era
of great natural discoveries.
From Aristotle our author Jumps
over the mediaeval ages, In which,
however much religion may have been
pervertiT It was at no time seriously
threatened by skepticism, and takes up
the discussion of modern agnostic doc
trines, beginning with Lord Bacon,
the brilliant, dogmatic and, shall we
not say, conceited restorer of the physi
cal sciences. Introductory to this con
sideration of agnosticism's modern
manifestations, Dr. Lucas says:
If we disregard Its antique form. Agnos
ticism culminated In the Sophist's supreme
dictum that all cognition Is encircled
within the circumference of the mind's
affections; that Is, It does not transcend
the phenomenal or subjective Impressions
of the age. For this is also the final word
of actual Agnostic philosophy. In this.
their message to this age, the trinity of
the latest apostles, Messrs. Huxley, Tyn-
dall and Spencer, are lir.exultant accord,
In beginning, therefore, to trace the resus
citation and growth of modern Agnosti
cism from Bacon to Mr. Spencer, wears
viewing not so much a progression ns a
retrogression, not so much an onward ns
a backward march to the days when the
voice of Protagoras and the others spoke
to the cities of Greece.
The adventitious and circumlocutory
philosophy of Descartes, which Profes
sor Huxley has eulogized as embodying
the golden rule of science, hi shown to
be not JMly not original with Descartes,
Its centii.JVlnclple "I think, therefore,
I am" having been uttered centuries
prior- by St. Augustine, but also not
what It pretends to be, that Is, basic
and fundamental. "If," says Dr. Lucas,
"we do not pre-suppose and pre-admlt
the principle of contradiction, vis.
that It hi Impossible for the same thing
to be and not to be at the same time and
In the same circumstances what will
become of Descartes' prime principle
and first foundation, 'I thlnkT "With,
out the principle of contradiction, the
statement 'I think' and 'I don't think,'
1 now am thinking' and 'I now am not
thinking,' will be In equal glory, the
one will be as true as the other, and the
Cartesian first principle, 1 think,' (no
longer a first principle since subordi
nate' to the principle of Contradiction)
will fade like a fair morning draam."
Since this Cartesian doubt Is the cor
ner stone of modern agnosticism, the
author devotes considerable attention
to It, and Is especially happy In his refur
tarton of Professor Huxley's well known
championship of It. Quoting from the
professor' address to the Cambridge
Young Men's Christian society in which
he said, "Existence la thought, all our
conceptions of existence bemg some
kind or other of thought," Dr. Lucas
enters vigorous denial a follows:
W do not conceive existence as thought,
but as the 'object of thought,. What la
mors, w conceive existence as Independ'
ent of thought Did Professor Huxley be
lieve that the young men 61 Cambridge
existed because during his address they
were present to his thoughts? Were bis
thoughts and their existence Identical?
Did he not know that they existed and sat
before him Independently of his or any
other person's thought? If "existence Is
thought." we must suppose tnat rroressor
Huxley ceased to exist when he retired to
rest at night, and resumed existence when
he awoke next morning. Froresaor Mux
ley may have indulged In this pleasant
process of nocturnal annihilation and ma
tutinal re-creation of himself each time
that he ceased to think and each time that
he resumed his thoughts, but this Is not
the lot of ordinary mortals.
With Locke,' our author finds fault
that he pushed sensationalism to so
extreme a point that he came well nigh
to overlooking the objective external
validity of substance; and with regard
to Hume he enters the Just criticism
th.it because, In his empiricism, Hume
could find no room for the principle
of causation, he very unfairly and In
conclusively Ignored It altogether.
Kantlstn Is pronounced insufficient be
cause It arbitrarily limits the human
intellect to the sphere of experience;
positivism, ns championed by August
Comte, in Its rejection of the super
sensuous, is believed by Dr. Luciis to
carry with itself the germs of Its own
early decay; while as for John Stuart
Mill's Ingenious attempt to supply a
metaphysical leaven to Hume's ex
treme idealist sensl.m by free use of his
principle of the association of ideas, the
author evinces respect but not convic
tion. This brings us. very hurriedly it
is true, through the history of agnosti
cism and up to the scientific material
ism of our own day. which has had such
heroic defense from Tyndall. Huxley
and Herbert Spencer. Dr. Lucas
chooses to argue with Spencer rather
than with the other two, because, as he
says:
"Professors Huxley and Tyndall have
embodied their views In no systematic
philosophic shape. They have edited
no ordered corps of Agnostic doctrine;
they could not, as what has come from
their pen has been In the forms of criti
cisms and replies. It has been reserved
for Herbert Spencer, the third of these
distinguished expositors of the new anJ
now potent schoot of the physical
science Agnostics, to reduce to a sys
tematic unity ths actual form of the
Agnostic creed." This he has done in
his Synthetic Philosophy, to which Dr.
Lucas devotes the main portion of his
argument.
II.
Mr. Spencer's position, as outlined In
his Synthetlo Philosophy, Is concisely
stated In an Introductory chapter to
Part II of Dr. Lucas' book to be the
belief, shared with Sir William Hamil
ton and Mr. Mansel, that all knowledge
Is relative, and that beyond knowledge
Is an Inscrutable Absolute which, In
Mr. Spencer's system. Is ,cmHed the
Unknowable and made to do service as
God. Science, In that system, has to
do with knowledge; religion, with con
jecture, but both are recognized a of
use to mankind and neither Is discour
aged. ' The chief ' part' of Dr. Lucas'
essay Is devoted, as we shall see, to
an examination of this Ill-defined Un
knowable, from the standpoint of his
tory. The first objection that our author
brings to Mr. Spencer's concept of re
ligion is that he seems to consider his
pronouncement that Science is knowl
edge and Religion nescience as not
needing any proof. , Contrary to com
monly accepted definition, he lays this
assertion down as his distinctive view
and yet makes no effort to sustain It.
Dr. Lucas is unwilling to take Mr.
Herbert Spencer's Ipse dixit on so vital
a point In preference to the concensus
of opinion of all prior philosophers and
religious systems. Another basic gen
erality of the Synthetic Philosophy
which, In our author's Judgment, Is sim
ply asserted and In nowise sustained
consists of the declaration that re
ligion is simply "a theory of original
causation," while Its essential charac
ters and forms are merely a "supple
mentary growth." "Were the 'moral
coue a simply supplementary growth,"
Dr. Lucas observes, "we should be
able to find religions existing, at some
period of their history, without a
moral code; and we should find that
religious creeds In general attach a
greater Importance to the theory than
to the practice. But all is to the con
trary. In beholding the religions of
the universe, not mere theory but prac
tice strikes us everywhere." In proof
of which he adds:
The doctrine of love, sacrifice and prayer
Is preached In Vedlc Hinduism. Oua
tama summed up his teaching In the verso:
"To cease from sin, to get virtue, to
cleanse the heart that Is the rellg'on of
th HwMhas."
Repentance and a good life are at .the
core -of the Confucian creed. Confucius
remarks "Those who multiply good deeds
will have Joys to overflowing; thosa who
multiply evil deeds will have calumltls
running over." The Pelasglans and the
ancient Germans worshipped Ood when
they had no name to express Him. He
cause of Its dreaded sanctity, Jehovah, the
ineffable name of the Supreme Being, was
not pronounced by the Jews,. Ths Kgyp
tlans never uttered the name of the Ood
Osiris, so awful their Veneration. Sculp
tor and scribe spelled It backwards, that
Is. Instead of "As-afl" they wrote It
"Arl-aa." Before Mahomet, the Islamite
worshipped the stars of Lot and Ozia and
Manah and the 300 Idols of the temple of
Mecca. In the religion of Mahomet fast
ing and prayer and alms are among the
essentluls, the Koran Is a book of rellg'ous
practices. The aboriginal North American
Indians, from Alaska to Mexico, believed
in religious ceremonies, and practiced pro
pitiatory self-torture.- In Zoroastrlanlnm,
which was the Mate religion of ancient
Persia, the Parses worshtp flro as the
symbol of the purity and efrtVnce of
God. The Pharosh, like the jffclsh high
priest, alone entered the Holy of Holies to
present the oblations of his people. In a
word, looking back upon the historic past,
we find not a single race of men. In all the
cycles of human history, who for a single
moment held the theoretical separate from
the practical In religion,
A thtrl statement of the Synthetic
Philosopher equally excites our author's
opposition. , This Js the postulate that
"the reality existing behind all appear
ance i. and-must ever be unknown."
The purpose of this dictum la, of
oourse, to fortify Mr. Spencer' theory
that the First Cause I Unknowable,
therefore Unknown. But after convict
ing the Relativist philosophers, to whoso
testimony Mr. Spencer had appealed,
of confused ideas'' and notorious, disa
greement as to the hypothesis that all
knowledge is derivable through the
. senses and therefor 'empirical, Dr.
Lucas proceeds to establish that In alt
ages a First Cause was known, not per
fectly, Indeed, ilno v4 orthodox re
ligion does not clothe man with the
power perfectly to understand the In
finite, but Imperfectly, and far beyond
the boundary line of flat negation.
No one will deny, says he, that Christi
anity, Judaism, and Mohammedanism are
monothelsts) beliefs and admit aa extra
kosmio Personal Creator. Similarly the
Paroees believed In a Personal Bod, Alura
Maada, which Is interpreted the Omnis
cient Lord. whj is the ruler and framer of
the universe. The Confuctanlsts also be
lieve In the one Tt, "the supreme rulor and
governor of all subordinate spirits." The
Urahmo-SomaJ, the newest creed In India,
read the Veritas and the Upanishads as
teaching a conslmilar doctrine. A like
doctrine was professed In the early faiths
of Egypt, of China, of India, of Assyria,
of Babylonia, and of Keltic Druidhlsm. No
wonder, then, that Max Muller, In his fa
mous philological proof, draws the conclu
sion that the Finns and Lapps and Tchu
vashea, the Huns and Chinese, and other
Turanian races had, In those primeval
times before they separatod, one common
religion which was a worship of heaven as
the emblem of the Deity, the lnflntto.
Likewise that the Arabians, the Assyrians,
the Phoenlcans, the Babylonians, the
Carthaginians and all who belonged to the
Semitic family of men, Invoked aa the Su
preme God, El, the Strong One In heaven,
and were united In one common worship of
Him In that primitive age before there
were Babylonluns In Babylon, Phoeni
cians In Tyre and Sldon or Jews In Meso
potamia. Finally, that the whole Ayran
race, llreeks, Latins, Slavs, Kelts, Teu
tons and the eople of India before Homer
sung the Iliad or the Veda was written,
worshipped the Supreme Being whom they
named the Heaven Father, "Our Father
who art In heaven." With one harmon
ious voice these people all proclaim that
there exists a Supreme 1-iord and Ruler
who controls their destinies and whom
they are bound to worship and love. This
is surely knowledge, not, Indeed, of the
most perfect kind, but still knowledge.
Such a Ood Is not unknowable, but known.
Of all religions of which there is rec
ord Dr. l.llcn-a rvirnrilB Mlnilil Piinthp.
Ism as coming the nearest to Mr. Spen-
(Hir1!! pnnnent nf tha Tlnkmiwuhta. rtnr
even this unique conception clearly
proves trie insufficiency or tne proposed
Agnostic substitute for Christianity.
A a. reNirlon it In. anv Tr l.npnn "In.
sufficient because It ncda the divine.
A being to worship and revere, on
whom our finite hehilossness dvnenda
that is, a God, Is demonstrated as a
natural need for the human race by
the Incompleteness of the teaching of
Sakyamunl. Worship, reverence, rec
ognition of dependence on the Deify
clearly presuppose Him knowable, how
ever vague may be the knowledge. This
mages uuuciiusm a strong though nega
tive proof of the knowableness of Ood
Its very negation and exclusion of the
Divine Beln ir from the contents nf tha
religious concept marshal themselves
into the ranks of the foremost factors
to proclaim that man must have th
Infinite, and that some knowledge of
Him, be it luminous In the highest de
gree, or 'be It dark In the clouds of
grossest error. Is the essential heri
tage of the human mind."
Finally tour ,author contends that
while hitherto religion has been fol
lowing out a law of evolution or pro
gress from fetich worship, to polythe
ism, v'l.en to pantheism and lastly to
monotiulsm, the substitution of the
Spencerlan concept of the Unknowable
would put an end to progress. Upon
this point he says:
Monotheism presents the Supreme Being
as a Personal God, as pure, holy, eternal,
living. Intelligent, and merciful. He can
sympathise with us and befriend us. He
Is "Our Father who" Is "In heaven." No
conception can be grander; It Is th reali
zation of the hyman ideal.. If we con
ceive truth, He is the fulness of truth:
If we conceive love. He Is Its origin and
Infinite plentlfulncss; if we conceive beau
ty, He Is to whom St. Austin addresses
the Immortal ecstasy:
"O pulchrltudo tarn antlqua quam nova!"
"O beauty, ever ancient, ever new!"
Do we conceive happiness, "our being's
end and aim?" He is "our reward ex
ceeding great." merciful, benign, healing
our sorrows, cancelling our crimes, and,
when we die, clasping us In paternal em
brace to the blessedness of perennial life.
This Is the highest ideal of the human
spirit. This is the coronation of the re
ligious evolution. All progressive rellg
lous conditions must be along these lines.
We can ever grow In love and knowledge
of the Infinite truth end the Infinite
Beauty. We can never grow beyond It,
for there Is nothing beyond.
Mr. Spencer's religion, on the other
hand, "admits an impersonal existence.
The Unknowable, like Brahma, Is pure
existence and nothing else; It Is with
out Intelligence, without beauty, with
out love. To worship such a God Is to
retrogade, not to progress."
III.
Thus far we have considered only
half of Dr. Lucns book, the half which
considers Mr. Spencer's religion from
the historical standpoint. Did present
opportunity permit we would gladly
endeavor In this same connection to
follow the author through his even more
effective consideration of the Spence
rlan scheme from the metaphysical
stnndpolnt, Judged from which Its In
trinsic weakness and Insufficiency are
most apparent. To .the student who
wishes to witness the application of the
so-called newer philosophy of Its own
confidently asserted principles, and Is
willing to acifpt a result thus fairly
reached, this dissertation will cwne As
a welcome aid. We do not .hesitate to
pronounce It the most masterly refu
tation of agnosticism by means of ag
nosticism's own weapons that we have
yet been privileged to read. , '.
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rector of the bureau of statistic at Wash
ington, and encouraged by Chief Justice
Chase, Robert J. Walker, Henry C. Carey,
Lieutenant Maury, Allen O, Thurman,
Horace Qreeeley, John Stuart Mill and
many other t ml neat men on both sides of
th Atlaotlo,
The Only Remedy in the World Thai Re
funds Purchase Price if It Fails to Hire
the Tobacco Habit in 4 to 10 Days Is
It Cares While Yoti
Tobacco.
The greatest discovery of the agel
A certain, pleasant, permanent
cure.
A lifetime' suffering ended for
$o.00.
Why smoke and spit your lifo
away? Why suiter from dyspep
sia, heartburu, aud drain ou your
vltul forces?
Htop using tobacco, but atop the
right way! Drive the nitlne from
your system by the use of this
wonderful remedy.
Narcoti-Cukr is warranted to
remove all desire for tobacco in
every form, including Cigar, Cigar
ette and l'lpo tiinoklng, Chewing
and Bnuir Tnkiug.
Uso all the tobacco you want
while under treatment, and In
from four to ten days your ''hank
ering" and "eruvini;" will disap
pear -the weed won't taste good.
Then throw away tobacco for
ever. J?AIicoti-Cukk Is entirely vege
table and free from Injurious in
gredients. It never fulls to give
tone and new vigor to the weakest
constitution.
Remember Karcoti-Cuiie does
not deprive you of tobacco while
effecting a cure; doesn't ask you
to buy several bottles to be entitled
to a guarautee; doesn't require a
month's treatment: and, finally.
doesn't enable you to stop tobacco
only to find yoursslf a slave to the
habit or tamei cnewing.
UNEQUALLED AND UNRIVALLED PREPARATIONS
FOR THE HARAND SCALP.
A distillation from the South American palm
Iran, tree from minsnU ot rhenilml onin
pounds An Infallible cnr for Baldness,
Ralr-ralllng, I) ami raff, Thin or Illete
Hair, Kcsama, Tetter, and all diseases of the
Ilulr and Hralp, I'iLm-Cbiuati OnAamo for
beantlfytn the Hair; a deUghtful, cool and
refreshing Shampoo exquisite odor. All
purchnser of the Pl-Cfristi Pr.iriSA
tioss ure entitled to free treatment of the
Scalp, Bhumnooing nnd Halr-Dretslng, at auy
of our iialr-DressIng Parlors.
miVAHCB CHIT Ml TMI
PALM-CHRISTI CO.,
PHILA. FAKLORg i 94 CHJCSTfOJT 8T.
V. 8. Our parlors aro in charge of special
1st on nttt-ctinns of the Hair and Scalp. AU
advice fi to. 49-Write for circular.
y j . 0V.....11, vf having
our Hsir Dressars call uuou thm caa due
appointments by addressing
MATTHEWS BROS.,
Sole Agent for Scranton.
KSsesf s bt hs Humttf Mroteu Aevwesmta
IUIlui ms luuains
orimi nuLinnnuLH
inniLin win cure yon. a
wonderfnl bona to suffcien
from Colds, fsereTkreat,
nensa. Mraek1tl,
oiniTrlVIB. AtmZ
mmrdiitrrlf. Aneneletn
la astrtajjr to on rst Indication of (jold.
Ceatlan Us Kaet Farawaeas Cure.
BUfaoUoBnaranteedornianayr(andf. Price,
BO rt. Trial rrrs at praasiits. KeclstoTed auk
teems, l7Y CW ill, sir., Iim Lnn, ILc., D. 1. 4
tUToam TSTSfji
MPNTHfll Th uml and saftat renMly far
a-llinUU alliklndlMsios. inm. lu-b Si't
Bheomold finresjlarns. Outs. WenSerfwl rem
edy for PILES. rrte, eta. at Drag- D a I U
gists or 6y mall prspal'f. AiHrtihore. DHL Hi
. Wot sal by Matthew Bros, end Johs
H, Pheloe,
Gonplinloa PresaircJ
DR. HCBRA'S
VIOLA CREAU
Swbar and Tsn, and re
stores th sUtn to Its origi
nal fnshnaas. producing
E) U.I I HUM ... u. j ,
mezion. Buvenur tu an uu-a
tmaMtlors and .port octly hsmless. At "aU
unjiaIl,oi mailed tor tOcte. Baud lor Circular,
VIOLA MM SOAP s.ply l..ain as a
Sna aurltriu siap, aNSM ft Ifca MM. a4 wMasot a
Itai a oh Tssmty. Ak)m, UA inniiaj ae
aa. atanstliu, FMaiCw.
Q. C. BITTNKR CO., Toledo, O.
"srsr REVIVO
RESTORES VITALITY.
Made a
Well Mar
1st Day.
lath Day.
of Me.
Ha uRKAT 80th ttar.
FXIUNOIX nBMBDY
prodaret ths abnre results In 80 dnye. It set
powarfully and quickly. C'urra whsn all others fall
Yoau ns will mgsin thslr Inst manhood, sad old
aien will recover their youthful visor by valni
RBT1VO. It quickly and surely restores Narvoua
Bess, Lost Vitality, ImMmnar, Nightly emission,
Last Power, railing Memory, Wasting Dlasaaw, and
all seeks of an II -abuse or ensue end Indiscretion.
whlehanltooneforetady.lniilnmorBiarrlase. II
Sot only cures by starting at the seat of disease, bul
Is a greet nerve ton In and blood builder, brlag
Ing back th pink glow to pale checks and re
staring the Are of youth. It wards eff Inanity
and Consumption. Insist oa having RKVIVO,ne
ether. It esn be earned la vest pocket. Br satll,
lOpsrMeksge.M-sli lor tS.OO, with a pool
tlvo written guarantee to cars or refund
the snoney. Circular free, address
som MEDICINE CO.. 63 Rlvsr It, CHIClCO. ILL
fa sale ft Matthsw Bras DtEWglsl
aerantoa . Pa ,
lw CkkhMtert Baalllk Mi
mt Droai
rcnriYROYAL pills
wmd tmUmtUmt. AlllragilM, eTMaiee,
i turnM wr t.nie.nr,, mriawaun w
MafTMl
Keller nr WW," w MHr, r raters
n.eee riimmi,ii,
laMrl
raw
Dfi
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bratftat CSMMWt Jrwrf., pirn Mp
mnd Sraaa' Is K4 ut IMS MuUlevVy
bam. HUM lt Mw HIm. Take SjT
ft ate-Viai
Mesas L)l
Tho WcaKlyTri buno
12 Paga $la Year. .
Continue th?
Us? of
With Narcoti Cuke, when you
are through with tobacco, you are
through with the remedy. Oue
buttle cure.
Bend for book of prominent tes
timonies like the following:
Hvstisotos. Mass., March U. MM,
Tdk aahcoti Chemical Co ,
Kprmgfleld. Mass.
Gentleman;-! have used tobaeeo for
over twuty-flv yoars, ohewiug and
smoking every day from T s. m. to p. ta.
ttuppiug oulr for mssls.
Ou Monday. Feb. 1 I ealltd at your
otHco in Kpriugflvld. snd bought a IkjuU
of tli tin which 1 wd u directed,
n1 on tb tenth day the desire fur to
bacco awl lft mn sod it has sot re
turned. 1 did not Ium s raeai wail Uk
ii.g U Cunt. My appetitaliuimprored
an I I e usidr Na ni-ori-CURS a grand
thing. Verytfsljr.
Mr. Frtnk H. Morton, of Chieope
fulls. late litaimtor of publio
buildings for Maskacbuwtta,rs:
I uad tobacoo for twsnty-llve rears,
and wsa a confirmed smok.r, In Jnst
eight duyi' treatmmit with Narcoti
Cuke! wstthrougU with tobacco, in fact
the dosire far tobacco Tod like a
dreuin. Vary respectf ullr.
WUXlH a MORTON.
If your druggist is unable to give
full particulars about Narcoti
Cure, send to ua for Book of Par
ticulars free, or send 5.00 for bot
tle by mail.
TIE IUCQT1 CHEIICU CO., i
Springfield, lass.
ill's M
Ifssafactnrors of the OelebrtUa
PILSENER
LAGER BEER
CAPACITY I
lootooo Barrels per Annum
Moosic Ponder Co
Rooms 1 and 2 Commoiwlti Bld't
SCRANTON. PA.
MINING and BLASTING
POWDER
MASH AT MOOSIC AND RUBH
DAL.B WORKS.
Lafflln A Rand Powder Ce.w
Orange Gun Powdor
Blectrlo Batteries, Puses for expand
ing blasts. Safety Puss and
RtpaDDoCbemical Co.'s Ei0uExplosiT
(Action
TO our patrons:
Washburn.Crosby Co. wish to assure their many pat
rona that they will this year hold to their usual custom
of milling STRICTLY OLD WHEAT until the new crop
Is fully eured. New wheat Is now upon the market, and
owing to the excessively dry weather many millers aro
of the opinion that It w already cured, and In proper
condition for milling. Washburn-Crosby Co. will take)
no risks, and will allow the new wheat fully three
months to mature before grinding..
This careful attention to every detail of milling haa
placed Washburn-Crosby Co.'s flour far above other
brands.
aV
akXoJ
LIEGARGEL
Wholesale Agents.
DR. E. GREWER.
Th Philadelphia Specialist, and his ansa
elated staff of English and Qermaa
physicians, are bow permanently
located at
Old Poatofflee Building, Corner Pent
Avenue and Spruce Street.
The doctor Is a araduaa of the Unlver
alty of Pennsylvania, formerly demon
strator of physiology and surgery at the
Medlco-C'hlrurgical college of PhlladeU
phla. Hie specialties are Chronic, Nero
vous. Skin, Heart, Womb and Blood dta-
DISEASES OF THE HERVOUS SYSTEM
Ths symptoms of which are disslness.lack
of confidence, sexual weaWneos In men
and women, ball rising in throat, spots
flouting before the eyes, loss of memory,
unablo to concentrute the mind on one
subject, easily startled when suddenly
spoken to, and dull distressed mlnd.whica
unfits them for performing tho actual du
ties of life, making hapwincss Impossible,
distressing the action ot th heart, caus
ing flush of heat, depression of splrlts.evll
forebodings, cowardlc fear, dreams, mel
ancholy, fire easy of company, feeling as
tired In th mornr.g as when retiring,
lack of enerrv. iurvousnMa. tmmhiins
confusion of thought,depreeston, constlpa
tlon, weakness of th limbs, etc. Those eo
effected should consult us lmmedlatelsi
ard bo restored to perfect health.
Lost Manhood Restored.
Weakness of Young Men Cured.
If you havt been given up by your ph
atclan call upon the doctor and be exam
d. He cures tho worst eases ot Ner
tw Debility, Scrofula, Old Bores, Ca
tarrh, Piles, Female Weakness, Affec
tions of .be Eye. Ear, Nose and Throat.
Asthma, leafness, Tumors, Cancers and
Cripples tl every description.
Consultations free and strictly sacred
and confidents.;. Office hours dally from
I a.m. to Ip.ri. Sunday, t to 1
Enclose five I-cent stamps for symtpora
blanks and m.r book called "New Life."
I will pay one thousand dollars In gold
to anyone whom I cannot cure of KPI
LBPTIC CONVULSIONS or FITS
. v. tte unfliVISIL
ClM PM HfrlM rll(l,llea
ftVDiM and Bpnic treu ww
8CRANTON. PA.
HI Bfll
OF SCRANTON.
270,000
Special Attention Gifen to Business
and Personal Account!
INTEREST PAID OX TIME DEPOSITS.
THE
TRADERS
IitloDil Bank of Scnntoi
ORQAMZED 1890.
CAPITAL 250,000
SURPLUS, $35,000
AirrEL HTNES. President '
W. W. WATSON. Vice-President. '
A. B. WU.UA.at 3, Cashier.
ETRBCTORi.
Samuel Rlnes, James M. EverBart Tir
ing A. Finch, Pterc. B. Flnley, Joseph J.
Jermyn. at. 8. Kemerer, Charles P. Mat
thews, Joha T. Porter, W. W. Watson.
I,
it.
and L!
BEEAL
bask Invites th. patronage ef 1
oa aad firm gensraly.
A CONNELL
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