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;! THE SCKANTON TRIBUKE SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER ,21, 1803. 11 Of aod.vABoiut Makers Notices of Recent Interesting Volumes arid Chats Concerning Literary Mert ' and Wpmea; A VISIT TO SPOOKDOM. BLACK SPIRITS AND WHITE: A Book of Ghot Stories. Uy Ralph Adams Cram. Cloth, green and linen covers, glH top, 150 panes ; li.UU. Chicago: Stone & Kimball. In the telllns of a tale of the super natural much depends upon the teller. Of all writers Poe had perhaps the greatest power of making the reader feel and thrill with the horrible sensa tions inspired by uncannlness, and ot turning dull print Into a life-like chap ter of horrors. Mr. Cram in not a Poe; nevertheless, he knows how to tell a good story well. In the present ex quisite little volume In the popular Cur nation Series there are a hulf-doxen narrations of experiences worth the telling and they exhibit an artist's nice comprehension of proportion and per spective. We shall ask the reader to follow us through a few brief quota tions from the flrst of the author's stories, which will servo to make all parties feel better acquainted. Tho Threshold of licit. The Initial story concerns a somewhat lingular house that once stood at No. 152 Hue M. le Prince, Paris; It belonged for years to a more or less wicked and witch-like lady, a sort of embryo JIme. Blavatsky, who dabbled In black magic and was a chief priestess of the occult. When this interesting woman died, she Willed the property to lusr nephew, Eugene d' Ardeche, whom the author Introduces as a student friend. Severul tenants essayed to occupy the house, but each in turn, after experiences upon Which the superstitious neighborhood doubtless elaborated, gave It up as bad Job. It therefore occurred to d' Ar deche to investigate these reports for himself; and as the story begins, d' Ar deche, the narrator and two able-nerved medical students ate on their way, with lanterns, pUes und weapons, to pass a night in the haunted mansion. Here Is a description of three of the rooms, col lectively known as "the threshold of hell." The first apartment was a. kind of ante room, a cube of perhaps twenty feet each way, without windows, and with no doors except that by which we entered and another to the rlKht. Walls, floor ond celling were covered with a black lacquer, brilliantly polished, that flashed the light of oer lanterns in a thousand intricate reflections. It war. like 'the Inside of an enormous Japanese box, and about ns empty. From this we passed to another room, and here we nearly dropped our lanterns. The room was circular, thirty feet or so in diameter, covered by a hemis pherical dome; walls and celling were dark blue, spotted with geld stars: and reach ing from floor to floor across the dome stretched a colossal figure In red lacquer of a nude woman kneeling, her legs reach ing out along the floor on either side, her head touching the lintel of the door through which we had entered, her arms forming its sides, with the forearms ex tended and stretching along the walls until they met the long feet the most astound ing, misshapen, absolutely terrifying thing I think I ever saw. From the navel hung a great white object, like the tradi tional roe's egg of the Arabian Nights. The floor was of red lacquer, and in it was luld a pentagram the-slzef the room, turnip of wlje strips of brass. In the cen ter of this pentagram was a circular disk of black stone, slightly saucer-shaiped, with a small outlet In the middle. The effect of the room was simply crushing, with this gigantic red flgure crouched over it all, the staring eyes fixed on one, no matter what his position. Tho third room was like the first In di mensions, but Instead of being black It was entirely sheathed with plates of brass, walls, celling and floor, tarntahed now, and turning green, but still brilliant under the lantern light. In the middle stood an oblong altar, ot porphyry. Its longer di mensions on the axis of the suite of rooms and at one end, opposite the range of doors, a pedestal of black basalt . , II. A Wrestle with tho Enemy. It really is not surprising that In a house with such grisly architecture there should be uncommon experiences. The outcome of the present quest for spooks Is thus narrated. It being per haps necessary first to say that each Inquirer took a separate room for the night, under instructions to signal to the others for help If necessary: Half a hundred times, nearly, I -would dose for an Instant, only to awVke with a start, and And myliliie gone out. Nor did the exertion of relighting it pull, me together. I struck my match mechanical ly, and with the first pi... dropped off Again. It was most vexing. I, got up and walked around the room. It was most annoying. My cramped position had al most put both my legs to sleepj I could hardly stand.' I felt numb, as though with cold. There was no longer nny sound from the other rooms, nor from without. I sank down In my window seat. How dark rt was growing! I turned Up my lan tern. That pipe again, how obstinately it kept going out! and my last .match was gone. The lantern, too, was that going out? I lifted my hand to turn it up. again. It felt like lead, and fell beside me.. Then I awoke absolutely. I tried to. rise, to cry out My body was like lead, my tongue was paralysed. I could hardly move my eyes. And tho light Was.golng out. There was no question about that. Darker and darker yet; little by little the pattern of the paper was swallowed up by the advancing night A prickling, numb ness gathered In every nerve, my light arm slipped without feeling from my lap to my side, and I could not raise it it swung helpless. A thin, keen humming began In my head like the cicadas on a hillside In September. The darkness was coming fast. Yes, this was rt. Something was sub jecting me, body and mind, to slow paraly sis. Physically I was already dead. If I could only hold my mind, my conscious ness, I might still be safe, but could 1? Could I resist the mod horror of this si lence, the deepening dark, the creeping numbness? It had come at last. My body was dead. I could no longer move my eyes. They were fixed In that last look on the place where the door had been, now. only a deepening of the dark. Utter night; the last flicker of the Inn tern was gone. I sat and waited; my mind was still keen, but how long would It last? There was a limit even to the enduranco of the utter panic or (ear. Then the end began, in the velvet olackftess came two white eyes, milky, opalescent, small, far away,-wfut eyes, Iks a, dead dream. Mora beautiful than I can describe, the flakes of white flame moving from the perimeter Inward dis appearing In the center, like a never-ending flow of opal waiter Into a circular turf nel. I could not have moved uk ey.es. bad I possessed the power; they uoure4 the fearful, beautiful things that grew, slow ly, slowly larger, fixed on me, advancing, Crowing more beautiful, the white flakes of light sweeping more swiftly Into fho biasing vortices, the awful fascination deepening In Its insane, Intensity a the White, vibrating eyes grew nearer; larger, Like a hlseoue and Impktoable engine of etarth the eyes of the unknown .Horror welled and expanded Until they were- be fore, close before me, enormous, terrible, tnd I felt a elow, cold, wet breath pre felled wHh mechanical regularity against wnr face, enveloping me In Its fetid tnlet, to Its charMl-hotis deadllntss. Again and the: ..- 4, v-4 '-'. ' again I tried to shriek, to make some noise, but physically 1 was utterly dead. I could feel myself go mad with the ter ror of hide-oca death. The eyes were close on me. their movement so swift that they steraed to be but palpitating flames, the dead breath was around, mo like the depths of the deepest sea. ' . Suddenly1 a wet, ley mouth, like that of a dead cuttle-llsh, shapeless. Jelly-like, fell over mine. The horror began slowly to draw my life from me, but, as enormous and shuddering folds of palpitating Jelly swept sinuously around me, my will came back, my body awoke with the reaction of final fear, and I closed with tha numeless death that enfolded me. What was !t that I was fighting? My arms sunk through the unresisting muss 1 that was turning me to lee. .Moment cy moment new folds of cold Jelly swupt round me, crushing me with the force of Titans. I fousht to wrest my mouth from this awful Thing that sealed It. but If ever, I succeeded and caught a single brenth, the wet, sucking mass closed over my face uwaln before I could cry outt I think I fouKht until I felt final ilth at hasjrt, until the memory of all my life rushed over mi like a flood, until I no longer hdd strength to wrench my face from that hellish ' sticciibus. until, with n lust me. chiiiiical struggle 1 fell and yielded to death. ; - ii III., The Mystery mroycica. - j; But the subject of thtB strange ,Vpr.",. Icnce did not die. His companions, ot ter a tlme, came to his door and, finding it locked pn tho Inside, burst It open. "As the door crashed in, they were suddenly hurled back against the walls of the corridor, as thouph y an explo sion, tho lanterns were extinguished, and they found themselves In utter silence and darkness. As anon a they recovered from the -shoek 'they leaped into the room, and fell ov'Wjf the author' in the iiitilill Af Hlft'fmueh io say of ant study an I art llfrt. lloor. They -lighted one tif 1he1;ttterns and saw one of the strangest slffhtH that can be Imagined. The lloor and walls to the height of about six feet were running with .something thatswroed like stagnant water,' thick," KlutlWoUs. alWiiiilnif It Roetnn thnt one of thp ........ Ill, nA.nrlll(nNI nf V. ,1 , , l IT ' H n 1 V 1 , , ' , 1 W , V. I III I IU-UUJUIVIO Wfc .111- I I 1 1 u I ' I . t. er of the place, n malevolent old rascal, called Sar Torrevleja, the "King; 'pjtije' Sorcerers," had expected to' tie named at the aunt's death, as her lepae; ana u is a nocoveny uum.iiii uiierence that this old rogue, who knew every Inch of the properly, out of pure spite fulness acted ns the "yrliost" which locked the young man' In, hypnotized him and 'then turned on the e-ntctl fluid of denth. This story, while well told, Is natural rather than supernatural in Its motif. The Second one, however, Is Just the re verse. It is an equally vivid description of tho author's night experience In an old, Italian vllln, -Jn whlYK, a'h'unilred' years before, a noblo duke, flridlpff Ms" young wife unfaithful, had thrown her violently upon the bed of tho room in which tho narrator slept and, with his sword, pierced, her. through the heart. We. lack ther space to follow out. the experience In detail, but the short of It Is that the ghost of the murdered woman, as well as that of her long-dead assassin, came back and re-enacted their little domestic tragedy In Such a realistic and effective manner that the involuntary young American spectator was next morning, found on the lloor of the chamber, half dead from a bleed ing; sword-thrust In his shoulder. This may be believed or not, but as told in the book before us It certainly makes Interesting reading. L. 3. It. JUVfey tLE FICTION'. OLIVER nitIOHT'8 SEARCH; Or, The Jlystery of a .Mine, liy Kdward Strate meytr. Cloth, ' 8vo, Illustrated; ' $1,23. New York: .The Jierrlam Co. , This is a rollcklng story for boys, simply yet fascinatingly told; and the lessons of it are good ones, which will Incline the reader's mind to high re solves and noble purposes.- It would not do to tell the story In detail, for In Its plot and adventures are its chief charm; but it may be taken for granted that every wide-awake boy will be Interest ed in It. II II II RKt'EEN" STOXK'S DISCOVERY; Or, The Young Miller of Torrent Rend. By Kdward Stratemeyer. ClctIi,.8voi illus 'trated;.41,l!di. New York: .The Merrlam 'Co. -;-; .,-. A cpmpatjloij1 volume to .the one!Just noticed. - It, too,'ds a story of stirring adventures and narrow escapes, ending with virtue and lndtistry rewarded, and vice and Idleness properly punished. It may not be artistic literature, but at least It is wholesome and safe, ' 1 . i i i ' ,i .MISCI-I.LAMiOUSi TUB WERNERT RIMER. For Beginners In Reading. , By- V. Lilian Taylor, 112 pages, 30 cunts. Js'fw York: The Wer ner Co. . V. This book krt'outgrowth of the kin dergarten system of Instruction' It Js a book combining the best features of all child-culture, .With beautiful pictures of familiar, objects In colors, outline drawings, vertical script lessons In pen manship, anctfln fact almost every con ceivable thing which, by first arrest ing the(ohU'a attention through the sense of slgltt, may afterward be used to bring out his latent capabilities for good. Following the best of- tests', we have submitted this primer to the criti cal eye of a bright four-year-old, and the eager Interest at once shown by him convinces us that Miss Taylor has not failed in her endeavor to prepare the best primer yet In print ' II II II ' BOYS' LIFE OF OENRRAL GRANT. By Colonel Thomas W. Knox, author of 4'Tho Boy Travelers." Illustrated, red cloth, 8vo, 0 pages, J1.G0. New York: The Merrlam Co. Although Colonel Knox calls his a boys' life. of the hero pf ghjloh,. Donel son, Vlcksburg iano,. Appomattox, It is a biography which Will interest all members of the household,- and add new reverence to their estimate of the great ITnlcm chieftain of the;clvfl war;. The life is fluently yand even eloquently written, and ItaiVlvid pen pictures are well reinforced by admirable half-tone portraits delineating critical scenes In the subject's careW as a warrior. This volume would form a most appropriate Chrlstmaa iwesent. or bright girl or boy. ' ' ..v ,.", . 11 rnr:' v IDYLLISTB OF THE COUKTTtY BIDE: Joeing Six Commentaries' Concerning 1 Some of Those Who Have Apostrophised the Joys of "the Open Air. By George H. Kllwanger. Cloth..' blue and silver 1 ' mo. New York: podd, Mead ft Co. The ldylllsrV'seTected'' for 'review' In this charming little volume' of uncon ventional criticism' are,' 'WaltgnV flrsf, of course!' arid then Gilbert White, Thomas Hardy Jefferlee, Thoreau and Burroughs. Of these, to Americans, the paper on dear, quaint, gentle Thoreau seems scmehow the most endearing; and it would have been welcome had I'll-. Ellwanger devoted a seventh chap ter to that prince of nature's eulogists. It. D. Dlackmore. whose latest story ot Crocker's Hole, for instance, is by all odds' the most captivating disquisition b 'trout-fls'hltitr ever put into type. But thlg is aside. For the six studies that the author has given us, let us be duly grateful. He has caught In each case the true spirit of his subject's relations with the out-door world, and has trans scribed it for us In liquid prose 'that charms almost as surely as the originals themselves. No true son of the soil can fall to find himself at once In sympathy with Mr. Kllwanger's commentaries, which, even in midwinter, make one yearn to hie to leafy forests or muse awhile beside purling brook or look for mirrored plcturlngs on the margin of some pellucid lake. . II II MACAIRE: A Melodramatlo Faroe. By Robert Ixuiis Stevenson and William Krnest Henley. - Ureen cloth, 'hand-made paper, gilt -top. Iu3 pages, II.IW. Chicago: S:uno & Kimball. This dramatization by the greatest model a novelist and a collaborator of the familiar story . from the French which has become familiar to American playgoers through its utilization In the liUetto of the wieretta, "Krnilnie," wa3 originally published, a few mouths ago, In the Chap-Book, at which time it was given an extended notice In this depart ment. . The texfei" as renders of that notice will recall In View 6f the muny bright epigrams then culled and quoted from It, Is sharp.find keen as a Damas cus blade, and I9 literary finish It has "not recently beei surpassed. . There Is likewise an "undercurrent of true humor ii' the farce such as Illumines few of Stevenson's more' .ambitious prose works. The fact thai this version Is not actable will not diminish the enjoyment of those who wish, .to read It as some thing of Stevenson's ..rather than as something by a promiscuous lot of chat tering, player fotk. - - ' - !l f " " AUTHORS. AND PUBLISHERS: Henry Watterson is said tu be at work loo a life of Lincoln. ..-wr, tivuiwoaa wnicen a newnory, en titled ."LUulUitioiis.'' which .will have f Kyvl). Utocktnore has' nearly compioiea i aw 'story, tp be entitled "Darlel, a Bo-! mancei of Surrey." It will upiear as a serial ia. Iilaek wood's during lite coming year, i - '- Kleariqta Dune has written a novel, tho plot unl yiiuatiuiis of which are drawn from the, Jiflkui stage. The actress is said 16 -ie thu pc:e.sor of an odmlrs'sle lit erary ntyle jind Is 'a keen etudem: ef chi;r nnter. r i.M Hanotaux, an authority on Balzac, Is nbou'eto Issue a book about the author of ,'tjhe 'Oomedle Humalne." He has In his. ponsion a quantity of documents relating to lialzac's unhappy experlfnce ns a printer. ," An act of self-defence on the part of T. B. AldticA Is the following letter, which lb 'has sent to the Boston Transcript: 'Some verses callfd 'The ideal Hus&ana, and having my name attached to them as the author, are being expensively repriiM ed by, the newspapers.. I beg leave to ay, and it gives me greait plasure to fay it, thU't'T mm not the author of thoso verses.". Commenting on .the publication of Ian jW-Uiren's new book, "The Days o' Auld l.nng Syne," the Westminster Gazette re marks that "before the work went to press over CO.Oi) oople haj been ordered In ad vance, hi England and America. Of tho samo aifthor's first book, 'Beside the Bon nie Briar Bush.' over 120,000 coplfti have already been sold. Clearly, 'the literature of the kailyard' Is Will In the ascendent. We note that Ian Maolaren goes to Amer ica next au'tnmn on a leciturlng tour." Headers of Mr. Bmrrlc's new serlul that Is to run 'through the ytar in Scrlbner's will be glad to know that a great deal of the autlon of ithe tale takes place in Thrums and that some of Barrle's favorite minor characters appear; a glimpse Is had of the Little Minister himself In One chap ter. A ne portrait of Barrle accomi-a-nles the January lastalmen t. "St. Ives," the novel left substantially complete and ur published by Robert Louis Stevenson at his death. Is described as purely a romance of adventure. It la the ftory of a French prisoner captured in the Peninsular wars, who Is shut up in Edin burgh castle; there he fa'.'is In love with a Scotch girl, who, with her aunt, fre quently visits the prisoners. There Is arly In the n'.ory a duel under extraordinary circumstances,-between St. Ivos and a ffllow-prlsoner; afler various episodes a dangerous plan of escape Is decided upon, and the. daring St. Ives finally becomes a frpe man. The perils that he undergoes while In hiding about Edinburgh, his ad venture on the Great North road with strangers and robbers, his final escape across it he border Into England, and many other Incidents ore told In the vivacious and wonderful style of which Stevenson was a master. NEW POEM BY HOLMES. Why linger round the sunken Wrecks Where old Armadas found their graves? Why slumber on the sleepy decks 'While foam and clash the angry waves? Up! when the ; storm-blast rends the clouds , ' '"' '. : ' And winged with ruin sweeps the gale, Young feet nidst climb the quivering shrouds, ' -: ' . Young hands must reef the bursting sail.' Leave ur, to fight the tyrant creeds, iVho felt their ghackels, feel their scars; The cheerful sunlight little heeds v - : . ' The brutes that prowled beneath the stars; The dawn is here, the flay star shows The spoils of many a battle won, ' But sin aiid sorrow still are foes, , That face us. )n the morning sun, Wl(o -sleep beyond yon bannered mound The proudly sorrowing mourner, seeks, The garland-bearing crowd surronnds? A light-hatred boy with beardless cheeks! Tls time this' "fallen world" should'rlse; Iet youth the sacred work begin! What noblor tusk, what fairer prizo Than earth to save and heaven to win? Superior to Imported Wines. 29 West 42d st.. , New York, Dec. 11, IS93. Alfred Sneer, Presf? 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THEATRICAL NOTES. W' Dan McCarthy's new play, "The Green horn," will be produced after the holidays. J I" II tno,a 11 ' 1 1 1 nrnilm.A a nllLV bVl E. H. Kidder, entitled "Shannon of the Sixth." The locale is India. Uelasco's -'The Heart , ot. .Maryland," goes to Boston for the entire season of '., On Thanksgiving Day it drew S3.3U0. Wilton Lsekaye srvs: "My early In clinations wero to enter the priesthood. J Alter receiving an elementary euuL-auim John Hlavneek's three-act Napoleonlo play, "The Master of the World," Is a comedy, with the scene laid In the Tull erles. Richard Golden. Frances Rousseau, Au brey Bouclcault, Maud Noel and Richard Gorman have been engaged for the Minnie Palmer company. In "The School Girl." Miss Georgia Cavan is recovering from the eeffets of a surgical operation per formed two weeks ago. The operation was to remove a tumor. The trouble dales back to a period early In Wl. Another lot of litigation has grown out of the efforts of Sydney Rosenfeld, the playwright, to collect from Comedian Francis Wilson $7,000 which he alleges is due on two plays he wrote for Mr. Wilson. It appears that after the publication of the examination Mr. Wilson, In a pub lished statement, said thlncs which Mr. Rosenfeld did not like. Mr. Rosenfeld asks SGO.UOO damages for libel. Zella Nlcolavs will star in a new melo drama. "Do you feel certain of success ns astir?" she was atked. "Certain! Why, It's a cln , of course I feel certain. I have everything in my favor, beauty If you will pardon the mention talent, am bition and determination. Then, In my play I will be right at home. It Is love from tho rising of the curtain to Its fall, and I am given every opportunity to dis play my talents." I was sent for two years to college at Ottawa, In Canada, nml then for four yenrs to the Georgetown university. Ow ing mainly to my elocutionary proclivi ties, I suppose, 1 received the nomination for tho propaganda at Koitie. This Is, as you know, the Societas de Propaganda Fide, charged with the management of Catholic missions. My father came on to New York to tuke me to Havre. So I had tho opportunity to see 'Esmerelda' at the Madison Square theuter. That proved my downfall. After t'ie performance I In formed my father that, instond of be coming a priest, I intended to go on the stage. The upsrot was thnt he took me back to Washington, where I began to study law." Mr. Lackaye wll stur next season In a hypnotic play by Charles Klein, called "Dr. Bclgraff." THE POPULAUITY OF SLANG, From the Chlengo Record. When the long-expected American nov elist comes to write the comedy of lifo in the latter part of the nineteenth cen tury he will have to make some especial researches with reference to the speech of Its people. It Is n fact thnt stong, nlways In hlTh fnvor In America for Its terseness nnd Its rough humor. Is becoming more popular. Not only Is the amount of slang Increasing hut It Is enlarging Its scoue among people who lire It. not from Igno--nnce, but with an Intentional purpose to give colloqulnl force to their speech. The source of mos-t of this Increment to the English voenbulnry Is, of course, not the highest. The city council in active session presents almost Inexhaustible re sourcesof slang. Onecvenlng with that plc tnurcsque body will give the average nov elist more knowledge of the langunge of the street thnn he could readily get in any other way. Some of this siting Is pithy and sensible; some of It merely Idiotic. And ngaln there Is some which, without any particular meaning, hns acquired pop ularity simply from n sense of ludlerous ness in the sound. When- an alderman arises In the council to say that In his opinion certuln ordinance Is "a good t'ing nit," he means to add the force of a delicate Irony to his denunciation of the measure. Words of this sort, for nil their popu larity, have not yet made their way Into literature, but there Is discernible a ten dency among the writers of the most vital contemporary English to adopt racy slang expressions just as soon as their usace become widespread enough to make them generally understood. The use of slang, of course. Is neither elegant nor commendable. But unless all signs fall much of the raclness of the Eng lish of tomorrow will be owing to the 11 lexltlmate and slangy vocabulury of to day. A Cnse Cnlllng for Symnnth" The tough-looking citizen who hud been sentenced to six months' Imprisonment for whipping his wife drew his hand across his eyes. "If you send me up for a little thing of this kind, judge," he whimpered, "I'll never be able to maintain discipline In my fumlly again!" 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' Wm Mason, Eara fHVosi Coal Exchagna, Wyomicg Avs Vtsta at Pino Brook. i s 01 .. 1 - AT They do not get Enough Outdoor Exercise The Bicycle Will do Them More Good Than Medicine. The Experience of Two Women who had Led an Indoor Life and the Outcome. from the Slnndard-rnlmt, Brooklyn, iV. IT. Few women have-lintl a more mist-ruble ex istence and lived to tell the tulc than Mrs. Anna I,. Smith, of Sit I'uluski Avenue, Ilrooklyn. Willi all the comforts tliut money altonls, with all the liuppiness that ninny loving friends can give, the joy of Mrs. Smith's life was blasted for years by the ter rible ravages of sickness. Mrs. Smith's ex perience is unique, because licrstiircring was not caused by one disease only tut by many; until it seemed na though oho was a living sacrifice.. Iloctors were eniloyed, money was tpent the wido world was searched for remedies that would give her the joy of good health. Despite nil efTorts the clouds of life grew dni'lcer until it looked indeed ns if death wus hovi ring near. It was in this hour of tlislrcr.f thnt she heard of the now fnnipiis remedy Dr. Williams' Pink I'illa fur Pale People, and by their virtues was restored to good health n.;d happiness. The story is most interesting as told to a reporter: "I was nil invalid fur years, sud'ering first with one complaint lind then with another. My case wus truly that, of u complication of diseases, due to nil accident which I received some years ugo. The thing which caused me the most diM-iinifort and made me oli'cnsive to my family was the worse rase nf indigestion imaginable. I mailt' nil uround inc. miserable by my suuerings, und wus most miserable tny self. I had the best physician we could find, aud occasionally his prescriptions relieved me temporarily, lint the pains und misery would all soou return again. I became des perate, und started in to try remedies of which I read. Among them were the Pink Pills. Their appearance captivated lue instantly, for I am a great believer in the beautiful, I took the pills and fbllowcd out the directions to the letter, and before many days I began to feel like a dillcrcnt woman. For six weeks I took the pills regularly, und I can truthfully ndd after that 1' wus ns well as any one In the family. The change fur the belter in my con dition has caused my relatives and friends to tuke the pills. We buy them all from the drug store of John Duryca, at the corner ot De Kail) und Sunnier Avenue. " I assure you it wns impossible for me to ?vi rsec my household for three ycurs. Kow visit my kitchen every day. 'do my own marketing and shopping; in a word, look after everything connected with uiy home und ".v. "Oh, yes, I . still keep taking the pills. I take one daily after dinner. Prevention, you know, is better nnd cheaper than cure. I verily believe one half of the women who are sutlering from the ills w hich our sex are hi'r to would lie up nnd veil if they could he in duced to give the Pink Pills n fair trial. I certainly recommend them heartily and feel grateful to the physician whu put thcin 011 the market." Mrs. Smith Is a woman of some means and standing in the community and, therefore, her testimony w ill be accepted without yues tica by all thoughtful people. UP TO iTn?TnTTTTTTTTTTTT7TTT?TTTTTTTTTfWTITTTTT?TTTTTT Established 1855. tub Genuine SB 3 3 3 PIANOS At a time when many manu facturers and dealers are making the most astounding statements regardingthemeritsanddurability , of inferior Pianos, intending pur chasers should not fail to make critical examination of the above instruments. EL C.-.RlCKER General Dealer In Northeast ern Pennsylvania. z - Is New Telephone Exchange Building, 115 Adams Ave., Scranton, Pa. r..u.,u..i...nu.i........ntuuum)i THE DICftSON MANUFACTURING CO SCRANTON AND WILKE8-8ARRE, PA, Manufacturer, of Locomotives, Stationary Engines, Boilers, HOISTING AKO PUMPING MACHINERY. ts .f..y?L'A Waai am). 1 SaiiaarUU. mini NMtljIaa reiutt fclallv. BssDlt In 4 wetlu. For sale by JOHN N. PHELPS. Pirmeolt, cor. Wyoming Avenu .OBruee Street, 8oranton Ptv . N WF A DOCELn HESCVE. Two People Saved from a Life of Ml aery. From the Jonrnal, Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Charles Newmun, of Twelfth Street, is very enthusiastic over Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and she hns every reuson to be grateful for the wonderful cure she bus received from the remedy. Mrs. Newman wus a ei-.ITc.er with muscular rheumatism. Her riftht arm seemed to lie ullcetcd the most, and she was miserable for more than 11 year nimble to use her arm ut ull uud sull'uriug the most uwful tortures. She used many remedies hut nothing seemed to help her at ull. tine day she noticed the testimonial in a newxpnper of a gentleman in Canada who was cured of the same trouble by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, und determined to try a box. She took, in all, nine boxes, anil iKcntircly cured. She felt the effects of tho first box nnd betran to improve immediately. She has never had nny sign of the trouble since. She had become very nervous- und weuk, but the pills strengthened her in every way. She heartily recommends them to any one who is troubled with rheumatism, nml is very glad to add her testimonial to the won dcrful virtue of the mcdiciuu. Mr. Marvin, of No. C23 Fifteenth Street, is nn old soldier mid a retired Huptist minister. At present he is employed in the U. S. Pen sion Agency, of Detroit. For many yenrs Mr. Marvin was troubled with stomach dif ficulties dyspepsia and all the attending symptoms. He doctored with ninny physi cians, but with no benctit. - His trouble seemed to be chronic. Some one recom mended Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to him one day, and hu got two boxes; by . the time he had finished the second box he was to. much better that lie left oil taking them. - About this time ho went to l.udington nn a business trip, and while there was tuken sick; symptoms of his old trouble appeared unil he employed a physician. For six weeks he sulicml, until one day lie remembered ths Piuk Pills nnd Kent for them. It had almost nn -immediate elli-ct nnd ho completely re covered, lie Is very glad to recommend them to anyone, and will never be without them in the luturc. His son is uNo using them tot general debility and ts receiving beneficial results, although he has not taken them very long. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Pecple are prepared by the Dr. Williuius' Medicine Co., ot Schenectady, N. V., a firm whose ability and reliability are unquestioned. Pink Pills are not looked upon as a patent midiciuc, but us fi. prescription, having been used as such for years in generul practice, and their successful results in curing various afllic lions made it imperative thut they be prepared in quantities to meet the demand of the public, und place them in reach of all. They ure 1111 unfailing specific for such diseases as loco motor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, ner vous headache, the after elleets of la grippe, pulpitnrlon of the heart, pale aud sallow com plexions, and the tired feelinir resulting from nervous prostration, nil diseases resulth.gfrom vitiated humors in the blood such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. They arc also a specific for troubles peculiur to females, such ns suppressions, irregularities, nnd nil forms ot weakness. They build up the blood, and restore the glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks. In men they effect a radical cure in ill cases arising from mental worry, over work, or excesses of whatever nature. Pink Pills ure sold in boxes (never, in !cxise form by the dozen or hundred, and the public ure cautioned against numerous imitations sold in this shape) ut 50 cents a box or six boxes for 4l'.50, ana may be had of all drug gists, ur direct by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company. DATE. Over 26,000 In Use. 11 3 OeoeraJ Office: SCRANTON, PA. RESTORE LOST YIGI 1wn I "tout what loimft ManaK tMMtlty, Low of taauat mr rla tluxf , lmpolMHir, Atropky, Vulcoctl. and allHi wtakeauta, Iran an? cauM.Iaw aaruu.. mini thacktil and full lift quietly taincad. lrn-lcM4, fcck thacktd and full !( quietly taincad. IrnaslacMd, i Mailed utvwkf. mImL fe, ti.aA, . hM c I x C?R K.T ST.'iffJS ! faia to aiu a taf iad l ha a ecu. AddH SBAL atEDICINB CO.,Clavtabd, Okl. , ,.. . . ,. - V SCRAHTON DIRECTORY -OFt Wholesale Dealers And Manufacturers. BANKS. Lackawanna Trust and Safe Deposit Ca. Merchants' and Meohunlcs', 429 Lacks, Traders' National. 234 Lackawanna. Weat Side Bank, 109 N. Main. Scranton Saving. 122 Wyoming. BEDDING. CARPET CLEANING, ET6 The Scranton Ceddlne Co.,, Lacks, ... BREWERS. ' Robinson, E. Sons, 435 N. Seventh. , '' Robinson, Mlna, Cedar, cor. Alder. 1 ' CHINA AND GLASSWARE!, Rupprocht, Louis, 231 Penn. ,W:il!ums, J. D. & Bro., 314 Lacka. FLOUR. FEED AND GRAIN. Matthews, C. P. Sons & Co., 34 Lacks. Tho Weston Mill Co., 47-4S LacKa. PAINTS AND SUPPLIES. Jlencke & McKee, 306 Spruce. MONUMENTAL WORKS. Cwens Bros., 21S Aqams avenue. MILK. CREAM, BUTTER, ETC, Scranton Dairy Co.', Penn and Linden. ENGINES AND BOILERS. Dickson Manufacturing Co. ' DRY GOODS, MILLINERY. ETC?. The Fashion, SOS Lackawanna avenue, PLUMBING AND HEATINO. Howley, p. F. & M. T., 231 Wyoming ava GROCERS. Kelly, T. J. ft Co.. 14 Lackawanna, Meftargel & Connell, Franklin avenue Porter, John T 28 and 28 Lackawanna. : Rice, Levy & Co., 30 Lackawanna, HARDWARE. Connell, W. P. & Sons, 118 Penn. Koote & Shear Co., 119 K. Washington. Hunt & Connell Co., 434 Lackawanna, FRUITS AND PRODUCE. Dale & Stevens, 27 Lackawanna. Cleveland, A. 3., 17 Lackawanna. , DRY GOODS ' ' ' Kelly & Healey, 20 Lackawanna. Flnley, P. B., 510 Lackawanna. LIME, CEMENT, SEWER PIPH -Keller, Luther, 813 Lackawanna. . HARNESS & SADDLERY HARDWAIUB, Fritz O. W., 410 Lackawanna. Keller & Harris, 117 Penn. WINES AND LIQUOR9. Walsh, Edward J., 22 Lackawanna. LEATHER AND FINDINGS, Williams, Samuel, 2.1 Spruce. BOOTS AND SHOES. " Goldsmith Brds., 301 Lackawanna. - WALL PAPER, ETC, Ford, W. M., 120 Penn. CANDY MANUFACTURERS. Scranton Candy Co., 22 Lackawanna, FLOUR, BUTTiyt, EGGS, ETC The T. II. Watts Co., Lt., 72.1 W. Lacka. Bubeock, G. J. & Co., llti Franklin. MINE AND MILL SUPPLIES. Scranton Supply and Mach. Co., 131 Wya FURNITURE. Hill & Connell, M Washington. CARRIAGE REPOSITORY. Blume, Wm. & Son, E22 Sprues. HOTELS. Scranton House, near depot MILLINERY & FURNISHING COODH Brown's Bee Hive, 224 Lacka, . .. DIRECTORY OP SCRANTON AND SUBURBAN REPRESENTATIVE FIRMS. ATHLETIC GOODS AND BICYCLES. Florey, C. M., 222 Wyoming. HARDWARE AND PLUMBINCX , Gunster & Forsyth, 327 Penn. Cowles, W. C, 1S07 N. Main. . , WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER. Rogers, A. E., 215 Lackawanna. BOOTS AND 8HOES. Goodman's Shoe Storo, 432 Lackawanna. FURNITURE. Barbour's Home Credit House, 42$ Lacks CARPETS AND WALL PAPER. Inglls, J. Scott, 419 Lackawanna. - . GENERAL MERCHANDISE! Osterhout. N. P., 110 W. Market, Jordan, James, Olyphant. Barthold, E. J., Olyphant. CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, Snook, S. M., Olyphant. PAINTS AND WALL PAPER. ' Wlnke, J. C, 315 Penn. TEA. COFFEE AND SPICR Grand Union Tea Co, 103 8. Main. FLORAL DESIGNS. Clark, O. R. & Co., 201 Washington. CATERER. Huntington, J. C, 308 N. Washington. ROCERIES. Plrle, J. J., 427 Lackawanna, UNDERTAKER AND LIVERT, Raub, A. R., 425 Spruce. DRUGGISTS, McGarrnh & Thomas, 209 Lackawanna, Lorentz, C, 418 Lacka;. Linden ft Walk, Davis G W Main and Market. . Bloes, W. S., Peckvlllc. Davles, John J., 1U0 S. Main. CARRIAGES AND HARNESS. Slmwell. V. A., 515 Linden. . PAWNBROKER. Green, Joseph, 107 Lackawanna. . CROCKERY AND GLASSWAR9L Harding, J- 2'5 Lsckawauno. BROKER AND JEWELER, Radln Bros., 123 Penn. DRY GOODS, FANCY GOODS', Kresky, E. H. ft Co., 114 S. Main. . CREAMERY . , Stone Bros., a spruce. t ., ,,. I BICYCLES, GUNS, ETC. Parker, E. R., 321 Spruce. DIJJING,ROOiU8. . :. - ; Caryl's Dining Room's, 605 Llndcu, , ' TRUSSESt BATTERIES AjflD RUBBEB 1,1 II II 1M. Benjamin ft Benjamin, Franklin ft Spruce. MERCHANT" TAILOR. Roberts, 3. W 128 N. Main. ' ' : ' PIANOS AND ORGANS. Stella, J. Lawrenes, tot Sprues, ... : ' ,' 1 DRY ' GOODS, CLOTHING, '. SHOES, HARDWAKH. Mulley, Ambrose, triple stores, Prevldeaeta