;! THE SCKANTON TRIBUKE SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER ,21, 1803.
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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:
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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. ; -
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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
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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,
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.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
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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 ,.", .
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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.
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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?
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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!" Chicago Tribune.
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Always Reliable, Purely Vegetable,
MILD BIT EFFECTIVE.
Parol? vegotablo, art without piin. olernnt
ly coatod, taslelejs. snail nnd e.isy to tuke.
Kailsrsy's I ills obt ustnre, stimnlatirifr to
healthful activity tai liver, bnwel and othar
i getivo organi. leaving the bowels in n uit
oral condition wltliout any bad utter c!U.5.v
Cure
Sick Headache,
Biliousness,
Constipation,
Piles
AND
All Liver Disorders.
MOWAY'I PILLS are puridy Tegetabl', mild
and reliable. Causa perfect Dig istion, com
plete sbaorptinn aud healthful regularity.
2i eta a box. At Drug-tisU, or by mail.
"Book of Adtioo" free by mail.
RADWAY & CO.,
P. O. Box 8C5, New Yrrk.
Atlantic Refining Co
Usnafactarsrt sad Dealers la
Unseed Oil, Nspthas and daao
' lines of all grades. Axle Greaaa,
Pinion Grease and Colliery Cora.
, pound; also large) Una at Pas
' affln Wax Candle.
W also handle ths Famous CROWN
VCMB OIL, the only family safstf
fuming oil In the market.. - -
V. ' Wm Mason, Eara
fHVosi Coal Exchagna, Wyomicg Avs
Vtsta at Pino Brook.
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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.
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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.
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New Telephone Exchange Building, 115
Adams Ave., Scranton, Pa.
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THE DICftSON MANUFACTURING CO
SCRANTON AND WILKE8-8ARRE, PA, Manufacturer, of
Locomotives, Stationary Engines, Boilers,
HOISTING AKO PUMPING MACHINERY.
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For sale by JOHN N. PHELPS. Pirmeolt, cor. Wyoming Avenu
.OBruee Street, 8oranton Ptv . N
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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.
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OeoeraJ Office: SCRANTON, PA.
RESTORE
LOST YIGI
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, lmpolMHir, Atropky, Vulcoctl. and allHi wtakeauta, Iran an? cauM.Iaw
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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