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SCRANTON. DECEMBER 31. 1S5.
kKH. BLICAN STATE COX VKJSTIOX.
Headquarters Republican stuta commit
tee, 1231 Walnut street,
Philadelphia, Pa.. Dee. 12. 1S93.
To the Republican Electors Of Penneyl
vanln:
tku niihiuno. .f Pminrivlvnnia. by
their duly chosen representatives, will
meet In Htute convention, Thursday, April
2.1. ISW, at 10 o'clock a. m.. In the Opera
House, city of Harrisburit, tor me pin
pose, of nominating two candidates for
representative at larse In consress and
thlrty-twe ran1 Mates for presidential ele?
tor. selecting eight delegates at large to
the Republican 'national convention, and
transacting such other business as may be
presented.
By order of the state committee.
M. 8. Quay.
Attest: Chairman
Jere B. Rex.
W. R. Andrews.
Secretaries.
Representation "In this convention will
be the same as In the las: state conven
tion.
The SWantoo Tribune arcues that the
T'nlied SmtwArlKht to cut loose from the
Ilrltlsh JiiouuyUunUfrH and deal with Rus
sia ir the opportunity otters. A still Dei
ter plan would bo to manage the country
fo as not to place It at the mercy of any
ToreiRiier. Philadelphia Inquirer.
Of course. That's the Republican
plnn. Rut we're talking about a gov
frnment which is as yet only one-third
Republican.
As to Fourth-Class Postoffices.
Representative Wheeler has 'lntro
cluced a desirable bill to readjust the
pay of fourth-clasa postmasters. It
provides that one who opens and closes
one mail each week shall receive $10
each quarter; 112.50 for two malls, and
bo on. Increasing; quarterly $2.50 for each
additional mall opened and closed until
the limit of $250 each quarter Is reached.
Under the present system the pay of
these necessarily faithful employes Is
often ridiculously Inadequate. Some
fourth-class offices yield to their mas
ters only $2.50 and $5 a piece during an
entire year; and It rarely happens that
the revenue Is sufficient to afford a just
compensation for the care and punctu
ality required of the office's occupant.
Whenlll 1 fc'isidered what an obllga
ttonf the 1A1iu.ll community owes to the
competent master of Its malls, and
what a service he performs as the
nearest official representative of the
federal government, the usual paltri
ness of his pay Is often humiliating.
The limit of fairness and efficiency
has well-nigh been reached In urban
postal arrangements; but It still re
mains for the government to develop
and more thoroughly systematize nnd
facilitate gthvCfTiral mail service. The
first step in this direction would seem to
be to offer adequate compensation to
the subordinate who must do this work.
The Philadelphia Times would be a
better paper than It Is If It would be
more careful in Its statements. Lacka
wanna county is not only not a leaderln
lawlessness, but It is rapidly reaching
the orderly standards of communities
that have less than one-tenth of Lacka
wanna's difficulties to overcome. The
Time should mako Lackawanna's ac
quaintance and thus put Itself in a
position td'Yrbmment knowingly.
With Reference to Telephone Rates.
A brooding silence seems to have pre
cipitated itself upon the great scheme",
which was vociferously exploited some
months ago, to supply the cities of this
country with telephone service at from
$20 to $25.per year per 'phone. It will be
renMflfeared that this scheme took
local root In the shape of an ordinance
authorising an Imaginary local com
pany to erect poles and string wires in
Scranton; but when the amendment wa s
Insisted upon that the franchise should
become void In the event of the com
pany's failure to have Its system In prac
tical working operation within six
months, the whole matter suddenly and
mysteriously collapsed.leavlng the pres
ent telephone company, with its high
rates. In unchallenged possession of the
field.
iv tuiiui .mo jui. at MLiOllipi,
to speculate at the public's expense
may not have been the means of, deter
ring honesbcap!tal from making a gen
uine effort to establish wholesome com
petition In Scranton's telephone trade;
and again It may have. This point is
not clear. But one fact is certain, and
that Is that the present telephone rates
will eventually have to come down; The
city of Norwalk, O., has recently had an
Instructive experience along tnls line.
A few years ago the Bell company had
In that city about seventy-five subscrib
ers at $40 a year. Then a new company
known as the Harrison company was
organised to compete with It The Har
rison company cut to $20 and afterward
to $18, Its present price. It has today
800 subscribers at $18, while the Bell
company ha 400 at $15 and both com
panies are making money In a town
of fewer than 10,000 Inhabitants.
The Cleveland World has figured It
out that If, tad telephone company In
that city would adopt the Norwalk rate
nf $15 Instead of charging from $72 to
$10$ a year, It could Increase the number
of Its subscribers from t,0 to 15,000.
Thie would leave the total' Income In
Utter ease practically itu same, and
the reduction in rates with Its quin
tupled number of subscribers would not
add mure than DO er cent, to the oper
I'tlniT expenses. The World contend.!
that even on this basis the Cleveland
Uii'i-hone company would earn hand
Bome dividends on its bona fide capi
talisation; and that it could earn more
than 6 per cent., If the price per phohe
were made uniformly as low as $10 a
year.
These tlgures may be misleading. The
high priced companies will no doubt say
so. at any rate, yet they are also sug
gestive. In nearly all lines of business
great reductions in prices have been
made v.ithln the past ten or fifteen
years. The telephone business Is the
one conspicuous exception. Its prices
urc still In stutu quo. It seems a rea
sonable conclusion that they cannot re
nuln that way; triat they will sooner or
later have to obey the general tenJoncy
and tulip a drop.
Readers of this paper are again urged
to remember with liberality the carrier
boy on the first morning of the new
year, when he will offer to thctrt copies
of The Tribune Annual nnd Political
handbook for 1S96. Our carriers receive
these copies from The Tribune at the
cost of manufacture, and the differ
ence between that stun and the retail
price of 25 cents per copy represents
tlioir remembrance for a year of punc
tual nnd exacting work.
Catching Americans Unawares.
There is altogether too much truth
for comfort in the picture which Mr.
Lodge drew in. the senate yesterday of
England's enterprise In capturing stra
tegic points wherever they are to be
found and of her liberality In fortifying
and equipping those points so as to give
her every possible advantage In the
event of a war with any country. The
same line of thought was lucidly car
ried out, a day or two ago, by Mr. K.
Oreenough Scott in a two-column con
tribution to the "Wllkes-Barre Tirhes.
The burden of Mr. Scott's argument, as
of Senator Lodge's, was that while the
United States has been seemingly In
different to these things, England,
through her all-cnclrcling merchant
marine nnd her vigilant and not over
scrupulous diplomatic establishment,
has never missed an opportunity to se
cure a new colgne of vantage.
Starting with Halifax, "which has a
harbor capable of holding the cntlro
British navy and a citadel in a com
plete state of defence," Mr. Scott takes
his readers by Imagination around a
circuit of England's fortifications In
this hemisphere. It is worth our while
to follow him, beginning at the Ber
mudas:
These islands, says Mr. Scott, are not
only fortllled and garrisoned, but are
equipped with dry-docks adequate for the
repair or tilting out of large fleets. Every
vessel that leaves our coast for Europe or
comes thence, us far south as Charleston,
must pass between Halifax and Bermuda.
These possessions threaten our wnoio
northern coast. Jt is a short Btep to the
Bahamas, which lie off Florida and which
command the entrance of the Gulf or Mos
ico. The name of their chief port. Mia.
sail, is enough to recall from the past of
our own war their capacity for mischief.
How many people In the United Btates
have heard of Largo? Very few. lTargo
is a bank or reef lying midway In tho
channel between Florida and Cuba, ine
British flag Hies over It, for Great Britain
possesses It, has a light house there, and
can fortify it at her pleasure. A short
sail around the east end of Cuba, and we
come to Jamaica, with Kingston harbor
and a territory sufficient to supply a large
force a few days' sail from Jamaica lands
one at the British Belize, which Is on the
continent. Both Jamaica and Belize are
in dangerous proximity to the mouths of
the Mississippi, and the Bluellelds inci
dent Is fresh In our recollection.
If. instead of going to Jamaica from the
Bahamas, wo keep outside. In the Atlan
tic, and follow the Windward Islands, we
shall pass several that are occupied by
(ireat Britain, until we wind up with the
Barbadoes, between which and the coast
of South America flows a channel that
can be crossed in a day, and from which
by a short voyage British Guiana is
gained. One of theso islands is of very
great Importance; it is Santa Lucia, and
some day our peopld will wake up to the
fact that while they have had their eyes
nxeu on winruitar, anotner fortress like
unto It has been constructed on this spot
and under their very noses. This place
commands the contiguous Atlantic on one
side and on the other the Caribbean Sea.
It threatens tho whole northern and
northeastern const of South America, in
cluding tho valley of the Orinoco and
V enesuolu itself. From its capacious har
bor the largest fleets can sail, to it thev
can return, and in It they can relit and
rest in perfect security. Where Is our
Santa Lucia? General Grant did his best
to catch and keep San Oomlnuo when It
was flung at us, hut, between his lack of
tuct and Sumner's self-sulllciency', wo nre
wunuui a numa, jucia today. Han Do-
mingo would have broken the British
chain. They manage, these things butter
in Downing street.
These stations are all upon open seas;
even Halifax having a tort that Is open
the year round. Thecapucity for harbor
ing, warships there is illimitable, and on
several of the islands there Is a space for
imri'iii'neu camps on a rormiuuble scale.
At Halifax n host could be supplied from
the surrounding country, and In Jumali'.'i.'
a respectablo force, to be maintained for
roinroreement, could be supplied from the
island. If the transports are loaded and
the men and material are on board In the
Mersey, these can be delivered Into the
fortifications of Halifax in ten days, and
muse ui iii-rniuua in twelve unvs. At TIuI.
nax enective forces of Hrlrluh trnn-
would be within thirty hours of . our bor-
uer, ana tne liritisti lleet would be within
sixty hours of tho Mnln ports, including
rurimiiii, aim 01 me new Hampshire and
Massachusets ports, one of which. It will
be well to bear in mind, is Boston, a city
that is set not on "a" hill, but on several
hills, thus presenting a field of exeentinnni
susceptibility to devastation, . and a city
which. Including one at least nf it im.
portant suburbs, Charlestown, the seat of
u imvy yaru, can ue approached until the
muzxles of the enemy's L-uns ran tnnr.ii h.
wharfsheds. Thus the destructive power
of Great Britain can bo placed, on out-
ureun oi war, wunin sixty Hours steaming
of New England's eastern front, a lino of
coast without adequate defence, for today
- if "'"" power gun north
of New York harbor or south of it.
But this Is only part of the account.
Returning to Halifax, we nhanrva ih, i.
is conneciBu wun me t. Lawrence by the
Inter-colonial railway, and it u
noticed, too, hat St, John, New Bruns-
wick, is naewise so connected bv n rnii.
road, which, ascending the St. John river,
unites with the lnter-colonlnl at uivi....
du Loup, on the St. Lawrence, about JU0
iiinea unuw vjueuec. in consequence of
the "Trent" Imbroglio, several thousand
British troops marched up the Valley of
tho St. John unhindered, and what has
been done once may be done again, par
ticularly since the railroad has increased
the facility for doing so.
There is no need of dwelling on Quebec.
Whose strength Is well known. At the out
let of Lake Ontario, we find the strong
post of Kingston, the seat of a military
school which tho Canadians regard as
another West Point. This prut commands
ihe north channel through which pour the
Ontario waters between tho main land
and Wolfe Island, a large Island belonging
to Ontario. The ' most Important part
played by tho fortifications of Kingston
Is, that they command the southern termi
nus of the Rideau canal, th northern ter
minus being at Ottawa, the capital of the
Dominion, which city Is situated on the
Ottawa river, a navigable stream debouch
ing Into the St. Lawrence just above Mon
treal. The Canadians' expect that the
Rideau canal will play aq Important part
In the event of war. . : t. ,
Then we have the Canadian-Pacific
railroad, from Quebec and Montreal
clear across British America to a point
opposite Vancouver island, a route re
cently described In this paper by Mr.
J. K, 'Richmond. The Canadian Pacific
is an Important potentiality In the
opinion of the British government,
should there be war. Finally:
At Vancouver unoiher Gibraltar or
Santa Lucia is found to be rapidly ap
proaching completion. These works are
extenslvu and embrace dcflgns In furtlli
cation comprising subterranean ways, ills
appearing guns, ami everything that can
render them thoroughly defensive. Its sig
nificance to us lies in tho fact that, as
an army nost or ns a rendezvous for fleets,
It commands effectually the straits of
Fuca, through which ull our coasting and
trans-Pacilic commerce of Puget Sound
must pass. That Is to say, the British ure
on the eve of commanding. If they do not
already command, the northwestern part
of the L'nltod States; one thing is certain,
we do not. Tho world, very sensibly, is
not permitted by those who have the mat
ter In hand, to know anything of the Van
convex works, no more. In fact, than it
knows of Santa Lucia, but. If the rumor
he corrf ct, that the Dominion government
has luUly entered into a contract cover
ing a postal route which has Its western
terminus on our ground, nt Juneau, one
of our ports, then It may be presumed that
the works at Vancouver are already on
the fnlr wav to completion. This "claim
of Great Britain is a rod In pickle indeed,
for, should It be enforced. It will take
from us every inlet and harbor thnt we
have purchased from itussin. as far as the
one hundred and forty-lirst cpnrnllel of
longitude, beyond which all harbors are
given over to solid Ice for eight months m
the year. Vancouver Is connected with
Asia and the south seas by lines of fleet
steamships also subsidized on condition
that, when needed, they be transformd
into commerce destrtfycrs. They would
prey on our Pacific coasting trade.
Under these circumstances It Is well
that the scales are beginning to fall
from the eyes of our federal senators.
It is Idle to suppose that Englund Is
building these fortifications on every
exposed side of us Just merely for the
pleasure of spending her money. There
must be a meaning back of them. If
so, whut?
The American correspondent of the
London Times, Mr. Smalloy, has now
lost both his patriotism, which seems
never to have been very embarrassing,
and his temper over the Venezuelan
affair, and his latest comments are al
most ludicrous in their staccato notes
of dismay, Indignation and alarm. The
president, In almost so many words, he
calls a liar for writing that message
congress is a pack of knaves and fools
for Indorsing It; and the American
people, with a few Mugwump excep
tions, are not much better, according
to Mr. Smalley. This typical old Tory
was for a time amusing; but of late it
must be confessed that he has become
a good deal of a bore. There Is probably
no use In trying to persuade him to let
up on a tired public; but if American
Journals would refuse to print his Btuff
while he Is in his present anguish of
mind, it would no doubt prove a wel
come relief to their readers, and give
him a needed hint as to the wisdom of
cooling oIT,
The Philadelphia Press reassures cer
tain excitable Republican brethren who
lately took the mistaken notion Into
their heads that the Republican lead
ers in this state were contemplating a
revival of the unit rule at the St. Louis
convention. The Press explains that
no national delegate can be forced to
vote against his own wish; nnd that
the only unit rule to be expected will
be the voluntary acquiescence of the
whole Pennsylvania delegation In the
proper enterprise of honoring a worthy
Pennsylvania candidate, like Governor
Hastings. The Press, to be sure, did
not mention any one name, but It is
naturally taken for granted that if any
PennSylvanlan shall receive the vote
of his state for president it will be the
Intrepid and popular governor. He
ought to be balloted for by the Penn
sylvania delegation as long as there re
mained a particle of hope that he might
be the choice of the convention.
Mr. Carlisle tells an Interviewer that
he "had supposed that very few could
now be found who believe that our
financial difficulties were caused by de
ficiency In the ordinary revenues of the
government." Of course, the deficiency
is not the cause, but simply a result.
Yet when we cure the deficiency we al
lay present danger; and shall cure the
whole trouble Just as soon as the next
election gives Republicans a free chance
to restore protection permanently. Mr.
Carlisle didn't hear of deficits and bond
sales under Republican rule.
Under the lead of the Manufacturers'
club of Philadelphia an active effort is
being made to secure a large attend
ance of Pennsylvania manufacturers at
the annual convention of the National
Association of Manufacturers which
will be held In Chicago, Jan. 21, 186. It
Is hoped to establish that .association
on a broad and representative basis, so
that it may be of commanding benefit
to American industry, and to this end
all active manufacturers are Invited to
co-operate.
According to Colonel William Lamb,
chairman of the Virginia Republican
committee, tho Wilson bill's reduction
of the duty on bituminous coal from 75
cents to 40 cents per ton has been the
means of throwing one of Virginia's
leading railroads Into a receivership
and of largely curtailing the employ
ment of labor in Virginia in West Vir
ginia mines. And yet Professor Wilson
wonders why he was not returned to
congress! "
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
, Tribune Bureau.
No. 515 Fourteenth street, N. W..
Washington, Dec. 3D.
The scramble for delegaies-at-large to
the Republican national convention from
Pennsylvania Is becoming absolutely an
noying to Senator Uuay, to whom all the
candidates apply Tor support, rleldom a.
day passes that delegations from some
section of the state do not call upon him
and urge the selection of their respective
candidates. As there are only eight delo-gateB-at-large
to be chosen and there
are at least twenty-eight candidates, one
from each congressional district and In
some of them more than one candidate, the
question is becoming a. most serious one
to Senator uuay. He nas menus through
out the entire state who want preference
shown them.. Of course, every last one
of them professes to have done the sena
tor yeoman service In his recent chair
manship fight and they, therefore, de
mand recognition.
The latest delegation to present the
claims of a candidate was from Luserne
county. Several well-known Republican
politicians of that district were here on
Saturday last to see Quay In the Interest
of Hon, Charles A. Miner. Congressman
LeUenrlng, who Is slated for one of the
district delegateahlps, piloted the visiting
delegation to Senator Quay's committee
room, where they talked the matter over.
Of course, Senator Quay Is too shrewd a
politician to have given a positive pledge;
but It can be said that he so expressed
himself to his visitors that they went
away satisfied. There seems to be much
probability that Mr. Miner will be chosen
one of the delegatcs-at-large.
Congressman Joe Hcranton. havim been
turned down for district delegate, Is a
candidate for delegate-at-larae, and Is
bothering the life out of Senator Quay to
let him go. But as Joseph deserted Quay
lust summer in his hunt for delegates to
the Rtate convention. It's doilur to red
apples that Quay !s not going to lay awake
at minus to muKe Joseph one or ihe dele.
Kales-at-large.
" i; it
Joe Lewis, who is acting ns Mr. Scran
ton's private secretary until he can col
lar something better, made a bet with me
loiiay on the commit Republican mayor
alty nomination in Scranton. He took the
Molr end of the bet ami I put up my
dough on Colonel Hippie. Lewis also
wagered me thut ITncle Joe will be a dele-
Rate-at-lurjre to the Iti uubllcun national
convention. Bath bets were so easy that
1 really didn't like to take them, it will
ue iiae llndlng the money.
II I! !
Secretary Carlisle doesn't like the bond
bill tho huuse passed on Saturday und is
going to take the bull by th? horns hlmeelf.
From the best authority it is said that
the secretary of the treasury will Issue
bonds to the amount of Sluo.CJO.tXio and pos
sibly fW.OrO.nm) early this week. It will
not lie a popular loan, but will be neuo.
tiated through the Belinont-Morcan svn.li.
cate. Secretary Carlisle tlgures that that
amount will float the xovernment until the
rnu oi me vieveiunil administration, and
mat is all he und tho president are con
cerned about. W. K. B.
COMMENT OFTlli PRESS.
Nat a Time for Blustering.
Chicago Times-Meruid: "It Im iho nart
of gooii citizenship to remember that tho
preservation ol tne peace ui the world is,
after all, the greatest good to the great
est number, and that war. so far from be
ing a thing lightly to !e undertaken, is Ihe
very last rtsort to be contemplated. If
wo are to nave war It must be a war in
icKiNtiince to distinct and unequivocal ag
Kiessiou on tne part of Knglund; a mere
diplomatic f llhlllllilil.i'l l)V KnlUlmi-v
will not fcUIIioe for a justlllcaUun to our
national conscience, much less appeal to
the considerate Judgment of history. We
owe It to our own dignity, to our com
manding position miionir nations, to our
profcsseii Christian civilization, that th-
overt act shall be England's, not ours. To
this end the good offices of ull who have
the molding of public opinion should be
ciiusieu 111 uie banishment of preludi
denunciation and recrimination from the
Held of debate. If we nre right, as we be
lieve we are In the essence of our conten
tion, so much the more reason why we
Hiiouiu seep our temper. The ties, soclnl,
commercial and financial, between the
I'lilled States and Great Britain are too
close to be endangered by reckless net
or speech, and the resnons'bllltv incurred
by the slatrsman, the diplomatist, the edi
tor or the preacher of the Gospel who thus
endangers them Is a responsibility terrible
in Its possibilities. International crises
much more aeusr- have resulted in peace
wun nonor to an concerned, r or our own
sake, for the sake of humnnitv. let us honn
for and strive to bring about such an Is
sue or the present contention. Be readv
for war. but strive for peace. Therein lies
wisuom.
The Short of It.
Chicago Times-Herald: "When Undo
Sum got up out of the Atlantic Ocean
und set root on dry land he was told that
according to international law, nil he was
entitled to was to lie hanged. From that
time on Uncle Sam was obliged 10 make
international law to suit his own case.
Self-preservation is the llrst law of nntnr,-.
The law of nature Is older, higher, deeper
and longer tnnn international law. From
this time forth, so far as the American
continent Is concerned. Uncle Sam pur
poses to make, not to take, International
law. This is the law of nature for this
nation. This Is the short of it."
A Poser for Chaunccy.
Philadelphia Record: "Mr. iepew esti
mates that a war on account of the Vene
zuelan boundary dispute would cost the
United Stutes exactly a round $1.0iio,uoiUWii;
nnd he says that the man who owns most
of the Venezuelan swamp In dispute has
offered to sell it to him for $2ii,inio. Ac
cording to Mr. Depcw's mathematical sys
tem of ethics, a question of principle Is
nothing In comparison with a question of
llirlncipnl and interest. Probably fi.M
would have paid for the tea dumped In
Boston harbor. Does Mr. Denew think It
was extravagance to dump the tea?"
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Catholic Prayer Books,
Fine Presentation Books.
DIARIES. DIARIES. DIARIES.
REYNOLDS BROS,
Stationers and Engravers,
3I7 LACKAWANNA AVE.
OVERCOATS.
Fine selection of Ready
Made Clothing; also
Clothes made to order at
the lowest prices. Perfect
fit guaranteed at
B. LEHMAN & GO'S
III LACKAWANNA AVENUE.
. Corner Franklin.
Self-Pouring Tea and Coffee Pot
Pour by the lid, without
lifting or tipping . .
They have) no complicated parti to grt out
of order and canao trouble: no valve; no
sprinir; no mechaniura of any kind. They do
nut ami the table cloth by drip or .i11. 1 hey
tDHke a most valuable and sseful Chriatma
FOOTE & SHEAR CO.
119 WASHINGTON AVENUE.
THAT WONPtWrUU
WESEB
T I fa.H taafr H IM WEBEH
PIANOS
0U1 aa4 a theaa PhaaM aa4 aaaM
and-hand Plaaoa w aav lata hi aniga
tar tkeea.
of the Weather
OPEN EVENINGS.
W are now
PREPARED FOR THE RUSH
W o are satisfied that oar effort tbi
raaoti will pieaae lieitor than aver.
Nearly erery article in worthy of
mention. We lead in all lines.
WATCHES, CLOCKS DIAMONDS
AND FINE JEWELRY,
STERLING SILVER WARES AND
NOVELTIES, CUT GLASS,
ART PORCELAINS,
BANQUET LAMPS, ETC.
IS
Hold Still!
And get your picture took
with one of them er pocket
Kodaks froiu
FLOBEY'S.
They will take the picture
of a candidate for a city office,
ears and all. So your ears
will get in all right, too.
STILL HAVE A LIVELY TIME
SELLING FROM THE MOST
COMPLETE STOCK OF
NECKWEAR
IN THE CITY.
Some Choice Color in
IM
50
C.
At
GONRAD.
OYSTERS
We aiw Headquarters (or Oysters and
are handling th
Celebrated Duck Rivers,
Lynn Havens, : Kcyports,
Mill Ponds; .also Shrews
bury, Ruekaways, Maurice
Hiver Coves. Western '
bhores and Blue Points.
trw. nui a Specialty of Mmtag
tua ram ea lau aU u
PIERCE'S I3EJE7, PZIII! AYE
KIERCEREAU & CONNELL
t mm
yean ifi n
mm.
6.98
9.98
6.98
9.98
12.98
1 7.98
29.98
WELSBAGII LIGHT
Spcciillj Adapted tor Reading and Sewing.
Contumea tbree (3) feet of gu per
hour and (rives an efficiency of sixty
(60) candies.
Baying at least S3 per cant orsr tbt
ordinary Tip Burners.
Call and See It.
T & CONNELL GO.;
434 LACKAWANNA AVENUE.
rUnufacturers' Agents.
DONT WAIT TOO LONG.
Previoua to our inventory wo have decided
to cloae out what wa have on hand of
EDWIN C. BURT & CO.'S
LADIES' FINE SHOES,
Constating of a wall assorted line of hand wait
and turn in French and American kid that
were noid at So V0. .".M and to.00, C , en
Now roduced to Jiu
Theee Shoe are all In parfect condition.
Call early If you wish to take advantage ot
tbi special sale,
The Lackawanna Store Association
LIMITED.
CORNER LACKA. AND JEFFERSON AVES.
326 Washington An,
SCRANTON, PA.
TELEPHONE 555.
HOLIDAY
HEADQUARTERS
Fine Trunks, Bap and Dress Suit Case
WINSLOW ICE SKATES
Pocket Book. Card Cases
Bill and Leather Books
Parses. Bill Rolls, etc.
Finest line In the city at
KNIVES, SCISSORS, RAZORS
AND RAZOR STROPS
TOILET BOXES, DRESSING CASES
Collar and Caff Bo us
Glove and Handkerchief Bexe
CJOAR BOXES AND SMOKINO SETS
Manicure and Blacking Sets
MUSIC ROLLS
Hair. Tooth and Nail Brashes
A Una line
TRIPLICATE MIRRORS
Sterling Silver Maanrted
Leather flood at Bottaaa Priest
UMBRELLAS AND OLOVES
IMPORTED BRONZES AND NOVELTW
III BfttfVcM VaV Icty '
HARNESS AND HORSB CLOTHINO.
G. W. FRITZ
410 Lactawanna Ave
EililClll
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