THE SCHANTON-TIUIifJlNE-SATUItDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22, 1S96.
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ONE-HALF PRICES WILL SELL
BO
ONBsfinfeF
PRICE
CONTINUES
EVERYTHING
Especially if they are affixed to Desirable, Fresh and Seasonable Goods, like those
we have had such an extraordinary sale on for two weeks past
We have doubled our expectations.
SIO-OO
$5.00
It may be of interest
Clothiers, Hatters and Furnishers
MU8BAHD TAKEN BACK
But George Carr's Selfishness Mad Cost rJlrn Ten
, , Hard Years.
lilmck ami
Tin lied Ktuoil in th. nilililli' of the
rnoiti. its runt tn tin1 iipi'ii winilnw. Pi'iim
fur lineutli cHiiif up Him uinlit hum of
I'liicUKo. Iut It wax iUl'teil liy llif ills
timof tn a mere lulluuy.Sii IiIkIi wan the
tup Of the ureal lintel that the KOI'lsh
Mile-white, uf.( the electric lights which
no laihlly dott-il the city were toneil
ilnsvn tn a gentle luminous Haze.
Tin man mi the tied tnsxeil frmn side
tn nlle tiiieiisily, rulled mi to hiH buck,'
lay with hi month tiin the pillow. In
111 rlKht IiuikI he held cruty-lied a let
ter written in vniiiun witting, and us
certain waves ol ' ilreurn rreiit over him
he riiniileil the letter pnvaprely ami
niumt.ileii through liis teeth word of in
articulate fury. At hist bis drenin
Hi eine-d tn ctllinlnnte, ami he lirnke into
11 puroxysm of cotiKliiitK, which uwnke
liiui. His 8enses. dim tit Mist, drew
rapidly to the alert. His eyes so re.
cently Killed with sleep, opened quickly
tn tlit-ir fullest stretch. His nostrils
worked like the nostrils of h lofj on a
trail.
'Smoke! Tobacco smnke? I don't
think so. It smells to me like the reck
of liiiriilnK wood."
II lx eyes were hei;lii!ilii to open wide
with the iHinutiir.nl expansion of terror,
flemjte t'urr had been In America be
fore, and knew what ihese thliiKs por
tended. Quickly dmpplnf bis feet onto
tiie Fionrdsof the lloor, he wulked across
them, unlocked his door. und. openim;
It, lipoke.l Into the pfissuge. He hud no
duubt tlitu av nuulial had occurred.
Not far belnw-dilin us the crisp crack
Una; nf Hallux, and mingled with it
came the cries of badly frightened wo
men and men.
"My Sod. the hotel Is on fire." he ex
plained. "It is built of wood from cel
lar to mi if tree;, it is cratmned with
people; and I nm close under the
shingles on the-eleventh floor!"
lie- went nut "into the lauding in his
night-gear as he wus, and attempted
to deucend. Column of pray vapor
which fdtinir the eyes and nostrils rolled
up the shaft of the stairway: ami. look
Ui(? over the liulusters. he saw through
the smoke arms of tawny tlame which
hot ureedlly towards him. The heat
was terrific; It drove him back to his
room even before the smoke forced a
ret rent, linked by the continued heat
of summer, the (treat wooden hotel was
In Curing
Torturing
Disfiguring
Skin Diseases
Works Wonders
Kr.14 ikmftaat M rt4 . BrttUII aVarti T.Vtw
Ittkt .. I. Im H.t- Loatlua. Pottu
lava Cmn'ti Caar., m Prar., Utn, tl. a. 4.
For choice of about 200 Men's Winter Suits (this season's make) in Fin Worsted, Cassimeres, Tweeds and Cheviots,
in Cutaways, Single and Double-Breasted Sacks, that formerly sold for $12, $15, $18, $20 and even $22, all go now lor
one price of $10 each. CASH ONLY. e are doing-just as we advertise.
For choice of 200 Young Men's Suits, as fine Suits as any one conld wish to
and $15. These suits are selling fast. Secure a choice NOW. CASH
to you to know that the ONE'HALF
almost give-away figures are the only
OLUM
Whit.
burning as though It had been anointed
with tar.
t'arr ran back to his bedrnnin and
mm n in the midst of the Hour. tremblinK
like a leaf. He still held in his tinners
the crumbled letter in a woman's hand
writing his Wife's: but rememberitli It.
broke out Into new fury, and tore it
into tiny sipiares. which llullered like
White bulterllies liel'me the I'isitIK:
draught.
(iraspim;, heartless wretch that she
Is," he cried. "If it had not been for
this letter. KondltiK me to make morn
money, and still more money, I should
be cutchiiiK this mi lining's home boat
from .New York harbor. As It Is, I'm
here to burn slowly to death unless I
choose to make a iUicker endiiiK of It
by JuinpiiiK out on to the road two hun
dred feet below." He tfave tierce snorl
of a luuttli. "Huielde is vroii we are
told. I wonder If it would be sinful for
me to end my miseries quickly, tnsteud
of rcmalliiliK till life Is tediously roasted
out of me here. It is u nice point, but
I shall not argue it out now. I'm n
Iiir tn shut my eyes and jump Into
eternity."
He walked steadily across to the
window, put one leg: over the sill, and
looked down from a dizzy height which
no lire escape nu earth could spun,
l'lames were lieuiiining to Jet thmugh
many of the windows benw. In the
street two steam tire-engines were al
ready at work: others were coming up
with teams at u furious gallop. The
black carpi t of neonle in the vacant
spaces bud a curious white mottling of
upturned laces, fan threw the other
I'K over the sill, ami, slnoplng over
wondered where he should drop. He
wauled to fall clear, and -the ghastly
though would ci urn he did not want
to splash anybody.
The booming ronr of the names In
the sliut't of the stairs drew near and
nearer. It was of no use to wait, of
earthly heln none would come. lie
made no his mind that, he would jump
then without more torturing delay. Hut.
wluii It canie to the actual leap, hi
limbs somewhat failed him. He seemed
physically tumble to leave his seat on
the ledge.'
"Huh: what a coward I am!" lie cried,
"fearing to lean into necessary death
with my face towards it: I suppose I
have a woman's nerve Just now; I
must humor myself like a woman."
He tumid about, breasting the sill
and lowering himself steadily down till
all his body hung against the wooden
wall suspended nnly by the linger tip.
And then he saw something which
caused such a revulsion of feeling that
he was within an ace of relaxing hi
hold und being dashed t rag in the
Htreet below.
Gradually, however, hi musc le stif
fened again, and he drew himself up
and fell faint and trembling on the
board floor of hi bedroom. Screwed
tn the Jamb of the window was a stout
eye-bolt; fastened t thl wa a long
coll of rope. These thing are the or
dinary accompaniment of American
hotel lieciroom anywhere above the
llrst floor, and Carr had Been them
score of time before. Nothing but
the excitement and the scare under
which he was laboring rould have al-
towed him to forget them on leaving
hi bed at the first alarm. Still feeling
nick and dizzy. Carr gathered himself
up from the floor, and with trembling
fingers set a'iout casting the rope from
Its coil. The stuff tangled, and In his
hasty clumsiness he tied It Into hard
knots. Time was wasted.
At last, however, the long snaky
length of rope was flung out of the
One Thousand Men's Negligee Shirts, with collars attached, with two collars and cuffs de
ll rf H 9 9 tached. All sizes, 14 to 17, formerly selling for $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50, will be sacrificed at
. FIFTY CENTS each. We also continue selling Underwear at TWENTY-FIVE CENTS
each. Ties, two for Twenty-Five Cents.
window; and gripping It with hlsi humls
und legs, the I'ug-lilve started hist de
scent. He was 110 practiced idimber,
anil the rough hemp ate the skill from
his hands as il passed through them:
but such an inconvenience wa only of
slight moment. A far greater danger
encompassed him. DnrlniT hi delay
the lire hud Kulneil in strength and
lierceness. and torrents of yellow Mime
were pouring from dozens of windows.
He hud to puss through two of these,
anil emerged nt each lower side stilled
and blackened. Hut the rope remained,
hanging like a thin black snake in the
heart of the licking tongues nf lire,
gttting deeper and deeper eharreil
every moment. How long would it con
tinue to hold him?
Knly conscious of his new peril, lie let
thi' cord slio pust him still mure rapid
ly, till It felt us Mioiurh hi IuiikIm were
being cut through to the very bone by a
red-hot saw; and then it broke.
lie felt 11 numbing rush thr.uish the
n I r. a Jarring thud us of ten thousand
carlliiiiakes. some shooting before hi
eyes and that was u II. Otdivhm held
him emiielv.
Later on the doctor presented the pa
tient, ovee whom there hud been Home
cunt roveisy. with a paper which con
tained a lengthy account of the tire, und
the patient n.ai veiled at the inventive
powers i f Chicago journalist. When,
however, lie entile to Hie list of the
killed, about which there could not Well
lie any sentimental romancing, he nut
the panel- down with n start. Knr
awhile he lay still, with eyes lixeil nu
the celling. Then his glance descended
uguin and roved about the wnrd rather
guiltily. 1'imllng that no one was Un
tieing him, he once more nicked no th,
paier. Yes. there it wus. In iiinoin
Pii.inisiiig black and white, the third
in the list of the killed. " leorge II. fair,
of W'iiigfoid. Kngland." furiosity
made bis search further unions the col
umns, imiiI he found the method of his
death described with gruesome adjec
tive und lurid headlines. Thin lust
owned to being Imaginative, a it men-
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PRICES, tne erv lowest you've ever seen, are marked on
ones you'll find on the balance of our Winter Overcoat
&
tinned that he hud never been seen
alive after retiring for the night.
Yet It wa.u bad conjecture of what
might have occurred to a man who wus
slowly suffocated to death.
Again the paper Muttered to the lloor,
and again Cart's eye sought the ceil
ing. He wus Ihlukiliit very hard In
deed, and couldn't quite make no his
mind to something. A course seemed
ooen before him, a course which had
Horn drawbacks, but a multitude of
Bond points. For one thing, it would
ease Mm forever of his wife, who hud
tormented his love Into something akin
to hutred; for another
The doctor came und broke Into his
reverie:
"Say, friend. T want to know your
name. The hotel registers ute burned,
and the miners wish to print u list of
survivors, so that we inuy tot up with
more accuracy how many poor wretches
are missing. It's been a sad business
this, all around; a mighty sad business.
Many deaths, und what did you say
your name wus, Kir?"
It was now or never. The choice had
to lie made or the chance missed,
"f'urey."
The doctoe noted it down on his cuff.
"Initial, please'.'"
"Henry tl."
"Where of? You're Kiitfllsh, 1 guess
Isn't that so""
"Yes. ii Londoner."
"Tliunks. I won't nsk you how do
you like our illy, because perhaps
you've Kot rather a. bad llrst Impres
sion, lint that'll weur ofl', sir. You'll
like It before you've done."
"I ho;e so." said the nat lent dream
ily. "I'm here In Ainertcu to stay. I
hope I shall get on."
"Hope so, I'm sure," said the doctor
briskly. "Wish you every kind of luck."
An outcast, ragpeil, bent, and pre
maturely aged, slopped along beside 11
high park wall. The slushy snow of an
Kngllsh spring ebbed and (lowed across
the sole of his bursting boots; the chill
of the wind bit savagely through his
rage of clothes. Presently the wall gave
place to a sunk fence, und the tramp
stopped and gazed at the view. Over
an expanse of park, and lawn, and
gable of an Kllzahethan country house,
trim, solid, graceful. A he watched, a
fallow deer came out Into the open,
gazed at him for u moment In haughty
impudence, und then trotted into covert.
The tramp, with a sigh, started wear
ily on his way. "It sei nis even grur.der
than I was told of," lie murmured to
himself. "Wealth, comfort, happiness
everywhere. And it might all have
been mine. Kvery stick and every
shrub left to the wife and me between
us. It fell to us by will the day before
1 I died; the day In-fore 1 was burnt to
ashes in the Chicago lire. Fancy the
Irony of that! The day befole! Why
didn't the news reach me? I'd a tine
fund of selfishness about me then.
"And then lionise was right after all.
It wus her dutv to urge me to business.
I wa a lazy a the day was long then;
and she told me of It. nnd I hated her
for speaking. I've thought since over
that letter, and the pain it must have
caused her to write.
"Kh, well, that's all past and done
with. I died. I was' ful of conceit in
myself, and thought an American for
tune was easily made, even if it was
sometimes lost with suddenesses. Tah!
I never reached the llrst rung of the
ladder. I never rose above laboring
with my hand at unskilled trades; and
It was being constantly shown me how
I wan an indifferent laborer at that.
"No, I've missed it. badly, and all
through my own shortsighted fault. I
might have had wife, children and a
stately home. What I do have is my
share of the queen's wet highway, and
weary aches to lie down upon. Of my
self I shall never now be more than
what I am a broken waster. But there
I one thing I won't do, and that's ask
help from her. She'd frlve It. If I sought
for It; she'd call me back as her hus
band If she knew me to be alive; she'd
share with, me willingly what la, per
haps, after all, legally mine to share.
H1AC
KE
But no. She's a good woman, and I'm
what they call in the states a mean
man. Yes, mighty mean, but I've mnde
my bed. and 1 won't remake it even if I
have the chance. Things are uncom
fortable, but 1 guess they won't drag
out much longer."
He ut heavily down on the wet way
viiio turf. Ids legs dangling over the
ditch. "Ten years; ten terrors for me.
Ten years for her thinking herself my
widow. She's hud the chance to marry
again; 1 heurd all about it. Leslie
asked her. the only man 1 was jealous
of before I won her for myself. She
likes him 1 know; she always did; und
for hiru she's the only woman lit the
world. Rut she wouldn't many him for
all that, though he could have given her
love, title, more wealth, yes, everything
a woman could want."
A crunching noise made the tramp
turn his r.lunce. A smart carriage
with n pair of ponies was coming up
round a turn of the west road. A
woman was driving; a man in livery
sat behind. The tramp gazed for a
minute with starting eyes; then turned
away und with bowed head faced the
ditch. "Oh, my tlod." he murmured,
nnd clinched his hands till the nails
drew blood.
The noise of the wheels ceased, and
there was the sound of rustling skirts.
The trump also noticed the faint smell
of seulskln, but he kept his back reso
lutely immovable.
" leorge."
The tramp did not stir. A trembling
lliind was placed on his wet shoulder.
"(leorge, look up. I know it is you."
"Woman, go away. You are muklng
n mlntfike."
"Look me In the face and repeat
that."
"I I will not. I can't."
She sllpned down to a scat beside
him on Hie sodden turf, and the groom
lit the nodes' heuds felt his Jaw .drop
down through wonder.
"Oh. Louise, why can't you puss me
by? I only came for a peep. I didn't
intend you to see 'me Und knows I
didn't. It's all yours now. und I'll not
take a fraction uwuy from you. I have
chosen my path like the scoundrel th :t
1 wa und I must keep ulong It. It
Isn't lit that I should turn back now."
"Yet you must stay, now thut I have
found you."
"I tell you 1 cannot. You would not
nsk ine If you knew whut I have been,
how vilely I have sinned against you.
Don't shake your-bead. Is It true. If
you won't credit that, listen."
She threw her nuns about his shoul
ders, " pressing him fiercely to her
bnast.
"Dour." she said, "yon have ronie
back to me. 1 know that; I do not want
to know any more."
The tramp tried to pluck himself from
the embrace, without avail. Then In
lay against her furs and shuddered, but
made tin more resistance.
Louise t'lirr had taken back her hus
band. Will- KK UK AKT DISF.ASi; IS I X.
KNOWS.
A Uculah Land in Contrast with this Afio
nf I-ret and I'unic.
Where this ltci'lnh Land? Thousands
will imiulre. for Heart Disease is strik
ing down its victims In every corner
of the land, and Its terrors grow apace.
Beulah Ijmd to the victims of heart
disease Is to be found in the use of
that remarkable discover Dr. Agnew's
Cure for the Heart, which la miracu
lous In It effectiveness. In despernte
cases It gives the qulckest.rellef really
within 30 minutes after the first dose
I taken and In a short time banishes
the disease. Where the symptoms are
less pronounced, every wise man and
woman will take thi medicine a a
certain means of freeing the system of
any elements of heart trouble. Only
one positive statement doe this medi
cine Justice It Is an absolute cure for
heart trouble. Bold by Matthews Bros.
wear. They formerly
ONLY.
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220 Lackawanna Avenue
(AOTION
TO our patrons:
Watihburn-CroBby Co. wish to assure their many pal
rons thut they will this year hold to their usual custom
of milling STRICTLY OLD WHEAT until the new crop
lei fully cured. New wheut is now upon the market, and
owing to the excessively dry weuthvr niuny millers arc
of the opinion that ft is ulready cured, and in proper
condition for milling. Washburn-Crosby Co. will take
no risks, and will allow the new wheut fully threo
months to inuturc before grinding.
This careful attention to every detail of milling haal
placed WHshburn-Oosby Co.' flour far above otheaT
brands.
EGARGEL
Wholesale Agents.
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Bolts, Nuts, Bolt Ends, Turubuckles, Washers, Riv
ets, Horse Nails, Files, Taps, Dies, Tools and Sup
plies. Sail Duck for mine use in stock.
SOFT STEEL HORSE SHOES
and a full stock of Wagon Makers' Supplies, Wheels,
Hubs, Rims, Spokes, Shafts, Poles, Bows, etc.
BITTEIB
SCRAN
EIDER
EVERY WOMAN
BomaMaa a reliable, amthlr, rtfnlauaf andlotaa. Oaly haratlaaj C&4
tBeaaraatdrupaaMMbauad. If jao waat Uu bail, (
Dr. Pcai'o Pennyroyal Pillo
Tax an proaat, aafa ud otrtala In raaali. Tba naalM (Dr. tal'D mrrmilmfi
... c.t ...h.n- ai ao iririM Pkai. m iiunii Ca. CiaraUad. O.
Far aala taw JOHN H. PHELPS. Pharmaalat. ear. Wvamino AvanuA anal
Sprue Straat, Scranton Pa,
sold for $8, $10, $12
these goods, and that
& GONNELL
STEEL
TON, PA.
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