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CARBONDALE.
TReader wtn pi note that ailvertHe.
Sncnts, orders for Job work, and Item for
publication lft at the establiehment of
Shannon A Co., newadcaleri. North Main
treat, will reoelva prompt attention; of
ce open fram I a. m. to 10 p. m.J
HER BURNS FATAL
Mr. Faati Dies at Emergency Hon-pitul--Buriuil
Yesterday.
Mrs. Joanna f'aatz, who waa brought
to Emergency hospital from Forest
City, died at that place, her burns
being so terrible that she did not rally
although everything possible wag done.
Mrs. r'aatx va burn fifty-one years
iro In Wayne county. Nine years aso
she moved to Forest City which has
since been her home. Her husband
died about a year ago. She was a
woman of em-mst, upright mat titter
who will be greatly missed by those
who had learned to love her.
Four daughters and three sons sur
vive her. Thay are Mrs. Everett Bon
ham, of Forest City; Mrs. Charles Cot
tle, of Dunmore; Misws Sadie and May
Faats, of Forest City; Fram-ls FaaU.
of this city, ami tlus -.nd Joseph of
Forest City. A 'sister Mrs. William
Cruse, of Hawley. and a brMher, Klch
ard Reynolds, of Waytnart, also sur
vive. The body wat moved to Ihe home of
her brother oiiCanuaii street from which
place th futierai was held yesterday
aftesnoon. Hov. P. B, Kennedy, pastor
of the First Pi-esbyterlaii church, of
Forest Ctly, officiated at the service
and preached a touching sermon. In
ternment was made in liroukside ceme
tery. THE BOARD MEETS.
The First Meeting Held Yesterday
Afternoon.
The fire board which has lately been
organized held Its first meeting Satur
day afternoon, and from the amount of
business done plainly demonstrated
that it should huve been organized a
long time ago.
The board Is at present composed of
the following numbers: Ex-otllc!o
members, Mayor O'Neill, Chief P. J.
MoiTit; president, J. W. Kllpatrlck, of
No.G; vice president, Frank B. Clifford,
of No. 2; secretary, C. S. Alexander, No.
1; treasurer, T. E. Campbell, No. 1; and
John Brown and Abe Sahm, No. 5; W. J.
Myers, No. 1; V. F. Malloy and John
MeCann, No. 2.
A resolution stating the urgent need
of a tire alarm system was prepared
and it will be presented to the councils
at a meeting In the near future. Dis
cussion relating to the resolution now
In council providing for the shoeing of
fire horses by contract was indulged in.
Looks Like Huninei.
It look as If Belmont street will
be paved before snow tiles, for the
Ti action company who have delayed
the work have begun preparations to
move their tracks from the side to the
middle of the street. The ties to be
used in the new track have arrived.
The old track will be used until the
other Is completed so traffic on the road
will not be storped. The action of the
traction company Is mpetlng with
much satisfaction from the residents
of Belmont street.
Subscription Increasing.
Subscriptions to the Pitts ton relief
fund are still coming In but rather
slowly.. It Is hoped that after pay It
will Increase rapidly. It Is Something
that all people in the mining districts
should feel an Interest in and contri
bute something to the ramMles of those
men who Buffered such a terrible death.
I.,et everyone respond generously to the
appeal for at any time they may be
placed In a similar situation.
PERSONAL AND OTHER ITEMS.
Miss Katie Brennan, of New Jersey,
who has been ths guest of her sister.
Miss Annie Brennan, of North Church
street, has returned home.
Mr and Mrs. S. S. Jones and family
spent the day at Lake Ariel with the
Dunmore Presbytelan Sunday school.
Mathew Lavey. of Niagara college
who has been visiting hre, left on Sat
urday for his home in Bridgeport, Conn.
Prof. B. E. Pitts and C. McHogan
leave today for Starrucca on an extend
ed fishing trip.
Mrs. C. S. Hollls is visiting her daugh
ter In Scranton.
Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Dennis leave this
week for Atlantic City.
Mrs. P. Qumaer and daughter, Eliza
beth, left Saturday for Port Jervis
on an extended trip.
Mrs. John Kase has returned from a
Visit to her mother In South Canaan.
Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Mellon, Mr. and
Mrs. C. W. Mellon, and son, Mr. and
Mrs. A. W. Burdlck and son, and Harry
MIDSUMMER SALE
Of Carpets, Mattings, Oil Cloths,
Linoleums, Window Shades, Lace
Certains, Chenille Cnrtalns, Rugs
and Carpet Sleepers.
The above goods bars been overhanled and
narked down to nearly one-half their value.
Tliia sale will last during the month of July,
to make room for fall goods. Com and get
prloes.
We have tome desirable thin In Rocking
Chairs and Center Tables; J Per Cent. Less
Than the Actual Coat that we are cluing eut.
J.SCOTTINGLIS,
CARPETS AND WALL PAPER
419 Lackawanna Ave.
Bartlett leave this week for Asoury
Park.
Mlas Ida Reese has returned from a
week's visit with friends in Scranton.
Mrs. H. Courtrlght and son Welles,
of Wllkes-Barre, are visiting at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Watt, of
Washington street.
Miss Mabel Corby, of Montclalr. N. J.,
Is the guest of Miss Bessie Corby, of
Wyoming street
Miss Stella Lavan and Carrie Barm
ger, of Mooslc, are spending a week
with their uncles. Charles Gates and
James A. Miller.
Mies Isabel Yarrlngton Is visiting
friends in Port Jen-is.
Mrs. A. E. Tiffany and children, of
Blrkett street, left last week for a visit
with relatives in Bradford county.
Mrs. Frank Ives, of Plymouth, is
a guest at the home of Conductor Miller
on Drummond avenue.
Miss OUIe Moon and Grace Williams
are spending the week at Crystal lake.
O. U. Sampson and W. F. Nye spent
yesterday In Wllkes-Barre. The trip
there and abek was made on their lbcy
cles. Miss Minnie Mohra Is the guest of
friends in Honesdale.
J. M. Miller, of Honesdale, who has
been visiting his brother, B. 8. Miller,
of Terrace street has returned home.
George Ulllts Is visiting friends in
Blnghamton, N. T.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Swarts and
daughter, of Dunmore, are visiting
friends In this city.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Moon, sr., of
Terrace stret. are visiting In Wllkes
Barre. Mrs. Morris Mangan, of MInooka is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. E. J.
O Keefe. of Vandllng.
Mr. and Mrs. Loren Paine and two
chlfdren, of Blnghamton, are visiting
Dr. and Mrs. Place, of Terrace street.
Miss Emma and Hattie Holmes, of
Forest City, have been visiting the
Mines Maud Carted and Isabelle Max
well, of Salem avenue.
1UNKHANNOCK.
Saturday afternoon Tritons played
their star game of the season with To
wanda defeating them by a Bcore of
to 1. Towanda, waa shut out until the
ninth Innlg when they made a run on
an error after two men were out. The
town went wild with excitement as
they expected a defeat and the only
thing they regret was the one run
Towanda made. Clark pitched a won
derful game for Tunkhutmock and In
fact every man on the team played
greut ball. Towanda had a good team
but were unable to do anything with
Clark's curves. The following is the
score by Inning:
Tritons 01003010 4
Towanda ...0 0000000 11
Druggist T. H. Oreenvllle has pur
chased he Coleman property on court
house square and will very shortly
erect a handsome dwelling.
C'.iurles Russell, of Russell Hill, can
didate for the nomination of represen
tative on the Republican ticket, was In
town Saturday and witnessed the ball
game.
Mrs. Willlum Harding, of Wllkcs
Batre. Is vtting her mother, Mrs. Cas
sidy. Thomas Calahun, of Plttston, spent
Sxturday with his parents at this place.
V. C Cox, of Montrose, was aa busl
ines mun in Tuukhannock on Friday
last.
Miss Duisy Cardan is spending some
time with relatives In Meshoppen.
Hon. K. J. Jordan Is entertaining his
brother from Philadelphia.
Miss Anna Kuklian, who has been
visiting her siter In New York for the
past month, returned to her home Sat
urday. Dr. W. A. Sprout Is entertaining his
cousin, L. P. Sprout, of Muncy.
Frank Carey returned Saturday from
a abusiness trip in New York state.
PKICEKUKG.
Large crowds from our neighboring
towns were attracted here Saturday
evening to see the grand display ot fire
works at the Citizens' band picnic. The
prize la silk umbrella) given to the
prettiest girl was won by Miss Mertle
Scutt, of Lincoln street, and the cane
was awarded to John Miller, sr.
The school board will hold Its regular
monthly meeting this evening.
George Munford visited friends In
Olyphant yesterday.
Misses May and Lizzie O'Hara and
Lizzie Dolphin spent yesterday after
noon nt Laurel Hill park.
The picnic of St. Thomas' church
congregation to have been held on July
1Mb, has been postponed until July 21.
A first class time is assured all who
attend. The drawing for $20 in gold,
tickets for which can be purchased
for the small sum of ten cents, will
be decided at the picnic that evening.
Miss Matilda Smith, of North Main
street, Is visiting friends in Plymouth.
OLYPHANT.
The Suburban Wheelmen, under the
captaincy of Charles W. Houser, will
participate In the McKtnley parade at
Scranton tomorrow evening. All wheel
men of town are invited to accompany
them.
The McKlnloy club, headed by the
Olyphant band, will take part In the
parade at Scranton tomorrow night.
At a meeting cf the Catholic Young
Men's Total Abstinence and Benevo
lent society yesterday, the following
officers were elected: President, P. J.
O'lJnyle; recording secretary, Michael
McNulty; financial secretary, Paul
Kelly; directors, P. T. Brennan and P.
McHale.
Misses Anna White and Agnes Tim
moiis, of Carbondale, were visitors at
this place yesterday.
World fake, says bryan.
Candidate Never Wrote a "Signed
Statement" It Published.
Chicago, July 12. The new presidential
candidate said yesterday afternoon that
he would submit no more Interviews for
publication.
A statement In the New York World
which reached Chicago today was the
moving cause of the candidate's deter
mination. That paper contained a
"spread" article on the first page, two
columns wide. In usually large type,
purporting to be an Interview with him,
and signed by him.
The article treats of his political
views, and In It he Is quoted as saying
that he Is not a believer In either free
silver or gold. When he saw a copy
of the World containing the alleged in
terview, Mr. Bryan, alter carefully
reading It, said:
"I never wrote out any such Inter
view. It was not written for nor given
to the World by me, and my signature
waa never attached to such state
ments." If the Baby Is Cuttin; Teeth.
Mrs. Wlnslow':. Soothing Syrup ha
been used for over Fifty Years by Mu
llens of Mother: for delr Children
while Teething, with Perfect Success.
It Soothes the Child, fattens the Quins,
.'.Hays all Pain; Cures Wind Colic and
Is the best remedy for Diarrhoea. Bold
by. Druggists In every part ot the world.
Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Wlnslow's
Soothing Syrup," and take no other
kind. Twenty-five cent a bottl
THINKS KRUGER A
SECOND CROMWELL
Aa Eirtish Editor's Study ot the Fan
ous Transvaal President.
HAS REAL GENIUS FOR COMMAND
He Is Honest ia a Pecnliar Way.
Loves Truth, Bat Does Not Always
Keep His WordBelieves and
Practices Calvinism.
Frank Harris, the editor of the Sat
urday Review, has recently returned to
London after a somewhat extended
tour In South Africa. While there he
studied the Transvaal situation care
fully and talked with all the prominent
men, both Dutoh and English. His ob
servations and conclusions are of value
and the series of signed articles which
he Is contributing to the Review will at
traot much attention. The first of these
articles Is headed "President Kruger as
he Is," and runs as follows:
There have been so many word por
traits of Paul Kruger, so many con
tradictory accounts of his motives and
objects, that a man with a new impres
sion of him may feel some diffidence in
putting it forward. But after all, the
character of a ruler ia discovered by
invasions and rebellions, and It is easier
now to see Kruger aa he is than it waa
a year ago.
Speaking roughly, one Is able to div
ide the existing descriptions of the
president Into two classes those made
by his friends and those made by his
foes. His admirers have presented him
to us as a sort of Boer Cromwell un
lettered. It Is true, and unacquainted
with the conditions of modern life, but
gifted with the faculties of a leader
and ruler of tlTe people courageous,
honest, pious.
The picture of him given by his de
tractors, on the other hand, Is nol so
consistent or clear In outline; the fea
tures are blurred by contradictions or
dehumanised by exaggeration; but If
that cannot give us a recognizable or
even a possible portrait of the man It
can put forward facts and arguments
which make one believe that this vil
lage Cromwell Is a more complex, and,
therefore, a more human and Interest
ing it a less ethically perfect being than
his worshippers Imagine. -
AS TO HIS HONESTY.
"You call Kruger honest and disin
terested." cry his adversaries, with a
fine scorn; "how, then, do you account
for the fact that he's worth three or
four hundred thousand pounds all
made In the last eight or ten years?"
And If one In defense adduces the fact
that President Kruger has always
saved seven-eighths of his salary and
Invested his savings In farms near Jo
hannesburg and Pretoria, which have
Increased thirty fold In value in the
last deoad If, In fact, one shows thu.t
Kruger's wealth has been dishonest, he
could easily have been worth as many
millions as he Is now worth hundreds
of thousands, his adversaries. Instead
of admitting the argument, go on to
point out that Kruger hna winked at
bribes taken by his relatives and dis
tributed monopolies among his friends,
and that the administration of the
Tranvaal government Is dishonorably
distinguished by Incompetence and cor
ruption. "This gevernment differs from all
other governments," said a financier to
me the other day in Johannesburg, "In
that here you have to buy not only the
masters, but the men. If you want a
document from a government depart
ment, you have to distribute 'flyers'
to the clerks In order to get It In any
reasonable time."
All this Is probably true. . It must be
remembered, however. In extenuation
that the Boers, a few thousand Ignorant
farmers, scattered over a great terri
tory, have had In the last ten years to
constitute a government, which should
be able to handle all the details of a
complex modern civilization, a civil
ization, too, that has grown, and Is
growing with unexampled rapidity.
Eight years ago there was open veldt
dotted with half a dozen makeshift
tents and twenty or thirty bullock wag
ons, where today stands the town of
Johannesburg, with Its 100.UOO Inhabi
tants, Its streets of brick and stone, its
club. Us newspaper offices and Its min
ing exchanges.
The forty miles of veldt along the
Rand, which could have been bought in
18S5 for a few thousand pounds, Is now
worth over 1300,000,000. Men who ten
years ago were struggling clerks or
needy adventurers are today million
aire mine owners, whose names are
mentioned with respect In every Eu
ropean capital. Temptations beget
faults, and a society that has suddenly
shot up from poverty to riches can
scarcely hope to be distinguished for
honesty.
WINKS AT BRIBERY.
It Is sufficient, surely, to say, here
Scroffwla
Infests the blood of humanity. It
appeurs in varied forms, but is forced
to yield to Hood's .Sursuparillu, which
purities and vitalizes the blood and
cures all such discuses. Head this:
"In September, 1884, 1 made a misstep and
Injured my ankle. Very soon afterwards,
A So ire
two inches across formed and in walking
to favor it I aprained my ankle. The sore
became worse; I could not put my boot
I on and I thought I should have to give up
1 at every step. I could not get any relief
: and bad to stop work. I read of a core of
a similar case by Hood's Sarsaparilia and
concluded to try it. Before I had taken
all of two bottles the sore bad healed and
the swelling had gone down. My
Is now well and I have been greatly bene
fited otherwise: I have increased in
weight and am in better health. I cannot
say enough in praise of Hood's Sarsapa
rilia." Mb. II. Blake, Bo. Berwick, Me.
This and other similar cures prove that
Hood's
Sarsaparilia
Is the Olie True Mood Purifier. All druggists, tl.
Prepared only by C. I. Hood Co., Lowell, Mew.
ww ,m t-kti the best famllv cathartic
flood Flll$ and lirer stimulant. u
that It Kruger has allowed bribes to be
taken by his relative and dependents.
If he has given . oonoesslona to his
friends that trammel Industry, and has
thus enriched partisans at the public
expense, his personal honesty has not
been seriously Impugned Under great
temptation he has been what Hamlet
calla 'Indifferent honest" honest, that
Is, after the fashion of poor human na
ture. For there are those of us who
would have our children and relations
Immaculately virtuous, as if to atone
for our , shortcomings, while Kruger
seems content to let those near and dear
to him fill their pockets ae they can,
provided his own hands are clean.
And if his personal honesty is indis
putable, even more can be said of his
courage; for courage. Indeed, Is of the
essence of the man: he has shown all
sides of It save, perhaps, one. His
mere physical courage and insensibil
ity of nerves are extraordinary as per
fect in old age as in youth.
More than forty years ago he him
self amputated the thumb of his left
hand, injured in a gun explosion; and a
few years ago, when suffering from
toothache, he gave proof of similar har
dihood. Some of the enlightened mem
bers of his family begged him to go
to the dentist. But after hearing what
the charges of the tooth doctor would
be, Kruger. angrily rejected the sug
gestion. A night or two later the pain
Increased so that he could not sleep,
whereupon he got up and pried the tooth
open with his own clasp knife, and went
to sleep afterward wlnthout more ado.
A mighty hunter from his youth up
he has killed llot:s and buffalo with
his old single-barreled muzzle-loader
the temper of his 70th year Is that ot his
early manhood. While driving the oth
er day with Chief Justice Kotze to see
the President, the chief justice told me
that when the news reached Pretoria,
late on Tuesday, December 81, that
Jameson with his force waa hearing
Krugersdorp, he found Kruser had or
dered his horse to b5 saddled, and waa
getting out his rlHe, in order to go and
personally lead his burghers to battle.
"Now that this Jameson's on the
veldt," cried the old man exultantly,
"we'll soon see what he's worth." "And
it took a great deal of argument to per
suade the president," said tho chief Jus
tice, "that his brains here in Pretoria
were of more value to the state than his
hand and eye out yonder on the veldt."
A MAN OF COURAGE.
Kruger's moral courage is bo marked
that it might be mistaken tor obstinacy.
Year by year as the L'ltlanders have In
creased In umber, and as Johannesburg
has grown In wealth and Influence,
Kruger has diminished the privileges of
the foreign emigrants. Before 1885 it was
possible for anyone to become fully na
turalized burgher of the Transvaal af
ter a residence of two years and a dec
laration of allegiance. Today one may
pass one's life In the Transvaal with the
satisfaction of knowing that one's child
ren born and bred in tire state will be
regarded as foreigners.
And Kruger Is quite willing to take
the responsibility for this retrograde
actton. As a rule. It Is true, he tells you
that the volksraad Is responsible for
these measures; but pushed Into a cor
ner he will not deny his Initiative. At
tho back of his mind there ia the Jus
tification, aptly phrased by his chief
Hollander Adlvser: "As the flood rises,
we build the dikes higher."
On the other hand, this moral couruge
makes noble deeds possible to him.
When Jameson and his forces were pris
oners In Pretoria, certain Boers de
manded the Immediate trial and punish
ment at least of the leader and the offi
cers. But Kruger stood out against ar
gument and anger with resolute Imper
turablllty. One would have said, In
deed, that he took a certain pleasure
In the assertion of his personal will. But
fairness of mind or worldly wisdom and
a deep knowledge of the character of
his people were shown In the way he
went about among the malcontents, set
ting forth his reasons for exercising
mercy, and gradually pursuading
everyone that Oom Paul felt as he felt,
though as head of the state he was com
pelled to adopt a higher course of con
ducta course Justifiable by Holy Writ
and not inconsistent with policy. Again
and again In the last three or four
months Kruger has stood against public
opinion, and at length swayed it to his
service.
Yet even his high moral courage suf
fers human lapses; his enemies say that
his word Is quite untrustworthy. It
would be nearer the truth to state that
he la Impressionable, easily moved by
those whom he trusts, and that when
moved he makes promises which his
practical sense prevents him from ful
fillllng. His adversaries give curious
instances of the peculiar way In which
he twists scriptural texts for self-justification.
But all this testifies to the
necessity Kruger feels of explaining
and Justifying his backslidlngs; In fact,
it almost amounts to a proof that the
man is in the main truth-loving.
RELIGIOUS BELIEFS.
I can say nothing as to Kruger's
piety. He belongs to the strictest sect
of Calvinlsts. proud even of being a
"Dopper." It Is worth while to epxplain
this word, because It shows the ex
tremely close" relationship that exists
between the Boers and the English.
"Dopper" comes from "dop," which Is
the German "Topf," a bowl, and is sup
posed to apply to this sect of religion
ists, because their wore their hair as If
the barber had put a bowl upon their
heads and cut around it. According to
this derivation, which seems the most
probable, "Roundhead," would be an al
most perfect translation of "Dopper."
Paul Kruger Is not only a sectary, but
also a ureacher of considerable emin
ence. Almost opposite his house there
stands a "Dopper" church, and there
President Kruger often holds forth to
the Intense edification of the faithful.
In truth, there Is a good deal of the ora
tor in Oom Paul, and not a little of the
actor as well. As Cromwell Is said to
have been an epileptic, so this Botr
Cromwell Is something of a neuropath.
Had he been educated, he would have
shown a subtle and wide intelligence.
Even now, according to Chief Justice
Kotze, he will discuss such questions
as immortality and the beneficence of
the Deity with singularly fair ap
preciation of the arguments which make
against his own belief, which he never
theless recurs to, as If yielding to an
overpowering Instinct developed
through generations of pious forebears.
His honesty and truthfulness suffer
somewhat the same qualifications as did
these qualities in his great prototype.
If we must rank his ability lower than
that of Cromwell, his Inferiority may
well be due to the smallness of the field
e.llotted to him by circumstances; and
In the qualities wherein C-omwell was
pre-eminent in magnanimity. In con
stancy, and In courage history, maybe,
will accord Paul Kruger a place but lit
tle lower than that held by the great
englishman.
. YOUXQ GIRLS.
Their Conduct and Health Often Mystifies
Their Mothers.
Young girls often feel and conse
quently act, very strangely.
. They ahed tears without apparent
cause, are restless, nervous, and at
times almost
hysterical
They
self-
absorbed, and heedless of things go
ing on around them. Sometimes they
complain of pain in lower parts of
body, flushes of heat in head, cold feet,
eta.
Young girls are not free from incipi
ent womb troubles.
Mothers should see to it that Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is
promptly taken; all druggists have it.
The girl will speedily be "herself
gain," and a probable danger be
verted. Any information on this sub
ject, or regarding all female ailments,
will bo cheerfully given free by Mrs.
Pinlcham, at Lynn, Mi.su. Write her.
SINGULAR COMPACT CARRIED OUT.
Indiana Romance Ends by Two Men
Legally Exchanging Wivex.
Ligonler, Ind, July 12. John Krubel
man, of Cass county, Michigan, was
married Wednesday in Lagrange coun
ty, this state, to the divorced wife ot
William Heekleyman, of Monroe coun
ty. Ohio. Krubleman and Heekleyman
were both suitors for the hand of Cora
Hugg-lna, a pretty country girl who
was at loss to decide which she prefer
red for a husband.
The sequel was an unusual compact,
by the terms of which she agreed to
marry Heekleyman and live with him
ten years as his wife, when Krubleman
If he were living, was to become her
husband. Heekleyman went west and
obtained a divorce, as did also Kruble
man, and yesterday afternoon Mrs.
Krubleman became Mrs. Heekleyman
and Mrs. Heekleyman became Mrs.
Krubleman, the novel contract being
faithfully kept.
JONES YIELDED TO BRYAN.
The "Coy Orator" Came Near Not
If nviug n Cbauce to Speak.
Chicago. July 12. It Is admitted here
by everybody that if Bryan had not
made his speech he never would have
been nominated, arid it Is also admitted
that he came mighty near not having a
chance to make his speech. Bryan wus
one of the men selected by Senator
Jones to help him defend the Popullstic
platform agninst the assaults of Sena
tor Hill and the pit Id men. Altgeld and
Tillman were the other two defenders,
and this pair wanted r.11 the time und
came mighty near yetting It.
There was only fifteen minutes lift
when they got through. This should
have cone to Senator Jones, but tie
kindly consented to step aside and
Bryan go there. He talked for forty
minutes, after he got on the platform
ones, because the crqvd wanted to hear
him.
307 Lackawanna Avenue.
SUCCESS crowned the efforts of our
Great Shoe sale far more than we an
ticipated. The response has not only
been general, but of the most satisfac
tory character. Every day our Shce
Store grows In popular favor grows
more crowded, too, with our usual en
terprise and determination to make our
shoe store the most popular one in
Scraton.
Unparalleled
Offerings
Men's Fine Russcla Calf Shoes, were.
$5, now only $:(.
Men's 13.00 Russet Shoes reduced to
$2.00.
Men's $2.00 Russet Shoes reduced to
$1.M.
Boy's usset Shoes reduced to $1.10.
Youths Russet Shoes reduced to $1.
Ladles Fine Russet Shoes, B, C, D
and E widths, all styles and colors, re
duced to $2.00, $1.60, $1.25 and $1.00.
Misses' Russet Shoes reduced to 98c.
and $1.00.
Child's Russet Shoes reduced to 40c,
5 to ..
Special Today
Ladies' Shoes only T0c
Men's Shoes only 83c.
Boys' Shoes only 65c, 3 to 5.
Child's Dongola button, 6 to 8, 45c;
8t to 11. 5r.c
Ladles' Slippers only 42c
Misses' Russet Slippers only 89c
Child's Russet and Cleck Oxfords,
sizes to 11. at 65c.
CROWDS came yesterday and
bought largely of the Shoes which were
offered below the cost of production.
The same unequaled prices will rule to
day. While the present special stock
lasts we Invite you to call and examine
our goods before buying elsewhere. Re
member, there Is 110 trouble to show
goods and you will be sure to save
money by it. We have only one price to
all, and our one price Is 25 per crnt.
less than any shoe store In the city.
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Greatest Ear?alns ever Riven In Scranton. we have an immense-
assortment of short lengths in every grade; desirable patterns, too, the result
of a good spring trade, and we have decided to close them out at about Half
Pl'lP. Bring the measure of your rooms and we will surprise you very
ai;rc?al)ly with the hundsooe carpets you can purchase for a small outlay.
For example, we quote bent grade Kody Brussels: BiClOW, WhUtall. LOW
ell and (,kn f'.ChC, 51.GD. formerly fuy other makes of Body Brussels,
83c, formerly 51. 13; Velvets, 73c. and 5c formerly $1.00 and 85c. All
other grades at proportionately low prices.
An examination of our stock will convince yon that an investment DOW
will save you money, if purchased only for future use.
KERR, SON & GO.
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Branoh at Gairtoorielalc.
THE DICKSON MANUFACTURING CO
SCRANTON AND WILKES-BARRC PK, Manufacturers of
LoeoDiotivBs, Stationary Engines, Boilers,
HOISTINQ AND PUMPING MACHINERY.
Oeaeral Office: SCIUNTON, PA.
Odd and End and
Remnant Sale
We begin the season with ful
assortments of the best goods we can find, if they marls
down evenly, all right; if they dont, it's all right too.
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Lots of times people don't have room for a commode
don't buy it take dresses and bedsteads, but leavt tho
commode here an orphan as it were. There are lots of
homes where they are needed where they'd answer the pur
pose of a dresser, if a mirror were hung above them. Well
made, attractive looking commodes as low as $2.75 Mirrors,
suitable for such a purpose, 90c.
Odd Chairs
To break a set of chairs means to break tho
prices on the remaining ones; it doesn't pay to give sample
room to sorts that cannot be supplied in full sets; hence ou?
willingness to accept about two-thirds regular price.
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that quality wise, economical people can
not resist buying. Room to mention only
two or three items. There are dozen of
others equally worthy of mention.
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