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THE ' SCR ANTON TRIE ITNE-SATUBDAY MORNING; AUGITS V 8. 1890.
INTHE
BY H. G.
Copyright, 1890, by tie
suxorsis.
Elstead, a yountf naval offlVer, is going
to explore the bed of the ocean In a hol
low steH sphere, twenty fee In diameter.
The shell Is very thick, has two glass
port-holes one for entrance and the In
terior Is elaborately padded. It Is fitted
with electric lights and contains an ap
paratus for renewing ithe oxygen of '.he
tr. The sphere is to elnk by uttaohed
leaden weights which hunir from It by a
cord six hundred feet in lensrth. By this
nrrangemnt violent contact with the lot
tom is prevented. There Is a mechanical
ievlce by which, when Jhe sinkers strike
the bottom, the cord will wind up, jjull
lntr the sphere down, and then at the end
of half en hour, cut the cord and allow it
to rise to the surface. At noon Klstead is
dropped over the stern of his vessel,
which moves off to a safe distance in or
der not to be struck by the ."hell when It
tomes up.
TAKT IT.
The ship stenied slowly to her new
position. Aboard her almost everyone
vlio was unoccupied remained watch
ing the breuthns swell Into which the
sphere hud sunk. For the next liulf
hour It Is doubtful If a word was spoken
that did not bear directly or indirectly
an Elstead. The December sua was now
THE SHIP'S DOCTOtt CRAWLED IN".
lilpli In the sky and the lieat very con
siderable. "He'll be cold enough down
there,"sjiia Weybriilge. "They say that
below a certain depth sea water's al
ways Just about freezing."
"Where'll he come up?" asked Stevens.
"I've lost my bearings."
"That's the spot," said the command
der. who prided himself on his omnis
cience. He extended a precise linger
southeastward. "And this, I reckon. Is
pretty nearly the moment," he said.
"He's been, thirty-five minutes."
"How long does it take to reach the
bottom of the ocean?" asked Steevens.
"For a depth of five miles and reckon
ing as we did an acceleration of two
foot per second, both ways, fc Just about
three-quarters of a minute."
"Then he's overdue," said Weybrldgo.
"Pretty nearly," said the commander.
"I suppose It takes a few minutes for
that cord of his to wind In."
"I forgot that," said Weyblidge, evi
dently relieved.
And then began the suspense. A
minute slowly dragged Itself out, and
no sphere shot out of the water. An
other followed, and nothing broke the
low, oily swell. The sailors explained
to one another that little point about
the winding in of the cord. The rig
ging was dotted with expectant faces.
"Come up, Elstead!" called one hairy
chested salt, Impatiently, and the others
caught it up and shouted as though they
were waiting for the curtain of a thea
ter to rise. The commander glanced ir
ritably at them. "Of course if the ac
celeration's less than two," he said,
he'll be all the longer. We aren't ab
solutely certain that was the proper
figure. I'm no slavish believer In calcu
lations. " Steevens agreed concisely.
No one on the quarter deck spoke for a
couplo of minutes. Then Steevens'
Watch case clicked
When, twenty-one minutes after, the
pun reached the zenith, they were still
waiting for the globe to reappear, and
not a nwm aboard had dared to whisper
that hope was dead. It was Weybridge
who first gave expression to that reali
zation. He spoke while the sound of 8
bells still hung In the air. "I always
distrusted that window," he said, quite
Suddenly to Steevens.
"Good God!" said Steevens, "you don't
think?"
"Well," said Weybridge, and left the
test to his imagination.
"I'm no great believer In calculations
myself," said the commander, dubious
ly. "So that I'm not altogether hope
less yet." And at midnight the gun
boat was steaming slowly In a spiral
round the spot where the globe had sunk
and the white beam of the electric light
lied and halted and swept discontent
edly onward again over the waste of
phosphorescent waters under the little
stars.
"If Ills window hasn't burst and
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smashed him," said Weybridge, "then.
It's a cursed sight worse, for his clock
work has gone wrong and he's alive
now, five miles under our feet,, down
there In the cold and dark, anchored In
that little bubble of his, where never a
ray of light has shown or a human
being lived, since the waters were
gathered together. He's there without
food, feeling hungry and thirsty and
scared, wondering whether he'll starve
or stlflle. Which will it be? The Myers
apparatus Is running out, I suppose.
How long do they last?"
"Oood heavens!" he exclaimed, "what
little things we are! What daring little
dovlls! Down there, miles and miles
of water all water, and all this empty
water ubout us and the sky. Gulfs!"
He threw his hand out, and as he did so
a little white streak swept noiselessly
up the sky, traveled slower, stopped,
became a motionless dot as though a
new star had fallen up Into the sky.
Then It went sliding back again and
lost itself amidst the reflections of the
stars, and the white haze of the sea's
phosphorescence.
At the sight he stopied, arm extended
and mouth open. He shut his mouth,
opened it again and waved his arms
with an impatient gesture. Then he
turned, shouted "Elstead ahoy," to the
Hist watch, and went at a run to Dud
ley and the search light. "I saw him,"
he said. "Starboard there! His light's
on and he Just shot out of the water.
Bring the light round. We ought to see
him drifting when he lifts on the swell."
But they never picked up the explorer
until dawn. Then they almost ran him
down. The crane was swung out and a
boat's crew hooked the chain to the
sphere. When they had shipped the
sphere they unscrewed the manhole and
peered into the darkness of the interior
(for the electric light chamber was in
tended to illuininute the water about
the sphere, and was shut off entirely
lroni Its general cavity). The air wus
very hot within the cavity, and the
India rubber at the lip of the manhole
was soft. There was no answer to the
eager questions and no sound of move
ment within. Klstead seemed to be ly
ing motionless, crumpled up, In the bot
tom of the globe. The ship's doctor
crawled In and lifted him out to the men
outaide. For a moment or so they did
not know whether Klstead was alive or
dead. His face In the yellow light of the
ship's lamps glistened with perspira
tion. They carried him down to his
own cabin.
He was not dead, they found, but In a
state of absolute nervous collapse, and
besides cruelly bruised. For some days
lie had to lie perfectly still. It wus a
week before he could tell his experi
ences. Almost his first words were that he
was goinj? down ugain. The sphere
would have to be altered, he said, ill or
der to allow him to throw off the cord
if need be. and that was all. He had
had the mo:t marvelous experience.
"You thought I should find nothing, but
ooze," he said. "You laughed at my ex
plorations. And I've discovered a new
world!" He told his story In discon
nected fragmentsand chiefly from the
wrong end, so that It Is Impossible to
retell It In his words. But what follows
is the narrative of his experience.
It began atrociously he said. Before
the cord -ran out the thing kept rolling
over. He felt like a frog In a football.
He could see nothing but the crane and
the sky overhead,, with an occasional
glimpse of the people on the ship's rail.
He couhlnt tell a bit which way the
thing would roll next. Suddenly he
would find his feet going up. and try
to step, and over ha went rolling, head
over heels and just anyhow on the pad
ding. Any other shape would have been
more comfortable, but no other shape
was to be relied upon under the huge
pressure of the nethermost abyss. Sud
denly the swaying ceased; the globe
righted and when he had picked him
self up he saw the water all about him
greeny-blue with an attenuated light
filtering down from above, and a shoal
of little floating things went rushing up
past him, as it seemed to him, towards
the light. And even as he looked it grew
darker and darker until the water below
was as dark as the midnight sky albeit
of a greener shade, and the water below
black. And little transparent tilings in
THEN IT CAME INTO THE SPRAY
OF LUjHT.
the water developed a faint ghost of
luminosity, and shot post him in faint
greenish streaks. And the feeling of
falling! It was just like the start of
a lift he said, only it kept on. One has
to imagine what that means, that keep
ing on. It was then, of all times, that
Elstead repented of his venture. He
saw the chances against him in an alto
gether new light. He thought of the big
cuttlefish people knew to exist In the
middle waters, the kind of things they
lind half digested in whales at times or
floating dead and rotten and half eaten
by lish. Supppose one caught hold and
wouldn't let go! And hud the clock
Work really been sufficiently tested?
But whether he wanted to go on or to go
back mattered not the slightest now.
In fifty seconds everything was as black
as night outside, except where the beam
from, his light struck through the
waters and picked out every now and
then some fish or scrap of sinking mat
ter. They flashed by too fast for him to
see what they were. Once, he thinks he
passed a shark. And then the sphere
began to get hot by friction against the
water. They had underestimated this.
it seems. The first thing he noticed was
that he was perspiring, and then he
heard a hissing growing louder under
his feet and saw. a lot of little bubbles,
very little bubbles they were, rushing
upward like a fan through the water
outside. Steam! He felt the window,
and it was hot. He turned on the min
ute glow lamp that lit hia own cavity,
looked at the padded watch by
the studs, saw he had been trav
r "
eling now for two minutes. It
came ;lnto his head that the win
dow would crack through the con
flict of temperatures, for he knew the
bottom water Is very near freezing.
Then suddenly the tloor of the sphere
seemed to press against his feet, the
lush of bubbles outside grew slower
and slower and the hissing diminished.
The sphere rolled a little. The window
had not cracked nothing had given, and
he knew that the dangers of sinking, at
any rate, were over. In another min
ute or so he would be on the tloor of the
abyss. He thought, he said, of Steevens
and Weybridge and the rest of them
five miles overhead, higher to him than
the very highest clouds that ever floated
over land are to us, steaming slowly and
staring down and wondering what had
happened to him.
He peered out of the window. There
were no more bubbles now and the
hissing had stopped. Outside there was
a heavy blackness, as black as black
velvet, except where the elctrlc light
pierced the empty water and showed
the color of It a yellow green. Then
three thing like shapes of fire swam
Into sight, following each other through
the water. Whether they were little
and near or big and far off he could not
tell. Each was oullned in a bluish
light almost as bright as the lights of a
fishing smack, a light which seemed to
be smoking faintly, and all along; the
sides of them were specks of this, like
the lighted portholes of a ship. Their
phosphorescence seemed to go out as
they came Into the radiance of his lamp,
and he saw then that they were little
fish of some strange sort with huge
heads, vast eyes and dwindling bodies
and tails. Their eyes were turned to
wards him, and he Judged they were fol
lowing; him down. He supposed they
were attracted by his glare. Presently
others of the same sort Joined them.
As he went on down he noticed that the
water became of a pallid color, and that
little specks twinkled In his ray like
motes in a sunbeam. This was probab
ly due to the clouds of ooze and mud
that the impact of his leaden sinkers
had disturbed.
By the time he wns drawn down to
the lead Weights he was in a dense fog
of white that his electric light failed
altogether to pierce tor more than a few
yards, and many minutes elapsed be
fore the hanging sheets of sediment
subsided to any extent. Then, lit by
his light and the transient phosphor
escence of a distant shoal of lishes. he
was able to see under the huge black
ness of the superincumbent water an
undulating expanse of grayish-white
ooze, broken here and there by tangled
thickets of a growth of sea lilies, wav
ing hungry teiitucles in the air. Fur
ther away were the graceful, trans
lucent outlines of a group of gigantic
sponges About this floor there were
scattered a number of bristling, flut
isli tufts of rich purple and black,
which he decided must be of some sort
of sea urchin, and small, large-eyed or
blind things, having a curious resem
blance, some to woodlice and others to
lobsters, crawled sluggishly across the
track of the light and vanished Into
the obscurity again, leaving furrowed
trails behind them. Then suddenly the
hovering swarm of little fishes veered
about and tame towards him us a flight
of starlings might do. They passed
over him like a phosphorescent Bnow,
and then he saw behind them some
larger creatures advancing towards the
sphere. At first he could see It only
dimly, a faintly moving figure remotely
suggestive of a walking man, and then
it came into the spray of llgh that the
lamp shot out. As the glare struck it,
it shut Its eyes dazzled. He stared In
rigid astonishment.
TO BE CONCLUDED.
HARMONY AND CONTRAST.
The following Is a list of colors which
contrast and harmonize:
White contrasts with black, and har
monizes with gray.
White contrasts with brown and har
monizes with buff.
White contrasts with blue and har
monizes with sky blue.
White contrasts with purple and har
monizes with rose.
White contrasts with green, and har
monizes with pea green.
Cold greens contrast with crimson
and harmonize with olive.
Cold greens contrast with white and
harmonizes with blue.
Cold greens contrast with purple and
harmonize with citrine.
('old greens contrast with pink and
harmonize with brown.
Cold greens contrast with gold and
harmonize with black.
Cold greens contrast with orange and
harmonize with gray.
Warm greens contrast with crimson
and harmonize with yellows.
Warm greens contrast with maroon
and harmonize with orange.
Warm greens contrast with purple
and harmonize with citrine.
Warm grens contrast with red and
harmonize with sky blue.
Warm greens contrast with pink and
harmonize with gray.
Warm greens contrast with white and
harmonize with white.
Warm greens contrast with black and
harmonize with brown.
Warm greens contrast with lavender
and harmonize with buff.
Greens contrast with colors contain
ing red and harmonize with colors con
taining yellow or blue.
Orange contrasts with purple and
harmonizes with yellow.
Orange contrasts with blues and har
monizes with red.
Orange contrasts with black and har
monizes with warm green.
Orange contrasts with olive and har
monizes warm brown.
Orange contrasts with crimson and
harmonizes with white.
Orange contrasts with gray and har
monizes with buff.
Orange requires blue, black, purple
or dark colors for contrast, and warm
colors for harmony.
Citrine contrasts with blue and har
monizes with yellows.
Citrine contrasts with blue and har
monizes with orange.
Citrine contrasts with black and har
monizes with white.
Citrine contrasts with brown and har
monizes with green.
Citrine contrasts with crimson, and
harmonizes with buff.
Russet contrasts with green and har
monizes with red.
liusset contrasts w'lth black and har
monizes with yellow.
Bussett contrasts with olive and har
monizes with orange.
Russet contrasts with gray and har
monizes with brown.
Olive contrasts with orange and har
monizes with green.
Olive contrasts with red and harmon
izes with blue.
Olive contrasts with white and har
monizes with black.
Olive contrasts with maroon and har
monizes with brown.
Gold contrasts with any dark color,
but looks richer with purple, green, blue,
bluck and brown than with the other
colors. It harmonizes with all light
colors, but least with yellow. The best
harmony Is with white. W. Q. Scott,
in Patton's Monthly.
CASTORIA
For Infant and Children.
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ODD PHASES
OF DIVORCE
Laws in All Countries for Undoinf the
Ties of Marriage.
SOME TRULY QUEER CUSTOMS
Distinguished Komaas Who Cast Off
Their WivesSpooses of Ctrsar and
Anthony and How They Were
Got Rid Of.
From the New York World.
The question of divorce seems to be
agitating pretty nearly every civilized
country In the world. Just . now. The
French statisticians have tackled the
subject and show the extent to whtch
divorce has grown In France. From
1884 to 1894 applications for divorces in
France have exceeded 45,000. of which
40.000 have been granted.
M. Naquel, in urging the passage of
the divorce law in France, optimistic
ally predicted that it would prevent
many ruptures and that married couples
would remain more firmly united from
the fact that their tie would not be com
pulsory. Unfortunately, exactly the
contrary was the result. The first year
after the law was passed showed 1.700
divorces: last year there were over 8,000.
When separations alone were permitted
they only reached 3,000. While in 1882
the proportion .was only one In 1,000, to
day it Is twenty-live in 1.000.
From the history of divorces It ap
pears that the proportion of unhappy
marriages Increases from the day ill
vorce is legalized in a country. It ap
pears among people of the highest civil
Izatlon at the period of their decadence;
from that time can be dated a retro
grade movement In morals. The Bible
says that If a man after marrying a
woman and living with her conceives a
disgust of her for some shameful fault
he shall draw out a decree of divorce,
and, putting It into the woman's hands,
shall send her out of his house. This
was not always easily accomplished
because the majority of people did not
know how to write and the Levite or
priest whom they consulted could re
fuse to grant their application if he saw
tit.
IN ANCIENT EGYPT.
In Egypt the laws authorized no di
vorce except in certain cases. Infidelity
was punished severely; the man re
ceived 1,000 stripes and the woman's
nose was cut. In Babylon a public auc
tion of all the girls of a marriageable
age was held once a year. The untying
of these knots was even more simple.
Confucius, writing on Chinese laws,
established seven causes of repudiation,
among which it appears that the wife
could be put aside for excessive gossip
or for not getting along with her father
or mother-in-law. But there was this
proviso: "The husband Is advised to
retain her If she will wear mourning for
her mother-in-law for three years." As
a matter of fact, the Chinese resort to
the divorce courts very little und they
hold a widow marrying a second time In
the utmost contempt. The custom Is
somewhat slmllur to that of the Hin
doos In former years, when the widows
flung themselves on the burning wood
plies upon which their husbands's bod
les were being consumed.
India recognizes certain causes for di
vorce. I'p to the commencement of this
century a childless Hindoo was per
mitted to lend his wife to a brother or
other male relative in order to have
children. In Burmah the women when
marrying do not tuke their husband's
names, but retain their own. with the
addendum of "wife of So and So." This
makes It convenient for them to assume
their previous status In public knowl
edge when they come to be divorced, as
they are very likely to be, for divorce is
easy in that country.
THE BURMESE WAV.
If a Burmese wife and husband quar
rel and determine to separate, the wife,
who always does all the marketing,
goes out and buys two little candles of
equal length, which are made especially
for this use. She brings them home.
She and her husband sit down on the
tloor, place the candles between them
and light them simultaneously. One
candle stands for him, the other for
her. The one whose candle burns out
first rises and goes out of the house for
ever, with nothing but what he or she
may have on. The other takes all the
property.
This looks fair enough on the face of
it, but It often happens that the wife on
her way home with the candles takes a
tiny scraping from the button of one
of them. A very little will be enough.
If the husband and the house are emp
ty of pretty much everything; but chil
dren she takes the shortened candle
and walks out free and content. But
if the house is well furnished and the
husband's possessions are considerable
he gets the short candle and does the
walking. x
In Greece the main Idea in marrying
was to bring children into the world
males especially for the good of the
country; hence the great facility of
fered for breaking the marriage tie in
case of sterility. The legislators recog
nized the right of divorce. At Athens
divorce could be obtained by demand
of one of the parties or by mutual con
sent. The case was argued before a
tribunal. The parties on being freed
with a person younger than them
were expresssly forbidden to marry
selves. Grecian wives convicted of
breaking the seventh commandment
were put to death, after having their
hair cut off and their heads covered
with hot ashes.
ROMAN CUSTOMS.
This barbarous custom was also
adopted in Rome after the conquest of
Carthage and Corinth. The Romans,
being masters of the world, only
thought of revelling In their riches,
and cut themselves adrift from the
austere rules of virtue which had been
theirs for centuries. Civil marriages
and religious mariages were little by
little cut Into by divorce, which spread
to such an extent as to almost sup
press marriage. Nearly every cause
was admitted infidelity, sickness, old
age, drunkenness, poison (which was
very prevalent), going Into the church,
the army, and, lastly, mutual consent.
The husband had the right to demand
a divorce if the wife obtained false
keys to the cellar, or If she went "gad
ding" to the theater or circus to the
neglect of her household duties.
All these reasons were but pretexts,
after all. The virtuous Cato obtained
a divorce in order to marry Marcla,
Bcllla remarried with a woman whom
he met at the circus, Cicero, repudiated
his wife to take Publllla, whose riches
would enable his wife to pay off all his
tors; Caesar and Antony contracted
four successive marriages; Pompey
went as far as five. Juvenal felt Jus
tified In saying; that faithful spouses
were as rare as "white crows," or, as
we say today, as "white blackbirds."
The law of Mohammed admits of di
vorce, though it Is very little reaorted to
by. toe Mobmauntdans, but exacts faur
mouths' reflection on the part of the
husband before ending the letter of re
pudiation, which in this case la called
tetoik boln: a temporary repudatlon
Is called tetoik rid jee, which is used
as a forewarning.
The nation which grants the fewest
divorces Is England. A special court
the court for divorce and matrimonial
cases, copes with all matrimonial diffi
culties. Divorce ran be obtained for
''criminal conversation" and is denied
for personal injuiies and neglect. A rup
ture of the marriage Is granted only for
Infidelity and this is known to the
court as the "specific remedy."
Switzerland grants more divorces
than any other cos n try. Since the fed
eral law of 1S74 was passed the propor
tion has risen from forty-seven to a
thousand. In Sweden since 1831, in Hol
land since 1851, and In Saxony since the
federal law of -1875 the proportion has
Woubled and even tripled. In Belgium
It has multiplied sixfold.
TALES OF THE TIME.
Lord Hutton's sister was often an
noyed at her brother's Indiscriminate
hospitality. "Do you rember, my dear,"
he asked her at dinner one day, "wheth
er that famous scoundrel X. was hang
ed or acquitted?" "He must have been
hanged, or you would have had him to
dinner long ago," replied the lady.
The story as to how the well known
actress. Miss Ada Rehau, came to adopt
that name is Interesting. Born in Lim
erick, her real name is Regan. At an
early age she was brought by her pa
rents to this country. Upon one oc
casion the local printer. In setting out
the cast, changed the "g" in her name
to "h," and described her as Rehan.
The actress attracted some attention,
and. not dissatisfied with her new name,
decided to adopt it.
a a a
"It all comes o' being poor," said an
old lady, trembling with Indignation,
to her invalid husband. "I just stepped
In a minute at the vicar's to tell 'em as
how you wasn't getting any better, and
the vicar's wife said siie was sorry, and
wanted me to bring you a bottle of
wine." Did you bring it?" asked the
sick man eagerly. "No; I heard her
say It had been laying down in her cel
lar ever since lSBti, and when she offered
ed it to me I just walked off without
saying a word. I'm sure we didn't
want her old stuff."
The captain owed a very large bill at
his hatter's (Blobbs), who had been de
manding the money for some time, and
had even threatened legal proceedings.
The captain, having no money, was un
able to pay. so diligently avoided the
shop, and commenced running up a bill
at Dobbs' (another hatter). His feel
ings may, perhaps, be better Imagined
than described when one very windy
day his "Dobbs" hat, with the name in
side, having been lifted from his head
by a gust of wind, playfully danced
across the road right into Blobb's
shop!
Here Is a prety and true story, told
by Mr. Clement Scott, of the good old
actor lately passed away Henry Howe.
It contrasts pleasantly with the tales
In circulation of exaggerated salaries
claimed and given for poor. Indifferent
merit. Some time since Henry Howe
lost his wii. and In an Interview with
Sir Henry Irving Intimuted to him
that, as his wants were now very much
less, he considered he was receiving
more salary than his work Justified, and
therefore asked Sir Henry Irving to re
duce it by half, as this sum was more in
accordance with the work he was doing.
Sir Henry replied: "There Is only one
man In England who underrates the
service of Henry Howe, and that Is
Henry Howe himself. His salary would
continue just as it was before until the
bell rang down the finaul green cur
tain." " And so It was.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
French waiter (In London restaurant,
to Yabsley, who has been trying to
make himself understood In blll-of-fare
French) "If ze gentleman vlll talk ze
language vot he vas born In, I vlll very
mooch better understood." Tld-Bits.
"Father, whai Is a luxury?" asked
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stove. "A luxury? Why, it's some
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a thing we can do without." "Well,
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Winter." Harlem Life.
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madam!" exclaimed the unblushing
book agent. "Ve use this cyclopaedia
for a children's book at our house al
together. They sit on It at the table."
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At a time when many manu
facturers and dealers are making
the most astounding statements
regardingthe merits and durability
of inferior Pianos, intending pur
chasers should not fail to make
critical examination of the above
instruments.
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EL C. RICKER
tieueral Dealer in Northeast
era Pennsylvania. .
New Telephone Exchange Building, 115
Adams Ave., Soranton, Pa.
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61,827 BARRELS OF FLOUR
days' run at PMsfcarj's "A Mill, ana over One Jlftl&on
barrels in the past six months, running SIX DajSfl Week
the highest record of any mill in tho world. Mr. Pills
bury, the manager of the Tillsbury "A" Mill, Challenges
hay Mill in tho World to come within 15,000 barrels of it
in a six days' rnn. Tho Pillabury Washburn Floor
Mills Co., Limited, not only own tho largest mill in the
world, but make the BEST FLOUR.
C P. flatthews Sons & Co.,
Mill Agents,
Northeastern I'tnn'a
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Csseaats r tmc Hiohmt Midiul AiTMoamm
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wouUerful boon to sufferer!
Iroin Cold., SJoreTaroat.
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fr HAY FEVER. AWrrrdl
imttudbitirtHtt. Ancfllcleiil
" rummy, eonvenlrnt to carry
la pocket, nag? to ve oa sm ludmuun of cold,
rsntlaaed Ih KSct. Permanent Care,
KiirscuonroamnieeaormonRr refunded. Irle. I
ets. Trial free at Drufglns. Kwlnlered mall, I
u cents, a. s. cuauui, sir., nm Hi nn, sues., B. ft, i,
UPUTUni Tho sure.t and aafet remedy for
Jlfcrl I nUft. aMnklndlneaiMjRcteirm.lteb.Salt
Rheumnld Sore., Burns, Cut. Woa.errul raai
ety forPII.Ea. Price, SS eta. at DrarDil U
eltteur by mall prepaid. Addrew as above. Dnl Wi
For sale by MATTHEWS BROS, and
JOHN H. PHELPS. Scranton, Pa,
SEE
THAT THE
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SIGNATURE
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la not sold in balk. Don't allow anyone to sell
jvv auyuuiig vise on iu pica vr prviuuo uiat
is "just ti good" and "vlll answer CTery par.
poae." 8e6 that joa get C-A-8-T-0-R-I-A. :
Tfcifu-
TO DATE.
Ovar 26,000 In Us.
QENUINE
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SCHANT0N, PA.
Complexion Preserved
DR. HEBRA'S
VIOLA CREAM
Remove. Frssklss, Plmplat,
Liver . MoIm, BlasfchMo.;
Sunburn and Tan, sad re
stores trie skin to its oruji- ,--i
nal freshnais, producing ,,"5v,
clear and healthy .com- vW- 1
preparations and .perertlf fcarmleM. At sU
druggists, or mailed for (Oct, tkud fur Circular.
VIOLA SKIN 80AP U t"fr tiwanwaM. m a
Mi tmrlMni 8Mp, uneqnaM u tolM. wKkoot a
rim k U nmT. AftlmAr tmrt ana drikiaMt aaSV
aui. AidmuiiM, Price 2S Ccito.
G. C. BITTNER 4 CO., Toledo, OY
For sale by MATTHEWS BROS, and
JOHN H. PHELPS, Scranton. Fa.
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