10 THE SCBANTON TMBTOITWEITNESDAY MOBNING. AUGUST 12; 1896. , S THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR, i J . BY HOWARD FIELDING. p Copyriitht, JbS6, by the Bachellor Syndicate. SYNOPSIS. ' Mr. J. Woodbury Newcomb, an elderly student of criminology, returning to New York from a visit to Sins Sing, meets on the train Frank Gleason, Hill Harris and Jack I'lnnoy, convicts, who have Just completed thplr terms of Imprisonment, and who mistake Newcomb for a fellow convict. To draw them out, he assumes the character, and proceeds to K-ll them the story of his tlrst crime. FART IT. To the Imputation upon Ills veracity, Frank Gleason retorted that the story which he was about to tell was strictly true. He added that a man who had led such a life as his did not need to in vent stories of a marvelous adventure. This proposition he proceeded to prove by sketching a strangely varied career with great clearness und exemplary brevity. It appeared that he had worked at al most every trade by which men live. Ho spoke of each with a technical fa miliarity that compelled belief and. probably without meaning to do so, he proved that his nature had been always superior to occupation or environment, for he had made every path lead to crime. As a soldier. In a petty South American war, he had fought for booty; and as a diver, even at the bottom of the sea with the world so far away and God's hand so near, he had had the hardihood to wrest Jewels from the fin gers of the dead. "As to the little affair I'm going to tell you about," ho said at last," it was not much to boast of, and the only rea son why I like t tell the story is be cause it marks the cross touUs of life 'VI.-.. 1 1 "I SAWGRAYLTN'fl PUT THE MONEY IN THE .SAFE." with me. It was the first time that I ever went wrong. "It happened this way, TJrot her Wood bury," he continued, turning to the pen ologist. "I was brought up in a west ern town, and got a fair education In the schools and In a little academy that the folks out there were rather proud of. A few years later I drifted into New York, without any money, and chanced to run across a man whom I had known ut home. He had started with a little money, and had built it up to a fortune In New York. He. seemed to be glad to meet some ono from the old place, and was sympathetic when he learned that I was out of work and low In pocket. If I would call on him at his ofllee the next day he would try to find me some thing to do. I went there expecting to get a soft Job and what do yoii think lie offered me?The position of night watchman In his furniture factory in Long Island City. "From that moment I hated the rrian, and made up my mind to get square with hiin. That was the only reason why I took the Job. It was worth ten dollars a week. Think of that! Well, I went to work, and every week I charged him, in my mind, with the amount that he ought to have paid me over and above what I got. He was go ing in debt to me pretty fast, although he didn't know It. "Late one afternoon I went to the factory to begin my regular night's work. Grayling that was his namt was In the office, talking with his part ner. Bob StcUon. The ofllee was a lit tle one-story building conencted with the factory by a covered walk, I saw the two men through a window. They were talking across a big pile of money that lay on Grayling's desk. Presently I saw Grayling put the money in the safe, and then Stetson went away. "A few minutes later I showed tip In the oMlce. Grayling told mo he was go ing to be there till midnight, and that I needn't come over from the factory be fore that time. Ordinarily I was sup posed to make my regular rounds hourly, "Grayling went out for his dinner, and came back about seven o'clock. I took a look at him through the window. He was at work on the books, and the safe was open. The money was in that safe. I had been thinking about that. It seemed to me that there ought to be some way to collect what Grayling owed me, according to my figuring. Probably I could get a few dollars extra, If I worked it right. "I was new at that sort of business then, and naturally didn't know JuJ how to go to work. Of course, I might have walked into the ofllee, and prob- the head without any trouble. But 1 hesitated at that. Murder isn't In my line, and, besides, I didn't know how much money there was In the pile that I had seen. Moreover, Grayling kept a loaded revolver quite handy In a drawer of his desk, as I had discovered while glancing over his papers one night after everybody had gone home. . "Perhaps I might have given up the Job, but luck was in my favor. About nine o'clock, as I was standing by the window of the office looking in, and thinking, a boy came along carrying a tin pail. He had his hand on the knob of the office door when I spoke to him. "'What have you got there?' said I; and he told me it was coffee for Mr. Grayling. " 'He always has It sent over when he works late.' said he. 'It's to keep him awake, I suppose. I bring it around from the restaurant, Just before we close up, and I put it on the gas stove In the back office so that it will keep hot " 'That's a pretty good Idea, said I. "Could you get another pailful for me 7 "He was willing; and after he had carried In Grayling's coffee, he trotted back to the restaurant after mine. While he wan gone, I ran around the corner to a drug store, where I bought some laudanum for the toothache. Tretty soon the boy came back with my pall of coffee, and I paid him the price. .When he had govn I dosed the coffee with laudanum Very carefully, for I sUdnt want any accident to happen.. 1 raw -r That was why I got a second pailful. I was afraid that if I tried to dose Gray ling's coffee while it was on the stove and he In the next room, I might get nervous and make a mistake. "Having fixed the coffee all right, I slipped into the back room through a rear door of which had the key; and I shifted the two pails without making a sound. Then I took his pail over to the factory, und put it in a warm place in the boiler room, thinking that I might need it later, to brace my nerve, I waited half an hour by my watch which appeared to be going a good deal slower than usual and then I went into the passage that led to the olllco. 1 didn't dare to open the door, at first, but I could see fairly well through the keyhole. It was not so con venient as the window; but I didn't like to be seen there too often, In caso anybody should be passing. "Grayling was drinking his coffee. There were two cupfuls. I was wish ing that ha wouldn't drink all of the lust one; but he did. And while he was do ing it, the passage where he stood got hotter and hotter till the sweat ran oIT my forehead. I thoupht that he would hear It dropping on tho floor. "After he had drunk his coffee he sat down before his desk, and presently his head fell forward into his hands. I thought he was gone, but he roused himself; gut up, and began to pace the floor. I heard him mutter about being sleepy. When he passed his chair I could see him through tho keyhole, and I soiw that he Ins tated every time. He wanted to sit down; he wanttd to throw his hend upon his hands on that desk and sleep and. sleep. I knew just how he felt, anil I knew too, that he would have to come to It before long. At last he sat down In a decisive way, shaking his head and shrugging his shoulders. He was) going to do some work. No more sleepliiu--s for him. He picked up soma papers und rattled them briskly. Then he began to crumple them In his fingers. His hands dropped upon the desk his head dropped lower and lower over them, and suddenly he was asleep. Or dead? I didn't dare to think of It. "I had watched him so closely that It seemed as If the drug had worked upon both of us, steadily, evenly. My arms and legs were like lead. Hut my head seemed to be cool cooler than usual. 1 could think of an enormous number of things in a second. Some of them were of a nature to frighten a man. Hut then there was the money; I never oulte forgot that. "Opening the door noiselessly, I en tered the office, nnd went to Grayling's side. He was sound asleep. I turned to the safe. The money was there In a lit tle drawer. It was locked, but the key was in the lock. My hand was on the key when I heard a sound a footstep. Some one was coming. I was panic stricken. Instinctively I sprang behind one of the big doors of the safe. There I stood trembling, it seemed a long time. I knew that some one was in the room, but how lie had come, or who he was, I could not guess. "It was useless to stand there. Dis covery was certain. There was no hope except In a bold and sudden dash. Draw ing the revolver which I carried for pro tection while on my watch, I sprang out into the room. In that Instant I was face to fnce with Stetson. It was his life or mine. 1 leveled the revolver at him. " 'Hands up!' I cried. "'Gleason!' he screamed, starting back. " 'That's me,' said I, und I mean business. "He sank upon his knees. " 'In the name of heaven,' he cried hoarsely, 'do not betray me. He drove me to it. With his Infernal cunning he was dragging my share In our joint en terprise out of my hands. 1 had to kill him to save myself from ruin.' "The back part of my mouth was so dry that it rustled when I tiled to speak, and my brain was reeling, but I man aged to gather sense enough to take the amazing tip that he had given me, and breath enough to say: "Sit down. Mr. Stetson, and try to be calm. I will hear your story.' "It burst out of him like a torrent of fire. He told how Grayling had cheat ed him; had Imposed upon his simplic ity to make hlin sign documents that would beggar him. Those documents were In that safe in Grayling's private drawer. Yet to get them was not enough, for he would still be in his part ner's clutch. So he had planned mur der. "Knowing Grayling's habit in the matter of the coffee, he had decided that therein lay his opportunity. So he bad provided hinuelf with poison, and had "GLEASON!" HE SCREAMED, STARTING BACK. secreted himself In a closot in the back office returning after a pretense of leaving the factory as usual. When the boy had brought in the coffee, and had gone. Stetson had crept out of the closet, and had poured his poison into the pail. Then he bad returned to his concealment. "A few minutes later I had come In," a humble Instrument in the hands of Providence and had removed the pall which contained the fatal dose, substi tuting that which I had mildly drugged. Often have I reflected, since that, how wonderfully I was guided on that night, nd how mercifully my life was spared. For I had come as near as possible to drinking the coffee which I had taken from that room I I thought It would brace my nerves, and only the sicken ing thought of the drug that I bad used prevented me from taking the fatal dose. As it chanced, I poured it out upon the ground. "Returning now to Stetson, you will readily perceive how he came to take the course he did. Being discovered by me beside the body of his victim as he supposed there was no recourse for him but confession. Yet he begged that I would have mercy and shield him. "Well, now, do you know, Mr. Wood bury, I couldn't do it. Of course, it wasn't business. I might have been blackmailing him yet. But the fact Is that, coming face to face so suddenly with a rascal worse than myself made me an honest man by sheer force of contrast. I " 'I'm sorry for you, Mr. Stetson, said I, 'but I can't shield a murderer. I must do my duty.' . . . "With that I threw open the window and called for help. It happened that there was a policeman on the corner. He came In response to my call and arrested Stetson, who was In a pitiable state of collapse. Then I got a doctor, who worked over Grayling until he brought him to his senses; but he said that a half more hour would have put the man beyond the reach of help. I don't beliere it. In r.y opinion Gray. ling would have wr.ked up all right; but naturally the doctor wanted as much credit as possible. "When the circumstances were ex plained to Grayling he was overcome with gratitude towards me for saving his life. Weil. I had saved it, though he didn't know just how it had been done. He shook me warmly by the hand, and then, tottering over to the safe.i he opened a drawer and gave me the roll of bills that I had planned to take. The bills were all ones sixty-seven dollars In all. Suppose that I had killed him for so little! It wasn't as much as he owed me, according to my calculation But I never tried to get even. I was afraid of a man with such luck as his. Stetson got ten years." "The worst luck In the world," re joined Gleason. "Nothing more die astrous can happen to a man than that he should escape the just punishment for his first crime. Had I been for tunate enough to be caught. It might have accomplished my reform, but such an escape as that which I have de scribed led me to think myself the es pecial favorite of Satan. As usual the tempter deceived and deserted me." He pronounced these last words with good elocutionary effect, but they failed to impress Newcomb, who had too clear- up in mind the character which Gleason had given himself in his introdunctory remarks. The criminologist made no verbal comment, however, but content ed himself with mentally adding gross und palpable hypocrisy to the list of Gleason's crimes. "It Is your turn now. Mr. Harris," he Aid. "What story will you give us?" "The story of what we call in my pro fession 'An Inside Job,' " replied Har lib. (To be continued.) THE CHEATING OP WIDOWS. From the New York Tribune. There are, according to the latest -avail-ablejeports, no less than Jilnety-one fra ternut orders doing u mutual Insurance business. They have u total membership of 2,017.:7J. And tlie totul u.mount of In surance in force Is $3,j"fl.7!0,7a!i. That makes nearly $l,ml insurance fur each member. .Most, perhaps all, of these so cieties are strong and trustworthy be yond question. They are paying out mil lions of dollars every year for the bene lipof their members, or of their lato mem bers' families. The noud they are thus doing is incalculable, the more so be cause, on Mie whole, the bulk of their membership Is In Ihe less wealthy part of the population. Wage earners, far mers, small shopkeepers are saving each a few dollars a year from their incomes to secure provision for old utte and sick ness or for their widows and orphans, and the tl.SH Insurance when It comes, is more to Its recipients than vastly larger sums to those who have never known 'the need of saving. And now these 2,ni".7.'U men nre asked to renounce, relinquish, abandon nearly one-half or thnt to which they are en titled. They have been paying in their as sessments In dollars worth 100 cents each, and they are asked to accept their Insur ance In dollars worth only Ut oents each. Tlia is what the Chicago convention de manded of them. That Is whut the Chi cago platform calls for. That Is what the Chicago candidates would bring to pass If they were elected and invested with authority. Every member of a fraternal order who votes for Bryan and Bewail will vote to have his Insurance the In surance for his wife and children reduced nearly one-half. He has been telling his wife that his life is Insured for J1.U0U, and he now votes to have her receive at his death only f.M. That is exactly the meaning of free coinage of silver to every one of these 2.017,374 members of fraternal orders. What they will do about it Is a grave social problem. It Is no light thing to destroy at a strike l.r,oo,0u0,ooo of the property of the people. That Is what free coinage would do. These 2,(H7,J74 men are cred itors. There is owing to them or to their heirs, contingently, the sum of M.G7G,7!0, 7S!t. It Is bcinu honestly paid In Instal ments. Tho whole of it will be paid when it falls due. Hut now Mr. Bryan and the Free. Silver parly demand that It shall not be paid 111 full; that only &1 cents shall be paid on each dollar, and that these 2,017,. 374 men. most of them comparatively poor men. shall be robbed of the gross sum of II.GSI.OHI.'hO a sum half as large again as the entire national debt. What answer will the membership of these fraternal orders make to this monstrous proposi tion? WOMEN VOTERS IN COLORADO. Published at the Request of the Ameri can Women Suffraiie Association. Denver, Col., Aug. 12. No one claims that the women of Colorado have ren dered that state a t'tonia. No one with senso would demand that women should accomplish that In three years, or perhaps In any number of years. Hut I will make, as an undented and undisputed asser tion, thnt euqal sun'rase has not Injured the slate by one Jot or tltlu either In Its public or domestic life, or In the character of Its citizens. I will go further, and claim that the possession of the ballot by the women of Colorado has had a beneficial effect upon both the public and the private lifo of the stale. First, as to public life. It has Intro duced into the political world a large body of voters whose alms, on tho whole, are pure and whose Intentions, on the whole, are correct. Equal suffrage has brought Into the political arena a larite uncertain vote; a vote that cannot be herded to the polls, that cannot be bought with drinks, or controlled by any of the ordinary means. There has always been a large uncertain vote at the bottom uncertain only till It beciMne apparent which side had the longest purse or the shrewdest bosses. This uncertain vote at the bot tom, rendered certain only by the low est means, is now balanced In Colorado by a vote at the lo, whose action Is uncer tain and will be decided on election day by considerations of a nature more or less moral. Mrs. John L. Routt, whose bus band has once been the governor of the territory and twlc-e the governor of the state, said lately that she had always been more or less conversant with political ilo Inns. Of late, she had noticed In the dis cussion of candidates, names otherwise available would be ut aside because of a doubt as to the feeling of the women. There Is now a "woman vote" to te con sidered, as well as an "Irish vote," a "Ger man vote," and all the other classes of votes which have hitherto Influenced the selection of ticke ts. II II II As to private life, equal suffrage has brought the discussion of economic and political subjects Into the home. The char acter of candidates, the Intentions of par ties, the meaning of platforms, the prin ciples involved, the pledges made and broken, the mysterious ramifications of lo cal politics, are nil topics of conversation in the home. The children are being brought up In this atmosphere. The mother's opinion is no longer passed over with Indifference. It Is worth some, thing, because It is going to be counted on election day. One thing more, before I close. The polls on election day are as orderly and quiet as the postofflce. There Is no noise, nothing whatever of a disa greeable nature. All that has been ab solutely eliminated from election day In Colorado by the combined Influence of the Australian ballot and equal suffrage. Minnie J. Reynolds. HAD NO EQUAL AS A READER OF MINDS No Other Professional Performed Feats Like Irving Bishop. S0ME OP HIS GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS The Experiment at the Lamb's Club Uambol Which Hastened if It Did Not Cause His DeathA Feat Not Done by Muscle Reading Even if Not Mind Reading. From tho New York 8un. "Various men, the best one being a Russian, have given exhibitions In New York during the last half dozen years of what they alleged to be mind reading," said a physician at the Lamb's club one night last week. "Being interested in the subject I have seen them all. They were simply mure or less clever exhibi tions of muscle reading. There are sev eral men in this club, und Harry Dixon Is one of them, who can duplicate ev ery act of these so-called mind read ers. Not one of them, however, has ever duplicated the trick that Wash ington Irving Bishop performed in this club half a dozen years ago. I knew Bishop well, and I was present on that occasion. His death a few hours later In a cataleptic, fit- which was appar ently the climax of the Intense nervous excitement Incident to the successful performance of the feat, was accepted by many ot his friends as a proof of his claim that he did his so-called mind reading while In a seml-hypnotlo condi tion. I don't know enough about hyp notism to afllrm or deny that assertion. "Bishop's last feat has never been ex plained to my satisfaction. Previous to that fatal evening I have frequently seen Bishop's exhibitions, and I had always been skeptical of his olaim that he possessed any other power than that of expert muscle reading. I said after his death, and I say it now. that, in my opinion, the feat that Bishop did In this club on the evening befor his death cannot be accounted for upon any theory of known science or medi cine. It was and is a mystery." "Did you ever make a physical ex amination of Bishop?" asked one of tne little group that had been discussing muscle reading. HKMARKABLI2 PHYSICALLY. "Yes, several times," replied the doc tor. "He was a remarkable man phy sically. He was a man of medium size and rather slender build, but despite the fact that he took no care of his health he had a .wonderful muscular de velopment.' His arms and back weit? strongly developed. He was of an ex cessively nervous temperament, and his mother said that he had been subject to cataleptic fits from the age of 8, On several occasions after these fits the doctors who were summoned to attend him said that he was deud. The fits usually followed some mental exertion. At the time when Bishop drove blind folded through the streets from the Hoffman House to the Oramercy Park hotel and found a pin which a commit tee of well-known men had hidden in the latter house, I found that his pulse ,wos 1G2. Bishop himself told me that the highly nervous condition in which he was thrown by performances of this sort was a proof to him that there was an abnormal state of mind developed in his work. "Do I believe that? I can simply say that I don't know, I am skeptical of Bishop's claim, but I followed him closely the night before he died and he mystified me. Two or three of you were here thnt night, but I don't believe thatf-ou watched Bishop as I did, and I know that none of you sought an ex planation of his feat as persistently as I. "Harry Dlxey brought Bishop as his guest to the 'gambol,' and about, mid night he .went away. Bishop seemed to be In good health and spirits. I talked with htm for a few minutes, and then he said: " 'Feel my arm.' "It was as firm as Iron and he was very proud of it. Later in the even ing I asked him to give an chibltlon of his powers. He was in the humor, and he began with what he called the detective trick.' This little Russian who hus been giving exhibitions here this winter does much the same thing. It is simply muscle reading. Bishop left the room and a member of the club took a Bmoll dagger and made the mo tion of stabbing Louis 'Aldrlch. The dagger was concealed. Bishop was brought in blindfolded, with the hand of the man who had concealed the dag ger on his own hand. His quickness was one of the strong points of his per formances. Without a moment's hesi tation he walked to where the dagger was hidden, found It, and then walking to where Louis Aldrlch was seated went through the motion of stabbing him. There was applause, but Bishop tore off the bandage from his eyes and said: " 'That's an easy one. Walt and I'll show you one that you never saw be fore and I'll guarantee that no one else can do It.' HASTENED HIS DEATH. "It was this feat that undoubtedly hastened his death, If It did not really cause It. He asked Clay Green to think of some word In the club's book of ac counts or records. Mr. Green and Dr. J. A. Irwin, an acquaintance of Bish op's, who had dropped In while he was performing his last trick, went down stairs where these books are kept and found in the club's minute book a name, Margaret Townsend, I think It was. They tlxed upon Townsend as the , name that Bishop should find. There was no question of collusion In this feat I watched Bishop closely. He was more nervous than I had ever seen him be fore. Mr. Green and Dr. Irwin hid the minute book and came up stairs. Bish op was blindfolded as before, and with Mr. Green's hand resting on hta he led the party down stairs, found the minute book, and, turning over the pages rap idly, came at last to the page on which this name appeared. He stopped for a second, and then, skimming his finger over the page, settled on the word se lected. " 'Is that it?' he asked In a nervous way. Being told that it was, he led the way back up stairs and announced that he would tell what the word was In a manner that would demonstrate abso luely that muscle reading had nothing to do with this feat Bishop asked ev ery one to stand back. Without touch lng Mr. Green, he asked htm to think Intently of the word that had been se lected. Bishop stood apparently in a state .of only half consclouness. The bandage covered his eyes and a part of his face. There was perfect silence In the room for nearly a minute, and then Bishop, speaking with difficulty, said: " 'I think it Is a name. I think It is a man's name.' In this latter statement he was wrong as It happened. 'Give me something to write with,' he went on. "Some one gave him a piece of paper and a pencil. Without a moment's hes itation Bishop wrote the word Town send,' but he wrote it reversed, as It would appear in a mirror were the pa per on which the word was written re flected there. " 'There it Is, he said, and as the spectators deciphered the name and burst into applause he stiffened! out and sank back unconscious. "Several physicians present quieted the fears of the club men by telling them that Bishop was subjeot to cata leptic fits, and that there was probably no danger. He was revived, and when he was able to sit, he asked that the physicians should explain that the pe culiar backward fashion In which the name had been written might be ac counted for by the fact that the ori ginal rcection of everything seen by the eye is inverted, as In a mirror, and Is reversed by the optlo lens on the way to the brain. Bishop alleged that what he had written was the exact copy ot what appeared in his eye, and was writ ten by htm without any conscious In tervention. He was In a highly excited state, and we took him to a private room upstairs. He seemed greatly elat ed over the success of his feat, and in sisted on repeating It, although Dr. Tr. win forbade him doing so. Opposition seemed only to excite him, and In the hope of quieting him he ,was permitted to repeat the feat. This time he hud great difficulty in accomplishing It, and when It was over he was completely prostrated. He had frequent spasms, and at 4 o'clock he went Into a coma, which lasted until his death, which oc curred about noon. NOT MUSCLE READING. "There was a good deal printed about Bishop's death, and many different sto ries were told about his feats here just before it My statement of them is cor rect. Bishop's feat of writing out the name Townsend that had been selected was not muscle reading evidently. Some of the so-called mind readers wno have followed him can find a certain word on a printed page by muscle read ing, and then they write It out by going through the letters of the alphabet and putting them down one by one as the muscles of the guide are bound to in dicate. There was no one touching Bishop, I have seen too many evidenc es of telepathy to doubt it, but except In this one instance I have never known a person to feel another's thoughts so clearly that they could write them down. Bishop was a mystery to me, and he always will be unless a man ap pears who can duplicate the feat that resulted in his death, and is able to ex plain how he does it. I am Inclined to believe that Bishop was perfectly sin cere in his belief that he accomplished his feats by hypnotlo Influence! but I am not ready to admit that that was the .explanation of them." An Investigation Needed. Snodgrass "In me, sir, there Is a man of genius, unrecognized, perhaps, but still a. .man of undoubted genius." Skldmore "Then hold still while I turn a cathode ray on you and see whom you have swallowed." Life. LILIES OF THE VALLEY. I.lllles of the valley Were all about the room, ' ! Ijove-llells chiming ! if-"-' A passionate perfume, i : Love-bells tolling My dainty, dainty doom. 1 ! ' Lightly Clara gave me A soray. and lightly said i ! "Wait, I'll get another, For this one I have had ; S) Twirling in my lingers t'ntil it must be dead." : i I! 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Is new and well furnished and OPENED TO THE PUBLIC THE YEAR ROUND, 13 located midway between Blnghamton an j Scranton, on the Montrose and Lacka wanna Railroad, six miles from D., L. & W. K. R. at Alford Station, and five miles from Montrose; capacity elghty-flve, three minutes' walk from railroad station House situated 100 feet from the lake, wide veranda extends the entire length of the bouse, which Is 100 feet Row Boats, Fishing Tackle, Etc. Free to (iuests. Altitude about 2.000 feet, equalling In this respect the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains. Fine groves, plenty of shade and beautl. ful scenery, making a Bummer Resort un. excelled in beauty and cheapness. Dancing pavilion, swings, eronttet grounds, etc. COLD BPRINQ WATER AND PLENTY OP MILK. Rates tj to Sio Per Week, ti.go Per Day. Excursion tickets sold at all stations on V.. U W. lines. Porter meets all trains. lit BALDWIN'S I III THE BEST IN THE MARKET GREAT VARIETY OF SIZES. THE T 5 HELL CO,, 434 UCKAWiNM AVENUE. MT. PLEASANT COAL AT RETAIL, Coal of the best quality for domestics us and of all sizes, Including Buckwheat and Jilrdseye, delivered in any part of the city at the lowest price. Orders received at the Office, first floor. Commonwealth building, room No. ; telephone No. 21124 or at the mine, tele phone No. 272. will be promptly attended to.Dealers supplied at the mine. WM. T. SMITH. 111 - E r WW 7 2,000,000 BARRELS Made and Sold in Six Months, ending larch 1, 1896; Total Product of iiKMira Jiio i y The A Mill Alone produced 1,000,000 Barrels, Largest Run on Record. Washburn, Crosby's Superlative is sold everywhere from th Pacific Coast to St. John's, New Foundland, and in England, Ireland and Scotland very largely, and is recognized as the best flour In the world. MEGARGEL WHOLESALE AGENTS. THIRD NATIONAL BANK OF SCRANTON. Capital, - - $200,000 Surplus, - - 300,000 Undivided Profits, 64,000 Special attention given to Business and Personal Accounts. 3 Interest Paid on Interest Deposits. BRON AND'STEEL ' Bolts, Nuts, Bolt Ends, Turnbuckles, Washers, Rir ets, Howe Nails, Files, Taps, Dies, Tools and Supt plies. Sail Duck for mine use in stock. SOFT STEEL HORSE SHOES rand a full stock of Wagon Makers' Supplies, Wheels Hubs, Rims, Spokes, Shafts, Poles, Bows, etc. TTEli EIDER SCRANTON. PA. For aala bv JOHN H. PHELPS. Phartnaeiat. car. Wvnmlnn Avanuaand Sprue Street, Scranton, Pa. FREE SAMPLE II I? 8 G Clean, Quick, Effective, Sues Labor. For Cleaning and Polishing Gold, Silver. Silvcr-Plated Ware. Brass, Nickel, etc., has no equal. No Dirt, No Dust, Contains Np Acid, Bicycle and Harness JUounu lugs it will also clean and polish Samples Free. FOOTE fi SHEAR CO., 119 WASHINGTON IVENUL THE I0SIC POWDER CO I ROORS I AND 2, COM'LTH B'L'O, SCRANTON, PA. SHINING AND BLASTING POWDER MADE AT MOOSIC AND RUSH DALE! WORKS. LAPLIN RAND POWDER CO'9 ORANGE OUN POWDER Electrte Batteries, Rloctrio Exploders, fur ex plodlug blasts, Hsfety Fuse, ud Repauno Chemical CVs explosives, CALL UP 3682, iioeoiLiMucniii! CO. OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE, 141 TO isi MERIDIAN STREET. JLW. COLLINS, Manager. When In doubt what to oe foe Nervous Debility, Loss of Power. impotencr,Airopbir,Varicoce!eaii4 other weaknesses, Irom any cause, use Sexine Pills, brains checked and full rigor qulckir restored. Ifaf IU4. ,.cu IrMbln mult hutlr. MaileJ for f 1.00;ti boxes $5.00. With $5.00 orders we five a fruarantee to cure or refund the money. Address PEAL MEDICINE CD Cleveland, U. -ok (lijtMjR5jf- CONNELL (M
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