THE SCRANTOKf TIUTJinSTTC-HONnAY MOTINING-, JANUARY iio, iS97t $0e gixawtoxi fcriBune l'tll) nml Weekly. No Himiljy lillllon. Published nt Scranton, la by Tim TrlbUnc Publishing Company. M YorLltepreonlitte: I'ltANK K Ult.W .. Itoom IS, Trlbuna llulldlng, New York City. lllTMtD IT THE P03T07H0 AT SCRANTON, PA.. EKCOND-CLA03 UAIt MATTSR SCIIANTON, JANUAKY 25, 1897. Xot to be a second time euUKlit nmi plng, Duvltl Mtirtln, It Hcomx, has had IiIh cnnilliluti'H fur pouncilmon nninlii ntcil on nil the tickets roIiie. It will bo IntL-restlnK to learn If the ballot law can bu bent to such n scheme. Onc-Sldcd Reciprocity. In JS'Jl we Imported from the marl tlmu nrovlncos of Canndn hay to the vnluo of $2,3CI, and from the remainder of the Dominion, hay to the value of J137.0I0, In ISOti the record stood: From the maritime iirovlnoes, hay to the value of $120,501; from the remainder of the Dominion hay to the value of $2, C 10,834. This all came fiom lower ing the duty. The great Increase In Canadian hay Imports which followed the enactment of the AVilson tariff robbed the American hay-grower of New York nnd Pennsylvania. There Isn't a merehunt In Scranton hasn't felt the Indirect effects, In the fiscal year ended .Tune 30, our Imports of Canadian lumber to Sl2.IS2.000. under the Wilson who 1S9,-i, rose bill. and swept that much money out of the pockets of American lumbermen. In 1S95 and lSUC Canada sent us over $2,000,000 worth of wool, on which she paid no duty, and the admission of which took Just so much bread and butter out of the mouths of the Ameri can wool-grower. Last year she sent us two and a half time more hides and skins than she was accustomed to do before the tariff was entirely lifted from these articles; and the effect, again, wus to help the foreign at the expense of the domestic producer. These few casual citations indicate the dllllculties which lie in the way of any acceptable scheme of commer cial union with Canada. Of the things which Canada wishes to get through our custom houses duty free, scarcely any would fall to enter Into immedi ate and hurtful competition with Amer ican producers of the some article. What can Canada offer as an offset? AVhere Is her quid pro quo? We have read much on this subject In hope of ascertaining what the reciprocal bene fits could be, but up to this time we have been unable to locate enough of them to constitute what we should con sider a fair trade. Out of 89 members of the present Vnlted States senate 0G are lawyers. Of the 320 members of the present na tional house of representatives, 232 are lawyers. rerhaps It is for this reason that the laws they make are on the average so poor. Concerning Ventilation. Dr. Charles H. Dudley, chief expert of the Philadelphia Uallroad company, says that no sanitary problem Is fraught with moie practical dllllculties than that of properly ventilating mov ing railway cars in winter. In order to Insure the wholesomeness of the nlr in a closed space, 3.UU0 cubic feet of pure air must be supplied every hour for each person. This means that in a crowded car the total air must be changed every 80 seconds, To admit so much cold air at this time of the year Would of course .neutralize t'he heating capacity of the, strain pipes and give passengers the chills. Hence it becomes necessary to 'compromise, and largely t this compromising dis position travelers owe the fact thut they can rarely make a long Journey without being annoyed first by a stupid, sleepy feeling, and then by a headache. Notwithstanding the practical dllll culties to bo overcome, the ventilation of railway cars Is upon the whole de cidedly better to-day than it was five or ten years ago. The leading railway companies employ expert talent to study for improvements in tills respect, and patents governing new appliances designed to minister to the comfort of the traveling public's lungs while In transit are being issued every few days. In this respect the railway car presents a sharp contrast with the average church or lectin e room. So far as wo know there Is not a board of church trustees In the United States which employs expert tulent the year around to plan improvements In church ventilation. If there were, Christianity would doubtless eain In vigor. . i. During the last five years receivers have been appointed for 213 railroads with CG.OOO miles of line, or nearly 30 per cent, of the totnl railway mileage In the United States. It Is to be hoped the next live years will witness a re turn of this vanished prosperity. The Propsr View. A very sensible comment is offered by the Chicago Record upon the bill at Springfield to give the mayor of Chi cago a live jenv term at $20,000 n year and to pay the aldermen of that city (who pyrfoim the functions of our counollmen) $8,000 a year with a re quirement for exclusive services, "In btead of treating the bill as a Joke It says. "It Is a grave mistake for the citizens to ask their public servants to manage the gieat affairs of a great community for a pittance. The legal pay of a Chi cago uldermat; Is less than that of a stteet laborer. The mayor of Chicago, it Is true, receives $7,000 a year, but there are many corporations In this city which pay ut least twice as much to their presidents or general man agers. Possibly $20,000 Is a larger snl nry thun is necessary, but certainly the mayor of Chicago should not receive less than $12,000 to $15,000 a year for his services. Chicago Is one of the greatest corporations In the world. Any business man knows that there Is no economy In placing largo affairs In the hands of u manager who can af ford to work for smnll pay. It Is equally true that good service by the chjef executive ofllcur of a great city Is cheap at any pi ice. "Knch member ot the city council of Chicago should receive n salary of ijat less than $5,000 a year, 't'he number of aldermen should be. considerably less than nt present: the council should consist of two blanches, mitl "nch mem ber of It should devoir: his whole time to the service of the people. One brunch of the council should be com posed of members (ihoi.ru by wards or districts, mid the other of members chosen from the city us n whole. If the aldermen were paid ample snlarlcs a far better class of men than the aver ago nlderinan of today would be elect ed to (111 the olllcrs. It would be simply Impossible for a worse cluss to be elected." We nro Inclined to offer the same ad vice, on n suitably smuller scale, for Pennsylvania's larger third-class cities. If any mayor of Scranton is not worth more to the city than Is rep resented In ii salary of $2,000 a year, then that man ought never to be elect ed mayor. Ho should have power, he should be well paid und the public should bold him responsible. That Is the only way to get good municipal re sults. The pig Iron output of the United States last year was S23.181 tons smal ler than In lSD'i, but It was nearly 2,000,000 tons larger than the produc tion of 1S94. Recovery from Demo cratic hard times Is slow, but from this time forward It bids fair to be sure. An Opportune Protest. The discussion which has been pro voked by Rev. Dr. Ralnsford's recent sermon and subsequent Interview an nouncing bis disapproval of ostenta tions socinl diversions primal ily for the purpose of Haunting great wealth will do irood. The evil to which this in trepid New York clergyman alluded Is a serious one, and it Is growing Instead of diminishing. Dr. Ralnsford's thought ran substantially us follows, the Imme diate text being the announcement of a gorgeous bal masque to be given by one of the social plungers in New York's Four Hundred: "I believe that this Is not a proper time for such nffuirs. Whether Ave like It or not, it Is an incontrovertible fact that a large proportion of our population Is discontented and they do not hesitate to express their feelings. Never were the lines between the two classes, thoso who have wealth and those who envy them, more distinctly drawn. It Is my opin ion, and the opinion of many persons I have talked with, that ostentatious affairs such as this serve to accentuate existing social dif ferences. They draw attention to the widening chasm between the two classes 7 have mentioned, and should therefore be discouraged. Such affairs give demagogues excuse for attacking the east and furni-h texts for hom ilies on the heartless extravagance of the wealthy in the face of poverty and destitution. Rear in mind, now, that 1 believe in social entertainments. Rut there should be a reasonable limit to display and n reasonable time chosen for It. The present is not such a time. To gratuitously arouse the discontent and accentuate the poverty of the un fortunate in such days as these Is an action greatly to be deplored. To de fend such a course by claiming that it puts money in circulation is utterly fallacious. The money spent does not circulate far. Thoso benefited are per sons already wealthy florists, caterers, fashionable modistes. With want on every side, with discontent life among the lower orders of society, it would seem unwise to offer texts for dema gogues and 'political extremists." We concur In this opinion most heartily. A correct understanding of what constitutes genuine social enjoy ment would soon, oven among the wealthiest, cause a disappearance of that mere, vulgar show of wealth which Is as foreign to real refinement as It Is non-essential to happiness. The flaunting of one's money under any cir cumstances is essentially silly and childish. It Is on a par with the proneness of the savage to cover him self with gaudy shells and beads and trinkets, thinking thus to enhance his own Inipnitance. Rut at this particu lar time, when, aa the Gotham pastor says, society Is in the throes or" a social istic ferment, one of the phases of which is shown in the tendency ot the poor to blame their poverty directly on the rich, It surely is ill-advised and notably injudicious for persons born Into opulence to play like vain children with the wealth which tempts others to envy, malice und open rebellion. According to the testimony of Gen eral Superintendent Lathron, of the I.ehlgh Valley Coal company, In a re cent lawsuit In the Luzerne courts, the market vahie of good culm ruii3 from 35 to 40 cents a ton. This Is doubtless true at present, but the day is not distant when these ilgures will be too small. Overdoing a I-ad. "Mlcrobophobla" Is more than a Joke, If we may credit the report which Is In circulation concerning Dr. W. Van der Hayden, the Dutch bacteriologist. He has so long pursued the festive microbe that the latter, like a true worm, has at last turned. We read In a San Francisco paper that Dr. Van der Hevden, In his fear of disease germs, has removed to Yokohama and built a house which is one of the won ders of modern Japan, It is built almost wholly of glass and Is dust- and air-proof. "Large panes of glass," the chronicle informs us, "are set In iron frames so as to form the sides of a circular building block. Of these blocks the walls are constructed. There are no window sashes, the air escape being through Eeveral small openings around the up per part of tho second story, but through which no air from the outside Is admitted. The nlr supply Is ob tained from a considerable distance, forced through a pipe and carefully filtered through cotton wool to cleanse It of bacteria, To Insure further ster ilization tho nlr Is driven against a glycerlne-couted plate of glass, which captures nil the microbes the wool spares. Tho few microbes brought Into the house In the clothes of the vis itors soon die In the warm sunlight with which the house Is flooded. The space between tho glasses of the building blocks is filled with a solution of salts, whlph absorbs tho heat of the sun. so that, the rooms of this house are much cooler than those protected by the thickest shades. In the evening the Interior is heated by the salts radiat ing the heat they have absorbed dur ing the day, So effective is tho sys- tern of regulating the teinpeiature that u few hours of sunlight, even In freez ing weather, render 'the house habit able. It Is only when neveral cloudy days follow In succession that Arti ficial heat Is needed, Then it Is sup plied by pumping In hot air. Dr. Vr.ii der Heyden thinks he has solved the problem of a complete germicide on a big scale." The foregoing description may have embodied some touches of llctlon, but not enough to rob It of Its usefulness as uu Illustration of a fad carried too far. For "mlcrobophobla" Is a fad, just as vaccination was, and skln grattlng and the bichloride of gold movement. It Is one thing to bo pru dent and quite another to be dnft. The human race thrived on microbes for several thousand years, and It Is rea sonable to assume that It can get along Just as well In the future If In the meantime It Is not needlessly scared to death. The Van dcr Heyden type of glass house may be the scientific ally correct thing; but he who lives In it would never make a good pioneer. According to a statement prepared by Controller Lloyd, the last election Imposed a cost on Luzerne county ot $19,320.10, und the Wllkos-Rarre Record estlmntes that $55,000 would not much more than cover the expenses of the various local candidates. It would be Interesting to have ilgures for every county in the state. So far as wo know, such u table has never been compiled. - ' Our Disappearing; Forests. During 1890, almost 200,000,000 feet of lumber wete shipped from Williams port, n gain of 11,000,000 feet over 1895. This lumber comes wholly from Penn sylvania forests. Less than 30 per cent, of the commonwealth's original wooded area remains. What Is being done to protect what Is left and to replace what Is gone? We legrct to have to say, almost nothing. On this point the governor In his recent message oppor tunely said: This is, perhaps, the first generation in this commonwealth that has been brought face to face with the dangers und disas ters of a tlmberless country. The re moval of the marketable timber from our forests, thus cutting oft' one of the great industries of the state, and the fact that Pennsylvania is no longer able to sillily to her own inhabitants the lumber which they require, are of themselves discour aging; but, when coupled with the appre hension thnt further destruction or tho forests will work perpetual harm to our agricultural interests, the situation be comes nlarmlng. It is recognized as a fart thut of the waters which full upon cleared arena four-fifths are lost because they run immediately out of the country, while four-fifths of the waters which full upon our forest areas are saved; thus proving that It the vast volumes of water which so frequently deluge the state fould be retained long enough to soak Into the ground, destructive floods would be pre vented and the consequent loss of proper ty and life averted. Two floods have oc curred within the past eight years of un equalled proportions and destructlveness. Large ureas of alluvial soil once tilled have been abandoned along the Juniata river because tho repeated Hoods have made it Impossible to maintain fences or nuiture crops. This Is true aUo of other portions of the state. During tho past eight years the valleys of the Juniata and the west branch of the Susquehanna have lost more than a million dollars In the bridges which were swept away. The le- currlng floods overflowing the bunks cf nearly all our rivers and the consequent loss of property, the personal danger, apprehension and fear, are quite enough to excltu soilous solicitude. Cannot the present legislature do something effective to stay this swift ruin of our forests? NEED OF A UNIFORM CENSUS. From tho Tlmes-Ilorald. The probability of tho establishment by congress of a permanent census bu reau, which "will Immediately begin lo arrange for the deceiuilal census of 1900, calls attention to the Importance of there being some effort made to secure Inter, national agreement among the principal nations of the world as to the manner of taking the census. Under the present sys toins comparison between countries, which Is one of the most important le sults of a census, is almost impossible. Kven the most expeit statisticians, men like .Mulhall or -Mayo-Smith, find their work dlfllcult, and at times they ure led to false conclusions. The mere number of people Is easy to obtain for purposes of comparison, but this is a small part of tho modern census. The same subjects are not Investigated, or -when investigat ed different questions aro asked; the man ner and classification vary greatly, and even In such u slmplo matter as vital sta tistics, dealing with births, marriages and deaths, it is found dlfllcult to make com parisons. There are also wide disparities In the methods employed In computing agricul tural, manufacturing and mining re sources and production, which have often led to erroneous comparisons, es pecially by those who do not understand tho pioper uto of statistics and do not know how to mnke deductions or omis sions to gain u basis of compurlson, Kven those who do make such allow ances, and with the greatest care, lind that they vary greatly from the conclu sions of other statisticians. Mulhall, the foremost of fctatistlclans, has himself been ciltlclsed for error in tills respect. Ills tables, flattering to Americans, aro made too flattering 'by showing the production of America to be too fur In excess of that of other nations. America's enormous lead In manufactures shown by Mulhall's tables, Is, for Instance, due to the fact that In tho American census Industries are Included In the manufacturing can vass which are omitted Incensuses made by tho rivals ot the United States. Thus, In America tho building trades carpen ters, painters and paper hungers, us well as kindred Industries are Included to an extent not followed by any other nation. This, of course, serves greatly to Increase the apparent lead of this country in manufacturing. Its effect on the wage tables Is even more murked. Me i em ployed In tho building trades average higher wages than thoso In the run of other industries. Their wages, being In cluded In the census of manufactures, servo to Inciease the average wages ap parently earned by, the American work inginan and make It appear to bo even further in excess of that earned by work Ingmen in other countries than It really is. Tho remedy Is not necessarily that tho United States should conform to the standards employed elsewhere, but ruther thnt the building trudes nnd kindred Industries should bo separately computed so that truo comparisons can be made, or else thut un effort should bo made to huve the statistical departments of the various nations agreo upon the in clusion of all such industries. An International conference of the rep. resentatlves of tho statistical bureaus of the various governments would seem to bo a solution of tho problem. It would be a good Idea for the United Stutcs to lead 111 bringing about tho reform. The cost of the congress would ndd but Hllghtly to tho totul cost of our census, and it would at'.d greatly to Its value us to that of all other censuses. Nearly every na tion In the world will take a census in 1800, und that would bo a good tlmo for a beginning of a system of uniformity. SCHOOLS AND POLITICS. From the Philadelphia Times. Prominent citizens of Allegheny urc working on a scheme to take the public schools out of polities, and a. proposition will bo submitted lo the councils at their next meotlmt Mint will provide for elate legislation to this end. Kj.-Muyor Pear son Is nt the hend of -ho inurement und ho Is supported by tho leading educators' nnd business men of the city who aro cauor to accomplish the proposed reform. The plan that Is advocated Is to take away from the school directors the powor cf appointing teachers und place thW au thority In tho hiinds of tho principals fcf the ward schools. This, It Is argued, will nuike tho principals responsible, for the work of their schools and give them Un opportunity to remedy the defects by the appointment of new and belter equipped teachers If any legislation nt this char acter originates from this movement In Allegheny, it will likely bo drafted Into' u getierul law, and on this account the pro posed change In the method of selecting tendinis Is of Interest to the people in all parts of the state. Tndoubtcdly tho public schools should be divorced from partisan ipollllcj, but whether the nliin advocated by the All"- gheny reformers will accomplish this sepaiatlon Is doubtful. Appointive of fices are not always more free from poli tics than elective nfllces. .Many school di rectors are elected under tho present sys tem by the ling In power on condition thut they will support some t dative or friend ot tho ward boss for toucher, but If tho appointive power were placed solely In the bunds of the principal of each school, there would yet be a chance for political deals In the election of the .principal, And In that case the evil would go still deeper, becnuse the whole force of teachers would be under the control of the faction that elected the principal. It may be true thut It Is harder to set up a cor ruptible man In the position of school principal than It Is In that of school direc tor, but there huve been Instances where even the highest and most exulted ofllccs In the state have been filled by men of little character. It Is hard to fomulate nny system of selecting olllclnls that will Insure tho choice of only honest and thoroughly com petent men and their retention in the positions where they are useful to their fellow-citizens. Ours Is a popular form of government from the highest to tho lowest brunch, und the will of the people Is supreme, Politicians nnd wnrd bosses cannot control our schools If the people assert their right of suffrage intelligently and honestly, und the quickest nnd best way to divorce schools und politics Is for the people to assert their own manhood and Independence and elect competent and honest men for whatever position the particular system of school training gives thorn the rlcht. GROWTH OF THE CHURCHES. From the Washington Post. Although only a minority of the people of the United States aro church mem bers, nearly all cltlzenr are more or less Interested In the work of the churches. It is one of the customs of the Now York Independent to present In January of each year a comprehonslvj survey of the growtli of all the prominent religious bodies during the past year. The issue of that paper for last week contains tho statistics In this connection for l&fKJ. The Roman Catholic church Is, as usual, shown to be not only tho largest, but its actual Increase was greater than that of any other religious body in this country. Its total number of communicants is es timated at 8,271,309, and Its gain during tho year at 272,137. .This shows an Inciease of 3',i per cent., while the increase of the churches as a whole wus less than 3 per cent. Tho .Methodists, divided into seven teen bodies, holds second place, having a total of 5,G53,2S9, and having added 1GS.770 communicants to their rolls In the past twelve months. The Methodist Episcopal church is the strongest of all tho sects of that denomination. It bus 2,075,033 mem beis, and shows a gain of 13,050 in the year. Next come the Uaptlsts with thir teen bodies, having an aggregate of 4,133, 857, and their gain In ISM was 85,318. Ot those, the so-called "regular" Uaptlsts have a membership of 3,800.000, of whom 82,814 were added during the year. Next to the. Uaptlsts ure the twelve Presby terian bodies with 1,400,310 members; then follow the nineteen Lutheran bodies with 1,120,903, and next In numerical succession come the Disciples of Christ with 1,003,072. Tho Providence Journal, reviewing the Independent's Ilgures, suggests that not the least Interesting fact which they dis close is that the Methodists and Uaptlsts, though far In the lead of the other Protestant bodies, are growing more slow ly in proportion than some of the latter. The Methodists buvo gained loss than 3 per cent, during the year, and the Uap tlsts have Increased but little more than 2. The Anglican communion has gained more than 3 per cent. In members, and so has the Congregational church. Tho Episco palians and Congregatlonnllsts are in creasing very equally. The formor add ed 19,930 communicants In 1890, and tho latter about 20,OUO. while the total number of Episcopalians is put at 030,773, und the Cougregatlonallsts number C22,537, The Unitarians huve u total of 70,000, having Increased 1,300 In liftJ. The Unlvcrsallsts report 49,925 communicants, with a gain of 1,039. Tho Soven-duy Uaptlsts hud 9,214 members a year ago, but now report only 9,173. The total number of communicants of all churches in the country is put at 25,421,333, a gain of 743,333 during 1890. AN OUTKAUi:. From the Philadelphia Record. A poor man cannot buy u pound of oleo margarine in the markets of Pennsylva nia without exposing the seller to tho danger of conviction for cilme in the quarter sessions court. Yet In the forum of conscience und common sense it is no more unlawful to make und sell a pound of oleomargarine, than It Is unlawful to make and tell a pound of butter or cheese. The law which makes the arbitrary dis tinction between the two acts Is a shame ful exercise of legislative tyranny. The Rest Arrangement. Judge (to a couple sentenced for fight ing) Huve you anything to say? Mate Defendant I would like my wife to commence her term In prison after I am released German Exchange. Tin: ".i:m" jouuxams.m. Ply your muck-rakes, thrust them In To the fetid bogs of sin; Lift them dripping with the slime Of tho cesspools of our time; Search through every social sewer, Search for all that's most impure. Hunt for every deed of shame And for deeds without a name; Let the eager public see. All our moral leprosy. For It is our dally stint The unprintable to print; 'TIs I ho glory of our clique The unspeakable to speak. Run we through our printing press Myriad miles of nastlness; Smear with slime Its league-long tolls Food, my masters; food for souls. Pour we through our printing press Tons of moral putrldness; Let It through the land be spread, Let tho people all be fed. Ply your muck-rakes with all haste, Lebt some (11th shall run to waste; Itako out every carrion shape, Let no uolsesome thing escape; Heave It from your sewers vast, We will scatter It broadcust. This Is stuff supremely good For our hungry children's food. Let tho printing press he whirled, Smoar this sewage o'er the world; Let not your supply grow less, Dump It through our printing press; Smoar again Its leugue-long rolls Food, my masters; food for souls. Leslie's Weekly, fall frj? & 0 w s Kra n In French 10 fill III 1 J HI 11 UJUi 11 i An Inspection is earnestly solicited. exclusive designs that cannot be seen TIME'S SWIFT MUTATIONS. New York Letter in Philadelphia Ledger. Mr. Piatt will return to the senate after an absence of nearly sixteen yeais. Six teen years are a long tlmo In politics. When Piatt first entered the senate, in 1SS1, Grover Clovelund had not yet been elected mayor of IHiffalo, nnd wus un known. Ho returns to the senate Just as Mr. Cleveland retires to private life. The rise and fall of David 13. Hill aro em braced In tho same period. Of all tho members of the senate, when Mr. Plntt wus sworn in, March 4, 1SS1, only fourteen will be there when he takes his seat, March 4, 1S97. These fourteen senators ure; Allison, Frye, George, Gorman, Hale, Harris, Aldrlelh, Hawley, Hour, Morgun, Morrill, Piatt, of Connecticut; Sewall and Teller, Sherman, who returned to the senate from tho cabinet In 1SS1, will go Into the cabinet again on the day Piatt enters tho senate. Davis, Anthony, Heck, Uroivn, Ferry, Lamar, Logan, Mahone, Saulshury and Wlndom, who served with Piatt In ISS1, aro deal. Dawes, Edmunds, Harrison and Ingnlls, who were senators In 1&S1, have retlied to private life. Bayard is ambassador to England, and Cameron Is about to leave the senate. TWO'GOOl) SUCCESTIONS. From the Philadelphia Press. Two suggestions huvo been mndo with reference to tho appropriations by the state to charitable Institutions not under stuto management which should receive serious consideration at the hands of the legislature. The first of these is that every charity should bo required to raise by private subscription an amount equal to that nppropi luted by the state; the second that u voucher shall be presented tho auditor general for every dollar of the state appropriation expended. A Natural Deduction. The Teacher When a woman's husband dies, Putsle, what is she called? Patsle A wldder. The Teacher And when a man's wife dies, what do we call him? Patsle (utter somo thought) A wld-out-her, mu'uml Cincinnati Commercial Trib une. Had for Them. Bonny ISloobumper Islands don't agreo with volcanoes, do they, pa? Mr. Bloobumper What do you mean, Benny? "I read In a newspaper that the vol cano of Bogoslov, on the Alaska coast, Is constantly throwing up new Islands." Life. HIS ONLY' HKKAK. He would not break his promised word, To teach the maid to skate: Ho did not break the slender Ice, Although he worked till late. The only bieak he made, In fact, That did him any harm, Was when he tried to break her fall, And broke a leg and arm. Town Topics. A ILfl Odds and Ends, we find while taking stock, are being sold at greatly reduced prices to make room for new spring goods. Have some good Dinner Sets we are closing out very low. $15.00 Sets, with a few pieces short, now $10.00, THE Clemons, Ferber, O'MaHey Co. 422 Lackawanna Av:. UY YOUR LANK OOKS OF EIDLEMAN, THE OOKHAN. New Stock, Complete Assortment, A3! Spruce Street. OfjpoilteThe Commonwealth BAR R W Jm.& I I 1 k HM Organdies, Our Holiday Display of useful and ornamental articles was never so large as this season's exhibit. The advantage of having so large and varied an assortment lo select from will be apparent to all who contem plate giving presents of a substantial and artistic character, or buying for their own use. Writing Desks. Dressing Tables, Clicval Glasses, Couches. Rockers, declining iiiul Easy Chairs. Music Cabinets, l'arlor Cabinets and Tables, Work Tabic, Curio Cases, Tea Tables, Vernis-Martin Cabinets, Parlor and Puncy Inlaid Chairs, Gilt Reception Chairs, Parlor Suits in Gilt, Pedestals, Jardinieres, Hook Cases, Shaving Stands all marked at moderate prices in plain figures. 131 & 133 Washington Ave, Is not more valuable or correct told by a high priced gold watch than by the celebrated rF jL Guaranteed for one year. Second gross just in. nn-sniiL At Our New and Hlugttut Storeroom, 130 WYOMING AVENUE Coal Exchange, Opp, Hotel Jcrmyn. "Old firm in new surrotiiid in3," like an old ".stnnu in new settings," shines more brilliant than ever, and "shines for all." Diamonds, Fine Jewlery, Watches, Silverware, Silver Novelties, Rich Cut Glass, Clocks, Fine Leather Goods, Opera Glasses. When yon sec our Net Prices yon will ask for No Discount. All Are Welcome. HI I rfllk : ILL a uUlnLLLo NOVELTIES W I WMl HILL k OONNELL I....- f Tissue Erode, New Effects- in BYRON WRITING That ''sheol" was paved with good intentions, probably realized the truth of the assertion. Don't let you r good resolution to buy only tin best KllUlK Hooks, Olllce Buiwlics, Tjpo- WrltlllK Supplies, etc.,' at our store be a paving stone. We keep the best in variety and (tiality. 'e also make a specialty of Draughting Supplies. eynolds Bros., Stationers arid Engravjn, MOTKL. JUKA1VN HUILDINU. Lodge and Corporation Seals, Rubber Stamp Inks, All Colors, Daters, Pads, Pockal Cutlery, Scissors, Revolvers, Razors, Strops, Padlocks, Bicycles and Supplies, Umbrella Repairing, Athletic and Gymnasium Goods, AT 222 WV0MMG AVENUL I ROBINSON'S Lager Brewery Manufacturers of the Celebrated n ntv CAPACITY) 100,000 Barrels per Acnum W0L1? & WENZfiL, 831 Linden., Opp. Court Mom:, PRACTICAL TINNERS and PLUMBERS Solo Accnts for Richardson -Iloyiitou's Furnaces und Itaujes. WITCH! FLORE Y'S
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