H wsmw" t-r T--' m 10 TKE SCItANTON THIBTTNE -SATUIIDAX MOKNTNG, APJtIL 3.-1897. Tli Copyright, 1S07. ."ri By Julian Hawtliornc.) IUUT T. In the nutiimn of 1SS1 I made a horxclmck tmir tliintittli some of tin lt?3 Iri-ciuc-iitc-d junta of Ireland a cor-itspotidt-nt of a London nowspaiicr. Ite KlnnliiK at tlif north nml torkliiR scnitliwattl, 1 found melf, nljotlt th' end of Octolmr, at llio small vllltiRe of hlk-utt, tlm-f limits' tide west of CihU, llt-tc.- I was lioiltalily entcr tnlncd ly Putlitp O'llua, tlu local lirloMt, a man of education and lntclll Kdice. JHnliiK my two clips' btuy villi 111 in wo lie-came incut fi lends; u cllscusspd jiolltlcM, llttrntuii; and so ciety, and 1 1 retted jiotoiTi. At juit Inir, lie Kave me as a keepsake nn old Jeutlier-lMJimd -volume, In liiniiuwilpt, of the hWteenth celituiy. From thu KUW p 1 cast throilKli It, hefore sllp pniB It Into my pocket, I JudRed It a suit of a pilvate family chronicle, cer tain to lie cuiiulia, and possibly valu able. And O'lle.i, with a nod of the ln-nd anil peculiar smile on his broad, Kuiial countenance, nald: "Faith, inu dear f liend, c-'ll find r.ue tales lu It, but dciiit' ye be leadln' It nfther dark." I re ugiilii-d the value of his udvlee later, "Meutiw hlle I bade him a heal ty Kond-liv and lode off. M objee tive point was liallynean ,to th south and u-tt; but the roads vveie bad and not easy to Unci. The coun ti was veiy desolate, though beauti ful In Its own sad va bale hills, empty iallfn, rolling naked pastilles, destitute of cultivation, cattle or hu man In Iiirs. Sometimes I saw In the distance the 1 oof less luln of a cabin, with peihaps. a tite ki owing out of the midst ot It. Hut no Ualbnean hove In Hi'ht. At 3 o'clock I halted by a htieam, vateied my hoii-e and ate a meal of buad and cheese. Uefoie I had finished, theio was a thieatenlng m.is of clouds In the west, and in a cty shoit time the stoiin was upon iiu li was All Hallowe'en when, uc coidlmt to lush Mipei.stltlcm. lalrles, Kliost i and Kobllns are free to hold car nival," I soon began to think that the ptoim must be of their raising, Tho lain lashed the giouud lleicely: the w Hid liied past me In bevv ildering Kust: It cievv darker and daiker; the welid noises and the electilcnl jihenoiii c n.i confused the senes. I finally allot-cd my lioti to take what com he he would. He loiged doggedly ahead, and after n hour 01 two of uphill and duvvn-hlll woik, I saw on my left a file am as of the w ate is ol a lake, while on the light lose an acclivity, Just vis ible uiralnst the sky, the muiklness ot which, covered as it was with lower ing clouds, was somewhat lighted by the moon; though tho moon lUelf was of couiM Invisible. As I peeled up the height, I heemed to discern the lee (angular outline of a building sut mountlng' It. Thete vveie no lights In it; but the occupants might have gone 1o bed or It might be deserted. At all events 1 icsolved to bpend the night there, and urging on my hoise, soon came beneath the walls of the edifice. At the same moment the wind died away, tho, jUn ceased to fall, and thiough a deep lift in tho clouds, the moon shone out. The stoim was over, Just wben It had become iudiffeieut to me whether It continued or not an other Instant of conscious mibthlef on the pait of the hobgoblins. The house was built on stone, and heemed to be laige und lambllug; It was neither a tastlo nor an oidlnaiy dwelling; It be longed to the type of countiy seats of ten met with in England; was evident ly veiy ancient and hud long blnce ceased to be Inhabited. I found my way to theentiance and riding thiough It got onto a courtyaid, the stone pave ment of which was ovei grown with vegetation. It was sui rounded on all four sides by the walls of the building, with numerous ungluzed windows 10 Vealed duskly in the moonlight. Stubllng my hoise In one of the open rooms on the mound tlooi, I took out my match safe, which luckily was filled with wax matches, and bet out on a Journey of exploiatlon. What a Kilm and etiange old labyilnth it was! ltoom opened Into room Interminably nnd Irregulaily; the lloois were lottcn, the plaster had fallen fiom tho walls, dump fungus Biowth covered the telling. Mysterious objects half defined them relves In the glimmer cast by the tiny mm mrzL HBH&tXnV pvlfBuy' In all the wide (tfcy jfc. "Vo, range of human more pitiful trag edy than that of the death of a mother at child birth. It cuts off a life just at the moment when it , has achieved its Lirrandcht duty and lat tue vcrv outset 'of its greatest hap- Titfless. It leaves ft helpless, motherless babe to the care of strangers who have no blood interest in its welfare. Kiud as a SUter of Charity or a nurse may be, they cannot replace the lov ing ministrations if a mother. This cvet recurring tragedy could be avoided if wo men would but learn the vital importance of caring for the health and vigor of the deli cate organs that bear itie burdens of matern ity The woman who neglects vv eakness and disease of these organs is unfitted for moth erhood and it only holds out to her the cer tainty of agonizing pain and possible death. A blue, s.ife, and speedy cure for all weak ness and disease of the organs distinctly feminine is found in Dr. Pierce's Kavorite Prescription. It prepares for motherhood by making these organs strong, healthy and elastic. If taken during the period preced ing motherhood it banishes the usual dis comforts. It insures a healthy baby and makes its advent easy, almost painless. It provides ample nourishment for the new comer, and shortens the mother's period of Illness apd debility. It is the best of all known medicines for women and over oo.ooo of them have said so over their signatures. If you want to know more of it write to its discoverer, Dr. K. V. Pierce, chief consult ing physician to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y. A ;ood, practical home medical work Is the best friend and adviser a young wife can have. Dr, Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser is such a book. It contains iooS pages and 300 illustrations. Several chap ters arc devoted to the reproductive phys iology of women and facts that every wife and mother should know. Over a million women possess copies of it. A new edition is ready and will be given away absolutely l'KKK. If you want a paper-covered copy tend at one-cent stamps, to cover the cost of mailing only, to the World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Seud 31 stamps for clotb-bouud copy. tapers which I kept lighting one after another, and black shadows seemed to march on either side of me. The noise of my footsteps awakened muttering echoes In dlstnnt legions, nnd now and then the ghostly flitting of a but or an owl made me cutch my breath. There we-te soft whlspeilngs In remote cor ners, and sounds like sigh?, and low chuckllngs, and stealthy footfalls. Nor did tho fact that 1 was wet, cold and hungiy diminish the effect which all this exercised upon my neivous sys tem. At length I found a stairway, built of stone, but partly in mills, by means of which I succeeded In leaching the second stoiy. This was In a condition slightly less dilapidated than tho giound floor, but still forlorn and dis mantled, Tinces were distinguishable of a foim of giandeur; a few nigs ot tape'stry hunt; 011 the walls, and there were caivlngs on the woodwork, though much decayed nnd defaced. At length I enteietl a loom which seemed In bet ter pieseivntlon than the other, and here I resolved to pass the night. The loom was comparatively small, being not more than twenty-live feet long; there vas a door at each end, a flteplace on the light, and on the left side twfr nauow window silts, sunk deep In the thickness of the wall. Thiough these silts the moonlight fell aeioss the oaken floor. The Hi at necessity was a file; and In order to get fuel, I was obliged to tear away sttips of wainscoting, theteby causing gieat consternation among the colonies of mice, lats and beetles that had made their home behind It for gen erations. It came away easily, however, being Indeed almost leady to diop with age; nnd It burnt like tinder. I know not how many manorial lights of house mai tens the fire may have v Mated as It loaied up the chimney, nor did that consldeiatioii Intel fere with my en joyineiit of the heat and light. As the moisture, evaporated fiom my gar ments, to did the uneasiness- fiom my neives; Insomuch that I should not have been seriously dlstutbed had a banshee dtlfted Into the room nnd seat ed Itself on the hearth beside me at least, so I thought then. I now seal died my pack for some thing to eat; but found only some fiag ments of biead, sadly disintegrated by water, and a single 1 Ind of cheese. This was little enough, but better thnn noth ing; besides, theie was a finger or two of whisky left In my Husk and plenty of tobacco In my lubber pouch. I soon began to feel leasonably comfortable. AVhlle hunting thiough my pockets I had come aeioss the little leatlici -bound volume given to me by Father O'llea: it had fortunately suffeied but little fiom the lain, and I undid Its clasp and attempted to'tead it. It was writ ten In the angular hand of the period, and was Kgible enough In one sense; but the language was the monkish lan guage of the period, and tho contrac tions vveie so numerous that I made lit tle headway. It was, as I had sur mised, In thenatme of a family chion Icle, und the family name appealed to be Suline. Turning over page after page of the volume, something that looked like a bit of lounded mutative; but before I had mateied a. dozen lines, my attention was distracted by an odd nhlbc In a distant part of the building. I laid clown the book and listened, and I must confess that, for 11 few mo ments, the loudest sound 1 heaid wns the beating of my own heart. Hut soon the other noise was jepeuted. It was not like nnything I had heaid dining my exploiatlon of the gieat house. A conveihutlou between sevetal peisons was being cat 1 led on In some neigh but lug 100m; the olces vveie mullled by the intervening partition, but they vveio unmistakably human voices, some masculine, some feminine; .and occasionally there was a metallic or clinking noise, ns of knives and forks and dishes. The Infetence was in evitable that r'Was not alone In this venerable ruin, nnd that the other occu pants weie enjoying a comfortable bup per. Now, my ilis't feeling had certainly been one ot disagreeable apprehension, but my second thought tended to le assure me. Hither a portion of the house was still Inhabited, or else some party, clilven as I had been to seek shelter fiom tho storm, had established themselves there for the night, and weie taking pot luck together. In any event, I detei mined to pieoent myself to them and to trust to their hospital ity for the rest. My appetite was by no meani satisfied: and, whoever my nc-ljhbois weie, they could baldly fall to be preferable to the ghostly solitude I had bean supporting. TAUT II. Accordingly I rose and walked down the room to the door opposite the one by which I had entered. It was one of the few In the house that still hung on Its hinges. Passing it, I discovered a hinall ante-rooin not mote than three paceo across, ending In a deep lecess at the extremity of which was another door, which was closed. Light, how ever, wns islble through Its cracks and crevices, showing tha the room beyond was illuminated, and the voices within were now plainly audible, I stepped foiward until I was within ntm's-teach of the door, It was no longer doubtful that two 01 three peisons at least vveie In the further 'oum, and weie In a con vivial frame of mind. Tho woman's voice there seemed to be but one wo manconstantly replied to or chimed lu with tho masculine ones; there were bursts of laughter, the Jingle of glasses, and the usual clatter of a dinner table. Nevei theless perhaps owing to tho hollow echoes of the place I was un able, though so near, to distinguish a single word that was spoken. The talk, Indeed, was carried on In a curiously subdued tone, as It the speak ers feared to be overheard; and the laughter was smothered, and, as It were, In whispers, I stood nnd listened. Why did 1 not open the door and go In? 1 found It difficult to" explain my hesitation even to mself. Thut wo man s voice! It was lightsome and sweet, and In the man's tone his who chiefly addressed her there was a kind of passionate gentleness that betrayed the Infatuated lover. Yea; the party was well tuned, and It might have been dlscteet In me to have refrained from disturbing them. Yet It was not dls ctetlon thVt withheld. m. ltovKsfialM wiy It? There was nn emanation nn Impression coming ftom that room that chilled my blood.stlllcd my breath, and brought to the heart un indescrib able feeling ot sickening falutncss. It whs 1111 impiessloit of ovet powering wickedness a wickedness subtler and more deadly than belonged to tho or dinary scope of human nature, nnd which, Ih splto of the horror of icpul slon It aroused In ine.hud also a strange tttti active foico, as If It claimed rela tionship with all the latent 'or unac knowledged evil In my own soul, nml sought, by means of that symbathy, to draw mo Into partnerrhlp nnd complic ity with the crime whatever It was that was being or about to be perpe- tiated on tho other side of that closed door. lletween the Impulse to retreat nnd the Impulse to go foiward, I remained motionless. Hut 1 felt my will losing Its nmstery; and as that sweet, low voice spoke again, the woids despeiato ly formed themselves In my mind whether or not I uttered them I know not! "Oh, Hold, deliver me",' In the same moment theio was" a quick tustlc and a start, a confusion of sound, and then a vvoinuti'M scteum, so wild and fearful that a honor and ter 101" seemed to be giUh'eicd up and eon centialed In it. Following nay, join ing in with It wns a burst of savage kuightei; thou, the huiilcd stamping of feet, mingled ciles, and the clash of an overturned table. With this din tinging l:i my ears, I stopped foiward' and pushed v lolently against the door. It started troin Its dcaed hinges, and fell with n resounding clang dgalirst the floor, icvealing every portion of tho loom beyond to my sight. Silence, ciniitlMoss, and gloom! Tho room was at a corner of the edifice; a portion of the outer wall was missing, leaving a great, ragged gap, through which the moonlight ciuletly fell. Hushes spiouted In the crevices of the crumbling stones; the flesh night air eddied In and sw ept my face; The Kilns and snows ot1 generations, falling thioiuh tho mined wall, had gradually lotted away the timbers of the Hoon and at some unknown past tlme.it had given way, leaving a black void In the midst of the space. No human being could have stood In that apartment for huudieds ot yeats. What nameless tragedy was It, then, whose hot atmos pheie f had bieathed, who3e frenzy I had felt, whose hoiror had fiozen my senses but a moment since? I stared In vuln Into the vacant dusk; there was nothing nothing! Nothing save luln, the slow decay of ages, silence, and night. l!ut that sciecm! It rang lu my brain still. I can hear It now. The solid eai th may be a vision and a shad ow ; but the ngony of that sett-urn will be a leality foiever. 1 leturned to my own loom, gathered tip my traps and descended to the couitnrJ. I had had enough' of the hos- pltullty of this sinister dwelling. I found my horse trembling nnd dtipping with sweat, though I hud cuiefully nib bed him down bofoie leaving him. He whinnied as I entered und ptesed up against me, being plainly us eageily anxious to get away as I was. I sad dled and mount"d him and lode forth. In the east was alieady a faint biight ness of dawn. At the foot of the hill I met a peas ant going tovvnids the lake. "What place is that?" 1 asked him, pointing up to the gieat pile I hud Just quitted. "Sine, 'tis Sullane, yer honoi!" le plled he. "Does anyone live there?" "Is It live theie? live at Sullane?" The fellow's face expiessed a sort of hutnotous constei nation. "The dlvil nnd his Imps nskln' yer honor's pat don plays their pranks there on All Hallowe'en, but flesh nnd blood never slept at Sullane and awoke to tell what killed him In the morning'" It wa.s not until some months later, after I had returned to Ametica, that I found 'the little leathei -bound book In my tiunk and lead the stoiy, In the peiusal of which I had been luteriupted on that night. The substance of It Is as follows: The last loid of Sullane, a poweiful noble and a famous wairlor, lived In the latter part of the sixteenth cen tuiy. He mail led a young wife, to whom ho was devotedl attached. For tome yeais they vveie childless; then a boy was bom. Hut the husband sus pected the fidelity of his wife. He dis sembled his suspicions, even so far as to profess his love even more vehem ently than befoie. At length he an nounced that he was about to make a Jouiney and would be absent seveial weeks; but would send a steward to at tend to the business of the household while he was away. He went; the stewaid came. He pioved to be dumb, but was otherwise highly Intelligent; and what was moie, he soon showed himself moie than willing to aid und abet the wishes of the lady of Sul lane. Having assuied her of his tiust wotthlness she mode the dumb man her confidant. One night It was All Hallow e'en she entettulned a sti anger at dinner. The stewaid was piesent and waited on them. The party was full of mirth and reckress frolic. They dinnTc wine fieely nnd ate heartily, the stewaid uiglng them to excess. The mnln dish was a ragout, piepated by the stewaid hlmFelf, of laie flavor and delicacy. The lady of Sullane declaied that she had never tns'ted aught so de licious, and asked the stewaid of what meat It was made. He leplled that he had dressed the head of the unimul ns a side dish, and with that he placed It befoie her, covered with a silver cover. She took oft the cover and saw In the dish the bend of her own son. She started up with a scream; the sti anger sank back In his chair, dis mayed. The stewaid tluevv off his dis guise. He was the lord of Sullane himself. He plunged his swoid thiough the body of the man; but the wife, dilven mad by honor, was al ready a gibbeting maniac. How long she remained In that condition Is not known; but she never nguln left the 100m In which the fatal banquet had taken place. The lord of Hulhuie lived to a gieat age, but no man ever heard him speak a word ftom that night forth, and he was found at last dead, with five black marks on his throat. It was said that the Devil had stran gled him. Perhaps the scene that I ovei heard was telepathlcally conveyed to my con sciousness by means of the little book. Perhaps It was all a hallucination, or a dream. For my part, I have no fur ther explanation to offer. I can only nfllrm the thing which I have told hap pened even as I have told It. (The Knd.) COMPARITIVE SIIOWINli OF TUG RATES OF DUTY ON SOME LEAD1N0 ' ARTICtE? IN TUB DINGLEY BILL, THE LAW OF 1894 AND THE LAW OF 1890. ,DltiRley Hill of 1807. Two Married Men, "Why do you Insist upon taking your vvlf3 out for such long walks in tills rough weather?" "The doctor hatt told her that she must be very careful not to talk when she Is out In the cold ulr." "Say. who's your doctor?" ClyVtlanW leader, Iron Ore ....uUoc. per ton, Chromatc ot Iron on chromic oro 'Frc-. ' I'lg' Iron, splcgclcM sen. scraps, etc.. .:l)l per ton. llnr Iron ... c-lUc. per pound, lleatns, angolivJolsts girders, etc, .....,: '0-lOc. per pound. Iron or steel DlatciR-lOo. tier lioimd. UD' I wards according .. . 'to vnlile Forglngs, etc 1 3-iuc, IHc 1 pounu, llnllwny bars 7-JUc. per pound. 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COc. ptr bq. yard, plus 40 per cent, ad v alorem. 41c. per q. aid, plus 40 per cent, ad valorem. 10c. per sq yard, plus 40 per eiit. ad valoiem. lie. per sq. ard, plus 40 per cent, ail valorem $1 per thouiuml feet. 110 per cent, ad va 1 loiem From the Manufacturer NNSYLVAN RAILROAD COMPANY. PERSONALLY CONDUCTED TOURS MATCHLESS IN UVERY FEATURE. CALIFORNIA. Tour to CALIFORNIA nnd the PA CIFIC COAST will leave New York and Philadelphia Match 27, it-turning on regu lar tialus within nine months, Hound trip tickets. Including all tour features going and tianspottutlon only returning, will be sold at rate of $208 no fiom New York, and $2uJO0 ftom Philadelphia; one waj tickets. Including all tour features going, $141 73 fiom New Yoik, $110.25 from Philadelphia. I'loportloiuitu lates from other points. WASHINGTON. Tours, each covering a period of three days, will leave New York and Philadelphia Maich 11, April 1 und 22, and May 13, 1807 Rates, Including transportation and two days' accommodation nt the best Washington Hotels, $H.50 fiom New York, and $11.50 fiom Philadelphia. OLD POINT COMFORT TOURS RETURNINCl DIRECT OR VIA RICHMOND ami WASHINGTON, will leavo New York and Philadelphia Murch 18 and AP'H 15. U97. Tor detailed Itlneiarles nnd other Infor mation, apply at ticket ugencles, or ad dress Geo. W. Iioyd, Asst. Gen'l Pats. Agent, llroad Stteet Station, Philadelphia. MANSflELD STATE NORHAl. SCHOOL. intellectual and practical training ror teachers. Three courses of study besides preparatory. Special attention given to preparation for college. Students ad mitted to best colleges on certificate. Thirty graduates pursuing further studies laat year, Qreat advantages for special studies In art and music. Model school of three hundred pupils. Corps ot sixteen teachers. Ileautlfut grounds. Magnificent bulldlngB. Iarge grounds for athlotlcs. Klevator and Infirmary with attendant nurse. Flno gymnasium. Everything furnished at an average cost to normal students of MIS a year. Fall term, Aug. M. winter term, Dec. 2. Spring term, March 16. Students admitted to classes at any time. For catalogue, containing full Information, apply to S. II. ALURO, Principal, .Munslicld Pu THE DOuiC PQVDER CO ROOMS I AND 2, COM'LTil B'L'Cu, SCRANTON, PA. Of MINING AND BLASTING POWDER MADE AT MOOSIC AND ItUBE DALE WORKS. LAP UN & RAND POWDER CD'S ORANGE GUN POWDER niectrtc flatteries, Electrlo nxpl-dor3. far 01 plodlug blasts, biU'ety Fuse, and Repaano Chemical Co. 's man EXPLOSIVES, CUDCRtlD bt thc HiaHttT Mtoien Autmoriti $ SflEOTHOLINHflllR CATHRH HEADACHESK ISnALI-n will cnrA vnti. A wonderful boon to mitreren from Cold., SoreTliraul, Influenvn, IKroncbltla, OPIIAYFEVUU, A ford) immttlt itt ri liif. An efficient , rtmcrty, convenient to enrrj In poeltot.rearlT to ti on flrt Inuleailon of eold. V-nntlnliefl Xlmn l!flrnrta ltm,nnft f1,,... HntUf ncllun miarantcod or money refunded. Price, CO cli, Trial iron nt Unisgltta. lie-slsterod mail. W cenn. B. D. CUSHU1S, Hit., lint Bireri, Kicfc., 0. S. i. acr siimaw ts MFNTHMI 'l'he urt and eafeit remirtr for HI bit I nUU all akin diseases, Kcrcmo. Itch Salt Itlieura.nlrt Hnrea, Hums, t'uta. Wonderful rem riir rorlMLHtj. J'rlcc.E.lcti.nt Drug. D At ! "Ittaorbyranllprcio1- rt-1riiaoboTB. uftl r For sale "by MATTHEWS BROS, and JOHN H. PUKTPS. Rcrnntot- Va. .iS AS w mSyijT Hi M 9" I -T-k-X .vtt&C ww&m Complexion Preserved DR. HEPRA'S VIOLA CHAM Removes Freeklet, Ptmpltr, Liver . Molei. Dlacl.heiai! Sunburn and Tin, and re stores tho skin to lta origt- Tl.il ftwaVinra nrl nnlnit " wMaavfcjap ,'iW4liVUU P dear and healthy com It itloxlnn. fiunerlor tn H fiwA -1 preparations and. perfectly harmless. At .all druggists, or mailed for Suets. Seucl for Circular, VIOLA SKIM 80AP " duplr loMapmrabta u a akin pamjlag Sotp, UBMualal Jbr lha toll. Dad vll&out rival for taa uunesy. AMoluuW pure and Ofllktttal meal nt!. Atdroicuu, Prlco 25 Cvi.ti. G. C. BITTNEB A. CO., Tot.EDO, O. JTor eale by MATTHEWS nrtOS. and JOHN n. niELPS, Bcranton. Pa. iWilMVllaatVllBiYrj rauLmjfiMa tJPI Captfdlf ul it In 4t hours without, !iinTHlinnfi. nfffrflnnl di- "irji.'yi-i'.-T."""".-.- u . HRicn .1 ppaiun CUV dcds und injections fftlU mm HUDY 1 L-uK'Nii-N.J wmBomm N 7?'IPyaS7 w :ii L x5'fflr?5 J Wfene Better than lard Cheaper than butter Two-thirds as much will do the work of cither. GonulnoCottotone Is sold everywhere with trado marks "CWfolene" nnd tlrrr'i head in cotton-plant wreath on every tin, A liamlsoraely Illustrated Kitchen Calendar of unique design, for 1897, containing Thru Hundred amt Hlxty.flvt Selected ltcclpea by thobnt known teachers of and writers ea cookery VV III be lent on receipt of this advertisement and alx oenw In atampa. THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, Chicago, III. J FOR US 10 DO BUSINESS, We do- as we advertise. We allow no misrepresentation. We have the only es tablishment of its kind in the city. We Carry Over 300 Different Styles of All of which are the very latest and most select designs. 01 WuIIAHIP II FT And Above All, Our Prices Cannot Be Equaled Anywhere. OUT 1 II I AND IIS 427 LACKAWANNA AVENUE, SCRANTON. PA. UP TO DATE. nmrn TTT7TTTT iiiiiiii mrnTTTmnHmnTiT mnnnxmniji M tJ e M H rl t Eslibllshed 18GG. Over 26,000 in Use. THE 0ENUN PIANOS At a time when many manu facturers and dealers are making the most astounding statements regarding the merits and durability of inferior Pianos, intending pur chasers should not fail to make critical examination of the above instruments. VcTSy E. C. RICKER General Dealer in Northeast crn Pennsylvania. NowTolophono Exchange Building, 115 Adams Ave., Scranton, Pa. M M Pi m E3. annnnnnnnnnnnnnminnminnnnnnTnl aUUtj Cklcheater'a Encllah Ulamand ItraaC 'ENNYR0YAL P8LLS Urlslnftt iid Only Gtnulnc. flavrc, luwkji rellftbl. uDtc aik UlUftl.l ht mtckuttrt Xnplu ZU . mvuJ Mritexd lu Httd anJ oJJ iniulUa' it 11 WftUd with LI u rlLkaBa Tali a Id lUlSD fV pWliOUltrk, MSUlUBi&ll ftBd .iwuei ip iaairt vtnu$rt l? re Bra obeAtcrCkcBaJcttlV.UttflUaMiiqiiai-ta. Diugdiu. ' A'hiUdi.VZ A rP ViUttX Book Binding Neat. Durable Book Ulndlntr Is whit yoit receive It you leave your order with thai SCRANTON TRIDUNU IIINUCKY, Trlb line Bitlldlnz, North Wairlnjton Ave. .) I
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