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THE SCRANTON TItlBUiNE-MONDAY MOBNXNG. MAY 3T, 1897.
neighboring
NORTHEASTERN
PENNSYLVANIA
Professor Thomns Williams, of tin.
zleton, Is orsunlzlns a male chorus of
sixteen voices.
The Freeluntl Electric Light company
has Increased Its capital stock from
$15,000 to Wu.OOO. and will mako numer
ous Improvements.
The Lehigh Valley Coal company has
started Its mammoth colliery at Potts
vllle. Thl3 operation suspended last
January. It employs BOO hands.
The Sprlns Orook Water Supply com
pany has had notices posted around tho
Huntsvllle nservolr forbidding all per
sons fishing In the waters of that beau
tiful pool.
Thomas Loncwor, n. prominent Ila
zleton Hungarian, committed suicide
Saturday afternoon by shooting him
self In the head. No cause Is known
for his sfllf.-d-.'Structiuii.
Joseph Valetta, an Italian, of Hnzlc
brook, struck a piece of dynamite with
a hammer Satin day and In the ex
plosion which followed was so badly
Injured that he may die.
John Deefran, who has been telcsr.ipli
operator at the Lehigh Valley station
In Tunkhonnock for some time past,
has b(5en transferred to Laeey villi?, Ptul
will so there to assume his position
toduy.
Enoch Williams, a well known resi
dent of Nanticoke, wad found dead In
bed at hH home on Prospect street,
that city, Saturday morning. Mr. Wil
liams was employed as a miner by the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
company In Nantlcoko and was about
27 years of age. Jle Is .survived by
his wife and one child.
Commencing June 1 tho Lehigh Val
ley car shop department at Sayre, will
be concolldated with the locomotive de
partment. Heretofore the car depart
ment was n separate organization. It
is nlso Intended to consolidate the
blacksmith and carpenter departments
under one foreman, using tho black
smith shop building as car shop. The
present blacksmith shop will be used
for Hue works for the whole Lehigh
system
James L. Lonahan. attorney for Mrs.
Winifred Cunningham, whose husband
was killed in tho lllackman mine on
Tuesday last, has cnteied suit at
Wllkes-Uaire against th Lehigh Val
ley Coal company for $10,000 damages.
Cunningham, who was n pumpman at
the Hlackman slope, was killed and
the cororer's jury l'cund that he came
to his death through the negligence of
Andrew Wilseo, the Hungarian fire
man, who was running the slope en
gine and misunderstood the signals.
The death of Edward Hahn, a well
known foreman tor the Delaware and
Hudson company, occurred at his home
in Plymouth township, Luzerne coun
ty, Saturday moinlugat 4 o'clock, after
a lingering illness of four months of
typhoid pneumonia. The deceased was
6."i years old and was born In Ilessen,
Germany. Ho came to this country
forty-three yeais ago and settled at
Hazleton where he worked in the mines
for some time He was promoted to
the position of mine foreman, and re
moved to Wanamie where he was lo
cated for two years. At the end of
that time he was engaged by tho Dela
ware and Hudjon company and became
inside foreman of the Ulack Diamond
mines. Twenty years ago he waa
transferred to No. I mines of the same
company near Plymouth, where he held
the position of foreman until his death.
FIRE AT MALLSTEAD.
A liuilding Used as n Lockup Is
Totally Destroyed.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Hallstead, May 15. Tho building on
Church street owned and occupied by
William Knowler as a carpenter and
blocksmlth shop and the borough lock
up, were destroyed by fire eaily Sat
urday morning.
Tho ilie originated In the Knowler
building, on which was nn Insurance
of $2.10 nnd $100 for tho tools it con
tained. The lire is believed to be of
Incendiary otlgln.
SHOT IN THE KNEE.
Accident to Cnrji risfiermmi Up nt
Hallstead.
Special to tho Scranton Tribune.
Hallstead, May IS. George Barber
was accidentally shot In tho leg by Ar
thur Sprague on Saturday afternoon
nt about 4 o'clock. They, In company
with several other persons, were at tho
"Ox Bow" trying to shoot a very largo
carp which had been seen In tho water
there, during the day.
Sprague had a rlile and tho otheis
each a shotgun. Barber was on the
bank on the right side of the water and
tho others on the opposite side when
the accident happened. They had nil
been unsuccessful In their efforts to
The Spring storms strike
hard those who are thin in
flesh, whose system is weak
and nerves irritable. The
sharp, cutting pains of neural
gia tell when the blow has
taken effect. Why wait for
the signal? Scott's Emul
sion of Cod-liver Oil with
Hypophosphites will feed and
strengthen weak nerves. , It
should be taken as a preven
tive in every case of weak
ness and nerve exhaustion.
"Early prevention is better
than cure." So says the
wise man. rr .sa,e h an rsraisti
at so cent and Ji.go.
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York.
CARPET SALE
1,000 yards Ingrain Carpets marked to 18c, 23c,
25c, 29c, 35c, worth from 25c to 50c.
OIL CLOTH SALK-500 yards Floor Oil Cloths innrked to 15c, 20c,
25c, ai)c, 33o Square Yard, worth from 20c to 50c.
MATTING SALE 200 yards assorted Matting, 8c to 25c. Just one
hull their value,
This sale to Inst one week only. Tapestry Carpets at cut prices.
J, SCOTT INGUSM"'
gotintie
capture tho fish and ns ho appeared
again nil shot. Tho bullet from
Sprague's rifle glanced and entered
Barber's left leg below tho knee. For
tunately he Is not seriously Injured,
AN ELOQUENT DEFENSE
OF THE STAGE.
From nn Address by William Winter
Before the Lotus Club of
New York.
To understand human nature; to ab
sorb and co-ordinate the literature of
tho drama; to discriminate between
talking nnd acting; to see the mental,
moral and spiritual aspect of the stage,
and likewise to see the popular aspect
of It; to write for a public of miscel
laneous readers, and at the same time
to respect tho feelings and Interpret the
ambitions of artists; to praise with dis
cretion und yet with force; to censure
without asperity; to think quickly and
speak qulckly.'and yet avoid error; to
oppose sordid selfishness, which for
ever strives to degrade every high
Ideal; to give not alone knowledge,
study, and technical skill, but the best
powers of the mind and the deepest
feelings of the heart to the embellish
ment of tho art of others, and to do
that with an art of your own this It Is
to accomplish the work of the dra
matic receiver. It is a work of serious
moment and incessant dilllculty. But
It has Its bright side; for, as years
speed on and life grows bleak and lone
some, It Is the stage that gives relief
from paltry conventionality; It Is the
stage, with its sunshine of humor and
Its glory of imagination, that wiles us
away from our defeated ambitions,
our wnnlng fortunes, and tho broken
Idols of our vanishing youth. In the
long process of social development
nt least within tho last three hundred
years no other single force has borne
a more conspicuous or a more potential
part. "The reason of things," said Dr.
South, "lies In a small compass, If a
man could but find it out." Tho reason
of the drama, has never been a mysteiy.
All life has, for its ultimate object, a
spiritual victory. The divine spit It
works in humanity by many subtle
ways. It is mnn's Instinctive and in
tuitive Imitation of nature that creates
artificial objects of beauty. Those, In
turn, react upon the human mind and
deepen and heighten Its sense of the
beautiful. It Is man's interpretation
of humanity that has revealed to him
his divine father and his spiritual des
tiny. All things work together for that
result the dramatic art deeply and di
rectly, because, when rightly adminis
tered, It is the pure mirror of all that
is glorious in character and nil that Is
noble und gentle In the conduct of life,
showing ever the excellence to be emu
lated and the glory to bo gained, sooth
ing our cares, dispelling our troubles',
and casting the glamour of romantic
grace upon all tho commonplaces of the
world. What happy dreams It has in
spired! What grand ideals It has Im
parted! With what gentle friendships
it has blessed and beautified our lives!
o
Moralists upon the -drama ore fond
of dwelling on Its alleged decline from
certain "palmy days" of tho past a
vague period which no one distinctly
remembeis or defines, and which still
recedes, the more diligently It is pur
sued, "in the dark backwnrd and
abysm of time." One difference be
tween the past and the present Is that
the stage which once lived In a camp
now lives In a palace. Another dif
ference Is that eminent talents will oh
once were concentrated aro now dif
fused. The standard of taste has fluc
tuated. At the beginning of tho cen
tury It appears to have been more fas
tidious and more Intellectual than It Is
row, but not mure s-o than It has two
or three times been within the Inter
filing period. In my boyhood tho
great tragic genius of the stage waa
the elder Booth, whom I saw as Pes
cara, dtirlnu his last engagement In
Boston, In 1S51 and a magnificent im
age he was, of appalling power and
teiror. The traglo sovereign, however,
was Edwin Fori est, and for many years
his influence survived, affecting the
ftyle of such compeers as Eddy, Ncafle,
Scott, Proctor, Klrby and Marshall,
and mora or less moulding that of the
lomantlc Edwin Adams, the intellec
tual Lawrence Barrett, and the gentle,
generous, affectionate, stalwart John
McCullough, "the noblest Roman of
them all." In comedy the pres-alent
tradition was that of Pinn whom I
never saw, but of whom I constantly
heard but the actual prince, waa the
elder Wallaek; and very soon
after he had sparkled into splen
did popularity the rosy gods . of
mirth released such messengers of hap
piness as Warren and Gilbert, Burton
and Blake, Hackett and Fisher, Pla
elde nnd Owens, and the buoyant John
Brougham, whose memory Is still
cherished In all our hearts. A little
later tho more Intellectual taste In
tragedy gaining a sudden pre-eminence
from the reaction against For
restthe spiritual beauty was tho wild
and thrilling genius of Edwin Booth
enchanted the public mind and cap
tured an absolute sovereignty of the
serious stage; while, in comedy, the
glittering figure of Lester Wallaek
boro to the front rank, and reared
more splendidly than ever before, the
standard of Wllks, nnd Lewis, and Kl
llston, which had been preserved and
transmitted by Charles Kemble, tho
elder Wallaek, nnd, both the chieftains
of the house of Mathews, Mcanwhllo
Murdock, Vandenhoff, E, L. Daven
port, nnd tho younger James Wallaek
maintained, In royal state, the lino
classic tradition of John Kemble, Coop
er, Macready, and Young: Tho grand
eur of Sarah Slddons lived again In
Charlotte Cushman; and, in the realm
of Imaginative, romantic, human
drama, a more exquisite artist of hu
mor and of tears than ever yet had
arisen on our stage an artist who is
to Acting what Reynolds was to Paint
ing and what Hood was to Poetry
carried natural portraiture to ideal
THE LION
perfection, and made Illustrious the
name of Joseph Jefferson.
The stage, In Itself, Is not degenerate.
The old fires are not yet dead. The
world moves onward, and "tho palmy
days" move onward with the world.
At this moment the public taste Is
fickle nnd tho public morality Infirm;
but this moment Is reactionary, and of
course It will not last. The stage has
been degraded; the press has been pol
luted; tho church has been shaken; the
whole fabric of society has been threat
ened. The assaults of materialism,
blighting faith and discrediting ro
mance, have had a temporary triumph.
The dangerous delusion that there Is a
divinity In the untaught multitude has
everywhere promoted disorder, violence
and vulgarity. So, from time to time,
the dregs endeavor to reach the top.
Hut all this fever and turmoil will
pass; and, In those saner times which
nre at hand, the stage, as we know It
and love it the stage of Wignell and
Dunlap, the stage of Keach and Barry,
the stage of Wallaek and Booth and
Henry Irving, and Augustln Daly, tho
stage that. In our day, has been
adorned by Ilachel, Klstorl, Seebach,
Janauschek and Modjeska, and by Ade
line Nellson and Mary Anderson (twin
stars of loveliness, the one nil passion
and sorrow, the other all Innocence,
light, and Joy!) the stage that possesses
the wild, poetic beauty and rare, elu
sive, celestial spirit of Ellen Terry, and
the enchanting womanhood and blithe,
gleeful, tender, human charm of Ada
IJehan, the stage that Is consecrated to
Intellect, genius and beauty will again
assert its splendid power, and will
again rejoice In all the honors, and
manifest all the Inherent virtues, of tho
stage of our forefathers, In the best of
their golden days.
NOT PKIt.WTTRD.
Witty nnd Graceful Compliment of a
Scotch .Minister.
Dean Ramsay tells of n witty and
graceful compliment paid by a Scotch
minister to a young laxly, daughter of a
neighboring laird. It was the custom in
this and other Scotch parishes for the
minister to bow to the laird's pew be
fore beginning his discourse. On one
occasion the pew contained a bevy of
ladies, and the minister, feeling a deli
cacy in the circumstances, omitted the
usual salaam.
When they next met the laird's
daughteir a Miss Miller widely famed
for her beauty and afterward Countess
of Mar, rallied tho minister in the pres
ence of her companions for not bowing
to her from thp pulpit. "Your ladyship
forgets," replied tho minister, "that the
wor&hlp of angels Is not allowed by the
Scotch churoh."
AN Al'T Iir.TOKT.
Tho Learned Scientist Hud 1111 An
swer Mliich Mas Pointed.
One may be excused for feeling a
little joy when the man who goes out
of his way to make a rude remark In
order to show his wit receives a rebuke
that Is as courteous as It Is effective.
The retort given by a certain
learned scientist must have been more
amusing to the onlookers than to the
learned gentleman's antagonist.
It hapened at dinner that 0110 of the
guests began to decide philosophy, and
went on rudely to express the opinion
that philosopher was but another way
of spelling fool.
"What la your opinion, professor?"
he asked. "Is there muoh distance be
tween them?"
The professor, with a polite bow to
his boorish vls-a-vls, respoifded grave
ly; "Sometimes only the width of a
table."
AN UNUSUAL CALL.
A Country Dr. Hits 11 Strnngo I'ntlcnt
Asking Ills Services.
From tho Detroit Free Prcs3.
"Tho life of a country doctor Is not one
of ease nnd luxury," commented an old
praatltloner. "A call at night and then a
drive, perhaps of flvo or six miles, up hill
and down dell In tho darkness of tho for
est. Ono night I received a call from a
distant farm house. Upon arriving I
found a lad of about IS with a bullet wound
in hla shoulder. I dressed tho wound with
much caTe anJ then tho la4 with much
iinxlety observed:
" 'You won't ay anything about this,
doctor?"
" 'Why not, my lad?' I pitied him in a
way, for his eyeu had a hunted look and
he appearid half famished and half deail,
"Bpchums I received this wound In escap
ing frum tho sheriff.'
" 'You needn't tell you,'
" I must, I couldn't get work, sir, and
not able to reeifct tempitatlon, I etole. It
was for the llrst time, I thought you
might epoak of dressing a wound and then
thoy would know whoro to find me. If
you would eay nothing I may be able to
leave the country, You havo been kind
to me, doctor. Do this and'
" 'On ono condition, my lad.
" 'And that Is?'
" 'Would you bellevo a a thief'
" 'I will believe you,'
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BEFOOLED.
Copyright, 1S97, by Mitchell & Miller.
' " 'I promise.
"Many years afterwards I received a.
box of good things for Christmas from
California. Tho next year another box
camo nnd to for many years. The only
cluo I had to the sender were a few words
In tho fltst box: 'I have kept the promlso
I made you, doctor.' "
IJOKINC. 1'Ull NATURAL STRAM.
It Is Said Thnt It Cmi He Round Two
Miles Down.
From the Washington Star.
The deepest well In the world will
soon be completed near Pittsburg. It
Is now more than one mile deep, and,
when finished, it may reach down two
miles into the earth. It is being bored
In the Interest of science. The qbject
In penetrating so deeply Is to deter
mine Just what the" Interior of the
human footstool Is like. From a com
mercial point of view, the well was a
success long ago. A comparatively
few feet below tho surface both gas
and" oil were struck in paying quan
tities, but the company owning the
plant determined to dedicate it to
science, and Invited Professor William
Ilalloek of Columbia college to carry
on a series of temperature lnvestlga
tlons as tho hole Is carried deeper
and deeper Into tho earth. Tho lesults
of theso Investigations are very in
teresting, and it is the opinion of sev
eral well known scientists that the ulti
mate result of the boring will prove
to be of widespread economic ns well
as of scientific value. Most signific
ant of nil the facts so far ascertained
Is that the well grows steadily hot-r
as Its depth Increases.
It Is the Intention of the company to
continue tho boring process until some
thing entirely new and original Is de
veloped. This may eem a crude way
of putting the statement, but is has
long been a theory among well-men
that if It is possible to go deep enough
somo new geologic condition or econ
omic feature wuld be found to exist.
At the very least they claim natural
steam would be encountered, or the
well walls would finally become so hot
that water could be pumped down cold
nnd pumped up In the form of steam,
and thus the nntural power of tho 'fu
ture be obtained. At any rate, there
Is material for much speculation and
tho interest becomes greater in in
creased ratio as the drill descends, and
a startling event Is expected to hap
pen almost any day. One remarkable
feature of the well Is that the gns
found near the surface Is now used to
operate tho powerful engines which do
the drilling. Thus the natural power
already issuing from the well is util
lzed for tho purpose of deepening It.
How (Jrnnt Broke 11 liiiiinwnyHor.se,
From tho Public Ledger.
Colonel Peyton, whose dcathwas chron
icled yesterday, wrnte a book, "Itemin
Ucences of tho Past." In this ho refers
to his first meeting with Grant as follows:
"In che year 1S3S T was working as a
boy in a country store at Flat Itock, Bour
bon county, Ky. Ulysses S. Grant was
then a boy, living at Georgetown, O,, not
many miles distant. Ono day Grant drove
over to Flat Bock with the nieco of my
employer. Grant was then 10 years of age,
awkward, ungainly, determined. Indus
trious, and very poorly dressed. lie drovo
a vlelous horse. The night after his ar
rival at Flat Bock he slept with me In the
store. It was a cold night, and wo boys
kept eloso to tho lee of tho counter. In
tho morning Grant asked mo if he could
assist me. I said yes. He helped me tnko
down the shutters and sweep out tho store
and put stock In place. After breakfast
ho drovo off. I heard from him afterward
of his drive home. Before ho had gone far
from Flat Hock Ill's horse ran away and
finally brought up with a crash in a fenco
corner. Nothing broke. Grant Jumped
out. seized the trembling horse by tho
bride, and tied Ills handkerchief over tho
beast's eyes. Ho drove the horse blind
folded all tho way to Georgetown, O."
Soven Wolves Iinggcd liyn Youngster
From tho St. Louis- Globe-Democrat,
A son of James Virtcr, of Galesburg, 111.,
had a remarkable experlenco the other day
with a large sho wolf. Tho boy lives In
Ontario township nnd Is but 14 years old.
Ho left homo on horseback, taking an
axe and a dog, thinking that ho might find
a 6ciuirrel or two In the timber. After lie
had gone some distance, tho dog charged
toward a hollow log and began barking
furiously, but did not dare enter. The
boy, getting off his horse, kneeled and
peered Into Iho cavity, and saw glaring
out upon htm tho fierce eyes of a large
wolf, around which were six puppies. Sho
snapped her teeth viciously. The boy,
with rare courage for one of his ago, hast
ily sharped some stakes wljh his axo and
drovo them over tho entranceto tho log,
tho dog meanwhile keeping the wolf In
side, After having Imprisoned the animal
tho boy mounteirhls horse, rode quickly
home, and returned with a small revolver.
Ho then, lying prone on the ground, be
gan firing Into the log and did not ccaic
until he had killed the wolf, which had
made desperate efforts to get out, Tho
lad killed tho pups with his axe and then
loatTSJT his victims upon tho horse. This
week he was paid a bounty In Galesburg
on all seven wolves.
THE MARKETS.
Wnll Street Itcviuiv.
New York, Mny 15, Tho total sales of
stocks today were 77,810 shares. Chlcaso
Gas nnd Stmar itbrorbeil over one-third of
tho sales on tho Stock Exchanno toduy,
tho dealings being equally divided between
them. There wero evidences of heavy liqui
dation In Chicago Das stock bnsd on ap
prehensions that tho consolidation meae
tiro will fall of enactment In tho Illinois
legislature. Sugar lso showed wenkness
on the probable effect of pending proceed
ings ngalnst members of the company for
contempt of tho senate but recovered tho
loss. The Grangers, also, were subjected
to special attack by tho bears on account
of tho weakness of tho wheat market.
There was manifest Apprehension, aNo, as
to what phaio iho Cuban question may
have taken on by th tlmo tra-JIng is re
sumed on Mond.iy. Tho anthraclto coal
ers displayed somo firmness duo to cov
ering shorts over Sunday and only trivial
changes occurred In their prices.
Furnished by WILLIAM LINN AL
LEN & CO., stock brokers, Mears build
ing, rooms, 703-7W.
Open- High- Low- Clos
ing, est. est. Sng.
Am. Tobacco Co. ... 70?& 7()'J 70V4 70i
Am. 8ug. Itef. Co. 11214, H2'j H2'.'s lllili
At., To. & S. Fo .... 10i 10'4 10i 10',4
At., To. & S. Fo .... 10'i 194 19 19
Chen. & Ohio HHi ifiVl 16V4 lb'i
Chicago Gas 81 818 78?i 70V4
Chic. &N. W 10114 101 1031,4 103
Chic., B. & Q. ...
73 7314 72' i 72
. y. v. oc ni, a, i, yt --((, ;;,-4 a,,
Chic, Mil. & St. P.. 73 73H 72 72;J
Chic, 11. L. & Pac. C3 fi.1 C2 C2Vi
Del. & Hudson lOli 10IH 10IJ 101
D., L. & 14S US 14S US
Gen. Blectrlo 31 31 31 31
LouK & Nnsh 43Ts ' 43?i 1i
M. K. & Tex. IT. ... 27 27 2iH 2i
Man. Klovated S.', s: Sl',4 l
Mo. Pac 13 13 32 12
N. J. Central 7314 7fi 75Vi 75
N. Y. Central WH 9S 9b 9S
. r A. ( Cl . 1M.1 M. na. u.
Nor. Pac, IT. 3i? M a', .1',
Omaha .
r-v:
fi.'i'ti IWi f!
Par. Mall
Phil. & Beading ..
Southern B. B
Southern B. It. IT.
Tenn. C. & Iron ...
Union Pacific
Wabash
27V4 27 27
IS'4 17 17?,i
is
7?i Vi Va 74
K1'4 23i 234 2.V4
19H 19'4 18 18
f G Vi 0'3
5 3 r, r,
.. 12 12 12 K-
7f 77 7'vfl 70
Wabash IT.
Western Union ....
U. S. Leather Pr. .
M't CI 52 63
U. S. Bubbor 12 12 125i 12
CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE PIUCE3.
Open- High- Low- Clos-
WHEAT. ing. est. est. ing.
July 73 73 72 72
September CS-';' CS 67t Cs
OATS.
July 18 18'4 IS 18
September 1SK lgif. is lsVi
CORN.
July 2314 2,-, 21T4 25
September 20 2874 20 2018
LARD.
July 3.93 3.9 3.87 3.S7
September 4.0J 4.0.! 3.97 3.97
PORK.
Jury S.C0 8.C0 S.40 8.45
Scranton lionrd of Trade Exchnngc
Qiiotntions--AII Quotations linscd
on Pur of 100.
STOCKS. Bid. Asked.
Scranton & PIttston Trae. Co. ... 20
National Boring & Drill's Co 80
First National Bank C30
Klmhurst Boulevard Co 100
Scranton Savings Bank 200 ...
Scranton Packing Co 93
Lacka. Iron & Steel Co 150
Third National Bank 310
Throop Novelty M'f'g Co 80
Scranton Traction oC 15 17
Scranton Axlo Works SO
Weston Mill Co 250
Alexander Car Beplacer Co 100
Scranton Bedding Co 103
Dime Dep. & Dls. Bark 14j
Lacka. Trust & Safe Dep. Co.. 140 143
Economy, S. II. ft P. Co 0
BONDS.
Scranton Pass. Railway, first
mortgage duo 1918 110
People's Street Railway, first
mortgage due 1918 110
Scranton & Pjttston Trac. Co. ... SO
People's Street Railway, Sec
ond mortgage due 1S20 110
Dickson Manufacturing Co 100
Lacka. Township School E 102
City of Scranton St. Imp. C7o 102
Mt. Vernon Coal Co S3
Scranton Axle Works 100
Now York Produce .llnrkct.
New York. May 15. Flour-City mill pat
ent, S4.93af,.30; do. clears, J4.73a4.95; Min
nesota patent, $1.23a4.30; do. bakers', J3.50a
3.70; winter patents, $4.COal.90; do.
straights, $l.40ai.50; do. extras, $2.50a3 80;
do. low giades, J.'.C0a2.90. Bye Hour Dull;
superfine, $2.30a2.O9; fancy, $.C0a2.75. Corn
meal Dull; yellow western, 00c.; city, 02c,;
brandy wine, Jl.iiial.90. Rye Steady; No.
2 western, 73'-2C., c. 1. f Buffalo; oar lots,
39a41c. Barley Dull; western feeding,
28a2Sc, c. 1. f Buffalo; six rowed state
malting, 30a42c. Barley malt Dull; west
ern, 43a54. Wheat No. 1 northern New
York, 83'4c f. 0. b.; No. 1 northern, Du
luth, S-iV-c, f. o. b afloat; No 2 hard New
York spot, 81e., f. o. b., afloat; options
opened steadier on better cables, but sub
sequently weakened nnd declined sharply
under rain news fiom California, absence
of export interest and local liquidation
closing '4ac. net lower; sales Included
No. 2 red May, SliiaSS'ic clotcd. Sl'ic;
July. 7S'4n79c closed, 784c; September,
71a71Tc., closed, 71c, ; December closed,
73V4C. Corn Spot market easier; No. 2,
30',4c., elevator; 31'$c. afloat; options
opened firm and advanced on higher ca
bles, but later declined with wheat, clos
ing heavy at 4c. net loss; May closed, 30c;
July, 3014a31'8c closed, 30'4c; August. 31a
31c, closed, 31c; September, 31a32c,
closed, Slc. OatsSpot; market steady;
No. 2 oats, 23'4c; No. 3 oats. 22'ic; No. 2
white, 27c. nominal; No. 3 white, 2jc. ; track
mixed western, 23a23c; track white west
ern, 2Ca3114c; track white state, 20.13P-C ;
options dull, but about steady In abseneo
of selling' pressure, closing unchanged;
May closed. 22c; July closed, 22c Hay
Steady; shipping. KaCOe. ; good to cholre,
70a73c. .Hide Flnm; Gitvrs-rrT;. 2ft!5
pounds, 14c. I Buenos Ayres dry, 20 pounds,
18jal9c; Texas dry, 2la30 pounds, lOc;
California, 21a23 pounds, 15V4alOe, Leather
Firm; hemlock solo Buenos Ayres, Ugh
to hPavy eights, 19a20c; aeld, 19Ua22c
Lard Kasler; western steam, closed at
$4.13: sales, city, at J3.70a3.7uj May cloed,
it 10 nominal; refined dull; continent, $4 50;
Souht America. $3; compound, 4a4Hc But
terDull; western creamery, llfiallc.; fac
tory, 71:allc ; Elglns, 4c. ; lmttatton
creamery, 10a124c.; state dairy, lOallc;
Every thought,
word nnd action
takes vitality
from tho blood; every nerve, niusclo,
bone, organ nnd tissue depends on tho
blood for its quality tuul condition.
CrtMBM'v Thoroforo juno
Opring blood is absolutely
RMfl a JI :. necessary to right
BVBetiBcine llvinff nnahenuhy
bodies. Hood's Sareuparillu is the great
blood purifier and tho best Spring
Medicine. Thercforo it Is tho great
euro for scrofula, salt rheum, humors,
sores, rheumatism, catarrh, etc.; tho
grcnt nervine, strength builder, appe
tizer, stomach tonio and regulator.
Sarsaparjlla ;;
six for $5. Prepared only by O. I. Hood & Co.,
Lowell, Mass. Oct Hood's and only Jlood's.
Hood's Pills taltcaaiUrdliwcrald digestion.
Pure
do, creamery, ll'ialie. Chccso-Qulct;
stato large, 9al0a,5 small fancy, lOallc;
western part skims, 4a71ic.j full skims,
2V4BSC. Eggs Steady; stnto and Penn
sylvania, lie; cstern fresh, 10ttnl0',4c:
southern, OnSUfl. Tallow-Quiet', city (13
per package), 3c! country (packages free),
3140.
Chicago Crnln Market,
Chicago, May 15. Tho leading futuro3
ranged as follows: Wheat May, 71c,
74c: July, 73a734c, 72e; September,
6SV4nC3c CSc. Corn-May, 23c.,-24c;
July, 25Hc, 2Cc.J Septombcr, 214c, 24c:
September, 2fl4a20Uc Oats May, lTtoft,
17c; July, 18c, lSJie.: September, l&ViC
18al8';c. Moss porkMny closing, $8.12;
July, JS.60, $8.43; September, $8.05, $8.30.
Lard-May, $3.85, $3.82; July, $3,93, $3.87',;
September, $4.02'4, 0397',4. Short ribsMay,
closed, $l.f; Julv, $4.03, $l,57'-j; September,
$I.C7W. $i-00. Cash quotations were ns
follows: Flour, Btcady; winter patents,
$4.eOal.70: straights, $l,40a4.CO; spring spe
cial, $4,COa4,70; spring patents, $1a4,3i);
straights, $3.70a3.9u; baiters', $2.90a3.03; No,
2 spring wheat, 74c. ; No. 3 spring wheat,
70a71c; No. 2 red, 91c; No. 2 corn, 23'tc;
No. 2 yellow corn, Uo'.iaZVe.; No. 2 oats,
18c; No. 2 white, f. o. b., 22i,423'4c.; No. 3
whlto, f. o. b 21Ua22c; o. 2 rye, 31'vci
No. 2 barley nominal; No. 3, f, o. b., 2Sj3Jc.
No. 1 flaxseed, 77a?e. ; prlmo timothy seed,
$2.85a2.90; lard, $3.92',4n3.85; short ribs, sides
(loose), $4.fiOa4.70; dry salted shoulders
(boxed), CaS'ic; short clear sides (boxed),
Ca5c; whiskey, distillers' finished goods,
$1.19; sugars, cut loaf, $3,ftD: granulated,
$4.77. Receipts Flour, 7.000 barrels; wheat,
0,000 bushels; com, 113,000 bushels; oats,
245,000 bushels; rye, 2,000 bushels; barley,
19,000. bushels, Shipments Flour, 1,000
barrels; wheat, 110,000 bushels; corn 332,
bushols; oats, 318.000 bushels; ryo 33,000
bushels; barley, 1,000 bushels.
New York Llvo S.tock.
Now York, May 13. Beeves Receipts,
977 head; no trading; cables quote Ameri
can steers at I1al2c; sheep at 10V4al3c; re
frigerator beet at 9a9c. per pound; ex
ports, f'i.w Deoves, ami i,st quarters in
beef. Calves Becelpts, C25 beeves; slow,
ac lower; veals, $la5.23. Sheep and
lambs Becelpts, 2,293 head; slow, shado
easier; clipped sheep, J3.S0al.i0; clipped
lambs, J1.50j5.33; spring lambs, $C.7oa7.OT.
Hogs Receipts, 3,822 head; rteady at $U
4.23.
Iluflhlo Live Stock.
East Buffalo, N. Y May l.'.-Cattle
Becelpts, ISO cars, all consigned through,
steady. Hogs Becelpts, 4,000 head; steady;
Yorkers, good to choice, $3.S0a3.87; rouh
common to good, $3.2Ca3.10; common to
fair, $3.23a3.C0. Sheep and lambs Be
celpts, 30 cars, weak; lambs, eholco to
prime, $l.90a3; common to good, $l.25a4.IO.
Sheep Choice to selected ethers, $1.33al.C0;
culls and cemmon, $2.25a3.03.
tii i en go Live Stock.
Chicago, May 1C Catlln receipts dwin
dle! to almost nothing Saturday and tho
marKet was practically nominal, iiog-i
Wero well taken, but prices, suffered fur
ther reduction of about 2'4c per 100 Younds
and closed 10al5c. lower than a week ugo.
Sales' were made nt an estimate range or
3.40i3.83, largely at J3.77Ca3.SO; coarse hows
und stags wero discriminated against. Tho
small receipt-) of shet-p sold at firm prices,
sheep wer saleable at J2.25a4.(i'i; sales be
ing mostly at $3.S0a4.50, with Tcxans and
westerns picdomlnatlng. Texans sold
around, J3.S0a3.90, and westerns at $4a4.f.O;
lambs Fold nt J3.23ii3.40. Receipts Cattle,
200 head; hogs, 10,000 head; sheep, 3,00)
head.
Oil Mnrkct.
Oil City. May 13. No bids for certifi
cate oil. Credit balances unchanged. Runs,
99,737 barrels; shipments, 71,162 barrels.
LE BRUN'S.
CAR EITnUIt HKTC.
rPl.Iti rnmniltf tiflncr 9tl
:Jcctcd directly to tlio
Ht-nt or nose uiarascn
or tho Gcnlto-lJrlnary
Organs, requires no
chnuco of diet. Cnro
gnnrnntced In 1 to a
ilnvu. Mmnll lllfltn nnflB
tJTI TT VSE? TS" nco by mail, Ol.OO,
ti.f KJ JE&JSM Bold only by
W'm. Q Clark, 326 Venn Ave,, Scranton, Pa.
Ill fitting clothes make the
handsome man look plain and
common, while the suit that
fits gives grace and dignity
to the wearer.
PERFECT FIT,
THOROUGH WORKMANSHIP
And the very lowest
prices are the advantages
to our customers which
we offer.
W. J. DAVIS,
213 WYOMING AYENUK.
Arcada Building.
For Sale by Mill & Connell, Prothcroe &
Co. and A. E. Strong.
fPy.vU!JorJniui.q'-
Half a Dollar Buys
As nice a 6-4 Chenille Table Cover as you'd wish to
look at. Kerr, Sou & Co. thought them cheap
enough at $1.25 and $1.50.
Irish Point Lace Curtains
We've about Soo pairs left. They're less than half
price now if you can use them.
Window Shades Slaughter
It matters very little what the size, shape or style of
the window may be. Will make shades for it that
will fit well and please you for less money than most
houses want for the material.
Carpets Never Were Cheaper
If you've a floor to cover, do it now, You can't buy
carpets every day for less than they cost the manu
facturer to make,
S. Q. KERR, Agent.
B&K5 &';' 408 Lackawanna Ava
Tho Leading end Largest Millinery S(
413 Lncknwnnna Avenue.
PECIAL SALES
THIS WEEK.
Finest quality Berniua
Braid Short Back
Qunors, cacn I UU
Worth 30c
Trimmed Sailors, fine .
China Milan, fully
trimmed, worth 50c,
to go at, each
Fine French Violets, a
bunch
French looses with fo
196
3G
7c
rage, a bunch...
Worth so
Large Velvet Poppies, ")fj
with bud, a bunch... uu
Worth 50a
AH Silk Taffeta and J rft
Glace Ribbons, a yd Ju
Nos. 10 anil 50, in every color
worth :53c. ami 10c. a yard.
SPECIAL LOW PRICES ON
ALL WEEK.
'S.
113 Lacka. Ave.
Proprietor.
SEED
-f
3
There is no economy in
sowing oats that
will not grow.
Ours weigh 34 to 36
lbs. per bushel and are
Clean Natural Oats.
The Weston ill Go
i,
HOI GROWN ASPARAGUS
I-'rcsli i:ery Jloruing.
DELAWARE STRAWBERRIES
Arriving Now.
Cauliflower, Green and
Wax Beans, Egg Plant,
Tomatoes, Etc.
i- h. mm, m in i
Saturday
Our Special will he Veal
and Dressed Chickens.
We will sell Veal 6 to
i2c per lb., and chickens
i24c per lb.
Our famous Straw
berry Hams 9Jc.
ILLEI'S MARKET
Next to Academy of Music.
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