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SCUANTON. MAY 2G. 1897.
The ability, diplomacy, and patience
called for by the position of superin
tendent of the city schools are cheaply
Eecutcd at a salary of $3000 a year.
Hr. Calhoun's Findings.
A second letter Is published by the
"Washington Star from Chatles M. Pep
per, the correspondent who Is accom
panying Special Commissioner Calhoun
on his mission of Inquiry Into the con
ditions of Cuba. We attach Impor
tance to t first, because Mr. Pepper as
a witness Is absolutely trustworthy;
and secondly, for the reason that his
letters bear evidence of Mr. Calhoun's
Indorsement. No specific statement Is
made In them which could, possibly
give offense to the Spanish, nor Is there
any leaning toward the sensational;
but In general tenor and In clearly con
veyed Inference, Mr. Pepper's testi
mony Is to the effect that pacification
is purely nominal, and that even In
Havana, In the very thick of Spanish
officialism, Insurrectionary sentiment
Is formidable, widely diffused and well
organized, although secret.
Mr. Calhoun, we are Informed, Is re
ceiving Information of value from all
sources. That which comes to him
from the Insurgent side Is naturally
more guarded, In view of the coidon of
Spanish spies by which he and all other
prominent Americans In Havana are
continually surrounded; but Mr. Pep
per, while betraying no confidences,
gives assurance that the commission
er's investigation Is comprehensive. He
describes a carriage drive which Mr.
Calhoun, General Lee and he took out
side of Havana, along the principal
thoroughfare. On each side stood
ruined buildings and tenantless plan
tations; In every direction sentinels
stood guard, and the party were
warned not to go beyond a point four
teen miles distant from the capital,
Inasmuch as the protection of the Span
ish officials ceased at that point. This
was in tho "pacliied" province of Hav
ana, where Spanish jurisdiction is ad
mittedly strongest. The impression
made upon the correspondent was dis
tinctly contradictory to Spanish repre
sentations at Washington nnd Madrid
as to the genuineness of the alleged pa
cification. Perhaps the most notable thing In
Mr. Pepper's communication Is his In
timation of the extent to which co-operation
with the rebel cause has gone
among the very foremost families in
Havana. Possibly for strategic pur
poses, Mr. Calhoun assumed, when be
ginning his inquiries, that tho rebellion
had no standing in Havana, but was
the work mainly of Irresponsible per
sons of Inferior character. To this hy
pothesis the Spanish naturally gave
eager assent, but it soon became mani
fest from other sources that It lacked
foundation. Mr. Pepper intimates that
at the outset of the present insurrec
tion tho aristocratic Cuban families In
Havana maintained an attitude of
studied Indifference; but today he
names numerous instances of sons of
these proud families fighting willingly
In the Insurgent cause, alongside mu
lattoes and other characters with whom
they could not be Induced to associate
In time of peace. AVe are given cause
to infer that Mr. Calhoun has found
abundant reason to believe In the uni
versality of the spirit of revolt from
Spanish sovereignty In Cuba and that
he Is already equipped with Informa
tion on this point which will materially
aid President McKlnley In arriving at
an accurate conclusion In the premises.
We take It that these letters of Mr.
Pepper constitute In reality Mr. Cal
houn's own unofficial reports. He Is
not responsible for them In a diplo
matic sense; but we can readily Im
agine that he would not continue In
close association with Mr. Pepper If he
were dissatisfied with the tenor of Mr.
(Pepper's reports.
It will be the general wish that asso
ciation with the excellent men and
charming suiroundincs of tho Presby
terian General Assembly may smooth
the wrinkles out of Hon. John Wana
maker's brow and put new cheer and
confidence Into his troubled soul.
nugwuinpery.
After all, what uu Inscrutable thing
the Mugwump Is! Take him wheiever
you will, how superior ho appears; how
far above the common level In morals
and motives; how profound In his
knowledge; how sure In his convictions;
how inaccessible to unpleasant facts!
We have lately been reading a num
ber of Mugwump newspaperi papers
like the Providence Journal and the
Springfield Republican. They are In-'
tensely amusing. The Republican espe
cially scales the topmost heights ot
Ferene self conceit and In Its compla
cent sense ot Infallibility is like an
oracle.
Just now It Is Its Cuban policy which
Invites our attention, but the general
rules of Its conduct apply with equal
pertinency 'to any and every topic.
Learning that the majority of Amer
icans sympathize with the Cuban In
furgents, it forthwith prpceeds to be
little them. .-The reports of their suc
cesses are . denominated Key West
fakes. Their leaders are dismissed as
"half-breeds" and "bandits." The sen
ators at Washington who obey the will
of the people and stand for Ameri
canism when It needs straightforward
assertion are bowled over as "Jlngolsts"
nd "fire-eaters;" Cleveland Is parad
ed, In season and out of season, as the
great modern model and guide; Olney
is championed as the type of all that
wan worthy In our recent diplomacy;
protection fs dubbed. a.'fetldh" rtntj a
snare; party loyalty Is treated as a
survival of Ignorance; "bosses" are pll-
lorled as thieves and robbers unless
clothed In the Mugwump raiment; and
whatsoever In any direction appeals to
the admiration of a considerable pre
ponderance of our citizenship Is at once
pounced upon, sneered at, ridiculed
and, If possible, made to look common
and Inferior. In short, tho whole aim
seems to be to find out what the peo
ple think nnd then look a whole lot
wiser than they.
Of course, It Is all a colossal hum
bug; but how perfect a humbug It 1st
And how many there arc who are
taken In by It!
We still bellevo that Mr. Cleveland
deserved better of General Weyler.
Tlie Correct View.
An Interesting opinion has been hand
ed down by Judge Wlllson, of Philadel
phia, In relation to the right of way
question as between bicycles and
heavier vehicles. The facts In the case
were these; One Thomas Taylor was
riding on a bicycle home from work.
He occupied the middle of the street,
using the paved ppace between the
street car tracks. He was going In the
direction that the street cars run, when
a cart drawn by a horse approached
over the same course from an opposlto
direction. Taylor Imagined It to be the
cart driver's duty to turn aside, and
kept straight ahead. There was a col
lision; Taylor was hurt, his wheel was
broken and he sued tho cart driver for
damages.
Taylor claimed that a city ordinance
In Philadelphia specified that when a
draymandrlvlngbetween the car tracks
is moving in the direction In which the
streets cars run, he Is to have the right
of way over a drayman coming In the
opposite direction. Judge Willson held
that this ordinance has no application
to bicycles. Continuing, he said:
Tho experience of, almost every one em
phasizes tho Importance of proper anl
reaHonablo regulations for the protection
of the many thousands of people who use
tho modern vehicle known as the bicyclo.
At the same time it is also to be borne in
mind that that vehicle is much lighter and
more under tho control of Us rider than
ehlcles of the other sort, which are
drawn by horses. In many cases, there
fore, It is tho duty of the rider of tho bi
cyclo to regulate his courso and to make
concessions, which posslb'.y the driver of
a vehicle of burden ordinarily would not
be obliged to do, In this particular It Is
quite evident that the plaintiff, under tho
notion that ho had a right to compel me
driver of tho cart to leave the track In
order to give to him a free and unobstruct
ed passage, remained In his onward course
so long that tho collision which occurred
was unavoidable. In this ho was at fault:
he brought the consequences upon himself
by his own folly. In our Judgment tnero
was nothing in the circumstances of the
case or in his duty which required the
diivor of the cart to leave tho track to
make room for the plaintiff.
This Is manifestly a sensible ruling.
Tho difference between the bicycle and
any other known vehicle Is very mater
ial In respect to the fact that It Is or
should always be, under tho rider's im
mediate control. Tho blcyclf rider
supplies his own motive power, which
can be applied or discontinued at will;
his wheel Is or ought to bo equipped
with brakes capable of stopping the
machine within a very small distance,
and If under these clicumstances ho is
unwilling to make reasonable conces
sions to mote clumsy vehicles less re
sponsive to their drivers' command,
then he ought to suffer the consequen
ces. The- wheel Is a splendid Institu
tion, but In the Immortal words of the
poet, "there aie other pebbles on the
beach."
A Necessary Step.
The amendments which have been
made in the senate committee on in
terstate commeico to the Pornker
"pooling" bill strongly jecommend that
measure to public favor. In these
amendments, "pooling" contracts are
limited In duration to four years and
are not to be binding until ratified by
tne interstate commeico commission.
That commission. In fact, Is vested
with supervisory .powers ovr the
whola question of iates and may, upon
the written complaint of the tiubstan
tlal citizens of any community and
after caieful inquiry, require the tall-
load companies to make reasonable
modifications.
Thete piovislons have a tendency to
inciease the importance of appoint
ments to tho inteistate commerce com
mission, and they will therefore be op
posed by that class ot persons who
cherish tho hallucination that this
commission Is "owned by the rail
roads." Tho more intelligent view Is
likely to ptevall, however, that the
placing of safeguards In such hands,
which arc lesponslblo thiough presi
dent and congress to tho people, Is dis
tinctly piefeiablo to the utter absence
of checks upon the "pooling" priv
ilege. It Is conceivable that now and
then a member of the Interstate com
mission, appointed In good faith,
might sell out to the railroads, al
though wo have never seen evidence
that this has happened yet; but It Is
Inconceivable that so long as the pow
er of appointment jests with the pres
ident of the United State3, n major
ity of this commission could long re
main Indifferent to the real interests
of shippers. The whole tendency of
their environment would, it seems to
us, he In tho diiectlon of anxiety to
pievent the practice of unfairness by
the lallroads; and a power of super
vision ot "pooling" restrictions vested
In it would be as likely to result sat
isfactorily to the public as would such
power vested anywhere else.
That under suitable rcstilctlnns the
granting by congress to tho railways
of the country of the right to combine
for the equalization and stabilization
of rates Is necessary to a return of
business prorperlty must he admitted
by every close student of business prob
lems. Uncertainty ns to tariffs is not
more potent in demoralizing produc
tion than Is the prevalent uncertainty
us to the future of freight ehaiges.
With one railroad quoting one into to
one shipper and another rate to anoth
er shipper for nn equal service; or with
two or more railroads lighting for busi
ness either by open cuts, or secret re
bates or both, a condition is present
ed absolutely unsettling to commerce,
and bound until coirected to work mis
chief. "Pooling" must be legalized;
hut It must be legalized upon tetms
which will protect tho business pub
lic asalnet Injustice,
General Grosvenor and other mem
bers of congress who 'aro on tenns of
Intimacy with the president assert that
tho latter has .plans calculated to
causo Spain to "consent to a condition
of affairs In Cuba which will amount
to practical Independence." Therefore
he does not wish congress to force mat
ters. Wo will wo-tccr a pippin that
those plans will fall and that the only
way to get the Spaniard out of Cuba
after all will bo to kick him out a feat
that should have been performed un
derrAmorlean auspices years ago.
It Is useless for the Democratic party
in any portion of tho United States to
try to shut Its eyes to tho Chicago
platform. Free silver and miscellane
ous revolution are the yet binding
Democratic creed. Even If the Demo
cratic lenders In local campaigns shall
pretend to forget this, the peoplo will
not,
The present Supremo court of tho
United States Is evidently of the mind
that the masses have yet some rights
which the great corporations are bound
to respect. Its latest Interpretation of
the Interstate commerce law In respect
to discriminating rates Is most whole
some and opportune.
The nerve of the Powers In "sicking"
the sultan on Greece and then yanking
him off Just as he was working up an
appetite for spoils Justifies all that Is
said In derision of It. It would serve
the Powers aa they deserve If Turkey
were to notify them severally and col
lectively to go to.
Spain noisily reiterates that 3he will
not sell Cuba, We are not aware that
she has been asked to. As the case
stands, Cuba doesn't appear to bo
Spain's to sell.
M(;KinI?y Is Doing
the Best fie Can
"Penn," in Philadelphia Bulletin.
Mr. Wanamaker's speech on the political
situation In Pennsylvania and throughout
the country has been productive of much
mora private comment than the newspa
pers, as a rule, have printed. In Its stric
tures on tho conditions prevailing In the
state It Is pronounced by all dibpasslon
ate observers of the trend ot events to be
well-grounded; but In Its 30Tie.hat sur
prising disposition to Incite dissatisfaction
with the McKlnley administration, the be
lief Is that Its points aro not so well
taken, when considered either as business
criticism or political Judgment. Not u fow
of those who ordinarily havo much faith
in tho great merchant's judgment aro con
strained to believe that he was not alto
gether Just In the tone and character of
the speech when he declared that tho
people, "betrayed and disheartened, would
no longer havo faith In the party, and
would turn to any leadership that offers
better times."
Tho opln(pn of politicians Is that he
makes a mistake In an attitude ot distrust
and criticism toward the administration
at Washington. They look at the question
entirely from the assumption that It Is
his Intention to lecop up his light on Sen
ator Quay, as ho has declared he will, un
til he wins, and they cannot understand
why he should, apparently, go out of his
way to alienate the administration and
force it to regard Quay as a special pro
tector of Its Interests In Pennsylvania.
They contend that It Is Wana.-naker's true
interest in Pennsylvania polities to keep
Quay nnd tho ndmlnlstratiuii apart, and
thai his speech will have n strong tenden
cy to produce prcisely tho opposite effect.
But dismissing the polltlcil phase of the
question for tho moment, and looking at
Mr. Wanamaker's complaint ot tardiness
and of lack of results on the part of tho
McKlnley administration, Is It Justifiable
and fairly put as a business criticism? In
the first place, McKlnley has boon in of
fice only two and a half months, or Just
eighty days. But tho cx-postmasler-gcn-eral,
notwithstanding his own exper'ence
In the Inner workings of a new rdiMrlr
tr.ition Just getting on Its foot, declares
that the business invpiovomtnt expected
to follow the advent of McKlnley has not
yet come, and that tho tide may soon set
against the Republican party In conse
quence. Will he bo able, however, to point
to any other administration which has
ever been more prompt to deal with an
ugly sltuatlcn left to It us a legacy fiom
Its predecessor? He will find not one, not
even Lincoln's, which waited four m mths
beforo It had congress In session to meet
the gravest crisis of modern times.
The fact Is that the administration has
acted with unusual celerity. It had con
gress In session within a fortnight of the
Inauguration; a tariff bill was actually
flamed for the most part by tho ,'ays.'id
means committee In advance of tho ses
sion; It was propelled through tho house
with the massive encigy ot Tom Reed be
hind It, and It was In tho senate within
less than thirty days. No ither legislative
performance on so largo a scale has ever
before been seen in Washington conducted
with such promptness. Nor has any tar
iff bill In many years reached tho stage to
which tho present one has thus far ad
vanced In tho senate In a little more than
sixty days. I am not discussing the point
whether the bill as a remedy Is or is not
tho right one, but simply i-.owlng a a
matter of Just comment that a new tariff.
being a promise McKlnley nnd his party
made as the very first pledgo they would
redeem, they have up to date gone about
Its fulfilment with exceptional rapidity. Of
course, If the tariff revised is not 'ha rem
edy, then Mr. Wanamaker's point that
monetary legislation has not been framed
Is well taken. But the tariff, as, the locord
of the campaign will clearly show, was to
tako precedence when the panacea should
be applied; and with tho extreme difficulty
of getting the tariff through the senate by
a margin of one or two votes, It has nt no
time been reasonably expected that h cur
rency bill could be yoked with It without
killing both. That Is whero Mr Wana
maker's argument Is regarded by sorr.o
careful and practical reasoncrs ns espe
cially weak, untimely and unnecessarily
embarrassing to tho admlnlstiatlon.
The truth seems to be that all these
great periods of financial and trado de
pression must run their course. When tho
events of the spring and summer ot jJ
ushered In the storm of which the clouds
still hang In tho skies, tho late President
Roberts, of .the Pennsylvania railroad,
was one of tho first who saw that It was
out of the ordinary, nnd he predicted that
It would probably be from four to five
years beforo we would again seo daylight.
Four to five years Is, Indeed, tho duration
of tJe effects ot a convulsion the season of
"hard times" before the lein klne aro suc
ceeded by tho fat klne. The panlo of 1S37
lasted In Its Immediate consequences Kr
five years, despite all that either Vun
Buren or Tyler could do to force tho re
turn of better conditions. The effects of
the convulsions of 1857 had not entirely
disappeared at the outbieak of the Civil
War, or when Mr. Wanamaker was Just
stai ting out In business. Jay Cooke failed
In September. 1873, and crash after crash
followed with five years of Greenback agl
tatlon, strikes and riots beforo the wheat
crops were kissed by tho golden suns of
1879. It Is now Just four years since the
collapse of railroad corporations and
banks ushered In the perioral season of
distress or stagnation that cornea about
once In every twenty years, as regularly
qb the laws of nuturo change the seasons,
With four years of murky conditions be
hind us, theie is strong ground, reason
ing from analogy, for the bellof that tho
woist Is over and that the blue skies are
not far off, since we have begun to got
within slzht of what hitherto has been
the time limit of these depressions. Men
with calm Intellects like the lato President
Roberts and guided by tho limp of expert
ence have had no thought of a bound or
a Jump or a' boom; they lme been sat-
Isfled that things havo bean kept from
going to. the worse, and have looked only
for a transition by easy stages In a grad
ual climb up the hill again, and they aro
Inclined to believe that sonvs climbing has
been done stneo tho 4th of March toward
safo and solid ground.
So far as I can .earn, Mr, Wanamaker's
forebodings of unpleasant possibilities are
very far from being generally shared. The
dominant feeling hereabouts today Is that
McKlnley'B administration has done all
that could bo reasonably expected of It,
nnd that It Is entitled to a fair trial In
deed, to perhaps more than usually is
given an administration In Its first year,
by reason this tlmo of tho peculiar out
look In tho senate. There have been no
breaks, blunders or foolish collisions on
Its part, but a steady movement In tho
right direction, and even tho Democrats
both wings of them have, compartlvely
speaking, been singularly free ot the Im
patient or brutal criticism which usually
clouds the white houso with a new execu
tive feeling his way along the rough edges.
WOMAN sirrniAGE.
How It tins Grown Into INivor With
in Sixty Years.
Sixty years ago women could not
vote anywhere. In 1846 Kentucky,
gave school suffrage to widows. In
1861 Kanpas gave it no all women. In
1869 England gave municipal suffrage
to single women and widows, and Wyo
ming gave full suffrage to all women.
School suffrage vrae granted In 1875 by
Michigan and Minnesota, In 1876 by
Colorado, In 1878 by New Hampshire
and Oregon, In 1879 by Massachusetts,
In 1880 by New York and Vermont. In
1881 municipal suffrage was extended
to the single women and widows of
Scotland. Nebraska gave Bohoot suff
rage In 1883, and Wisconsin In 1885.
In 1886 school suffrage was given In
Washington and municipal suffrage to
single women and widows in New
Brunswick and Ontario. In 1S87 mu
nicipal suffrage was extended to all
women In Kansas, and school suffrage
In North and South Dakota, Montana,
Arizona and New Jersey. In 1891
school suffrage was granted In Illinois.
In 1892 municipal suffrage waa. extend
ed to single women and widows In the
province of Quebec. In 1893 school
suffrage was granted In Connecticut,
and full suffrage In Colorado and New
Zealand. In 1894 school suffrage was
granted In Ohio, a limited municipal
Euffrage In Iowa, and parish and dis
trict suffrage in Kngland to women
both marled and single. In 1895 full
euffrage was granted In South Aus
tralia to women, both married and
single. In 1896 full suffrage was
granted to women In Utah and Idaho.
MANIFEST DESTINi'.
Alex. D. Anderson, In Washington Post.
In 1S00 Spain possessed over two-thirds
of tho present area of the United States,
all Mexico and Central America, and all
of South America except Brazil and tho
Oulanos; also tho more Important of the
West India. Islands. Her American pos
sessions In square miles were as follows:
In tho United States 2.19S 003
Mexico 747.900
Central America 180,750
In South America 4,071,978
In the West Indies 07,815
Total 7.263,505
This Is a total area doublo that of all
Europe. The Spanish possessions In the
United States were of three classc?
Louisiana Territory, New Spain, and tho
FloVIdas.
Louisiana territory, possessed by tho
French for nearly a century, w as, in 1763,
ceded to Spalp and held by the latter
until 1800, when she receded It to France.
In 1503 It was purchased by tho United
States. It comprised all the states west
of the Mississippi, except those acquired
from Mexico and tho republic of Texas.
New . Spain comprised Mexico and
tho acquisitions from Mexico Just
mentioned, viz., California, Nevada, Utan,
Arizona. New Mexico, Texas, Indian Ter
ritory, OKlahoma, ana most or Colorado.
It was under Snanlsh rule for lust 300
years, or from mi, the dutf of tho con
quest of Mexico by Cortez, until 1821, when
Mexico became an Independent republic
It was known as tho kingdom ot New
Spain, and was governed by viceroys. It
Is truly a. marvelous country, as shown In
Its yield of precious metals. Its total pro
duct of gold and silver from 1521 to ISM,
Inclusive, has been over $6,000,000,000. Add
to this enormous sum tho products of gold
and silver In Peru and other parts of
South and Central America, and one ctm
get some Idea of the Importance of tho
country so long ruled by Spain.
But all this Is a matter of the past, for
today Spain has no remaining foothold
upon tho American continent, and none
in the surrounding Islands except Cuba
and Porto Rico. Out of the territory she
possessed In 1800 the United States has
more than doubled Its area, and eighteen
sister rerubllcs have been created, viz.,
Mexico, five In Central America, ten In
South America, and two In the West In
dies. It Is safe to predict that two more
will soon be added to the list. America
for American republics Is manifest des
tiny. PROSPERITY NOT FA It OFF.
From the New England Homestead.
If the averago wholesalo prices of
93 leading commodities at New York In the
very prosperous period of January, 1, be
expressed by 100, the bed rock touched on
July 1, '96, is expressed by 66, but for April
of this season they show an advance of
12 per cent, from that low point to 74. That
this Improvement has been held In spite
of tariff and other uncertainties, Is prom
ising evidence of returning good times.
People are accustomed to sneak of the
summer of 1S92 as a period ot great pros
perlty, and will be rejoiced as well as sur
prised to know that commodity prices on
April 1 wero within 10 per cent, of the val
ues of July 1, '92. Dun's repot t shows that
during this April wholesalers did within 10
per cent, of as much business as In tho like
month duilng tho spring boom of 1892.
This is for cities east of the Rockies,
whereas tho improvement In prices, agri
culture and business on the whole Pacltic
coast Is general and apparently permanent.
These facts certainly look as though the
country was within 10 per cent, of pros
perity! '
GOOD ADVICE.
From tho Washington Star.
Cuba's case Is virtually won. Republi
cans and Democrats alike are for Cuba.
There aro some differences as to details,
but none ns to the general proposition It
self. All that Is needed now Is patience,
and the keeping of domestic party politics
out of a question truly national and pure
ly patriotic. There Is a good! man In tho
white house, and there are good men In
congress. ,
THAT IT WOULD.
Rochester Post-Express.
It the Morgan resolution could have been
submitted to a popular vote It would havo
been adopted by a practically unanimous
vote.
Idler
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See our new line of them.
Our Alteration Sale is
still going on. We are
offering great bargains in
Lamps, Dinner Sets, Toi
let Sets and Fancy Brlc-a-
Brae.
TIE CLEMONS, FERBER
MALLEY CO.,
422 Lackawanna Avenue.
AWN
eE
AIE
"SPRING
Suppose you try a new line of economy this
season and pay us for your New Suit just half what
you expect to pay the Merchant Tailor.
Can't wear Ready-IYlade Clothes?
You can if they are the Boyle and Mucklow
kind. Try it. Scores of the best dressed men in
town wear them and they like them.
BOYLE & MUCKLOW,
416 LACKAWANNA AVENUE,
Lewis ReMly
& DaivieSo
ALWAYS BUSY.
Wo nro selling ono thousand pairs of men's
shoes. Good altle for $3.50. Our price
whllo they last w ill be ?2.C0. All the toes, A
to K.
Best Leathers,
Best Makes.
114416 WyOTlig Ave,
Telephone 2152.
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Yuin-Yuni slugs, but where she Is to chooo
her wedding luvltutlons lml't mentioned.
When she In Informed what an uii-to-dato as
sortment of various klndx of Invitation, an
nouncements, wedding mid nt home cards,
etc., we lutvo on bund, she rim lie eiwlly suit
ed fium our choice nnd ftistlilloim Mock, i;v
erythlng neat nnd itu, nly. We are conntniit
ly adding new and desirable st les anil shaded
of wrltlmr papers which you flioiilil nt leant
see. Our lino nfnfllco supply win nuer more
complete, nnd the mimo euu be said of our
tvpowrltern mid driiiuhtmrnin'M Mippllcn.
When In needofnnthlnir lu odlco supplies
call ut up nnd wo will be only delighted to bo
ut yournerlco.
Rey molds Bros
Jermvn HtutlonorB and Ihigrnvem, 130
'Wyoming Avenue, Hcrunton, Pit.
" Telephone aU'J2.
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BAZAAR.
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YOU .
pooiy
HENRY BEL1N, JR.,
General Agent for the Wyoming
District for
DUPONT'S
POWDER
Mining, DlastIug,Sportlnir, BmokoloM
and tho Itepauno Chemical
Company's
BIGH EXPLOSIVES.
Earety Fuse, Cops and Exploders.
Rooms 212, 213 and 211 Commonwealth
Building, Scranton.
AGENCIES:
TIIOS, FORD, - - '
JOHN D. SMITH 4 SON,
E. W. MULLIGAN,
nttston
riy mouth
Willtes-Barro
SCREEN BTOES
AP WINDOWS
a
THE TLACE TO BUY IS WHERE YOU
CAN FIND THE LARGEST ASSORT
MENT. OUR ASSORTMENT OF
SCREEN DOORS:
COMMON,
FANCY,
FANCY SPINDLE,
PIANO FINISH,
HARDWOOD,
LANDSCAPE,
In
VA11
Sizes
TRICES RANGING FROM 7fic. TO" 52.00,
COMl'LETE, WITH HINGES. WINDOW
SCREENS IN ABOUT 15 STYLES AND
SIZES. WE LEAVE IT TO YOU, HAVE
WE THE ASSORTMENT?
FOOIE k SUEAE CO.
ML PLEASANT
COAL
AT RETAIL.
Coal of the best quality for domestic ub
and of all sizes, Including Buckwheat and
Ulrdseyc, delivered In any part of the city
at tho lowest t'rlco
Orders received nt the Ofllce, first floor,
Commonwealth building, room No 8;
telephone No. 2&M or ut the mine, tele
phone No. 272. will be promptly attended
to. Dialers supplied ut the mine.
WM. T. SI
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