jnuimuiii.wuifWfiSi i .immt& ' ' "' W " .i -IT W "nWMl1 THE SORAtfTOtf TRIBUNE-FRIDAY MOKKiyGK JULY 2, 1897, I llj nj Weekly. No Bun1r JMItlon. y The Tribune Publlshlnc Company. WILLIAM CONNULL, l'rcsldonU cn 1 ctk ltrprrocnUdrm rnANK a onw co. noom 41, Tribune IlulMlni;, New Yorlt Cltr. SUMSCKIPTIOtf PKICIll Dally go cent a month. Weekly $i.oo a year. 1MIIUD AT Tn TOSTOmm AT BORANTOW. PA.. CIC0KD-CLAS3 II AH. MATTER. TEN PAGES. SCRANTON, JULY 2. 1897. Uccauso Senator Hanna said In his speech nt Toledo In reference to the civil service laws tlmt many persons now In Washington regard as unjust President Cleveland's manipulation of them to foist Democratic appointees upon the succeeding Republican ad ministration, the senbltlvo Mugwumps no In a tremor. They are calling Hanna a spoilsman and arc hurling anathemas nt him. Yet didn't he speak the truth? To the Chief of Police. There Is an ordinance on the books forbidding wheelmen to ride on the sidewalks. Why Is It not enforced? The streets of Scranton, with very few exceptions, am ample to accom modate all those who ride bicycles. The sidewalks, us a rule, aro so narrow that If the wheelmen arc permitted to pre-empt them, pedestrians will neces sarily have either to take to the gut tors or dart furtively through the back alleys. It Is true that the race of pedestrians is fast disappearing. Only a few of us arc left. We don't want much. We don't expect much. Just a crumb of consideration will do. The wheelmen can take the roads, tho crossings nnd the open spaces generally. But please, Mr. Robllng, let us poor pedestrians have an occasional chance to use the sidewalks. "I would," writes a correspondent of the Sun, "like to see a chair of Ameri can patiiotlsm endowed In every col lege in the land." There uro not as many members of the present facul ties of our colleges who could accept tibly fill such a chair as there ought to lie. Tho Legislature. If the legislature had only got down to a serious and sober business-like mood earlier In the session, It would have spared Itself much opprobrium. It wasn't half so bad a legislature In actual performance as It was In sur face symptoms. Tho quarrel over tho benatorship divided It at the very be ginning, suspicions were engendered, leadership was distrusted, and until Klern necessity toward the last whipped it In line, It acted until that time like u rudderless ship or an uncommanded army, frittering Its energies away, tumbling over Itself and actually do ing nothing. Individually tho character and ability of the session were above tho average. Jlost of tho men In It were men of standing at homo and comparatively few were drones or rogues. But for the confusion into which factionalism drew It It would doubtless have made a new record for Intelligence and In dustry. The clrcumstanco supplies a forcible lesson that to accomplish cred itable results It Is necessary these days to have leaders and leadership, and the will of the leader must bo obeyed. Be cause It refused to follow leadership and scattered out like a flock of sheep minus the bell, whether the legislature which adjourned yesterday earned a contempt from the people which It might easily have averted and fell Into bogs that were dug for it by Its own obstinacy. California has passed a law which will take effect Jan. 1, 1000, making compulbory tho use of wide tires on heavy vehicles. A state may with pro pticty do this after It has spent Its good money to Improve the roads. "Rotation in Legislative Office. The Wllkes-Barre Times makes a strong argument against rotation In legislative ofllce, by pointing out that both at Harrlsburg und at Washington ahzerne county has suffered because of tho lack of experienced representa tives. The practice In Luzerne coun ty, especially as to the congressmen, has been to turn the legislative olllces over Into new hands every two or four years, on the principle that political honors should be passed uround. Thus by the time a member has learned the ropes and gets In position to put his knowledge of tho way3 and mean's to effective use for hla constituents, the latter usually proceed to spoil the cli max and sacrifice their own interests by replacing him with a fresh and unsophisticated man. To use our con temporary's language and illustration: Half a dozou bills have been Introduced In us many different sessions of congress appropriating various sums for a public building in Wlllces-Barre. Every possible urgarpout has been. In favor of theso measuren. Tho age, sJzo and Importance of-our city entitles us to a federal build ing. The government needs It by reason of tho amount of us direct business trans acted In our territory. Yet these various bills have never succeeded In getting fur ther than one branch of tho national leg islature. Other towns of less size and consequence have meanwhile received large appropriations for buildings for which thero was much less need. Yet wo continue on In the same old rut, stupidly, blindly making th election of a congress, man so difficult and expensive and threat, enlng that his canvas for a renomlnatlon and election Bhall be equally severe, or refusing him a hearing altogether, that he Is frightened oft from a second effort. What s most needed In the Twelfth Con. gre'sslonal district of Pennsylvania Is a little more business sagacity and political f6reslght. Wo should seloct somo good man of ublllty and leisure, one who Is possessed of some means and lots of en ergy, nominate him without effort on his part nnd eloct him without compelling him to surrender a king's ransom for tho questionable honor and keep him In con gross pntll ha gets results, whother It take, thro or tlvo or ten terms. When we do this, we will cut some figure at Harris, burg nnd Washington, but not before. We havo no expectation that argu ment llko this will produce any change In the situation, yet the advice offered by the Times Is sound. When a mem ber of a legislative body has dono good work and behaved himself, ho should to re-elected If ho wants to be, and that re-election shouldn't cost him so much its to drive hint Into bankruptcy or dishonesty. Length of service counts nine points whoro natural ability counts only one. The men who Rovcrn leRlslntlon nrc men who have been re tained In ofllce by their constituents term after term until they have at tained the broad experience requisite In the successful parliamentary leader. These remarks, wo may add, nro not offered with an eye to any particular Individual or any particular district; they arc simply the deductions of com mon sense. Over In Canada tho senate Is com posed of members who nro appointed for life. The body Is now Conserva tive, although the housoof representa tives nnd tho popular majority nro Lib oral. Tho other day the senate killed a government measure nnd now tho Liberals talk of abolishing It. Things at Ottawa nrc In a pretty muss, but It all goes to show that tho life tenure plan Is Incompatible with popular gov ernment. Lackawanna at Harrlsburg. Wo have henrd It raid that Lnckannnnv county la more successful than Luzerne In securing state appropriations for her chnrltlfs, particularly her hospitals. This year at least such Is not the caso as can bo seen In the following summary of tho money appropriated for tho hospitals In tho two counties by tho present legisla ture: LUZDUNH COUNTY. I'lttston J12.M0 Wllkes-liarro J2-,0?0 Hazlcton flO.OOO 577,000 LACKAWANNA COUNTV. Scranton fW.OnO Webt Fide, Scranton fi.OUO Carbondalo 510.C00 $1(1,000 Differerce In favor of Luzerne $31,000 Major Roberts asked for $70,000 for tho Wllkes-Harro hospital and succeeded m gottlng mora than cne-thlrd of It, whilo Lackawanna, nsked for JISO.000 and got only a sixth of it Luzerne got about dou Me tho percentage of Larkawanna of what was applied for. In tho nature of things thli yenr It was not possible that any liberality should have been shown lti any direction. Wilkes-Barro Times. The fair wny to go at this thing is not to contrast what was asked for with what was got, but to compare what was got this session with what was se cured two years ago. On this basis the account stands: LURBHNi: COUNTY. 1803. rittston JH.OM Wllkes-Barre 23,000 Hazleton 48,000 LACKAWANNA COUNTY, 1S9j. Scranton ?r.000 West Side. Scranton -1,000 Carbondalo 12,000 1R97. $12,p0 23,000 40.000 1S97. $30,000 (i.000 10,0110 Thus, while Luzerne's allotment was smaller this session by $10,000 than It was two years ago, Lackawanna's was $3,000 larger. This was one of tho very few counties In the state which received more state aid for charities from the session of '07 than from the sesaiaa of "93. Announcement Is made by the New York Sun that not within the last fif teen years has Its circulation been so great as It is now. Not within tho last fifteen years has the Sun better merit ed this prospeiity. It Is Indeed an In stitution of which Americans should feci sroud. The New Libel Law. Tno vital clause In the new libel law Is that which specifies that "In any civil action for libel the plea of Justi fication shall be accepted as adequate when It Is pleaded by tho defendant that tho publication Is substantially true in every material respect and 13 proper for public Information; and If such a plea shall be established to tho satisfaction of tho court nnd Jury, there shall be no recovery. In no civil ac tion for libel shall damnges be awarded beyond Just restriction for Injury ac tually sustained." As the Philadelphia Times explains: "a person who has been Injured by a li bellous publication Is entitled to resti tution for any Injury actually sustain ed, but he Is entitled to no more. Tho punishment for the wrongful act Is provided In tho criminal proceedings. It Is under this wrongful system of punitive and vindictive damages that the shyster lawyers have flourished, Inciting people of no character or repu tation to Institute suits against news papers for preposterous damages for Imaginary wrongs. The new act cuts all this practice up by the roots and places the law of libel, In this respect, upon tho baEls of Justice and tight." Heretofore there were two form of punishment for one offense; criminal action involving line or Imprisonment or both, and also punitive damages. The putting of the publishing business on a footing with other defendants in court Involves no Injustice; there Is no lessening of the Just restraint of tho law upon wanton and malicious libel. As tho days go by It becomes clenr that Dlngley's was the proper bill, und that Dlngley's bill It will Anally be, despite tho linkers In tho senat. Sensible and to the Point. Because; In the city of Reading, In an examination of grammar school pupils preparatory to their admission to the high school, the following questions were recently asked, a chorus of de rision is arising In boine of our con temporaries: Dtbcrlbu In detail tho nomination and election of e. president of tho .United States. State In outline tho topics treated In tho dlffeitnt sections of Aitlclo I. of tho con stitution of tho United States. What is meant by speclo payments? When last suspended? Why? When re sumed? Why? AVhat Is money? Is a live-dollar bill real money? Why7 Is confederate paper money of any valuo now? Why? What gives value to puper money? How dtd Union victories and defeats affect tho price of tho gold dollar in paper currency? Reasons? What ad vantage has paper money over coins? Discuss tho silver question. Treat two of thero topics: MoKlnloy bill, reciprocity, Wilson bill, Dlngloy hill. Factory system. Labor strikes. Discuss two of these topics (u) United States and the Hawaiian republic. Should It be an nexed to the United States? Why? lb) Australian ballot system, (c) Arbitration treaty with England. Stato conditions that ted to the adoption of tho thirteenth amendment to tho con stitution of the Utdted States and Its pro. visions. Seme fourteenth amendment. Same fifteenth amendment. State what you know of any additional amendments advocated in recent years. It Is, for exnmple, tho belief of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle that theeo questions "merely Indicate that a vust cramming experiment has been attempted. Children of from fif teen to seventeen years old who could 'pns' such an examination would bo prodigies fit to enlighten congressmen nnd editors. Perhaps Heading has an ambition hat her youth Bhall be fully equipped for shaping tho destinies of the nation. Certainly, a good start has been made so far as laying out the programme Is concerned, but probably a brilliant success will not bo record ed when tho returns nre all In, Mean while It may bo depended upon that many a young bjoln In Heading Is weary from Its groping among subjects that might well tax tho capabilities of maturo nnd disciplined 'minds." We do not share our Rochester ex change's opinion upon this matter. Tho questions Impress us as being In no sense more difficult nnd much more practical than the old-fnshloned ex amination questions which dealt chiefly with trigonometry, the map terms of 1'atngonla, Greek, Latin and nnclent history. If young brains In Reading or elsewhere nro to be wearied at all by examination questions wo cannot see why they should not b wearied with subjects likely to fit in with their prob able destiny when grown older, rather than with tommyrot never heard outsldo the school room. It Is not to bo expected that tho opinions of grammar school pu pils will bo final on tho questions propounded above, but the study of them nffords Just ns good discipline as the. study of much of the pointless tiuck that encumbers tho old-fogy cur riculum, and Is moreover calculated to be of some advantage In after life. When a similar lino of studies was Introduced in tho Scranton schools by Superintendent Howell two years ago there was In certain quarters the same attempt to bo funny; but wo aro pleas ed to observe that this has since ceased. The fact Is dawning upon the public mind that It Is quite ns desirable to have school children educated concern ing every-day problems and duties as It Is to have them stuffed full of a parrot-like memorization of text-book stuff of which their brains have to be summarily unloaded as soon as they complete tho school course. An "American Girl" writes to La- bouchere's London Truth in protest against the kind of peers now being turned out by the knighthood works at Windsor castle. Most of those slated for titles are married, whereas the de mand, especially in America, Is for more unmarried peers, peers who are eligible as husbands for our American heiresses. "American Girl" suggests to the queen that If she wants to bind the two branches of tho Anglo-Saxon family more closely together, she should choose hernext batch of knights, barons and carls from among the spendthrift guardsmen, pauper diplo mats and penniless younger sons of the noble families of Britain, thus opening up new matrimonial opportunities and facilitating English ownership of American property. If Victoria is the thrifty woman report says she Is, this wise advice will not fall on unheeding ears. NOT JUST TO OUR SENATORS. From the Lancaster New Era. The average man It prone to reach con clusions that aro not always Justified by tho facts of tho case. Especlully Is thl3 the case In questions whtro his personal Interests or political feelings nro con cerned. If clthet happens to bo touched unfavorably or disagreeably, ho Is not slow to express hla dissatisfaction, with out giving even a single thought to the underlying motives that may havo called forth tho unsatUfactory action. This Is moro especially tho case in political af fairs. Nowadays every man Is con sciously, or unconsciously, more or less of a politician. ISy this wo mean ho is apt to havo his particular views on most of tho political Usue3 of the day, and us a mntter of coutso his views aro rl?ht, whllo all others are likely to be wrong. Just now Pennsylvania's representatives In tho United States senato are being subjected to a. hot Are of criticism. This criticism is directed, not so much to what they do, as to what they fall to accom plish. With tho ordinary fallings and shortcomings of these men wo have noth ing to do, but we do think that at tho piesent time they nre visited with an un deserved amount of harsh criticism. o Have theso critics and assailants ever paused to reflect that the position of the senators from Pennsylvania on the pres ent tariff question is. more troublesomo and perplexing than that of senators from any other htato in tho Union? Perhaps not, nnd yet such is the fant. Thero nre other states that aro as Btrongly wedded to the doctrine of protection ns Pennsyl vania Is, but there Is not one In the whole sisterhood tliut bus so many til verso Interests to be cared for. Some of tho New England states have tho cotton nnd woolen Industries, which they strive to havo cared for in the rearrangement of the new tariff. Louisiana has sugar and so has California. South Carolina and Louisiana have ilco; 'Maine and Michigan and Oregon and Georgia have lumber: California has dried fruits; New York and some of tho western states have the dairy Interest; Kansas and Illinois have corn and wheat: a dozen states havo to bacco. All tho test have one, peihaps several, other Industries, nnd form com binations that will givo them what they want. Rut how Is It with Pennsylvania? Her interests aro more dtverjlfled than those of any other state perhaps more than thoso of any other half doicn.Look at her; look at her lion and steel Interests; look nt her great glpss factories; she Is Inter ested in lumber; her coil Industry far ex. ceeds that of any other state; the Is In the dairy business; she grows great crops of tho ceieals, wheat and corn, besides other grains; look at her ship building Interests on tho Delaware; In tobacco growing and tho claar Industry she leads all her northern sisters; she has many cotton and woolen mills, and her great carpet manufactories glvo her a close in terest In wool. AVhat other common wealth can make such a showing? She unites In herself the Industries of nearly all tho other states. Every one of these Interests looks to her United States sen ators to bo taken care of. Senators from other states have a single industry to look after, ours have a dozen, and all aro Important ones. Then, too, she has on her soil tho manufacturer as well as tho producer of raw materials. Theso interests are In many cases far from identical; In feet, generally they aro di rectly opposed to caeh other. Tho sheep owner wonts u high tariff on wool, while the manufacturer of carpets and woolen cloths a low one or none at all. The iron and steel manufacturer asks for protec tion to his products, while tho railroads and users of machinery demand low cus tom rates on manufactured Iron and steel goods. Not cue of all theso interests cares a snap for any other. Pure sel fishness controls every one of them. D.ich ono of them strives to make Its own point, utterly Indifferent to the demands or needs of every other. AH these varying Industries have gone to Washington and have Interceded with our senator for what they want. The maker of iron wants a low duty or none at all on foreign ores; the domestlo Iron ore produrer wants a prohibitory tariff on the samo material. Roth cannot bo oc commedated. It resolves Itself Jnto a question of give and tako nnd then our senators aro denounced as having voted In favor of tho foreign producer or agaliut the native manufacturer, as the case may be. Lot us bo reasonable; let us try to bo Just. Men cannot successfully be on both sides of a question not even UnlleJ Btntts cetintors. They must do tho best they can. They must be diplomats; they must give something to Louisiana In or der to got something for Pennsylvania, They must compromise. Interests con flict. They must be reconciled as well as they can be. Nb otio knows what thought, what planning, what labor Is required to accomplish that, nnd yet wo aro moro ready to denounce than to thank those who do It, Onco moro wo sny, let us bo reasonable. Let us try to be Just. No senators among the entlro ninety have such a hard row to hoe as our own none has (.o many Interests to look after. Often, If we know the true Inwardness of tho caso wo find fault with, we would bo disposed to pralso rather than to blame, as wo generally do, when things don't suit us. NOT I'AIK. Prom tho Byracuto Post. A number of newspapers have been criticising President McKlnley for his re cent appointment of a eon of Senator Quay to tho position of assistant quar termaster with tho rank of captain in tho army. Lieutenant Quay graduatol from Wt-st Point in 18&S and tho president's critics assert that in appointing him cap tain he was Jumped over the heads of ono hundred nnd twenty lieutenants in tho cavilry, seventy-five lieutenants In tho artillery, and seventy-eight lieuten ants In the infantry. Of this criticism It may bo said, as it Is said of much so called news, It would bo very Important If true. But In their eagerness to rebuke an assumed favoritism based on the pa ternal pull, tho critics show their Ignor anco of the factB In tho case. The appointment of Lieutenant Quay Is not to a captaincy in the line, but on the staff. Therefore he does not Jump over tho heads of any of his associates in the army. A young man who Is appoint ed to a staff position In tho quartermas ter's department Is given the rank of cap tain, but that Is tho lowest grade of com missioned ofllcer In the department. Statt appointments In the quartermaster's, pay master's nnd commissary departments aro sometimes mado from prlvato life, some times from tho regular army. President Harrison appointed his private secretary. Klljah Ha'jford, a paymaster, but he did not thereby Jump mer tho heads of any score of hundred officers of the line. Lieu tenant Quay is appointed from the line to the staff, but to tho lowest grade In the staff service In tho quartermaster's de partment. Tne young man has pioved his ability nnd worthiness, and that being so, why should ho not be appointed If the president has a vacancy to nil? The fact that he Is the son of a United States senator, a former chairman of tho Republican national committee, and one of tho leading politicians of the United States, ought not to disqualify a young man for an attractive staff appointment provided he Is competent for and worthy of the place. GROWING DIFFICULT. From Medicine and Science. The germ theory r.s first promulgated, was delightfully simple. It amounted to this: Every contcglous disease Is due to a specific germ; no microbe, no disease; eliminate the microbe, cure tho disease. This was a plain statement which all could understand, but further experience proved that exceptions wero continually cropping out, and the conditions upon which theso exceptions depended were found to bo moro and moro complex and perplexing. Of late Doctors Roux and Metschnlkoff, and the Chemist Duclaux, successor to Pasteur ns director of tho Pasteur Institute, each of them working separately, after many experiments and much study, have all come to about the same conclusion, which they have formu lated aa follows: Cases In which the mi crobe Is found but not the disease aro es pecially frequent, so that bacteriologists hae come reluctantly to recognize that not the presence of tho germ but some peculiar virulent condition of tho microbe causes tho disease. In other words, the diseased condition seems to bo common to both the gcim and the patient tho germ does not cause the malady until It itself first becomes diseased, and the pro blem which really confronts us Is to llnd out what alls the microbe. UNCLi: SAM A MODEL. From tho Hazleton Sentinel. The convention to framo a constitution for the "Commonwealth of Australia," will meet again in September, at Sydney. The 3teps preliminary to union were taken at Adelaide, before the representative!, of the different states adjourned a few weeks ago. It is of vtry great Interest to note that the Australians, when they Rought a model for their now federal gov ernment, turned to tho United States. With a view of satisfying the smaller colonies each state, no matter what Its slzo, Is to have the same representation in the senate, and not two but six mem bers. The lower house Is to bo consti tuted on a population basis. Quite In con formity with the American system of nomenclature, the two chambers aro to be called the scrate and house of repre sentatives. Again, an American prece dent was followed when It was determined to give the house tho power to Inltlato money bills. Tho convention has also en deavored to set up a l'cuorai joun 01 Ap peals, occupying a unique position similar to our Federal Supremo court. A SOU11V SPECIMEN. Prom the New York Sun. Tho Pennsylvania senato has passed an net to make voting compulsory. Anybody who believes in tho power of legisla tion to make men wise and good and at tentlvo to their duties as citizens Is ut liberty to epprove a law for compulsory voting. Hut It Is a sweet sort of citizen that has to be lugged to the polls to cast his vote, not in the fear of Clod and tho love of his country, but to escape paying a line or being shut up in the calaboose. TOLD BY THE STARS. Dnily Horoscope Drawn byAjncclnisf Tho Tribune Astrologer. Astrolabe Cast: 3.00 a. m., for Friday, July 3, 1807. H53 $$ a .ntitM itrtrn ,-, t hta rinv will relolcp. thnt tho Pennsylvania legislature adjourned yesterday, uovrioiniri. vntl' nnw rllHnnnear from tho map until tho next stato convention as sembles. AniVinn ftf ttiA Hnll Huh. some one must have stuck a peg In the toboggan slide. Lumber dealers are not great eaters, but thev usually have to pay largo board bills, Ajncclius' Advice. Do not indulge to excess In summer drinks unless some one else pays for them. TEE CLEMOHS, FERiER GOLISfflTI Hurrah, for tic Clarions- Fourth. Shifts, Shirt Waists, Collars, Belts, Neckwear, Hosiery, Gloves, Parasols, Umbrellas, Etc., Etc., can be found here in endless profusion and at prices lower than any other place in the city. POSITIVELY LAST WEEK OF GREAT MUSLIN UNDERWEAR SALE Garments at 39 cents, worth 75 cents. Garments at 59 cents, worth $1.00. Garments at 98 cents, worth $1.50. We will also include in this sale a lot of LADIES' FINE RIBBED VEST5, with crochetted and ribboned necks and shoulders, at 10 cents, or three for 25 cents. Store Closed floedayo FINLE Waist To enable us to close out otir entire line in sliort order we have cut prices to the lowest notch and will offer every Shirt Waist in stock cheaper than the cost of manu facture. Remember, we carry no low priced or trashy goods at any time, and those mentioned be low comprise the cream of the two most popular brands on the market, viz., the "King" and "Derby" Waists: One lot reduced to 69c. One lot reduced to 85c. One lot reduced to $1.00. One lot reduced to $1.39. One lot reduced to $1.50. One lot reduced to $2.00. In connection with Shirt Waists, we are showing the finest stock of Belts, and at the right prices. 510 AND 512 LACICA WANNA AVENUE Try a Trllbeee A The iloimetafle and ."roien In 4 MINUTES with the IMPROVED WHITE MOUNTAIN PUKEZEll. IJuytbe belt; tbey are the cheapest. ALLEY CO., 422 Lackawanna Avenue Y'S Special Sale of SMrt IMlf M V VMiiLiili AAWiU V O Quick Returns. JS- ls) 'njj'NiS Our Store will be Closed' BOYLE & 416 LACKAWANNA AVENUE. 11 LyT!rro r-tnrin " M" " Lewiis9 Really & Davieo ALWAYS BUSY. AMERICAN WEEK. American Shoesl for American feet. Our Fourth of July glft-KlRli CHACKEKS for the boys ou July the Mh. LEWI&REILLY&MVIES WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. SHOES. SHOES. HENRY BELIN, JR., General Agent for the Wyoming District for DUPONT'S POWDER Mining, Blasting, Sporting, Smokelesj nnd the Hepauno Ohomlcal Company's HIGH EXPLOSIVES, Safety Kuse, Caps and Exploders. Rooms 212, 213 and 214 Commonwealth Building, Scranton. AGENCIES: TIIOS, KORD, JOHN H. SMITH A SON, E. W. MULLIGAN, rittiton Plymouth Wilkes-Burra We would like to call your attention to our win dow display of Note prices. Better than all others, yet cheaper lu price. Also full, ling ok OA8 tJTOVKS. h s: " I Stoves BAZAAR; Jaily gth, ALL DAY MONDAY, JULY Sill We trust that our patrons will bear the above in mind , and attend to any purchases before that date. MUCKLOW, IMITATIONS, AHfWNCEiENIS Printed and engraved promptly at reasonable prices. The stock we use is the very best we can buy. Also Reception, Vis iting and At-Home Cards, Monograms, Addresses, Crests, etc. Rey molds Bros Hotel Jermyn Bldg, Wyoming Ave., Scranton, Pa, II PLEASANT COAL AT RETAIL. Coal of the best quality for domestlo u and of all sizes, Including Buckwheat and Blrdseye, delivered In any part .of the city; at tho lowest price Orders received at the Office, (lrst floor. Commonwealth building, room No 6; telephone No. 2624 or at the mint, tele" phone No. 772, will be promptly attended to. Dealers supplied at the mine. L T. SM mwmwm Deslde Ice Cream, hundreds of frozen des serts can be quickly and cheaply made In RUNS EASY. Freezes