THE) SCnAtfTON TIUBUNE-TUBS DAY MORNTNGr, DECEMBER 7, 189T. 4 C?e Jcrattfon riBune rubltVhcel l)lly, Kxtfiil Huneluv. by. the Tribune Publhuln Ominy, at liny louts Month. -MlMD iTTl'B rOT0rMP AT SCTUVTOX PA.. kcond-class vail mattii. AS TEN PAGES. SC'llANTON, UKCUMUKIt 7, 1S!7. In thli election contest business It might bo well to consider that, JurtidnK by the past, there will probably be a ltepubllcnn Kolund for every Demo crutio Oliver. The President ami Cuba. The president' treatment of the Cub-in problem Ir naturally the mont extensive as well an the most Interest ing poitlon of his inessuRe. It estab lishes In behalf of lilt country a cne f if foi benrnnr nmi uiudly nationo'.' such at, Is unique In the history of nation and It caps this climax or moderation by leeommendltiK nn In definite continuation of forbearanc . pcmllnR the outcome ol Spain's death bed show of penitence nnd icforni. It v an exhibition of lonp-rtiiftlnu lindness such as does Infinite nedlt to the president's heail, but one that di-spltc IiIh fconiowhut viiruo Intima tions of Intended fli uitivM In certain lat ) contliiKcnele inlscs the Inquliv whether In th" light of th- vor fnoti to which the meat aw Itself eel lilies It la :inf a tlllle ton piocraitinntln,; The piosidont's arRUment In nppnsl t on to ipcnrnltlon of Cuban li I1Ik-.--em y pienonta no new onnsldointlnns aivl has 1 een answered rotioatedly in drtall. Apait fioni the fact that eon-S:-,'f!'.', lopresentliiK the plain will of the people, went over all Huso points n ear a bo anil jot by a ptactlcallv liiinniniouM vote In both hnuc4 de cided that a leeoKiiltlon of belllReren'.y was voder the i licttmstaucm an e "CO''U Hve dutj, theie Is In the pi"d .-n i elinusslnn of thin Milution a manifest dread of consequenees which It Is be lieved a inulctlty of lu count. -y men do nut feel In equal meaiuiie. It a war th Ppaln Is In be tli" ileinler iintt either growing out of the i ls:ht of p-aich 01 by icason of our dhect In let ventian In Cuba, It would seem to matter little by whkh route It should be approached. At least one advan tage In fuvor of belllKeicncy leeognl tlon would ln that It would give th" Cubans a chance to win their own ti UKSlo beforo Spain had succeeded la laying waste to the entile Island. A pciusal of this messago ionvs the impression that a mete change !i ministry In Mmli Id has made or is likely soon to make the broad differ ence between Hell and Patadise In Cuba. If It were any man but th ptesldent of the United States who piofessed to believe this, we should say that ho was deceiving or deceived. In the niesidont's slnceilty there Is the fullest confidence. Hut his own admissions as to facts show the Im potence of his conclusion. The mes sage demonstrates between Its lines that Spain lias forfeited ftom this government as well as from Ivlllza tlnn nt Urge all tight to further tolerance In Cuba; every hour of ad ditional delay In discharging huuiau Itatlan duty is a guln for our patience nt the cot of Infinite misery amcrjj men and women and little children whose only crime Is that they asplte to that freedom which our own citizens ssocm to enjoy somewhat selfishl It is .announced that the Central Jtallroacl of New Jersey proposes soon to transfer Into pome other blanch of the service all locomotive engineers who have attained the age of 60 j-cars. Is that the age limit of a locomotive engineer's maximum usefulness and reliability? The Message In Oeneml. Apart from Its treatment of the Cuban problem the president's message coincides admirably with enlightened public opinion. Its discussion of the currency question, while not exhaust ive, Is clear. It recognizes the futil ity of attempting to sottlo off Juind a pioblem which has en gaged for years the nblest econo mists without concurrence of expert opinion. The president holds that It 5900,000,000 of outstanding credit cur rency Is to stand on a promise of gold redemption having back of It only $100, 000,000 or so in actual gold, then the executive depattment of the govern ment should by all means be clothed with ample power to protect that gold reserve. As a means to this end, con Kress Is asked to enact a law empower ing the secretary of the treasury to lelssue canceled gieenbacks only In ex change for gold, and another giving him discretional y authority to Issue In emergencies long or short-term bonds nt a low rate of Interest. The ftuther recommendations that the national banks bo nllowed to Issue notes to the face value of the bonds which they have deposited for circulation; that the tax on cltculnttng notes be reduced; thut the minimum allowable capital of national banks bo lowered to $2.",000, nnd that national banks be required to ludcem their notes In gold are In plain accord with common sense. To these recommendations congress ought to te. fipoml promptly with tho requisite leg islation. The lulef leference to Hawaii Is nevertheless long enough to answer completely tho contention of those who allege that the admlnlstiutlon's cham pionship of annexation Is In obedience to i ash and Inconsiderate earth-hunger. After promising a supplemental y com munication lelntlng to the Nicaragua ritual the. ptesldent tovlews the woik of the commission recently appointed by him to sound tho chief governments of Kuiopo on the subject of Interna tional bimetallism. It ofl'eis no en couragement to bimetallism. Itenewed lecomiiiondutlon Is mudo of Interna tional niblttatlon; a word Is said to remind congtcss of the need of a re vived merchant mntlne; the status of the soul dispute Is set forth briefly: attention l called to tho need of new clocks nnd lepnli facilities for tho navy: tho Impoitanco of un adequate Ameri can exhibit at tho J'arls exposition in 1000 Is explained; Alaskan nnd Indian subjects in view id exhaustively In the department teports are mentioned our sorlly in the mosAagu; u commission to study the yellow fever germ Is asked for; railway problem are levlewed brlelly; the civil service system Ib pto nouncod upon the whole popular and effective, and In conclusion coHRtes.-" Is urged very earnestly to cut tall the fed cial expenses. Outside or the Cuban topic the mes sage Is not a striking one; but In all Its positions and conclusions It Is pre eminently safe. The Washington 1'ost ninn who re cently went to linvituti ostensibly to discover how the nntonomy overture was tecelvcd, but In effect as we per ceive from his lettets, to co-operute with Minister do t,ome In the iBttei's campaign against belligerency tecog nltlon by congress, continues to send lldlctiloits letters pttrortlnir to de scilbe the mars clous and sudden ttanvfoi niatlon which 1ms emtio over the Cuban situation slnie Spain supeiseded the butt Iter at Havana with the Initiator nnd the blarneyer. We call these lettets lidlctilous, be entire when thev allege that Cubans lit a day can be "Jollied" into a for get fulness of a century of Spanish Injustice, laplne and petfldy, they Ignore evety ptobablllty In human natuie. Mr. Klchaid Welghtinan, their author, spreads his optimism on much loo thick. A Boaster, (Irneitil I'l.tnco has Issued an nppcal to I he people of the X'nlted States to desist fioni aiding the Cuban Insuncc t'on. He begins It by nsisetllng thut tho scheme of autonomy which lie la em powered to put Into operation Is "gen- .lilne and complete", Hint It will In- sm- unqualified peace; that the luscr gnts iilwiilj cue suiicnderlng In great oumli'-is, and that In a short time he will "break the backbone of the lii'-ur-lottlon." As for the staivlnt? recou- enttadoes, he piomUcs oqtuily great things, and rdds; ' My act.vlty In Implanting autonomj and In hannslng the tohels.I expect to leduce the Instil gents shoitly to unor f.'ii'.ili'ed bilgands. The topography, the climate and the fertility ol Cuba In sure (In continued oslstetue ol wide spicad brigandage as long as the lov ing bands ate supplied with lilies, cart ildge. at'il clothes In shot l, the duia tloit of the wir Is pimply a matter for yju, the American people, fo decide. If you continue to allow llllluistcilng ex peditions to leave your shores, nsalnst the oflort'i of your government you will enable the Instil gents to at least In patt keen up the war against Spain, against their own Interests, against the Inleiesls of CuIm. and against the intereslfi of Amoiicui citizens. Sunln Is tho hlstoile friend and real mnth et -country of the t'nltcd States of Ameilca, the greatest or the Hcpuhlic ; of the C ntlnent. Von. their people, nie latr-mlnib'd nnd Intelligent, nnd, I bellcvi t must believe that when you know the full scope of the autonomy now given In Cuba, when j"on come to realise fully that It Is lust for Spain, for Cuba and for the I'tuted State.', y.m will cease to suppuit the men who alone puvent It." In the meantime, Charles M. Pepper, the Washington conespondent who ac companied hfcieclpl Commissioner Cal houn to Cuba last summer and w ho Is again in the Island for a syndicate of AmciJcnn newspapeis, teports that the autonomy o i mire is thus far prai -tl-allv a f.tllute; that the suffering of the paclllcoes has not been appreciably tclievtd and Is to all appearances hopi -less; and that the chances In genti.il for IJlancc to succeed are about In the pioportlon of 1 to 100 Blanco boasts too much. His appeal to Americans on tho plea of Spanish fiiendshlp Is so Impudent as to be ridiculous. Colonel William. A. Stone pauses long enough In his puislllt of tho gubematoilal nomination to rental k: "Over G1.000 Immigrants were dumped into Pennsylvania last year. Our mills and workshops are lunnlng full time, yet we have thousands of unemployed citizens seeking work. That Is not prosperity. We should seek to take care of our own llrst, nnd the proper way to do It is to place some resttic tlons upon Immigration. It is said by the opponents of my bill that Ameii enns will not dig ditches. The answer to that Is, they will dig ditches if they are paid fulr wages. The digging of ditches and dirt do not deginde labor; It Is the wages that degrades It. Pay a man wages enough to enable hlin to keep his family and educate his child ren, and no matter what his wot I; Is, If It Is honest, lie nnd those dear to him are contented and happy." T:ven those who do not favor Colonel Stone for governor must admit that he Is on solid ground at Washington. Hx-Mlnlstcr Tenell has vviltten a book In which ho contends that Abdul Ilainld, sultan of Tuikey, Is a man of more than ordinary Intelligence, and that he Is no moie of a despot than the czar of Husla. Minister Ten ell says that the Fiiltan has done moic for tho education of his people than all of the other sultans put together and Inti mates that tho great ruler l.s nn nll lound u'ood citizen, possessing quali fications that in this countiy would entitle him to poi,e as a political te fortner. In view of published reports of doings In tho land of poiuogianatos and duplex matilmony many may bo Inclined to doubt the ass.eitlon.s as to the superfine quality ol tho sultan's goodness, but fiom the manner In which he has single-handed hood winked and bamboozled tho wise iep resontutlves nt the "Poweis" fot the last j ear or two, no one can question that Ab knows how to shove the men on the checket-boatd. And now It Is the custom of hand shaking which comes under the ban. physician wiltcs to the Medical He. coid showing Unit many of tho most revolting diseases are communicated In this manner. In consequence of which fact he wnnts the practice aboi. Ished. Anyhow, ho urgues, it Is meie ly u baibailo survival of the time when soldleis, meeting In truce, wcro wont to grasp each other's vveupon hand to guard against tieachoij". 'u might for novelty substitute the mld Afrlenn fonn of mooting, which con sists of the rubbing of noses. Ah shoirlng the tendency of the government's expenses to Inciease faster than the Incrense In population and necessury government business, tho fact Is noted thai In the fiscal yiar ending with June. 1SS7, the ex penditures, Including Intel est on the public ib bt. weie, In round nu'nbers. J.'C'.OoO.coo. For the jeai- ending Juno larl the aggregate of expenditures was ?16G,000,W!0. and they ate now pt need ing on the basis of $l.n,000,flOU. There Is tnjrent need In the Ktfiy-IUtli con gress of the most rigid economy. Pub lic expenses must be trimmed down. A gmve charge is luought by the Medical Keeonl against the New Yoilt Academy uf Medicine. 'Thiough the negligence or the connivance of cer tain pei sons connected with this socl et. repents of the ineetltiRS of the geneiul body and of Individual sections havo appeared In the dally papeis with sun (ling frequency and legulatlty this nutii'iiti." Now let the guilty wretches tremble! A government publication Issued by the Huron it of American Hepubllcs nt Washington contains paid adveitlslug but hns been awarded tho ficedont of flu malls. Is Vncle Sam golnc to enter Hie Held as u competitor fur ad vertising business? How would the Congressional lleeoul look with littlf Its pagts set In'dlsplny "ads".' The plan for postal savings lianks seems destined to cncountet much Op position In congrcs. The gieat trouble Is that no advocate of ll Is yet nble cleat lj to explain how the government could cam the Intel et. is would have to pn- on the di posits. Since the Vnlvetslty of Toronto open ed Its doois to women In ISDI! the per centage of the sex 111 attendance has giown fioni 2.' to 1!7 and Is Inci easing steadily. liven in Canada the new woman Is evidently matching on ciovei not Plnsice the icason for his YciKjsuelnn asphalt piopiwes In mnnsh panv. He will have while doing this. now atllrms that purchase of Hint lake was that he the Harbor corn lots ol excitement The "i-apltnl" of vailous Klondike schemes now on the inatKet aggtejatcs moi e than $llf),noo.000, or enough to pave the whole legion with gold. Luck ily for business at homo, most of this "capital" l Ited. A New Knglnnd professor asset ts that C.000,000 yeais hence the days will be nenily twice as long as at present. Pied'etlnns matin Inf thus far ahead ate toleiably safe. fls to America's Impiifed Arrogance Pi 0111 the New Yolk Sun fT N assertion mm le 'he other uv In A tin- Ilninburgei Naehilehten mav li possibly ilceive some notice, bf r ciiiiio it has been for some joais understood tint all the lcfeienccs to foreign affnlis appiatlng Hut nowspa pi r have been Inspiie-d. IT not actually dictated by Prince Hlsmarck. The htatc nient which we have In mind imputed arrogance to the Pnlted States and de cliuod It to be n political noco-sity to re buke It, especially when illicctcil against Germany Let us see what ground theie Is fot the charge. o It Is eeitaln that wo have adlicicd iin- sweivingly to the plan of action followed by Washington durli'g his teiiuie of the Picsldeney, and commended by him ti his counityinen in the fiiuwell addies. Piom that time to tills, wo have never liitorfeied In nny quarrel between Kuio ncan now ei". although out co-operation has ) 011 sought, and, although, in the closing Jeats of the last conlttlj. tlicie vvvie innnj Americans who believed that our country was bound bv the weight list obligations to support Prance against Great Hiltiiln. We have never taken part In any pongtoss or conference the pur pose ("if which was to alter the map of Puropo or to readjust conflicting clilins of Puiopean powers. Our conuneteiul In teiisis mav h.ive been affected by the decisions of such International tribunals, but we have, btudlotisly 1 of rained fioni any pmlest or i c monstrance , lest we should tliiiobj seem to connect ourselves, however ludliectlv. with the Kuroponn liolltieal system. Nor Is tills the limit of our silf-lmposed Isolation. Slne-e the (stabllsliment of our eonsiiiutlon we havo witnessed with Indlffcicncc the pat tltlon nniont, lluiopean powers of near ly the whole of Afilca and of almost the wholi ol farther India and of Oceanlca. Kvcli the Inslgnltlciint section of the west coa.st of Africa selected foi the iccoptlou of our c mane Ip.i ted slaves Is no pait of tho Pnlted States, but constitutes tho independent icpuhllc of Liberia. 0 As ugards the Ameilcan continent It selt nnd the adjacent Islands, our con duct has iinlfoimly been the reverse of urrogant or selt-sLiddug. During the long wnr of the Spanish-American colonies for Independence m my of them would gladly have becomo membcis of our Pnlon had not their advances to this end been u polled by our government, in lvftt we could have seized the Louisiana teriltorj had wo cIkucii to do so for Pianee was then powiiloss at s(.,i, Jiut we prefeMred to buy It at a pilce whkh even Napoleon considered adequate. Sub seepiently i had bat to stietch foith a hand to wiost Florida fiom Sji.tln, In stead of that we pui chased II at a sum, then deemed exoiblta.nl. In the thirties, Yucatan, having revolted successfully from the Mexican Confederation, applied for admission to our Union: we put nslde the leqilest. Pur tin J'ouis we icjocted the pi avers of Texas for annexation and only giauted tin m when it was known that Great Iiiltttin was arranging an ac commodation between Mexico and tho Lone Star Hi public, which would have practically placed Texas under n Urltlsh protectorate. In the ensuing Mexican war alihuiigh wo occupied the Cltj- or Mexico, and might have annexed tho Whole Me xlcitn lc public, had Wo so di shed, we wlthdicw our tioops, nnd paid n great sum of money for the cession of California and New .Mexico, which were aheady In our hands j.'or the ichitlvuly Insignificant snip of tiMiltoiy known as the Gadsden Purchase, needed to tounil out tho former acquisition, wo paid many millions of dollais. Old the Germans Heat Prance thus generously after their occupation of Paris.' o In our boundaty controversies with Great llrltaln, u had, In the meantime, cairlnl lung-suffeiing and concession to excess On our uoithe-astern frontier wo vlolded much more of our ilghtful claims than wo ought to havo yielded, and It Is now known that the protests of the peo ple or Main- against tho mutilation of their slate wire stilled to n large extent thiough the use of tho seciet si rvlcc fund by our slate department. On our noithwestiMn fioutler. It was undoubted ly out duty with an oje to the future, to light with Ihuland sooner than sut lend er uny of the I'aollle seacoast toutli of the paiallcl of ul degreis 40 minutes, wu did, however, suirendui all of that val uable teiiitoiy which now constitutes Urltlsh Columbia. Was theie any nuog auco In that? o We pass to more recent proofs of our national Indifference to territorial ag gram'. moment. In Grant's administration wo m'ghl havo annexed Santo Domingo, or the Spanish-speaking half of tho It laud of lllspialola, but the Pulled states senate ri'tused to sanction a ticuty to that effect or oven a subsequent treaty giving us control of the Hnniana penin sula. Aftur our civil war the Copenhagen government pioposed to sell to us tho Danish West Indies. This offer also wo i of used. Where. In this long scries of In cidents, can tin re be detected nny trace of nn encroaching and on aggressive spir it such as the Huropenn powers display? o The only posFlble pretext for the charge made In Illsniiuck's organ Is, of couisc, to be sought In our assertion of tho Mont no Horn Inc. Thcte Is no doubt that the llrst promulgation of that doctllne was iceelved with disgust nnd Indigna tion by the povvcta repicsented In the Holy Alliance, which had already cast eyes of greed upon SpunMi nnd Portu guese Ameilca. Those vast and flultful regions would have been partitioned long ago, ns Afrlra was piiitltloned lately, but for the peremptory prohibition Is sued by the Pulled States nnd Knglnnd. Tim earth-hunger of overpeopled Ktirope will be keener In the next centuiy than II has been In this. and. among all the Hiuupean pnwiis, none exhibits already so Intense n craving for colonial pos sessions as does Oermany. ei It Is not to be supposed that Nnpolcon III. or Picnclmien In general weie re joiced nt the flat of the Washington gov ernment which compelled the vvltlidlnwal of Preach Hoops fiuni Mexico. It Is not to be Imagined, either, that Lord Sails buiy or Kngllshnien In general weie pleased to discover thnt the Monroe Doc trine was as applicable to themselves ns to their neighbors on the Huropeiin Con tinent, and that not even Knglnud would be suffered by us to sel7o American tcr i Hot y, under the guise of a boundary dis pute. Hut neither Hngland nor Prance can imve been so deeply uggilcvcd by our unflinching assertion of the MoniOe Doc trine as Is fjerniany. which has lagged far behind her rivals In the rnce for tranimailue dominion, and which, now seeking to make up foi lost time, sees In South America alone a Held for de sliable acquisitions. There are Ueunnn metchants In eveiy nourishing town In South Ameilca Thole has been for many years a l.ugn Herman population In the Hiazlliau piovlneo of Hlo Grande Do Sul; there Is a huge number of Germans settled In Argentina. The Germans, more over, have long expected eventually to acqulio Dutch itiilann from Holland; Dutch Gulanii. whose southern bound niy might have been extended Itulellnlte l.v, at the oxpeuo of llrazil, If we had permitted a slmllal encroachment on the part of Hrltloh Guiana against Vene zuela. The fnr-slglitod Hlsmarck Is not mistaken when he sees thnt a deadly blow was dealt to (luniiin hopes In South America when we extorted fiom Lord S.illsbuiy ii virtual recognition of the Monroe Doitilnc. o It Is not the arrogance of the Pnlted States that Hlsmarck reallj- complains of. What galls hlni Is our magnanimity, which, while lefialnlng from any act of rapacity or dominiitlon directed iiftnliut other Anuilcau commonwealths, Insist". In accents unmltiiKalle, that they shall I omnia unmolested by any uuropenn power, and thnt, so fur as the aggies- sioti of foielgn states Is cnnccincel, there shall lelgn. throughout the bounds of the Now World, the majestic counterpait of tho lloinun peace. A POOR MAN'S COUNTRY. Coiibi ess-ran Jonathan P. Dolllver In fie Illustrated Atie llcan. I believe It is not without some design Unit the last lcilt e f this century has seen the aivi.uiul.it Ion of niuiie? In the hands of Individuals on n scale novel be foio known In the world. It- cannot be th.it tho success In biisiiicts ot o laiso a number of ir.ui must cicrnte In a. ma lignant and sinlstoi way i pon so. loty at large Thougl tfnl men (ire beginning to hoe In It !i laige design of Providence for tho Welfare of mankind. It Is moie and mote ovldent that wealth honestly e ome by and Intelllgeittlv used Is a blessing nnd not a curse to scciety. We ale jiest In tho comniencome nt of tHe era when vv'-ilth begins to icnIU" Its opvortuiiitles and Its respei.blllllcs Tbeie Is apiofound slg nillcanco In He fact that within a fev months In a single American e itj a pub lic muiMini has been opined beat Ins the name of a mcrclu nt who began life ns a clerk Iti a dry goods stoic, and an Insti tute for industiial Gaining lias been -tnbllslW beiritifc the nan.o of a man who thlity eeis ngo was a day laboiet In a butcher shop. o We need not shut our cvcs to the fact that there nio ilch men In the countrv who have acquired their wealth by piracy. There aio also persons In the United States who havo Inherited money with out iceclvlnir with It itny sense of re ipoiislbllily for its use. Every Ameilcnii city has Its contingent of mllllomire tiamps, whese lives illustrate tho Juc'g moiit of God rr on tho possession of wealth iicquiroel without conflenco nn I used withiiit sense. Hut all of those peo ple put trgethcr are without substantial Inline nco In tho clvlllzat'on of this age. it is not row rue, and It never was true, that tl.o sens of tho ileli aio ciowellng the sons of the poor c ut of tho opportun ities ot life. o On tho other hand, tho possession of wealth, without having earned it, so uni formly damages the enciyy of young men tb.it it amounts to a handicap upon them, a dlscrlmluitlon against them In the nice of life". Otherwise how does It happen that every man in, bent In tho piddle life of this generation has come up to houir through tho tilLulatlors of poveity? How does It ccme to imss that every great binker. every great railway ptesl dent, every gn.it Journalist, every great preacher, eveiy great merchant, every groat artist every rn'in conspicuous in any dopnrtni'Mit of Influence or culture- how does it lappen that evety one of thiMii has walked Into town Horn tho country'.' o TIicmo i not "street corner oratory" left over fiom the last cnnialgn noisy enough to hide tin" beneficent fact that this country will remain, ns it always has been, a poor boy's ce vutrj, and whatever party admlnistirs It, n poor man's gov ernment. CONCILIATION IN CUIIA. ColO'SM: "The InsuigcnU whom we Mil rounded aie all dead. You fought well, mj- biave man, and j-our shooting was most excellent, Lut I heard the old war try. 'Death to the Cuban benois' Down with tho Cuban dogs!' t am displeased at this, for 1 caiefullv Instructed you that tho new war cry. under tho changed ad ministration, was to bo 'Paiclon and lovo for Ills Majesli's misguided subjects." Let mo hear It fiom evcij man: Now altogether! Onie. ; again! ; again'! Veiy good. In your next light don't forget It And now, lecoltoet while searching the dead for booty, that theio Is to be no slicing off of ears nor nny oxpiesslon of hate, but that jour hearts uro to bo full of pity toward tho fallen foe, for the policy of tho new gov ernment Is iccoucillatlon." PS May Bo! MM if Big Bile omsM nn ily a Few lay Now ti After days and nights of ceaseless toil, next Thursday we will have our work done and be open evenings. Our Bargain Department down stairs will have been transformed into a Christmas Grotto, when the largest stock of Holiday .Goods that we have ever displayed can be found. The White Handkerchief Arcade and Window Attrac tions will no doubt be Read our next ad. for details. GOLDSMITH BRO! CSTTrofcssor Miller is to 5.30 o'clock, Sheet Music, m Magoificemit New Lime FOR Holiday IV CCJ CousJstJng of Plalds9 Romami Stripes9 Changeable aedl Plale SlOand 512 LACKAWANNA AVENUE Artistic Statuettes. HOULMPV (JHOl I'S), TANCY 4IUON.CD CHINA NOVKLTIKS, AND IllUCA-llHAl! from nil partnof the world. A whole loi of pretty thl ngi for t'lirUtmai rrexont. TIE CLEMONS, FEEiiER, WALtEY OP., 422 Lacka. Ave. NLEY'S Si TI f T A mA CMs MM yj the admiration of thousands. still with tis, giving Piauo Recitals every afternoon from 2 all his own compositions, at less than half price. RELIA Cloth i Ms beeeomir motto ity iiraexceMedl, the lowesto Your meney back 31 you want it; and the same price to everybody. Open Evenings Until After the Holidays, Ml 4116 LACKAWANNA AVENUE. CHMSTMAS IS C0MEHG ALWAYS UL'SY. KeaDa1 ?&EE$i?. casiPPBa usdBHSf" Sensible presents, Slippers and Shoes from 2c to $5.00. Our best efforts are at your seivice. Always use our stores as if they were your own. Lewis, Rellly & DavIeSo Wholesale and Retail. OI'K.N KVi:.IX(5S. TO TIE lANY-MEAMlO) TOWN Tho Me.-srs. Hoynolds, slntlonets and ongravots, Hotel Jermj n bulldinif, Wyoming avenue side, extend to you a cordial Invitation to inspect their line of holiday goods De sides tho standard in tides to bo found In a well ecpiippcd stationery store they havo seemed, for cxclu.-lvo rtvile In thli union, n e hole o assent. nHnt of Christmas and New Years Novelties, Calendars, Souvenirs, Booklets, Etc. Hooks of Substance, handsomely bound und bound to please. Bibles As bles'd to receive as to bo given. Om Gift Hai-galnx. and polite attention to vis. Itoi. whether buyers 01 not. You Are Welcome, Reynolds Bros t Wyoming Ave,, SCRANTON. iR&a -JyUai.--Z-iViJ' V Lbyz&- " Mm BAZAAR. & CO. BLE at reliable has always Quail- pnees fiK Punt Neither Moeey NOP TRTST IX Till: WAbTni'UIi hriisrrruTKs kou GENUINE AGATE WARE wu HAVi: LV OUIt WINDOW A LIN I J III' AGATE IRON WAREi WI3 WOULD UL l'LLAHKO TO IIAVIi YOU CALL AND LXAS11NK IT C0V15 A LlTTLi: MOIIK, HUT WILL LASiTTWICi: AH LONO AS TDK CUU.U' UHADK. ALSO uorsi: ruHNisiiiNus AND HAUDWAItK SPLCIALTIUS. HJOTE & SHEAR CO. 110 Washington Avenue. HENRY BEL3N, JR., General Aejont for tho Wyoming District for lllnln?, lllastlnsr.sportlnj, UinoUeien and tho Hepiiuuo Ciieiulcat loin puny s HIGH EXPLOSIVES, fcnfety Tiisx, Caps and KxplodeM. Rooms 'l-.,i -Ul and 211 Cotumouwealtti Ilulldlns, sciuntou. AOKNCHiS. 1I10, rOHD. JOI1.N H. SMITH . t SON. K. W.MULLIUAN ritHton riymoutb Wilkes-Hand Ml PLEASANT COAL AT RETAIL. Coal of the best quality for domeatlo uit and of all sites, Incluillne Buckwheat and Blrdseye, dellveted in any part of the cltx at the lowest price Orders received at tho Office, first floor. Commonwealth building, room No : telephone No. Ct or at the mine, tele phono No. 272. will bo promptly attended to. Dealers supplied at tho inliie. WEi 1 SI Lll, lUPOlTPS POllEBo !
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