v-THY THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE. MONDAY, JANUAUY 3, 189J. MONDAY, JANUKnT 3, 1838. Published llslly, Kxctpt Sundy. by the Tribune lliblhhlng Company, at Fifty Cents it Mouth. iMtkiD it nt rosTornoi at BCBAitta.t. '.. as HCOHD-CLASS MAtt. UATTXK. BCnANTON, JANUARYS, jm. Tho riillaaelphla organ ot the bush wl ackers Is notified that Tho Tribune experlenceM no embarrassment In be ing placed by It In political nssoelatlon with the Philadelphia. Press. Ills neith er the Pi ops nnr thoBe for whom It of fers counsel that causes Republican majorities In Pennsylvania t" dwindle or to disappear. (Jetting at the Facts. The Philadelphia Press printed yes terday the first of a series of letters from Cuba written by Its chief Wash ington correspondent. Mr. K. J. nib- son, of whom the Press says editorially: "Mr. OlliFon Is well known for his care ful, conscientious, painstaking and ac curate wotk. lie Is universally recog nized ns one of the most reliable nnd trustworthy men In journalism. His character, Infutmatlon and poise and his habit of RnlnR to the root of thlnns In his Investigations will inspire con fidence In the thovouuhnes.M of his ex amination tint! In the correctness of his reports. He 1ms not gone to Cuba to forward dramatic or sensational dis patches, but to see the real conditions as an eye-wltne.. to lenrn the exact sltui.tlon and piospects, and to detull thorn with the sobriety and fidelity for which he Is distinguished." .Mr. (JlbSon's Initial letter concerns mainly the status of the Spanish army. He cites olllWul und seml-olllclal fltf uies to prove that of Woyler's splendid nnny of 2i)i),000 resulurs. only r.l.WW ef fective men teinaiii. "These," he adds, "mu.n Ritrrlson the fnrtllled towns, pro tect .railroads and siuj;ar plantations, and so on. It can easily be seen that with such a small force of effective men, when Wejler had UO.OUU reftu lnrs, exclusive of volunteers. Hlanco cannot lie expected to accomplish much: inure paittcultiily when he Is without money and supplies. The nreoter number of the troops have not been paid In ten months, and all of them, excepting officers, have not been paid In elsht months. Evidently much could not be expected of such troops and little or nothing Is IipIiik accom plished." Mr. Ulhson attests the complete fail ure of the autonomy movement to make visible Impression In oheeltlm; the Insurrection. Of ten emissaries sent to treat with Insurgent leaders In different districts, eluht were executed and two spared. The latter were Cubans forced to bear the overtures of Spain under penalty of death. Gen eial Garcia on this account permitted them to return alive. Mr. Gibson , talked with the Cuban who went nt the request of Consul General Iee- to try to save Ruiz's life, and who ar rived too late to accomplish that end. This man says that Ruiz was con demned by a court-martial at which Rodriguez, commander of the west ern provinces, and another Rodriguez, commano'er of Havana province, as well as Aranguren, were present.' Ac cording to Mr. Gibson's version there does not apnear to have been any ex cuse for Ruiz in disregarding the warn ing he leccived In advance. Mr. CJIIison concludes bis first letter with these words: "The fact that after spurning the oiTer of food as unnec essary the Fian!t-h leaders have been foiced to iico.nt such offers demon strates that the change going on here Is not nn Improvement, but In the con trary direction. That Is the opinion of the United States officials without ex ception In every port or Cuba. I make that statement on written authority from these men. Nearly all of them have been In Cuba since the war broke out. They are trustworthy men. As far as they are concerned, one and all, the war In Cuba is no nearer an end than at any previous time, excepting as the Spanish officer said whom I have quoted, Spain is so much nearer the point where she can no longer keep up the struggle." In other words, thy time for effective Intervention la rapidly drawing nigh. The one Now Year resolution which ought to be kept above all others is the or,e, which pledges its maker to pay his debts. If eviry American would in the current week pay off as much of his indebtedness is it is possible for lilm to pay, times would speedily be come so good that calamity howling would expire from sheer shame. The Ohio Senatorsltlp. The abstention of ten Republican members of the Ohio legislature from the preliminary caucus at Columbus Saturday night Is naturally interpreted as an Indication that the claims of the opponents of Senator Hanna have not been exaggerated. The managers of Mr. Raima's campaign for re-election, Including Mr. Hanna him self, deny that this Interpreta tion is Justified and claim that the senatorial caucus will bring out the requisite majority. They also pro fess to believe that should these ab sentees continue to bolt the Hanna movement a sufficient number of votes will come from the Democrutlc side to Insure a Hanna victory. Such a contingency would be denlor- jable and we trust that It may not be leauzeu. .Mark Hanna was Indorsed for ed llCat0r hy the 01,l Republican con The tlon and a legislature containing a theref!"R Ilepuollcan majority was elect lcglslat 1laln vlevv of tnls Indorsement. It tocariV4'0" of the To,edo convention. ,i., ...Ye' should be binding upon that iiwua "..- ui.ui. . .. trust on t ijc iiiujunty anu me failure or y out the convention's Instruc- members w Jd amount .to a betrayal of Mr. Hanna. and by every Cv """ jicijuuiiuuii m- tt i Y Hhoutd refuse to support t nni't rf llmsA ii ..-(. 1 1 nut it win Ay nI1 th rule8 ' Politic pnslderatlon ot fair play pnrty at large t ntltlec to be returned. depend upon Demo be acceptable to the a contingency wouh have his re-election fratio support. Such scandal, Let Senator Hannu' for the effective Buppoi1 Po.Y" ie le il. If Involve a national representation In the make his light wins, well and good t of his party's responsibility can be atten Tlsla he lslature. If he sequently. Hut the next so he loses, the Ohio must be elected by ded to sub- votessor his election will be nator from Republican vorse for 1Mb party thnn would be a Hepubllcnn Uefent. State Chairman Elkln having wrll ton to the Hazlcton Sentinel n. persona! denial that thu Republican state com mittee hns Issued any literature since last October, that paper repeats that up to December 20, 1897, It had beeen continuously In receipt of j late mat ter booming William A. Stone for gov ernor und coming to It precisely as th'o atate committee's pinto matter had come. Furthermore, since there was no notification by Mr. Klkln when the st.tte committee went out ot the plate business anil when the Stone literary bureau assumed chnrge, the Sentinel argues that It wns Justified In assum ing a suspicious connection between the two outwardly Identical forms of literary evangelization. Mr. Klkln's denial of course settlca the matter; but It might be well for lilm hereafter to let the public know when l he mailing lists of the stttte committee are bunded over to the agents of a particular can didate. Spain's Rejected Overture. Senor Antonio Govin, one of the Cubans named by Rlanco ns a member of his autonomy cabinet, declines with out thanks. In nn interview promul gated at Atlanta, In which t Hi he rot-Ides, he says: "When tho peace of S'.anjon was signed It licctme evident that the old method of governing; f'uba was nt an cnil. The people of Cuba sue of Spanish blood, und naturally there Is that tradition of race which made many of them feel Kindly to the old peninsula. These men deemed that It was posMhle to be true to Cuba and lcynl to Spn In at the sum..' time, and they organized the ntitononitst paity, whose pnrpos was the preservation of I'lilinii Interests. We knocked at the doois of Madrid in vain for recogni tion. We pleadtd with those In au thority I" recognize the changed con dition of things, and If our voice had been 1uirken(l to, previous to the com ing of Gcneial Weyler. there would have lien a chance to build up Cuba as the eldest daughter ot Spain. Rut the cries from Cuba were Irnoled and a policy wns entered upon, the sad re sults of which are- seen today In the dewistutlou which spieads over the Is land and In the loss of human life which has come upon the people of Ctt'.a. "I held my place of honor which my party had given to me until T saw that the die was cast, and thut there was nothing moie to do, save to leave the lesull to the arbitrament of the sword. It is with' this feeling that T took my .leparture fiom Cuba and when, as I stood upon the deck of the receding American steamer, l watched for the last time the Spanish flag floating over Morro Castle 1 declared that when I returned, that flat? should not be Heat ing there. Since that time, I had been living quietly in this city, -forming no acquaintances outsde of the few Cuban friends who knew me, und awaiting some new development wji'lch would make it possible for me to leturn home. Now that the policy o General Wey ler has been abandoned and a different one has been adopted by General Ulan co pacific overtures luu'o been made which would have been gladly listened to two years ago. If they had been made then, what an amount of blood and treasure would have been saved: but unfortunately, the offer has been delayed until Cuba is In no position to try it. "In the first place, the autonomy it self, which has been offered, Is no autonomy nt all. It leaves Cuba but a tributary to Spain, to be drained of Its iv-sources for the uses of the home government, nnd to be allowed only tl remainder. If there should be any, for local purposes. Autonomy, as I con ceive it, it- something very different. It Is an Independent government bearing filial relations to the parent country, with a responsible chamber and a re sponsible cabinet. Instead of that the autonomy offered Is organized in the first place under the most favorable clicumstances with a majority choon by Spain herself and through in fluences governed by Spain, while the native Cuban would at all times be In the minority. Kven ir this objection did not exist and the chamber provid ed for weiv eUcted diiect by the people of Cuba, such election under the pres ent circumstances would be impossi ble, because the Cubans are either In the field or in exile, while those who would take part in such elections would be Spaniards or pejple under Spanish Influence, I would esteem it n high honor to be called Into u Cuban cabinet, having Its Initiation from among the pjople of Cuba, but 1 wo:d scorn to be a member of the iult',rt whose constituent parts would be looked upon as tho hirelings of Spain, It Is an Indignity, an indignity Indeed, to ask a Cuban to accept such a place, and a Cuban who would accept such' a place Is doing himself an Indignity." It Is now alleged by the Spanish of ficials thut Senor Govin has been won over to the autonomy movement In spite of the foregoing statement and will qualify this week. Such a result would not redound to Senor Govln's credit nor aid the prospects of Spain. i Dignified rebuke Is administered by the Washington Star to Bishop Potter when, taking notice of his recent as seitlon that the X'nltcd States had reached and passed the summit of Its prosperity It says: "Kxactly what con stitutes prosperity in a country Is a topic too extensive to be settled off hand. Commercial Importance, Intel lectual progress and tho physical com fort of the masses have all to be con sidered In connection with other points, and It rather rash to assume thut the continent has thus soon exhausted It self where there Is so much to be ac complished." There la reason lo fear that Bishop Potter hnb mental dyspep slu. . In Itu files In the seven months from June 1, '97, to Jan. 1, '98, the Buffalo Kxpress has counted 77 cuses of lynch ing In the United States and Is by no means sure that the list is complete. We wonder whether there have been one-half that many legal executions. Probably not, In Pennsylvania there are 1172 build ing nnd loan nggoclatlons, with $110, 000,000 accumulated wealth, $100,000,000 outstanding loans and' $9,000,000 gain cre,dltH. A good New Year resolution would be to get Into one uf these aa- soclatlons and share In Its benefits. There Is nothing superior to u good one as a means of Ineulcntlr.c habits of thrift. Although the state convention docs not meet until June 2, primaries for tho election of delegates have beeen called In httzeme county for Janunry 15, The Wllkes-Uarre Record em phatically denounces this ns a "ftntip" call, alleging that it Is Issued nt the behest of Andrews, Klkln and their colleagues, for tho purpose of fore stalling an Intelligent expression of party sentiment on the gubernatorial question. Possibly. Hut how does Mr. T.elscnrlng stund in these premises? Is he afraid to await "an Intelligent ex pression?" Some NeM Books and Magazines. FROM the collection of the West Ches ter Htuto Normal school, Professor G. M. Phillips, the principal of that school, lias selected and tho I.lppln cottB have printed In a neat pamphlet for private distribution a num ber of "Historic Letters" which will possess much Interest tor students of Ainerlran history. These letters chiefly I elate to actors und Inci dents connected with tho Revolu tionary war, among the writers be ing Henedlct Arnold, Generals Gates, Pickering. Mltllln, Sullivan, Irvine, Wayne, Putnam, Schuyler, Greene, La fayette and Washington, but there nro also letters by General Wililleld Scott, General McClellan, Picsldeut Taylor and Jefferson Davis In which tho great trag edy uf the CUI1 war Is foreshadowed. The compilation Is sufficiently valuablo to put the public umler distinct obliga tions to Its compiler. .lust whut grievance CIilo l-'ltch has against the Tour Hundred Is unrevealed to us In his grouped correspondence and conversations purporting to represent nn insiov view ot "The Smart Set" (Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co.J. Rut it Is evi dent that Mr. Fitch considers human na ture rather worse at the upper end ot Klfth avenue than In the lower How dy, for the mei: whom ho Intio duces to iw are either llbeitlncs or would-bo libertines and the women with one or two exceptions, unfaithful wiles or wives to whom fidelity Is not a matter of vhoie so inmh as of circum stance. Thu "smart i-et" may be bad In many particulars, as a set; but it is against human nature to argue that Its members Individually are hopelessly de praved. Among the almanacs compiled by the larger publishing- houses none has at tained a higher standing than the Chi cago Dally News Almanac and Political Register, the fourteenth Issue of which Is now In print. This publication supple ments the usual statistical Information given in volumes of Us kind with ency- I clopaeilie treatment of the live topics of the year, as, foi example, the annexation of Hawaii; the eastern war; deep water ways from the lakes to tide water; Alaska with Its gold fields and boundailes; do mestic commerce; the Cuban revolt; tho Venezuelan dispute: the International monetary commission; the timber supply and the coal strike of 1S97. o A description with vivid Illustrations of the real Klondike, the beginning of ll.ir old Frederick's latest novel whleh Is en titled "Gloria Munill." and tho anony mous contribution continuing the narra tion of the history of an Imaginary war with Spain which .Involves us ulso with England nnd Oeimany and In Its lir&t great land battle results In a few hours In the loss of 190.000 lives, ore among the contents of tho Cosmopolitan this mouth which especially attract interest. The Cosmopolitan continues to be the most vital of our magazines. o In "Lo-to-kah ' Verner 'A. Reed exhib ited an artistic comprehension of the at mospheric and color possibilities of the Southwest which Is now again In evl - deuce In his "Tales of tho Sun-land' (New York: Continental Publishing Co.). These eight sketches! are ot unequal merit but nil are true to tho locality of which they treat and exhibit conspicu ously tho romance of a region which, but for Its early hlstoiy, might ba regarded as a hopelessly barren Held for the nov elist. o MeClure's for January contents itself with featuring the Dana war remin iscences, the Anthony IIopo sequel to "The Prisoner of Zenda," and a character sketch of Murk Twain by Hubert Barr. But there tiro several other bright things In this number that will reward perusal, especially a paper on "The Life of the Hallroad Man," written bj a brjkcman, and a number of reminiscences of ,lohn Brown, peni ed by a life-long filend of the martyr of Osawatcmle. o Another Kipling story, u paper on bird life by Fred A. Ober, an Interesting spe cial article on Gt eater New York, serials by Stockton, Trowbridge, Stoddard, sea sonable verse by John Bennett, Carolyn Wells, Kdlth M. Thcmas and other favor lie writers, nnd much other good litera ture for boys nnd girls characterize the January St. Nicholas, which begins tho new year evidently with the determina tion to Keep nt the head of the procession ot Juvenile periodicals. o Beauty, utility and value are happily combined In Hood's Sarsaparllla coupon cilendur for isns. The lovely child's head In an embossed gold frame, surrounded bv sptays of lloweis In mosaic, tho lur- i,mfrt,iu ,,n,l In lilna ivltn Mrm. llr-ilcrtu j ll!1(i the coupons ty means ot which many valuable books and other articles may be obtained, make up ono "of the most de sirable calomiars wo have seen. It can be had of any druggist. o A little volume which ought to be put In tho hands of all persons accustomed to write for tho press comes from D. Apple ton & Co.. and Is devoted to explaining the mysteries of "Punctuation." Its author, T. Horace Teall. was ono of tho editors of the Standard dictionary, and hi the present connection he undertakes to Introduce a little common sense Into the vestibule to correct writing, o Few handsomer or more convenient cal endars than that Issued by N. W. Ayer & Son, the Philadelphia advertising agents, have mnde their appearance this year. It contains, In addition to tho cal endar, short, pithy and valuable tnlks to business men upon a subject of tho Hrst Importance ana Its price. 25 cents, in cludes dellvciy by mall to any address in perfect condition. o A paper by Sara Y. Stevenson dotalllng remlnlscenecs of Mexico under the brief sway ot Maximilian, one by George B. Gordon desalblnsr Borne notable lecent archaeological discoveries In Honduras, and the opening chapters of n now serial by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell are the outstand ing features of tho January Century. o Alaska from the tourist's point of view Is entertainingly exploited In the Janu ary Oodey's, which moreover, with eight Interesting short stories, nmplo verse, and half a dozen timely Illustrated special articles, offers a generous literary bar gain at the price, one dime. o Tho Scranton Truth has Issued a charm ing urt annual supplemented by a com plete locnl directory and statistical digest of Information pertaining to Scranton and its environs, making altogether un ndmlrablo reference book for tho office nnd the home. o "The Despotic Ludy" is a late product In readable but unimportant nctlou of the Industrious ucn of W. K. Norrls. It Is published by the Llpplncotts In paper covers. o Th Wllkes-Barre Ilecord almanac thla I year Is especially strong In Its resume vt lueni cveniH imu in n iicvniunjr. " a hand book which every resident of Lu zerne county will find useful for refer ence. Wo acknowledge with pleasure the re ceipt of the Pnttsvlllo Kvenliig Chronicle almanac for 189S, which Is small but full of valuablo Information relating to Schuylkill county, A TALG OP TWO CITIES. Van Twlller, In tho Record. I seo It announced with a flourish of trumpets In tho Sciunton paporu that the cornerstone of tho big silk mill of Rolling, Duvld & Schoen has been laid with appro prlnte ceremonies. Tho ceremonies were witnessed by the board ot trade, the cor nerstone being laid by Captain May, pres ident ot tho board. There wero speeches galore, In which everybody felicitated everybody else, nnd all Joined In con gratulating tho city of Scrnnton on tho nowly acquired Industry. And well they might, for this promises to bo ono ot the largest establishments ot Its kind In tho country, und will glvo employment to hundreds of men and women. And Bcran ton secured It after Wlikes-Darro had dawdled, and hummed and hawed over a proposition to establish It here. The proprietors paid a visit to your city und were fuvonbly Impressed with tho sur loundlngs. They would have preferred to locato here, as the intlway facilities were better. If they could secure the land. Benjamin Dorrnnco was tho only man who rose to tho orcaslon, however. He offered them a site on his farm In Dor ranceton, and they considered It favor ably. Hut In an evil moment, for Wilkes Barre, these gentlemen went fo Scrnnton, Of course they wero taken In charge by the board of trade. Of course they Wero conducted through tho magnificent build ing erected by that bustling organization. Ol course they wero promptly offered a slto within the city limits, free of cost and tuxes, Of course they were tendered other Inducements, and treated with such friendliness that they forgot nil about Wilkcs-Uarre. And so they pitched thoir tents there with a mlllloti-dollnr Industry, adding one moro to tho string of Indus trial sculps that grace the wlgwoin of Scranton's board of trade. o Long life to that board, suy I. It de serves to prosper, for It possesses pluck and energy, and courage and business tact. It Is not afraid to work. It Is not afraid of being worked, elthur. It doesn't go Into conniption of fright whenever a stranRer comes along with a business proposition. Theie's nothing namby pamby about It. It Is not suffering from the dry rot of over-conservatism. The leprosy of suspicion does not paralyze its energies and drag It down Into inertness and decay. It does not regard every proppsltlon for tho establishment of a new Industry as a gold bilck swindle. The fact that It gets caught onco in a whllo doesn't scare it out of business. On the contrary, it keeps right on, nnd what It loses on one unsuccessful Industry It makes up ten fold em the others that nro successful. That's the kind of a board to have. That's the kind of a board Wllkjs Barre ought to have. Thu material Is lmA rptii liiiiltiu n ii lini'n Tim mftnnV ' ,s m;,.ea ll()nrfor (!VL.ry scrnnton cent. ' The futilities are here: the lanor is ne'e. In fact Wllkes-Barre can furnish every thing that Scrnnton does In this connec tion and go her seeral better. Why, then, don't We get these Industries that are continually going to Scranton? It you have read the above I do not think you will have much dlillculty In discover ing the cause. Till: TWKNTIKTII CKXTIJItY IMCOltl.CM. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Studerts. of mental phenomena might llnd It worth their whllo to endeavor lo Identify tho pecullailty of tho human mind that makes possible tho existence of a doubt us lo the date of the beginning of the twentieth century. To account for this fact as merely a result of spoiadln and exceptional cases of stupidity seems to us unphllosophlcal. There never was any possible question as to when the twentieth century begins. Tho stupidest mnn alive oucht to bo able to see that slnrn there never was u vear 0. with i which to begin a century, the first century I must have begun with tho year 1, and so every subsequent century must begin with tne year 1 of that century. But that it Is not meiely tho exceptionally dull man who Is unable to get this through his head everybody knows. o Of the thousands of newspapers In tho country there Is probably not ono that does not receive at least two or three times a year a well-written and properly worucu request, evidently preparcu ny a person of education, to "kindly publish In your valuable paper the date of tho commencement of the next century." One widely-read New York newspaper finds ft necesasry to answer this question In Its "Notes and Queries" column almost every Sunday. Bring up this matter in conversation wherever a dozen or so per sons of average education and Intelli gence are gathered together, und you will almost Invariably Und somebody who has an Idea that the twentieth century begins on January 1, 1900, and somebody else, who knows better, but 1 willing to waste time and breath In arguing a mat ter, which affords no room for argument, i with all the earnestness and gravity of the wiseacres of Dawson's Lnndlng ar guing over the equally valid question springing from Davo Wilson's remark about the dog. The tendency to creato a question, where no question exists, as to this matter of tho beginning of tho twentieth century, Is certainly not excop tlonal, and therefore cannot be ex plained by retching it to some exception al quality of mind In the Individual who creates and puzzles over It. o Any human being, capable of counting n hundred, could nrrange 2,000 silver dol lars In twenty piles of one hundred dol lars each without once doubting whether or not ho ought to begin tho twentieth pllo with tho hundredth dollar of tho nine teenth pile. Why Is It, then, that so many such human beings cannot arrange 2,000 years in twenty piles of a hundred years each wltliout Immediately falling Into tho gravest doubt as to whether or not they ought to begin the twentieth pllo of years with tho hundredth year of tho nineteenth pile? The question, it seems to us, is worthy of philosophical considera tion. Mil. ANU MRS. VKKYMUCU PI.L'AHKD TALKING ABOUT THEIIl CHRISTMAS CHINA BOUGHT AT OUU STOHK. jrfD 0i$ ' Wfevf ) Jk iufc TIE CIMQNS, FE1RBEE, ' WMkllH CO. J'J2 Lackawanna Avenue, PM UWM Trnn UJ'J lld llJ M'Ai Li Mm Will be one of our principal occupations this week, but the Bazaar -will be open just the same, and all of the so called bargains that you may read about in other adver. tisements can be obtained here. In accordance with our usual custom, thousands of dollars worth of reliable merchandise will be laid aside during inventory for our Jammiairy therefore, we will have some interesting store news for you in a very few days. GOLDSMITH BROS. & CO- HEW YEAR'S GREETING. Lewis, Rellly &. Davles wish the peace ful, honest ueoule of the world a lianny New l'ear. we are happy because we live In one of the most prosperous cities. In ono of tho best counties, In ono of the largest states nnd the greatest coun try thut man is privileged to live in. Among the cities, towns, etc., that wo wish to remember In a particular way are me following. Wllkes-Barre, Kingston, "Lake Ariel. Georgetown, 'Hawley. i llonesdule, I Waymart, Klmhurst, Moscow, Gouldsboro, i Tobyhanna, Mount Pocono, 'Pocono Summit, Cresco, Henryvllle. iSproguevitle, 'Portland, Stroudsburg, Water Gap, Delaware, Mununka Chunk, Preston Park, ' Lake Como, Poyntelle, Belmont, I Pleasant. 'Unlondnle. I Forest City. Carbondale, I White Bridge, jJermyn. Archbald, Wlnton. uennett. ti &. ti . Wyoming, I'arsons Miner's Mills. Mill Creek, Lain, Yatesvllle, Plttston, Duryea. Lackawanna, Taylor, Avoca, Mooslc. Minookn, Hancock, Starlight, Conklin, Great Bend, New Mllford, Alford. Kingslcys, Foster, Nicholson, Factoryville, La Plume, Datton. Genburn. Clarke Summit, Chinchilla, Mayfleld. Nay Aug, Peckvllle. lOlyphant. Dickson City, CKS uunmore, ,'inroop. i Scranton, iBInghamton, Conklin Center. i Wlmtners, I Mapcwood, May they llvo long and prosper Is the wish of Lewis, Rellly & DavleB, the hon est and most extensive dealers In boots, shoes, rubbers, etc., In Northeastern Pennsylvania, Nos. lit and 116 Wyoming avenue, Scranton, Pa. f i ; V J V MILL k CQMEIL'S nrmnurc N Such a choice stock to delect from cannot be found elsewhere in this part of the state. And when you consider the moderate prices at which the goods ure marked H a further claim on the attention and consideration of buyers. GIFT SUGGESTIONS. WniTiKQ Desks, Diiksiixq Taiii.es. Fanov Tables, Cjievaz, Glasses, lAnr.0R Cabinets. Music OAiiiNirrs, CuiuoCauinets, Hook Cases, Kancv Baskets, I.OUJ.OKS, WOiik TAiir.KS, KAHV ClIAlKS, Qll-T ClIAIIts. I.vr.AinCitAiHS IlOCKERS, tSlIAVI.Na HrAND.S, PEDESTAL1), TAIIOUIIEITES. All at lowest prices consistent with the high quality of the goods. Hill & Cornell At 12! Noith Washington Y(l?'N-,.W-S---i-.-J'-w-."V I 1 M J ? 1(11 J J f A Hi 1 :; I Happy I New Year: ' 1 to AIL :: 1 F0OTE& SHEAR CO : WA 110 Washington Avenue. '' Avenue. Scranton, Pa. ivcntory Clearance g pneeso RELIABLE Cloth to beeeonnr motto Ity MmiexceHedlo the lowesto Your money back if you want it; and the same price to everybody. Open Evenings Until After the Holidays. B 416 LACKAWANNA AVENUE. FINLEY'S Special Sale of FANCY ILK We offer about !, yards Fancy Silk, choice designs in 3 lots, includ ing Brocades, Persians, Romae Stripes, eteo an lengths ranging from five to twenty yards each. Former Price. $1.00 to $1.65, LOT 1 59 Cents LOT 2 69 Cents LOT 3 88 Cents a yard, to close them out. The greatest bargain of the season. 510 and 532 J LACKAWANNA AVENUE BAZAAR Sale at reliable lhias always Qua!- pnees MUGKLO amid at & STATIONKKS, KNOHAVERS, HOTEL JEItMYN 11UILUINO. 130 Wyoming Avenue. HENRY BEL1N, JR., General Agent for the Wyoming District for UJIPOIT KffMfflffinCfE Mining, Blasting, Sporting, Sinolcelesi and tho Itepauno Chemical Company's HIGH EXPLOSIVES, fc'fifety Fuse, Caps and Exploders. Rooms 'Jl'J, 1213 and 211 C'ommonirealtti llulldlng, Scranton. AGENCIES: TIIOS, FOltD, JOHN II. SMITH A SON. E. W. MULLIGAN. Plttston Plymouth Wllkes-Uarrs II PLEASANT COAL AT RETAIL. Coal of the beat quality for domestic u and ot all sizes, Including Buckwheat and Olrdseye, delivered In any part ot tbe city, at tho lowest prica Orders received at the Office, first floor. Commonwealth building, room No Is telepbona No. 424 or at tbe mine, tele pbone No. 272, will be promptly attended to. Dealers supplied at tbe inlna. T. SI w, lanes C'H 1 P "Til fi 'TIH0 diit IMdiJl 5 roiiEBL
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