kW TUESDAft JANUARY 4, 1808. TlliU SUKAiNTUJN TKIUUNIS. TUBSDAY, JANUt i, 1M. I'ublUlird Dilly, Kxcent 8un1r. by tba Tribune riibllhln Company, at 1 llty Cents a Month. imimd-at tub rosTomcii AT bcsmitji M.. 41 tlCOHD-CLABS Uilt. UATTtR. TEN AGES. 8CUANTON, JANUAItY 4, 1898. Probably as good an answer ar It Ih worth while to innlte to tlip W. A. ritone boomers who think they can noor William Connell politically by ai icrtlng his unpopularity nmonK labor InR men would be to point to Mr. Con nell's vote for congressman In 1590, a vote laiselV cast by men who woik for dally wages. Ssnator Hnnna's Defeat. The pleollon yesterdiy nt Columbus of the nntl-Ilnnna candidate for spealc er of the Ohio house of lepresentatlvcs by the decisive majoilty of 5, combined with thu oigunlzatlon of the senate by the same forces, pi peases th early rc titement of Mark llnnni from the scn iif" of the United States. Wo lesnrd such an outcome as likely to ptovp In the long run politically unfoitunato, but still, th'eie are mitigating elrcuni "tances In the nitlonal campaign of 1S9G. und even before that time, during the pte llmlnary canvass for the Hepubllcan pit'sldcntlnl nomination, Mr. Hanna displayed iiunlltles of genralshlp which tnaiKed him piomltipully as a I'udir'iiJ men. He was not Indispen sable nt any time, but at all times lie was liberal, energetic and effective In Ills ulans and methods. It w.ih said at the tine that he went Into the light for McKinley puiely out or,u-snnn.l fiixndshlp, nnd the statement n aj then hat been till". Uitr, however, after flie vletniy was won, and when Mr. Hanna might with perfect piopilety have tuined to the beneficlarv of his generalship nnd lcllwiulshed all claim fin polliie.il lewaid, he elected to iMUei the senate, a vacancy was made foi him by the questionable expedient ot Hastening Senator Sheunan Into the abliu-t, and Mr. tHann.i, senator by appointment to 1111 this vacancy, soon assumed such a position of magnitude at Washington in connection with pat i nnage quntrcMs that h bay Incurred the enmity of a latge number of the more active politicians, not only etn bairasslng President McKinley but ,ii, It Is now believed, bulling his piesent defeat Air. Hanna In his methods has been tough-shod and ltlthless and It appeits ihat h'o has now fallen by the same kind of tatties. It Is well known to Ohio Republicans that Mr. Hanna used to gun for General Foiaker. even oc casionally stepping o or the party line to tak" better aim. Senator Foraker may not hae countenanced the pies ent tepriials, but his ft lends have evi dently dtdded that this Is their time to balance accounts. Some ieldents of Wllkes-Batte. it -.iintc, do not like the mannei in which lie Wllkes-Baite boatd of ttade la Seated by. the Wllkes-Barte papers. I'e therefoio come to that boatd's fescue. In Its present condition It Just suits Scranton. Weyler on the Warpath. The manifests which has caused the Sagustu mlnistty in Spain to make a pietense of attesting and tc-pilmand-ing General Wevler Is as follows be ing addressed to the queen tegent. At the feet of jour majestj, most gi i clous lady, I plead most lespectfulli toil ly lor satisfaction which I deem Indispensa ble to the honor of Spanish .urns and mi own character us u soldlei. Piom so high a stutlou as tliu piesldencj of i state and on un occasion so notublu as the opening of u parliament Insults ot sudi u char acter weie recentlj offeied to the army cf Spain that 1 cannot Imagine this will pass without a vigorous protest irom the government of jour majestj. The braie soldiers who are gliing their life blood I so freely on the fields of Cuba to main- I tain Spain s sovereignty over the Island Ihuie been cinvenly and gtossly lnulted in the face of all the wot Id and rou- founded In a lumbled execration with those rebellious hordes of bandits Mho are jnworthy ot ordlnarj und humane trcat- Inent. The methods emplojid In that inr with tho approbation of the goitrn- ' Client of Spain are denounced as Infurcoua -itud unworthy a civilized people. The oi ders of the general who commanded that urmy are declared to have been brutal and calculated tp lion If j the civilized world . ' lie who has tho high lienor of uddi ess lug your majestj' might speak only ot tho injustice done to himself. He would pan over tho Insults to himself in silence but ho tnnnot tolerate the accusations, since they injure the whole nrmy, wiping away with ono bicath tho honor of thoso In ilutlble, generous und brave soldlei s. Tho genet al who has fought with them, who has Hied their life, who was hon ored with the command of tho largest anl inoit hetolo army of tbe-ie times, und whose orders can all be summed up In tho holy cry of "Viva Espnn.i"' cannot nbandon his companions in arms, and as the insults were offered where ho can not resent them as they desetve, he comes to jour majesty today, asking due reparutlon to our military honor, which lies trampled under foot, so long as the Insults of tho United States of America remain without energetic nnd prompt an mien The offeiiBe has been public, and am nio and immediate otlght to be the tcparu- tlon rtemnnuect. lie wno auuresses your majesty does not ask It; tho honor of Spain imperiously demands It. He who addresses your majesty devoutly prays that your majesty will incline the spirit of your government to procuto the nec essary amends In behalf of the Spanish army. (Signed) valeilano weyicr. For uslnr tluse words in a nubile Ificument, the temporal lly dominant nmminiBiratioii in milium nus wuu a llor!sh announced Its Intention of inawJnB ar, example of Weyler. Just whaKsteps It will employ toward this end aVo not clearly invented, but ttte pr2ten,eV of Indignation Is very skil fully sustained by the aid of the cen sorship oyer tho news dispatches sent to this cwintry fiom Spain. Accord ing tp Hies? dispatches, Weyler Is In totU disgrace, not a Spanish offloer sympathizes with him and If he doesn't ittrnct and ntfplojlze tils head Will he swished off so iiulck It will make the spectators dizzy, This Is the picture which Sagasta would like, to. convey to the people of the United Statea. But some radically different news Is received 'from sources . ot tributary to tho Soirnsto, blue pen cil. It Is asserted on what we consider trustworthy authority tkat Wuylei'a manifesto has mide him the hero of Uhe Spanish army; that tlJ outcry of Ihe Hagttsta ndmlnistratfpn 'against Billion purely a, uit, .or Htags piay ie- celling nobody behind the BccncB, least of all General Weyleri nnd that If tho necessity should arise, Sngauta vvodld have to eat Ills threats against tho Butcher or face u revolt In the army which would speedily make of Valc'rl ano Weyler the most Interestlnz per nonage In the entire Spanish-Cuban problem. This view of the matter Is credible because In accord with known facts as to the Spanish character und temperament. McKlnley'8 words were Insults to the Spanish soldiery, and were all the more dlsagtecnble because true. Th'cy were also Insults to the quern l agent, who tolerated Cancvas, who In turn npprovrd the policy of Weyler. That th'ey should be tescnted would be natural; that formulating Into words this general feeling of re sentment should cause Weyler to fall Into disfavor nmong his inllltniv col leagues and countrymen Is unnatuial ard thc-rcfoie not to be believed. Kagasta's effort to dlcredlt Wevler Is not meant for home consumption but fo. the blinding of Ametlcan eyes. Weyler Is still the big lly In the Span ish ointment and nothing since Garcia sent Pande scurrylna home has so ef fectually levealed as does this mani festo episode the thin ciust upon which Spanish sovetelgnty in Cuba Is now lestlnc. Prom u Srtanton point of view it would be highly Interesting to leatn exactly what reasons Impel tho Vvove nient In Wllkes-Barre for n third-class chatter. The opinion heteabouts Is that by such a change the taxpayers of our neighboring city would Jump out of the ft. vlng pan onl to plump directly Into the lire. The Time to Advertise. Thoe business men who most ef fettli dy combine enterptlse with in telligence do not at this period of tho year, following the btisk holiday sea son, discontinue their advtitlsemcnls In the newspapers and go with the old year Into eclipse. On the rontraty tby petcelie that this is of all times the one time when energetic and ju dicious adiertlslng Is most necjssurv to the success of their trade. Ihej' recognl.se that when the buying spirit If uppeininst, ns It always Is In December, people will buy whether merchants advertise or not. Adiet Us ing in December Ii.'Ids to direct the tide of buyers toward the places wheie the best bargains ate to be found It benefits the leaders in tiade at the epense of tho seeond-rate or thiid tate shop-keepris. But it is dlreetotv lathsr than ciatlie of the deslie to buj. Once a business Is well estab lished, It can better afford to econo mize on adiettlsii'g In Deeembei than. In any other month of the yeat ; fcr, as e have slid, the buying spirit Is then assertive and people will buy anvhow. But in Januaty and Pelnuaiv a dif fpifiit situation is ptesented. Then the stoies unless filled by extraotdlnary means, look empty, the purchasing In stinct falls to Its minimum proportions, and the pioblem with mctt stoip-keep-ots Is how to caitj' their undimlnWh Ing expenses Heie is while adieitls Ing, pioperly directed, becomes of the utmost value. By it and by-It nlone cun ii bujlng moiement be cteated. A cut In the margin", a compelling state ment of imperious bargains, and lo, the stole Is soon filled with puichaseis. They set good goods at exceptionally low prices, the met chant Is enabled to turn his stock into cash, at the same tine meeting the chaise for fixed e P"iiM and thus when the livelier sea s in of spilng appears, he is in con dition to meet Its demand ptepatvdly. In other wotds, advertising, the "tore-keepeiV tunic. Is needed most, not when trade Is sttong but when It Is weik. Comprehension of this fact would do much to equalize and dlftuse husdne.s piospentj thioushout the twehe month's of tne jear. In the itish for the Klondike. Colo tado, ii gold pioduclng stnte, seems to hae been entltely fot gotten. Recent udilces place the Coloiado gold output for 1SS7 at $22,000,000 There's evident lj j-et something left this side of tho Klondike for the fe'lows who have the energy to dig. "In a few weeks," accoidlng to Gen eral Gomez, "Spain will either evacuate Cuba or fight the United States. She probably will do the fitst nnd talk of the other" Fiom which we infer that the "old fox" 1 as sharp with the tongue as he is with the swoid. The Philadelphia Times, geneially ipcognlzed as speaking with nuthoilty on state polities, asseits tliut State Chaiimnu Klkln Is active in suppoit Ing Colonel William A Stone for gov ernor. Heie Is a thanie foi Jlr nkln to get in, another denial Out In Ohio Senatoi Ciat field is woi Ic ing to abolish capital punishment. He Is light It ought to be abolished. Hut not until piovlslon Is made to substi tute an intelligent teformatory sjs teni. Simply stopping hangings will work no conceivable good. Governor lmshnell should have tak en his stand against Maik Hanna when Matk was a candidate for gubernatot lal appointment. Now his opposition comes rather late. The navy last year cost the countiy $9,000,000 for salaries, labor and sup plies, but we don't see how tho coun tiy could get cheaper Insuiatice. Weylei's paper calling McKinley a "low-born scoundrel" suggests that it must have secured on Its staff u New York Journal graduate. If Weyler wero only otdlnarlly shrewd he would pocket his "Insults" with his spoils and consider one the price of the other The Chinese situation la uuildly re peating the Armenian situation; that Is to say, one big power Is afraid and the otheis "dassent." Criticism of tho preeldent fdr stand ing by Hanna Is unfair. McKinley Is publlclyvplcdged to reclptoclty, What the Hon. James J, Corbett most urgently needs at this time Is a large Instalment of silence. Since Ksau sold hlJ birthright for a mess of pottage history has supplied no Instance of short-sighted folly com parable with that of the element In this country which wants the govern. mont of the United States to let Ha waii pass Into the possession of some other power, thus deliberately throwlnB away the key to the Pacine. m Those Ohio bolters forget how sad It would make Hon. Joseph Benson For nkcr to bo compelled to attend Marcus (urelius Hanna's political funeral. ' ' ' In connection with the Greater Now Yotk experiment Air. Piatt gets the credit, Air. Croker gets the ofllces fttid the public, as usual, gets left. "To bo an American,1' sayB former Ambassador Bayard, "Is a safeguard in London." It ought to be a safe guard everywhere. If General Pando doesn't like his job In Cuba, was know of no great public void which would be created by his resignation. It begins to look us If the premier of Spain wete pteparing tho nlr-cushlons for a heavy downfall. TOLD BY TUB STARS. Dull) Horoscope D:avn by AJncclni'i, The Tubulin, Astrologer. Asttolabo Cast: 2.31 u. m, for Tuesday, Jal llary 4, 1S9S. ft1 3 M A child bom on this day will notice that the fellows with tho thinnest skins are generally tho most anxious to thiow d.trls nt others. This Is seed time Willi Die Ice men. Tne golden harvest will occur next tall when tho bills are presented. In tho matter of faicncll appearances Ptlnce Itl.mnick would seem to be a dan gerous ilval to the dlvlno Pattl. One of tho greatest objections to the board of ccntrol seems to be In the fact that the membirs can itad nnd write. " As u matter of economy many haie been obliged thus far to ib'crie fulth fullv the New Yeat "swtai oit" resolu tions AInnj men who Imagine that they are keen us the nxe, are often In tho collis ion surpilsed to find that they aie the "chicken " fiopeftil Business Otiflook lor 1898 l'rom the Philadelphia Ledger. O BUIOIITBNING business outlook A Is reported fiom so nianj- pottions jli of the count! y that lbyS piomlscs to jy be notably ptosperois jeai. The encouraging prospect Is not lepoit ed fiom u tew localities, but It seems to be widespread and Includes many rep teventatlve renters of commercial actlv Itj. One uf tnp salient features of the business situation is tho fact that trans portation lines are showing a lecoveiy fiom the depressing conditions which dining thp past ten jears lesulted In the creation of many leeelieishlps. The re ilial of tho business of the earning companies is iudlcatlle of the lenewal of trade generallv. The Uailwuy Age N an thoiltx for tho statement that the list of new rallwuv lecelvci ships in 1S37 was 3ltr prlslngly small i.s compated with the lecord of anj- of the Hie preceding yeats. 'Hie gloss earnings of 121 railroads for the year show an Inciease oier those of lb'.'U of J2!.OO',0W, the lnciease occurring dining the last six months of tho jear The net earnings make u better exhibit The net earnings of 118 toads tor tho ten months ending on Nov. I, lbJ". revealed an Increase of more tliun 11 per cent ovr the same pel led lu lfl, ThP mnrp linnetul situation of this great interest may be accepted as ii trido batometer foteshu dowlng betur conditions lor our manu factures, agilculture and commerce. o from the Chicago Clearing House, rcp t venting the ollos,al transactions or the West nnd Northwest, comes the cheetfal Intelligence that the clearings for the past veai show it hundsome, gain ovtr those of lfcW. The lining tldp of Western piospnr-itj- was noticed In the beginning of Aug ust last und the December cleaiun-s were greatly In advance of those of nnv month since December, 1SD2. The trade done duilng the last jeai at the Union Stocujauls in that city is suggestive of the lmpioved and improving food-buing capacity of our people. Pi Ices naturally Increased lu sjinpathy with tho rlso In the ptice of reienls, but there was on cncouiaglng gain in the demand for live stock. The gain In catloads of stock was 1 COO over the recoid for lSDt!. Tho stack handled In 1S97 made a close approach to that handled In liD2 o lu New Dnaland genet al business has conspicuously lmproied according lo tho statement of the Iloston Clearing House. Tho Boston bank clem lugs for December show an increase ot mole than 12 per cent oi er December, U'JO. The bank clearings lu Baltimore ate still more en couraging showing an Increase of moie than $70,000 000 over l&'Xi. and Wj.OOO.OOO !n excess or the clearings or IS1).;, nnd ex- ceptionaiij- prosperous nusiness vear in that cltj. It is announced that ls'.'S prom ises to bo the most prospeious j-ear the South has had for many vears The maiked expansion of the cotton and woollen manufactures In this portion of tho country will contilbute gieally to its development. In St. Louis the bank dealings for lt97 broke tho jeaily ucoid. o The heavy balance of tiade in our favor Is lesultuut upon tho dimensions of our export trade, uuptecedented In our com met ciat hlstorj. Much of this euoimous. ly increased export trade has been caused bj short crops abroad. Tho foreign de mand for American bieadstuffs has In ured to the ndiuntnge of our Western fatmers, who hsuo been enabled to can cel a large amount of mortgage mdebtel licss, nnd to Increase their ability to buj' commodities of all sorts. The Increase In the mailable capital In the hands of the farming population of thoWest must bo reflected sooner or later In mnnj' Indus tries and enterpilses, Tho financial re habilitation of tho West, tho progressive improvement of the transportation busi ness, the decided incrense of bank clear ings mo substantial and significantly hopeful factors ofaho business situation without reference to tho possibilities of tho tnrur as a revenue producer, or to changes which maj be Introduced In our financial system. EVIL EFFECTS OF SM0KIN0. Trom the Mjjdlcal Record. In tho Journal of tho Russian Nation al Health Society for September last. Dr. Mendelssohn contributes nn account of the results of some observations made by him u few j-ears ago, in regard to tho ef fect of smoking on tho health ot stu dents, In view of tho great Interest taken now by medical men lu tho question, these deductions should provo Instruc tive. In 1S0O a circular was sent to every student of the Army Medical academy In St. Petersburg, and In the Technological Institute, containing several questions which the students were asked to an swer, and 1,071 leplles were received. Among the medical students St W3 per cent, were found to bo habitual smokers, and cmong technological students only 47.18. Judging from these statistics, smcklng appears to bo very con imon among the young1 In Russia. Two began Ihe habit at the extremely tender ngo of 0, 3 at tho age of 0,-11 at tho age of 10, 6 at the ago of 11. 27 at tho age of 12, and so on, tho maximum being reached, at the ago of 47. The average number of cigarettes smoked dally by n medical student was 18.01. and by a technological student 22 88. (Thq fact should bo borno In mind that Rus sian cigarettes are very small,) o The tabulated figures relating to the effect of smoking on the health are very Interesting, and If accurato go further tq emphasize the fact that smoking Is detrimental to the health of the voung. Of tho smokers 16.09 per cent, were fOund to have, nomo affection of tho respiratory tract, while only 10 C9 of the non-smokers woro thus affected. In respect to dis eases of tho alimentary tract, tho figures wcro respectively 11.88 and 9.92 per cent.; and of both tracts combined, 8 77 and 3.32 per cent. Turning to tho effect Of tho age nt which tho habit was begun, It was found that those who had acquired the linblt beforo tho ago of 10 years gave higher percentages of Illness than thoso who began at or after that age. Another tablo Illustrates tho harmfulness of in haling tho smoke. o It has long been agreed that with tho young smoking Is not conducive to good health. To the ordinary adult it is prob nblo that smoking In moderation is by no means hurtful; in fact, many distin guished medical men have held that to somo persons It Is even beneficial. POSTAL SAVINdS BANKS. Prom tho Now York Sun. If congress should decide that the gov ernment maj' properly tako charge of tho pavings of tho people, ngreelngi to pay thereon 2 nnd 3 per cent. Intere'st, It Is not Imposlble that within ti very short period the deposits will ntnount to hun dreds of millions of dollars. In icply to u lecent lnaulrj' ns to what ho should do with these deposits In order to moke them earn interest together with tho ex penses incident to their collection nnd custodj", tho Ingenious head of tho post- olllco department pointed out that tne government is now pajdng In the form ot tent for postofllces alonn the very largo sum of $1,300 000 annually, and that tho deposits could bo used profitably In tho erection ot new buildings, with tho re sult of saving n largo part of this sum to tho United States treasury every year. o So far so good; but supposes that just about the tlmo Mr. Gary had oil his now postofllces readj to do buslnesj, the de positors, out of whoso savings they had been built, should put In a demand for their quarters and half dollats, how could he satisfy them? On what fund could he draw to pay them? To ask tho question is to answer It. There would be no fund at his disposal, und all he could do would be to fall back on congress, und have tho deposits made good through tho form ot increased taxation or tho issuo of a new loan. To meet sudden demands on crisis of this character the ordinary well regulated savings institutions have their surplus funds to fall back on, besides the securities and mortgages In which tho monej's intrusted tp them lmio been in vested. If the ttea'sury had a Biirplus of billions of dollais. no secretary could al low a penny of It to bo used for such n purpose without the specific authority of congress. It may bo that Air. Gary has In contemplation the printing of bonds, principal and lntirest payable in gold, to be Issued against the nickels and dimes left with his postmnsters bj men, women and '"children over ten jears old." If that Is the piogrumme, It Is not a system of finance that would commend Itself to any one except nn interested silver mtne ow ner. o The pictper function of the government Is to enact such legislation as will malto savings possible and not to worrj- Uselt about their collection and Investment. "Wi'ie we directed ftotn Washington." said Jefferson, "when to sow and when to reap, wo should soon want bread " i'uonTTcTivi:i'oiMt or i:i STATKS. UNIT- M CJ Mulliall, In North American Rc- v it w It appeals that, as regaids quantity, tlnee Americans now expoit ns much as the did twenty j-ears ng, which suf fices to show bow groundless are the pre dictions of some vulters who tell us that as population Inci eases so the surplus pioduclH of exportation must diminish. In the last twenty jeais population has i nsen fiom 45.000 000 to 71000,000 souls, an lrcrease of fS per cent., and at the same time the weight of exports has risen 173 per cent.: that Is three times as fast as population. The quantities of food yearly exported are sulllclent to feed UO.000,000 persons in Europe, from which It appeals that American farms uilse lood lor KW.OUO.WW of people j carl. The Western prairies nie capable of earning double the pres ent number of live stock, and ptoduclng ten times as much grain as they do, so that for at least n centuty to come, there Is every piobabllity that tho exportation of food will Increase with population. The same Is true as regards cotton, tho crop hav Ing risen 125 per cent In twenty j eats. The woild Is only beginning to have eildenco of the enormous pioductlie pow er of the United States TII12 KN'D AlTKOAClIlNtJ. l'rom the Washington Star The plain understanding seems to be thdt Spain is plajlng her last caid. Her first card was humane vvarfute under General Campos, her second was etteme savagery under General Wejler, and now she Is trjing a combination hocus-pocus with General Pai Jo In the field occupied with make-believe walfuie, and General Blanco In Havana occupied with makt bellevo statesmanship. It seems but ii question of a short time therefote when the United States will be obliged In the interests of peace to put an end to tho hugger- mugger under General Blanc o, ns In effect It did to the appalling butchety pnder General Weyler. TIIK TWO KINDS OI" COM,. rrom Saward's Review. The anthracite tiade has Mown In past jeais, us Is shown In the fact that lu 1S.7) the shipments reached .l.'ios.Mi'i tons; lu ttfio. S.513,12.1 tons; In 1S70. lj.bli.&JO tons, In ItSO. 2J.4J7.212 tons, In 1S90, 23,SCj.l74 tons, and lu ISSj, 40,511 477 tons. At the same time bituminous output has Increased at u far more, rapid ratio; in 1850 shipments were 1,000,000 tons, In ISO) thej" were 5,773, 077 tons, In 1S70, a totnl of 17,ClS,4(ji tons was reached, In 1880 It wns 52,417,761 tons, in 1S90. 93,C23,02(. tons, in 1SH3, tho total of bituminous for this countiy was 12),011, 241 gloss tons. The marvelous change even In tho llio yeais' period last named Is Indicative of the growth of this trade. Tiii2Ni:i:n or tiuui't. From tho Chicago Record, Habits of wastefulness uio not con duclvo to tho beat development of n peo ple. Thrift and frugality uto qualities essential to tho highest cltUenshlp, and the nation that does not deiclop them !s untrue to Itself. Mil. ANO MllH. VERY MUCH 1'I.KAHED TALKING ADOUT THKIH CIHUSTMAB CHINA llOUOIlT AT OUU STOKE. TIE CIEIONS, FEMBM, I'JS I.aclciuvuuim Avenue. iiDrniiE AteC V GO USMIT Tanig Will be one of out" 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 oi dollars worth of during inventory January therefore, we will have some interesting store news for you in a very few days. GOLDSMITH BROS. & CO- HEW YEAR'S GREETING. Lewis, Itellly & Davlcs wish tho peace ful, honest people of the woild a happy New Year. Wo are happj' because vie live In one of the most prosperous cities. In one of the best counties. In one of tho largest states and tho greatest coun tty that man Is privileged to live in. Among the cities, towns, etc., that wo wish to remember in a particular way are me following: Wllkes-Bane, Lake Arle"l. Georgetown, Haw ley, Honesd-Ll", Waymatt, iKImhurst, Moscow. Gouldsboro, Tobyhanna. Mount Poeono. Pocono Summit, Cresco, Henryvllle. Spniguevilte, Portland, Stroudsburg, Water Gap, Delaware, Mnnunka Chunk, Preston Park, Lake Como, Foyn telle, Belmont, Pleasant. 1'nlondale. Forest Cltj'. Carbondale. i White Bridge, I J er id n Archbald, Wlnton. Peckvllle. Kingston, Bennett. Forty-Koi t, Wj-omlng. Parsons, Miner's Mills, Mill Creek, Lain, Yatesillle, Plttston. Durjcn, Lackawanna, Taj lor, Avoca. Moosle Mlnooku, Hancock, Stiirllcht, fonkllii Great Bend, New Mlllotd, Allord. Klngslejs, Foster. Nicholson, Factoryvllle, La Plume, D.altou Oenbuin, Clarke Summit Chinchilla, Maj field. Nay Aug, Dunmore , Wlmmcis. utjphunt, I Dickson Cltj-, , Throop, iSeranton. IBlnghamton, Conkllu Center. Mapewood, Maj thej' live long nnd prosper Is the wish of Lewis, Itellly & Davies, the hon est and most extensive dealers In boots, shoes, rubbers etc.. In Northeastern Pennsjlvanla, Nos. 114 and 116 Wyoming uvenue, Scranton, Pa IISL1L k COMIX'S initirc M Snob a choice stock to Belcct from cannot be fouud elsewhere in this part of tho state. And when you couslder the moderute prices at which the goods uro inurUed K a further claim on the attention and consideration of buj em. GIFT SUC.GESTi.dN5. Wiutino Desks, i.oun'oes, wokktabi.ks, Kaby Chains, Qilt CiiAins, l.NLllUCl.AIKS ltOUKIUIS, BIIAVINO HTANIM, l'l.UEMrAI.S, Taboubettks. lKK.Hyi.Na tables. KanovTables, CltllVAI.GLASSb.S, 1'AllLOllCAlltNKlH. MusioOabinkts, CuntoUAiiiNtrs, Hook Cases Fancy IMskf.is, All at lowest prices consistent with the high quality of the goods. H511 & Gooeell At 121 North WatUlnston Avenue. Scranton, Pa. I A 1: j Happy ; New Year !' J to AIL ; I" F0OTE&SBIEARC0 l I Y)) Jilt Washington ieu (' 8 i : aventory v.- reliable merchandise will be laid aside for our Clearance pnee. beee MT nty u the lowest IELWBLE Clothnog o r Your njjoney back if you want it; and the same price to everybody. Open Evenings until After the Holidays. BOYLE 416 LACKAWANNA AVENUE. FINLE Special ' . Sale- of FANCY SILK 'For This Weel. We offer about 1,000 yards Fancy Silk, choice designs in 3 lots, incJud- jng Brocades, Persians, Romaini Stripes, etc0 in 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. 5t0.oAls. TllH liAt'KAVi I A A' 'ii, Courses prepur.wjii in I- VT.naw. medlclno or buslnessNUK v, .mber 13. Send for cataloiru X'homas M. Cuntl, LL. D., wt Buell, A. M. Y'S BAZAAR '6 at reliable Unas always Qimal MUCKLO 'liLANK Books -AND- OFFICE The most complete line in this uia. of Pennsylva- corner Time Books for fl898 at .STATIONERS, ENGRAVERS, IlO'lCX JEKMYN BUILDING. 1!)0 W'jomlog Avenue. HENRY BEL3N, JR., General Agent for the Wyomlnj District far Mining, Plaiting, y porting, Smokeless and tba Repuuuo Chemical Company's Kl EXPLOSIVES. fcnfety Fuse, Caps and Exploders. Rooms 'J J 'J, -J ill and 21 1 Comwoaweatth Uulldlng, ticraatoa. AGENCIES. TIIOS, I'OIll), JOHN 11. BMIT1I ASON, E. W. MULLIGAN. I'lttstom Plymouth VVilUes-Barre II PLEASAHT COAL AT RETAIL. Coal of the best quality for domesiio as and of all sizes, Including Buckwheat and Dirdseye, delivered la any part ot tho city, at the lowest rlc Orders received at the Office, firet floor, Commonwealth building, room No t) ttlephono No. 2621 or at the mine, tele phone No. 272, will be promptly attend to. Sealers supplied at the mine. T. SI Sale w, DUPOHTS PliOEIR. . i
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