PATUUDAY, JANUARY '22, 1S9J. THE SCRANTON TIUBILYE. SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, ;&!. V riilillhert Dully, ItxitM sumlav. by tlie Trlbuno lliblljhlni Company, M J my tents a Month. IMIKID AT THE r03T0rnm AT 8rnNT0S. ri.. A1 tlCOtlD-CLASg UA1L MATM1 TWELVE PAGES. SCRANTON, JANUARY J 893. RGPUBLICAN CITY TICKQT. Tor School Director. Tluce YcaiBIi;TRU NEt'LS, Elovcnlh TherYVnrs-D. 1. rillLLirS, rifth ward. . .. ,. Two Ycnrs-K. t). rELLOW S, 1 ourth TwoYeais-r. S. OODntlJY. Rlghth ward. One Yeai-1'. S. MARKER, Seventeenth One Yonr-I'MAS E EVANS, riftrcnth ward. Election Day. rehiu.iry 1.".. Seinn'ton W not iilono In the threat pucyl ruitullinent of Its postal facil ities hy reason if Insufficient federal appropriations. The mumcc H rrcnoin.1. Rut no douht this cloud has lt silver lining. Ret haps It' will educate the public- to Insist upon sucdi reforms In the mall classification us will do away with deficits In the postal service and pnimlt lmntoements and extensions lather than tlucnts of injurious re ductions. Tho enactment .of tho Loud hill re'llnB the ratei on second-class mallei would soon plug up the present leak and make possible a surplus " Senator Quay on Bolting;. Senator Ottaj. who has been criti cized for voting with the Democrats to lake up the Teller lcsolutlon de claring that suwrnment bonds can he paid In -liver as well as gold, makes this explanation of his vote. "I consider that good paity prlltlcs. K tho Demoeiats nie foollh enough to go on leronl again In faor of free silver and In favor of repudiating our bonds they ought to be permitted to do so 1 will not ote with them to pass the icsolutlon, but they have otcs enough of their own Their course. If persisted In, is 111 result In itlie election of a Republican house of lepre.-ntatlvcs this fall and compel the Democrat to make the fight In l'.'OO on the flee coinage Issue. At the tame time it will tally together again nil the Mends of su Iionest dollar. I annot understand why the Democrats made such nit unwise move. It will make larger the schism In the Demo natle tanks In the Hast and irake cer tain the ckctlon of Republicans to (suc ceed Senator Murphy. In New York, and Senator Smith, In New Jeisey. The passage of the l esoluMon will ulso uise ortain eastern Republicans of wealth who hae been figuring on bolt ing their nartv nominees this year to ifpll-e I hat the financial question Is not settled by any mein." It Is possible that "certain eastern Republicans of wealth" would have no wish to bolt their party this year If thoe who ale recognized as leaders of the party In the East did not permit discredited lieutenants apparently to force such a necessity upon them. nounts of the recent victories of government tioops ovr tho insurgents in Cuba prove that the Spanish ad vance agents know enough to hang out posters at the pioper time. An Unfounded Scare. The sugar trust. In Its fight against Hawaiian annexation, hus sought to prill t the feats of American grower a i'f t:.e fugai- beet, by representing to them that Hawaii as a part of the United States would spdft their market. The effort is Ingenious but the facts do not bear it out. The figures cited below are fiom th records of the Uni ted States department of agikultuie: "The average amount of sugar Im poited Into the United States annually ftorn l!!ia to 1S97, Inclusive, was 1,830,48.2 tons of '2.H0 pounds each, valued at 5111,57",.''. The Importation during the flfcnl ycer ending June so, 1&07, was 4 CI.SJ: tons moie than the average of the four piectdlng yeais, which was 1.7i"i.Vil7 ton, owing to the desire of importer. to anticipate the elteet of the tailff act pending in congress dutlr.g the last months of tint yeai. The av erage Importation of mtsur from the Hawaiian Islands from ISM to 1S'j7, In clusive, was 149,450 tuns, valued at $!i.!7J,9:'I. The Importation for the tis al year of 1S97 was 19J.50S tons, being 43,052 tons above the aveiago of the in 'ci ding foui j ears. During 1S97 the U.rvallnn sugar was i'.l per cent, of the amount consumed In the United States. Prom ISM to ISO It was 7.1 per cent, e f our consumption. "The licet sugar consumed In the 1'nlted States in 1S96 whs 18 per cent.; In 1M7, it was 37 per cent, of the total consumption. Tho disturbed condition oi Cuba doubtless caused much of th'ls markul Increase, but the beet sugars Horn countries In continental Uurope are thee from whleh we may expect tho most active competition. The pro duction of beet sugar In the United States In 1897 was 41.347 tons of 2,210 pounds each; of cano sugar, 287,007 tons, of ir.aple sugar. .",000 tons, and of i-orghum sugar, 200 tons. The total do nestle product was 335,650 tons. The total refined product of Imported sugar was 1,760,007 tons, making the total an nual consumption 2.09C.26J tons, From the foregoing it appears that 84 per tent, of the sugar consumed In the United States was imported, That an Importation from Hawaii of between 7 and 9 per cent, of tho sugar needed in the United States, upon which freight for 2000 miles of water haulage and an average of not less thap 1000 mllps of land haulage would have to bo a,dded to the cost of Initial production, could seriously menace tho dontcsllo beet sugar Industry, from which the cost of 'transportation Is practically eliminated, Is a supposition veiy far-fetched. If the beet sugar In dustry could not sur(vlye such a com petition It would not deserve to live. Resides, ujn, Hawaii a part of the United States It would not be compe tition in a largo sense, any mote than beet sugar production In one state competes with beet sugar production in another. - TJie pasnsr OfjhVfp'Jitnjse. tfiilrpad fncjsthes ,haiidsof tlio)( Leolsh , .Valley company nlir attcndecl by 'all, rtirta of jallroad rumora over In Wyoming, Hroud Range ronds from TuiiUhannorlc to Hlwrhamton, Wllllnrnsnort, Noxen, tip Rnwinnn'e creek and In other dlrcr tlons nru talked of. If nil of the pres ent schemes mateilallzc nearly every farmer In Wyoming will doiibtlcsn have a flipping ntntlon for produce light nl his hack door. Hag the esteemed Lebanon Report any warrant mivc silly prejudice for calling the present secretary of the commonwealth a "ward thug"? The Traction Company's Prosperity. We obcrve In the Philadelphia Ledger an ndvcitlsemcnt by J. W. Clatk & Co. offering for salo certain securities of the Scranton Railway company, which "owns tho entire street railway system of Scrantpn, I'a." Tho point of Interest for Scran tonlans In this adveitlscment Is em bodied In the information that the gross earnings of the company from all sources for 1S97 were $360,325.42: tho operating expenses, $179,974.10; the net earnings- $1SC,331.02, or more than the operating expenses; all fixed charges, Including taxes, $1S.,170,3C; and the surplus or profit for the year, J51.180.66, or In round numbers 14 per cent, of the cash business done. In other woids, In a time of marked depression In the general condition of buslne", the Scranton Railway com pany, operating In n territory necessi tating longer than the average hauls In communities of equal papulation, has not only met from Its current re ceipts the expenses of .operation and tho considerable fixed charges, but has turned the coiner with a margin of profit cqunl to one-seventh of Its cash iccelpts. On every nickel fare that It collected In 1S97 the company cleared even mills. We call attention to these facts, first, because It elves us pleasure to note the success of local Institutions which aie In the pursuit of legitimate busi ness; secondly, because we deslte to congiatulate General Manager Frank Sllllman. Jr., upon this conspicuous evi dence of bis administrative capacity; and thirdly, becuue we now feel em boldened to suggest to the officials of this road that thev can well afford to call In and make kindling wood of the large number of filthy and disreputable cats whleh they are at present operat ing on a number of their lines cars which It is an outrage to ask a decent person to enter and also expend some money In Hack lenalrs on lines like, say, the Gieen Ridge People's, whleh Is probably the worn stilp of tiollcy roadbed In the United States. The Washington Tost ftoths all over Itself In Its effort to make believe that Spain is doing its whole duty In Cuba. Rut the Post piobably doesn't dcslie to be taken seriously. Unsatisfactory. The official statement, printed In all the papers yesterday, setting forth the administration's Intentions with refeience to Cuba, Is by no means satisfactory. If the United States has a moral duty to perform In Cuba, then the Information as to Cuban conditions furnished by our own diplomatic rep resentatives in that Island shows that we are nationally remiss In trying to postpone Its effective performance. If we have no duty theie then the president should not talk as if he thought we had. In either event. It is not a matter for dalliance. Dither Spain is right In its lule over Cuba or It is Intolerably wrong. If right, we plainly have no business to Interfere In any wny, shape or manner, either with criticism, suggestion or command. If wtong, can the president defend a polity of non-lntet venllon which, by the sworn information of our own of ficials in Cuba, not to mention volu minous corroborative testimony, Is per mitting hundreds of thousands of Cu ban non-combatants to be starved to death under circumstances of peculiar shame and horror'' The fact stands formally confuted and attested b the president and by bis spokesmen on the floor of the house that during two yeais under the regime of Weyler, Snaln inflicted on Cuba u dispensation of Infamy such as has had no modern parallel. Condemnation of Weylerlsm by McKlnley and Hltt Is unspailiiEly seveie. These men alto say that Weylerism stands approvjd by a laig- and Inlluential element among the Spanish people who may at any moment be successful In le-lnstal-Ing Weyler In power. They gie this as the explanation of the ministerial anxiety at Madrid and the recent anti- autonomy tints at Havana. Yet they want the Ainerleun people; to sit pa tient while amidst these multlphing menaces Sagasta and lilinco held out to the unstaived Cuban remnant the rham promise of Impossible compro mise, following up hole-ale assassina tion with attempted wholesale decep tion. They want us to Indulge both Spain and Cuba in what we know Is a fnlse hope, apparently for no other reason than to keep a disgraceful nom inal peace. If we me to wash our hands cf the whole Cuban matter and let war, fam ine and pestilence do as thev will In tho Pearl of tin Antilles, all right; but let us at least be honest about It. Let us not piate in one breath about imral responsibility and In the n?xt cry halt to eery effort to cause that resnon tlbillty to be effectively accepted. In the New Yotk legislature Senator Ellsworfh has Introduced a bill which "provides that any person who as prin cipal or agent conducts or engages In the business of editing, publishing, printing, selling, distributing or circu lating any licentious, Indecent, corrupt, depraved or libelous paper, or a paper which corrupts, depraves, degrades or Injures the mlnda or morals of the pub lic or Its readers or of the people among whom It circulates, Is guilty of n mis demeanor and upon conviction of any such offense shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by Im prisonment for not moro than one year, or by both fine and Imprisonment for tho first offense, and upon conviction of uny subsequent offense shall be pun ished by Imprisonment of not less than one year nor moro than five years, or In adultlon theieto the defendant and his agents and employes shall bo pro hlblted from thereafter publishing, printing, selling or distributing such papers or any paper of the same name." The passage of this bill should be fol lowed by tho enactment of another compelling those eligible to Jury ser vice tinder the Ellsworth scheme to display visible symptoms of common 8en?o. The pale green silk night shirt, bound as to Its collar and sleeves with hand made cmTiioldery, which was found In Runco-man Spencer's grip is filling the Jail officials of aesthetic Ros ton with awe. Tho Rostonese fancy runs' rather to book bindings than paja mas and Is Incnpable of appreciating the sense of fitness which led the fam ous gtccn goods man to luxuriate In a green leather dress suit case and pale green night robes. Help tltc Home. Probably no Institution In this region so closely touches the sympathetic feel ing of the people as does the Home for the Friendless, which for twenty five years has been the kindly ehclter of aged and feeble women, upon whom the hand of adversity has fallen heav ily, has stretched gentle nrms to the little children, who have come unloved Into a cold woild, and has welcomed the other little ones, who, though ten derly treasured, have been brought thither by heart-broken widowed moth ers or by desolate and forlorn fathers, from whose home the light has gone out forever, nnd who were powerless to give the needed care. It Is a woik which appeals strongly to even the Indifferent nnd one In which Interest once nwakened never (lags. It Is with regret that tho public will learn of the sore straits In which the management of this worthy charity finds Itself placed. A heavy mortgage Is resting on the Adams ave nue property, which It has been ex pected would find a purchaser long be fore this date. The new structure Is almost ready for occupancy, but an accumulation of debt to tho amount of $20,000 embarrasses those who have bo long tolled In the hope of seeing the increasing family safely and comfort ably housed. To place a mortgage on the new property Is to be deprecated, and to avoid this prompt assistance is' needed. This Is an appeal which comes very close to tho hearts of the com munity. Money Is wanted to tide over Immediate necessities. It is asked by the managers that the newspapers take up this cause at the present and help the Homo by their support. The Tribune gladly accedes to this request and urges the genctous people of this town to send In their subscriptions at once to Mis. D. D. Taylor, treasurer of the Foclcty. Save tho Home for the Friendless from the Incubus of a great mor tgage. General Booth Is by far the most pic turesque figure among the religious and social forces of tho century. Ho stands for the nearest practical approach to the Ideals of -Christianity yet attained by any religious movement. Chicago Tlmcs Hcrald. Come, now, isn't that daubing It on pretty thick? Representative William A. Stone will, according to present indications, be tho next governor of Pennsylvania, but his nomination, which will bo equivalent to election, will be accomplished by the force of his own merit. Pottsvlllo Min ers' Journal. Indications ate often very deceptive. Whether or not Mrs. Luetgcrt was made Into sausage there seems to be a cosslblllty that some of the SDcetators will suffer that fate In their efforts to hear everything at the second Luetgett tilal. Actor Ratcllffe is the best "billed" star In the country today. It Is fortu nate th'at circumstances lender It Im possible for the matinee girls to bury him in violets. The Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph now appears in a gown of pale ashes of rose tint, very becoming, and in no way to be confused with the Police Gazette. It begins to look as though the first battles of the contemplated war with Spain aie to be fouglit on the floor of the national house of ramesentatlves. The Commercial Advertiser says that "our Cuban policy Is now sane, digni fied, strnlghtforward and iffectlve." UffeciW''.' m Congiossman Hltt appeals to be very much In the position of the man who Intruded upon the habitation of the hoi net. Topics of the Day ?H Info Dialogue U-oi The Tribune, by H. MeAlpine.J On the Covcriiiiiunt Limited. Millionaire traveler: "What Is the matter? We were running slow and stopping eiciy little while befoie wo teached the last station, and slnco we left there we have been creeping, Jf the engine Is bioken why don't you get another one?' Conductor: "We hae n giecn fireman from somew litre luck In the Butternut Mountains, He's never fired anything be fore, except brush heaps and can't keep up steam. Eory time tho engineer puts on the blower he gets scared thinks sne's going to bust and Jumps off; we've hart to stop and pick him up about elftht times. State Senator Puffer got on at the hist station; he's taking a cow out to his farm and has her tied to the rear coach " Traveler: "Why. what's tho matter with you, man? Cut his Infernal beast loose bo wo can get a moo on us. I havo a telcsram that my wife Is dlng. If I don't reach her bedside within ten hours It will be too late." Conductor: "Well, stranger, theso Populist statesmen havo a crowd of re latives they're anxious to get onto the railroads, and us old employes gets cleaned out mighty easy nowadays. Sen ator Puffer Is the head of tho bureau for the management of the state railways. I'd liko to cut his animal loose so you could get to your wife, but you see, I'e got a wife and chlldien of my own and this Job's all I havo to support them with, There go tho brakes! That's a btop, Fireman must be off again," Rear hrakemau: "I guess the cow's1 tiled; she's lying down, and tho fccnator wants to let her rest awhile." Conductor: "All right. Run back with a tlug. Keep you eye on tho cow and when sha gets up hurry In so we can start before she takes a notion to lie down again. Btranger,' I guess tho beat ou can do Is to stop swearing ond try living a better life so you can meet your wlfo when you die." o heienco in the Court. District Attorney: "One of tho most hideous nnd diabolical crimes of the century hns been committed In our midst; n father ntid mother and their four helpless llttlo ioiics hao been killed, nnd the walls of their peaceful homo be spattered with their life's blood. Wc will show that tho prlsorer at tho bar, who carries himself so Jauntily and smiles so sweetly at you. Is the one who did this fearful thing. We hnvo liny witnesses to prove his bad character and our de tectives have woven a chain of evidence about him that wilt demsml from you, gentlemen of tho Jury, a verdict of mur der In tho first degree." . Attorney for the defense: "We admit oil that the pioecutlng attorney has claimed, but wo will nroc conclusively that our client 'was not responsible. Wo will show that his actions wero tho re sult of uncontrollable impulses, emanat ing from ell memories accumulated In cirtaln portions of Ills brain. Tho em inlnent specialist who Is present will remove ii large portion of his skull so that you may see tho distended condi tion of the brain cells within the bump of aggressiveness and comparer them with tho normal condition of tho stir totmdlng gray matter. He will also make nu Incision over the heart nnd show how the diseased condition of Hint organ stimulates these nbnormnl cells to exces slvo nctlon. Wc shall not ask for mercy because of the drops of sweat you see upon tho prlsonet's brow; the raised hair upon his head; the bulging eye balls. Wo demand only Justice towards your unfortunate brother, whoso condi tion calls for scientific treatment at some sanitarium where be can be tenderly nursed back to a healthy condition of mind nnd body. If your honor will al low us to proceed with the defense, the Instruments and operating table are ready to be brought In. We wlshxto make this case a new depnrture In " Prisoner: "Never mind! Nccr mind, boss! 1 don't want to be no now depar ture. J m nn old fashioned man, I am, and hanging's good enough for me. lirnln cells didn't lmo nnvthlng to do with it, your honor. 1 killed them people with n sledge so I could get the boodle I thought there was In the house. I de serve to hang and I want to be sent enced right away. If this cilmo Isn't enough to hang me without n tilal, your honor, I can confess to a dozen other murders." o A 1'n bin. British Lion: "I don't see how It s. Rvcry time the Spanish bull snorts a llttlo the American eagle hides his heart under his wing nnd hunts for a hole to crawl Into, v hllo I enn't even look at anything across the pond without his Hy ing In my fnce nnd clawing my fur loose. You tell Undo Sammy I'm going to chew up his pet the next time It gets funny; I'm tired of lu.vlng my tall twisted by a bird that lets a blind old ox scare It out ol a y?ar's giowth." Johnny Bull "In the spring I'll stir up a rumpus mllli the natives of Bulawabago and Ton can chow them to rclleie your feelings: I'e got lots of money Invested on Uncle Sammy's farm, and If you should hurt his eagle 1 might loose It. Old Spain lets his bull act sassy becauso he knows Uncle Sam Is very busy hoeing Popullstic weeds out of a new crop of good times, nnd will let him slaughter all the poor littln Cuban chickens and null some of tho tall feath ers' out of the eagle, rather than gel Into a fuss and be compelled to neglect his tender prosperity plants." o In Jlnvnnn. Spanish ofilclal: "Senor Lee. we desire to offer every facility for the distribu tion of the supplies your people hae sent to tho poor Cubans, but we have encountered a very grave difficulty. Our soldiers, so long tho boiled mule and tho law yam have eaten that It makes them mad to see their prisoners filling up with potted ham and pickled pigs-feet. Wo notice among your supplies several bar rels of sandwiches; I, mvsolf, have In tho United States made a little travel and chewed upon the sandwich, and I beg you to allow us to distribute these barrels among our mutinous soldiers. who will then think the American pro visions are a new scheme to kill off tho reconcentrados, and thus happily a re rlous rciolt may bo averted." AS ADMINISTRATION MEASURE Prom the New York Sun. It is well for eery Republican senator to remember that the only distinctive administration measure now before con gress Is the Hawaiian annexation treatv. Ihcre is nothing else of a"y Importance that comes straight from the executive to congress, marked with the president's recommendation and attended By his earnest and anxious desires. Mr. McKln ley has put his annexation treaty In the first place of urgency. Annexation Itself Is much more than nn administration measure; much more than a party measure. The demand for It Is tho cxpreoslon of an Americanism which Is high above any consideration of partisanship. But this treaty In par ticular, designed to effect tho annexa tion of Hawaii at once nnd In the man ner preferred by the president and his secretary of state. Is peculiarly Identi fied with the present administration, and Its success or failure will stand In history as the most conspicuous event of Mr. McKlnley's term In the white house. Its success or failure will depend upon Republican votes. Its rejection by Re publican otes in the senate would be a direct repudiation of the foremost meas ure of administration policy by the Re publican senators so voting. AWAY WITH FALSE PRIDE. Fiom the Ehnlra Advertiser. It seems clear now that hundreds of thousands of lives might have been saved In Cuba If our government had recognized the Insurgents as belliger ents even so lately as one year ago. Tho most horrible state of things known to modern hlstoty exists In Cuba and its ghastly details are undisputed. It need never have come to pass If our gov ernment had done a simple act of justice toward the insurgents by recognizing them officially. That has been the one thing against which the Spanish hae fought harder than' against Cuba Itself, and with far more success. Whether jus tice shall be done at last remains with the Republican majority In the house to determine. The Democrats aro right In urging recognition and It Is to be hoped that no nentlment of false pilde will stand In the way of action by tho major ity party which shall In some mcasuro rescue the American name fiom the re proach which Is gathering over It for permitting 400,000 persons, cnlclly old men. women and children, to bo des troyed under tho very eyes of the Amer ican people without moro than a mere protest from tho government of that peo ple. It Is a most extraordinary spec tacle and It Is lamentable that Dcrrr.o cratlo congressmen should, for any rea son, bo more anxious, to end It man their political opponents seem to be. HavJIamid CMaia WE ARE CLOSING OUT i'OUR OF OUR OPEN STOCK CHINA PAT TERNS At Costc IK YOU WANT A CHINA PINNER fET NOW IH THE TIME TO BUY WE ARE TAKING ACCOUNT OF feTOCK AND WANT TO CLOSE OUT THESE POUR LINES BEFORE 1'EB. RUARY 1. TIE CiEIQNS, 1FEEEEE, AIXEY CO. 4'J2 Lackawanna Aeirte. Gfl MMIM OENT g9 FURNISHING DEPARTMENT Special Sale of Percale and Madras Shirts, with two collars and detachable cuffs. Also white bodies with colored fronts and separate cuffs.. There was a time when we sold no better than these at $1.00. Our Price, 48c Great Clearing Sale of Men's Flannelette Night Shirts, all new designs, full length, best of workmanship. M OFF Will ME B AS THE OLD YEAH IS CAST OFf" like nn old shoe, so should you reole to carry out the simile by coming In nnd select ing a now Dnlr of our elegant '08 Hhoes. Just receUed for those who wont advance styles at backwurd prices. Lewis, Reilly & Mvia WYOMING AVENUE. THE MODERN HARDWARE STORE. THEY'IRE GOING FAST Those Oil Heaters wc told you about last week. But the fact of our having had a good sale of them WILL NOT change our resolution to clean them out. THEY MUST GO And judging trom prices we are selling them at they won't last long. Call and Be Convinced. & s: IIP N. WASHINGTON AVE. MILL & CORNELL'S TT LWiitire .Such a choice stock to select from cannot be found risen here In this part ofthe state. And when you consider the moderate prices at which the goods are marked Is a further claim on the attention and totuldcratlon of buyers. GIFT SUGGESTIONS. Wr.tTiNcj Desks, Dukssixg Tables. KANCVTAnLKS, Cheval glasses, Parlor CAMMirs. Mi;sioOadikts, CuaioCauinets, Rook Casks, Kacv Baskets, I.ou.soks, WonK Tables, Easv Chairs, GiltChuiw, InlaidCkairs, Rockers, Siiavimo Stands, Pj.dkstals, Tabourettes. All at lowest prices consistent with the hlch quality of the goodi. Hill & North Washing athlnslon Aveaue. Scranton, Pa. BlE CJ. K OUT The Very Best Clothlog Manufactured Is the only kind we have; you can buy it as low as you would have to pay for the ordi nary, Call and see what we are offering. BOTH 416 LACKAWANNA AVENUE. IHLEY u EI Sfor 1898. lias just been received and is now open for your inspection. The assortment far exceeds any previous line shown. The quality and patterns arc hand somer, and prices lower than in any former season. Our stock comprises all widths in Fine Cambric, Nain sook and Swiss, and in the finer grades we have them in Setts with All-Over to match. 510 and 512 LACKAWANNA AVENUE New Enura enes BAZAAI -PR '51 MUCKLOW 9 A Place for EverytMiii Its Place Everything OFFICE SUPPLIES MYNOLES BROTHERS, STATIONERS, ENGRAVERS, JIQTKI. JERMVN BUILDING, 130 Wyomlne Avenue. HENRY BEL1N, JR., Ceneial Agent for the Wyomlnj District for wren Mining, Illastlng, Sporting, Smokelen and the Rcpauno Chemical Company's HIGH EXPLOSIVES. Cafety Fuse, Caps and Exploder! Rooms 'Ji'j, 213 and t!l t Corumouwtalttt Bulletin;, Scranton. AGENCIES: THOS FORI), JOHN B. SMITH A SON. E. W. MULLIGAN. rittstos riymouth Vilke-Barr II PLEASANT COAL AT RETAIL. Coal of the best quality for domestta us and of all aires, lncludtnc Buckwheat and Blrdseye, delivered in any part of the city at the lowest price Orders received at the Office, first floor, Commonwealth building, room No ! telephone No. 2C24 or at the mine, tele phone No. 172, will be promptly attended to. Dealers supplied at the mine. T. S fQ)(Q)C POlOEBo ' . "