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l.NTI'ltEI) AT THU l'OSTOKFICK AT SCHANTON,
PA., AS Sr.CONt)-Ct.ASS MAII MATTER.
SOKANTON", FIUmiJAP.Y 22, 1898.
It In probably Just as well Mint Undo
Bain's (livers bad (be first peep at Miu
wreck of the Jlnlnc. .
Washington's Blrtlnlay. (
At tbls period of unrest, when tbo
wild alarms of nr nre llablo at any
jnoment to peal forth In terrible re
verberation, the celebration o tbe holi
day set apart to commemorate tho
birth of America's greatest warrior
and statesman must have unusual pIk
nlflcance. Next to tbo date of tho slGti
lniT of tbo immortal document that pre
cipitated tho struRKlo for liberty, tho
date of the birth of tbo "Father of his
country" should be regarded as an
event of the first Importance by tho
patriotic citizens of the nineteenth cen
tury. The awful disaster that followed the
tending of a warship to Cuban waters
to protect the interests of American
citizens in a turbulent port indicates
thaHt may be necessary yet for the de
scendants of the heroes of the revolu
tion to exhibit their lighting qualities
In order that thu remnants of foreign
despotism may be taught to respect the
banner of the nation of tho free.
"What may follow tbe nttempts to un
ravel tbe complications that perplex
the American statesmen of today it
were dinicull accurately to foretell. In
any event, however, this seems to be
an occasion when tbe celebration of
Washington's birthday should bo en
tered upon with a will that shall ban
ish any suspicion that the spirit of '"G
has been slumbering for tho past few
months.
The administration may not have
moved as rapidly as many have de
sired in tho settlement of differences
with Spain, but all will observe that
there has been no disposition on part
of the government to recede at any
Btage of tho game.
Theories.
Tho report that divers in a prelimin
ary investigation nt Havana have
found the forward magazine of tbo
llalne Intact is of obvious Importance
if true, since it will destroy what has
been tho most plausible and the most
generally credited theory of those who
decline to believe that tho destruction
of tho Maine was designed. This the
ory cannot be better explained than In
tho words of a prominent naval en
gineer Interviewed by the New York
Sun. He said:
"Tho bulkhead between tho fire-room
of tho Maine and the forward maga
zine was a steel plate, a scant quarter
of an Inch In thickness. That was all
that separated tho fire-room, or tho
coal bunkers In the flrerooin, or tho
main coal bunkers alongside the maga
zine, from the magazine. When the
Maine was completed so that her fires
were lighted under the boilers I was
with others In tho magazine, nnd the
bulkhead separating the flreroom from
tho magazine became so hot that I
couldn't hold my hand on It. "When
this was discovered It was proposed to
put In a second bulkhead, leavlnr .an
air space between the first and second
to separate the boiler room from tho
magazine. Hut it was decided that
there was not room enough for this,
bo a sheathing of asbestos on the orig
inal bulkhead was substituted. My be
lief is that the Malno was destroyed
by the explosion of her forward maga
zine, caused by fire or beat communi
cated to the magazine from tho boiler
room or coal bunkers. I believe that
there was a fire in her bunkers, how
caused it Is if course Impossible to say."
Inasmuch as tbe Ignition of coal In
tho bunkers lias occurred frequently on
board modern warships, either by spon
taneous combustion or otherwise, the
theory Just outlined has been held
pretty generally among naval experts
who don't like to think that the Maine
was blown up by an enemy. But If the
forward magazine Is intact this theory
must necessarily be dismissed, and the
next best theory, if we except the most
prolmble one of nil, namely, the theory
of a submarine mine touched off
deliberately, will be that the boiler
exploded. Such an explosion could hap
pen In two or three ways: (1) by rea
son of structural defects; (2), shortage
ot water; or. (3), because of an ex
plosive Introduced with the coal. Tho
care with which the boilers ot tbe
Majhe were inspected previous to the
nqcldent renders Improbable the first
of,those conjectures; the second Is Im
probable on Its face and the third Is
peculiarly plausible.
If the report Is truo that the forward
magazine of the Maine is Intact wo
nro almost certainly justified In sus
pecting foul play.
-t,t, ,... .,.,,
On Thursday of this week the pies
ent Cuban Insurrection will bo three
years old. It has cost Spain $280,000,000.
tho lives of at least MO.OOO soldiers and
un. Immense amount of humiliation,
nrul Spain today doesn't hold a square
nvjle of territory except that in tbe im
mediate vicinity of the fortified towns.
The star of her sovereignty is fast
n&rltin; its total eclipse.
5 J ; ' I -iJ - -"
- tThe loss ot the Clara Nevada has
proved a warning to the victims of
avaricious steamship companies. The
pjfscjigers on tho Neh Pae, a small
hulk'jfhnt had betn permitted to sail
byneason of careless Inspectlon.rebelled
wftilo the craft was passing tho straits
nVjFtiiii, and forced the captain to re
turn to Port Townsend, where they
wg) demand their passage money. The
dtnpera attending tho overloading of
ntanu'ta :ln tho rush for tho Klondlko
gold ffdlfls has rifien been pointed out,
nrtft It la to bo lamented that tho loss
ofjn craft loaded with human beings
waKirmccHsary.to bring the steamship
companies and their victims to tho
sensn of the terrible risk tnW'n.
Delegato Palmn doesn't healtnte to
express his belief that tho Maine Was
blown up by a Spaniard, and what ho
knows about tho Spanish character and
methods entitles him to speak with
authority.
Telephone Charges,
An Interesting telephone war is In
progress In Washington. The charges
In that city rango from $S0 to $120 a
year, according to tho distance of tho
subscriber from the central otllco and
tho number of messages sent. For S0
a year tho subscriber hns the right to
send COO messages within n circuit of
mil.-?, and there Is n sliding scale for
longer distances nnd a larger service.
All messages above tho number given
nre charged oxtra at the rate 7, S, 0
nnd 10 cents each, nccordlng to dis
tance, and wh?n the subscriber signs a
contract ho stipulates that he will not
penult tho telephone to bo used by any
persons except the members of his own
family or his employes.
Mention was made recently of a suit
before the supremo court ot tho dis
trict of Columbia by which the Wash
ington telephone company secured a
decision making It possible for It to
prevent tho gu2sts at n hotel from using
tho hotel's 'phono except for tho trans
action of business specifically connect
ed with the hotel. According to the
decision they may use the telephone to
call a drayman to .take their liaggage
to tho station but they may not, with
out paying toll, telephone for theater
tickets or any one of a. thousand things
commonly considered to be within their
privilege as guests. The hotel men are
consequently boycotting the telephone
company, and a Washington letter in
the Philadelphia Press adds:
Tbo druggists of the city aro now band
ing together for the purpo.se of ordering
tho instruments out of their establish
ments. Tho doctors aro up in arms and
nro holding indignation meetings bc
causo part of tho regulations ot tho com
pany aro such as to prevent them send
ing confidential messages. They have no
privacy In their communications but n
censor listens to the messages, nnd If
theso do not comport with his ttiea of thu
terms of the contract they nro stopped.
Tho doctors aro also lortiluueii to en 11
up their own ollices from tho outsldo
without paying charges nt pay telephones.
Thero aro u dozen other stipulations that
aro claimed to be unusual nnd onerous.
This agitation in Washington has
spread to other cities, notably New
York, where the annual charge Is $240
a year. Tbo Tribune of that city has
been Investigating the matter and It
finds that in Detroit a company Is giv
ing first rate telephone service to I.ROO
local customers who average 54,000 con
nections dally at a charge of only $23
a year for residence phones and $40 for
business places.
An attempt will be mnde in Wash
ington to get congress to take action
In the matter. The committees in
charge of district of Columbia affairs
have before them a bill cutting the
charge In hnlf and making regulations
sufllclent to protect phone users. It Is
to be hoped that the bill will be en
acted. Horatio S. Itubens, counsel for tho
Cuban junta, corroborates the report
that the Cuban republic would be will
ing to pay Spain a reasonable sum to
evacuate Cuba before nil property there
is destroyed. Spain had better grab at
this offer while she has tbe chance.
Another Alothcrs' Congress.
There had been so many congresses
of women for purposes outside of wo
man's natural sphere and such a hul
labaloo and fuss concerning tho vagar
ies and vain pretences ot the so-called
Affranchised Woman that when, one
year ago, announcement was made that
thero was to be that novelty of novel
ties, a congress ot mothers, the public
took to It like a duck to water. Tho
congress was held as announced; It
was attended by many of the brightest
women and some of the best men of
the nation, and while there was noth
ing sensational In its work, nothing
that the yellow journals could exploit
under scare heads, the fund ot Infor
mation relating to motherhood and
childhood was visibly increased. The
paper? read and tho addresses deliv
ered before the congress represented
tho best thought of the country upon
the most vital human relationship, and
their widespread publication did an
amount of good not within the ability
of any one to estimate.
These recollections are suggested by
receipt of Information that a second
congress of mothers Is being arranged
for. This one, it Is expected, will be
International In representation, tho
idea having within the year taken hold
of tho more progressive women of a
number of foreign countries. It will be
held In Washington in May, and will
last six days. Tbe first day, according
to the prospectus, will be devoted to
receiving delegates.dlstiibutlng badges,
bearing reports of national officers and
flve-mlnute reports from clubs repre
sented, any club of not less than five
members being entitled to a delegate.
The second and third days will be de
voted to questions bearing chiefly uppn
tho relations of mother and child. On
the fourth nnd fifth days subjects In
volving the duties of both parents will
bo discussed. The sixth day will bo
given to a discussion of methods to be
employed from the Individual, social,
municipal, and national standpoint
which shall give to the child both be
fore and after birth such conditions ns
shall Insure to each successive gener
ation a higher type of humanity.
To this second congress ot mothers
the fathers and sons of the land will
extend their most cordial greetings and
their slncerest wishes for Its success.
In deciding not to admit' to state
hood at this time the territories of
Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico
congress has acted prudently. With
Nevada staring us In the face as an
awful example of misdirected enter
prise It behooves the American con
gress to make new states h jwly here
after. Onco made, a state cannot ba
unmade. Its creation Is for all time'.
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A bill has been Introduced at Albany
to put a stop to thu legal recognition
of "common' law" marriages. At pres
ent In Now York state the woman who
can establish that she cohabited with a
man may lay claim to part of his es
tate, even though that man had had
also an acknowledged wlfo whoso jaar
rlago with him had been properly cer-
tided. The present "bill refuses to ree
oitnlzc on Irregular social relationship
as Involving nny hold upon tho prop
erty of tho man, and It Is obviously
Just. If tbo law docs not protect mar
rlagu nothing else will.
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A Joint resolution proposing nil
amendment to the constitution making
tho terms of-members of tho' house ot
representatives four years Instead ot
two, as at present, has been favorably
reported to the house from the com
mittee on election ot tho president,
vlco president and representatives In
congress, but It will probably proceed
no further. Constitutional tinkering
Ik not popular.
Tbo president of the New York Bar
association Is credited in the press with
having asserted that In half tho cases
tried In the courts nowadays there Is
deliberate perjury. If tbls or anything
like this is true, tho lawyers ns a class
must bo cognizant of it and If they nre
truo to their oaths ns ofllcera ot tho
court they will see that the greater
part of It Is stopped.
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Owing to other events of greater In
terest, M. Zola Is not receiving tho
amount of advertising on this side of
the pond that would have been ac
corded had his trial occurred at almost
any other time.
TOLD BY TUB STARS.
Dnlly Horoscopo Outwit by AJaccbus,
Tbo Tribune Astrologer.
Astrolabe Cast: 12.01 u. m., for Tuesday,
Kcbiuury 22, IMS.
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A child born or this day will doubtless
icfer to tho event as tho anniversary of
"mo and George."
"Tho father of his country,-' It is stat
ed, woro a No. 13 boot. No wonder ho
left bold footprints in tho sands of tlmol
It begins to look as though ochro Jour
nalism in Scranton was not confined ex
clusively to tho t0-mllc-an-hour train ed
itions. Why not turn Messrs. Klrby and
Hcarxt loose on Spain, and end the allalr
nt once?
Alaecliu' Advice.
If you hear that tho VIscaya has blown
up Linden street bridge, do not worry. Jt
will simply bo an illustration of tho en
terprise of tbo fellows who have papers
to sell.
Torpedo's Effect
upon a Big Ship
From the Philadelphia Press.
N TIIH large number of cases In
which vessels have been blown up
and sunk by torpedoes In the past
forty years thero Is, as far as wo
know, no single cuso In which the
magazine was exploded. This docs not
prove that a torpedo or a submarine mlno
might not explode a magazine, and until
evidence is obtained no final judgment
can be reached, but it puts the burden of
proof against tho view that tho maga
zine of the Malno was exploded from out
sldo by a mine or torpedo. The treacher
ous Introduction of explosives might cx
ploilo from within. Tho Aquidoban, a
Brazilian battleship, Is ono of tho larg
est vessels yet destroyed by a torpedo,
and, with two exceptions In China, the
only ono approaching tho Malno In size.
The Brazilian vessel was 4,9u0 tons against
6,042 tons for tho Maine, thirty feet
shorter, live foot narrower and drawing
two feet less; her armor belt was an Inch
thinner and she had nlno Instead of ten
inch guns. In May, 1S9I, sho was struck
while under way, with steam up, in ac
tion, and hence with magazine doors open,
shell hoists In operation nnd her own
torpedoes charged and ready In tho bow
compartment, with a Schwartzkopf tor
pedo charged with 175 pounds ot gun
cotton, as powerful an rxploslvp as Is In
uso for this purpose. The torpedo took
effect In tho bow, below tho water tanks
at tho water line. Tho very detailed de
scription given by the English engineer
from a Brazilian correspondent, evident
ly a professional engineer, reports that
tho blow toro a hole through tho stem
ot tho vessel from sldo to side. Tho hole
on the side whero t..o blow was delivered
measured eleven feet ten Inches by four
teen feet eight inches. Tho hole on tho
other sldo was smaller. The deck plates,
about fifteen feet above this tremendous
blow, wero scarcely bent and wero un
injured. The water tanks were not
opened. The first and second compart
ments filled and the Aquidoban went
down by the bow; but no explosion took
place, although when boarded next day
shot and shell, with charges, wero found
In place in the forward turret and in the
open magazines.
o
Tho Blanco Kncalado, a Chilean ves
sel, was blown up at 4 a. m. April 23,
1S91, while lying moored to a buoy in
Coldera harbor for repairs, with no fires
In her boilers, though her crew was at
quarters before tho torpedo was fired.
At tho first attack all but tho watch wero
asleep and only her auxiliary battery was
in action, so that it Is probable her main
magazines wero closed. Her size, 3,000
tons, was a llttlo over half that of the
Maine, and sho was only two-thirds the
length and three-quarters tho width. Sho
was struck, according to tho official re
ports, by five Nordenfeldt torpedoes out
of seven. The charge Is not stated, but
It was not less than sixty pounds of gun
cotton, nnd may havo reached 120 or
more. At least two of tho torpedoes took
effect amidships, and tbe holes torn were
so largo nnd tho torpedoes were all fired
so close together all In about ten min
utes, by tbe Condell and Lynch, tho at
tacking boats that as largo a proportion
of her crew was lost as on tho Maine,
only forty-five escaping. No explosion
took place on board, although tho tor
pedoes wcro fired directly against the
magazines.
o
Flvo Chinese battleships and cruisers
were blown up by Japaneso torpedo boats
In February, ISM, In Wel-hal-Wel har
bor. Of those, the Chen Yuen and Ting
Yuen wero battleships, 7,430 tons, larger
than tho Maine; tbo Chlng Yuen and Chi
Yuen, cruisers of 2,300 tons, and tho
fifth a smaller vessel. Whllo all theso
were sunk while lying In harbor, tho
Jupaneses torpedo boat flotilla running
in on tho nights of Feb, 4 and 5, no one
of the vessels exploded. During our own
war tho Tecumsch was sunk In Mobile
Bay by a submarine mlno; but no explo
sion took place. Of flvo other vessels tor
pedoed only one, the Housatonlc, was
sunk. Tho new ironsides, against which
a gun powder torpedo was exploded, was
practically uninjured. Tho Albemarle
was sunk while at anchor by Cusblng
with a sixty-pound powder charge. Her
sldo was blown In, but no explosion fol
lowed, o
Tbo popular Idea of a torpedo or sub
marine mlno explosion Is of course that
It rends a ship In twain. This looks
pretty In a picture, but. llko tho picture,
It Is Imaginative. Kngllsh admiralty ex
periments and calculations Indicate
though they do not prove that tho blow
needed to shatter tho double skin steel
hull of a modern battleship Is 12,000
pounds to the square Inch. If we accept
tho formula for the forco of explosives
deduced from General Abbott's experi
ments at Wlllett's Point, a ground that
Is, anchored torpedo with 200 pounds of
dynamlto at flvo feet from a vessel ought
to exert a pressure of C4J40 pounds per
square Inch, or flvo times tho blow need
ed to break a holo, This blow decreases
rapidly ot a distance, being only 2.KI
pounds at fifty feet, or a mere Bhock.
Tho Malno was In 2d to 3S fret'of water
at mean low tldo nnd thereforo about 10
to 18 feet from tho bottom. 'The blow of
a submarlno mlno or torpedo would un-
doubtedly sink her, but evidence Is need
ed, cither In view of past experience or
of received calculations, to show how a
mine, and' muclt less a torpedo, could
blow a hole through her and explode the
magazine. This Is possible It Is Also
possible that explosives were Introduced
on board, llut It Is plain that great
caution Is needed In reaching a conclu
olon, and a suspended Judgment Is Indis
pensably necessary until all tho facts are
known.
BOILER-PLATE JOURNALISM.
Editor of Tbo Tribune
Sir: Your recent criticism of boiler
plato Journalism may not bo altogether
Inappropriate and will, no doubt, hit hard
In many of tho quarters where John
Wanamakcr's checks aro still kindly re
membered, but so far as tho editor of
tho Wllkcs-Barro Times Is concerned,
you should havo mado somo sort of an
allowance. No man In all WIlkes-Barro
worked harder for tho election of Frank
Wlieaton and Sam Morgan, two out nnd
out Quay delegates to tbo stato conven
tion, than did Mr. LUdon Flick, tho
brains and sinews of tho Times, and
tho nppearanco of tho boiler plato ar
tlclo In question, roasting Senator Quay
as a bloated bondholder, had better bo
mercifully overlooked, Possibly It may
havo been a mlstako of tho foreman.
o
However what the boiler plato says
about tbo poverty of tho attendants of
tho Bourso meeting Is certainly not al
together untrue, and that this crowd
was largely made up from tho bacilli of
tho party will hardly be disputed by any
ono who for Instance knows something
about tho political character and micro
scopic size of tho fellows who went down,
from Scranton to attend this memorial
gathering and Introduce themselves as
orlglnnl first comers Into the alimentary
canal of tho merchant prince. They wcro
not mllltonarlcs themselves, not ono of
them, and never will be. but, oh, how
they do worship money! Yours,
A Kicker.
Wllkcs-Barro, .Pa., Feb. 19.
CLIMATE AND CIIAKACTEU.
From tho London Spectator.
Thero aro advantages In tbo Amorlcan
climate. It has killed oft many weak
lings, but It has developed a resourceful
character, a mind ready for sudden emer
gencies. Nature must have begun tbls
educating Influence Immediately tho Pll
gtims landed on tho bleak New England
shore; for they assuredly could not have
survived nt all unless thny had been able
to accommodate themselves to tho ca
prices of that exacting climate. Many
Improvements In ways of living, in houses
and In dress havo been introduced into
America as the result of tho educating
Influence of climate The mind has been
quickened, the character mado both moro
eager and more Inventive by tho pres
sure of naturnl forces. On tho other
hand, Just ns Englishmen ore In danger
of stolidity ns tho cxtremo of their calm
confidence, so Americans nro In danger
of violent nervous tension as tho outcome
of a climate full of surprises.
Tho sudden political excitements of
America, so often inexplicable on purely
political lines, may perhaps be explained
on tho hypothesis of an organism sub
jected to sovcro overtenslon; nnd tho
sudden violence of American labor dis
putes, like a bolt from tbe blue, may bo
duo to tho same cause. Our own race
has In this Island homo slowly drawn In
from tho soil and cllmato an Immcnso
stock of vigorous energy, but energy
dominated by calm dlrectlvo force. Itomo
had a similar power, and henco Itomo
and England have. In two distinct orders
of civilization, born able to spread, to or
ganize and to command throughout vast
regions of tho world. For this quality wo
may partly thank tho favorablo physical
conditions which have obtained here. Tho
American branch of our stock has, on tho
other hand, been compelled to face new
climatic conditions', which have developed
ingenuity nnd resource, but nt tbo ex
pense of nerves. Each typo of character
has Its own strength and validity, and
each Is competent to effect a great work
In tho world.
JOURNALISM I. SCHANTON.
From the Sunday News.
Thero aro 75 union printers nnd It Is
estimated that four persons aro depend
ent upon each printer. This means 300
persons. Two hundred boys daily aro en
gaged in selling papers In this city. Thoy
bring homo their pennies to 400 needy
fathers and mothers. This means, at
least, COO moro persons Interested. Thero
aro 53 writers on tho press of Scranton.
which moans, according to nn nccepted
average 265 persons who depend upon
tho local papers. There aro 32 persons
who own printing establishments who
support ICO persons, at least. A running
investigation disclosed 43 ladles, who by
their efforts In Journalistic work aro
contributing to tho support of that many
families. Tho number benefitted by tho
lady workers Is no less than 172. Tho
number of draymen, telegraphers, fire
men, engineers, pressmen, Btcreotypers,
engravers, local dealers In white paper,
etc., reach 118. Flvo hundred nnd ninety
persons aro dependent upon them for a
livelihood. Summarized tho number In
terested In local newspapers Is 3,OS7.
ANOTHER PRECEDENT.
From tho New York Sun.
The proposition that a stato Is re
sponsible to a foreign stato for injuries
Inflicted by tho private citizens of tho
former upon tho private citizens of tho
latter was enforced by England In the
celebrated caso of Don Paciflco, a Brit
ish subject, whose bouse at Athens
was plundered by a mob In 1847 because
It was behoved that ho had Induced the
Athenian pollco to prohibit tho Easter
ctiBtom of burning Judas Iscarlot in ef
figy. Tho British fleet laid an embargo
upon Creek shipping, and thus compelled
the payment ot an ample sum by way of
Indemnity.
THEY'RE UP-TO-DATE.
From tho Scranton Truth.
Thero Is no longer any provincialism In
the matter of nowspaper-maklng so far
as tho furnishing of rellablo information
from all parts of tho world Is concerned,
and certainly not In the newspapers of
Scranton.
Two Advantages.
" 'Tls better," said tho sentimental
young man, "to havo loved aid lost than
not to havo loved ot all, or something of
the sort."
"Also," said tho elderly man, with tho
string nround his forefinger, "It Is cheap
er." Indianapolis Journal.
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buyer.
GIFT SUGGESTIONS.
Wjiitino Desks,
dke.83inq tahlks.
Fancy Tables,
cukvai. qi.as.mem
I'Altl.On CAIUXET3.
MvsioOabinsts,
Cuiiio Cabinets,
Book Cases,
Fancy Baskets,
i.ounoes,
WOnKTABLKS,
Easy Ciiaius,
Gilt On Aits
jnlaiociiaiim,
Rock bus,
HiiAVtNQ Stands,
Pkuestals,
Tabouuettks.
All at lowest price couslsteat with the
high quality of tbe goods.
Hill
&
Goiraell
At 32!
North Washington
Aveuue.
Scranton, Pa.
I'S
The Very Best
r Mao
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.
BOYLE
416 LACKAWANNA AVENUE,
FfflLEY'
Aeemial
Linen Sal
Opens today and will
continue for
Tee DaySo
No need to sav that the values we
will offer dtirlns this sale will bo more
convincing than ever that wc are In a
position to offer "High Class" Table
Linens, Napkins, Doylies, etc., at prices
that defy competition.
The few numbers uuoted here, are
only an Index to the special prices
which will apply to all qualities in
stock, (during this sale only), from our
15c. number to the finest "Double Satin
Damask" t.t $2.7").
10 PIECES fine German "Silver Illeach"'
Damask, OS In. wide; resular GOc.
quality
Sale Price, 35c
10 PIECES Ct In. wide; regular 73c.
quality
Sale Price, 54c
10 PIECES Cream Belfast Damask, 72
In. wide; regular V.'c. quality
Sale Price, 58c
8 PIECES 72 In. wide; regular $1.00
quality
Sale Price, 75c
6 PIECES 72 In. Bleached; regular $1.00
tjuullty t
Sale Price, 75c
Table Napkins to match' all our finer
quality Damasks.
25 DOZEN German "Sliver Bleach"
Napkins, C8 Blze; regular $1.25 qual
ity Sale Price, $3.30
25 DOZEN G-8 size; regular $2.00
tuallty
Sale Price, $3.75
3-4 size, Full Bleached, Damask; regu
lar $2.25 quality
Sale Price, $1.85
All liner numbers In proportion.
Special prices on Towels (For this
Sale).
510 and 512
LACKAWANNA AVENUE
BAZAAR.
otfact wed
MUCKLO
SIX BAYS' TRIAL
If it breaks a
point
bring it back.
Now In central u9
In tha public sobools,
cltv ball and court
house offices, and
innny private busi
ness places In tbe city.
YOURS for a price saved In lead and tha
time wasted In old fashioned chopping.
HTATIONERS, ENQRAVER3,
HOTEL JERMYN BDILUINO.
1110 Wyoming Avenue.
HENRY BELIN, JR.,
Geaeral Agent for the Wyomtnc
District for
Alining, Ulantlug, Bporttng, Mmokeleil
uud the Repauno Chemloat
Company's
HIGH EXPLOSIVES.
Knfety fuse, Cups and Exploders.
Rooui!) .!'., 'J lit aud 214 Cotnraonwealtti
lfulldlug, fjcruatoa.
AGENCIES:
THOS, FORU,
JOHN U. SMITH &HON,
K. W. MULL1UAN,
Plttstoa
Plymouth
Wllkes-Oarri
II PLEASANT
COAL
AT RETAIL.
Coal of the best quality for domettlo us
and of all sizes, Including Buckwheat and
BIrdseye, delivered in any part of tbo clti;
at tbe lowest price
Orders received at the Office, first floor.
Commonwealth building, room No I
telephone No. 2621 or at tbe mine, tele
phone No. 272, will bo promptly, attended
to. Dealers supplied at the mine.
WE T. SMITE
w,
IPlaietary Pencil Politer
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