THE SCRANTON T1UBUNE-AVEDNESDAY'. MARCH 23. 1898.
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Having Kept patent during five dim
penseful weeks the Ameiitan people
win wait until Monday for the Maine
lfjiort. Hut after that they will expect
lilstoiy-mnkliifr to propped rapidly.
Cuba's Fitness for Freedom.
The Ameilcnn people entertain no
doulit of the ability of the Cuban peo
ple unco fiertl fiom SpanHi opprei
flim to maintain In Cuba at least as
goad a. government n Spain h'li main
tained It would be Impossible for hu
man Iinnd to make or the human Im
agination to lilituie u vvoipe Rovem
ment. IntelllKUit Amei leans who hae
Mudlcd thW subject ko fuithei In their
belief Tliey ronidei It us ceitnln that
the ability whkh the Cuban leaded
lime shown In the conduct of their
last nprlshiK for Independence -would
Inpuie. undei indepmdence a govern
inert K Cuba Immediately superior to
tlint which has been administered by
Spnlti. anl destined to Improve mpldly
uni'er the stimulus of ficcdom.
No lie has been moie pei'lbUMitly cir
culated by Hpanl'h otllclals and sm
pathizeis than that the Cubans are an
Intel lor nice Those Cubans who have
received their education In this coun
try and thev aie numbeied by thous
ands have eliec tu.iUy demonstrated
the lonti.uy bv aftetwaid maintaining
successful competition with thelt
Ameiican-born i-choolmates. As engl
nceip, c hemistH and diplomats the Cu
Iviiis ciltKtitfd In this "ountiv or In
ljuropp stand In the veiy fere tiont of
their piofessslons. As dentists, phvM
clans and Hwei.s theio aie equilly
successful. In fact theie W no field
of trained mental activity in which
they do not meaure up as the peeis
of any race, save pc-Mbly the field of
oonrmoru1. They are not money-makers
by Instinct In business they are
weik. lUit this weakness spilnKS
lather fiom luck of oppoitunlty for de
velopment nlong this line than fiom
Inherent Inelllelenc y. The business of
Cuba has alwav.s been done by '.Span
iards'. They were Miuwvil and Kept
their linnets always tightly clutched
around the island's puise stiinps
ft Is tine that the American Cuban
is the Cuban at his best; that the Cu
ban In Cuba Is weak In many things.
This, howeer, does ivit argue Incapac
ity. It simply testifies to the blight
of long-continued oppression. Cuba
under Spanish rule has been kept dark
in Ignorance and in every way stunted
In opportunity. It was not Spain's
policy to encourage he mental devel
opment of the Cub in people. Khe has
deliberately obstructed this. An edu
cated Cuban meant a formidable foe.
An igimnnt Cuban meant a helples
victim. The elasticity of the Cuban
tcn'peiament and, aboeall, the natur
al quickness of the Cuban intelleet
furnish to fair-minded students of this
problem a satisfactory guiiantco that
with Spain's hold iclaxed the popula
tion of Cuba will spring fcrwaicl nlong
the lines of ci editable development
with a rapidity which will Inspire
amazement in this countrv.
This Is the almost unlfoim testimony
of Americans who have lhod In Cuba
ant' studied the nUio Cuban at (list
linnd. Senator Proctor confiuns it in
the speech which ho ptepared after ex
haustive Inquiry tluoughout the island.
The conduct of the- Insurrection attests
it. Never had an upuslng to stait un
der greater disadvantages or to con
tinue in thp face of greater odds. Yet
the insurgents hae out-genoraled
Spain on the battle-field and nut-man-onuvered
her In the elides of diplo
macy. Tho junta at New Yolk has
tOinvvn qualities of shiewdness, execu
tive nblllt., patience and pluck that
would do high honor to any cabinet on
eaith, and Its membeis are merely rep
resentative of the class, who would
govern Cuba under Independence.
Senoi Polo might have added in that
despatch to Madrid that the American
lepoit is the icport that will bring
down the 'coon.
Tax Besr and Build Warships.
AfcorrcSpQndent of, Jthe Washington
PostTprolioses nnd elaborates an Inter
esting T'an for obtaining the funds
needed to enlaige our navy to a be
fitting size. "Increase the tax on beer
$1 a bah el," says he, "and from thirty
to thlrty-HvQ , million dollars can be
raised for waifihlps and coast defense
In one, ypar. Nobody, except the brevv
ei s, tltc' hiaJoHty of whom are mem
bers or foreign syndicates', can object
to this plan. The brewers' profits are
now very much, greater than those of
theSretalljlenler upon whom devolves
thj? dfiijlseiy ofMllspensIng the "beer to
theijcjQnstimeis, The averago cost of
manufacturing; a'banel of beer, as ex
plained to the, house committee, a few
years ago", when an attempt was made
to Increase 'the tax on that article, Is
$3.2;. This Is sold to the retail dealer
at $T nnd $S a ban el, according to
quality, and yields an average profit to
theljijswer.of 130 percent. And ns the
average age of beer Is about three
months,' the brewer turns his capital at
thlsrextraord!nary profit at least fou.
tlmls&.Vcartrnpa n comparatively
'few YctttA Jj6ebhieS"'a minioriatie.M
In support of his proposition this cor
respondent retrial ks further: "Tho
brewer Is singularly favored by the
Koveinmerit In tho matter of revenue
ifltiniateatarue of brewery .property In
FwXJJ.,fH T Hi rl . id
the United States Is ?i00To00.000, wiillo
that of the distiller Is hut $30,000,000.
And. although the capital Invested In
the lnewerles Is ten times greater than
that of the distillers, the distillers pay
twenty-eight times morn revenue tax
to the government than the brewers.
The brewers pay In revenue 7 2 per cent,
on their Invested capital, and the dis
tillers 19S per cent. The government
receives $2.20 for every gallon of alco
hol produced by the distiller, and only
!7 per cents per gallon from the brcv or,
beer containing per cent, of alcohol,
and proof whisky DO per cent. To
equalize the burden of taxation on the
brewer and distiller, It would be neces
pary to Increase the tax on beer from
$1 to $2 72 per barrel, but an Increase
of $1 would meet all the lequlrements
of the present for the put chase of
ships and the protection of our coasts,
and as such an Inciease will neither
impoverish the brewers nor affect the
consumeis, who will In any case be
able to purchase a glaos of beer for 5
cents, I hope congiess will act on the
matter Immediately and make the
money available."
We have reason to believe that the
figures given above aie substantially
coirect. The object lesson as to brew
ery piollts supplied by the recent local
consolidation of brewing Interests Into
the brewery trust was sulllclent to es
tablish to the public's satisfaction that
theie are millions In this business. Pub
lic opinion, wc think, Is equally well
satisfied that beer does not carry a
sulllclent burden of taxation. An In
ciease in the revenue tax on beer of $1
per keg would put Uncle Sam on easy
U cet anil work no l eal hardship to the
masses Whether this Income can be ef
fected or not Is another question. Prob
ably not except In the event of war.
When The Tribune sas that Its circu
lation Is "among intelligent, appreciative
unci steadfast people" docs it mean to in
sinuate th.it the circulation of other pa
pers is Hinong the stupid, inapprccintlve
and thriftless? Has It the smug presump
tion to believe that It has a corner on In
telligence and worth In this community?
Does it mean to insult everybody in the
town who doesn't take The Tribune'.'
Scranton Times.
Not at all. It simply moans to ad
vise those who don't take The Tribune
that they are missing the best thing
in the newspaper line now accessible
to Serantonlane, nnd to point out to
ndveitlseis how they can secure the
best icturn for their money.
Not Covetcousness.
To some sneering remarks In a thick
headed Canadian journal attributing to
the United States a selfish motive In
its anxiety to see Cuba liberated the
New Yoik Sun mikes spirited reply, in
substance as follows:
The foundation of the warm svmpathy
of the citizen. of this republic for the
Cuban pitiiots Is in a sentiment which Is
piiMly cINInteiestcil. Ameiica's heart lias
ulwajs been with anv nation struggling
to be fieo It Is the American habit and
the Ameilcin policy to sld with the op
pressed against the oppressor, and with
the candidate s for full political llbortv
against the monarchy lighting to retuln
Its hold. This habitual attitude and this
unvaiing policy aie spontaneous, -insel-llsh
and uninfluenced by any purpose or
desire of territorial aggrandizement. The
sentiment has foun 1 expression a hundiou
times in tho uteranees of our sritest
statesmen and In the messages of our
picsldents whenever a ptonlo anvwhere
on this continent or on another has suc
ceeded in establishing irpiihllcnn Insti
tutions. Whigs nnd old Itepulilic ins,
later Republicans and Democrats have
hastened alike to wclcomo tho now comer
o freedom, or to speed tho nation strug
gling out of the forms and traditions of
monarchv. In tho i'ao of Cuba tho Fvm
path." and interest of our people have
been Intensified both by the close ncigh
boihood of that Island and by the horrors
of Spanish cruelty attending the effort
to crush out the levolutlonaiy movement.
It is stiange that it does not occur to
the Canadian who imagines the United
States Is hungeilng for more teirltory
that a much nearer and more attract
ive field than Cuba for the exercise of
the land-grabbing appetite presents it
self In the region know n as Manitoba
and the Canadian Northwest Terri
tot Irs. If we were aching to pounce
upon some other nation's domain and,
In the good, old-fashioned Anglo-Saxon
fashion, wrest It by force for our own,
heie Is a tcnltoiy much preferable to
devastated and disease-Infected Cuba.
AVe should not have to cross any water
nor encounter In our march of aggies
bion an alien race or tongue. All we
would need to do would be to move our
northern boundary toward the North
Polo a few degrees and with tioops and
bieastworks defend the new deal
against nil comers. Were we to do this
we could cite British ptecedents In
abundance In extenuation.
liut seriously there Is no justification
whatever for the supposition that we
as a nation covet Cuba. Had we covet
ed It wo could have seized It long ago
and with much greater reason than the
majority of the land-grabbing powers
of Uuiope can advance for their vari
ous selzuies of territory In different
paits of the world. The VIrglnlii3 case
gave an unexampled opportunity. Here
was tteatment of American citizens so
fiendish that even the Biltlsh naval
commander who, from his warship off
Santiago de Cuba, was watching the
bloody spectacle, could not longer tol
erate It and threatened to shell the
city If Spain did not stop. The recent
killing of two German missionaries by
a fanatical mob sufficed to doom the
great empire of China to seizure and
spoliation by tho leading European
powers; yet here were fifty American
citizens, arrested without warrant of
law and shot like dogs by order of a
prominent Spanish official, and all we
took from Spain In reparation was an
apology and $80,000 indemnity.
No, it is not lust for Cuba which Im
pel American sympathy for her and
which will soon cause her fetters to he
removed forever. But If it were, we
could defy anv nation In Kuiope to
show ciedentlals qualifying It to ad
minister criticism to us,
When Bishop Walden indorses au
tonomy for Cuba he speaks a an
American. If ho were a Cuban, Buf
fering from tho unexampled horrors of
Spanish misrule, he would die before
he would again bow down to the flag
of Spain.
In tho meantime Mr. Bryan continues
to play return engagements in tho
sume character.
A society of spiritualists has been or
ganized In Blnghamton, and in the.
spring a country club hntw wll hn
erected near the suburbs of the city.
About the only thing now lacking to
make the Parlor City an up-to-date
municipality Is nn athletic club that
contains real sporting blood, and an
occasional epidemic of the grip.
The Wisconsin doctor who wants to
fight Senator Mason's Spanish chal
lenger scores a knock-down In the first
round when, In referring to the Maine,
ho says that "murder In the first de
gree cannot bo paid for with gold."
Thnt would be a good motto to frame
and hang In the white house.
The equinoctial should be welcome.
It arrests the opening of buds that
might get nipped later In the season,
and will also hold the trout fisherman
In check a few days longer.
The vice-president of Cuba, Senor
Capote, used to lie a professor In Hav
ana university; but unlike Professor
Wilson of domestic fame he has learn
ed to differentiate a condition fiom n
theory.
The bank of Spain, It Is said, charges
the government oC Spain 03 per cent,
interest on all now loans. A nitlon
thus embarrassed should Instantly fore
go all dreams of war.
Dread for the starving Cubans and,
If necessary, bullets for their brutal
Spanish oppressors, will soon be the
programme. Uncle Same at last means
business.
Senator Kauftman has been a leader
against legislative dishonesty who can
illy bo spared. Philadelphia Press.
There are those who think that ho
and all like him can welly be spared.
Dr. Swallow seems in a fair way to
take by foice several political fran
chisee that had been staked out by Mr.
Wanamaker.
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Dally Horoscope D'.nvvn br AJncchtu,
Tho Tribuno Astrologor.
Astrolabe Cast: C S3 a. m., for Wednes
day, March 23, 1SDS.
A child born on this day will notice an
Influx of rural attorneys, prominent men
and detectives about the United States
court rooms.
Recent dispatches from the ?eat of con
flict Indlcato that war-llko rcadcis will
bo obliged to depend upon tho "Ameri
can Sporting club" for amusement for
some time to come.
As the man with real sporting blood
would remark, "fpaln has not shown a
disposition to 'ralso Undo Sam's fifty
million ante.' "
A man whoso patriotism will bear up
under three or four hours' drill dally
with a musket should never bo called a
'Jingo."
Will Wndo Finn receive an Easter bo
quet from Ofllcer Hawks this year?
Alncchiib' Advice.
Keep off the Scranton streets until the
board of trade gets through with the
councils.
America's Interest
Paramount in Ciiba
N J&K. with Millard l'lllmoio as
president and Daniel Webster as sec
retary of state, the carl of Malmos
bury, then England's premier,
tluough tho Biltlsh minister at
Washington, John V. Crampton, submit
ted to the government of tho United
States, with a request for Its approval,
tho draft of a proposed trlpaitlte agree
ment between l'rance, England and the
United States relating to Culn, of whloh
this was tho subKtance- "The high and
contracting p irtles hereby, severally and
collectively, dlsclajm, both now and for
hcieafter, all Intention to obtain posses
ion of the sland of Cuba; and that they
respectively bind themselves to discoun
tenance nil attempts to that effect on the
pait of any power or individuals what
ever. Tho high contracting parties de
clare severally and collective, that they
will not obtain or maintain, for them
selves, any exclusive control over the
island, nor assumo or oxcicisc any do
minion over tho same." Before tho rep.y
of our government to this proposal wac
penned Daniel Webster died and Edward
Everett was made secretary of state in
his stead. Mr. Everett drafted this gov
ernment's ni swer, and it is asserted by
Wharton, tho great authority on Inter
national law, to be one of the ablest state
papers ever penned. This paper hnr es
pecial Interest at this time, when the Cu
ban question is again before the world
for settlement. Below Is Its substanco:
o
In stating the reasons of the American
government for declining to enter Into the
tripartite agreement, Mr. Everett says
that whilo "tho piesldent doe not covet
the acquisition of Cuba for the United
Stntes, ut tho fame time he considers tho
condition of Cuba ua mainly an American
question. "The proper convention," bays
Mr. Eveielt, "picrcecds on a different
i.-lnciple. It assumes that the United
otntcs have no other or gi eater Inteicst
in the question than Trance or England;
whereas. It Is necessary only to cast one's
ejo on tho map to beo how remote nro
tho relations of Europe and how Intimate
those of tho United States with this
island " After commenting upon tho tra
ditional policy of the United States to
avoid entunKling alliances with foreign
nations, Mr. Everett proceeds: "But the
president has a graver objection to en
tering tho proposed convention. He has
no wish to disguise the feeling that tho
compact, although equal In ItB terms,
would bo verj unequal in Its substance.
Trance and England, by entering Into it
would disable themselves from obtaining
possession of an Island remote from their
seats of government, belonging to another
European power, wheso natural right to
possess it must always be as good as
their own, a distant Island In another
hemisphere, and one which, by no ordi
nary peaceful course of things, could ever
belong to either of them, Tho United
States, on the ether hand, would, by tho
proposed convention, disable themselves
from making an acquisition which might
tako place without any disturbance of ex
isting foreign relations, and In tho natural
order of things. Tho island of Cuba Mes
at our doors. It commands the approach
of the Gulf of Mexico, which washes the
shores of five of our states. It bars the
entrance of that great river which drains
half tho northern continent, and with Its
tributaries forms the largest system of
Internal water communication in the
world. It keeps watch at tho doorway of
our Intel courso with California by tho
Isthmus route. If an island like Cuba,
belonging to the Spanish crown, guarded
tho entrunte to tho Thames and iho
Seine, and tho Utilted States should pro
poso a convention like this to Franco and
England, those powers would assuredly
feel that the disability assumed by our
selves was iar less nerious than that
which we asked them to assumo,"
Mr. Everett then draws a splendid pic
ture of tho devlopracnt of tho United
States as evidence of the unwisdom of
committing this country at that tlmo to
any compact as to Cuba. There then oc
curs this remarkable passage: "Spain
meantime has retained of her extensive
dominions In this hemisphere but the two
islands of Cuba and Porto Blco. A re
spectful sympathy with tho fortunes of
un nnijuit bIIv am a iruJUiit Dannlrv, with
whom tho United States have always
maintained tho most friendly relations,
would, It no other reason existed, tniiko
It our duty to leave her In the undis
turbed possession of this little remnant
of her mighty transatlantic empire. Tho
president desires to do so', no word or
deed of his will over question her tltlo
or shake her possession. Hut can It bo
expected to last very long? Cm it resist
this mighty current In tho fortunes of tho
world? Is it dcslrabto that It should do
so? Can it bci for the Interest of Spain
to cling to iv possession that can bo main
tained only bv u garrison of 23,000 to 30,000
troops, a powerful naval force and nn
annual expenditure for both arms of ser
vice of nt least $12,000,000? Cuba at this
moment costs moto to Spain than the
entlio military and naval establishment
of the Uflted States costs the federnt
government. So fur from being really
Injured by tho loss of this island, there
Is no doubt that, were it peacefully trans
ferred to tho United States, n prosperous
commerco between Cuba and Spain, re
sulting from ancient associations and
common language and tastes, would be
far more productive than the best con
trlvcd sjstem of colonial taxation. Such
has been the result to Clreat Britain of
the establishment of tho independence of
tho United States."
o .
Mr. Uverott gives tho following interest
ing expression of opinion as to how oven
Hngland and Prance might view tho com
pact In tho future. He savs: "Tho his
tory of the past decade of the recent jast
n ft ouls no assurance, that twenty years
hence franco or Ihiand will even wish
that Spain should retain Cuba. Uvcn row
the president cannot doubt that both
Franco and nngland would prefer any
chango In the condition of Cuba to that
which Is to be most apprehnded, an In
ternational convulsion, which should re
new tho horrors and fate of Sin Domin
go." How certain Mr. Everett was that
tho evolution of tlmo would mnko It nec
essary for tho United States to tnko an
nctlvo Interest In tho affairs of Cuba Is
shown by an extract from tho conclud
ing patt of his great paper. "No admin
istration of this government," ho ea,
"however strong In the public confidence
In other respects, could stand a day un
der the odium of having stipulated with
tho great powers of Europe that in no fu
ture time, under no clrinse of clrcum
stinccs, by nn nmlciblo arrangement
with Spain, by no act of lawful war
(should that calamity occur), by no con
sent of tho inhabitants of tho Island,
should thev, like the possessions of Spain
on tho American continent, succeed In
rendering themselves independent i In
fines by no overruling necessity of self
preservation could tho United States ever
mako the acquisition of Cuba."
o
Tho supremacy of the United States In
Interest In tho destiny of Cuba Is even
moro clearly revealed nnd recognized now
than it was then. At this time it is su
perior even to that of Spain, for Spain
In Cuba means war, famine outrage, des
olation and obnoxious disease, while
American intervention will mean meicy,
tranqullization, comcrce restoied and clv
lllrntlon rc-establlshcd. Ours Is the re
sponsibility; our's must be tho action.
AS IT ONCE WAS.
From the Hartford Courant
In tho year 1833 tho relations between
Franco and this eountrj wero strained,
and there was a prospect of trouble. The
relations between President Andrew Jack
son and the senate of tho United States
were strained, and trouble had occurred
February 20 of that year, the president
Informed tho house of representatives In
a special message that he had ltiHtiucted
Mr. Livingston (our minister at Paris) to
como home unless the French govern
ment made provision for the payment of
our claims. "Tho subject being now, in
all its present aspect, before congiess,
whose rlsht It Is to decide what meas
ures are to be pursued in that event I
deem it unnecessary," wroto the presi
dent, "to mal.e further recommendation,
conlldent thnt on their part everything
will be clone, to maintain the rights and
honor of tho country, which the occasion
requires."
-o
March ;. by unanimous vote, the house
resolved "that prepaiatlon ought to be
made to meet any emergency growing out
of our relations with France." The fol
lowing da, by 107 to 73, It put an amend
ment upon the fortification bill, appropri
ating $3,000,0O "to bo expended, in whole
or in part, under tho direction of tho
president of tlm United States ' for tho
public Ucfcnce, it such expenditure suouui
becomo necessary before tho next meet
ing of congress. When this amendment
camo up In the senate, the men In that
body who did not lovo Andrew Jackson
met Jt with a solid front of hostility. Mr.
Webster, of Massachusetts, expressed a
hopo that It would bo voted down at
once. Mr. Calhoun, of South Carolina,
descilbed It as an "extiaordlnarj" propo.
sltlon. Mr. Leigh, of Virginia, saw In it
tho setting up of a military monarchy;
they might almost as well mako Andrew
Jackson consul for life, or emperor of
the American people. Mr. Southard, of
New Jersey, thought so, too; it would bo
an abdication by corgicsn of Its war
making power ns well as of Its guardian
ship of tho public tieasure; It would make
tho piesldent the master. Mr. Clay, of
Kentucky, also spoke against the amend
ment, though with less excitement and
ferv or. It was v oted down 29 to ID, and tho
votes against it were cast by Senatois
Bell, Bibb, Calhoun, Clay, Clavlon, Ev
Ing, Frellnghuysen, Goldsborough, Hen
dricks, Kent. Knight, Leigh, Mangum,
Moore, Naudaln, Polndcxtcr, Porter,
Prentiss, Preston, Bobbins, Sllsoee,
Smith, Southard, Swift, Tomllnson, Tjler.
Waggnman, Webster and White. All of
these men sat in "tho great senate," so
called. The houso Insisted on Its amend
ment. Tho senate adhered to its disagree
ment. A conference commltteo tried to
liarmonlzo matters by iccommcndlng ad
ditional spccitlc appropriations for tho
navy nnd forts. The house would have
nono of them; It refused to lecede, nnd
bill and amendment perished together.
fl
it is not for any of the living to im
pugn the motives of those dead-and-gono
representatives of 1833 who voted against
tho Andrew Jackson amendment, or of
the senators who voted It down. They
nct,fvl according to their lights. But con
trast that action of tho Twenty-third con
gress with the behnvlor of tho Fifty-fifth.
Seen against thnt background, the unan
imous voto In house and senate which has
just confided J50 000 000 to tho hands of
President McKlnley for purposes of na
tional defence becomes moro Impressive
than ever.
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111 AND HO WYOMING AVENUE.
MILL k CQMJEIX
121 N. Washington Ave.
BRASS BEDSTEAD5.
In buying a brass Beditead, be sure that
you get the best. Our brass Bedsteads are
nil made with seamless brass tublus and
frame work is all of steel.
They cost no more than many bedsteads
made of tha open senmleM tubing. Every
bedstead Is highly finished and lacquered
under a pecullnr method, nothing ever liar,
lug been produced to equal it. Our new
(Spring Bottoms are now on exhibition.
Hill &
Coeeell
At 121
North Washington
Avenue.
Scranton, Pa.
THE MODERN irARDWAEE STORE.
togaii Bay
WE HAVE BARGAINS
LET US CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO A
FEW OF OUR UAROAINH:
I'lnnlsbed Tea nnd CofTeo Pots with
Copper liottom ino
HennU I'otato Mashers 'Jfto
White Metnl Teaspoons 10c set
White Motul Tablespoons 200 set
Tin Dairy Fans, l to O qt loeacli
Tin Dairy Funs, Utol'J qt Detach
KEKl' YOUR EYE ON OUR WINDOWS
FOR UAROAINS.
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FOOTE & SIEAH CO.,
Jin N. WARHEVaTOW AVR
JQj. IS
now complete in all of the Finer
tains and
Flowered, Plaid, Figured and
PRINQ
CLOTHING
in endless variety is arriving daily. It is of the'
"Boyle & Mucklow grade," which is sufficient guar
antee of its style and quality. Before making your
spring purchases we would be pleased to show you
our line. Everybody buys at the same price.
BOTLE
416 LACKAWANNA AVENUE.
FffllE
OF
HAT
AND
CAP
Nowhere outside of the
largest Outfitting Estab
lishments can be found
such an elegant display
of Children's Fine Head
gear as we will have on
exhibition during the next
few days.
are here in the most be
wildering profusion and
dantiest of shapes, and in
every desirable color, as
well as white, in Silk,
Chiffon, JYiull, Swiss, Etc.,
Etc.
For a few days only, we
we will devote extra room
for the display of these,
and as many of our finer
numbers are "Patterns"
we would advise you to
make your selections
early, as there will be no
duplicates.
Sale Is still la full
510 and 512
LACKAWANNA AVRNI1P.
Y'S
Spug
Opeilnf
BAZAAi
New i
Yard,
toadow
Grades of
Colored Frencl Lawns
Striped Effects.
MUCKLOW
SI
SIX BAYS' MAI
-feS
If it breaks a
point
bring it back.
Now In ceneral um
In the publics schools,
cltr hall and court
bouse offices, and
many private buil.
neas places In the city.
YOURS for a price Faved In lead and th
time wasted in old lashloned chopping.
STATIONERS, ENGRAVERS,
HOTEL JERMYN BUILDING.
130 Wyoming Avenue.
HENRY BELIN, JR.,
General Agent for the Wyomlnx
District for
Mining, Ihastlng, Sporting, SmoUelell
and the Repauno Chemlaa!
Company's '
HIGH EXPLOSIVES.
fcaretylfme, Caps nnd Exploders.
Rooms 2l'A 213 nnd 214 Comraonwesltli
ilulldlng, Scranton.
AGENCIES:
THOS FORD,
JOHN B. SMITH . t SON.
W. E. MULLIGAN,
nttsti
riyinoil
WUUes-Baf
11 MASANI
COAL .
AT RETAIL.
Coal of tho best quality for domestic u? a
nnd of all sizes. Including nuckwheat and
Hlrdscye, delivered In any part of tho
city, nt the lowest price.
Orders received at tha ofllce, first floor,
Commonwealth building', room No. 6;
telephone No. IC2I or nt the mine, tele,
phono No. 2TJ, will bo promptly attended
to. Dealers supplied at the mine.
WE T. SMITE
DUPOITS
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