i9t0r j "MPfJEaW"' w rftm- , 7 . V Jfi- "4-tt v j ' rjpwjpwK ww11 twiw'w.1" '"' ''"," iW'iww':'ww' B1 THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 21'. 1898. v. CO kttmon ri6une rubllibitd Dully. Except HunrtRV. by the Tribune I'ublUhlng Uompanj-, at Fifty Genu a Month. New York Ofilci 160 NunuuHt., H. H. VHHUbANI), bole Agent for Foreign Advertising. i-MTrrtKD at rni posTorricit at ecnANToy, FA., ASSM;ONICI.A8SMAIl.MATTKn. TEN PAGES. BCRAKTON SUPTEMBEIt 21 1893. REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. STATE. Goveriror-WIt.UAM A. 8TUNK. Lieutenant Oovernor-J. P. B. UOBtN. Secretary of Internal Attain JAMUs W. LATTA. Judges of Superior Court-W. "ft. l'Oh Tnn, w. d. rorrrnn. Consressmeti at Larue SAMUEL A. UAVUNPOHT. QALU8HA A. GROW. COUNTY. Cqng-ies-WU.LIAM CONNUl.L. ji.dgf-f. v. nuNsrnn. . Coror.er-JOHN J. itOUURTB. M. D. Survcjor-CJEORaE E. STEVENSON. LEGISLATIVE. Senate. Twentieth U1M.-JAMK3 C. VAL'GHAN. House. 1'nst IlsttJct JOltX H. l'ARtt. Second Dletrlct-JOHN SCIIEUER, JR. Third DNtrlit-.V. .'. MACKEY Eourtlr DHtrlct-JOUN V. REYNOLDd. COLONEL STONE'S PLATFORM. It will be in imrpoto when cletled to ko i onduct mt.oJf ai to win the refcpect and ;icwd will of thne who hae opposed mc as well us tho.o who have given me the'r niippoit. I thall be the governor of thu vc-hnle peopb of the plate. Abuses have undoubtedly pi own up In the legis lature whldi are neither the fault ot one party nor lh other, but lathci Iho Krowth nf custom. I'limnssury Investi gations have been authorized by rommlt tees, rMUltlrp In unnecerFarv expense to the stale. It will bo mv cure hikI pur pose to collect these and other evils In so far as I have, the powet. It will be my purpose while governor of PemmvlvanU, as It has been my purpose in the public posltiins Hint I Inve held, with Clod's help, to dlsehniRe my whole duty. The people nro Bloater than the parties o which they belonp. I om only Jealous of their favor. I shall only attempt to win their approval and my experience lias tatiRht mo that that can Lest be done by an honst, modest, dally dlsclmigp of public duty. Aljror not having lesignecl, we sup rose the public will have to be. Our Duty in Cuba. One of the cutious features of con temporary affairs Is the eagerness with which a. large portion of the Atneilcan press assumes. In advance, that the people of Cuba will not want to try the experiment of self-government and the earnestness with which our govern ment is advised not to give them that chance. There aie influential journals who even pretend to take umbrage at the thought that tho Cubans who have fought as no people ever fought and suffered privations unparalleled in hls toiy for the purpose of acquiring Inde pendence should now wish to test tho realization of their dream; they seem to believe that this Involves ingrati tude to the American people who went to war with Spain for the declared pur pose of helping the Cubans to win free dom We cannot understand this point of view. We consider that It Is both un generous and unfair. A time may come when Cuba will ask to be taken under the American political wing; when her inhabitants will have learned from ex perience that Identification with a great republic which accords ample liberty to all Its well-behaved citizens will be preferable to Independent statehood on a small scale. In fact, we incline to believe that this will be the ultimate outcome, a belief In which we have the companionship of many high-minded Cubans. But If such appears to be the certain finality In course of time, why the present American anxiety to rush In and bebe possession ere we are In vited? What could wo gain by such a betrayal of faith? What might we not lose bcfoie the honest opinion of the world? 'J here Is a broad difference between the promise made by congress -when It authorized the president to eject Hpain fiom Cuba by force and the performance which Is urged by those who now display contempt for the Cuban cause and Indifference to Cu ban lights. We believe it is a differ ence fuly tecognized by the piesldent and his cabinet and by the better Judgment of the people generally. We are not lustful of Cuban territory or dominion; we have not forgotten the fundamental rights of man as afllrmed In our own Declaration ot Indepen dence, wo are merely suffeiing a little from temporary obfuseatlon of the vis ion. We see things in a momentarily distorted perspective. Bye and bye we shall be recalled to our normal senses and perceive with clearness that our duty In Cuba Is to help Cubans to learn how to govern themselves, not to regard them aa useless Incumbran ces of an Island that we covet'and In tend to seize by fair means or foul. Recent reports Indicate that Agul naldo Is standing In with the British press correspondents. The Navy. Secretary Longr, whose administra tion of the navy department has hither to been so admirable, proposes to fur ther enhance his claim to public respect by championing- a much needed reform In that department. He has already drafted a bill to revise the system of naval promotions so as to do away with the manifest inequities of number jumping. His Idea, It Is said, Is to con fer authority upon the piesldent to Issue gold, silver or bronze iredals in reward of conspicuous naval galluntry, such medals to carry with them per manent Increase In pay; as.fore.-c.vniple. 6 per cent, for a bronze medal, 10 per cent, for a silver and 15 for a gold one. The bill wHI bj retroactive and will en able the president to udo the wrongs perpetrated by the prcmotlons recently made under the numNr system. It Is needless to add that this meas ure or one In kind will be most heart lly applauded by the people. The.navy has earned a place In the esteem of the people which forbids niggardliness In the apportionment of Its rewards; and the old system of puling; n group of good officers down by the Jumping of some other oud officer up Is both nig gardly and unjust. The country Is un der obligations to Its navy that can never be repaid. From a putely com mercial standpoint Its services during the late war wcie worth a hundred, es, a thousand times mote than they cost. This being true, It Is not economy hut business folly to hesitate at nny reasonable Increase In the pay roll which operates as n symbol of tho na tion's ciatltudc and as a future Incen tive. Inasmuch as we shall hRVC to de pend mote than ever In future upon our navy for clltncrlt and delicate oik In the support of our national Interests, let us make provision with llbeinllty sufficient to uttrnct Into the naval ser vice and adequately tu iccompcnso men who will sustain Its alieady high staudatd and prove lit successors of the naval heioes of the past. We will say to the navv'a credit that Its ofllceis do not proportion their heroism to their pay; that from the humblest Jackie to the top-most ad mit al they have always done their best, whether paid well or 111. It was not the pilze money In sight at Manila which led to Dcivev's victory nor the spoils of war mound Cuba that gnve to American history the glorious feats of llobson and Clark and Schley. Yet Inasmuch as we aie the richest nation In the world we ought to have the com irlon decency to he willing to pay our supeilor seamen at least as much In the higher grades as Is iccclved by the ser vitors In coi responding lank under oth er Hues, and to telleve them fiom the embarrassing necessity of paying fot each othet's pi emotion. The Democratic "keynote" sounded by Congressman ltalley the other day at Danville, Vn., was pitched In the squawk icgtster. The Finest Type of Patriotism. The statement elsevvhcte concerning tho needs of the Medlco-Chlrutglcal hospital nt Phlludelpula which have arisen In consequence ot its ac ceptance of several hundred 111 sol diers. Including a number of members of the Thirteenth, merits the llbeinl attention of our people. This hospital, In common with several otheis, has undertaken to the limit of Its capacity to caie for Invalided victims of battle field and camp and Is now doing work in this direction which the camp hos pitals are utteily unable to do. There has been no finer spectacle in our his tory than Is shown In the patient and attentive devotion of the officer?, phys icians and muses of this and other large hospitals not connected with the government, who, without price and with only such means as aie put at their dispoal from pilvnte sources, have undertaken to bilng back to health the emaciated and fevoi -stricken heioes of the war. The public has too little coimuuhen sfon of the strain of this solvit o or of Its quiet heroism, which Involves the highest tvpe of patriotism. Imagine if possible what it means to watch, day and night, at the bedside of f00 delir ious patients, some of whom have dur ing long periods to be scrutinized min utely, with the hand of the nurse never leaving the patient's pulse. The hulk of these patients having typhoid In fection of a malignant tpe, theie is required of those In chaige of them n peculiarly exacting and difficult form of watchfulness, which makes Impera tive frequent replenishment of the corps of nurses. Yet the devoted wo men of Philadelphia aie volunteering for this work as only women can who are moved by the highest impulses of womanly sympathy, and the least that the great outside public can do Is to make sure that these self-sacrificing women are provided with an abund ance of funds and appliances for the fullest possible success of their merci ful ministrations. It ought to be a pleasure for every citizen of Scranton to contribute in pioportlon to his ability to the support of this beneficent service. Many of the New England cotton mills are turning their attention to the manufacture of silk Instead. The fact that people who were confined to cot ton a few years ago can now afford silk garments Is another feature that Is calculated to muflle the Deiriocratlc calamity howler. The Dreyfus Case. Theie Is so much In the Dievfus af fair which unbiased onlookers cannot undeistand that It Is with difficulty a specific opinion is leached. Yet from an Anglo-Saxon standpoint the equity of the case Js clear Here was a man of previous good diameter subjected to a most extreme punishment after a seciet trial held behind his back. It tiansplres that at least a pait of the alleged evidence upon which the case against him was built was deliberately forged, "to save the honor of the army," the forger sealing his confes sion with suicide. The public demands a re-trlal. The Anglo-Saxon concep tion of Justice would be to grant that demand Immediately, without any "Ifs" or "ands," and throw the proceedings open to the Inspection of the vvoild. But out of the confused jumble of reports that reach us fiom Paris the fact seems clear that "the honor of the army" is still appealing for a denial of this demand, using as an argument the delphlc assertion that to make the evidence public would embroil the whole of Europe In a sanguinary war. The president of the French republic, two ex-mln!st,eis of wat nnd a host of lesser lights among the military branch, Insist, It appears, that forgeiy or no forgery, Dieyfus was guilty! hut are equally insistent that the Infoima tlon upon which they base this conclu s'on Is not proper for tho public ear. Here, again, the AnGlo-Saxon Is puz zled. To him the question of clearing from suspicion the operations of tho regular tribunals of Justice would be worth a war If that were the unavoid able price. But the Fiench sense of military honor takes the opposite view and holds, In effect, that the right or wrong of a thing Is of no account com paiPd with tho Item of expediency. We confess that we cannot untangle this nilx-up. Theories are of no avail against hiicIi a concatenation of sus picious and inexplicable clrcumiUncei. The truth will probably appear In time. Meanwhile It ought to have weight even with Frenchmen that the present notorious backing and hauling Is sacri ficing, not "tho honor of the army" alone, but the honor of tho entile French nation. It Is bound to hurt France not only morally but also ma terially. Foreigners will not care to do business with n people ro weak In their conception of equity that monstrous injustice Is meekly tolerated by them because of mot ul cowardice. The dlfllcultv In a city plant for as phalt repairs Is that It opens the door to frequent changes In equipment ami more or less jobbery Then, too, there Is no positive assurance that such a plant will always be uhed to the best effect. Tho advantage of letting the whole subject of paving repairs out to private enterprise orr the plan of competitive bids covering a series of ears is that continuous good work can be exacted under penalty of for feiture of bond. Repair companies who make their wotk a specialty oug to be able to give better results for small er cost than political appointees of a municipal department. This, nt nil events, has been the lesson of exper ience In many other cities. Mr. Wanamaker's attempt to secure the senatorial tOBa from the Demo cratic party rests upon two tnther un certain contingencies. In the first place the Democratic party In Pennsylvania Is not likely soon to have a toga to be stow; and In the second place, If It should have the disposition of one theie would be candidates In Its own ranks. About the only dividend In sight for Brother Wurtnmaker lit his present eccentric political Investment Is the fun he Is having. The suggestion of Mr. Kemmcrer that the election of the next mayor be taken out of politics, whatever is to be Kild on Its theoictlcal side, Involves under existing conditions a practical Impossibility. But It Is by no means impossible for the substantial tax-paying element of the city to go to the party primaries and insure the nom ination of adequate men. When this Is done reform Is ccttnln. English officers wonder vvhv Consul Geneuil Wlldman and Consul Osiar F Williams, who are supposed to know something of the Philippine question, were not sent to Paris in stead of an aimy officer who has had practically no experience In dealing with the natives. Come to think of It, suggestions of this character might have been useful at un earlier stage In the game. Uncle Sam as fh? Great Enlighfener. Tin: United States Illuminates tho world more effectively and com pletely each ear. Despite tho tear so ficquentlv cvpresxed ot Into that tho largo production cl petroleum In Russia and Dutch last In dies and tho Increased use ot electricity for lighting purposes would reduce our valuable eioiln of llli.mliiatlng oils, the ear Just ended has shown the greatest exportation ot that article In the history of that important branch of our loiclsn commerce-, and the Hemes for August show the largest expoitntlons of oil lor any islnglo month on record. The reports of tho treuaurv bureau of statistics show that the expoits of mineral oils in tho fiscal jear 189$ passed the billion gallon line, tho total, Including all classes, be ing 1,031,209,676 gnllons, against 973,M4,940 gnllons in 1S97 and !)90,i3Sl99l gallons In 1S90. The huge production ot mlnctal oils In other parts of the world, while It has not reduced our oporlatlon. has probably reduced the prices which oui producers and exporters have been ablo to realize. Tho exports of oil In the jear 1WS were piaetlcally double those of ISiS and throe times thoo ot li7S, but tho money re ceived from them was only nbout 2o per cent, greater than that received cither in 1S7S or lhSS. The total receipts for tho lAil,2bi,676 gallons of oil exported In l)3i were &6,126,o7S, while for the 78,331,bJS gallons exported In l&SS the receipts were J47.04J.409 and tor tho 33S,8U,loJ gullons ex ported in 1S78 tho receipts were $16,371,971. The averace export value, of retlned Il luminating oil was In 1S7, J19 cents per gallon; In 1S78, 11,4 cent per gallon; In 1SS, 7.9 cents per gallon, and In 1V$, 3 2 cents per gallon, having thus fallen from JI.9 cents to 5 2 cents from 1872 to 1S9S. o Notwithstanding this steady rail the pioductton and cxpoitulion continues to Ircreasc, the exports having Increased urver sixty million gallons In tho pust enr over that of the preceding jear mid over ono hundred million gullons over Ihat of any earlier year while the pro duction for 1S97 was 2.52S.037.0SI gallons against 2 0n,331,972 ill 1S.I4; l,476.S(rj,;i6 In 1KW; 1,017.174.306 In 1SH3, S36.3U132 In 1!S0, and 510.82J.38S, in IbTU. Thus while tho price lias been steadllv and rapidly tail ing the quautllv produced and the quan tity exported have aa steadily and rap idly Increased The production In 1SU7 was five times that of lb76 and the ex portation ot last icar neailv five timis that of 1376 Great as tho fall In price has been, the expoits of Illuminating oil bring over u million dollarn a week Into the coiuitiv anil have In the past twenty cars added a tound billion of dolluis ici our foreign sales o The following table shows the quantltj and value of our exports of mineral oils of all gradeb fclnco 1873: Year. Gallons. Dollars 1875 221.933.WS 30,076,5'jS 1S76 .'IJ,GijO,lU ;iJ.9lo,78C IS77 309,193,914 (il.iyj.43K 167S :8,6il,JOJ 4H 571,371 1S79 378,210,010 40,303.219 lfcSO 423.9u4.C99 3l,218,b25 1S1 397,b60,2t2 40.315,009 ti5-' 539,931,390 51,23.',70b IbSJ 503.911,622 44,9U09 lbS4 , UJ,bCO,092 47.10J.J4S 18K 571,bCS,180 50.23V.917 1SEG 377,Sl,7;j 50,19J.bl4 1SS7 592.803.267 46,821,915 188S 578.331,038 47,042,409 1K8S 016,195,459 4'.91J,'j77 1890 004.068,170 51.40J.083 1861 709.S19.4J9 52 020.734 1KIJ 7l5.36-i.819 44.903.U9J 18SJ 804,220,2.10 42,142,058 1891 908.252,314 41,4'9,S06 1893 8S4,5OJ,08J 46,000,082 1S96 S90.i3S.9M C2.38-J.4jJ 1897 973,511,910 02,CJ3,0J7 189S 1,034 269,076 36,12U,5iS o Tho following table showing tho coun tries to which our oil hits been exported in 1897. and 1S9S Indicates the wide distri bution this article of our commerce ob tains: KXPORTS OF nBFINDD M1NKRAL OIL. 1897. WS Imported to Gallons. Gallons. I'nlted Klngdcm 2I3C27.16S 512.loJ.ji3 France 9,0o3,lll 12.83o.0Jl Germany ui.2oi,i33 152,203,222 Other Kuiope 214,3Jo',SJ4 2h0.4Jl.316 Urlllsh North America, 10,013,517 11,087,502 Cent. Am. States and Ilritlah Honduras .... 1,2'6,700 1,061,980 Mexico b',il,o.'8 LVKi.vJi Bnnto Domingo 526,071 579,823 Cuba 65.747 243,'WJ Porto Itlco 27M93 3K),roU Other West Indies nnd Bermuda 4,221,737 4,10,71l Argentina 10,391,716 ll.Wt.12J Hrnrll 20,5C:,W3 SO.IWI.'Wt Colombia 1,213 'AS 1.069.510 Other Boutli America. 10,213.753 lUSJ.r.10 China 42.C27.lSt 4l.62.!,bTiJ British East tndles.... 21,361.344 35,762,VU Japan 17,411,176 M.Kis.lS'i British Australasia ... 16,S.!7,91l 20,495,19 Other Asia and Occanlcii 46,111.6ns 3l,M1,fcVJ Africa 10,474,11s 12,29-'.. 41 Other countries 63,31b 4.,,'J.'0 RESULTS WORTH THEIR COST. From the New York Sun. There Is nothing In American hostary, or, so far as we know, In nny history, like tho current concerted effort to hide tho Blorlcs of our magnificent triumph over Spain under alleged faults and shortcom ings In Its conduct. Dvcry war has such shortcomings, on ono side or the other, or both, nnd they are most glaring whore Hoops have to be hunledly luvled from the civic population and rushed Into the field. Where a nation lb beaten In tho field, Its enuso ruined, and its piestlge lost, finding fault with tho-e responsible for the disaster Is mutually the lending occupation for n time, as In Spain, for ex ample, today. But what Is astonishing Is, to find people In our tountiy trvlng to mako more of alleged mistakes In the campaign than of the overwhelming and brilliant victory, as If tho spots on tho sun were more Important than the sun Itself. o General Grosvenor lightly snvs that the rapldltv with which our little force of 23,oOOv men lu the United States scrvico was Increased tenfold was marvellous. Wo mav add that this verv uipldlty, com bined with promptness In field operations, while essential to our purpose, led to some of the results In camp sickness and death which ale now turned to sensation al account. Take, for example, the cam paign of Santiago. The nations of Europe that had experience In tropical opera tions warned us against attempting any thing In Cuba until the autumn, ihe German military experts especially pre dicted that otherwise we should sutler terribly fiom slckn".. and nn Kngllsh well-wisher. General Wolscley, publicly expressed the hope that we would not hurry, because he wanted us to succeed. At Washington similar views wcro stout Iv maintained, and It Is well known that Gencrnl Miles' plins were to mako a campaign In i'orto Bleo first, and put off all operations In Cuba until tho autumn. o Hut Cerv era's arrival In Santlngo har bor changed nil that. An opportunity was offered to us that could not be missed. Our fleet that penned him In there wanted help from tho army, be cause tho narrow channel was dominated by strong batteries. Shatter's corps went down, nnd we know tho glorious result; but what wonder If the slclt.iess ptediet ed and expected at once seized on the n tlro force, so that it had to be bl ought away to Montauk Point? Had anything else been looked for from campaigning In Cuba In July' Besides, the llnolllty to diseaso was aggravated by the hurry im posed on our operations. Wo did not want tho Santiago gairKon to be aided fiom distant points nue Havam, nor even lelnforced by 1'ando, who was near at hand. Dclav, too, was dreaded lest tho rains should make the roads Impassnble, and lest ellow fever should ravage our lines. Risks were run, Infantry did the work of artillery, but after all we won. If diseaso then began to cut down tho army It was only what all had looked for. o It turned out that even the Porto Itlco campaign had to be rushed forward lest peace should corne before we wcie ready for it. although, having been more care fully prepared, It showed fewer mistakes b staff departments, and, as a military operation, was bciutlfullv developed, bo far as it went, the sickness, also, being remarkably little. As to the camps at home, they suffered no less fiom tho very rapldltv of our preparations. ret haps some of them were chosen too haMllv or with Imperfect judgment; peihaps somo were overcrowded In the scno that when tho most healthful sites vveie all chosen others were occupied by the troops rushev)' feuward. Kvcn our government's choice ot tho uniformed mllltla under tho first call was an emergency cholee, due to tho desirability of getting troops Instantly Into tho field. In short, If some mistakes were made In our war with Spain, as In all other wars, the prevalence of peace for generations, the great need of hurry when we had so few regulars ready, and tho turn of events nt Santiago made them not to bo wondered nt. o But tho great point is that the lush with which the war was conducted really economized life, so far as one can Judge. Save for the Santlngo campaign wo might bo still fighting today. We took the crave ilk of a July campaign in Cuba. Ccr vcra tried to escape and was crushed ; Toral surrendered more ground nnd men than wo asked; Spain, disheartened, sued for peace; In fine, we not only did not have to undergo the heavy losses In bat tle unci disease expected of the Havana campaign, but could muster out .1 great part of our volunteer forces. In short. If wo discover some evils due to haste e.r want of scriitlns. let us remember the far greater evils which the vigor and rapidity of this brilliant war escaped. Will any one say that at tho outset wo expected to achieve results so splendid cvtth so small nn aggregate loss of life? When this war passes Into history It will be recognized as one of the greatest of tho military successes of our time in pro portion to its cost In means and men. PACTS OF INTEREST. Compiled by tho TImes-lIcrald. Twelve American-built locomotives havo been shipped to China for uso on tho northern lallwave of that kingdom, and there is a steadily growing demand for American railway supplies of all kinds, J. C, MonagliMi, our consul at Chemitz, testlllcs earnestly to the vuluo of the Ger man sstem of Insuring worklngmon against sickness, accident, InvalldUm -ind old age. Tho fund is furnished by em ployers and employed tho former pay ing one-third, tho latter two-thirds. The svtitcm has been productive of incalcula ble good. Its result has been to insuie hundreds of thousands cf working people who would havo had otherwise no provr slnn for the future A btatement of exports bj tho leading nations of tho world for 1896, us compared with 1872, shows that the trade of Franco has fallen Irom second to fourth place, whllo tho trade of tho United States has Increased more rapidly than that of am oiher countiy, or ncuily 150 per cent In the twenty-five jears. Great Lrltain hn In 1872 as In 18. but the elllfcrc-nco be tween tho value of her exports and the exports of the Ui.lted States at that pet ilod was much moro marked than at present. In 1872 Bngland exported J1,2J3.. 200,000 worth of goods and tho United Slates sent out JtJct.5SJ.000 worth In lo3S Great Britain exported $1,422,000,000, while this country shows the remarkable tolal of $1, 050 000.000. Tho export Hade, of tho United States has Increased by J62O.109.O00. The latest figures obtulnublo show that the Philippine Islands Impoit W,r71.'W3 worth of goods and export $19,702,819 worth, leaving. In round numbers, a bal ance lu their favor of J10,500,000, These figure s are for 1897, and It Is stated that tho average value ot the trado of thobo lalunds Is far In excess of tho sums given, lluslnvsa has been much disturbed by tho Insurrection. A Swiss company has n new building material called "papvrMtte," mado from purified paper pulp obtained from waste paper. 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Foote c& Shear Company Special Prices for 4-Quart 21c 5-Quart 24c 5-Quart 27c 30-Quart 38c 12-Quart 45c 14-Quart 54c We have a large assortment of Fruit Presses, Jelly Sieves and JeJly Stra3ners. The above goods are all first quality. No seconds. Foote & Shear ORE First in your thought is the new gown. First in our thought has been to equip this important stock with the freshest of fashions fancies. Early buyers are always pleased buyers. We tempt you with the following : I BRIM) da Pari59 etc09 4gtec 1898, Fall Exhibit. 1898 HILL & CONNELL'S Firiitire No such magnificent display of furniture has ever been shown In Scranton as that now presented In our Fall exhibit. Nowhere can errunl choice or ecjual values In Kurnlture bo found. Latest dotdgns In Bedroom. Parlor, Library, Dlnlnfj room and Hall Turni tute. Furniture to suit every tahtc and prices to suit every purse, with the satisfaction of knowinp; that what ever may be selected will be tho very best In the market for tho moncj. Inspection of our stock and pikes solicited. Hill & Coemdll At 121 North WftihlDston Avenue. Scranton, Pa. Tyyewrito' Supplies, Letter Presses, s, ic largest line of supplies mi sia im N. E. Peaii Reynolds Biro5 Stationers and Engravers, HOrEL. JEIIMYN UUlLDINO 130 Wyoming Aveniro. the Canning Season. Mas! 4-Quart 23c 5-Quart 25c 6-Quart 28c 8-Quart 30c 10-Quart 36c 12-Quart 40c 34-Quart 45c Coe 119 Washington Aye BAZA-A1 OOOB: 'S HP CO IRIS BJMUOER irae FINLEY Gloves ani Corset These two departments are now replete with the latest and best makes and newest designs for Fall wear, both in imported and domes tic manufacture. We are solo agentb for the following celebrated makes of Kid Gloves . P. Ceaieiieri & Co,, Perrm Frere k Co. of which wc cany the most com plete line and newest color assort ment. New line Laies9 Castor Gloves, In grev and tan, for street wear. Entirely new. New line La Mure in shades of green, army blue and icd, to match our new Fall Colors in Dress Coods. Special Line English Pique Walking Gloves An elegant glove for service and din ability at $i.oo. Corset The following are some of tha sading makes, always in stock : Her Majesty's, Fasso, C. P., P. D., Royal Worcester, R. & Q. Thompson's Glove Fit ting, also Warner's 68 Model, a new num ber, and warranted not to rust. In addition to the foregoing wa carrv a lull line of popular prjeed goods that for Ai value cannot ba beat. Special Fall Sale during the days. Opening1 next tenV 510 and 512 LACKAWANNA AVENUE HENRY BELiN, JR., General Acent for tu Wyomla Ulitrlatfer Mining, lllaBtlnir, Sporting, Hrnokeltli and tlia Itepauno Cnemlca! Company' HIGH EXPLOSIVES. tafe-ty Pu. Cap, and Explain, noom tin Connell Uullllnj. tjorantoo. j. vvss- AUK-SCXL J" THOS. FORP. Httltc J0H B. SMITH itbOX, W. E. MULLIGAN riymoutti Wllku-B&rcJ luroirs POWDER.-
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