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THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-MOND AY. DECEMBER 5. 1898,
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VA AS BKCOtICLAIW MAIXi MATTBn.
SCRA.NTON, DECBMBnn B. 1898.
The wild poots nnd literary rouitn
bouts who pee', fame by making face?
nt The Ttlbunc in the "has-been" Sun
day papeis, must not expect to recele
much free ndvcitlflriR In the way of
retoit. Any Journalistic coipso that
desires to be resurrected nnd iccele
notice fiom the public tin ouch The
Ttlbuuo columns muot pay ndottlslnB
rate?, and also convince tho manuRO
ment that it does not belong to the
claim teimod objectionable.
The Cry of Imperialism.
Tho Haltlinoic AniPilcan In a recent
Issue ghes nn atuihsls of tho Philip
pine question that Bt-citiM to suil'ciently
answer the unreasonable ciy of the
nnti-lmpcrlalUtP, who are endeavoring
to atruy the listless elements of niUK
wum)lsm and othr malcontents
against the gu eminent "Now that
the question Is xottled," sas the Amer
icui, "It 13 possible to analyze sobetly
this cty of Imperialism and show Its
unrei"onabtcnc.- It was. claimed tint
possession of the Philippines would
compel the t'nlted SStnU -. to take part
In Tuiopean politics nnd would abro
gate th Aloinoe dot t lino The Philip
pines nie a Rioup ol Mauds ibout sev
en bundled miles from tho coast of
Ala. Tho j:uiopcan powers-, aside
from Spain, hi', no iihtr In them
wlrite,.-i, and hav never claimed an,
and can off-i no imiim; for ol timing
any heieaftei, unlc-s the United States,
by Its own acts, las the foundation.
Thej aie as completely apart fiom V.u
lopean politics ps lasl a. The nntl
anneationists may with as miuli Jus
tice say that the pospsloii of the Hah
ninas gives Gieat lliltaln tin riglit
or comiiels her to InUifeT In the poll
tics of the United States, Islands In
the ocean inuv be a potent defense
nsralntt ngRiebslon, but they bae not
hitherto played an Impoitant patt in
the grasping policy of Hut ope. Tho
Philippines In the hands of the United
States aie not likely to pioe an ex
ception. The Itonioe doctrine lemalns pre
cls"ly as it was before the cession of
these islands That doctilna Is sub
stantially that the nuiopean powers
shall not Inteifere in American af
IrIih, and, as a coiollaty, tlie United
States slnll not Intel feie In lHtiopean
affairs This countty has not and does
not propose to Inteittie In European
affairs, not even in Afcia, wheic it lias
as much light to go as any E'liopean
power. Spain has ceded the Philip
pines, nnd no other I'Imopeaii power
has any right or inteiest in them, or,
for that matter, in any othet of the
inlands cf tl e Pacific, save whole it
has alieady established Its authority.
The Monroe doctrine has nothing to
do with the islands of tho Pacific 01
with th" continent of Asia, c:cept so
far as the latter is alieady occupied
by tho 12m or can powers Neither Asia
not the Pji-iflp islands weie in con
templation when it was promulgated,
and there has been no authoritative
deelaiation of their Inclusion so far as
we are aw aie. If European povvets
constiue the occupation of the Philip
pines as interference, that is their busl-n-'ss.
We aie not iepons!l!o for false
inteipietation but tho United States
Is fullv prepaied to maintain hei tights
a fact so universally known that the
nutl-anncatlonist need ha o no fcais
of a (olllslcn It may also be noted
that doctilna and policies relating to
lorelgn afl iii aie good just as long as
a government Is able to maintain them.
It might be n good plan to enlist tho
sei vices of Mls Jessie Schley In the
Inteiest of peace among the Jepait
ment official"
The Regular Aimy.
P.eccnt events that have placed the
buuleii of governing vast colonial pos
sessions of uncertain moral piopensl
tles upon the government f the United
States inakt the increuse of the Ameri
can standing aimy a necessity that not
even the most tabid antl-imperlalist
can dispute Alieady a bill Is under
constiuction at the hands of the com
mandei -In-chief, Gencial Miles, fixing
the standing army at 100,000 men.
The mustering out of the volunteeis
whoso terms of enlistment will eplie
in another vear, will lender it necec'
rnry that the aimy should be equipped
and prepaied foi seivlce in any clime
nt the end of twelve months, If pot be
foie. There is no question that if the
iccmlting oiilcers selected the light
nelghboi hoods and looked principally ut
the physical requliements, many thou
sands could bo added to the fled num
ber and bo made up of men who aie
anxious to become soldleiH In keep
ing up the small army In the pant the
reciuiting olilceis have been able to ex
ercise tho utmost caie in the selection
of men, and the rules made it almost
Impossible for any save men of excel
lent education to enter the service.
Upon several occasions duilng the
past few yeais reciuiting station for
tho United States aimy have been es
tablished In Scranton, but only a few
men have been secured until the war
with Spain began. I'nder the legula
tlons In times of peace the volunteer
was obliged to possess an education
above that of the average woi king
man, ns well as phyfieul lequliements,
in order to be accepted. As theie aie
few physical and Intellectual giants In
any localltv who desire to enter the
aimy, the lecrults weie few. The oili
ceis in chaige stated at each visit that
they could have secured hundieds of
blight young men of good habits who
were admirable specimens of munhood
physically, but were obliged to i eject
the applicants on account of lack of
education. It l to be hoped that these
rules will be modified In futuie In order
to give the honest tollers In the crowd
ed industiial centers an opportunity to
outer the service of tho government If
they wish to do so. There aie thou
sands of men all over the country who
cannot solve knotty questions Jn urlth-
tnetlc and nlgolura, or peihapH even
vvilte with a Speaiccrlan llouilsh, who
would make good soldiery. Among the
biavcst troop In firont of Santlngo dur
ing the tereiit campaign were the negro
regulaif.who fouglitwlth an Intelligence
and valor that commanded the admlr
atlon of friend und foe, and It Is doubt
ful if there were any college gradu
ates among them. If the iiimles of
America nte In future, as in the pust,
(omnuped of men who are llred by
patriotism und the love of country, they
will be Invincible whether lecrulted
from the college, workshop or farm.
Judge Gordon Is out with nnother
letter telling why ho resigned. If
Judge Gordon keeps on the public will
soon be sorry that ho did not stay on
the bench.
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The Future of Spain.
Honor Snga3ta has been Quoted as
acknov lodging that Spain has been re
lieved of a treat burden bv the loss
of the Philippines and the acquisition
of tho twenty million dollar balm offer
ed by the United States, but he has a
feelltiff that is anything like friend
ship for the nations of Euiopo which
he thinks should have Interfered and
prevented the foi cert, sule of the
IsWnds. Ho proposes at tho proper
time to get oven with his false friends
on the other side nnd hopes also that
America may leceive punishment Tho
inhabitants of tho Philippines are ex
pected to Indict tho lattci. As an evi
dence that the premier is really In
earnest and is on the right track he
states' "We shall work cnoigetically
to leconquer our position by moans of
good ndminlsti atlon, which Is the basis
of wealth. Internal leform will bo the
base of my progiamme nnd of the pro
gramme of every jaity leader tiuo to
Spain "
Tills is ccitalnly the most hopeful In
dication thai Spain Is not irretrievably
lost. In this Held there is gieat work
In store for Sagasta and Ills succcssois.
If i Is pos"ll)le for the mlnlsteis of the
kingdom to teach tho nation to be
honest and give the people an econom
ical government theio are no doubt
brighter days in store for Spain.
An official leport of the Fhafter
Scovel one-iound affair is now in or
der. The Last Ditch.
Of the many Illusions by which the
silv elite demagogues seek to delude
their follow eis, tho most egregious is
that in which they allege that the re
sources of this country are pledged
to ledeem paper money and depreciated
cuirency of oveiy vaiiety hitherto in
vented. The "resources of this coun
tty" arc not hypothecated for nny such
purpose, nor is it possible to do so un
der any conceivable conditions. Tho
"resources of tills country" is a very
vague and indefinite term. But le
duced to its simplest proportions, we
take it to mean the general wealth
of the country, that Is to say its ac
cumulated wealth, capable of being
capitalized at a longer or shoiter no
tice. If thib is what tho demagogues
mean by the "resources of the coun
tiy," then it is plain that in order to
insure tho stability of a depreciating
paper or silver cuirency a resort must
be had in the ultimate Issue to con
fiscation. The "resources of the coun
tiy," wltli the exception of government
lands, aie in the possession of private
individuals, who are no more bound
to pledge; their good3 and chattels In
ledemptlon of a depreciated cuueney
than they are to give them away for
nothing. Taxation in all civilized coun.
tries is a Mist chaige on puvate re
sources for national defense anu the
secuilty o life and property. Tlieie
is a limit to the amount of money to
be lalsed in this manner, even In such
unconscionably taxed and pauperized
countiies as Italy, Spain and Turkey,
or even in such rich countries as
Great Erltan nnd Germany, where, as
In London, municipal taxation some
limes exceeds half the annual lental
value of ieal estate. No government
ever yet undertook to pledge the re
sources of the country to maintain a
depi eclated curtency at par. Tho
thing Is almost unthinkable and cer
tainly unworkable. It runs counter to
the great law of self-preservation. All
the government can do for this purpose
is to borrow money to mulntair. its
leseive of gold to meet Its paper and
dt monetised currency at their face
value, a value which was paid for it
It is tiue that tho money collected to
pay the inteiebt on these bonds Is lalsed
by taxation, yet only the Inteiest
and so much of tho piluciple Is icpie
scnted by the amount of the depiecla
tlon If theio was no depieciation
tlieie would be no occasion for bor
i owing Money does not evapoiate
out of our treasuiy. Eveiy cent of it
Is held to strict account. We must
not, of course, confound the opera
tions of the treasuiy as tho national
banker, with tho expenditure of the
government This is the only country
In which the government acts as tho
national tieasuiei. It Is an expeii-
ment, und a very successful one as
It has tinned out so far.
There is a limit and a vety uairovv
one, to the plenary povveis of gov
ernment meeting a depreciated cur
rency with national bonds In exchange
for gold It reached that limit dui
lng Piesldent Cleveland's administra
tion. Such a method of sustaining a do
pi eclated cuneucy Is unjust and In
qultous. It is a tax on thilft and ln
dustiy. Outside of this country hls
toiy affords only pne such parallel
When the Hank of England closed Its
doois In 17S9, William Pitt pledged the
government to sustain tho ciedlt of
that institution. Mark you, he did not
pledge the "jesouices of the count! y"
He had no power to do so,
If he even thought of stall an Im
possible thing Tho panic was allayed,
the bank opened its doors, never In all
human probability to close them again
In such a contingency. Kings have
pledged their crown Jewels to ralso
money , Ercderlck the Gieat converted
his pluteinto thaleiii, but the resources
of the country could not be touched In
opposition to the will of the people for
such a puipose, or fot uny put pose.
National resources and national credit
aie to a certain extent convertible
tcims. When tho national credit be
comes depreciated, the national resour
ces remain, but they are not immedl-
ately available. Credit Is the soul of
commerce and prosperity. We are eter
nally extolling our Inexhaustible na
tional resources. We ate Justified in
doing so. Wo began practically to re
constitute our national existence after
the civil war with all our lesourcrs In
tait, but fearfully disorganized and
demoinllzed. It was u time which tried
men's souls, as even the war had not
done. It is with a countty ns with
nn individual. The one must live on
from day to day ns tho other, with
foresight and circumspection. Titty
cents vvoi th of sliver does not make
u dollar, never has nnd never will make
a dollar. A government stamp on pap
er does not make money. No amount
of sophistry or cant will get over these
facts. They nie as indellibly written In
our natural laws as that two sides of
a triangle aie greater than the third.
The "resources of this count! y" are
not pledged to nny such monumental
folly in nbctting u. government to ruin
the credit und good faith of the peo
ple with their nelghbots all over the
earth. Even the meteorological or ns
tiologlcal Impostors refrain from
pledging the resources of tho sun to
bring us vvnim weather In December.
Richard Croker and other heavy
stockholders in the Democratic syn
dicate have decided that Representa
tive Unlley, of Tejias, shall no longer
lead the mlnoilty in the house. Croker
has recently been securing sitppoit In
the west to the scheme to place Mr.
Bailey on the shelf, and as the latter
will not bo apt to leld without a
struggle, lively times nie ahead In the
Dcmociatle wing of congress.
Gencial Wood says that there has
not been a niurdei at Santiago since
he became responsible for the govern
ment of tho city. It is a pity that Cen
eral Wood or some other military gov
ernor could not be spaied a few months
and placed in charge of certain por
tions of Northeastern Pennsvlvanla
wheie law nnd order nppcar to have
ben slumbeiing foi yeais past.
"In all the discussion about Con
gressman Uoberts, of Utah," says an
exchange, "tho latter Is not saying a
word" Certainly not. A man with
throe wives does not need to do much
talking.
A few pople still Imagine that the
yellow Journals of Manila are tho
mouthpieces of the riliplnos.
NEWS AND COMMENT
Captain Whltrcy, of the staff of General
Milt.', who made the military reconnais
sance of Forto Rico and lurnlsltcd tho
material upon which the plan of cam
paign was baied, owes his life to a young
woman attendant In a photograph gal
lery at Ponce. Whitney had spent a
month In Porto Rico In various disguises,
pilnclpally a: a sailor fiom a British
merchantman, and wore a shabby sea
man's dress. He kept his notes and mem
oranda carefully sewed under the collar
on tho back of his shirt. One dny as he
was making pieparations to leave for tho
united States he went into a photograph
gallery at San Juan to buv such views
as ho could lir.d of tho harbor and forti
fications and various places along tho
eoust. Watching her opportunity, n younir
1'orto Rican girl who was employed In
the place, whispered lo him that tha
Spaniards were looking for an American
spy who was dlsguled as a sailor, and
hinted that he had tetter not bo seen on
tho street. Whttr.ey thanked her for tho
Information, but assured her that they
could not be looking for him because ho
was an Englishman. He made good use
of the warning, however, und concealed
himself untii dark, when he rowed out to
an Encllsh ship in tho harbor and pei-
suaoea the sailors to stow him awnv.
Tho first thing Captain Whitney did when
he returred to Porto Rico with General
Miles was, says W. E. Curtis, who tells
this story, to call upon his unknown
friend in tho photograph gallery. She
did not recogi.lzo him at first with a sha
ven face and a gllt-cdged uniform, but re
called the Incident as soon as It was men
tioned, and said that she was confldent
he was tho nan tho authorities weio
looking for nnd bad given him the warn
ing because her sympathies were witn the
Americans.
Spain's war loss is thus estimated:
Twenty-one warships.
Two armies defeated nnd captured.
Cuba, 4'2,(Xi5 squaro miles and 1,000,000 In
habitants. Porto Rico, 5,K0 square miles and SuO -000
inhabitant,?
Tho Philippines, 111,328 square miles and
S.OOOOOO Inhabitants.
Tho Sulu Lslands, 0W square miles and
73 000 inhabitant.
Stiay islands In other groups
Tho territory taken under tho terms ot
peace means a loss to Spain, In round
numbers, us follows
Cuba &UQ,000,000
Philippines 450000,010
Porto Rico I'iOOUMiOO
Cost of war 3.3,000,000
Loss of commerce IMOOO.'-OO
Thirty ships lost SO,000,OW
Totnl $1,075 000 000
In lound numbers the loss to tho United
States Is thus summed up:
Maine $"UK),0J0
Cost of war i.00,000000
Indemnity to Spain 20,000,000
Total $222,Ik.'0,M0
Lives Lost bv United States About 253
men killed and about 1,324 wounded.
About 2,000 men died In camp 'Iheso fig
ures do not include tho 260 sailors lost
on tho Maine or the men who havo died
of fever after being mustered out.
Lives Lost by Spain About 2,000 killed
and 8,0u0 wounded.
The probabilities are that the foicgolng
fBtlmato underrates the war loss of tho
United States If wo tako into account dis
turbance of business, piobable cost of
pensions, tc nevertheless tho balanco Is
on the right side.
"ot all Spaniards are vindictive At
Guavatna. in Porto Rico, is a fine old ci
thedral. the second finest In the island;
nnd its padre is a benevolent old Spaniard
gieatly beloved by his flock Trumbutt
White, correspordlng for the Chicago
Record, narrates this incident concerning
tho veneiablo priest On Sunday morn
li g at high mass oame a peculiar thing
At tho end of the teivlce, for a leees
slonal, tho oiganlst far up In the loft
touched his keyj and through this old
Catholic church In an obscuio village In
Porto Rico thoro sounded "The Star-Span,
gled Ranner" The variations Improvised
were beautiful The melody ltelf was
kept u little In the background, obscured
a bit by tho florid music that accompanied
it, but it was theio beyond a doubt. Per
haps the Spanish woi shippers did not rec
oentze tho untumlllar strains for what
they wore. Tho Americans did. All over
the chuich theie were American soldleis
and ofllcers who had been present as wor
shippers or spectators. When the Iden
tity of the music camo to them thero vvero
heads uplifted and bilghtcnlng eyes and
glances of recognition that meant a great
deal I hunted up tho old padre and
asked him about It. "yes." he said, "It
was Intentional I asked the oiganlst
In the morning If he knew the American
national hymn. He said that he did. so
I askid him to piny It as n lecesstonal, I
thought It would please tho Americans."
It did pleano them, and the old priest
could not have done, a more generous
thing or one that would have been better
appreciated,
Tho president of the Pacific Cablo com
pany. Mr. Ray lies, thus explains why tho
United States needs a cable station In tho
Caroline Is1aml:"ln laving a cable across
the Pacific tho routo Is fiom San Fran
cIfco to Honolulu, thenco to Guam, ot tho
L-adroue group, and from tho latter to
Manila. So far nil Is under tho Ameri
can Hag, Honolulu, Guam and Manila be
ing ours. The difficulty comes in tho
stretch between Honolulu and Guam
Hero is a dlstnuco of 3 310 knots. Of tho
cables at present In existence the longest
is tho ono recently laid down from Urest,
l-'r.ance, to Capo Cod. Its length is 3,187
Knots, n is so heavy that experts have
expressed eravo doubts ns to whether It
enn bo raised nnd repaired If a break oc
curs In deep water. It contains 600 pounds
of i opper .and 40 pounds of gutta pcrcha
to tho knot. If the weight ot tnis caDie,
measuring 3,1C" knots. Imperils Its safety,
ns experts believe, a cablo for tho longer
distance, of 3b"l knots, fiom Honolulu to
Gunm, would bo out of tho question. It
would of necessity have to bo heavier
than tho Trench cable, nnd In view cf
past experience It is held that It would be
hbtolulcly Impossible to lay nnd maintain
It. It Is therefore nppaicnt that there
must be a lnnding for tho cablo between
Honolulu nnd Guam, so ns to shorten tho
sections. This lnnding, to carry out tho
purposo of communication under excluso
American control, can bo on no other
than territory owned by tho United
Stntes."
It Is probable that tho vear 1900, If not
nn carliet one, will see tho last of canal
boating in Pennsvlvnnic ns a means or
transportation The next legislature is
to bo petitioned to nuthoilzo the aban
donment of that portion of the Pennsyl
vania canal from Duncan's Island to New
ton Hamilton, which was destroyed by
tho floods of IfSt and has never been re- ,
uiuii. Anis, inc iiuriihuuiii wuhu-m.-wcalth
arsurcs us, Is probably tho begin
ulng of the end The nbandonment of
this section of tho once great wateiway
will only lcavo tho main line, which ex
tends from Columbia to Nnntlcokc, nnd
the spur up tho west bmnch of the Sus
quehanna to I.oyalsock cicck, which Is
six miles below Wllllamsport, ns tho rem
nant of tho great public works which
were begun July 4, l.'G, and completed
December 2. 1S1I These woiks Included
bOO mlks of wateiway nnd 120 of rallwav ;
the canal from Columbia to Pittsburg, in
which the old Portngo i.allroad over the
Allegheny mountains plaved so Impoitant
a. part; the canal fum Sunbury to Lock
Haven, the one from Duncan's Island to
Nantlcoke and the rallioad from Colum
bia to Philadelphia These works we-e
considered the triumph of Governor
Georcc Wolfe's ndminlsti ntlcn and until
1S57 played an Important part In the de
velopment of the section of country
through which they passed.
As a matter of fact Spain got better
teinis of peace firm the United States
than sho has beer, accustomed lo. A
correspondent of tho Sun lecalls that
after her twelve years' war under Philip
against England, Germany and Holland,
though maintaining Philip's right to the
throne, sho was obliged to cede rapes,
Sardinia, Parma, Milan and all tho Neth
erlands to Austria, Sicily and Savoy,
w Ithout any money consideration. Under
the samo treaty (Utrecht) she also ceded
to England Gibraltar and Minorca, also
without cash corsldcratlon. When she
was compelled to cede San Domlnso to
1'ianeo as tho penalty for Joining In an
alllanco against her, sho neither asked nor
rccclv ed a sum of money for It. VV hen
Ollvenza was ceded by Portugal to Spain,
in lbOl, Spain paid nothing back In money
or otherwise. In 1S02 when Spain ceded
Trinidad to England, Parma to tho Cis
alplnes, and Louisiana to Tiance, neither
of them, from sympathy or In mercy for
their conquered foe, paid back any raonjy
or assumod any debts whatever.
If the civilization of a people Is Indicat
ed by tho extent to which they utilize the
malls Pennsylvania, will need, as tho say
ing goes, to get a movo on. According
to tha records of tho postofflco dcpaitment
of all tho states Massachusetts stnnds
first, with an cxpcndlturo of $2 30 per capi
ta in the uso of tho mails, Now ork sec
ond, expending $.' 27; District of Columbia
third, $2 1C; Colorado fourth, $1 93; Con
necticut fifth, $1.80, and Pennsylvania only
sixth, with an expenditure of $1.73. The
states rnnklng lowest are South Carolina,
23 cents per capita; Mississippi, "l cents;
Alabama, 33 cents; Arkansas, 37 cents;
North Carolina, 41 cents.
Speaking of tho liberality of tho terms
of peace, tho St. Louis Globe-Demoeiat
points out that in past acquisitions of ter
ritory wo havo paid to Prance, Spain,
Mexico and Russia a total of $52,700,0u0,
nn average of $21 a squaie mile, or a
fraction moro than 3 cents an acre. To
give Spain $20,000,000 for the Philippines
would be $87 a square mile, or about 1-1
cents an acre.
Not ono of tho thirteen prominent new
plays by American authors produced in
this country this season has been a dis
tinct financial success, while a number of
successes havo been scored in tho repro
duction of plays by English and French
authon . Vas 1st los mlt do Yankee play
wrinht.' m
LOSS AND GAIN. '
rrom the New York Sun.
In tho eyes of foreign obscivers and of
future hlstoilans, ourtccent contest with
Spain will bo memorablo not only for its
brevity, but also for the exceptional Im
portance of Its results To find a paral
lel for both tho quantity of territory and
the volume of population transfo-red from
ono sovereignty to another, we should
havo to go back to the most successful
campaigns of tho great Napoleon and to
tho peaco of Paris, which ended tho
Sever. Yeais War. Spain has lost pos
sessions equivalent In area to about f.vo
slxths of her own European territory,
whllo we havo acquired a superficies ex
ceeding that of the Italian peninsula and
tho island of Sicily combined. Whnt
Spain has lost in tho courso ut a few
months, Is a population larger than that
of tho two Euionean klrgdoms of Hel-
glum and the Netherlands, which, under
their former namo of uie I'nltea i'i ev
inces, tho Spanish sovereigns Philip II
and Philip III fought so long and des
perately to retain. We. on our pait,
havo added to our population about 0,
000,000 human beings, or considerably
more than tho kingdom of Prussia con
tained at tho beginning of the piesent
centuiy.
NAVAL RESERVE PERMANENT.
rrom tho Baltlmoio Araeilcan
All tho reports from tho chiefs of tho
navv department speak strongly In favor
of tho maintenance of a naval reserve.
This branch of the service proved Its
value during the war with Spain, and
should be made a permanent feature of
the naval force of the country.
Book Store,
OPENS KIUDA.Y EVE., DEC. 2 WILLIAMS
111 DO. 003 WASH. AVE., OPP. HUNTINO.
ION'S.
Music by Lawrence.
Souvenirs for Ladles'.
Great Holiday
BE1DLEMAN, gSr0'
GOLDSMrnrs
Blankets and
Comforts 0 .
Are the bulkiest articles carried in our stock. There
fore, in order to make room for the immense quantities
of Holiday Goods to be opened very soon, we have
priced all of our Blankets and Comforts at figures
which will insure a speedy sale of large quantities
during the coming week.
ftSee Window.
ALWAYS BUSY
Christmas
Is Comilig
S Is S;
His little friends, and big
ones too, will be happy in
our shoes.
Lewis, Eeiily k Bavles,
114 AND 11C WYOMING AVENUE.
When Ym Are Out
looking around for your
Christ mas
Gifts o o o o
remember our stock of
Fane China,
Cut Glass,
Brie a Brae,
D3nner, Tea,
and Toilet Sets.
TIE CLE1QNS, FEMBE,
0'iALLEY CO.
4U2 Laetawauna Avanu
TT TL A.
&
We have just received
a fine line of these goods,
Tbey are the handsom
est we have ever seen.
You can see them in
our window.
E001E k SHEAR CO.
Ill) WASHINGTON AVE.
WOLF & WENZEL,
'.MO Ailuma Ave, Opp Comt lluuu.
Practical Timers
aid JPlumtes,
EsU Agents (or Iticbardtou-Bajntoa'J
Furnaces nnd Rant.
Drop
,:(S-1
1898, Ml Exhibit. 18!
IEL k CORNELL'S
TT
A-t
am
no,
No such magnificent display ot
furniture has ever been shown In
Scranton as that now presented In
our Pall exhibit.
Novvhero can equal choice or equal
values in Furniture be found.
Latest designs in Bedroom, Parlor,
Library, Dining room and Hall Furni
ture. Furniture to suit every taste and
prices to suit every purse, with the
satisfaction of knowing that what
ever may be selected will be the very
best In the market for the money.
Inspection of our stock and prices
solicited.
Hill &
Cooed!
At 121
North Washington
Avenue.
Scranton, Pa.
The Largest
Assortment of
ce
o o
anes
For n999
Can be found at our establishment.
Now is the time for your choice, :is
we have EVERY style of dtaiy
that is made.
Reynolds Bros
STATIONERS and ENGRAVERS,
13 Wj amine Avenue.
lue Larson lluaoroillceSuppllailn North
eastern PcniHyUuuia.
THE
HUNT & CORNELL CO.
Heating, Plumbing,
Gas Fitting, Electric
Light Wiring, Gas
and Electric Fixtures,
Builders Hardware.
434 Lackawana Avenue
sir
ii
IAZAA1
HNLEY
One Hundred Pieces
:st Gooois lade.
AtoMely Fast Colors
We have now open an
unusually handsome line
of these Goods for
Also m elegant Mae of
Far Eveiiig Dresses.
510 and 512
LACKAWANNA AVENUE
HENRY BEL1N, JR.,
General Agent for tiis Wyoniiaj
District fj.-
Ill ulna Wasting, Sportlnj, amoUa'.au
und Uie ltepauno Cuemlcu
Compuny's
HIGH EXPLOSIVES.
tufety Kuse, Capi nntl Kxplodsrl
Itooui lot Connell UulUlus.
bcrantoo.
AQKNOltri!
tho", roiirt, rittito
JOHN ILtiMiniAiUN. Clymouti
W. E. MULLIGAN. VI1U-Barr J
arawide
Percales
HOUDAY
CFT8.
Frcich
Organdies
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