'V"! .- r- m njv -"-y ;--'; !-"r S THE SCIUNTON TRIBUNE TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1899. 'v- 0e cmnfon CrtBime I'libimiKMl HaIIjt, Hucept Sunday, or tho Tribune 1'ubllshlng Company, nt fitly Coati u Month. .Sew YorkOMIcc: 1M NaMoti Rt, H. H. VUKKL.ANU fc'ole Agent for Foreign AUvertlnln?. l.Mr.iiKD at nut rosTorricn at citAfrroK, PA., AHEC0tICI.AS3 MAIL HATTKIl. TEN PAGES. SCIUNTON, JANUARY 10, 1S99. In proper course ycHtcrdny's fright ful accident on the Lehigh Valley mil load will be Judicially Investigated, tin J In tho meantime It will oo wise to avoid snap Judgment and to keep cool. The City's Future. Piobably no city In the Union has a bettor police force than Scranton's when It Is nfllclontly handled. In prob ably no city In the Union, not except ing wide open New York, la vice more bold nnd petty crime more rampant than in Sciantoti at this moment. Tho fault is not with the personnel of the police force. It Is at headquarters. The police force 1st headless nnd disorgan ized. Its members are tillable to tell In advance whether tho doing of their duty will bring praise or censure. The result Is that they do as little as possl-, bio, content to awult a change for the better. Thl utter disintegration of thf po lice system iiwlnt; to the weakness "f Its executive bend Is th- worst feature of our mal-auinlnlstered city govern ment. Kxtiavnganee or jobbery In city eontiacts Is dimply the mutter of a few extra pennies to e.ich taxpayer but the paralysis of the police system, the advent ot Irlou.s characters In ro spertablc sections of the city from which thi-y had hitherto been rigor ously excluded by polite es-plonage, tho growing frequency and audacity of sneak thievery, burglarli s and other cilmes are limttois of vital significance. U'lthout Rood police work tills city he roines unsafe as a residence center; It must suffer In a thousand ways. We liavf been hesitant to allude to these subjects In detnll lest we kIiouM be accused of political deign or bias, but ilie time has come when publicity limy be necessary. The future of the city is at stake and It Is in peril. The. rescue must b swift and complete It the prosperity which Is opening to the public vision Is not to be averted or destroyed bv incompetent municipal udminlstratiou. If Mary Monaghan shall be found in nocent of complicity in tne Corcoran murder the detectives who have worked up the case ngalnst her should be held to account for an outrage on justice. Tho Case Against Quay. It is expected in Philadelphia that tho Supreme court will today an nounce Its decision on tho petition ot Senator Quay and co-defendants for a writ, to remove from the court of quar ter sessions ol Philadelphia county sev eral Indictments and pioceedlngs there in ponding against them. The court can do any one of four things, to wit: (1) Quash ihe case against Quay by claiming Hint the substance of the in dictments docs not set forth a tiftitu tory offence. (2) lSemlt the whole matter back to, tho original couit without Intcrfuronce with Its work. (S) llemlt the case but designate a. Judge rf the Supreme court to sit dui Infi the trial. il) firant a change of enue to some other county. Vho first and second of thes po.--sl-bllHu'P re impiobable. The .Suprem-3 court might Ik !!e j in Quay's Innocence ani yt not cure to say so until tho case had comj belore it upon appeal after trial In a lower court. If the Su premo court had considered that the nigument of ihe defense upon the peti tion Involved no merits, It would doubt less have decided to that effect at once. What .Mi. Watson, one of tlio l.nv ers for the Quav def-nse, contvnled was thai "the defendants vev enti tled, as their lull right, to a fall- trial before a fair rctirt and a fnlr Jury, and iliut was all they asked." If that Is alt they ask they ran haidiy expect more. Hence i chnne.e of venue or tho desig nation of ii Supreme court ?'idge to try tho case would properly be regard ed as a substantial Quay victory, it would he equivalent to establishing tho contention of the defemo that this case In Inception and motive is wholly tin v.oik of political malice, and under fair conditions It is probable that a jury would entertain this opinion. Tho Americanization of Havana Is proceeding apace. In less than a fort night after the flag went up all the printers In the city struck for SO per cent, moro wages. Aguinaldo's American Allies. It Is asserted, and tho assertion sounds plausible, that the Agulnaldo faction In tho Philippines are beinsr en couraged in their forcible resistance to American military rule by agents of a secretly hostile European government, name not stated. Until, however, there Is proof to this effect the subject Is unripe for discussion. But no such restraint exists with ref erence to discussion of tho very direct and palpable encouragement which these armed enemies of the United States are receiving from such men as Andrew Carnegie, Carl Schurz, Sena tors Hale, Hoar and Wellington, ex Presldent Cleveland, W. J. Ilryan and ihe other open opponents of tho Paris treaty of peace. Here we have Aguln Ido's strongent allies. These men are directly Inciting armed rebellion to the flag and authority of tho United States. They occupy tho unenviable position of 3ien who are giving aid and encourage ment to a proclaimed enemy. What Tinkcs tho affair worse Is tho fact that thoy have no reasonable excuse for such conduct. They know better. We can understand how patriotic Americans may conscientiously oppose Imperialism," so-called; how they may Invor the early withdrawal of the American flag from the Philippine nrohlpolago. That la one thing; but to lay In effect to tho crafty Malay rebel who threatens to burn nnd loot Hollo If our soldiers attempt to occupy It ns under the Paris pence treaty thoy must until the question of a permanent gov ernment In the 'Philippines Is settled: "Go ahead: resist; flro on the Stars and Stripes: murder and pillage nnd hum; we are with you" this, It strikes us, Is little less than treason. These men know that under the laws of civilized nations tho United States Is responsible for tho maintenance of the rights of foreigners resident In this ceded territory until a recognized sov ereignty other thnn our own relieves us of this responsibility. These men know that every buncombe word of hope which they hold out to the Fili pino Insurgents Is cabled to Agulnaldo and Interpreted by him ns an additional licence to do ns ho pleases. They are making trouble for their own country wilfully and In full view of the con sequences. They nro therefore little hotter than the "Copperheads' of tSGl. The opinion of those persons who read carefully the argument of D. T. Watson, esq., in the Quny cane is, we think, almost unanimous that It left the prosecution without a leg to stand on. Civil Sorvico Reform. The action of the house yesterday In reversing by a yea nnd nea vote of 119 to 69 nn earlier viva voca vote of CI to 07 striking out an appropriation for the civil sorvico commission prob ably marks the last serious attempt which will be made in the American congress to strike down the principle of civil service reform. There may he attempts to secure modifications in methods to effect reform In tho civil service, but the spoils system a a rule controllng government employment Is clearly a thing of the past. It has been outgrown. There is such a thing as carrj ing civil service reform to an absurdity. This is done, It seems to us, when heads of departments under bonds are compelled to nppolnt strangers as c.ifi todlans of public funds, not because these strangers are better men than the heads of departments could (select themselves in tho circle of their per sonal friends, but because they have emerged from written examinations with higher grades. This "reformed" way of doing things Is plainly woivo than the spoils plan since under tho latter even a confirmed spoilsman would bo careful In choosing his cash ier. No business firm would for an Instant toleruto tho idea that confi dential posts of trust could best be (Hied by men intellectually bright but of unknown moral qualities. These blemishes, however, will bo corrected In due course. If the principle back of civil (service reform Is sound and It Is the incidental faults of detail should not lead to wholesale condemnation. The American peoplo, since the war with Spain opened their eyes, are beginning to see that It Is highly essential In certain parts of tho civil service to have trained special ists who are not subject to the inces sant fluctuations of ordinary party pil ules but who can bo relied upon to display character, conscience, well de veloped skill nnd continuity of policy. Theae tblngfi are more essential today than they have ever been before, and popular recognition of this fact wins the battle for Intelligent civil service reform. If General Gomez really drolrc.i an alliance with Santo Domingo It Is evi dent that tho venerable warrior Is not too old to enjoy a little excitement now and then. A Significant anil Felicitous Fact. Proof of the cordiality of feeling now existent between tho United States and Great IJritnln abounds on every hand in the tone of the press of the two countries, in the public and private speech of their public men. In such in cidents as that at Gibraltar recently when our warship Helena was spon taneously accorded extraordinary hon ors by the British Mediterranean squadron ns she passed through the straits on the way to Join Admiral Dewey but perhaps the most com plete proof that 'this cordiality Is real is supplied by a paper by William Laird Clowes in tho Fortnightly He viow. Says this writer: "It apepars to me that at this Junc ture Great Britain could render no greater service to the United States, and to the common race, than by let ting It bo understood, firstly, that she would feel greatly complimented If the United States would allow thirty or forty young Americans of good educa tion und character to enter tho British Colonial Service for a stipulated period; and, secondly, that she would bo glad to place at 'the disposal of the presi dent of the United States, for a similar period, an equal or less number of tried British colonial administrators of vari ous ranka, to assist American govern ors in the organization and manage ment of the new possessions. Tho Americans would, for the time, become civil servants of Great Britain; the Britons would, for the time, become civil servants of the United States; but there would be no transfer of allegi ance; and, save as concerned their pay matiters, nnd ithe nuthorlty under which thoy wore temporarily serving, tho Americans would be little different, as regards status, from tho young engin eering students who, from time to time, havo been sent to Glasgow, and other British engineering centers, to study their profession, under the supervision of the United Stntoy naval attache in London. Wo Britons may say, with out unjustifiable self-confidence, that we have been, and are, extraordinarily successful in tho foundation and man agement of colonies; that, all things considered, our colonies are wonder fully prosperous, peaceful, and con tented, so far ns goernment has any say in the matter; and that wo can wish no better to America than that her colonies may thrive as well as ours liava thriven. If we can bo Instrumen tal In bringing about that result, we can surely give no better proof of our good-will than by volunteering to put our experience, our machinery, and our resources nt tho service of America." It is not necessary to consider seri ously whether such an offer la likely to be made or accopted. On the prac tical side It Is manifestly Improbable, But the significance ot the proposition Is In the condition of mind and spirit by which It Is prompted. Tho friendly Interest nnd sympathy thus exempli fied exlBt among all classes of the two populations. The sympathetic amal gamation of tho two branches of tho Hngllsh-spcaking race Is the most con spicuous and felicitous fact of tho times. LEONARD WOOD. Theodoro ltooscvelt, In the Outlook. What I am about to write concerning the great servlco rendered, not only to Cuba, but to America, by Major-Generul Leonard Wood, now military governor of Hautlago, is written very much less as a trlbuto to him than for tho sako of point ing out what an object-lesson ho lms given tho people of tho United States In tho mutter ot administering fioso tropic lands in which wo have grown to havo bo great nn Interest. Tho most extreme expansionist will admit that the proper administration of our newly ac quired tropical dependencies is absolutely essential If our policy of expansion Is not to collapse; on the other hand, nt least tho most Intelligent among tho anti-Imperialists will admit that wo have cortuln duties which must bo performed as lone as wo stay In the tropic lands. o Oi course there nre some antl-cxpnn-sionlstD whoso opposition to expansion takes tho form ot opposition to Amciuan Interests; and with these gentry there is no uso dealing nt nil. Whether from cred ullty, from timidity, or from sheer lack of patriotism, their attitude during tho war was ns profoundly un-American ri3 was tluil of tho "Copperheads" In ISO). Starling from tho position of desiring to avoid war even when It had become In evitable If our national honor was lo bo picserved, they readily passed Into a frame of mind which made them really chagrined at every American triumph, whrie they showed very poorly concealed satisfaction oer every American short coming; nnd now they permit their hos tility to tho principle of expansion to lend I hem Into persistent effort to misrepre sent what Is being done in the islands and parts of Islands which we havo ox tuully conquered. o But these men nio In u very small minority. I think most Americans realize that facts must ho faced, nnd that for tho present, nnd In the immediate futuro, we shall have, whether we wish It or not, to provide a working government, not only for Hawaii and Porto Rico, but for Cuba and tho Philippines. We may not wish tho Philippines, nnd may regret that clicutnstances have forced us to take them; but wo havo taken them, and stay there wo must for tho time being whether this temporary slay paves the way for pctmaiient occupation, or whether It Is to last only until some moro satisfactory arrangement, whether by native rule or otherwise, takes Its place. Discussion of theories will not avail much; we havo a bit of very practical work to be done, and done it must be, somehow. 1 am certain that if tho Cu bans show themselves entirely lit to es. tabllsh nnd carry on a free und orderly government, tho great mass of my fellow-citizens will gladly permit them to decide themselves ns to tho destiny of Culm, nnd will nllow them to be Inde pendent if they so desire. I nm nlso cer. tnln that Americans would take much this position in regard to the Philippines wero the conditions such ns to Justify It. But I nm nlso certnln that our people will neither oermlt the Islands agnin to fall Into tho clutcnes of Spain or of somo powe- of Continental Europe which would havo interfered to our harm in the last war If it had dared to, nor yet permit them to sink Into a condition of squalid and savage anarchy. o Tho policy of shirking our responsibili ties cannot bo adopted. To rofut.o to attempt to secure good government in the new terrltotles acquired last summer would simply mean that we wore weal: III. ps, not worthy to stand anions tho gnat races ot the worTd. Such a policy woeld It.-elf be n failure; and -t wo fol low any other policy we can do no worse than fall; so It may bo taken for granted that we aro going to try the experiment. All that remains Is to see that wo trv it under conditions which tlvo us most chances of success; that Is. which ren der it most likely that we shall give good trOVf'TTlimmt In thr rnrt minm.1 -i em.! ..--. and therefore ndd to the honor nnd re nown or tne American name no loss than to tho material well-being ot our peoplo at home and abroad. o In these tropica! nnd far-off lands good government has got to bo secured main ly, not from Washington, but from tho men sent to administer tho provinces. It Is. of course, essential that congress should ultimately provide a good scheme of government for the colonies or rather for each colony, as there will havo to be wide variation In the methods applied but even this scheme can be worked out only by tho aid nnd udvlco of tho men who havo had actual expeiienco In the wholly new work to which Americans nro now cnlled; and until wo aro .-.bio to get such advice any scheme must bo of tho most tentative chnr.ictor. What is icnlly essential Is to have llr-c!uss men enosen to administer theso provinces, and to etve these men the wldst possl blo latitude as to means and inatlicds for solving the exceedingly difficult problems set beloro them. Most fortunately, wo havo in General Wood the exuet typo of man whom we need; and wo havo in his work for the past four months an exact Illustration of how tho work should ho done. o Tho great importance of the personal element In this work makes it necessary for mo to dwell upon General Wood's qualifications as I should not otherwise do. Tho successful administrator of a tropic colony must ordinarily bo a man of boundless energy and endurance; and thero wero probably very few men In tho nrmy at Santiago, whether among the of ficers or in the ranks, who could match General Wood In either respect. No soldier could outwalk him, could llvo with more Indifference on hard and scanty fare, could enduro hardship hotter, or do bet ter without sleep; no ofllccr over showed moro ceaseless energy In providing fur his soldiers. In rcconnolterlng, In over seeing personally nil tho countless de tails of life In enmp, In patrolling tho trenches nt night, In seeing by personul Inspection that tho outposts wero doing their duty, In nttendlug personally to ull the thousand and one things lo which a commander should attend, nnd to which only those commanders of marked nnd exceptional mental and bodily vigor nre able to attend. a Oeneral Wood was a Capo Cod boy; and to this day there aro few amusements for which he cares more than himself to sail a small boat off the New Kngland coast, especially In rough weather. Ho went through tho Harvard Medical school In 1SS1-S2, nnd began to practlco In Boston: but his was one of those na tures which, especially when young, frots for adventure and for those hard nnd danirerous kinds of work where peril blocks tho path to a greater reward than 13 offerd by moro peaceful occupa tions. A vcar after leaving college ho joined the army as a contract surgeon, nnd almost Immediately began his ser vlco under General Miles In the South western Territories. Thero were then harried by tho terrible Apaches: and the nrmy was entering on tho final cam paigns for the ovorthrow of Gcronlmo nnd his follow-renegndes. No one who hns not lived In tho west can appreciate tho Incredible, the extraordinary fntlKUi nnd hardship attendant upon thoso cam pnlgns. There wns not much fighting, but what there was, was of an exceed Irmly dangerous typo; and tho severity of the marches through the waterless mountnlns of Ariionn, New Mexico, nnd tho northern reulons of Old Mcxlso (whither tho Apache bands filially, roi treated) wero such that only men of Iron could stand them. But the young con tract doctor, tall, broad-chested, with his light-yellow hair nnd bluo eyes, soon showed tho stuff of which ho wns male. Hardly nnv of the whites, whether sol diers or frontiersmen, rjould last with him; and tho friendly Indian trailers themselves could not wear him down. In such campnlgns It soon becomes es sential to push forward tho one actually fitted for cemmund, whatever his necl dentnl position may bo; and Wood, al though only a contrnct surgeon, finished his career against tho Apaches by serv ing as commanding officer of certain of tho detachments sent out to perform peculiarly arduous and dangerous duty; nnd ho did his work so well nnd showed such conspicuous gallantry that ho won that most coveted of military distinc tions ,tho medal of honor. On expedi tions of this kind, whero tho work Is ro exhausting as to call for tho last ounco of rescrvo strength nnd courage In tho men, only a very peculiar nnd high typu of ofllccr can succeed. Wood, iiowovor, never called upon his men to do any thing that he himself did not do. They rnn no risk that ho did not run; thoy endured no hardship which ho did not endure; Intolcrnblo fatigue, Intolerable thirst, novcr-sutlsflod hunger, und tho strain of unending wntchtulncss against tho most cruel nnd danirerous of foc3 through all this Wood led his men until tho final hour ot slsnal success. Whin ho ended tho campaigns, ho had won tho high regard of bis superior olllcers, not merely for courneo nnd endurance, but for Judgment and entire trustworthiness. A young man who Is high of heart, clean of life, Incapable of a mean or ungon crous action, and burning with tho deslra to honorably distinguish himself, needs only the opportunity In order to do good work for his country. o This opportunity came to Wood with tho outbreak of tho Spanish war. I haj seen much of him during Iho preceding year. Being myself fond of outdoor ex ercise, I had found a congenial compan ion in a mun who had ulwuys done his serious duties with the utmost conscien tiousness, but who hud found time to keep himself, even at 37, a first-class football player. Wo had tho same Ideals nnd tho samo way of looking at life; wo wero fond of tho samo sports; and, last, but not least, being men with families, we liked, whero possible, to enjoy theso tports In company with our small chil dren. Wo therefore saw very much cf each other; nnd wo had made our plan3 long In advance as to what wo should uo If war with Spiln broke out; accordingly, he went as colonel, and I as lieutenant colonel, of the Bough lliders. How well he commanded his reglmont is fresh in tho minds ot every oaie. Because of his success ho was maflb brigadier-general, and at tho battle of San Juan ho com manded one of the two brigades which mado up General Joe Wheeler's cavalry division. When Santiago surrendered, ho was soon put In charge, first of tho city, and then of tho city and province. o Since then ho bus worked wonders. Both his medical and his military train ing stood him In good stead. I wns fre quently In Santiago utter the surrender, nnd I never saw Wood when he was not engaged on somo one of his multitudi nous duties. He was personally Inspect ing tho hospitals; ho was personally su perintending the cleaning of tho streets; he was personally hearing tho most Im portant of the countless complaints mude by Cubans against Spanlatds, Spaniards against Cubans and both ugalnst Americans: ho was personally en gaged in working out a better system of sewerago or In striving to secure tho return of tho land-tillers to tho soil. I cio not mean that he ever allowed himself to be swamped by mere detail; ho Is much too good an executive ofllccr not to dele gate to others whatever can safely be delegated; but tho extraordinary energy of the man himself Is such that ho can In person overseo and direct much more than Is posslblo with the ordinary mun. o To General Wood has fallen tho duty of preserving order, of seeing that the bC3t Cubans begin to administer the govern ment, of protecting tho lives nnd proper ties of the Spaniards from the vengeance of their foes and of securing the best hy gienic conditions posslblo In tho city; of opening tho schools, and of endeavoring to re-establish agriculture and commcrco in a ruined and desolate land. Tho sani tary state of tho city of Santiago was frightful bc ond belief. Tho Cuban army consisted of undisciplined, unpaid men on tho verge ot becoming mere bandits. Tho Cuban chiefs were not only jealous of one another, but, very naturally, bit terly hostile to the Spaniard? who re malned In tho land. On tho other hand, tho men of property, not only among tho Spaniards, but even among the Cubans, greatly feared tho revolutionary army. All conditions wero rlpo for a period of utter anarchy, and under a weak, a fool ish, or a violent man this anarchy would certainly have. come. General Wood, by his energy, his firmness, his common sense, and his moderation, has succeeded In working ns great an Improvement us was posslblo In so short a time. By de grees ho has substituted tho best Cubans ho can 11 ml in tho places both of tho old Spaplsh officials nnd of the Americans who wero put in temporary control. He permits not tho slightest violence either on the part ot the American soldiers or of tho Inhabitants; he does absolute, even Justico to all. Ho shows that ho thinks of himself In so far as ho desires to win an honorable reputation for doing his work well and even this deslro for nn honorable reputation, It must do lemcm btred. Is absolutely secondary In his mind to tho desire that tho work Itself should bo thoroughly done, let tho credit go where It will. o Tho Importance of all this lies In the fact that what General Wood has done In Santiago other officials must do else where In Cuba, Porto ltlco, and In tho Philippines, not to speak of Hawaii, if our rule In these Islands Is to bo hon orable to ourselves and advantageous to tho natives. Thero Is no need of prattling about tho Impossibility of governing the Island under our constitution and system of government. Tho men who so prattle merely show their own weakness; thero Is not tho slightest difficulty In governing tho Islands If wo set about governing them well, and If we choosa tho General Woods because thoy are fit fur tho task nnd not because they are pressed by rcl flsh Interests, whether political or com mercial. The inhabitants ot tho islands aro not at tho moment fit to govorn themselves. In somo places they may speedily becomo fit; In other places tho Intervening time may bo very long In deed, Until tho moment does nrrlvo, they havo got to bo governed; and thoy havo got to bo governed by men carefully chosen, who are on the ground, who know what tho needs really are, and who have tho power given them to meet tluso needs. PolltUs should havo as little to do with the choice of our colonial admin istrators as It should havo to do with the cholco of an admiral or a general. Wo cannot nfford to trlflo with our own honor or with the Intorests of tho great alien communities over which we have assumed supervision. Thero aro plenty of men fit to administer these colonies men like General James II. Wllbon and General Fltzhugh Leo; but they canuct do their work If they nro not left large ly unhampered, and If they arc not give.) cordial assistance by the peoplo ut home; nnd tho places under them must bo given to men chosen because they can do tho work and not becauso politicians recommend them. If political considera tions of the baser sort aro supreme In the ndmlnlstrutlon of New York city, that Is New York city's own fault; but In tho Philippines or In Cuba It would be the fault of the American peoplo nnJ not of tho inhabitants, nnd would estab lish a Just grievance on behelf of the latter. Wo cannot afford to let politicians do with our puhlla Bervlce In our depen dencies what thov have done for the consular service: still less can we nfford to let doctrlnarlM, or honest, Ignorant GOLDSMH Bl isy For Oor' Great Jam The head of every department during this week is going the rounds and under-pricing every article. Therefore, you will be the gainer if you visit this establishment when out shopping. All-Wool 36-inch Eiderdowns, formerly 50 cents, How cut to 34' cents Beautiful German Printed Flannels, formerly 15 cents, Now 9 cents ftSee window. ALWAYS BUSY. Stand more kicks than any other shoes made. Lewis, Mlly k iavies, 111 AND 11G WYOMING AVENUE. WE HAVE A N UMDKR OF FINE 00BU1P8 that we will close out AT COST This is a chance to get a good lamp for little uiouey. TIB CLIEIQNS, FEMBEfc WALL1SY CO. 4'2'1 Lackawanna Avenu THE MODERN HARDWARE STORE. Drop Lights We have made a re duction of 25 per cent, on our line of Drop Lights as we wish to close them out before in ventory. These are all new goods and bargains at the prices we have marked them. F0QX1E k SHEAR CO, 110 WASHINGTON AVE. peoplo, decldft tho difficult and delicate (lueatlons bound to urlso In administering the new provinces. Wo cannot possibly, ut any rato for the present, do bettor than to tnlte for each province some man llko General Wood, trlvo him tho largest power possible both au to his methods and his Buhorrilnutos, nnd then hold him to ft strict accountability for the results; demandlne that ho proservo untarnished the honor of tho American name, by working, not only for tho Interests nt America, but for the Interests of tho peoplo whoso temporary ruler he Is. OUE U"(filK wis9 IrulUC TTiTP(P S.ij! Getting Ready n Ml 1 For Holidays Hill & Connell, 321 Washington Avenue. Have an unusual large nieortmont or Chairs and Rockers Sfc "orfpfion Ladies' Desks ,,. wood Parlor Cabinets and Music Cabinets lu Mauojanyund Vernls-Murtln. A FEW CHOICE Pieces of Bric-a-Brac, Tabourettes, a Jarge selection : Tables, in endless variety. Hill & Cooniell 122 Washington Ave. Various styles and bindings. The larg est assortment in the city to select from for office and pocket use. Rey molds Bro STATIONERS anil EXGRAVHRS, THE & CORNELL CO. Heating, Plumbing, Gas Fitting, Electric Light Wiring, Gas and Electric Fixtures, Builders Hardware. 434 lacteainia Avenue Dunes Fir 1899 IAZAAM Sate TV0 1 1 ps k WtadiogUp Sale oe Faocy Silks To make a complete .clearance on all lines that have been broken up by our holiday busi ness, we have arranged our entire stock of Fancy Silks into four lines, as sorted as follows: Assortment 1 All of our Fancy Silks that are suitable for waist, petticoats, dress and coat linings, etc., etc., and worth from 85c to $1. Now 69c Assortment 2 Everything in our stock of Fancy Silks worth from $1.00 to $140. Now 88c Assortment 3 All Fancy Silks ranging in price from S1.1O to $2.00. Now $1.00 Assortment 4 A few choice things in Fancy Brocades, etc., mostly in short lengths ot from two to six yards each; were $2.50 to $3.50. Clos ing at $1.25 The first three lots are in lengths ranging from four yards to twelve and fifteen yards each, and we unhesi tatingly say that, so far as silk values are concerned, this is an opportunity rarely to be met with. Fi alley's 5H0and 512 LACKAWANNA AVENUE HENRY BEL1N, JR., General Agent Tor tUu Wyotaloj Ul.trlctfJt Mlulnc, niantlns.Hportlng, tjmokalui and ttiu ltepuuuo L'UemloAl Company'i HIGH EXPLOSIVES. haitty Kiue, Capi nml Kplo4ri Uoooi 101 Conuoll Iluiminz. Hcruutoo. AOENOliii THO FOTtn, JOHN H. BMITHA JON. W.KMULL1U.VN, ntm riywouti mivt-nrri NtEFS DUP0IT8 POWDER.