THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-THURSDAY, JAlftJARY 12, 1899. wm Ten Thousand Yards of Lonsdale, Fruit of Loom, hill's and Langdon '76 Muslins at 4 l-2c the B I A SUBURBAN -a Blankets Extra Heavy 10-4 NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE, WE DELIVER YOUR PURCHASES WITHOUT CHARGE TO YOU. EXPERIENCE. 1 is yard I J'SiSi' ar: 6 0)A)0(tMt(0(MfMyl(fM(0(0(ty(0(fMf!i(ts "It Isn't because I'm tired of our flat that I want to live In the miburbs, hut the doctor says we both need chnntfO," continued Mrs. Perry Thome, who was making her first nlea for country life. "I ugrce with the doctor that we need change ot one sort, at least," con tinued her husband. "Don't be flippant, dear. I nin In dend earnest; and oh, l'erry, I know of such a dear cottaee, one of a row." "I dislike rows," said Mr. Perry. "However, If you are determined to bo a suburbanite, and with the suburban ites stand, I may as well ngree with you. I will at once take lessons of the flying trapeze so that T may sonv tlmes be able to catch a train. I will study to acquire that dazed suburban stare that people who eat their break fast nml dinners by lamplight assume, assisted by catching their quota of sleep In depots after they have missed their train." 'Oh, we won't be there long enough for that," said hH wife, "and l'erry. the air Is just heavenly so sustaining." "That's good, as we shall probably be 12 miles or more from a grocery stive. Have you caught your house yot, Maud?" "Oh, yes: Mrs. Smead has one In the same row and she told mo about ou.-f. It Is the southwest corner house, while her's Is the southeast. Isn't ttstmnge, l'erry, that I have never been Intro duced to Mr. Pme.irt? I wouldn't be lieve there was any such a person If I had not seen him. ' "Nothing strange about It." grow d l'erry, In what his wife called his bull dog voice. "I suppose you want to known him because he has tho reputa tion of being " ladv killer." "Perry!" "I am told by fellows that we botn know that he prides himself on lii.s beauty." "I hate be.iuty men," said Maud, soothingly. They are vain, conceited creatures. I would never marry a hand some man." Perry mumbled something and went nway, first giving his wife permission to do as she pleased about taking 'he subuiban house. .A week later both families were set tled In the vow which fi anted a street and n. railroad track, and was equitlls tant from two depots. Mr. Smead did not take an kindly to the change as Perry Thorne did, but he told his wife, thoughtlessly, that one good feature of suburban life was hav ing the Thornes lor neighbors. ' Where have ou ever met Mis. Thorne?" asked his wife suspiciously. "Don't know her from Adam, mv dear, but isn't she your friend, and haven't I heard her praises sung ever since we were married?" "H'iu! We have a calling acquaint ance, nnd now that we ar? to be neigh bors I suppose you will meet. Hut you are po susceptible, and she Is so giddy, I just know you will set people talk ing." "Great Caesar, Laura, you give your best friend a great sond-off! I suscept ible and she giddy? We must be made for each other." Mrs. Smead looked volumes nt her handsome husband, but where Is the man who does not enjoy being a bone of contention among his women folk, and if Smead had a special and par ticular virtue.lt was that of being good natured. Mis. Smead, like the woman of his tory, had two treasures her sowing machine and her husband, and she drew the line at lending cither, nnd It people wanted to tall her pel fish they might. Fortified by this law, she rented tho southwest cottage. Saturday night: The Invisible bridge spans tho distance between the world of labor nnd the world of rest. The tranquil air gavo back no murmur ot multitudinous voices that had lllled It with cries of sorrow, anger or gladness during tho work days of tho past week. It was the ante-chamber of the Sab bath, a time so sacred to our ancestors that all work and nil nlpmuirn wna ono. pended that tho poul itself might rest. A great throng of people was hurry ing homeward, and all boro the happy burdens of Saturday night new shoes for the feet of the little burden-bearers, a new bonnet for mother, the Sun day dinner and among them Perry Thorno nnd Amos Smead, who had struck up a neighborly acquaintance, and were now hastening to the same train, going out to their suburban homes for their first Sabbath of rest. They were both laden to the ears with brown paper packages, and had just time to make the train, nfter purchas ing their commutation tickets. They went loping through the gates In ap proved suburban style, and caught on just as the train moved out, and then Perry shouted In a voice that sounded above the roar of escaping Bteam: "We've left our Sunday dinners on tho window stand of the ticket office. Vou go on, Smead, and I'll take the next train out." He swung himself clear off tho train, turned a somersault, nnd wuved "all right" to Smead, who mopped the cind ers and perspiration from hiH tnne, n.i remarked to the man standing next to him, in a friendly way: "Nice wny to spend tho summer liv ing in the suburbs?" "Yes, If you don't care what you say " growled the man. ' Then Smead took a bit of pasteboard from his pocket and began to study it. "Southeast corner, Terrace Ilow.Oak land." Smead asked his gruff neighbor If he got off at that station. "No, I don't," said the man. "You couldn't hire me to live In that swamp. I go out ten miles further where yoii don't have to sift the ntmosphere to keep the mosqultos from choking you." That sounded dlscouraglne.but Smead was not anxious to rido ten miles further on an accommodation train that slowed up for every cow on tho track, and he wrapped himself in a speculative reverie until the brakeman called "O-a-k-l-a-n-d!" as if only the deaf lived at that station. Mrs. Smead was wnltlng for her lius band, whom she expected on the C.30 train, but the train had come and gone, nd instead of tho handsome, well groomed Mr. Smead, a frontlo woman, her neighbor, Mm Thorne rushed into her cottage. "I've caught Mm'" she gasped. "IIo's locked up in the llbiary! Oh! oh! oh!" ''Caught whom?" asked tho mystl Sed woman. Then seeing that her dls- traded visitor was very near falntln? she collected restoratives and brought baclc Mrn. Thorne'H scattered wits. Maud explained as soon as she could speak that n desperate-looking man a burglar, she was certain, nnd a convict as well, hut the cut of his hair had feloniously entered her house a mo ment before she came, and walking boldly Into her library had been locked safely therein by herself. "The windows are nailed down; T have been waiting for Perry to open them, so he cannot escape that way," she concluded. "I expected Anion on the last train. I don't see what Is keeping him," said Mrs. Smead, "hut he has not como yet." "Neither has Perry, hut perhaps they will come together. Isn't it dread ful.' I daren't go back with that man In the house. I know by his looks that he's a murderer. Our girl hasn't com", nnd I m nil alone. Oh, If Mr. Kmead wero only here!" I guess I'll do Just as well," said Mrs. Smead coldly. ' I will take our revolver and you can bring the stove lifter, and wo will Interview him through the door." "Hut what good will that do? Ho may s-h-o-o-t first!" "Come on," said Mrs. Smead, con temptuously. She was only a young matron herself, but she was not going to be Ignomlnlously routed by n one man nrmy. nnd she led the way to her neighbor's cottage. No other people lived in the row, so they had all the run to themselves. Hut at that identical moment the 7.40 train, sometimes called tho husband's train, o innny of them went out to I s-pend tho week's interval with their families, stopped ot the nearest depot, and Perry Thorn with1 his double load of packages hove In sight. Both women were overjoyed to see him. "What's the row, he asked, dropping hla bundles on the veranda. "A man!" said both women at once. "Where is Smead?" "That Is what 1 would like to know," said Mrs. Smead; "I expected him on this train." "I haven't seen him. Who is tho man?" "A burglar, and he's locked up In the library. Don't you think I was brave?" asked Mcud, who, now that her hus band had come, felt that she might pose as a heroine. "Ilurglais already? Ha! thin Is a di version. Give me the key, Maud. I'll take your levolver, Mrs. Smead. Now ladles, stand aside," and Perry made a valiant rush for the library door, which he unlocked nnd threw open, at the same time presenting arms according to the best manual practice. "Don't shoot!" cried a familiar voice that trembled, not with fear, but mer riment, as Mr. Smead stepped smilingly forward and bowed low to Maud; "I am Mrs. Thome's captive," he said, "What docs this mean?" cried Perry, his face flaming. "Yes. what does it mean?" demanded Mrs. Smead, In the measured syllable of the divorce court. "It means." explained Mr. Smead, "that my wlfo has not yet learned to box tho compass she gave mo south west and your wlfo locked mo In a room that has no ventilation and un der a criminal van. But I forgive her," ho added, with a gallant protest, whereat Maud's cheeks grew red with eirbarrasment and Mrs. Smead said: "Come home! After this I will meet you nt the train and see that you don't get Into the wrong house." "Do forgive me, Mr. Smead," said Maud, penitently, while Perry glared darkly like u Jealous stage lover, "but you did not look so " 'She said you looked like a convict," remarked his wife. "At least It has made us acqualnteJ," observed Mr. Smead, true to his colors, and with this parting shot he followed his wlfo to the "southeast" cottage. Detroit Free Press. N. A. R. AND P. A. Explanation of an English Sugges tion to Facilitate Correspondence. From tho London Graphic. "N. A. It." What does N. A. It. mean? Well, listen and I will tell you. We all know what It. S. V. P. means, but N. A. It. Indicates quite the re verse. Do not wo nil write a number of absolutely unnecessary letters, and do not all of us receive a quantity of lettera which are altogether useless-' This Is sometimes the result of :us tom and sometimes of politeness, but In both cases en Irely superfluous. Up to the present time we write to a tradesman giving him an order. He replies that our "esteemed order" has been received and will be attended to. He probably again writes when In has executed our commission, and he has tho trouble of writing two letters nnd we of receiving the same, whereus if wo headed our communication N. A. R. which, being Interpreted, meareth "No answer required" we should both have been saved a great deal of trou ble. Probably, until people become ac customed to these mystic letters, it would bo well to write the sentence In full, but In a little while you will find people use N. A. It. even moro fre quently than It. S. V. P., and will cor dially bless the Inventor of these sim ple and time-saving characters. By the way, with regard to the group of four letters referred to, why should wo js the initials ot a French phrnse? Would not P. A., "please answer," bo shorter nnd moro satisfactory as well as more appropriate for i-mgllsh people, usually speaking their own language or at any rate getting as near to It as education nnd tho continual use of slang will allow? ' Not Taking It, Perhaps. Customer (handing over tho money) This mixture will euro the grip, will It?" Druggist "It will knock It every time, ma'am. Wo sell moro of this stuff to grip patients than all other kinds put to gethcr." Customer "You'ro o new prescription clerk, aren't ycu? What has become or tho young man who generally stands be hind this counter?" Druggist "Hu'h down with the grip, ma'am," New York Evening Telegram. A Droam, First Popullst-"'hat are you thlnkln' anout" Second Populist "I was jUBt thlnkln' how rich wo'd all bo If everybody'd start nn endless chain subscription for every body clao nnd nobody'd break the chain." Puck. S An WfflfcJ13$i$E& I I'll, Grey Blankets, worth few r.'.:: 39c WoolFinished White Bankets, worth $1.50 Q pair. Now. 9oC Grey Wool 1 1-4 Blankets, worth fe&.!?: 1.89 1 1-4 Extra Heavy Soft Finish Blankets, were $3.25 jq pr. Now. X.O LAOKA. AVENUE rt MwMW I Muslin Wear Muslin Skirts, elaborately trimmed, always 1.25. 0 Now. 89c Muslin Gown s, with lace and tucks, always 69c. . . Now 45c Umbrella Drawers, lace trimmed, al ways 39c. Now 29c Corset Covers, handsomely trim med.always 1 20c. Now I.Z2C SECOND FLOOR S I 1011 ui Q 1V9 Q rsi ivi or 0 b u n u u A M Vt Q b y The wonderful values, the attractive goods, the little prices, direct all eyes here-wards. People may well marvel at the great and good things we set before them. Halving and quartering prices provides a two fold object here economy for you; business for us. Shop to your content but you'll lay your money saving to our door. Sure. Today's News Is of Vital Importance It concerns, principally, the biggest offering of Men's Wear that this store or any other store has ever made. $ N . t 1 j , i1a 111 jff 1 1 f t i utner tnmgs are important, too sunicientiy so tnat you u count tne saving oy coming Deiore lots are gone. Underwear Women's Fleece Lined Jersey Ribbed 1 j Vests. Very special lAjfi, Women's Fleece Lined Pants; the 25c kind. Very special at 1VC Misses' Fine Jersey Rib bed Vests, always tft 25c. Very special at 1 "C Women's Fine Australian Wool Jersey Ribbed Vests and Pants, Oxford cut, al ways $1 and $1.25. CA Very special at 5UC Boys' Natural Grey Shirts and Drawers, always t 2c. Very special at 1 7C Boys' Fleece Lined Un derwear, never sold under 3 5c. Very special 22c Hosiery Children's Fine Ribbed Seamless Fast Black Hosiery, all sizes, pr . 5C Women's Fine Cashmere Hose, double soles and high spliced heels, always 4?cpair. Very special at 29c Women's Fine Seamless Fast Black Hose, double soles and high spliced heels, always 15c. . Now 10c Furnishings for Men WVOMINQ Men's Fine Camel's Hair Under wear, very nicely made; worth 7 39c. To go at 2oC Men's Velvet Fleece Lined Under derwear; never sold under 50c. . To goat 00C Men's Na tural Wool Underwear; always sold jf2 at 750 Go at. :rs amp rvcwAJ 'v . r.ts- Mvsjm?-smtxi8:m'. v .iiprsb-.vft,'kihc-s. vw iwjjb-"v a , r4i i"i ii cwa hi i mt tm ii.c 1 v a jb r km l ('By -il Y ft S tl 1 JWStVOP vl7J WMA wJm?Kvl. jKT IV WA tVZZLWJ MXW" W- mwmm fs ami v ' KassifFJifl'icr c irui'ii 1 v tfTj-urrii.i.M v vnti Mm u P? iv - s? 50c Men's Fine Camel's Hair Underwear; always sold at age. cn Goat.. 59C Men's fine flannel wool Shirts, extra good quality, prices $1 and i.2j, c to go at 75C Men's fine linen bosom Shirts, rein forced front and back, always joe, to go at odC Men's and Boys' Percale Shirts, with two collars, easily worth yjc, . to go at 45C Men's Heavy Sweaters, 75c , kind, now 49c Men's kind, now. Silk Neckwear, 50c 39c Half Ordinary Cost AVENUE. Men's Fine Natural Grey Under wear; never sold under 50c. ,t To goat oJyZ Men's Hygienic Wool Fleece Lined Underwear; always 75c. To go ., at 45C Men's Fin est Quality fficU.sr7i7Z nf Hio-h 'fNv ?'rs i-fc? X " '.". . ,? wj . urade Wool &;. WSVi'T' f cViirr? rArkVtranr 1.1 -'-.j YMif.X 1 ii 1 1 nil i: w 1 III ASlM.'SK.m'K'ii '),. -, .T . ' Malri M"v''ft.i tine casn- ?wi c&fI not shrmk SirftJtSHRSM WM7 ..fau j , JZ ," "" IVI'J'jLKBW' .' vi r m rt Jcaijiit v.nv; ;nlH nr 1 .7 j. To (t go at... P 1 Men's Unlaundered White Shirts, boucle back and front, always 59c, to go at 5C Men's 1900 Linen Bosom Shirts.bod ies of Wamsutta and New York . -mills muslin, 69c kind, now 45C Men's Cheviot Working Shirts, al ways sold at 40c and nnA sod, to go at....?. 29c and 39c Men' Wool Sweaters, $1.00 ft kind, now OyC Men's New Style Puffs, 50c 0ft kind, now ZyC Art Goods There are less than 600 pieces all told in the lots here mentioned. Stamped Doylies Were 5c, now 3c Were 8c, now 5c Were 12c, now 7c Were 15c, now iac Were 25c, now 15c Stamped Hemstitched Doylies Were 7c, now 5c Were ioc, now 7c Were 15c, now 12c Were 35c, now 25c Stamped Fringed Doylies Were ioc, now 7c Were 21c, now 15c Were 50c, now 25c Fringed Tray Covers Were 19c, now 15c Were 25c, now 21c Table Covers Many patterns to choose from ; were 85c, now 49c. MAIN AI3LE Ribbons Extraordinary About 10,000 yards in the lot. When they are gone no more at the price. It's a chance lot that straggled in very cheap. Single and double faced Satin Ribbons tn black and all or the leading shades. No 2 No 3 No 4 3c yd 4c yd 5c yd owi r Mil iV fflAYWg P I 1 Nu5 NoT No9 Vffik I (M 7c yd 8c yd ioc yd 1 jn No 12 No 16 No 32 xVrf? dJzr 12c yd 14c yd 18c yd There'll be none left after Saturday. MAIN AISLE-'LACHAWANNA AVENUE' The Boy Must Have Clothing Why Not at These Prices? We defy any manufacturer to make Boys' Clothing equal to the kinds mentioned here at the prices quoted by us: ,-., pair for Boys' Knee !5C rants, of strong navy blue twill cloth, 3 to 15 years, al ways 49c. .g for sailor Blouse Suits, 1 . 5 sizes 5 to 10 years, three patterns in navy, grey and brown, nicely trimmed, pants have patent waist bands, always $25. 1 Q r single breasted 5."o Overcoats of all wool Irish frieze, 8 to 12 years, made with velvet collars, plain lining and full back. Only a few lelt and positively worth $5.50. SECOND IAn r 3-P'ece Vestee .0" of mottled cheviot, collar edged with cloth and four rows of soutache braid, vests trimmed to match, pants fin ished with bow and buckle, al ways 3.25, sizes 3 to 8 years. ,- Q for Boys' Reefers, to Z,yO 9 years, choice of vel vet or 4 inch Jack Tar collars, garments that were $.98, $4 so and $4 98. Some sizes missing, but not many. t o or Double - Breasted I.o9 Cheviot Suits, 8 to 15 years. Would be a very great bargain a; $.3.00, FLOOR. Embroideries j,ooo yards of cambric edges, cut out ready for use. Full assortment of patterns; always 6c "2 yard. To go at, yard -' Jonas Nona's Books Maker's Cost A big book factory figured too heavy on Christmas. That's why 2 cases (1800 books) came in here at bare cost of paper. Volumes handsomely bound in linen cloth, some with gilt tops, in the lot are copy right books that have sold at $1.25 among the titles are Joan Seaton A Story of Paralvit Flndl iK of Lot's Wife-Clark bacrlflceof Pools Cralu The lleib .Moo i-llobb;s There are about 1250 vol umes, nil told, some of them have sold as low as 19c and 29c. Your choice while they last 15C Oliver Oplic Books for Boys, Pansy and Sophie May Books for Girls, published at $1.25 and , $1.50. Your choice today for 09C MAIN AISLEWYOMINQ AVENUE, Embroideries 10,000 yards of fine cam bric edges, 1 to 5 inches wide cut out ready for use; always ioc yd. To go at, yard 5c 1
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