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MONDAY, MAY 1, 1S99.
Quit fooling, quit lmKRlltiff, but repair
thu streets. This Is the public's ulti
matum. Dewey Day.
Thi'ie are numerous positions from
which the significance of this occasion
may be viewed but perhaps the best
Is to look at Dewey simply ns a typo
of the nverngv American specialist ever
rcnily to do lilf? tasks well when the
opportunity calls. AW do not wish to
detract from any of the personal liom
uko to Dewey when up express the
belief that among the ofllcers of the
American navy one year ago were per
haps a hundred men fully as capable
ns was the modost Vcrmonter of doing
what Dewey did and doing it equally
ns well. His special advantage lay In
having been afforded the chance to win
Immortal distinction but while we
honor him as ho deserves let us not
forget the other Deweys, all along the
naval line, who were ready for fame
but did not get the opening.
Wi are Inclined, in spite of our
boasted democracy, to over-eulogize
the individual hero. We are accus
tomed to read and to hear that but
for Washington there would have been
no American Independence and but for
Lincoln no salvation of the threatened
Union. "We begrudge these great men
no syllable of praise, for though per
sonal In direction It is representative
In Intent; but let us not lean so heav
ily upon our discovered great men ns
to forgot thu possibilities of great
ness lying dormant on every side.
Washington had the opportunity and
he proved equal to It. Hut tho oppor
tunity would have found its man had
George Washington never lived. It
Beems to us as If a special Trovldence
picked out Lincoln for a special work
nnd nobly did this most human of he
roes Justify the confidence reposed In
him. Hut the cause was so superior
to tho Individual that wo cannot admit
to belief the conjecture that had tho
particular man been absent tha cause
would have expired.
And so with Dewey, ho Is more the
type of American readiness than n per
son of flesh and bones. It Is not meant
in any unklndncss to recall that Dewey,
tho man, is a diminutive person with
half a liver gone and other defects.
But the Dewey whom tho American
people eulogize todoy is bigger than
the giants of fairyland and more per
fect than perfection Itself, for he 13-
the personified embodln.ent and repre
sentation of the Indomitable Anglo
Saxon spirit, the spirit which has saved
the ages and the spirit to which des
tiny has plainly committed tho future
guardian&hlii of the human race.
Frequent changes In school manage
ment aic Inadvisable. A good super
intendent is a good olllclal to continue
in ofllcc.
Go Ahead.
The people of Scranton demand the
repair of the crumbling asphalt streets.
They have endured for two years a
condition of those thoroughfares which
makes an old-fashioned corduroy road
seem respectable in comparison. They
have watched the manocuvering in and
out of councils over this matter and
they have reached the conclusion that
for the common welfare It Is necessary
to take street repairs out of politics
and adjust tho matter on the basis of
a Ions-term contract made with cap
able, private enterprise. Then the
streets will bo repaired coutlnuqusly
and efficiently, year after year, no
matter what administration is In office
or what kind of men comprise the
dominant majority in councils. This
is the only safe, efficient and econom
ical method.
The suggestion that the thousands of
big nnd little holes now dotting the
honeycombed asphalt be temporarily
filled in with ashes, sand or cement is
not approved because, its utter futility
is universally recognized. Tests have
shown that these make-shifts do not
last. The average life of such a re
pair is from two to four days. Tho
men of Scranton who use vehicles do
not want to have their vital Interests
trifled with in tills munncr. They are
losing thousands of dollars every sea
bon by reason of the dilapidation of
the streets. Their vehicles break down,
extra draught horses are necessitated,
smaller and more frequent hauls
are required and every day of
postponement of durable repairs
takes money directly out of
their pockets besides impeding tho
general transaction of business nnd
marring most objectionably tho other
wise attractive appearance of our city.
Tho people demand asphalt repairs
made with asphalt put down In a work
manlike manner, under a water-tight
contract holding the repairers respon
sible. They demand that such repairs
ue not further postponed whllo our
city authorities fence and sjar among
themselves. They demand an Imme
diate commencement of tho uoik. A
contract to this effect, nt a price com
paring favorably with similar contracts
entered Into by other cities, has been
executed after nn open competition
among qualified bidders and the work
of repairs would ere this have been
well advanced but for contemptible
chicanery In tho city hall. This con
tract stands In Hw and It is approved
by the Judgment of experienced busi
ness men who hae examined Its pro
visions thoroughly nnd made careful
estimates on the cost or slmllur work
r-Isowhere. It takes tho whole subject
out of politics for ten years, gives tho
city foreknowledge of what the work
will cost during every year of that
period, Is guarded by heavy bond and
Is binding on n company of known
financial responsibility. This com
puny stands ready to go on with Its
labors and agrees to expend during the
present summer upwards of $70,000 In
complete resurfacing of tho main
Hrettts now In worst ronditlun. Thero
its no need of further dllly dallying.
Xlicrc Is no occasion for the resort to
puny expedients, Tho whole matter
can be adjusted In thrco minutes by
the production of the missing contract
nnd tho mayor giving orders to go on
with the work.
I'ubllo opinion has decided that tho
streets must be repaired. It Is not
likely to recede from Its position. If
there Is any receding It must bo dono
by those who otnnd In public opinion's
way.
No Individual who takes up nrm3
against Undo Kain need never expect
to dictate tho terms of surrender. That
Is exclusively nn Ameilcan prerogi
live. The City Superlntendency.
Tho city of Scranton Is exceedingly
fortunnte In having two men so well
placed ns nre Principal Phillips nnd
Huporlntondont Howell. The former
hns made of the new high school some
thing more than a mero Jumping off
plnco In the public school route; he
has made It n radiating center of the
entire educational systprn of the com
munity, sending uplifting currents of
energy and Inspiration in every di
rection. He has done po well In so
brief n time that in all kindness we feel
constrained to suggest that for tho
city's soke he should not bo disturbed.
The high school is by no means n fin
ished work, rt has yet to bo broadened
and Improved. Professor Phillips, nil
must admit, Is pre-eminently tho man
to continue the Immediate personal di
rection of this evolutionary process
and on the professional side it consti
tutes by no means an Inadequate ambi
tion. What Piofessor Phillips hns been as
the superintending principal of the
high school Professor Howell has been
In the wider field of the city supeiln
tendency. The two tasks are dissim
ilar. They necessitate nt many points
different qualifications. The work of
the superintendent calls for more of
the spirit of the wrestler. He has to
serve as a kind of buffer between tho
politicians who want to make of tho
schools a commodity in political man
ipulation and the people, whose needs
and Interests too often have no other
special champion. It Is to the everlast
ing credit of the present superintend
ent that he has on several conspicuous
occasions met this none too enviable
task without flinching, and tho antag
onisms ho has incurred whllo standing
up for the people are not the least of
his recommendations for a re-election.
During the superlntendency or Pro
fessor Howell tho school work in our
city schools hns been very noticeably
advanced in clllclency and system. To
day the syllabus of studies Introduced
by In'm mako3 It possible for c'tll
dion to And their proper place and
(fade in nijiy locality within the city
parents may happen to
as been set for the
ugh not unreason
able, yetsultlces to keep their best en
ergies active. Instruction In many
ways has been practlcallzed. to the
end that the pupil, upon leaving tho
city schools, may know many things
about home geography, home geology,
home methods of government and
homo Intel ests In general which will
be especially useful to the mmi or
woman living In Scranton and yet not
without disciplinarian value no mat
ter whore the pupil shall locate. One
particularly happy feature of Professor
Howell's superlntendency has been the
local Institution of a pupil's savings
fund, now amounting to $10,000, or
enough to purchase $10,000 worth of In
terest bearing bonds.whlch will give in
creased instruction In thrift und In
business forms and methods. These
various new fentures have not been
applied ns fads but have formed items
in a carefully matured plan to make
of our free schools moio oillclent nld,
In the cultivation of. practical citizen
ship, which, after all, is their supreme
aim and Justification.
Work done bo well In the face of
many obstacles Is its own best irdorse
ment. As we said at the beginning of
this article, Professors Phillips and
Howell are tho men for their places.
The board or control will make no mis
take If It shall refuse to displace or
to readjust the duties of cither.
A verdict ta the effect that the army
beef was good once will not affect tho
fact that when it reached the soldiers
on the firing lino it was nil that Miles
claimed.
Does Education Educate?
The right kind certainly does, On.
this point there cannot be a difference
of opinions. Hut there is another kind
which conduces to weariness. Take, for
example, men like Charles Eliot Nor
ton, Kdwnrd Atkinson nnd tho numer
ically smnll but Intellectually consider
able class of students and seholurs of
whom they are types men of unques
tionable sincerity, high peisonal char
acter so far as the social virtues are
concerned, and "ripe" (possibly over
ripe) "culture." Tlicpe nro men who If
breadth of Intellectual study wete
alone sufficient to develop practical
greatness ought to bo foremost among
the constructive utllltaiians of their
time, serving usefully the grpat body
of the people In direct proportion to
their superiority In mental training nnd
to their Intellectually widened view.
They nre the boasted finished products
of university training; the flower, so
to speak, of our higher educatlonnl sys
tem, nnd yet there has never been a
crisis in our national history when this
class of citizens has not pursued a sen
timentally unpractical and practically
vain, foolish and obstructive course a
courso showing an utter lack or ordin
ary "gumption" or common sense nnd
singularly streaked with the Ideas and
impulses of childishness.
This wns true during tho period or
public agitation preceding the war of
1812, when this element in tho popu
lation occupied Itself In sneering nt tho
aspirations of the young jepublle to
be free from the naval Impertinences
and diplomatic tyranny of Kngland
during Its pxerclse of the rlsht of
seurch and Impiessinent. and In secret
and occasionally In open negotiation
with Hrltlsh emissaries for tho purpose
of thwarting the general will. At this
period many of the intellectual lights
of New Kngland hovered so near to the
brink of treason that history has not
failed to use this harsh word In nd
Judging their conduat. The abolition
movement, however strong In Its moral
) which tbjBk
remove. -jHte
teacAe-rs Ht
impulses, brought Into play tho same
unpractlcnl contrariness and heaved up
a lot of men who, in splto of their In
tellectual nnd oratorical ability, soon
became known to the average Judg
ment ns fanntlcs or cranks. During tho
civil war this element wns less offen
sive, although hero It contributed
largely to the embarrassment of thn
Northern cause by captious criticism of
administrative details nnd volubility of
Impracticable suggestions. The era of
political and Industrial reconstruction
revealed this "cultured" class once more
on the off side, clamoring like dazed
theorists for free trade when every
business sign nrgued eloquently for the
now vindicated system of tariff pro
tection under which our Industrial
supremacy has been achieved so swift
ly and so unmistakably ns to astonish
the world.
IJcfore war with Spain wan declured
this class spoke contemptuously of the
humane sentiment of our people which
urced war ns the only means of end
ing n system of oppression that In Cuba
had become Intolerable. When the wnr
started they gave It no encouragement
nnd when, In the natural we may In
deed say the Inevitable course of Its
prosecution it became necessary for the
United States to end n system of simi
lar oppression in n more distant terri
tory, they took tip at once by instinct
ive concert an insulting hue nnd cry
against the administration's purposes,
accusing their countrymen of a lust
for conquest, charging unfaithfulness
to the piinclples of the fathers nnd
gravitating swiftly Into actual conspir
acy against their government nnd In
favor of its armed Toes. They gave not
slmplycncouragement butnetual hclpto
the Agulnnldo rebellion, nnd not content
with that, they were starting out to
foment discontent and disaffection
among the American volunteers In
Luzon when their machinations were
discovered and steps were taken to
make them unavailing.
Pear In mind that this long sequence
of foolishness was not the work of
ignorant men but that of the polished
and perfected outputs of our great unl
voisltles, the leaders or would-be lead
ers of our Intellectual life, the kind of
men who by reason of their superior
learning should be entitled to very pro
found respect were It not that when
they begin to apply this learning to
every-day matters they Instantly show
signs of distress and act as men who
nrc In an unfamiliar world. In the
economy of Providence It may bo that
men of this bookly-wise and worldly
foolish stamp are necessary as checks
upon the purely selfish trend of tho
commercial nnd nggresslve spirit. Hut
let us be careful not to accept them as
ailthoiitles in spheres to which they
are alien. The kind of education which
raises such a crop Is evidently in need
of a radical overhauling.
Thus far most of the dollar dinner
Jpffersonians have been content to rest
at the expenditure maue at the dining
loom, deaf to the appeal of tho en
thusiasts who hinted at a further con
tribution of nine dollars In the Interest
of Hryanism.
There appears to be no reasonable
doubt that Funston's Kansas regiment
Is earning Its salary.
In the case of many of those Lancas
ter clears the stamps must have been
as bad as the tobacco.
It seems a pity to have tho Filipino
war close while colonel Funston Is
having so much fun.
Colonel Swift's Indians seem to be
rapidly accumulating an old fashioned
welcome home.
Tho men who were getting readv to
jump on Otis just had time to draw
back.
When Agulnaldo finds what he
imagines to be a soft spot he will drop.
The worrying over Quay's admission
does not take place In the Quay camp.
Judging from Manila reports there's
nothing the matter with Kansas.
Captain Coghlan will undoubtedly
survive his reprimand.
A WARNING.
From tho Times-Herald.
Tho action of Great Britain In deciding
to contribute an annual subsidy for th,
construction of a Pacific cablo from loii-l
uda to Australia should udindnlsh this
government that it cannot afford to iW.
for favorable action upon u Pacific c,Utlo
project beyond the next congress. At
the lust ugulur session of the Fifty-iiftii
congress Prchldc-nt McKlnley presented
a special message emphasizing tlio mili
tary urgency of cable communication
with Honolulu and Manila and rocitlng
thu dillirultleu and embarrassments ul
leudy fticuunterod by thu government
through the absence of telegraphic fa
cilities. Mr. Hepburn, of Iowu, present
ed a bill providing for a government
subsidy of JluO.WO a year for twenty
jears for tho construction of a cablo
from San Francisco to Manila and Japan,
whllo lu tho senate an amendment was
added to the sundry clil bill providing
for tho construction by tho United States
of a cablo from "a Pacific port In tho
htnto of California" to the city of Hono
lulu. Tho failure of these projects to
receive the nppioval of congress was
attributed to tho unsettled condition of
affairs in our Pacific dependencies and
to tho unwillingness of congress to com
mit tho government to any itxed cable
policy at that time.
o
When tho Fifty-sixth congress con
venes, however, it Is probable that tho
question of a Pacific cublo will huvo
early nnd favorablo consideration, and
If tho .congress is disposed to accedo to
public bcntlment tho cable will be built
and controlled by the United Slates gov
ernment. Even with quick action on tho
part of tho next congress our govern
ment cannot hope now to overtuko Great
Britain In. transpacific cablo communica
tion, for Great Britain has a habit of
pushing such projects vigorously and
quickly whtn onco sho grnnts the desiied
subsidy. With the exception of the Brit
ish cables from Australia to New 55ea
land. fiom Australia to New Caledonia
and from Hong Ktng to thn Philippines,
the vast cxpnnso of the Pacific Is uncut
with cable lines. In the direct pathway
of tho projected British cable from Can
ada to Australia lie the Hawaiian Isl
ands, Samoa and groups of British Isl
ands. It Is highly probablo. that this
cablo will touch at Samoa, and that per
mission will be granted tho British com
pany to land nt Honolulu, In view of
this great project, which Is backed by tho
full British subsidy recommended In the
report of tho Pacific cable committee of
U'lil. It behooves tho United States to loso
no time In establishing cablo connection
with Its Important possessions In the Pacific
General Grant as
Prophet and Seer.
From nn Oratlcn at Gnlena, 111., on
Grant Day, My Postmaster Gvncrul
Charles Umory Smith.
fi (5 f? KANT not only wrought out
u the great work of his time,
II n but he has left Impressive
val and significant lessons for
our time. His sagacity
nnd prescience seemed to antici
pate tho tendencies of our national
development. He advocated the ac
quisition of San Domingo, nnd whether
that particular measure was best or
not, it was a premonition or the com
ing natlonnl movement for bulwarks
or American power In the Caribbean
sea nnd Tor gateways or American ap
proach to the Inter-contlnontnl con
nection and the Inter-ocennlo water
way. The opening may have come
In a better way under a plainer neces
sity nnd n clearer providence, but the
project or San Domingo was the har
binger or Cuba and Porto Klco, and
tho vision which looked to the exten
sion or our arm to the Isle or tho sea
has been vindicated In tho resistless
logic of events which, under an over
mastering destiny carried our flag to
the heights of San Juan and to the
ramparts of Santiago.
"In nnother realm of thought nnd
nctlon GenernI Grnnt foreshadowed tho
developments of our day. There Is
nothing more heroic In the capture of
Donelson, nothing grander In the
march on Richmond that grim courage
and the noble Impulse with wh'ch
Grnnt, In the very shadow of death,
wrote tho simple and fascinating sto.y
of his lire that was to be the suoo;rt
or those he loved. It was In the l:.st
pages, just ns the darkening pall wis
railing on him, that he penned the preg
nant words: 'ICnglnnd and the United
States ore natural allies and should be
the best of friends. They sneak one
language and nre related by blood rnd
other ties. We together, or evm r p
nrately, are better qualified than any
other people to establish commerce le-
tween all tho nationalities of the world.
England governs her own colonies, and
particularly those embracing the peo
ple of different races from her own,
better than any other nation. She Is
just to the conquered, but rigid. She
makes them self-supporting, but gives
the benefit of labor to the laborer. She
does not seem to look upon the colonies
as outside possessions which she Is at
liberty to work for the support and ag
grandizement of the home govern
ment.' o
"Prophetic and suggestive words! Ut
tered at a time when the old resent
ment had not been obliterated and
when the old traditional feeling still
prevailed, they presaged the remark
able change which was coming and
breathed in advance the fraternal spir
it which now animates the two nations.
With tho vision of tho seer, General
Grant forecast and sounded tho new
note of the English-speaking race. We
do not enter Into nny hard-nnd-f.ist
alliance; we do not shut ourselves out
from other friendships, but It Is true,
as the sympathetic cords of the last
year have taught us, that we are nat
ural allies and have come to be the best
of friends. It was singular that, In
referring to the kindred attitude or
tho two nations, General Grant Ehoui.l
have made England's colonial policy
and greatness the one theme or ht3 ad
miring recognition, and that, too, at a
time when we had no colonial co3is
slons. It was as If, standing ther-d
or all others In the shadow op roir.l g
events, his clear Insight foresaw the
majestic destiny of his country and
pointed to the pathway of Its suci-ss-ful
development.
o
"That splendid visltofthcdying chlef
taln Is In course or realization. It ,'s
nearly fourtepn years since his vis
were closed in death, but tho dicr.'.u
which flashed upon his fading tight
on tho hushed heights of Mount .Mc
Gregor Is today a vivid nnd lumlnoi s
picture, filling tho whole front of the
national view. We see now as we nev
er saw before the higher unity and the
broader mission of the English-speaking
race. That race Is the pioneer of
civilization and the founder of com
monwealths. It Is the great master
force or trade expansion nnd world en
lightenment. The grandeur or Its alms
and tho triumph or Its energies are
written on every page in the glorious
history or civil, religious and commer
cial progress. It has subdued contin
ents nnd made them blossom as the
rose. It stands ror the genius or lib
erty, ror liberty clad In the sacred pan
oply of law, which recognizes the
equality, protects the rights and exe
cutes the organized will or all. Rep
resentative government, trial by jury,
rreedom or speech and or tho press,
tho right to worship according to tho
dictates or conscience, the establish
ment or the common school these aie
the cardinal elements of Its polity, nnd
these are the beneficent fruits of its
ever-ndvanclng march.
o
"Our country has not gone forth with
ambitious or conquering hand. In tho
little more than tho hundred years of
its national existence It has found Its
youthful vigor absorbed In developing
tho mighty continent where God, in the
westward course of civilization, has
placed (bo seat of Its unrivalled em
pire. Hut It now arches and fills the
broad space between the Atlantic nnd
the Pacific. Has its growth ended?
Is its work finished? Or, when in the
course of events not or Its own seeking
the door of duty and of enlarged oppor
tunity is opened before it, docs it re
main for the great republic to take up
tho whlto man's burden nnd play some
part in carrying forward the flag of
civilization? For a hundred years,
which are but a fragment in the life
time or a nation, we have lived within
ourselves, nnd, shutting our eyes to the
growth and needs of tho coming cen
turies, shall wo hold that the metes
and bounds of the past are to be tnc
inexorable limits of tho future?
o
"Looking down the vista of time
from the serene elevation of his con
scious place on the border lino of earth
and eternity, lifted above all passions
or the hour, with his work dono and
his fame secure, General Grant saw
and said that our country was entering
on a new era. Yes, on a new i ra or
unity and progress and power. For,
under the Impulse and inlluenco of the
national uprising and patriotic re
awakening or the past year, we wit
ness more than ever on this anniver
sary or his birth such a reunion or the
North and South In heart and In hand
as his great and magnanimous spirit
yearned ror. And with this uplifting
or the nntlonal sentiment at homo we
see on the broader Held what his tran
quil view prellgured In tho advance or
the English-speaking race and or our
portion or It to a larger part In the
commerce and civilization or ".lie
world."
WILL VOTE TOR QUAY.
From tho Chlcnco Record.
"When tho question or Beating Mr.
Quay, or Pennsylvania, Is brought up In
tho next session or tho United States
senate," said Senator Wolcott, of Col
orado, nt tho Auditorium Annex, 'I will
volo to confirm tho appointment of Gov
ernor Stone." Senator Wolcott, accom
panied by his brother, Henry It. Wol
cott, tho Denver banker, arrived In Chi
cago last nlRht from Washington, en
route home. Ho expressed the belief that
every Republican senator would voto ttw
sent Mr. Quay In the fnco of what bo
considered tho "rank attempt of the anti
Quay faction In Pennsylvania to con
vict tho senntor of fcnnk wrecking nnd
Its dismal failure to niako a case ugatnst
Mr. Quay."
Tho Difference.
Tommy Pnpa, why don't men wear
their watches outside like women?
His Father There's nobody to look lo
for belter ones, my son, In case of theft.
Jeweler Weekly.
REXFORD'S,
April 29.
These arc the mornings you
ought to get up and take a walk
around the block before breakfast
hear the robins, see the bursting
buds.
Our alarm clocks watch all night
and call you on time. We keep
the five good kinds of slumber dis
turbers. One kind rings five
minutes; another starts and stops
alternately for fifteen minutes.
Proper prices.
75c to $1.75.
THE RKXFORD CO.,
132 Wyoming Ave.
The Deadly Sewer Gas
rrom a leaky drain may give the doctor
r case of typhoid fever to work with tin
less you peimlt the plumber to get In
his work on thn drain first.
Do not hcstt.ito about having the plumb
lng In your liouso examined b an expert
If you think there is tho sllshtest defect.
A thorough overhauling now will savo
mary a dollar later.
Tho (Fmoko test will convince vou
whether theic Is sewer gas or not.
GUWSTJER k FORSYTH,
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MERCEIEAU k C0MEIL
130 Wyoming Avenue.
1 !. Pill Jk&u
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morning. I would eat my breakfast, then would throw it up, and
would be so sick and have the headache so that I would have to go to
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that there is such a good medicine to help any one.
AnewitylrpatkitrnntAluln;,' .Its' mris'i null n In wrr rurton (without claiu) It now for .Aleut torn.
drutmtorfi-roKnvKivM ful. low n1"nl uri I. iiitemle.1 rur 1I10 HHr und the rcuui.niicul. Oneclucen of
Ilia flve-ocntrartunadM t')UlM)iu I haJ hy mall by tending fortr-rlirtit ci'jit.tn ine lank. Chhiomiok.
riMT. So. lOKprnoefctrwt.UswKoilt oritnlacrtoinTiiTBitEillll)Miit (orflvr rrnta KirmaTuiXU
ids; &1m b Ixi el grocttp, gvaenl storeta'pert, mi agent uu at lliuor itutu nua tarter fioyn.
We are
Showing;
This week
a great variety of clcgaut
goods 111
Spring Serges,
You will find the prices like
the goods right.
W. J. DAVIS,
213 Wyoming Ave.,
Scranton, Pa.
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. Lewis!
ReiLLY
&
DAVI
FINS
HAND-S6W6D
SHOS
FOR
LADieS
.114 & 116
Wyomimg
Ave.
ty
and ask to see
our
Wedgewoocl Blue,
Oriental Rose,
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to
r-
The most beautiful
shades ever display
ed in stationery.
All Sizes in Stock
We have the usual
complete line of
Office Siipfe,
Reynolds Bros
STATIONERS and KXGKAVER3,
Hotel Jermyn Building.
FINLEY
FoMlardl Silks,
Wash Silks,
Simmmer Silks
The perfection of printing
and designing in Foulard
Silks for 1899, shows a mark
ed improvement over the past
two seasons aud we take
special pride in calling your
attention to our ''unsurpass
ed" assortment of the
Finest GtM$ and
Best Styles Obtainable
The leading things aro
black and blue grounds, with
neat designs in white, helio
trope, blue, etc. Black and
blue grouuds with Persian
effects, also in white grounds,
with delicate printiucr ot
heliotrope, new blue,ctc. Our
prices are
7iic, $1.00 and $3.25..
Wash silks, that wash and
retain their lustre, and colors
are shown in a large variety
of choice patterns. Prices
range ironi
45c to 75c.
Elegant line of Japanese
Wash Silks and Summer
Silks, in plaids, corded checks
aud stripes. Fast colors and
a large selection. Best goods
made
Only 45c.
Fast Black Wash Silks,
Habutai, and Waterproof
Silks in the new "unspottable
finish, at less than present
market prices.
510 and 512
LACKAWANNA AVENUE
he Modern IIardvtaub Store.
Your
Work
o o o
Will be lightened dur.
iug housecleaning time
if you. use Modern
Equipments. That is
the kind the Hodern
hardware store supplies,
FOOTE k SHEAR CO
119 Washington Ave.
The HMot &
Coeeell Co0
Heating, Plumbing,
Gas Fitting, Electric
Light Wiring, Gas
an Electric Fixtures,
Builders Hardware;
04 Lackawanna Avenue
HENRY BELIN, JR.,
Ocucrm Agent for tUa Wyommj
Dlittlctfif
liiulug, Illuming, Hportlng, ttmolcal&ii
uuU U10 Hepuuno CU01nla.1l
Coiuputiy'a
MGI EXPLOSIVES.
tiifety J--iiv dip 11ml Kxploijrt
iloom 1U1 l.'oniioll UulUlu;.
ticraalaa.
AOENCIlii.
THO, roni), PUUtu
JOHN 11. SMITH .tiO.N I'lymoutlt
IIPI1T1
POWDER.
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