Tt7vr -"ww j THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 3S99. Published Dnllv, Hxrcpt Sunday, by 'The Tribune Publishing Company, at Fifty Cents u Month. New York omcc: 110 Nnrwui St.. S 8. VP.Ent-AND. Solo Asent for 1'orctgn AilvertUInt?. Entered n( the IWiMntnce nt Soranton. I'a , ns Scccnd-ClaBS Mall Matter. When rpice will permit. The Tribune Is nlu.iys tflad to print i-hort letters from Its frier d benrliiK on current joplea but lt rule In that thesa must bo owned, for publication, by tho writer's real name. BCnAXTON, AUGUST 17. 1839. Mnor Molr has evidently foiRottrn whut he said In his Inaugural address about divorcing the police, force from politics. Itural 1'ree Delivery. Tho city letter cnnli'is, who Just now have their minds full of Scranton nntl their comlnrc national convention, will soon have professional competition. If present experiments In rural free mnll dellvety Indicate correctly. According to rirst Asilstant Postmaster General Henth, lUial free dellverj Is now In operation In upward of 200 towns In tho United States, every state having had a trial of It. Mr. Heath adds: "In every lnstnnce the amount of mall dellered hat been greatly In creased after the establishment of the flee delivery In nearly every instance It han doubled, In most It lias trebled, In many quadrupled and In some quin tupled. I recall one place In Michigan In the district of a congressman who was opposed to the establishment of tho sen lee. The thing ws dune, how ever, nnd within tlnee months the amount of mall delivered to the coun try people of that place had more than quintupled. I showed the report to the congiessman nnd he said he hoM no further opposition to lural free deliv ery. Another feature of the system that will surpils? you Is that the cost of delivery to the rural population Is not more per piece than It Is to the urban population. This Is almost too much to believe, but It Is an absolute fact. "One of the chief arguments against the lntioductlon of the system has oeen the extteme expense estimated. This has been put by homo as high hh $100,000.00p per annum for the general establishment. Hut In this there was no nccount of ieturn. We pay the curriers $40 per annum This remuneration being bo small, wo pei mlt the carrier to cairy packages, and thus Increase his Income. This Is not only n benefit to him, but to the whole community, for the farmer or his wife often wnnts some little thing from tho stote when no one can go for It con veniently, and Is willing to pay a small compensation to have It brought to them. Speaking of this matter of ex pense, it Is amusing to look back to the discussions In congress In the early days of the lepubllc, when It was doubted by many whether it was feasi ble to hae a postal sjstem at all. Presidents Adams and Jatkson both wete Impelled to piesent labored nigu ments in their messages In support of a postal sstem which one day might give the Vomfoits of fiiendly corres pondence and the lights of the perio dical press to the remotest parts of the Union" at a veiy light expense to the individual." We obseive In the Chicago Hecord a letter fiom Crawfordsvllle, Ind , right In lino with Mr. Heath's opinions. It describes the operations of the rural fieo dllveiy system In Montgomery county, Indiana, and Incidentally says. "The first month of the dellery each of the carriers then in the service do llveied about 1.000 pieces of mall mat ter. At the end of the first year they art) each delleilng oer G.000 pieces a month. For the first three months of operation they would collect along the route from eight to ten letters a day. Now the dally collection on each of the year-old, loutes Is fiom fifty to sixty letteis daily besides packages and newspapeis. When jural delivery was established In Montgomery county not a single dally paper was taken along any loute. Kaeh carrier now dellers from 70 to 100 daily newspapers. The Increased subscription to magazines nnd other periodicals is just as gieat. When the toutes were first established many of the faimeis weie decidedly opposed to the innovation. Some even refused to put up boxes. All opposition has now disappeared, howevei, nnd so greatly pleased aro the farmeis that an Increased aluatlon of $2 per acie Is given farms lying along rural routes. People living as far from thp loute as two miles fiequently place lock boxes at the neatest point on tho joute and hae their mall delivered there. The pople living on by roads have In some Instances adopted a novel method of obtaining the coveted benefit at small expense. The mall for all the people living on a certnln by load will be de livered at a box placed at the Inteisee tlon of the toad with the louto nnd from this box It will be takvn dally and delivered for ten or twelve miles back In the country b u boy paid for the purpose. "Rural dellvciy Is piovlng a great stimulus to the construction of good toads and nt least two new pikes In Montgomery country can be attributed to the hope of securing the service. Tho carriers aro allowed to deliver pack ages and to transact business for tho people living along their unites and In this way they manage to supplement In n very acceptable manner tho meagre salaries allowed by tho dcpuitment. Tho carrleis' wagons on leaving tho Cruvvfordsvllle, jios,tofllce each morning will be seen to Vo filled with packages of laundry, diy goods, haidwnie and all manner of merchandise. Orders of all kinds aie placed with the cairler. In tho busy summer season he Is an especial benefit In this way. "Tho practlcnl operation of the rural free dellveiy has demonstrated conclu sively that many of the objections made to It nro .unfounded. It ha-s been urged that ruial delivery would bo an immense expense to tho govern ment, but Its operation In Montgom ery county proves that It will on the contrary bo a source of considerable revenue. Kach of the year-old routes lu the county la now paying the gov ernment a net profit of $10 per month. Ab a rule, each route docs away with cither a fourth-clans noutofllce or a star route. These, of course, have al ways been an expense to the govern ment as great ns the operation of n rural route, bo tho substitution could make practically no dlffercnco In tho cost to the government. The rural route, however, so Increases the pos tal receipts from the country that tho government makes a good profit. The tradesmen In towns from which rural loutes run at first objected that they would prove the rulnutlon of business. They reasoned th it if tho farmer had his mnll delivered "ho would have no cause to come to town and would con sequently stay away. Their fears ptoved gioundless. With his mall de livered dally, the farmer still makes his weekly or semi-weekly visits to town. He Is enabled to keep In touch with what Is going on In town by tho dally papers and to take advantage of opportunities of which he wua former ly kept In Ignorance." There can be little doubt that this Innovation in the postal service has come to stav. The best evidence that there was nothing in tho Ficnch colonial minis ter's scaie ovr the repot ten Intention of an Ametican syndicate to rescue Dreyfus Is the fact that Dreyfus was not rescued. Pensions. As was noted recently In the tele graphic dispatches, the turning point seems to have been reached In the volume of pensions paid on account of the civil war. On June 30 last there were 91)1,519 pensioners on the rolls, against 903,714 the year grevlous, a de crease of 2,195, which is the first time In lecent yeats that u decrease has been noted. Unless congress shall greatly liberalize the pension laws, it Is the oplplon of experts at Washington that from now on the pension item In the government's expenditures will con tinually diminish. The net Increase of the pension roll In recent years has not been so largo as many people think. In tho follow ing table, taken from the Washington correspondence of the New York Sun, the Increase of the roll Is clearly shown, the figures In the last column representing tho net gain to the roll each year, after making proper deduc tion for all those dropped during the year by reason of death and other causes. Pensioners on rolls. .. B7.SU1 . ore. ico .. S78.0CS .. DC6.012 Not Increase of rolls 4-5.219 J3S 2l'S lfl'J VIS k'SI4 3.M2 Sl K 17.700 2,195 1810 Kit lS3i 1S91 lS.1t PttlBtt ISaS 970.521 1S1I7 f.TB.OH 1SOT 3,714 1$M 031,613 'Decrease. How the losses to the' roll by mor tality and otherwise have offset tho in ctcase in pensions may be seen In the table below: Totnl (hopped Pensions Deaths, from rolls. Ksupd. lD 14.1C9 Wl 13229 VW2 17.771 lS'H 25.0i" 20,319 !,),M7 20,r,23 1K.4S8 23.300 221,017 31,6'0 121 630 37.931 31,0s.-. 42.111 39.1S3 41,011 40.371 41,122 F.0,101 4fl,G.-il 5J.fiH 43.1SG 37.07T 1S1I 2S.070 1ST, 27.S1C ism 2i,rn 1S97 Sl.th'iO ISIS U6i1 1S91 21,343 For some years to come, If the war In the Philippines shall continue, the decrease In pension disbursements to civil war leciplents may bo counter balanced by new pensions chargeable to the Spanish and colonial wars. Hut our young men will live to see the pen sion Item almost entlielv eliminated. The Carter Case Contrasted with the Dreyfus Case. Announcement Is made that Attor ney General Griggs, to whom has been referred for levlew the testimony and pleadings In the court-martial of Cap tain Obeilln M. Carter, the olllcer of the corps of engineers of the United States atmv who has been convicted of defrauding tho government to tho extent of nearly $2,000,000, has decided to withhold judgment until AVavne MaeVeagh, Carter's attorney, leturns from Europe. MaeVeagh is to make an oral argument In his client's behalf. Major Carson, the Philadelphia Ledg er's Washington cottespondent, In Tuesday's Ledger, gave a five-column leview of the case against Carter, which Is most Interesting. Carter, it will be lemombeted, for many ears had chat go of harbor Improvements at Savannah, Ga. In 1S9G he was sent to London ns military attache, and his successor at Savannnh, Captain Gil lette, found Irregularities In Carter's woik. He notified General Wilson, the chief of the corps, who apnointecl a boatd of three engineers to Investigate. They unanimously reported that Cal ler had been guilty of gioss and palp able frauds. A court-martial followed. It convened in Savannah Jan. 5, 1S9S, and consisted of the following officers, representing every department of tho army: Brigadier Geneinl dwell S. Otis, United States Aimy; Colonel Jacob Kline. Twentieth Infantry; Lieu tenant Colonel Samuel M. Mansfield, Coips of Inglneeis; Lieutenant Col onel Henr C. Hnsbrouck, Fourth ar tillery. Major William S. Stanton, Corps of Engineers. Major Charles A. Woodruff, commissary of subsistence; Major John L. Tlernon, First uitllleiy, Major William H. Patten, quartermas tei. Captain Daniel M. Taylor, ord nance department. Captain Samuel M. Mills, Fifth aitlllery, Captain Chnrles G. Penney, Sixth Infnntiy, Captain Theodnte Ff Forbes, Fifth Infantry, Captain Richard P. Strong, Fourth artillery. Tho evidence befote this court showed that Carter had systematical ly and continuously thrown contracts to a company In which ho was a silent partner, paying exorbitant pi Ices for Inferior mateilal. The trial lasted four months, and the result was a unani mous verdict of guilty, with a lecotn mendatlon that Carter be dismissed fiom the army, fined $10,000 und Im ptlsouud. llcio begins tho peculiar part of this case. Ordinal lly a court-mat tlnl ver dict passes through tho usual military channels, Is npproved by tho judge advocate general, tho general com manding nnd the secretary of war, and goes to tho president for final action, In Carter's case the verdict was ap- proved by the Judge advocate general nnd seoretnry of war, hut when It l reacneu mo president no was persuau ed by Carter's Inlluentlnl friends to submit tho entire proceedings to a disinterested lawyer for revlovv. Ux Scnator LMmumla was tho lawyer chos en for this purpose, and ho In turn npproved tho main features of tho verdict. One would think that after such n circuit of approvals sentence would bo pronounced. Ilut It was not. The president next referred the, mat ter to the uttorney general, and he has not only gone over the law points and testimony, but Intends to re-open argument and evidence on the merits of the case. No one knows when ho will reach a conclusion or whether, when reached, It will be accepted by the president. Major Carson says there ure no In tricacies In the Carter ense requiring such extraordinary and unprecedented action. "The testimony," he asserts, "Is clear nnd convincing, nnd the guilt of tho accused Is established beyond all possibility of doubt. There Is not a person who has been called upon to take official notice of the case ex cept tho president, who has not been convinced of Carter's guilt and tho righteousness of tho Judgment of the court-martini But in any event, whether the president has or has not doubts touching tho degree of guilt found by the court-martial, there can be no justification for the extraordin ary course that has been followed In the case. The record of the court, upon which its action was based, Is before tho president, nnd to practically assail that record by Inviting further ntgument and introducing additional testimony Is not only to do an unpre cedented thing, but to Impeach the In tegrity of the court. If there are er rors they can be pointed out, nnd It Is within the disci otlonary power of tho president to correct them and to give th,- accused whatever benefit would logically nnd rightfully follow. He can mitigate the sentence In whole or In part, or he can disapprove the entire proceedings and restore the accused offlccr to duty. But he cannot, with out violating all precedents, making military Justice a travesty and assail ing tho honor of the army, placo the members of the court-martial, together with Its prosecuting officer, a tribunal ordered and created by his own act, In accot dance with tho requirements of law, in tho position of defendants, with tho accused and his counsel as prosecutors " This opinion, we may add. Is gen erally held by army ofilcers.who view In the unpiecedented caution of tho presi dent a show of favoritism to the wealthy and Influential friends of an audac ious scoundrel which would never be exhibited to a defendant without such Inlluences at his back. On tho other hand, w have In the executive's course nn exact antithesis of the course pursued In the French republic In the Initiatory stages of the prose cution of Dreyfus. There the power of the government, both military and civil, was put forth to hasten the conviction and punishment of an In nocent man. Here the executive ex ercises deliberation even beyond the noimal In order that no doubt may remain when once the finding is an nounced. It may be that "The Dreyfus affair has made President McKinley extremely careful; but If so, the error Is on the right side. Naval Constructor Hobson has again been heard from. Hobson eomplnlns that he has been grossly mlstepresent ed by the reporteis and that the kiss ing business incident to his tilp across tho continent was greatly exaggotated In the papers. It Is feared that Hob son takes the situation too seriously. If one is constituted to stand it, there can be no great harm In kissing a fovv bundled w ostein women. While most of us would prefer Pennsylvanlans for osculatory Interviews, the sinker of tho Merrlmac should feel sufficiently complimented by his reception to look with indifference upon the shafts of a few envious reporters, who lecelved no kisses. The demonstration of cordiality made by the Austilans was so marked (luting tho visit of Admiral Dewey at Trieste, tint the great naval com mander has made It the subject of a special letter to the admlnlstiatlon at Washington. This Intelligence will no doubt be lecelved with pleasuie by tho credulous readers of the yellows, who Imagined that Austria would declare war upon Admiral Dewey on account of the Hazleton stilke. The proposal to enlist mote colored men for service In the Philippines Is opn to but few objections from a gen einl view, but In some sections of tho South the scheme to take negroes out of the country would probably not be received with favor. The present stock of Mormon missionaries will scarcely meet the demand for lynching mate rial. Ulmlra'n curfev law lvw beeni a marked success thus far. and now Blnghamton papers Insinuate that tho population of that city has always been asleep at the hour of sounding the bell. In the Interval awaiting active hos tilities no doubt many of our Demociat Ic friends would be pleased to hear a report concerning the condition of Coin Harvey's campaign collection box. Heed nnd Ciokcr In tho anti-expansion cnlamlty list furnish another Il lustration of strange lodgers reclin ing on the same mattress, Jul' exports were $20,000,000 In ex cess of the exports ot the same month last j ear. Expansion Is no longer a theory, but a fixed fact. The Jlmlnez icvolutlon In Santo Do mingo bids fair to prove as profitless as an nverago Klondike prospecting tour. Thoro Is a suspicion that the silver leader Is regarded In Kentucky ae a sort of William Jonah Biyan, Btyan's fi lends think there maj be ptomaines In tho cream puff of peace tendeied by Mr, CroUcr, HUMAN NATURE STUDIES They Didn't Bccognlzo Mis. Catt. Mrs. Cnrrlo Chapman Catt, general or. gunlzer of the Women's HuHrae party In this couutrj, i a voung una strikingly hiindnomo womnii Hho is a brilliant tnlkcr, umlublo In manners and )h ul wuys Htyllnhly dressed A year or two ngo sho was on her wa to uddrcsH u slntu convention In fupcKn, Kan., when sho got Into conversation wltn two gen tlemen on tho cars. Ono of them was u county judge, and tho other a newspuptr editor of tho sumo town A few scuts in tront of them sut a Hiicctucled, aniculitr woman, sallow as to complexion and drab a to dress. Her clothes were cut lu n fashion severely plain, lhe tulk had turned upon tho rights of women. 8eo thnt woman ondcr7" said tbu Judge. "I'll Vet she's a delegate to that Women's Ittghts convention up at To pekn." "Sure," chimed In tho editor "Funny, nlnt It? There's a woman that has no husband never could get one, has all the rights sho needs, and sho gallvants around tho country noklns" for more. Funny, nln't It? I'll wnger she's Mm. Catt. Well mimed, nln't she?" Mrs. Catt smiled and changed tho sub ject. When they reached Topclca sho said to tho Judge: "I am very clad to have met you. 1 nm Mrs. Catt. Tho lad In front Is tho wifo of n banker In Chicago. She Is go ing out to visit her married daughter. I know her very well. Sho Is opposed to woman s suffrage Good-bye." Sat urday livening Post. Without Affectation. A simple couple, nn Ungllshman and his wife, had driven out to one of the moio famous suburbs of Stockholm, nnd had been particularly struck with tho beauty uf a villa they noticed perched among the woods. Having learned In their sojourn In Sweden thut tho teahouses generally occupy the coign of vantage In resorts of this kind, tho tourists ventured to accost a gentleman they saw working in tho garden. Invited to seo tho view from tho house, tho three foil Into conversation nnd vvcro presently Joined by a very charming lady on tho balcony. Refresh ments were olfcred and ucceptcd, nnd the hostess, in doing the honors of the tea table, began to speak of her lovo of Kngland nnd of tho beauty of Keswick, In the Lnke country. A very distin guished countryman of yours goes every year to Kesw Ick." suld the Englishman "I mean tho Crown Prince of Sweden." "Yes," said tho lady, "that Is how wo know tho Lake district so well. Wo go to Keswick for the church conference " "But I was sponklng of tho crown prince," repeated the bewildered visitor. "So was I," said tho hostess, with a smile; "my husband Is the Crown Pilnco of Sweden." He Marvelled Much. He had been elected member for his na tive county, and had como up to the metropolis to tako his scut In the house. He was a modest, retiring individual, and felt quite overawed as ho stood diffidently in tho lobby among a throng of the ordi nary members "Well, Mr. C ," said one of tho legls- lators near him, "and what nre jour Im pressions of the house?" "To tell you tho truth," replied the new member. In borne confusion, "I wonder how I got here!" A week nfterward he made a speech which astonished them, and tho samo member button-holed him again after tho debate. "What aro your Impressions of tho house now?" was the question. "Getting to know us, eh?" "Yes," quietly replied Mr. O ; "and now I wonder how you all got here!" London Answers. Aesop's Table Over Again. A mischievous youngster at tho Mission amusing himself with a vase, managed after several attempts to get his hand through the narrow neck, and was then unable to extricate It. For half an hour or more the whole family did Its best to withdraw the fist of the luckless young offender, but In vain. It was a very val uable vase, nnd the father was loath to break It After a final attempt, ho gnvo up his efforts In despair, but tried a last suggestion. "Open your hand." he com manded, "nnd then draw It forth " "I can't open it, father," declared tho boy. "I've got my penny In my hand ' "You young rascal.' thundorcu nis lainet. "drop It at once'" une penny raiiiea in tho bottom of the vase and out came tho hand. San Francisco Wave. SMILE PROVOKERS. Incessant. In the spring tho little brooklets Bubble to a merry rhyme; But It's different with tho gossips For they babble all tho time. Philadelphia Inquirer. Gone When Discovered. 'I low long nfter your marriage was It before jou fuund that jour wlfo had a temper? "Oh, quite a while, and I never knew sho had It till sho lost It." Boston Cour. ler. His Better Half. Gillback Is It true that ou don't spend as much money now as jou did beforo jou were married? Packett It Is. I wish I could s.ay tho same thing of my wife. Judge. Impossible. First Girl Cholly isn't such a fool as ho looks. Second Girl No, Indeed. He couldn't be. Washington Star. Like nn Egg. "My child," said tho mother to her married daughtei. "a man Is like un egg Keep him In hot water u llttlo while and ho may boll soft; but keep him there too long and he hardens "Advertiser. Not Much of a Drawer. "I conclude," said a famous painter to Hnphuel, who had criticised his drawing of a cow. "I concludo from your re marks that you aie no critic." "Which shows, ' retorted Baphnel. "that ou cannot draw a conclusion any hotter than you draw cows" Puck. Appropriate. "That was an appropriate flower Lord Impecune woro when ho was married to Miss Nuggets." "I havo not heard of It. What was It? "A marigold." Which. "I," said ono candidate, smiting his breast In conscious rectitude, "shall man age my olllco in tho Interests of rich and poor alike." "I," shouted the other candidate for tho same Job, "am going to run things so the poor man will get the best of it." Can thoio bo any doubt us to which one. In our age of perfect ndherenco to abstract Justice, received tho overwhelm ing mujorltj ?-Indlannpolls Journal. Hard to Suit. Housekeeper How long did you re main In your last placo? Applicant-Sure. I left In wnn day. Thcro was no plazln' tho leddy, at all, at all. "Whimsical, was sho7" "Indarln sho was that. The fir night sho complained becnuso I boiled the tny, an' th" next morning sho complained be cnuso I did not boll tho coffee. Thin I left."-New York Weekly. Her Question. "You're all tho world to mo." ho cried, And sho, with gcntlo mirth And tenderness, tald: "Huvo you told Papa you want tho earth?" Washington Star. NUBS OF KNOWLEDGE. London's omnibus company employs 5,000 men. Tho annual receipts aro ubuiit $0,000,000. An Buellsh tiavikr declares that tho least Interesting country In the world to visit to bo Korea. It Is supposed that tho average depth of sand In tho deserts of Africa Is from thirty to forty feet. A sjndlcate Is ixlr.g formed In Cotk to Insure quick and Vheap transport of I r IhIi dairy produce to the English innl-lie-is. Australia has over 1,003 000 square miles of fertile land, and could eventually sup port nt least a hurdrcd millions of Inhabl. tuuts. In the Sutin baths of San Francisco, there nre slxt-nlnc shovvir baths, sevin toboggan slides nnd dressing rooms for 1,027 people. A set of maps of the time of Ptolc-mj, the Kpoerunlier. lins been found In some eleventh century m'inucrlpts In tho Vati can library, according to the Tablet. Kcferrlng to the ncent tiport tint a tlusslan florist had succeeded In raising blue ros's, a Slavonian gardener de clares that blue rotes glow wild In Ser via. About twenty-four women In 100 nie stronger In tho left arm than they are in the right; women, too, nr moro fie quently cquallj strong lu both arms than aro men. Old ago pensions luvo been established In Korea, but are not n large Item In tho natlonnl expenditure. Old ago pensions to men over CO jrnrs of ago swallow up a total of more than $230. A philosophical statistician calculate: that In tho ve.ir 20o0 thre will be 1 700,000, 000 people who speak KnglNli, nnd thut the other European languagis will bo spoken by only 500.000,000 people. A new law has Just gono Into effect In Massachusetts forbidding the perform nnco of the marriage ceremony by Jus tices of tho peace, unless they have been specially designated for that purposp. Since January 1, ninety colleges, ucn demles, and seminal les nnd eight nrt gnllcrlcs In tho United States have re. celved gifts amounting to $27,072,338, not counting contributions of less than jo.OOO A curious baiomcter Is used In Germany nnd Switzerland It Is a Jar of watet, with a frog and a little step-ladder in It. When the frog comes out of tho water and sits on tho steps a rain-storm will soon occur. The authorities at Greenwich observa tory, nt Kew, nro greatly agitated for fear the construction of the electric lints In tho neighborhood, which have been au thorized, should dlstutb tho magnetic re cording Instruments Tho sacred Urea of India have not nil been extinguished. The most ancient, which fctlll exist, was conseciatcd nt Voil wada twelvo centuries ago, in commemo ration of tho voyage made l tho Par sees when they emigrated fiom Persia to India. For tho contemplated telephone con nection between Berlin and ParlJ, two lines nio to be constructed, one a dlicet line from Berlin to Paris, and the otht r by wn of Frankfort, so that a complete breakdown of tho servico between the two capitals will bo a rcmoto contin gency. People marvel at the mechanism of tho human body, with Its 492 bones nnd sixty arteries. But man is simple in this re spect compircd with the carp That re markable fish moves no fewer than 4.3S1 bones and muscles evry time It breathes. It has 4,320 veins, to Eay nothing of Its nlnety-nlr.o muscles PERSONALITIES. Lord Kitchener Is tho fourth bachelor who has been elevated to tho peerage In tho last soven years Thomas Bain, new speaker of the Can. ndlan house ot commons, Is the llrfit far mer to gain that post. George B. Loving of Ttxas. the pro moter of tho proposed Consolidated Cat tle company, holds options over CO0O0O head of cattlo and 23,000,000 acres of land, Professor William Somcrville, doctor of economics nt the Durham Collego of Science, has been elected to the newly established professoishtp of agrlculturo at Cambridge. Tho father and brother of Lilhu Root havo both held professorships in Hamil ton college, where, they were known among the students as "Cube" Root and "Squnro" Root Lasker, the world's chimplon at chess and winner of tho first pilze at the recent tournament, Is only 31 Yet he has been a conspicuous figure In the chess world for the oast ten jcars. Edward Everett Hale says he recent ly asked a llttlo boy where Lake Cham- plain was. "I don t know,' was tho an swer, "but my father has some of the water In bottles and It's very good " M. Zola has not yet settled down again to lltciary work, but Is busy devi loping the photographs he took in England. They will, he hopes, be valuable, should ho decide to write n work on London. Professor Georso W Jones ot Cornell university, Is In Tacoma, hiving just ie turned from a trip to Alaska. He sajs tho skeletons of thousands of lll-fnt"d horses are to be seen along tho White Pass. Tho lapldlty with which women are coming to the front In violin playing Is Illustrated by tho fact that tho much coveted Sainton hchnlars-hln In Loudon, held for tlnee enrs by tho successful candidate, has been awarded Miss Hlsla M. Southgnto, who succeeds Miss Floi enco B Mos, beforo whom no woman ever held the honor. r ffllHHll'l fill i A machinist In St. Louis relates that for eighteen month I1I3 life bad been a perfect torti'rc by reason of pains and general bsd feeline; arising fiom indigestion, but having read about Ri'pans Tabu les he said: " I nnde up my mind at list to try them, and they are great 1 I now us.c them every now nnd then, and have no more Indigestion, no bad feeling, and my appetite is much better. Ever) body that suffeis from Indigestion should try them." Star Paper Fasteeer Fastens papers in a jiffy, feeds itself and improved in every respect. Prices lower tliau ever, We are still sell ing the Plauitary Pencil Sharpeners. The only sharp cuing device which never breaks the lead. On trial in your office for 10 days free of charge. We have numerous other novelties in office sup plies, together with a large line of Blank Books and Typewriter's Supplies. Reynolds Bros STATIONERS and HXGIUVER3, Hotel Jermyn Buildinp;. A Twenty-Year Gold-Filled tee With a 15-JeweM Waltlam Mwemeat, Both QMaraeteed The Best Watch in the Whole World for the Money. MiEECiEEiEAU ii CQMELi 130 Wyoming Avenue. Temperature Tamers. Plenty of things right here to make tho hot weather not only endurable but enjoyable. And the price at which we offer them Is not going to make anyone hot, ex cept the man who charges a higher pi Ice for equal quality, and he la nu tritious. .lust think of these and get cool. Tteftlgcrators at reduced prices. GMSTER k FORSYTE, 323-327 PENN AVENUE. Lmtheir Keller L1HE, CEMENT, SEWER PIPE, Etc. ard and Otllca West Lackawanna Ave., SCRANTON, PA. FOR $10 jtSI1 P 1 FINLEY Men's FiuiriniSslhninig's The predictions are swel tering weather from now ou and if you study your own comfort investigate our stock of Men's Soft Front Shirts. as more solid comfort cau bj had in our Perfect Fitting "MONARCH" Negligee Shirts. V thau in any other we know of. You will find here a very interesting line to pick from and at prices altogether ta your advantage. For an en tire week we will offer thtj choice of our entire line at Ifi) -U I I each. IX a Former Price, $1.50. And no better goods shown at any price. These coma with one pair of laundered separate cuffs and with ob without collars to match shirt 2 OTHER SPECIALS In same line of goods Ono at 39c, marked from 50c. The Other at 50c, marked from 75c. Comfort also for the boys in our MAMB-BOWN BLOUSES AND WAISTS One Line at 39c, for merly r;oc. One Line at 88c, formerly $1.10. Siza 6 to 14 years. 5!0and 512 LACKAWANNA AVENUE The Modekv IlARDWAnK Sronn Raeges Have the "Sterling" Transpa rent Ventilating Oven Door, "Sterling" Patent Lift Hearth, "Sterling" Oval Drawout Grate, "Sterling Oval Fire Box and many other good features. Be sure and see the Sterling Range, You'll want no other. EODTE & SHEAR CO. 119N. Washington Ave. The Hunt & Cooeelll Co. .Heating, Plumbing, Gas Fitting, Electric Light Wiring, Gas an Electric Fixtures, Builders Hardware. 134 lac&awaima Akiik HENRY BEL1N, JR., Ocuerui Astiit fjrtlia Wjoialnj liutrlai'j DUPONT PiWIEI. 1 iiJUlns, lilafcthi;, Hl))itlni, H r.jlte.uil Co uniuy t 1IG1 EXPLOSIVES. 'ulcty l'ne, Oi und I'.xylotatL Hooui 101 (Junnelt Hiitldlu;. aoruutsa. 1 AOKMHIH rnos. roitn. - - . .vittstoiu JOHN II SMITH Si SON, Plymouth. ; V. IS. MULLIGAN, . Wllkei-Barie. VJVJ j - .
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