"i rr -"fTK' .w-r-' ir? !; "'"Vp-mvai-'TfrUvtmff"' ftawtTtt " -" '.. vo:- ' - WN?P ir,j'i'-'- -) n' i,wir ijm - ' -yp r'-' "-.. VT''. THE SCRANTON TUIBUJSE-WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1900. 0e $cranton rifiunc Publlhd Dally. Kxwpt SniKtajr. by, Th frlbune Publishing Company, at Fifty Cent a. Month, New Tork Offlcai ISO Nannnu St. 8. 8. VREEIiAND. lot Agent for Foreign Advertising. Entered at the Poetofflce nt Sejanton. Pa., aa Seccnd-Ctasa Mall Matter; . When spneo will permit, Tho Tribune la alwayn Kind to print shnrt letter from Its friends bc-urine on current topics, mit Its rule Is that those must lo nlRiicd, for publication, by the wrltor'H renl nnmo. and tho condition precedent to acceptance is that all contributions of whatever nature and bv whomsoever Bent Bhall oo subject to editorial revision. SCRANTON. JANUARY 17. 1900. REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET. BCHOOb DIHECTOHS.O. O. Kerbcr, K. 13. Fellows. It Is a little surprising that no for mal announcement of Mr. Hilly Ma son's sympathy for Mr. Hoar in regard to the llarrett statement lias been made. As to Miners' Wages. THK 1'hlladelphla Inquirer notes that advances In the pay of minors are octmrring occasionally In the bitumin ous regions and It wants to Know why similar news does nut come from the Lackawanna region. Wo will try to enlighten nir eontempoinry. During tho Orover Cleveland, Wilson bill period of Industrial depression, when the coal InJustry In till Its branches fell down to Its lowest level., the rate of miners' wages In the wilt coal regions was In many Instances reduced to correspond with the gtner.il slump. The amount of soft coal mined was also reduced, tint;', curtailing the minors' Incomes both as to tho earn ings per day and as to the total pay for the mouth. Not so In the Lacka wanna region. The rate paid prior tj that slump was paid without reduction throughout the long period of dull times: that is to say, for each day that the miner wo.-livd, nssumlng equal elllclency, he got tho same pay that he had received when times were good. The trouble was that the break er could not operate as many days In the month as when people through out the country were prosperous and buying lots of hard coal. This affect ed the mine owner as well as tho miner: but, fair play fur the tormer. he did not cut the dally rate, as did the owners of bituminous mines in a large majority of instances. Ho kept that up In good faith. If the Inquirer will investigate tlio cases of wage Increases reported from the roft coal territory, It will find that these are simply a restoration of rated In vogue prior to the Cleveland panic. Tho hard coal operators do not have to restore a rate which they had not cut; but thev are doing tills: They are running their breakers on better time than for years past, which means that the Lackawanna valley miner is receiving more pay in the month lhan he has had a chance to earn for a long tlmo back; and they are maturing plans just as fast ns they can to In crease the demnnd for anthracite coal, which in turn will mean belter anil steadier time in the mines. The scale of wages In vogue In this district Is not a sliding scale- It. Is a stationary rate, as largs In dull times as In Hush- but the element of llexl Mllty In total earnings is supplied by the demand of the market for anthra cite coal; hence the more the demand the more the miner's pay. A strike would turn much of this demand over to the soft coal trade; it would, therefore, cut off the anthracite miner's nose to ppliu his fare. Persons who have been spreading the report that General Methuen Is crazy doubtless formed their opinions of him from some of the portraits of the general published in the papers. An Un American Object Lesson. THE Pl'ULlC is apparently ih for a wholesale revelation of Hastiness In connection with the Mollneux case; and the sooner It conies and Is forgotten, per haps the better. The prediction was made early In the history of this ens.; that Involved In It was such a network of social Impurity ramifying Into high circles that irresistible pressure would be put forth to hush the matter up and 8"cure the prisoner's eaily release. Events are proving the accuracy of the first half of this prediction, and the only compensation is that Justice seems to have been strong enough to over power those who sought., by compromis ing her, to h'eveen their own sins. It does not appear that moralizing upon a thomo like this is especially pio ductive of practical good: yet to stu dents of social problems thero Is much that Is mtilnous In the revelations of this trial. There are few large cities which do not have u growing element of well-to-do "gentlemen" of leisure whose principal occupation, It would seem, consists of devising new forms of self Indulgence. Beginning usually In Innocence, the progress to guilt In many cases Is easy and rapid; until It has become In our older communities a very debatable question whether society is In the greater peril from Us frankly reeking slums or from its ele gant Idlers whose resources and In genuity are so frequently employed In tho artistic gliding of vice. The extent to which our so-called high society lends Its sanction to, or, what is equiv alent, withholds its sharp reproof from, this mischievous tendency, a ten dency utterly out of unison with demo cratlu principles and most insidious in Its consequences upon republican gov ernment, Is another topic, which we at present pass by. In our issue of yesterday wo gavj generous space to an explanation of what wo called an American object lesson. Tha reference was to those busy Americans down In Cuba who. amidst all kinds of difficulties and dis couragements, are setting up a new or der of civilization and making It pos sible forthe next generation of Cuban peoprtft&Bve .creditable lives under In stltutlonT worthy of the world's respect. The picture presented in the Mollneux case we shall have to label "An Un- American Object Lesson i" nnd of the two which will our young men choose? Tho tJtnrtfJng story to tho effect that the Canadian Indians were becoming restless on iicoount of tho removal of somu of the mounted police for South African nervine, atnl were taking great Interest In tlic war with tho Mourn, has been pune0.ured. Investigation has proved that the noble rod man, lnstcml of perusing glmrlng headlines In the yellow journals on tho reservation every ovenlng, has not, In many In stances, even heard of the war. This tale, therefore, can bo placed by tin slflo of tho Fenian raid yarns anJ other productions of heated imagina tion calculated to cause Insomnia In Canada. Mr. Wanamaker. F ROM THIS Philadelphia Even ing liullotln, a journal usu ally accurate In its political new, we glean tho informa tion that Hon. John Wanamaker con templates an early announcement of his withdrawal as a candidate for United States senator in opposition to Colonel Quay. "Ily this," says the IJullotln, "Is not meant a cessation of Mr. Win im.iker's light against Colonel Quay, but simply the taking out of his name from con sideration as a candidate for a scat in the senate. It is said to be Mr. Wana maker's purpose to enter upon tho llKht with zeal from the time of the announcement, and to lead an ngita tlon which will be kept up without ces sation until November for tho election of legislators who will vote against Quay, for n constitutional convention iuid for ballot reform. Many men op posed to Quaylsin hesitated to Identify themselves with the battle against tin Ketiver senator because of their sup position that the Philadelphia mer chant was the candidate against him. A public declaration on the part of Mr. Wanamaker that he would not ac cept the otllce, anti-Quay men believe, would give Impetus to the movement against, the Quay machine. It ha3 been a recognized weakness of the at tacking party against Quay that tome of Its leaders were suspected of great personal ambition, and thi necessity of eliminating this suspicion was felt. Preferably the anti-Quay men say the successor to Quay should be a western man, as Senator Penrose is a Phlla delphlan. If tho light against Quay Is successful, an eastern man could b chosen two years later, when a suc cessor to Mr. Penrose will be named." A dispatch from Philadelphia to tho New York Sun contributes the follow ing Interesting supplementary infor mation: "This withdrawal, however, must not be taken to mean that Mr. Wanamaker has abandoned his hope of entering the senate, for such is not tha fact. He will simply bo out for a whil and when the time comes, two years hence, to elect a successor to Senator Penrose, ho will make an attempt to secure the place." The putting together of these two extracts tells the whole story. Mr. Wanamaker Is conscious of his Ina bility to defeat Colonel Quay In his own person as a candidate for office: so he will employ a substitute against Quay and save his own strength tor another tussle with Penrose. We must compliment tho former postmaster general upon the sagacity which recog nizes accurately the dimensions of his own unpopularity: but will a canul dacy thus nullified in 1900 be able ta sugar coat itself Into public favor "n 1902? The Philippines insurrection Is over, according to olticlal reports, but th3 Insurgents at home and abroad do not seem to realize the fact. An Unfounded Criticism. ENATOIt WOLCOTT'S criti cism of Senator Peveridgo's speech on the Philippine ques tion, that It displayed a spirit of greed, does not impress us as being Just. The retort could bo made that Senator AVolcott's recent advocacy of free silver coinage displayed the same spirit in that It was prompted by a de sire to benefit the silver mining inter ests nt the expense of tho general wel fare, but it is better to consider in both Instances that the motives of those two eloquent senators are clean and credit able and that the positions which they have assumed with resnect to public problems are maintained con scientiously. Senator lieveiidgo was enthusiastic In his appraisal of the natural resources and commercial possibilities of tho Philippines; his estimate unon these points was most encouraging. Hut to say that a new possession is valuable, to dilute upon the natural opportuni ties which It offers for the acquisition of wealth, is nut to exhibit greed, it Is the supreme duty of statesmen to con sider material Interests, to protect and to develop commerce , to opn new doors to the entermise of tiielr con stituents, to facilitate the prosperous employment of the people which lies at the bottom of all social order and all Intellectual and morul advancement. Statesmanship Is not primarily altruis tic. The men who make the laws of tho United States are not supposed to have ehleily In view tho welfare, for ex ample, of Oermany, Franco or England. It Is not a crime nor a misdemeanor for an American senator to I'olnt nut wherein it is possible to broaden Ameri can trade and widen tho circle of Amer ican opportunities. To further American commercial In terests In tho 'Philippines by robbing and oppressing tho native population, by denying to them any right to share In tho material development of their HchMslands nnd by establishing, as Spain did, a dividing linn of caste which permanently doomed the Fili pinos to a position of conscious in ferorlty would, Indeed, be to exhibit a spirit of greed and to default, with resulting shame, upon solemn moral obligations. Put Renutor Wolcott does not need assurances that such a pro gramme has never been contemplated. Very far was such a pmxrumme from Senutor Ueverldge's mind. We Infer from tho text of his snijcli that ht holds tho sensible opinion that if the United States goes through all tho work And worry of carrying "tho nii'te man's burden" In the Philippines, Hie United suites will be falpy entitled to the s whlto man's proper pay. Thla does not Imply thnt tlio black man or brown mun will bo robbed, cheared or tricked. Every Filipino will bo made the richer by Introduction to American 1 lea" and American enterprise. The development of the naturnl wealth of tbu nrchl pelago, tho quickening of Us marvelous but now dormant possibilities, will pro ceed baud In hand with the education of Its people and tlut establishment of a Just government guaranteeing to r.v ery honest man the rluht to live In Peace und order, to acquire und to hold property, and to nurture as In? may the capabilities within hlm In the light of un Intelligent und u benevolent civilization. Tho sailors who claim Manila and Santiago prize money seem In a falv way to leave their descendents some thing to hope for. Owing to tho thorough press censor ship In South Africa, the war cor respondent has little to do but look pleasant. ' Affairs at Ladysmlth continue to be as uncertain as the depth of the canals on Mars. HUMAN NATURE STUDIES. She Heard the Fog. A dear old lady from tho country went to London to visit her married daugh ter, and cumo buck with wonderful ex periences, says Ulu Youth's Companion. Loudon did not show its best luce to the simple country womun. It was en veloped in foj; during the lirst two or tbreo days of her visit, and as her bed room looked out upon the railway she was troubled by tbu ery necessary noise of the fog signal. Hliu came down to breakfast after her lirst restless night and tutxlouslj Inquired the cause of the strange banging sho Iuid heard so often during tlio hours of darkness. "Oh, thut wan duo to the fug," ex claimed her son-in-law, ad as sliu asked no further questions he let tho bubjeot drop. Her visit over, tho good womun re turned to tho country, full of tho won derful sights und sounds of London life. "Did you see a Lonr.en fog, granny'.'" asked ono of her listeners, as granny ex patiated on tho strergencss of the great city. "Ay, that I did," replied granny; "und I heard 'un, too!" "Heard 'un, granny?" exclaimed an other listener. "How didst hear a tog?" "Why," answered tho old lady, in per fect sincerity, "Lonncn fog liuln't like ours. Every now nnd then It goes oft wi' a rare bang." As Applied to Family Affairs. "What," asked tho teacher, "does an thracite mean'.'" "That's a kind of coal," said little Wil lie. "Yes: anthraclto coal Is what wo call hard coal. So anthracite must mean hard. Now can you tell mo what bitu minous means?" "That's coal, too," Willie replied. "Hut it isn't tho same kind of coal that unthrnclto is, is it? Bituminous coal is what we commonly refer to ns soft coal. Now, Willie, let us eo if you can form n sentence containing tho words an thraclto und bituminous." Willie thought tho matter over for a minute and then suld: "Hero's one. This morning beforo pa started downtown ma wanted five dollars for groceries nnd things, and she tried to get It by saying bituminous words, but pa gavo her an anthracite look, and when ho disappeared around the corner she was weeping bltumlnously." Chicago Times Herald. Wasted His Honey. "Before I agree to undertake your de fense," said the eminent criminal law yer who had been called In, "you will have to be perfectly frank with mo nnd tell mo the whole truth. Did you cm bezzlo the $20,000 you are accused of hav ing taken'.'" "Yes, sir," replied tho accused man. "I'll not attempt to conceal tho fact from you. T stole every cent of It." "How much have you still?" "It's all gono but about $10." "Young man," paid the eminent lawyer, buttoning his overcoat nbotit him and putting on his gloves, "you'd better plead guilty and throw yourself on the mercy of tho court." "I'll do It If you say so, sir. What are you going to charge me for the advlco?" "Ten dollars." Chicago Tribune. Uncertain. Sir William MacCormac, the president of tho Rnyul College of Surgeons, of Lendon. who Is best known to Americans by his many admirable works upon asep sis and lted Cross labors, Is nt times qtilla ubsent-minded, bays tho Saturday Evening Post. Ho Is an indefutlgabio worker, and often to savo tlmo when studying in his laboratory has a light luncheon t-erved there. Once his assist ants heard him sigh heavily, and, look ing up, saw tho doctor glaring at two glass receptacles on bis table. "What Is tho matter, doctor?" asked ono of the youngsters. "Nothing in par ticular," was the reply, "only 1 am un certain whether I drank tho beef tea or that compound I am working on." A Bird of Paradise. Their parrot had died, and young Mas ter Tommy, with his little sister Jennie, had just concluded tho funeral services over the grave of tlulr feathered pet. "I n'poso Polly Is In heaven now," remarked Jennie, tearfully. "Yes," returned Mas tcr Tommy: "I s'poso ho Is." "tie lie's got wings, but hQ wouldn't bo an ungel up there, would ho?" Inquired tho little maid, anxious about bis present status. "Oh!" ciied Tommy; "ho wouldn't bo an angel; only people Is that." "Thou what do you s'poso ho Is now?" persisted his sister. Tommy thought for n moment. Then the light of Inspiration dawned on bis beaming countciianee. "I guess Polly Is it bird of pnrudlso now," InVunnounccd, joyfully. Tho ;rypt. NUBS OF KNOWLEDGE. In Saxony toy-makers earn 1 cent nn hour. In Mexico 110 distinct languages und dialects are t-poken. Italians constitute one-fourth of Ar gentine's Inhabitants. Petween tho two lower fulls of tho Nllo rain has never been experienced. It Is a curious fact thut a negro lias never been knewn to tamo an elephant or any wild animal. Itussla in Europe hus a forest area of about MO.MU.OOi) acres. One-third of tho country. Indeed, Is forest. An electrically operated whipping de vice hus been Introduced Into porno of tho penitentiaries In Franco. Tho leiicth of the world's railways Is moro than seventeen times the circum ference, of tho earth at tho equator. Wlthtn live yeurs Russia will have at least a million freight curs in service, thero being about tuo.OUO now In use, Steam rullwuy passenger rates In India average s,t'ti cents per mllo lirst class, 1.13 beeond class, and only 0.3 for third class. A law Just passed In Norway makes girls Ineligible for matrimony unless they can show certltlcutes of skill iu cooking, knitting, and spinning. Tho woman's bianch of the Church of England Temperance society will provide a reformatory, avallublo for all England for women Inebriates, to cost J.IQ.OOO. A government report, popular belief to the contrary, says that barhelors out number the spinsters by a largo majority, thero being 7,127,707 bachelors to 3,221,191 spinsters. , roont may bo quickly freed from the smell of tobacco smoko by placing In It u pull of water containing a bundful of buy, which will absorb all tho odor of tho tobacco. A grout man does not always attain a ripe old ago; In fact, hardly hulf of tho greatest men of modern and ancient times biivo reached that limit of ago set by the Wblo-70. The burning of tho bride's playthings Is purt of tho wedding ecrmony of Jt,pnn. The brldo lights u torch, which t-he bunds to tho bridegroom, who with It "Ignis n lire In which tlio toys nro destroyed. A great decreuso In tho tue of tho borso may bo expected In tho near future. Experiments In England have proved Hint heavy freight wagon t rattle can be ban. died by motor power at imc-seventii the cost of horse power. Swiss I'hceso was the pioneer Europenn cheese In America, Roquefort followed, It Is mudo of goats' milk. Its peculiar uppeurunco Is mudo by dropping In It, while In tho process of making, somo pieces of tho coarse peasants' bread, It has been decided that somo change must bo mudo by our army In its smoke less powder. Numerous tests have well Illustrated tho fuct that tlio powder now used Is extremely dangerous, being made nearly entirely of nltro-glycerlne. It la possible that silk may become nn article entirely domestic In every step, Professor Carl Praun. of Bangor, Me., Intends to experiment on a silkworm furm, and has ordered lOO.'XW eggs from Jupan, tho worms to bo fed on oak leaves. Tho Russian Rudget estimate for pub lic education for tho coming year Is oh 000,000 roubles, or. In round numbers, about $2-1,000,000. This Is about four times tho sum that tho state of Pennsylvania annually appropriates for public educa tion. Though Canada has been making spe cial efforts to Increase her population by means of Immigration, they seem to bo 111 vain. Tho Inst census showed that emigration for the period covered by tho enumeration exceeded immigration by E00,(H. To prevent the sides of n bed from spreading apart and dropping the slnts a. new attachment Is formed of a pair of toda Inserted in tho sldo rails, with a turn bucklo connecting them at the cen ter, to draw the sides together and grip the slats. PERSONALITIES. The Rev. Henry Wilson, rector of St. Augustine's church, London, raises and dispenses over $10,000 a ear in charity. Alajor Anstruther-Thompson, who weighs 2S0 pounds without his accoutre ments, Is tho heaviest man in tho British army. Tho Prince of Wales has promised to open In person the International Congress on Tuberculosis, to bo hold in England In 1901. Lieutenant Franklin Schley, who Is soon to go to Mnnlla, closely resembles his father, Rear Admiral Schley, In np pcararco and stature. Major General Wood, governor of Cuba, said recently that he considered Presi dent Diaz, of Mexico, an ideal ruler for Spanish-America, strong, honest and steady. When Alderman Smith Robertson, col ored, died in Jackson, Miss., tho other day, tho white mayor and aldermen of the city neted as pall-bearers at the fu neral, a tribute never before pild a negro In that town. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, was onco threatened with arrest for Implication in tlio assassination of Lincoln. He was at that tlmo a faimtr in Dallas county, Ala., and, of course, was quite innocent, never even bearlrg of tlio murder until several dnyn afterward. Tho Russian ambassador early In the season announced that his niece, Miss Marguerite Casslnl, was not strong enough to accept more than two invita tions a week. Count Casstnl added that in no place, not even Paris, was tho so clal part of tho government carried to such an excess as in Washington. Mrs. E. M. Laferrlere, of Minneapolis, a teacher of tho French language, has been selected by the governor of New Mexico to go to tho Paris Exposition nnd exploit tho wonderful turquolso mines of New Mexico. She Is a Bister of A. De meules, tho "Turquolso King," who was murdered about eight months ago. J. II. Rldgway. a brother of the orni thologist of tho Smithsonian Institution, has been engaged as taxidermist at tho University of Illinois, and Is now at work on tho museum specimens. Ho has been connected with tho National Museum, tho University of Iowa, the Iowa Agri cultural collego end tho University of Ohio. Raymond do Murlas was cashier in a Havana bank when a young man, nnd tho president, taking a great fancy to him, gave htm n fortune of $200,000. With this he branched out and soon becamo a mil lionaire. He Is Interested In numerous profitable enterprises, among them tho American Tobacco company, $200,000 of whose stock Is in his vault. Dr. Jeromo W. Egbert, a young dentist of Chicago, has won fame by the prac tice of his profession in India. Ho Is the offlclal dentist at tho courts of several Indian princes. Tho Ameer of Afghanis tan recently offered a cavalry escort through tho Khyber Pass and a fabulous feo for Dr. Egbert's services If ho would undertako a Journey to Cabul, but tho doctor declined. II. M. Moore, the president of tho trus tees of Northtleld (Mass.) seminary, says that not one dollar received from tho hymn books has ever been used by Mr. Moody or Mr. Sankcv for their own personal use, but, on the contrary, every dollar received from tho hymn booK fund hns been used to defray expenses of Mr. Moody's schools, materially help ing In' the $Sft,000 necessary to bo raised annually for their current expenses. SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY. One Grateful Descendant. "This," said tho guide, "is the grave or Adam!" Historic spot! With reverential awn, nay, with a feeling of deep thankfulness, the wealthy merchant tailor on his lirst trip to tho Orient drew near and cast a tlower on the tomb. "Erring ancestor.'' bo murmured, "I should bo the Ian man on earth to revile your memory! To your sin I owe my prosperity!" Chicago Tribune. Recruiting for the Transvaal. Recruiting Officer "I'm atrald ou nre not smart enough for a cavalryman. We want men who can ride right ovcry ev erything, If necessary." Applicant "That's ult light, sir. I've been a London cab-driver for seven years!" Collier's Weekly. A Practical Motive. Aunt Gertrude "And what will you do when you are a man, Tommy?" Tommy "I'm going to grow a beard." Aunt Gertrude "Why?" Toraraj-"Heeause then I won't havo nearly so much lace, to wash." Collier's Weekly. Not Flattering. Bella Whun you showed him my pic ture last night he said I was very good looking, didn't he: now. honest? Stella No, indeed, dear; quite tho re verse. Ho said It was a very good like ness. Philadelphia Prctd. Fine Distinction. "You ride your wheel on Sunday, yet you object to my going skating on Sun day. What Is tho difference'.'" "Well, when you rldo your wheel you nro ulways going somewhere. When you nro skating nu'ro not. It's Just llko dancing. And you know It Isn't tho right thing to go to a dance on Sunday." Chi cago Tribune. Accommodating. "If I give you a' sllco of bread will you eat the crust?" "YHs'm. An ef you gimme piece o' cheese ma'am, I'll eat do rind." Cleve land Plain Dealer. ooooooooooooooooo $ In Woman's Realm ooooooooooooooooo THE ELECTION of Mrs. W. I). Ken nedy ns president of tho Homo lor tho Friendless is but another trlbuto to the r.ue executive ability and su perior Judgment of that lady. She will soon go abroad for k few months' slay and on this account was reluctant to tie I'tpt n re-election, but us It was felt by all concerned that It would bo a calam ity to the Homo In Its present straits if she wcro allowed to rrtlie sho was pre vailed upon to continue In tho position for which sho Is so well equipped both In foresight, In llnuncinl mutters and tuct In tho direction of the constantly Increas ing details In connection with the Insti tution. During Mrs. Kennedy's absence tho board will huvo an nble presiding ofticer In tho person of Mrs. C. P. Matthews, who has previously tilled that position with great credit to herself and the Home. The Innovation of the public meeting held lust Friday night and Its success were duo to tho efforts und energy of Mrs. 15. H. Ripple. Tho board of officers and managers will meet Friday morning of this week at the rooms of the Young Women's Christian association for committee organization. MANY OF our townspcoplo nro fa miliar with tho fact that Mrs. L. A. Watres. wlfo of Colonel Watres Is an unusually talented lady, but It Is not perhaps generally known how wldo Is her versatility. Mrs. Watres was about tho first r.mateur photographer In this region. Certainly sho was the lirst woman to do anything In that lino and tho results of her experiments and study are models of beauty and tnste. Sho has dono much creditable work In oils und water colors und kcrumlo decoration but a new departure of hers promises a Arid for tho cNpresslon of her artistic thought still wider In scope. It Is in plastic art that Mrs. Watres has recent ly surprised even those who have known of her capabilities. Her modeling In por tratturo Is charming in Its plcturcsquo ef fect ns well as marked In Its faithful like ness. A medallion In bus relief of Col onel Watres Is ono of the best oxnmplcs of her facility, while a bust of their youngest son, Racburn, Is beautiful in design and delicacy. Miss S. E. Hawley, a sister of Mrs. Watres, has achieved unexpected success in water colors. Many cf her sketches and studies lndlcnto unmistakable tal ent nnd feeling whllo tho subjects chosen are invariably pleasing. Miss Emellno Dunn, who so delighted Scranton people with her beautiful work In water colors, paid Miss Hawley many compliments during her stay here, predicting excep tional success In this direction. Both Mrs. Watres and Miss Hawley havo studied abroad under most compe tent masters. MISS JOSEPHINE MERCEREAU. tho gifted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Merccreau, promises to be como known to fame by her minia ture palntlns. Miss Merccreau has studied much in New York and has done work In both porcelain nnd ivory, but moro recently has abandoned tho former ror tho moro difficult, exquisitely deli cate effects in ivory. She is very happy in catching a likeness and her portraits aro much sought after. THE COOKING SCHOOL at the Y. W. C. A. will open this morning nt 10 o'clock. The classes are filling rapid ly and this course promises to bo a permanent success. Roll Top Desks, Flat Top Desks, Standing Desks, Typewriter Desks, And Office Chairs A Large Stock to Select from. Hill & Coramiell 121 N. Washincton Ave., ALWAYS BUSY, tfUM TAD I.AHGKSr RinirtKK ANU Lewis. Reilly & Davies, 111-116 Wyoming Avenue. Lunther Keller LIHE, CEMENT, SEWER PIPE, Etc. Turd and otllos West Lackawanna Ave., SCRANTON, PA. OFFICE FURNITURE " i I flpjF DiAlOND 3 8 And a large stock of Clocks, Silverware, etc. Every article we sell is guaranteed to give satisfaction. MERCEREAU &C0NNELL 130 Wyoming Ave. Coal Exchange. Stoves, Ranges, Fmreaces, Plumbing Td mi 5 ego GTOSIER & FORSYTH S25-3CT PENN AVENUE. The Hunt & Cornell Coo Heating, Plumbing, Gas Fitting, Electric Light Wiring,. Gas an Electric Fixtures, Builders Hardware. HENRY BELIN, JR., Oeaeral Agent far ths Wyamlaj District .'J.- Allnlne. Blasting, Sporting, HmoltaHii and tlio Ilcpauno Uliomlcal C'o.upaay' HIGH EXPLOSIVES. tHfety June, Capi nnd Hxplaia: Itoom -101 Coanell UullUui;. ticraatao. AUEXCIU4 thos. fokd. john b. smith & son, w. e. mulligan. - Plttston. Plymouth. Wllkes-Barre. !AYMB, JEWELRY oiroiTs POWDER. iHe wit a retired MiulUlcr and hails from Siaten Island, New York. He wis In pretty gooj kealth, but every day when he look v, hat he called his comlitytwmat, that Is, his afternoon walk, ht was sure to have a sort of cramp hlcli seized htm in the calf of hU U;; with almost the severity of an assault by a ferocious dog, lie read about the case of a man whose rheumatism was cured by RIpansTauuIci and laughed at the Idea. .He thought the man a fool, but realising that hlson dim cul'v was a sort of rheumatic twinge, he finally bought and u,c J some Tibulcs and of late his frlcodi have notice that he Is more chipper lhan he had been for ears. A lady who knew him well asked Mm about the dog that used to bite his leg in the afternoons and the old man said i "He is dead and Rlpaos Tabules killed him." "A new srtyln rwkct containing Ti r.lriss tibii.es In a rmr oarton (without claw) li now for tale at am drug stonruK vivk niMTs- I hli low prtcw! hnrt Is InteiuU'il tor tho p.or ami the economical. t)no dosoo vf therlve-nt,rU.iwlliabulo)oiinlj badb lutsil lyM.oltng fortyWKut cents to Use Hiruia Oustnab Vkihiij, Jit, 19 Spruce Street, itew V oris -or a tingle carlou lit Tascuu) wuM tie aent tor are ceal. IlEY'S Embroidery Opening and Muslim Underwear aueoooooo Which has held the atteti tion of the buying public dui ing the greater part of last week will be continued Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Of this week. No better opportunity will present it self this season for laying in a supply of High Class Un derclothing at low cost, or to select from a stock of Unques tionable Merit the choicest and daintiest of Trimmings and Embroideries for what garments you prefer having made at home. New line of EalbroMcrd Swiss Robes Also Tinted Swiss Mouse lines, with AUiOver to match 510-512 UCKAWANNA AVENUE icelsir 00000 A complete line for 1900, for office and pocket use, numerous styles of Cal endars, Pads and Stands to select from. Blank Books and the largest and most complete line of office supplies in Northeastern Pennsylvania. r Reynolds Bros Stationers and Engravers, Hotel Jermyn Building, Scranton, Pa. lanes ) .., i..t-M.-S
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