n. r" J THE SCR ANTON TRIBUNE-TUESDAY, FEBRUARY G, 1900. ONE MAN WHO HAS ESCAPED CRITICISM CAREER AND METHODS OF LEONARD WOOD. Won His Spurs, It Is Snld, by Knocking Down General Miles. Trained In Warfare on the Western PlainsThe Most Popular Man In Cuba. l-'tom th" WiirhliiRton Star. Nonolillerveho over Beiveil the- I'nltel States lias rlen to fume unit luii (ained Its reuutilH tnoie: lapltllv' than (lenei.il Leonard Wood, the new mili tary Kovi'tnor of Cuba. It l tin1 curt of Hiti'ii'ss t lut t may will be c.ilh'tl elnzzllntf. AUIioukIi buitly pant thlity nine year a of iikp, Wood Is a major general. oceuplnK the most Inipoilant post, with ono exception. In the Klft of the War 1'epui tment. Ij."s than two years ni?o ho nuK a plain usttant itriuy HitiRcon with the tank of mptaln. In still that of captain. When he be came colonel of the Hough Klders In May. 1S0S. he vvnx absolutely unknown outside f his L'lielc of ft lends In the army and In Washington. His brilliant dush at I.as Ou.itntn.is made hint n brlRadlcr general, and the llKht of San Juan hill, In which he commanded a brigade, hroURht him the Koveniorshlp of the city of Santiago, lleio his temaikable. tutlvlties In the quelling of i lots, the feeding of thons unils of starving Cubans, In stuet cleaning. In fumigating, In battling with dlM'MNe, made his fame ivimi In limit lliltiitn and bintight him the goetnorshl of the riitlro pi-ovlnie of Santiago, together with an appoint ment of .1 major gencial, which he held until the atmy was icoiganlzed, whin he bee unit a bilgadlu gdietal. And only the other day he was again made major geni'ial and as-lgnrd to the chali In vvhli-h Vojlir .it ho long at the palate In liav.in.i. This t.neer I all tlte more iem.uk.iblo beialise Wool staited as a singion-Miut-dtlo of the active line of .seilie Only a f-v medical ullheis ever have ieaeh"d high pliues In the Hue, anil not one ever be foie bte.ime .1 majot gelui.il. Hllg.ulicr liciinal A .1. M.vtT. onie chief of the signal seivlio. lose liuin the medical seivlre: so did iienei.il S W. Craw ford and iletiui.il Thomas I.avvsoti and theie the list ends, so fat as gtneia'.s nie contented. IX A HAM) SCHUUl.. Wood received his nillltaiy ttalnlng in the haulest school of the s.oivlie the Indian nuintiy of the far south west. Years before the Hough Hldeis weie thought of Wood was past muster of the art of tough tiding. Hunt, lit vvlm,vv llh Captain Livvton of the Kouith Cavaliy. who us a major general was recently killed In the Philippines, bt ought In Octonlmo, the Apaihe, at the end of one of the most illtllrult Indian expedition, that ever fell to the lot of the Aimikan soldier. The hardships of this put suit, whlth leached many hundred mllis Into the mountains of Old Mi-iio, can li.mlly be oveiestimated. Wood, although not then legulaily an ollhoi lu the at my, lielng only a. i ontraet sutgeon, toin manded the Infantry of the expedition, us well as, at tinns, the Indian scouts. So notable et, his achievements that Congiess presented him with a medal for distinguished seivlee. It was the ti. lining In rhls Indian campaign that led to the vletosj in the Jungles of Cuba and plated Wood 111 u position tn at quire fuither institution as soon as oppoitunity should offer. Although Wood possesses i.uc talent lu his chosen piofcsslon of mtilkllie. having been graduated with Illinois fnun the Haivaltl Medical St haul, and later seivlng as oflli-l.il phv hit Ian to PiesUlent Cleveland and to President McKlniev, he Is by n.ituie a lighter, a-d it has bun his ambition fioui his e.ullest tla.vs to lllid a pinto ill the ac tive line of the seivlie. HOW m: AVON mim:s' FAVOR Curiously enough, he won favor with the t ommandlng genei.il of his department, now Major Oenor.il Miles, by knocking him down. II was this way: When young Wood cntued the army he was as strong as an n and he possessed the endurance of a Sioux Indian. He was then, as he Is today. Immensely powerful of shouldeis nntl arms, with a shott, thlik netk and stuidy legs. Fioni his boyhood he ha 1 piattlced running and walking, and during his school career at Itoston he had practlted boxing until he had be come proficient In the ait. Uoxlng was a favoilte sport at the heailiitur teis of the department of California nnd Miles was proud of his boxing. At first the young surgeon, who was by nature shy. diffident and low voiced, took no pan In the sport. One night, however. Miles Invittd him to tome up, ussiuing him that lie (Miles) was a hard hitter, but that he would take into consideration the opponent's youth, and so on, and so on. If there) Is one thing that would have stirred up Wood's boxlg blood it was Just mch a remark. As the story Is now told, the sparring was fast and l'u lious, and resulted In General Mile getting much the worst of it. Hut Miles wus then, ac ho Is now, veiy much of a soldb r. with a keen ndmlr ntlon for the finalities of grit and de termination, even If he suffered by those qualities, and Wood betame his warm personal friend as well ns ph sl cian. DIHKCT AND HONKST. My nature Ocneial Wood Is "fear fully direct" the chaijcterizatlon of one of his friends. He Is duect nnd honest, like Hoosovelt. and yet ther never was a man who learned the dif ficult lesson of taetfulntss more 'thor oughly. Not long ago a New Vmk newspaper commented on the fact that theru were only two men of Make the Hair Grow With warm banuoM of Ccticok a aoAr and light dreulogiot Ccticuiu, pureitof emol lient skin cures, Tbl treatment at onct atopi falling hair! removes cruiti, icale, and dandruff, soothes Irritated, lulling surfaces, stimulate tba hair folllUei, supplies tlia roots with energy and nourishment, and make the hair grow whajnjill else fails. AvVAm ptotnliipnc' who came out of tin? war wholly without unfavorable ciltlchtn Dewey and Wood. When Wood wau appointed major general last mouth he was confirmed by tongiess without u illwntlni? voice. Wood ruled with the power of a ernr In Santiago, and yet he Is prob ably the most popular man In Cuba, with Cubuns as well as with foreign er, Ills appointment as mllltnty governor was received with enthtislnsin by cvety paper of prominence In the Island. This was due to Wool's futil ity of tact fulness, which, It seems, came to him with his medical training. A doctor must know how to manage people. Th"ic are any number of In stances showing with what consum mate skill he managed the Cubans. One of the most dllllcuK influences In all SpinlsH-Amerlean countries Is the chuieli. In Cuba It wan vetv power ful, and Wood saw that It would h neiessaiy to handle. It with meat c.tie. Itiasmtith as It was naturally oppos .1 to the Amet leans ns bthig the power which patted the church and state ii tul divested the nithhlshop of his ac customed revenues. Wood made It Ills business to become personally a--tiualr.ted with the priests, to look at the ilPlli tittles fioni their point of view, and when the new arehblsl.op of Santiago vmih appointed. Wood w is asked, to the mupiWt of every on-, tti take n prominent phi'-e In the ttluin phal procession. He expected that It would be merely a matter of a brief iiiulage ilile fiotn the palace, mound the pl.ta to the eathedtul, but wlun the pioccslon hid Stat ted lie found that u place hail been made for him under the euii opy with the uithblshop. And he niai thed all the way iliiough, no doubt thlnglng of his old Puiit.iu aiuesnus In New Ungl.ind. Sliu e tin n Won 1 ha? had no bottet lrletids than th" chinch dlsnltailcs. DIJALINO WITH Till: HDITOHS. He deilt with that tvpltal Cuban In stitution, the agitating edltol, with the same wisdom. Santiago Is the hotbed of Cub in icvolutlon. Hvety Cuban Instil let tion has had Its ntlgln within I lllty miles of the city of Santiago. And , iln- moiithplete of the Cuban Insiiigciit Is the aultatlng cillliii". After th" Americans i nine Into power this fiinc- I Hon n v was for a tlnir devoid of a puipee-o in life. The Spaiil.utls were gone .mil the agitating piper no longer tluivetl. It was n.itutal. theteloie. that the editor should evintuallv begin an assault on the Ametle.ui.i So liltti r weie the att.ie.ks that many ieldents of the city advised General Wood to sllppit"-s these papeis, but the gencial knew the mistake of making mart y is. So lie s-enl for the most lolent of th. edltois. "You may say an thing you pleae about me personally," ho said in his quiet wuv. "but the niomtlit vou at tack the government I shall put vou in Mono Castle and keep 4.011 there." Another one of these edltois had suggested "going to the hills," which in Cuba means rebellion. Wood sent for him. too, and told him that the sooner he went to the hills the better It would be for his own safety, and he said It "o seiloiisly that the next day the editor did go to the hills, alone, and ho has slnte canst tl no trouble. P.VIDHNCi: OF TACT, (iciieial Wood has made pat tliT.lur effoits to Hud out the leal sentiment of the Cuban people and to govern his ollkial acts actoidlngly. With a peo ple of the thaiacter of the Cubans, so long accustomed to saying one thing to the cruel Spanish oltlteis and dnln r another, and by uatuie suspli ions, this was paiticul.uly tlillit till, ami iener.il Wood's populaiity in the Is land Is the hist attestation of his sue es. One ot his aids told me tint whin General Wood was on bis tiipH of Inspection he made In tin invulable lille to dine with the liKal otllelals and to talk muth with them. It some times happened, therefoif, that Wood and two or tluee members of the st.itf would sit tlow 11 to tllnnei with a table full of bl.it k men, with whom he would dliectly be on the btst pes' llilo teim-. In his otlk'iil contenntes Geneial Wood communicates almost whollv tluough an Intel pieter. but for filend ly conversation he can get along thor oughly well In Spanish. Indeed, he his suipii'-ed more than one Cuban bv his undei standing of the language, icply Ing to remarks that were not Intended for hk ens. Not long ago l.e wii spending a day sho itlng guinea fowl back in the Jungle. While he was iest ing a number of nitlvts g.itheied aiound, not knowing that he was the governor of the piovinte. and after suine general tonvcisation he askM them what they thought of the publi cations in the 1 evolutionary fiapcis. The spokesman of the party made an swer In one of those inimitable Span ish epigrams: "The editor?, they wilte to eat. We woik: we nte satisfied." Furthermoie, Wood surrounded him self with Cubans In Ills ofllce. He tiusts them perfectly and they trust him perfeetlv. As a consequence no officer In the Island knows the natives mote thoioughly than he. NOT AFRAID OF WOHK. Wood Is an cstiaordlnailly hard worker. He Is up eaily In the morn ing and fiequently visits seveial hospl ta's. the Jail or the matket before he 1 caches his olllte at S yo o'clock or nioie. He Is icadlly accessible to 1 leh and poor, and his extraotdlnuiy phy sical endurance enables him 10 se manv people and attend to the thous and and one tilng details of such an ofllce and do eveiv thing well. Indeed, lu appears to do a gieat many un necessaiy things, that Is, unnecesaiy things fiom the stilct viewpoint of duty. He goes at the woik of Im piovement In all suits of lines because It Interests him peisonally. His mot to Is "No eneigy Is loat to the unl vtise." Take one example The Cu ban Is by natuie nunc or less slip shod In his way of doing things. Wood N thoiough, with a thoioughness that Is an unfulllng nstonlshment to th" native. I staved In a hotel that was Just being reoccupled after an epi demic of yellow lever. The piopiletor was telling me how Wood's men ha 1 done the fumigating. "Why," he said, "they squlited thclt disinfectants under the tiles of th" roof," That was something that no one of Spanish blood would ever have thought of doing. Wood has few ellveislons, his woi'k Is his greatest pleasuie, although Tic gets keen enjoyment fiom ildlng his big giay horse tluough the tommy he Is a nutuial born rldei or from Inspecting the various parts ot his piovlnces on a transpoit. Ho also reads a good deal, books of hlstoiy, nillltaiy lore and an occasional novel, FAVORS CUBAN SOLDIERS. Of the government of Cuba he has his own definite, though simple, plans. Ho believes lu icmovlng laigely the Anieilcan troops from the island and substituting a number of uglments enlisted from among the Cubans them- Great Sale of Towels Tuesday. An Important purchase of towels the "clean-up" of a jobber's stock sives you the opportunity today of choosinp; from two uncommonly good lots at prices which rep resent but a small fraction of their actual worth. 8c Huck Towels, 4c These are of good size, extra heavy quality, nicely made, finished wiih fringe at ends and topped with fancy colored borders. Worth fully 8c just half price. 1 6c Honeycomb Towels, loc One of the best lots that ever entered this store. Woven in genuine honeycomb fashion some people prefer them to the Turkish kind made and finished. Very large full 22x54 inches in size and well worth 16c. Only today Tuesday at 10c. Sewing Machines You seldom hear us talk of them they sell them selves. Under another name thousands have bought the same machine and paid fiom 40 to $65 for it. You save all fancy profits when you buy here. Five styles. Pi ices begin at 17.46. Let us show you. pelves. This Is no men theory, for befon he venttlieil to silKRest slltll a Mhenie to the war tlep.u Intent he liau aeluiillycxpeiliuentMlvvlthlt in Sjlltla Ko by the enlistment of a small com pany of men mulct the Renei.il rules of the U111 al (jtiml, and et ililllcd and olllceietl as an Anieilcan triinpany would have h.-en He found what Minn t titles have denied, that the Cu bans wile niKi 1 soldiers .lip! le.ullly amenable to the Mi let discipline of Amcritau atmy life. Ills Ide.i Is to have a number of such letjlments ofll ceicd. In the higher places, at least, bv Aliici leans. Thc.se could occupy the foits and other points of xantaRC, and lie has eonlldciue enough In the Cubans themselves to ptomle peace In the Island. With this sj'Mrm of military occupation theie would need to be at the head of the Manit an hon est Ameilc.in. whose thief ollice would bo to keep the bad Cubans out of pow er and tne roo ones In until such time as the pood Cubans could conttol the government. He believes that Dl.iz of Mexico Is thf Ideal ruler of n Spanish-Aniciitau count! y stionK and honi'st and sle.ulv. iwiumu: A ClUMK. '.Suet ess," ho Mlil',""Ih so easy that It Is a ci line to fall." He will now have an oppoitunity of ttliiR his poweis on the whole Island of Cuba. Ills appointment showed an c.sttaotdlnaiy amount of confidence In htm on the pan of the admlntstia flop at Washington, for If he should fall the blame would fall on the piesl dent. because he had appointed so ouur a man and appointed him at the ept use of so many older officers In the atmy. Hut Wood will not fall: he Is not the kind of a man who fails. KING'S BROKEN PROMISE Victor Emmanuel Repays a Peasant Whose Life lie Endangered. 1'rom the Outlook. Victor Kmmauiicl, King of Italy was fond of hunting antl went to the niouii tains to enjoy this sport. He often was fai in adv. nice of his paity and met with adventutts tint amused him Rteatlj One day he found alone mi the mountains and hlmsolt with a stltam to eioss which Was tuibulent. He was too Rood a hunter not to rec ognise thf dancer of wading in a stieiiu so deep and whlth he did not know While looking at the stUMin, and eiutstlonlng what he would do, , veiy tall, stiong man came through the woods to tho Htieam. "You must 1 arty me over!" said the King. The man icfused unless he was paid, They agictil on the price, the man stipulat ing that his passenger must ill pet fettly still If he moved, he would tluow hlin In the water. The king agreed. The man stooped, the king mounted his shoulders as th baby does papa s, and they started m 1 us-.. ,iien 111 muisiream uic King Kin wuuuieu uuoui ins ejog. icsi no ""ui.i iiui iuiiuw. mm lumen lu iooh. , , , : angry, and declared u"T"U.l,e VU ?"' -V ! mhii iv-lj uiiqii Itlie UH.IUM i ii.i 111 u n i-:i b vnriF n nTryj' einn rit.niiif.i.i he would drop hi water. The king man went on. When they i cached the other side the man demanded douhl pay. "I-'oi," he said, "you put both our lives In danger when ou turned." The king thought the demand was Just, and paid It. "Is theie .instiling else I tan do fur vouV" asked the king. To this the man replied: "I have long wanted a donkey. If I had a, donkey I tould ssll my vegetables In Tut in. It Is a good maiket." "Would not a hotse be bettei?" (fuelled the king, "No," was the man's icply. 'The donkey could lives In tho tow shed, Tho horse must have a. stable. I have no money." The next day the man was working In his fields when his wife tailed to him that the king had sent him a hoise and a bag of money. The man laughed at the Idea. "Why. the king did not know him." The wife l-islsted that the man should come to the house, There the king's messengeis told him who it was he car ried over the stieani: that the king lealUed the danger he had plai ed t'le man In when eioswlng the stieam, and tho horse and money to build n stable weie the king's letonipense for fotget ting for a moment his ptomlse. Long afterwaid, on the occasion af state, the k,lng was In Turin. The mnn to whom the king hud given the hoisy and the money for a stuble waited till the king's can l.ige t ame. when ho lushed out Into the stteet and thanked the king and pointed to the hotse lint nes,sed to a cult (Hied with vegetables. An Editor's Life Saved by Chamber lain's Cough Remedy. Dm Ing the eaily pan of October, U90, I cuntiactfd a bad cold which settled on my lungs and was neglected until 1 feat til that consumption had ap pealed in an Incipient state. I was con stantly coughing and trying to eMiel .something whlth I could not. I btcuum alaimcd nnd after giving the lni.il dot tor a trial bought a bottle ot Chain bciluln's Cough Iteniedy and the result was Immediate Improvement, and after I had used three bottles my lungs weie restored to their healthy stutiv H. S. ndwnnls, Publisher of The Rev leu, Wyunt, III. Kor sale by all druggists, Matthews Hi oh'., Wholesale and Itet'tll BKents. Women Will bo particularly Interested In our big uunouutcmciit to them on Wednesday and Thursday Which will chronicle it 11 event thev have loolteil forvwinl to Uth an umiMual amount of hitctcyt nntl anticipation. Jonas COURTING IN MEXICO. Conditions Which Make tho Tele phono a Useful Auxiliaiy. Tiom the Mexican Herald. To begin with, it la clear the condi tions of society are unite distinct with these people. The custom of carrying on .1 com (ship, ttndi r the window ot youi mlstiess, as often as not, too, without the knowledge of her patents. Is entlicly tho coned thing. In any other country this would be lllitatlou tallied to .111 extieme, but not so In Mexlto. Wheie custom sanctions, theie is nothing more to bo said; and alter all It scans to bo lu tho veiy ulr. Young women in Mexico nie not pet nilttetl anything like the fieedom their more fortunate sisters In Ungland and America tnjoy. Here again, there I a good reason for this. In former 'ilavs the lountry, us every one knows, was In a most tetrible unsettled state. Co only a shoi t distance out of Mexi co and you will se tho most evident proofs of this In the heavily built sur i minding walls of many of tho hacien das. These walls are In some cases loopholed for inttskeliv. Somo of thee. picturesque old plfrs uro verit able fortresses and aie pctftctly self tontalned, with their minder, or vvoteh tower, petchtd up on an angle of the wall, and the quaint little tlomo of the 1 c.iplll.i showing tluough the trees. Those weie feudal days, nnd the sre.it landowners had their retainers about them on their estates. This vvaa neces saiy. for the people were ever on the .licit against armed Invasion. The 1 io.nU were unsafe ami hrlginds I swarmed over the land fiom end to end. Is It surprising then that under these circumstances the Mexicans .should have learned to guard their women i safelv within the walls of their hac iendas? Hesldes, apart from tho din ger of bandits and robbers, vhie".i lnvo nlwavs existed, tho history ot this count! y has been one lone suc cession of meitiless i evolutions, party against paity, foielgn Interventions-, and o foitti. AYat and u volution do not cettainlv bting with them muth sccuiitv for women. Mn iver It must 1 li' icmembtieil that thesj customs have tin even older oiigin. The people sue Spanish, and, theieiore, to a great extent Moorish. It is undoubtedly a tact that iei.l of the oldest families in Melto today have u stiun-j Jlooi lsh sttain. handed down In nil piofo nhllity by Andilui.tn nncetiy. An dalusia, us most people art nwate, re tain., in .1 most rmikrd manner manv i of the old Meoilsh customs and ttadl- tlons. Tho Moots have left their tle i'nd?nts In that pait of the inuntiy. and many a daik. almoicl-ced Andi lul.m Henoiit.i. languidly watching the crowd below. Ir. some old stieet of ftianada, through the heally haired vinAflcli ln,1ni. I 11c thnronchlv iln 1 oilentil typo as any ou will see In lt I:aslt 0n0 Moorish cunom which , ronvlns r this country Is that of ,.,., .,, iian,i to caH a servant clapping me nanes can n wrvimi. T, ,s s cclt!llnv ot Spanish or Mtc- The mann-r in which a love affair - - commences is iinitu interesting antl in this, as In every other mutUr In Mexi co, theie Is a tight and wrong way of getting about It. In the first Instance, the meeting between the man and the gill is quite atcldental. Possibly he Is passing In the street and sees her in the window. Mutual lnteiest Is aroused, and then there you have the comment ement of as pretty a coutt ship as vou tould wish for. and one that is thoioughly Mexican. Now the usual way for the joiing man. one would think, would be to get un "Intioductlon." Wo Kngllsh nlmost look upon an Intioductlon as sacred. This, however. Is not at all necessary, and In most eases It Is possible that the man knows something about the gill befuiehand. Having decided that he would like to cany on am affair with her. his first move Is In some manner or other to send her his card nccompanled by a declaration of his ailmliatlon. If he has been very much fascinated, a poem Is pel haps tid diessed to the fair one. I must not fuiget to mention that It Is a veiy usual thing for the gentleman to nsk the lady for some token by which ho may know sho deItcs to counten ance in his suit. Pei haps he icquests het to wear a led tone In her hair, or ptihaps It may bo that he earnestly lio;,'s the senoilta to tluow him some particular flower fiom hei window when he comes to learn his fate. Theie are tnnny and numeious other wnvs of starting a lovo affair and the Ingenuity sometimes displayed Is veiy amusing. Then is one factor In pat tlculur which Is fuvoiublo to lovets lu this countiy, and that Is the clev erness of the servants. Theie Is no man who understands tho fine points ot an Intiigue better than your teal genuine MonIchii mozo, and ho will tluow himself in a perfectly whole heat ted manner Into your plots and help ou out of the most unexpected dltllcultles. All praise to the niotu! He never Intrudes; but at tho iame time ho Ir muy slmpatlco, and watches developments. I cannot refrain from refenlng to one particular episode of which I have, no doubt n select few have some Itnovvl edgc There s a certain street In this ancient nnd historic Cludad do Mexico, Which 1" ,y" "loi'tl" woaiia n( u most Trtinks and Bags Hundreds of 'Em. If thev coulil talk, what a cl.itterlUK of voices tin re would he. We will kIiovv to morrow more than tlftv illnllnct Mylc. The neweit one are built ilrcscr fiinh Ion, mill have st-p.irate compartments f'ir hats, for skirts unit fot waists, ticslilis entllcsH trajs iitul lo.itu for little things. The prices on Trunks lienln at JJ is this for an iinitsuallv strong one with heavy b.unls anil RUaiantteil serviceable. Sumo club Imks with hniM trimmings toe. Second floor rear ot elevator. Long's t ROSITVELY not a single "talking point" against these prices Fine Upright Mahogany Piano, was $4oo, Now $250. -f f 4 t 4- - Finn $300 Buys An Elegant Mahogany Piano. Regular Price $450 : Remember Our Mandolins, Violins and Guitars, Now Going On. I comical anil eel tain v voiv oiiginal at th'i I fiimtshlp. Cieep softly out witching hour, not midnight, but the pteiper time, and per.idventuie (pio ldti! nu look in the light place), you, 111.1v come actosa a outh leaning In a studiously c.ueless position against a wall. Above him at soni2 consldctabt' height Is a small stone tia'tony, and the occupant ot this Is .1 pretty jouns l.ulv closely veiled in a Mack tupalo. linf,ir,;r,,U:. - the man does not seem to be interested in the balcony at nil. 'seilaer does the I R,i appear to bo leaning over the b.il I Usti ado on the lookout for nriyone. Hue pause a moment, and luesentlv you will discern .1 faint blacc :ne wander ing up the expanse of white stucco wall and then the while puzzle 's solved! These two ciiuiniins lovets are communicating .vl'.h each other lv means of a hand telephone. They ote'i have one end of the Instrunien'i. and ,f vou pass by sufllclently near you might possibly tutch an indistinct murmur of voices. He Is certainly very constant. I had occasion to pass that way one miserable evening during the rains: Mexico was then simply Inun dated with water, and the lain on that paitlculur evening was simply coming down In sheets. That, however, did not duunt the knight of the telephone. Thete he was as usual, sheltered In a seivlccable-looklng watei proof. Tho tain water off the stieet had come up over the pavement, and ho btood pi tieiitly, but no doubt quite cheei fully, 111 a foinildable puddle. Such heroism bin ely deserved equal sacrifices on ties p.ut of the balcony, too; but not n bit of it. The young lady was Invisible, though It was noticeable that the tell tale speaking coul passed up over the 1. ill of tho balcony and In between the half-closed windows of the loom, I plc tuicd the Senorlt.i to myself slttlns tomfottal'ly ensconced In un armchair In a nice thy place, and I have no doubt I was pretty near the tiuth. What Infatuation! He, poor man. wus sublimely happy down below In his puddle of water and wet mackin tosh. One would think that It must bo II sufllclently hard task to whisper "sweet nothings" over a telephone without the additional disadvantages of a pom ing wet night. However, I Uaiesay they managed to keep the In terest up. Imagine to ourself all this going on in a public thoroughfare! liut tTien we aie In Mexico, nnd there's the differ ence. One must not forget to ndd that 11 gendarme stands In tho middle of the load a little further away with his night lantern shining Inlghtly. He stands tnuflled up In his capo and watches with stolid Indifference. Ptob ably that gendarme and the young man know each other well by sight. skin imui'TioNB cuni'D roit sue. Kczcma, Tetter, Bait Ithuum, Uatbci's Itch, all Itching and burning skin dls eases vunlxh when Dr. Agncvv's Olntmint Is unccl. It relieves In a day ami cures quickly. No case of Piles which un ap plication will not comfoit lu a few min utes. Try It. 83 tents. Bold by Mat Ibnwa Urm. and W. T. Clark.-!!. A Lot of 15c Dress Goods, 10c Tuesday Today, Tuesday morning we shall place on sale an extraordinary collection of very new'spring styles of Dress Goods, bought by us for the express purpose of a "special sale'' at 15c. A little confusion with the manufacturer concerning the width, brings the price for today down to 10c. They are mostly in small fancy worsted plaids and checkered effects, with solid grounds, Interwoven with daintiest hues. Also, solid colored cashmere effects In nearly all the best and most desirable tints. You cannso duplicate the material any price in the market tol.iy, were you to bid for 50,000 yards. We can only advise you to call early today if you hope to get your share of this phenomenal offering. . On sale in the Main Aisle Wyoming avenue entrance. Men Will be particularly Interested In our big announcement ot Thursday and Friday CojicrrnhiK a Saturday offer that has no parallel for juice low lie' In any ptoro In the enllrti Culled States. Sons 4- 4 t Pianos 8c Phillips X 4 Organs EVERY DAY A BARGAIN DAY THIS WEEK. Closing Out Sale of TWO COINCIDENCE STORIES. Told in Good Faith in Club Wheio Romancing Is Barred. It was the secietaiy's tin n to tell .v yum to his fellow membcis of the Co incidence 1 lull. The C'olnclde.KK club, by the way, has no cumbersome ma chinery. It has munbeis a: i olllcci", meets once .1 wcck to tell queer sloilcs along the line suggested by its nam" and eventhhlg but the stilct t.Uth Is baried. "I've got two stories, much alike, to tell. Theie's nothing dramatic or sen sational about them. They stiutk nie as queer, though. You know I'm a lawyer. One day a man named Podge brought In a letter of Intioductlon to me from a filend out west. He had a simple snit of a ease, antl I asked him to come batk tit 3 o'clock that aftet noon. Then I went over to the cilmi nal eouit on business that kept me till within a few minutes of .'! o'clock. As I entered my ofllie theie was a man sitting in the shaduvv. Without ically looking him anil with mv mind full of the appolntnunt I said, as I went to mv pilvate ofllce: "How uie you, Mr. Dodge? I'll see you In a minute.' "Pietty soon I i.mg and told the olllte boy to show In Ml. Dodge. Tho man came in and he wasn't my Mr. Dodge at all. Imagine my suipii.se when he said: "How did you know my name." "At the same time he handed me n letter of Introduction fiom a friend down east. His name was Dodge, all light, and he had a case. I gasped over the oddity of tho situation, ex plained the coincidence to my visitor and even showed him the other letter of Intioductlon. Hut the man did not believe nie. Ho evidently thought I was a liar, and left without putting his case In my hands. A few minutes lat er In came the tlist Mr. Dodge and we had a good laugh over It. "The other coincidence was this: I got two letters from two friends one west of Chicago and one south, ask ing mo to collect claims against a big Chicago film and big Insurance com pany with an ngenty In Chicago. I telephoned and made appointment with representatives of each of the concerns ono ut 12 and tho other at 12.30 o'clock. I went out on an enand and was delayed until 12.30 o'clock. When I came In both men were waiting. Strange ns It mny seem, both men wetn named Hose. I intiodttced them. Onn was originally fiom llhode Island and the other from Connecticut. As far as they could figure out they weio not related. I've used falso names, but otherwise the stoiles aie stilctly tiue, and can bo pioven by evidence that will pass muster In a court of law." "SKLK PUUSEHVATION Is the flist law of Natuie," and to take Hood's Sarsapaillla on the first npearanco of Impum blood is an Impoitant step to ward self preservation. It makes rich, red blood and Insuics good health. HOOD'S druffdsts. PILLS 25c do nut gilpe. All Pillow Covers, 39c Only because theyare the last of a very large lot do we make this price on them for Tuesday. Up to today they have been as high as 79c to 98c. Unusually pret ty patterns made of the very best materials and all in readiness to embroider. Enough for Tuesday. Art Department. Stylish Walnut Piano, was $300, Now $150. t -t- it 4 4r $200 Buys A flagnificent Upright Piano. Regular Price $350 138 WYOMING AVENUE, 4. SCRANTON, PA. NEW YORK HOTELS. The St. Denis UrouJway and Eleventh St., New York. Opp. Qrace Church. European Plan. Rooms $i oo a Day anJ Upward. In a modest and unobtruslvo way thera are few better conducted hotels In th metropolis than the St. Denis. The gnat popularity It has acqulied can readily bo tr.it cd to Us unique location. Its home-llko atmophero. tho peculiar ex ccllenen of its cuhino and service, and lt very moderate prices. WILLIAM TAYLOR & SON, WESTMINSTER HOTEL, Cor. Sixteenth St and Irvhg Pi in NEW YORK. AMERICAN PLAN, Day and Upwards. lukofi:an plan, Day aud Upwards. $..5D Per $1.50 Per I. D. CRAWFORD, Proprietor 4 4 -f -f " -f-f-f-f-f-f t For Business Men -f---4- In the h:art of the wholesale district. For Mionners 5 minutes' wulk to Wannmnkers; 6 minutes to Slogcl Cooper's. Big Store, l'usy of access to the great ury uoous stores. For Sightseers One block from B'way Car', giv ing euby transportation to all points ot Interest. l HOTEL ALBERT ; - YRW Vfklrir 4- .!"! " Cor. 11th KT. & IJNIVnitSITV PL. 4- Only ono llloV-k from Uroadway. X Rooms, $1 Up. pVafe t MADE ME A MAN AJAX TABLETS rOSITTTOLlf CDBK jlT.l.Jiirroiui DUeairt-VMiag Moo 017, ImpoUncr. Htrleiiifi,tj, eaoiJ hv Almsn op other l.zcaufia And Indlf D crriionp. z7iry nuicKtu ami aurciu w rit ore lest VUuIUt to, old or fount, and utamtaforttudr, buloosor murrUc-. trannt Inunltj and Oontamctton It i. ThalrurA ahmra imraadltta lmcrova- Eoalatiin. Tbu Ausaauj iuv ujuiuniiun no cCsctj a CUI.F. wboio nil otnar fai seta inn II fa: itft opoahofioa lh genuine AJax lahlttf. Tncy to cured tuoaandt aud wil lenro joa. ituuoatanatauu wuicarajou. nofireapo- M6t$, pot- torh Mta nr rafiinJ th nnnoT. Prim ravriiicnuunrMnuNi tneuurt irurn in By ptcLtuw or.vix iks't (fall treatment, for IfcfiQ. , staII- lu Dialawrar ner. anon racatotof nrlra. rircti lit. A JAX BCMRDV CO.. ""'.?W tr Tor eale In Scrnnton, Pa., by Matthdwi Bros. nd II. C. Kandarat.n, Drita-a-Utic fl
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