M "TV ' " fXr-tm j ;,4-is4 ' ' , .' 1 THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE- MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1900. THE DYING CfcNTURY PASSED IN REVIEW SOME IDEA OF UNCLE SAM'S GROWING DUTIES. Responsibilities of Government Be ginning with Hardly More Than Police Power Expand Wholesomely in the Gieat Branches of Public Service. From the Chicago TImcg-ltcraUl. Government as designed for man by man, and tin It stinted to keep pace with the glow th of civilisation, had be hind it the assirtlon of ti police power only. Order was of'flist necessity. Law, In Its first relation to society, had bearing upon order only. Before the dawn of the nineteenth century government had taken cognizance of n possible duty toward society beyond tlip mere keeping of the peace, but In this cntury, of all others, the prov ince nf go eminent has widened until It concern Itself with nlmost every form of indl Idual and collective en deaor. It has become even a close. Jpulous monopolist In the Interest of Its people, ns in the conduct of the poftnirUp dcpnitnunt of a nation. Within the Inst hundred vears the United States has given characteristic proof of this growth of government, and In Its Institutions It has stood us a world example In progress For a government upon now lines, laving the foundation for an unexam pled, material giowth that time was to prove, the experimental processes by which the cuirency and the banklns s. stems of the United States tame into being nro most vital In interest. Tor experimental as weic the processes, they hao led to a governmental cur- lency aggregating $2.000 000 000 and to bank deposits of $5 00),O00 000, upon which in e ba-ed checks and drafts that are doing 96 per cent of the busi ness of the country. Stoim and stress ntnl blood havc marked this progress toward a present ssttm that even now Is In question, but It has been a wonderful accomplishment withal, f lom the time thi't Hamilton in 1791 became the founder of the "Bank of the United States." wehster on Hamilton. Of him Webster said In a famous speech: "Up was made secietary of the treas ni y: and how he fulfilled the duties of such a place at such a time, the whole lountry peieeivcd with delight and the whole woild s-aw with admiration. He stnuk the lock of national wsourcjs t'liil abund mt streams of levenue gushed fotth. He touched the dead ecu i e of the pulillc credit and It sprang upon Its feet." Hut President Jeffeison hud opposed the new Institution and for more than fenty cais after Its establishment the national bank In one propnsod form or another was a political Issue. In, JS10 the question of rechaiterlng the bink was defeated, 1 irgely through the 'nlluenceV of the ninety state Innkr then In existence. With the war of 1S12 and Its dialn upon the country, banks w-'io compelled to suspend specie patient and In thp general panic the government was loei by $1), nnonoo. I'.c-ctahlWhcd in 1S10. with a rapltel of $T. iiOO.ijOO, the Hank of th I'nllnl States beeaine the nucleus of a sjstim ot mismanagement, Jobbeiles nnd even mhberies that gave rise to the ftimnua "bank vui" of politics, ended onl when I'lcMdnt Jackson. In is"-,, overturned the national Institu tion Tt was the peiiod of "wildcat" cuueiicv and 'Jackson's 'specie circu lar" foi bidding the sale of public lands except foi coin, bt ought on th gieat ranlc of 1S37. In the clash of the hanks the government, as a de positor, again was losei by ne.nly s3.0on,(Mjo. from a peelil session of congiess called b Van liuren on Sent. 4, 1S07, down to Aug. 1, IS 10, when th? Inde pendent Tunsuiy Depaitment of the United States fin illy was established the independent tieasurv scheme had Its ups and clowns as a political Issue It made nnd unmade politicians. Today the tieasuiy and the suhtreaurlos of the United States are banks of Issue and redemption, and the largest niaulp ulatois of United States money. Theie. Is an estieine i paction fiom the old ci of 1S16 "Separate the government and the banks" and the tieasury at AV.ishlngton and the subtreasuiles at Hoston, Haltliuoip. New Voik, Plilla delphl i, Chicago, Cincinnati, St, Louis, Nt'. Orleans and San Pianclsco are "vitally linked to tl'e nankins systems of the country. I1ANKINQ DUniNO THE CIVIL WAR. The beginnlg of tills condition dates from the national banking act passed on Teb. 23, ISG'I, under which law these national banks wtie to become govern ment depositories. This bank cur uney wos given a semi-legal tender power, and a government gold ceitlfl eate enabled banks to More sold le serves In the national tieasury. The civil war, then In progiess, had established the lelatlonshlp between bunkins and government. An Irre deemable greenback, printed by the U I wmwmk rJi jflllHSS .K5t HrkEnv Egflff lWMHiHMMMIMHnm million and declared by government ilat to bo a legal tender, was one of the hlstoilcal tragedies In government, and. at the end of this great war the banks of the country had $390,000,000 of this currency. Specie payment had been suspended by banks and bv the na tional treasury nnd for more than seventeen years cold and silver wcro nt a premium. Not till January, 1S70, was specie payment resumed, spurred perhaps by Horace Greeley's senten tious philosophy: "The way to resume Is to resume." Today every form of cuirency, legal or semi-legal In Hi nature, is at par and unquestioned as a circulating medium. One of the problems for the twentieth century may be the Inking of banking cares from the shoulders of government, nnd one of the groat dreamed-of possibilities ot an Interna tional cuiiciicy may bo for Its attain ment. England has learned ot the century In the business ot banking. The banking act of 1844, under which tho Hank of England could pay only JC3 17s 9d nn ounce for gold, brought tioubto to that country when Franco began to take the world's supply coined nnd uncoined at 4 nn ounce. Under this English net as the bank's gold reserve should decrease the Issue of bank notes had to be curtailed. The result was the panic of 1S47. and, Incidentally, the lepeal of the banking act. Under a new enactment the bank was allowed to Issue notes at Its discretion and with out icgard to the bank's gold reserve. ENGLAND'S POSTAL SAVINGS SYSTEM. When In 1S57 a panic again threaten ed, with the gold reserve at only 387, 000, as against bankers' balances alone nf 5,4GS000, the bank began to issue paper, and not till It had Issued 7,370, 000 In paper was a normal state of I finance restored. In Its postal savings Institutions Eng I land liar set an enviable example to the world. The United States has sought to pro.lt by the svstem, but the experiment has not taken form. Ei lends of tho Institution are looking for its adoption early In the new cen tuir. In eveiy countiy that has adopted civilization in all that the tcini Implies b inking methods have been the index of that country's growth. If any one of the Intricacies of banking may stand for the world progress of the In stitution tt Is the traveler's circular let ter of credit, whereby he may deposit money in one bank In one country and draw It again In sums to suit fiom a score of banks In a scoie of foreign countries, Intel national banking meth ods have grown ns trade grows. Today an International commerce Is moic a barrier to war than Is all the diplomacy of the world. It Is through this trade t elation that the optimist has seen, In fancy, an International currency a greenback, perhaps biped upon gov ernment credit and prosperity that shall finally prove the impossibility of war between civilized nations. An ally to banking In this mlllenlal future may be the Institution of the postolllce and the international postal union that already has made such ad vances In world progress. No compact ot nations, perhaps. Is more stiongly significant than Is this of the governments In the postal union. It is the strongest tie In the interna tional relationship. It Is an agieemont by which one natlor. says to all the oth ers, "Receive the mall of my people at your ports and distribute It to Its des tination and I'll do the same for all of you and we won't bother about any accounting " And of all nations In this compact, I tne united states leads In this govern- mental monopoly. Exclusive of Alaska an I of its newer possessions, it has 73, C00 postofllcer, 250,000 employes, re ceives $10,000,000 a ear In gioss iov enuts and spends, $100,000,000 to per fect tho sen ice. As against these chief figures Qieat I'.iltaln has .j,39S olllees and spends 10.000,000 a j ear on the service. Fiance 'ias fewer than 9,000 ofTlces. Geimany has moie olllees than has Trance, a better general service and one of tin best conducted t parcel posts In the world. Geimany was the foundet of the postotnee In 1497, when Emperor Maxi milian made Fiancls, Pilnce of Thurn, his postmaster general. Until 1836, however, nil the sjstemr. patterned af ter It were cumbrous. Intricate, Inade quate and costly bejond measure. In that ear Row Ian J Hill In England be gan the agitation for uniform postage rater, accoidlng to the piesent penny measure. The United Mates felt the Impulse of thin successful movement, but the difficulties of transportation In a new and w Ide country made It lm possible of adoption. As late as 1R7 there weie three tates of postage In the United States, according to the dis tance that letters traveled. On all oth er classes of matter Intricate and con fusing tables of ratea were listed. Postage stamps came Into use In 1817, and foui jcars later congress fixed the three letter rates: One cent on drop mall, 3 cents on letters within 3,000 miles, nnd 6 cents for points be jond that extreme. Railway mall routes had been authorized In ISIS In both the United States and Great Britain, and with this the development of the de paitment in the United States had be gun. IMPROVEMENTS SINCE 1854. On March J, 1834, the reglstiy svs Says the 19th to the 20th Century need a Biscuit The biggest and old century to the Packed in the only cuit box absolutely air tight and moisture proof the only box that pre serves the biscuit with all its crispness, just as it comes from the oven's mouth. Insist on getting the genuine UnMda BltCUlt. 5 cents a box. Take no imitations. Natlensl Blteuit Company. tem was established, nnd In January, 1857, thp prepayment of postage was made compulsory. With this prepay ment exacted, how over, the deficit In the department for the year 189 was neaily $28,000,000, duo In great nicasute to the abuse of the flanking privilege. The much-ngltatcd free dellveiy sys tem vvns established In 1S63, and In that j car an Intel national postal union convention was held In Paris, giving n great Impetus to the cause of Inter national facilitation of the malls. The money order svstem was Introduced In the enr following, the franking privi lege was abolished, and the distance specification In postal rates was set aside, leaving the domestic letter rate at .1 cents for each half ounce. Postal cards came In 1873. The railway mall service, the wonder of the pOBtofllee, department, was test ed for the first time on Aug. 21, 1S64. George H. Armstrong, of Chicago, waj the founder of It and on the Iowa, division of the Northwestern Railway he demonstrated the feasibility of dls tilbutlng mall In a railway car, In stead of hauling Jt ns so much freight and dumping It by tons Into some ter minal postonice. Today, 8.W0 postal clerks dlsttlbutu mall In 3,500 railway postofllces, traveling over 175,000 miles of railroad. Seventy-one miles of elcc tile iind cable railway ate traversed und apartments are reserved in sixty five steamboats. In 1898 these men handled 12,22",n00,O0O pieces of first, second nnd third class mall, to say Uothlng of city drop mall and the enoimous buslm s of the registry office. In the same ear 2S,7o3,000 money or deis vvne wiltten, nggtegatlng $204, 593.000 In value. The lallvvav service has developed beyond the dreams of Its founder, un til now the examination of rillway pos tal clerks upon the tntilcailes of mall routef and postal geography Is one of the most difficult In any blanch of pub lic service. Fiom the Chicago center ulone eighty-four railway postal cars move In nnd out every twenty-four hours DECREASE IN TOPULAR RATES. Civil service came In is$1j was scoffed, pr.ilsid, blamed; giew and was obstructed; wnxed and waned. Hut It Is un Institution today almost univer sal In Its embrace of the department nnd looked tinon as the great incen tive to pprfect conduct ot the post office seivlee. Letter postage was cut fiom 3 cents a half ounce to 2 cents In 18s"l, and two years later congiess doubled the per mlssable weight of each letter under the J-ccnt into. An enormous Increase of mall followed each ot these conces sions. After these came the special messenger service, the newspaper rate of 1 cent a pound, pneumatic tubes, canceling machines and the scoter of economical makeshifts that have lent ho much to the rapid hand ling nnd dlstiibutlon of the United States mail,. The fast mall service of the department is one of the wonders of this age of wonders. The institution Itself In all its rami'catlons Is oils of the great creations of civilization, em bracing In Its conduct almost eveiy lange of human inteiest. No age of the material woild, per haps, eve: will make man Insensible to the stress of wind and weathei. That they should be the subjects of govern mental concern, however, was of late necessity, made so by tho Increased knowledge of meteorology, as well as by the business of ngilcultuie and the hazards of shipping. As an Institution, however, the weather bucrau of the United States In 1SDS sent out lOS.fiOO bulletins nnd 5,240,000 weather maps, interesting alike to faimer, gardener, stock raiser, sailor and even the young; woman who, according to season, might have been counting upon a picnic or a sleigh ilde. Hoards of trade, busi ness houses, public ofTlces and the schools and colleges of the country re ceived most of these diagrams of meteorological conditions. SOME FAMOUS WEATHER OB SERVERS. Toirlcelli, as the pupil of Galileo, dlseoveied the pilnclple of the batome ter In 1C43. raluenheii's thermometer was nearlv a bundled jcats later In making Its appearance. Dr. John Lin ing, ot Charleston, S C, began to krep the llrst record of tempeiatuies In 1735. Benjamin Finnklln, In 1717, made some lntei esttng and hlg.il v valuab'o weather obseivatlons, polnt'ng to the fact that a storm-wind always blows toward tne Ltorm-center. Jcfuison at Montlcello was, a weather obseivei, and through him nn Inteiestln:; fact has been es tablished as to the temperatures on the day of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In The Toium for May 1S9S, Piof jvjor Willis F. Moo e, chief of tho United States weather bureau, writes: "Contrary to the Ftate.iu nn which I believe have been tu.idet bv some hls toiians, tho Fourth of July 177ti, was a cool day; for tlu great autner of the Declaration of Independence did not fall to read his thermometer in Phila delphia nn that day. An examination of his papers in the State Depaitment, made by an official of the weather bureau, Droved that ho took seveial leadings." These readings, taken at C o'clock and 9 o'clock In tho morning and ut 1 o'clock and 9 o'clock, afternoon and evening, show that the maximum tem poiatuie for the dav was 7C degrees, with a minimum of CS decrees. These men weie the plonecis of tho best legacy from the new. bis JONA9 LONQ'9 90N9. fill the Stock from The Leader at We are only now in the midst of the best of the selling, when we are able to care for you as we would wish. It is a 'grandly good stock size rapidly, though , there was seventy - worth of. We bought it for $31,745 ,or about forty-two cents on the dollar. While it lasts, you shall buy from it for one-half the actual cost and in some in stances even less than that. 1 The Entire Scranton Stock is at Your Disposal ,and in our parent store down the valley. You can well afford ture needs. This new opportunit es for Watch carefully every announcement that we make. I The Leader of Notions Stock Our Price. 2C spool 5c set Sc pair 7c card 2c card 6c piece 3c piece 3c piece 3c each 3c each 2c each For Sewing Silk. Dress Sta s Stockinet Shields. Pearl Buttons, 2002 Hooks anil Eyes. Seam B11 cling. Hone Casing, 6ds. Finishing llraid. Curling Irons. Kill Curlers. Tape, all widths. For Leader 50c and $1 Neckwear Saturday saw the first selling of it today will wind ud the 1 lot. Nobby in style, including , four-in-hands, puffs, bat wings, English squaies and Windsors. , Many colors. Worth up to i.oo and all to go at a quarter. Laces Without question, the most made by any store. Three big 3cts yard c Torchons up J to 4 in wide Worth three and four times sale. No limit to quantities and opportunity tn.tt economic loiks than glad to take advantage of. We Deliver All Goods Free No Matter Where You Live. service that today appertains to tho Depaitment of Agriculture. Isaac Newton, the flrtt commissioner tor the department, made suggestions of such a national weather service In his ic poits of ISP.'-S, hut not till Fob. 3, JST0, was congress Induct el to provide for a tentative buieau. For twent years thereafter the work was carried on by the chief signal ortlcer of the army as the nieteoiologlcal division of his offlco. On Oct. 1, 1S90, un act was passed es tablishing the present weather burpau and makl ,e It an adlunct to tho De partment of Agilcultuic. Now, after nine ears, the bureiu has 150 meteor ological statloiiH fully equipped and eniplojlng from one to ten men. It has Uj3 stations for the display of danger hUnals to niailners; Jfil stations for the making of dally leports by tele graph, touching temperatures and raln f ill in the corn, cotton and wheat le gions; 3,000 volunteer Htatlons where reconls of teniperatuie and rainfall aie made dally fiom standard Instalments, and 10,000 ciop correspondents ivho re port weekly to state centers during the croj seasons. THE IIUSINIJSS WORLDS AD VISErt. In foiecastlng stoinis, fros-tn, floods, and cold waves tho weather bureau has become of incalculable value to this business of tho country, Tho telegraph and tho telephone as dlstiibutlng agents for these forecasts have put the whoh? country In touch with weather news. A distinct feature of every dally newspaper, too, is Its official forecast of the weather for tho next twenty-four hours a feature) that is of :eienn!al Interest to all readers. Of the many West Indian hurricanes that have swept the Atlantic coast In recent years not one hat escaped the vigilance of tho weather bureau, which lias warned shlppeis and shipping In advance. On two o.-caslons, whero In vestigations have been made after the passage of such storms, It Iiuh been shown that essels and cargoes repre senting J34.0OO.0OO and ?3S,00O,00O. respec tively, were licit in poits on the strength of the weather Flsnals. Chief Moore of tho buieau. feels that with the present instruments in tho service tho height of ifllcieney In tho department has been l cached, In upper air explorations, made possibly by the perfected kite, he sees a chance, how JONA9 LONQ'9 9QN9. that is diminishing in you must remember five thousand dollars' i'Tlret to buy heavily for fu week will add many you to sav money. Domestics We are Almost Giving Away This week will clean up the Blankets and Comforts you'll never buy them again at such absurdly little prices. vnrd for n bie and handsome T- 8' lot of nobby patterns in brown cnlicoes; best quality nnd sold by the Leader at 4Jc and 5c the yard. BLEACHED MUSLIN, good qual ity and full yard wide. Leader 5 7,, price 6c; our price ?8' NAINSOOK Nearly a solid case of white checked nainsook in ninny patterns. Sold by the Lcaderl3 nt 8c; our prico & 5c YAKD FOR FANCY TRIM MINGS. A big lot of them fiom the Leader stock in both plain tinseled rflects that have sold u, 35c yd; nil to go today at 3c yard. An Extraordinary Sale Begins Here Today. phenomenal offering of Laces lots at cts yard Torchons up 7-in nnd 8-in. 8 cts yard Vals nnd Pt do Paris up to 9-in. the amount they aic pi iced for this plenty for all who come. A gigantic wno revel in pretty laces will be more On sale, main aisle. Jonas Long's Sons ever for an enlarged vision, and It is In this field that the new experiments of the bureau arc to be made, THE LIFE-SAVING SERVICE Akin to the weather service and Its stoim signal equipment and to a great extent depending on It Is the United States ltfe-savine service, also under government patronage and control. Private means established a system of tin- kind In 1S71, and Its work for dis tressed humanity was such as to at tract the attention of the government. S. S. Cox of New York hi ought the sub ject to the attention of congress, and on June IS, 1S7S, the act was passed which has led to the great chain uf life-saving stations along the salt wat er coasts and on the chores of the. great lakes. Eac'i sta'lon la manned by a crew of experienced suffmen and equipped vvlth everything that neces sity and Ingenuity have f.uggosted as available in savins lives ot the ship wrecked. Today there 's ccaicolv u stretch of shore on v hlch a vesel could be wiecked without atti acting the atten tion and services of a life-saving crew. Thousands of lives are saved every year by these crews, and suffering an l disasters are alleviated bejond all measurements. The service Is signifi cant of tho value that Is placed upon human life ut this end of tho century nnd tuggestlve of the fact that heroism has not died on the altar of a material age. y These Institutions, as the modern outgrowths of republican government, nro pointing to largei duties of govern ment to the people of the future-, to the simplifying of criminal codes of the statute books and toward a liberty that Implies something more than freeelom from manacles nnd the fetid atmos phere of piison cells. While, Individ ually, man may bH den'vlng still his responsibility as his brother's keeper, society Is accepting It more and more. Civilization imposes upon the Indi vidual an Increasing sacrifice of hlr Individualism, and tho hl'jher civiliza tion of the future cannot fall to rec ognize the duties that coma with this trammeling of nearly all that wab aboriginal in man. There nro 00,000 trees in tho cltv of furls, Including J 3 000 willows, 17,000 chestnuts und W.OOO plane trees. JONAS LONQ'9 90N9. 12 Ludtrpriciupto25c re Our prici uyd Ribbons. But not more than enough for Monday and Tuesday. Ribbons of every color and hue, and in many widths, from real narrow to quite wide plain Taffetas, all satin and fancies mostly in shoit lengths. Worth and sold by The Leader up to 25 cents the yard. Collars One Cent. The final lot of "Leader" col lars, for men and women, go on sale toaay. wncn tncy ate cone, Scranton people will be pretty generally "collared." Pure linen and worth 1 2 Vc all sizes and in a .,. .-,.,,, ei,.w n lc IglVClL 11IUIIV i)ltv,Ji KJl sale today at During This Leader Sale. I CANVAS 500 ynrds in black only, uooet quality, meatier 7c price 12io yd; our price . PERCALES One thousand pieces in light and dark colms. Full 36 in. wide. Sold nt the fr Leader at 10c yd; our prico . "lS DIMITIES Tho time is lipe for them. New Mexico dimities (otn own stock), in new stripes mid figures. Sold by most stores C -, nt 8c; our prico y i -aI $12 For Men's Suits Made to Order. nd i tho On Monday, Tuesday and our custom tailoiing depaitment ment p.inti at thrco sovctity-hve. At this pnea we givo you choice of a big and vniicd assortment of Millings, including all of tho newest styles. lhis now department of ouis ing favor. Well drecd men heie. We give you hist of nil a every detnil of perfect lit nnd finish gunrnntceing you better made-to-. order clothing than you get in any ever Isn't a 12 00 suit worth tho teach you a good lesson in economy. 3 Lots of Good Handkerchiefs 5C for men's fine cameric handker 10c chiefs, with wide and narrow borders. Sold by Leader at 10c. and sold at 23c box. LIFE IN SCABS. If There Are Human Beings There They Are 'Probably Giants. I'rom the National Ilevlcw. Miirn pocsrs so many fe.ituies In ccmiion with the cutli that it is im possible to res'st the thought that it nKo has Inhabitants. This Is, however, by no means equivalent to Faing that Martian folk are constituted In thu same vvav as human belnp.s; Ind-ed. eveiy conslden.tlon points to the con trary. Whatever atmosphere exists on Mars must be much thln.ier thai ouis, and far too raie to suMnln tho life of a people v.lth mil II ml toil lung capacity. A race with Immense chests could live under such conditions, or ,i folk with gills like fishes coult! pass i comfortable existence in pplte of the rarefied air. Tho diameter of life anj where Is, li fact, molded by the external clicumstancej, and as tlusj aie known to be different on Mar' from what they are on the raith, Mnitla! Inhabitants must have devel oped pecullat characteilstlcs In ordJi to adapt themselves to their tnviion ments the fount of life capable of llouilshlng In alternated air Iiivm survived, while those tcqulrlng den ser ulr have diorpeel out of existence. The tenuity of the utmost; here of Mats. Is not tho onlv fact which sug Ecsts that the- inl.abltantJ of that planet are not fashioned after tho lm' ago of man. It Is known bejond ths possibility of donb: tint the forcn with vvhli h a substance Is attiacted to the siuface ot Mars Is but little moie than a third ai strong as It la on tit) earth, or, to express the joint In fig ures, 10 pounds nn tint earth would only welsh 3S pounds un Mars If tested In a spilng bilatue. In comtquenco ot thU weaker pill, It would bo possi ble for a human b"lng to peifoim astonishing feats on Mars without ex cessive muscular exception, A man who couhj Jump five feet heie could top fifteen ffet theio: ho could life three hiin'lredw eight b putting out tho same strength ns It required to rnlse one hundiedw eight on the earth, he ci.ilel spring urross a road as eas ily as he now leaps ovei a mud pud dl, und a couple f bounds would carry him to the top ot a night ot stairs, But, pjiadolcut ns it may seem, th; JONA9 LONQ'9 90N9. the Prices of Th? Leader. The Leader Dress Goods stock of Full line of chai tiling novelties ( for spring wear, at prices to at-' tract you today and all this week. 1.00 silks at 38c The last call on these charming , fancies m waist and dicss lengths. Beautiful styles and magnificent' color conceits. Think of them at ' 38c yd. They were i.oo and. 1.35. "yy for an unusually good quality I ' of nil wool black sctce. Sold , by tho Leader for 39c. Fine dyo and i linisli. A C7 yard for big lot of black mo "' Imirs, heniicttns, serges and1 cheviot; lino qualities nnd sold by tno lenuer up to 1.00. 40f 'm' "r lwect' homespun, i ' cheviots; every tluend wool; aUo camels hair cheviots. Sold by I tne J.cnucr nt vo to 1.00 yniu. C'7f )'n"' fr "'I f 'ho Lender's ' &' plain taffeta silk in n big ' rango ot pretty colorings: formerly o'ii nt l oo yard. 7 C- yard for n fine collection of nil " '' wool crepitus, heavy blister! nnd fine lustre. Sold by tho Lender nt wso ynril. 79c yam lor silk ciepo Japan in' light blue. mnk. c.udinnc and i white, cicani and black. Sold by the ienuer at l.lij tlioyaul. Hosiery From The Leader Vary Cheap. 5c For men's heavy mixed , Socks in brown and crrcv. All sizes and always sold by The ' Leader at I oc. 7c l;r children's fast black Stockings. Ribbed and seamless. Sold by The Leader at ' ioc. Splendid value. Hr For women's fast black, i seamless Hose. Good qual ity. Sold by The Leader at 12 jcj 0Q3ForMin's Pants. 004 Made to Fit. Wednesday only we shall take orders in for men's suits at twelve dollars, fo has lumped into immediate and last appreciate the great saving in buying eiand assortment nnd add to tho mnking ; other store. trial, or a 3 75 pair of trousers? It will ' At 3 Little Prim i for box of chll dien's handker chiefs. Pretty I9C for choice of a I big lot of fine i wool muflleis in by tho Leader pretty styles. Sold by i tho Leader nt 4i)c. Immediate and Careful Attention To All Mail Orders. Lawn Seed, White Clover Seed Red Glover Seed Timothy Seed Miliett Seed Fertilizer. . i S2S-327 PENN AVENUE. BUY THE GENUINE SYRUP OF FIGS ... KANUTACTUHED BT ... CALIFORNIA FIQ SYRUP CO. riTJVOTE TIIK AME. smaller a planet, and, consequently, thevlcss the pull of gravity at Its sur face, the ri eater Is the probability that Its Inhabitants mo giants cbiu pared with us. Terrestllal giants are cnerally weal; in the knees; they Hie crushed by their own weight. Hut on Mars they would onlv weigh ona thlrd as much, nnd would theieforo bs able to move about In a sprightly fashion, so that an elephant thera might be quite a nimble animal. KR FORSYTH r f
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