THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1900. 9A 0 Q b i Ilfe'IA, be hard to tether, Kitty Alll. It 11 he like lassoolnc ft butterfly, an' I 'low as io Vj man a can do It ain't ap- reared In camp ylt," aid Joo Rartlct) meditatively. "As for me, I ain't got tho show of a chance. How In thulhder can I expect a dainty little cirl Vita Kitty to care for a roush, Isnoifant fellow like mo?" Thit o remarkable a cieature as Klttv should ever lovr htm war to bp considered only In the light of Ain Impossibility. If hli love be- rayne hopeful bo lcvlled himself and byishsd at his temerity. Yet J'ie vns foi eman of the new Anlno at Clear Cieek camp nnd the tnoit lmpoitnnt man In the place .' "No, the man ain't mrlvcd yi." -continued Joe, "an' when ho does'- ho turned a little pale "when he does (iod help Joe Bartlett: That evening, at was hli habit, Joe was at Amos Caitcr's cabin. There weie two leasons why he liked to spend an evening with Carter he rn foyed swapping yarns with him over their pipes; and Kitty happened to be Carter's daughter. Kitty never sus pected hli love. Joe Knew that she did Ho took the pipe fiom his mouth, and, knocking the ashes from It. tilled it caiefully; but it was evident that his mind was not upon his task. "Can't even spenk grammar as I'd ort in," he mutteied with disgust "But they ain't nothing I wouldn't do for Kitty Loid love her oven to study ing a gr.tmnnr book." .Toe was modest. Ho had no self stecm whatever, and undervalued his nut return It, and ho was not a man to wear his henit on his sleeo. If anyone had abked her about her opin ion of Joe, she would have confessed f lankly that she was almobt as fond of him as of her father. In the midst of a story of the plains which he was telling for the twen tieth time, there was a loud rap on the door. Caiter went to open it. A Mranger stood on the threshold, a tall, slender, well-made young fellow, wear ing thi garb of the city-orea man. -Is this Mr. Carter's place?" he asked. "That's my name, young feller. Will jnu como in?" "I was told," said tho newcomer, as he complied with the Invitation, "that 1 should And Mr. Bartlett hete." Joe came forward and offered his toll-hardened hand to the stranger. "You nio Mr. Ames, the superin tendent's son, I guess. He wrote me ou were coming up for a spell, but I didn't 'low we'd see you till the ne-t stage. I am glad to see you, sir," he bald heartily. A ccitain Indifference or Inference which seemed habitual vanished fiom the young man's face and manner. He held out his hand frankly. "Thank you. I have come to rusti cate. I have a bad reputation at home. It arises from a slight differ- once between tho governor and my self. I am conscientiously opposed to work." He squared his shouldeis and laughed. "I am supposed to take fathers place here, but I have per fect confidence In you, Bartlett, and I shall take it as a favor It you will foiget to lemalnd me of the lesnonsi billtles of the situation." Again hU boyish luitgh rang out and the others laughed In sympathy. He was unmistakably a good deal of a dandy. His lips were as Immac ulate as It would have been In the ilty, land lUie hand from which a diamond flashed was as white and shapely as a woman's. Wo must bo good friends, Bartlett," be continued, "for I want you to let nio down easy on the labor problem. Dad wants to make life a ticadmlll fo. iiu ' A broken smile from his hearers greeted this statement. "f hope you know what work Is, soung ieller," said Caiter, his smile ending in an audible chuckle. Clay Ames never knew what reply he made. His eyes for the first time hud met Kitty's, and he forgot every thing else hut the tall slip of a ghl with tho wild-rose face. In less than a week everybody In camp knew that the supeilntendent's son was In love with Kitty Carter. Half the men In the camp were his rivals, but they all liked the young boss, who had made himself one of them from the Mist night of his aril val. Kitty's ways were maddening. It her wilful heait favored any one, even her handsome city lover, she discreet ly kept the knowledge to herfcclf. Joe Baitlett had Just left the office and was on his way to the mine. Look ing up he saw Kitty's figure speeding toward him. He knew at once that something was wrong. She was bieath les.s, her lips weie blanched and her eyes wild with tenor. "Kitty, what is it? Anthlng wiong at the mines " he asked, anxiously Khe caught his arm to steady hei.self. "There's been a slide," she gasped, "and Clay" A sob choked her olce, and the agony in her voice went to Joe's heart like a knife stab. His face whitened. is Clay anything to you, Kitty?" he asked, huskily, 'Everything; all the wot id to me," moaned Kitty. "My lie.ut will bieuk Jf he dies." Joe untlaspul her tiombliug lingeis from his arm. "Please heaen, wo won't let him die, dear," ho h.iid gently, and a inn inent later he was gone. How the men worked to loath the death-trap where six of their c ouuades f weie entombed until, exhausted, they weio compelled to fall back, while uth ns filled their places; how mm man. tireless and determined, kept always tit tho head never testing for a mo ment. To tell nil this would make a btnry in Itself. Joe H.uflett Inspired eveiybody nnd cheered and encouiageil tho delimiting :iowd that gainercd about the entrain e of tho mine; nnd when, after hours of hard woik, tho lust dividing wall of oai th was penetrated, and an opening made laigo enough for a man to entet. It wuh Joe Bartlett, who. with no thought of his own dangei, cllmhdl thiouglt Into tho chamber beyond and ono by one lifted the half-dead men to those waiting on the outsido to iccelvo them. Young Ames had been farthest buck nnd was the last to be rescued. He was very weak, but he waved his hand feebly to tho cheering crowd as Joe lifted him back to life nnd tfety. Through tho opening in the wull of pjtrth the excited, shouting ciowd had a Kllmpso of a grimy, indlant face ,.loe had caught sight of Klttty when 30 first saw Clay Ames then thoio n sickening tound as of muffled nder, a horrible nuclei giouiid gionn- followed by a c-iash; a becond had occuued nnd Joe Bartlett J burled beneath it. CONNOLLY & WALLACE Scranton's Shopping: Center. k Special Anniversary Sak All the Week 0 N THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, the occasion of our Eighth Anniversary, we will conduct a special Autumn Opening, at which time unusual exhibitions will be made In every department, of the latest and best things for the Fall and Winter season of 1900-1901. You undoubtedly know Connolly & Wallace by name. You are cordially in vited to a better and closer personal acquaintance. Come and visit us. This is not the cordiality of self-interest. We are asking you as guests and not as customers. No one will ask you to buy anything. No one will even look at you as if you were expected to buy something. The whole store and the whole stock are open to your exami nation, merely as things to see and admire and learn from. Service is ready on the instant vou express a desire to be served but it will never be pressed upon you. That is a Connolly & Wallace store rule good the year round. P.enty to see. If you miss Connolly & Wallace's you miss an important city sight. The list of store features is a long one, and is being added ro almost daily. The stocks as a whole, especially the new Silks and Dress Fabrics, Tailored Costumes, Laces and Neckwear, Hosiery and Underwear, Linens and Blankets, are an inexhaustible source of interest and information. The decorations for this opening will be found worthy of a store that has made a reputation for such things. Tailor-Made Costumes September is a time of busy shopping. That's one reason our store of tailor-made costumes is crowded always. But the chief reason is this: As much better as are this season's suits than those of former years, that much better are Connolly & Wallace suits than the average suits of the season, and that much cheaper, too. Read, but you must see to judge. 10 Homespun in Oxford, mixtures, fly front jackets, taffeta lined; skilt percaline lined. $20 Suits of navy blue Venetian cloth trimmed tastefully with military braid; jacket in the new blouse effect with leg of mutton sleeve; skirt with inveited plait and new ruffle effect. $15 Tan and brown coveit cloth suits, fly front jackets, skirts with inverted plait, entile suit silk lined. $25 Black and navy camels' hair suitings, silk lined throughout, inveited plait skilt, jacket with quilted taffeta collar, very new. Black Silk Waists in Newest Styles They'll be no less popular than last year, judging fiom the manner in which these recent comers are received. All of rich, crisp, lustrous taffetas, elegantly made and trimmed, and very effective especially when worn with the new jaunty tailor-suits. An excellent quality for only $5, and a splendid garment for only 7.50. Men's and Women's Hosiery You always have the satisfaction of getting good, dependable hosiery here. That, with the additional assurance that prices rule lower than most other stores, makes this a well-liked hosiery store. Here are some excellent kinds at little prices: The New Fall and Winter Dress.Goods Introduction in a variety of latest French, English and German pro ductions in wool, and silk and wool, together with a carefully selected collection of the best fabrics made here. Every line presented shows latest and most desirable weaves and colorings. Among the leading fabrics are: Camel's Hair Zebeline India Camel's Hair French Tailor Suiting Scotch Tweed Suiting Satin Faced Venetian Fine Covert Cloths Panne and Tlirror Velvets French Poplins An Elaborate Showing; Of French Flannel Waists Representing the newest ideas of foreign and domestic makers and embiacing the popular colorings lor fall wear. We olfer none but perfect-fitting and splendidly made garments no trash. -j For Men. At 19c a pair Of fast black cotton with unbleached feet, spliced heels and toes; values 25c. At 25c a pair Men's black cashmere hose of fine quality and good weight spliced toes nnd heels and double soles. For Women. Of black lisle thread in narrow and wide ribs; also in lace effects, in fast black per pair 25c. At 50c pair Of black lisle thread with lace ankles; also ribbed and lace all-over, in a variety of pat terns. Also of English black cotton, light-weight, with double soles, toes j and heels. $4 Fine Fiench flannel waists in plain colors, with Fiench back and new sleeve. $5 French flannel waists in black, gray, violet, blue and pink; French back and new sleeve, neatly coided and with vest effect of hem stitched taffeta silk, very effective. $6.50 Handsome flannel waists in the new fall shades, elaboiately tiimmed with silk. $7.50 Flannel waists, tastefully coided back and front, made in a sailor collar style of taffeta silk, French back and new fancy sleeve tiimmed with silk. Housekeeping Linens. Important Savings. 16-Inch bleached linen crash 6c instead of 8c 18-inch bleached cotton crash 6c instead of 8c 10c each for size 18x36 linen huck towels 40c yd for 64-inch pure linen damask, cream color And these are merest hints. More than thirty rather Important lots are told of in the detail that follows. It's the best linen news we've printed in a twelve-month reductions at the very time we are surest of having to pay higher prices. Why? If you have a friend who manu factures he can explain. A furnace company year after year showed a balance earned, but it was never available for dividends. "There's our piofit, gentlemen; a warehouse full of metal." But it took anew man agement to work out real cash. We are paying higher prices for the linens we are ordering for luture shipments; we are finding "bargains" where stocks of this, that and other must be turned into cash for divi dend paying. Will you take a dividend as well by getting enough of these goods for present and prospective wants? Women's Knit Fall Underwear Timely for you to think of. We thought of them and ordered them half a year ago. Therefore, fabrics and trimmings were made and cut and finished according to our owu ideas. That makes them doubly Connolly & Wallace's, and THAT makes them reliable. Cot ton, silk, silk mixtures, wool and merino, the best of them all, made into comlortable, good-looking, long-wearing garments, that ought to command bigger prices than these and geneially do command them. 50c Bibbed cotton vests and drawers, medium or heavy weight; draweis have Fiench bands, side buttons. 75c Bibbed meiino vests and pants high neck, long sleeves. $1 Swiss libbed wool vests in white or giey, high neck, long or short sleeves. $1 Bibbed cotton union suits, the celebrated "Oneita gaiments" white, e,crue or giey. $1.65 Bibbed wool union suits in white or grey, "Oneita style" high neck, long sleeves. Lots of other special things at lower and higher prices. The New Black Dress Goods This is only a branch of our dress goods stock, but it's one of the most important of all, and we treat it with the care and attention it deserves. In eight years of providing you with dress fabrics, we have never had so much in black to show you. There are more than 100 styles in black alone for you to choose among, We show them under a clear, pure sky-light that is merciless in its disclosure of faults. Nothing but a good, rich, smooth black will endure this test. We have nothing else. There is no longer attached to black an exclusive significance of mourning. Madame Fashion has long since recognized its richness and effectiveness, and it holds a high place in her favor this season. The new weaves include some magni licent etfects. The whole stock is one worth examining with care. Some New Fall Flannels. Flannel in wearing apparel will be more than ever in evidence this fall and winter. The comfort and serviceableness of this class of goods were long ago proven by women. On sale now, a very handsome collection of new fall printed Fre-ch flannels, also all the new plain shades. The printed flannels in clude the latest effect in stripes, polka dots, etc., which are used for shirt waists, wrappers, house gowns, etc. Ours are the strictly all-wool grades. Plain colors, per yd. 60c. Printed goods, per yd, 75c. Also a very handsome line of the plain, all wool flannels in silk embroidered polka dot at gi.oo yard. A Host Unprecedented Sale Of Ladies' Early Fall Jackets These are jackets from the 1900 spring stock, light in weight and eminently suitable for wearing during the early fall months. The style and cut of these jacketsare up-to-date in every particular, in fact just the same as those that are now being made for the fall season. They are simply taking up t:o much of our space and out they must go, 150 of them, at less than halt price. Colors are mostly tans, browns and black. You may not find your size in all styles but you couldn't miss a bargain if you picked with your eyes shut. in five lots, as follows: 10c for 12 l-2c glass toweling, checked. lie for 15c glass toweling, checked. 12 l-2c for 18c glass toweling, checked. 12 l-2c for wide blenched Barnsley ciash. 12 l-2c for large huckaback towels, extra heavy. 25c for large, fine huck towels, hem stitched. 12 l-2c for bleached or blown Turk ish bath towels. 23c for extra large brown Turkish bath towels. 25c for extra laige bleached Turkish bath towels. 25c for fancy weave huck linen tow els, value 40c. 40c yd for 68-lnch, extia heavy brown table linen. 50c yd for 64-inch, full bleached da mask. 55c yd) for 60-inch, full bleached, ex tra heavy. 60c yd for the heaviest brown da mask made. 85c yd for full bleached damask, worth $1.00. $1.00 yd for 10 pieces 72-inch, full bleached damask, all one pat tern; value $1.75 yd. A Very Special Bargain. Napkins $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2.00, $2.25 dozen. Soma big bleached dinner napkins, very fine, at $3.50. The regular $5.00 kind. There aie fancy linens as well. Traycloths, hemstitched tea cloths Inuu wio unc, juol u uuetip its inr other linens we've told of. At $2.bO all jackets thnt weie $5.00 to $6.00. At $3.25 all jackets that were $6.50 to $7.50. At $5.00 all jackets that were $10.00 to $12.00. At $6.25 all jackets that weie $12.50 to $15.00. At $7.50 all jackets that were $16.00 to $25.00. Blankets and Comfortables, Pure, Beautiful, Low-Priced. The cool days make these snowy heaps of blankets look both com fortable and luxurious. It's not time to use them yet, but that time is not far away, and here are ample reasons for early readiness. The prices are the most urgent reason for buying now, but there is a better reason for their selection by shrewd housekeepers. The soft wools, so beauti fully corded handsome to the eye, luxurious to the touch, and then so clean and pure, so sweet and odorless. They represent the finest prod uct from most carefully worked wool. Of course, not all are all wool, Some very fine blankets have a strong spool cotton warp, which gives strength to the blanket, yet ts so buried in the sou. warm wool that its p.esence is unknown except for the service it renders. All told, it is the best collectien of blankets that could be brought together. The prices are brought about by enormous buying before manufacturers were busy with regular orders. The display will delight all tasteful housekeepers. These hints will tell something of the prices: 68c pair. Cotton blankets in white, giay nnd tan color, medium size. 00c pair. Extra large cotton blan kets in white and gray. $1.25 pair. Extia large cotton blan kets in white and giay. $1.75 pair. Extra large and extra heavy cotton blankets in white and giay. $2.25 pair for 10-4 white wool and cotton mixed blankets, warm and well made the 11-4 size, $2.75 pair. $4.00 pair for full 11-4 size white wool blankets, made from, fine soft wool. $4.50 pair for extia large white wool blankets, flue and soft. $4.00 pair for very fine white wool blankets for single pr 3-4 bed. The large size for tegular beds $5.00 pair. $5.50 for very fine white wool blankets, handsomely bound with silk and with new border ef fects; two sizes larger nlBo at $0.75 and $8.00 pair. Other very fine and handsom woolen blankets up to $18.00 pair. Luxuiious silk comf oi tables, filled with finest and softest lamb wool, from $12.00 to $18.00 each. WE EXPECT to make our store a mecca for visitors and shoppers during this anniversary week. Come and look and studysee the new fall things in all their freshness. Goods and prices are so adjusted as to make purchasing surely follow an inspection. Come anyway on Thursday, the date of our anniversary. This will be the real opening day, with Friday and Saturday included. Thursday the decorations will be complete. They alone will amply repay a visit. Bargains will be in evidence all the week. Come any time. Connolly & Wallace Foi it second m two tho rrowd was awed into ullunto by tho aw fulness of the tragedy, and then a cry of hor ror burnt from a hundred throats. Women bcreamed and men grow white nnd covered up their eyes as if thus they might shut out the memory of the bravo face that but a moment be fore had smiled al them from Its gra p. It wun hopeless fiom tho IliM. Yet ncpdia men woik more heio. lcally than the miners of Clear Creek camp for the next twehc liouis to ituch tlieli comrade. Kough men, mobt of them were, but they cried like babies when ut lust Joe's crushed body was lifted from unrtpr tho de bris and the light of day fell upon his unconscious lace. They carried him to his own cabin and Inid hhn up the bej. The brav est man In Clear Cieek camp had gion his life for his comrades, and tlio entire ramp was in mourning. Moonlight flooded the cabin where J on lay. The binllo which had illumi nated his faco in the last moment of his life still retted upon It. Two peo ple -a man and a girl stood beside him. The young man's arm was about tho girl's waist, her face was hidden upon his breust. , "Ho was so good!" she sobbed. "Ho died for jour sake, and mine." "Yes, dear," said Ames gently. "He was the best and bravest man I have ever known." His arm tlghtenejid about her slender waist. "I am glad," alio paid huskily, "that he did not have a sweetheai t." "It would havo killed her," whis pered Kitty, laying her tear-wet cheek against her lover's face. "Hut Joe did not care for women 1 am suro ho ne -or locd anone." And they never knew: for eternal silence had kled the dead man's lips, St. Louis Star. Beechnm's Pills for stomach und liver ills. COBKA THE FASTEST BOAT. She Makes Forty-three Miles an Hour in Preliminary Trial. D Exclude Wire (rom Th Associated Trfsr London, hept. IS. The torpedo boat destroyer Viper's marvelous lecord of forty-thiee miles an hour has been ccllosed. and the fastest essol In the world Is now her sister ship, the Cobra. Both have turbine engines. The contract speed of each was thlrty-four knots. Tho Viper did 37.13 knots on July 13. The Cobra, in an unotflclal tilal over the samo course it the mouth of tho Tyne the other day, made 37.7 knots, or 43.5 miles. Her en glneers say that she has not yet don her best, and that they expect fully another knot. m i MeCaU'j Magazine tor October is )uit it haul with more thn one hundred illustrations of pjt term o( up to-dat designs (or ladirV, mbm tad children's sinntnts. , 'Wl
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