Ear TKfffJ5 iT 3iXSraLBI (? i' 1 V.tiJ U. 'JWSl n-XjTJjtB - "''ii v ; Vf VJK4' i'JTV. 1 ' Ji"Seii tTf.r v. r-.r - i,-- -,- - THE SORANTOiV TMIBUN1&- SATURDAY, AP1UL 5, 1902. n v- 1 Ii' I , It.. s B- m " &? h A t t I a V , 1 P -,;"I I Ilia li' V ,1 w 4 m ' airabee ::l i(frt W. Welch, in New Vcrk TIiiik. -W' WAS nwakened from my afternoon I' tinp yprtlcrduy by the Btntlon .. ncnt's boy, who had uoinc with M. a telegram from my frlundvS!UiH Lamibeo. flit' leletfrani was tinted nt Dover, N. U and requested mo to rnect Mr. Ltii-rulioc at the station, with -n. horse and wagon, on arrival of the 1 to'elock tvuln, !So here you 'he," muIiI Mr. I-arrabeo. us ho Rteppcd from the train and found Jiie' waiting for hint, "Well, jest Hot theve for about two mlnute.4 till I foteh so'methinB that's un In the IjusGtiRo car." It vnn u loiw'two nllmitCH, but cven tually Mr. Larnilii'u reappeared, iiih1i inp a biiKRiiKe truck, upon which was a squiiRh about seven feet In circumfer ence. "Jaek up lilt: old wafion," said Mr. JUiiTubee, "and we'll loud her and ko home. Say. ain't she a hummer?" . Before we could Bet the suituisli aboard the wiikoii tt crowd conKix-gated "a"nd bombarded Mr. Larrabee with questions. "Ootid Lord. Silas, what In the name of' the Seven Sutherland Sisters do you call that?" demanded Uarlck Marston. "Don't you know a squash when you Seta .It?" nuolh Mr. I-nrrabec, with well felRned astonishment. "Yep, but that ere ain't no squash," persisted Mr. Marston. -"Walt till you eat a piece of pic made "out" of It, and see," said Mr. Larrabee. "" i'Where'd you raise It?" somebody "asked. --"-"It was rlz down In Khode Island, "-"they say," Mr. Larrabee answered; .-"'but If It was I guess the folks had to "stand over In one corner of the state to :fjlvc It a chance to prow. That's a ' .pQoity big squash to come out of LHtle Ilhody." "'" That was about all the Information Mr,' Larr.ibce would give the depot -crowd. As we drove away he said: .."They're the curouscht people in the world, these ere Oguwiuittcrs. I'll bet yoft they won't beono of 'em sit a wink JuC -sleep tonlpht worrying about this , 'el-e squash. Hut lot 'em worry. I wasn't Koln' to tell 'em the story before I tdld.it to my own darter. You and 'me "and she will talk the old squash .pvexwhen we git down to my house." "ghfp, ahoy!" shouted Mr. Larrabee. as vc drove into his yard and came to a halt at the back door. "Jimmy Crimps!" gasped Miss Lar rabee, ua, opening the door, she spied thp.jnonfiler In the wagon. '"Thought I'd fetch you home a pres ent, Annie," sahl Mr. Larrabee. "Do " you reckon she'll eat good?" "What on nlrth is it. Paw?" Miss Larrabee demanded. "Is it possible that a gal that's made so many squash pips as you have has MjRs i.B. twIiiiV SraB BSsif' wii'iivw'fl SBi V 4VtfXai Cubanola Cigar BANDS and Old Virginia Cheroot WRAPPERS may be assorted with TAGS f rom"STAR,", "HORSE, SHOE," "STANDARD NAVY," "SPEAR HEAD," "DRXJMMOND" NATURAL LEAF, "GOOD LUCK," "BOOT JACK,? "PIPER HEIDSIECK," "NOBBY SPUN ROLL," "J. T" "OLD. HONESTY," "MASTER WORKMAN,"" JOLLY TAR," "SICKLE," "BRANDY WINEW "CROSS BOWJ"OLDPEACH AND HONEY," :iRAZOR," "E. RIC&, GRE&NVILLE," "TE,NNE,SSEE CROSSTIE,," "PLANET," "NE,PTUNEi "OLE, VARGINY," and TRADE. MARK STICKERS from "FIVE BROTHERS" Pipe Smo&mg Tobacco, in securing these presents, ONE TAG being equal to TWO CUBANOLA CIGAR BANDS or TWO OLD VIRGINIA UiiKaiUUT WKAfragUS. Mantel clock Enamoicd fSS'aSaif" """SESsiu. I' KNIVES ft FORKS 0 6 Each Shell design. 1 J00P BANDS SUGAR SPOON Stwll design .Shell SEWING- MACHINE 4O0O BANDS CHIL05 SET KmfeForh ASpoQi NfTsM Ej, wp,fgg5SBtiK Cubanola 5C Cigar Bands . WHITE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS PLAINLY on euUld of pack containing BANDS 5" U ' OUR, NEW ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE of prwnte for 1903 Iheffia manyarttMta nat fc.w WRAPFER.8, and forward thorn by registered mail, or express prepaid. Be euro to bavo your pacKago I above. It contains the most attractive list cf preeeata ever ef fared for bands and wrepperf Wa will be eeol ecurel wrapped and properly marked, eo that it will not be lost In transit. Send bands or wrappers and I by mall on receipt of poatago two cents jraquests fer preseata (also requests for catalogues) to C, Hy. Brown, 4841 Folsom Avenue, St. Louis. Mo. Our offer of presents for bands and wrappers will aspire November 30, 1902. " IMPERIAL CI6AR COMPANY, Troubles of- got to bo told that the delicate critter In UiIh 'ere wagon Is n squash?" As ho said this Mr, Liirrabee gave me a nudge with his elbow that nearly top pled mo off the wagon. "Sqtinshl" skeptically exclaimed MIfs Larrabee. 'iriiut ain't no squnsh, Is It I'nw?" "Yert, It Is squash, too," replied Mr. Larrabee. "Take It Into the house. Annie, and put 11 where It's cool mid I'll go and onharness the hows." Here Mr. Lai'rabeo tried to nudge me again, but I tlodged him. "Can't yon lift It, Annie?" he wont on. "Can't you lift a little squash like that? I guess I'll have to send you to one of them physcrcal Cnlture schools and let 'em git your muscle up so's you won't havu to holler for help when you run up agulii a slterwallim like this." We unloaded the squash and drove Into the barn. When wo mine back we found Miss Larrabee eyeing the great thing contemptuously almost angrily. "What did you buy that for, Paw?" she asked. "I didn't buy It." leplled Mr. Larra bee. "Didn't cost me n red cent." "How did you git It then, Paw? Hope you didn't steal It out of some mnrkcl woman's basket. "Annie Larrabee, If you will set down nnd smooth your wrinkled forehead 1 will tell you the story. It ain't simply 1lic story of a squash li's the story of a squash with variations, as they say In the slngln' schools. "Well, you see, after I'd got through my business up to Dover today I went up to the mayor's oftlec to have a lit tle talk with him. While I was there he says to me, 'Mr. Larrabee,' says lie, 'look out of this 'ere door a min ute.' "I done so, and over across the street I seen a big crowd standln' round a store winder. 'Well.' says I 'what's It all about?' "'Why, says the mayor, t hoy's a squash In that window. Anybody that buys a dollar's wutli of stuff in the store can guess how much the squash weighs and the one that comes Highest gits the squash and a suit of clothes wuth $M made to fit him. Better try it, Mr. Larrabee. You ought to be pootty good tit guessin'.' " H'jorks,' says I, 'that ain't a bad Idee.' So I waltzed over to the store and says to one of the clerks, 'I want to make a guess on that 'ere squash. Suppose I've got to buy a dollar's wuth of something. Better give it to me In summer stoekiu's.' " 'How'll you have 'cm'." says the clerk. 'We've got 'em all prices a dol lar a pair, two pair for a dollar, four for a dollar, and so on up to eight for a dollar.' L " 'Is them that's eight for a dollar lnstlii'?' says I. "If they be them's the kind I want. " 'Oil, yes, says he. 'They're about the lastinest socks they is. What's your size, sir?' " 'Well,' says T, 'If you've got some ich box 3r AUaiSr iSSJidgoiaui-rarauinej lO.00q.BANDS SIX TEASPOONS Shell design f 300 BANDS SIX TABLESPOONS JLmUAS) design 500 BANDS ;IZ5m5bss MtUMUtfUWe. tfc MUlMmAI "-I m NUT SET (Cracker and six pi'chs. 'TRUNK 160 BANDS lfiO 2A KT :v 9 CO BANDS Wk r- F fonvas Covered 3000 BANDS. BF HAND0LIN(Wbun a200 BANDS " GUITAR (Wuhburt ' r fiW Bi,nH rj SK--" American aCigar Company nbout a rod nnd a half long I reckon they'll jest about lit me.' " 'Now,' says the clerk, after ho had wrapped up the socks,, 'what's your gtless on the squash?' ' " 'My guess,' says I, 'Is a Inmd'cd nnd two pound, seven ounces' "and a quar ter.' "I come jest a quarter 6C n ounce miilcr the real weight, but I come higher than anybody else, and I got vthu squash and t'm goln' to hnvo the clothes as soon's.they git. 'em built. If I'd been live- minutes later I'd been too late for the show, How vns that ror luck?" ' ' "Are you tellln' the truth, Paw?" anxiously Inquired Miss- Larrabee, to whom the story her father had told seemed like it fairy tale, "There's the squash, ain't It?" re plied Mr. Larrabee. "Yes, there's the squash." '"And here's eight pair of slocklnV, ain't they?" "Yes, there's the stoekln's." "Well, the clothes will bo along Sat urday night. And the hull 'business cost your Piw Just one dollar, sayln' nothln' of my treatin' llie mayor to seegnrs him and mt both hud one and that makes 10 cents more. Ain't what I got wuth a dollar and ten cents?" "Seems though we ought to cele brate." said Miss Larrabee after a while. I suggested that she make a mam moth squash pie and Invite in the neighbors to eat It. She decided to tin It. Mr. Larrabee, who Is an amateur tinsmith, has promised to make an enormous pan to hold the pie, and It Is to be baked' In the old brick oven.' So far ns I know It will be the biggest squash pie ever made In the United States. The matter of the pie being settled, Miss Larrabee wanted to know some thing: about the clothes her father was to g -t. "What sort of a coat lie you goln' to have?" she asked. "With tails or with out?" Miss Larrabee winked In a diabolical fashion as she asked this question. Evidently she was making fun of her father. Mr. Larj'abeo smiled at her benlgn antly, but said nothing. "Paw used to wear long-tailed coats," said Miss Larrabee to me. "And doesn't ho wear them any more? Not even when he goes to church?" I asked. "No; ho don't never wear 'em." "Why not?" "Tell him, paw," said Miss Lairubee, fonxlugly. "Oh, well." assented Mr. Larrabee. "fetch me that 'ere coat and I'll tell him." i "See that?" demanded Mr. Ijuirabee, holding before me a coat the tails of which had been amputated In a most bizarre manner. "That's why I don't want no nunc long-tailed to.its. I wore this Vie coat over to Dover one day last summer when I was over there on business for the Johnson gals I'm their guardeeii, you know. "Well, after I'd got through lalkln' with my lawyer, 1 says to him: 'Whitteiuoie,' says I, 'th'-y won't be no train for Oguliqult till seven o'clock. What's the best thing for me to do to kill the time?' " " 'Bver been on flnrrison Hill?" says ho. 'If you ain't been tlieie, you'd rArt Stoiietset iSterlinSsitverV TRAY tnmtninss 11600 BANDS SSS9W.I; jKriwate-TWL rr-it 7 SefSaJ? -oD HAND TRAVELLING BAG " t"ASfLK IU VW1llWltK3IUL . 3600L BANCS . jtl ill I I ,l,rWI IKIW,, , yj DRESS SUIT CASE ' jP I Lcothcr IS I l-Vide 6"deep M'fon'g KJ I gOOJjeANBS' p Qjr, i . The above illustrations represent the presents to be given for HlMMiHffiHlH 109 Lackawanna Avenue, better go there. Devilish fine view from the observatory up on top the hill, You can see the While Mountains one way nnd the ocean t'other way, nnd lols of things betwixt and be tween,' "So up 1 went. They wasn't nothln' the matter with the view. One of the ponrttlest views I ever sec. Humbye, though, t got tired of lookln' round niui sat down and took out the ovcnln' paper. I went to sloop rcudln' of It. "I dunno what time It was when I woke up. It looked to me as though It was about 1) o'clock. " 'CJucss I'd better- bo movln1 for home, snya I to myself; but when I stinted tt) git up I found I couldn't move to save my life seemed ns It I'd got to be a part of the dtirned old ob servatory. " 'Oeenycrlny!' says I, utter I'd felt around for a while, 'It's that confound ed glue 1 had In my coat-lnll pocket that's done It. llcckon the klvcr must have como off the can.' "I tried every way I could think ot to gll free, but I was glued to that ob servatory bench so tight they wasn't no nlrthly way of eseapln.' If If hadn't been nothln' hut the coat stuck down, I'd been all right, mid I rayther think I could have got away If It hadn't been nothln' but my trowso's that held me pilsoner. But It was nuther one of them eases. My coat talis was glued to the back of the bench and my trowso's to the seat, and the hull thing was arranged so's I couldn't seem to do nothln' to help my self. "It was a terrible long night, but nioinln' come. at last. Along about 7 o'clock the feller that sweeps the ob servatory come thumpin' up the stairs. " 'Nice morula',' says he. " 'Yes, says 1. 'Don't suppose you've got 'a "fenklttle of hot water about your clothes, have you? "He looked scat. So I explained the sllerwatlon. " 'By tile Lord, Harry," says lie, 'that's the wust I ever sec.' i "Then he went at me and tried to pull mo and- the bench apart. He had to give It up. " 'Go git some hot water,' says I. "Off lie wont, and humbye he come back with a teaklttle chock full of pootty nigh h'lln' water. He poured about half of It where he thought tl would do the most good. In about two seconds I begun to feel it: two seconds mine and I felt like I had walked in my sleep and sot down on a led hot buckwheat cake griddle. " 'What be you makin' fact's about?' says the man, anil up he come with the' rest of the water. " 'No,' says I. 'I'd wither stay here the rest of my natural life than git another dose out of that ere teakttlle. We can't' do it that way.' "Vhal will wo tiy next'." says lie. "Take out your jack knife,' hays I, 'and cut off them eoattails.' "lie done so. " 'Take off my boots," s-.iys I. "Orf come the boots. ' "Now see if you can lift me out of them Irouse's,' " 'Guess I'll have to cut off the tall of your shirt,' says lie. " !('ut her off,' says I, 'and then see what you can do.' "He cut her off and then Mow and sternly 1 come loose. COFFEE SET 5000 BANDS 2200 BANDS BAO .GtMpp. m Ii ua is srG. SJ Ainztt'MJS Yllkl ",7 VN fl ' .Alligator JO' la' Leather Lined 24.00 BANPS IB5BHSaSSSfflS r'i.il'JPKOi'' fiSMS&SSI MARUN HAOAZINlmae' Takedown 3C30 Calibce UMBREllA WINCHESTER MAGAZINE RIFLE o uuoromctuj jangoowntoanoi cc iijju.DaNus .. o.c 600 " 'Now, go horry a pair of trowse'd for me,' says I. "Mewns gone inore'n an hour this time. He npolerglzed when he come back; said folks didn't seem to want to lend him no trowso's. " 'Got solne, though, after a while,' says he, 'Borrlcd 'cm of the Wldder Tush, pid man Tush used to wenr 'cm before lie died.' "t clumli Into old niun Tash's trowso's, fished the stuff out of my ,oWn trowse'p, guv the man half a dol lar, and sturted for Ogunqult." "Did you wear this coat home?" I asked, "t did not," Mr. Larrabee replied. "I carried that ere coat on my urm. I ain't never lintl It on slneo and I never will hev It tin, nuther, nor no other coat that's got tails to It." "What became ot the trousers your own trousers, I mean?" "They're up thoro In the 'observatory, Jest where 1 left 'em. One of tho sights of Dover, Talks tells me. They cull 'em the 'observatory Irouse's.' " TOADS IN FOLKLORE. They Have a Strong Place in tho Belief of tho Superstitious. l'roni tin- lnlciiulliiii.il .Monthly. No animal could be more unlike it swan than n toad, yet the latter also has a prominent place In folklore. Per haps such honor Is primarily due to the very ugliness of the creature, just as it has been nfllrmed that next to personal beauty a reverse uspect may tind favor wllh the fair sex; the main point being to Impress the memory. At any rate, we llnd tho toad distin guished In popular tradition, and that In Its most permanent province. In local worship and belief. The survival Is so strange In itself and so well lilted to Illustrate tho primitive (char acter of fairy mythology, that It may be accorded particular attention. According to the statements of Dr. O. Pit re. contained In his excellent ac count of Sicilian tradition, tho faith of that island still recognizes superna tural being known as Donne dj Puora, Ladies from Abroad, also entitled Pa tronesses of the House, who have at tributes In common with the fairies of Kngland. Like the latter, during the night time they enter houses, where they expect to llnd everything In or der: among mortals they have their favorites and enemies; fortune is con sidered to result from their kindness, sickness and poverty from their perse cution. U Is a peculiar feature of their habits that they visit the domicile not on any evening Indifferently, but only on Thursday, making their entrances by the keyhole or by cracks of doors. If day surprises thorn before they leave the cottage, they change Into toads. .Hid in this ttute remain until the following eve, when they are once more at liberty to resume their proper shape of beautiful women. Dining tho lutei val, the toad Is s-nerod, because It Ih impo.-fiblo to be sure that any par ticular one may not In reality be the Lady of the House. Legends abound in which are related the rev. nrd or punishment consequent upon tho good or ill-treatment of a Friday toad: on this day, therefore, the usually unpopular animal Is safe from abuse and secure of attention, more POCKET MireflKH KOTTfRl Bosfwood hanole Bsstslcel 150 .BANDS razor: Kol lev; ground slEmlishsiwf lyu unwut 0esJ 130 CAKVERS .qo 5AFETY RAZOR ARQ.STR0P 500 BANDS. RCMINOTOM RIFLE mh- HcKuESSEtXattfvr '' A 22or33 Calibre 1600 BANDS TOOL MARLIN REPEATING SHOT GUM, lTakejfownlEsw&? 4000 DAMD5 4O0OeANesr CBiiom BANDS ". WHOLESALE TOBACCONISTS especially If it chance to belong to a species possessing, a particular ar rangement of tho etitlelo reminiscent of a Indy's head of hair. Any person who occupies himself With folklore bo comes accustomed to remarkable sur vivals; yet It does excite astonishment to llnd bo perfect an Illustration, of prehistoric thought In Central Europe of tho Twentieth century. ' INCREASING CLEANLINESS. Municipal Bnth-hoUBes Growing in Favor in This Country. I'rom llio Knglticcrliig Ncwa. Within the past few years n number of municipalities In this country have established all-the-year-round' munici pal bath-houses, while others have add ed to the number of open bathing or swimming places', which, for some' years past, have been maintained dur ing the summer months. Information collected for our forthcoming "Munici pal Year Book" shows that 36 cities and towns with .1,000 population and upwards, by the United States census of moo, now have either nll-the-yenr or summer public baths. These places are as follows: Boston, IJrookllne, Cambridge, Dedhum, Holyoke, New buryport, Qttlney, Springfield, Water town, Worcester, Mass.; Providence, U. I.; Hartford, Conn.; -Albany, Buf falo, New York, Rochester, Syracuse, Troy, Utlca, N. Y.; Hoboken, New ark, N. J.; Homestead, Philadelphia, Pa.; Wilmington, Del.; Baltimore, Md,; Greenwood, S. C; Newnnn, Savannah, Ga.; Cleveland, O.; Musk egon, Mich.; Chicago, III.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Des Moines, la.; Crookston, St. Paul. Minn.; San .lose, Cal. The ,'!8 places In question are distrib uted over 16 states, but Massachusetts bus 10 and New York 7 of these cities and towns. Most ot the other states are represented by one municipality, only. Outside of the states of Massa chusetts and New York most of the public baths nro open only In the sum mer, and that Is true of some of tho places In Massachusetts. It is known that Newark, Chicago and St. Paul have all-the-year bath-houses. In 189S, the legislature of New York passed an act which permits any- mu nicipalities of that state to establish all-the-year baths, nnd makes It com pulsory for cities of 00,000 Inhabitants and over to do so. Municipal baths, often combined with public wash-houses or laundries nro be coming irore, and more common in Kngland, and the signs of the times are that they will rapidly gain popular favor in this country. Tho laundry feature will, naturally, gain ground much more slowly than the baths. Thus far It has not been Intraiiced In the United States further than to make provision for washing the' personal clothing of the bathers. Drying closets are also provided, so an unfortunate man with no change of clothing may be ensured of clean underclothes to put on after his bath. NORWAY'S POPULATION. 11 ii ri I he liibtnn llmlsi'l. NnlU.n'ri pnpLlllUtllll i.s till' HIMllr-tt tu l!u lopi' iinnpiii'il uith litr ;il-:i. Ka'tli of licr in li.iliil.inU iniiM )iic Imly .it i i uf l.iuil, wliili' Hie niilun woulil li.iw to tic conltiiL with K's-t tl mi .in nut'. , SHEARS &'8csCst l5tTHANDS POOffiTWllFE pocmTHWte s!eeF Stcg oa tidfe i XMskclSldthandlsl BANDS 80 BAN UvzWiarntendkst bands HANDLE & TOOLS; . 280 BANDS KWES & FORKS b'Sfal- .ButKhorfrhandlcs 'COLTS REVOLVER. Clued Steel' 3&Q0L BANDS rnEV0LVERi ' 'Aulomatie wmms BABY BICYCLE1 t IfiwwcoeKHao 'fttt&aLKdto QOQBAjttS feJgSlflfk mWRi (QatJiinp.Rfrrll IfiOO RftWM wir.,v And Dlstdbutors of NONE SUCH -'TRULY NAMED." ' There is none such mince meat as the juicy and fruity NONE SUCH MlnckMeat It is honestly made and cleanly sold. Compressed into nlr-tlght, water-proof, cardboard packages. 10 cents. Makcat-tolttr-;c(orthr- mall) pies. Never sold in Aali. " Tell u if your grocer won't supply you. Merrell-Soule Co, Syracuse N.V.,. Lager Beer.. Manufacturers of Old Stock i PILSNER i Brewery, 43S to 4S5 N. tcvntli St-, Scranton.Pa. Old 'Phone, 3331. New 'Phone, 2935. Allis-Chalmers Co Successors to Machine Business ot Dickson Manufacturing Co., Scrantoa and Wllkcs-Barre, Pa. Btatlonary Engines, Boilers, Mining Machinery, Pumps. nTbeso tiny Capsules ai arcst in 49 nours wimoutf J Inconvenience, cReotlonfl J In wirtctl C'npnlUR. Cn- EUCUl llliu luircimnp mw ENOIftHiOTOI "TOOLS .AH0U TOOL SETT . i300,BANDSJ isfflii RKRETHMFfl memati -4&IW. 50 BAWDS J Sijc each 5QQBAMD5 'FJRE-PR00F'SAFB ifc(iiQi!S:i00lb5.560O.BAWS EleO ill i is PISTOL jflDfipvj(TNp BANDS in Inch HkktWd Hoirt CUBANOLA CIGARS. I .H f V iimrMlsairiseSsas -1- 'sH'.i