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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-21
DUNMORE.

The Ladies' Aid society Of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church will meet in the
lecture room of the church this afternoon
at 23O o'clock.
Santa Claus will appear in Il. y. Stew
ems store window this evening and ev-
cry evening this week.
Silverware, diamonds, gold watches and
Christmas presents. Oscar Iost, Dun
more Corners. >"
Mrs. Quick an old resident of Breaker
street, was found dead In bed Sunday
morning. Coroner LongStrcct Viewed the
remains, but did not think it necessary to
hold an inquenst. The funeral will be
held this afternoon at 3 o'clock at St.
Marys church. Interment will be made
in st. Mary's cemetery.
Best holiday poultry at Washers.
The regular weekly devotional meeting
of the Epworth league Will be seld this
evening at $50 o'clock.
G, w. Jones has accepted a position ss
collector and solicitor for the Prudential
Life Insurance company.
Fred Hartnoll, of Cherry street, has re-
turned home from DR.. ThOmpson's hos
pital in Scranton and is much improved
We invite everybody to buy holiday
good, only the best at Washers.
The Dudley Street Baptist Sunday
school will hold its Christmas exercises
Saturday night.
Golden Star council, No. Al, Daughters
Of America, gave an entertainment at
Odd Fellows hall last evening.
T. +. Letchworth carries finest line of
furniture and undertaking establishment.
A full line of finest groceries and pro-
visions at Washers cash store. ="
The greatest reduction in hOlady goods
in town. Everything i'm line of toys at
Cullens' news stand, 131 Chestnut street.
The best stocked bar in town at the
Senate hotel. r. J. Golden, iO5 Chestnut
street. Give us a call.
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FUNERALS OF A DAY.

The funeral of Mrs Mary A. Bastion,
of 515 North Main avenue, was held
yesterday The remains were borne
from the residence TO the Jackson
Street Baptist church, where Rev.
Thomas De Gruchy pastor, otliciated,
and preached a funeral sermon to the
large gathering of relatives and friends
present. The floral tributes were very
beautiful. At the close of the services,
the remains We're viewed and then
borne to the Washbun street cemetery
where interment was made. The pail
bearers Were Jonah Redmond, w. B.
Mosley, Isaac Price and EbeneZer
Evans.
The funeral of the late John j. Phil
lips was held i'm the afternoon at the
residence, 2l02 Washburn street. Court
Pride of LaCkawanna, No. 6. Foresters
of America, ana the Hyde Park Mine
Accidental fund. of both of which the
deceased was Il member, were re-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-21

avenue. near Hampton street The an
imal was owned of Thomas Harris, of
South Main avenue.
Cornelius Grimes, of Jackson street,
announces himself as a candidate on
the Democratic ticket for common
council, of the Fourth ward.
Douglass Ward, of North Sumner
avenue. has withdrawn from the fight
for the Democratic choice for select
council from the Fourth ward.
The latest and best styles. Roberts
126 North Main. ..
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-21
TONIGHTAND TOMORROW NIGHT

And each day and night during this week
you can get at any druggists kemp's
Balsam for the Throat and Lungs, ac-
knowledged to be the most successful
remedy ever sold for Coughs, Group,
Bronchitis. Asthma and Consumption.
Get a bottle today and keep it always in
the house, so you can check your cold
at once. Price 2jc. and soc. Sample bot
tie free.
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ELLIOT Has IMPROVED.

lNobert Elliot, who was apparently
dying Sunday evening, yesterday
gained sufficiently to give his family
and friends renewed hopes. His con-
dition varies. At times he sinks rap
idly, but the great vitality which he
possesses serves him well and he again
RECEIVERS his normal condition. His
state last evening was much improved.
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Table Linens

Choice table linens, napkins, tow
els, etc, in fine qualities. Never yet
failed to gladden. the heart of the
thrifty housewife. Many novelties
specially imported for the holiday
trade makes This stock wonderfully in
teTesting.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-21
Heart Disease Relieved in Thirty
Minutes.

DIR. Agnew's Cure for the Heart gives
perfect relief in all cases Of Organic
or Sympathetic Heart Disease in 30
minutes, and speedily effects a cure
Il is a peerless remedy for Palpitation
Shortncss of Breath, Smotherng Spells,
Pain in Left Side, and all SYMPTOMS
of a Diseased Heart. one dose con-
vinCes, Sold by Matthews Bros.-77. 81"
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Bric=a-BraC

short way for summing up our
great miscellaneous novelty and odds
and ends stock especially bought for
the holiday trade. Not piece here
that you saw last year. It's all new,
and the new values are better than
ever.
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Gloves and Hosiery

Gloves Tor street, evening or 90 10
meeting wear,
Gloves for children, men, misses ana
boys. Gloves of all makes and prices.
Hosiery and underwear in cotton,
wool or silk, Combination garments,
sanitary sleeping garments. Fancy
and new hosiery
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A Happy ThrOng

fills the store these opening till the closing hour and
the the caSe-S lovely and beside IT'S SO
find just what you want in the Globe Warehouse there
this For nearly years we've successfully catered to
derSand their likes and keS at such season this and stocks
always the fill to oVeroWng point Beside all this
always Enough said visit to store must do the rest
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HandkerChiefS

Drummers tell us that Scranton Is
one of tho greatest handkerchief
towns in the country. Probably that
is one reason why we have the great
est stock. Real lace handkerchiefs,
hemstitch handkerchlefs, print border
handkerchiefs, etc. Price lc. to $500.
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Dress Goods

Exclusive pattern prices, or a gen.
eral stock bigger than you could get
through in a days looking. Some
choice novelties in fancy silks, vel
vets, etc, are also worth looking at,
while the good staple weaves are here
in abundance.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-21
Sewing 1achines

The Globe Sewing Machine is as
good as the best and highest priced
on the market. The Cabinet work is
superb, each machine has fun set Of
attachments and prices are less than
half the agents figures,
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Winter Furs

There's an ideal present, If comfort
is the thought uppermost in your
mind. Boas, capes, cOllarettes, muffs,
sets for the children, etc, etc. All the
popular skins at prices to suit any
purse. Some at $l5g. Some at $5U.JO.
Many in between.
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We Sell No hcaD Goods.

hut we do sell good goods cheap. We
handle no trash Everything in our
store is just as represented or we will
checrfully refund money. Davidow
Pros, the leading jewelers. and brolc-
ers, 227 Lacka. ave. -
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Draperies

Handsome curtains and Portiers,
Rich Couch Covers, Airy Working
Lace Curtains, Choice Silk and Wool
Draperies. Cushions in SilkUline and
superb coverings. Down Quilts for
the Lounge or the Bed room. Poles,
rods and all dttings necessary,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-21
OBITUARY..

Anthony Moser, who has been i'll for
some time past with miners asthma,
died at his home on North Main street,
Forest City, Sunday morning, aged 40
years. He leaves a wife and four
children Funeral services will he held
this evening in st. Agnes Catholic
church, and interment will b9 in St.
Agnes cemetery.
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Umbrellas

Make ideal Xmas gifts. There's two
here for every one you can find else
where, and there isn't a pretty new
idea that cannot be found in our
stock. Prices are not nearly as high
as you'd think.
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west Side business Directory.

SECOND HAND FURNITURE-Cash 70.
anything you have to SELL Furniture
Stoves, Tools, etc Call and see the
awanna avenue
MRS. FENToN. CLA1RVOYANT AND
prhenologist, 412 North Main avenue
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Pictures

We've a regular art gallery open
these days. As the choice of subjects
is so varied that the greatest difficulty
of patrons lies i'm making selections.
No matter how your taste goes we
can meet it and the smallncss of our
prices will surprise you.
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Toys and Books

These departments are as much in
favor with the people as they ever
were, and that's saying a good deal.
Toys of all sorts, Dolls Furniture,
Noisy Toys, Pretty Toys, Scientific
Toys, Toys to look at, etc Books for
children,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-21

Mrs. w. II. Evans. % years old, died
ar her home on Prospect avenue and
Ripple street, yesterday morning at s
o'clock. She was a member of st.
Lulie's Episcopal church and is sur
Viypd by a husband, her mother. Mrs.
Roger Jones, and a brother. l.. f.
Jones. The funeral arrangements will
he made later
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-21

The greatest selection ever on exhibit
tion i'm Scranton, See the immense
window display. Dayidow Bros. 227
LaCka. ave. ~
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always thought the poor animals were
more afraid than the performers at all the
dazzling display of colored gause and flash
Ing lights: We go in to see the young
Pezon perform with what is really a good
choice Of animals. and so lose the excite
nent OF first blood drawn from George
Marck. 1t was the night when his lion
chose to crunch his shoulder and lay him
up for the rest of the fair. But this is the
common lot, even Of gentlemen, In the
career.
The Wreatlers' Turn.
In the middle Of the fair. before 4 booth
with high platform along Its front. the
largest crowd OF all is gathered. Here, be-
tween their acts. the wrestlers stalk about
In all the splendor Of their red and blue
tights and sweaters. Their booth inside is
an amphitheater. seating perhaps 100 per-
sons. with the wrestling place below. While
1t is filling Robin-Monsieur Robin-who Is
so Fat that one wonders how he can enter
the ring, makes himself the barker-in-chief.
He has two clowns beside him. with whom
he holds savory dialogues that obviously
amuse the crowd. The men and women.
standing with mouths a-gap. attend rather
to the tall. brawny form of Pons-"Inter-
national Championship is fresh from the
glories of his London success. He sits in
differently by. but the great muscle of his
arms work promisingly. He terminates his
tights and bicycle stockings. All Of these
professional athletes give signs Of good
feeding. There Is. as in former years, the
champion Of the north. who asks for the
price of a book for himself and Robin,
W HON he sees the artist sketching. There
Is the Horse OF the Rhone" and the Ram
part of Carcassonne." In fact, nearly all
of them are from the south. where the
Graeco-Roman wrestling Is said to have
hourished without interruption from tie
time of the Romans down. The greatest of
all these has just died at the age of eighty
years. His name was Marseile, which still
appears on the booth. and which many
mistake for the city in spite of the SPELL
irg. Long after he was too old to enter
the ring himself he did the barking. flank
ed always by a negro. who had been the
crack wrestler of his troupe
Three hundred francs to the man that
will down my negro!
1t is Robin who does the barking nov.
He holds up bundle of clumsy boxing
gloves in his hands, stops the antics Of
the clowns and begins his boniment. He
points out the different champions with
their titles, and then demands for each
some antagonist of good will "To whom
the gloves?" The glove Is but a symbol,
for. of course. 1t is not used in this close
struggle of men stripped naked to the
waist voice calls out "Carcassonne"
and one of the gloves is tossed over.
Presently, when the performance begins.
the supposed amateur. who has thus Offer
ed himself. will meet in the ring with tie
Rampant of Carcassonne. and perhaps may
down him. For. although there Is nearly
always an agreement as to which one is to
conquer. the struggle Is no made-up affair.
Simply struggle Of two professionals to
the bitter end might result in a broken
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miliars,' In long black gowns and caps,
with a white cross on the shoulder. They
do not look fierce. and the music Of a cal
lthumpian Is too close for them to speak
SO they wave their hands wildly toward
their show and the painted announcement
On the canvas beside them. AS no one an
sHers their invitation they begin most in
GuIsitorial pranks like clowns, as IL to ner
suade that the sight of losing ones head
must be the funniest thing in the world.
Old-Timers Are These.
A few steps further on we come on a
tragedy which is also full of the pbilosonbv
OF life On one side of the avenue stretches
a long-continued series of tents. forming
one establishment. The platform is large
and long enough to lodge a whole band.
playing their noisy wind Instruments.
monkey that chases the night moths I'm
and down the post to which he is tied a
llama that walks about pompously nosinp
the performers: and three bankers under
the electric lights. This is the menaperie
of wild beasts of the family PeZon seen
by every Frenchman at some time of his
life 1t has been in the family now for
four generations. and the second of the
name stands here to draw the peopIe for
the sake Of aud lang syne: for. lust
across the avenue. with longer tents and
fresher paint and noisier band the Cen
tienan Lion Tanner is to be found. 1t is
the rivalry of the old and the new of the
cheap chic and the reliable old stand
The elder Pezon. a worthy figure of
venerable man. waves his hands and calls
out husky words of invitation He ia
dressed in sober black. and has a high hat.
with straight brim-the hat Of half a CEN
fury ago-on his head. Many times he has
barely escaped from the jaws Of some one
or his Infatuated lions. His chief assistant
Is the grandson of the one and only lion
tanner. Gerard, whose hairbreadth escaDes
and thrilling adventures in the African
forests have long been the favorite reading
or schoolboys the world over But his eve
Wanders anxiously across the road.
There the gentleman lion tanner stands
in all his glory-a stout, handsome Young
man. In maroon-coored dress suit and
black silk knickerbockers. with a lavish
chrysanthenium at his buttonhole. He does
not need to speak; he has but to show his
fin-de-siecle grace. 1t is George Marck
who. the legend says. is really of high
family. He became known with his lions
which he is supposed to have caught by
hand in African wilds. from the show
which he gave at the Olympia Music Hall
when all Paris was worshiping our Ameri-
can I.oie Fuller. and the serpentine dance
was the rage. His lions den rose on the
stage. containing himself. standing guard
over the beasts. while Nine Bob Walter
did the serDentine dance before them. I
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The Great Fire of the Charity Bazaar.
when once every one longed for meat after
the dun weeks of fasting on onions and
smoked herring
Then comes the gingerbread fair" with
us own psculiariues. held in the open place
to which the French revolution removed
the Guillo;ine. when the first place had be-
come too sodden with human blood.
Through May little local quarters have
their fairs on small scale. Then in mid
June. when the Grand Prix race brings its
tens of thousands to Paris from foreign
countries and the provinces. begins the
greatest fair of all. unique in the world
for what it has and what it has not-the
fair OF Neuily.
Type Of Fair People.
The "forains.'' or fair people. are the
ne In ali. They belong to a profession,
which is handed down from father to son.
and you see the same faces reappearing on
the platforms and before the selling booths.
The government maintains a school for
their children. 1t Is held in a wagon like
those which form their homes; and there
the schoolmistress, who is the daughter OF
one of these fair men and has graduated
from the Normal school, teaches the three
RS TO a score OF little children born on
the road from fair to fair. They are an
orderly people and are seldom up before
the court.
At s. O'Clock OF the warm June night the
fair grows alive; and the life increa saS
steadily until after midnight, when the
electric lights are extinguishod. They are
hung in festoons across the main street of
Neuiiiy-an outskirt of Paris, which is 1t
self small city-for the whole length
from the gate of the Bots de Boulosne.
which it skirts, to the river Seine, two
miles further on. For the whole distance
the fair booths. pavilions. tents. theaters,
Russian mountains (aS the switchbacks are
called. and blariug merry go-rounds are
planted by each side. What is left of the
broad avenue in between is for the throngs
that come by night to see the fair The
Inhabitants suffer IL for a month because
OF the money paid down in rent to their
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and weights until the feathers are dry or
the satin will wrinkle. The gold bullion stork
may be procured at any Japanese store. A
square of coarsely woven silk. striped with
red and ecru, through which threads of
black green and tinsel are mingled, was
found in a shop where oriental goods are
sold. 1t makes truly gorgeous cushion
cover. A dainty idea is carried out in
cushion of very fine smooth ecru chaElois.
Titmice perched on the blossoming branch
es of a cherry tree decorate this cushion.
They are painted very broadly in oils and
the color used very sparingly. Just
touch Of blue on the heads and wings. etc,
the channels supplying the color for the
birds bodies The tree twigs are reddish
brown and the blossoms white, with a few
green leaves and buds. A pinksd out ruffie
of reddish brown silk sewed around the
sides for finish.
Then there is the set for Johns corner
in the sitting room. AS he is a smoker.
the first cushion is dedicated to tobacco.
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design may be substituted for the snow
crystals. The next one has a cover of
dull blue velour, The center was cut from
square of coarse ecru linen, leaving the
drawn work border intact. This was ap-
and green and pink floss. heavy silk
cord around the sides gives finish to the
cushion. pillow covered with vivid
poppy red silk has no ornamcntation ex-
cept three graduated ruffies which are set
on to form a .quatrefoil. Another blue
cushion Is made Of heavy satin duchesse.
and has flight Of butterflies embroidered
in rich shades Of golden brown. yellow
and white. with black and tinsel mark
iEgs introduced in the wings. Around
the four sides Of this cushion is a puff
OF the blue satin laced with gold cord.
Probably the most unique pillow In the
set is one OF black satin. effectively or
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Trick Beauty.


mon enthusiasm or panic-and it is this on
which the 'barkers" count.
Trick Beauty.
The next booth has in immense letters
Here Constanza. the most beautiful wo-
with her horse OF course. they cannot
afford to show for nothing the most beau
tiful woman liz the world. and so she does
not appear in person on the platform. In
stead they prove the g-nuiHeness of the
performance by leading around the horse
a sorry white nag. of uncertain age, as is
also the beautiful ConstanZa under her
paint, when you pay your ten cents and go
inside. By the way. though the fair is
free, and no one need spend his sous, yet
the many sights offered each for ten or
twenty cents, are sufficient to dry up the
Purse Of the incaut!ous
Here at long. low shed, with shelves, on
which fine porcelain of all sorts of imita-
ton is stacked. two girls are stationed
This is ceramic lottery"
Two cents a Chancei Messieurs, take
your chances. Every number wins. Take
your chances"
But what are we to do with the dinner
plate or saucer that follows our throw?
with smile we leave it to the pretty
girls. just they expected And the lot
terry proceeds. They are too chic to be
travelling fair women. so we set them down
as Parisiennes hired for the occasion
soon all our ideas of history are upset by
fiaring sign announcing that within the
ter-by-twelve feet tent one may see the
"inuuisitors' at their work of the guillo-
tine. We had always thought, with the
lest of the world. that the handy behead-
ing instrument was introduced for the spe-
cial uses of the French revolution; but now
We learn that it secretly and wonderfully
formed Fart of the stock in trade of the
cory inuuisitors amid their torture cham
bers. At least here before US are two ia
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ed being the dictum-a description Of her
CHARMING collection may be welcome to
other housewives. Nothing gives such an
air or luxury to an apartment or adds 50
much to ones comfort as good supply Of
cushions scattered about All sizes and
shapes are popular. though the square or
round are considered in the best tsste
And as to the filling, that is a matter set
tied by the depth Of the pocket book
Down Is the first choice, then down and
feathers mixed, feathers and curled hair
next IN order. A tour of the shops this
month will reward one with genuine bar
gains in short lengths of silk and other
materials. The selection of the covering
Tor the cushions will. of course, depend
upon the skill and taste of the maker. If
one neither embroiders nor paints very
pretty effects may be obtained with plain
or inquired ma terals but they must possess
richness. attractive color quaintness of
design or some other striking characteris-
tic to insure really good and artistic re-
suits.
There are seven cushions in the
young matron's set for her divan, which
has Bagdad curtain in russell, ecru
and dull blue for its cover The first