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Uli' bCUAirrON TRUTH; TUESDAY AFT HEN OOl HATCH'S, 190Tv Connolly Wallace; Connolly Wallace OTEVEND DUflYEA on the first of March, 1907, since the organization of this Bank. During that time its Officers and Directors have pursued a liberal yet conservative course that has 35 YEARS P. Scranton's Shopping Center. won for it a large patronage. Third National Bank, 118 Wyoalag AYt Smites, Pa.

CAPITAL, SURPLUS (EARNED) 0R3ANIZED 1872 UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY, Compound interest paid on monthly balances on Savings Accounts, whether large or small. OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS 7:00 TO O'CLOCK. TUESDAY, MARCH 5. Spring' Cottons in Commotion Tli car with a Unit Powr Plant supported on three points. On request a catalogue that explains all will be sent.

Gil AO. O. QCOTT, 1 10 Franklin Ave. Manufactured by the Stevens' Duryea Chicopec Falls, Mass. raeniuers 01 j.

ii. I UMBRELLA SALE HAVE YOU TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THIS STORE'S AAUlJ OIVIVU raising the maximum of letter carriers' pay from $1,000 to $1,200 was pawed by the late congress and the senate and now awaits the president's approval. Heretofore t.hG pay was as follows: First year, $600; second year, $800; third year and maximum, $1, 000. Under the new order of things the scale will be: Iflrst year, $600; second year, third year, $900; fourth year, fifth year, sixth year and maximum, $1,200. The clause providing for the new maximum It only needs a breath of warm air to send the new spring cottons entirely off their feet.

They are almost oat of their heads now, with pride over the new designs and beautiful novelties in color. Organdies will soon be high in favor when graduation time looms up. 20c a yard for the cotton and 25c, 35c and 50c for silk. Cut Prices On Cut Glass Today we offer a purchase of 500 Umbrellas, a positive $3.00 at $2.00 each. The cloth is a splendid grade union taffeta silk "with a fine, strong cotton warp.

Very serviceable and excellent looking, tight, close rolling. Made with eight ribs in the best possible manner Box wood handles in women's and men's styles. Special Price, $2. will not be effective until one year So imports, no flaws In the selection. Air Is regular, perfect stock with prices reduced to help lighten the Inventory slieet.

Trench China also reduced. from next July, although the $1,100 rate will be effective next July. May Have Killed Himself The Plymouth police are of the opinion that David Richards, who tried to kill his wife by shooting her upon her return from church Sunday night, has committed suicide; that he has carried For a young girl 's dress noth ing is prettier than silk muslin plain colors at 25c, 35c and 40c 50c a yard buys it with woven dots glistening under little bunches of printed flowers. H. A.

A.in Plumetis of figured loo, yard. Printed Batistes in great variety, 10c and 120. out a threat he often made and that he will be found lifeless In some abandoned spot In the mountains west of Kingston. He went in that direction after the shooting. There Is a strong hope that Mrs.

Richards will recover, though it will be several days before she. will have passed the danger point. Death of Dr. Butler Dr. William J.

Butler, of Wilkes Barre, who was struck by a Vain and seriously Injured early on Sunday morning while returning from attendance upon a patient near Georgetown, died last night at 9.30 o'clock. Dr. Butler never married, but resided with his sister. Miss Elizabeth, at 68 South Washington street. Besides her, he is survived by two brothers, Dr.

Eugene J. Butler and Prof. F. D. Butler, and by one other sister, John Hannon, all of Wilkes Barre.

NEWS IN church on Thursday evening, March 7, at 8 p. Postponed Lectures The two postponed pictures talks "On the Life of Christ," to be given by Attorney A. V. Bower will take place at the Railroad Y. M.

C. A. The first will be given on Sunday, March 10, and the second on Sunday, March 17. Undertaker Fined Charged with conducting a public funeral where the death had been due to a contagious disease, Martin Gerald, an Italian undertaker living at 1014 Scran ton street, was lined $5 yesterday in police court. He was in charge of the funeral at the home of Thomas Confaretti, 18i5 Pittston avenue, where the deceased had died from an attack of diphtheria.

Meeting of Oratorio Society The regular rehearsal of the Scranton Oratorio Society will be held this evening In Guernsey Hall at 8 o'clock sharp. Every member is urged to be present. The ladles are requested to bring copies of ladies' choruses. Block Fined In police court yesterday afternoon, Reuben Block, a dealer In bottles, living at 428 South Washington avenue, who was charged by Foreman Warren of the street department with driving a horse faster than a walk over the Lackawanna bridge, was fined 2. Meeting Tonight There will be a meeting of Branch 3, Ladies' auxiliary, A.

O. at the Holy Cross church in Bellevue this evening. It is to be an important session. Parents Took Them Homo Michael McLane and John Loftus, aged 16 years each, left their homes in Pitts ton yesterday and came to this city, en route to New York. One of the boys said he was a dish washer and the other a laborer.

They were given a hearing before Magistrate Millar, who remanded the boys to await the coming of their parents, who had been notified of their arrest. The boys had J6 between them. They were taken home by their parents yesterday afternoon. Contagious Diseases While the report of the bureau of health for the month of Feiiuary has not been completed and will not be for several days, the typhoid situation and the cases of scarlet fever and diphtheria have been canvassed and the results are known. There were twenty seven cases of typhoid reported during the month, with fifty three cases of diphtheria and fit ty eight cases of scarlet fever.

More Pay for Carriers The bill Connolly Wallace; Connolly Wallace. A DOCTOR SAYS some people if they could live until' they acquired wisdom. Brownsville (TexJ Herald. abilities. But, although Freeman did not apologize In so many words, he smoothed the matter over by a humorous repetition of his criticism.

Later some one mentioned gout "There you go again exclaimed Freeman. "Why can't we call It toe woe?" Many Refused The Luzerne county court yesterday refused applications to 433 applicants for liquor licenses. Want Collection Bill Passed The retail merchants of the city, at a meeting last night, appointed a committee to go to Harrlsburg and seek to have the collection bill passed. J. W.

Rit tonhouse, L. R. Clover and William Karrell are the members of the committee. They will leave here tomorrow night. Press Club Meeting meeting of the Press club will be held In the rooms, at 408 Spruce street, tomorrow at; 4:30 o'clock.

This will probably be the' last regular meeting in the old rooms, as after April 1 the club will occupy quarters In the Cusick building on Wyoming avenue. 'Lutheran Pastors Met The Scran ton Wilkes Barre Pastoral association. Jefferson avenue, today, with services at 10.30, 2 and 7.30. Rev. S.

A. Ren icks, an evangelist, will speak. Mr. Renicks has just closed a five months' revival campaign in Canada with marked success. Killed by Fall of Roof Joseph Savage, a laborer, aged 38 years, employed In No.

2 mine of the Kingston Coal company, at Kingston, was killed by being struck by a fall of rock yesterday afternoon. Report of Inspector Iloyh MineIn spector P. M. Boyle, of Wilkes Barre, of the Eighth Anthracite district, completed his annual report yesterday. In his district he has fifteen collieries and twenty six mines In operation.

The report shows that during 1906 the fatal accidents were thirty two and nonfatal ninety. The total production of coal was 3,469,513. serve a subpoena on respondent In divorce proceeding. He ordered that the subpoena be served In some other Some Notes on "Origins." "Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall," has come down to us from the days of King John. "The Babes In the Wood" dates from the fifteenth century, beln founded upon facts, an old Grape Xuts Food Contains All the Elements Condensed.

There was a time when doctors depended almost entirely on the use of drugs in treating disease. That day is happily past, and our doctors of today are men of wider views they have learned that proper food is most important in healing disease. A practicing physician in New York City says: "Disease is often an effort of Nature to get rid of impurities In the system as the result of incorrect habits wrong living. The cause of disease ought to vNcw Major's First Battalion Drill and can be removed by ngnt living and right thinking. 'Nature requires good air, sunlight, food of proper quality and quantity, comprising the pastors of the Evangelical Lutheran churches of the Lackawanna and Wyoming valley, met today in monthly session as the guests of W.

S. Heist, J.214 Short avenue, pastor of St Paul's church, Providence. All Day Meeting The Christian and Prey of the Sparrow Hawk. The sparrow hawk almost invariably catches a flying bird for its meal, even striking down birds as large as the wood pigeon, though usually going no higher than a blackbird. If it does not exactly swoop like the larger hawks, yet it must have conditions of chase of Its own choosing.

That Is why the small birds usually mob it with impunity when they are numerous enough to bewilder it. Once, however, I saw a sparrow hawk that had been molested for some minutes by a perfect cloud of green finches dart among them and secure a victim. One day I had one of these birds pointed out as the one which a few days earlier had come close to the house toward dusk and caught a bat on the wing. That, however, Is a very unusual meal. London News.

Major Conrad, recently elected, conducted his first battalion drill last night. Major Raub will hold battalion drill on Friday evening. An Orange Social The Young People's Society of Christ Presbyterian church, Tripp Park, will hold an "Or plenty of pure water, exercise, cleanliness and sleep. When these conditions are met, health follows, but when they are denied or neglected, sickness and house near Wayland Wood, Norfolk, having the whole story In carvings on a mantelpiece. "Little Jack Horner," "Little Miss Muffett," "Old Mother Hubbard," "Mother Goose" and "Goosey, Goosey Gander," are each traceable to the sixteenth century.

"Pnssy Cat, Pussy Cat, Where Have You Been?" belongs to the reign Queen Elizabeth. "Three Blind Slice" first appeared In a music book dated 1609. "A Froggie Would a Woolng Go" was licensed to be sung as far back as 1650. "Boys and Girls Come Out to Play" and "Lucy Locket Lost Her Pocket" both hail from the period of Charles II. And last of all, "Cinderella," "Jack the Giant Keller," "Bluebeard" and "Tom Thumb" were published by their author, Charles Per rault, in the year 1697.

London Notes and Queries. Missionary Alliance will hold an all day meetlmg In the Gospel Tabernacle, disease are sure to result. "The important question is to decide what is the proper kind of food to sup ange and Ice Cream Social" in the a miM advertised for a suitor. ply the physical and mental necessities of man? I have had experience with all the various food stuffs known to our markets, but up to the present She preferred a Long Island widower bald With ten children called, But this kind of a suitor don't suit hen. time I have met with no other answer I ing so fully all the requirements as dnes firjirie Nuts food.

In mv exrjerl eneo and observation in my practice, I have found Grape Nuts to be not only more satisfying, but more lasting In the benefit derived from Its use. It sends a man forth to his labors in a state of physical comfort, with a cheer ful and buoyant spirit; and the end of The Good Little Cent. A popular clergyman had just closed a successful campaign. A great many pennies had been put in the offering, and his attention was called to this. One night he held up a silver dollar and a copper penny and gave a conversation held by the two coins.

"You poor little red cent, you; you don't amount to anything. I'd bate to be you," said the big dollar. "I know I'm not very big," replied the cent, "but the children like me, and I can buy a good many things." "Huh, you can't buy anything at all:" said the dollar. "Just look at me, big and bright and shiny. I can buy a whole lot more than you can." "Maybe so," said the little red cent meekly, "but I go to church a heap oftener than you do anyway." the day finds him with reserve strength he suffers less from exhaustion and depiction of powers.

"I particularly recommend Grape Nuts food to those whose occupations involve a great deal of brain work. There could not be a food better adapted to the strengthening and conservation of the faculties and energies. It supplies a more sustained mental vigor than any other food that I know of. "Grape Nuts food contains all the elements that form the valuable part of natural diet In a condensed, toothsome and easily digestible form." Name given by Postum Battle Creek, Mich. "There's a Reason." Plain Words.

Freeman, the historian, it was said, was apt to grow Irritable over matters of Intellectual difference. One day he was at the Macmlllnns' when the conversation turned upon the subject of Ireland. Mr. Mncmilluu said that, for his part, be was in favor of granting autonomy. Whereupon Freeman began to growl at the use of a Greek word.

"Why can't you speak English," demanded he, "and guy home rule Instead of speaking Greek, which you don't know?" One of the guests flushed with anger and ventured to reprove Freeman, calling his attention to the respect due their host and at the same time paying tribute to Mr. Macmlllan's remarkable It Is Bad Form Judge Kelly yesterday ruled in the divorce case of Matti'e M. Green against M. T. Green that it is bad form for the to I MEAT DEPARTMENT! Calhoun and Randolph.

When John C. Calhoun became rice president of the United States and con sequeutly president of the senate he announced that he had not the authority to call the senators to order for words spoken In debate, as he regarded each senator as an ambassador from a sovereign state. The eccentric John Randolph of Virginia took advantage of Mr. Calhoun's ruling to abuse him personally. One (lay lie began a tirnde by saying, "Mr.

Speaker I mean Mr. President of the Senate and Would He President of the United States, which God In his Infinite mercy avert:" We have the best of meats for our WEDNESDAY SPECIALS Pork Chops Pork Sausage ndpc nib A special line of nice small I What to Name Your Dog. There are certain English names for dogs that have meauings that might be given when appropriate. Alan means a bound; Ashur, black; Blanco, white; Crispin, curly; Duncan, brown; Julius, soft haired; Leonard, lionlike; Linus, fin left haired; Rufus, red; Vivian, lively; Clara, bright; Constance, loyal; Joyce, sportive. Such narocss Scud, Rover, Dart and Patter are suggestive In themselves.

Two classic names suitable for dogs are BJteou and Lixus. SOME FACTS AND FIGURES THAT SHOW MOTOR DRIVEN RIGS THE HOST ECONOMICAL hasn tak'sme ngures tohf ves! aMl LI ptmUe ff of running a horse drawn vehicle and a motor car, 1 tS pcr nilIe for motor riding. Another, and although the figures will by no means corre 8nd J'''rhups a greater gain for the motor car, Is its spond to all localities, yet they are valuable as a basis greater speed. Jt will travel two blocks to the horse's of comparison. The sales manager says: OI1e, so, an hour's Journey for the motor car is two I have based my estimate on twelve months' actual service of a runabout of the type made and hourS for the norse' Uhere an automoblle kept in sold by the Ford company and my figures on the a barn or shed at home, the item of $120 for storage motor car are as follows: is eliminated, which reduces the cost per mile still Depreciation of value on model Ford run lower.

0ne mUst remember, too, that when the car 20 00 Is r'' It costing the owner anything, 400 gallons gasoline at 20 cents, 8,000 miles. 80 00 whiie a horse must eat. no matter whethtr It is wo.k 80 gallons lubricating oil at 40 cents 32 00 T))e automobile can be stored 'dead' for a month Batteries, 10 recharges at 2o cents 2 60 at a tlme for ,5 wnje a norse has to eat. wo new tires at m.bO 63 00 Few drivers of motor cars have a record of 8.000 Kcpalrs, estimated po 00 mjipg a year Between 4,000 and 5,000 miles is a Storage 120 00 more general average. A reduction in mileage mean a a reduction in expenses.

A shed for an automobile 10181 oO cun he erected for much less than can a horse stable "This provided oil and gasoline for 8.000 miles of und, if the owner keeps the car at home, less than a motoring for a term of twelve months, showing a quarter of the time passed in" keeping a horse will cost of operation of about 6 cents per mile. As the keep the car In fine condition. Ford runabout is a two passenger car, the passengers "Then the automobile will stand for hours wlth are carried at a cost of about 3 cents each per mile, out attentipn In hot or cold weather and its ability to including all storage and depreciation of value of the take on long distances Into the country on holidays car. The depreciation need not be $200 If the car is more than repays for the expenditure. While the car well used and if driven more than one year will give may call for some expenses, it saves in other ways, as good service the second or third year, barring and the man of moderate means can own an automo tlres, with the cost of a fresh coat of paint and var bile and operate it without bankrupting himself and nish, about $35, added.

at the same time get a view of nature for miles "As compared with this a horse and buggy will around, for which credit is due to the motorcar, cost to operate about as follows: have been made of the fabulous sums It Board at stable $300 00 requires to maintain an automobile. They were in Depreciation of horse, harness and 110 00 vpgue two or three years ago and may be now, but Shoes 36 00 you will find that the expensive cars are owned and Clipping 3 00 maintained by those well able to stand the financial Repairs to harness and buggy 20 00 strain. a man who can afford to keep a horse and buggcan combine business and pleasure by Total $469 00 operating a runabout like the Ford. I am not slan "It is a good horse which can do his 3,000 miles in derlng the horse, but this Is an age of progress, and the year, which makes buggy fare about 15 2 cents It Is led by the motor car." MCSA'DD' ISBtdDS, saaa CHAPPELL' Wednesday Specials PORTERHOUSE STEAK SIRLOIN STEAK ROUND STEAK 1 0C CHOICE RIB ROAST 10c CHUCK ROAST 8c PICKLED CORN BEEF BOLOGNA, 3 pounds or 2 FRANKFURTERS, 3 pounds for 25c HEAD CHEESE 7c CHAPPELL'S ORIGINAL READY PAY STORE, PROVIDENCE SQUARE. Hams Reciprocity.

"No," snapped the sharp faced woman at the door, "I ain't got no food fur'you, an' I ain't got no old clo'es. Now gltr "Lady," replied Harvard Hasben, "I could repay you well. Give me a square meal and I'll give you a few lessons In grammar." Philadelphia Press. for family use, DDc DDd FJULTOM Cash Meat Market, 108 PENN AVENUE. Wouldn't Dane Uptido Down.

A young lady rushed Into a drug store and asked for some floor wax. The clerk told her they had no floor wax, but had some sealing wax. She replied, "We are going to give a dance nd want to wax the floor, not the celling." Baltimore Sun. Th0 undertaker never wgId set.