6 The Mystery OF Carney-Croft By JOSEPH BROWN COOKE (Copyright, 1907, br Btory-i*r*u OorporaUon.) CHAPTER XXVl.—Continued. "Mother helped take care of Mr. Carney, sir, and washed his things and the bandages he used, and when we kad togo to the cellar to stay as we did when you came, fearin' as you might see us at the house. Mi 4 . Jenks would get the things for her when We'd leave m in the path. We always fiari enough to eat stored away for euch times and we could get water from the river, but sometimes we had to send things to mother and so Mr. Jenks would take them. He didn't know we were here at all, sir, but he wants to marry mother, you know, and so he'd do whatever she told him, without asking any questions. \ "Was it Jenks who told you when I cabled to Europe?" I asked. "You tnnst have known of it very soon to have answered it so promptly." "Yes, sir," replied Bobbs. "You see, sir, he's at the station every day, and She Nestled In My Arms. a message to England made such a sensation that they were all talking of it, sir. When I told Mr. Carney about it, sir, he said I should answer it as I did, so I wrote at once to my cousin 1n New York, who'd been attending to £he letters for us, sir, when they were sent on from London." "How did you make the ghosts ap pear so well, Bobbs?" I asked. "They seemed to fairly float in the air." "Oh, that was this way, sir," said Bobbs. "When Mr. Carney got so that he couldn't walk, on account of his feet being so bad, sir, he got some of Uiose cycle skates with the big rubber wheels and we used to exercise with 'cm at night, on the paths, sir. They'd ?ro right over the leaves and grass, too, if it was pretty sharp down hill— we always went to the river, sir, when we were tidying to get away, so that we could dive into the mouth of the old tunnel, if need be. We never had to do it but once. That was the time you and the other gentleman first saw <is, sir. Most generally the folks would be so frightened that they would run, and then we could drop behind a bush -Mid take off the sheets, like we did the night you had mother and Mr. Jenks down by the path, sir." "But about the notes and the cigar • case, Bobbs? How did you manage tbat?" I asked. Bobbs tearfully produced a small monkey, not much larger than a kit ten, from one of his pockets and, stroking the little animal affectionate ly, he said with emotion: "It was Chico, sir. Mr. Carney brought him for a pet and he is almost Sfruman, sir, and will do anything you tell him. He's so sly, sir, that he can ipick your pocket in broad daylight, sir, ;&n<l you'll never find him out. I don't iknow about the cigar case, sir, but the 4ay after you came last summer he away and must have been in the library, where you and the other gen ttleman were looking for something. After you'd gone to the village, sir, 'I found him under one of the big chairs, clinging to the bottom, and -aucared half out of his wit* as be *l ways Is after he's been piavlng pranks. You see," he explained, "1 had a key to the kitchen door and could get in and out as J pleased until you had the new locks put on." "Bobbs," I said, raising from ray seat, "I want to ask you one more question before you go. Do you re member the first note that, you sent me? The one Chico brought when he climbed up the ivy into my window last summer?" "Yes, sir," said Bobbs, briefly. "Well, how did you happen to say what you did in that note?" I asked. "Mr. Carney told me to say it, of course, sir," replied Bobbs. "Do you know why he did so?" I continued. "Yes, sir," said Bobbs. "I was in the house watching you the day you came, sir, and when you picked up that glove of Miss Carney's and kissed it, sir, I told him of it. Then he said I should write the note as I did, sir, and that you'd make a good husband for her and he hoped you would marry her, sir." "That will do, Bobbs," I said. "Good night, my boy. I hope you'll get some sleep." I sat down once more by the dimly burning lamp and, taking the glove from my pocket, I kissed it gently again and again. A slight sound caused me to raise my eyes and I saw Florence Carney standing, with out stretched hands, in the shadow of one of the bookcases. I sprang toward her and, sobbing softly, she nestled in my arms, with hers entwined about my neck. The only guest at my bachelor din ner, on the eve of my marriage, was MacArdel, and, as we were sipping our coffee, he exclaimed: "By the way. Ware, you owe me this dinner. You remember our little wager last summer, don't you?" "I remember it very well, indeed," 1 replied with a smile, "but it hasn't been decided in full. You don't know it, old man, but I haven't proposed to her yet," and we tossed a coin for the bill. TIIE END. THREE BROTHERS, EACH MAYOR. All Are Democrats and All Were Elected on the Same Day. Muskogee, I. T.—The Watts family, of which W. J. Watts was the head in Indian territory, has a record that is without a parallel. There are three Watts brothers, each of whom is mayCr of the town in which he resides, all of them Dem ocrats, and all were elected to the office of mayor on the same day. W. J. Watts came to Indian terri tory in 1871, and established a home. He lived in the Cherokee Nation until 1901, when he died, leaving three sons. They are Jesse G. Watts, mayor of Saltisaw; Thomas J. Watts, mayor of Mulgrow, and Charles G. Watts, mayor of Wagoner. All three are law yers. W. J. Watts was prominent in the Indian politics of the Cherokee Na tion, and made one of tho greatest fights in the history of the nation for the establishment of certain rights of citizens of that jurisdiction. The elder of the sons, Jesse G. Watts, is a prob able candidate for the Democratic congressional nomination from the Third district. A Real Distinction. A young matron of New York is the only one of her family who is not in "Who's Who," her father being a well known clergyman and her mother, brother and sister being more or less celebrated writers. One day her sis ter was condoling with her on her lack of distinction in this respect. "Never mind, Belle," said the literary sister; "you may not be in 'Who's Who,' but you're the only member of the family who is in the telephone book, anul that costs real money." I CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1907. llpfi LV|T A M W'- ~ " jpiiSif RUNNING THE GRINDSTONE. Some Suggestions for Making a Hard Job Easy. If the face of the grindstone Is hard and glazed pour a little sand on the stone every few minutes until the glaze is worn off and the stone will cut like a new one. This condition Is caused by exposing the stone to the weather. I like to keep the stone in a shed under cover, but if this is not possible set It under a tree and put a box over it when not in U3e. It is Handy Grindstone Rig. surprising how easy a little oil on the bearings will make the stone run, yet some of my neighbors never think to oil theirs. A few drops of kerosene will cut the gum if it runs hard and then some oil or axle grease will make it go easy. It is hard to stand on one foot and work the treadle with the other. This Job can be made easy, suggests a wrller in Farm and Home, by bolting two boards to the grindstone frame, and extending It two feet, on which place a seat as shown in the cut. With a smooth and even face the grindstone works nicely, but when it becomes uneven It is hard work to do a good job of grinding. Such a stone needs to be cut down and toned up. This can be done by grinding against the end of a piece of• pipe, having the stone dry. There is nothing more exasperating than to try to work with a poor grindstone, but with a good one it is a pleasure to keep the tools sharp. HELPS THE ROADS. Experience of the Specialist at Ne braska Experiment Station. The following from a recent issue of the Nebraska Farmer gives their experience with the road drag on tho roads near the Nebraska experiment station: "A good proof of road dragging with split log drags was shown last winter during the long spell of deep muddy roads. The roads next to the farm have been dragged for the last four or five years, and comparing them with others it makes a very great con trast. While some of the other roads are hardly dry, and a good many are rough and rutty the dragged road 3 have long become smooth and are as hard as brick. Even during very muddy weather the depth of mud on the dragged roads was slight com pared with that of the und ragged roads. When a person drives over a road of this kind when muddy it is like driving on pavement with but one to two inches of mud while the un worked roads sink to a depth of nine Inches in places and also very heavy pulling, having no solid ground under the mud. A farmer who believes It does not pay to drag roads is badly mistaken. In eastern Nebraska it is Just beginning to become a practice. And the ones to introduce it there were the students of the school of agriculture." FARM JOTTINGS, Give the sheep shelter from the sun. You can never improve a flock by us'ng a grade sire. Now is the time to select 'he best possible sire for the flock. The superiority of beef breeds is largely in their early maturity. Choose a thoroughbred of the breed thai suits the fancy or surrounding conditions. Well drained land will stand drought or freshet better than land that has not been drained. Wethers intended for market should he putin a pasture by themselves, where they can be liberally fed. When ewes are gaining in condition at mating time, there will be a large percentage of twins and the lambs will be stronger. Tho feeding of cotton seed men! is not yet reduced to a scionce. Any man that undertakes it should avail himself of all extant information on the subject. Cribbing. Cribbing is a vico contracted by horses and hard to break. It may be restrained, says Farm Journal, by buckling a strap round the throat enough to allow the horse tJ breathe readily; also by snapping the halter to a rod that will prevent the horse from getting his teeth on ta anything to "suck wind." Stringhalt. Strlnghalt is sometimes due to lo cal injury. Closely observe the stable, change the stall, bathe the limbs in hot brine and attend to the shoeing. Your farrier may discover some fault In shoeing that may be remedied. A pronounced case can be corrected I 9«tit_b£_jto_oß2iattea,. DOES YOUR BACK ACHE? Profit by the Experience of One Who Has Found Relief. James R. Keeler, retired farmer, of Fenner St., Cazenovia, N. Y., says: "About fifteen years ago I suffered with m >" back and /? kidneys. I doctored flfelpLfa am ' used many reme dy. ¥} dies without getting relief. Beginning with Doan's Kidney Pills, I found relief from the first box, and two boxes restored me to good, sound condi tion. My wife and many of my friends have used Doan's Kidney Pills with good results and I can earnestly rec ommend them." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. JAMIE WASTED NO TIME. Youthful Philosopher Had Carefully Thought Out Situation. It was Jamie's bath night. He had several each week and he hated them all. On this particular night, once started, he soaked and splashed in the tub for a full half hour, then his mother haled him forth. He came out of the room in his pajamas with his face all streaked and dirty as it was when he went in. "Mercy!" cried his mother. "I thought you took a bath." "So 1 did!" answered Jamie scorn fully. "A bully one!" "But your face is black!" said his mother. "Oh!" Jamie smiled understand- "My face is all right. I have to wash that in the morning, bath or no bath. You don't s'pose I'm going to waste time bathing my face! I always begin just below my ears and work down on my arms and legs; but 1 always leave my face and hands — those ends 1 'tend to in the morning!" Sure to Have One. Lincoln Steffens, in an address on municipal politics, said in Chicago of a certain city: "That city is as notorious for its rottenness as the town of Pebbles is notorious for another characteristic. "Here is an incident that will give you an idea of the reputation of Peb bles. "On a train one day a man rushed into a car, held up his hand for atten tion, and shouted excitedly: " 'Anybody here who belongs to Pebbles?' " 'Aye; T do,' said a small, dry old fellow calmly. " 'Then,' said the other, 'lend us yer corkscrew.'" Born, Not Worn. Little Margaret's grandmother had written for a photograph of her name sake, the "baby." For material rea sons it was advisable that the little girl should appear as well dressed as possible, and a cousin's new open-work dress was borrowed for the occasion. On being arrayed for the picture Mar garet rushed to her father, crying: "Oh, father, just look! These ain't worn holes; they is born holes." —Har- per's. Evil of Tipping System, Although there is a great effort made to keep secret the thefts in hotels and restaurants in New York, it is quite evident they are on a rapid increase. The manager of a large restaurant says the system of having servants depend almost entirely upon patrons for their pay lowers their moral stan dard and causes them to look on those they are supposed to serve as their legitimate prey. Girls Destined for Harems. The Circassians, who live in the northwestern part of tho Caucasus, and who think it is more honorable to live by plunder than by industry, make it a custom to bring their daughters up to be sold as slaves to the Turks and Persians. Circassian beauties, therefore, shine not in their native land but in the harems of the orient. FEET OUT. She Had Curious Habits. When a person has to keep tho feet out from under cover during the cold est nights in winter because of the heat and prickly sensation, it is time that coffee, which causes the trouble, bo left off. There is no end to the nervous con ditions that coffee will produce. It shows in one way in one person and in another way in another. In this case the lady lived in S. Dak. She says: "I have had to lie awake half the night with my feet and limbs out of the bed on the coldest nights, and felt afraid to sleep for fear of catching cold. I had been troubled for years with twitching and jerking of the lower limbs, and for most of the time I have been unable togo to church or to lectures because of that awl'ul feeling that I must keep on the move. "When it was brought to my atten tion that coffee caused so many ner vous diseases, I concluded to drop coffee and take Postum Food Coffee to see if my trouble was caused by coffee drinking. "I only drank one cup of coffee for breakfast but that was enough to do the business for me. When I quit it my troubles disappeared in an almost miraculous way. Now I have no more of the jermng and twitching and can sleep with any amount of bedding over me anil sleep all night, in sound, peace ful rest. "Postum Food Coffee is absolutely worth its weight in gold to me." "There's a Reason." Read the little bealtn classic, "The Road to Well- Tille," in pk GIFT NOT ALL A GIFT. Generosity That Was Purely the Re sult of Accident. A missionary bishop told this story about F. Marion Crawford, the famous novelist: "Mr. Crawford went to school," lie said, "in Concord, and one day he was taken to call at a Concord clergy man's. "'1 he clergyman had a missionary box on his drawing room table, and, time hanging heavily on tho boy's hands, he amused himself with try ing whether a silver dollar—it was all the money he had in the world, and he had converted it into that gi gantic coin for safety—would go into the slit in the box's top. "It was a close fit, but unfortunate ly it did go, and the coin slipped out of the embryo author's fingers. There was a terrible crash of silver falling among the coppers—and then the boy, as the novelists say, 'knew no more.' "When he came to himself he found the clergyman and his family in rap tures over his generosity." CHILDREN TORTURED. Girl Had Running Sores from Eczema —Boy Tortured by Poison Oak— Both Cured by Cuticura. "Last year, after having my little girl treated by a very prominent phy sician for an obstinate case of eczema, I resorted to tho Cuticura Remedies, and was so well pleased with the al most instantaneous relief afforded that we discarded the physician's prescrip tion and relied entirely on the Cuti cura Soap, Cuticura Ointment, and Cu ticura Pills. When we commenced with the Cuticura Remedies her feet and limbs were covered with running gores. In about six weeks we had her completely well, and there has been no recurrence of the trouble. "In July of this year a little boy In our family poisoned his hands and arms with poison oak, and in twenty four hours his hands and arms were a mass of torturing sores. We used only the Cuticura Remedies, and in about three weeks his hands and arms healed up. Mrs. Lizzie Vincent Thomas, Fairmont, Walden's Ridge Tenn., OcL 13, 1905." Jerome on Colored Evidence. District Attorney Jerome, of New York, said one day of a piece of sus picious evidence: "It is evidence that has been tam pered with, colored. It is like the lady's report of her physician's pre scription. "A lady one day in July visited her physician. The man examined her and said: " 'Madam, you are only a little run down. You need frequent baths and plenty of fresh air, and 1 advise you to dress in the coolest, most comfortable clothes—nothing stiff or formal.' "When she got home her husband asked her what the physician had said. The lady replied: "'He said I must goto the seashore, do plenty of automobiling, and get seme new summer gowns.'" Not Entire. The aeronaut, after painfully ex tricating himself from the wrecked balloon, limped to the nearest farm house. "Madam," he said to the woman who answered his knock, "can you ac commodate with a night's lodging a balloonist who has come to grief?" "I'd be glad to," she hesitated, "but you are an entire stranger to —" "Not an entire one," he interrupted, with some acerbity. "For I have left my left ear, three teeth, and certain portions of my nose back there with the ruined car." Colleges Undesirable Fire Risks. Colleges are now regarded as rather undesirable insurance risks, and it is probable that the rate will be gen erally increased. In IS years 784 fires have occurred in college buildings, en tailing a loss of $10,500,000 in money and a heavy loss of life. This makes the average money loss over $13,000. Cnn Not Escape Thoughts. Man is a thinking being, whether he will or no: all he can do is to turn his thoughts the best way.—Sir Wil liam Temple. Jusr BECAUSE it storms- / dont confine yourself n indoors [F/J/f ' '/|)A PROVIDE R./JP/F' l jl FOR YOUR O'T//> / J' \1 BODILY WI/. 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VHKjv If I could take yon into my large factories at Brockton, Mass., yPf'jW and show you how carefully W. I* Douglas shoes are made, you VM would then understand why they hold thoir shape, fit hotter, wear longer ami are of greater value than auv other make. t My 94 Ollt Edga and 96 Bold Bond Shooa cannot ba aquallad at any pr/c*. CAUTION! The genuine havo W. L. Douglas name and price stumped on bottom. Take No Substitute. Ask your (lo.ilor for \Y. L. Douglas shoes. If he cannot snpp'y you, soiul direct to factory, ahum »eat •Ttrywhoro bj auOI. Catalog t x—. WJUDou«lat. Brockton, Mm NOT THE TIME TO STOP. Manager Saw the Possibilities in tho Situation. Jim Johnstone, the famous base ball umpire, said recently in New York that baseball crowds wore far kinder to umpires than they used to be. "This is true of theater crovvda, too," said Mr. Johnstone. "Why, with, provincial touring companies in the past, maltreatment was regularly ex pected. In fact, the companies prof ited by it in more ways than one. "I know of a company that was playing 'The Broken Vow' in Paint Rock, a one night stand. The audi ence didn't like 'The liroken Vow,' and eggs, cabbages and potatoes rained upon the stage. "Still the play went on. The hero raved through hi 3 endless speeches, dodging an onion or a baseball every other minute, and pretty sore from those missiles that ho hadn't been able to dodge. "But finally a gallery auditor in a paroxysm of rage and scorn hurled a heavy boot, and the actor, thoroughly alarmed, started to retreat. " 'Keep on playing, you fool,' hissed the manager from the wings, as ho hooked in the boot with an umbrella. 'Keep on till we get the other one.'" Not What She Wanted. Lawyer—Yes, my dear young lady, you have a perfect case. If you wish, I can secure you a divorce without publicity in six months. Young Lady—But, my dear sir, you don't understand at all. I am an actress. 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