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OILS The v5tai!il;inl Oil Company, of Pittsbunr, P.i., make a specialty of manufacturing for the domes tic trade the finest brands of nium'uiaiini and Lubricating Oils, Xapfii:a"and Gasoline Tli.il can he E M FElllOLEM Wehallonge comparison with ; every known product of petrol eum. If you wish the most M : Morally : Satisfactory : Oils in the market ak for ours. STANDARD OIL COMPANY, l'lTTSIUTIlG. PA. er.U S'.'-lrr 1 SHAVING "PAPiLQBl COB. CENTRE AND SAMPLE STREETS CBENSBU.1C. I- I!. (iANT, l'roirielir. TKK'" H'.i : wl'l always find n at oor place o( h jin-j in business hour. Every ttlDK kt s n l ojty. a ta'h r.iom has been con s,',n ... ahop when, the putllo can le ae. eimiL..ST,, .,), , ,,()t or colll (ith. Hatbtah Mister) t:il r .nnecte.l therein ke-t perfectly t eo. in r.wm.! i nmouLTT. BLAlil HOUSE Barbor :-: Sh.op I A t"t.eU' t;'her Shop ha t.een opened In otwt:tr,t 1. 1 H.alr 11 use where the baroerlnir "Mlar-s in . i!s hranchei will be carriR.l on In io:orf in, -10 is In the hands vt (killed r 'U tiie every attention to cuto ' ;'" liia In if.K.l or.ier. Your P-rrCl,e s.;,r;te.i. I'KA.NK KF.KS. 1 I'roprletor. THRESHING Mi;!27 f BipiMt, M .i linra'ie. r(nntnlcal nJ Prr if4 s Z-"'"r- H"'r" K Uraiui t iron i r..hln!C 11KlnM A Monw Pot-r, SAW Mil I C Ntnlrl lm S4 "Ml-l.pfn,f, generally. ''"i. n tali if.ie. A.B. FARQUHAR CO.. . srlrnlf Works, York, fm. VASHiNGTON FEMALE a ' v tV " rn September ism. For J r.. akii V 'fi'TinatH.n i.ly Ml.? N. SHKK S-,X i, .I"1"'''"1- or REV. JAS. I. KHUWM H. ' " rr'"- Hoard Trustees, Wafhtneton. - JulyJI 2rn tnlCFlT samples Fiee r. . M OTT.Scw York City $5 1EJV6' W MOiMgSTy K is t solid handsome czke oP .t scouring soap which has no equaJ for all cleaning purposes exceph'n me lcundry-To use is to value ih- V-ToT1" A UM0-d0? take the 1 t, tabIe; and sLel7es a ae appearance- It will the kniLf !a,,e,0 the A1-'" aui ol? the pots an,t pnnl Yon can sconr -baan th- k t!I ?u lt aad ruake lile tia tliiuss dime bnrjhtly. TLe 'new r.in if..! baU-tnb, ty.-ntliO greasy kitchen sink v.ll be clean as wni ENOCH MORGAN'S SOWS iZ yrkV ' Vc lli 1J W P l ($1 - '0 JAS. C. HASSCN, Editor and VOLUME XXV. The Ma xt Sarcemtfnl Remedy ewdJsewr. r-l, a It Is certain la its eftect-j nJ Jo uot iilittT. jiriXf below : KENDALL'S SPAVIN GORE. On. B. J. Kkxhaix O-.: i'fit I would Ilk to male-" kiwin t thw who !irv almKt jMM-uait-J t it? Kui!l'i 'a-in Ctira this fact t.iat I tUlak iti.-.n iimnC t.ciflietit LooiuiiC huve Uiwtl It -mi a iiJoo spavin. The hurs wnt on ilirfO Ifjara fr ihrw VfUT wh'ii 1 nmunrncetl t fixj jnur KouihUl o Sjaavin Cun-. I teu hot tics out h htrse tmd Iikvo wnrlctU lUw for three Years niiice uiui Iwl-. ihH hetalauw. Yours trul-, T3L A. CURI (iEJtn ?ctwx, N. Y., Nov. 2, Lb. U. J. Kkxdau. en., EnoKhiirch Falla, Vt. (2t-ntfi: In pralw.-rf ivt aUall k Spavm C'tirt I will tlii;t ay.'iir au 1 a valuable ouir; Ii km- 1v c un very lam', lKxk t-ttlui ir-l ul jwotl-n. Tlio hor-eninn aixtiit lifri-Ow h;.v;' ni VVi' Tiiiary bur Rcon ht-re) )rotnttin-.-d his laiii?ii&.s IIUnmI ?aviu :r TbrU):hptn, ttuv nil ttlil inn ftitrf wa im ; l"r it. lie UvaiiH-(iImm;. itst'l-rHj. anl I etii sltlcretl him olnift wnrtlilfitf. A IrvmJ told mrof tlm invriLd 'f oiir Kdti'Ij'l!'- bo.iriik Cim m I boittriiLHv ImtiU. nn4 I e-n. -e cry .lainly prt-at litiprovi-nirnts liuuu-Iii:e:'. fmm its ml bulVre the tKt tit v;: U.-ui t. 1 v;is aatti-itft thiit If WB .lointr liiin ti j.r';i! lcul of k!. I IhiiiIit a i-oinl botthj ani lr rr It v;is u'-1 ti my hoix-waa riireil aiI had leen in tretriii tluin heavy wortc all the v4i.s hi .in e 1 i-: . t .ril, -lniwin no more strnn of It- I eon-Otter your KL-ntlaU' 8avtn Cure vaiuattle im(!iuuu;. inul it hm.i-I liu iu every tableiu too louX litjcvtf n'!y yours. LLOKNt DEWITT. Price $1 per bottle, r ! x Ixxtlc ftr . All drug ?lst have It orcai ffet It for you, or it w ill be aent auy Mildreds cm reeelnX of prlei by the proprie ty VIU n. J. KET) U.L ., Kaotbnritii Fnllft Vrrmonu VIJ) octlo uo.ly. BY ALL DErOCISTS. Awk my ntrenrN for V Dontrlnn Shorn. If not tor kii lr in ou r pi nee k en r ln ler to eu! for eni uloKiit nee u re I he ntniry, him! uvt them ler yon. VTAliE NO Si:USTlTL'T. WHY IS THE W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE GENTLEMEN THE BEST SHOE IN THE WORLD FOR THE MONEY? It Is a seaniii-fs stux with no Ucltnor wax thread to hurt the leet; ntade of the liBt fluo calf, MtylLsk and eay, and b?ftue ire viakf more jiiotj tf thi yrtnh' than oiif ather imtnvifiwturer. It vnuttl hand whI nhofH costlti from 4i.'t to$.'i.iO. OlMininhir 1 1 ntid--eweel, tbe finest ealf L9 Hhoe evr otTtTt-d for $.(!; cqtialA rviuvil lttip..rtl shos wliirh eot from ..tt to flitil. 4 S OO llaud-Si-weil Welt Shoe, line calf, ij' stylish, eoiiiforiald and durable. The lM ;t Rhrx? ever o(Tnd at thin price ; name trrnde as cus t ni-ruailf sho" cost Intc from jS.i.oj to $... fIJ O -TO I'olicr lHici KanucrH. Hnilra4l Mn ajfes aitd I.t'tUT t'iii'riiTHr.H wear them; lino calf, Rcamlesn, (.niootli lnshl. heavy three soleii, exten sion ede. 4 ne pair will wear a year. C-5 -VI line eiilfj no W f ter shoe ever offerel at ulfaCa this pih'e; one trial will convince those w ho wart a shite for c miforr and service. O O " 1,(1 9.00 W orUI nvinnn'M hoc J bTbC jire very htrmii; aiul flurablc. Thuw who have Kiven them a trial will wrht hit tther make, p Air I !i.tM nnd mdiool shm- are EJJr t worn by the I toys every where; they sell on their merit, as the increasing nales hIiow. Oflioc St,l lland-eved Khoe. I test Lnd U I w S lh n vol a, very Mylisb: e'ualn French lj.iiMrta stHM-ri costiiiLrtroii, ft. to '..'i. KndieM Z..'Ot J.OO and l.7 shoe for MlsAet are the host tine bontfokk St yiish and durable. fnntion. See that W. IM ImmhtImV name and price axe sUinptd on the lottom of each shoe. W. L. iKJL tiLAS. Broclctoo, Mass. C. T. ROBERTS, A Kent, KbrntiUnrK, Pa. ju 13, 5m f OoO.ftO rnr U blnfr mail by John R. (wxlii hi, 1 n.y ,N.V.it nmk tir us. IU-lr, you Mwr m"t tnkf mmh, but emn trh y-'U qui-kly Hw inrira fWm to ll tiny ml lit" tsri, and mrv yov r on. liotb seirt, ail agr. In any part of interica. on rau coniinmrf at home, iur alt luur tiiitf.tr iarr m.arnt oittv to th work. All i t'-w. fral ay W Ith f xrry worker. f trt j on. fvrniabtiia; averTftunr. KAHII.V. M I KMI.V trartint. 1-A It I b I LAi: 1K. Ail.lrra at onra. hllH. J tO., IUUTLA.U, BAlMv. R015EIIT EVANS, UNDERTAKER, AND MANUFACTURER OF and dealer In all kln.tf ol FURNITURE, JLCosnisbiii", Ict. lull line ol Casket alwayi on band.-S Bodies Embalmed WHEN REltUIKED. Apt SO sa NOT DEAD YET! VALUE LUTTRINCER, MAJCCyACTUBER OF TIN, COPPER AND SHEET-IRON' WARE AND TIS HOOFING, Respectfully Invite tbe attention of bla liiend and the public in general to the fact tbat bo I still cam inn on bustneix at tbe old atand oppoalte tbe Mountain House. Ebenaburs:, and Is prepared to apply from a large ttock, or manufacturing to or der, any article In hi line, from tbe amallest to the larvest. In tbe beat manner and at tbe lowest llvlnic prices. PSTSo penitentiary work eltber made or sold at tbls eatablisbment. TIN KOOF1NO SPECIALTY. Uive me a eall and jatlsly yourselves as to my work and prloes V. LUTTKINCJER. EKnsburK. April 18. 18S3-tl. rPHK FREEMAN Is the lamest paper in Nortb JL Camorla. lion't foricet It. Br- J Li Pi -FJ-'i it l 11 clean paint mako oJ-cIotlis enke iviii prove r.il v? say. Be a gV-a for -ritn F-...-e,iL Fnot.. Proprietor. IF WE ONLY KNEW. If we only knew in tbe early morn, What wc know each close of day. If we only knew of tbe buttle ttorc Tbat we must wae, by tbe way. It we only knew. Ah! only Knew I think we'd pray, ere dar Twjrun, Tbat many vict rica mibt be won. If we only knew that nnmc hungry sou. By our klmlly words was fi-.1. If we only know that our Lord can irlv Sweet draught'' from tbe Fountain bead It we only knew. Ah: only knew I think we'd pray, ere day bejfin, For grace to help tonu weary one. If we only knew that the written pa?t. Depends on tbe letttTH there; If we only knew that thi. amallest blot Must e'er make tbe pago lusa fair. If we only knew. Ah: only knew I think we'd ask. ere the day Twfrun, For perfect lutters, one by one. If we only knew In the early days What we'll know at the bar of God If we only knew of the p-rfert ways Our feet nii'ht oft have trod. It we only knew. Ah: only knew I think we'd pray, a lifo beirun. For strength to do a we'll we'd done IK-rtba Packard Enlet, In llju.sckueper. AS FR03I THE DEAD. A. Late MiUionniro Tries to Cir cumvout His Widow. Scene Itetirvil corner in the realinr rioin of an ai'i.ttcratio tip-town chili Two uK'iintly tlressetl jrentlemon are (lUcus.siiifTviuots ciyars aud other local topics. Mr. Charley Knickerbocker (a risinrr yonnir lawyer) Where do you keep yourself after tlark, nowuilays? I never see you at the theaters or in the club rooms. Mr. Frank Cotirtlanrl (a society man) Iletween ourselves, in the strictest confidence. I devote five evenings of the week in calling on a lady whom I hope to lead to the altar one of these fine days. Charley (with the air of a man who has been there many a time) You don't tell me so? Ain't you rather overdoing the conrtin? lmsiness? Xow, I am pay iiijr addresses to Miss Ilondclipper, ami, In-intf in S4ciety, I umlerstand what's in prnxl form, but it never occurs to me to call more than twice a week. I really think that's as often as she carea to see me. Frank (earnestly) That's often enough when you are courtiny a young girl, hut the object of my aspirations is a widow. When it comes to court ing a widow, like advertising, you can't overdo it. I know what I am doing. Charley So she is a widow? If it is not a leading question 1 should like to ask what is the name of the discon solate female whose bereavement you are trying to mitigate. Frank The lady in the case is Mrs. Van Slyck, on Fifth avenue. Charley (very much surprised) I don't wonder at the frequency of voir visits. Old Van Slyck must have left her over half a million. She is a charm ing lady, and deserves a good husband after all she went through with that old graven image. I always heard she was badgered into marrying him by her mother, who was after his money. Frank Were you acquainted with my late predecessor that is, if the widow does not change her mind? Charlie I knew him only by sight, but my old chum, Tommy Vanderclaim, knew the family very well, and he told me all alont their married life. Old Van Slyck was more than double his wife's age. and as ugly as a crazy quilt. He had a falsetto voice and a false set of teeth, no hair on his head and was bow legged besides. He was insanely and alsurdly jealous of his handsome young wife, and made her miserable. I hiring the last few months of his wretched life he liecame morbid and morose, shut himself up in his study and refused to allow anylnidy except his Knglish valet, Thomas to come near hiia. If his widow was glad when he died and wants to marry again no body can blame her. Has the happy day leen fixed? Frank (with a deep sigh) No, it has not, and that is what worries . me. Carrie loves me dearly and has consent ed to become my wife, but v henever I ask her to fix the dite she hedges fir some mysterious reason that I cannot quite comprehemL She seems to have some secret trouble on her mind. Charlie Haven't you got any idea what it is? Frank I have a vague idea that she is superstitious and that she imagines that her late husband visits the prem ises. He threatened to haunt the house if she ever married again. Do you be lieve in spirits? Charlie (sipping his wine) Yes, if they are old anil of the right brand; but, putting jesting aside, the fact that ghosts never show themselves except by a dim light and oniy to one person at a time completely gives thein away. What shape does old Van Slyck take? Frank I can't flnd out Carrie that is. Airs. Van Slyck does not care to talk much about it. "All I know is that the dread of being haunted by old Van Slyck's ghost prevents her fixing the date for our marriage. Perhaps she is preparing to fire me out of her affections. Charlie I don't think you need en tertain any apprehensions. She is probably enjoying the sport of playing her fish before she lands him. Some day she will rope you in as the widow Chadizah did Mohammed. The v'.ctim may struggle against fate, but all at once he sinks into the matrimonial sea with a bubblin;' Toan "and all is over. Frank (ferve;ily) I hope so. Charlie If I were in vour place I'd investigate any spiritualistic mani festations that materialize. Some rival of yours may te putting up a littlo game on you. Put Inspector Ityrnes on his track. Well, I have an engage ment (Exit Mr. Charles Knicker bocker.) Scene II (interior of the parlor of the Van Slyck mansion) Mr. Frank Courtland aud Mrs. Van Slyck are seen in earnest conversation. Frank (despairingly) Will you not tell me, Carrie, why you treat me so cruelly? Why did you entourage me as you have done, when now you tell me we must part forever? Carrie (tearfully but firmly) I can not marry you, Mr. Courtland. A voice from the tomb forbids it. Frank A voii.f, did you say? Carrie Not precisely a voice, but a letter. I receive letters continually fri;n my late husbar.d. Frank (laughing grimly) I suppose 'HE IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TBCTH EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 18, IS91. thej' come from the dead letter ol ice. So he writes you letters and you are correspondingly unhappy. What wretched nonsense! Why trifle with me in this way? Carrie I am Dot trifl'ng, Frank. Here is a letter in his handwriting posted yesterday f i urn the spirit world. I have received them regularly ever since you began visiting here. I have had them examined by the lest experts in handwriting and compared with letters of ay late husband, and they say these ghostly letters are written by the same hand. Hesides, in some of the letters are secrets known only by my late husband and myself. Frank takes the letter aud reads: "I write th.'se lines from the spirit world to let you know, faillile.-.4 woman, that everything you do. say or think is known to m. You want to marry airiin. If you do aomethini; dreadful will bap pen. Ik ware: Your luu-hu-band, "Pkimg Vax Si.vnc. Carrie So yon see I dare not marry again. There is no mistake alut the letter. There is the envelope with the New York postmark, station I). I dare say he is in the room right now. Frank (with clinched teeth) I wish, he was. I'd make him wish he was not. Carrie, is this the only obstacle to oub union? Carrie (blushing, with averted face) Y-e-s. Frank Then I'll clear this mystery up in short order. Just let me have that letter and envelope. And now farewell. (Exit Frank, after pro longed osculation.) Scene III (private office of Inspector Ityrnes) There are present the in spector, Frank Courtland and an Kng-lish-looking servant in liveries with mutton chop whiskers. The latter is on his knees and weeps bitterly. Inspector Ilyrnes (fixing his eagle eyes on the wretched culprit) ;iow make a clean breast of it or it will be the worse for you. Mutton Chops (wringing his hands) Indeed, sir, I'm hinnjeetit as a bale hunborn. I never saw old Shakespeare at hall. I ham no Frer.chy No. 2 but an Englishman. I never butchered hanylxxly. - Inspector (sternly) I've learned enough alout that. Nobody accuses you of murder, but you hail better tell all alxmt this letter from your late master, Mr. Van Slyck, which was put in the lettor 1hx by yourself. Did you write it yourself?j Mutton Chops Mr. Van Slyck wrote those letter hisself. sir hindeed he diL Inspector (still more sternly) When? Mutton Chops Ilcfore he died, sir. Frank Ah! I suspected as much. Inspector (soothingly) Come, now, just tell us all about it. Mutton Chops (in a confidential whis per! Well, sir, tor a montli before ne died. Mr. Van Slyck did nothing but write letters to his wife, threatening her hif she married again. He said to me that he lelievel his widdy would try to marry some young fool, who is after her money. (Frank squirms). Says he to me, if you see hany of them long eared doods 'eie courtin' my widdy hufter I ham dead and gone, just you keep hon postin' these letters till she gets hafraid and tells im to stay away. As sion as this young gentleman came to the 'ouse I began postin the letters. I was hafraid if my mistress married this young gent and I seed for Xnyself she was hawfully gone on im I might le discharged and lose my place. I've got 'art a bushel more of the hold gen tleman's letters in a box, sir. (Frank becomes delirious with, joy, shakes the inspector's hand and even embraces Mutton Chops, after which he darts out of the otlice and is lost to sight). The following item has since ap peared in the society column of a lead- ing New York jMiper: The rumor that the beantifnl and wealthy Mrs. Van Slyck has broken her entrapment with that dashing society man, Mr. Frank Courtland, Is now authoritatively denied. In fact, it lspenerally understood that the wed dinir will take place within a short time, and will lie one of the mort maenitlt-ent affair of the kind New York bus ever witueas.'d. The newly-married couple wiU spend their honey moon in Kurope." Alex H Sweet, in N. Y. Herald. COUNTRY GIRLS IN THE CITY. They look for Social Life Which Tb,-y Can Ueat Knjoy ait Home. 'I have heard country girls talk of coming to the city for employment," says a lady writer in the Cincinnati Commercial-tlazette, "and they have given as one reason that they wanted more social life. Well, that is just what they will not get. The woman of busi ness is not a woman of leisure, and she has no time for society. She will find more social life in her own home, even if she be a worker, than she could ever have in the city, and there is no lone someness more absolute than the lone liness of a stranger in a crowd. Sal aries are not large enough to permit of such relaxation in the way of recrea tion, and after the day's work is over one is too tired to go in search of enjoy ment. 'In the country home, in these ilays. the daily papers and magazines come, so that one may keep in touch with the world, even if she le at one side of the bustle and confusion of city life. The fashion article tells her how to dress her hair and make her gown: gives her the latest notion in small toilet details. Few towns are so small that they have no public library, where all the new books come; and the lecture and concert are not infrequent in visits. Railways and telegraphs have brought the cor ners of the earth together, so that one is never far from the center of things. There is occupation, too, for the girls who stay at home, and particularly those who stay in the country. Do not throng to the cities in search of employ ment, for you will be doomed to disap pointment. " . Cold (rernliouses. A Oerman horticultural journal says that one of the latest inventions in medicine is the use of cold greenhouses in tropical countries as a means of com bating yellow fever. This disease, it states, can le conquered if one removes to those elevated regions in which oaks will grow. This fact, says Garden and Forest, recently inspired a celebrated Cuban physician with the idea of reduc ing the temperature of sick rooms by artificial means, and wonderful cures resulted. Now it is proposed that, in districts liable to the epidvmic, each town shall erect a great glass house in which plants of cold and temperate regious may lc grown, the temperature being artificially cooled instead of heat ed, as in our greenhouses, and that they shall le devoted to, the treatment of patients bUfiering from the fever. MAKES FREE AJiD ALL. ABE SLATES BESIDE.' TWO YYEIiE MLSSLNtf. A Clover Thief s Work and How He Was Captured. CHAPTER V One 'moming about ten o'clock a St. Petersburg money lender and mer chant was seated in his shop trying to devise some means of investing a con siderable surplus which a creditor hail just paid him. At that time the money market w as dull and it was with great ditliculty that capitalists could keep their funds profitably employed. As he was meditating upon various projects and lecoming more and more di -contented with the thought of his idle money the carriage of lien. Ior goli. driven by his coachman in livery, stopped in front of the shop. The gen eral, one of the handsomest men in .St. Petersburg and one of the bravest soldiers in the army, alighted and bur ned into the presence of the money ender. 'Can I have a few words with you in private?" asked the general. Certainly," said the banker. "This way, if you please." They stepped into the private office of the banker, whereupon the general, without further preliminaries, said: "I suppose you know who I am Gen. (iorgoli and superintendent of police." 'Certainly, yonr excellency," re plied the banker. "Well. 1 need immediately, for a very important affair, the sum of 2.1.- 000 roubles. I am too far from the minister of the exchequer to procure it; for a delay will ruin everything. Iive me the 25.0 roubles I leg of you: come to-morrow morning to my resi dence and I will give you the security for them." "I am delighted for the favor,' re plied the banker. "I shall 1h; only too lmppy to accommodate you with this sum, or even more." "Very well, then loan me thirty thousand." 'Here they are, my lord," he said,, counting them out. "Thanks! To-morrow, then, at nine o'clock, at nine o'clock." The next morning, according to ap pointment, the banker presented him self at the house of (ion. (torgoli. who received him with his usual affability. 'The banker, exchanging the compli ments of the day, waited for the gen ral to open up the business on which the visitor hail come. IWit instead of doing so, the general was silent and stood in an expectant attitude, now gazing at his caller, now looking out of the window. Hut hearing nothing from the visitor, he finally said: "What can I do for j-ou?" The question greatly embarrassed the banker, but he managed to stammer: "I have come, sir " "I see you have," coldly replied the general. This intimidated and alarmed the banker. He Wgan to fear that the gen eral was a seo.indrt-I who had levied this large amount of money upon him and which he did not intend to repay. He began to fear the knout, or impris onment, or banishment to Siberia for his presumption in demanding his own. Nevertheless he could not afford to lose uch a sum. He might as well le ex led as lose his fortune. So he loldly said: "I have come for the money you bor rowed yesterday." "And pray, sir, who are you that dares to accuse me of borrowing money?" "I am Anton Truvouski, merchant anil money-lender, N. Grand Million stret- You came to my place of busi ness yesterday morning. You said that an important official affair railed for an immediate loan of 2.",o:K roubk-s. I handed you S0.000, which you took away, telling me to call on you this morning for your acknowledgment and ample securities for the loan. I have done so. I do not understand the mo tive of your denial. You surely do not wish to ruin me." The general said nothing, but locked hard and cold and sterri. The banker grew pale, for he saw in the determined look of the police officer a purpose not to acknowledge the debt, but rather, perhaps to use his arbitrary power to put his claimant and accuser out of the way. Suddenly the official turned and rang for his servant. "Order my carriage!" he said. He put on the familiar gray coat with a big collar by which he was so well known in St. Petersburg. "What was the color of the horse that was in the carriage yesterday?" he asked the merchant. "It was a chestnut, my lord." 'Have the chestnut harnessed," he said to the servant. "Repeat your story, if you please, omitting no detail whatever." The merchant wpnt carefully over it again. "Your carriage is ready, your excel lency," said the servant, entering. "I will ask you to remain here until 1 return," said the general to the mer chant. Quitting the room, descending the stairs to the street and getting into his drowsky he drove away. The suspense of the merchant was terrible. He sat down bnt in half a minute rose again; walked the room; looked out the window; sat in another chair; once more got up; went to the door; looked out; saw no one, heard no one; but kept hoping, wishing fiw a solution to this mysterious affair. Should the police officer keep the money and not even accuse the banker of blackmail or attempted extortion there was only a life of toil, poverty and disgrace before him. In his desperation he began even to contemplate it. He involuntarily looked around the room to see if there was anything valuable or a place for concealing anything valuable which he might lay hands on by way of resti tution. It was a bare official apart ment with ordinary chairs, s long ta ble and a writing cabinet furnished with drawers and pigeon holes. lie stealthily approached it and carefully opened the drawers. Two of the twelve were locked. The rest con-' tained only official papers and docu ments. He had several of his own keys in his pockets. He tried them one aft er another in the drawers. One of them turned the lock in the upper drawer. It too was full of papers. He took two or three of them up and looked at thern. They were reports of various cases that had come under the super vision of the police general. On one of them was indorsed the name of the richest nobleman in the empire. A b 8I.SO and sudden but base thought struck the desperate merchant; he would read it anil by means of the information ex tort money from the nalxb compro mised in it. lint he hesitated; he fum bled the little package, liegan opening it, then stopped and tried to peer into its folds. Suddenly the stopping of a carriage in the street below arrested him. It might be the general. A dr below jarred. He thrust the papers into the drawer, and had barely time to lock it again and seat himself at the window when the police general, striding at a hot pace, entered the room. ciiaptki: II. Inthrse days a line of sentinels was established at the corner.-, of all the principal streets, who formed a part of the police force of the city. On leaving his house tiorgoli ordered himself driven to the block in which the jew eler's shop was situateiL Stopping at the nearest sentinel's box. he said to him: "I passed here yesterday morning at I0::i0 o'clock. Did you see me?" "Yes, your excellency." " here did I go?" "Over to the Troitski (Trinity) bridge." The general was driven to the bridge. At its entrance he said to the sentinel: "I passed here at twenty minutes to eleven yesterday morning. Did you see us?" "I did, yonr excellency." "Where did I go from here?' "Your excellency drove across the bridge." He drove across the briige and stopped in front of the "Hermitage" of Peter the Great. The sentinel at once stepped out of his bo'x. "I pas.d here yesterday morning at a little before eleven o'clock. Did you notice the way I took?" "You went to the Viborg quarter, your excellency." Gen. Gorgoli continued his catechiz ing of the sentinels from pnint to point, street to street, neighborhood to neigh borhood, across bridges and along Hie wifle avenues. At the last of the row of shops on the Grand Perspective he said to one of them: "You saw me pass here at half past eleven yesterday morning. Did you notice where I drove?" "Yes, your excellency, to No. 18 on the corner of the Canal Catherine." "Did I go in there?" "Yes." "And come out again?" "I did not see you." "Very welL Have yourself relieved by one of your comrades and bring two soldiers from the nearest barracks." "Yes, your excellency." The sentinel nnrried away and in ten minutes returned with the soldiers. Accompanied by them the general pre sented himself at No. IS, closed all the outside doors, cross-examined the por ter, ascended the stairs and without ceremony burst open the dour of the fr.:it room. A lie entered he came face to face with the inmate who, tut for hi hair, which was dark, might have Ikh'ii the twin brother of the po lice general. After one glance around the room, he said to the lodger: "Your name is ?" "Yes," stammered the man. "Yesterday at ten o'clock you en tered the shop. No. Grand Million. You wore a yellow curled wig re sembling my hair: you had on a gray coat with a heavy collar like mine; you drove up in a carriage like mine, with a chestnut colored horse like mine. In fact, you pretended to be (iorgoli, chief of police, and in my name to bor row S0.0OO roubles for which I was to give security. You drove " away, through many streets, across several bridges. laek and forth until you ar rived at this house. You are a notor ious thief and pickpcket, who cun ningly took advantage of your acci dental resemblance to me, to rob the banker of a good p rtion of his for tune. You have it here. Hand it over! Give m that yellow wig which I see sticking out from under the gray coat which yesterday formed a part of your disguise!" Perceiving that he had been effectual-, ly entrapped the thief went to a closet behind the chimney and took down the bag of gold, which he handed to the chief vf police, saying: "I have spent two." Iorgoli counted them, found them correct, handed the cu'prit over to the police, who carried him off to prison, while the general hastened back to his house. To the immense and natural delight of the banker, who had him self just come so near leing tempted by his losses intx the commission of a crime, he passed out to him the familiar canvass bag. With a cry of joy and as tonishment at its restoration the bank er seized it, but was so overcome by his feelings that he stared helplessly at the police official, asking for an ex planation. Count them!" said the general, taming to his table and beginning to write. The merchant eagerly undid the strings of the bag and feverishly emp tied its contests upon the table. He began counting them, putting them back into the bag as he did so. At last he said: "Two roubles are missing. "That is strange." "What is strauge? That there should be so few gone?" "Neither. Hut that the thief should tell the exact truth. They seldom do. He said he had spent two." "Then you have captured him?" "He is now in prison." "How did you get him so quickly? It is hardly an hour since you de parted." The general told him. Detroit Free ress " The Willing FatienU Mulge (who has sworn off) Doctor, I stepped on a banana peel and re ceived a pretty hard fall. I am afraid I have broken my wrist. Dr. llowless Let me see. No, these is nothing broken. Just bathe yonr wrist in whisky four or five times a day and you will be all rigfifA Mudge Er doctor, hadn't I better be carefully examined for inte.naT lu xuries, too? Indianapoiis .lournaL Too Much Activity. Real Estate Dealer So you've teen in Gawtemala, have you? Is there any activity in real estate down there Returned Traveler You bet there is. The day before I bailed there was an earthquake ih&t made toe O .ii country tkip iTrouud. postage per year In advance. NUMBER 30. A SUDDEN SHOWER. Barefooted horn send up the street. Or scurry umW slK lt'rinc fticds ; And school;ri!l laces, pale aad sweet. Gleam from the shaal about their heads. Ioors hanp: and mother voices call From alicu homes; and rusty rate Are Kljrrmr.l. and hiph nliove it all Tbe thund.T prim rvverlrfrates. And then, abrupt, the rain, the rain ! The earth Ilex t-:tln; aud the eyes HW:!nd the Mtr.'a::iiii window pane Smile at the trouMe of the skies. The bleb way smokes; sharp echoes ring; TUe cattle bawl ami cox l. -ils clunk; And into town com- ea lojiitis The farmer's horse with steaming flank. The swallow dlj bencnt'i the eaves. And tiirts Li ph.-.m' an 1 lol.ls hi wtngf"; Aud und r th- catawLa leaven Tile caterpillar curl and cliiiKS. The bnmld.-rvc i, pelted down The wet it-m of the hollyhock; And sullenly in i-paitwre 1 brown The cricket leaps ihe garden walk. Within, the b:;by claps h!s hands And crows with rapture Ktranfje and varue; Without, beneath the rose-bush Hands A .lriimiiur ro.,ter on .r.e ler. -James Whitcomb Kiley. in Savannah News. L0XD0X TO XEW YORK. The Joke Played on an American Photographer La England. This is a story of the Camera club. The Camera club in London, as every lody may not know, has now fine new premises near Charing Cross, ever so many stories high, of red brick outside and filled with dark rooms and all s. u ts of luxuries inside. Among other things which the new building has which tint old had not, Ls a telephone, which stands in the lower hall for the use of the memiHTs. When a London club attains the lux ury of a telephone it at once takes rank among the lea lnig institutions of the. kind in the metrop lis. This story is the narrative of the fraudulent use of that telephone bj one of the mcmers, .Mr. Pyrogellic H. Ivinone, and as I have brought the mat ter to the attention f the committee, and as th-y have done nothing t.i pun ish Mr. Kinone, I think it only right to make the whole thing public. I do not think that a telephone is put in a club hall for deceiving an innocent New Yorker. Pyro, as we call him for short, is a very popular member of the Camera club. Perhaps that is why they do not deal with him as he deserves. He was over in America a year or so ago and the Camera club of New York treated him very nicely indeed. It seemed, however, that Mr. Hiram Waddell. of New York, played some sort of a joke on Kinone, a sell of some kind, aud so Kinone swore to be even with him. Not long ago he met Waddell on the Strand and took him t'p to the dub, where thvy had a long tails over New York matters in general, and he in vited Wad.lcll to lunch with hint at the club the next day at a certain hour. Mr. Kinone asked about all the pho tographic Imvs in New York, and among others of John L. Vain. Pyro' nd liked Vain very mucn and he asked Waddell if there was any chance of his being over this summer. Waddell said there wasn't the slight est. John V. was interested in some big thing out west; he had seen him just liofnre sailing and Vain hail said he wished he could get over to Loudon this summer, but couldn't. Shortly after this conversation Pyro was down at the Hotel Metropole, when who should he run against but John L. Vain. "Mess my soul!" he said; "London is full of Americans. I was just talk ing altout you yesterday. I nirt Wad dell on the Strand and took him tip to the club, and I was asking if there was any chance of you coming over, and he said there wasn't: that you were going out west." "Oh." said Vain janntily. "1 fixed that out west lmsiness all right and I've come over to syudie-ite it if I can. Just got in to-day. Where's Waddell staying, do you know?" "He is staying down at the Royal," answered Pyro. Well, I must call in and see him. I saw him just In-fore he saileL" "So he saiL Look here. Vain, I want to fix up a sell on Waddell. You rememlK-r the one hi got off on mc in New York. We are going to have a lunch at the Camera club to-morrow. Couldn't you join us?' "I will be most happy," said Vain. "Well, then. 1 11 get him up there about one o'clock. Can you l? at the telephone here at the Mtropole at one o'clock to-morrow?" "Certainly." Weil, I'll call you up and turn yov on to Waddell, and make him believt we have got a telephone line from hert to New York. Do you understand' You think over it and fill him up. I will le a good story to tell the toy when you get back." "I'll do it," said Vain, heartily, am he did. Kinone was to meet Waddell at Low' exchange, and they walked together t the club. "I've just been over telephoning t Paris," said Kinone. "Have you see: about the Paris telephone?" "Oh, yes, I read about it. Still, w do longer distance telephoning thai that in America, you know." "Ah, yes! but this Paris line, yoi understand, goes under the channel." "Well, I don't sec that that matter much, does it? I believe that we te.le phone from New York to Chicago sometimes." "Yes I presume you do. Still, of course, that's all nothing to the At lantic telephone from here to New York." "Telephone? Cable, you mean." "No, 1 mean telephone." "Thunder! I never heard of a tele phone unler the ocean." "Oh, you're lx-hind the age. You've been out of A meriea for a week. You are not up to the latest snap in elec tricity. Didn't you hear anything of Edison's new telephone before you left America?" "Oh! Edison's new telephone is an old thing, but I never heard of any at tempt to telephone across the At lantic." "Attempt! Great heavens! You arc not so far behind the lighthouse as all that, are you. Waddell.' Why. bless me, -ou can ring up New .York from any telephone iu the city!" "Olu you can't expect me "to believe that." said WaddelL "JJcliovo it or not, as you like, I sup pose if seeing i.-, U-I;e .h.g, l.e.r!.:g is Advertising Ilatos. Tbe lsrvrcand rel Dle;cirultlcn of tl e :.. BKJA Ksjkkvah cmoim4l it to the tevr.ru ti'? consideration of dTrrtlvern whoce favoi will t t inserted at th following low mw: 1 lar-h. S trcrt .. .(1.1 1 Inrb, 3 month.. . 1 Inch, fl nioatur 1 Inch . I year 2 Inches, 6 months........ - ' 2 Inches, 1 year............... 10 -v S Inches, t months .. . n " t Inchon. I year 12 - t-f coin run 6 months.... ............... JO ' comma, o tnuniop...... ...... e itama, 1 year s. column, e roonms. ....... ...... 1 column. I Tear............... " C- Business item, first Insertion, lUe. par !'r faboeijaent Insertions, ft pr I'oo Administrator's and Executor Notice.. 2 K Auditor' Notices Stray and simitar Nitlooa aT-Keailution or proceed lnio' o4 any vrp.f tlon or aorlety and eonisiaolcatlona devlvned I rail attention to any natter ol Incited or In Tidoal Interert noM t paid lor a advertisetDrE : Hw.i and Job Krlntln.t of all klndf neatly iri exeatou"!? exerated at the loweat price. An" don't yoo lorget It. MwnMM....HSwwa....Mwn la-lieving as well. Here we are a, the club. I will ring up Nov York and you can tell me the mmes oi any of your friends you want tocot; miuiicate w ith." "Oh, this is ridiculous," said Wad del L Pyro made no answer but he rung up the telephone. "Give lue No. l."GS.'' That was given him. "Hello; switch me on to New York, will you? t'sing the line? Well. I'l. wait a moment Yes yes all right give me New York New York ":ty. Is that New York? 1 say, is that New York? All right." Now, then, w hom shall I call up?" he sai'l. turning to Wad.k-lL Waddell was sMHfhlrh. "Tell me any of your friends; where's who's your partner, by the way?" Waddell gave the name of Ids part ner. And then he shouted: "Give me Waddell A. Co., Waddell X Co. Is Mar tin there? Oil, not come down yet: all right." "Not come down, nonsense." said Waddell. "This is after one o'clock." "AIl. but you must remember it is a great deal earlier in New York. Say, what is Vain's address? Where's hi place of business?" "On Uroadway. Harrison &. Vain, you know." "Say, give mn Harrison ,t Vain Harrison t- Vain. Jtroadway I don't know the iiumWr Yes is that Har rison .t Vain? This is Lon don. Yes. England, of course. Is Mr. Vain there? Well, would you just ask him to step to the telephone for a moment? WelL tell him Mr. Waddell, in London, wants to speak with him. Tell him he'll only keep him a moment. At his letters? Well, never mind that. You tell him that we can't hold the line here all day. Ask him to come to the phone. (th. i that you, Mr. Vain? This is Pyro Kinone, cf London. Yes Waddells here. -VS11 you speak to him? Certainly. "Here you are, Mr. Waddell," and the astonished Waddell put the receiver to his ca-. "Hello, Waddell. is that you?" Raid the voice over the wire, "How did you get over? Have a nice passage?" Great heavens Vain!" he said, "You don't mean to tell me that that's you!" "Yes can't you recognize the voice?" "Yes, by .love I do. Sity, I wouldn't lelieve this was possible." "Oh, we've had this goingfora week. Just started it after you left. Didn't 3ou he.ir alxnit it?" "No, I heard nothing 8lont it. How did that western speculation of yours turn out?" "Oh, all right. 1 was out west just after you left and fixed things up most satisfactorily. Going to wake some money out of that." 'Why I can hear you as plainly as if 1 were talking from your otlice on Wall street," "Yes it seems to work first-rate that invention of Edison's is a great thing. I met Edison this morning, he was in town early, and he tells me that he believes he is going to knock out telegraphing altogether. "Well, 1 Wlieve he w ill, if it's as suc cessful as all this comes to." Then Vain pumped him full to his horror about a great number of fail ures in New York, of men that he knew and men that he was in intimate as-MK-iation with. His jaw dropped as he listened. "lly gosh," York's going he said to Pyro, "New to smasli. I'll have to get back." "Well, not In-fore lunch, anyhow. Ring Vm off and we'll come up and have Hindi.' So they went up together into the dining-room. "Well, I can't get over that,' said Wad.lcll. "that Wats the old Harry." "Oh. American invention is a wonder- ' ful thing, you know," answered Pyro. Just at that moment the waiter said: "There is a gentleman here asking for Mr. Kinone," lli, yes ask him to come in," said Pyro and in walked John L. Vain. "Hello, Waddell, he said, "how aliout transatlantic telephoning? I guess I rather set you tip on failures didn't I?" "You two villains," cried Waddell; "but hang it, I'm relieved to find that things arc not so bad as I thought, I guess Kinone, this is my treat. It'a an English invention that is the won derful thing this time," Luke Sharp, in Detroit Free Iress MEN WHO WEAR CORSETS. More) of Thrai Than the Pnl.lic lfa Any 1 tlvm of, Ssy m lto-aler. A good-looking young man who dropped his cane on Sixth avenue a few evenings since, evidently experienced great difficulty in stooping to pick it up. "That fellow wears corsets" remarked a gentleman. Inquiry at a store where such things are sold, says the New York News, showed that the gentleman's re mark was probably true. "A large number of young men in this city wear corsets" said the clerk in charge of t hat department. "Indeed. yu have not the slightest idea how many wear thum. They are worn for various purposes. Stout men wear them to rcdu-e corpu lency, stoop-shouldered men so that they will walk erect and widen their chests, and other men in the hope that they will thus gain a handsome figure. "Men's corsets can le had from three to twenty-live dollars according t the means and inclination of the purchaser. They are made of the same material, except that whalebone is substituted for steel, as a woman's corset, but arts somewhat different in shape, lcing like a ten-inch belt curved to fit over the hips. They lace in the back and are tightened in' front by means of clastic bands. They are much easier than braces, and hence are more popular. Indeed. I lelieve, it is only a quest km of a few years when corsets will be commonly worn by men."' A Vatlietlc It coord. The ex-Empress Kugcnie, during her recent visit to France, wut, called ujnm to fill tip a census pajn-r. She tuado the entries in her own handwriting, made tremulous by rheumatism, and there is a great deal of history and no little pathos in the brief record: "Coua tese tin Pierrcfoiid (Marie Eugenie), age C4: born at Grenada. Spain; uatural Lied Frem-h; a widow, had one. child a son; lives on her ineotnc; of uo profes sion or bu-iness: a sojourner iu France; lives usually in England; is traveling v.'il'i tA'o friends nd f ;.r se.rvt,;... '
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