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TARZAN OF THE APES
ml.,, HI inn A ftli01i1-lfino -P n.. . .
ie x hi in i" u -.to vi U rrimevai man
ana an American Uirl
by A.
By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
C MeClurg company.
(.it !
Wl., Interested In the location
'"counter, for ho Judged that that
ln .- Thr.nK -who wetO
toon e ov';' ,
t, could not eld, thooe who ca
td not need hl assistance
",5 . .!. i, t.tiatnnarl. And
.. capa mv ""
"...,. t. -n,,i1l And them by tho
' yjoil I" th0 ccntra of MbonBa'8
P iws had Tarzan seen MbongfL's
P".W. ?,n1 Mrtle. return from the
iw "i uh nrlsoners. and always
same scenes enacted about that
"". .it- il. nni mit llcrhft nf
. . hnnin liiu tiuniih - w
i A"! too, that they seldom lost
fee .'; lrn COnsummatlmr the
Wh ." . f their captures. He
5i. mose of their captures, ile
"5 ffuha would arrive In time to
9lmJH!!t, had looked with complacency
,r?t,V former orgies, only occasion
&n tWT '.";-. i?. nlo.llr nf half,
ftrKS?: h,t heretofore their vie
.P.'JTwn men of their own color.
JS?i ..rftrlnfi for the pleasure of
e&UbK " heretofore thel.
11,8 ... tern men or meir own coior.
'.d. 1.'". dlrterent-whlto men.
J1 JfTarzan's own race-might bo oven
'fIViMW the agonies of torture In
I"! trim Jungle fortress.
Mill Kni" J""B'"..- i.j .il. ..j .
5. ined,
VII - Vi-U
DlI
Night had fallen and he
nlonir tho Upper terrace
ill "
3?'" .w nrrnous tropic moon lighted
. aiitr pathway through the gently
&Ittln branches of the tree tops.
KAntly he caught tho reflection of a
yfaMl It lay to tho right of his
IS It must bo tho light from the
P'rr.J ih two men had built before
CwYre attackcd-Tarzan know nothing
87h weunce of tho sal ors
rei mrt was Tarzan of his Jungle knowl
U? that he did not turn from his course,
kt Vaiied the glare at o. distance of a
lit mile. " wns tho campfiro ot 'he
la"! Tew' minutes mora Tarzan swung
irtfl tli trees above Itbonga's villago.
TtT h ws not quite too latol Or. was
Q Ha could not tell. The nguro at tho
Stfe wm very still, yet the black war
Hen were but pricking It.
Ttrn knew their customs. Tho death
Haw had not been struck. Ho could tell
almost to mlnuto how far tho danco
i la another Instant Mbonga's knlfo would
'lew one of tho victim's cars that would
fcuk th beginning of tho end,, for very
"ibortly after only a writhing Anaos of
mutilated flesh would remain.
There would still bo llfo In It, but death
then would be the only charity It craved.
The itake stood 40 feet from tho nearest
.tree. Tarzan coiled his rope. Then there
rou wddenly above the fiendish cries of
the dancing demons the awful challenge
d the ape-man.
.The ameers nouea as mougn turnea
"to itone.
, The rope sped with singing whir high
libore .rne heads of tho blacks. It was
ulte Invisible In the flaring lights of
the camp fires.
L'D'Arnot opened his eyes. A huge black,
itindtar directly before him, lunged
ihekward as though felled by an ln
ftiilble hand".
Ing Into tears frr the first time since they
t!AE? T' Upon thls h,a0U8 !
venturous slioro
.TM0,r, ro,ter Etrovo manfully to
"JT hls CW1 emotions, but tho strain
upon his nerves and weakened vitality
.? uf I'if 'ace Into the girl's sheW
Jane Vn0Mb.td.qJ,"Sljr llke a tlrcd child.
nrt ii,r " 'ud hlm t0Wftrd 'he cabin,
Sf. , uMcl 8evdral ot their fellows
vero advanclnsr to meet them.
.i&2-' 1,v,8h,JnB to leave father and
n.i ." Sre' 3alVld the 8allora and "
ma ned taiklnB with the omcers until
; fcifi. oai .pl"lcd away toward the cruiser
whither Lieutenant Charpentler was
bound to report the unhappy outcome of
his adventure
Then Clayton turned back slowly to
ward the cabin. Ills heart was filled with
happiness. The woman ha loved was
safe.
Ho wondered bv what manner of mira
cle she had been spared To see her allvo
seomed nlmwjt unbelievable
As ho npproached the cabin he saw Jane
Porter coming out. When she saw him
she hurried forward to meet him
"Jane!" he cried, "God has been good
to us, indeed Tell me how you escaped
what form Providence took to sao jou
for us."
He had never before called her by her
given name Forty-eight hours before it
would have surf used Jnno Porter with a
soft glow of pleasure to have heard that
name from Clayton's lips now It fright
ened her
"Mr. Clayton," she said quietly, ex
tending her hand, "first let me thank
you for your chivalrous lojalty to my
dear father Ho has told me how noblo
and self-sacrificing you have been. How
can wo ever repay jou?"
Clayton noticed that she did not re
turn his familiar salutation, but he felt
no mlBgtvlngs on that score. She had
been through so much This was no
time to force his love upon her, ho quick
ly realized.
"I am already repaid," ho said. "Just
to see you and Professor Porter both
safe, well, and together again. I do not
think that I could much longer havo en
dured tho pathos of his quiet and un
complaining grief.
"It was tho saddest experience of my
life. Miss Porter; and then, added to It,
there was my own grlof tho greatest I
havo over known. But his was so hope
less It was pitiful. It taught me that
no love, not oven that of a man for his
wife may bo so deep and terrlblo and
self-sacrificing as tho lovo of a father
for his daughter."
Tho girl bowed hor head Thero was n
question she wanted to nsk, but It seemed
almost sacrilegious In tho face of tho
lovo of these two men, and tho terrible
suffering they had endured whllo she sat
laughing and happy beside a god-Ilka
creature of tho forest, eating delicious
fruits and looking with eyes ot lovo Into
answering eyes.
But love Is a strango master, and hu
man nature Is still stranger, so she askeJ
her question, though sho was not coward
enough to attempt to Justify herself to
her own conscience. She felt self-hate,
but she asked her question nevertheless.
"Whero Is the forest man who went to
THE GIRL WHO HAD-NO GOD
BY
MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
i
An Unusual Story of Unusual People
Begins in the Evening Ledger
on Saturday
1
Strtir&llng and shrieking, his body, roll
bt from aide to side, moved quickly
toward the shadows beneath the trees
Ta h1-Va (V.U d.,Aa nmtMliHn. In
. V H.rVB, ..lb,, UJVO J..W.I UU...O ...
lienor, watched spell-bound.
" Once beneath the trees, the body rose
'jjtnlfht Into the air, and as it disap
peared Into the foliage above, the terrl
rCed Negroes, screaming -with fright,
ilroke Into a mad race for the village
ntt,
' Wraot was left alone.
,. 1.-0 a uturo man, uui no jmu ic.i
tt short hairs brlstlo upon the nape of
a necx when that uncanny cry rose
iwn the air. S.
the wrlthlnc bodv of the black
lowed, as though by unearthly power,
iBtO the dpnA fnffflv nf !,.. f.rBt
Mrnot felt an Icy shiver run along his
Me, aa though death had risen from
jtrk grave and laid a cold and clammy
w on his flesh.
'. D'Arnot watched the spot where the
, wy had entered the tree he heard the
n?iot wovnnt there.
The branches swayed as though under
s weight of a. man's body there waa
...St ans th bIack came sprawling to
;S, .t5alB-to J' very quietly where he
M4 fallen.
baaedlately after him came a white
Mr, but this one alighted erect.
Mnot e&w a clean-limbed young giant
jrifrom the shadows Into the flre-K-Wk..
Pm quickly toward him.
ftWhat could jt mean? Who could It be7
Vfflt new rn.l,,.. - --i .a.
V,.w.. r . -'tla v- iuimro tutu uo-
Kjetlon. doubtless.
--Arnot waited. Hli v n.v.r ift
- of the advancing man. Nor did
sfii.58 clear y8 wver beneath
jwmot waa reaaaurori. fif .tin with.
c?p8 though he felt that that
niHV l miuK a cru heart.
JstLm "i? iuffrinE and loss of blood.
iaifc.r . YT al,en but for the strong
un r;uni h"n.
IIt .himself lifted from tho ground.
fa hlrJ f ,enatlon as of flying, and
Iq l, consciousness.
CHAPTER XXTT
TH5 SEAncM TAWTV
W dawn KiwL.. a. ...... .
TiiitbZ. . v wn vno uiuo camp
Bewhata In tll8 hean of tha junle t
r JL! ".nd disheartened group.
& tnir-S .& ouSh to see
t ij.7 " " ijieuienant unarpen-
"jalnut.. 7. 'UKw we trail, ana in
to v. I' wa" found m1 the expe.
- -utryujjr oaolt toward the
lTo'f 'J W?lt' Jy bor the
Of iX daJ - ..- u i.,.,i
. s - -!.., bnvj .wa HftlWB
' uunny ttM night, and several
9 111) WlIM tvniitiitail irannlprl
1At?ln even very slowly,
tntler hart j..i... .. :.
Kr reinforcements, and then ak
0"Aiiv wa ve aB
I Uu la the afternoon when ttw
KIT V1. tehd the. clearing by
g. but for two of them the, return
m rat nappinMs that all their
w oeart breaklur grief was
aa. tlu, ..
b4 Mrtsr rgeJ flil the
a! ? & that Prof w
, w Clayt9 waa J
"TT" oy tin catUn floor
rcscue you? Why did he not return?"
"I do not understand," said Clayton.
"Whom do you mean?"
"Ho who has saved each of us who
saved me from the gorilla."
"Oh," cried Clayton, in surprise. "It
was he who rescued you? You have not
told me anything of your adventure,
don't you know; tell me, do."
"But the wood man," sho urged "Have
you not seen him? When we heard thu
shots in the Jungle, very faint and far
away, he left me. We had Just reached
the clearing, and he hurried off In tho
direction of the fighting. I know ho went
to aid you."
Her tone was almost pleading her
manner tense with suppressed emotion.
Clayton could not but notice It. and he
wondered, vaguely, why Bhe was so deep
ly moved so anxious to know the where
abouts of thlB strange creature, He did
not suspect the truth, for how could he?
Vet a feeling of apprehension of some
Impending sorrow haunted him, and in
his breast, unknown to himself, was Im
planted the first germ of Jealousy and
suspicion of the ape-man to whom he
owed his life.
"We did not see him," he replied quiet
ly. "He did not Join us." And then
after a moment of thoughtful pause:
"Possibly he Joined his own tribe the
men who attacked us." He did not know
why he said It, for he did not believe It;
but lore is a strange master.
The girl looked at him wide-eyed1 for a
moment.
"Nol" she exclaimed vehemently, much
too vehemently he thought. "It could not
be. They were Negroes he Is a whtte
man and a gentleman,"
Clayton looked puzzled. The little
green-eyed devlf taunted him.
"Ho la a strange, half-savage creature
of the Jungle, Miss Porter, We know
nothing of him He neither speaks nor
understands any European tongue and
his ornaments and weapons are those of
the West Coast savages."
Clayton was speaking rapidly.
"Thero are no other human beings
than savages within hundreds of miles,
JIIss Porter, He must belong to thu
tribes which attacked us, or to some other
equally sayage he may even be a canni
bal'" Jane Porter blanched.
"I will not believe it," she half whispered-
"It Is not true. You shall see,"
The Girl Who Had No God
Thei Biggest Story Ever
Written "7
MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
Begins Saturday, Juno 12,
in tba
Zwmwi3MaHtr
she said, addressing Clayton, "that he
will come back and that he will prove
that you are wrong. You do not know
him as I do. I tell you that he Is a gen
tleman." Clayton was a generous and chivalrous
man, but something ln the girl's breath
less defense of the forest man stirred him
to unreasoning Jealousy, so that for the
Instant he forgot all that they owed to
this wild demigod, and he answered her
with a half sneer upon his lip.
"Possibly you nre right, JIIss Porter,"
he said, "but I do not think that nny of
us need worry nbout our carrlon-eatlng
acquaintance. The chances nre that he
Is soma hnlf -demented castaway who will
forget uj more quickly, but no more sure
y. than we shall forgel him He Is only
a beast of tho Jungle, Miss Porter."
Tho girl did not answer, hut sho felt
her heart shrivel within her. Anger and
hate against one wo love steels our
hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us
silent and ashamed
She knew that Clayton spoke merely
what he thought, -and for the first time
Bhe began to nnatyze the structure which
supported her new-found lovo, nnd to
subject Its object to a critical examination.
Slotvlv she turned nnd walked back to
the cabin. Sho tried to Imagine her wood
god by her sldo In tho saloon of an ocean
liner. Sho saw him eating with his hands,
tearing his food like a beast of prey and
wiping his greasy fingers upon his thighs.
She shuddered
"'he paw hlni as sho Introduced him to
her frlcJids uncouth, Illiterate a boor;
and the' girl winced.
Sho had reached her room now, nnd as
sho eat upon the edgo of her bed of ferns
nnd grasses, with one hand resting upon
her rising- and fatllng bosom, she felt the
hard outll tea of tho man's locket beneath
her waist.
She drew It out, holding It In the palm
of hor hand for a moment with tear
blurred eyes bent upon It Thon she
raised It to hor lips, and crushing It there
burled her face In tho soft ferns sobbing
"Beast?" she murmured. "Then God
make mo a beast; for, man or beast, I am
yours." '
Bhe did not see Clayton again that day
Esmeralda brought her supper to her, and
she sent Word to her father that she was
suffering from tho reaction following her
advonturo
The next morning Clayton left early
with tho relief expedition In search of
Lieutenant d'Arnot. Thero woro 200 armed
men this time, with 10 offloero and two
surgeons, nnd provisions for a week.
They carried bedding nnd hammocks,
tho latter for transporting their sick and
wounded.
It was a determined and angry company
a punitive expedition as well as ono of
relief. They reached tho sight of the
skirmish of the previous expedition
shortly after noon, for they wero now
traveling a known trail nnd no tlmo was
lost ln exploring
From thero on tho elephant track led
straight to Mbonga's village It was but
2 o'clock when tho neaa of the column
halted upon the edgr or the clearing.
lieutenant Charpentler, who waa ln
1
command, Immediately sent a portion of
his force through the Jungle to the oppo
site side of the village Another detaoh
jnent was dispatched to a point before the
vniaRA gate, while he remained with the
rest of. the force upon the south side of
the clearing.
It was arranged that the party which
was to take position to the north, nnd
which would be the last to gain Its sta
ll ' .Ihou'd commence tiie assault, nnd
tnat their opening volley should be the
signal for a concerted rush from all sides
m an attempt to carry the village by
storm at the first charge.
Tor half an hour the men with Lieu
tenant Charpentler rfrouched In the dense
foliage of the Jungle waiting the signal.
io thm It seemed llko hours. They could
see natives In tho fields nnd others mov.
Ing In and out of tho village gale.
At length the signal came-a sharp rat
tle of musketry, and like one man, an
answering Volley tore from the Jungle to
tho west and to the south
The natives In the field dropped their
implements and broke madly for the
palisade. The French bullets mowed
them down, and tho French sailors bouna-
l Mer th.elr nr9trate bodies straight
for the village gate
So sudden ami iitiAna,niAi !. ..-..t.
had been that tho whites reached the
gates before the frightened natives could
bar them, and In another mlnuto the vll-
nT.,8tt(;'1 )va" flllea wUh al"med men
fighting hand to hand ln an Inextricable
tangle
For a few momenta the blacks held
their ground within tho entrance to the
street, but tho revolvers, rifles nnd cut
lasses of tho Frenchmen crumpled the
natijo spearmen and struck down tho
black archers with their bolts half-drawn
boon the battle turned to a. wild rout,
and then to grim massacre; for tho
I' rench sailors had seen bits of D'Arnot's
uniform upon several of the black war
riors who opposed them.
They spared tho children nnd those of
tho women whom they wero not forced
to kill ln self-defense, but when at length
they stopped, panting, blood covered and
sweating. It was because there lived to
oppose them no single warrior of all the
satagc village of Mbonga
Carefully they ransacked ovcry hut and
corner of tho village, but no sign of
D'Arnot could they And They ques
tioned the prtsonors by signs, nnd final
ly ono of the sailors who had served In
the French Congo found that he could
mako them understand the bastard
tongue that passes for languago between
tho whites and tho moro degraded tribes
of tho coast, but even then they could
learn nothing definite regarding the fnto
of D'Arnot
Only excited gestures and expressions
of fear could they obtain In response to
tholr Inquliles concerning their fellow,
and at last they bocame convinced that
these wero but ovldenccs of tho guilt of
these demons who had slaughtered and
eaten their comrade two nights before
At length all hopo left them, and they
prepared to camp for tho night within
the village Tho prisoners wero herded
Into threo huts where they were heavily
cuarueu sentries wero posted at tho
barred gates, and finally the village was
wrapped In the silence of slumber, ex
eept for the walling of the native women
for their dead.
The next momlng they set out upoh
the return maroh. Their original Inten
tion hsd been to burn the Village, but
this Idea was abandoned and the prison
ers wero left behind, weeping and moan
ing, but with roofs to cover them and a
palisade for refuge from the beasts of
the Jungle.
Slowly the expedition retraced Us steps
of tha preceding day. Ten loaded ham
mocks retarded Its pace. In eight of
them lay the moro seriously wounded,
while two swung beneath the weight of
the dead.
Clayton and Lieutenant Charpentler
brought up the rear of Ihe column; tho
Englishman silent In respect for the oth
er's grief, for D'Arnot and Charpentler
had been Inseparable friends since boy
hood. Clayton could not but realize that the
Frenchman felt his grief the more keenly
because D'Arnot's sacrifice had been so
luiue, since Jano Porter had been rescued
before D'Arnot had fallen into the hands
of tha savages, nnd again becausa the
service In which ho had lost his Ufa had
been outside hla duty and for strangers
and aliens, but when he spoke of It to
Lieutenant Charpentler, the latter shook
hla head.
"No, monslour." ho said, "D'Arnot
would havo chosen to die thus. I only
grieve that I could not have died for him,
or nt least with him I wish that you
could hno known him better, monsieur.
Ho was Indeed an officer nnd a gentleman
a tltlo conferred on many, but deserved
by so few.
"Ho did not dlo futllely, for his death In
tho cause of a strange American girl will
make us, his comrades, face our ends tho
moro bravely, however they may coma to
us."
Clayton did not reply, but within him
rose a new respect for Fronchmcn which
remained undlmmed over after.
It was quite late when they reached tho
cabin by the bench. A single shot before
thoy emerged from the Jungle hnd an
nounced to thoso in camp as well as on
the ship that the expedition had been too
late for tt had been prearranged that
when they came within a mllo or two of
camp one shot was to bo fired to denoto
failure, or threo for bucccss, whllo two
would havo Indicated that they had found
no sign of either D'Arnot or his black
captors.
So It was a solemn party that awaited
their coming, and few words wero spoken
ns the dead and wounded mon were ton
derly placed In boats and rowed silently
toward the cruiser.
Clayton, exhausted from his five days
of laborious marching through tho Jungle
and from tho effects of his two battles
with tho blacks, turned toward the cabin
to seek a mouthful of food nnd then the
comparative case of his bed of grasses,
after two nights In tho Jungle.
By tho cabin door stood Jone Porter.
"Tho poor lieutenant?" sho asked "Did
you find no traco of him?"
"Wo were too late, Miss Porter," he
replied sadly.
"Tell me What had happened?" she
asked.
"I cannot. Miss Porter, It Is too hor
rible." "tod do not mean that they had tor
lured him?" she whispered.
"We do not know what they did to
him before they killed him," ha answered,
his face drawn with fatigue nnd the sor
row ha felt for poor D'Arnot-and hs
emphasized tha word before.
"Before they killed hlml What do you
mean? They are not? They are
not J"
She was thtnklne of what CI avion had
said of tha forest mart's probable rela
tionship to this tribe and she coutd not
frame the awful word.
"Yes, Miss Porter, they were canni
bals," ho said, almost bitterly, for to him,
too, had suddenly come the thought of
the forest man, and the strange, unac
countable Jealousy he had felt two days
before swept over him once more.
And then In sudden brutality .that waa
as unlike Clayton as courteous consider
ation la unlike an ape, ha blurted out!
"When your forest god left you he was
doubtless hurrying to the feast."
He was sorry ere the words were spoken
though he did not know how cruelly they
had cut the girl. His regret was for his
baseless disloyalty to one who had saved
tne lives or every member of his party,
nor ever offered harm to one.
The girl's head went high.
"Thero could too but one suitable reply
to your assertion, Mr. Clayton," she said
ictiy. -and I regret that I am not a man,
that I might mako It" Sho turned
quickly nnd entered. thT cabin.
Clayton was an Englishman, so the
girl had passed quite out of sight before
he deduced what reply a man would have
made.
"Upon my word," he said ruefully, "she
called me a liar, And I fancy I Jolly well
deserved It," he added thoughtfully,
"Clayton, my boy, I know you are tired
out and unstrung, but that's no reason
why you should mako nn ass of yourself.
You'd better go to bed."
But before ho did so ho called gently
to Jane Porter upon tho opposite sldo of
the sail cloth partition, for ho wished to
npologlzo, but he might as well havo ad
dressed the Sphinx. Then he wrote upon
n piece of paper and shoved It beneath the
partition
Jane Porter saw the little note and
Ignored It, for sha waa very nngry and
hurt and mortified, butshe was a
woman, nnd so eventnally sho picked It
up and read it
"My Dear Miss Porter: -
"I had no reason to insinuate what I
did. My only oxcuao Is that my nerves
must be unstrung which Is no excuse at
all,
"Pleaso try to think that I did not
say It. I am very sorry. I would not
have hurt you, above all others In the
world. Say that you forgive me.
"WM. CECIL CLAYTON."
"He did think It or ho never would
ha-vo said It," reasoned the girl," "but
tt cannot be true ah, I know It Is not
true!"
One sentence ln the letter frightened
her: "I would not have hurt you above
all others ln tho world."
(CONTINUED TOMOnnOW.)
THOMAS A. M!ELWELIS
Bgqpfi3T& TO CHA1UTIES
Catholic Institutions Ultimate Bette
fieiaries of Large Part of Estate.
Catholle chatlUe will ultimately re
celva a large portion of tha $100,000 esut
of Thomas A. McElwell, who became 111
on a steamship returning from Euros
nnd died In 8t Luke's Hospital, New
Yorlc, May 29.
His will was admitted to probata today
and letters testamentary were granted to
the Philadelphia Trust Company and
Theodora A, Jack.
A bequest of IKHtt Is made to Bl Jo
seph's Hospital to endow ft free bed In
memory of a brother of the testator,
Bear Admiral Jackson McElwell U 8 N.
The Sisters of St Francis of Philadel
phia will receive W to establish a fret)
bed In fit. Agnes' Hospital In tha nana
of the testator.
A bequest of $300 Is made to the Mili
tary Order of the Loyal Legion of ths
United States, Commandery of Pennsyl
vania, for the Shobcr Library
Several emploes receive bequests and
one-half of the residue of the estate Is to
be held In trust for the benefit Of a mere,
Mrs. Helen C. Barry. At her death tha
principal reverts In equal shares to three)
nieces and two nephews, children of Ar
thur McElwell, a brother of the decedent
The remaining half of the residuary
estate Is to be placed In trust for the
benefit of a niece, Ella P. Bursell daugh
ter of Joseph P. McElwell. At her death
tho principal Is to bo given to St Jo
seph's Hospital, at. Mary's Hospital and
St. Agues' Hospital.
Margaret Jones, lata of 1617 Itace street,
left her entire tS3,C00 estata to n boh,
William P. Jones, who Is named executor.
Pcrsonat property of Joseph J. Miller
has been appraised at t6,3S3CO; Abraham
Moor, J11.C37.53; Hettlo Oldden 330.8
nnd If, W. Bartels. WI76S
Having tho biggest structural
lumber yard in tho East
doesn't mean ns much to ua
as shipping a man's order
the day we get it!
Edward F.Henson& Co.
Toplar St. Wliarrra, l'lilla,
The Dignity of a Hundred Y
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of Success
The Foundation of Bacon Piano Reputation
TRAWBRIDGE & CLOTHIER have told many times within the past decade of the origin and reliability of the
.bra'ncis Bacon Piano, how its enviable reputation was built up, and how it has been jealously guarded by three
generations of the Bacfon family, following in direct line the original company founded by John Jacob Astor.
There are to-day higher-priced Pianos, but none of prouder lineage, none more trustworthy. The Francis Bacon at its
regular price is not excelled by ANY PIANO at a similar price, and no Piano of equal reputation and merit has ever
been sold at prices so low as our ANNIVERSARY SALE PRICES for these famous'instruments.
Francis B
aeon
Piano
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(Mahogany or Fumed Oak Case)
Regular Price (I"QQ) A A
$550.00 'PO.UU
Bench or Chair, Cover or Scarf, 12 Rolls
of Music, and One Year's Tuning Free
Delivered to Your Home
on First Payment of ;
$5.00
Then Pay $2.25 Weekly or
$9.00 Monthly Thereafter
DESCRIPTION Height, 4 feet 7 inches; width, 5
feet 31' inches; depth, 2 feet 3 inches. Fitted with the
most complete and efficient player action; with auto
matic tracker; flexible striking fingers; metal tubing;
full open key slip; key locking device; patented folding
pedals.
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Upright Piano
(Mahogany or Fumed Oak Case)
Regular Price
$350.00
$257.50
$5.00
IN the year 1789, when George Washington
was first inaugurated President of the
United States, John Jacob Astor bound
ed the first piano business in America.
Twelve years later the founder turned
the business over to John and Michael Paff,
who in turn were succeeded in 1815 by
William Dubois. In the year 1836 Bacon ac
quired an interest in Dubois' enterprise, and
since that time the firm has been variously
known as Bacon & Raven, Bacon & Karr,
Francis"Bacon, and to-day as the Bacon Piano
Company. In time-worn ledgers, dating back
40 and 60 years, still in the possession of tho
Bacon Piano Company, you will find such
names as Admiral Farragut, P. T. Barnum,
General Tom Thumb and dozens of other cel
ebrities of a generation or longer ago, appear- -ing
as owners of Francis Bacon Pianos. In an
old catalogue of Bacon & Raven, issued 68
years ago, the makers quote the price for their
square pianos in rosewood cases, "with carved
legs and lyre," at ?850.00 each. And in
another catalogue, 42 years old, they price their
upright pianos in ebonized or rosewood cases
at ?650.00 and $750.00 each.
To-day, during this Sale, you cap obtain a
genuine Francis Bacon Piano in mahogany or
fumed oak, in the prevailing styles of this age,
at $257,50. Our special Anniversary Sale
price for the ultra-modern of the Baeon prod,
uets, the Francis Baeon Player-Piano, U
$&92.00. '
Stool, Cover or Scarf, Instruction Book
and One Year's Tuning Free
Delivered to Your Home
on First Payment of
Then Pay $1.50 Weekly or
$6.00 Monthly Thereafter
DESCRIPTION Height, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 5
feet 4 inches; depth, 2 feet 3 inches. Overstrung scale.
Boston fallboard. Seven-and-one-third octaves. Hard
wood back. Double-veneered case. Plain polished
panels. Full bronzed plate. Copper bass strings.
Ivory keys. Solid brass hardware. Three pedals, Best
felt hammers. Automatic swing music-desk.
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