"IVKITTEJT FOK THE DISPATCn BY ANNA KATHARINE GREEN, Author of "The Leavenworth Case," "Behind Closed Doors," "The Forsaken Inn," Etc, Etc. SY"OPSIS OF PEECEDIMJ "STJMBEItS. A wandering rider finds a deserted stone house in New York State. The buildins: is in good repair and completed all except tho railings on the staircase. An innkeeper 90 rears old gives hini the written history of the house and of the events of 50 years before. Tin ee jounsrmen. Philo Adams, Omn Day and Lemuel Phillips were in love with a voting lady named Juliet, who accepted the hand of Colonel Schuvler, the wealthiest man of the com munity, on the condition that he should build hera house to be her own. Orrin D.iv, when he finds that Juliet has accepted Colonel Schuyler, becomes excited nnd jealousand Juliet a -.Is Philo Adams to keep company with Ornn so that ho and her fiancee shall not meet. The stone house is commenced by Colonel Schuyler and Ornn -watcher Usprogie-s Horn day to day. On a moonlight evening Orrin ana Philo visit the graveyard, and while there witness a scene between Colonel Schuyler and Juliet Colonel Schuyler has to go away on business and cntieats Juliet to swear tint she will marry no one else bnt him. She finally swe.irs to be no- one's wife but his, and to wed linn -when the house is completed. Colonel Schuyler departs and Orrin disappears. Philo, in the Colonel's absence, discovers that Juliet loves Orrin. Colonel chnylcr re turns and storms because his house has not pio?rescd rapidly during his absence. He employs more men and bids them hasten the work. Philo llnds Orrin after a search in a liouce which ho i building and which has been nearly completed, and Mipect that he is building 11 for Juliet, and that It will be a rnce betn een the two men for her hand. Colonel Schuvler discos cr that Juliet is prepared to y with someone else, and accu-es Philo of being the one who is at the bottom of the trouble. Philo savs he Is not tho man, and Colonel Schuvler asks the name of his rival. Philo lefuces to tell it. suggesting that the Colonel ask Juliet. Colonel Schuyler says he has asked her. and that she refuses to answer. He then commands Philo to give him the name Ju-t at this moment Orrin sweep by on hoi -eback. Philo calls attention to the rider, and Colonel Schuyler guesses from Plnlo's words that Orrin is the man. The next dav Orrin calls on Philo and asks him to help him and Juliet to getaway. Philo goes to Juliet's house and whi'o there Orrin arrives and Juliet flies to his arms in tho presence of her father and affl jnced. Orrin tries to persuade Juliet to marry him at once, but Colonel Schuvler tells them to wait a month and they can hai e his stone houe. Juliet decides to -n nit, and Orrin growl impatient at the delay, thieatening to ride away with her whether she is willing or not. The next day it is announced that Orrin and Juliet are to bemarried, and shortlv afterward the Colonsl invites them both to the stone house to seo how it is progressing. They go but thev donct return. Alter waiting for hours for, the missing couple a search is made for them by a party. Continued from last Saturday.' "Can you make him speak?" asked one. "He does not seem to heed us, though we have shouted to him and even shook his arm." "I shall not try," said I. "Horror like this should be respected." And going softly in I took up my station by his side in silent awe. But they would have me talk, and'finally in some desperation I turned to him and said, quietly: "The scaffolding broke beneath them, did it not?" At which he first stared and then fluhg up his arms with a wild but suppressed cry. But he said nothing, and next moment had settled again into his old attitude of silent horrer and amazement. 'He might better be lying with them,"' I whispered after a moment, coming from his side. And one by one they echoed my words, and as he failed to move or even show any symptoms of active life, we grad ually drifted Irora the spot till we were all huddled below in the hollow blackness of that doorway guarded over by the dead. "Who would tell her father? They all looked at me, but I shook my head, and it fell to another to perform this piteous er-. rand, for fearful thoughts were filling my brain, and Orrin did not look altogether guiltless to me as he lay there dead beside the maiden he had declared so fiercely- bhould never be mistress of this house. iVas ever such a night of horror known in this town! They have brought thetwo bruised bodic3 down into the village and they now lie !i4 by side in the parlor where I last set Juliet in the bloom and glow of life. The Colonel is still crouching where I left him. "So one can make him speak and no one en i make him move, and the terror which hi-? actions have produced affects the whole com. munity, not even the darkness of the night servingto lessen the wild excitement which drives men and women about the streets as if it were broad daylight, and makes of every house an open thoroughfare through which anvbody who wishes can pass. 'I, who have followed every change and turn in this whole calamitous aflair.am like one benumbed at this awful crisis. I too go and come through the streets, hear people sav in shouts, in cries, with bitter tears and wild lamentations, "Juliet is dead!" "Orrin is dead!" and get no sense from the words. I lr ve even been more than once to that spot where they lie in immovable beauty, and Though I gaze and gaze upon them, I feel nothing not even wonder. Only the re membrance of that rigid figure frozen into its place above the gull where so much youtn and so many high hopes fell, ha? power to move me "iVhec amid the shad ows which surround mc I see tiiat, I shud der and the groan rises slowly to my lips as if I too were looking down into a gulf from which hope and love would never again rise. The Colonel i now in his father's house. He was induced to leave the place by Ralph Urphistone's little child. When the great man first ielt the touch of those bahy fingcrs upon his, he shuddered and half re coiled, but as the little one pulled him gently but persistently toward the stair, he gradually yielded to her persuasion, and lollowed till he had descended to the ground-floor and left the fatal house. I do not think any other power conld have in duced him to pass that blood-stained threshold. For he teems thoroughly brokeu down, and will, I fear, never be the same man that he was before this fearful tragedy took place before his eves. All day I hae paced the floor of my room asking myself if I should allow Juliet to be laid away in the same tomb as Orrin. He was her murderet, without doubt, and though he had shared her doom, was it right for me to allow one stone to be raised above their united graves. Feel'ng said no, but reason bade me halt before I disturbed the whole coniniunitv with whispers of a crime. I therefore remained undecided, and it was in this condition of doufct that I finally went to the funeral and stood with the rest of the lads beside the open grave which had been dug for the unhappy lovers in that sunny spot Decide the great J church door. At sight oi tins grave ana the twin coffins about to be lowered into it, I felt my struggle renewed, and yet I held mv peace and listened as best I could to the minister's words and the broken sobs of Mich as had envied these two in their days of joance, but had only pity for pleasure so soon over and hopes doomed to such early destruction. We were all there; Kalph and Lemuel and the other neighbois, old and young, all except that chief of mourners, the Colonel; lor he was still under the influence of that horror which kept him enchained in silence, and had not ct en been sensible enough of the day and its mournful occasion to rise and go to the window as the long funeral cortege passed his house. "Vc were all there and the minister had said the words, and Ornn's body had been lowered to its final test, when suddenly, as they were about to move Juliet, a 'tumult was ob served in the outskirts of the crowd, and the Colonel towering in his rage and ap palliug in his just indignation, fought his way through the recoiling masses till he stood in our Tery midst. "Stop!" he cried, "this burial must not goon." And he advanced his arm above Juliet's body as if he would intervene his own very heart between it and the place of darkness into which it was about to descend. "She was the victim, he the murderer; they shall not lie together if I have to fling my self between them in the grave which you have dug." "But but," interposed the minister, calm and composed even in the face of this portentous figure and the appalling words which it had uttered, "by what right do you call this one a murderer and the other a victim? Did you see him murder her? "Was there a crime enacted before your eyes?" "The boards were sawn," was the start ling answer. "Tbjy must have been sawn or they would never have given way beneath so light a weight And then he urged her I saw him pleaded w ith her, drew her by force of eye and hand to step upon the scaffold without, though there was no need for it, and she recoiled. And when her light foot was on it and her half smiling, half-timid face looked back upon ua, he leaped out beside her, when instantly came the sound of a great crack, and I heard his laugh and her cry go up together, and and every thing has been midnight in my soul ever since, till suddenly through the blank hor ror surrounding me I caught the worus, 'They will lie together in one tomb!' Then then I aw oke and my voice came back to me and my memory, and hither I hastened to stop this unhallowed work- for to lay the victim besid s her murderer is a sacrilege which fc one would come back even from the grsre to prevent " 'But why," moaned the father feebly amid the cries and confusion which had been aroused by so grewsome an interlerence on the brink of the grave, "but why should Orrin wish my Juliet's death.' They were to have been married soon ' But piteous as w ere his tones no one list ened, for just then a lad who had been hid ing behind the throng stepped out before us, slwing a face so white and a manner so perturbed that we all saw that he had some thing to say of importance in this matter. "xne boards have been sawn, ne said. "I wanted to know and I climbed up to see." At whicS the whole crowd moed and swayed, and a dozen handi stooped to lift the body of Juliet and carry it away from that accursed spot. But the minister is a just man and cau tious, and he lifted up his arms in snch pro test that thev paused. "Who knows," he suggested, "that it was Orrin's hand which handled the saw?" And then I perceived that it was time for me to speak. So I raided my voice and told my story, and as I told it tne wonder grew on every face and the head of each man slowly drooped till we all stood with down cast eyes. For crime had never before been among us or soiled the-honor of our goodly town. Only the Colonel stood erect; and as the vision of his outstretched arm and flaming eyes burned deeper and deeper into my consciousness, I stammered in my speech and then sobbed, and was the first to lift the silent form of the beauteous dead and bear it away from the spot denounced by one who had done so much for her happi ness and had met with such a bitter and heart-breaking reward. And where did we finally lay her? In that spot ah ! why does my blood run chill while I write it where she stood when 6he took that oath to the Colonel, whose break ing caused her death. A lew words more and this record must be closed forever. That night, when all was again quiet in the village and the mourners no longer went about the streets, Lemuel, Ealph and I went for a final visit to the new tone house. It showed no change, that house, and save for the broken scaffolding above gave no token of its having been the scene of such a wofnl tragedy. But as we looked upon it from across its grewsome threshold Lemuel said: "It is a goodly structure and nigh com pleted, but the hand that began it will'never finish it, nor will man or woman ever sleep within its walls. The place is accursed, and will stand accursed till it is consumed by God's lightning or falls piecemeal to the ground from natural decay. Though its stones are fresh, I see ruin already written ,upon its walls." It was a strong statement, and we did not believe it, but w hen we got back to the vil lage we were met by one who said : "The Colonel has" stopped the building of the new hous. 'It is to be an everlasting monument," he savs, 'to a rude man's nride and a sweet womau's folly.' " w ill it DC a monument that he will love to gaze upon? I wot not, or any other man who remembers Juliet's loveliness and the charm it gave to our village life for one short year. What was it that I said about this record being at an end? Some records do not come to an end, and though 20 years hate passed since I wrote the above, I have cause this day to take these faded leaves from their place and add a few lines to the story of the Colonel's new house. It is an old house now, old and desolate. As Lemuel said he is one of our first men it is accursed and no one has ever felt brave enough or reckless enough to care to cross again its ghostly threshold. Though I never heard anyone say it is haunted, there are haunting memories enough surrounding it lor one to feel a ghastly recoil from in vading precincts defiled by such a crime. So the kindly forest has taken it into its protection, and nature, who ever acts the generous part, has tried to throw the mantle of her foliage over the decaying roof, and about the lonesome walls, accept ing what man forsakes and so fulfilling her motherhood. 1 am still a resident in the town, and I have a family now that has outgrown the little cottage which the apple tree once guarded. But it is not to tell of them or of myself that I ha e taken these pages from their safe retreat to-day, but to speak of the sight which I saw this morning when I passed through the churchyard, as I often ao, to pluck a rose from the hush which we lads planted on Juliet's grave 20 years ago. They always seem sweeter to me than other roses, and I take a superstitious delight in them, in wiiich my wife, strange to say, does not participate. But that is neither here nor there. The sight which I thought worth record ing was this: I had come blowly through the yard, for the sunshine was brilliant and the month June, and sad as the spot is, it is strangely beautiful to one who lores nature, when as I approached the corner where Jnliot lies, and which, you will remember, was in the very spot where I once heard her take her re luctant oath, -I saw crouched against her tomb a figure which seemed both strange and vaguely familiar to me. "Sot being able to juess who it was, as there is npw nobody m town who remembers her with any more devotion than myself, I advanced with sudden briskness, when tho person I was gazing upon rose, and turning toward me, looked with deeply searching and most certainly very wretched eyes into mine. I felt a s'hock, first of surprise, and then of wildest recollection. The man before me was ihe Colonel, and the grief apparent in his face and disordered mien showed that years of absence had not done their work, and that lie had never forgotten the arch and brilliant Juliet Bowing humbly and with a most reverent obeisance, for lie was still the great man of the county, though he had not been in our town for years, I asked his pardon for my intrusion, and then drew back to let him pass. But he stopped and gave me a keen look, and speaking my name, said: "You are married, are you not?' And when I bowed the meek acquies cence which the subject seemed to demand, he sighed, as I thought somewhat bitterly, and, shrugging his shoulders, went thought fully bvtmd left me standing on the green sward alone. But when he had reached the gate he turned again, and without raising his voice, though the distance between us was considerable, remarked- "I have come back to spend my remaining days in the vil lage of my birth. If you care to tall: of old times, conie to the house at sunset. You will find me sitting on the poich." Gratified more than I ever expected to be by a word from him, I bowed my thanks and promised most heartily to come. And that was the end of our first interview. It has left me with very lively sensations. Will they be increased or diminished by the talk he has promised me? I had a pleasant hour with the Colonel, caught from the place where I had been visiting? ,..,. , I was yet asking myselt this, when I heard distinctly through" the silence of the night the sound of a footstep behind me, and astonished that anyone else should-have been beguiled at this hour into a walk so drearv, I slipped into the shadow of a tree that s'tood at the wayside and waited till the slowlv advancing figure should pass and leave'me free to pursue my way or to go back unnoticed and undisturbed. I had not long to wait. In a mo ment a weirdly muffled form ap peared abreast of me, and it was with difficulty I suppressed a cry, for it was the Colonel I saw, escaped, doubtless, from his old nurse's surveillance, and as he passed he groaned, and the sad sound coming through the night at a time when my own spirits were in no comforta ble mood affected me with almost a super stitious power, so that I trembled where I stood, and knew not whether to follow him or go back and seek the cheer of my own hearth. But I decided in another moment to follow him, and when he had withdrawn far enough up the road not to hear the sound of my footfalls, I stepped out from my retreat and went with him into the woods. I have been as you know a midnight wan derer in that same place many a time in my life; but never did I leave the fields and meadows with such a forboding dread, or step into the clustering shadows of the for est with such a shrinking and awe-struck heart. Yet I went on without a pause or an instant of hesitation, for I knew where he was going, and if he were going to the old stone house I was determined to be his companion, or at least his watcher. For I knew n'W that I loved him and could never see him come to ill. There was no moon at this time, but the sound of his steps guided mc and when I had come into the open place where the stars shone I saw by the movement which took place in the shadows lying around the . - . - tiie coeoxei, was there. but we did not talk of her. Had I expected to? I judge so by the faint but positive dis appointment which I feel. I have been again to the Colonel's, but this time I did not find him in. "He is much out evenings," explained the woman who keeps house for him, "and you will have to come early to see him at his own hearth." What is theru about the Colonel that daunts me? He seems friendly, welcomes my company, and often hands me the hospi table glass. But I am never easy in his presence, though the distance between up is not so great as it was in our young days, now that I have advanced in worldiv pros perity and he has stood still. Is it that his intellect cows me, or do I feel too much the secret melancholy which breathes through all his actions, and frequently cuts short his words? I cannot answer; I am daunted by him and'l am fascinated, and after leaving him think only oi the time when J. snail see him aqain. The children, who have grown up since the Colonel has been gone, seem very shy of him. I have noted them more than once shrink away from his patch, huddling and whispering in a corner, and quite forgetting to play as long as his shadow fell across the green or the sound of his feet could be heard on the turf. I think they fear his melancholy, not under standing it. Or perhaps some hint of his sorrows has been given them, and it is awe they feel rather than fear. However that may be, no child ever takes his hand or prattles to him of its little joys or griefs; and this in itself makes him lo'ok solitary, for wc are much given in this town to merry-making with our little ones, and it is a common sight to see old nnd young to gether on the green, mnking sport with ball or battledore. And it is not the children only who hold him in high but distant respect Tae best men here are contented with a courteous bow from him, while the women matrons now, who once were blushing maidens think they have shown him enough honor if they make him a deep curtsey and utter a mild "Good morrow." Tho truth is, he invites nothingmore. He talks to me because he must talk to some one, but our conversation is always of things outside of our village life, and never by any chance of the place or any one in it lie lives at his father's house, now his, and has for his sole companion an old servant oi the family, who was once his nurse, and who is, I believe, the only person in the world who is devotedly attached to him. Unless it is myself. " Sometimes I think I love him; sometimes I think I do not. He fascinates me, and could make me do most anything he pleaded, but have I a real affec tion for him? Almost; and this is some thing which I consider strange. Where does the Colonel go evenings? His old nurse has asked me, and I find I cannot answer. Not to the tavern, for I am often there; no, to the house of the neigh bors, for none of them profes3 to know him. Where then? Is the curiosity of my youth coming back to me? It looks very much like it, Philo, very much like it. My daughter said to me to-day: "Father, do not go any more to the Colonel's." And when I asked her why, she answered that her lover she has a lover, the minx had told her that the Colonel held secret talks with the witches, and though I laughed at this it has set me thinking. He goes to the forest at night, and roams for hours anions its shadows. Is this a- .healthy occupation for a man, especially a. man with a history x snail go early to the Schuyler homestead to-night and stay late, for these midnight communings with nature may ho the source of the hideous gloom which I have observed of late is growing upon his spirits. No other duty seems to me now greater than this, to win him back to a healthy realization of life, and the need' there is ot looking cheerfully upon such blessings as are left to our lot I went to the Colonel's at early candle light, and I stayed till 10, a late hour for me, and, as J hoped, for him. When I left I caught a sight of old Hannah, standing in a distant hallway, and I thought she looked grateful; at all events, 3he came forward very quickly after my departure, for I heard the key turn in the lock of the great front door before I had passed ont ot the gate. Why did I not go home? I had meant to, nnd there was every reason why I should. But I had no sooner felt the turf under my feet and seen tbejstars over my head than I began to wander in the very opposite direc tion, and that without any very definite plan "or purpose. L think I was troubled, and if not troubled, restless, and yet move ment did not seem to help me, for I grew more uneasy with every step I took, and began to look toward the woods to which I was half unconsciously tending as if there I should find relief just as the Colonel, per haps, was in the habit of doing. Was it a mere iooiisu jreau. umm iuiu assailed me. open door of the old house, that he was near the fatal threshold and would in an other moment be across it and within those moldy halls. That I was right, another in stant proved, for suddenly through the great hollow of the open portal a mild gleam broke and I saw he had lighted a lanterj and was moving about within the empty rooms. Softly as man could go, I followed him. Crouching in th doorway, with ear turned to the emptiness within, I listened. And as I did so, I felt the chill run through my blood and stiffen the hair on my head, for he was talking as he walked, and his tones were affable and persuasive, as if two ghosts roamed noiselessly at his side, and he were showing them as in the davs of yore, the beauties of his nearly completed home. "An ample parlor, you see," came in distinct, suave monotone to my ear. "Room enough for many a couple on gala nights, as even sweet Mistress Juliet will say. Do you like this fire place, and will there be space enough here for the portrait which Lawrence has promised to make of young Madam Day? I do not like too much light myself, so I "have ordered curtains to be hung here. But if Mistress Juliet prefers the sunshine, we will tell the men nay, for all is to be ac cording to your will, fair lady, as you must know, being here. Pardon me, that was an evil step; you should have a quick eye for such mishaps, friend Orrin, and not leave it to my courtesy to hold out a helping hand. Ah! you like this dusky nook. It was made for a sweet young bride to hide in when her heart's fulness demands quiet and rest Do the trees come to? near the lattice? If so they shall be trimmed away. And this dining parlor can you judge of it with the floor half laid and its wainscoting unnailed? I trow not, but vou can trust iie pretty Juliet, you can trust me; nnd Orrin, too, need not speak, for me to know just how to finish this study for him. Up stairs? You do not wish to go upstairs? Ah. then you miss the very cream of the house. I have worked with my own hand upon the rooms upstairs, aud there is a little Cupid wrought into the woodwork of a certain door which I greatly wish you to pass an opinion upon. I think the wings lack airiness, but the workmen swear it is as if he would fly from the door at a whisper. Come, Mistress Juliet; come, friend Orrin, if I lead the way you need not hesitate. Cornel cornel" Was he alone? Were those eager steps of his unaccompanied, and shouldl not be hold, if I looked within, the blooming face of Juliet and the frowning brows of Orrin, crowding close behind him as he moved? The fancy invoked by his words was so vivid, 4hat for a moment I thought I should, and I never shall forget the thrill which seized me as I leaned forward and peered for one minute into the hall and'saw there his solitary figure pausing on the lower step of the stairs, with that bend of the body wiiich bespeaks an obeisance which is half homage and half an invitation. He was still talking, and as he went up, he looked back smiling and gossiping over his shoulder in a smooth and courtly way which made it impossible for me to withdraw my fascinated eyes. "No banisters, sweet Juliet? Not yet not yet; but Orrin will protect you from falling. No harm can come to you while he is at your side. Do you admire this sweep to the stairs? I saw a vision when I .planned it, of a pretty woman coming down at tne souna qi per nushana s step. The step has changed in sound to my imagina tion, 'but the pretty woman is prettier than ever, and will look her best as she comes down these stairs. Oh, that is a window ledge for flowers. A honeymoon is nothing without flowers, and you must have forget-me-nots and pansies here till one cannot see from the window. You do not like such humble flowers? Fie! Mistress Juliet, it is hard to believe that even Orrin doubts it, as I see by his chiding air. " , Here the gentle and bantering tones ceased, for he had reached the top of the stair. But in another moment I heard them again as he passed from room to room, pausing here and pausing there, till sud denly he gave a cheeiful laugh, spoke her name in most inviting accents, and stepped into that fateful room. Then as if roused into, galvanio action, I rose and followed, going up those midnight stairs and gaining Jhe door where he had passed as if the impulse moving me had lent to my steps a certainty which preserved me from slipping even upon that dank and dangerous ascent When in view of him again I saw, as I had expected, that he was drawn up by the window and was bowing and beckoning with even more grace and snavitv than he had shown below. "Will yeni not step out, Mistress Juliet?" he was saying; "I have a plan which I am anxious favor if only" Here he gave a malignant shriek, and bis countenance, from-the most smiling and "benignant expression, altered into that of a fiend from hell. "Ha, ha, hal" he yelled. "She goes, and he is so fearful for her that he leaps after. That is a goodly stroke! Both both crack! Ah, she looks at me, she looks" Silence and then a frdzen figure crouching before my eyes, just the silence and just the figure I remembered seeing there 20 years before, only the face is older and the hor ror, if anything greater. What did it mean? I tried to think, then as the full import of the scene burst upon mc, and I realized that it was a murderer I was looking upon, and that Orrin, poor Orrin.had been innoccent.I sank back and fell upon the floor, lost in the darkness of an utter unconsciousness. I did not come to myself for hours; whep I did I found myself alone in the old house. Nothing was ever done to the Colonel, for when I came to tell my story the doctors said that the fects I related did not prove him to have been guilty of crime, as his condition was such that his own words could not be relied upon in a matter on which he had brooded more or less morbidly for years. So now when I see him pass through the churchyard or up and down the village street and note that he is affable as ever when he sees me, but growing more and more preoccupied with his own thoughts. I do not know whether to look upon him with execration or profoundest pity, nor can any man guide me or satisfy my mind as to whether I should blame his jealousy or Orrin's pride for the pitiful tragedy which once darkened my life, and turned our pleas ant village into a desert. Of one thing only have I been myself sure; that it was the Colonel who lit the brand w hich fired Orrin's cottage. the end. LITERATURE A plea tor more attention to literature in the common schools in THE DISPATCH to-morrow. ABOUT DKINKING-WATEB. Large Cities Investigating their "Water Supply Discovery of Disease Germs -Smaller Cities nlso in Danger. New York and other cities are now agitat ing the very serious quest'dn of their water supply. 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It is to be impressed on all those who take this method of preserving their health that the whiskey used must bo pure. Duffy's Pure Malt is highly recommended by leading doctors and scientists ns being tho put est medicinal whiskey on the mar ket. Blues, headaches, nervousness, liabil ity to sore throat, peculiar pains in tho back and many other small but troublesome ills frequently have their origin in Impure drinking-water. The mixing of a little Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey with drinking water will render it incapable of producing tliece or even the worse effects of typhoid and other malignant fevers of the same type. By-the-by It will be well to remember when you call at your druggist's or grocer's for Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey, that it is the only puie medicinal one, so do not be will ing to tako a substitute recommended as "just as good." sel6-M PATENTS O. D. LEVIS, Solicitor of Patents, 131 Fifth ave., above Smithfleld. next Leader office. Xo delay. 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Common Sense, Opera, New York or Philadelphia lasts. Patent leather tips or plain toes. Light, flexible and heavy soles. "Very latest styles. Perfect fitting, all sizes and all widths. If you think of buying a pair or more this week or later, at any price from $2 to $5 a pair, look at this lot first. They are truly a bargain every ,pair and cannot be duplicated at the price. Remember, $2,18 a Pair, They're Well Worth $4 a Pair. Gents' fine Wescott Calf, Lace or Congress, seamless silk stitched; wide or narrow toes, tipped or plain; fine dongola kid tops; best inside trim mings and custom finish; fine light single soles for dress or special wear, and medium or heavy soles for business, professional or any service that may be required. This is the finest, most tasty and perfect lot of gents' fine shoes we have ever offered for the-money. See them promptly; they will move off qu'ckly. Remember, $2,18 a Pair. This Week Closes Them Out WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ?! NEW ADTEBTISE3IENTS. Was the rush yesterday to the great Bankrupt Sale of Clothing now in progress at 719 and 721 Liberty street, head of Wood street, yet more wonderful is the manner in which this enormous stock is being sacrificed. Every dollars worth must be disposed of. Our loss is your gain. Take advantage while the opportunity lasts. Prices right through Thirty-Five Cents on the Dollar, SEE IT FOR YOURSELVES.. Open to-night till .10 o'clock. Don't fail to call at 713 ID m LIBERTY ST., HEAD OF WOOD STREET. You will be-surprised. OClO Ak my agents for IT. I Douglas Shoes. If not for sale la your place ask your dealer to send lor catalogue, secure the agency, and get them for you. -WTAKE JfO SUBSirrUTfl-SJl FOR gtfg2fe3S m WHY IS THE W. L. DOUGLAS $3 SHOE FOK GEXTLEamS The Best Shoe In the World for the Money? It Is s seamless shoe, with notactsonrax thread to hurt the feet; made of the best floe calf. stjlWi and easy, and because wc make more shoes of this grade than anv othermannfacturer. It equals hand, sewed shoes eo'tlnsr from ?l 00 to $3 CO. (JC OO OEXU1NE IIAXD-SEWED. tho finest 0- calf shoe ever offere! for J't CO; eqnaU French imported shoes which cost from ?3 U0 to (12 00. ilA OO HAND-SEWED TVEI.T SHOE, fine calf. tIDti:. stylish, comfortable and durable. The best shoe ever offered at till price: samcjrredc as custom-made tlioes costing from J iW to S I U). QJQ OOI'OUCESUOE: Farmers KatlroadMra OO. and Letter Carriers all wear them; tine calf, seamless, smooth inside, heavy three soles, exten sion edge. One pair will wear a year. (') 30 FIXE L'AI.F: no better shoe eTeroflerfJ D. at this price; one trial will convince thoaO who want a shoe for rom fort and service DO S3 and f2( WOKKlNOMAX's shoes are OJ. very strong and durable. Those who have given them a trial will wear no other make. pryy QJ J2 oo and ?1 75 whool slices are worn DulO by the boys evervwhere; they sell on meirmerus. as tne increasing saipnnw. LI TfSTTrC ?3 w HAXll-bEWEI) shoe, best Ai"XJLiO DnngoU, lerv styllah: equals French Imported sho-a costing from ?1 00 to $J u). L ADres' 1Z 50. ft 00 and SI 75 shoe for Misses are the best fine Dongola. btvllsh and durable. CAUTION bee that 'VV. L. Douglis' name and price are stamped on the bottom of each shoe. w . Lt. iluuiiljA lrofcion, jiavi. Sold by D. Carter. 711 Fifth ar ; E. C. Sperber, 1338 Carson st. ; II. .1. & . M. I.ang. 4301 Bntlerst. : J. X. Frohrlng, 3S3 Filth av. : llcnry Iiosser. "e gheny.. E. J. Hollman, Ho. 72Ecbccca street, Allegheny, Pa. TT3 A CHRONIC COUGH CURED IN 30 DAYS. "iThlle-Catarrh la not In and of itself a-dan-geroo.3 disease, lt often extend3 to the lungs. jhi LARD 406, 408 and 410 J BARGAINS "I 433 Wood St. Market St. LBOTH STORES J Entire New Stock. WHOLESALE STORE 515 WOOD ST. oc-l-irwTsa E2POSITIOIT El X IF O S I a? i o UST THE EVER POPULAR PEOPLE'S DAY ONLY ONE WEEK MORE. You are simply "not in it" if you have not visited the GreA Exposition. Everybody goes to hear the famous Seventh Itegi ment Band and examine" the beautiful displays and MAGNIFICENT ART GALLERIES. IE IS IP o s I T I o nsr BXPOSITIOIT ocio-u Cactus Blood Cure. BETTER THAN SARSAPARILLA. Purifies the blood by expelling the impurities through the proper chan nels and never causes eruptions upon the skin. Regulates the bowels.. Cures dys pepsia, liver and kidney troubles, tones up the system and gives you an appetite. Never fails to cure any condition produced by impure or impoverished blood, or a disordered state of stomach, liver or kidneys. Sold by JOSEPH FLEMING & SOX, Drug gists, 412 JiarKot St., Pittsburg. sel9-TTS MB DA". ID MARTIX. FIFTH AV., Pitts-Intra-, bad been afflicted with catarrh, which finally developed into a chronic couzh. Wlieu be applied to tho catarrh and lung specialists no said hetcould set but little sleep and felt very tired In the morning, with a dull, heavy feeling in hfc bead, and dizziness. He coughed up a tough, stringy mucus, and the shortness of breath gave him great alarm, for he realized that the disease was fast approaching his lungs. Ha took cold easily, and which wouldalmo3t in variably settle in his chest, ne says: "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. "I am glad to state that I have bconTured of my disease in ono month by the physi cians of the Catarrh nnd Dyspepsia Insti tute. DAVID MAKTIN." Signed with bis own band. Dr. Grubbs and associate physicians are qualifiod practitioners according to the laws of tho State of Pennsylvania. Terms for treatment and medicine five dollars a month nnd upward. Remember the Name and Place, Tha Catarrh and Dyspepsia Institute, 323 Penn Avenue, Just Below Fourth Street, One BloGk From Exposition, TEUMS FOK TREATMENT: $5 C0a month and upward. CONSULTATION TREE. Office hours, 10 a. m. to 1 r. jr., and6 to 8 r. sc; Sundays, 1 to r. ar. Patients treated suc cessfully at home by correspondence. Send two 2-cent stamps for question blank, and address all letters to the AHD DYSPEPSIA INSTITUTE. M6 Fenn Avenue, fittsdurg, fa. OCS-TT GRATEFUL-COMFORTING. EPPS'S COCOA. BREAKFAST. "Its thorough knowledge or the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nu trition, and by a careful application of the tine properties of wcll-selcctcd twos, Mr. Eppshas Erovided our breakfast tables with a delicately avored beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills. It Is by the luilirlotu ne of such articles of diet that a constitution may be grudnally built up until strong enough to resist etery ten dency to disease, lltiiidreds or subtle maladies are Boating around us ready to attacU wherever there is a weak point. We inar escape many a fatal lhaft by keeping ourselves'well fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame." Ciml Service Gazette. juaaesiinniy with Dolling water or mil K. sola DOUGHERTY'S DENSEo f tttftif C0NDNED ilk &!&$&' qT- only lnhaU-noimiJ tln-s, by grucciv. labelled thus; jAniiLj k rzt a tu., u London. England. ;oinocopatlilc Chemists, inyit-vv-Au- I lipgs OE MEAT THE ORIGINAL and only, t'ompleto and Satisfactory Condensed Bllnco Ment In tho Alarkot. Cheap Sabstltatea and Crado Imitations aro offered with tha aim to Croat by tha popular ltr of thoJfew tnElond. So doS be deceived but arrays Insist on tha Heir fonland Urand. The best made. GOLD BT AIL OROCUKS. 6-ii-w au -" '"'I r"'J' " '"" "---"""' n-i i -i S'"lAt.,l.ni yVllVSiH.fift1 i
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