6 THE SCEANTON TEIJiUNE-MONDAY MOUSING. AUGUST 13. 1894. BEAD IT 1NHER DID. How Cbeiro the Palmist Solved a Life's Secret (HE BESTOBATI05 OF A WAIF. n Odd AdYentnre Near London and Its BorpTislnar Sequel A Mystery Solved Mid ft Tragedy Averted by the Blue Vein of Two Hand Copyright, 18W, by Amerloftn Press Associa tion. One morning I received the following letter, written on cheap paper, In scratchy, pad handwriting; Djcab Sin What would you charge to come own to tills place, about 80 miles from Lon don, and read the hand of a young girl? Please reply to X., care of ixutoffloe, Waltham Cross, Bespeotfully yours, X. My first thought was, "Oh, peoplo of (his class will never pay ray price, " but to toy surprise, In answer to my secretary's letter, back came another scratchy note agreeing to my terms and arranging the following Sunday for my visit. Sunday came, a bright, springlike day lit the end of March, ItiOS. I caught my (rain at Broa-3 street and started to solve frhat even then I thought a mystery. The letter had evidently been written by an elderly person, and I could not qulto reo pncllo the Idea of people uneducated and probably poor puylug such a sum of money to have a child's hand road, even If she tvas an Invalid and was unable to come to town. Tliey weru also suspicious. They had not given name or address. My solo directions were to got out at Walthara Crocs, and uudrr the clock In the waiting room I would ilml u man ready to lead mo to my destination. Alighting at Waltham Cross, I found my way to the waiting room, and, sure enough, under the clock there was a mun anxiously looking out for Bomo one to ar rive. Stepping up to him, I said: "My name is Chelro. You are waiting for me, are you - " Looking mo over from head to foot, ho Elowly anawered, "Yes, I've been Waiting for you." Leaving the station, we turned towurd the town. I naturully asked bow fur we had to walk and re solved the vague reply that we would go a short way by the fields, and without any more explanation he turned down a path that led across the country ut almost right angles to tho town. A walk of 10 mlnuts brought us again to the road, and crossing Jt we ontcred one of those old fashioned private lanes that Are to be found iu so runny parts of Euglund. Wo camo at last to the beautiful country seat of Sir Henry and Lmly Metis, and I insisted on stopping to admire tho old arch of Temple Bar, which hud been carted I 6AID, "M? SAVE IS ClIEinO." down from tho very heart of busy London and placed as anentruncegalo In the quiet and calm of tho country. I thought If tlioso stones could speak what tales they could tell of the hundreds of fortunatcs and unfortunates that entored that old gateway of the cltyl I niudo some ramark of this kind to my companion, and he gruffly replied that he''didn't think much of them sentimental ideas;" that he didn't bcliove in God or man or devil, und, furthermore, ho added: "I don't believe in you anyhow. It's one of them sentimental Ideas that made my old woman send for you to conio down hero and tell her how long a certain party's got to livo." ' Ah, I thought, so that's all she wants ,to know. Well, I wonder what use such Information will bo. "Who is the party," I asked, ' a rotation."' Hut tho old chap ovldcntly repented having said so much, and I oould not get him to utter another word till 10 minutes later wo turned off the path and entered a long straggling wood that seemed to havo no end. At last, when I was beginning to grumble at tho length of my walk, my companion turned toward an old house, littlo better than a hut, on tho outskirts of tho wood, and in A few moments I was respectfully greeted by a sharp eyed woman who camo to tho door. In this si ran go pair, man and wife, I At once recognized one of those extraor dinary contrasts so often found in human nature. The man, ooarso and uneducated, Utterly without conscience or principle, as sociated with a woman also uneducated, yet with an Innate charm of manner that lout a certain grace and refinement to ev ery word, to every action. A woman wily as a snake, unscrupulous in all her deal ings, and yet one guided, governed, en slavod, by the superstitious fears that held her. Bhe looked upon me as a bolng pos sessed by a supernatural power, she would not question whether of God or devil. She wanted that power used fur hor advantage That was all she knew or cared. ; Loading me up stairs, she opened the door of what was little better than an at tic. Lying on the door In the sunlight lay a little girl, half naked, playing with the long hair that fell around her shoul ders. Fixing her large frightened eyes on the woman as she entered, she crept way on all fours und crouched like a dog under a table that occupied a oorner of the room. "Poor littlo thing, she Is frightened," I aid. "Oh, she Is always that way before trangers, " the woman replied. "She is a great affliction to me, I can assure you, sir. She is so unlike other children that I can't let her out of the house. She's very delicate, too, and I've often thought, air, thut it would be better for her If God in his mercy took her from this world of misery." "Oh, nonsense," I replied. "You should not say that What's the lit tlo one's ape?" After a little hesitation she said she did not quite recollect, but that about 14 would be near it. "Well," Z said, ''is this the little girl whose hands you want me to read?" "Yes, sir," she Answered, ''and what you will please pay special attention to Is hor health, and if It is liketf that she will live." ' After some coaxing on my part and a few menaces on the side of the woman I Bueceedod in getting the little one to let me soe hor hands. I was not long in draw ing the conclusion that she oould not pos sibly be the child of such parents. Hered itary laws Influence the hand too much to make any mistake. As the raoe horse oould not be the foul of the Clydesdale, so was it Impossible that this child could be the offspring of these people. Howeven, I kept my thought to myself, but taking a till deeper interest in the little hands I . noticed that no line of destiny was visible ' In the early years on the right hand, and thaji the child was born of ojover. lntulloo- tual people, yot the line of head showed an utter want f mental development. Looking up at the woman, I said sharp ly, "la it possible that you have kept the ohlld all these years from education of any kind'" The expression of fear on her face told me the power I had already gain ed over hor, and whioh I determined to use later for the benefit of the child. After making half a doaen onntradlotory ex cuses the woman at last admitted that the ohlld had had no training of any kind, and, furthermore, was so seldom spoken to that she had not even learned the pow er of speech. My God, I thought, is It ' EITE OPEXED THE DOOIi. posslbluf But 1 soou proved that liioh Was indeed the oate. The little lrl did not know even the simplest word in the Eng lish Lang uaff, uut even that psalm of child hood's days, the wurd ''mamma." She oould articulate sound.-) similar to those of animals. A peoullar ory seemed to be her favorite exprrion, but words shu , had none. I was too bonified to read inure. Putting down the little hands, I quietly but flrialy damanded of the woman the full history of the oiiild. Seized with su perstitious fear, her tae white us death, she closed the door to prevent the man from bearing, and with the poor little fair huired mite pluylngnear her feet she for, I suppose, the tint time in her life told tho truth. The story was to the effect that In her early days she had ktpt a baby furm in the southwest district of London. She had bean twice Uuurlaonsd for the suspicious deaths of lnfauta la hsr care, and at last, when about to give up the business alto gether, she Motived an offsr from a wom an to tuke charge of a ohlld. A fair annu al sum was alao promised If she would guarantee that tun baby would be taken to some place away tvoiu Loudon. The Woman ounsentad, and fur 14 years hud lived In. thut littlo hut in company with the man I law, one uf the most notorious poachers In the country. She had never bad uny children of her own, and shu had no sympathy with children. The poacher also detested tho sight of one. Consu quontly the pour little mite at our feet hud lived almost the whole of Its life la that garret. It was cured for und treated us one would treat an unlmul. The only lan guage tho child had learned wus cries uf fear; tho only knowledge she received was tho U,;ht and darkness of tho day und night. llut why had I leeu sent for? Simply becuuse of a strange dream thut tho wom an had had, combined with her supersti tion. The money for the littlo one's sup port had ceased for two years. The man had at lust determined to kill tho child and bury the body In tho wood. Tho wom an, with all the crimes .ho had committed, for some reason would not consent. Sho explained thut there was something un canny about the child; that she dured not allow it to be killed; that she had an idea that tho little thing could not live long, for one night she dreumed that in the lit tlo hand some one showed her that It would dio naturally In a few months, and that finally, having made a lot of money during tho last week (I suspect through some large robbery in tho neighborhood), she had determined to seud for me. Suoh was the story, and I had good rea son to believe It true I felt that I had Iwen lent tbero to get that child from their clutches. The woman would be quite willing that I should tuke the little one away, but- the man, I felt sure, would sue It dead before lotting It go without the pay ment of tho money that was due. If I went to the police, I might spoil it ull. Be- iiiiijt i mm "LOOK AT MT ttkSD AGAI3." sides I had promised Uie woman I would not. While hesitating whut to do or say , the same power probably that brought in ! there came to my rnsoue, and I seemed to ' feel that I wns justified In premising that ; before a week all money due would Im ' paid, the woman relieved of the child and a reward as well given to her for suvlng it from doata. I found niy way back to the station troubled and perplexed. I thought if I oould only trace the mother of the child I was ourtaln to touoh her heart with my story, but I had not the faintest clew to go by. The woman had been unable to give me any information. She Lad merely re ceived the child fraiu a nurse and through her had received hor yearly allowance; but, alasl this woman had died or disappeared In the last two years. Afraid to trust to my Inatlnot, which told me that within a week all weald be right, I fwund myself growing mow and nm aaxleus as day after day mmacV and I set no nearer the solution of aiy difficulty. At last I setinnlnfd to try warn of those food aatteea woman wko support large Institutions fat ottldcen and found lings. Alas, I fooad the truth of my Story fan ai ally devbiod. Some even in sinuated that I DBvbably knew more about the child than I oased ts say, and at last Suturday oame wltehout any food having bean done. Weary and disappointed, I was trying to Bead tae band of the last of my consultants whan I aeeload what I felt certain I bad seea oa some hand befoae a peculiar knotted blua vain that stood out clear and dlaiinot at the base of the little ftnf. I tried to recoUeot where I had seen It, but I had bead so busy and my brain was to tfand that I oould not re member, , At last, when I had finished the reading, I asked if there was any ques tion relating to bar life that she would like to ask. ''Yes," she said, "there is one, and to me It Is the moat important of ull." I looked up surprised. She was a wom an a little over 80, dressed in widow's weeds a handsome Woman in the very prime of life. "Yes," she went oa, "you were right when you said that I had a ehlld when II I was not married than, and my ehlld was taken away from me in order to save my name. A year later a tparrlpga was arranged by njy futher to -a J ..At t kl li . I f Mr jja w.m tnan 1 barely know, and with him I wont to reside in one of the British settlements in South Africa. After the death of my husband I leturnod to England, and after 14 years have learned that the child thnt I was led to believe bad died is still alive, and up to two years ago wns supported by money sent by my father for the child's care. My father died suddenly of heart disease, and I can get no one or trace of my little one. Look at my hand again, and for God's sako tell me If I may still hope on." Like a flah of light, I reinembored that that knotted blue vein was also In the hand of the ohlld. Such things run In families for generations. Tho story tullled with what I kntw. Why say moref At tho last moment I had found the mother of tho poor little waif. Cutuno tub Palmist. FIGHT WITH A DEVILFISH. Five Fishermen Have a Desperate Strugglo With a Giant Octopus. A party of Ave lishermen recently hud a desperuto struggle with u giunt octopus In tho I'uciflo ocean, off Point Keyes. They finally succeeded In killing the monster and curried it to Sun Francisco, where Captain Collins told tho following story to an Kxamluer reporter: "At daylight on Wednesday morulug we commenced to tuke up our lines as usual. Several hooks wero brought up, but with no success, uud we begun to get disuouruged when thero camo u violent tug ut the line, uud a hugo arm of the monster Hushed violently uut of the water aud landed across tho guo wulo of the bout. Iu an Instant It fas tened with its tenacious suckers, while tho water about tho bout wus lushed into foum and the sea seemed to bo alive with tho fish's snukullke feelers. One uf tho men grasped uu oar to dislodgo tho urm, but before he could reach It tho body uf the monster rose beside tho bout and only a few feet uwuy from me. "An octopus eun be killed uliuoit In stantly if it can be stabbed just below the eye, even If the weap u be only the small blade of u pocketknife," mid tbs cuptulu, "and when the fellow roso so close to mu and presented such usood opportunity for the deathblow I reached fur a boutbnok, tho handiest weapon, uud made a lungo for the vital spot. As I did so tho bout careened violently, and instoud of dls- THE GIANT OCTOPL'S AND 11IS CAPTORS. patching tho brute' I only inflicted a wound thut maddened tho monster tho more, und the buttle then becumo ono of life or death between us. "A couple more of tho arms of the octo pus hud by this time been wound around tho boat, and thwy reuehed from stem to stern. Oars and bouthooks were our only weapons, but It wus almost useless to at tempt to pry the ruukcrs f roui the bout. They would no sooner become loosened at one spot than they wculd fasten them selves on unolber. The bout wus complete ly enveloped by them, and ull hands wero kept busy to escape beiug caught in the clutches of the relentless suckers. Tho small craft rolled and rocked in the arms of tho monster, aud every moment it threatened to throw ull five of us into the water. The only hope wo had wus to deal the monster the deathblow, but It seemed the opportunity would not again be offered. Blows hud no effect on the huge tentacles. Tho men belabored whut parts of the fish they could reach with clubs, but the effect was like pounding a piece- of rubber. Several times tho bout was tipped by the struggles of the monster so that water came over the gunwales, and in desperutiuu the men fought fur their lives, but expecting every moment to be druwu below the surface of tho ocean to a horrible dbuth. "One of the stout fishhooks had caught securely In the body uf the brute, u;id u couple uf the men bigan to huul In on the stout line. Slowly they gained on tlie cord us they pulled, and slowly the budy of tho monster was 11 ng drugged from the keel of the bout, where it bud been Impossible to reach It with any weapon thut would put a stop to the buttle. Steadily the men hauled away until the bedycame in sight. The huge eyes glared sarugely up through the water, but the vital spot was yet out of the rcuch uf tho weapon pulsed to deal tho deathblow when the opportunity camo. Slowly the monster's budy was being drugged upward, and as It reached the sur face the shurp spike of the buuthook wus driven with a hand of desporution deep Into the brute's body just below the eye, und the victory wus won. Graduully tho long uruiM unwound themselves, und the most terrible of ull tea monsters wus soou tleud and on the deck of tho little fishing boat." Romans Could Dl.lnhorlt Children. By the common law, up to the date of Henry II, one-third of u man's goods wint to his heirs or liuual dr.soeudunti, one-third to his wife, aud only tho other third was at his own disposal. The Homau law required a true aud suf ficient reason to be assigned for disinherit ing children, or else thut some legacy, how ever small, should testify thut the deceased hud not forgotten the existence of hlschlld. This is the origin of the popular error that it Is iioe.mry to disinherit an heir by "cut tins; him oft with a shilling." As a matter of fnrt, a man In England may now dispose of tt-.o whole of his goods uud chattels as he thinha fit, and the judges will even ul low c.nridrrable roam fur eccentricity, should the will be disputed as showing ev idence that the teatntur must have been of unsound mind. According to Dr. Forbes Wlnslow, there U record of the fantastic will of uu admitted luuutle. being literally carried out. All the Year Round. Meteorological lirtlii. A German colonel who had a spite at the major of his reglmeut took occasion to re buke the major severely for some trifling oversight of duty. The major replied iu the same strain, whereupon the colonel said: "Sir, you will bring down a thunderbolt upon your head." The major held up his sword and replied: "Fetch on your thunderbolt. Here in my hand is a Ughtuiug rod that will protect me from your thunderbolt." Texas Sittings. . A Case of Speculation. Sanso They say thut poets are an un businesslike set of men, but I deny that I know one who hi very shrewd. , Rodd-Iadeedl Sanso Yes. lie never goes to submit a poem to an editor without lint investing la an accident insurance policy. Harper's Bazar. ' A Good Reason. Teacher What gender is "oartf f Little Boy Please, do you mean an ash cai'tf ; Teacher Yes; any klud of a cart. x Boy Well, I guess an ash cart must be of the female gender, 'cause I saw a bustle hanging on behind one today. Harper's Bazar. , ...... The grave of Brigham Young Is covered by a plain and inconspicuous slab of gran ite. I: lies in an inclosed city lot in Suit Lake City, surrounded by a low iron fence. A few of the prophet's wives lie burled nearby. CHINESE SUPERSTITIONS. Believing In the Transmigration of Souls, They UltUke U K1U Animals. "The Chinese." says Dr. Bedloe, ex ennsul to Amoy, 'are Arm believers in the transmigration of souls. The dugs In the streets may contain the spirits of one's do parted anopstont, and they treat all ani mals with the greatest slnwi inspection. "I onus went with a party on a Ugor hunt several days' journey Into the inte rior. We arrived at last in the tiger coun try and made inquiry at a village If there wero any tigers In the neighborhood. The head magistrate, a shrewd old Mongolian, declared in the most positive terms that there were none, nor had there been, he affirmed, in many years. Wu hud been in formed otherwise, but could learn noth ing, and so proceeded farther Into the country. We had proceeded but a few miles before a runner came from tho village we had just left wlth'U messugs from the magistrate. lie begged uur most humble pardon, but would tho Illustrious and most benevolent geullemuu be so kind as to re turn ut once? He hud been mistaken in saying there were no tigers in the neigh borhood. Thure was one, and it was a very bad und most dangerous one. Just after our departure it had entered the vlllugo, seized a young womun anil made off with her into the jungle. Wuuld we be so con descending as to hunt up the tiger and kill himf "We returned, got on tho track uf tho tiger, uud with a strung foreo of beuturs succeeded iu killing him after abuut four hours uf cautious hunting. Wo thun ru turned to the village, leaving to our at tendants tho tusk of skinning the tiger and bringing in the bide. Tho old uiagls trutucould not abasehlmself enough for tho faUehuud he had tuld us, but his apology wus the moslremarkublo feature. He gave lis a good meal of curried chicken, bam boo sprouts, fish and somo excellent tuu, and us we utu told us the following story: '' 'Ouo cuuuot be too careful abuut ani mals,' bald he. 'They may be very good auimuls, and one's own parents might havo passed luto them. Think how sad It would be If ono should kill a relative, thinking it wus u tiger. This tiger which IUXl'S HIMSELF TO A DOQ. you killed today had never ilouo us any harm, unly taking u goat or a dog unco in awhile, uud wo thought him a good tiger uutll today, when ho seized the daughter of Sung Tsuo. Wo had u bitter cxperienco in this vilhigo onto which shows tho truth of what I say. Our vllluge hud been guard ed fur many years by a good tiger. IIo gavo wuruing of his first visit by stopping outside the vllluge and roaring to give us time to get to our homes and out of the way. Then he camo in leisurely, looked around, uud seizing a goat mude off. Wo knew at once he was a guod tiger and did not attempt to drive htm away. Once or twice a week he would come and get u gout or a dog, alwuys roaring before ho came and after he bud gone. He generally camo in tho duytlme, while bud tigers usually como ut night. '''One night we heard our good tiger roaring fearfully outside tho villugo, but he would not como in, staying outsldo und roaring fearfully. Wo know thut some thing was wrong, and we went outsldo and listened. We heard tho ruihing uf a fearful Ujod in the river, und wo had barely time to esoupe into the hills before the flood came and washed the vlllago away. Then we knew that our good tiger hud come to warn us uud recognized that he held tho soul of a great philanthropist who bad died only a few days befuro the tiger mailu his first appearuuee. Tills was nut the only iustunco of the good tiger's wutchful cure. There were many such. He came back when our villugo was rebuilt, and we wero very glad to give him tho few goats and dogs he took. " 'Tho next autumn wu missed tho tiger, and we heard nothing of him fur two weeks. Then some of the vlllugers who had started on a journey through tho mountain puss you can see yonder came buck with tho news that tho tiger was in tho pass roaring night und day, und that he bud driven them buck und would not let them go through. We believed thero was some good reason for this, so we drove some outs up into the pass su that the ti ger might havo something tueut und then waited his return. It wus over two months before tho tiger lit tho puss and returned to his haunts near tho village, and nut till then did we learn his purpose In staying so lung in the pais. The cholera had boon ruglng In the next valloy, uud our tlgur hud gone to the pau to keep the cholera demuu from coming tutu our village und to keep our villagers from going into the other valley and catching the dlsvasu. Yuu will now understand uur grief and sorrow when a party uf brutal Englishmen came Into our volley and killed our jood tlgur, who bad saved uur lives so muuy times. ' " Fellontug the IWiIe. "Yon say you love me, Kdwaid, but do you mean ilf" If he had been getting twelve dollars a week and was at the ribbon counter instead of the reiuuant he could not havo looked mure proudly uuble. 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Our shoes equal custom work la style, easy filliuf aud weartug qualities. We have them sold every where at lower prices for the value giveu Uaa any other wake. Take no substitute. If your dealer cannot supply von, we can. sold by E. J. LEONARD. kin 1 tod I hnv.mlW Mi BCRANTOX, PA. MINING andBLASTINQ E lade at tba MOOalO and HUiaO. Lsfflin & Rand Pewdar Co. 'a ORANGE GUN POWDEB Electric Batteries, Fuses far explod ing blasts, safety I'us aud RepaunoChtmical Co. 's High Explosive For Delicacy, For purity, and for Improvement of the com plexion, nothing equals Pozzoni's Powder. ! The Original Raw Food fill saw J rkftofrip-cil from Li Ic, oca mi 1 TS S3 - ' IVaajT p v POWDER Ski SUPERLATIVE AUD GOLD MEDAL Tba aboTS brands of fleur tas he bad at any of tba following merchants, wba will acaept Tuu Tumum floub coupon of So on eaoh oua hundred pounds' f floor er SO au cash barrel of flour. acraataa-f. P. Pries, Washington avenas I tield Mw.UI Brand. Buassere-li'. P. Prive, Qeld Meaal Brand. LuniBre-lf. D. ataalsy. upsrlntlve tiraml. liyat Park C'arauu A Davis, Wonhburu Bt. tteld Madiil Brand; J sei.fi A. ilvars, Muiu ayenae, auparlatlve UrauJ. Crcsu HlJgs-A.L.Spui:si-.Gold Medal Brand. J. T. sfcHale, aupei laave. l'lovideaee Petiaar ft Cliapptll. N' Haln av nae, aaperlatlve Brand ;C. J ttuUa.ple, W. llarket street,-Vol1 Medal Brand. Olyphaut Jaiasa Jordan, tiuparUulre Brand. ptctvlUe Skfr k-lsw kupsrlativo. Jormys C, t. V'lutrs A Co. Suporalatlve. Arghbald Joaos, uipsou A Un., Uold Medal. Carbondale-B. a. Clark, Uold Medal Brand. iluucsilale-I. N. Foster Ut Co. Uold Medal, dinooka M. H. Lavell LOUIS B. SMITH Dealer in Choice Confections and Fruits- BREAD AND CAKES A SPECIALTY. FINEST ICE CREAM 1 1437 Capouse Avenue. IRONand STEEL NORWAY IRON BLACK 1 1AMO.ND HIIiVHR KXTRA SPECIAL SANDEKHO.N'S ENGIISn J1:SS01"S KNGLISU CAST STKEL UOHSIi SHOES TOE CALK TIKE MACHINERY SPUING KOKT STEEL ANVILS BKLLOWS HOUSE NAILS WILEY & RUSSELL AND WELLS BROS CV'll'ING MACHINERY. ittenbend8r&Go.,Scranton, Wboleaale and retail dealers' In Wagoomakers' and Blacksmiths' SUPPLIES. DID Yy fCNOW? That we will GIVE you beautiful new pat terns of Sterling SILVER SPOONS and FORKS for an equal weijht.ounce for ounce, cf your silver dollars. All elegantly en graved frea. A large variety of new pat terns to select from at ierooreau 307 LACKAWANNA AVtfKLll. "No star was ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been," A HAPPV PATRON OF THE RI6E1ASBS LUf.lBER CO. Scranton, Pa 2 and 23 Commonwealth Building. TRY US. DUPONT'S MINING. BLASTING AND SPORTING Manufactured at tba Wapwallonan Mill Lit lerne county Ph.. and at VU tuintfton, Oeluwara HENRY BELIN, Jr, General Agent for tbe Wyoming Distrlot u8 Wyoming va Scranton Pa. third National Bank Bulldln ASIICIIS. TBOS. ro&D, Pittatrn. Pa Agenta for the Repaone Cietuioal Com (auy's Uiah ff.iuloaivea. from (A T. ZWfctae, Aeal.KM, The Flour Awards "CbiCaOO, Oot 81 Fha first offlelal innouucanunt of World's Fair dlJ plotnaa on flaar has bean male. & medal has bean, awarded by tbs World's Fair judgei to tba flour manu factured by tba Washburn, Crosby Co, in tba great WaBbbnrn Flora Mills. Minneapolis. Tbs committee reports tbe floor strong and pars, and entitles, it to rank as first-class patsnt flour toa family and bakers' use." MEGARGEL & CONNELL U BOLES AI.B AGENTS. Tavlor JxiSgt ft Co., Gold Medal; AthertOB t Co., SunnlaSlT Puryea Lara Store Co., Gold Medal. Houalo Jolm KcOrtndJe, Gold MedaL I'lttsion-kL W. 0luyl, QM aledal Cluik'a Grenn-Fraoe & Parker, Superlative, t iara a huiu)l-r. at. Younir, Gold Medal. paltou-8. K. Finn A Bou, Gold Medal Brand. knhnlsen-J, J. aWdlng:. Wav.rly-M. J. Biles A Bon, Gold Medal Facteryville-OharUa Gardner, Gold MedaL UeBkatiaia-M. M. FUa ft Sou, Gold Medal, te&toVSa Uhi Lumb" Oonldsboro-8 A. Adams. Gold Medal Brand, Moscow Gaige ft Clements, Gold MedaL Lake ArteWamea A. Bortree, Gold MedaL Forest City-J. L. Morgan ft Co., Gold Meds PARLORS OPF.N FROM 7 A.M. TO 11 P.M. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO SUP PLYING FAMILIES WITH ICE CKEAA1. WAGON WHEELS AXLES SPRINGS HUBS 61'OKES RIMS 6TERL SKEINS It. R. SPIKES SCREW & Oonnell MT. PLEASANT AT RETAIL. Goal of the boat onallty for domsttto nse,an ef all alaoe, delivered la anj part of the cltj at lowest price. Orders left at my offlce, NO. 118, WTOMINO AVENUE. Boar room, first floor, Third National Bant er sent by mail or telephone to the mine, wilt receive prompt attention. bpeclal contracts will be made for Uie eels, and delivery of Buckwheat OoaL WM. T. SMITH. V.i,taVak,W!-riiMr Iponsasotlrowsd law toeodin br Masrlo Ram ady, aarssnnhr,kuk tj tuu.WOcai.1, iil,n ndi Uld IVO liUS hook, illostntel tnm j Ufs (raw cpl.mraS.fta Sr wall. Whi Hot Spriop punrrnui, vur tnacio Hameav win awtUvslsrara. COOS avajux CO- Cktaek 111 "IT" I -r V I .
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