7 THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 14, 1895. f t. ' A ' ' ) ' ' I ' ' ' I j I I I i I I A T!ir rnin I I 1 11L 111 1 QMFRTpEASE (These short serial stories are copy rlshted by Bacheiler, Johnson & Bachei ler, and are printed In The Tribune by special arrangement, simultaneous with their appearance in the leading dally Journals of the large cities). CHAPTER II. Matilda Stebbins put her arm around Comfort, who wus fairly crying. 'Come," said she, "don't you mind any thing about Vm. Comfort. Lt't's go -in the schoolhousf. I've got a splendid lialdwln apple In my dinner-pail and "II give you half or It. They're mad cause they haven't got any gold ring." "I have got a gold ring," sobbed Com fort: "Honest and true, IJIack and blue. Lay me down nnd cut me In two." That was the awful truth-testing for mula of the village children. "Course you have," said Matilda, with Indignant backward glances at the others. "Le's go and get that Ualdwin apple." Comfort went with Matilda, but It took more than a lialdwln apple to solace her, and her first day at school was a most unhappy one. It was very probable that the other scholars, and especially the older ones who had many Important matters of their own In mind, thought little more about her ' - "Plcnso Let Mo, Mother." ana her gold ring, after school had be gun, but Comfort could not understand that. She had a feeling that the mlnda of the whole school were fixed upon tier and she was standing upon a sort of spiritual platform of shame, which was much worse than the schoolroom floor. If she saw one girl whisper to another she directly thought It, was about her. If a girl looked at her her color rose and her heart began to beat loud, for she thought she was saying to herself: "Likely story." Comfort was thankful when It was time to go home, and she could trudge off alone down the snowy path. None of the others lived her way. She left tbem all at the turn of the road, Just biHow the schoolhouse. Jood night, Comfort," Matilda Steb- blnsSsang out loyally, but the big girl with red. cheeks followed her with, "Weathat gold ring to school tomor row anVJet us see It." Then everybody giggled, and poor Comfort fled out of Bight. It seemed to her that she must wear that ring to school the next day. She mado up her mind that she would ask her mother, but when she got home she found that her Grandmother Atkins had oome, and also her Uncle Eben- ezer and Aunt Susan. They had driven over from , Carre, where they lived, and her grandomther was going to stay and make a little visit, but her uncle and aunt were going home soon, I and her mother was hurrying to make some hut biscuits for supper. So when Comfort came In, she was stopped short at the sight of the com pany, and had to kiss them all and an swer their question' with shy polite ness. Comfort was very fond of her grandmother, but this time she did not feel quite so delighted to see her as usual. As soon us she bad got a chance she slipped into the pantry after her mother. "Mother," she whispered, pulling her apron softly, "can't I wear my gold ring to school tomorrow?" "No, you can't. How many times have I got to tell you?" said her mother, mixing the biscuit-dough energetically. 'Please let me, mother. They didn't believe I've got one?" "Lot them believe It or not, Just as they have a mind to," said her mother, "They think I'm telling stories." "What have you been telling about your ring In school for, when you ought to have been studying? Now, Comfort, I can't have you standing there teasing me any longer. I've got to get these bis cuits Into the oven: they must have some supper before they go home. You go right out and set the table. Get the clean tablecloth out of the drawer, and you may. put on the best knives and forks. Not another word. You can't wear that gold ring until your hand grows to It, and that settles It." Comfort went out and set the table, but she looked so dejected that the company all noticed It. She could not eat any ot the hot biscuits when they sat down to supper, and she did not eat much of the company cake. "You don't feel sick, do you, child?" asked her grandmother, anxiously. "No, ma'am." replied Comfort, and she swallowed a big lump In her throat. "She ain't sick,'1 said her mother, severely. "She's fretting because she can't wear her gold ring to school." "Oh, Comfort, you must wait till your hand grows to It," said her Aunt Susan. "Yes, of course she must," said her Unole Rbenezer. "Rat your supper and your hand will grow to It before long," said her father, who, left to himself, would have let Comfort wear the ring. "It wouldn't do for you to wear thnt ring and lose It. It's real gold," said her grandmother. "Have another piece of the sweetcake." But Comfort wanted no more sweet cake. She put both hands to her face and wept; and her' mother sent hejp promptly out of the room and to bed. Comfort lay there ' and sobbed and heard her Uncle Ebenezer's covered wagon roll out of the yard, and sobbed again. Then she 'fell asleep and did not know It when her mother and grandmother came In, and looked at her, and kissed her. "I'm sorry" she feels so bad," snld Comfort's mother, "but I can't let her wear that ring." "No. you can't." said .her Brand mother, arid they went out shading the candle.' Comfort said no more about the ring the next morning. She knew her mother too well. She did not eat much break fast, and crept off miserably to school at a quarter past eight, and she had an- Great Special Sale 400-402 BALANCE OF THE WEEK other unhappy day. Nobody had for gotten about the gold ring. She was teased about It at every opportunity. "Why dln't you wear that handsome gold ring?" asked the big girl with red cheeks, until poor Comfort got neurly distracted. It seemed to her that the time to go home would never come, and as If she could never endure to go to school again. That night she begged her mother to let her stay at home the She Lifted the Dross Catch Cautiously next day. "No," said her mother. "You've begun to go to school, and you're going to school unless you're sick. Now, this evening you had better sit down nnd write a letter to your Aunt Comfort. It's a long time since you wrote to her." So Comfort sat down and wrote la boriously a letter to her Aunt Comfort, and thanked her anew, as she always did, for her gold ring aud the gold dol lar: "I wish to express my thanks again for the beautiful and valuable gifts, which you presented me for my name," wrote Comfort .In the little stilted style of the day. After the letter was written It was eight o'clock, and Comfort's mother said she had better go to bed, "You look tired out," said she, "I guess you'll have to go to bed early If you're going to school." ' "Can't I Btay at home tomorrow, mother," pleaded Comfort, with, sudden hope. ... "No," said her mother. "You've got to go If you're able." "Mother, enn't I wear It Just once?" "Don't you bring that ring up again," said her mother. '"Take your candle and go right upstulrs." Gilmores Aromatic Wind A tonic for ladiqs.'V It yot. are suffering from weakness, aud feel exhausted and ner vous; are getting thin and all run down; Gilmore's Aro matic Wine will bring roses to your cheeks and restore you to flesh and. plumpness. Mothers, use ' it for " your daughters. It is the best regulator and - corrector for ailments peculiar , to woman hood. It promotes digestion, enriches the blood and gives lasting strength. Sold by Matthews Bros., Scranton. AT- Lackawanna Ave. FOR THE- Comfort gave a pitiful little sob. "Now don't you go to crying over It," ordered her mother, and Comfort tried to choke back another sob as she went out of the room. Comfort's father looked up from "The Old Farmer's Almanac." He was going to Bolton the next day with a load of wood, and wanted to see what the weather was to be, and so waa consult ing the almanac. "What was It Com fort wanted?" he Inquired. "She wanted to wear that gold ring her Aunt Comfort gave her to school," replied Mrs. Pease. "And I've told her over and over again I shouldn't let her do It." "It's a mile too big for her, and ahe'd be sure to lose It off," said Grandmother Atkins, "and It would be a pity to have anything happen to It, when It's real gold, too." "She couldn't wind a rag around her finger, under It, could she?" asked Comfort's father, hesitatingly. "Wear a rag round her linger under It," repeated Mrs. Pease. "I rather guess she can wait till her finger grows to It. You'd let that child do anything." Mr. Pease did not say anything more. but studied the "Old Farmer's Alma nac" aguln, and found out that It was likely to be fair weather for the season. It was past midnight, and the hearth fire was raked down, and Comfort's futher and mother and grandmother were all In bed and asleep, when a lit tle figure In a white nightgown, hold ing a lighted candle, padding softly on littlp colli bare feet, came down the stairs. Comfort paused In, the entry and listened. She could hear the clock tick und her father snore. The best parlor door was on the right. She lifted the brass latch cautiously, and pushed the door open. Then she stole Into the best parlor. The close Icy air smote her like a breath from the north pole. There was no fire In the best par lor except on Thanksgiving day, and perhaps twice besides, when there was company to tea, from fall to spring. The cold therein seemed condensed and concent rated, the halrcluth sofa and chairs and the mahogany table seemed to give out cold as stoves did heat. There were two coflln plates) and funeral wreaths, which had belonged to uncles of Comfort who had died before she was born, In frames on the wall, and thesu always scared Comfort. She kept her eyes away from them as she went swiftly In her little bare feet, which had no feeling In them aa they pressed the Icy floor, across to the ma hogany card table, whereon set the rosewood workbox. Comfort set her candle on the table, nnd turned the key of the box with her stiff lingers. Then she raised the ltd noiselessly and there lay the ring In a little square compartment of the tray next to It In the corner square lay the gold dollar. Comfort took the ring out, shut the box lid down, turned the key, and fled. She thought some one called her name as she went upstairs, and she stopped and listened, but all she heard was the clock ticking, and her father snoring, and her heart beating. Then she kept on to her own ohumber, and put out her candle, and crept Into her feather bed, under the patchwork quilts. There she lay all night, wide-awake, with the gold ring clasped tightly in her little sold flst. . ; To He Continued. If your dealer tells you that something one Is "Just aa good" as Doan's Ointment for Hives, Pin Worms, Itching Piles, or other Itchiness of the skin,' toll him you want the original. It Is safe; never-fail ing. FOR ALL DISEASES OF IhlE NOSE fiSDIHRIJflT $100 Given for any ('use of Un complicated Catarrh We Cannot Cure. BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, ETC., CURED. HEARING POSITIVELY RESTORED, "BY THE SPECIALIST," DR.W.H. HACKER 327 SPRUCE STREET, Opposite New Hotol Jeiiuyn, Scranton, Pa. OFFICE HOURS-8 TO e. "Ezra KEVIVtt RESTORES VITALITY ' Made a utkitar.anw of Me. . THE GREAT 30th produces the above remits In SO days. It acti lxwrf ullr aad aulrklr. 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It can be applied to tin, galvanised tin, sheet Iron roots, also to brick dwelings, which will brevent absolutely anv criinihlinar. rrark. Ing or breaking of the brick. It will out wai uniting or any Kina Dy many years, and It's cost does not exceed one-fifth that of the coat of tinning. Is sold by the Job vr uuuiiu. uuirtu;iB laaen or .AM TONIO HARTMAttN. 17 Blrob IL Railroad time-tables Central Railroad of New Jersey. (Lehigh and Susquehanna Division) Anthracite coal used exclusively, insur ing cleanliness and cuihfort. TIME TABLE IN EFFECT NOV. 18, 1894. Trains leave Scrunton for Plttston, Wtlkes-Barre, etc., at 8.20, 9.J6, 11.80 a.m.. 12.45, 2.00, 3.05, 5.00. 7.25. 11.0a p.m. Sundays, 8.00 a.m., 1.00, 2.16, 7.W p.m. For Atlantic City, 8.20 a.m. For New York, Newark and Elizabeth, 8.20 (express) a.m., 12.4b (express with Buf fet parlor car), 3.05 (express) p.m. Sun day, 2.15 p.m. For Mauch Chunk, Allentown, Bethle hem, Kuston and Philadelphia, 8.20 n.m.. 12.45, 3.05, 6.00 (except Philadelphia) p.m. Sunday, 2.15 p.m. For Lomr Branch. Ocean Grove, etc., at 8.20 a.m., 12.45 p.m. For Heading. Lebanon and Harrlaburg, via Allentown, 8.20 a.m., 12.45, 6.00 p.m. Sunday, 2.15 p.m. or I'otisvme, . a.mj, p.. Returning, leave New York, foot of Lib- erty street. North river, at 9.10 (express) a.m., 1.10, l.au. -i.ju texpres wun uuilci parlor car) p.m. Sunday, 4.30 a.m. Leave Philadelphia. Rending Terminal, 9.00 a.m., 2.00 and 4.30 p.m. Sunday 6.27 Tl',miih tickets to all noints at lowest rates may be had on application In ad vance to the ticket agent at the station. Gen. Pass. Agent. J. H. OLHAUSEN. Gen. Supt Del., Luck, and Western. rPfnlrta I..VA Rrrnntntl aa follows. IS" press for New York and all points East, 1.40, 2.60, S.15, 8.00 and 9.55 a.m.i 12.55 and J.50 PKxpress for Enston, Trenton, Philadel phia and the south, 6.15, 8.00 and 9.55 a.m., 12.55 ami S.50 p.m. Washington and way Bintionn, o.uu p." Toliyhanna accommodation, 6.10 P.m. niniriiniiiton. Osweito. Ll- mlra. Corning. Hath. Danavllle, Mount Morris and HurTnlo, 12-.10. 2.35 a.m. and 1.24 p.m., making close connections ni falo to nil points liv the West , Northwest unit Southwest.' Hsth accommodation, 9 a.m. ltltiKhnmton ami way stations, 12.S7 p.m. Nicholson accommodation, at 6.15 p.m. Ulnghumlou and Elmlra Express, 6.05 p.m. Express for Cortland, Syracuse, Osweiro Utlca nnd Rtchtleld Si'rlnga, 2.35 a.m. and 1.24 p.m. Ithaca, 2.35 nnd Path 9 a.m. and 1.21 p.m. For Northumberland. Plttston. Wllkes Parre, Plymouth, BkomshurK and lun vllle, nuiklng close connections at North timhcrlnnd for Wllllamsport, Harrisburg, Baltimore, Washington and the Houth. Northumberland and Intermediate sta tions. 8.00, 9.55 a.m. ahd 1.80 and 6.07 p.m. Nantlcoke and Intermediate stations, 8.08 and 11.20 a.m. Plymouth and Inter mediate stations, 3.50 and S.r.2 p.m. Pullman parlor' and sleeping coaches on all express drains For detnlled Information, pocket time tables, etc., nrlply to M.'L. Smith, city ticket office, KM Lackawanna avenue, or depot ticket olllco. DELAWARE AND HUDSON RAIL . ROAD. Commencing Monday, Vf Ml day. July 30, all trains am M Ml wlllarrlve atnew Lack f M B nwanna avenue station Jtw r as follows: II' ' i i uhifl will leave Scran ton station for Carbondalo and In- e?mdltt ' voiitn at 2.W. 6 . 7.W. J.25 and 10.10 a.m., loO, 120, 8.55, 6.16. .15, 7.26, 8.10 arUK?irvw. Waymart and Honesdal. at 7.00, 8.25 and 10.10 a.m.,12.00, 2.20 and 6.11 P For Albany, Saratoga, the Adirondack and Montreal at 6.45 a.m. and 8.20 p.m. For WllkoB-Ilarre and Intermedial 'lots at 7.45. 8.46, 8.38 and 10.46 a.m., 12.06, 1.20, 2.38, 4.00. 6.10, 8 06, 8.U and 11.38 p.m. Trains will .arrive at Scranton stalled from Carbondale and Intermediate points at 7.40. 140, 8.84 and 10.40 a.m., 12.00, 1.17,2,34, 8.40. 4.64, 6.66. 7.45, .U and 11.33 p.m. From Honesdale, Waymart and Farj view at 8.84 a.m., 12.30, 1.17, 3.40, 6.66 and 7.46 p.m. From Montreal, Saratoga, Albany, eto at 4.54 nnd 11.33 p.m. From Wllkes-Uarro and Intermedial points at 3.16, 8.04, 10.06 and 11.66 a.m., 1.1J 114, S.28, 6.10. 6.03, 7.20, 8.03 and U.1S p.m. . mil t ir ruin y 1 ii" lllli m. Nov. 18. 1894. Train leaves Scranton for Philadelphia and New York via D. & H. R. R. at 7.45 a.m.. 12.05, 2.38 and 11.38 p.m., via D., L. & W. R. K., 6.00, 8.08, 11.20 am., and 1.30 p.m. Leave Scranton for Plttston and Wilkes. Barre, via D.. L. & W. R. R., 6.o0. 8.0S, 11.20 a.m., 3.50, 6.07, 8.50 p.m. Leave Scranton for White Haven, Ha zleton, Pottsvllle and all points on the Heaver Meadow and Pottsvllle branches, via E. & W. V. R. R.. 6.40 a.m., via D. & i. it. R. at 7.45 a.m.. 12.05, 2.3s, 4.00 p.m., via !.. L. & W. R. R., 6.00. 8.0S, 11.20 a.m., 1.3J, 3.50 D.m. Leave Scranton for Bethlehem, Easton, Reading, Harrlsbur; und all intermediate points via D. & H. R. R., 7.45 a.m., 12.03. 2.38, 4.00, 11.38 p.m., via D., L. & W. R. R., 6.00. 8.08, 11.20 a.m.. 1.30 p.m. Leave Scranton for Tunkhannock, To wanda, Elmlra, Ithaca, Geneva and all Intermediate points via D. A H. R. R , 8 iSi a.m., 12.05 and 11.35 p.m., via D., L. & Yv R. R., 8.08. 9.55 a m.. 1.30 p.m. Leave Scranton for Rochester, Buffalo,, Niagara Falls, Detroit. Chicago and kIU points west via D. H. R. R.. 8.45 a.m.,, 12.05. 9.16, 11.38 p.m., via D., L. & W. R. R.I and Plttston Junction, 8.08, 9.55 a.m., l.jO, 8.50 p.m., via E. & W. V. R. R., 3.41 p.m. For Elmlra and the west via Salamanca, via D. A H. R. R, 8.45 a.m.. 12.05. 6.05 p.m., via D., L. & W. It. R., 8 0S. 9.55 a.m., 1.C0, ami 6.07 p.m. Pullman parlor and sleeping or L. V. chair cars on all trains between L. A R. Junction or Wllkes-Uarre and New York, Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Suspension Bridge. ROLLIN H. WILBUR. Oen. Supt. CH AS. S. LEE. Oen. Pass. Agt., Phlla., Pa. A. W. NONNHMACHER, Aast. Gen. Pass. Agt., South Bethlehem, Pa. Erie and Wyoming Valley. Trains leave Scranton for New York and Intermediate points on the Erie rail road at 6.35 a.m. and 824 p.m. Also for Honesdale, Hu Icy and local points at 6.35. 9,45 a.m., and 3.24 p.m. All the above are through trains to and from Honesdale. Trains leave for Wtlkes-Barra at (.40 a. m. and 3.41 p.m. BOB ANTON DIVISIOIV. , In Effect Sept. 16th, 1804. North I 205 403 land. South Bound. 201 120 904,200 I! Btationi (Trains Dally, V. K xcept Sunday ) r mi ArrlTa Leavel am. .... 7 40 .... .... 755 .... .... 810 .... 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All trains run daily except Bunday. f. signifies that trains atop on signal tor PU- unnM ratea via Ontario A WMtern before' lurouaalng tickets and save money. Day an! itMSxpreas to tne went, - n . - . n... Aa , T. Flltoroft, Ulv. Pat. AgC, Scrauwa, Pa, . K . v ' .. ,... t ' ,v . '
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