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THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 14, 1895.
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(These short serial stories are copy
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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-
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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."
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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
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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. .
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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
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South
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Unlondale
Fonet City
Carbondale
White Bridge
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