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THE SCBANTON TRIBUNE SATURDAY MORNING. JULY 11, 189G.
X THE RAJAH'S TREASURE. $
By H. a. WELLS. -
Author ol "The Time Machine.
Copyright, 1886, by the Bacheller Syndicate
Between Jehun and Blmabur, on the
Himalayan slopes, and between the
jungles and the higher country where
the pines and the deodars are gathered
together, ruled the rajah, of whose
wonderful treasure I am telling. Hun
dreds of thousands of people heard of
that treasure in Its time between
Peshawurand Calcutta. Andthecurious
thing about it was that the Rajah kept
It not IrorJed inaccessibly, but In a
patent safe, sunk into the wall of a lit
tle room beyond the hall of audience.
Very great was the treasure, people
nald, for the Kujuh had prospered all
his days. He had found Slimlapore a
village, and, behold! it was a city, lie
low his fort of unhewn stone the flat
roofed huts of mud had multiplied:
end now there sprang up houses and
upstairs rooms, and the place which
had once boasted no more than one
bunlah man, engendered a bazar in the
midst of It, as a fat oyster secretes a
pearl. And the Kajah had walled his
city about.
Moreover, tlm Holy. Palace tip the
river prospered, und the road up the
passes was made safe. Merchants and
fakirs multiplied about the wells, men
came and went, twice even white men
tomb-
mm
HE KEPT TITS OWX THOUGHTS
AND WENT HIS OWN WAY.
from the plain on missions to the people
over beyond the deodars, ami the streets
of the town were even denser with poul
try and children, and little dops dyed
yellow, and with all the multitudinous
rich odors of human increase.
The Kajah pushed his boundaries east
and west, the I'ux liritannica consent
ing, and made his fort ever larger and
stronger, and built himself a palace
nt last, and a harem, and made gardens,
so that he could live mngnlllcently and
dispense Justice to all that owned his
sway. And indisputably he did dispense
Justice in the name of Allah! uphold
ins tlie teaching of his prophet, in a
purely Oriental manner, of course,
throughout all his land. Such wi re the
splendid properties of the Jtajah's rule.
The Kajuh was a portly, yellow-faced
man, with a long black beard, now
steadily growing gray, thick lips and
shifty eyes. He was pious, very pious
in his daily routine, and swift und un
accountable in his actions. None dared
withstand him to his face, even in little
tilings, and not a woman In the harem
dared by any device to try and wheedle
him from his will. He kept his own
thoughts and went his own way with
out counsel from nny mutt: he was a
lonesome man, but seemed jealous of
himself.
Golam Shah, Ms vizier, was but n
servant, a currier of orders; and Sanilid
Singh, his muster of horse, but u driller
of soldiers. They were tools, he would
tell them outright In his pride of jiuwrr.
iitaves in his hand that he could break
at his will. He went rarely to the
harem, taking no delight In the society
of women or singers, or In nautehes;
and he was childless. And his cousin,
the youth Azim Khan, loved and feared
him. and only In the remotest recesses
of his heart did he ever dare to wish
the Hajuh would presently die and
make a way to the throne. And Azim
grew in years and knowledge, and Uo
lam Shah and Samud Singh sought his
friendship wllth an eye to the milder
days that would come. But the liajuh
did not die. He grew a little plumper
and n little more gray, and that was
all; until the days came when the talk
of the treasure spread through the
land.
It would be hard to say when first
the' rumor spread abJut the buzars of
the plain that the Kajah of Mindupore
was making a, hoard. None knew how
It began or where. Perhaps from mer
chants of whom he had bought. It be
gan long before the days of the safe.
II was said that rubles had been bought
and hidden, away; and then not only
rubies, but ornaments of gold, and th"i
pearls and diamonds from Oolrondiis
and all manner of precious stones.
Even the deputy commissioner at Alla
pore heard of it. At last the story re
entered the palace of Mindapore itself,
and Azim Khan, who was the Itajah's
cousin and his heir, and nominally his
commander in chief and Golum Shah,
the chief minister, talked it over one
Hith another in a tentative way.
"He has something new," said Golam
Shah, querulously; "he has something
new, and he is keeping it all from me."
Azim Kahn watched him cunningly.
"I have told you what I have' heard."
he said. For my own part I know
nothing."
"He goes to and fro musing and hum
ming to himself," said Golam, medi
tatively, "as one who thinks of a pleas
ure." Azim Kahn was Inclined In an open
nil nded way to chercher la femme.
'No," snld Golam; "It Is not that
He wa-i never like that. He is near
threescore, and besides, these three
months or more It has been, and it still
keeps on. His eyes are bright, his
checks flush. And sometimes he hides,
hides ever, and will not let me know
or suspect "
"More rubies, they are saying," and
Azim, dreamily, and reieated, as if for
his own pleasure, "Kubles." For Azim
was the heir.
"Especially Is It since that English
man came," said Golam, "three months
ago, A big old man, not wrinkled as
an old man should be, but red, and with
"red hair streaking his gray, and with a
tight skin and u big body sticking out
before. So a hipiootnnius of a man,
a great quivering mud bunk of a man,
who laughed mightily, so that the peo
ple stopped and listened in the street.
He cainv, he luughed, and presently we
heard them laugh t ogether "
"Well?" said Azim.
"He wus a diamond merchant, per
hapsor a dealer In rubles. Do English
men deal in such things.
"Would I had seen him!" said Azim.
"He took gold away," said Golam.
Both were silent for a space, and the
purring noise of the wheel of the upper
well, und the chatter of the voices about
It rising and falling, made a plensutit
sound in the- nlr, "Since the English
man went" said Golam, "ho ha. been
different. lie hides something from me
something in his robe. Kubles! What
else can it be?"
"He has not burled It?" said Azim.
"He will. Then he will want to dig It
up aguin and look at It." said Golam, for
he was a man of experience. "I go soft
ly. Sometimes I almost come upon liim.
Then he starts"
"He grows old tind nervous," said
Azim, and there wns a pause.
"Before the English came," said Go
lam, laaking nt the rings upon his lin
gers, ns he recurred ta his constant pre
occupation; "there were no Kajahs ner
vous and old.'
"The English are for a time," said
Azim, philosophically, watching a speck
of a vulture in the air, over the walnut
trees that hid the palace.
That, I say, was even before the com
ing of the safe. It came In a packing
case. Such a case it was as had never
been sen before in all the slope of the
Himalayan mountains; It wus an ele
phant's burden. It was days drawing
nearer and nearer tediously. At Al-
lapore the news preceded it. and crowds
went to se It puss upon the railway
Afterwards elephants and then a great
multitude of men dragged it up the hills,
And this great case being opened In the
hall of audience revealed within itself
a monstrous Iron box. like no other box
that had ever come to the city. It had
been made, so the story went, by necro
mancers in England, expressly to the
order of the Kajah, that he might keep
his treasures therein and sleep In pence.
It was so hard that the hardest files
powdered upon its corners, and so strong
that cannon (lie 1 point blank at it would
have produced no effect upon it. And
it lucked with a magic lock. There was
a word, and none knew the word but
the Kujah. With that word, and a little
key that hung about his neck, one could
open the lock; but without It none could
do so.
So the story half whispered Its won
derful self ubout the city. The Kajah
caused this safe to lie built Into the wall
of his palace in a little rnom beyond the
hall of audience. He superintended the
building up of It with Jealous eyes. And
thereafter he would go thither by day,
once nt leant every day, coming back
with brighter eyes.
"He goes to count his treasure," said
Golam Shah, standing beside the empty
duls.
And In those days It was that the
Kajah began to change. He who had
been cunning and subtle became chol
eric and outspoken. His judgment grew
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harsh, nnd a taint that seemed to all
about him to be assuredly the taint
of avarice crept into' his acts. He seized
the goods of Lai Dum, the metal work
er, because, forsooth, he had stabbed
his wife; und he put a new tax upon
the people's cattle, nnd sweated the
bribes of those who stood ubout him In
the hall of audience. Also a touch of
suspicion of those about hlin replaced
his old fearlessness. Ho accused Gol
am Shah to his face of spying upon
him, and uttered threats. Moreover,
which inclined Golam Shah to hope
fulness, he seemed to take a dislike to
Azim Khan. Once Indeed he made a
kind of speech In the hall of audience.
Therein he declared many times over
In a peculiarly husky Voice, husky yet
full of conviction, that Azim Khan was
not worth a hulf unna, not a lialf anna
to any human soul.
In those hitter days of the Rajah's
decline, moreover, when merchants
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came, he would go aside with them
secretly Into the little room, and speak
low, so-that those In the hall of au
dience, howsoever they strained their
ears, could hear nothing of his speech.
These things Golum Shah and Ailm
Khan, and Samud Singh, who had
joined their councils, treasured In their
hearts. .
PART II.
"It is true about the treasure," said
Azim; "they talked of it around the
well of the' travelers; even the mer
chants from Tibet had heard the tale,
and had come their way with jewels
of price, and afterwards they went
secretly, telling no. one." And ever and
again. It was said, came a negro mute
from the plains with secret parcels for
HIS HAND WOl'I.n TIGHTEN ON
THE CURTAIN.
the Rajah. "Another stone." was the
rumor that went the round of the city.
"The bee makes hoards," said Azim
Khan, the Rajah's heir, sitting In the
upper chamber of Golam Shuh. "There
fore ve will wait awhile." For Azim
was more coward than traitor.
Golam Shah henrd him with a touch
of impatience, notwithstanding that
the feebleness of Azim wns Golam's
chief hope in the happy future that was
coming.
Such were the last days of the reign
of the Kajuh of Mlndapore, in the days
when the story of the making of hlB
hoard had spread abroad from Pesha-
wur to Calcutta. "Here am I. said
the wife of the deputy commissioner
nt Allapore, enlarging on the topic,
"wearing paste, while the. abound is
positively lumpy with buried treas
ures."
"But Isn't It bad that horrid old
man should nave so much?"
"He has"
At last there were men In the Deccan
even who could tell you of particulars of
the rubies and precious stones that the
Kajuh had gathered together. But so
circumspect was the Rajah that Azim
Khan and Golam Shah had never even
set eyes on the glittering heaps that
they knew were accumulating in the
safe.
The Rajah ever went Into the little
room alone, and even then he locked
the door of the little room it had a
couple of locks before he went to the
safe and used the magic word. How
ail the ministers and olllcers and guards
listened and looked at one another as
the door of the room behind the curtain
closed.
The Rajah changed Indeed, In these
days, not only In the particulars of
his rule, but in his appearance. "He
is growing old. How fast he grows old!
The time is almost ripe," whispered
.Sumud Singh. The Rajuh's hand be
came tremulous, his stop was now some
what unsteady, and his memory curl
ously defective. He would come back
out from the treasure-room, and his
hand would tighten fiercely on the cur
tain, and he would stumble on the steps
of the dais. "His eyesight fails," said
Golam. "See! His turban Is askew.
He Is sleepy even In the forenoon, be
fore the heat of the day. His judg
ments are those of a child."
It was a painful sight to see a man
so suddenly old and enfeebled still rul
ing men. That alone would have given
a properly constituted heir-apparent a
revolutionary turn of mind. But the
treasure was certainly the chief cause
that set the Idle, garrulous, pleasure-
loving Azim plotting against his cousin.
A throne was a thing one might wait
for, in his opinion a throne and its
cares; but the thought of those heaps
of shining stones and intricate gold
Jewels was a different matter. Azim
had had a year of college education,
und was so far an enlightened man. He
understood investments, and credit, and
the folly of hoarding. Moreover, the
thought of so much latent wealth Set
him thinking of the pleasure of life and
his lost youth.
"He may go on yet a score of years,"
suld Golam Shah.
Azim became u greedy hearer of ru
mors. It was through Azim and Golam, who
was humllluted and pained by his mas
ter's want of conlidence, that the lep
rosy of discontent came into the statr.
The land tax, the salt tax, the cattle
tax became burthens; the immemorial
custom of leaving the troops unpaid
became a grievance, the commissioner
at Allapore heard tales, and was sur
prised to find growing evidence of mis
management In what he had long
thought a passably well-governed na
tive state. Also the chief molluhs were
sounded, and there was talk of gifts
and the honor of the shrine. And the
two eunuchs, and the women of the
Rajah's harem became factors in the
greatest movement In the state.
Should a ruler hoard riches," said
Shere All, In the guardroom, "and leave
his soldiers uniaid?" That was the
beginning of the end.
It was the thought of the treasure
won over the soldiers, even as It did the
molluhs and the eunuchs. Why had
the Kajah not burled It in some un
thlnknble pluce, as his father had done
before hiin, and killed the diggers with
his hand? Surely India is not what it
was. "He has hoarded," said Samud
wllh a chuckle for the old Rajah had
once pulled his . beard "only to pay
for his own undoing." And In order to
insure conlidence, Golam Shah went be
yond the truth perhaps, and gave, a
sketchy account of the treasures to this
man and that, even as a casual eye wit
ness might do.
Then, suddenly and swiftly, the pal
ace revolution was accomplished. When
the lonely old Rajah was killed, a shot
was to be fired from the harem lattice,
bugles were to be blown, and the se
poys were to turn out In the square
before the palace, and fire a volley In
the air. The murder was done in the
dark save for a little red lamp that
burnt In the corner. Azim knelt on the
body and held up the wet beard, and cut
the throat wide and deep to make sure.
It was so easy! Why had he waited so
long? And then, with his hands cov
ered with warm blood, he sprang up
eHgerly Kajah nt last! nnd followed
Golam and Samud and the eunuchs
down the long, faintly moonlit passage,
towards the hall of audience.
As they did so. the crack of a rifle
sounded far nwny, and after a pause
came the first uwakenlng noises of the
town. One of the eunuchs had an Iron
bar and Samud carried a revolver in his
hand. He. fired into the loc.'s of the
treasure room and wrecked them, nnd
the eunuchs smashed the door In. ' Then
they all rushed in together, none stand
lug aside for Ailm. it was dark, and
the second eunuch went reluctant to get
a torch, In fear lest his fellow murder
era should open the safe in his absence.
Bue he need have had no fear. The
cardinal event of that night Is the trl-
umphant vindication of the advertised
merits of Cobbs' unrivaled safes. The
tumult that occurred between the Min
dapore sepoys and the people need not
concern us. The people loved not the
new Kajah let that suffice. The !
splrators got the key from round the
deud Rajuh's neck, and tried a multt
tude of the magic words of the English
that Samud Singh knew, such as "Gorb-
hmey" In vain.
In the morning, the sale In the treas
ure-room remained Intact and defiant
the woodwork about it was smashed to
splinters, and great chunks of stone
knocked out of the wall, dents abun
dantly scattered over its impregnable
door, and a dust of files below. And
the shifty Golam had to explain the
matter to the soldiers and mollahs as
best he could. This was an extremely
difficult thing to do, because in no kind
of business is prompt cash so neces
sary as in the revolutionary line.
The state of affairs for the next few
days In Mlndapore was exceedingly
strained. One fact stands out prom
inently, that Azim Khan was hopelessly
feeble. The soldiers would not at first
believe In the exemplary Integrity of
the safe, and a deputation insisted in
the most occidental manner In verity
Ing the new Rajuh's statements. More
over, the populace clamored, and then
by a linked man running, came the
alarming Intelligence that the new
deputy commissioner at Allapore was
coming headlong and with soldiers to
verify the account of the revolution
Golum Shah and Samud Singh had sent
him In the nnnv of Azim.
The new commissioner was a raw
young man, partly obscured by a pith
helmet, and chock full of zeal and the
desire for distinction; and he had
heard of the treasure. He was going,
he said, to sift the matter thoroughly.
On the arrival of this distressing In
telllgence there was a hasty and In
formal council of state (at which Azim
wns .not present), a counter revolution
was arranged, and all that Azim ever
learnt of It was the sound of a foot
fall behind him, and the cold touch of
a revolver barrel on the neck.
When the commissioner arrived, that
dexterous statesman. Golam Shah, and
that honest soldier, Samud Singh, were
ready to receive him, and they had two
corpses, several witnesses, and a neat
little tory. In addition they had shot
an unpopular officer of the Mlndapore
sepoys. They told the commissioner
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RAJAH AT LAST.
how Azim had plotted against the
Kajah and raised a military revolt, and
how the people, who loved the old
Rajah, even as Golam Shah and Samud
Singh loved him, had quelled the re
volt, und how peace was restored again.
And Golam explained how Azim had
fought for life even in the hall of au
dience, and how he. Golam had been
wounded in the struggle, and how
Samud had shot Azim with his own
hand.
And the deputy commissioner, being
weak in his dialect, had swallowed It
all. All round the deputy commission
er, in the minds of the people, the pal
ace, and the city, hung the true story of
the case, as it seemed to Golam Shah,
like an avalanche ready to fall; and
yet he did not learn It for fours days.
And Golam and Samud went to and
fro, whispering and pacifying, prom
lslng to get at the treasure as soon
as the deputy commissioner could be
got out of the way. And as they went
to and fro so also the report went to
and fro that Golam and Samud had
opened the safe and hidden the treas
ure, and closed and locked It again;
and bright eyes watched them curi
ously and hungrily even us they
watched the Rajah in the days that
were gone.
PART nr.
"This city Is no longer for you and
me," said Golam Shah, In a moment of
clear insight. "They are mad about
this treasure. Golconda would not sat
isfy them."
The deputy commissioner, when he
heard their story, did Indeed make
knowing inquiries (as knowing as the
knowingness of the English goes) in
order not to show himself too credu
lous, but he elicited nothing. He had
heard tales of treasure, had the com
missioner and of a great box? So had
Golam and Samud, but where it was
they could not tell. They, too, had
heard tales of treasure many tales In
deed. Perhaps there was treasure.
Had the deputy commissioner had the
AND GOLAM AND SAMUD WERE
CAUGHT.
scientific turn of mind he would have
observed that a strong smell of gun
powder still hung about the audience
chamber, more than was explained by
the narrative told him; and had he ex
plored the adjacent apartment he would
presently have discovered the small
treasure room with Its smashed locks
and the ceiling now dependent ruins,
and amid the ruins the safe bulging
perilously from the partly collapsed
walls, but still unconquered and with
Its treasures unexplored. Also it is a
fact that Golam Shah's bandaged hand
was not the consequence of heroism in
battle, but of certain private blasting
operations 'too amateurishly prosecuted.
So you have the situation: fJeputy
commissioner installed In the palace,
sending incorrect Information to head
quarters and awaiting instructions, the
safe as safe as ever; assistant conspir
ators grumbling louder and louder; and
Golam and Samud getting mure d
perate lest this oli.- should reach the
deputy's ears.
Then came the night when the com
missioner heard a filing and a. tapping.
and being- a brave man, he rose and
went forthwith, alone and very quietly
across the hall of audience, revolver in
hand. In search of the sound. Across
the hall a light came from an open door
that had been hidden in the day by a
curtain. Stopping silently in the dark
ness of the outer apartment, he looked
Into the treasure-room. And there
stood Golam with his arm In a sling,
holding a lantern, while Samud fumbled
with pieces of wire and some little keys.
They were without boots, but otherwise
they were dressed ready for a Journey,
The deputy commissioner was, for a
government official, an exceedingly
quick-witted man. He slipped back In
the darknese attain. and within five min
utes Golam and Samud, still fumbling.
heard footsteps hurrylns across the hall
of audience, and saw a flicker of light.
Out went their lanterns, with a groan
because of a bandaged arm, but it was
too late. In another moment Lieut
Earl, In pyjamas and boots, but with
brace of revolvers and a couple of rifles
behind him, stood in the doorway of the
treasure-room, and Golam and Samud
were caught. Samud clicked his revol
ver and then threw it down, for it was
three to one. Golam being not only a
bandaged man, but fundamentally a
man ot peace.
When the intelligence of this treach
ery filtered from the palace into the
town, there was an outbreak of popular
feeling, and a dozen officious persons
set out to tell the deputy commissioner
the true connection between Golam,
Samud and the death of the Rajah. The
first to penetrate to the deputy commis
sioner's presence was an angry fakir.
from the colony that dwelt ubout the
Holy palace. And after a patient hear
ing the deputy commissioner extracted
the thread of the narrative from the
fabric of curses in which the holy man
presented It.
"This Is most singular," said the dep
uty commissioner to the lieutenant
standing In the treasure-room (which
looked as though the palace had been
bombarded), and regarding the battered
hut still inviolable safe. "Here we
seem to have the key of the whole po'
sition."
"Key," said the lieutenant. "It's the
key they haven't got."
"Curious mingling of the new and the
old," said the deputy commissioner.
"Patent safe and a hoard."
"Send to Allapore and wire Chobha,
I suppose?" said the lieutenant.
The deputy commissioner signified
that was his intention, and they set
guards before and behind and all about
the trensure-room until the proper In
structions ubout the lock should come.
So It was that the Pax Brltannlca
solemnly took possession of the Kajah's
hoard, and men in Simla heard the
news and envied that deputy commis
sioner his advnture with all their
hearts. For lira promptitude and deel
slon was a matter of praise, and they
said that Mlndapore would certainly
be annexed and added to the district
over which he ruled. Only a fat old
man named MacTurk, living In Allc
pore, a big man with a noisy, quiver
ing laugh, and a secret trade with cer-
tuln native potentates, did not hear
the news, excepting the news of the
murder of the Rajah an the departure
of the deputy commissioner, for sev
eral days. He heard nothing ot the
disposition of the treasure an unfor
tunate thing, since, among other
things, he had sold the Rajah his safe
and may even have known the word
by which the lock was opened.
The deputy commissioner had the
atrical tastes. These he gratified un
der the excuse that display was neces
sary above all things in dealing with
orientals. He imprisoned his four
malefactors theatrically, and when the
Instructions came from Chobbs he had
had the safe lugged Into the hall of
audience, In order to open it with more
effect. About him stood his clerk and
the three white officers in command of
the troops that were with him, and
an engineer and several native non
commissioned officers, and a guard a
tine display of uniforms. Also there
were palace officials, mollahs and a
sprinkling of representative men from
Mlndapore, whom the deputy commls
sioner kept about himself in a kind of
court, ostensibly to prevent their get
ting Into mischief. The commissioner
sat on the dais, .while the engineer
worked at the safe on the crimson
steps.
In the central space was stretched a
large white cloth. It reminded the
deputy commissioner of a picture he
had seen of Alexander at Damascus re
ceiving the treasures of Darius.
"It Is gold." said one bystander to
another. "There was a sound of
chinking as they brought the safe in,
My brother was among those who
hauled."
The engineer clicked the lock. Every
eye In the hall of audience grew bright
er and keener, save only that that dep
uty commissioner sat upon the dais
looking as much like the Pax Brltan
nlca as possible.
"By heaven!" said the engineer, and
slammed the safe again. A murmur of
exclamation ran around the hall.
Everyone was asking everyone else
what they had seen.
"An asp!" said some one.
The deputy commissioner lost his Im
perturablllty. "What is It?" he said.
springing to his feet. The engineer
leant across the safe and whispered two
words, something Indistinct and with
a blasphemous adjective In front.
'What?" said the deputy commission
er, sharply.
'Glass!" said the engineer, in a bit
ter whisper. "Broken bottles. 'Un-dreds!"
"Let me see!" said the deputy com
missioner, losing all his dignity.
"Scotch, If I'm not mistaken," said
the engineer, sniffing curiously.
'Curse It!" said the deputy commis
sioner, and looked up to meet a mul
titude of ironical eyes. "Er "
'The assembly is dismissed," said tne
deputy commissioner.
"What a fool he must have looked!"
wheezed MacTurk, who did not like the
deputy commissioner. "What a fool he
must have looked!"
"Simple enough," said MacTurk,
when you know how It came about."
"But how did it come about?" asked
the station master.
"Secret drinking," said MacTurk.
Bourbon whisky. I taught him how-
to take It myself. But he didn't dare
let on that he was doing It, poor old
chap! Mlndapore's one of the most
fanatically Mahometan states In the
hill, you see. And he always was a se
cretive kind of chap, and given to do
ing things by himself. So he got that
safe to hide It in, nnd keep the bottles.
Broke 'em up to pack, I s'pose, when it
got too full. Lord! I might ha' known.
When people spoke of his treasure.
I never thought of putting tlmUnnd the
safe nnd the Bourbon together! But
how plain It Is! Anil what a sell for
Parkinson. Pounded glass! The ac
cumulation of years! Lord! I'd 'a
given a couple of stone of my weight
to see hi in open that safe!
(The End.)
What is
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Castoria Is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infanfa
and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor.
' other Narcotic substance. It Is a harmless substitute
j for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor OIL
It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years uso by
millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and
allays Fcverislraoss. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour
, Curd, cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves
'. Teething troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency.'
Castoria assimilates tho Food, regulates tho Stomach
. and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. CasJ
tcria Is tho Children's Panacea tho Mother's Friend.
Castoria.
"Castoria is an excellent medicine for
children. Mothers have repeatedly told me
of it good effect upon their children."
Dr. G. C. Osgood,
Lowell, Mass.
'Castoria ! the best remedy for children
cf which I am acquainted. I hope the day
is not far distant when mothers will con
sider the real interest of their children, and
use Castoria instead of the Tarious quack
nostrums which are destroying their loved
ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing
syrup and other hurtful agents down their
throats, thereby sending them to premature
grave,'1 Dt.J.F.Kincbblob,
Conway, Ark.
' Castoria. j
"Castoria is so well adapted to children) .
that I recommend it as superior to any pre. '
scriptioa known to me." '
11. A. AECHBB, U. O.,
Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. T.
" Out physicians la the children's depart
tnent have spoken highly of their experience
in their outside practice with Castoria, and .
although we only have among our medical
supplies what is known as regular products,
yet we are free to confess that the merits
of Castoria ha won ns to look with firar
upon it."
United Hospital aks DtsnoraABT,
Bostoni afnj
Allen C. Smith, Pro.
Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria.
UP TO DATE.
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THE (jENUINB
PIANO
At a time when many manu
facturers and dealers are making
the most astounding statements
regarding the merits and durability
of inferior Pianos, intending pur
chasers should not fail to make
critical examination of the above
instruments.
E. C. RICKER
General Dealer in Northeast
era Pennsylvania.
New Telephone Exchange Building, 115
Adama Ave., Seranton, Pa.
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iHUrticuttiiutfiiBumttEirvMuwin
61,827 BARRELS OF FLOOR
days' run at PlUshnrj'S "A" Mill, and over One Million
barrels in the past six months, running Six Dlljsa Week,
the highest record of any mill in the world. Mr. Pills
bury, the manager of the Tillsbury "A" Mill, Challenges
hay Mill in the World to come with in 13,000 barrels of it
in a six days' run. Tho Pillsbury Washburn Flour
Mills Co., Limited, not only own tho largest mill in tho
orld, but make the BEST FLOUR.
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C. P. flatthews Sons & Co.,
Mill Agents,
Northeastern fenn'a
SCKANTON, PA. fc
THIRD NATIONAL BANK
OF SCR ANTON.
Capita!, - - $200,000
Surplus, - - 300,000
Undivided Profits, 64,000
Special attention jriven to Business and Personal
Accounts.
3 Interest Paid on Interest Deposits.