10 THE SCBANTON TBIBUNE-SATURDAY MORNING.' OCTOBEB 3. 1896. THE HOUSE OF f I!! FFflR BY H0WARD j) " VAUX I. ' ; The night was an Ideal one for tell ing stories before a flamtngr hearth, the house was rich in oldtime associations, and the company waa responsive equal ly to the gay and the prave. The first was In March, the second was the home Of my friend Philip Letterby, and the third was the group of guests he an nually entertains ir observance of a hospitable custom that his family has never permitted to lapse. Tho conver sation of such a circle will gravitate to supernatural experiences and this one was no exception. Many such had been related at second-hand, when Aimer Lctterby, Philip's father, addressed us. He had been sitting' nearest the Are, . thoughfully leaning forward upon his hickory staff. It c lose approach to the portals of the. unknown should yield foreknowledge of its strange laws, he could have spoken with abundant au thority. "I have never toW any rif you," lie said, "why the old Jiudthorne place is called 'The House of Fear.' As the grandson of the last owner who lived in It is here tonight, this is a good time to tell it." "You will oblige me very much by doing so," responded the young man re ferred to. Philip had accidentally found him at the village Inn that afternoon and hnd persuaded him to become one of his guests. He was traveling for the bene llt of his health and had come to the neighborhood to visit the original home stead of his family. He was about twenty-live years of age. pale and thin, but stil! holding fast a sustaining residue of his normal robustness and strength of manhood. "The house has been without a tenant for almost forty years," the old man began in a quavering voice that added much to the weird gravity of his narra tive. ".Martin Jiudthorne. your grand father, sold It to the father of Arm strong, the present owner, when the uwtul thing 1 am going to tell of. hap-ps-ned, and went west. He advised Armstrong to build a new house at the other end of the farm and never to go into the old one. It was a matter of STeat wonder at the time, but the fact that no one can live in It has now na turally become a matter of course. "Martin had a brother John, the worst boy to rove about I ever saw. He couldn't be eontented anywhere very long, and when their father died, he soon turned his share of the estate into money and went gaddinir about the world. One night he came home to Martin's house unexpectedly. Kvery body saw that he was on his last legs. He was in bed when I went over to see him. and I made up toy mind he hadn't a week to live. He wnnted to talk that nlpht X went over and he told us many stories of his travels. He was one of these chaps that gather up all sorts of odd things anil he told Martin thut sev eral boxes of them would come in a few days. "The last city he hnd spent much time In, he said, was Bagdad, and he had made it his headquarters while look ing around over the scenes told about in the 'Arabian Nights.' That is a speci men of the crazy notions he was always taking. He told us he had bought from an Arab there the linest curiosity he had ever seen. It was a round ball made entirely of small pieces of bone cut fnun human skulls. The skulls w-re uf men and women who had died awful deaths. Some of them were crim inals that had been executed by being beheaded or tortured, some had been murdered, some killed in earhquakes, storms and all sorts of terrible acci dents. The Arab had told him there was some spell on it, but John declared hi' didn't put any faith In that. He ad vised Martin to keep It, as it might be valuable as a curiosity. "John died the next night. About ten days afterward the boxes came, and Martin sent for me to come over and help him unpack them, for we had tried to fancy what sorts of trinkets the boy had wasted his money on. We soon saw that our wildest fancies fell short. Those boxes held the most useless things that good dollars could be squan dered for. 1 won't try to describe them, but will hurry on to the bone ball we were most anxious to find, and that we did come across at last. I stooped to lift It out, and. supposing a ball of bone would be light, X did not use much strength, but I was astonished to lind that I did not even budge it, and that it required a good muscle to get It out. I hod never been ns much surprised lit my life. It was only nbout six inches in diameter, but it would have outweighed a solid ball of lead of Its size. I warned Martin of this as I handed it to him, but he was not prepared for such an ex traordinary weight and almost let it foil. "He put it on the table and relied It about as we examined it. s John had said, It was made of small squares of bone, cemented toprpther with wonder ful skill and polished until you could almost see yourself in it. Martin at last took his hands from it, and then another extraordinary thing happened. Instead of lying still, it rolled around of its own accord until a small black circle came uppermost. We put it back again and again, with the circle down, and every time It righted itself. This circle seemed to be the mark of a. lid. but we could not see any way to open It. Some words woro burned Into the bone beside this circle, but we saw that It would take better scholars than we wore to read thorn. . "As you may all imagine, we got very much interested, in this ball, but kept all we had learned about It from everyone; in fact, no one knew such "MRS. P.UDTIIOTXXE TXAN IX SCREAMING." a thing had come. A few days after it came Martini copied the words on the lid and sent them to a friend of his who was a professor of languages in a New England college, asking him to translate them. He replied In due time that the words were Arabic and that they meant in Knglish: 'A brave scion of the third generation.' What this could mean wie hadn't the slight est Idea, of course, but supposed it re ferred to some oriental superstition. "The thing that most mystified us about the ball, - though, wan the re markable weight, and we decided one evening that, an It was really use less, we would break It open and see what did make It eo heavy. This was an unlucky decls4on, and I knowv Mr. Iludthorne, that- your grandfather worried over It to the day of his death. Martin stood on 'one side of the table holding the ball tighlt in his hands, and I, standing on the other side, tried to force- h edge ot a cold chisel under the lid so to pry It off. We never knew how It happened, whether (Copyright, 1 84. the BachdUr Syndicate. tmwmniimwwv o w www Martin touched a secret spring with his handH or I did with the chlael. but, at any rate, the lid suddenly new. open and hung buck on an inside hinge. "We bent forward quickly and looked In to see what It lield, and immediate ly straightened up and looked at each other simply speechless, for the ball had nothing In It at all. It was as empty as anything could be. Martin put his hands around It and exerted the force he hart usually done In lifting it, and It rose up with a Jerk. " 'This is a devil's own. contrivance, Abner,' he said. 'Take it!" "I did so, and Aropiicd the diabolical thing on the table. It had come down to a natural wvlght. Where Its ex traordinary heft had gone we could not tell. Certainly nothing had fallen from it. I began 'to feci a queer sen sation of fright coming over me, nd I looked at Martin. Hl face was get ting pale, and he stared at mo wildly, ad he whispered: "'What Is in this iroom. Aimer?' "Before I could answer Martin's hound, that had) been sleeping beside the stove, sprang up with a howl, dashed for the door and began whining to get out. A cat thut had been con tentedly rubbing against our legs a few moments before, leaped upon the window-sill, where, with her back arched and her fur bristled, she scratched) frantically at the panes. "A moment later Mrs. Budthorne ran In screaming, followed a few seconds after bv a kitchen maid and one of tho hired men, still carrying a lantern. t, issi,'. n mm "WE Bl'RIED IT IN THE CELLAR." as he had just com In from the bairn. Their, lips ware stiff with fear, but they made us understand that they had become suddenly frightened with out seeing anything to cause it. Not one of us could even try to quiet the others. We could scarcely keep from running out of the house. 1 had never been afraid before without any reason for it. The house was exactly an It hadi been. If we had Seen anything like a ghost, It would not have been so unnatural, but that feeling of Im lng terribly afraid of something, with out knowing what It was. was awful. "We stood still awhile, hoping it would pass away, but when we began to feel that the thing we were nfivild of was death in some frightful shape, we cauld out stand it any longer, anil we ran through the hall and out upon the porch, the two women scivaming and) the dog and cat snapping, snarl ing and howling. "The fear left us the moment we got out on the porch and we men relt foolish, enough, I can tell you. We were not long deciding that Mrs. Bud thorne had hail nightmare and her screaming had seared us all. Martin and I accordingly concluded to go) In again. We did so, leaving the man with the women, but we got no fur ther than the door opening Into the room where the devilish ball still lay upon the table. I felt as If I was be ing led out to 1k tortured to death: Martin felt the same, and we ran out again as if we were Hying for our lives, and I believe to this day that we were, No one could stay under the Inlluence of that spell for an hour without losing his mind or his life. It seems ridiculous to credit such a thing nowadays, ami hard to believe that anyone would give up to a fear that has no visible cause, but there the old house stands vacant, and you may all think nre a coward, but 1 would not go alone Into it and fUiv for ten minutes for a deed of nil the land that con be ,een from its roof. "Martin and all his folks stayed here at my house until they went west. Ho had been considering thnt move before this thing happened and that decided him. It was soon found that the spell is not on the house In the daytime, so we got his things out without difll culty. I fan tell you. though, it was a biff relief when we locked up the place and left it to itself." "What became of the ball?" young Budthorne asked. "Martin wanted to break it to pieces, but i told him that enough had hap pened from merely opening the lid, without risking something worse. .So we buried It In the cellar of the house, and 1 suppose it is there yet, unless it has vanished, as 1 could easily believe." "Could you tell nie the exact place'.'" the young man asked further. "Do you wish to get if."' Abner in quired, earnestly. "yes, I should like to have It. 1 sup pose I have Inherited my grand uncle's fondness for odd things, and I think this Arabian sphere would be quite an addition to iuy collection." "I advise you to have nothing to do with it," Abner said: "but if you wish to sec it. you can easily find it. Martin dug a hole for It in the front cellar. We were afraid that common earth would not hold it down, so we put a heavy stone slab over it." Budthorne said no more, but tho old man pursued the inquiry: "Will you go to the cellar for It?" "Yes, and take It home with me. Who has the key of the house?" "Armstrong, the present owner. I don't think he will object to your hav ing It." This concluded the story telling and we separated for the night. I was pow erfully impressed by the old man's nar rative, and next morning I easily ob tained Budthorne's consent to accom pany him to get the bone ball. We reached Armstrong's place about ten o'clock and found him In his front yard. Budthorne presented a note of Intro duction from Philip and asked for the key, at the same time stating his pur pose. The farmer did not object, but advised us not to meddle with the mat ter. "I am Inclined to believe It Is all Im agination," said the young man. "This old skull bone ball could not harm any one, at any rate, and I want It as a curi osity." "Don't deceive yourself," Armstrong differed earnestly. "I tried to spend a night there once to decide the same doubt. I stayed just five minutes, and my doubt was fully satisfied. I have never tried It again. ' It may be Imag ination, but something horrible is in the old place to start It.". We were not turned from our pur pose and he gave us the key. We fol lowed the carriage drive along the creek. The "House of Fear" was in full view all he way, standing on a hill in cold relief against the leaden March, sky that shed rain In occasional show ers. We left the road and ascended the hill by a lane and arrived In front of the house. It stood back some distance from the lane, in spacious grounds, and the whole was In such a condition aa long neglect would naturally leave it. It was a festering sore on the fair face of the landscape. Many palings had dropped from the front fence and re minded me gruesomely of teeth miss ing from a skull. The sate would not move on the rusted hinges and we broke it down. The footpath to tha porch was lost under the many deposits of fallen weeds and grans and the rank growth yet standing. The house, being of stone, had resisted decay, but the years had anawed the woodwork as worms consume the flesh and leave the bone. PART II. I must confess that, aa we ascended the four water-soaked steps to the rot ten porch before the door my sensa tions were not as remote from fear as I would have wished, but Budthorne was unmoved. He seemed to treat the matter as a commonplace occurrence. He put the key Into the lock and tried to turn it as calmly as he would have done the same thing at his own home. The bolt resisting, 1 helped htm until it slid back, and we went into the wide hallway. The atmosphere of the place was sulltctent to till one with fear, but it was only ordinary disgust for damp and mold and slime. The house had be come a freehold to them. We came provided with digging Implements and a candle. Budthorne lighted the latter and we entered the room on the right. The loathsome things that fatten upon decay had glutted themselves there at their ease. Even the light that seeped throush the slats of the shutters and the reeking panes seemed unclean. After pome groping we found the cel lar stairway and went down the weak ened steps with care. As may be imag ined, the cellar was in worse condition than the house. I had become struck with my companion's coolness, and when I looked at him then I saw no signs of the loathing I felt, as we walked to the front. The mold was so thick upon the earthen floor thnt we tapped some time with the mattock before striking the stone. I held the lantern and Budthorne soon dug out the object of our search. He lifted it out of the pit with his hands without hesitation. As he held It up to the candle I could not help looking over my shoulder Into the foul shadows, but whatever connection there was between the ball and the fear that came upon one in the night, had been broken, at least for the time. The sphere was covered with earth, but the young mun tapped it with his finger noils and expressed his pleasure that It had not rotted. We returned to the side room up stairs, where he put the ball upon the wide window sill and began to scrape off the dirt with his knife. He became completely absorbed in the task and thought nothing of his fetid surround ings. My mind was divided between winder at his Interest and my repug nance. At last the sphere was clean and be held it up triumphantly. I could not help admiring the wonderful skill dis played In Its construction, but at the same time was powerfully affected by thoughts of the places from which the tiny bone cubes had come and of the frenzy of the brains they had helped to encase. "A brave scion of the third genera tion," he said to himself, as he ex amined the Arabic words upon the lid, which still moved easily upon the hinge. At the instant an insight into his mo tives came to me in a Hash. He was not merely curious about the sphere and the blight it had brought upon his house; he was the scion of the third gen eration and that he was a bravo one his demeanor had already amply proved. 1 decided not to tell him of my guess then, and merely asked: "What will you do now?" "1 shall leave this curiosity here and come back tonight to feel this fear that escaped from It It hope it Is not all imaginary, for it would add to Its value If I could tell of an act mil ex perience with it." "Will it be agreeable if I come wllh you ?" "Perfectly." He placed the ball carefully In a corner, and we left the house, se curely locking the door. We returned to Phillip's and told the eagerly-waiting company of the finding of the ball, but. as we had agreed together, with held our intentions fur the night. About S o'clock in the evening, we excused ourselves from the other guests and started foi the house. The clouds had cleared from the sky and the waning moon was Just rising. I shall not attempt to tell my expecta tions. They were not pleasant, yet toy curiosity concerning the Influence that THE LIGHT SHOWED HIS GHAST LY EACH. had escaped from the sphere waa strong, and I was further steadied in my purpose by Budthronc's placidity. As we walked along the road by the creek the house stood high above It In tho moon likht like a spectral man sion, and when we entered the lame 1 began to hope that he would abandon the project. - There were no prospects of this, however; he showed no more apprehension than if we had been on our way to a. scene of gayety. When we reached the porch of the house he turned to me and said, quiet ly: "I have led you to believe that I think this tale of the fear one has in this old house at night is Imaginary. I want to tell you now that 1 think it is true. In a few moments it will have a grip on us. If your heart isn't a stout one, this is the point to turn back." "I want to experience it mvpelf," I answered. "Besides, I believe I have guessed your real purpose. You are a scion of the third generation, and you have a theory as to what such a per son might accomplish." "Precisely. I am glad you have guessed it. I believe that nothing but bravery will compel this fiend to go back into the ball. I mean to put it on the floor with the ltd open and fight It out." "It looks plausible, but " "Have I the necessary bravery? That is the point to be decided, you think. To make a fair test I must be alone, and when I begin it I shall ask you to leave me. Your presence would be some stay to my courage, and, as I Interpret the words on the ball, the scion of the third generation can con quer this demon of fear only by his unaided bravery. I shall tell you when I desire you to come out." He was wholly unmoved, and he un locked the front door with a perfectly steady hand. I followed him Into the hall, closing the door behind me at his direction. In an instant both knew that Abner Letterby's experience had not been fancied nor exaggerated. The hall was utterly dark, the odor was al most nauseating, and I shrank from the filth and decay around me, but it was not fear of these that seemed to close around my heart. It seemed to be an element of the air that filled one with an overpowering dread, aa heat or cold produces its effect, except that this was an unnatural. Inexplicable effect, as If one should have the sensation of freezing In intense heat or be scorched or blistered by heat In a zero tempera ture. The house was quiet and peace ful, no hideous apparition appeared, yet I felt every nerve quivering with fear. Budthorne struck a match, lifted the candle from the Moor just inside of the room and lighted it. He held it up be fore him and we peered into the shad ows. Nothing frightful appeared, but my fear Increased as if I were lnhallug It, Budthorne turned toward me and I looked at him over the candle flame. His face was drawn and his Hps trem bled slightly as he whispered: "It Is true." "Terribly true." I replied. He walked to the corner where he had placed the ball and came back to the center ot the room. He put it on the floor and set the candle near It. He carefully opened the lid, then said: "Please go now." "I should not leave you alone here." I said. "You are not a strong man, and no one could stand a strain like this very long." "I shall risk it." "But what is to be gained?" "Nothing, perhaps. Nevertheless, I am determined to test the meaning of those Arabic words." I saw that I could not dissuade him. I felt my own will weaken more and more each moment and was fully con vinced of the truth of old Abner's state ment that insanity or death would re sult from braving this maligns, In- I SAW IT FALL, OLT8TENIXQ IN THE MOONBEAMS. fiuenoe. I could not, however, oppose young Budthorne's wish, nor could I drag him bodily from the plac e. But I could bring Philip, and the two of us could compel him to come away. I went to the door thinking of get ting Philip, of my cowardice In leaving Budthorne there and of escape from the place, all In a mental Jumble, fur the sensation that I was about to suffer death in some horrible form, as de scribed by Abner. hail come upon me. 1 thought swiftly of many ways lit which men had come to their end, but none of them seemed so full of terror as death brought on by this causeless fear. 1 felt that the young man could not stand this dreadful test, and from the sill I looked' back, fully expecting to lind him escaping with me. But lie was standing near the hall, erect, deter mined and pointing to the door. 1 lied through the hall, tlung open the front door and ran out upon the porch, I was instantly relieved of the super natural fright. I turned ut once to go back and plead with Built horne to come out, but he had followed and shut the door. I heard him lock It inside; then came a noise as of some small metnl object falling upon the bare ilnur far buck in the long, dark hull. He had thrown away the key so that he could not quickly escape. I called to him, urging him to give ur his mnd experi ment, but he did not answer me. I leaped from the porch and ran most of the wuy to Phillip's home. The company was silting before the fire, and my excited entrance lu-nke up an animated discussion. When I hud fold of the trial Kudlhnrne was muking Abner sprang up and exclaimed: "He cannot live an hour in that place. Philip, you ami Mr. Richards must use force if he will not come out willingly." "1 came to nsk Philip to go with me," I suid. "I could not persuade him to abandon this dangerous experiment." Philip and I were soon hurrying to ward the house. Armstrong hulled us as we were passing bis home. "Isn't that young fellow In the obi house tonight?" he usked. "Yes," Philip answered, and hurried ly explained our mission. "I'll go with you." When we arrived at the porch of the house I called Iludthorne, but he did not answer. I called again as loudly as I could, but the silence inside was un broken. With a sickening apprehen sion of what had occurred I threw my weight agninst the door, but it resisted. Philip and Armstrong helped me. the bolt snapped with a loud noise and the door crashed Inward. I sprang Into the hall, but stopped in astonishment. The air was still foul and close, but It had been relieved of the element of fear. The quietness of the side room, howev er, irave me a foreboding entirely dif ferent from the unnatural dread of death. This room was almost dark, the candle having burned into the stick during the hour of my absence, and shedding them only a circle of light up on the grimy ceiling. We stopped up on. the sill and strained our eyes Into the shadows. It required but an in stant to see what had happened, and we sprang forward, Jiudthorne lay upon the floor with his right hand resting limply Upon the ball, the lid of which was tightly closed. 1 bent over him and called, but he did not move. Armstrong caught up the candle, raised the tallow end higher in the stick, while Philip and I turned the prostrate man upon his back. Tho light showed his ghastly face, set with a desperate determination, and his eyes open and staring, with a vacancy that filled us with a natural dread, f put my hand over his heart and cried: "He is alive. We must get him out of this at once." We carried him out upon the porch, and Armstrong hurried away to bring a team. When he arrived with It, and Budthorne, still insensible, hud been carefully placed in the straw bed. 1 asked Philip to take him home as rap idly as possible and secure medical at tention, adding that I would remain. "What crazy experiment are you bent on?" he asked. "None," 1 answered. "I intend to put that fiendish ball where it will do no more harm." "Make It sure," he commended, as they drove away. I walked back Into the hall of the house with some nervousness, I freely confesB. But I quickly discovered that it was groundless. Budthorne had driven out the demon of fear beyond all doubt. I went Into the side room and the expiring flame of the candle dimly revealed the bone ball upon the floor. I put my hands upon it to lift It, and could not help springing erect In amazement. The wonderful weight Abner letterby had epoken- of had come back to it. With much fear that it might fall and break and the spell escape again I picked It up with great care, then blew out the candle and walked out upon the porch. At the foot of the hill on Which the house stands the creek has cut its way through many strata of rocks, thus forming a narrow gorge, at the bot tom of which the water Is very deep. I decided to drop the ball Into the stream there and hastened to the place. In order that It might not strike any of the Jagged rocks and be broken. I lay flat upon the ground and stretched my arms far out over the chasm. Whether the contact of my hands re newed the spell or my excited nerves reproduced the sensation so recently experienced, I do not know, but an unnatural fear seemed to come out of the moonlighted air and death In frightful forms seemed to throng the quiet night. I released) the f.phere, and, with a deep sense of relief, I saw It fall, glistening In the moonbeams; there was a splash and an eoboing gurgle In the gorge, and all waa still. I rose and hastened to Philip's hum, rejoicing that the spell had been brok en, but anxious for the brave young fellow who bud accomplished that de sired end. I found him very 111. He lay at Philip's home for many weeks on the verge of death from acute brain fev er. He finally grew well enough to be taken to his tvestern home. 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The boys were soon taught the ins and outs of the commercial maze so that they umler stod it better by fur than the major ity of grown people who have not a speaking acquaintance with bank ac count. After that Mr. Llndsey's posi tion became merely advisory. The bank has never dime any speculative or Investment business. It bus con fined Itself tit louulug money at un eiiiirtnous rate of interest to clerks in the wholesale bouses ailing Washing ton avenue uiul in the Immediate vicin ity. They charged on all loans .1 per cent, a month or any fraction thereof. If u young man wutileil to take bis best girl to the theater he could imply to the W. C. Llndsey & Sons Banking company anil get the necessary funds to do It with by paying twenty-live cents for the privilege. Security on real and persunnl properly was re quired, us tlmt losses Were guarded against. At sin-h a rate it can readily be seen thut the hank was a paying Institution. Theue are stockholders in twenty stales of the I'nlon. It Is agreed that none of the stockholders an draw his I money until ho has reached the age of twenty-one years. He may sell or give away his stock, but the monev must remain In the bank's possession until the persons to whom it belongs become of age. Chi:mis r he HiontoT MtsicAL AuTMemTin lUnnoi t. ...... vnirutim HFinafirisTNEURAiaia KMUiriVlli, TIl MENTHOT INHAi.rn will cure you. A wumiorful benn to piitTi-ren from Cold, SnrThroHf, Inflntnra. Hrnnvhltu. urtlA Y I'RTKK. Aforii immrtiinlrrfU!. An inicin- ri-m,r1 fYmvutilnnt ..... In poPkpt, wnily to on llrt Innimtlon of ruhf. 1'ontlnHFd Vna I'divjtc 1'ri-mnneat rurr. fttlirncUiinniaranteedoriF.iticTrciiinilod. Price, Sl rl: Trial i free nt DruagtMa. Itenistorud mull. ceuu. H. D. CU3EM1H, air., lore Hiisra, Hid., C. S. 1 OITSHMASf'B MENTHA! t"0 """"it nd Mfrat remi-ilr for lthfiin, nld sores, Itui no, dirs. Wonderful rvn; rcKlorPll.FS. tVlce.aS ill. nt llruip n A 1 fl' "Istanrhyniiill pr :nii'. AMri!situhTf. UrX.l r For aalc by MATTHEWS BROS, ana JOHN II. PHELPS. Scranton. Ta. Complcxlcn Preserved DR. HEBFIA'S - VIOLA cn Removes Freckle, Pimples, Liver Moles, Blackh.adj, tVI S 1 Btorcn tno fkin to its origi- i ii-K nm lrcsnncss, reonuemg -'i, ,' otr-av hnd hcitltnv r-.m. nlcxlon. fiiiDeriortoallfaca preparations an-i rnoctly harmlerji At oil utUfc'giaW.ormuilea lurEOcts. baid fur Circular. VIOLA SKIN SOAP 'Wr iifnaputbia u i likin p.irihlag oft uncqimlM fhr tha tetkt, und without ft th'Rl fur Ilia nursery. AdkoIuicU tiure m-1 dullcatalt bmmU cuwl. AtdnuKlMt, Price 23 Cenii, a. C. BITTNER ft. CO., Toledo, O. For ale by MATTHEWS BUOS. and JOHN H. PTIEIjPS. Scranton. Pa. flA ChtotitfttrV Knalliili Diamond I'lmaA. Pennyroyal pslls Original and umj farnnfn?. Arc. iUw;i reiUWc, ladicc ak DrmrijiKt for rkichetert EnqhrS ina , tmnd Brand in lied Olid 'i-U ruf'tllic fttttixe. KralM with blue rlblnui. Take Ino ot hen mpw dangtrou mbititw fioitj tna itnntuon. At nrurzit'i, or rna a In ftfimp for rmrttrulan. tfimonlmli al "imier nr ijniir," in mir.r. ty return Mall. 1IMMIO T-1 i mou hi. Sw Itytr, phM4'kmfefllL,a..MudUnH Snitai. m kj til Lm1 bruuu. lhUati i'tv RESTORES VITALITY. Made a latDar. Well Man loth Daj. of Me. ir;a wcai noth ria. produce! the above remit In .10 laya. It art( powerfully and quickly, euros when ail other fail Vounameu will regain their Inst manhood. aud old ram will recover thfir youthful vigor by juiing KfcVIVO. It quickly and surely restores Norou nets, font Vitality, Impoteucy, Nightly ErulHsionr, Lost Power, Falling; Memory. Wartlna Diseases, and all effects ot self-abuse or eieessand IndisiretlOD. which unfits one for study, business or marriage. It not only runs by starting at the seat of d.wase. but Is a great nerir tonlr and blood builder, bring ing bark the pink srlow to rale checks and re storing the Are of youth. It wards off Insanitt and Consumption. Insist on having RKY IYO, nr other. It ran be carried In vest pocket. By mail 1 .00 per package, or ail tor 08.00, with a poal Mve written erustrantes) to core or return 'he money. Circular free. Address ' W MrpiCINE CO . "' SI. CHirAOn. For Sal bj MATTI1EWS BROS., Druf flat Sarantoo. Pa. -1 rtroto?i'pui'4 si " ? a3rrlitMi'iwwwmHr ... - in Vegetable Prcparationfor As similating the rood andRegula iiuicStuiMdisaiBlBawelsaf ProtesT)igcsuon.ChcctruI ncss and Rcst.Contains neither Swm.Morphine nor Mineral. OT NARCOTIC. Kuvitraida-aKCXUBmx. A'x Sotns ' Jlrftmiat . ' f tarn Sec ei -Uatnrt tltnyr Ancrfcct Remedy for Constipa tion, Sour Stomach.Diarrhoca. Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness and Loss of Sleep. lac Simile Signature of XEW YORK. EXACT C0PV OF WRAPPEB. EC Directory of Wholesale and Retail CITY AND SUBURBAN AM I' s i t ino. I'. Sanlfe D38 Spruce1. Aiiii-iair: am uaii.v papkks. ItelsHiun & Solomon, lu;l Wyoming avo. Aim t in: linons and mcvcLts. ('. M. Kliirey, Wyoming ave. A WMNliS AMI Kl KltKR (illOllS. J. .1. I'rosliy, 15 l.urku vvunim uve. HANKS. Lackawanna Trust ami Safe Dfpolt Co. .Merchants' ami Mechanics'. 42! Laeka. Trailers' Nulionul, cor. joining uud Spruce. West Slile Hank. 1 N. Main, ttcriilitun Savings, I'.".' Wyoming. j in iniiMi. i:aupi:t ci.kamm;, i:tc. I lie Merailioil neuuiiiK i o., mi-Kuwuniiii, IIUIXVIKS. Koliinson. K. Sons. Wi X. Seventh. Robinson, Allnu, Cedar, cor. Aliler. wc.vri.rs 01 ns. ktc, I'nrker, H. II., ;t!l Spruce. itir.vd.i: i.i vi.u v. City Uicycle Livery. 120 franklin. mcYt.i.i: ni:i'Aius, etc. Ilitteubpinler & Co., SVWa Spruce street. liOOI S AM) SIIOI'.S. linlilsmith Hros. !H Lackn wnnna. ( iooilniitii's Shoe Store, 43:! Lackawanna. IIKOKHt AMI JKH I I.IIK. Jl.-iilin llros., 1211 TYnn. C AMI V .M AM I'AC TC'H UK. Seranton dimly Co.. 'J2 Lackawanna. CAUI'I IS AND tVAI.I. lAIi:U. Instills, J. Scott. 11!) Lackawanna. CA U HI. Mi I.S AN II II A UN ESS. Slmwell, V, A.. Linden. CAKUI.tlil. KEI'OSITOKV. Ul'.imc, Wm. & Son, till Spruce. CATEHEK. Huntington, J. C, 20S X. Washington. CHINA AND til.ASSWARt-:. liuppreeht. LouIh, 'Ml I'enn ave. t lli.VH MANl I AC Il'UEK. J. P. l'iore, 21M ?priice street. t ONI'EC. I UINEUY AND TOYS. Williams, J. II. & Bros., 314 Laeka. CONTUACTOH AND III II. Ill K. Snook, S. M OlyphuiU. C1MICKI.HV AMI fil.ASSXYAK!-:. ilardiiiK, J. L., Lackawanna. DININI, KUOM. Caryl's LlnliiK Room. Tidr, Linden. lilt Y (iOl )!),. The l'asililon, IMS Lackawanna avenue. Kelly & Hcaley, 20 Lackawanna, 1'lnley, I'. l! .do Lackawanna. DUYOOOI)., SHOES, ll.l!l)VAHE, ETC. Slnlley, AtnbiOHc, triple stores, Provl-ilurif-e. UK Y UOOIIS. EANCY (iOODS. Kresky. K. H. & Co.. 114 S. Main. DKltKilSTS. McGarrah & Thomas, 2"9 Lackawanna. Lorentz, C, -I1K Laeka.: Linden & Wu.-th. LavlK. I,. V., Main and Market, Hloen, . S.. Peckvllle. 1 in vies, John J.. S. Main. ENGENES AND UOH.EKS. Dickson .VanufaeturinK Co. I INE A1EKCIIANT TAII.OKINCi. .7. V. Itohertp, L''i X Main ave. V. J. Uavla, 21 .1 Liokawinina, Nric Audi-en, 119 S. .Main ave. IT.OHAL DESIGNS. Clark, O. It. & Co., 2D1 YVashinston. IT.OLR, HITTER. EGGS, ETC. The T. H. Watts Co., Ltd., 723 W. Laeka. llalii'oek tl. J. & Co.. 116 Kranklln. EI.Ol It, EE El) AND CHAIN. Matthews C. l Sons tk Co.. 34 Laeka. The Weston .Mill Co., 47-4S Lackawann I RUTS AND I'KODI CE. Dale Stevens, 27 Lackawanna. Cleveland, A. S., 17 Lackawanna. I I UNISIIED ROOMS. Vnlon Iloico, 21.", Laeka w;inna. Fl HNTT1 RE. Illll & Connell, 1.12 Washington. llurhour'H Home Credit Mouse, 423 Lack. GROCERS. Kelly, T. J. 'ft Co., 14 Ijiekawanna'. Mexargel Connell, Krunklln avenue. Porter, John T., 26 and i LHckuwumm. Rice, Levy & Co., Sl Lackawanna, tllle, J. J., 427 Lackawanna, I SEE THAT THE FAC-SIMILE .. SIGNATURE 4 .(is on the WRAPPER OF EVEET . BOTTLE OF Cutoria Is trat to in oae-ilz lottles only. It Ii not told la balk. Don't allow anyone to Mil yon anything also on tho plea or promise that it ii tint as pood" ana will answer every pnr. poae." 4jT 6co thai yoo got C-A-E-T-0-E-I-A. Thtfts- SI Tj . S- Jill I r m rs - - i cf 52 i I: F. H A I. M I : It C II A M II E. Osterhotil, N. K. 11D V. Market. Ionian. James, Ulypluiut. Ilcchtold, K. J.. Olyplianl. II AKniYAHK. Council. W. P. Sons, 113 I'enn. I Koote t Shear Co., I IS N. Washington. Hum A Council Co.. Lackawanna. UAItim AKIi AND PI. I MIIINU. flimsier & Korsvth. I'enn. Cnwlcs. W. ('., WiiJ N. .Main uve. IIARNKSS AM) SAIMll.l HY IIAKDtYAKh. Fritz. . W., -Ill) Lackawanna. Keller & Harris. 117 I'enn. HAUNISS. THINKS. BLGG1KS. 10. H. 1 looser. N. Main avenue. IIOTF.1.8. Ai'llniiton, firlnie & l-'lannery, Spruca and Krankliu. Seranton House, near depot. IIOI SI-. SIUN AM) I KF.SCO PAINTER. Wm, Hay, m Linden. Ill MAN IIAIK A Nil HAIR HKLSSINU. X. T. Llsk, 2:':t Lackawanna. LEATHER AND ITMHNCS. Williams, Samuel. 2JI Spruce. I.I ME, CEMENT SEtVF.K PIPE. Keller, Luther, S13 Lackawanna. MII.K. C It E A M, IUTTEK. ETC. Scranton Dairy Co., I'enn and Linden. Stune Uros., Sui Spruce. Mil I.IIM.U. .Mrs. M. Snxe, 14 X. Main avenuo. MII.I.1M UY AND DRESSMAKING. Mrs. Ilradley, 20S Adams, opp. Court House. MILLINERY ANT) I I KMSIIINU GOODS. Hrown's lice Hive, 224 Lackawanna. .MINE AND MILE SI I'I'LIES. Seranton Supply and Much, Co., 131 Wyo. .MODISTE AND DRESSMAKER. Mrs. K. Walsh, 311 Hpruce street. MONI MENTAL OKK S. Owens llros., 218 Adams ave. PANTS. Great Atlantic 3 Pants Co., 319 Lacka wana ave. PAINTS AND M PI'I.II.S. Jieneke & McKee, 3ini Spruce street. PAINTS AND WALL PAPER. Winke. J. C, 315 I'enn. PAUMIKOhER. Green. Joseph. 107 Lackawanna. PIANOS ANT) ORGANS. Stelle, J. Lawrence. 308 Spruce. PHOTOGRAPHER. H. S. Cramer, 311 Lackawanna ave. Pl.t .MIIINtl AND II FATING. Howley, P. K. ft M. V.. 231 Wyoming avA REAL ESTATE. Horatio N. Patrick. 32ii Washington. Kt Unl U STAMPS. SIENC.II.S, ETC. Scranton Kubber Stamp Co., 53S Spruce street. UUOEING. National Rooting Co.. 331 Washington. SANITARY" PI.I MHING W. A. Wledebuseh, 234 Washington ave. STEAMSHIP TICKETS. J. A. Barron, 215 Lackawanna anT I'liceliuiK, STEKEO-RELIEP DECORATIONS AND PAINT ING. S. If. Morris, 247 Wyoming ave. TEA. COIT'EE AND SPICE. Orand I'nlon Tea Co., 103 S. Main. TKI SSIS, BATT E'RIES, Rt TIBER GOODS Benjamin & Benjamin, Kranklln aud bprucr. UNDERTAKER AND 11 VERY. Kaub, A. 1!., 42.". Spruce. I PIIOLSTERER AND CARPET LAYER. C II. llazlott, 228 Spruce street. WALL PAPER, ETC. Kord, W. M.. 120 I'enn. WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER. Rotters. A. K.. 215 Lackawanna. W INES AND I.IOTORS. Walsh, Edward .1., 32 Lackawanna. WIRE AND WIRE ROPE. Washburn & Moen Mftf Co., 119 Kranklln ave.
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