THE' SCHANTON TRIBUNE HATU II DAT MOENINGr, NOVEMBER. 14, 1896.
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S' A DIAHONO
Author of "Til U SOUL OF THE BISHOP,"
J100TLES BABY," Etc., Etc. '
Copysignt, 1SW5, by the
PART I.
There are some things in the world
which are hard, very hard, to under
stand, anl the reason why Lady Peac-h
never said so much as a word when she
lost her liest diamond star was one of
those J,hlntrs.
W hen liost-y and I first went to
Northtowers. which we did soon after
our marriage, on my appointment to a
minor t-ununry, Sir Thomas Peach had
just received the honor of kniKhthood
in account of having entertained roy
alty, and IiaviiiK. as everyone said, done
it remarkably well. I remember so
well that when he called U!on us we
were out we found his -ard lying on
the hall table when we 'aiiie in. Koscy
J.i ked it up and looked at it with great
interest. 'H'm." she remarked, "Sir
Thomas Peach. I suppose lie is some
old swell or oilier."
Hn closer acquaintance, however. Sir
Thomas turned out to be anything but
a swell; on the contrary, he was an ex
reedingly homely person, having the
uppearance of a well-to-do tradesman
ir merchant. Society In Northtowers
was pleased at that time to be deli--ntelv
satirical on the subject of the
honors which had so lately devolved
upon their fellow-townsman.
"Poor old Sir Thomas." one lady said
to us when we returned her cull, "he is
ON THR CONTRARY, HE WAS AN
KXCKKI'INCLY HOMK
LY PERSON.
very much weighted with the cares
nml responsibilities of his new posi
tion, lie seems nowadays to spend his
whole time trying to live up to It. Of
course, he culled on you?"
oh, yVs, in. called on us but then
everybody seems to be doing that,"
Bald Uosey.
"People in society naturally would."
said our hostess, in a tone which was
nlinost one of reproof. "Hut to us
Norlhtoweis folks (Yes, please Mr.
Oritic, idle did suy'l'olks.' and 1 thought
It would be rude to correct her, so that
I let It puss, and, as a truthful i-limn-icler,
must reproduce the exact words
here there is bomething really funny
in Sir Thomas Peach setting out to
give the welcome of the town to new
comers, of course, you know he only
Kot Jiis knighthood for eiitertulning
royalty that was all."
My wife remarked that If the gen
tleman In question was good enough to
entertain royalty, he was quite kooiI
enough to call upon us. Our hostess
either did or would not see the satire
of Korey's rejoinder.
"Of course," she said, slightingly,
"some one has to entertain these peo
ple, und the Thomas Peaches of life are
the only ones who happen to huve both
suflicient money and push for the pur
pose."
My little wife laughed as she rose to
take her leave. "Ah, I dare say every
iie Is very jealous of him," she suid,
Bayly.
"Realty, Joe," she burst out as we
walked away from the house, "It seems
to me that this Northtowers. which we
thought wtmld be a sort of idyllic, out-f-t
he-world kind of spot, Is just as
mean and jealous und petty as most
other places. Did you hear how once
Phe railed him 'Tom' Peach and then
corrected herself? 1 suppose she is
jeulous that her husband did not get
the Job of entertaining "these people,'
as she culled the royalty In general."
"My dear child," I replied, "I certain
ly did not come to Northtowers with
an idea that I should ttnd human na
ture any different to whut human na
ture is in every other part of the world.
Probably Mrs. Jackson's husband is
quite as rich und even more ambitious
than Mr. Peach, and naturully she
cries sour grupes."
We ftathered later on that this was
very much the real state of the case,
and we found the two men very much
of a muchness as regarded their class
nnd standing, excepting that Sir Thom
as had distinctly got the best of it. You
see the title carried weight with It, as,
if course, titles are mean to do, and al
though Northtowers professed to laugh
in a good-natured sort of way at Sir
Thomas and his honors, yet it was
pluin to be Been that the whole town
was very proud of the distinction which
hud fallen upon him.
Of all that 1 had learned about Sir
Thomas during the first few months of
ur lite at Northtowers no informa
tion struck me as being so a'curate or
so fnir as that which came from Mrs,
iilakc. the dean's wife.
"A very fair-dealing and worthy
man," was her verdict; "the dean has
a high opinion of him. Oh, yes, quite
self made, and makes no secret of it
n the rontrary. 1 think he Is rather
proud of it as he ought to be, Mr. Dal
las; ns he ought to be. Yes, he's with
iut wife or child a widower, yes.
Well, vou know, on the whole it was
rather a good thing when poor Mrs.
Peach was taken away an estimable
creature, but )Uite untiitted for an am
bitious mun like Sir Thomas. I remem
ber when he was chosen sheriff that I
called on her. She persisted In railing
me 'ma'am,' or, rather, 'mum.' And she
was so distressed because the dean
would not eat any sweet things with his
tea. She assured him they had cost
three shillings a pound, and It was not
until he told her that sugar In any form
was death to him that she would be
pacified. Oh. very good and worthy,
and all that, but alwuys exceedingly
uncomfortable w hen she found herself
out of her ow n sphere. Now. Sir Thom
as is a man of great ambition, who
takes pride In improving himself.
The whole town does not know It, but
when it fell unon him to entertain the
duke he behaved In the most sensible
way possible, for he came to me and
asked me plump to coach him In all
that he would have to do."
"You don't mean it?"
"Yes, he did, and as I took great
pains to explain every detail, he got
through beautifully and with much
dignity," Mrs. Illake continued, "I
confess that I take a great Interest In
Sir Thomas' future, and. If he only
marries well, he may do great things.
In due course f time Sir Thomas did
marry again, but as he went far afield
for his bride, Northtowers people were
obliged to possess, their souls in pa
tience until the bride made her ap
pearance in the town. I heard from
lit 31'
BY JOHN
STRANGE
WINTER.
Eacuelltr Syndicate.
Mrs. Hlake that he new Lady Peach
really was a lady, and bo she proved to
be when Kosey and 1 called upon her,
which we did the first of the three
days on w hich she was announced to
receive.
We found her quite young and exceed
ingly pretty, with a curious, shy grace
that was not a little out of keeping
with the more than middle aged man
who was her bridegroom. I liked her
and so did Rosey, who was not always
easy to please about people, and who
was possessed of a feeling that the
match had more of money than of love
about It, a thing to which my wife was
strongly opposed. Hut we both liked
young Lady Peach, and perhaps what
made us like her most of anything was
the half shy air of deference with
which she treated her elderly husband.
As for him well, he watched her
moving about the room with an air of
anxiety miner ted with pride such as
was quits pathetic. "Isn't It a wonder
ful thing. VMr. Dallas," he said to me
at last, when our eyes happened to
meet, "that a pretty young thing like
that should have taken an old hulk
like me for her husband? Why, she
might have had the pick of the town."
In truth. I fullv agreed with him. al
though 1 should not like to have said
so in plain words, for even parsons
must study the conventlonalltltes a lit
tle, and not go saying plump outright
Just what Is In their minds. So, in
stead of saying that It was a wonder
ful thing that a pretty girl and a per
fect little lady, us she was. should have
chosen to marry such a pluin, homely
sort of a man, as he was. I went In for
a little mild prevarication, and said that
doubtless Lady Peach knew her own
mind best.
V got used to young Lady Peach
after a time, and as she never seemed
to be the least unhappy, gave up con
jecturing as to the whys and wnere-
fores ot her married life. Rosey, in
particular, gave It us her opinion that
there was no romance at all, no story,
and therefore that no further pity need
tie .vested on her.
"My dear Joe," she remarked, one
evening, when we had just come home
from a big dinner at the Peaches";
depend upon it that Ladv Peach was
like u good many other girls a lady
tired of keeping up a position on noth
ing. Tiiere are plenty of girls brought
up with everythilng that makes posi
tion, who nave to count the cost of
every pair of gloves they buy, who
naiuiy ever Know whut it is to huve a
nice, fresh frock; who positively don't
know the luxury of having a few spure
shillings in their pocket, and If a real
good mutch happens to come along
tney accept It thankfully and never
know the higher glory."
I looked at Rosey in an admiration
which was almost speechless. 1 ad
mired her always she was so versatile
and so original in everything that she
did, and In the way that she did every-
inmg. Aim i think thut I admired
her most of all when she waxed elo
quent, as she sometimes was apt to do
wnen sue was particularly interested
In her subject.
"Rosey," I said, flndini? my voice at
last; "am I to to understand from
thut that you look upon me in the light
of 'the higher glory?' "
"Joe. you ridiculous old thing" she
cried, half Indignantly. "No, Tdr, I
meant nothing of the kind of course
not. Don't try to squeeze out compli
ments where none were intended. You
know perfectly well whut 1 mean, and
1 shall not condescend to explain my
self any further."
Of course I did know just what she
meant, and I agreed fully with every
word that she said. So we gave
up thinking about Sir Thomas Peach's
young wile with any special interest,
that is.
"Uy the by," Rosey said to me that
very night, "did you see Joe, what a
lovely diamond star she was wearing?
Sir Thomas gave It to her for the first
anniversary of the day on which they
met. It is a beauty!"
1 had noticed the star, as it was
the only ornament that she hud worn,
and 1 had seen that, girl-like, she had
glanced at it every now and then as It
sparkled and scintillated on the
left side of her bodice. I did not won
der at the pride with which she looked
at It, for it was a beautiful thing, and
would have turned the heud of many a
woman much older than she was. Hut
we never saw Lady Peach's diamond
star again, and w hat became of It was
a mystery which remained a mystery In
Northtowers for many day's after this.
It happened not many days after this
that we met the Peaches at another
dinner, a big civic ivffair at the mayor's
house. 1 noticed that Lady Peach wore
a pink dress, and It was the first time
that 1 had seen her In the evening
dressed In anything but white. I
thought, too, that she was looking a
little absent, even worried, and I saw
her look ulong the talde in her hus
band's direction as if she were uneasy
about him.
However, as the evening passed on
she seemed to huve recovered her spir
its again, and when we men went to
join the ladies X found that she and
"DON'T DON'T SPEAK A ROUT MY
STAR, MRS. DALLAS."
Rosey were slttins together. I went
straight across the room toward them
and sat down near them, just in
time to hear Rosey say: "Yes, I like
you in pink, but why have you not put
on your beautiful star?"
I never shall forget the start Lady
Peach cave when she heard the words,
She Hushed a vivid scarlet and caught
her breath with what was almost a
sob. "Don't don't speak about my
star, Mrs. Dallas." she said, with a
nervous little stammer. "! at least
I mean well, the fact Is I've lost It,
and Sir Thomas is so vexed about it
he"
"And I dont' wonder at It," Rosey
cried, impulsively. "I, too, should be
vexed furious if t had lost such a
thing as that. How did it happen
Were you wearins It. or did you have
it stolen from you? Surely not that?"
"I don't know It's gone; Sir Thomas
says I am not to think about It any
more."
PART II.
She seemed so desperately anxious to
say no more about It that I came to
the rescue with a bit of news that I
'it s- " i VK&.f'l WW -
had heard during the course of the
evening, and so diverted Kosey's atten
tion from the subject of their conver
sation. Nothing more was said alniut
the star in my hearing that evening,
but not a little to my surprise a few
days afterward, Rosey told me that
all Northtowers was agog as to why
the loss of so valuable an article had
been hushed up. "And everyone seems
to think that it is very queer," Rosey
ended.
"My dear child." I hejoined. "if Sir
Thomas chooses to hush a matter of
thut kind up it is no business of any
one else's. Don't mix yourself up in it
it's no business of ours."
"Hut pple are all talking like any
thing." she rejoined (agerly; then, see
ing that I was about to speak, she
broke in eagerly: "t)h, Joe, you dear,
honest old straight-lace, don't try to
stop me or 1 shall surely die of it. I
must talk about it to somebody, and,
after all, there's no one so safe as
you. There, now you're laughing and
look like yourself, which, let me tell
you, sir, you never do when you put on
the sanctimonious air."
She sat down on the arm of my chair
her favorite seat and twined her
arm about my neck. "Joe," she said,
in her most contldentlul tones, "what
do you think they are saying? That
I-aily Peach never lost that Btar at all,
but that she gave It away!"
"Fiddle!" I exclaimed. "What will
these silly people say next, I wonder?"
"Well, there is something In it or It
seems so," Rosey went on. "It seems
that the very same day that It was
lost, or supposed to be lost, some young
man pawned It at Cowper's. Cowper
lent him fifty pounds on It, and then
hearing thut Lady Peach had lost her
star, he took it to Sir Thomas and and
asked him, you know, if that was the
one? For, as he told Mrs. Dixon, he
did not want to be Imnlii-ateil in any
thing shady. Sir Thomas was quite
angry about It, and said it was not the
slur, or anything like It."
"1 suppose he would be most likely to
know," 1 interrupted, mildly.
"My dear Joe," said Rosey, myster
ously, "Cowoer happened to show it to
Waters, who sold It to Sir Thomas, and
Waters says positively that it is the
same."
tor a moment I was too much sur
prised to speak. Then 1 ulled myself
together In a moral sense. "I daresay
the )ld man had a reason for not wish
ing to have it talked of." I said. "At
all events, we can hardly go and nsk
him for a full explanation, can we?" '
"No, Joe, certainly not." said my
wife, quite indignantly. "Only as we
at least, I am human, one cannot help
wondering.". It was an inolved sen
tetii'e. and 1 made no nttenipt to an
swer It.
It was quite two years after this that
young Lady Peach had a dangerous Ill
ness which want very near to costing
her her life. In 'all my experience I
have never seen anything to equal the
distress and anxiety of Sir Thomas dur
ing this time. He was like a man be
side himself. I saw him one duy at the
door when I had called to Inquire for
the invalid. "Come in, Mr. Dallas," he
said. "I I'ume down with the doctor
We're going to have another man down
from London. I'm not satisfied with
the last one we had. Yes, there's a
shred more of hope than there was.
Mr. Dallas, if 1 lose my wife, it will
kill me,". he ended, suddenly,
"Oh, but I hope it is not so bad ns
that." I put in, hastily, though I had
hard work to choke down the lump In
my throat, which rose at the very
thought of that poor young creature's
buttle with the King of Terrors.
"I don't know; but come In, do! I
want you to do something for me," he
said. "See here, she likes you btst of
'em all all the clergy, I mean. Will
you say u pruyer with her!"
"( If course I will!"
"It's diphtheria of the worst kind,"
he said almost threateningly. "Are you
nervous?"
1 did not reply; I looked at him,
and he realized that we black-coats are
SHE SAT DOWN ON THE ARM OF
MY CHAIR.
not often troubled by fears of that kind.
He tinned and led the way upstairs,
and I followed 1dm.
As a matter of strict etiquette, I
ought, of course, to have had permis
sion from the rector of the parish; as it
was. I felt that to tell him afterward
would, under the circumstances, be suf
ficient. 1 saw at a glance that Sir Thomas'
fears were well founded. Lady Peach
was evidently desperately ill. She did
not know me, but lay rambling feebly,
her iioor hands stretched out helpless
ly iver the sheet which was spread over
the bed. She was quite quiet while I
performed my office, and as 1 rose from
my knees she begun to talk ngain.
"Yes, he was so good aliout it some
men would have killed me a star like
that ad I hadn't had It I hadn't had
It a day u year, a week hor.- long was
it, nurse?"
"Two weeks, my dear." replied the
nurse. "So you told me yesterday."
"Ah, yes and you took It. you took
It. He never said a word he Is so
good I told him you said" and then
Sir Thomas, his face working and his
eyes blind with tears, drew me away
out of the room.
"Come In here," he said, as we
reached the door of his own little room.
"You heard what she said; ulways on
about the star, curse it. Oh, ! beg
your pardon, I shouldn't have said that!
Hut I feel savage with the thing, for it
has) worried her, and it is there on her
poor mind yet, taking away what little
chance she has."
"If that did not worry her something
else would," I said, by way of consola
tion. He Beemed to catch at the Idea. "You
think so; you really do? I wish I could.
You see I know how she has troubled
over It far more thjn the thing was
worth."
In a moment the vasue hints that I
had heard t-ont-ernlns the loss or dis
appearance of young Lady Peach's dia
mond star all came buck to me. "Let
me see," I said, "Lady Peach lost a
star, or it was stolen, or something of
that kind. Has that, been troubling
her?"
"Trouble her! Yes. Mr. Dallas, far
more than ever the thing was worth
Sir Thomas rejoined. "Look here," he
continued, as if moved by some special
Impulse to tell me all about it. "You're
a good fellow and a gentleman, and
she has always liked you; I'll tell you
how it was. My wife is a lady you
don't need a rough old fellow like me to
tell you that. She came of good old
stock, and If there wasn't very much
money, well, there was everything else
that people are proud of. She mar
ried me. Uod bless her, and and. If I
lose her I shall just put a rone round
my nwk, for life wouldn't be worth
Jiving without her. As I said, she mar
ried me, and she has made me happy-
happier than I ve ever been in all my
life, and meaning no disrerpect to my
first wife, either. If I he I pea her moth
er a bit it was nothing to anyone, but
It seemed to be a great deal to her, and
she was never tired ot telling me how
good I was I, when she had married
an old hulk like me. Well. I was tell
ing you about that star. You know I
gave It to her on an anniversary, and
she valued it as such, besides liking It
for wlmt it was worth, as any other
young thine of her uge would. I hap
pened, not very long after I gave it to
her, to be away fur a couple of days. I
had run up to town on business. I was
loth to leave her, somehow, and the
moment I got back I saw that some
thing or ther had havened to upset
her. At first I could not get her to tell
me what it was; then she told me at
last that a cousin of hers, who had been
brought u by her father and mother,
had turned up suddenly, asking her
to help him out of some mess. She
por innocent, begged him to wait for
my return, saying she knew I would
SHE WAS QI'ITE QUIET WHILE I
PERFORMED MY OFFICE.
help him out for her snke. But the sel
fish beggar would not do that, and
stuck to his Point that she could help
him herself If she would. My poor lit
tle girl hadn't more than ten pbunds or
so by her. and she told him so.' 'Look
here,' he said, 'you've got a star on that
in itself would fetch more than I want,
(.live me that and I'll raise what I want
on it. If you don't," he went on. Til
Just blow iny brains out.' and with that
he whipped out a revolver and put It to
his head. e)f course, tny poor little
girl took iff her star at einoe und gave
It to him; and she has been possessed
of a dread ever since that I should
think there had been something be
tween them. I didn't know just what
she had In her mind till I heard her
babbling about It these last few days,
though, of course, I knew thut some
thing was troubling her my poor little
Girl."
I don't know that I ever pitied any
human being more than I pitied that
rich man sitting there so anxiously
u waiting the Issues of life and death
then hansins in the balance in that
upper chamber. I watched lilni for a
minute us he sut huddled up all in a
lump, and then I put my hand on his
Bhoulder. "Sir Thomas," 1 suid, "clod
Is very merciful."
"I wish I dared comfort myself with
that, Mr. Dallas," he replied.
I left him then, und twice every day
I went round to inquire how the In
valid was. Each time the servant gave
me the same mournful and vague re
ply: "No change the master almost be
side himself." Then, early on the fourth
morning, before I wns out of bed, in
fact, 1 received a line scrawled on a
a note. "She Is out of danger now," it
said. "God is merciful. Hless you for
having cheered me. Yours, T. P."
(The End.)
Q IK Kit TRICKS WITH IICIKKS.
Seemingly Mimical hiiriictcristic
Possessed by the Numeral I).
From the Sun.
Figures nre funny thlrg. Tiny may
be nnd often nre manipulated in a
most marvellous manner, so as entire
ly to deceive the uninitiated, of course
these remarks do not refer to ladles'
figures, but to the common numeral of
urlthmetlc. Stiunge tricks may be
Played with them; tricks as amusing
and perplexing as with those time-honored
confederates of conjurors a pack
of playing cards. In most of the.-e the
figure it is the Important factor. Triers
are some peculiarities about that l.ttle
bullet-headed gentlemun which ere
really staitllng. He has a phu-nix-iik
power of rbLInghini e f fn.ni his sa w,
Smother him up us you will, multiply
him by any group of his f.dlovv figures
until his Identity is comp.eteiy lost, und
he will bob up -again, if not ill shape,
at least in spirit ami substance, as the
sum of the result obtained by the pro
cess of multiplication.
Thus Twice Is 18. Add one and
eight together nnd you get !). So, for
example, IT nines are 1S3. which, udd d
together make nine, or 138 nines make
1.1M2, nnd thus the tame se f-asstrtivo
little chap pops up again in different
form. A seeming except on Is when up
plied to II. or to a multip'.e of eleven;
then the little joker comes In pairs, as
22 nines give I US, or seveiity-yev.n ninei
make 60H. Hut even then the except 0;i
Is only apparent, for udiiing 1 and 'J
and S gives is, nnd 1 and 8 gives 9;
and 0 and 3 and 0 make It.
The process of revertir.ir and sub
tracting cause our Iriepnst ible to bob
up serenely, and thus urist s a simi le
trick. The wily opera'o- u-ks his sub
ject to put down secietly three tiguies,
then Invert there and subt'a : t the esj
er from the greater. If he w 11 the i di
vulge the first figure of the rtsult the
correct answer can I e stated, for it
Is known that th" Insolent little figure
i always usurps the place in tho mid
dle, nnd iron over insist i thut his sup
porters together shall sum up nine.
Thus with a knowledge of the first
figure, the other two are easily told.
Here are examples:
321 722 911 HI
123 27 Ill 4-i
IM 4H.:. F.a HI
I'erhap" a more putizlir.g trick pro
vided liy the ei centric t:e of the figme
is the following: Let your subject
put down any odd number of figures:,
three, five, seven, or even more; then
add them together and ruhtiuct the re
sult. Now lie may cross out any one
figure und tell the tllekster' the oth 'is.
It Is easy, by mentally adding thtm,
to discover the value of tile figure
erosstd out. as this Is tlu one needed
to make up the r Fult to the nearest
multiple of 9. Thus:
liW-10 33. 1'H 1 1 7,023, 1." S 35
li) or II or r
lx 3 ' 3x.3f-18 7,fix3, 123-27
1 3 -1
Another ure of the magic 'J Is made
in the following effective track: Let A
put down any number of figures nnd
show them to you. Then, on another
piece of paper, you privately writ? the
answer, fold It, and give it to some
one to hold. Then H adds another row
of figures, under which you write a
row, taking care to place under each
of his the particular figure which will
complete the sum of nine. Then C may
write another batch, beneath which you
again place numerals, making up a
string of nines. The result up .n addi
tion of the whole will be found exactly
to coi respond with your written an
swer, which you had made a repetltien
of the first group of figures, less two;
and with the figure 2 added In front,
thus:
A 9C,.rdS
(Answer.)
P. 42.317 2!W,1)
You... 57.i;s2
V 47.S31
You... 62,108
2!,3IC
A .. 7.032. 146
(Answ-pr.)
H ..8.231,578(27,32,141
You 1,7(18.421
c ..ft,4r7,!i:w
You 4,5!t2,Wi3
27t63J,144
A trlrk much more difficult to explain
la the $19.8a mysteiy. but It should only
be done once during an evening or
among the same set of friends, for, un-
fortunately, the answer never varies.
It is a curious fact that any sum of
money, dollars and cents, manipulated
in a certain manner will produce the
inevitable total of J 10 Ml, provided the
original capitul is nut more than $10.
This looks ItUc a profitable business
on paper. The process is this: The
tortured trick bearer is told to put
down a sum of money (again on pa
per, he probably will not do it other
wise), then to reverse the figures und
subtract the lesser from the greater.
Again the figures must be reversed unj
the two lines added together. The un
failing answer Is $10.81). Here are examples:
$2.75 01 $3.21
HO 1.23
6.72 .
2.75 7S2 1.0S
; 21)7 E.1H
i.ia 110.83 turn
$10.89
Perhaps the neatest trick with figures
Is that by which one can discover the
day and month any one Ws born, and
also his or her age. It Is nut a popular
performance with ladies. It Is done aj
fo.lows: The subject must first put
down, concui rtntly. muhing one group
of figures, the day of the month and
the number of such month, reckoning
January as 1 and December ns 12. This,
of course, the perfcrnier does not see,
but he asks the subject to double this
number; then to add 5 to It. The re
sult he must multiply by fifty, next
add hisi age. then subtract 3li.-. ami
tell you the grand total. Ity mentally
adding 11.1 to this, in every Instance
the figures plainly show. Hist ti e day,
second the month, ar.d finally the age
of the subject. Thus, for instance, if
a woman were born tn the lirst of
April und she wns IS years old, her (Ig
ureuscope would be worked out as fol
lows: (Day) 1-4 (month
28
5
23
M
KM
18 (age)
m:.s
' 1303 (hrr totnl)
115 (added mentally)
1-4-18
Her chaperon was 42 last Dec. 21.
This is how i' was found out:
21-12
4221
4,223
60
LI 1,460
42
?il,4!i
;5
211,127 (totul given)
115
L1-12-I2
AN OPTIMIST LANDLORD.
lie F.ntertninrd What Patrons Cnnic
to Him Under Most Discouraging
ircumxtniiccM.
Frnm the Washington Star.
"I stopped at a very small town In
Kansas a few weeks ago." said L. M.
Martlnex, of Chicago, at the Raleigh.
"1 had been in the place once before and
knew wheie the hotel was. It was late
at night when I got off the train and
went to the hotel. After repeated
knocking and i-hf.klng the door the
landlord came down and IA me in.
The next morning breakfast was not
ready wlTen I got up. but the landlord
was In a good humor about It, saying;
'Everybody Is sick about the house.
You are the only guest, so 1 didn't get
breakfast ready.' He went out Into
the kitchen, und In half an hour served
a very good meal fur me. I found thut
my customer was out of townf so had
nothing to do but stay around the hotel
all duy. The landlord got dinner and
supper for me, and I asked, 'Who is
sick?'
"'My wife, two children, the cooks,
the waller und the porter.'
" 'I should think you would get some
one lse.'
" 'They are all afraid of the smallpox.
I'm teh only one who hasn't got it, and
I feel the symptoms. I'll be In bed to
monow, but 1 think the porter will be
well enough to run the hotel by that
time. He Is sitting up today.'
"1 paid my bill very suddenly and put
myself under medical treatment when I
reached the next town."
n Inttrtiitirr tleit il ttii.u
to be healthy, that "it
pays to be strung. Weak
women make bad wives
iU'ri'SA 8,1(1 worse mothers. A
JJS?kJ woman need not ncccs-
fS$&;W carilv become an athlete
T&K&T in or,U'r.to f:t ,,cr?t'lf f"r
UlC llllllir. 11 lit IMfWK!
and motherhood. If she
will obey common sense
tu'.cs of health, and be
sure that the organs that
constitute her woman
hood nre always healthy and strong, she will
be a capable and healthy wife and mother.
The best medicine for the treatment of
weakness and disease of the organs dis
tinctly feminine is Dr. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription.
It is the discovery of a regularly gradu
ated physician an eminent and skillful
specialist. Dr. R. V. -Pierce, chief consult
ing physician to the Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute, at llu'lalo. N. Y. Tlicie
are on lile at that institution U tters of over
00,0X1 women testifying to the marvelous
merits of tile "Favorite I'resciiplion." It
acts directly on tiie organs that make wife
hood and motherhood possible. It makes
them strong and healthy. It cures all
weakness and c'.iscar.e. It smoothes the way
to nl mo.t mnglcss maternity. It insures
healthy chifdreu. All good druggists sell it.
Mrs. It. F. Reynolds, of North l-Yulon. prooine
Co., . Y.. writes: " I tlieiejlit I would write you
few liars ns I have been piking y-mr medicine
anil ti-ciiiu h in "'y laieily. 1 have just lakrn an
other hottlc ol" vonr ' Favorite l'resetipMoll ' atld
it lias linue nit; lots of good. I think '.: is
grand nuilioiiit-."
The newly wedded wife, above all other
women, needs a good medical book. Dr.
Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser
fills this want. It contains over looo pages
and loo illustrations. Several chapter- are
! devoted to the physiology of the orurans '.!
j tinctly feminine. Send 21 one-cent stamps,
j to cover cost of mailing only, to the World's
i I)ispcnary Medical Association, liulfalo,
j N. Y., for a nee copy, paper-covered. If
i a cloth binding is wanted, scud 10 ccnU
cxtia 131 cents 111 all).
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A SUFFERER FM SCIATICA
RESAiiHS HIS HEALTH.
Another Man so Greatly Changed that His Friends
Failed to Recognize Him-Both Loud in
Their Praises of the Remedy Used.
From tlte Advocate, Bath, X. T.
Residents of ttath, IT. Y., Imve taken a
great fancy of lalo to I.tike Sululiriu, which
lies just outride the village and during
the past two years 11 score of new cottawa
have gone up on iis shores. Choice locations
lire becoming scarce and the early settlers
lire careful now to keep what iluoryard they
have, left. Your iwrcspninlent visited the
I ike recently anil dropped in to see "I'licle
lliily" lliilibell in his eiimfortulile cottage
under the pines. Mr, lluliliell established
himself ut the Lake before the boom com
iiieiiced,aii!l liasotie of the prettiest locations
there. AaVr inspecting some blnck bass
spawn which lie is ran-fnlly guarding from
the intrusion of small lvs, I remarked how
well ha look in tf for hia uixty-ibur years.
MR. WILLIAM IIUBl'.ELL.
Mr. niihhell said that tliii was tlio first
spring in twenty years in which he had been
free from his old cuetny, sciatic rheumatism,
lie thought lie had contracted this disease
while running ns express messenger 011 the
K.rie nnd other railroads between 1S4!) and
1S."!I, nlihoimh he did not feel its acute
symptoms until some tilVcti years later. Sir.
lluliliell is now the second olejest express
man in tiie I'uited States and recalls many
interesting rem in iseenees of these early days.
In 1876 lie went to the western frontier, and
has stlll'cred from sciatic rheumatism ever
since. Speaking of the many ell'orts he had
made to get relief from this painful ailment,
he said that while in New Mexico, lie visited
the Las Vegas and llamas springs, and later
he trieil those at Mauitou, Colo., mid l.itlle
Koek. Ark. (aiming east he tried the White
Sulphur Springs, Ohio, St. Catherine. Can.,
and Clifton und Avon in New Yorn, Ijut
without being able to get the .slightest relief.
As he advanced in age, Ids trouble became
more painful. "Why," heexelaiincd, point
ing to the farm house of William Burleson,
about kx hundred feet distant, "I would
yell so when those twinges caught me, that
they could hear me down there."
William II. Ilallock, owner of Ilnllnck's
Hank in ISath, is a nephew of Mr. lluliliell,
and last winter lie insisted that " I'nele
Hilly "should try Pink Pills for Pale People
iir his rheumatism. Mr. lluliliell is free to
say that he had 1111 faith in the pills what
ever, and only tried them because of the in
sistence of Mr. Ilallock. He had already
tried "more than a million remedies " betiiro
lie came to Pink Pills and as none had ren
dered him thesliglitest bencht,he was pretty
well discouraged. However, to please Mr.
IlalloL'k. lie '-'ot 11 box of Pink Pills. Since
then, (some three or four months), Mr. Huh
bell Iiim not felt a single trace of rheumatism,
nnd is now on lib fourth hu of the pills.
fie cannot explain now Ins marvelous relict
was eireeteil, hut feels sure it was the pills
which did it, anil i.i now ns enthusiastic in
their cudot scinent as waa his in pile v., ilr.
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TO
PIANOS
At a time when many manu
facturoio and dealers are making
the most astounding statements
regardiiigtlienieritsanddurability
of inferior Pianos, intending pur
chasers should not fail to make
critical examination of the above
instruments.
EI. C. RICKER
Ccticral Dealer in Northeast
ern l'ttiin ijlvan'a.
New Telephone Exchange Building, IIS
Adams Ave., Scrantj.-i, Pa.
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'iltaor by tuntl prcpntil. AitdrcimiaftboYe. DRI
For aalo by MATTHEWS BROS, and
JOHN IL PHELPS. Scranton, Pa.
J
Ilallock. Mr.IInbbell notr enmM !n!o Ttatl
almost every day, and says he could ride a
bicycle if he ouly hud some one to help him
on and ot)'.
(Signed) VM. II. IIlUDEIX.
Statu of Xkw York, I ,
COISTYOKSTiXIIKS. j M'
Subscribed and sworn to before me tills
S-'ud duy of lluy. I.viti.
"V. P. Fish, ifohmj Public.
A few days alb-r the foregoing interview
with Mr. lluliliell 1 nut his nephew, Mr.
William II. llailisk, at the Jailer's lunik in
Path. He stated that his advice to Mr.
lluliliell to try Pink Pills for his rheumatism
was due to the wonderful cine of which he
had been an eye witness, which one of the
customers at his hank had experienced from
the use of this remedy. The gentleman to
wham lie referred was Mr. Vvilliam Jlo
Adams, of the town of Howard, in this
county, nnd lie gave flic following interest
ing account of the incident:
Mr, McAdams, who is a 1 1011 1 seventy, wns
in the hunk in December, 1W4, ami in speak
ing with .Mr. Ilallock of the poor health of
the hitter's father, the lute tieorge W. JIul
lock, Mr. MeAdiims said that he expected
that Mr. Hiillock Sr. would outlive Iiim.
He hud hern troubled witli sleeplessness und
rheumatism to such a degree thut he was
rapidly running down anil lie hud given up
hope of hailing anything that would cure
him. Like Mr. lluliliell, Mr. AleAilams bait
tried everything that lie could find to re
lieve his rheumatism, without obtaining the
slightest relief. Mr. Ilallock stated that Mr.
MeAdains'nppearunee fully showed the con
dition lie was in, ami that he never expected
to see him alive again.
In February of 15, Mr. (ieorgp V. Hal.
lock died. A few months later, while busy
in the bank, Mr. William Ilallock saw a man
enter who resembled Mr. MeAdams, and
prepare n check ut the side counter. When
the check was presented to Mr. Hiillock, see
ing the name McAdums ut the bottom, he
remembered the eon versa) inn of the pre
vious winter, and asked the mun if his
brother was still alive. .Mr. Mc Adams smil
ingly said that he had no brother, and that
it was evident that Mr. Ilallock did not re
cognize in him the same man who hud had
the conversation with him in the hank the
preceding winter.
Mr. McAdums said that shortly after his
conversation with Mr. Ilallock in the pre
ceding December, lie had come across u lit
tle book explaining Pink Pills for Pale Peo
ple, and that while he was not exactly a
"pale person," (having a very swarthy com
plexion), hp concluded that in his desperate
condition, it would do him no harm to at
least try w hat this remeily eoiihl do for him.
He tried, and in n few days his recovery eem.
incnccd. Mr. Ilallock " did not remember
how ninny boxes of the pills Mr. McAdams
had iaken, but from the first this simple re
medy produced a marked improvement in
him. First of all, his sleeplessness left Iiim
and for the first time in nittiiv months, he
knew what it was to have n goml night's rest.
His rheumatism gave way soon under tho
treatment, nnd ever since taking them lie
hud steadily improved. He was now wholly
free from rheumatism und was able to do lus
own work on the farm. In view of lliti al
most miraculous transformation which lie
had witnessed, Mr. Hiillock said Mint lie had
felt aliiiinlantly warranted in reeommendinB
these Pink Pills to his uncle, Mr. HnbhelF,
although lie had never had nny personal ex
perience witli them, nnd Mr. Iluhbell's ex
perience was only n little less wonderful
than that of Mr. McAdiitus.
Ih Williams' Pink Pills for Pule People
i-oinuiii on me ciciiicius necessary to give new
life and richness to the Mood and restore
shattered nerves. They may be had of nil
druggists or direct by mail from the Dr. Wil
liams' Medicine Company, Schenectady, N.
I ., at Sue. per box, or six boxes for $2Sii).
DATE.
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Hear and healthy com- (ilrE. Ws'lJlJJ--plexion.
Superior to ftUfcce ' ' '
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