hif- v-tjtv?lfftj,w'- ja-- '- X- TIIE S0RANT03ST TRIBUTE -THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 28, 189T. n I CHRISTMAS ON FRANK CHAFFEE, In the Magazine of Tranel. fr tt Is tlio twlllRlit time of tli'u luminal, gladdest, most hurried day In nil tin yenr tlio day licforo Cht'lxtinap. The scene Ih tlio draml Central depot, that orhil thratiRh which. In tlio iiioniliitr. pour tlio countless thousands who nro ns tlio panels nf tlio shore In the midst ot the Ri-eat city; throUKli wlilrh nt nltrht those countless thousands depart, unci the city Knows not that they hnvo Kcrtio. On this evening the crowd Ih a Blad and a merry one, and though (here Ih much' nushlnt; and Jostllnir, every one la good-natured, nud onrh has n pleasant word for another: for, indeed, la not this the ec of irlndni-ss? that cladness which is the touch of nature making the whole world kin. In the waitliiK-rooin of that road which leads to Chicago, on the edso of the crowd forcing Its way through the nar row gateway leading to the Limited train, la a little ladv, who, to a keen eyed observer, shows n notalile lack of the holiday atmosphere. She la fault lessly tullor-madc as to garbing, sho la gloved and booted and hatted In the most exactly cotrcct of the smartj styles; and sho carries a small handbag- which' looks as assured and as self contained as does the little lady her self. She waits until she cm pass tlio gate without being crowded, then shows her ticket, walks through, finds her car, hands her little bag to the porter, raying, "Section number nine," and la presently comfortably seated facing tlio engine. Altogether a very well-regulated and systematic little lady, but evidently a ilttle lady who either dot-H not know It Is Christmas Kve. or, know ing, Is for some reason trying to forget Jt. As the tialn moves out of the great depot, and the Ilttle lady watches tlie lights Hashing inpldly by, two great tears cieep out of her beautiful eyes and slcnin for a moment on tho veil that falls from the jaunty travelling-lint. Soon dinner Is announced In the dining car. and the little lady walks calmly through the train, eats her din ner, then as cnlmy returns to her place. As the porter passes, she glances at tlio unoccupied section opposite and ln cjulres pleasantly, "I'orter, Is number ten not taken'.'" "Reserved for a par ly at Albany, miss," 4s the reply. Then I may sit there for n. while and watch the river," says the little lady, and sho takes the seat by the window and looks out across the Hudson, and watches the lights coming out one by one along the Palisades. After a time she re turns to her own place, takes a novel from her satchel and settles herself to its perusal, but by and by sho discov ers that it Is all about a husband and wife who have become estranged, nnd then make It all up and live happy evermore, and the little lady signifies her disapproval by closing tho book with a vicious bang, and saying, after a moment's thought, "Never!" Sho then called the porter nnd had her sec tion pivpared for the night. Ere long sho had dilftcd to that land where dreams take possession of us, and whether sho would or not her dreams were all about a tall, dark man with merry eves, which could look severe, nnd with a pleasant voice which called her Kdith; and all through the dream was a little dog, a Rkyo terrier, for which she did not seem to care at all, but w hich seemed to have a great deal to do with everything and then a pleasant voice said briskly, "I'orter, la number ten ready?" and the volco somehow seemed to 20 with the tall, dark man In the dream, and she half woke wJth a dry little sob, and mur mured sleepily, "Never!" and went back to her dreams until the sunshine of Christmas morning came through the curtains, and brought her again to the world of real things. As sho emerg ed from her seclusion to complete her t lift, she discovered that the opposite section had been mo.da.up and the oc cupant had departed, probably to ;he smoking compartment. A dress-suit case and n travelling-coat were lying on the eat; ns her eye was caught by the Initials on tho dress-suit bos her heart seemed to stand still: then she lxiked hastily at the coat, and gasped", "It Is l'hlllp;" then, becoming con scious of her dishevelled condition, she made a frantic rush for tho end of the car, When she appeared again she was as fresh and blooming as a rose. Her section meanwhile had been made up, and she settled herself comfortnbly nnd gazed out nt the beautiful, snow louclied country through which tho train was hurrying, nnd In her eyes was a look of expectancy. Presently she turned, to Unci a tall, dark man coming down the aisle towards her, and then she heard n voice with a wealth of love In Its tones say, "Edith," and the voice was that of tho tall, dark man In her dream. Then the pretty face hardened and the bright eyes grew cold nnd the Ilttle head lifted haughti ly ?s she said, "Sir, vou have made a mlHtnke." The tall man paused a moment, look ing down nt the averted face, and then said, softly. "Edith, will you not come to breakfast with me nnct talk It over?" "Certainly not," wns tho renly, In frosty tones; "I prefer to breakfast alone," and with that she rose, and stalked past him directly away from the dining car. It was humiliating to lie obliged to retrace her steps and pass him again, but she did It bravely, trying not to see that he sat with hla head pressed close against tho window. When, after breakfast, she returned to her seat, her neighbor was not to bo eeen. The great train rolled on, and the car wheels whirred and sung their Christmas carol, but to the little lady in section nine they brought no thought of "peace on earth, good will toward men." Sho had takm another book Itching, Irritated, icaly.cruited Sclp, rir, thin, and falling lUIr, cleanied, purified, and beautl. fled by warm ataatnpooi with Ccjticcr, Soj, and occasional dressings of Cuticubi, purtit of emollient, the grcatcit ikln curn. enra Treatment will produce a clean, healthy scalp with lnmrlant, lnitroui hair, when alt elie falU. oMthrnnhnsllh vorli. roTralDll'OilD Citiu. Ciiar,lnU Prop,., Uoilon. or-'Mlow to pio4oct I.umrlint Uiir," miHtd fret. SKINS ON FIRTnTcV.V'.i.illJ.'ii"1 THE LIMITED. from her satchel, nnd appeared greatly abForbed In It. A very dear old lady In tho pectlon back ot her had been wntchlng all the proceedings, and no's, glancing over tho shoulder ot the little lady, she noted that the leaves of the book wero never turned, and she said to herself, with a kindly smile, "Poor children! a lover's quarrel." Soon the book boy camo through the train with hi? nrmful of books; he paused at sec tion nine, and laid a volume ot poems on the scat beside the little lady, as he sold, "The gentleman in the smoker said I wns to hand this to you, ma'um." Edith glanced nt the 'book, then out of the window for a moment, then again at the book. She saw that a leaf was turned down, and her hand went slowly out towards the little vol ume, and the very dear old lady In the next seat looked on and smiled. Edith turned to the Indicated page, and found a verse marked, it was part of a poem that the pleasant voice of the tall, dark man hail many times read to her, nnd now It oamo to her as n mes sage, and this wns the message; "Alns, how easily things go wrong; A word unsung in a lover's sung, There ciomes a mist anil a blinding rain, And life Is never the same iiruIii. "Alas, how herdly things go rlnlit! A storm may come ip :v summer night, The stars will fade hi tlio Bloom away. And the summer's night Is a winter's day." She read the verse softly through, and as tho book dropped to her lap, she saw something wns written on the fly leaf; turning to It. she read; "Edith, from Philip, Merry Christmas;" wi it ten In the strong, manly hand that had written her so many words of love, if Philip could have come to her then nil would have been well; but such' Is tho perverseness of fate, we do not know when to "come back nnd lie for given," and In the smoking compart ment Philip sat, glowering out of the. window, twisting his mustache fiercely, and saying to himself: "Poor little girl, sho la awfully hard with me. and nil about a beggarly dog; Confound the beast, anyway, I always did lililo little dogs!" And the ear wheels still whlired and sung, and all their song was "Peace on earth:"' and at every station the passengers leaving the train, laden with their pleasant-looking parcels, were met nnd greeted by those who needed them to complete their Christmas cir cle, and the train hands were greeted by their friends in passing, nnd every one was h'appy, and full of holiday cheer, save only tho little lady In sec tion number nine, and the tall, dark man In the smoking compartment. Philip made another effort at luncheon time; he came slowly down the aisle, and said: "Edith, shall I get you some luncheon?" The little lady, seeing him approaching, had seized her novel, and, in response to his question, glanced coldly up from Its pages, just long enough to my, with extreme frostlness. "Thank you, no," l'hlllp noticed the book of poems on the seat, apparently untouched; but ho gained some trifling comfort from nlso noting that the novel In Edith's hand was upside down. He returned onco more to the smoker, and Edith, throw ing her novel pettishly down, sat gaz ing out of tho window. Presently she had the porter bring her a cup of tea, and, just as she had finished It, she felt a light touch on her shoulder, as a sweet voice said: "My dear, don't you want to come and talk to a tired old lady?" After they had chatted nwhlle the very dear old lady said: "I have been watching you all day, my little girl, and you must l'ardon an old lady It she ask? you some questions. Is the tall young man your lover?" "No," said Edith, "I am sorry to say he Is my husband. " "Sorry!" said the old lady, "oh, no. my dear, not that; nnd I am sure he Is still your lover as well as your hus band; don't you want to, tell the old lady all about It? I have had a lot of experience, and perhapa I can help you." Edith looked into the very dear old face for a moment, and then said: "Oh, thank you so much; yes, I will tell you; but It Is too late to help us; I can never forgive Philip." And then sho told to this sympa thetic listener the whole story: of her marriage six months before, of her dear little home In New York, of her happy life with Philip until and hero sho paused, with a slightly shamefaced expression--well, until she had one day spent an absurd sum for a fancy ter rier. Philip had objected, half laugh ingly, half seriously; then things com menced to go awry; the little dog car lied off Philip's slippers, chewed up his razor strap, knocked his sill; hat about the floor, and had done a thousand other nnnoying little things; and every time anything happened Philip was disagreeable, and Edith had retorted, and so the lit tie rift In the lute wid ened. Then there camo a day and here tho eyes of the little lady flashed when Philip, In a burst of temper, had said: "Edith, either that dog leaves this house, or I do;" and Edith had In a line temper, nlso answered: "Do ns you please; D'andy shall not go;" and Philip had packed a satchel nnd left, and all that was a week ago. Edith had waited two days, becoming more alarmed and less bad-tempered all the time, and had then paid a visit to a cousin In Hrooklyn, where she re mained until deciding to go, on the day before Christmas, to her mother, In Chicago. What Edith could not tell, because sho did not know It. was thut Philip, after three miserable days at a hotel, had returned, penitent nnd lov ing, to tho little apartment, to find Edith gone, Ihn servant gone, oven the wretched ilttle cnuse of all the trouble gone, and not a word of any sort for him. lie had gono back to the hotel; ho spent several days arranging busi ness matters, then went to Albany to consult his married sister, who said: "Edith har probably gone homo to Chi cago; 1 would go there at once." And that was how both Edith and Philip happened to bo pns-sengsrs on the Lim ited of Christmas Eve. Tlio very dear old lady listened with out comment, nntll Edith had finished, then she laughed a merry little laugh ns she h'eld, "And so It was all about ft little dog; what avery Inadequate causo for so much trouble! Hy the wny, my dear, what djd you do with tho dog?" Tho corners of the pretty mouth twitched a little as Edith said, "I gavo It to my cousin In Urooklyn." Edith nnd tho very dear old lady looked at each other a moment, then they laugh ed together, until the tears Blood in their eyes, and Edith hastened to say, "You see, It wasn't tho dog entirely, It wns tins principle I wns thinking of." "Nonsense," said tho old lady, "you thought of nothing but having your own way: and, from my point of view, you will be a very lucky young person If that fine-looking, manly Philip will take you back nt nny price. Think of weighing n miserable little dog in tho balnnce against tho love of such a man! why, my dear, I could shake you." "Hut," faltered Edith, "do you think a woman should give up everything to her husband'."' "Certainly not," said the old lady, "nnd no true man will nsk h'cr to. You give up much, of coutse. nnd you ought to. Sacrifice Is tho essence of true love, and it Is the essence of selfishness ns well, because you are far happier In sacrificing to one you love than you are In withholding. Now, my ndvlco la, make It up with your Philip as soon ns ever you can, nnd live hnppy ever after, ami nlw-tya remember how nenr your hnpplnesa mm? to going to the dogs. And now, do you realize thnt It Is dusk? Let us go to dinner together." Aa they were coming out of tho din ing car they passed a. tall, dark man nt one of the tnblos; the little lady, leading the way, passed him with her eyes straight nhead, but ns tho very dear old lady reached him she paused for a moment, as she whispered: "Do not worry, It Is coming out nil right." Philip looked his thanks, then turned to his dinner with more hopefulness than he had felt In many days. A little later Edith and her new friend still say side by side, talking, unrl tho wheels were singing and hum ming In merry metre, for the train was making up time. "We shall soon be in Chicago now," said the very denr old lady; will you speak to him before you leave the train'" "Oh, I think not," said Edith: nnd then added, with n little return of tho haughty manner, "ho must come to me." Tho old lady looked at Edith a mo ment, Indulgently, and said, "Don't wait too long." Soon they were gathering up their smnll traps, and the train was running Into the city. The wheels seemed now to have ended th'elr song, nnd to ho saying, "Well, If you've not had a Mer ry Christinas It's not our fault; we've sung to you all day long." Just as Edith was pulling down her veil nnd drawing on her gloves Philip hurried in, threw his coat over his arm, picked up his satchel, and without a glance nt her left the car. Edith looked startled, then turned towards the old lady who, having made a shrewd guess as to Philip's plana, said, "Well, my dear, good-by, and God bless you! I think you may have a Merry Christmas after all; now run along and get your cab," and the very dear old lady watch ed her tenderly as she hurried out Into tho busy station. Just as Edith found a desirable-looking cab, she noticed Philip almost at her side, and in her agitation she got Into tho cab without giving any orders to the driver. Philip stepped quickly up, handed his satchel to the man, saying, "Drive to the Audi torium Hotel," and turned towards the cab. "Hut, Philip, my trunks," gasped Edith. "You darling," said Philip, as ho jumped in and slammed the door. And the cab rolled away into the night. A MALAY'S DEADLY CHEESE. Pile .Hen Killed nnd Two IJndly Hurt in Ten .Minutes When lie linn Amuck. Krom tho Sun. "In four voyages to the East Indies, two of them to Malay ports, I huvo seen but one Instance of that native performance called running nmuck. Fortunately I saw It from a position' of perfect safety, but the sight wns enough to make me steer clear of all Malays afterward, and any vessel that has them on board," .said Erdlx Deer Ing. who as boy and man sailed many seas In deep-water ships. "It was In ISC", when I was a boy, on my first voyage, on the ship Hnrry Warren, which sailed from Uoston to India with a cargo of Ice. We were lying nt anchor In the roads off Madras, un loading our middle-deck cargo Into lighters, and a hundred vesels of nil nations were anchored about us, dis charging or taking on board their car goes. The ship nearest us, about two cable lengths away, was the Ilrltlsh .ship Mahratta, which had come from Singapore in ballast with a crew of Malay Lascars. Jt was one day at noon that, as our e'rew lay round under the awning in the forecastle waiting for the order to turn to, one of tho sailors sitting on the capstan sung out: " 'HI, mates! Just look over to the llme-julcer! They're having pome kind of a rumpus there! See 'em going! I believe it's one of those Malays run ning amuck!' "We all jumped to our feet and looked at the Mahratta, and some of us ran up into the rigging to get a hotter view. From the topsail ynrd I could see all that was going on on the deck of the Ilrltlsh ship. Amidships a La.s car, naked to the waist, was slashing and stabbing at a European officer who had tried to grapple with him, while everybody else In sight on the ship wns running fore or aft or taking to the rigging. On tho quarterdeck the cap tain was hurrying two ladles down the companlonway Into the cabin, support ing In his arms one of them who had fainted. As tho olllcer fell lifeless to the deck, the Malay bounded past him following three sailors who had run aft, along the port gangway, upon the poop. As he ran he swung before him a long, slender knife, its crooked blade curving In and out like the writhing of a snake. He overtook the rearmost man on the poop and cut and stabbed him, us he had done with the olllcer, until the man fell. Meantime tho sec ond man leaped overboard, preferring to take his chances with the sharks unci water serpents to remaining on board, and the third man ran across the quarter deck and up Into the mlz zen rigging like a cat. The man in the water mvam for our ship, and some natives In a lighter picked hltu up nhead of the sharks. "The Malay left tho man he had killed nnd looked around as If for fresh victims, hut he himself wns tho only living person In view on tho decks. Ho ran fore and aft, searching, but found no one, nnd he tried the cabin door, but It was closed fast. Then he went to the mlzzen tigging nnd started up tho ratlines after the man who had taken refuge there. When tho Malay had got ns far up as the mlzzen top the man ho was after took to the top gallant fore-and-aft stay and began to go down It, hand over hand, toward the mainmast. The Malay kept on up to the topgallant cross-trees, and be gan to follow the man down the stay. "There wasi somtfthlng frightful In tho relentleasnews of IiIh pursuit. He had got about ten feet down, tho stay when the captain nppenred on the poop with a revolver and began firing at him. One, two, .three shots ho fired and tho Makay kept on down the stay. He was two-thirds of the way to the foot when, at the fourth shot, the arm m (can party STANDS FOR 'PRAS STEADY WORK GOOD WAG EH Get out the Vdtbj Tuesday, Nov. 2, 118 thnt held tho creese fell helpless- by his aide, through his hand still clutcher the wunpon. Ho clung to the stuy by one nnd and ills feet and kept on down It almost ns fast as before. A fifth nnd sixth shot, nnd nt the last the Malay stopped still, then fell like 11 lump of putty to the deck, full forty feet below. Whether he was dead when ho struck th deck I do not know, but tho mntc, who must have been wntchlng from his room, ran out from the cabin to where the Malay was with a handspike nnd made sure work of the fellow before he could rise. Th n the Lascars came running from the forecnstle and down .the rigging, nnd with capstan bars, belaying pins, nnd knives struck and thrust nt the dead Malay until If he had had a. dozen lives In him they would haw been hammered out of hla body before tho ofllcers could restrain the excited soll ors. "Our captain got the full story of the affair from tho captain en the Mnhrntta the next day. Tlio Malay had been brooding and sullen for days before, though no one knew what his grievance wns. On this day as tho men weie piped to dinner he had gono Into the forecastle, got the crease from some place where he had it concealed, and had furiously attacked his mates without a word. They raised the cry 'Amuck! 'Amuck!' nnd scattered, but not until thro,- of them had been killed or mortally wounded, nnd two more of them seriously cut by the creese. Run ning forward, he had encountered the second mate, and the rest of the affair I saw. Five nvn dead and two badly hurt by the Malay, and himself killed at the end, wns the record of ten min utes' business in running amuck. Ma laya In mine after this? No, thank you." LOVE AND AURRIAGE. She Could Not Sponk. "Marie," said the young man in pleading tones, "I love you." She could not speak. "Marie," he continued, "you know I am ouo of the Stypsters. I have standing, wealth, everything to make you happy. Will you be mine?" She could not speak, but looked nt him with a frightened fawn look. "Marie, why this strange silence? You havo led me to hope. Ha3 your love grown cold?" She could not speak. "Once more I nsk you, will you bo mine? Give me one little ray of hope anything but this henrt-breaklng si lence." She could not speak, and Clarence, with a "farewell forever" on his lips, dashed madly from the room. The trouble with Marie was this: She liked Clarence nil right In fact, had been trying to capture him all season, but Just before he called she had been taking her afternoon nap and had fallen asleep with her lips partly open. As a result of this the spiuce gum which she had In her mouth had hardened and held her teeth together with a vice-like grip. Sho could not speak. New York World. What Ho Did. One of the leading banking firms In Paris, on the recommendation ot a London correspondent, engaged an English clerk of tho name of S , For about three years the mans puno tuallty was altogether unprecendented. He came to his work at ! In the morn ing und did not leave the ofllco before the last stroke of fi. Ueslde. dining the whole time he never asked for a holiday. One fine morning, however, to tha great suprlse of his superior, S blushlngly craved permission to ab sent himself fur an hour on the follow ing day. Next day at 12 he left the ofllco. It waa observed that a carriage stood waiting for him at the door. At 1 o'clock he drove up again In the same carriage, and resumed his calcula tions, as cool and self-possessed as if nothing hud happened. This nhort absence puzzled the brains of all the employes In the bank. The principal himself, eager to obtain the solution of the enigma, invited his paragon of clerks to dinner. Hetweeu two glasses of claret the banker said: "You will not think mo Indiscreet If I nsk you what you did with yourself in that hour's leave of absence you ap plied for lant Tuesday?" "Oh, dear, no!" replied S . "The fact of the matter Is, I went and got married. "London Figaro. Her Lucky Windfall. "What Is the most cm Ions transac tlon I ever h'ad?" said a well known postage stamp dealer. "Some years ago nu old lady called upon me, asking whether I could give her anything for n few old stamps sho hail had by her slnco sho wns postmis tress In a certain small country town about half a century ago. On examination they proved to bo some of the very rarest of the old un used Hrltlsh stamps, nnd as I had a customer for them, I told her that I would gladly glvo her 30 pounds for them. " 'Hut what am I to do with all that money?' qulerled the old lady In appar ent dismay at the sudden possibility of so much wealth. " 'If you Jlko to i-end for It, I shall bo glad to hand It over to any one whom you caro to provide with a written au thority for tho iayment,' sold I, nnd to this sho agreed with evident relief. PERITY Jm AND Mk s M'!1 or 'i I mm "Accordingly, the next day a man called for the money. Shortly after I heard thnt ho had ninrrtcd tho old lady. I wonder whether her lucky windfall had unythlng to do with It?" Cassel's Journal. She Win Prepared. A certnln minister nlwaya felt It to bo his duty to give each young couple a Ilttle serious ndvlce before he per formed the marriage ceremony, and for this purpose he usually took them aside, one at a time, nnd talked very soberly to each' of them regarding the great Im portance of the step they were to take, nnd the new responsibilities they wero to nssume. One day he talked In hla most earnest mnnncr for several min utes to a young woman, who hnd come to be mnrrlod to a bright-looking young man. "And now," he said, In closing, "I hope you will fully realize the extremes Importance ot the step you are taking, nnd that you arc prepared for It." "Prepared," sho said, i nnocently, "Well, if I ain't prepared I don't know who Is. I've got four common quilts, and two nice ones, and four brand now feather beds, ten sheets and 12 pairs of pillow slip, four nll-lincu table cloth's, a dozen spoons nnd a good slx-qunrt tea kettle. If I ain't prepared no girl In this country ever was." Dundee Times. Cnrrjing Out Instruction. There was a young man whoso social education had been somewhat neglect ed, and It chanced that he received an Invitation to a church wedding. The morning of the ceremony found him quite excited, nnd he started for the church S"me time liefore, ns he would have said, "the show was billed to come off." T'nder his arm he carried a smnll bundle, and before ho had proceeded far he met a friend. "Hello!" said the friend, "and where nro you going all dressed up at this time In the morning?" "Wedding," nnswered the young man, brlelly und proudly. "Indeed? doing to do some errands on tho wny?" "Certainly not." "Hut you nro not going to a wedding with a bundle under your arm?" "Of course I am. That's my pres ent." "Present! Hut you don't take your present with you, man. You send it beforehand." "That's all you know about It. I've got a card tight here In my pocket, and the card says, 'Present at tho church.' " Uoston Budget. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. If tho scat has vanished from a strong-framed chair worth retaining, make a "cozy" chair out of It. Saw tho legs a little shorter, then take a small cotton rope, and put It buck nnd forth over the front and back round ot the seat, then across .the same way on the sides. Draw very, very tight, and fasten by tying on the under side. Then made a pretty cush ion of ellk or velvet, with a deep frill of silk, or of close long fringe, to fall over all sides ot the seat from the cushion. Make a separate cushion for .the back, nnd fasten each cushlin at the corners with pretty ribbon bows. It will be the chair that everybody but your long-legged brother or hus band will want to sit in. If company comes unexpectedly for lunch, and you are short on dessert, try this: Take the little baking pow der biscuits left from 'breakfast and dip them In cold water; then put in a buttered pie pan, with another over them, In a hot oven. In ten minutes take the biscuits out, spread with but ter after splitting them open, and, viillo they nro hot lay on a pretty china plate, and heap each half biscuit with strawberries, over which sprinkle pow dered sugar plentifully. Make a syrup of a dozen or two of the berries mashed with sugar and a .tablespoonful or two of water, and pour over the "straw berry biscuit;" serve with cream, nnd they are delicious. The butter must not be that vile thing known as "cook ing butter," but the very best, and the biscuit must be thin. Always remember to hang your gas oline cleansed garments in tho sun for nn hour or two and the odor will all evaporate. It will hang round them, however, If you put them away with out sunning. You can restore the gloss on moroc cc by vnrnlshlng with white of an egg. Try borax where you have been using Pc-sian powder. It Is said to be quite as effectlve.and Its odor Is unobjection able, "because It has none. Huy the powdered article, and use exactly as you would the Petslan powder. The oil in your lamps gels rancid with little use this very warm weather, and smells to high heaven. There is no way to overcome It except to throw the oil out. You can have a. can for the old oil, nnd use It for cleaning purposes. There Is nothing nicer for nn oiled floor than a rubbing with a well-kero-sened rag, nfter the mopping In clear, cold water has taken up all tho dust. Furniture oiled or varnished always comes up shining and blight after a vigorous rubbing with a flannel cloth dampened with soft coal oil. There are a dozen uses you can put the old oil to. Keep your burners dean also, it you would have a bright light and one free from smoke. Of course, you got soot all over the l'oor when you took down the stoves. Next time you spill the horrid stuff put a lot of common table salt over tho soot nnd brush gently into a dust pan. You can do It with but little trouble then. ON TO VICTORY. Every Indication points to a rousing Republican victory for the entire ticket next Tuesday. The party's lighting blood is up nt last and that portends a Waterloo for tho enemy. Hut no Individual Republican should relax his efforts. This Is the clinnco of a life time to rivet nnd clinch Ito publlcan supremacy In once Demo cratic Lackawanna. .11 11 do Mini Snd. Weary Watklns What you lookln' so Bore ubout? Dismal Dawson I met a guy today 'at tolo mo I was rpally workln' harder bummin' around the country than It I was actually lioldln' a Job. It may be true, too, fer all I know. Indluunpolis Journal. m In tlio Shelter of Ills family Tree, Mrs. Fleccem So your client was ac quitted of murder. On what ground? Fleecem lnisanlty. We proved that his father-in-law onco spent two years In an asylum, "Hut ho didn't, did ho?" "Ves, ho wub superintendent, but wo didn't have time to bring thut fuel out. New York Journal, A Xr.W TYPK OF 8Titi:rr CAlt. .tinny New nud Desirable Features ot Convenience n ml Comlort. From the Springfield ltepubllcnn. The new car for use 011 the green lino to Chlcopee, which the Wnson Manu facturing company Is making for the street rnlhvny company, Is nearly done, nnd will probably bo finished the 20th, when It will be turned over 10 the street rnlhvny, who will fit It out with Its electrical equipment. The car represents about the latest nnd best Ideas In the construction for purposes of street transportation. It departs, from older styles In two Important points, in Its length, nnd In the eleep windows, which If opened with make the car a very pleasant means of sum mer travel. The body Is thirty feet long, and each vestibule Is five feet In nddltlon, making n total length of forty feet. The body la five feet long er than .that of the last green cars which were built by the company for the Chlcopee line, nnd the vestibules are each one foot longer. Tho doors are nt one side ot tho vestibule, In stead of nt the center, as is generally the case, nnd the.e doors nre thirty nix Inches wide, Instead of twenty two Inches, a more ordlnnry width. The seats are of the reversible type. There are on each side eight seats running lengthwise of the car, two of these seats to accommodate three peo ple each, and two to nccommodnto it.wo each. There nro two seats In each vestibule, made of slnts like those of an qren car. Thus the total seating capacity of tho car will he forty-six. The car will give a better accommo dation for smokers with Its bigger ves tibules with seats. The seats inside will be covered with crimson plush. The Interior of the car will be hand somely finished. The celling will be decorated a dork brown on a hand some selection of white birch. The windows nre eight Inches deeper than was tho case on the new green curs above referred to. This will ninke them very light nnd airy In summer. Tho coining will have five panels. In itho middle one will be a. group of five electric lights. In the two next groups of three, nnd In the end panels groups of two. Each lamp Is sixteen candle power, and thus the lighting capacity of the car will be 240 candle power. The exterior will be nalnled, the low er part green and .the posts and the upper part old Ivory, a shadf of crenm, nnd there will be gold decorations. There will be no lettering, and the des tination will bo indicated by signs. The car will be numbered 202. '.lucre will bo four thirty-horse power motors, which will glvo twenty more horse power than tho new green cars re ferred to above. There will be hand and nlr brakes, nnd the car will be heated by the consolidated system of electric ,heat, the heaters attached to the truss plank at the bottom and grated so that there will be no danger nf burning clothing. The lights will be of 3-1G plate and In two sashes. The deck lights will be of embossed green. This car Is made as a sample, nnd If it Is satisfactory to the com pany others will be ordered like it. A POLITICAL POINTER- If you Indorse the free trade nnd Sreo sliver Chicago platform as the Lacka wanna Democracy docs, "fully and without reserve," then work and vote for Schndt, Horn, ot. al. If you be lieve In McKInley.protectlon and pros perity, turn these agents of Bryan down. THE 1'IIESIDENT'S ANCESTOltS. Some of McKinley'.s Progenitors Were Natives of York County. Some of President McKlnley's an cestors -wero Pennsylvanlans, accord ing to the York correspondent of ,tho Baltimore Sun. The president was In vited to visit the fair now being held at York, but pressing business engage ments prevented his attending, though he expressed a desire to be present, especially ns some of his ancestors were natives of York county. He promised, however, that he would visit York at some future time. In 1743 David McKlnley, an ancestor of the president, entered the latitude of Low t Hallam and selected for his home stead 316 acres on the very highest land In all that wilderness, the summit of which overlooks Chnnceford and Lower Chnnceford townships, with their grand succession ot ridges lying east and west, jutting on the deep grooved Susquehanna Valley. David McKlnley was a weaver. Like all who came with him to the Darrens of York county, ho had .to struggle courage ously against the stern opposition of natural disadvantage. Tho slctle was his champion reaper, nnd the flail his steam thresher and the palms of hit, hands his patent corn sheller. He was a man of energy nnd public spirit, and the necessity for "big roads" at once claimed his uttentlon. Even before' the organization of York county he was engaged In this Important movement. He died In tho year 17(10. John Mc Klnley, was the great-grandfather of President McKlnley. H was well known throughout the lower end of York county. He wns also a weaver, and to this he ndded blacksmlthlng nnd distilling. He made frequent ex cursions to Baltimore, Lancaster and York. John McKlnley died in 1779. leaving one son, David McKlnley. Da vid was born on the ancestral home stead, 011 Otter Creek, Chanceford township, York county. James Mc Klnley, grandfather of the president, was a son of John McKlnley. Dr. Wil liam F. Uacon, a well-known physician of York, Pa., Is a relative of Presi dent McKlnley. WICK AND WITTY. Lord Young is talil to bo one of the ublest Scotchmen on tho Ucnoh or at tho Har. At leaat, he has a ready tongue One day In September, says Youth's Com panion, lie was driving Into town from his plueo In tho country when ho met un ue qualntance, "Hallo!" aald tho latter, "what are you doing hero? 1 thought all respectable peo plo were out of town." "WelS," yalel tho other, "havo you seen anything to make you alter your opinion? I haven't." At tlio time of tho general election In 1S9J ho won visiting nt Dalmeny House, and tho ropoit camo that Lord Wolmer, now tho Earl of Selbourne, had been re turned for the Wosteru division by a ma jority of three, over Mr. T. n. Uuchanan. Soon the majority was threo hundred. He added that Lord and Lord had voted for Wolmer. "Ah!" said Young, "that accounts for tho two ciphers." MADE ME A MAN AJAX TABLUTS POSITIVELY CORE prr.ImpoteQc. Hleejiletsa&if.eto.. cauid Lj Abuts or other Eicetus nnd Indli cretioni. They yulcKlit and turtle nwtora Lott Vltnluy la oldooouim.und fit a man t or eiudjr. bu'lnesiior marrlaco. PruVHnt Inminit Ant rVminmntlnn it Niea iu utno. TbelruM thovt la. mod Tato Improte nnntol effects a IIUIIE Ktitra all other lull In. Ut upon listing tha cennln Aiaz TeMett. Tber hare cured thousand and will core yon. Waclroapo ltlie written unarantsa to affect a euro CI 1 fTC la eacboaaoor refund tha monar PrioeOUU I wirer radusei or all kgaa (full treatment! for t2.C4. H mall, in plain wrwr. uion receipt of rrire. Circular '"AJAX REMEDY CO., HaTm.1-' Knr uhIa In KiTniitnii. P.i . liv M utl Iiaikj JJro. und 1L C. fc-uudersou. tirutfg.su. hv Al WHAT DOTHE CHILDREN DRINKS Don't glvo them ten or roll'ee. IIav you tried the new lood drink culled rirnln-O? It I clcllclotiM nnd iinurlfllilug und takes the pliicoofroiree. Tho more Urnln-O you lv the children tho more health you ulntrlmita tlirongli their syntems. einitn-O ti 'miulo of pure grill nn, unit when properly prepared tiiKtrs llko tho choice grades of colIVo but coMNiUmut i.in much. All grocer sell It Iftcnftc.tid 2 .&Jp f;0 Stetson - Hats Havo Brains in Them Yes, there are brains In Stetson Hats brains in making them and brains in wearing them. New Fall Styles in' Stiff arid Sort Hats on sale. It's' a wise head that wears a Stetson Hat.,, . . Tlicso nud Other flood rftylMSolrl by ' CONRAD, 305 Lackawanna Avenin' PUT YOURSELF IN OUR PLACE And you will reallzo how cay It 1 to fur nlh your homo luxurluiiMly with w tilllltit; outlay, u little at u time, und you don't miss it. BARBOUR'S HOME GREDITH0US5 425 LACKAWANNA AVE. Steam and Hct Water HEATING Hot Air Furnaces, Sanitary Plumbing, Gas and Electric Light Fixtures. ELECTRIC LIGHT WIRING. THI HI H CONNELL CO., 434 Lackawanna Ave. National Supply and Metal Co., Dealers In Xew and Second-Hand MUIIY, BOILERS 01 ENGINES TELEPHONE NUMBER 3954. CO.Viit.UTOItS' Sri'l'I.IKS I'L'M.EYa AM) HilAl'ii.Nd, StitAr IKOX AN I) M KTAI.S A SPKCIA I.T V. Ol'KH'K, 70( WEST l.At'KA. AVK. M.E. KEELEY, Manager, Scranton, Pa.' NEW YORK HOTELS. An tttabllihM hotel under caw manataaent isd thoroughly abrtaet o( tha tlmti. Vlatt9rt ta New York will Dad tne Hrerett In the Tary Ixirt sf the hopptni district, conrenlena Is plaree o( amuaement ana rradljr accaaalblM from all ptrta al tba cltr. EUKOl'EAN PLAN. Cor. Sixteenth St. and Irving Place, NEW VORK. AMERICAN PLAN, S3.50 Pel l)aj' and Upwards. EUROPEAN PLAN, SI. 50 Pel Day and Upwards. GEO, MURRAY, Proprietor. r'ii ' rtHtllT !& n-jiFyix trJ7 WM. H. BATES. ,Wa?frV B-L.".ATK 2u&5l5fto2l? The St. Denis Broadway anj Eleventh St.. New York. Opp. Orace Church. -European Plan. Rooms $1.00 a Day and Upward. In n moiloit ami unocitriistra way there ara law better conducted notela In tba metropolli tban tho Ht. Uenia. Tlio great popularity it baa nequlrefl cn readily bo tracocl to its unique location, IU bomoliko atmoapbere. tho paoullar uxcellanoa of Uh cuialuo ana sarrlcd, and lla rery mo Jar ate prices. WILLIAM TAYLOR AND SON,
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