VOL xxxiv AFTER STOCKTAKING WE FIND A GREAT MANY ODD LOTS OF SHOES IX OCR STOCK WHICH WE ARE GOING TO SELL AT SWEEPING REDUCTIONS. THE BASIS ON WHICH OUR LARGE RETAIL SHOE BUSINESS WAS BUILT— SAVE PEOPLE MONEY, GIVE THEM GOOD HONEST GOODS AND THEY'LL PATRONIZE YOU. A Big Cut in MEN'S FINE SHOES. WOMEN'S FINE SHOES. In finest I atent Call; was 7550, now *4.00 One lot was $3.50, now £2.50. One lot reduced from >2 and $2.50 to One lot was £4.00, *5.00 and j6.or, only J 1.25. now $2.00. One lot reduced from $3.50 and $3.75 One lot he<»\y shoes, was J1.25 and£l.s > to :2.00 and #2.25. now SI.OO. One let reduced from ti.uo and $1 .25 | Men's l ine Shoes, v.ere #1.25, nov. to 75 cents. , 95 cents. Women's Black All Wool Overgaiters, SILK STITCHED, CLOTH PACINGS-TO CLOSE OUT AT 15 CENTS. Bargains in Misses' Shoes. Bargains in Boys' Shoes. 50 cents, 75 cents and SI.K>. \V e wili 75 cents, 90 cents, SI.OO anil £1.25. save you 5c cents on every i>air. Bargains in all. Children's Shoes. Our Slippers At 25 cents, 40 cents and 50 cents. Baby Shoes at 10 cents to 50 cents. to close, and also all our Felt Shoes, WOOL BOOTS AND RUBBER FOOTWEAR BARGAINS. All kinds at lowest prices—Arctics. Storm Aiaskas, Overs, Croquet, Storm Boots — all at prices greatly reduced. Women's Rubbers at iSc. 20. and 25c, Misses' Rub bers at 16c, 20c, and 25c. 3£en's Rubbers at 40c, 50c, and 60c. All shoes direct from factory to your feet. 1 BiitlWs Leading r» P ITTTCri TA\T Opp, Shoe House •11 UkJLLII/ll HotelUivry. J MRS. J. E. ZIMMERMAN. I 1 1 Stock-Taking Gleanings. i The completion of stock-taking leaves every department with broken lots or q odds and ends of goods'wtich must be closed out at once to make room for the daily incoming of spring tnerchindise. Some of these broken line? are almost certain to be among your necessities. In that event you will get more for your money than at any other time.during the past season. By reason of still deeper price cuts than we have yet given, the following are a few examp'es of what w* intend to do from now on until our entire stock of winter goods is sold. Ladies' Jackets and Capes. 2 We have marked down all our Ladies' Jackets that sold at sls and S2O to ?5-o° One lot of plain Beaver Jackets, real va'ue $6, to 2.49 One lot of Misses' Jackets, value $5 to $6, to 2.89 One lot of Children's Jackets, value $4 to $6, to close at 2.29 Feather Boas J marked down to 25c, 50c, 75c and $1; former prices 50c, si, $1.50 and $2. Included with these we offer you our entire stock of Blankets, Haps, Winter Underwear and Hosiery for men, women and children. Flannel Skirts, Waists, Tailor-Made Suits and Separate Skirts, and Heavy Winter Dress Goods, and a positive saving of 50 per cent, on every dollar's worth of merchandise bought here during this clean s ing up sale. | Mrs* J. E* Zimmerman. N. B.—-We have already received two shipments of new Spring Dress Goods at f>opular prices. Come in and get posted on the new Spring Styles. DO YOU LIKE NICE CLOTHING? ■ It is rare you see such garments as we are now showing. They are novelties, they have got the snap in them, makes you fell as if you must have | a suit out of this batch. We have the exclusive sale of these garments in this vicinity. Now if you want to dress up, here is a chance, If you once eet inside of one of these suits you will be loath to take it off. YVe sell the finest Hlack Clay Suits cv-r known. The linings are guaranteed to outwear the outside T. H. BURTON, I. H. BURTON, 120 S. MAIN ST. BUTLER, PA. REMOVAL SALE! COMMENCING TUESDAY FEBRUARY, 16th. We are going to offer the people of Butler and vicinity the Greatest Bargains ever •old in Butler Co. This assertion may ssem strong, but we mean it as we are de termined—if pri;e is any inducement—to not move a dollars worth of goods to our new store 108 S. Main St. (Kaufman's old stand) April ist. This advertisement can give you but a faint idea of this sale, for every item mentioned here we show you five, ten, twenty in the store; yes and better ones frequently than those published. HOSIERY—one lot children's hose 5c per pair, former price 10, 15, and 25c; one lot children's fleeced hose 9c or three pairs for 25c, Ladies hose 9c or 3 pairs for 25c, Bicycle hose 19c per pair, extra heavy fleeced 25c were 40c, fine cashmere hose 35c were 50c, extra heavy wool hose 35c were 50c, one lot wool hose 19c or 3 pair for 50c. LACE—White lace X A inch wide 100 p?r do/., yards, white silk lace 7c per yard former price 15c. white silk lace 19c, former price 35c; white lace 19c former price 35 and 50c; chiffon lace lie, former price 40c and 50c; black silk lace7c, former 15 ; ' black silk lace 19c, former price 25 tosoc. M. F. & M. MARKS 1 1 3 to '.17 South Main Street, i • t' •, I ~ J. S. Young. J. S. Young.; I desire to thank the public for their very liberal pat ronage since I went into the merchant tailoring buiness, and to show my appreciation of the same; and in order to make room for the extensive line of spring goods that are daily airiving, I will s.ll anything in my stock at greatly reduced prices. J. S. YOUNG. Tailor. 101 S. MAIN St., - - - BUTLER, I'A :: "THE COMMERCIAL," I | |W. K. THORNBURG Prop'r., Evans City, Pa | * < > This popular house has just been entirely remodeled < > < > and refurnished. Everything convenient, and guests < \ < k will always receive close attention. <' k i . Located near Postofißce and P.& W. Depot. When Jk in Evans City tip at the Commercial. Hell Tele- IJ phone No. 16. I wooooooooooooooooooocooooc THi: BUTLER CITIZEN. CUT THIS OUT BRING IT WITH YOU TO BUTLER'S PROGRESSIVE SHOE HOUSE. A GREAT Q SALE NOW GOING ON. Surprise after surprise a'.'.•.tit 5 you. N'-ver before i:i the his tory <«t P.utkr Co. !-as s l -.- !. a;i opportunity been olleied j to you Think of it ai d $1.50 Winter Hoots and Shoes all reduced to 98 c- nts. Prices That Tell The Story. w Ladies Rubber Boots 98c I F Misses Rubber Boots 98c I S Youths Rubber outs / Mens ( 'vers for Fe'lts 98c V Mens Buckle Arctics 98c j 1 Mens Buff Hals Needle 98c' S Mci s Huff ba!s' Yale 98c j \ Mens Bufi Cong Globe 98c' J M«cs Working Shoes gSc j \ , We Will Not be Undersold. Ladies oi! grain butt 98c \ Ladies Calf Shoes 98c s Ladies fine L'utt Shoes 9§ c f Ladies spring heel shoes 98c j Boys and Giris shoes 98c \ Youths stoga boots 98c I,qoo Pair Scb.oo 1 Shoes 98 AND The Half Has Not Been Told DON'T MISS THIS' SALE. TRY WHAT 98c WILL DO AT Butler's Progressiva Shoe House. 2i5 Sooth Main St., BUTLER PA 0. E. MILLER, Genuine Scotch Tweed Suit, made as you want it, pQj^ $24 is an example of how our 20 per cent discount sale reduced the price of our S3O suit. SO WE MI'ST empty the stock tables before our spring Patterns airive. The discount goes during JANUARY AND FEBRUARY. THIS IS A BENEFIT FOR YOU: Come in and see about it. ALAND, MAKER OK M EN'S - LOTH Kb AT J. R. GRIRB S 2 and 2 Do Not Make Pive. It's quite a problem to please eve:yone's taste in any line you may select and particularly ol jewelry, silver novelties, cut glass, , etc., but I'm sure you will find what you want in my large stock and at such prices that defy com petition. I am making a spe. cialty of nobby and find Goods | and want your trade. 18. GRIEG. 118 SOUTH THAIN ST BUTLER COUNTY Mutual Fire Insurance Company Office cor. Main and Cunninglian Sts. HP. WICK I'rm. 1,K(1. K kITKKEIt, Vie* I'rea !,. s. Sr.llJMil.l. Hrt-'f atol T«**» WRECTORB. Alfred Wick, Henderson Oliver, |ir. W. I rvln. James Steplicns»ii, \V. W. HlaeUmore, N. Well/el. I'. lll. u.man. 11. J. Klliilfler, Geo. Kelterer. < ha->. Kebtiim, Geo. UellllO, Jollll K'letlllf. LOYAL ftRcJUW!KM Agent S BUSINESS ? /// JA. . yV'/ COLLEGE > /If y/ ,n America for ob- f / r CJs/f'Wsf laliilng » bread- g \ 'y Mj MJ winning ed ucH - C I y jjjj Korcirculani J i <.■ ouff t soNi,. PITTSBURG, PA. > 1— BUTLKR, P.A., THUHSDAV, MARCH 4, l!Si)7 Like biliousness, dyspepsia, headache, cor. :i --pation. sour stomach. ind:ge>t:oii are promptly cured by Hood's Fills. They do tlie:r work Hood's e;;s:iy an thoroughly. a 3 I Best after dinner pills. W"* g g ascents. All druggists. H ■■ ■ Prepared by C. I. Hood & Co.. Lowell, M.i«s. The onlv Fill to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla. This Is Your Opportunity. On receipt of ten cents, cash or stamps, a Rene roil-; sample will be mailed of the most popular Catarrh and Hay lever Cure (Ely's Cream Kalm sufficient to demon strate the great merits of the remedy. ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren St, New York City. Hev. John Reid, Jr.. of Great Falls, Mont., recommended Ely's Cream Balm to me. I can emphasize his statement, '"lt is a posi tive cure for catarrh if used as directed."— Rev. Francis W. Poole, Pastor Central Pr.-s. Church, Ht-lcria^Mont. Ely's Cream Ba'm is the acknowledged cure* for catarrh and contains no mercury nor any injurious drug Price, 50 cents. - j It/' II LC AD L WcfU-ii, 1' 'nsylv D •- sio - ... Scb<':>i!" ffeet X •16 1-96 8ou:h. —* - Week i"> A. si. A. M A. ». r. V P I l n.fn I-eaveCiSS h tl') 11 -M 245 S *>■ S:;"onl>urif. ./.rrivcCM H 11 W 5 ,Killer .let... " 7 5>7 84f 12 07 ; it 1 ier Je < . 7mo 8 ■)» 12 12 :»i •*» S3 Satroua .. .\rrive7:.* IK It SI • <>. furcatum.. . 712 SO'l 12•-• st A ,\ . M., w-i! 5 i'o I* .V. North. vVtT'» • «. A. AI A. Ji r '' " Allegheny Otar-LT.TM loe 1I 2B 2)6 #>' S'.i-ii 'II 912 11 37 2So .. rUrcn-ont 919 II 15 218 S'-'ii u iale 9' 1'53 .s I" ■ T.p tit-um 7.'12 '2 o a I . \airoßa 737 94' 12 13 3.0 t i-ii'l-r.l. T.. Ar 7 ■!■'» Jw 12 2J 04-» <1 in lt-1! 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Li: e Expre . •• .8 00 ' hilJdeip! :» 15 X; : f " .... .4 30 P V. J Kn>f(-rr. lixie.e.-'f •• ... .7 "5 ra-L Line ' ..8 10 •• i'l.i! ui'» 11 .id. oi;:y 8 40*. .. I""r del »;!'•i! a.1.1r0 i '.'r.-- ! V/..v. P«if'.. WMltm Ui- lint, «..( "llth Avu. i.r.d {smi'hfieif! S 1 , '. y. I'KEVOftT, J R \TO('L>. f«i. raj 4i j-iiifer l>nr'i P-i> -r A»f. IJITTSBUKG & VVHSTICi-.N Railway. Alkglienj' Short Line. Schedule in effect, July 19, 1896. flulltr liifie. Depart. Arrive Allegheny '.ccoiniiiodutioii.. 625 am u25 am AIVrUCI.V Flyer » 15 am 10 00 aiu Alien Mill * 15 am 7 :;t om Ne\v< a.Mtle Accent • s 15am u'j.s nm Allegheny A l 'oino 10 05;>in 12 JI inn Alleg.'icDy t'xpre:-s 2 561H1! 4 55 pm Chicago Express i 35 pm 12 20 i )MB Foxburg Aeoomo. 7 35 i m 805 ar: SUNIIAY TItAINH. lie Forest.let. Aeoomo 8 15 am 7 30 pin Allegheny Aeoomo 10 00 an Clile:i2o Express 335 pm 155pm Allegheny Ad 0100 605 pm I 55 lin Cullman Buffet Cars ami Jrot-cla ■>HJ Cnaches tun hetw- •r. liutier ar.f! ''U'.PHi'.o rlallv. For 1hr.:.., ii llcki-tolb polots . U" VY'i-.SI Nortlnreit or .'-'outliwe-it apply to A It CBOUCU. Ageu' in tier, ."a Trains leave tiic 11. t' O. depo' In nttt'Urt; •r*r 'he h st h'-follr.<4's. M WMUtgUttO Battleore. pllll. .111 New Tork, 7;:«) ani 9:30 r> ! ■ •riitii erliiwl, 0:40. 7 :30 a.m. I : lU. 920 p. 111. • :oi. rn isvllle. t : 10. 7a. in. 1.10. l-'tu. 4.15. !».'*. e i'.. I'lllontowll. 7. oa. m .1 10. 4.50.5.30 p. I . 1 iiioiitowi Korp.; 1 lo'Vk ano Fairmon, .... ... ti. nd s,:iop. 1:1, Mi.l'lftaaant 11.40. 7. :v> a. pi .10 an 4 4.811 p ra. Wasblngleii, Ca. 7 >i< amt :>o a. m., 4.00.4.45 nnd 9.00. 11.55 p. in. Wrcel IT 7.40. and 't. io -1. ra.. and 1.00.9.00. II '■'> p .. t lia.ini i.tl, st. :v»ips. Columt'u? .tr.d Niv, 1 :r('hicaro, 2.40 ai,-l 9.30 p. 1:1 I iirlor ".uti Hlceplng cars to ÜBltlmore e. s . -> Inglon. Cincinnati atirt H. 0. DC.VKLK, GUP. Supt. Allejj'a.iiiy, 1' > 0. V/. IIAPSRTT, A ti.P A Allegheny, Pa li P. KiiYNoths, Supt.. Pi>x v >urg, Pa rrllE I'ITTSBUKG, SiIt.NAN GO & LAKE Krik RAILROAD TIME TACLK—In eff.it Hunilaj-, Dec. 30, Train* anj run by Gen trai Time (90lti Mcridianl. Qoino NORTH. Oi>iko Sovrii j 14 I 12 KTATIONS j 11 jl3 p.m ptti m. AitHnfTalo I.v'ea.m. a.m. ■ rn .... h4O 2:« 1. S.AM.S HStll 13 455 . N.Y..C.«St L 5 :»i 12 t«i p.ma. m. .... 2 07! » 10 Kro |ll 0d I 00 1 10 K 27. V«'ai|:we JuilCt II 4: 1 lo ... 1 in 825 tilrard ,11 I* 1 4^ .... i 07 h l.i Lock))ort. II 5»; t 5.1 1 00 805 ,Oiane«vUle. 1205 502 ... |it 0.1 j 0 S'.iv-Ccnneav lv.. 111 14 09 1 47; 9 Mar ar .. 1 I 4'. r. 0. ... 112 1501 7 .',9\r.. . \IM'I!I ....112 031 5 o« .... '2 t» 7 15 . •4iia4elaii IK 10 23j (.rove city. . 7 46 2 4"'. 1 0510 1 1 ilarrlsvllle.... 7 «*' 300 • .*.7,10 'V llratieiiion. . .. a •*;, s OJ 4 58! 9 571 .v.. .KeKi.crri .. . h 10! 3 1a 1 1! 9 inj Bitlct ... 8 T. 61 ,v>l 220 7 '2O AllngUeuy. CAWII u 7 o'. ... p.m /a.in a. 111 p. in . .J. T. lil.Allt. tjeneral Manager. <.rart well at all. I'cu astonished at you!" "Mr. Longworth, I wish to have noth ing whatever to say to you. If you have anything to ask, I wish you would ask it as quickly as possible, and then leave me alone." ""The chief fault I find with you, Ken yon," said Longworth, throwing one leg over the other, and clasping his hands around his knee, "t.lie chief fault I have to find, is your painful lack of a sense of humor. Now, you remember last night I offered you t.he managership of the mine. 1 thought certainly that by this time to-day 1 should be the owner of it, or, at least, one of the owners. Now, you don't appear to appreciate the funninees of the situation. Here you are, the owner of I he mine, and I am out in the cold —'left,' as they say here in America. 1 am the man who is left—" "If that is all you have to talk about," said Kenyon gravely, "I must n.sk you to allow me to go oti with my packing. I am going to the mine to-morrow." "Certainly, my dear fellow, go at once, aud never mind me. Can Ibe of any assistance to you? It requires a special genius, you know, to pack a portmanteau properly. But what I wanted to say v. as this--why didn't you turn around, when you had got the mine, and offer me the managership of 11? Then you could have, ha/1 your revenge. The more 1 think of that episode in Von lirenl's office, the more I think you utterfy failed to realize the dramatic possibilities of the situation." Kenyon was silent. "Now all this time you are wondering why I came here. Doubtless, yon wish to know what I want." "I have not the slightest interest in the matter." said Kenyon. "That is ungracious, but nevertheless I will continue. It is better, I see, to be honest with you, If a person wants to get anything outof you. Now I want to • get a bit of information out of you. I • want to know where you got the money with which you bought the mine?" i "I got it from the bank." "Ah, yes, but I want to know who sent it over to you." "It was sent to me by George Went worth." "Quito so, but now I want to know who gave Went worth the money?" "You will have a chance of finding that out when you go to England by asking him." "Then you won't tell me?" "I can't tell you." "You mean by that, of course, that you won't." "I always mean, Mv. Longworth, ex actly what 1 say. I mean that 1 can't te)l you. I don't know myself." "lleally ?" "Yes, really. You seem to have some difficulty in believing that anybody can speak the truth." "Well, it isn't a common vice—speak ing ths truth. You must forgive a little surprise." lie nursed his knee for a moira and looked meditatively up at the ceiling. "Now would you like to know who furnished that money?" "I have no curiosity in the matter whatever." "Have you not? Well, ycu are a singu lar man. It stems to me that a person into whose lap £ £O,OOO drops from the skies would have some little curiosity to know from whom the money came." "I haven't the slightest." "Nevertheless, I will tell you who gave the money to Wentworth. It was my dear friend Melville. 1 didn't tell you in New York, of course, that Mel ville and I hail a little quarrel about this matter, and he went home decidedly huffy. I had no idea he would take this method of revenge, but 1 see it quite clearly now. He knew I had received the option of the mine. There was a little trouble as to what each of our respective shares was to be, and 1 thought, as 1 had secured the option, I had the right to dictate terms. He thought differently. He was going to Von Brent to explain the whole matter, but I pointed out that such a course would do no good, the option bemg legally made out in my name, so that the moment your claim expired, mine began. When this dawned upon him, he took the steamer and went to Eng land. Now I can see his hand in this finish to the affair. It was a pretty sharp trick of Melville's, and I give him credit for it. He is a vefy much shrewder and cleverer man than 1 thought." "It seems to me, Mr. Longworth, that your inordinate conceit makes you al ways underestimate your friends, or your enemies, either, for that matter." "There is something in that, Ken yon; I think you are more than half right, but I thought, perhaps, I could make it advantageous to you to do me a favor in this matter. I thought you might have no objection to writing a little document to the effect that the money did not come in time, and con sequently I had secured the mine. Then, if you would sign that, 1 could take it over to Melville and make terms with li'.m. Of course, if he knows that he has the mine, there will not be much chance of coming to any arrange* inent with him." "You can make no arrangements with me, Mr. Longworth, that involve a sac rifiee of the truth." "Ah. well, I suspected as much, but 1 thought it was worth while to try. However, my dear sir, I may male* terms with Melville yet, and then 1 imagine you won't have much to do with the mine." "I shall not have anything to do with it if you and Melville have a share in it. And if, as you suspect, Melville lins the mine, I consider you are in a bad way. My opinion is that when one rascal gets an advantage over an other rascal, the other rascal will lie. as you say, 'left.' " Longworth mused over this for a mo ment and said: "Yes, I fear you arc right—in fact, lam certain of it. Well, that is all I wanted to know. I will bid you good-by. I shan't see you again in Ottawa, as I shall sail very shortly foi England. Have you any messages you would like given to your friends over tli ere?" "None, thank you." "Well, ta. ta," and the young man left John to his packing. When that necessary operation was concluded Kenyon sat down and tl-ought over what young Longworth had told him. llis triumph, after all had been short-lived. The choice be tween the two scoundrels was so small that he felt he didn't care which ol them owned the mine. Meditating upon this disagreeable subject, he suddenly remembered a request he had askec Wentworth to make to the new ownei of the mine. He wanted no favor fron' Melville, so he wrote a second lettei contradicting the request made in the first, and, after posting it, returnei tc his hotel and went to bed, probably the most tired man in the city of Ot tawa. CHAPTER XXVII. This chapter consists largely of let ters. As a general thing letters are o! little concern to anyone except the writers and the receivers, but they are inserted here under the. hope that the reader is already well enough acquaint ed with the corresjiondents to feel some interest in what they have written. It was nearly a fortnight after the receipt of the cablegram from KenyoD that George Wentworth found, oi«.r morning, on his desk, two letters, each bearing a Canadian postage stamp. One was somewhat bulky and one was thin, but they were both from the same writer. He. tore open the thin one first, without lookiny at the ikite that wa, stamped upon it. He was a little be wildered by its contentu, whicfi ran as follows: "MY DI:*R GEORGE: I have Just heard that Molvlllo Is (he man who has bough! the mine The circumstances of the cas>; leave no doubt In my mind that such Is the fact, therefore please disregard the re quest I made as to employment In the let ter I posted to you a short time URO. I feel a certain sense of disappointment In the l'act that Melville is the owner of the mine. It seems X have only kept one rascal from buying it, to put It In the hands of another rascal. Your friend, JOHN KENYON." "Melville the owner!" cried Went worth to himtelf. "Whatever could have put that into John's head? This litter is evidently the one posted a few hours before, so it will contain what ever request he has to make," and, with out delay, George Wentworth tore open the envelope of the second letter which was obviously the one written first. It contained a number of documents re lating » the transfer of the mine. The letter l'rom John himself went on to give particulars of the buying of the mine. Then it continued. "1 wish you would do me a favor, George. Will you kindly ask the owner of the mine if he will give me charge of it. I am, of course, anxious to make it turn out as well ns possible, and I believe I can more than earn my salary, whatever it is. You know lam not grasping in the matter of money, but get me as large a salary ns you think I deserve. "I desire to make money for reasons that are not entirely selfish, as you know. To tell you the truth, George, I am tired of cities nnd of people. I want to live here in the woods, where there is not so much deceit anil treach ery ns there seems to be in the big towns. When I reached London last time I felt like a boy getting home. My feelings have undergone a complete change, and I think, if it were not for you and a certain young lady, I should never care to see the big city again. xvnat is the use of my affecting mystery and writingf the words 'a certain young 1 lotly.' Of course yon know whom I mean —Miss F.aitti Lonpworth. You know also that 1 am, and have long been, in love with her. If 1 had sue celled in makirgr the money I thought T should by selling' the I might have had some hoj>es of making 1 more, and of ultimately being in a position to ask her to be mv wife. But that, anc' very many other hopes, have disap peared with my recent London expe riences. '•I want to get into the woods and re cover some of my lost tone and my lost faith in human nature. If you can arrange matters with the owner of the mine so that I may stay here for a year c,r two ou will do me a great favor." Ge< VVentworth read over the Tat ter pai i of this letter two or three times. Then he rose, paced the floor and pon dered over the matter. "It isn't a thing upon which 1 can ask anyone's advice," he muttered to himself. "The trouble with Kenyon is he is entirely too mod est. A little useful self-esteem would be just the thiiig for him." At last he stopped suddenly in his walk. "By Jove," he said to himself, slapping his thigh. "1 shall do it, let the conse qiieneef be what they may." And he sat down to his desk and wrote a-letter. "Mv DEAR MISS LONOWORTH: Von told me when you were here last that you wanted all the documents In the case of the mine in every Instance. A document has come this morning that is rather Im portant. John Kenyon. as you will learn by reading the letter. desire 3 the man agership of the mine. I need not say that 1 think he is the best man In the world fot the position, and that everything will lie safe In his handi I therefore Inclose you his letter. I had some thought of cutting out some part of it, but knowing your de sire, as you said, to have ail the docu ments in the case, I take the liberty of sending this one exactly as It reached me, and If anyone Is to blame. I am the person. I remain your agent, "GEORGE VVENTWORTH." He sent this letter out at once, so that he wor.ld not have a chance to change his mind. "It will reach her this afternoon, and doubtless she will call and see me." It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to asy she did not call, and she did not see him for many days afterward, but next morning, when he came to his office, he found a letter from her. It ran: "DEAR MR. WENT WORTH: The sending of Mr. Kenyon's letter to me is a some what dangerous precedent, which you must, on no account, follow by sendlnc any letters you may receive from any per son to Mr. Kenyon. However, as you were probably aware when you sent the letter, no blame will rest on your shoulders or on those of anyone else, in this instance. SUII. be very careful in future, because letter sending, unabridged, Is sometimes a risky thing to do. All the same, you are to remember that I always want all the documents in the case, and 1 want them v-lth nothing eliminated. 1 am very much c jliged to you for forwarding me the let ter. "As to the managership of tho mine, of course, I thought Mr. Kenyon would desire to come back to London. If he is content to stay abroad, and really wants to stay there, I wish you would tell him that Mr. Smith is exceedingly pleased to know he is willing to take charge of the mine. It would not look businesslike on the part of Mr. Smith to say he is to name his own salary, but unfortunately Mr. Smith Is very ignorant as to what a proper salary should be, so will you kindly settle that question? You knew the usual salary for such an occupation. I'lease write down that figure and add S2OO a year to it. Tell Mr Kenyon the amount named is the sal ary Mr. Smith assigns to him. "Pray !>e very careful In the wording of the le- rs, so that Mr. Kenyon will not have a..> idea who Mr. Smith is. Yours truly, EDITH LONGWORTH." When Wentworth received this letter, being a man, he did not know whether .Miss Longworth was plea.std However, lie speemiy wrote to John, telling him he was appointed manager ol the mine, and that Mr. Smith was very pleased to have him in that capac ity. lie named the salary, but said if it was not enough, no doubt Mr. Smith was so anxious for his services thut the amount would be increased. John, when he got the letter, was more than satisfied. At the same time Wentworth had been reading his letters, John had re ceived those which had !>een sent Ilia when the mine was l>ought. lie was re lieved to iind that Melville was not, after all, the owner, and he went to work with a will, intending to put in two or three years of his life with hard labor in developing the resources of the property. The first fortnight, before he received any letters, he did nothing but make himself acquainted with the way work was being carried on there, lie fouud many things to improve. The machinery had been allowed to run down, and the men worked in the list less way men do when they are under no particular supervision. The man ager of the mine was very anxious about his position. John told him the property had changed hands, but until he had further news from England he could not tell just what would be done. When the letters came John took hold with a vim, and there was soon a decided improvement in the way af fairs were going. He allowed the old manager to remai s a sort of sub manager, but that ii.... vidual soon found out the easy times of the Austrian Min ing company were forever gone. Kenyon had to take one or two long trips in Canada and the United States to arrange for the disposal of the prod ucts of the mine, but, as a general rule, his time was spent entirely in the lofc village near the river. When a year had passed lie was able to write a very jubilant Letter to Wen'tworth. "You see," he said, "after all the mine was worth the £ 200,000 we asked for it. It pays, even the first year, ten per cent, oy' that amount This will give back ■II the mine lum cost, and I think, George, the honest thing for us to do would be to let the whole proceeds go to Mr. Smith this year, who advanced the money at a critical time. Tiiis will recoup liim for his own outlay, because the working capital has not been touched. The mica has more then paid the working of the mine, and all the rest is clear profit. Therefore, if you are willing, we will let our third go tliis year, and then we can tuke our large dividend next year with a clear conscience. I inclose the balance sheet." To this letter there came an answer in due time from Wentworth, who said that he had placed John's proposal be fore Mr. Fmith, but it seemed the gen tleman was so pleased with tin* profit able investment he hurt made that he would hear of no other division of tho profits but that, of share and share alike, lie appeared to be very much touched by the offer John had made, and re spected him for making it, but the pro posed rescinding oil his part and Went worth's was a thing not to be thought of. This being the ease, John sentalct ter and a \ery large check to Lis father. The moment of posting that letter was doubtless one of the happiest of his life, and this ends the formidable array of letters which appears in this chapter. |TO BE CO.NTINCED.J A S*'W Dftlnitloli. Tommy—Daddy, what's a pussiinist? Tommy's Daddy A pessimist, my boy, is a man who believes the whole world's liver is out of order because his own is.—Tit-Bits. ( omfurtlug. "And now tJiey say that genius is a disease." "Don't let that scare you; you look perfectly healthy."—Chicago ltecord. PERSONAL AND LITERARY. —Mr. Benedict is not the only man who wants to be let alone by a "sensa tional press." There are others—sev eral of them. —Joel Chandler Harris savs that hia "Uncle Remus" is a composite of three or four old negroes whom he knew as a boy, and that his "Brer liabbit" stories are for the most part plantation tales. —A Boston biographer of tbe young Salvini says: "No dark corners lurked in his character, which may 1* summed up in a single word—lovable. He was the most delightful and sympathetic of companions, the best of hosts, kind, courteous aitil considerate." —Queen Victoria's coronation ring; is never out of her sight and is worn by her every evening. It is a band of gold containing a en>ss of rubies surround ed by white brilliants. A coronation ring is supposed to symbolize the wed ding of the sovereign with the nation. —Sardou says that Sara Bernhardt talks too fast on the stage. "At the general rehear.sals she recites divinely, at the first performance stupendously, but after that she runs at breakneck speed. It is worse when she performs out of Paris. I heard her once at Nice. She and all the others recited as if rat tling off a lesson as quick as possible." —W. E. Curtis says that there are only three genuine millionaires in the senate—Cameron, McMillan and Wet more. Brice, Jones, of Nevada, Stew art and Elkins, he. says, have great spec ulative wealth, and might, with good fortune, sell out for a million apiece. Mr. Curtis talks like a man who has had experience as an assessor of personal property in New York city. —Max Midler, the distinguished phil ologist-, says in the current number of Cosmopolis that he remembers the l'oet Uhland at Leipsic as a little old wrinkled man, who was very shy and retiring. Once some, students marched to the . poet's house, sang some of his songs and cheered him, and Uhlnnd came to the window, but he was too timid to say a word. The professor has a painful memory of Heine, whom he saw in Paris a wreck. —Princess Henry of Pless has sent an appeal to every Englishwoman married to a German in the German empire. The princess wishes to collect from her fellow-countrvwomen a sum of money to buy a handsome present to give Queen Victoria on the occasion of the close of the sixtieth year of her reign. Hundreds of Englishwomen have re sponded to the appeal, and the sum col lected is likely to be a large one. More Englishwomen are married to Germans than to members of any other nation. THE LIGHTS OF NEW YORK. An Uneqaaled Show in the Twilight for Ferry raftiengers. While daylight still glimmers In the west these evenings the great office buildings far down town are lit in order that some thousands of busy men and women may accomplish the work of some hundreds of days in the last hours of the afternoon. The purpose of this illumination Is sufficiently prosaic and practical, but. the illumination furnishes to many travelers by ferryboat from the Jersey shore a ten minutes' aes thetic feast unique among the thou sand charms of New York harbor. Bet ter still, the illumination as seen from an approaching ferryboat, is scarcely the same on any two evenings. When fuini rniul utxantf —l -a»ul— irom view the hitfH, irregular facade of downtown New York—all save the glittering lires that rise in tiers —the effoct is as of a vast scene upon some theatrical stage, wider and higher than any jet wrought by man. There is a twinkling ius of a million monster stars molten to a rich yellow glow. On evenings when no mist in tervenes between the scene and the eyes of the beholder, but when no moon adds a third element to the twilight, the effect Is as of a mountain city trav ersed by scores of highways that are thickly studded with glowing fires. The dullest imagination must revel in the thought of a vast citadel crowning that black hill, punctured with myriad fires, and of steep streets running upward from a tributary village. When the moon comes to reveal more truth, but add her own peculiar touch of false hood, the scene is again new. One knows it then for what it really is; but the charm of reality is hardly less than the fancy. The high, irregular sky line bounds, seemingly, innumera ble rows of trembling flame. Here is a whole giant front aglow with the soft, yellow radiance of gas lamps; there are keen lines of diamond-white electricity. Low down are the street electric lights, spasmodically flashing in alternate gloom and glare. On the water itself are a thousand moving fires, bare or softly englobed, while here and there ujioii. the troubled sur face are great bands, splotches and splashes of light that seem as liquid aa, the waves themselves. Over all is the ethereal snow in moonlight, and through the bell-like atmosphere come from crafts that shine with yellow, green and crimson flames, fiutings, hoarse or hushed —the delightful soft water melodies that serve as warnings to a hundred falcon-eyed pilots be dazzled with the dance of a million lights.—N. Y. Sun. Too (iood-Nnturi'd Richard —I understand that old Grif fin given his consent to your mar riage with his daughter. Was he good natured about it? Itobort —Yes, confound it, he. was so good-natured that I couldn't, help wish ing that while I was about it I had asked for something valuable 1 . —Boston Transcript. A Truism. "The meanest thing about j>eople who owe money is this —" "Well, what is it?" "As soon as they owe more than they can pay they (get Imsliful and make tlteir cash purchases somewhere else." - -Chicago Record. llAltO LINES. Worried Shop Assistant (irritably)— Is there anything else I can get you, madoin? Wo have some nice dork veils.—N. Y. Truth. No 9 er was discovered on her person. The gov ernment officials were completely at a loss to know how she had obtained this. Finally she confessed that a chemical solution had been used to wash the faces of the notes and make them perfectly clean. Thus, she was in the habit of taking one-dollar bills and changing them into larger denomi nations. The government authorities released her in return for this valuable information and for telling them what j the solution was. However, they had her shadowed by detectives and finally caught her with $17,000 worth of coun terfeit money in a box. She was found guilty upon seven different indictments i for counterfeiting and was sentenced to eight years in the state prison, where she finally died. One of the cleverest tricks ever played on Uncle Sam was Invented by a woman who lived in Philadelphia. ! Her plan was to take $lO and S2O gold I pieces and with a small drill worked by steam power to bore out the insides and then refill them with some base met al, being very eareful that they should weigh exactly the right amount when she had finished. This she accomplished by drilling through the milled edge | of the coin, and then, after filling the ; hole, covered it with a little of the ex '• tracted gold. In this way she made $7.50 on every eagle and about sl6 on every double, eagle. The officials of the secret service say that this is the safest; device ever Invented for cheating the treasury. Counterfeiting is very apt to run In. families. Thlis, of course. Is natural, as a father brings up his eon or daugh ter to follow his profession. Women who would otherwise be good are often led into this sort of crime by men who carry it on as a business. But some times it works the other way. Women teach their husbands how to make false money. This is what happened when Ben Boyd married Mary Ackerman, of Indiana, ner father was one of the roost successful counterfeiters of hia day, and his daughter had a thorough acquaintance with the art. Mrs. Boyd carefully taught her husband all the secrets of the trade, and he became one of the most famous forgers of the age. They carried on the business with such a high degree of skill that they were not captured for years, and when at last the secret service Hawkshaws did run them down not a single counter feit plate, note or coin, was found in their possession. When, their house was searched SB,OOO in good money was found. This small amount was all tho money they had accumulated dur ing all their years of crime. Of course, the officers could not touch It. After wards sufficient evidence was secured prisom " Iniy 'Bo'lK' e/alinjetf lo"be'eon verted while in state prison, and after their release settled In Chicago, where they apparently lived an honest life. A case that annoyed the secret serv ice very much was that of a woman who employed a clever dodge. She went to a largo shop and selected a valuable) shawl. To pay for this she handed the clerk a United States treasury nolo for SI,OOO. He took tho money and dis appeared, not returning for several min utes. When he came back she asked; him why he liad kept her waiting, ami he confessed that ho had taken the bill; to a bank near by to be sure that It was good. She pretended to be very] angry and said that she would not buy tho shawl on any account, and walked out of the shop. A little later in the day she returned and said that as sho could not find any other shawl that suited her as well in the other shops she had decided to take it in spite of the insult offered her. She gave him the SI,OOO bill, and, getting the shawl and the change, left, the shop. The owner, of the shop afterward discovered that "the note he finally accepted was a counterfeit. The first bill had been' good, but on her return she gave him< the false one, which was a clever imitation. The secret servloe was much agitated about this and several others of the SI,OOO bills which turned : up, but they have since captured the' plates. Practically every Rang of counterfeit ers ever arrested has had women asso» elates. In the office of the secret serv ice in Washington there is a large frame, four feet, square filled with the photo graphs of women who have either mada or ]>ass«d false money. Men almost al ways employ their wives or daughters for tho purpose of "shoving" their counterfeit^.—'Washington Post. Ought to Ilan. "Is it a fact," asked the cynic one day, "that you improve each shining min ute?" "Yes," answered the Busy Little Bee, 1 modestJy. "How long have you been doing that ?" "Always." "Well, you ought to be having abet ter time than you seem to have if that is the case."—Detroit Tribune. With Cloned Iloors. She Pan learning a lovely skirt dance, bub of course 1 don't let anyone see me. I practice in a room all by my self. He—Ah, I see. You follow the Aus tralian 1 Kill eft system. Detroit Pre© Press. Not Pride, But Caution. Sweet Girl—Mother, Mr. Nice fellow Is coming to take me out riding this afternoon. I may go, mayn't I? Mother —If he drives up with a span of spirited horses, you can go; but if ho comes with that broken-down old nag he had last time, you shan't. "Why, mother, I didn't suppose you would ever have such foolish pride." "My dear, a young man who comes with a pair of spirited horses expects to drive with bo tlx hands."—N. Y. Weekly, lie Was Too Good to Stand. A clorgymam, and one of his elderly parishioners were walking home from church one icy day last winter, when the old gentleman slipped and fell flat on his back. The minister, looking at | liim a moment, and lieiiig assured that he was not hurt, said to him: "James, sinners stand on slippery places." Tho old gentleman looked up as If to assure himself of the fact, and said: "I see they do, but I can't." Tit-Bits. Often They Hare To. Two souls with but a ilnjle thought, ('Twas better had they none). For the thought they had was the old. Old ■ thought. That two can live as cheap a» one. —Detroit Tjihuu*.