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. >
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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.
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0. V/. IIAPSRTT, A ti.P A Allegheny, Pa
li P. KiiYNoths, Supt.. Pi>x v >urg, Pa
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W. li. SARI4KANT «. V A. Me:Ut*l'le Ca
| M. A. BERKIMER,
Funeral Director.
' 337 S. Main St., Butler.
THE Hir'RESS
oflMine.
W A WOMAN INTERVENES,
yßiliert
[Copyright iSqs- by Robert Bart 1
CHAPTER XXVL
After the business of transferring
tbe mine to its new owner was com
pleted. John Kenyon went to the te'-
egrrapli office nnd sent a short cable
message to Wentworth. Then he
turned his steps to the hotel, an utter
lv exhausted man. Tbe exeiti r "lit nn-!
tension of the day had been too much
for him. anil h*- felt that, if he did not
pet out of the city of Ottawa i i:d int.-
ihe eomilry. v.iien* the;-.' were few. .
people and more uir, he was going to
lie ill. lie resolven to leave for the
mine as soon ns possible. Ther« lw
would get things in as good order as
possible and keep things going udtil
he heard from the owner. When he
got to his hotel he wrote to Went
worth, telling the circumstances under
which he secured the mine, rather
briefly, ai.d dialing wMi other more
personal matters. IT ivi; g posted this,
Le began to pack his portmanteau pre
paratory to leaving early next morn
ing. While thus occupied the bell boy
came to his room and said: "There is
a gentleman wishes to see you."
lie imagined at once that it was Von
Brent, who wished to see liini with re
gard to some formality relating to the
transfer, and he was, therefore, very
much astonished, in fact, for a moment
speechless, to see Mr. William Long
worth enter and eahnly gaze round the
rather shabby room with his critical
eyeglass.
"Ah," he said, "these are your dig
gings, are they? This is yhat tliey call
a dollar hotel, 1 suppose, over here
Well, some people may like it, but I
confess 1 don't, care much about it my
self. Their three or foiir-dollar-a-day
hotels are bad enough for me. By the
way, you look rather surprised to see
me. Being strangers together in a
strange country, I expected a warmer
IHflUi
A C V'?f
iir JH
myM j' \
j|
" It's Very GOOD of you," Bald Edith.
greeting. You said last night, in front
of the Russell house, that it would
please you very much to give me a
warm greeting: perhaps you would like
to do so to-night."
"Have you come up here to pro
voke a quarrel with me?" asked Ken
yon.
"Oh, bless you, no. Quarrel! Noth
ing of the sort What would I wfnt
to quarrel about?"
"Perhaps you will be good enough to
tell me why you came here, then?"
"Very reasonable request, very rea
sonable indeed, and perfectly natural,
but still quite unnecessary. It is not
likely that a man would climb up here
into your room, and then not be pre
pared to tell you why he came, in the
lirst place, lo congratulate you on the
beautiful and dramatic way in which
you secured the mine at the last mo
ment, or apparently at the last mo
ment. I suppose you had the money
all along?"
"No, 1 had not."
"Then you came in to Von Brent just
as soon as you received it?"
"Well, now, I don't see that it is the
business of anyone else but myself.
Still, if you want to know, I have no ob
jection to saying that I came to Mr.
Von Brent's room at the moment I re
ceived the money."
"Iteally! Then it was sent over by
cable, 1 presume?"
"Your presumption is entirely cor
rect."
"My dear Kenyon," said the young
man, seating himself without being
asked, and gazing at John in a benevol
ent kind of way, "you really show some
little temper over this affair of ours.
Now here is the whole thing in a nut
shell —"
"My dear sir, I don't wish to hear the
whole tiling in a nutshell. I know all
about it. All I wish to know."
"Ah, precisely, of course you do,
certainly, but nevertheless let ine havi
my say. Here is the whole thing. I
tried to—well, to cheat you. I thought
1 could make a little money by doing so,
•and my scheme failed. Now if any
body should be in a bad temper, it is I,
not you. Don't you see that? You arc
not acting your |>art 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
<VOMEN COUNTERFEITERS.
Every (iang Ever Arrested Had at Leaet
Oue Female Member.
Women have a weakness for coun
terfeiting. The first person ever exe
cuted for that crime waa a woman.
She was an Englishwoman named Bar
bara Spencer, and was put to death in
1721 for making false shillings. She
was strangled and burned at the stake.
Curiously < nough, her accomplices were
acquitted.
Nancy Kkld was one of the most re
markable femaSe counterfeiters ever
known in this country. She belonged
to a family of noted forgers. She car
ried on her nefarious trade for more
*han 30 years in Chicago and was ar
rested then many times. On one of
these occasions a lot of fijjer paj>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*.