I IU ELINDA'S ** JTI WEDDING. ? ♦ ♦ When Mellndy Wiggins got engaged to Pellg Jenks, her ma wus just tickled to death. Beaus was scase down to I'unklnvllle, fur none of the youug men would stuy arter they wus growed up. Besides. I'elig is real forehanded and quite a catch. His ma was sot agin his marryin at till, aud Melindy she wouldn't never hev caught him ef she hadn't took alrly mornlu walks 'bout the time he went over to bis place of business uud met him as ef by accident. 1 am told that he proposed by Tag gart's barn aud wus excepted In front of the shoemaker's aud gave Mellndy her engagement ring Jest this side of the blacksmith's. Well, Mrs. Wiggins she wus real sot up about it, aud she said that Mellndy should be dressed up as much as any bride there ever had been in Punkln vllle, ef not a leetle better. But Mr. Wiggins, Melindy's pa, he come of a close family, and be wus near himself— 'twus his uater to be—and when Melin dy's ma asked him fur money to shop fur the things he Jest buttoned up his pockets and said, "Naw." He oilers pernounced no that way wheu he wus sot. "Naw," sez he,"l ain't toiled and moiled forty odd year fur to let my money be spent like water. You kin make a list out of what is wanted, and I'll get It." Well, when he spoke up like that Mrs. Wiggins she knew 'twusu't no good talkln, so she said, "P'r'ays you air right, pa." and she wrote down some things and kinder winked acrost to Me llndy, who wus beginning to cry at the idea of her pa, that didn't know callker from blankets, a-choosin her weddin clothes. The help saw all that and heered whut wus said and nat'rally told folks. Well, that arternoon Mr. Wiggins went to town to sell lils potatoes and got the money and come down on the boat as usual. The boat landin is in quite a lonesome place, and he went home by a sort of side path anyways, and Just about dusk the Browns heard a liowllu In the pic nic woods and, goln to see what it wui, there w us old Wiggins tied to a tree. He told 'em he'd been beset by rob bers and that they wus so fierce and furious he'd I teen obliged to give 'em every cent he had. He described 'em as most outlandish critters. He said their hair wus like cotton wool and their faces black. Their bats wus tied on with big handkerchiefs, and they wus queer and slopy in the small of 1 their backs. Their hands and feet wus j sort of small and skinny lookln. and ' they had blue overalls aud linen dusters i on. He said 'twusn't their strength that j overcome him, but their bein so spooky I and aupernaturallike. And one of 'em j said lu a holler voice, "Little you know j who we be," and the other: "We're tak- j In your money because you don't per- I vide as you should fur solemn occa- I Blons. Beware lu future!" When he got home, he cried and said be wished he'd giv Mrs. Wiggins the money tor Melindy's things, but sue said It happened fortunate that her sis ter, Melindy's aunt, bad sent her a present fur her weddin. The help now, she don't think them robbers wus supernat'ral, and she sez If ever Mr. Wiggins finds out the truth |he dunno what will happen to Mrs. Wiggins. I kinder think myself that the robbers wus Mrs. Wiggius aud Mellndy dressed up lu some old clothes, with cotton batting wigs, and I don't blame 'em. Well, Melindy bad her clothes after *ll, but before they wus finished Mr. Wiggins he'd got over his skeer and got as mean as ever again, aud he wouldn't give his onfortlnate wife noth ln extry for the supper. She borrled The Tide of Fashion from the Babbits and found out that she'd orter hev chicken sallad. But Mr. Wiggins, he said he wus •elllu his chickens, not devour!n of 'em hum, aud I suppose what she had done before kinder weakened poor Mrs. Wig gins' conscience, for, seeiu her own coops wus locked up. the poor soul went around to the neighbors and stole one chicken apiece from each of us. It wus kinder just to do It that way when she might have took 'em nil from one of us, and those of us that caught her at it made up our minds not to say nuthln, but Jest to pray fur her, aud we'd sent over word that ef there wus auytbln we could do to call on us. And per haps she felt we'd be willln to spare the chickens, but wus proud about ask ing fur 'em. Well, she got the things together somehow, and she cooked the chickens aud made the sallad anil borrled ebony of most of us ami got up a real fust fmte supper and sot the table with flowers. They wus mostly marygolds and old man, and some folks don't like the smell of neither, but the yaller and green looked pretty, and it wus all ready for the company when they cum hum from church. We that knowed things felt thnt we could gee marks of innard torture on poor Mrs. Wiggins' face, and we felt to sympathize, fur she wus nat'rally a moral woman and a pious one, and ■he'd been driven to sin by the mean ness of her pardner. You see, she wus one of them women that lives fur their children. Ef she'd been a pelican, she'd hev took all the feathers out of her buzzlm to make 'em beds, and she'd saekerflced herself fur Mellndy. She looked kinder better when she got to church, but our minister he wus young end hadn't married nobody before, and, beln narvous, be commenced fur to read the burial sarvlce Instead of the marriage sarvlce, and we, bein all stiff with horrer, liadu't presence of mind enough fur to stop him until he'd actll ly burled Mellndy as fur as words could go, and Mrs. Wiggins wus in high strikes. However, she got over 'em, and the minister he said he didn't know after all but it wus a providence to keep us from beln too sot on the tlilng9 of this world and reminded bow short life wus and went back and married 'em proper. And so we dkl get back to Wiggins', only, Mr. Wiggins hevln been too mean to get the wagin mended, the wheel come off. and they wus all split out and eenamo9t drownded goln over Slabslde bridge that fcip't got no rallln. Mrs. Wiggins, poor clear, wus soaked, and when we tuk her Into our wagin she kept sayln, "Jedginents—Jedgtnenfs— Jedgrnents Is coniln!" We knowed what she wus thinkln of, and we tried to cheer her up. Well, when the folks wus dried and dressed over we all went to supper, and we praised it up as much as we could, but Mrs. Wiggins sot down In her place like a ghost, and folks began to talk and laugh and help everything. But she didn't smile. She passed the chicken sallad plates to the help, and the help gave 'em to the folks, and we ail tasted It, but It didn't relish Still we tried to eat It fur her sake. Most of us done It, too, and | the eiiffee wus irooil and we cheered up some. Mrs. Wiggins didn't eat 110 sallad herself, so alio didn't know how It tasted. After supper we all went In to the parlor and sot around, and Si Barker wus try Into Kit up daneln, and I did hope things would end h«;»py. when all of a sudden folks he" . I to look pale and say they wus p'isoned. So they seemed to be. One arter the other wus took sick, and they all said the same thing—lt wus the sallad. 1 felt very poorly myself, and so did my Obediah. The minister had gone home sii■!;. and there wus a regular panic. Th< :v wus one doctor there, and he sent fur another, and old Miss Peebles said it wus like old cholera times. It wus uwt'ul, anyway, but Jest :i; we wus at the wust, we ladles lyin about j in the ui> stairs rooms expectin to die and feellu sure it wus arsenic. Mrs. : Wiggins appeared amongst us. "Friends and feller sinners," she said, i all on the p'lnt of death, and before you all. I make confes ,iU. I am a thief and a robber, and 1 I shall never be pardoned. It wus me that robbed my husband, and, more than that, I stole the chickens to make the sallad—one of Vm IVoni each of my good friends and neighbors. Jedgmeuts has fallen!" "You wus drlv to it. Mrs. Wiggins," sez I, "by your pardner's meanness. We all knowed It, and none of us blame you." "You don't know all," said Mrs. Wig gins. "More'n that, I went to the store and tuk my chances and stole a bottle of lie. The recipe said to make the sal lad dressin with lie. I'd never made none. I stole the bottle. Oh, I shan't never be forgiven, I shan't never be for given! I tuk a bottle of pl'son of some sort, fur it wus in the drug department where lies Is kept, and I'm a mur derer!" "Oh, ho!" says the doctor. "Bring me the bottle, Mrs. Wiggins, and I guess I'll find out how to cure 'em." Mrs. Wiggins fetched It: doctor he tasted it. "This ain't p'ison, ladies," sez he. "There ain't no great barm done, only I don't suppose the recipe mentioned cas tor oil for sallad dressing. 'Tisn't usual anyhow. Nobody is goin to die this time, Mrs. Wiggins, unless It Is you yourself. You lie down and quiet your self." Poor Mrs. Wiggins, she dropped on her knees and prayed right there fur thankfulness, and we all J'ined in.and as soon as folks knowed they hadn't tuk arsenic they all got better. Mrs. Wiggins' solemn and distracted looks and her not eatln any had made them that worn't In the secret think that ehe'd gone crazy and done It a purpose, which scared 'em more. And they do say Mr. Wigglus ain't quite so near as he used to be since he saw what might come of drivin a wo man Into a corner for want of a penny. Still, we shan't forget Mellndy Win gins' wedding in a hurry, those of its that went to It. .EARNING AGRICULTURE. Tli* Lady Wari\ Ick School For Wo men Farmcrit, Near K<»adinj{. In The Woman's Home Companion Miss Ivnobe tells about "The Lady Warwick School for Women Farmers:" "In this rural spot, on the outskirts of Ueading. only an hour's run from Loudon, the beautiful and accomp lished Countess of Warwick is sponsor ing a most original scheme whereby English girls may be coached in agri culture. There are agricultural col leges, to be sure, wherein limited in struction Is given the wrongly named weaker sex; but In this singularly in teresting school in England exclusively for women—the only one In England, If not in the world—ls a thorough poetico practical course, If It may be so called, from the raising of cabbages and chrysanthemums to the building of a pigsty and the making of a hay mound. These sturdy daughters of Ceres, Iu other words, are fitted to run a farm. "This unique school was opened In October, 18'JS. The minimum period of training Is two years, and at the end of that time a certificate is awarded. The theoretical part of the course Is systematically pursued In the agricul tural department of the adjacent Head ing college. Many of the lectures occur lu the winter, with rigid examinations at the end of each term, while the practical demonstration is done at the hostel by the girls. There Is only one inan about the pl:»ce, a horticultural Instructor, who cornea three times a week. A registry department has been opened. Some o* the students have already secured j.ood positions, while others have started Independently, in the meantime the students are gaining u snug Income by the f-ale of their produce. "These girl students are receiving more than a scientific course, for the social and athletic side fs uot to be overlooked. Though some of thi» stu dents are up with the lark—and at Warwick hostel the lark Is scheduled to soar at precisely tasks In the field, there are hours dur ing the day and evening Bet aside for recreation. Lively contest* in boating, tennis and hockey are arranged. "That this work la excellent from the competitive standpoint Of the world may be acknowledged when It Is BaKl these fair farmers dot© on entering all the big agricultural exMhlts ther<* about and carrying off a string of the prizes, moreover." Mrs. Lowell to Speak. Mrs. Charles Hussell Lowell of N§w Tork will speak at Buffalo tit the Octo ber meeting of the State Federation on "Reformatories For Women." Mrs. Lowell will be heard at the mass meet log to be held at the Temple of Music on Wednesday afternoon This will be the event of the convention. It has been planned by Mj-s. George W, Townsend, the chairman of philan thropy and one of the lotal managers of the convention. Other speakers at this meeting with thtlr subjects are: "Claims of Settlements," Miss Susan W. Walker; "Friendly und Protective Agencies For Women," Mre. W. A. Montgomery, and "Ideals in lteform V. >: k " Katharine Beinent Davis. The l a tendered to the federation by the board of women managers of the espo *it < n follows this meeting. The pro gramme committee baa had something of a problem to accomplish Us work, for tiie meeting thin year busts ouly three days instead of the usual four. I)ffl nrd, "Say, pop, I've got to write a compo sition on hope. What is hope, any way?" "Hope, my boy. Is the Joyous ex ->eta tlon of being able to dodgo our Ju». de serts."—Life. A Woman In the Case, "Yes, Pecktatt IOOKS bad, but what did you mean by advising him togo and see a horse doctor?" "Because the trouble with him Is he's being nagged to death."—Philadelphia Bulletin. A Match and a My«l»ry. Her name was Short; his name was Lung; They married; now, you see. She's always Long; lie's always short; Uuw can such yueer things be? STORM AND SUNSHINE. i The Stefs.ns were a young married ' couple. He was 27, she 24 years old. He was easily irritated and unreasou -1 ably jealous of his wife. 1 At first there were ouly bickerings, i i which ended in kisses. Then the bick * : erings grew to quarrels. The husband • spoke ugly words and made threats. ' ; The wife, woman like, retorted in kind. But they loved each other, and soon the clouds on the conjugal horizon passed, t and in the surety of their absorbing . love they laughed over their folly. Of late the clouds grew denser. For some reason—business troubles, per haps—Alois Stefan was more irritable, 1 more jealous, than ever. Once he ad vanced toward his wife with a burning I lamp, and another time he actually , struck her. Mrs. Stefan cried bitter , . tears, left the house and applied for a divorce. ) Poor woman, she never dreamed that it would ever come to that. He, too, realized now that he had gone too far. j j He could not bear to lose the wife, the j ' mother of his darling child, the sweet ! heart of his boyhood. Did he tell her so In good, kind lan ' | guage, with his arms around her neck ! and stroking the pretty, bright hair he kwd? Not he! lie was too stubborn— too proud, he called It. : "If you leave the house, I'll murder you." he yelled at her, aud she, now 1 really frightened, rushed from the { house to lodge complaint against him. ' j He was arrested for threatening her life, and the case was docketed for ' ; trial 11 Meanwhile the suit for divorce was \ called and tried. The wife appeared timid and uncertain of her actions. The I husband, too. was in a softer mood, but i ! that awful demon, jealousy, troubled I him more than ever. Friends, so called friends, had gossiped and carried tales, ( and they had worked their worst, i Forgetting the courtroom, the pres ence of the Judge and a curious au dience, he approached her. "What about Hermann?" he hissed. A moment before the woman had sat with tears in her eyes. Now she felt offended at his charge and made bitter ' retort. Following the custom of ages, the Judge tried to pacify their angry passions and reconcile them with each other. The seed of Jealousy, however, was too prodding iu the man. liis abuse had been too much for the woman. Suddenly Stefan rushed up to his wife, threw out his arms as if to em- j brace her, caught her face between his hands and bit her in the right cheek. The woman screamed aloud. Bailiffs ran to her assistance and dragged him 1 away. The spectators jumped to their feet and looked threats at the man. Of course there was nothing to do for the j judge but to give Mrs. Stefan the di vorce. A warrant was sworn out against Alois Stefan for assault. Man and wife lived apart now. The latter took her little daughter with her. and the husband had ample time tore- j fleet upon tne situation, vvnen AIOJS i Stefan's ease for assault came to a heating, the wife refused to testify against him. The prosecuting attorney ! postponed it, sending for other wit- 112 uesaes. They came to the second hear- s Ing of the suit, but their testimony was 1 In nowise effective. Mrs. Stefan was pleased with the j progress of the case, or, rather, with J the evident prospect that Justice would ; be defeated. Stefan's attorney saw his ; advantage and succeeded in convinc ing the Jury that, so far as the threats made against the wife by her husband, no testimony had been elicited that should condemn the accused, and the bite in the cheek was made while the husband was almost Insane with grief over the turn his affairs had taken. As soon as the jury withdrew the wife left her seat among the spectators and Joined her husband. Only a scar remained as a silent reminder of the unhusbandly caress. Stefan clasped his wife's hand, and they whispered with each other like happy lovers. The prosecuting attorney watched them scornfully, but the stern aud wise Judge smiled significantly. The jury returned in less than 15 minutes. Stefan was acquitted on the first count, that of threatening his wife's life, but for the second offense, of having bitten her In the cheek, he was sentenced to a week's imprison ment. With beaming countenances husband and wife received the mild sentence. It was first he aud then she who shook the prosecuting attorney's hand, that of the foreman of the Jury and the stern judge's. Then and there they declared their Intention to remarry. No pair of lovers about to take the first plunge Into the matrimonial sea looked more happy, more eager, more assured of that perfect felicity that comes with the union of two hearts. "It was storm aud sunshine," said the stern and wise judge, gleefully rub bing his bunds over the outcome of this peculiar case. "I hope it will never get squally again with them," he added as they left the courtroom, he to begin bis week's Im prisonment, she to accompany him to the door from which he wouid emerge In a week to take her again to the mar riage altar.—St. Louis Bepubllc. Water For Baby. Many mothers are cruel to their balnea without knowing it, by fooliahly denying them water. Often babies are fretful because of tha want of a drink. A child to ba healthy must hare water just the same aa an adult. Tha system of the child, as well as that af the adult, re quires less food in summer than in win ter, for the reason that in tha cold season B certain additional amount of food is required for the production of animal heat, the loss by radiation being much greater. In the summer, on the contrary, perspiration is very active, and there la consequently an increased amount of wa ter demanded. In the summer season, therefore, and particularly during very hot periods, the amount of food given should be diminished by one-third or one fourth. and the difference in bulk lie mrde tip by adding water. Water should also be allowed freely between feeding hours. If this rule were strictly followed, v»ry many eases of summer indigestion and diarrhea might be avoided. Btßitiu-is examples of the development of a capacity In women for doing men's work When families that have been strong and prospered get started down hill, anil the men die off, or goto seed, or lose heart or health, it is not an uncommon thing to see the women develop under stress of circumstances n ■ virile vigor that meets the storm and | weathers it, says the Philadelphia In- 1 | quirer. I Very able women are developed by de t fects in man, nud, of course, when the » wheel has once fallen to them and their wills have been trained to steering they , will not readily give up a place that they k have fairly won. Nor should they. The 1 mischief, what there is of it, has been done. I<et the consequences abide. The chief mischief is that, though a woman may come out strong in doing a man's work, the man whose work is done for him, if there is one, is apt to come out weak. Gralllude Always seeks to find some expression for itself, and womanly gratitude will not keep silence. Cynical people sometimes say Why do women write these testimo nials to the value of Dr. Pierce's Favorite — Prescription' The i answer ran be n J P ut ' n one word, (' ra t't u d e - When, su/ vIJAE after years of yy "■ it > agony a woman is freed from paiu, Wv i /JHfc , , when the weak - 1 J'< woman made i|,\fipr i strong and the 11 sick woman well, I 7 'il l! Na t ra 1 itn i I^' jr i\wV\ ij J ; pulse is to write a |V y. vVrtJ LI 1 ! word of grateful \/l JmV it 1 thanks for the \ I medicine which \ ;• n caused the cure. Dr. Pierce's Fa s' ■' " ~ l "i- vorite Prescription c ( cures diseases .Jiff peculiar to women. \ !V*> a r It establishes regu mfif: 112 j i i \\\ larity, stops weak i /y/fRA I I ening drains,heals (l I all llAliW /i\ inflammation and I! A In/ n I i\fS u ' c cration and /ill i/Y\f l\ lli\ cures female \\ V \ll\( I n I ' weakness. \\\ / y\l (I II ■ " Having used Dr. ,1 \i j/ )V M>\vV \ P' erce s Favorite I're ,. VU \ scriotion ami 'Golden ■** Medicnl Discovery during the past year," write# Mrs. Mattie Lone, of Pfouts Valley, I'errv Co.. Pa. " I can truthfully recommend the medi cines for nil female weaknesses. I have used several bottles of ' Favorite Prescription ' which I consider a great blessing to weak women. I was so nervous and discouraged that I hardly knew what to do. Your kind advice for home treatment helped me wonderfully. Thanks to Dr. Pierce." Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure biliousness, and sick headache. They should be used in connection with "Favorite Prescription," whenever the use of a laxative is Indicated. SHOELESS SOCIETY NOW Fashionable Women Promenade London Parks In Sandals. HIGH REVELING OF SHAPELY FEET Physicians In Chicano Kapress Their Views on the Innovation—Most of Them Consider It TlioroUßhly In Accord With Health —One Has Grate Doubts, However. If one's toes are pink and shapely and the curves of one's foot are grace ful and alluring, it Is no offense against modesty, hygiene or the artistic pro prieties to appear in public sans shoes and sans stockings, as society women are doing in England, according to a recent cable dispatch. At least many of the good doctors of Chicago say it isn't, and they are as well qualified to pass judgment on a question of pedal ethics as any set of men and women In the universe, says the Chicago I'ost. Almost to it unit, chiropodists included, they stand for the sandal for women provided always that tin' innovation is confined to those feet which, undisligured by unsightly appurtenances. ate things of beauty and joys forever. Through tbe restless waters of the broad Atlantic there hurried this pant ing piece of news: London, Aug. 3.—The latest seaside fad if tlie wpariug of sandals by grown persons. Many girls seem to l>e especially taken with the new ides. Hie sandals are generally worn without stockings. The craze kas spread even to London, where well dressed women can be seen sandaled in the park. With the receipt in America of this interesting intelligence three questions thrust themselves forward demanding to be answered. First, would the ex posure attendant upon the adoption of the custom be physically injurious: Second, would the frank exploitation of the pedal extremities in a state ot semlnudlty be a breach of the rules and regulations hedging modesty In dress? Third, is the undraped human foot, taken as a general thing, suffi ciently pulchrltudlnous to be classified with the objects pleasing to the eye? To some of these queries, not all of them, the physicians of Chicago has tened to reply. Quoth Dr. E. Fletcher Ingals: "My sanction of a custom like that of sandal wearing for women depends greatly upon the women. If they have good looking feet, the sandal habit meets my approval. If their feet are not good looking, I should frown upon the inno vation, and do my best to stifle it in its lnciplency." Dr. C. Pruyn Strlngfield also quali fied his commendation by the proviso that there must be contours and warm tinted cuticle visible between the san dal straps. "Provided the saudals made the proper sort of disclosures I have no ob jection to the abandonment of boots and stockings by women in temperate climates," he said. "In fact, I think it Is a good tiling. We should be much healthier and better if we came into closer contact with Mother Earth. Sel dom do we of ttie cities touch the black soil, and then only with shoes on. When I was in general practice, I com pared the healthy brown boys playing In bare feet over in the open territory west of State street with the thin, hot house little chaps in the fashionable districts farther east, and I attribute the difference to the bare feet. I be lieve we should be better without shoes." Dr. Sarah Ilackett Stevenson, whose knowledge of the feminine foot is, for obvious reasons, more perfect, not to say more extensive, than that of her brother physicians, sanctions the san dal for women in a maimer definite and unqualified. She scorns the skepticism concerning the physical beauty of the toes of her sex and says this: "Of course the sandal for women is an institution to be commended. Can you Imagine anything pleasanter than to doff shoes and stockings on a hot day togo walking over a grass carpet ed lawn with nothing on your feet save sandals? Of course you can't. Shoes and stockings cause a great deal of ill health, I think." Possibly it Is the openwork hosiery fad that has led Dr. Sanger Brown tc have grave doubts concerning the pink possibilities of the female foot At any rate he side stepped all propositions ex cept that of health and condemned the sandal craze as hyglenically unwise. "I don't want to discuss anything but the health question," said he,"and about that I will say that I think soci ety women who expose themselves by wearing sandals are exceedingly un wise. In a climate like that of London persons in good health who are out of doors a great deal might divest them selves of shoes and stockings without harmful consequences, but for society women the practice is dangerous." Dr. Ellen Hancock Lyon likens the sandal to the short skirt and asserts that when sanctioned by custom It will be considered not a whit more Immod est. Besides this, Dr. Lyon has great faith in the health produclug qualities of the bare foot and also of its power ♦o please when revealed through the- of a sandal i lit- custom should l>e encouraged," l>i I.you said. "because it means better health Shoes and stockings cause :i great deal of the nervous troubles and poor circulation common among women today We are trying it among chil dron with extraordinary success, and I have three health; hoys to [trove what the barefoot habit can do. "So far as the moral aspect is con cerned, it is only a matter of custom. At first overdecoraten and conspicuous sandals might make them offensive, but in time that would be overcome. My commendation of the sandal is unqual ified." Depetv uml I'lutt. Chauncey M. Depew used to have in bis collection of curiosities a certain telegraphic dispatch which never fail ed to iuterest the politicians to whom be showed it. The telegram was sent to Mr. Depew, then president of the New York Central railroad, by Mr. I'latt shortly before the latter's elec tion to a second term In the senate. It is dated a few stations above i'ough ket-psie and read 3: Please stop the noon express here to take on Mrs. I'latt and ME TOO. "1 stopped the train gladly," Mr. De pew would say when he exhibited it. "I am always willing to do a favor for a man who turns a joke on himself." The Mnrrlaite Core. One remedy against indigestion is matrimony. At least The Lancet tells us that it Is the celibate young barris ter, the lonely curate in lodgings, the struggling bachelor Journalist or busi ness man or clerk who suffers most from premature dyspepsia because he eats alone. He generally reads during his meals, which Is bad. or he reads directly he has bolted his food, which Is likewise bad. Obviously, therefore, matrimony Is a bar to indigestion.— Lady's Pictorial. A Follower. Caller—The minister's son Is follow ing in the footsteps of that spendthrift young Jinks. Miss Prim— Isn't that scandalous? Caller—llnrdly as bad as that. You see, h»/s a tailor and is just trying to collect his bill.—Chelsea Oazette. | Making Characters—not Money I ft When William sport Dickinson Seminary was founded, money M 9 making was not in the thought of its promotors. To give j oung ft ft men and women thorough intellectual and moral training at the ft 0 lowest possible cost was its paramount aim. It remains its para- 0 ft mount aim. Buildings have been added, equipment increased, ft § the faculty enlarged, but the school is true to its first principles. j Williamsport Dickinson Seminary Bis a Home and Christian school. It provides for health and social culture * as carefully an for mental and moral training, taking a personal Interest 1 In each pupil. A splendid field, with athletics directed by a trained 0 athlete, make ball field and gymnasium of real value. Single beds and A bowling alley for ladies. Swimming pool for all. Nine regular courses, ' • with elective studies, offer wide selection. Six competitive scholarships ft m are offered. Seventeen skilled teachers. Music, Art, Expression and ft • Physical Culture, with other branches or alone, under teachers with best ft X home and European training. Home, with tuition In regular studies, t J from J240.00 t0t250.00 a year, with discounts to ministers, ministerial can ft didates, teachers, and two from same family. Fall term opens Sep- I ■ teml>er 9th, 1901. Catalogue free. Address ■ 1 Rev. EDWARD J. GRAY, D. D., President, Williamsport, Pa. I The Home Paper of Danville. Of course you read ——^ , I 111 INS., J THE HEOPLE'S i KOPULAR 1 APER. Everybody Reads It. Published Every Morn in y; Except Sunday a! I No. ii E. Ma!Hiding:St. Subscription <> '.M r Week. L iTTffflTiT qbe HANPI£ST ANP BESY WAY TO A PAN IS BY TOE Handiest uru Best Route between Fthe PAN. AMERICAN EXPOSITION anV\ NEW YORK is the For Information. Rates. etc., address |fi|t ÜBO*DW*y, NV. JBB M*IN at., surrsio. 10> *D*MS ST , CHICAGO. |dwT CIGMTM a onvr STS., ST. LOUIS 2« l«cs«NOt PLACI. N. Y. j||[jf |k!|Bff | T. E CLARKE, T W. let. B. D. CALDWELL. Utn'l Superintendent Qen'l Passenger ' ratf ■«. Manager —— A l.lternry Trent. The Bookman recently published a selection from letters received by a large publishing firm in New York front would be authors in various parts ot I | the country. Here is a gem: | Pear Sirs—Wont you please let nie know why I you kept my MvS so 1< ug and now return it? Please dont take nit* for a freak, but a honest young man who try a to fight the battles of life i tenseable. This I only mention as a part history j of my life. If you accept, pay me a t>nug sum now and remainder >rars r- yalfy. They go tc work ar.<l announce in the Patent Sheet and Asso* '1 dated I'ress Papws that you paid me $100,000.00 y for the MSS. This they will take up as a news I item. I will keep all this striitly secret and so can you. Have a short history of my life with a I large Picture of . Under my j icture have the tvords, "The handsome W%iDg lloosicr Author who tna le himself famous and received $100,000.00 \ i "A lew Strokes of hi 9 Pen." Hoping at least tj hear from you again, I remain for business, sin l cerely, <i.ka\M\«. patasdu t am>iik .% i.ix bHlHflfin catarrhß^l^l r Ely's Cream to use. Contains injurious <lrag. s orbed. Gives Re HAY FEVER It opens and cleanses the Nasal Pass ' ages. Allays Intiamation. Heals and Protects the Membrane. ! Restores the Senses of laste and Smell Large Size, 50 cents at Druggists or by I mail; Trial Size, 10 cents by mail. ELY BROTHERS, •">« Warren Street, New York, t ; Your Tongue If it's coated, your stomach is bad, your liver is out of order. Ayer's Pills will clean your tongue, cure your dys pepsia, make your liver right. 1 Easy to take, easy to operate. " 25c. All druggists. 1 Want your moustache <»r beard a beautiful y brown or rich black ? Then use ; BUCKINGHAM'S DYE Whiskers I 0, L & I RAILROAD. TIME TABLE. Corrected to May i, 1901. Xkh Vokk. AM* AM* I'M" Bart-lav St. I.v. 2 io oo 100 ('hri.stoplier St..on lu 00 100 Hoboken 2 JO 16 1 ») Ki-ruiiton Al •> ; "2 I li'J 513 I'M AM I'M- I'M' llutfnlo I.ve IJ tfO 245 ••• Scrnnton Ar 540 JO (JO AM + AM' I'M 112 I'M" Scra NTOW . •> 4) JO 05 155 550 Hellevue ti 50 ... Taytorvllle 0»> 10 15 203 5 s>l Lackawanna 701 !0 2-'! 'i 10 li oti Duryca 703 Jo 213 t; oy Piusion 707 10 31 217 ti 13 Susguehanna A ve... <lO 10 33 21U ti Iti West Pittston 713 10 .'ls 223 ti 19 Wyoming 717 111 40 227 ti 21 Forty Fort Bennett 721 10 lit 231 ti 30 Kingston Hl*. 7 :10 10 54 240 ti :t> W'ilk<'s-Barr... ..Ar 710 1110 250 li 48 W'iik.K-Bam l.ve 720 10 30 2HO 112. 20 Kingston I\' 730 10 54 240 ti .'{s Plymouth .1 Jnc... . I Plymouth 7i x 11 0.3 2 4!' tl 13 ATomUlt 7 42!. a r,i Nanticoke 745 II II 2 SKI ti 51 Hunlock'f. 7 ;jl 11 17 3 Oti ! ti 57 Khiekshinny *0! 11 'JV 320 7to Hick's Ferry s HI 43 330f 7 21 Beach I'aven M l* 11 4H 537 72* Berwick *23 11 54 3+4 733 Briar (.'reek M2B f3 50 Willow Grove fH 81 112 3 54 ' .... I.inie kidge f!2 09 35H .... Espy 8 :i!l 12 15 4 Oti 752 Bloomsburg 8 44 12 22 412 757 Kupert h ' 12 27 417 801 tJatawtasa ' ' 12 32 422 HOS I)ar.ville 1 12 47 435 H2O Chulasky - - 442 Cameron r 12 57 4 4fi Nohthi MMERLAND A'.'' 1 1 10 5 IIU *45 Ar AM pji I'M I'M 'JOINO ''.AST. INKW Y'«HK I PM* PMf BurciaySt. Ar 335 600 J .... Christopher St... j 330 465 j . Hoboken i 315 44K .... j ... . Scrnnton . 10 05 i 2 55 ... I .... ! — AM I'M AM- A M Buffalo . ..Ar XOO 12 45 7(0 Scrunton I.v 155 54K 11 35 AM* PMt PM+ PM* Scranton j 4'<2 12 I>s 460 #45 Bellevue 37 4 46 Taylorville 'J 440 x 35 Lackawanna '' 20 4 32 g 27 liuryea 923 42V x 25 Pittston 9 lit ia 17 424 x2l Susquehanna Ave. 1H 12 14 420 xlx West Pittston.. ! > !■'» 4 17 x 1»; Wyoming 909 12 ox 412 | Xl 2 Forty Fort 904 107 .... Bennett u • ' 4 03 804 Kingston K 6X 11 £9 400 XO2 \\ i Ikt s-Barif I.v « • 11 1150 350 750 Wiiko-Barre. Ar I s 12 10 410 xlO Kingston 8 11 59 400 XO2 Plymouth Junction *sl 352 Plymouth.. 8 47 11 61 347 \ 753 Avondale s 42 3 42 Nanticoke X3X li 43 33X 740 Hunlock b H : >2 331 H4l Slilekshinny 8 22 ll 29 320 731 Hick's Ferry ! 812 309 f7 21 Beaeh Haven 8 02 303 | 712 Berwick i ' 11 05 f2 58 705 Briar Creok I f 2 5-3 ft; 58 Willow Urovt- 1 i : n '"W ...... Lime Kidge i, j 240 fti 50 Espy i 1 lo 4x 240 'i 41 Bloomsburg : i~i 10 4(3 234 03X Rupert j i \J. 10 37 229 «82 Catawisea ; '. 10 34 224 027 IJanville •'lO 19 211 612 Chulasky ■ ■■■ • • ; Cameron i _ f2 01 fti 03 NoRTHUM BMHL'D... : iin'oo +1 50 *5 50 LaV I.V f'M PM I e e : Connections at Rupert with Philadelphia 4 Heading Kailroad for Tamanend, Tamaqua, Wiliiamsport, Sunhury, Pottsville, etc. At Northumberland witli P and E. Uiv. P. H. K. for Harrisburg. Eock Haven, Emporium, Warren Corry, and Erie. ♦Daily. + Daily except unday. 112 Stop on signal. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. TIME TABLE In Effect June 2nd, 1901- A M 1A.M.1 FAI.F. M Scranton( D4tH)lv ? 6 4"> >9 38j 2 IX j4 27 Pittston " " 7ogf 10 (to §2 42 452 _ A. M. A. M P. M. P.M Wilkesbarre,.. Iv§ 7 30 §lO 35h 3OS (8 00- Plym'th Ferry " 112 7 37 flO 42| 112 3 16 f6 07; Nanticoke •' 746 10 326 6 17 Mocanaqua .... " 804 11 07 ;3 46 637 Wapwallopen.. " 812 11 1(1 356 647 ' Nescopeck ar H23 11 !&; 407 TOO A. M. A.M. P.M. I'ottsville lv ti 5 50 sll 55 \ Hazleton " 705 12 4X Tom hick en " 722 103 Fern Glen " 729 110 Hock (Hen "I 735 Nescopeck ...,ar; 802 1 35. |Z~M A.M P.M. P M Nescopeck lv! § 8 iS.jjll 26 j4 07 00 Creasv "! 833 11 :»i 4 lti 7 09| _ _ Espy Ferry.... " 112 8 43 11 4ti I 4 24 7 2j»|; E. Bloomsnurg, " 847 11 5 11 429 7 SB, Caiawissa ar 855 11 571 435 732 Catawissa lv 855 11 57 435 732 South Danville "j 9 14 12 15; 4 53i 7 511• Sunbury "j 935 12 4(* 5 I;>| 815 A.M. P.M. P. M P.M. Sunbury lv j! 9 42 § 1 lo § 5 45 ]9 45 Eewisburg.... ar : 10 13 1 *■> 6 18| Milton " 10 OX 1 39' 614 10 Oti Williamsport.. " 11 oo 2SO 7 10 10 50 Eock Haven... "11 69 3 4t)| 807 Henovo " A.M. 440 9 00; Kane " 8 25 IP. M. P.M. I.ock Haven..lv ;12 10 J 345 .... . . Bellefonte i»r 105 a 4 41 ' Tyrone " 1 2 15 U 600 Philipsburg " 4 Clearfield.... " j 5375 9 09 ...... Pittsburg.... " | ti 55 #ll 30 X.irt! P.M. P. M, P M Sunbury lv 9605i1 55 j 5 Z>cX 31 Harrisburg.... ar 11 30 H 3 15 „ 655 10 10; IP. M. P. M. P. M.|A M Philadelphia.. ar Si 3 17 |j 6 23 ||lo 20 . 4 25 Baltimore •' § 3 11 li • 00 S 9 45! 2 30 Washington... "]J 4 10 |. 7 15 10 55 4 05j |A~M" P, M.I I Sunbury IT §lO 00 (j 2 03 ' Eewistown Jc. ar 11 40 350 ! | Pittsburg •' tissjiill3o ; A.M. P, M. P. M. P M Harrisburg.... lv 11 46 ,1 3 45 || 7 15 «1025 P.M. A.M.AM! Pittsburg ar j ti 55; II 1130,|J 1 50 5 30 II I I P. M. P M A MAM Pittsburg lv 710 900 3 OOi IS 00 IA. M |AM! P M Harrisburg.... ar ; 1 55.a 4 20]H 9 30jj 310 AM A M Plttsbuig lv | t* 00j l.ewistown JJ. "! • 7 30 jj 3 !0| Sunbury ar j » 3D! g 6 00 P. M.l A M A M A M Washington... lv 10 401 ' 7 soji|lo 50 Baltimore " 11 41 1 4 4V x4O 11 45! Philadelphia... " 11 20|| 42» 830 12 26 A. M.l A M|A. M. P M Harrisburg.... lv 335 i 7 55 ;I1 40 i. 4 (*•: Sunbury ar li 505 I 9 36. 1 10 j2 5 401 jP.M.I A MAM Pittsburg lv ;I2 45 . 3 00 \ 8 001 t'leartleld "j 409 9 28| I'biiipaburg.. " 4 56! 10 12 Tyrone " 7 15: I 8 10 12 15| i>># Bellefonte.. " 831 932 1 SiO Lock Ha veil ar, 9 301 jlO 30j 217 P. M, A M V M P M Erie lv, j 5 35 | ; .... Kane " 840 ;ti 00 Henovo " II 50 ; 6 45| 10 30 > Eock Haven.... " 12 38 735 11 25h 3 00;' A.M. IP M Wiiliainsi>ort .. " 225 830 :12 40 400 ... .Milton •' 222 919 127 4 .'>2l' Eewisburg " 905 1 15! 4 47!] Sunbury ar 321 9 4t> 165 620 ].... A7\T A M P M P M 112 Sunbury lv 112 (1 50 I 9 55 : 200 \ 5 48 1 .... South Danville" 7 13! io 17 221 #O9 '.... Catawissa " 7 3.'<| 10 36 2 3t: 6 271;.... E Blooiusburg.. " 739 10 43 243 632 .... Espv Ferry •• 743 fiO 47 I 6 36 Creasy " 7 ,V 2 ltt 66 2V> 646 .... Nescopeck " 802 11 05| 305 666 .... A M A M P. M. P M I" t'utawlssu lv K35 10 38 .... Nescopeck lv 6 5 15 \ 7 05 ' Hock (lien ar 11 22; 7 28 Fern (lien " 901 11 '2xl 541 734 ]... Tomhiciten " 907 11 :48 547 T42 llu/leton " 924 11 58 ti 031 805 ']]]] Pottsville " 10 15 655 AM AMP HIP Mf Nescopeck lv t 8 02 11 "5 ; 3 oi"> t, 6 .Vi • ••• Wapwallopen..ar 8 l(i 11 20 3 In! 709 Mocanaqua " 826 11 32 329 721 ■•••• Nanticoke " 847 11 64 3 48! 742 P Ml Plym'th Ferry l 857 12 02 3 .5; I 7 62 wilksbane ..." 905 12 10| 4 (ft. 800 AM P M P Mlp M Pittston!DAH) ar ;v 89 12 55 ? 4 Sti 836 Scrnnton " " 10 08 124 5248 9 05 I Weekdays. I Daily. 112 Flag station. t'ullman Parlor and Sleeping Cars run on through trains between Sunbury, Williamsport and Erie, between Sunbury ami Philadelphia and Washington and between Harrisburg, Pitts burg and the West. For further information apply to Ticket Agents HUTCHINSON, J. li. WOOD, Oeit'l Manager. Oen'l Pass'n'r Ay. Shoes, Shoes Stylisli! Oinea-p ! lEselia,"ble 1 Bicycle, Cymnasium and Tennis Shoes. THE CELEBRATED Carlisle Shops AND THE snas Proof Rubber Boots A SPECIALTY. A. BCHATZ, Mil NEW! A R.©lla"bl© TO SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing* Spouting and Ceneral Job Work. Stoves, Heaters, Ranges, Furnaces, eto. PRICES THE LOWEST! QUALITY THE BEST! JOHN HIXSON NO. 116 E. FRONT BT. JOHUT W. FAENSWOETH INSURANCE Ll Fire Accident and Steam Bier Office: Montgomery Building, Mill street, Danville, - - Penn'a PHILADELPHIA & READING- RAILWAY CORRECTED TO JUNE 2». 1901 TRAINS LEAVE DAN VIM.K (weekdays only; For Philadelphia 11.25 a m. For New Yorlt 11.25 a m, For Oatawlssa 11.25 a. m., 6.04 p. m.. For Milton 7.82 a, ID., 4.00 p m. 112 For Wllllamsport 7.32 a in., 4.00 pin Trains for Baltimore, Washington and tin South leave Twenty-fourth and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, weekdays,-3.23, l.u 10.22 a. ill., 12.16, 1.33, 3.03, 4.12, 5.03, 7.26, 8.26 p ui., 12.21 night. Sundays 3.23, 7.14®. in., 12 It 1.33, 4.12, 6.03. 7.26, 8.26 p. m. ATLANTIC CITY RAILROAD, Leave Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Wbar and South Street Wharf for Atlantic City. WEEKDAYS —Expre558.00, 9.00, 10.46 a m„ l.ou (Saturdays only 1.30) 2.00, a.t<o, 4.C»>, 4.30. 5.00, J0.40,7.15, 8.30 p. ni. Accommodation 6.00 n. m. $5.40, 6.30 p. m. Sundays Express, 7.30. 8.00, 8.30, 9.00, 10.00, 11.00 a. m., 4.45. 7.15 p. in. Ac commodation 6.00 a. m., 5.00 p. mi SI.OO Ex cursion daily 7.00 a. m. Additional Sunday, 7.31) a. in Leave ATLANTIC CITY DEI'OT-Week days. Express—Monday only, ti.46 ) 7.00, 7.45, (from Baltic Extension only, 7.55) 8 20. 9.00, 10.15, 11 a. ill., 2.50, 4.30, 5.30,7.30, 8.30,9.30 p. m. Accommodation 5.25, 7.05, a. m.,3.«)p. IU. Sun days Express—B.4s a. 111., 3.30. 4.30, 5.00, 6.00, 6.30, 7.00, i.30, 8.00 9.30 p. m. Acconmiodat ion— T. 15 a. ni., 4.32 p. in. t Parlor cars on all express trains, LEAVE PHILADELPHIA. For CAPE M AY—Weekdays B.Jo, 8.45,11.45, a. m.§ 1.50) *4.10, #.30 p. m Sulidays—S.4s, 9.15 a. m., 5.00 p. 111. For OCEAN ClTY—Weekdays-#-8.45 11.45 a. m., 2.15.,+4.20, 5.30 p. in. Sundays—B.4s, 9.15 a. m.,5.00 p. m. For SEA ISLE CITY Weekdays—B.4sa. m 2.15, +4.20, J5.30 p. m. Sundays 8.45 a. in., 5.00 P m 81 00 Excursion to Cape Slay, Ocean Cltv and Sea Isle City 700 a. ni. da'ily. *Soutli St.," 4.00 p. m.,+South St., 4.15 p.m., iSouth St., 5.80 p. m.,SSouth. St., 1.45 p. n*. NEW YORK AND ATLANTIC CITY EXPRESS. Leave NEW YORK (Liberty Street, 9.10 A V (Saturdays only 1.00, p. m.) 3.40 p. m. Leave ATLANTIC CITY,-Weekdays— 8.30 a. in , £ls p. in. Sundays—s.Bo p. m. Detailed time tables al ticket otllces. W.G BESLER, EDSON J WEKIB G£U. Superintendent General Agent. A Double Headed Joke. In the Massachusetts campaign of 1878 John D. Long was making his first run for governor against General Ben Butler, who bad captured tho Democratic nomination, and Judge Joslah G. Abbott, who was the candi date of the old line Democrats. The late Judge Thompson was making a speech for Abbott before a big Demo cratic audience and after praising the candidate as a jurist and a statesman asked sarcastically, "And now who Is John L-L-Long?" No one answering, he proceeded: "They say he has jjiade a translation of Ilomer's 'JHad." What g g-good Is that to us? All Democrats read Homer in the original." At this the person to whom the judge was tell ing the story laughed, but the judge continued: "Th-th-that's not the real joke at all. The real joke is that not a m-m-man In the audience so much as smiled." An Important Period. A public library In a London district has a custodian who is devoted to lit erature, but not to fine white linen. The other day a notice was posted up on the door of the library as follows: "This library will be closed next week for cleaning. The Librarian." In a few hours the period between "cleaning" and"the librarian" had been deftly expunged.
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