jWo < o :•:■ o*o*o*o*o*o*o *o*o*o x-o**o*o*o*o*o*c*o*o*o*o :•: o*o* o * o *o*o*o*o -x o•:•: o*o*o •; o*o*o* oo*o*o*o*o*o*o*oxo*o*o*o x o 0 ...| s O HEN BOYS WERE MEN 1 O O : : : I *0 By JOHN HABBERTON, o*J *0 Author of "Helen's Babies," "George Washington." Etc. Ok o * * oB *0 COPYRIGHT, 1001, 11V JOHN lIA liHETiTOX o*| o*l • oB * o o* o o•• o.vo*o*o •: o* o * o*o*oo *o*o*o*o*o* o*o*o* o * o * o o* W o*O>: O:: O * O O* O *o*o*o*o* Q*Q** O* O>: O ox- O O>: O O O ->: O-x O -:<■ Oo V CITAPTER VI. AT I.AST. fjNE night ns wo wore falling asloop just after tups the first sergeant | canto to our tent and j "All men turn out to draw revolvers and am munition. The whole regiment startsoll scout right after breakfast 111 the morning. The horses will reach camp tonight." And that glorious, soul thrilling or der was delivered In as careless tones as if the sergeant had merely come In for a man to carry wood for the cook. 1 made up my mind that the sergeant was not the man for his place and that the captain showed himself unfit foi his business by appointing such a man. Nevertheless I hurried to the ser- j geaut's tent, and my soul thrilled with patriotic Joy as 1 saw the great wood en box full of revolvers of the heaviest caliber. 1 knew something about re- j vol vers, my father having invented one and allowed me to help him lu | some of his experiments. I mentally 1 made the calculation right there that ; if each man in the regiment tired only ) oue shot at close quarters, which Is all | the revolver is fit for in war, there | would be about 1.000 fewer effective ' men in the Confederate army by the time we returned. Besides the revolver each man receiv ed a holster, to be worn at the belt, a cartridge box and a box for percussion | caps, for this was before the days of j metallic cartridges. When the ser- I geant began to issue ammunition, how- I ever, his language suddenly beatue un- j fit for publication, for the department 1 quartermaster, who was oO or 40 miles away, had by mistake sent carbine car tridges, which, of course, were far too large for revolvers. The sergeant reported the fact to the captain, while big I "at Callahan, of j whom I had seen as little as possible, recalled old times by saying it was "all the gov'meiit's fauit, an' if the gov'- inent's brains was turned into gunpow der there wouldn't bo enough to blow It to"—perdition. The captain used language which proved that he was not a member of the church, but suddenly he dived Into the bis box in which the pistols had come and drew forth a bul let mold. "Does anj one here know how to load re vol vi with loose ammuni tion'/" he asko "Aye, aye, sir. Cloyne, touching his hat. "I, too," said I. "And 1." said Hamilton. "Good!" said the captain. "You three break up carbine cartridges, make a fire, remold the bullets and load all the pistols. Six shots apiece will be better than none. Sergeant, collect the re volvers." Then the men returned to their tents, more than half of them joining big Fat Callahan In cursing the government. Hamilton and I began breaking car tridges, while Cloyne started a tire near the cookhouse and looked for spme thing In which to melt the lead. After much searching he settled on one of the cook's frying pans. Then he had to "boil the bullets in water to get the grease from them, so an hour passed before we had any new bullets. That Job of loading pistols hung on amazingly. Some of the cylinders did not work well, so we had to "nurse" ] them, for it would never do for any | man to be without a pistol in the face I of the enemy. I became so sleepy that 1 had to pinch myself to keep awake. Once in awhile Cloyne did not close the mold tightly before pouring the lead, so the balls would be a little too | Down beside me came Mick McTwyny. large to fit the cylinders, and we tried to make them smaller by scraping the 6ldes with our pocketknives. Day light begun to dawn, and still 20 or more revolvers remained unloaded. Reveille blew, the captain came to look on, spoke impatiently and then said we were doing very well. Break fast call sounded, and the men got not only their breakfast, but three days' rations to pack in their haversacks. Still we had some unloaded pistols. Then one man after another came up and told about tlio horses and made me almost wild with anticipation and fear, the latter because they said each man was allowed to select his horse, so what would be left for us but the poorest nags of the hundred? Finally the last revolver was charged. I went at a double quick pace to the cookhouse for my breakfast and ra tions. The latter consisted of hard tack and a great piece of pork. How was I to put that lump of fat into my haver sack? I had not even a bit of paper, much less a saucer or box. I settled the matter by throwing It away. Fat pork was disgusting Btuff anyhow. Then, eating as Iran, I hurried to the stable. The stable orderly looked at me, grinned most offensively and pointed to the only horse that remained. I .went Into the stall to look at him, but got out again just in time to save niy- Belf from n kick. There was no time to be lost, for most of the men had al ready mounted and were being cursed into some sort of line lu the company street. "Full In on the extreme left!" roared the captain. I obeyed orders, being near there already. A mounted ser geant was already there, but he was not there a moment later. He went to the hospital with a compound fracture of the lower leg, caused by the hoofs of my horse, and he never saw active service again. As we sat there and were again brought to some semblance of line, the captain remembered that he bad not yet appointed his full complement of noncommissioned officers. The compa ny was entitled to eight sergeants and eight corporals, of whom onlv five ser geants had been designated, and one of these had been sent to the rear by my horse. Of corporals we bad none. "Who loaded those pistols?" asked the captain. "Cloyne, Hamilton and Frost," re plied the first sergeant. "And Bralnard," said I from the left. "Cloyne," said the captain, "you will act as sergeant; Hamilton, sergeant— and commissary; Frost"— ITow did my jacket buttons succeed In holding in my heart during that glorious second of anticipation? I for | got every annoyance and disappoint ment of the past. Military ability, even if only displayed 111 loading re volvers, was to be recognized and re i warded. The captain was a splendid fellow. I wanted to order three cheers for him at once, but just then a famil 1 iar grating voice rose from the center I of the line. "I was promised to be sarjint mesllf. j Didn't I recruit sivinteen mill?" I "So you did. McTwyny," said the cap | tain, looking at the rutlian a moment before lie spoke. "Well, you shall be the remaining sergeant. Frost, first corporal; Brainard, second corporal"— j The captain continued through the : list of corporals, and my heart sank. I 'Twns better to be corporal than prl- I vate, but to have had my expected lion j or snatched from me by some one else, j and that somebodj Mick McTwyny—to : have Mick for my official superior! Oh, it put uiy spirits to (light, and some of my patriotism tried togo with them. "Sergeant McTwyny to his post!" shouted the captain. Down beside me came Mick McTwy ny. Oh. if tie had but been there when 1 first arrived and his leg instead of the other sergeant's had been broken by mj horse! Still he was there now, aDd so was my horse. 1 could hope. From the parade ground, where the colonel and adjutant sat mounted, a bugle blew the "assembly," the signal for forming line. "Attention!" the captain roared. "Sergeant Cloyne. front! You will command the third platoon. From the light count fours." "One. two. throe, four; one. two. throe, four," ran down the line In rapid succession. "Forward!" blew the colonel's bugler. "Fours right, march!" shouted the | captain, '"to the left, march!" We obeyed orders as well as we could according to the tactics in which we had been drilled 011 foot. Between the tops of the tents we could see the other companies filing out of their respective streets and forming column in the road in front of camp. There was some trouble and a great deal of profanity, which began to seem an army necessi ty. as different captains endeavored to take place in column according to 1 seniority and wore hindered by other | captains whose lines of march crossed | their own. Some of the men in the newer companies got dreadfully mixed up and made a lot of trouble before they were set to rights, for they were not accustomed to horses, much less to riding. Finally, however, the whole force was in columns of fours in the road, and when the adjutant, learning this by galloping down the flanks, sig naled the colonel, the latter had his bugler once more sound "Forward!" "Forward!" repeated the bugle of each of the 12 companies. . "Forward!" shouted each captain. With a confused trample of horses' hoofs, clank of sabers, rattle of car bines, jingle of spurs, a Jumble of "Whoa!" "Git up!" "GTong!" and "Durn ye!" from tlie recruits and iu a ] great halo of dust the regiment was off. And yet n regiment two-thirds of whose men had never seen their horses until that morning and half of whose recruits had never before been 011 horseback, who had to have their pistols loaded for them and who had I never been drilled together nor taught even the simplest company movements on horseback! Well, 'twas the way with hundreds of other regiments during the earlier years of the war, and 'twas nobody's fault apparently. As a nation wo could bring men together fuster than we could arm and drill them. Fortunately for us, our neighbors at the south were having the same ill luck. CHAPTER VII. IN Tilt: enemy's country. GBBR E rode into and through jm the town, out by the road on which we used s■! to '■*" I >icket duty as ' ,lfil,ltl T. across the u W' bridge which we had laid and relaid so many times, far out «SSS to where we used to see the cavalry outpost's picket. We rode past the picket also. He was in the same place, as if he had been there ever since the Ninety-eighth went away. After that wo began to eye each tree and fence for rebels, for were we not in the enemy's country? Except for this feature of the ground we might as well have been anywhere else in Virginia for anything that was of interest. The fields of yellow corn stalks looked so much alike that one might easily have been taken for an other, and the bits of woodland be tween were as like as two fragments of a single forest. The negro cabins were all of logs, the farmhouses of wood, painted white,and there wore not many of either. The road, like all other roads In the south and everywhere else In farming countries in the United States, was just about wide enough for two ' wagons to pass each other, so It al lowed us to ride only four abreast. Sometimes the road bent and sug gested that there might be a change of view beyond, but there wasn't. There was absolutely no change of scenery that we could remember for the first ' 12 miles of our ride that day, bo we really felt some pleasurable excitement ' when we halted at a railroad crossing and saw near by a station building, a freight depot, a tankliouse, a black smith shop and a store building, though our captain told us that all had been unoccupied for months. We fed our horses with oats which we had taken with us on our saddle bows, with instructions as to Just how much to give at a meal, and dined on hard tack from our haversacks aud wa ter from a btook. The long ride had given me such an appetite that I was sorry that I had not brought at least part of my ration of pork. It might pass for butter win n a man was very hungry. I w;:s •, mew hat comforted, however, to note that my horse, which was tied nest to Mick McTwynv's at the long rail !cnce beside the road, had frightened M:. s horse and oaten that animal's oai< l.ciVre tasting its own. Brainard :i 11< 1 I met at lunch, and 1 had just askt 1 him how ho liked being a trooper, he h:id expressed the hope that II e i'l • :.'i!erac\ might feel as shaky or vlt ;;s as he, when we heard a shot <>r two in the advance. A sensation pushed down the lino, and we all started on foot to see what was the matter, hut Ihe captain ordered: "To horse! Mount! Itemember your fours! Forward!" Looking out the road, we could see by the dust cloud that the other companies were in the saddle and moving for ward. Wo rode about five minutes, hearing from time to time a few shots, but 110 bullets. Suddenly, however, across a field of wheat stubble came one of our men 011 horseback, making a great noise as he appeared to be trying to check his horse's gallop. "A cavalryman ought to be able to manage his horse without so much fuss," said I, with some pride, for I had boon taught to manage horses by the rein alone. "The poor fellow Is hurt," said the lieutenant who commanded our pla toon. "Seems to be bis thigh. I guess his horse is hit too." Down went my heart Into my boots nr up into my throat, I couldn't deter mine which. If this was war, 1 want ed it to stop at once. Just to imagine myself coining wounded and screaming across a field like that poor fellow made me feel deadly sick. I strained eyes in the dilution from whfcTi the wounded man had coriSo, but saw nobody else. Meanwhile the surgsgp had gone out to meet the who now was quite near us, and called to some one to take down part of tho fence so the liorso could reach the road. By the time tho poor fellow reached the roadside he was very pale aud lean ing low 011 bis horse, and we coult) see a broad red stain along the leg of his light blue trousers. He was helped to the ground, and the surgeon quickly cut away his clothing and examined the wound, while we moved on, my heart still being elsewhere than in its proper place. On, on we rode, and the farther we wont the more I wished we were going in the opposite direction. I am ashamed even now ft> remember how many different kinds of coward I was that day, but 1 was giving my entire mind to the subject, and In such cir cumstances a inan can accomplish a great deal. Fortunately it was im possible to keep up the strain a long time, so within an hour or two I was cool enough for anything. I was too exhausted to be anything else. When I regained my senses sufficient ly to think of something besides my self, I was astonished at the coolness or carelessness of our lieutenant. He bad once been a private soldier in one of the older companies, which were at the head of the column, but he did not ride ahead to ask questions, nor did he oven dismount to speak to the wound ed man, though he must have known him. In the middle of the afternoop we passed a member of one of the old companies going to the rear for some thing, and our lieutenant asked: "What is it?" "Nothln" much," said the man. "Their piquets was layin' for us." "Nothing else?" "No, except Big Brown's hogs was killed. He got one of theirs, though; that's all." "Nothing much!" "That's all!" if a poor fellow, shrieking with agony over a broken thigh, which was being hurt still more at every step of his horse, was "nothing much," what would be regarded as something? If the "pick ets layin* for us" could inflict so much misery, what would be the result of a full battled Again I wanted togo home. But no battle occurred that day, anu we dismounted before dark and pre pared to bivouac In the woods for the night, a stream crossing the road sup plying ample water for men and horses. Brainard and I wanted togo right up to the front and learn all about the Oght with the pickets, but the captain told us not to stray far from our horses. Some of the men began to ask when and where were the cook and the evening coffee, and when they learned that the cook had not come and that he should have dealt out ground coffee with the other rations, so that each man could make some for himself, therp was a terrible hubbub, which reached the captain's ears and made him say dreadful things about the cook. But none of the fuss yielded a bit of cof fee. I was fortunate in never having con tracted the coffee driuking habit, but what I lacked in thirst I made up in hunger. I already had eaten a full day's ration of hard tack, but it seem ed only a mouthful. I consulted Ham ilton, who had been named commissary sergeant, about the possibility of out getting anything else to eat ddrlng the three days, but he gave mo no encour agement. Nevertheless I borrowed one biscuit of the nine which constituted tho next day's ration and promised my self I would eat a light breakfast. Then I reminded myself that at home I often had gone without breakfast for the sake of starting for a morn ing of fishing. Why could I not do like wise In Virginia? I regarded the prop osition with enough favor to borrow another biscuit. But those bits of hard bread did not seem to fill the ach ing void that longed for them, and when I learned that most of the com pany were as hungry as I and were act lie was very pale and leaned low on his horse. 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Shearer, of Mount hope, Lancaster Co., Pa., "and can say that I am cured of that dreaded disease, uterine trouble Am in better health than ever before. Every one who knows me is surprised to see mc look so well. In June 1 was so poor in health that nt times I could uot walk. To-day lam ciord I tell everybody that Dr. Pierce s medicines cured me." FREE. Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send 21 one-cent stamps for the book in paper covers, or 31 stamps for the cloth nound volume. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Bufialo, N. Y. example with such industry that t>y the time 1 was ready to sleep my hav ersack was as empty as when it tirst came from the quartermaster's. Never before had I enjoyed any meal so thoroughly, yet 'twas nothing but hard bread seasoned with Virginia air. It seemed only a minute to breakfast time, so soundly did I sleep during na ture's effort to make amends for the wakeful night before. No sooner was I awake, however, than I began to think of breakfast and of not having anything of which to make it. If mis ery loves company, our troop ought to aave been a most sociable lot. for near ly all had been as Improvident as 1. Soon i began to stroll desperately about the forest In which we were camped. I hoped to find at least a slippery elm tree from which to tear some bark to eat, but the trees were mostly pines, among which the elm seldom grows. At the edge of the wood was a corn field, Into which I sprang and tore open some husks, hoping to find a belated ear which might be soft enough to chew, but all the corn was hard. I plodded so long between the rows that suddenly I saw before me the roof of a cabin. There might be rebels in it, thought I, but if they took me prisoner they couldn't refuse me something to eat. No matter how rebellious, the southerner never lost his reputation for hospitality. I was greeted at the cabin door by an old colored woman who looked at me savagely and said: "Don' yo' come 110 furder, Mas' fcjo- Jer. Dey ain't nuffin lef to steal. Yo' men dun tuk ev'ryt'ing in de house las' night." I took a silver quarter from my pock et. "I'was a birth year pocket piece which I had carried for years, l>ut, as Satan remarked the only time on rec ord when he told the truth, "All that a man hath will he give for his life." I Bfii "Don' yo' come no furder, Mas' Sojcr." held the coin up between my thumb and finger, and as the old woman's countenance changed pleasingly I said: "I don't want to steal anything, aunty. I'm almost starved, and I'd like to buy a mouthful to eat, I don't care what." "Yo' don' mean it, honey? Yo' uln't foolin'?" "No; here's the money. Take it—give me something—quick!" "Bress yo' soul!" said she, dragging me Into the house. "Jess yo' set down in dat cheer, an' I'll make yo' a eo'hn pone in a minute." She raised a board from the floor, scooped some cornmeal from a hiding place, mixed It in a pan with water and poured the mass, which was exactly like the food we made 011 our farm for young chickens, into a heavy Iron pan that was in the fireplace. On top of the pan she put an iron lid, 011 which she piled hot coals. It seemed to me the cooking consumed at least two hours, but 'twas oDly ten minutes bv my watch when the woman took off the lid and lifted out an immense loaf of what in Summerton would have been called baked chicken feed, but which In the south is called corn pone, sometimes hoecake. And how good it was! How, ns I ate one fragment after another, I fe licitated the ghosts of past generations of ray father's chickens 011 the enjoy ment they must have had in eating just such breakfasts! It was solid, a little of it occupied a great lot of room Inside my belt, but that wa9 just what I wanted. There was neither salt, eggs nor baking powder In it, as there always was in corn bread at our house In Summerton, but the taste of the raw meal was delightful for Its own sake. And the loaf was 60 easily made too! I then and there resolved never togo 011 auother scout without j a little bag of meal in my haversack. As I ate, the old woman told me of the trouble she had in keeping in the I house anything to eat. The southern ! soldiers, she said, stole everything she ty(J whenever they came that way, as did the northern soldiers, so 6ho had learned to keep her chickens, pigs and corn in the woods far back from the road, where nobody would be likely to find thctn, end her husband always watched SVUftU any soldiers wete In the DelgqßwZiOtK) I wondered what the people in the north would think about such treat ment of the colored people, for whose benefit some of them seemed to think the war was conducted, but my thoughts vvre interrupted by the sound of a bugle. "Take de res' along, honey," said the old woman, "an' " here she looked un der the Hoot - again—"hyali's some yams [sweet potatoes]. Tuck 'em in yo' pockets an' roas' 'em in de hot ashes when yo' gits hungry." I hurried away with profuse thanks, a full stomach and an entire willing ness to face, single handed, the whole southern army in battle array. Many months later, when I had some soldiers under my own command, I gave more attention to the cookhouse than to my other duties combined. And how grate ful were the smiles which Brainard, {lainilton and Cloyne gave me when I divided my surplus hoecake among them! Brainard said that bit of hoe cake saved his life, BO I had done the government as great a service as if 1 had brought a new soldier into the field. Again we started, and as we rode the captain and lieutenants looked fre quently at the horses' heads to see that eurb bits were not chained too tight ! or hanging too high or too low and that the horses were not worried by be ing ridden with too tight reins. Most of the recruits wanted to make their horses arch their necks like soldiers' horses in statues and military pictures, and when the captain made them stop they muttered that war wasn't uiueL fun. Big Tat Callahan said that a 601- dier was not only a dog, but he was expected to let his horse be a pln ; which proved that the government was a condemned fool and deserved to be wiped out by the rebels. He did uot get much sympathy from Mick Mc- 1 Twyny, for Mick was trying to carry the dignity of his new office, and it was such a heavy contract that he had no mind for anything else. His recruits, however, agreed fully with big Tat Cal-' lahan and cursed the government flu ently, and the captain didn't reprove j them, which seemed to me gross neg lect of duty. We rode nearly all day, but nobody could tell us where we were or what we were expected to do or when we would do it, all of which, when pro longed for hours, began to be enraging in the extreme. When we halted at noon to feed the horses, I complained to Cloyne that if we never were to know what we were to do we might as well be so many machines. "That's just what we're expected to be," said he,"and the sooner you real ize it and live up to it the sooner you'll be a trustworthy soldier." This was depressing. It was simply awful. Could there be no way of re lease for a mind which could not help working? I asked Cloyne how high in rank a soldier must be to do some thinking for the government, and he re plied: "General in chief of the army, as a rule, though before you've been long In the cavalry service you'll have an oc casional chance to use all the brains you own and wish for another headfu! to help you through." This was encouraging for a little while, and then it wasn't. During the day I found something besides the conduct of the war to think of. The dust raised by more than a thousand horses in front, our company being uext to the Inst in column, was blind ing and choking, besides getting inside my clothing and making me feel un speakably dirty. How 1 wished 1 might take in rapid succession all the baths T had with great effort avoided when 1 A Bad Breath A bad breath means a bad stomach, a bad digestion, a j bad liver. Ayer's Pills arc liver pills. They cure con stipation, biliousness, dys pepsia, sick headache. 25c. A!! druggists. 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But there W»B one comfort—Mick McTwyny insisted that his legs were that bad that when he reached camp he was going to the hos pital and remain there for life. Suddenly, an hour after the afternoon march began, I was given a new sub ject for thought. A bugle call sounded from the advance, which was passed down the column by successive bu glers. It was a call I had not heard before, so I asked the lieutenant what it was. "It's 'Chargel* That's what It Is." [TO BE CONTINUED]. The Dinner Coat, a Garment The coffee coat or dinner Jacket has already been adopted by French and English ladles, and American authori ties are now giving it serious consid oration. Its claims are undoubtedly rood and commend it as a valuable .idition to the wardrobe. The dinner coa' is, of course, loose and easy of ad ' unent. 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"What Is the tirst thing a young busi ness man should learn?" was nsked of the successful one. "That mailing bills is not collecting money." was the prompt r^ply.—ln dianapolis News. Nasal CATARRH In all its stages there . %(& gWlt should be cleanliness. fEV « Ely's Cream Balm p cleanse*, soothes and heals the diseased membrane. It cures catarrh and drives away a cold in the head quickly. Cream Balm is placed Into the nostrils, spretds over the membraue and is absorbed. Belief is im mediate and a cure follows. It is not drying—docs not produce sneezing. Large Size, 50 cents at Drug gists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents by mail. ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren Street, New York. MORK LIVES ARE SAVED Dr. King's New Discovery, ...F0R.... Consumption, Coughs and Colds Than By All Other Throat And Lung Remedies Combined. This wonderful • medicine positively cures Consumption, Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Asthma, Pneumonia, Hay Fever, Pleurisy, LaGrippe, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, Croup and Whooping Cough. NO CURE. NO PAY. Price 50c. & sl. Trial Bottle Free. L, & I RAILROAD, TIME TABLE. Corrected to May i, 1901. NEW YOKE. A M * Ban-lay 81. I.v. ii 00 10 00 i t'hristopher St.. 2 l*l 10 IE, M* Hobokcn...., 2 8# I 52 00 Hcriintoii Ar 112, : >2 I'M* I'M AM Buttalo l.vt- II 80 245 1 Mcranton Ar 545 10 (JO M —— AMt AM* I'M t I M* SCR*MTy £ 1"» * IX' 752 HluoUlsburK * 4l 12 22 412 76" Rupert M H 12 27 417 HOl tlatawlesa ' 12 82 422 805 Danville 12 17 485 1 «20 (Hiulasky •••• 4 4J lameron ( ... 12 57 4is NOHTHUMBBRLAND I 10 600 H 1.", Ar. AM I'M I'M I'M I I GOING EAST. I'M- | IV sw Y _»' IK 8 35 I'Mt Barclay Si, Ar. j 330 6 (to | (Jhrlstopher St... 315 165 j !. . . Hoboken 11l 05 44 *> ... I ... . Scran lon AM* 12 55 1 l'M* l'M* AM* I AM* Buffalo Ai KOO 12 15 : 700 Si-ranloii I.\ 155 548 j II 85 Scranton - 12 35 , 450 845 liellevue 4 4 Taylorvllle 32 410 i 835 Lackawanna 2ti 432 j 827 Duryea it '£l 42« i 825 Plttßton. ylO 12 17 4 24 821 Susqueh e "> 12 14 420 818 West Pit " | »18 417 1 810 Wyoin "" I 900 12 08 1 412 812 Fort vi 0 04 I 4 07 I Ben ,* W 11 4 03 8 01 K' i r ! 868 11 0!> 400 802 \\ , Haiii*''iv « f-0 1150! 360 750 , s-Harrc Ar 9 ° s lu ■ * 10 I 810 s t on . " 858 11 5(1 400 802 mouth Junction 8 ■yuiouth 1161 34( | ,58 Avondale 1 8 i 842 Nantlcoke > 8 .18 11 43 338 7 4ti Hunlock 8 s 331 f7 41 Shlckshtnny ; H 320 *Bl Hick's Ferry ; H 8 U'l 17 21 Heaeh Haven ii 9? : _ 3 i i'r Berwick.' i ' H 5* ; 9" Briar Creek L 1 j'-' ; ' n ' M Willow tirovf i 1. '•* ;,t ! Lime Kldue 1 L ? I 2 ."I 1 ] Espy i' 2 10 48 ; 210 b4l Blooinsburu i "fi 10 4tJ 234 t> 38 Kupert....;. I X 10 37 220 i <>B2 Catawißsa ' !r; 10 84 ~ Uanvtlle | '* 58 10 10 2 H »' 1^ C'hulasky ; ! | Cameron ! j! '2 oi 08 Nobthcmbbbl'd. .. I tlo 00 I +'jo; p'.r* T-V AM A.M. ,M 1 t'onnectlons at Kupert with Phllailelphla i Keaiilnt? Kailroad for Tamaneml, Tamaqua, Williamsport, Sunbury, Pottsville, etc. At Northumbertanil with P ami E. Dlv. P. K. K. for Harrieburit. Lock Haven, Emporium, Warren Corry, and Erie. * Daily. + Daily except unday. fstop on signal. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, TIME T4BLE In Effect May, 25, 1902- A Mi A.M., P. Ml Seranton(D&H)lv j 6 :i8 in 3s 112<4 27 I'ittston " " 7 05;fl0iio|§ 210 4 52r'"" A.M. A. M P. M. P.M Wllkesbarre,.. Iv tj 7 25 §lO :tr>' | 245 d Ott Plym'th Ferry " 1 7 32 110 42 I 252 to 07 *" Nantlcoke " 742 10 50 301 817 Mocanauua .... " 801 11 07 320 837 Wapwallopcn.. " 8 10 II Iti! 831 847 '" Nescopeck ar 818 11 2t; 842 700 A.M. A.M. P.M. Pottsville lv § 5 :>o jsll 55 Hazleton •' 7 05 1 12 52 ?2 45 *** Tomlilrken " 7 '22 1 111 305 Fern (Hen " 720 118 815 Kock (lien "1 7 35 822 Nescopeck ar 800 145 Catawissa ! ! O0 A. M A.M P.M. P M Nescopeck Iv $ s 18 §ll 2ti 342;7 00 Creasy •• 830 II 3ewisliurg.... ar 10 13 145 540 Milton •' 10 08 130 53510 07 Williamsport.. "1 11 00 1 41. ti 30 10 55 L 50jW lOi P. M. P. M. P. M. A M Philadelphia., ar $ 3 17 ii 6 23 !|lO 2ii 4 25 Baltimore " § 3 11 || 6 00 j 9 f5 2 30: Washington ..." § 4 10 |, 7 16 10 55: 4 05, ATAD P, M. Sunbury lv §lO 00 § 2 15 1 : Dewiatown Jc. ar II 45 105 1 Pittsburg •' ti 55.§10 45 j A.M. P, M P. M. P M _ llarrlsburK-,.. lv 11 45 1! 5 IK) || 7 15ig 1025 P. M. A M. A. M. A M UttsburK ar " ti 55 ]| 160{|| 1 50 5 30; IP. M.II'MA M| A M! Pittsburg lv ! 7 10 1] 1» 00 j 3 0011H 00: iA.M I A M P Ml llartisburg..,. ar' 2 OOjj 4 20 jj 0 :io,i 3 10 " AM: A Ml Plttsbuig lv : 5 8 00; Ii P M l..ewißtown Jj. " U 7 30j i 8 00 Sunbury ar j? V 20 j 4 60 P. M. AMY M A M Washington... lv 10 4U' ; f 7 sojjlo 50 Baltimore •• 11 U)|j 440 8 40 ; 11 4v"> Philadelphia... " 11 20 ' * 2.*. S ;to 11 10 A. M A MjA. M. P M Harrlsburg.... lv 3 351) 7 Sfiljll 10 \i 820 Suntiury ar ,i 5 00,: » Bti; 108 ? 5 05:["" il'.M.i A M A Mi Pittsburg Iv £ 12 46 3 00 ? 8 0" Clearfield.... »I' 3 501 0 2S|'" " ! Pliilipsburg.. " 110 10 12: Tyrone "1 7 00! I? 8 111 12 251'" Bellefonte.. " 8 in; i it 32 105 '"" Dock Haven ar 015 10 ;>*»' 210 IP. M, A M V M 1' M Erie, lv ; 5 35 ! j I tii> Kane, " 845 lirioo j'" Kenovo " II 50 ? H 4,i 10 3o! '* lj,K.'k Haven.... " 12 liß 7 8.5 11 25 3 I*' A.M. I' >l; Williamsport.. " 220 830 12 10 4do Milton •* 228 it 17 125 4 4!• 808 K Bloomsburg.. " 737 10 43 2 1." 615 Espy Ferry " 742110 47 112 8 10 Creasy " 752 10 68 2V, fi 80 Nescopeck " 802 11 06| 30 5 840 "" AM A M P. M. P M t 'atawissa I\ 782 10 38 , 2 3t! 008 Nescopeck Iv 823 ;505g7 05 ' * * Kock (Hen ar II 22 7 28 Fern (Hen " 851 11 281 532 73) '' Touiliicken " 858 II .38 5 ;#> T42 Hazleton " it Hi 11 58 5 s!l| 806 *") Pottsville " 1011151 (j 55 AM AMP M P M Nescopeck Iv 802 .11 06 5305j 6 40 ■••• Wapwallopcn. ,ar 810 II 20 320 ti 62 Mocanauua.... " 8 :il II 32 330 701 Nanticoke " 858 11 64 3 If l 710 P Ml Plym'th Ferry' I it 03 12 02 3 5", 17 28 Wllksbarre ..." 910 12 10 4 Of, 785 AM P M P M P M PittSton(DAH) ar . V 29 112 55 5 4 sti . 8 l!« Scranton " " 10 08 i2l S2l'« (6 \ Weekdays. S Daily. 112 Flag station. Pullman Parlor and Sleeping Cars run on through trains between Surbury, Williamsport and trie, between Sunbnry au.l Philadelphia and Washington and between Harrisburg, Pitts burg and the West. For further information apply to Ticket Agents /. 1!. UIJTCIIINSON, J. 11. WOOD, Hen 'I Manager. Uen'l I'ass'n'r Ay Shoes, Shoe? Stylisih.! Clieap I lE£elia"bl© i Bicycle, Cymrtaslum and Tennis Shoes. THE CELEBRATED Carlisle Shoes AND THE Snag; Proof Itubher Boots A SPECIALTY. A. SCHATZ, SOIOIQ EI! A Hellabi* Tlur SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Itoeflnfe Spoutlne and OanaNil Job Work. Stoves, Heaters, Furnaces, eto. PRICKS THE LOWEST! QIIILITY TAB BEST! »t JOHN HIXSON NO. 116 E. FRONT BT. PHILADELPHIA READING RAILWAY IN EFFECT MAY 17th, 1902 TKAINB LEAVE DANVILLE For Pliilailelphia 11:24 a. m. For New York 11:24 a. m. For Catawissa 11:24 a. 111, and 6:01 p. m. For BliKimsburg 11:24 a. m, For Milton 8:03 a m., and 4:00 p. m. For Williamsport 8:03 a. m, and 4:00 p. m. Trains for Baltimore, Washington, the South and West via B. & O. K. K. leave Reading Terminal, Philadelphia at 7:55,11:26 a. m , 3:46 , 7:27 p m Sundays 3:20 a m . 7:55, 11:26. 3:46,7:27 p.m. Additional trains from 24th and Chestnut street station, week days, 1:35, 5:41, 8:23 p m , Sunday 1;35, 8:23 p. m TRAINS FOR DANVILLK. Ix'ave Philadelphia 10:21 a m Leave Williamsport 10:00 a. m , 4;30 p m. Leave Milton 11:00 a. m , 5:20 p m. Leave Bloomsburg 7:10 a. m , 3:30 p m. Leave Catawissa 7:16 a m , 3:36 p m. ATLANTIC CITY DIVISION. I>jave Philadelphia, Chestnut street Wharf and South street Wharf. For ATLANTIC ClTY—Week-, lay*—Eipre*. 9.00 10:45 a. in. (LOOSaturdays only,) 2:00,4:00,4:30 5 00, t5:10. 7:15 j>. m. I»cal 6:00 a ir„, 25.10 p. m. Sundays Express, 8:0J, 9:00, 10.OJ a. ni. 7:15 p. m, Local 0:00 a. 111 ,500 p. in. LEAVE ATLANTIC ClTY— Week-days—Kzpruan, 7:00, 7:45. 8:20, 0:00, 10:15, a. 111., 2.50, 5:30, 7:80 p.m. Local 6:25 a. m., 3.50 p. in. Sunday* Ex press 10.15 a. m., 4.30, 5.:t0, 7.30 p. m. Local 7 15 a. m„ 4.05 p. m. Parlor Cars on all express trains. LEAVE PHILADELPHIA. For CAPE MAY—Weekdays—B.3o. S 15 a, m. (Sat urdaysonly ? 1.40), *l.lO, {5.40 p. m. Sundays— -8,45, 9.15 a. 111., 5,00 p. m. For OCEAN ClTY—Weekdays—B,4s a- m., (Hat urdaysonly J140), t1.20, J5.40 p. 111. Sundays 8.45. 9.15 a. 111 , 5 00 p. in. For SEA ISLE ClTY—Weekdays 8.45 a.m. (Sat urdays only }.l 40) f4.20, J5.40 p, in, Sundays 8 45, a. 111., 5.00 p. m., fSouth St, 4.15 p. m. {South St., 5.30 p. 111., gSoutll St., 1.30 p. 111, ♦South St., 4.00 p. m- NEW YORK AND ATLANTIC CITY EXPRESS Leaves NEW YORK (Liberty Street) 3:40 a.m. Leaves ATLANTIC CITY, -8:30 a. m., Detailed time tables at ticket offices. W. A, GARRETT, EDSON J. WEEKS, Gen'l Supt., Gen'l Pass'r Agt Reading Terminal. Philadelp hla. ONK DAY ONLY Tuesday, Jill! Ist. Ba, I.to 9 y.ni PROF. J. ANGEL, THE EXPEIiT EYE SPECIALIST OF WILLIAMSPORT, will be at Hunt's Drugstore, he needa 110 further introduction as to his ability and workmanship in his profession. He is well known in this vicinity aud he can offer the names of many prominent citizenn of Danville and community, whom he has successfully treated. Those who suffer with headache, weak eyes or defective eyesight, will be well repaid to call on me. Hundreds of peo ple are going blind daily from the want of the projterly prescribed glasses, and from delaying attention to the eyes, from time to time. Nothing will de stroy your eyesight quicker than cheap glasses or glasses not properly fitted lo your eyes. I can examine your eyes at home, by appointment, without extra charge. If yon need me at your home, drop a line to Hunt's Drug Store. Reading or sewing glasses SI.OO aud up. PEGQ The Coal Dealer SELLS WOOD Prepared for Stoves —AT— -344 Ferry Street