3* O X-o-x-ofSilfe o* o o * ox-0-x-o*o-x-0 O O-X-O-x-O :O* o*o*oo*o*o*o*o-Xo*o*o*o*o*oox O HEN BOYS 1 WERE MEN 1 ■* o o * By JOHN HABBERTON. o* (?o Author of "Helen's Babies," "George Washington." Etc. O* o* *o O CnPYTIHUIT, 1001, 111' JOHN HAIMKIiTOX O* oL— : 1 • o . o o ■° *o *o * o o-x-o -* o* o o* o oo -x o■*o*o *o * o -x- o* o -x- o -x- o*o x- o o * o ..O *OXO*OX-O* O*O* O X- O -X- OX- O-X-O ** QV/OX OX- O -X- OXOXOX-OX-O X- OX-O -X O:{: Q « -mmmmr Then that grayish brown man fired. It is astonishing how much damage can be done by the buckshot which can be put into an old horse pistol 1 aft erward learned that ail the horses in the tirst set of fours, as well as two of the men. were hit. though none was seriously injured, by that grayish brown man's double shot. In half a minute some of our men were on the bridge, but so were some df the enemy. Ten seconds later tho bridge was jammed with horsemen. Fire fast! Fire fast!" screamed #ur major. The major meant well, but how much firing could be done on a bridge only wide enough for about four men abreast after the men In front had emptied their revolvers? How were any but the surest shots and those near est the front to tire without hitting their own comrades, who already were using their revolvers as hammers or hitting the Johnnies with bare fists? There was little firing on the other side, for nearly all the Confederates carried shotguns or muzzle loading muskets, which they could not reload in haste, BO after firing once they used their guns as lances, punching our men in breast or face and being horribly curs- Hi in return. Meanwhile each horse was looking out for No. 1. The horse is a wedge shaped animal, and each of our four footed wedges pushed liis head and shoulders between those of horses in front of him. This gave the animals absolute rest as well as safety while their riders were fighting. The major turned to the rear, first cautioning liis captains to maintain tiie pressure, and soon we heard liiin say: "Two rear companies dismount! Third company deploy on the right; fourth ou the left! l'epper their rear with carbines as long as there's a man of them In the saddle! Aim carefully! Be careful not to hit our own men!" This promised sickening slaughter, for our men with their carbines could get within 100 yards of the most dis tant Johnny and do a great deal of harm before the enemy could dismount and fire more than a single shot. Prob ably the enemy would follow our ex ample as soon as they saw what we were up to, if any of them were left after we had given them a volley or two. This is not a joke. Our Sharp carbines were as true as sporting rifles. For several months we hail been taught, when fighting dismounted with carbines or revolvers, to shoot from a rest whenever possible, and our prac tice shooting showed that anywhere within point blank range we could shoot well. At the major's orders three men of every set of fours in the last two com panies dismounted and hurried to trees, logs and fences near the creek. "Now, men," said the major to us, "as soon as they begin to fire nnd clear away the rear you press upon the ad vance with all your might. If we drive them off the bridge, divide, right and left, as soon as you get across and ride down their flanks, and we'll cap ture every mother's son of them who's alive." This seemed practicable, and I hoped it might begin at once. Had there been no other reason, It would be vastly pleasanter to take a lot of prisoners Into camp than to bury an equal num ber of Confederate dead, for burial party duty stays in one's mind. "Why don't those skirmishers begin firing?" shouted the major, though it was not easy to hear him above the horrid din on the bridge. "Crack!" went one of our carbines. I reined my horse toward the edge of the road to see when the enemy's rear should become weak enough for the pressure to begin. "Crack, crack, crack!" sounded in rapid succession, but the sounds were not like the report of revolver or car bine. Something new was occurring on the bridge, for all the men, both gray and blue, seemed to press to one side. A second or two later that entire bridge, containing 40 or 50 Union troop ers and as many Confederates, went down with a crash and a splash into the creek below. Here was the unexpected again, and a great deal of It, too, so I looked anx iously at the major to see what he was going to do about It. He didn't seem a bit puzzled. On the contrary, the bridge had scarcely fallen when he roared: "Skirmishers cover the road on the other side of the bridge! Don't let a reb get away! Second company dis mount; lie down along the edge of the bank! Cover every reb trying to get out of the water and order him to come ashore here!" Out of their saddles dropped Nos. 1, 2 and 3 of each set of fours in our troop, and in less than half a minute each had picked out for himself a gray target in the great gully below. The skirmishers had already begun to blaze away at the gray targets on the other side of the bridge, but the John nies, like sensible soldiers, broke right and left Into the woods, left their horses pretty well sheltered from fire by the standing timber and then took cover themselves behind the trees near est the creek and began to operate ex actly according to our tactics, firing on our skirmishers and trying to secure prisoners from the struggling mass below. We were the stronger In num bers and weapons, but nature gave the enemy one immense advantage. As members of the Potomac army will re member, creeks on the Virginia coast almost invariably have one bank high and steep and one which is low and shelving, and where we were fighting the steep bank was on our side. Our fellows could not easily get out, much less drag out prisoners, but the Johnnies had scp.mpercd up their own side before all of lis were in position to fire. Some, too, whose horses had been hit or who had dropped their guns dur ing the tumble had the presence of mind to take Yankee carbines or horses with them. One had the impudence to lead away two of our horses, including the forage, blankets and overcoats strapped upon the saddles, and he shel tered himself so skillfully with one of the animals that none of the bullets aimed at him seemed to hit. On the other hand, when one of our fellows tried to climb the bank on our side, perhaps with revolver In hand, try ing to drive an unarmed prisoner in front of him. he was a capital mark for the other side to shoot at, and if was hit his prisoner would general ly change his own mind and hurry back to his friends, faking with him the wounded man's revolver and car bine as a memento. Such a dash re quired him to wade the creek, but the water was not very deep, and a man who had once been wet did not seem to mind a little additional soaking. Suddenly the major, who had been closely eying all that had occurred, passed the word from man toman along the irregular line of kneeling, crouching or flat lying skirmishers that at the word of command all should drop over the bank, ford the creek, press the enemy as closely as possible and try to drive them to the left of the road. Two miles away on that side was another road by which we rightly imagined they would hurry for home should they think us too many for them. Men without carbines were warned to have their revolvers fully loaded before crossing. It took two or three minutes for cap tains, lieutenants and sergeants to pass "Ftiruar d!" this word along, but when the major roared "Forward!" over we went. The excitement of the jump was Intensified by our sabers. Many of us had made long jumps from barn roofs or brick piles or builders' scaffoldings when we were young, but our sabers hadn't. There's nothing adaptive about a saber anyway, so these weapons mixed them selves with our legs in a most alarm ing manner. We found the water quite as wet as any I had ever stepped into, and the bottom was not as hard and smooth as we would have liked. It made our legs feel overheavy, too, as we went up the opposite bank with our boots full of water, but it was no time and place to call for towels and dry trousers. "Forward!" again shouted the major, who had waded the stream with us as unconcernedly as if he were not wear ing his S2O trousers. "Forward!" he continued to repeat about once a sec ond, and"Forward!" shouted each cap tain after him. The Johnnies were brave fellows, but they weren't fools. They began to see that we could fire several shots to their one, and the fighting was at such close quarters that the instant one of them fired his muzzle loader a Yank was up on him demanding his surrender before he could reload. Soon they allowed us to chase them through the forest, an 1, as they were better woodsmen than we, they got away quite rapidly, taking with them, besides the prisoners they had already sent to their rear, one or two of our men who were a trifle too expert in the chase. When their firing slackened to scattering shots and final ly ceased, our bugle sounded the recall, and we were sent back to cross the stream for our horses, which were led one by one down a path hastily broken and dug in the steep bank with frag ments of the broken bridge and then up the opposite slope. CHAPTER XII. AFTER THE FIGHT WAS OVER. I*l T lfst we were on our l> iv v ' *1 mvn side °' t^e l,rid^ VfaM/r*; —those who were left 'fcrm.- • of us. Roll call show- °d thirty men missing from the first compa r' JM ny, which had carried 3/ °" ly meu into ac * '-~ J tion, besides several from each of the other companies. •Some of the missing we found dead or wounded in the creek and woods, with a larger number of the enemy in the same condition, but after a careful count we found the Johnnies had se cured about twice as many prisoners as we. The proceedings of the next hour or two would not have interested any ci vilian spectator in search of the glory of war. Several mounted men who had been hurried away to a farmhouse known to be about a mile down the road came back with all the farmer's wagons, carts, colored men, spades and picks. Into the wagons and carts on a lot of [tine tufts hastily picked were placed the wounded and our own dead. The colored men, under the direction of the farmer, who had kindly volun teered to help, buried the Confederate dead near the roadside. Some of the wounded groaned terribly, and one poor fellow almost broke my heart by faintly screaming "Father!" every mo ment. 1 didn't feel any better when we learned that the wounded boy whom we were about to cart away was a son of the old man who was preparing the dead Confederates for their last home. Then we knew why the old man had offered to assist the burial party and why he had looked so quickly and intently through the gath ering dusk into the faces of the dead. The boy had been brought in later from the woods, and the father would never have known of his presence had it not been for his cries. The next scene was equally painful— ♦lie old man begging, with tears in his eyes, to be allowed to take his wound ed child to liis own house and the ma jor insisting on his duty to carry all the wounded captives to our own camp. Several minutes before the old farmer had been to us only a stay at home reb el. Now there wasn't a man of us who would not have added our entreaties to liis had we dared. It was a great relief to all of us when our assistant surgeon, who had been rapidly examin ing the wounded, assured the old man that the boy would need frequent sur gical attention instead of home nurs iug if his life were to be saved, so he would be better off in onr hospital. Then the surgeoh offered the farmer his hand, and after a shake the old man sighed: "I'll take your word for it." I couldn't understand why a mere handshake was so convincing until one of our middle aged chaps told me that both men were Freemasons. But the .ag ony for us was resumed after we start ed for camp, for the major, though true to the letter of-his duty, was a Freemason himself, so he halted us in front of the old man's farm long enough to let the family come out and bid the boy good by, perhaps for the last time. They came down with a lantern, for it was now quite dark, and the mother sobbed and wailed as she leaned over the cart and did all her thinking aloud and told how handsome niul cheery her boy had looked when he took dinner at home a few hours before for the first time in months. Ilis pretty sister, whom all of us had adored from time to time as she stood at the farm gate with her father to see the soldiers pass by, prayed aloud for heaven's curse to fall on the man whose bullet had pierc ed her brother's lungs, and 1 am sure each of us trembled at the thought that the bullet might have been his own. Near them stood a little brother and sister crying in ttie pitiful, hopeless way that my brother Ned did when he first heard that I was going to the war. Yet this was not the only family that suffered by that engagement. Besides the men killed outright, some of our own comrades died afterward of their wounds without father, mother, sisters or brothers to say goodby to them. Not all the missing were taken prisoners by the enemy, and nearly half a year of awful uncertainty and of frantic letter writing passed before we learned this through our captured men who re turned when exchanged. One of our men, whose log was broken by a bullet anil who then was knocked senseless by a glancing shot on his head, floated down the shallow stream some dis tance before he came to his senses and got ashore. Stanching his wound by tying a strip of his shirt tightly around his leg, he bound the broken limb in twigs and then spent two whole days and nights in crawling on his hands and one knee to our nearest picket sta tion, several miles distant. In the ear ly spring a colored man who went to the creek to lisli found the remains of one of our men beside a tree, a mile below the scene of the tight, and scratched on the bark of the tree were a few words telling how the poor fel low had died a lingering death from wounds, exposure and starvation. Yet the entire engagement, in which a full third of the men on the bridge were either killed, wounded or captured within 15 minutes, was in military parlance "merely a little brush." Mention of it never got into the newspapers. There were thou sands like it, except for the falling bridge, during the war, the results be ing too small or gradual to be part of the history which was being made by some great engagements which pro portionately were not so bloody. Per haps the story of this one will explain to some people why old soldiers when chatting together about the war talk much of the march and camp, but very little about fighting. The fight at the bridge was these j verest engagement in which our com- I pauy had ever participated, so I ought j to have been so absorbed by It as to be insensible to anything but my I duty as a soldier. I am glad to say , that I loaded, aimed and fired as care fully as if—oh, as if it were the first day of the "open season" for quail ID the woods and fields near Summerton. Nevertheless I frequently detected my self in the act of looking about me tc see what other men were doing. 1 saw Cloyne loading and firing as placidly and smilingly as if ho were merely making out bills at the Summerton lumber yard. .Mick McTwyny was handling his carbine as energetically as If it were it coffee mill, y«.*t lu his excitement he was discharging it in the direction of the sun, the tree tops and his own toes, as if the enemy were atoms of the surrounding air and could be easily hit by a man with his eyes shut. Meanwhile he was volubly curs ing his platoon In English and Irish, with some assistance from the verbi age of the holy Scriptures and the vo cabulary of the Bowery, for not firing more rapidly and carefully. "Look at that little dhlvil Brainard!" he shouted. "lie's puttin' rebs into pur gatory as fast as if he wns walkin' to Sunday school in Summerton." Brainard i The sound of his name startled me and caused a guilty pang as my having been concerned only for my own lif Impressed me. I looked quickly abv. <„ for him and just in time to see him roll sldewise from behind a fallen log, his face as white as the pa per on which I am writing. Killed? No, he moved. I hurried to his side and asked him where he was hit. "In the heart. Jack, but 'twas not the enemy that hit me. 'Twas Mick Mc- Twyuy's tongue. Great heaven I I've vowed my life a hundred times to the saving of men—you know I was study ing for the ministry. But now I'm try ing to kill men! It's all—but why aren't you firing? See that red beard ed face sticking out from behind a tree on the other side of the creek? No, no! Don't you fire at him! Ilere goes!" Bralnard's lips closed so tight that I could not see their dividing line, so I looked toward the Confederate with a red beard, and a second after Brainard fired I saw the red bearded man clap a hand to his shoulder. Then the angles of his elbows and knees indicat ed that he had gone out of action and sat down behind his tree. At that instant Brainard himself had a strip of skin and a bit of flesh taken from his cheek by a shot from the other side, but he did not know of it till the fight was over. I was recalled to a sense of duty by Cloyne, who drawled: "What are you lounging for, Jack? This isn't a Sunday school picnic." Quickly I covered my confusion by regaining the cover I had left, but I was still curious to know what other men were doing. The Balaklava vet erans were side by side on the ground and as flat as the head of u snake about to coil, thqugh they did not seem intent on striking. Not far to my right stood Phil Hamilton, handsome and composed as usual, but in apparent trouble with his pistol. He looked BO superb, with his clear cut face, erect figure and broad shoulders, that for a moment 1 wished my cousin May ! might see him. Then I was glad she ! could not, for did not Brainard lovw j May, and was not Brainard my dear- J est friend? Still, pistols nre made only to shoot I wilh, and the moment of battle is the i time to use them, so I hurried over to j Hamilton and said: "Take my pistol and give me yours, j Mine is in perfect order, and, as I helped father when lie was inventing a revolver, I know something of a pis tol's works." "Thank you, Jack," said he as coldly as If he had been born and brought up in an icehouse, "but I think 111 con quer it in the course of time." I was somewhat offended by ills manner, but I reminded myself that j there Is a time for everything and that PWhy can't we come ovh to your hOuse and play anv more? I Because papa gets so man when we make a little bit of noise. What makes him that way ? >1 , Mftmma says it's dys ) pepjia makes him act if. *• so crazy. V, r Tilat s about the way /- it strikes the email boy. ' A Vs< Thp dyspeptic has no > ;mSidaa of his own unrea sonaßleuess or liarsh ! ness. Little things are magnified and seem to jtistyy his quick anger. There's health for the ' JB' '''' and happiness •■/MB, ' or the family by the Sv üße Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discov ery. It cur«s diseases of the stom ach anS other organs of digestion and nutrition, ana restores perfect health and strength, by enabling tha perfect digestion and assimila tion of fobd. "I ha«£ taken oue bfttle of Dr Pierre's QqWvP Medical UWaJPery for indigestion dnd livir SJmplalnt." fcVites Mr. C. M wftlofl. TO viajtih Coll«e«. Davidson Co,. N C "Have 068 no bad spells since I corttafcitig njedicine in fact. not Wit lit* the same man. Be for* I took «h0 'Qplijtn Discov ery ' I costo not oaTHijy thing without nw ftu dfifrew, Cut O<JW lean &6t anything I Wish without hating OBpleasant reelings." Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cleanse ana ffeguldte the bowels. In the thick of battle was not the time to expect a polite reply, even from the Chesterfield of Sunimerton. When again I chanced to look toward Hamil ton, 1 saw that his face was very white and he was looking at. a card photo graph. I could not doubt who the orig inal was. On our homeward ride big I'at Callahan snarled: "Did ye's see our swell commissary sergeant behind the thickest tree there was? I'm thinkin' he was afeard o' gittin' his beauty spots scratched!" "G'wan to blazes!" snarled Mick Mc- Twyny In reply. "Commissary sar- Jints don't nade to fight if they don't want to. Besides, it's better that we'd lose the captain—yes, or the colo nel—than the man that kapes us in the best of grub that can be made of ra tions." «s£ %' / vtA I - , -\rVc.| "Don't you fire at him!" "I'm not sarin' ye lie." Pat replied, "but if I had as little stomach for grub ns he has for figlitin' I'd goto the hos pital and stay there." After unsaddling 1 was greatly de layed in reaching the quarters, for I "went over" my horse very carefully to learn whether he had been wound ed. Horses have their own reasons for not reporting "a mere scratch" that might In time disable them. Climbing our bunk Brainard's and mine—which was at the top of a tier, I saw my elrum lying down, with a pocket mirror in one hand, my cousin May's portrait In the other and with tears in his eyes. "Brace up, old chap!" said I. He quickly turned his hands to hide their contents, but his face was too honest to hide anything that was be hind it. Besides, he said in fragments between sobs: "I was homely enough before. Now I'm disfigured for life. The surgeon wouldn't deny it, anil Hamilton —he always was handsome. Heaven made him so. Therefore I've no right to complain, but—but"— "But you fought, and he didn't." "Eh?" "He didu't, 1 say. I was watching him." Brainard mopped his eyes with his hands and looked proud an instant. Then he groaned: " 'Tis a hard world, Jack." The cruelest thing about It was that Brainard was the only member of our company that got a scratch, though fully half of Us, not being handsome, like Hamilton, coveted the scar which Brainard wore after his wound healed. Among the half that did not covet that "red badge of courage" was Hamilton. He never spoke of it, but many times afterward did I see our handsome com missary sergeant look at Brainard's cheek with an expression that indicat ed extreme satisfaction and triumph, with a dash of contemptuous pity that made me hate the man, though lie had always been so considerate of my ab normal appetite that he had slyly given me double rations of hard tack when we went out scouting. [TO UK CONTINt'KI)|. Good n*nrt«'«l nu»> I>o«1 !•>■. There are thousands of good people In this world who, having very little trouble in managing their own affairs, spend their leisure hours In making plans for their neighbors and consti tute themselves self appointed general managers of other men's lives. Anything more positively aggravat ing than the disclosures of these schemes can hardly be conceived when they are made to reticent, thinking persons who are using every effort to control the circumstances which sur round them to the best advantage. To have concentrated every energy to tlio amendment of adverse influences and then have some eager, energetic friend como upon you suddenly and ask you, Inuch as if waking you front a lethar gy, "Why don't you do thus and so?" Is a severe test of your temper find your affection for the speaker. But, after all, it was kindly meant, and these good hearted busybodies, whose "fad" is the regulating of their friends' families, meant to lend you o helping hand. Wo are taking away what stands to them in the place of a full purse and the use of an uplifting lever when we refuse to listen.—New, York Post early muskmelons. eslci-ii Coin]>e(ition Is Shaking Up i In* Kiistern Industry. Eastern markets have been success fully invaded if not captured by re fourceful western melon growers, abet ted by the favorable soil and climatic conditions of the irrigated regions of the Arkansas river. Realizing appar ently that it behooves the eastern grower to get a very decided "move on" himself in order to m> % this com petition successfully, the Cornell (N. Y.i station offers the following infor mation and advice: The early muskmelon crop is obtain ed by growing the plants in hotbed or greenhouse. In one region west of Rochester glass houses have been spe cially erected for the purpose of grow ing (lie plants designed for early crop. These houses are of the simplest type. They are usually even span, twelve feet wide, and provided with a center bench and two side benches. Conical boilers are ordinarily employed to fur nish heat. The houses also aid mate rially in growing early tomatoes. The usual method of raising the plants is us follows: Specially constructed bottomless ve neer boxes approximately 3 Inches square and 1 inches deep are made by the growers. The boxes are placed on the bench, and into the bottom of each is pressed a wad of rotted barnyard manure, after which they are filled with light garden loam. The soil Is then packed down with a "tamper," when they are ready for the seed. About five seeds are planted in each box and covered by sifting soil over them. The usual care is given in wa tering. The plants should have a tem perature of about 85 degrees In the daytime and 00 to 70 degrees at night. One of the most serious difficulties is caused by the "damping off" fun gus. When afflicted with this trouble, the plants wilt down during periods of cloudy weather soon after the seed leaves develop. Occasionally the trou ble appears before that time. The fungus is promoted by lack of ventila tion and sunshine and by overwater ing. By watering carefully, ventilat ing freely and keeping up the heat during cloudy periods it is checked. The disease may also be appreciably prevented by spraying the plants and soli with potassium sulphide, using one ounce dissolved in three gallons of water. Soil rich in vegetable matter may be expected to encourage the dis ease. Melons grown under glass are started late in April or early in May. Care must be exercised if the seed is sown earlier to keep the plants from becom ing drawn and "leggy." The house grown plants are set on the warmest site possible for the first crop. The site should be chosen with due regard to immunity from late frosts. Ordinarily In Niagara county the plants are set out during the third or fourth week of May. The house grown plants are set very expeditiously. The boxes containing the plants are distrib uted by a man or boy and the plant set by another. In mellow soil a hole is made with the hand, the box quickly torn apart and the cube of earth with plants pressed into the prepared hill. It is important that the soil should have been thoroughly tilled so that the nat ural moisture shall have been con served. When good surface tillage has been given, watering will be unneces sary. Teacher—What do you mean by a "quietus?" Pupil—A blow in the solar plexus.— Puck. Dizzy? Then your liver isn't acting well. You suffer from bilious ness, constipation. Ayer's Pills act directly on the liver. For 60 years they have been the Standard Family Pill. Small doses cure. All druggists. j Want your tnoustarh** or Inward a beautiful i brown or rich black " Then ua© BUCKINGHAM'S DYE Whiskers j hi . is. or DHU(.C.«M«. OR H P HAH a Co.. NASHUA, w H. _ The Home Paper of Danville. Of course you read JI Mil B. ( j THE FIEOPLEIS I KQPULAR 1 A PER. Everybody Reads It. Published Every Morning Except Sunday No ii E. Mahor /igSt. Subscription Oca. Kr Week. MONEY IN MULES. An Attractive IN»**l bllity For flie A \ erage I'uriiit'r. The mule is not raised for his beauty, but is intended for hard service, and this object should be kept in view in selecting sire and dam. The block} - mules, as the trader designates them, are the most salable, whether they be fourteen, fifteen or sixteen hand mules. Some markets call for large mules, while others want the smaller ones. So they are all salable, especially if | they are of the blocky type—that Is, i squarely built, heavy bodied animals. The great advantage to the farmer in raising mules is in this: They are hardy, healthy, easily raised and come to maturity early. In fact, they are salable from ten days old and as long as they live. You can raise a mule as cheaply ns you can a calf. The mule will be ready for market nearly as soon as your calf and will bring twice as much. In tiiis and like counties where our farms are adapted to grass and where but little grain is grown we can finish the mule ready for market while we can only get our cattle ready for the feeder. One can readily see the ad vantage to the farmer in growing mules instead of cattle, especially in this part of the country. I refer, of course, to the average farmer, who does not have a great deal of pasture lands and who finds it necessary to make his pastures as well as his feed bring the greatest possible returns. My experience is that a given amount of pasture will carry ns many mules as it will sheep or cattle, and j the profit is much more on the mules | than it Is on either the sheep or cattle. There has been more money made by farmers in this county raising mules than by handling any other class of stock, concludes a Missouri correspond ent of the American Agriculturist. Voting mules are bought from neigh- I boring farmers in the fall, when they i are old enough to be weaned. They are kept until ready for market. I Swept Corn In Sncceniilon. For a suicession during the season White Cory, Champion and Sheffield are desirable early sorts. Evergreen, Hickox and Country Gentleman are rrnong the best for midseason, Stowell *nd Mammoth for late. Taking No Chances. "No, thank you," said the fox to the sick lion, "I don't think I'll come in. I observe that all the footprints about the entrance to your cave point in ward." "That is easily explained," replied the lion. "As lam king of beasts, it is quite natural that my subjects should walk backward when leaving my pres ence." The explanation seemed plausible I enough, but the fox had his doubts.— j Judge. •=• CATARRH CATARRH ||ggl Ely's Cream B'tsy ami pleasant jto use. Contains sorbed. (lives Re jef at once. HAY FEVER It opens and cleanses the Nasal Pas sages. Allays Inttamation. Heals and Protects the Membrane, j Restores the Senses of Taste and Smell Large Size, 50 cents; Trial Size, 10 cents at Druggists or by mail. ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren Street, New York. MORKLIVES aresaved ...BY USING... 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 Eottle Free. ' D, L& I RAILROAD. TIME TABLE. Corrected to May i, 1901. NEW YORK. A M * Barclay ST Lv.L 2 OO 10 OO ( liristopher St.. 200 ! LOI6 ; Hoboken 2 .'MI . I 52 I seranton \i 032 I'M Bttllalo Lvc 11 '■*' 2 JR> Scranton. AR 545 10 oo ,\M+ AM' I'M) ScitAHTOK <1 1") 10 0-"> I 55 liellcvue »> ."»•> J I Tayiorville 055 IN 15 aOS ! Lackawanna 7HI 1U 23 2 I<l ' Duryea TO3 lu 20 213 ! Pittston 7 T>T 1(1 .11 2I" Susquehanna Ave... 7I" LO :F3 A lit I West Pittston 7la 10:15 22; Wyoming ~'' '0 10 227 Forty Fort "..... i Bennett 721 111 49 231 0 !X) Kingston ar. 1 7 .'ML 10 51 2 40! 0.15 Wilkes-Barre....Ar 710 II 10 250 048 Wilkes-Barre L.ve 720 11! JH) A3U ! 020 Kingston I\ 730 10 51 2 -10 I ti 35 Plymouth .lunc... . ; Plymouth 7 !»8 11 03 2411 0 4.'i Avondale 7 42 .. 2 :>4 J Nanticoke 745 11 II aSB 1 (I 51 Hun lock'S 751 11 17 3 Oti I ti 57 Shickshinny S Ol II 2!L 320! 710 Hick's Ferry *'2 FLL 4a 330!f 721 Heach Haven K IK 11 48 337 728 Berwick 82! U54 344 7ID Briar Creek ft* 28 F 3 50 | Willow Grove »M 112 3 54 Lime Uldge *•" FL2 Of 358 I Espy J *»• 12 15 400 752 Bloomsburg " " 12 22 412 | 757 Kupert. .... | 9 12 27 4 17' 801 Catawissa ' 12 32 4 '22 ' SOS Danville j 12 47 435 H2O Chulasky ••• ■ 4 42 Cameron 1 12 57 448 NOKTIIVMHBKLAND . 1 10 6 (XI X 45 Ar. AM PM I'M PM GOING EAST. PM* Nltw VOW 335 PMF Barclay ST, AR it 30 500 Christopher St... 315 465 , Hoboken 10 05 448 Kcranton AM* 12 55 PM* AM* AM* Buffalo AT! 800 12 45 700 Scranton LV 155 548 II .35 j M* PMT PM+ I PM* Scranton j 42 12 35 460 845 Hellevue i 9 RF7 445 Tayiorville I 932 440 835 Lackawanna ..... 9 2ti : 432 827 Duryea I it 23 ! 429 825 PlttSton. . . 9 L'J 12 17 424 821 Susqr.ch .40 1 910 12 14 ! 420 818 West P • 'I 913 417 810 Wyotn " 909 12 08' 112 812 Forty T " ! 904 I 407 1ie. 1.1 J " I «C I 403 801 Kui i," I 868 lion! 400 802 WIL K es-Barre * i.v' * "50 I 350 750 W IC s- Italic AT 11 9 S 1- 1" '4 10 Bin Ston, ....j » 1159 400 802 ymouth junction * iy mouth... **' 11 61 1 34< <«3 Avondale s 3 42 Nanticoke S !1K 1' 43 338 . 7 4ti Hunlock S K 3 31 1 17 41 Shlcksliinny *22 U29 320 <3l Hick's Ferry ...... I** ...... 3 U'.L 17 21 Heaeh Haven 02 3 03 12 Berwick '... ' :Y> 11 05 F2 58 * 0-J Briar Creek..*. .'.'..' If 2 53 0158 Willow TIROVE 1 L FA s{! • Lime Kidge L 2 4ti | lb •>€ Espy 'J 5 ? 10 48 240 ; <> 41 BloomsburK Lri 34 !! li' v Kupert I i]' 10 3" a 29 | J> & Catawissa ' I' - 10 34 224 021 Danville 0 :>S 10 19 All <i 15 Chulasky i J- "nV," Cameron IJ' *' 12 01 «0 (V NOBTHUMBBBL'D...; 110 00 + 1 50 »» BV A.M. Connections at Kupert with Philadelphia & Heading Kail road lor Tamanend, Tamaqua Williamsport, Sunbury, Pottsville, etc. A Northumberland witli P and E. Div. P. 14. K. lo Ilarrisburg, Lock Haven, Emporium, W arret Corry, and lirie. * Daily, t Daily except unday. fStop oi signal. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. TIME T4BLE In Effect May, 25, 1902- A M | A.M. . P.ML Scranton( D4IH)!v I 6 38 ?» 38 142P1 87 Pittston " " 705 R 1000 §a 10 4 52R.... A. M. A. M. P. M, P.M Wilkesbarre,.. I v JJ 725 §lO :I5 j2451T 00 Plym'th Ferry " 1 7 32 110 42 112 2 52 L' 607 ' Nanticoke " 742 10 50 301 617 \[\\\ Wocanaqua .... " 801 11 07 320 037 Wapwallopen.. " 8 10 11 10 331 047 Ncseopeck ar 818 11 at; 342 700 **"* A.M. A.M. P.M. Pottsville lv § 5 50 'SLL 55: llazleton ■' 705 jl2 52 1-2 45 "" Tomhicken " 722 ! 11l 305 ""] Fern Glen " 7 2!I 1 18 315 Kock tilen " 7 3.". ! 322 ..... Nescopeck ar 800 j 1 45, * . GatawissH 4 oo A. M A.M 'P.M. P M Nescopeck lv § 8 18 §ll at; a42>7 oo Creasy » ' 8 30 11 3t;| 352 7 09 '.... Espy Ferry.... " I 8 42 11 401 ( 4 02. 7 20 E. BlootnsburK. " 847 II 50j 400; 7A 5 Catawissa lv 855 11.571 4 13; 32 South Danville " » 14 12 15 4 31, 751 Sunbury ar 9 3.J la 401 4 55| 815 ;A, M. P. M.;P. M'IUI.~ N Sunbury lv || 9 42 §l2 18;§ 5 I0j;I» 40 Lewisburg.... ar 10 13 145 5 40, Milton " lu 08 139 53510 07 Williamsport.. " 11 Oti 141 ti 30 10 55 Lock Haven... " 11 59 220 7 31' Kenovo "A.M. 300 8 30! Kane " 8 25 _ P.M. P.M. Lock Haven. .lv 10 II 3 45' Bellefonte ....ar 10511 4 44: Tyrone " a2OII 0 011 PUilipNbttrg " 435? 802 Clearfield.... '• 525S 845 Pittsburg.... " 055 HlO 45 A.M. P.M. P. M. P M Sunbury lv 960§1 59 1 520 118 31 llarrlsburg.... ar II 3o § 3 15 II 0 50|L0 10 P. M. P. M. P. M A M Philadelphia., ar § 3 17'|| 6 23 ||lo 20 4 35 Baltimore "§3ll || 0 00 J 9 45j 2 30 Washington... " § 4 LO |, 7 15 10 55 4 05| ' ATM? P, M.| j I Sunbury lv §lO OOijj a 15 Ijcwintown .lc. ar 111 45 4 05; ( Pittsburg -'J 0 55|§10 451 j I A.M.'P.M. P. M. P M llarrisburK.... lv II 45:11 5 00I|| 7 15 §1025] P. M. A M. A. M. A Ml Pittsburg ar 9 ti 55J|| IsoJ|| 1 50] 5 30j P. M. P M A M I A M Pittsburg lv I 7 111 J 9 00 J 3 00 ( 8 00 .... A.M AM P M llarrisburg.... ar i 2 00 3 4 20 1 9 30 I 3 10 AM A M Plttsbuig lv 1 8 00 .... P M l.owistown Jo. " i 7 30 J 3 t*) .... Sunbury ar I 9 20 '■ 4 60 .... P. M. A M A M A M Washington... lv ,10 40 II 7 50 ilO 50 .... Baltimore " all 00 | 440 840 IJLL 45 ..... Philadelphia... " 811 20 ]425: 830 I|1 1 40J A. M. A M A. M. P M llarrisburg.... lv |335 | 7 sT>| ill 40 j> 320 Sunbury ar | 500 |J TF 3tij 108 \ 6 05||" T^ P.M. A MA Ml Pittsburg lv jia 45 8 3 00 5 8 tNi Clearfield.... " *3 50 0 28'... Philipsburg.. " 440 10 la " Tyrone " 700 #8 10 12 25 Bellefonte.. " 8 Iti 932 105 Lock Haven ar 915 10 30 210 ' P.M. A MA M PM Krie, lv J 5 35 1 Kane " 845 IS ti 00 Kenovo " 11 50 J 0 4.">j 10 3T) Lock Haven.... " 12 88 ' 7 IF) U25 300 A.M. P M Williamsport.." 229 8 30I?ia 40 400 Milton •' 2 a3j 917 125 440 Lewisburg " »o.">| 1 15 442 Sunbury ar 324 940 1 55* 615 "J" A. ML A M P M ■ p 1W Sunbury 1 V|S t> 15 »55;2 00 ; S.»*, South Danville") 7 ILL IO 17 221 SJJ Catawissa " 7 32J lo 35 2.R, ; 1 Y (W •••■• K Bloomsburg.. " 737 10 43 "j.,! JJ- Kspy Ferry " 742 110 47 s "' ( g jy' ••- - • Creasy. "J 752 10 •«, NESCOIWCK 802 N O6 ... o: , 6 40; ® A M l'. M. P M I t atawissa I\ m 230 <>oß Nescopeck lv 8 23.. .. S 5 0.5 j7 05 •''''* Kock (ilen jy # jj Fern (Hen.... N 2HL"5*32 73! Tomhicken.,.. U s 11 )I8 5 38 : T42 jla/.leton •> N & 5 5 ,,1 GOI; "" Pottsv;| le 10 15 | ti 55 . AM AMP M P M * Nescopeck lv ; 8 02 ijll 05 ;J3 05 i 0 40 Wapwallopen. .ar 8 lv« 11 20, 3 20! 0 62 Mocanauua .... "| 831 11 32 330 701 Nanticoke " 853 II 64 319 719 P Ml j Plym'th Ferry' F 903 I 2 02 3 5'J 17 28 Wiiksbarro ... 910 12 10 1 4 051 735 AM P M P M P M PlttSton(DA'H) ar F 9 S9 Ilia 55 j: 4 60 , 8 36 Scranton " " 10 08J 124 5 I Weekdays. B Daily. t Flag station. Pullman Parlor and Sleeping Cars run on through trains between Sunbury, Williamsport ami Krle. between Sunbury AOD Philadelphia and Washington and between llarrisburg, Pitts burg and the West. For further information apply to Ticket Agents J. I!. HUT VII INS ON, J. 11. WOOD, (Jen'l Manager, Gen'l I'ass'n'r Ay Shoes, Shoe? j Stylisix! Clieap I lESella/ole I Bicycle, Cymnasium and Tennis Shoot.. THK CKLKHRA'I I*-D Carlisle Shoes AND THE Snag Proof' Rubber Hoofs A SPECIALTY. A. SCHATZ. VMS NEW! A Roliam© TIN SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing Spouting and Ceneral Job Work, Stoves, Heaters, Ranges, Furnaces, etc. PRICES THE LOWEST! QUILITV THE BEST! JOHN HIXSON NO. 116 E, FRONT ST. 11l 111 INSURANCE CO. OF PHILADELPHIA, PA., Issues the most liberal con tracts and at lower rates than any other first class company: Send me your age before applying for insurance else where. I will send you sam ple policy. WILL~6!TRAMER. SPECIAL AGENT Danville, Pa PHILADELPHIA READING RAILWAY IN EFFECT .11'NK 27th, 1902 TRAINS LEAVE DANVILLE For Philadelphia 11:24 a. m. For New York 11:24 a. m. For Catawissa 11:24 a. m, and C:0I p. m. For Bloomsburg 11:24 a. m, For Milton 8:03 a m., and 4:00 p. m. For Williamsport 8:03 a. m, anil 4:00 p. m. Trains for Baltimore, Washington, the South and West via li. A: O. K. H. leave Heading Terminal, Philadelphia at 7:55,11:20 a. ni , 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 DANVILLE. Leave Philadelphia 10:21 a m Leave Williamsport 10:00 a. in., 4:30 p. m. Leave Milton 11:00 a. m , 5:20 pin. Leave Bloomsburg 7:10 a. m , 3:30 p m. Leave Catawissa7:lfi a. m , 3:36 p. m. ATLANTIC CITY DIVISION. Leave Philadelphia, Chestnut street Wharl and South street Wharf. For ATLANTIC ClTY—Week-days—Express, 9.00 10:45 a. m. (1.00 Saturdays only,) 2:00, 1:00, 4:30 5.00,15:40, 7:15 p. m. Local 6:00 a. m., 15.40 p. m. Sundays Express, 7:3J, S:3O, 10:00 a. m. 7:15 p. m, Loeal 6:00 a. m., 5:00 p. ni. LEAVE ATLANTIC ClTY—Week-days—Express, 7:00, 7:15, 8:20, 9:00,10:15, a, in., 2 hi. 5:30, 7:30 p, in. Local 6:25 a. in., 3.50 p. m, Sundays Ex press 10.15 a. m., 1.30, 5.30, 7,30 p. in. Local 7.15 a. m„ 4.051). m. Parlor Cars on all express trains. LEAVE PHILADELPHIA. ForOAPE MAY—Weekdays—B.3o, s 45 a.m. (Sal urdays only ?1.40), *4.10, J5.10 p. m. Sundays— -8,45, 9.15 a. m., 5.00 p. in. For OCEAN ClTY—Weekdays—B,4s a- m.. (Sat urdays only §140), f1.20, 15.40 p. m. Sundays 8.45, 9.15 a. 111 . 5 00 p. 111. For SKA ISLE ClTY—Weekdays 8.45 a. m. (Sat urdays only £1.40) 112 1.20, Jb.4o p. m, Sundays 8 45, a. in., 5,00 p. in., fSouth St , 4.15 p. m., JSoutli St., 5.30 p. in., J Sou th St,, 1.30 p. m, ♦South St., 4.00 p. in- NEW YORK AND ATLANTIC CITY EXPRESS Leaves NEW YORK (Liberty Street) 3:40 a.m. Leaves ATLANTIC CITY, -8:30 a. in., Detailed time tables at ticket offices. W. A, GARRETT, EDSON J. WEEKS, Gen'l Supt.. Gen'l Pass'r Agt Reading Terminal. Philadelphia. PEGG The Coal Dealer SELLS WOOD Prepared for Stoves -AT -344 Ferry Street
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