m «rnmtT■ ii—r nr*Wa> 40 X- o*o*o *O*C >**o*o*o*o :: o :■: c*o*oo*O*o*o - ok I _ - 1 -y o ■■■• o■ ■ 0 : ■ 0 *o' • 0 *Q* o* o o-o- v 0 * ■ W" ~ HEN BOYS I WERE MEN I By JOHN HABBERTON. ||™ (Author of "Helen's Babies," "George Washington." Etc. o>;--k *oB : 6 com:i'hit, r-t, in' .mux iiMtitKß'nus o*| J - 0 ) O ' ' O*o *O*Oiotl "What is that for?" asked the cap tain. "So," said Brainard, "that if I'm shot I can't fall out of the saddle. The horse will be sure to hurry hack to camp, and the enemy won't get the dis patches, as they might if I were to fall." The captain nodded to the colonel, who raised his eyebrows, and Brain ard hurried out the road at an easy gallop. I walked a little way in the same direction and strained my cars for shots, but heard none. I did not sleep much that night. Should Brain ard be killed I would always feel that 1 had sacrificed his life to save my own; should he succeed, why, confound him, I would again have to feel as un comfortable ns I did when he did the work arid got the glory of our rescue when we were made prisoners. I did not feel any easier at learning that about an hour before I hnd started a man on a harnessed horse had come galloping wildly out of that same road and hurried to the rear. Until tattoo I paced the ground on which our troop was camped. After tattoo I resumed my tramp. The guards were changed at 10 o'clock, midnight, li In the morn ing, and I was still awake, for Brain ard had not returned. The captain, who felt responsible for the safe deliv ery of the dispatches, awoke, joined me and said he hoped my chum had get through all right; then he also began to pace to and fro, which Increased my anxiety. Toward dawn I fell asleep through sheer exhaustion. Just after sunrise I was aroused by being shak en. When I opened my eyes, over me tent Brainard, very pale of face, but wondorfully bright of eye. "Tell me about it," I demanded. "Oh," said Brainnrd, "1 never was so frightened in my life. After loping along a few minutes it occurred to me that I had better know my way before trying it, so I dismounted and bid my horso in the woods beside tho road, leaving my saber there also. Then I sneaked down the road, with my re volver in my hand and my heart in my mouth, to find out where and what that cavalry was. It might have been somo of our own men, you know. Pretty soon I heard tho clanking you spoke of. Didn't It sound dreadful in tho dark, though? I crouched and sneaked from one tree to another, and the noise grew louder, but not a human voice could I hear, nor was there any odor of tobacco In the air. These two facta Lothered me greatly, for when soldiers * 110 are awake cease talking aud smok ing there's something serious on hand. "Pretty soon I heard a splash. 'Aha!' thought I. 'Somebody is watering his horse in a brook or pond.' I crept still closer. The ground became lower, as if there might be a brook there. I got nearer still until I made out a bridge at my left, but not a trooper could I see. 1 began to shiver and recall ghost stories. I don't believe in ghosts, you know, but the dim light and mysterious noises made me think of them in spite of myself. Finally I got right on the bank of the brook and looked over. Then I was more surprised than scared, for I could make out tlireo horses with- | out riders and something that looked like a tent, but all In the water. 1 made bold to challenge, but there was no reply. Then I became so excited that I thought I might as well be shot as die through bursting a blood vessel, so I got some matches out of my jack et. struck a light aud made a little tire of dry leaves and twigs, and what do you suppose I saw? An ammunition wagon lying on its side and three of its four horses partly hitched. Apparently it had fallen from the bridge, which was very narrow and had 110 rail. It was the rattle of the chains of the har ness that made the noise you and 1 and the other fellow had mistaken for the clank of saber scabbards. But wasn't I provoked with myself for having been frightened?" "No worse, I'll bet, than I am at hav ing been scared back to camp by such a bogy." "I felt so ashamed," continued Brain ard, "that I really wished there might bo soldiers somewhere in the neigh borhood to give me some honest ex cuse for being frightened. My wish was gratified pretty soon, for after go inn along pretty lively for a few min utes I heard 'Halt!' right in front of me as a couple of men sprang from a fence corner. Awfully hard to swal low one's heart, sometimes, isn't It? I sooA saw, however, in spite of the semidarkness.that they weren't dressed like' Johnnies, so I swallowed my heart and gave them the countersign. Then they asked 1110 if I had seen any caval ry in the woods. Three of the general's orderlies in succession had tried to reach the center and had been frighten ed into returning. So, you see, you and I an 1 the man who started before us are not without company." "Ye-es," I replied. But the informa tion didn't comfort mo much. Braln ard had succeeded. I hadn't. That reflection filled my mind to the exclu sion of all others. Brainard went on: "I found the headquarters in two or three minutes, passing through a road full of men wIIO had been posted to repel an expected cavalry dash. There was a half battery of artillery with them. The general, too, was awake ami nervous—all on account of those three horses standing knee deep in a brook and shaking in their har ness! Tho general kept me until dawn (0 bring back some dispatches. But here I am." The lucky little rascal! At least men called it luck. CHAPTER XVIII. AGAIN THE UNEXPECTED. Si. FT I". It the night riding / at which I failed and Brainnrd sue, led we g"j^Kfy))>ijn spent several days in <"< "" l " front, 112 "it. when JMml . \rn-i a HltiKl to us that the enemy had become weary of us and had aban doned the vicinity we all went back to camp and began to do our spring houseclenning. This work was great ly needed, for only the make believe sick men hnd occupied the camp in the last fortnight, and they made the place look like a lot of houses that had been abandoned to tramps. In deed, in later days I've been compelled to believe that the war was the origin of the great army of tramps that has invested and infested the country ever since 1803. After careful Inspection our colonel decided that tne nest way to have a clean camp was to make a new one, so he formally asked for ground for the purpose, but the general said that all the troops at the post would have to make new camps elsewhere very soon, for since our trouble with Longstreet the war department had determined that the post was not worth the cost of holding it. Further, General Ilal leck, the president's right hand mili tary adviser, declared that he could not understand why the post was ever occupied. When this information reached us, all of us were amazed and disgusted. We had gone out almost a year before to help save the Union. We had spent all our time and suffered Innumerable discomforts, privations and fears. Now, according to the highest authorities, we might as well have remained at home. Cloyne, Brainard and I held an Indignation meeting over it, and Cloyne moved formally that we join the Mick McTwyny gang and assist ! big Pat Callahan in cursing the govern- J incut, but Brainard objected, saying ( that governments, being human, had j to learn some things by experience, j and as 011 general principles I always i sided with Brainard, Cloyne's resolu- , tiiin was voted down by a two-thirds majority. Meanwhile preparations for evacuat ing the post had been made. The heavy artillery was removed, one regi ment after another followed it, aud j finally there came an early July morn- j ing when we were informed we were 1 to pack our own effects at once and be j ready to abandon camp. Up to that time we had supposed that our effects were only what could ' be carried on our horses, but some of j us soon learned to our sorrow that we 1 had accumulated enough stuff to load j half a dozen horses. I, for one, had j collected at least a ton of war relics, ranging in weight from a Johnny'# iron stirrup to unexploded shells and j solid shot weighing a hundred pounds, j All of this old iron lay in a row on the ' topmost log of our room and directly over the inner edge of my bunk. I 1 tried to bribe teamsters to provide transportation; I even labored with tho < sergeant of our howitzer battery, hop- ; ing to coax him to carry them in unoc tupied corners of his gun caissons, but he. too, was obdurate—he had luggage j of his own—so I lmd to content myself ; by selecting a single three inch shell j that could go in my box of extra cloth- I ing without exciting suspicion by its weight. One day the entire regiment except tho stable orderlies were ordered on j picket, the reserve station of which i was the main street of the village. At 4 o'clock in the morning the pickets, j instead of being relieved, were entirely j withdrawn, and the relief was posted i within a quarter of a mile of the main body of the regiment. The men on j these new posts were relieved at 8 In the morning by members of a single , troop, which happened to be our own. From the new outposts—l was the , corporal in charge of one and Brainard iif another —we were soon drawn into I camp. On entering camp the order was i given to prepare to fire the houses, , stables, etc. The signal, the officers j told us, would be the fall of the camp flagstaff, at which a man with an ax already stood, while the entire band, mounted, stood near by, playing "Auld Lang Syne." To prepare for firing ! camp was simple enough. It was j merely to "stand by" with matches ' ready to light, for every bunk was of pine and contained a mattress full of , hay, straw or leaves that had been well ' sunned and seasoned. The walls were jof pine, and so were tho roofs. No plaster or partitions could delay the spread of flame, and everything was ns dry as a July sun could make it. Down crashed the pole, hundreds of matches cracked, and the band began > playing some solemn music, familiarly known as "Old Hundredth," and then dashed into "There's No Luck About the House,"for "A Hot Time In the j Old Town" had not yet been written. In a moment all the men were hurry ing to the stables, where the horses ! stood all saddled. Orders had already been given to dash to the road as soon • as mounted; the guidon bearers were already there as rallying points for the men of their respective troops. Al ready flames poured from the windows of all the houses and even from some of the roofs. The remaining hay In camp had been thrown by the stable orderlies upon the pine brush roofs of the stables. The instant a stable was entirely cleared of horses the roof was lighted and the fire quickly spread. The spectacle that followed was as good as a fight, so some of our best fighting men said. At least 60 build ings were aflame, and ttOO mounted men were dashing between and around them in their effort to reach the road. Some of the slower men were obliged to make a detour of half a mile, for j the heat of that aggregation of burn ing pine was intense, even to men al ready in the road. Finally, however, when the orderly sergeants called the rolls, the entire command was present or accounted ! for. The column was formed quickly, j Then tho bugles sounded "forward," ! and the band once more did the up- [ propriate thing, for it played "Ain't I Glad to <iet Out of the Wilderness?" | a popular air of the period. But be- j fore half a dozen bars had been played the music ceased and the column halted Instinctively, for we heard a shot like that of a field gun. "Fours about!" shouted our captain. ■ As we were the rear guard, tho men who had dropped behind in rear guard manner had already turned their horses and brought their carbines to the po sition of "advance." "Look sharp!" said the captain, j "Find the direction from which the | nc\t shot comes." The instant we heard another report j we saw a mass of shingles g<> skyward froin the roof of our troop's house. '•Strange about that!" muttered the captain "I heard only one report, that ' of the shell. I didn't suppose a field i gun could be fired without being 1 heard." By this time the colonel and the major "112 our battalion were beside us : ami scanning the surrounding country 1 with their glasses. Then came a deaf- ! eniug report, and blazing logs as well ' as shingles flew from the late abode of our I mop. "Thai beats me," said the colonel— "bursting shells, but no gun reports. I don't see any balloon from which the enemy could drop them." I, too, was mystified and looked in quiringly at Brainard, who in turn looked pale and as if a heavy load of Kuilt wa ; on his conscience. K f\Y / H r{~\ I'V J kV > WX -•■py ) 22 n "Colonel," said he, saluting, "I think I can oxplaln it. I—somo of the fijen brought In unexploded shgjls aftef tBO siege ns mementos, and they were too big to cart'}' away and were carelessly left In the houses, and tbe tire has renched them and made them hot, and"— "Thunder!" roared the colonel, turn ing almost black with anger. "Bugler, blow 'forward!' " Again the column moved. Brainard and I had been glad we were of the rear guard, for wo had planned to be together. If only for a moment, the last men to leave the post. Now, we almost wished we might never leave It, for the colonel's anger boded no good to the men who were to blame for tho false alarm, and it would be easy for the colonel to learn who the men were. CHAPTER XIX. nETTF.n THAN WE ITAI> EXPECTED. destination, which {jFjmf we soon reached, was the Union lln« on tho Fenlnsula, ° n ,0 roa( * /jJlby which McClellan Ijßl had started In 18C2 for Richmond,and we were cheered by quite a lot n f letters from home. It appeared that the evacuation had been ordered for an earlier date, so mail matter for our regiment had not been forwarded. No sooner had 1 opened one of my letters than I began to bo mystified, for the writer, my mother, was prnls ing me extravagantly for something gallant which she assumed I had done. I read rapidly, but only to be further mystified. A letter from my father was equally confusing. It informed me that the whole town was ringing with praises of mo and that our dis trict's member of the state senate had called to hear the story and declared that all the district ns woll as Summer ton was talking of me and was proud of me. I called Brnlnard to my assistance, but he was reading a letter from my cousin May and was utterly unrespon sive, so I opened other envelopes, only to find congratulations from old school mates and even from somo of the solid men of the village. What could it mean? Evidently some other John Frost In the cavalry service had done something In particular, and my family and fellow townsmen, like villagers In general, had not thought that there might be two men of the same name. Little by little I learned rrom tne let ters that the deed of which I was supposed to be the hero was a midnight ride alone Into a country swarming with the enemy. I had made no such ride unless It was on the night I was scared back to camp by the rattling trace chains of tho artillery horses that Brainard afterward discovered. I had not recovered from my mortification at my failure that night, so of course it could not be for that affair that all Summerton and our senatorial district were praising me. Slowly it occurred to me that some one of our Summerton troopers had heard of Bralnard's successful ride of the same night and hnd known that 1 started to inako the trip. lie had got Brainard and me mixed in his mind, and so I was being glorified for work at which I hnd shamefully failed, and the real hero of the nffnir was being defrauded of his right. "Charley!" I groaned. He was look ing Idiotically hnppy when I spoke, but said afterward that my face alarmed him. I quickly told him of the con tents of my letters and of the only possible explanation. "Is that all?" asked Brainard when I had concluded. "Do feel easy about it, for I'm not n bit Jealous." Then he fell to rereading his letter from my cousin May, but I exclaimed: "Stop being a fool! Listen to me! You know perfectly well that I'm not going to sail under false colors. The story will get pretty soon to tho other Summerton men of our company, and they'll chaff me most unmercifully. I must find tho man who wroto the yarn home, and you must help me, and wo must make him correct the blunder be fore the story gets back here." For the first time in my acquaintance with him Brainard looked irresolute. Still worse, he looked sheepish. Then he said: "I'm nfrald I'm the guilty man." "You?" "Yes. Don't be angry, Jack, when I explain. Of course I didn't suppose that your cousin May"— "What lias May to do with it?" "Nothing. That Is, she Isn't in any way to blame. Say, old chap, 1 suppose you'll think me a fool, but—you can't understand. I'm not so modest that I couldn't see that my ride with dis patches that night was quite creditable to me, and I did wish your cousin May could know of it and that I might know how she regarded It. I began to write her about It, but my pen simply wouldn't work. Somehow I can't blow my own trumpet. Suddenly It occurred to me that you'd gone through all that I had—the sense of danger, tho loneli* ness, the expectation of running into a camp of Johnnies or at least of being fired upon at short range. So 1 wrote up your ride just as I knew you felt while making It, and I didn't leave out ti single heart quake." "Yon infernal, blessed hypocrite! Did you make me deliver the dispatch? I never imagined you could He, even for the sake of telling a good story. I" "I didn't lie. 1 said that despite the scares the dispatches finally reached their destination. And, oh, Jack, tho letter she's written In reply! I'm tak ing nil the praise to myself, every bit of It, but you may read It." "Read It? I'll send back a denial by the first mall, and if over again you trust a big hearted, excitable girl with any story that you don't want known by the whole world I'll dump you into n lunatic asylum for your own protec tion and for mine. Can't you see what children. 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I was growing perceptibly weaker each day and tuff*red much sharp pain at times I felt that something must b# done, 112 sought your advice and received a prompt reply Took twelve bottles of Doctor Fierce'* Favorite Prescription and also followed your instructions I began to improve immediately my health became cxcellartt, and I could do ail iny own work ( we live on u good Bi«J farm). I walked and rode all I coula. and chfoyed it I had a short, easy ftmfinement and have a healthy baby boy." The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser, a hook, containing 1008 pages, is given away. Send 21 one-cent stamps for expense of mailing only, for the book in paper covers, or 31 stamps for the volume bound in cloth. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. •n awful position you've put me in? I shall never dare face the hoys again unless you explain to all of them, and, of course, you can't do that. I almost wish I could bo shot or made a prison er. Besides"— "Heard the news, boys?" asked Cloyne, stopping a moment in front of our tent. "Hamilton lias been pro- Uloted—n big Jump, too, for he's made first lieutenant." "It's an insult to the army!" exclaim ed Brainard. "Hamilton's a— Xo, 1 won't say what I was going to, but he always dodges fighting." "Yes, so our captain told the colonel, or so they say, but the colonel replied: 'lt may be that he's no stomach for fighting, but he knows how to care for the stomachs of men who do fight, so he's to be regimental commissary and feed the regiment as well as he's fed his company. In war bellies count l'oi as much as bullets.' " "There's something to that," said Brainard, "and I'm glad Hamilton's found his proper place. That isn't all. I'll go at once and congratulate him 011 it." "Don't!" said Cloyne, putting an arm about Brainard and looking down into the little chap's face with sad, tender, pitying eyes. "Why not?" "Because oh, hang the mysteries of this tormenting world because he's got a teu day leave of absence. He'll be a fool if lie doesn't goto New York, get Into an officer's uniform, then hur ry out to Summerton, call on—oh, the girls—and"— Brainard twitched himself from Cloyne's arm, looked up to heaven and shook his list savagely at the great white throne. Then he dashed into our tent and dropped on his knees. I ————————————r—rrr ■' P 1 1' "Git on yer horse." quickly tied the tent strings on the out side, an intimation that no one was at home, and hurried to Cloyne's tent. Cloyne exclaimed: "Poor Brainard!" "You knew—about her—and them?" said I. "Haven't 1 eyes?" he replied. "Yes," I answered, for 1 saw that his eyes were wet. "But give me paper and pen and ink and envelope—quick—and I'll try a flanking movement." I wrote my cousin May a long letter, telling her of Hamilton's luck and also of its cause and intimating that should Hamilton's father ever lose his money Phil would be abundantly qualified to become head cook in a restaurant. This might have been an insult to the per sonnel of the army's entire commis sary force, which contained thousands of superb fighters, though none of them was expected to fight, but I knew May wouldn't construe it in that way. Then I told of Brainard's suc cessful dispatch carrying, which he had pretended was done by me, and of his work in the fight at the bridge and how many compliments he had received for it. I continued with a description of Brainard in his bunk after the -tight looking with tearful eyes alternately at herpicture and In his mirror at hisbuliet furrowed cheek, and I concluded by saying that tho scar that remained was rnoro coveted by all of us as an honor able decoratiou than if it had been a major general's shoulder straps. To be sure that the letter would reach its destination as soon as possible I rode with it to the general postoftlce at post headquarters In the fort, a mile away. I had scarcely reached the fort when a sound somewhat resembling the rum ble of a distant railway train caused me to look over my shoulder, and I saw half a mile behind mo the entire regiment approaching at tho gallop. "I see here a divided duty," I quoted to myself front "Othello," but I did not hesitate. Whatever the danger to the post and tho nation, both had hundreds of champions in tho regiment; Brain ard had but one, so I rode Into the fort and did not leave until I had found the postmaster and placed my letter In his hands. When 1 emerged, the regiment had passed the fort and was disappearing In the village. To return to camp for my saber, carbine and pistol would leave ine 10 or 15 minutes behind nty comrades, and "a stern chase is a long one. l lint] no weapon with me but the liluiifV I -ilways carried in my ! >t. it wa - a tool of all work— hatel • ! jut: U!111i mot digger and hall a fld/rii other things. It would at h ast st i ve i )f sell defense in a hand to hand light. and lights « >l' this eharac- | ter win almost unknown to us, thanks to the enemy's objection to getting within close reach of us. At the worst I w mill have the himor and pleasure of being "present for duty" should the af fair prove serious. My iior.se was as good as the best, so 1 soon passed through the village and ;:all<>pi d along the Richmond road, for tin hoot' prints in the dust showed that the regiment had taken that route. -..■ mod though i was, my sense of exhilaration was intense. Over this same road hud passed in other days tlio patriot soldiers of two wars, even great Washington himself. I—my regiment— was no longer at an out of the way outpost that had been held a year only to lie told that it was not worth hold ing. We were now really in tho ene my's country and with a possibility of seeing service of sufficient Importance to be mentioned in the newspapers. in fact, my head got so far into the clouds that I neglected to keep my eyes on tiie road, which is the worst blun der of which a trooper can be guilty. When I did chance .to glance down ward, it was to discern that only a few horsemen had preceded me. It did not take me long to learn that the few did not belong to the enemy, for on the moist ground beside a small stream that crossed the road I saw the prints of horseshoes and their nail heads. The enemy's troop horses were unshod, as a rule. I rode some minutes longer and was suddenly stopped by a famil iar voice shouting: "Come in here, ye little dliivil!" 'Twas the voice of Sergeant Mick Mc- Twyny, who had been detached, with his platoon, to "watch" a portion of a crossroad far to the right of the old postroad. His platoon of 1G men con sisted principally on this occasion of his own gang. "Birds of a feather flock together." Hut Brainard was also In it. "Somebody lend me a revolver mere ly as a matter of form," said I, "In case anything may happen. I was in the fort when the regiment came out. I hadn't time togo back to camp for my things, so I just came along on general principles." "That's the thing!" said Sergeant Mick, with a tigerish grin that was meant for an approving smile. The platoon seemed to me to be in great luck. It was a hot day; the men were dismounted and resting at ease, their sabers strapped to the saddles, in the shade on the edge of a forest in front of which was an abandoned, bare plantation at least half a mile square. A gentle breeze from the northwest blew refreshingly. The line between the open ground and the forest was marked by a rail fence; how this had es caped the campflres of the hundreds of thousands of northern and southern soldiers who had tramped the Peninsu la was a mystery to me, except that it seemed a threat way from the Rich mond road, which had been the bone of contention. Mick leaned upon this fence and appeared to undergo a transfiguration, for he looked intelligent and seemed to have something on his mind besides liquor, tobacco and a desire to snarl at some one. As already intimated, my head had been in the clouds for an hour, so I "pulled myself up sharp" by reminding myself that Mick, though a sergeant and therefore my superior offi cer, was merely a Summerton "tough," with all that the name implied. Be* A Bad Breath A bad breath means a bad stomach, a bad digestion, a bad liver Ayer's Pills are liver pills. They cure con stipation, Wii'jusness, dys pepsia, sick headache. 2/.*! druggists. 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Poind the rigimint an' tell tho colonel that the whole ribil army is a-comin' across tho field be yant." All the men on the ground jumped to their feet as the messenger proceed ed to obey orders, and they saw almost half a mile away a gray line that might have been mistaken for tlie shim mering "heat band" that lies near the surface of any fiat, open, dry ground on a very hot day had not tho line been flecked with spots of color and topped at regular Intervals by spots that re solved themselves, through troopers' eyes, into mounted men. 'Twas not as Mick had said, the whole rebel ar my, but It was at least a regiment, probably a brigade, advancing slowly in line of battle formation, the mount ed officers in the rear. We were but a quarter of a company. And our regi ment was—where? And we were so far from Summerton or any part of the north! [TO BE CONTINUED]. Thof Foand tho Pall. 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This wonderful medicine positively cures Consumption, Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Asthma, Pneumonia, Hay Fever, Pleurisy, LaGrippe, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, Croup and Whooping Cough. NO CURE. HO PAY. Price 50c. & sl. Trial Bottle Free. 0, L & I RAILROAD. TIME TABLE, Corrected to May i, 1901. >.K\V VoltK. AM' liill t'laj st h%. 2 (M) iu on 1 lirlstopller St.. 2 I*l |1) ID llobokcn 2 "ii I 52 Scrim ton \i ' 1 >"2 I'M I'M AM litillalo I.vi II 3ti 215 Seranton ..Ar >ls It) tm AM' AM' I'M t ScttANTON <> I") 1(1 Ik) | ST, l.ellcvuc 11 *} ! Taylorville '• in I 1 2 u:; i Enck awHiimt 7"I I" 28 2in Duryea 718 10 iX 2 1.. ! i'ittston 7 11" 111 1 2 1, Sustjuelianna Ave... I" 10 3:1 2 I j West Fittston ~13 in • ■ 22 i Wyoming ~ 'U 'I 2 Forty Kurt Hennett J2l W4O a3l Kingston. nr. 7 'HI 10 54 ! 2 Hi 1 Wilke* i::irr. . At 7 111 II 111 2 'MI, Wil kes-Barre Eve 720 10 HO sift) Kingston l\ " 10 >' 2in Fly mouth June... . Fly mouth 7fH II «»:: 2 j:I 1 Avondale 7 12 2. i Nantieoko 7 11 11 H ,s Hun luck'!. 751 11 17 3061 Shiekshinny s 1 1 —:! 2D \ Hit- k'B Ferry K '• S 901 Beach Haven s '* " ;' s 337 Her wick H23 Usl 344 ; Hri:ir Creek •J* 2* —l' .» Willow drove ?! 112 3 61 ' Elme UUIko s •' fl2 00 5s ' Kspy * 12 15 4 (K, | Hloomsburx h ," 12 22 412 liupert M # 12 27 417 ; Catawissa : ' 12 32 422 ' Danville 12 17 4 :i. r i j Chulasky 4 421 ■Jauieron •' ... FJ 57 44s NO'ITHUMUKRLAND I 111 5 0(1 Ar. AM I'M I'M ! I GOING KAST. I'M" Nkw Vohk ;i 35 l'Mf j Barclay St. Ar j ::0 600 ; Christopher 5t...1 :» 15 165 i Uoboken 10 05 44S j scran ton | AM' 12 55!. ... ItUlTalo Ar' KOO 12 15 700 Seranton Lv. 155 54H 11 JIS i I'M I j I'M ! I'M* Scranton <2 12 35, 460 545 Ucllevuo | 0.7 446 Taylorville ' oa2 410 S 3.1 Lackawanna ... 20 4 32 8 27 Durvea ...... . I 92S ! 429 x 25 Fittston. . . # l" 1217 i 424 X2l Susqtieh i C .. 1 Old 12 14 420 SIS West Fitt I OIS j 417 S If) Wyorn ■ !l 00 12 OS I 112 Hl2 Forty t ' 004 I 407 Hea in 9(1 j 403 sOl Kin n ' 1 »6S 11 50 ! 400 KO2 Wil i-s-ltarrc Lv' s a6O 7 r, ° W ;;cs-Barrc Ar ! ' 9* 12 10 i Ilu K , .ston ! «'* 11 5H 100 KO2 ymouth .1 unction * i 3 lymoutli " 11 '1 61 34. i Avondale i s 342 Nanticoko i s I 1 M 3 . 710 H unlock s 5 "i 3 31 | nil Shlckshlnny H 320 >3l Hick's Ferry : 3 09 : f7 21 Heaeh Haven 59? ; 3OS Herwick.' ' m ''' 11 fit 58 < 0-» Hriar Creek . I j" f2 53 I Hi 58 Willow Giovi- f l 1' i «50| Lline KldKe 1 • 2 4(> I '>o Espy i jo 4s j 240 ! •; H Bloomsburii LVi 10 4t! 234 0 W Rupert ]' 10 37 229 | •> 32 Catawlssa . 10 31 24 '• 2< Danville '' 10 10 211 «12 Chulasky i Cameron ! 112 2 ui ; J*> 03 NoHTHUM BUiiL' D.. . 110 00 p\ t j lU Connections at liupert with Fhiladelphia & Keadintc Kailroad for Tamanenil, Tamaqna, Willianisport, Sunliury, Fottsville, etc. At Nortiiumberlanil with F and E. IJlv. F. K. K. for Harrisliurn. Lock Haven, Emporium, Warren Corry, and Erie. * Daily. + Daily except unday. 112 Stop on signal. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, TIME TABLE In Effect May, 25, 1902- A M | A.M.. P. Ml Scranton(D4tll)lv -- « ;;s ;9 3S, 142;4 27 I'ittston " " 705 tioooig 210 452 * A.M. A. M.|p. M, F.M Wilkesharro,.. lv (j 7 25'tjlO :!5 245;8 no Flyin'tli Ferry "I 7 32 11" »2> 12 52 t'6 07 ** Nanticoke " 742 10 50 301 fi 17 Mocanaqua .... " HOl 11 07 1 S2fl 637 Wapwallopen.. " 8 in II lii 3 :il 047 Nescopcck ar 818 11 2iii 342 700 A.M. |.\.M.F.M. Fottsville lv § 5 50 SI I 55 Hazleton •' 7 05 12 52 ;2 45 Tomliicken " 722 1 111 ■'! 05 Fern (Hen " 720 | 1 18 315 *"[[' Hock G1en..... "1 7 35 1 3 22 Nescopcck ar 8001 15 Cattiwissa 1 0o ~|A. M A.M F.M. FM ~ Nescopeck lv S 1 18 Sil 20 :i 42 ■" 00 Creasv " 830 II -V> 352 709 _ _ Espy Ferry.... "!l 8 42 II 4ii ( 4 02 7 2u ; E. llloomsliuric, "j 847 II 50 4 (Hi 72 i Catawlssa lv 856 11.57 ; 413 732 South Danville "| n 14 12 15j 431 751 Snnbury ar 985 12 40| ISmk 15 ~ A.M. F.M. I*. M KM. ~—~ Sun bury lv |] 9425 i 2 48'§ 510 41; I.ewisburK.... ar 10 13 1 4"i 540 Milton " lu OS 139 53510 07 Willianisport.. " 11 00 111 (i 30 ill 55 Eock llavcn... " 11 69 220 7 3l! Kcnovo "A. M. •'! 00 s 30. Kane " 8 '25 jl'.M. 1'.M.1 Lock Haven..lv jl2 10 ;l 15' Hellefonte ....ar! 1 05 !l 141 Tyrone " ! 2 20 I •' 00 Fliilipsbnrg " 135j 8 02 Clearfield.... "I 625 S 845 Fittsbnrg.... " j ti 55 #lO 45 I A.M. F. M. F. M. F M Sunliury lv 9605 1 W ' r > 20 (8 31 llarrlsburv;.... ar II F. M. F. M. F. M.IA Ml Fhiladelphia.. ar §3 17 623 ||lo 20 425 Haltimoro "jji 3 1H! 8 no ,1 9 45j 2 30 Washington... "|5 4 10 |, 7 16 ! 0 55| 4 05 j_ _ Sunliury lv gin (K» S 2 15 \ I>ewi.stown .lc. ar 11 15 105 Fittsburg li 55|§10 -15! | A.M. F,M. F. M. FM| IlarrisburK.... lv 11 46 II 5 00.|| 715 ?1025j F.M. A M. A. M.|A M Fittsburg ar!j (i 55,{[ 160||| 1 50| 5 30| IF. M. F Mi A M AM! Fitthburx lv 710 900 300 18 001 A.M A Ml F M ar'l ar'l 200 1 4 2ni« 9 :t0 J 3 in: ... AM A M| Flttsbuiic lv ; 8 00; F M Ijowistown J3. " 730 5 3 00; Sunbury ar w 20 '• 1 60 F. M. A M A M A M Washington... lv in 40! 1 750 10 50 Baltimore "j 11 On 4 in S4d 11 45 Fhiladelphia... "j 11 2o j 4 2.V s :jt» U 10 A. M. A 311 A. M. F M IlarrisburK lv | 3 85If 7 SSlgll 40 ;8 20 Sunbury ar! 5 0" 1 9 :n, 108 - 6 05:'"" F.M. A MAM | I'lttsbnrg lv ;I2 46 3 00 5 8 no Clearfield.... «« 3 SOl »» Flillipsburg.. " 140 10 12 " Tyrone " 7 00! II 810 12 25, " Hellefonte.. " 8 it; 932 105 '"' Eock Haven ;ir 915 10 30 2 JOr"" F.M. A Si.A M I'M Erie lv | 5 35 | Kane, " s 45» ;ti 00 ' lienovo " II 50 ; (i 4"-i 10 30 Eock Haven.... " 12 88 7 11 25 300 A.M.I IF Ml Willianisport.." 22n 830 12 in 400 Milton •' 238 9 171 1 S>| 4 4»i Eewisburg " ! 905 1 15 442 '"'l Sunbury. ar 324 9 It; 165 615 A. MJ A 51 I' M F 31 Sunbury lv,s n 1 • n55; 2 00 525 South Danville" 7 II 10 17 221 550 Catawlssa " 7 321 10 31' 230 9as '"" EBloomaburg.. 787 mIS 218 016 •"*"* Espy Ferry " 742 110 47 it) 19 Creasy " 752 in 68 2 .Vi 6 80,'"" Nescopeck " 802 11 05 305 840 '["[ A 31 A M l'. M. F 31 ! " ( atawissa. lv 7 10 3s 2 3i; 008 Nescopeck lv 823 |S 505s 7 05 """ Kock (tlen ar II 22 7 28 Fern (Hen " 851 112sl 532 731 I'onihicken " 858 II 38 5 :>s 742 ' Hazleton " 9ln 11 ">8 5 fin, 806 Fottsville "| 10 15 0 55 I'"" A 31 A 31 F M F 31 Nescopeck lv 802 11 o& 05 840 Wapwallopen..ar 819 11 20 .; 20 1; 6'.' Moeanaqna "i 831 11 82 830 701 Nanticoke " 853 II 64 3 I! 1 719 F 511 l'lym'th Ferry' I 9 03 12 02 ■> 5' t7 28 Wilksbarte ..." 910 12 li 1 4 Ofi 735 AMF3I p M F M I'ittston! I>A II) ar 939 12 55 ; 4 fwi 836 scranton " " 10 08 121 521 05 'i Weekdays. J Daily. 112 Flag station. Fullman Farlor and Sleeping Cars run on through trains between Suabury, Willianisport and Erie, between Sunbury an,* Fhiladelphia and Washington and between Fitts tiurg and the West. For turther information apply to Ticket Agents y. li. UUTCIIINBON, J. li. WOOD, Geul Manager. Uen'l l'asn'n'r Ay £>hoes, Shoe? Styiisii! Olxesup ! ole I Oicyclo, Cvmnasium and Tonnls Shoes. THK CKLKHKATED Carlisle Shoos AND THK Proof IJiiWIM-I- A SPECIALTY. -A.. SCHATZ, iiiilEi! A Reliable TIW SHOP Tor all kind of Spoutlne and Ceneral Job Work. Stoyes, Heaters, Ranges, Furnaces, eto. PRICES THE LOWEST! QUALITY THE BEST! JOHN HIXSON NO. 116 E, FRONT BT. PBILADELPHIA READING RAILWAY IN EFFECT J I N E 27t11, 1902 TRAINS LEAVE DANVILLE For Philadelphia 11:24 a. m. For New York 11:24 a. m. For ('atawissa 11:21 a. m, and C:01 p. m. For Bloomsburg 11:21 a. m, For Milton 8:03 a m., and 4:00 p. m. For Willianisport 8:03 a. m, and 4:00 p. m. Trains for Baltimore, Washington, the Soutli and West via B.it O. K. H. leave Reading Terminal, Fhiladelphia at 7:55,11:26 a m, 3:4(1, 7 27 p m Sundays 3:20 a m , 7:55, 11:20, 3:4 ii, 7.-27 pin. Additional trains from 24th and Chestnut street -tation. week days, 1:35, 5:11. S:'2:! p 111 , Sunday 1;35,8:2:? p. m. TRAINS FOR DANVILLE. Leave Philadelphia 10:21 a. m Leave Willianisport 10:00 a. m., 4:30 p 111. Leave Milton 11:00 a. 111 , 5:20 p ni. Leave Bloomsburg 7:10 a. m . 3:30 p m. Leave Catawissa 7:10 a m,3:3Cp m. ATLANTIC CITY DIVISION. From Chestnut St.and South St. Fer ries. Atlantic City. Atlantic City. Ocean C'y. *llOO a in, Lol Its 00pm, K\ J $7 00 a in, *J7 00 a ro. Eve i"> 00 p 111, l.cl j »S 45 a 111. f7 30 a 111, Ex f5 40 p 111, | :!l 15 am, ♦8 00a 111, Ex *" 15 pin. Ex I til 15 am. !j8 30 a 111. Ex f8 ; >0 i> ui, Ex | f2 15 a in, *0 <KI a 111, Ex f<)4 20 p ni, 110 (Ml a 111, Ex Cape Jlny. \ «5 00 p 111. FlO 45 a in, Ex 1 t-5 30 p 111, 111 00 a ni. Ex J7 00 a 111, il 00 p 111, Ex H 30 a ill. Sea Imle TI 30 p 111, Ex 8 15 p 111, |2 00 pin, Ex 0 15 a 111. *7 00 a in, f3 00 p 111, Ex 111 45 a 111, "8 45 a 111, fil3 40 p 111. Ex till 40 p ill, t2 15 pill, t4 00 pin, Ex tb4 10 p 111. tol 20 p 111. tl 30 pm. Ex ;5 00 ji 111, j§soo i> 111, -A 45 p 111, Ex if 530 pm, I |5 30 pill, '•*" Daily. Sundays, "112" Weekdays. "• "Saturday "J" via subway, "b'" South St. 4.00. "o'' South St. 4.15. "c" South St. 5.30 "a 'South St. 1,30. "d" South St. 3.30. 81.00 excursions. Detailed time tables at ticket oflices, 13tli andCliestnnt Sts., 534 Cliesl mil St., 1005 Chest nut St., (100 South 3d St.. 3!Mi2 Market st.and stations - Union Transfer company will call for and check baggage from hotels and residences. Extending a Eailroacl. ONE DAY ONLY Wednesday. Sept. ntL 8 a.m. to 9 p. 11 PROF. J. ANGEL, THE EXPERT EYE SPECIALIST OF WILLI AMSPORT. will be at Hunt s Drug Store, he needs no further introduction as to his ability and workmanship in his profession. He is well known in this vicinity and he can offer the names of many prominent citizens 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 011 me Hundreds of peo ple are going blind daily from the want of the properly 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 to 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 and up. PEGG The Coal Dealer SELLS WOOD Prepared for Stoves —AT— -344 Ferry Street
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