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By HOWARD FIELDING (>
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CHAPTER I.
THE PROBLEM.
I HAVE known Donald Donaldson,
Jr., ever since he was born; in
deed, I may say, much longer.
There is an entry about him in
my diary under date of March 10, 1*77,
and that is about four years before he
saw the light and nearly two years be
lie 1 first heard of either of his par
cuts or they of each other. In plain
words, he was an ideal of mine, a sub
ject of speculation and study, a dweller
In my brain before he had an actual
existence, so that he might be a tenant
of my heart.
It is singular that two romances.
many mysteries and a very startling
tragedy should hang upon so small and
commonplace a peg as this which I
shall show you. Twenty odd years ago
I made an appointment with Stephen
Ilackett, then my partner and since
deceased, to meet him in a New York
bookstore, choosing the place simply
because it was convenient 1 was ahead
of him and of the hour. Indeed, and
while waiting I took up a volume' en
titled "Psychic Marvels," by an Eng
lish writer whom I now perceive to
have been both credulous and menda
cious, a man to believe a good lie and
improve it in the telling. In those days,
however, I had read little, and the book
appealed to me as a scientific presenta
tion of a subject of great interest and
importance too often shunned by prac
tical men and left to lie the sport of im
postors.
When Hackett arrived, I was sitting
on top of a small stepladder on rollers,
a device common in bookshops, while
two polite clerks were vainly endeavor
ing to gain my attention for the pur
pose of telling me that the business of
the establishment was suffering for
lack of that ladder. 1 bought "Psychic
Marvels," and we devoted the evening
to it, Ilackett and I, in the library of
my house in Tunbridge, N. J.
Now, if you please, that was the
cause of Donald Donaldson, Jr. If I
had not suggested the bookstore as a
place of meeting, if that particular vol
ume had not caught my eye, 'perhaps
even if the stepladder had not been
placed handily for me to sit upon,
there would be no story for me to tell.
But some one built the store, and some
one wrote the book, and some one else
was the father of the author, and an
other was his grandfather, and so on
back to the monkey who was the an
cestor of them all, not togo further.
Tracing causes is a famous old amuse
ment of our race, though we know al
ready that the whole past of the uni
verse is the cause of every blade of
grass, even as that blade itself is an
essential prop of the whole future. It
is a worthy effort, however, to see as
much of this vast skein as we can,
and he is wisest who sees most, pro
vided that he does not fancy that he
sees all which exists even in the small
portion that is under his eye.
To resume my story, Uackett and I
spent a studious evening with "Psy
chic Marvels," sitting up so late that
neither of us was fit for business on
the following day, and we were led to
read many other books and to engage
at last in a practical, common sense
investigation of an interesting subject.
The firm of Ilackett & Harrington
manufactured carpets—still does so, in
fact—and keeps the name, though my
partner long since closed his earthly
account and went to meet another
which could not have been one to
shame him. I hope my own may be
as good, for it must soon be closed.
Tunbridge people began to call me
"old" John Harrington a matter of ten
years ago. However, in the days of
which I am now writing I was a young
man of forty-two, and Ilackett was not
much older. We had made a good bit
of money in our business, and both of
us had been fortunate in outside in
vestments, so that we felt very secure.
The time had come when we might
afford to relax the pressure under
which we had labored since boyhood
and to take more ease and pleasure in
the world. But the opportunity to en
joy is one thing and the power is an
other. 1 had little appetite for amuse
ments, and Hackett had none. We
were uneducated men, with narrow so
cial interests, and.to be brief about it,
we really did not know what to do with
ourselves. Unlike many others in the
same situation, however, we knew
what was the matter with us—we need
ed mental exercise. This decision we
had reached before the Englishman's
book fell into our hands and offered
an acceptable suggestion. If we had
not chosen to Investigate psychic phe
nomena, the hidden wonders of the hu
man mind, we should have followed
some other line, with a less definite re
sult perhaps.
It would be singular it two trained
business men, with thoroughly practi
cal minds, accustomed from their youth
to deal with hard facts, should fail to
accomplish anything in such an under
taking. We approached the subject
without prejudice. When we discussed
the matter in the light of the blazing
logs in my library, Ilackett would b«
the skeptic on a Tuesday evening anc
lon a Wednesday. We never agreed
in those early stages except upon a
statement of the first essential of th«
investigation. As to that, we nevei
differed. We decided to base our work
upon the wisdom of the old proverb
which says, "First catch your rabbit,
and then cook him." There is no doubt
whatever that nearly all mankind have
tried to cook this particular rabbit be
fore catching him.
Suppose we take the psychic problem
in its simplest form, which used to be
called clairvoyance, and 1 still think
that that is the best term for it. is
there upon record one single genuine
case of it, proved beyond doubt? Hack
ett and I read fifty books and failed to
find an instance based upon such evi
dence as we would accept in our busi
ness. Yet where there is so much
smoke there must be a little fire, and.
using this crystal of popular wisdom
as a touchstone in the matter, I would
be willing to assert that one ten
millionth of tlie labor wasted in base
less discussion of doubtful facts would
have suiliced to give the world enough
genuine facts to satisfy all candid
minds. .»
Have patience with me; 1 am get
ting the philosophy of the subject out
of the wny as fast as I can. The es
sentlal point Is that Hackett and 1
went out to catch a real rabbit—in oth
er words, a human being who had had
a genuine "supernatural" message.
We did not care where it came from
or what it was about or now it was
transmitted so long as it could be
proved that it came and that no known
organ of this mortal body could have
enabled the individual to receive it.
When 1 was a boy, I used to hunt
rabbits in a piece of woods which
was supposed to be a particularly good
place for them. All youthful hunters
went there, and as a result (visible to
me in these mature years) all sane
rabbits had gone over into another
county. One day, when the snow had
come and the rabbits had put on their
winter coats, some jester set up the
corpse of a white cat in the edge of
the woods in an absurdly conspicuous
position. I saw it and blazed away,
though my common sense should have
told me that it could not be a rabbit
because such a preposterously reckless
rabbit would have been shot long ago.
Vet I wasted my powder, and. having
done so, 1 set the creature up again in
the same place, and every mother's
son that came that way exercised his
marksmanship so long as there was
anything to shoot at. And next day, in
a different spot, but equally conspicu
ous, the joker played the game once
more. I remember that for a long time
afterward all the boys were ashamed
to be seen going into that piece of
woods with a gun.
It took Ilackett and me about a year
to discover that genuine psychics are
not found in the edge of the woods be
side the beaten path; that it is hard to
tind them even when one knows where
they are, for they lie low, and, like tlio
rabbits, they imitate the natural color
of the surroundings.
You may accept this as a general
rule: When your fellow man takes you
by the button of your coat and leads
you into a corner to tell you of a pro
phetic dream or a mysterious psychic
message, he does nr Relieve the story
himself. Perhaps he may be trying to
believe it, but no one has to try to be
lieve in a real experience of that kind
after he has had it. He knows. And
the chances are good that he will not
talk of it to his closest intimate. It is
ever the element of doubt that leads to
talking.
Our hobby gave to Ilackett and me
an excuse for study, an aim in travel
and an opportunity of meeting cultivat
ed men and women. As it was an
elected hobby and not the result of
congenital mental distortion, we rode
it calmly and were never mistaken for
cranks except by cranks. It is true
that some of our earlier experiences
were more or less absurd, but we were
saved from serious error by the busi
ness man's faculty of turning from the
Impracticable to the practical. When
we encountered an impostor, we
promptly charged him up to "profit and
loss" and passed onto the next item.
It was while engaged in a fruitless
though not uninteresting investigation
in Boston that we came quite by acci
dent upon the most important informa
tion. We made the acquaintance of a
young physician named Harold Whit
ing. who was then and is today one of
the most honest minded men in the
world. I believe that Whiting would
not lie even to himself, and there are
few of whom &o much can be said. He
was amusing himself with experiments
in the matter of peculiar capacities and
knowledge exhibited by persons in the
hypnotic stat.?, but confessed that he
had found nc facts upon which con
clusions of any importance could be
based.
We discovered that his thought had
been turned into this channel by a re
markable occurrence which lie had wit
nessed, but we had considerable diffi
culty in persuading him to say any
thing more upon the subject It ap
peared that lie was under some sort of
pledge in the matter.
"There is a friend of mine, now in
New York," said he. "who received a
psychic message from his brother, who
was then upon the other side of the
world. This thing happened under cir
cumstances which make doubt impos
sible. I was present when the message
was received. 1 know the story in all
its details, but I cannot give you the
facts nor tell you the man's name be
cause I gave him my word that I would
tiot disclose them."
Perceiving our disappointment, he
expressed sincere regret, and by way of
atonement he gave us the name of a
young woman in New Haven whom it
plight be worth our while to see.
"I received a letter about her some
time ago from an instructor in psychol
ogy at Yale, an old friend of mine,"
said he. "My friend and several other
members of the faculty are investigat
ing the case, and they regard it as gen
uine and important. The girl's name is
Dorothy Vaughn. She is an orphan
and lives with her aunt, Mrs. Eustis.
who has had certain occult experiences
herself, as I am told."
He gave us the address of Mrs. Eus
tis and the name of his friend. His
reference to the fact that unusual pow
ers appeared both in the aunt and the
niece led to a general discussion of the
restriction of such powers and their
persistence in families. No one who
has given the subject any study can
doubt that these traits are handed
down from generation to generation.
Oft :? a vague family tradition leads
br.ck to the true psychic whose powers,
weakened by admixture with a com
mon strain, reappear to flicker uncer
tainly in the present day.
Ilackett seemed to find much mate
rial for thought in this conversation.
He did not contribute largely to it, be
ing a man of a slow mind and of few
words, but some days later, while we
were on the way to New Haven, he
suddenly emerged from a reverie to
say:
"I wonder what would happen if two
of them should marry?"
When 1 had found out what he was
talking about, I agreed with him that
the experiment would be very inter
esting if there were any way of mak
ing it. Ilackett suggested that we
should go forward into the smoking
car, and when we were there and lie
had smoked a part of a long cigar he
said:
"I don't see why there isn't."
I replied with the argument that two
persons of opposite sexes, possessing
powers ii v commonly called occult,
must be naturally antipathetic, BO that
a marriage between them could not be
brought ab .ut, for, if this were not so,
the whole human race would have be
come "psychics" long ago. The clair
voyant power, not togo further In the
matter, is an obvious and great ad
vantage and would certainly have been
utilized by evolution to the extent of
crowding from the earth all other kinds
of men unless nature had set up some
sort of barrier, and where should we
look for it except in the realm of that
attraction which we call love?
As we were running into the station
at New Haven, Hackett remarked that
there might be something in what I
had said.
"I'm sorry, too," he added, "for it
seemed to me as if I had an idea."
As a matter of fact this idea had
long been in tny mind, and at intervals
during the space of nearly two years
I had jotted down notes in my diary
regarding an imaginary child whose
parents should both be psychics, but I
had never discussed the subiect with
Ilackett. His idea of this experiment
in heredity was therefore entitled to
the credit of an independent discovery.
CHAPTER II
rroN THE MOTHER'S SIDE
Mi!. BE R Nil AM, the instructor
to whom I»\ Whiting had
referred us. proved to be a
pleasant fellow, well worth
meeting, but we had no sooner made
known our errand than be became
much disturbed.
"A most unfortunate tiling has hap
pened," lie said. "Since the date of
my letter to Dr. Whiting Mrs. Eustis
has died. Miss Vaughn is in deep
grief and in a very trying position, too,
poor child. Her aunt left nothing but
debts, and—well, some of us are trying
to see what we can do for her. She
hasn't a penny or near relative in the
world, and nobody seems to be coin-
Itxcas an ordinary cabinet photograph.
ing forward to help her except us, and
we're men, you see, and it's very em
barrassing. She isn't the sort of gir!
to take help from any one, and it
looks as if it might end by her taking
up some confounded occupation that
she isn't fit for. We are all very blue
about it."
I have no mystic power to read the
mind or the heart of another, but I
perceived clearly enough that Mr.
Burn ham was in love with Miss
Vaughn and that she did not find her
self able to respond. To settle this
point I ventured »o say that I had
heard she was quite pretty.
"Pretty!" echoed Burnham. "Well,
that's hardly the word. I—l happen to
have a portrait of her."
And he pretended to forget which
pocket it was in. It was an ordinary
cabinet photograph, but it showed a
most extraordinary face, a dainty com
posite of womanly and childish quali
ties. I would not have been able to de
cide from this picture whether Miss
Vaughn was fifteen years old or twen
ty-five, and after my first glance I look
ed up at Burnham and asked, "How
old is she?"
He laughed.
"You'd be as much puzzled if you
saw the original," he said, and this
proved to be no exaggeration. "The
youth, I think, is in the lower part of
the face. What a pretty mouth and
chin! Did you ever see such a pretty,
mouth and chin? There's all the dim
pled sweetness, all the quick sensitive
ness of girlhood, and yet no weakness.
But there's a calmness in the forehead
and eyes—the eyes a bit long, as you
notice, with very delicately marked
brows. The eyes are deep blue and all
the coloring exquisite. Her hair is
like the gold of Ophir. It may seem
bad taste for me to run on like this,"
he added suddenly, "but Miss Vaughn's
beauty is such a simple and natural
thing that one feels no hesitation in
speaking of it. Why, even in her pres
ence 1 sometimes find myself—howev
er, that's neither here nor there. You
asked how old she was. She'll be
eighteen next week."
"If the young lady's peculiar powers
are of interest to science," said I, "it
would seem as if some financial ar
rangoment might be made whereby"—
"We've suggested that, but she won't
listen to it,"he interrupted. "The
queer part of it is that Miss Vaughn
insists that she has no powers which
are not shared by all our species. She
has, though."
We had reached Burnham's lodgings
by this time, and there we conversed
for an hour or more upon the subject
of the experiments which had been
made in the case of Miss Vaughn.
They seemed to me to possess the
vague and unsatisfactory character
which I had learned to associate with
common fraudulent practices. The
young lady answered questions con
cerning matters of which she was sup
posed to have no knowledge, peculiar
ities of persons whom she had not
seen, incidents in the lives of the ques
tioners or of their friends. It was not
able that she passed into no state of
trance or mesmeric sleep. She remain
ed entirely normal, not even exhibiting
the excessive fatigue which usually
follows such manifestations. She did
show repugnance, however, and was
always more pleased when she failed
than when she succeeded. After a se
ries of failures she would laugh almost
hysterically and display a childish re
lief and delight. Her successes de
pressed her. The best of them, so far
as 1 could learn, were not conclusive,
but there were some that were hard to
explain upon any natural hypothesis,
and they must have been extremely
startling to the inquirers.
As Burnham continued to speak I be
came less hopeful of Miss Vaughn as a
possible subject of investigation, less
interested in her as a psychic, but far
more interested in her as a woman.
Somehow the words of this licry but
hopeless lover, this poor little, thin,
dark, ugly faced fellow, who had no
right to crave a beautiful woman—ex
cept that he couldn't help it —built up
before my mind's eye a very charming
personality.
1 talked the matter over with Hack
ett, and we agreed that Miss Vaughn
was undoubtedly worthy of substantial
assistance, if it could be rendered with
out offense. Iler situation was cer
tainly most lamentable and involved
no fault of her own. Having heard of
this case, we could hardly "pass by
on the other side," as Hackett ex
pressed it. The fact is that my part
ner had been playing the role of the
good Samaritan in many towns that we
had visited, and mostly to the unde
serving, I am afraid.
We decided that I should call upon
Miss Vaughn, and so I asked Burnham
to secure her permission; but he told
me very promptly that he did not care
to undertake the errand.
"I couldn't lie to her," said he. "She'd
have to know the object of your visit
here, and then she wouldn't see you.
Incidentally I learned during this
conversation lliat Miss Vaughn was an
intellectual prodigy, having been the
youngest girl ever graduated from
Smith college, indeed, site would nrob
ably not have been admitted to that
institution if her nge had been correct
ly stated, but her aunt had misrepre
sented the matter to the authorities.
Ilcr record had been exemplary, both
for scholarship and conduct.
"She might teach," said Kurnham,
"but I really don't see how she's going
to live till we can find her a position."
After leaving Burnham's room I went
at once alone to the Eustis residence,
which must have been considered quite
a grand house in its day. A despondent
old woman answered my ring and ad
mitted me into a chilling, gloomy at
mosphere and eventually Into a small
room at the rear of the hall. It had
the look of neglect, as if it had not been
used in some weeks. My eye was at
tracted by a small table unlike the
other furniture and awkwardly placed
near a window. It was littered with
loose sheets of writing paper, which
were dusty, and some of them were
covered with scrawls in pencil as if a
child had played with them.
1 thought that I knew why this table
was there. Clearly Miss Vaughn's psy
chic messages were written with a pen
cil. 1 was displeased. This scrawling
hand looked like the usual counterfeit.
And yet 1 would have given my bond
upon the honesty of the face in the
photograph. Well, we may all be de
ceived by a face. I began to regret
having sought an interview with Miss
Vaughn, and my mind was deflected
from her to the unknown man whom
Dr. Whiting had mentioned. A strong
Inward conviction that that man was
the true psychic, worth a thousand
Dorothy Vaughns to the cause of set
ence, arose to prominence in my con
sciousness, and I was striving to think
of some means by which I could learn
his name when a very pleasant voice
spoke my own.
I turned and saw a slight, girlish fig
ure, all in black. There was the puz
zling, childish, womanly face that the
picture had shown, the perfectly op i
innocence quaintly combined with a
rene wisdom such as I might imagine
in an angel. Yet this serenity was
wholly intellectual. I could see that
the poor girl's body was racked with
nervousness and apprehension. Lone
liness in this old. decaying house, from
which she could see no way out into j
the brighter world, had told upon her. j
I cannot remember that my sympathy ;
ever went out so suddenly and so j
strongly toward any other human be- j
ing.
She had seen that I was looking curi
ously at the table, and I observed that
she shuddered at tfie sight of it. Yet,
as if the thing exerted some sort of
fascination, the poor girl advanced di
rectly toward it, and I heard the pen
cils cncK inner nervous fingers as she
gathered tliein up.
"Miss Vaughn," said I, "it is in my
mind to offer you employment. I have
heard that you need it. With this pur
pose in view, will you permit me to ask
you a few questions?"
She sat down in the chair by the ta
ble as If she lacked the strength to
stand. In the few seconds that elapsed
before she answered me her nervous
ness increased. She began to mark
upon the sheets of paper with one of
the pencils, though I am sure she bad
no consciousness of doing so.
"What is the nature of this employ
ment?" she asked.
There was a longer pause than be
fore. I could see clearly enough what
the poor little girl expected, llurnham
and others had suggested her peculiar
powers as a means of earning her liv
ing, and she felt that I had come upon
the same errand. Seeing how she
shrank from that theme, I had not the
heart to take it up.
"You have heard about me," she
said. "You think lam some phenome
nally gifted monstrosity. Really 1 am
nothing of the sort. lam just like any
other girl. I can guess things. So can
every woman. My aunt was interested
in—in that subject, and so I did it. I
am not Interested and shall never do it
again."
It was a pitiful protest, and it car
ried the day with me.
"I think you mistake my errand,"
said I as gently as possible. "Have
you ever had any experience in teach
ing?"
She dropped the pencil and stared at
me.
"We are planning to open an evening
school in the town where I live," I
continued. "A great part of the popu
lation consists of people who work in
my factory, the Hackett & Harrington
carpet mills. Some of these people—
and I am thinking now of the young
women especially—have lacked educa
tional training in t!;«-ir childhood. We
are going to ;rive tliem a chance to re
cover the I ist ground. They are obliged
to work in the daytime, but many of
them will welcome the opportunity to
study and to acquire some simple ac
complishments in the evening. We are
not slave drivers. Our people do not
have to drop exhausted into their beds
as soon as they have eaten their sup
pers."
At this point Miss Vaughn interrupt
ed me by suddenly falling forward,
with her head in her hands. I think it
must have been five minutes that she
wept and sobbed, and I was both dis
tressed and alarmed, though she kept
assuring me that she was not ill and
that she was very happy. When she
bad recovered some share of self com
mand, she begged me to give her a
trial in the school.
"I should so love that work," she
said over and over again. "1 know I
should succeed."
The idea seemed to enchant her. She
spoke of her own powers with confi
dence. She became brilliant, enthusias
tic, splendid—in fact, precisely the sort
of girl to inspire the right feeling in our
young women of Tunbridge who must
take up too late in life the heavy men
tal tasks of childhood.
I was greatly embarrassed and a vic
tim of that nervous dissatisfaction
which comes to a rational, practical
man when he blunders into a good and
judicious action. It is a species of im
posture. I perceived that it was a
most fortunate thing for both of us
that I had come to call upon Miss
Vaughn, and it distressed me to know
.hat she would always credit me with
B kindness, e\en though I should con
fess in the most open manner that I
had come upon a wholly different er
rand
While I hesitated the poor girl was
on the rack. Her nervousness was un
controllable. She began to scribble
with the pencil and to twist the sheets
of paper in her fingers without know
ing what she was doing. Seeing this,l
came straight to the point.
"It's a simple matter of business,
said I; "rather sudden, of course, but
you mustn't mind that. The position is
yours if you'll take it, and, for my own
part, I'm more than content. We'll
make the salary satisfactory and let it
begin immediately, though the school
doesn't open for some weeks."
The crazy pencil stopped, and the
dear child who has been like my own
daughter from that moment looked up
into my eyes while the tears shone up
on her cheeks.
Now, this may seem a small matter
to cause so much emotion, but it must
-emembered that Uorothy had been
Nt lior wit's end since her annt s death.
We forget sometimes tliiit the term a
living" has close connection with die
verb "to live." Whether ii penniless
girl is alone in the world or a man
lighting in the heart of a mob feels a
pistol pressed against his head, it is
much the same. We should not look
for perfect culm. And that is the e\il
of our present social system, that it
puts the poor and the distressed e\er
at their worst iind their weakest. It is
grand to see a human being stand un
moved in deadly peril, but as a busi
ness man I cannot say that we produce
the best possible results in this world
by making life one long, mortal emer
gency for the majority of our species.
While 1 was endeavoring to make
Dorothy understand that 1 was no an
gel sent from heaven, but only a carpet
manufacturer from Tunbridge, N. J.,
my glance happened to fall upon the
sheets of paper on the table, and I ob
served with surprise that she had been
writing a man's name. She must have
written it, in whole or in part, at least
a hundred times. It was Donald Hon
aldson.
"I was only scribbling," she said, de
tecting me in the impertinence of read
ing over her shoulder. "That's nothing
at all."
"Do you mean that it's a fictitious
name?" I asked, greatly surprised.
"It's nobody that / know," she said,
with a glance of quick inquiry at me.
I assured her with all sincerity that
the name was a total stranger to my
cars. It was such an awkward, tongue
twisting name that no one could for
get it.
"Did you fancy that it might have
been suggested by my mind toy airs,"
I asked; "that 1 might have been think
ing of this man?"
"Oh, no!" she cried hastily. "That
is impossible—certainly impossible for
me. I am a normal minded girl, just
like any other. Whatever I have done
in—in that way is only what all people
can do if they are silly enough to try.
Please, please don't ask me about it!"
I was very anxious to do so, being
thoroughly convinced that I had stum
bled upon a genuine and remarkable
manifestation of occult power, but Miss
Vaughn was in a state of great nerv
ous tension, and it would have been
cruel to press unwelcome- questions.
So we talked a little while about the
school, and she was soon at her best
happy, hopeful and earnest. Her mind
was as bright and quick as a bird's
eye, and she loved the sunny and pure
heights.
That evening, in Mr. Burnliam's
room, I mentioned the incident of the
name. There were present a half doz
en of the instructor's friends who had
assisteil in the tests that had been
made of Miss Vaughn's power, and
they were all sincere men with trained
Intelligence. They were greatly inter
ested by the occurrence, and they ques
tioned me closely. It was with much
difficulty that 1 convinced them that I
had ne\cr known a man named Don
ald Donaldson and could not have in
fluenced Miss Vaughn in this matter.
Various views were expressed, though
none was of any great importance,
but when Ilackett and I had gone to
our hotel and were smoking together
before retiring, my partner, who had
preserved an almost complete silence
during the evening, said:
"I have an idea."
"What is it?" 1 asked eagerly, but
he would not tell me.
"Wait till tomorrow," was all that I
could get out of him.
While we were at breakfast on the
following morning a messenger boy
brought a telegram to Ilackett. lie
opened it and glanced at the contents.
Then he took a bit of paper frojn his
pocket and laid it before me, saying:
"I sent that last night, and this is the
reply:
I read as follows:
Dr. Harold Whiting, Boston:
Have learned that Donald Donaldson Is
the inan whom you referred to In your
talk with us. Can you Rive us his present
address? S. K. HACKETT.
And this:
P. K. Ilackett, New Haven:
Not at liberty to do so. Don't let Don
aldson think that I gave you his name.
This Is Important. HAROLD WHITING
Ilackett chuckled softly.
"Of course his address was easy
enough to get," said he. "There's a
New York directory in this hotel. Don
aldson is a clerk at 40 Wall street."
[TO BE CONTiSUKIfc]
How Girl* C" an Help Their Mothers,
Every girl, if she br> not thoroughly
selfish, is anxious to lift some of the
burden of household management from
her mother's shoulders onto her own,
but unfortunately many girls wait to
be asked to do things instead of being
constantly on the lookout for little du
ties which they are capable of doing.
If you would be of any real use in
the home, you must be quick to notice
what is wanted—the room that needs
dusting, the flowers which require re
arranging, the curtain which has lost
a ring and is therefore drooping. And
then you must not only be willing to do
what is needed, but willing to do it
pleasantly, without making people feel
that you are being martyred.
It is almost useless to take up any
household duties unless you do them
regularly. If you do a thing one day
and not the next, you can never be de
pended pii, and if some one else lias to
be constantly reminding you of and
supervising your work It probably
gives that person more trouble than
doing it herself would cause.
Cucumber Salad.
Here is a fine recipe for cucumber
salad: Slice two Spanish onions (small
size) as thinly as possible into rings,
slice two fresh chilis across and re
move the seeds. I'lace the sliced on
ions and cliili.'i in a soup plate, sprinkle
with a tcaspoonful of salt and a heap
ing saltspoonful of white pepper fresh
ly ground, add two tablespoonfuls of
white wine vinegar, cover closely and
set on the ice for three hours. Then
add a cucumber which has been care
fully pared, very thinly sliced and
soaked in ice water for fifteen min
utes. Drain well from the water be
fore adding to the onion mixture.
St«*niii«'il O rati ain llrend.
To make steamed graham bread take
two and a half cups graham flour, one
cup sweet milk, one teaspoon salt, two
thirds cup molasses, two teaspoons bak
ing powder and two tablespoons sweet
cream. Steam three hours and brown
In the oven. This bread may be served
as a pudding with a sauce and will
recommend itself to the dyspeptic on
account of its simplicity.
The Trifling; Jlrothor.
"Hr'er Jenkins, you so trillin* dat I
ve'l.v believes ef you wuz 'pinted ter bo
Watchman at de pearly gates de fust
t'ing you'd do would be ter let down en
go fas' asleep."
"Br'er Thomas, you may well say
dat, kaze I'd slio' feel so good over de
'p'intincut I'd des nacliully hatter go
ter sleep ter dream ef it wuz true."—
Atlanta Constitution.
"iWe Won't
Of consumption" is a remark often made
of a fleshy man. The remark ex pi <
the popular recognition of the fact that
the sign of consumption is emaciation,
loss of flesh. On
the other hand, a , T.*\
gain in flesh is a /
lungs! night-sweats
and weakness, have
by
Dr. Golden "
of the cure were re
of Arkton. Rocking- •--&*
ham Co.. Va , writes "Our -.on contracted a
deep cold about the first of July, 1-99, and had a
terrible rouph We called a doctor and lie pro
nounced it irritation of the bronchial tubes, with
asthmatic trouble, and he informed 111 c thnt my
son was liable to die at anytime lie t <lil lue
that if we could keep the bronchial tubes Open,
he might cure him; but after treating him several
weeks and my son growing worse all the time,
I concluded to try l)r. I'ierce's Gold* n .1 ..i
Discovery and ' Pleasant Pellet- I had seen
several almost miraculous cures brought about
by the use of these medicines, and Of COW I
had wonderful faith in them. He used three
bottles of' Golden Medical Discovery ' at home
and one vial of the ' Pellets,' and was then well
enough togo to West Virginia, taking a supply
with him. I am just iu receipt of a letter from
him from which I quote /am it ell and hatdy
and getting very fleshy: "
The Common Sense Medical Adviser,
1008 large pages is sent free on receipt of
stamps to pay expense of mailing only.
Send 31 one-cent stamps for the cloth
bound volume or only 21 stamps for the
book in paper covers. Address Dr. R.
V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Dlscoverc <l.
A story is told of a litlle girl who
nsLed one morning at the breakfast ta
ble, "Mamma, is hash animal or vege
table?"
"Animal, my dear," replied mamma.
"Then," cried the little one trium
phantly, holding up a tiny bone, "here's
the hash's tooth!"
A Kcndy Reidj'.
Foote's ready reply to the caution,
"Your handkerchief, sir, is hanging out
of your pocket," was of high merit,
both from the surprise and for the cor
dial way in which the caution was ac
cepted—"Thank you, sir; you know I lie
company better than I do."— Gentle
man's Magazine.
\o IteaNiiii Fur Delay.
"My darling," he exclaimed, "I would
goto the end of the earth for you."
There wr.s a slight pause while the or
chestra played tremulous ragtime.
"Suppose," she said, "you begin yoin
tra vols now."—rittsburg Dispatch.
The Messenger Hoy.
"Why is it that one can never get a
bright, reliable and speedy messen
ger?"
"De company don't pay dat kind of
wages, ma'am."—lndianapolis News.
It is never right to say what one doc«
not mean, but why not mean the nice ;
things? Insincerity does not necessarl
ly follow in the wake of politeness.—
Ladies' Home Journal.
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. Ai idruggists
Want your nious'.K-lio or beard a beautiful I
brown or rich black Then use
BUCKINGHAM'S DYE Whiskers I
j j
Mfirjory'f* rroviso.
Baby Marjory has been having her
first experience of rural sigh's and
sounds, of green things growing, of
flowers hiding in the grass, of cows in
the pasture, of horses in the stable.
She was delighted with all but one of
them, says a writer in the Philadelphia
Telegraph.
The one exception was the !>ig, surly
dog that keeps watch and ward over
the farm. She respected Hector in
his own place, but that place is at a
distance. She did not want him or his
kind to approach near enough for in
timate acquaintance.
Having been invited by a lady of
the house to take a walk down to
the village, Marjory hesitated a little.
"Why, Marjory," exclaimed the lady,
in an injured tone of voice, "don't you
want togo with me?"
"Yes," replied the little maid, "I
want togo, but p'ease don't let any
dogs happen to me!"
Oldest Inn In England.
In the village of Norto St. Philip is
the George inn. It claims to be the
oldest licensed village alehouse in Eng
land, the license dating from KU'7! Its
appearance is eminently picturesque,
each story overhanging that beneath,
while the front is broken by bay win
dows, a porch and a llight of stone
steps leading to a doorway in the wall.
At the back are more quaint doors and
windows, a turret built against the
wall and inclosing an outside stair,
while in the yard still remains a por
tion of the old gallery which in the
middle ages was found in so many
liostelries. Most of the front is tim
bered. Each gable is surmounted by a
curious chimney. A curious feature of
the interior is the upper floor, which is
of plaster.
Nasal
CATARRH
In all its stages there
should he cleanliness. C* YfCVtR >/£*/
Ely's Cream Balin jt 11
cleanses,soothes and heals I
the diseased membrane. %.
It cures catarrh and drives M
away a cold in the head jt . .
quickly.
freiiin Balm is placed Into the nostrils, spre-V. •
over the membrane and is absorbed. Ke'.icf is im
mediate and a cure follows. It is not dryi 1 >1 >es
not produce sneezing. Large Size, 50 cents at Dr
pists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 ecsll 1 112 ■ ■
ELY BKOTUEUS, 56 Warren Street, New Y<>-k.
MOfcu iJVk-6 ARC BAVBD
Dr. ; -•
....FOR..
Consumpfc?, Coughs and Ocids
Than By A.ll Other Tlro.it And
Lung Remedies Combined.
This wonderful mr-dicir.o positively
cures Consumption, Cougns, Colds,
Bronchitis, Asthma, Pneumonia, Hay
Fever, Pleurisy. L|BHpp6i Hoarseness,
Sore Throat, Croop and Whooping
Cough. NO CURE. NO PAY.
Price 50c. & sl. Trial Bottle Free.
D, L & , RAILROAD. 1
TIM ; TABLE-
Corrected (o May i, 1901.
1 \v Vok:.
Bar. > I • I
'*•' At • J\M
■ :
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Hi runlnii ,\ i • * In 1»»
AM A.M I'Mf
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11
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Wilk. I,■ trr«■ Ar ■ II J l ' a ."mi
V, i; 1,1 IJnri• Lv< 720 !'• ■ > a;n
Kiiiii -ion ... |\ 7; •> ill •» 2 i<i
Plymouth J;<nc... .
1'I)-mouth 7 il 2 4 '
Avon.lale.. 7 <l2 . •> |
N'anticoke 7li II II v ,*is
H tin lock': 7 i 11 IT 3Ui |
Shirk-hlnuy .. . * »'l II 2t» aao '
Hi< k's K ry "• fl I I 3;;
Beach J vca x ,ki II 4N 537
liurwick * II "<l 341
liiiar Creek
. . . I*
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I. ■ y ' IJ 11 4u;
■
l.upori " ' 12 417
Cata'.V: ■ .:;i . .."J 4 '.2
iiar.viPe li! 47 4 "»">
Chulasky 4 4'.'
Hmeroti ..... ... ( 12 "i 7 4l*
l\r*iTHt MKKRLAJiI ® ' I 111 6 t«l
r I'M I'M
'JOINO I
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r» :;w \ ->HS :i .*JS PMf
Bin clay St. 1,- :s :.o a in, I
Chriftoj l.er at . .11 1i .
lioi.oken 11l 0.) 44" I
Mcrnnton . AM* la V
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Hufluid \. sdo u r. ;10
Soranton . L\ 1 •>"> » 4> II ->
A. r IMT I'M * I'M*
Sera D ton l i 12 m 4 i.O H4'
ilcllevue 4 4t>
rayiorville.. .. - 4i" * 3.">
Lackawanna •Ml 432 I '-"7
Duryea . !i •£'.' 4 as»
IWatM. . )» WIT 4-4 s 2l
Su- r.v'h .« !• Hi 11 .4 4 at' "I"
We* t. V HI 4 17 H IK
Wyom " !> i'.' 12 112 *la
K >rt. 1 !> ol 1 iff
licit ' y < 1 4 iu > IM
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'VII ;t:s-llarn>**L» ® USI 3 W *Bl
>V s-Barrc \i ttN 410 • I'M
-.,,1 *•> II~!' I(W "02
uouth junction s 'i 3 'y:~.
luoutli xf 1 11 34* '
Avuntlale...... .. s ...... 34a
Nanti. okc s • ' I' * 33> « to
Hunlck s ■"* 331 f7 II
Slilckshinny s U a- 3*' ' :|
Hick'.* Ferry ...... s •- 3H* '
Boa.-li Hat en U 1* 3 ■. i
j BerwieU 7 . ni :, fa :.h • [■'
: Briart.'reek . . ' ' f a >"
Willow Grore ' 1 £ « »
i f.luie KlJite L c ' ■ - r " *'
a {0 4 - aI" '■ '• I
jHI .asbnrK --i 10 4t 2-4 11 ■"
Uujiert 1 lu 37 3 '•
'.'atawlss* ' 10 34 -34 '-<
' Danville JO 11' '* H '*
Ukiluky
Cameron ...... f2 «1 J'.'
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Kea.llni( Kailr .ul I T Tainanen l, Tania<|tia,
Will lain.'«:«rt, Sunl<ury. I'ottsrille, etc. At
!Vorthuml>erlan<l with F an.l K. I»iv. 112. li. K. for
II irri?hurif. Iyick Haven, Emporian. V.'arr^n
ICorry, ami Krie.
* Daily. ' lialljr t'-Wpt un<lay. fstop mi
signal.
PIiNNSYLVANIA RAILROAT
TIME TABLE
In Effect Mav. 25, 1902*
"h H m»m
l'itt?ton " 7o • 112 i""i 11 ain 4 ■_
A. M. A. M |H. M. H "VI
Wilkeflitirre,.. Iv } • j", siu .;. 2I •
j Plyiii'tli Ferry •• I 7 52 l 1" tat 2 V 2 fl "7 ......
, Nantiooke " 742 MM 3 ('I • 17l
Mocanatiua .... " NOl 11 I*7 320 •37
Wapwallopen.. '* h 10 II li. 3 :;i 847 [.....
KMMfaak ar HIS 11 »: :» 42 »Mr
__ __ I>M
! rottpville Iv i , -11 V. J
Hazleton •• .... 12 C - '•
, Tomhlcken " 1 II • 00.
Kern Cllen " I I* • I 'j
li<K:k (Men..... "| • —j
; Nencoiieek. . ar I !•"> ......
! (':tta«i- .1 4 C";
~~ A. M A.II P. M. HM ~
i Maietpwk... .ivt • i.l at. t42 =7
t'reafv •• S3 II 3'2 7 (*•
I Kfpy Kerry... "Ist 114- 14 i>2 7 2
:E. I.loomsl'urt " i I 11 ' 4I • ~ 2..
I'atawi.-sa Iv 1 5 11.-.7 4 J:. T34
N'Uth Danville " t 14 la i"> 4 :;i 7 '.i
Sunl.ury ar » 3 12 1" 1"m 1">
A.M. P. M. P. M P.M.
Sunhury I\ u42 ili 1* ? «"
I.twislmrfr.... ar 10 I I 4 4'i
Milton •• lu !»> I;® otslo 07
Willlam.«port.. " 11 if I 11. '• *' 10 V»
LMklMm... •• ii M SM 7 .i
Kenovo " A.M. w !■ ■*>
Kane M | K 25|
P. M. P. M.j
I.nek IIHVen.. 1\ ,12 I" ■"> I' l
lU 11. foiltc I '•■*> 1 H ,
Tyr0ne........ " | 230 1 (> w [••••*.
Phlllpvhurg " i s "2
I lcnrfield '• 62 ■ ~ I
PlttMbnri;.... " ' 4 10 r>
' \.M.K M P. M. P M
Sonbary 1* » . r o 5 1 •> h3l
Harrlstmrsi ar 113 .-i li »> >0 10 If
P. M. P M. P. 51. A M
I hila<lel|>hia.. artS 317 t !<• 4
BalttaMra "ii •II <i 1 0 •4' S M
Washington... "§ 1 I 7IS io .">•'> 405 ......
_ __ P. .^i.
sunt.ury Iv §lO I«I si 2 i .lc.
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I'iitsl.urii •• i. ■i'sl" 1
A.M P, M I*. M. P M
Harrlr! urjr.... Ii II 46 ■<' 7 l."> 102
P. M. A M. A. 11. \ M
l-itt.'l'uric :.r ■ ■ • IM ! M ••
P. M.I P M A M A M
Pitt-t urn Iv ." I" ; ooi" .... I
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Harri.-bunr.... ar 2t 1 4 2 V •»' 3 1
AM A M
Plttebuitr Iv S 1 0'
P M
Lrfiwittown J•. •• 7 •• 3ii
Sunhury ar s 2 4 40|
P. M AM A M V M
Waahiagton... I* 1 4ti 7 . 10 3"
Baltimore - 11 »»> 4 112 >I" lli •
WMatpbla... " MM 4SS s3O 11 M
A. M A M A. M. p M
llarrloliura Iv :i 7 ■■ II lu
Sunhury :u 1 V 1 it' s » i*'
P.M. V M A M ~
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« learlUlil.... " .: "»i "> ....
Pbilt|>sl>iirg.. " I t I" 12
Tyrone " 70. ..... >* i" 12 2>
Bellefoiite.. " Hp;..... 1»» ....
Lock lhi.cn ar Hi 10 ;n 10 ...
I*. M. A M A M P M
Krie !v ....
Kane *' - 1 ■ • '
Rnara 14 II M|i • Ml MM
Lock Haven • I. > ' 1 3 W
A.M P M
WtlUunmort.. •• 22U <• M 12 to 4M ...
M iiton :•. 1 1. la 41 ....
Lcwi.-l.ur-4 " 1 'l' 11
Sunl.ury ar :> -4 1 fr. 61 •
" X~M. A M P M P M!""
Hnabvri u■ H IB|| v 36 2 i" 1 »Si
s. uth I >an\ .lie " it: 17 ' "
Catawlfea " J ■-'| I" ' Hi*
I. Hltiomsl'iiri:.. ' Hi 11 ■ 6l>
K.t|.y Kerry..." 74' 11" 47 Id I!' *....
4'reHsy.. ....' " 1 • ' «» '
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A M A M P. M. P M
< 'atau iwsa \ 7 Ii - 2 . i > ...
W—eopeek l» K 2 : >M- 7 M
Uoek .lien. ar 11 7 2 s
Kern* Hen " Ksl II 2H > 7 ;i
Tombiekcn l! as > T42
lla/let.in • !i I" li '. 804
Pottsvllle " i- >
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Wapwall.'pen. .ar - 1 il a- - '•
Mocanauua .... " s II 11 7in ••••
N ant it.>ke " S 11 &4 »i» 7 l! 1
p vi
Plvin th Kerry 11 ia <a • 1 7 >
W ilksharie ..." uI" 12 1 4i' 7
AM P M P M P M
Pitlstoiii I'.VH) ar J 12 4 - ' s *
-4c ran lon " " 101)8 121 •> ai tc.
; VVcckilay-. 112 Hail) 112 Klair station.
Pullman Parlor a-.I Slceplnir t'.ir* run . n
tliri'iiuh Irain< between Su?bury. William-; rt
ami iirie between Sunbnry *o.I Philatlelpl.ta
in.l Wa •hlnuti.n auM between Harr t Pitt
I'urvt an.l the West.
Kor further Information app'y t«. 'I ket Xgent*
/. li. UL TCIIISSOy, ./. It. WOOD.
Ueitl Manager. Gtn'l n'r Ag
Shoe Shoe*
Stylist!
Cheap!
Icßelia-ole l
Bicycle, Cymnasium an«
Tennis Shoes.
THK CMLKItRA ri-lh
Csiplisip Slifu's
AND THK
Nnsis I*l*oo}'l
liiililipp Hoots
A SPECIALTY.
A. SCH ATZ,
mmm
A Xlollablc
Tl> sho:
Tor aH kind of Tin Roofir
Spoutine and Ceneral
Job Work.
Stoves, heaters. Ranees,
Furnaces, «tc.
PRICES THE LOWEST!
QHLITV THE BEST!
JOHN HIXSO v
NO. 116 E. FRONT 31.
PHILADELPHIA and
READING RAII.WA
I.N KKKKI T VH'KHIiI N !'UI ;"2
TRAINS LEAVE PANVIU.R
K«»r Pbiia.lrlpbia 11.22* a. in.
Kor New York 1 Ir2> a. in.
. Kor 1 ;ilawi>-.a 11:2» a. m. an.l • jj. m.
K.* Hl'x.niKbiiri; 1I 2>». 10.
K..r Milton MR» m . an.l ! -• i>. tri.
For Wllliniiiopnit Ml • a. m.. an.4 » m p. m
rrwins for Baltimo re. » -1 .i»m. tl ■ -
ai 1 Acl via 1! X <lt. U. • !»%« Kra.iinu
Terminal. Phiia.iriptita at 7:'"> !!»•». to.
3:16.7:27 pm. Son-y* 3:2i> a m., 7 1:21k.
727 p. m. Aibiittonal irn >»* fruni »
an-1 rh. <tnut «trn t -tation. w. ek .1 if*. 1
m., "innd i •• 1 * 2: p.
TBAISS HHI HAXVILUL
l.tave I'liiia.lflplust In 2t a. m
I • 1' "A o ■■ • 1 '
Leave Milton II *»n rn., ■ 2 p. m.
1.. a\. r.i.Hoo-'.iir; i» n. m.p. an.
Leave Catawba 7,1 : a. 111 t- p 10
Dtuiy Ma In wl l >4»i«
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St. 4,<«). ••!> -••uli: 4.1 . - til ■»!
"a South ~f. I 31. **. l —■ :r t> - "i
112 Looesetimlons.
IK tailcl Itno-tal'i--. at ticket •ffio " ! HI.
an.l 1 he-tnttt sf- \;| 1 nnr s| , .. ,- j
nut St , fr" South 1. -: >: .rket s- «n<t
slat loll".
I'nion Tran«f«-r rompitny a I n 1 tor <1
check hagg.-u;.' froru hot. » ami r. - .1* r. • -
Mi
We will have a full line ot
HOLIDAY GOODS!
-CONSISTING MF
Hooks, Stationery,
Leather Goods,
Fancy Baskets,
Gold Pens,
Fountain Pens,
Sterling Silver Novelti
and many other novelties nt
Lowest Cash Prices.
A.HMNE,
112 MILL ST.
PEGG
The Coal Dealer
SELLS
WOOD
-AND
COAL
—AT—
-344 Ferry Street