t DONALD | t DONALDSON, JR. j F Being a True Record and Explanation 1 ▼ of the Seven Mysteriet Now Asso- ▼ X dated With lUs Xame In the 1 Public Mind, and of an T Q Eighth, Which Is them Key of the Seven £ By HOWARD FIELDING £ 6 Cojij rijlit, 1!K)2, by Charles YY. Hooke [Continued from last Week. ] CHAPTER 111. THE MESSAGE FROM JAPAN. IN the week following my visit to New Haven I had the pleasure of meeting Donald Donaldson. In the meantime I had made a care ful investigation of his character and ability. The result was surprising. Rarely have I heard a man so highly praised, yet this appreciation seemed io have done him no good. The most influential member of the firm that em ployed him told me that Donaldson was a wonder in a business way, and yet, so far as I could learn, nothing had betu done for his advancement in two years except that a few dollars had been added to his weekly wage— which was still disgracefully small. At the age of twenty-four he had be come familiar with the dull pang of discouragement. lie knew that he was serviceable in his place, and he had no fear of the loss of it; indeed he feared much more the prospect of retaining It to the end of his days. lie lacked ag gressive selfishness and the rude, obvi ous signs of self esteem. It was my intention to call on him at 12 o'clock and suggest that we take luncheon together, but I was somewhat delayed, and when I entered the hail of the great building Donaldson was just 6tepplng out of one of the eleva tors. I knew him instantly by de scription. There was the usual hurrying throng Donaldson saw no one whom he knew, nnd he gave no face a second glance, but almost every one who had the op portunity looked twice at him. It would be hard to say why, for his ap pearance was, on the whole, conven tional. lie was upward of six feet in height, yet had not the look of a tall man. His countenance was agreeablo wh«n one had come to know him, and his brown eyes were capable of much variety of expression; but, as a rule, they teemed to be somewhat vacant. Follow their glance, and it would lead nowhere. Often the eyes of the blind deceive in the same way, and it may have been this appearance of focusing his gaze upon a point where nothing was visible to others that made Don aldson's aspect notable. When I spoke his name, he turned his glance upon me slowly and with a slight, characteristic effort, as though his attention were being withdrawn unwillingly from some other object. "Yes?" said he. "You were going to luncheon, I sup pose," said I. "Will you permit me to offer you my card and to suggest that we lunch together?" "I was going to the Welleslea dairy," returned Donaldson, with a faint smile. "Suppose we try Bertram's?" I sug gested, naming the best of the down town restaurants at that time. "Aa you are my guest, I must guarantee the cooking, and I am not familiar with the Welleslea." "I congratulate you, sir," he replied. "Familiarity breeds both contempt and dyspepsia; Bertram's, by all means." His manner did not please me, though it was courteous enough. It evidenced that peculiar selfishness which is bred of despondency, that general disre gard which springs from personal dis satisfaction. Before we readied Ber tram's I had said to myself, "This man has been much overpraised." We spoke of the aspect of business, and what he said seemed commou place. Yet his words were like his looks—slipping by, unobserved. Weeks later I discovered with surprise that Donaldson could look over the top of my hat without stretching himself, and at about the same time certain re marks which he had made in that first Interview recurred to my mind, and I saw how the foresight in them might have been turned to my advantage. At the moment, however, I was appointed and felt disposed to abandon my intention of offering Donaldson an excellent position. I could see that Hackett, who was waiting for us at Bertram's, was not favorably impress ed at first. And altogether if Don aldson had but known our minds he would have had cause for great anx iety, for the proposal which we had thought of making to him meant no less than a career if he should prove worthy. All this was, in a sense, apart from our Interest In the young man as a psychic. As to that matter we were determined upon an investigation if it could be made without too great an intrusion. During the past week we had gleaned considerable information about the story which Dr. Whiting of Boston had so steadfastly concealed, and it seemed to us to furnish by far the best Instance of so called supernat ural manifestation that we had yet en countered. Therefore when the time seemed ripe for it 1 said to him: "Are you not the Mr. Donaldson who had a singular experience in regard to his brother?" He frowned slightly, and his hand, lying upon the tablecloth, opened and shut nervously. "It is a disagreeable subject for more reasons than one," said he. "Yet I as sume that you are not asking from idle curiosity." "Far from it," I replied. "We are attempting a very serious and careful Investigation of this subject. It is probable that we shall give the re mainder of our lives to it, and we hope to leave au important work behind US." "I should not care to have the thing published," said Donaldson, with a bit ter smile. I assured him that the usual anonym ity would be preserved. "As for the other thing," said Don aldson, "if you take me for a psychic marvel, you will be disappointed, in one single instance"— Hackett checked him by a gesture. "That's the whole of It,"he said; "one single instance which a practical nan can get a fair hold of ought to set tle the question." "There are many cases," I added, "which are merely difficult to explain— genuine, perhaps, but 100 complicated to repay study or to mark the individ ual as possessing more than a slight supersensitlveness; for we are all clair voyants more or less, if the power real ly exists in any human creature. And the problem Is to prove once and for all that the soul of an ordinary mortal man of this day and generation may transcend his body, may use its own powers independently of this covering of flesh.'' Donaldson became noticeably excit ed. His demeanor suggested that of one who is struggling to repel a vague accusation. His face took on a pecul iar expression, and his voice, though not louder than before, became more intense and vibrant. "Do you take me for n clairvoyant?" he demanded. "I believe you to be one of the very few men in the world who can abso lutely prove that you possess such a power," said I. "You saw half way around the world or entirely through it, Mr. Donaldson, once for a certain ty." "Because I once saw what happened in Japan," he cried, "do you expect me to do it again? Do you think that I can sit here and toll you what is go ing on in London or in the next room or even behind me?" lie paused with a slight shudder, and his head fell forward upon his hands, his elbows being braced upon the ta ble. "The devil!" he muttered. "This is odd!" He turned slowly about in his chair and stared neross the room. Then he laughed nervously, as one whose feel ings are relieved. "This will show you how much oc cult power 1 possess," said he."l had a very strong impression that a gentleman named Ilarold Whiting was standing behind me. Whiting is one of the fellows who were present when —when that wretched thing happened. I've rarely seen him since, and no doubt lie's now in Boston, where he lives. Yet I could have sworn that he was looking at the back of my head. That's the sort of clairvoyant that I am." "He's been out in the hall for the last three minutes." said Ilackett in a peculiarly expressionless tone which always means something with him. "I've seen him standing by the door, talking with two other men. He walk ed away just before you looked over your shoulder." Donaldson seemed dazed. He turned again toward the doorway, which was straight behind him. and at that in stant Ilackett pointed with his thumb in the contrary direction. 1 then saw that there was a mirror let into the wall. It was rather high to give a view of the door to a person sitting down at our table, but Donaldson was a tall man and sat erect. "This is very remarkable," said Ilack ett drviy. There was a pause full of embar rassment. For my own part I was deeply distressed and inclined to be angry with Donaldson. lie himself was very nervous and ill at ease. He sat there, wringing his Lands gently beneath the table, and I seemed to feel that the palms of them were wet Sud denly a voice said: "Why, deacon! Is it really you?" We all started, as if detected in a crime, and there stood Dr. Whiting at Donaldson's elbow. "I passed the door just now," said he, "and had a glimpse of your back, but recognition didn't dawn upon me until I was half way down stairs to the cafe. I should have looked you up later." He gave us a greeting, and we in vited him to take the vacant place at the table. "We were speaking of your friend's remarkable experience," said I. Whiting glanced hastily at Donald son. "I don't know how you got him to mention it,"he said "After the first wonder of it had passed away he al ways avoided the subject with me. Be yond question, Mr Harrington, that was the most completely marvelous thing that ever happened ou this earth Why, he described to me"— "Don't, old chap." groaned Donald son. "1 hate to think of it. I have ex plained to these gentlemen that it was a wholly isolated occurrence, that 1 really have no unusual powers"— "Let us be the judges of that." said 1. "Give I)r. Whiting permission to tell the story." "You have been very courteous and sincere in this matter," said Donaldson earnestly, "and I am unwilling to dis oblige you. Tell just what happened, Ilarold, as briefly as you can and get it over with." He subsided into an attitude of pas sive endurance. "These are the facts," said Whiting. "Donaldson was in Harvard when 1 was a student in the medical school and a proctor in one of the buildings. That's how I came to know him " "Broke up a riot in my room," Inter jected Donaldson. "We hail knocked down the chandelier. It's a proctor's duty to preserve order. Whiting came In with an Indian club in each hand and preserved it." "After graduation he came to New York." continued Whiting. ** 1 lis broth er was here—Henry, ahout ten years older than Donald. I was taking a spe cial course cf study in this city at the time. Henry Donaldson was a note teller in the Dey Street bank, and ha bad the misfortune to become Involved in the trouble there about three years ago. You may remeuilur it." "Not definitely," said I. r-v-, / W' m / I /./ / ' > X 1 * i ■ ' W> P . jjtA j L "The devil' muttered "Tills isodd!" "Komeboo;, >t awv.y with $150,000," said Whiting "Of course I need not say that Henry Donal lson was entire ly innocent, but circumstances, and men, too, conspired against him. lie was arrested and ab.iost immediately releas< 1. but only that he might be dodged by detectives. "He was abnormally sensitive re garding anything that affected his good name, and he was always easily dis couraged. 110 was convinced that the combination against him was too strong and that he must eventually be dis graced and ruined. lie could not bear the prospi ct, and so he took a false step to avoid it. He fled, and nobody had the least idea where he had gone. "Donaldson wus ill in bed in some rooms of mine up town. We supposed that Ilenry I.new whore he was, but the poor follow had been so hounded up and down and was so oppressed by the dis, race that he had kept out of everybody's way. My communication to him about Donald was stolen by the detectives. He received no word at nil, and, ns we discovered long after ward, lie was led into the distressing error of supposing that Donald was disloyal to him In this trouble. Noth ing could have been further from the truth. "When Henry did not come to see him, as we had expected Donald got out of bed, though he could hardly stand upon his feet, and went out to find his brother. Bui Henry was far away by that time, and not even the detectives themselves were more ig norant than we were as to his where abouts. "For a week or more the newspapers located him in fifty different places, and Donald himself got wind of many idle rumors. That sort of thing is agonizing. 1 don't like to think of what Donald suffered. Finally we learned that the detectives in the case had reached the conviction that Henry had committed suicide by leaping from an ocean steamer. Some poor fellow made that pitiful ending, and for my own part I firmly believed that it was Henry Donaldson. "Almost a year later, however, we got word that Henry had been seen in a lumber camp in the northwest. I heard of it first and secretly attempted an investigation, sending a detective out into that region. His first commu nication to me seemed favorable, and I decided that it would be worth while for Donald togo out there. I took two or three fellows whom I could trust into my confidence, and we agreed to put up the necessary money. We all wanted Ilcnry Donaldson to come back and face his accusers, and we be lieved that we could clear him. "We made a plan to lunch together and have Donald with us and then dis close the whole subject to him. So we met about noon one day and went to a private room in Ilobart's restaurant up town. Donald did not know what was in the wind, but for some days his mind had been running upon his broth er, and he looked all broken up with it. As he and 1 were going to Hobart's that day he said to me: " 'I am sick with anxiety about Har ry.' "'You don't believe that he is dead?' said I. "'I never have,' he replied. 'I can't.' "Nothing more was said upon the subject just then, and it was not men tioned while we were eating luncheon. This was by agreement. Donald was very silent during the meal. He ate scarcely anything. He was pale and iu a peculiar state of nervous tension. I observed him with considerable anxi ety, for he looked like a man who is going to break down. "We had reached the cigars, and the waiter was well out of the way. One of the fellows made a sign to me to open the subject that was on our minds. I turned toward Donald. He started as if from a dream and said in a hurried, strange voice: " "Harrv is all rlcht.' "Then the color rushed into his face, which had been very pale. He reeled in his chair, and I put up my hand to catch him. "'What do you mean?' I asked. "'I saw him,' he said, 'I saw him He's all right. lie's coming home.' "That was all that we could get out of him at first, and we did not know what to make of it. Finally I told hlra frankly just why we were there and what we had learned. " 'No.' he said; 'it's all a mistake. He', not in any lumber camp. I don't know Where he is. I never saw any suet place before. I think it's In China from tlie look of it.' "Of course we tormented him with questions, and at last we got an ac curate description of what he had seen. Why, he even described the furniture in the room and the view from the window. " 'There was a man sitting at a Unle whom I think I should have known if he hadn't been back to me,' said he. 'My brother was sitting opposite, and there was some sort of document on the table between them. My brother has grown a beard. By heavens!" he cried sud denly. 'The other man was Joe Vinal!' "Yinal was receiving teller of the Dey Street bank. He had been slight ly implicated in the robbery and had lost his place in the bank on account of it, but had not been arrested. That he should have joined Henry Donald son in a far corner of the world was not altogether a favorable circum stance, and I asked Donald why he had said so confidently that his brother was all right. " '1 know by the look of him,' he re plied, 'and I heard him say that he was coming home.' "Donald pledged us all to secrecy in this matter, and I think the promise has been fairly well kept. That after noon Donald and 1 made an investiga tion into the case of Vinal and learned that lie had left New York and that his whereabouts were unknown. His wife, who was a beautiful woman of fine descent, was living in this city, but she had had no word of her husband in six weeks. She told me that he had left the city suddenly upon some mat ter of business which she did not un derstand. lie had been in very bad health, and she was extremely anxious about him. "That was all the Information that we could get. About a week later Donald got a cable message from his brother. It came from Hongkong and was addressed to my apartments. It said: 'Am coming home; westward. Everything all right.' "By subsequent messages we traced him to the Mediterranean and Gibral tar and learned what steamer was bringing him to this country. He was 111 of acute gastritis when he arrived, and I thought that we should hardly get him off the steamer alive. But lie rallied and seemed on the road to mend. "It appeared that he had gone from this country to Japan and had lived in one of the smaller cities. lie brought photographs of his abode there and of a view from a certain window. I have never been able to lie a skeptic upon things occult since seeing that photo graph. He told us that he had lived almost in secret; that he had never dared communicate with Donald for fear that the message would fall into wrong hands and reveal his hiding place. "One day he was amazed to see Joe Vinal at his door. How this man traced him he never learned. Vinal was dying. Only his purpose had sup ported him through the latter part of tin; journey. He made a complete rev elation of the inner facts of the bank robbery, in which he himself was the principal criminal. This statement was sworn to before the American consul, and a few days later Vinal died. Hen ry Donaldson went to Hongkong and thence home, bringing the statement which was put into the hands of the bank's officials, who used it to extort as complete restitution as possible from Vinal's accomplices, and the matter was kept quiei rough the usual in fluences, except that a card was pub lished exonerating Donald's brother. He seemed to be perfectly satisfied J with this, though it was not very defi i uite. Really the poor fellow was done j with earth, lie died as many men and | women die who might live, but have ! not the will. "In conclusion I have only this to j say: So far as we can learn Donald's I vision was perfectly accurate. It show i ed Vinal laying his written confession I before Ilenry Donaldson. But the vl sion occurred about eight hours before the event. I leave the explanation of this phenomenon to any one who thinks himself competent. lam not. "You may be disposed to suggest that Henry Donaldson had communi cated with his brother unknown to me. In regard to this I have not only Donald's word, but Henry's, and you will bear in mind that I attended Hen ry in his last illness, so that, aside from the lack of motive for his telling me a falsehood, we must consider also the respect that is usually accorded to the statement of a dying man. "Moreover, Henry could not have communicated the fact of the confes sion, because he knew nothing about it himself until some hours af r it %vas known to us. It must be 1 .-in hered also that Donald was entirely ignorant of his brother's whereabouts even after he had had the vision. He had the sensation of being in that room and of looking across the table toward the window, and from the as pect of the country he supposed that the scene was in China." CHAPTER IV. AN EXCEPTIONAL MATCH. AS Whiting ceased Ilackett drew a long breath and looked at me. "A little ahead of anything we've found yet, John," said he."Have you ever tried to figure the thing out In your own mind, Mr. Donaldson?" The young man shook his head. "I know what 1 saw," he said, "but I don't know what was back of it, and I am inclined to think," he added, with a smile, "that it is much the same with all we see, however simple. There Is a mystery behind that teacup which no man alive can solve." "We know that it will hold our tea," said Ilackett. "hut this psychic busi ness doesn't seem to have any bottom." I asked whether any one knew why Vinal had not made his confession in this country. "He went to beg my brother's par don and to die forgiven," said Donald son. "He put his confession into the hands of the man who had been wronged." A general conversation followed in which Donaldson appeared to far greater advantage than before. The telling of the story seemed to have tak en a weight off his mind. Both Ilack ett and myself were pleased with him, and we resolved to carry out our orig inal intention of taking him into our emploj - . We did not speak of the mat ter until after Whiting had left us. He had said in the beginning that he could be with us not more than half an hour. When he had gone, I explained to Donaldson that we had been con sidering him with reference to a posi tion of importance in our business, and I named the duties, the salary and the prospects. He was to be Mr. Ilackett's assistant inourdepartmentof sales. W'eweretlien Introducing a system of disposing of our goods which was entirely unique in this country, and we required a young man of good appearance, of cultivated mind and manner and especially of that quick, intuitive perception which is so valuable In dealing with the high est grade of merchants. The right man, coming to us with the proper en ergy and abiMty, might hope for any thing, up to an interest in our business, that would make him more than well to do. It all depended upon himself. Donaldson received this proposal with a solemnity which justified his college nickname of "deacon," by which we had heard Dr. Whiting ad dress him. "It is useless for me to deny," said he, "that what you suggest is a groat advance for me. In my present place I am like a diver walking with leaden soled shoes in a medium of high resist ance and having everything pumped down to me from above. I can't get to the top, and nobody is going to pull me up. I make a few signals by pull ing on a string, but nobody answers them. I'm sunk; that's the truth about me. "Therefore," hecontinued, looking first to Ilackett and then to me, "I am more than ready to accept your offer, but there is one difficulty I perceive that you have another motive in making it." "Another motive?" said I, looking across at my partner. Young Mr. Donaldson laid his clinch ed right hand upon the table. "From this day forth," said he, "if 1 have any power or means of knowl edge that Is different from the aver age I will make no display of it and no use of it. That is my irrevocable decision. You will never learn more of that subject from me than you will know tonight when the sun goes down. But, since 1 have cast away restraint today, let me continue in that folly. "I know perfectly well that you have another object in making this propos al to me; that it is a part of a fantas tic dream. You hope to mate me with a young woman whom you believe to possess the same powers that are in me. You think that you are acting in the interests of the advance of human knowledge and that posterity, with the i robable exception of my posterity, will rise up and call you blessed." I was motionless, dumfounded. 1 could not have cried "Fire!" if the blaze had broken out in my own pock et. Ten thousand messages from Ja pan were not to be thought of in coin parison with this phenomenon. For the secret that he had touched upon was absolutely ours. My own private speculations upon the subject and my brief and inconsequential talks with Ilackett summed up tha whole of it. Neither of us had ewr suggested that Donaldson and Miss Vaughn might make a match of it, yet the idea had flitted through my mind now and then, and 1 found out after ward that it had been in Ilackett's "I don't mean to say," continued Don aldson, "that you would use any influ ence or hold out any Inducements to bring such a marriage about, but you wiil look for it, and you will be disap pointed. Why, Mr. Harrington, if 1 knew that a girl was what is called a psychic I could no more love her than I could love a girl with two noses. No, sir; I am opposed to superfluity. The ordinary mental and physical endow ments are enough for me. If you at tempt to make any such match for me, I shall run." "But have you any reason to sup pose that such a girl exists?" I de manded. "Who is she?" "I have no Intimation as to who she Is," he replied, addressing me directly. "I perceive no more than that she is some one for whom you have a high regard, and it is doubtless a great hon or for me to be coupled with her in "your thoughts. But 1 ask you to think of it no more." "You have read from a closed book," said I, "and it is a marvelous thing to do. But yon have rend only a single paragraph and have faih-d to grasp the sense of the whole volume. We want your head in our business, Mr. Donald son, and are willing to pay for it. but your heart is your own, and I should be the first to dissuade y u from a mar riage. however advantageous it might set into be, that was based upon any other impulse than the love ol a go-id woman." ■'l am a melancholy fellow." said Donaldson, with evident feeling, "and unfit for matrimony. Onf.v cheerful people should marry. A rich man's money may bit ; s or curse hi; children At the best, ii is i t so guod as a l:»| pv disposition; at the worst, ii leads te nothing that is ! . !!' > bad as here.! itary souri.<--; of In art. You will for give mo for nu nti ning this subject Really, 1 was afraid that I miulii !>o beguiled into some sort of an < [tori mcnt. It max have been a eranl.v no tion, but this whole conversation I . - been such a weird mixture of businers and gliosis!" The big clock in the corner struck '. and surprised t;s all with the lateness of the hour. It was i cce-sary for Don sldson to return at once to his oflice. and so we could not as!; him the ques tions which were pr« ng for utter ance. I may say, however, that when we had abundant opportunity there after we obtained >' it in" ,i :i. Donaldson either - a.id not or \v> : 1 not toll how lie obtained his I >- messages. "It is like !cnly r« a • bering something that you have tiiv> s known," was 11;>• usual way in which he dodged the question, and he v.. never speak upon the subject al . when he could avoid doing so Upon the matter of Donaldson's r ognition of his friend Whitii..T'- pr. once we made one discovery liefo/- leaving the restaurant. Ilackett s. down in the chair which our you; friend had occupied and iumieil ij perceived that owing to the p of a hat tree upon which our eo., were hung the mirror in the wall coul ! not explain the phenomenon. I could see around one siiie of this obstrue tion and ilackett around the other; i.', but it was precisi !y in the necessary line of Donaldson's vision. About two weeks after this renin rl: able luncheon Deaeou Djnaldson w. ; added to our working force at Tun bridge and became a nn mbor of my household, and there a singular and amusing complication presently came about. Mrs. .Jane Harrington, whose liusbaml is a cousin of mine and has charge of a branch of our business in the west, came to visit mo, bringing her daughter, a very charming young woman of twenty. In some mysterious manner Donaldson got the notion that Millie Harrington was the beautiful psychic whose union with himself was secretly plotted by the wily Stoph i Ilackett and 1:1 c. He had never been able to rid himself of the idea that something of the sort was in the win 1, but he was entirely ignorant of the facts in the case of Dorothy Vaughn. In fact, nobody in Tunbridge except Ilackett and me knew that Dorothy's coming to teach our school had any connection with our qui st < ! mysteries. It was far more lik< ... t! ii Donaldson Should suspect Miilic. who was there upon my direct invitation and sc< ni ingly thrown into his way with malice aforethought, than Dorothy, who lived on the other side of the town and was merely the schoolteacher. Millie w.-.s a flirt. I'm afraid, an 1 as the deacon was the i:.■ t attractive young man in her vicinity she pro ceeded to practice her Innocent arts upon him. I think he was not natu rally timid in such matters. He '. ■■ 1 a very easy and graceful manner in the company of ladies, an 1 n-t oven so simple an old fellow a> myself coui l fail to see that be had leariu I his I. s son in the school of ■x; nonce. >!il lie found him an adna able eavai.cr, and she kept him bu-\ In her service It may have been five weeks that Millie anl her mother were at my house, and the place was so gay ti it I did not feel at homo. In the even ings there would be music aud darn ing, and I would sit in a corner alon-t except when Ilackett str. \ i into this scene of unaccustomed revelry or when Dorothy could i o per uaih I to come over after the school. She was in mourning for her aunt, of course, and could not join in the sport, but slit held it no harm to sit in sober black and watch the others. Wo had some groat talks in this way. but it seemed to me that she was not in so good spir its after this brief season of festivity got well under way. Indeed it must have been a trial for a young and pret ty girl, as I thought more than once. If never occurred to mo that tin re coul be any special trouble. I'ven when she advanced the opinion one evening that she was not doing very well with the school and perhaps it might be better for her togo away 1 totally fail ed to comprehend. That night after the house had be come quiet I was sitting before the fire in the library alone when Donald son dropped into keep me company. At my invitation he took a cigar, se lecting one that was black and strong, and when he had lighted it Ip reeivod that there was something on bis mind. A man who wishes to conceal his men tal state should not smoke in the pres ence of a sniokt r. "Mr. Harrington," said he at last, "you have been very a , but I'm not speaking of that. I'n s|n iking of my own sentiments. Sh. :of then. ist wonderful eye dark, i -ierlous ; r velous eyes. By .! ' can well be lieve that she's the t- .' p yell And perhaps that's wha'.'t !lie i uiti r." "Are you speaking < 112 Miss Harring ton?" 1 inquired as he paused. And lie replied with a quick nod of affirmation. [TO nr. CONTINUED.] Wli.it Some >lsmen Mrau c The following gives the meaning of tin* names of the principal highland clans in Scotland: Mcintosh, th • son of the First. McDonald, the son of Brown Eyes. MeDougall, the son of Black Eyes. MeOnnoehy or Duncan, the son of Brown I lead. Mctire-or, the son of a Greek mau. McCuithbert, the son of the Arch Druid. McKay, son of the I'rophet. Campbell, Crooked Mouth. Cameron, < 'rooked Nose. Stewart, Ills Stay or Support. 112 which comes as the aufuinn. It is the woman who is worn who would avoid unnecessary suffer — inn to take especial care of herself at this time. The ills which vex so many women at the change of life are entirely avoided or cured by the use of Dr. I'ierce's Fa vorite Prescription. It makes weak women strong, and enables the weakest to pass through this trying change with the tranquility of perfect health. "I have l>eeii a very healthy woman, and this time has hem very hard with in*," writ- Mm. Maggie Morris, of Mutigotl Station. Cli.irfi*ld Co.. n., Hox 16. "I am come to the t-.u-.e "112 change of life, and I have been iick a (treat de..l off and on When Mrs moved Iwside me 1 was siek in lied, aud when she came to -re me and for nothing : was in such misery I liafolv knew what to with myself, now I can da all my work myself and feel well." Dr. I'ierce's Pleasant Pellets are easy aud pleasant to take. • Correct lon. When President Blanco's administra tion in Venezuela was overturned, that otlieial, who, report said, had accumn lated great wealth while In office, went to Paris. 1! was strolling in a boule vard in the French capital when a passing pedestrian arrested the pace of his companion and said: "See that man? lie stole $3/(00,000 when his government was overthrown." Quick as a Hash Senor Blanco turned. "Bog pardon, sir," he said icily, "but it was $3,000,000." rool Tree*. It is not shade a lone that makes it cooler under a tree in the summer. The coolness of tiie tree itself helps. for its t> in) era tin- • is about 43 degrees F. at al! times, :is that of the human body is a fraction more than US decrees. So a clump of trees cools the air as a piece of ice cools the water In a pitch er. Ilaftpinfg. Harbor—flow's the razor, sir? Customer—Didn't know I was being shaved. Harbor (flattered)— Very glad, I'm sure, sir. Customer—l thought 1 was being sandpai < red.—Pick Me Up. Happily Mrirricil. "I i. ; on liave found happiness in marriage, dear " "Oh, vi's. 1 can do lots of things I didn't «' d > wlun I was a girl."— New Y rl. Press Liver F^iHs That's what you need; some thing to eure your bilious ness and give you a good digestion. Aycr s Pills arc liver pills. They cure con stipation and biliousness. Gently laxative, ah deists. W.lllt >"Ur »• • l'l • r\ • ir« I BUCKINGHAM'S DYE Whiskers J ' I'' r : • ' : *•* * ' N " 1 TI • V -i r 4 ' ih~ At til. rr*! i) wiuav ui >st li ves have exlinr i-•«i sl. ii - s:nr • and *• ate dang' i" . en this is the case, v oe 1 lias lout > • !!. and job staM mmamm 1 ;\e < !.ii;:< .1 the lii -i pi:.' ! f<«re 20,000 acrid wwgtl 4mmnm will dirt fro::i w ilie wall*. overwh im your haii'ir • ' id \ ur ey> s ami bla< k cn yonr face. v> liv ing being except, they say, tin' I ar and the sphinx atr >- pos, can r» sist tin* rarie of the mailed legions Above a!!. <•<> not slruggl". T!ie fury v.ii I I o«er;aketke noighl*>r ing e .lo: i . i!• re is t,o means of «:if :y :it r !han instant flight through t'i s The bee is less rancorous, 1 * in. ■!.:■ .i' I•. llian the wasp and : :v|y parsi s It r « n iay. If flight be im;; >«sil le, al a'ute immobility : 'one t. .■ ' 112 calm hi :pi t bar off theseent. She ft rand attacks any bx> sudden mo.eta. nt. but at once forgives that which n,> longer stirs.- Ilarp r's. A U.i of Trmi-rn' Wit. Among the many stories told of the Inimitable William It. Travers Is the following: A Now York clubman whose repu tation as a conceited and insufferable bore was a byword was attempting to impress a group of men as being a so cioty pet. "What a hospitable fellow Blank is," he said, naming one of New York's cleverest un n. 'T dropped in on him the other night, and lie and his wife fairly Insisted that I stay for dinner. Such a time as I had getting a way I Why, when 1 started to leave, they came right out in the hall and backed up against the front door." "After you'd g-g-goue out?" Inquired Travers. Nasal GATARRH fwH In all its *ta_-< 1 there ?) Ely's Cream Balm J' cli'!ui?e»,soothes anJ In i - a Jr b %. It cures catarrh and d' •.« it* r^V mv.ty a cold m tL-j .. aiMIMBMIB quickly. Cream Balm i* placed Into the nostrils, sprfr.ils over the nicmhrane and is a' • irh. (L la 'f ■» im mediate and a cure follows. It is cot drj 11/ not produce ■iiee/.in/. Lnf|.'>' s i ce:.!n at I>r gists or t>y mail; Trial Si;. ,10 cents by ma:!. ELY BKOTUKKS,Warren Street, Xew York. MORji i ' =a ! .'-rZ VEO ...BY ' . 1N0... Or %i'UV'v- ■ fiW j I j, U ■ • .:$* i'i jfi Consul:;:-': dp, li ughs Colds Than A ! Other i'hroat And 2a&2 Xtetcedien Combiaed. This Cl ' " G t ositiv |y cures Cv Coi'gfi-, Co: , Bronc'iiiis, < ar.a, I 5 ■ curneina, Hiy Fever.P' i/riiy, LaGrippc, H' n< -S, Sore Throat, Cr.,up and Wfiooping Cough. NO CURE. WO PAY. Price 50c. & sl. Trial Bottic Frea. D, I, & RAILROAD, TLM> TABLE. Corrected to May r, 1901. Itiit.'in I I 10 Q-j ■ l:ri*t<,| I . 19 14 i, ."••r.ini. rs ,i ... I'M* I'M AM liull.i u |A. - Belli • ' .!.... r.-', r, ,V» 111!., 2 „ I " > -1 I" L 2 | IJ I | So .|U> • -if IM i- ' •'• tu . j | Wen iv:*, lu % a Wy ui.i ■ 4" i 2 Forty Fort J Bennett I ■" •" * .;i Kiru- '« n. iir ~ •» 2 Willie* l'.iirr< Ar ~ "I" 2 j»l I . Kinaston iv H> H a W Plymouth .lirni' .. . Plymouth H ll l 4:1 Avon.!). I- .... • > • 1 .Natiucoke < i - , llunli * * ! M.i-k#htuny. .. .. " ' . ' jvi lli< k- K T \ .... -1- 111 3 ; lieai-.h I ven •" '• ll* 337 ll* r w ,<■» " II -I i 44 Briar «"r«rk 1S ll2 . "*i Willow IJrove. .. 112" 112 ; M 1., me K(iJire ' • run. 3 L;> ... " .. !• 4nh I Bio ic i»«rj 1 ' 12 22 4i* I rj( er * » ;- 27 4IT t:ata» ... 12 4 12 l>:ir ville I- 17 4 Itmerou .. t I'- ">7 41* 112 1 'tTin iB«H/ xr 1 ii> 4 «i r. Vi » I'M I'M QOCT6 tABT. 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I.ioie K'linc.. „.. : S!l 2*' ) lan S 10 ♦* s w * 1 Bl«.<-ia- arn 1 1U '' * , Hubert i 10 37 2 2!' « - I t'.itinusa ill 34 "24 'T. i l»i«nvtl!e *' " 10 i*» 211 *l - ' 'h«l.uky _ .... ' iroeroi '' 112 J til < iir.fc Kijewild KbKalrlpkte * Ke.illiijf K.lr »>l r Tnrr.an«r.|, Tatn;i;'i». William ! rt. H»,r: rilli, «*c 'At North tin: I erlaml w i* ar,! H. I,;v YKK. 112. r i < 'orry. ar>'l Krie. 1 Dully. ♦ iHiilyemyt urtday. t stop on PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. TIME T4BLE Iu Effect Mav. 25, 1902. A A.M.. J iiH,v »; «s 12 11 ! Pit: t"t " " 7« ■ t 2 t'i 4 *"**• j ! A. M. A. at I* M y M Wilk' i -re... .v T 1 .'I i ■ l lym'th Kerry •• I 7 rc : i u t - >J t • "7 Naniicoke *• 74* i•' •■* 1 <*! ® 17 '*] i MMMMH •• aOl II ~j) *37 W a|.w.ill«J*n.. » I <1 !■• 331 • Nc«, j*.-k ar <1- 11 2. .4j I*' *,*,, _ --- —— rJ( I'ottfT.'le IT 5 • ill V, I Hail, t«n •• J 1- -Its - «"• Him j ToakMn *" I II 3 Br"**** I',-rn «il<-n " ...... lli :t ' j Bfiek (lien •• ...... "• *-i...... 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I!• •I > ~M. A M I' M y Ml Sanbury It ;1. »■■ J • B.; 2«w 4 S' utli It»ii 1 : .0 17 J-1 • " UtttVlM -'! lu 34 - •' • Bl' KXI NMii-' urv 7 1 I . 41' ... I>|iy Kerry ... - : 4 n 47 t« I:' .... < 'ri-H- v 7 I Ne«co|»,ek • »J. U u id A M A M P. M. P M I 'atawiwu It 7 " 10 -■> t-. •l« .... »' Koek 11 ten ar ... M 2 ...... •2» Kern tllen II .- - 734 TomklekM.. • 1 - . T 4-' II a z let in •» Ml II « 6 ft»j «06 |... ! AIBAMP M P M " Ne ]•< .-k Iv »1! 1 I 1 \\ a|iwallo)>en..ar S I il 2>' 3 ti 42 Mi"'.ina«iua .... 11 II 3.' • j< 7 (H. ■••• N itit if- kr .... ' * . 11 M ■I" 7 P t| I'IVIII 111 Kerrv - 2 f7 2* Wilksharit ... " 910 1-1 ♦" 7:.' A Ml» M P >1 P M Pitlstoti' I'All) ar wry 12 4.' IM ••• -irranton " " 10 OH 121 .",21 .9 »">•■•*"• j kill*v >. Pa ly 112 Kla* station. I'ullninn Parlor ar.! Philadelphia .ii"! Wa-hinnlon an t WtWM liarri-t'u.-.- Pitts darn nil the West. Kor lurther information apply to T < ket Agents 1 /. 11. II I'T CIIIX $ OX, ./■ R. WOOD. Uen'i Man-tutr. I'a**'n'r Ay I Shoes Shoes St3rlisja ! CJixeap ! 3ES©iia"ci® » Bicycle. Cymnasium and Tennis Shoes THK C'KLKBHATt.I» ( ;irlislr Sliors AND THK Sua% Proof |{iililm* r liootr A SPECIALTY. A. sen ATX. mhmT! A Reliable TIJ* SHOP For all kind of Tin Hoofing Spouting and C«n«ral Job Work. Stovos, Heaters, RancM, Furnaces, etc. PRICES THE LOUEST! QtILITT THE BEST! M: JOHN HIXSON NO. 116 E. FROST 3T. w U LIUI I U • We will have a fall line ot HOLIDAY GOODS! -CfSSWTRW ♦►F— Book.*, Stationery, Leather Good.*, Fancy Basket*. fiold Pen*, Fountain Fen^. Sterling Silver Novelties and many other noveltie- at Lowest Cash Prices. A.MONE, 112 MILL ST. PHILADELPHIA and READING RAILWAY is r.rrvAi ju.tebkks m*. wm n:\ls* i.r.Avr, ntwiixit lor II 5 «. m. far tie-w -,rk I! 2T, ». m 1 for • iiawi«-ut H.-3SM. m an-1 >r MN t'»n » M . DMI I at r«r Wii: imsfMl * um. »wt 4*» p " Trains 4>r Ra'timnff, Wast' , *«<»♦», lh» ■ nn.l VH Th H A »►. R K »:• •» J Terminal. PHCIKBIPHMI «* 7:#S II A* .» M, 3M. 2 |< • «iin 777 p. m. *'Mtttnnai trains f*mm :ttn nn«l» !i. «tnnt street slatma »•»« I ir l . 1 ;,:4|.s -ip. TO.. smfMiav 112 S3. * J7I p. r»t TK \lN*> K».K l> \?»\ II IJt iMtt Phi ailrlphia h» 2t a. m l.mic Willl»it, «■ ii j-a -south !*t I*V' if +rmth »Mm. 112 uttmnlMi, l«lalM ttw laK'S at llrket nflllts I ' »m|t lie«tatilats *.4 < b»*«nnt -I .M*>. !w-t --r»n' 5t . *•' «« i b»»<* l« »»< nrs"4, ?v-s PEGO The Coal Dealer SELLS WOOD —AND— COAL —AT -344 Ferry Street