\ DONALD t j DONALDSON. JR. t ! Belnj a I'i-ue Record and Explanation i ▼ of the Seven Mysteries Now A wo- " A dated TT'ifh His Name In the ▲ } Public Mind, and of an • Eluhth, Which Is the Q Key of the Seven | By HOWARD FIELDING £ O Copyright, lUUi, by Charles W. Hooke [Continued from last Week.) "That's true," said lie, "and yet I'd be willing to take my chances. Hut here's another feature of the case: Mv butler, Cobb? who stole the diamonds. Is out on bail. I was going very light on him, for, after all, he furnished us with a most interesting experience, thanks to our young friend here, and besides he didn't really get away with anything; so the charge against him was made as mild as the law would allow, and bail was fixed at SSOO. It has been furnished in cash. He was released yesterday, early in the afternoon, and he came right up to my house—made a bee line for it, as I've learned by in quiry. Naturally he didn't feel like presenting himse'f at the front door, so he got into the I ouse by a window of the library. 1 happened togo to that room after lunch and met the man face to face." There seemed to be something amus ing in the recollection, for Kelvin grin ned. "Upon my word, he's a cool one!" he continued. "He was just taking down a book to read. Said he thought that he'd improve his mind while waiting for me. 'Your morals are what nesu improving,' said I. 'Your mind's all right.' After that we got right down to business, and he said that he had heard of the threatened suit against me and that he could be of assistance to me if l would treat him fairly. Naturally 1 asked him what he could do, and afte/ some backing and filling he said that he could produce the miss ing deed " "I beg your pardon. Mr. Kelvin," said lionaid "Did lie tell you how he had got news of I lie suit?" "I couldn't corner him on that point," answered Kelvin, "but I have a shrewd idea I!is lawyer is Joe Harvey, the worst shyster in these parts, as I'm told Now. I believe that the whole job has been put up by Harvey and thai it is based upon facts told him by Cobb " "That seems likely," said I. "Being In your house, Cobb would naturally pry into everything that might be of use to him. He probably heard the old story of Walmsley's suit and the miss ing deed." "It's some kind of a game, of course," continued Kelvin, "but here is the fact: If this fellow can really produce this deed, I'm willing to pay something for it and ask no questions. More than that I'll do my best to withdraw the , charge of theft against Cobb in the matter of the diamonds." I told Kelvin that I thought it a great mistake to permit a rascal to triumph in this way and go scot free after a crime which really had no excuse. In my opinion, one should take the side of ; the law in such matters for the protec- i tion of the community. If Cobb had been a sorely tempted man I would have wished to see the utmost leniency shown to him. but he had committed a j bald crime and was now following it up with another. The place for such a man is the penitentiary. "In a business matter," said Kelvin, ! "I never lose sight of this one great point— What is it that I'm after? In this case it is the deed that completes my title to The Elms. If I could get it j for nothing and send Cobb to the pen- j itentiary to boot, I'd do it. Perhaps there may be a way to manage that." "It is my judgment." said I, "that the feliow has a bogus deed for sale." "The same thing occurred to tne, of j corrse," responded Kelvin, "and for j j ' ssZ ~ " I "Come up to the house and talk it over," suiil Kelvin. that reason I put Cobb off. If I'd asked him to produce his document, I should j not have known whether it was genu- ! lne or not." "He couldn't have had it in his pock et, Mr. Kelvin," said Donald. "The fel- ! low had Just come from jail, where he j was searched." "If it is bogus." I suggested, "Joe j Harvey probably made it and now has 1 it in his ollice." Kelvin rubbed the knees of his trou sers with the palms of his hands, a way he had when approaching the one great point "What is It that I'm after?" "I'm told that you are an expert in these matters, Mr. Harrington," said he. "I've made some quiet inquiries and have come to the conclusion that there Isn't a lawyer in tljis county—in fact, that there isn't a man of any pro fession anywhere—who could pass up on the genuineness of that document better than you could." I said that I had been much over praised to him, but admitted that I had made some study of documentary evi dence bearing upon real estate titles in that region. Every public record of any Importance was destroyed by fire forty odd years ago, with the result that many a bit of property there about was»in the same status as Kel- , vln Elms. "If the document comes into your j possession," said I, "it will give me pleasure to assist you in any way that lies within the scope of my ability." "I've made an appointment with ' Cobb for tomorrow evening," said Ivol- ! vln. "Meanwhile I've got your friend Graves Reedy keeping an eye on him so that if he's got the document stowed away anywhere and goes to take a look at it I may be spared the expense of paying him for it." "Unless I misjudge Cobb," said Don ald, "he will be too shrewd to do such a thing and fully shrewd enough to find out that Mr. Reedy is watching him." Kelvin wheeled around in his chair and beamed upon "Donald, rubbing his knees meanwhile with great enthusi asm. It is lucky that the man can af ford as many pairs of trousers as he may require, for he must wear them out fast. "Perhaps you can save us all further trouble in this matter," said he. "What do the psychic influences say about itl Understand," he added hastily, observ ing that Donald looked dangerous, "I'm no scoffer. I may sprtik lightly of these matters, but I'm not such a fool as to assert that there's nothing in them. Why, I've seen with my own eyes. You found those diamonds, and I'm free to say that I don't believe there's another two logged creature on earth who could have followed that fel low's trail as you did." , "Some of the lower animals possess remarkable instincts." said Donald, smiling. "I would not pretend to | match them As to this present mat ter, 1 am completely ignorant. I don't know a thing about it." I He arose and walked around the room. That uneasiness which was by this time familiar to my eye was upon him. "Let me suggest." ho faltered after several attempts to express himself, "that you shouldn't go too fast in this affair. I'd like to help you if I could." "Come up to the house and talk it ; over," said Kelvin. "We don't see ! enough of you." It was quite true that the Kelvins saw little of Donald. He seemed to avoid Mrs. Kelvin when she came to our house, though his manner toward her when she succeeded in finding him was never lacking in respect. Indeed he had the power to draw out the \'ery best that was in the woman, and there ; were times that they were together when I have been able to understand how Mrs. Kelvin happened to be bless ed with so amiable a daughter. I tried to get Donald to speak of this blackmailing affair after Kelvin had left us together, but he insisted that he had no intimations regarding it except an unfounded belief that the deed offered for sale by Cobb was gen uine. I would rather trust one of Don ald's "unfounded" beliefs than any other kind, and I told him so, where upon he plunged deeper in!o the dis tress that always marked the approach of tne condition in which psychic rev elations were granted to him. Presently he wandered out. and 1 did not see him again until dinner time. After dinner he got upon a horse, and it was late when he returned, dusty and tired. The night w; s very warm, and we were all out of doors. Donald sat down on the steps of the veranda at his mother's feet, and she supported his head upon lu r I: nee. "We have decided to stay in Tun bridge this summer." said she. "We shan't goto the seashore for August. There's so much trouble about this miserable stockholders' meeting, which doesn't occur until the 15th." "Who have decided to stay in Tun bridge?" asked Donald. "All of us," she replied. "Carl and your father don't feel that they can take any vacation before the meeting, and by that time the summer will lie nearly gone. But we shall be very gay here. Carl and I have been planning a lawn fete for Aug. 20. so that you and little Amy Kelvin may dance together on the green. Her father will have been nicely beaten in his nefarious schemes by that time, so that there'll be no bar to perfect harmony between the families." "1 wouldn't do it, little mother," said Donald softly. "Why?" she asked, bending over him. She had detected the serious note in his voice. She knew that he truly meant what he said. Donaldson and Carl were talking ear nestly in what might be called the background of our little group. I was in the middle distance, and, while os tensibly occupied with what the other men were saying, 1 had an ear for Donald. "I think it's going to rain on Aug. 20," said he after a pause. "Tell the truth." she coihmanded, forcing him to look up into her eyes. "You will not feel like giving a fete on that day," said Donald hurriedly. "Something is going to happen. You will be surprised and grieved; you will wish that you hadn't issued any invi tations for people to come here. Now, please don't worry. Promise me that you won't. It had to happen. You won't ask nie any more questions, will you? You've been such a good mother all through this crazy, dreadful sum mer. Wait just a little longer. Trust me and believe in me. Nobody else loves anybody in the world so much as I love you." She bent down close to him, and I did not hear what she said, nor did I hear his reply, which was very ear nestly uttered, as I could see by the expression of his face. The light from a hanging lam;> struck down upon him. He looked v< ry liandsonie and wonder fully like li mother. The resemblance seemed to hp out into view. It was almost as if her face had been mir rored for a moment in his. What he said must have reassured her, for she smiled and kissed him tenderly upon the forehead. lie arose presently, and I at the same time. We walked up and down togeth er on tiie veranda. "Have you been giving any thought to Mr. Kelvin's troubles?" I asked. "I have thought what an unearthly nerve the man had to come to you for assistance at this time," said Donald. "It is both amusing and interesting," I replied. "Certainly I shall not refuse to help Idm, and 1 shall give bim my best opinion as to the genuineness of the document if he recovers it. Will he get it?" Donald understood perfectly that 1 consulted him as an oracle and that my question had no reference to ordinary human information. He twisted his hands nervously together before reply ing. "Isn't Jim Bunn an expert on docu ments of that kind ?" he asked. "Doesn't he know almost as much as you do about them?" "I shouldn't be surprised If he knew more," said I. "Couldn't you arrange it so that you j and Mr Bunn and I could be at Mr. Kelvin's tomorrow evening?" "Undoubtedly," I replied, "but Cobb wouldn't talk before so many wit nesses." Donald stood still and rubbed his forehead. "I have a curious impression about Cobb," said he."l can't seem to see Cobb. Do yen know a thin, sallow cheeked man with deep wrinkles drawn from his eyes to his chin, as if his nose and mouth were inclosed In marks of parenthesis? He's got a queer, side long gait and always carries his left shoulder ahead of him when he walks." "I don't know such a man," said I, "and yet 1 seem to be reminded of somebody." I "If there were any person of that do i script'on," said Donald, "I'd oay that he would bring that paper to Mr. Kel vin. We might ask Mr. Huun tomor row. He knows everybody within forty miles of Tunbridge." Next morning on my way to the office 1 called at The Elms and repeated Donald's proposal to Kelvin, who ac cepted it readily. Afterward I laid the case before Bunn and mentioned Donald's sketch of the person whom he seemed to see delivering the deed. "The devil!" cried Bunn, whose nerves were in an ex en worse condi tion than usual. "That's old Walmsley himself!" The description certainly fitted him, and yet 1 was not prepared to believe that he would rise from the grave in which he had lain for more than a score of years and atone for the fraud attempted in his life by restoring the 1 document upon which it had depended. CHAPTER NIL MYSTERY OF THE DEAD MISER'S IIAND (CONTINUED). KELVIN had named half past 9 o'clock as the time when he would receive his erring serv ant. It may have been an hour earlier that Donald, Jim Bunn and I went to The Elms. We were treated somewhat as if we had been a band of conspirators and were ushered with appropriate secrecy into a small room opening off the libra ry. It was dimly lighted, and the cur tains were closely drawn, making the place very uncomfortable on a warm summer night. Graves Reedy was there, much to my surprise, for 1 supposed that he would be shadowing Cobb. The detective's manner revealed to me that strictly professional cheerfulness with which he bears adversity. "Cobb has disappeared," said Kelvin. "Mr. Reedy lias lost track of him." "Temporarily, temporarily," respond ed Reed} - . "We shall pick him up again." He then went onto explain how this accident had happened. Cobb had tak en tip his abode in a little hotel which most of us in Tunbridge would have been glad to see the last of, and from this place in the course of the previous evening Cobb had withdrawn himself in a manner so secret as to elude the remarkably keen eyes of Mr. Graves Reedy. The detective had promptly discov ered the fact of the fellow's absence, and, being firmly convinced that the affair of the deed and the bogus heir was a plot in which Joe Harvey, the lawyer, was intimately concerned, he had gone to Harvey's house, but Cobb had not appeared there, nor had he re vealed himself during the remainder of the night and the following day. "He's gone to get the document," said Kelvin, with decision. "I think that his disappearance is a good sign." I turned to Reedy for his opinion. "There's another way of looking at it," said he. "l'ou must remember uiai this job may not be on you, Mr. Kel vin. I've explained that already," ho added, turning to me. "Cobb was in jail, and he wanted to get out. So he gets into communication with this sliyster ing lawyer, convinces him that the deed which Mr. Kelvin wants is in ex istence, puts up the job of the pretend ed Walmsley heir and induces Harvey to furnish SSOO cash bail in order that Cobb may get out of jail and find the deed. You see, Harvey could get his | money back any time by surrendering Cobb, so lie doesn't think that he risks much. But Cobb really hasn't any doc ument to produce. All he wanted was to get out of limbo, and, being out, he skips, leaving Harvey hung up in the air for half a thousand. This looks quite reasonable to me, and when I said that we'd pick up Cobb I didn't mean that we'd necessarily pick him up in this town." There was a silence following this presentation of the case, and during the interval*l happened to notice Jim Bunn eying Donald in a questioning way. In regard to Donald's powers Bunn had the most marked alterna tions of skepticism and belief. He was evidently more deeply interested than he cared to own. He was by nature greedy for the marvelous and capable of great excitement over mysteries. There had been periods when he had frequented such "mediums" as adver tise in the newspapers and had sought advice upon business matters from the most absurd sources. It was ever his way to be convinced in a moment and then to change his attitude to one of general and feverish incredulity quite as unreasoning as liis belief had been In regard to Donald, l think he was much infiuenced by Carl Archer, who took a frivolous view of the subject; yet Bunn would have been glad to be lieve the contrary. lie was looking for some great revelation that would have but one interpretation, and he had wel comed this chance togo with us to Kel vin's in the hope of seeing that which would set all his doubts at rest—per haps in the fear of seeing it, for he had a deep seated terror of the supernat ural. He felt, as I did, that Donald would not have gone to that house unless he had known that he had work to do there. Always in such cases there seemed to be a great impelling force urging Donald onward despite the re luctance of his will. "Well," said Bunn at last, unable to restrain his impatience any longer, "what do you think of it, Don?" "Don't ask me," responded the boy gloomily. "1 don't know anything about it. If I could only think of some possible way"— He paused and was very unwilling to proceed, though we all urged him. Finally he said: "If I could think of any way that this document could be returned with »ut Cobb's having anything to do with .t—Cobb, Harvey or any of that crew why, then I'd know what I was talk ng about" "You are thinking of the man whom you described to me." said I. He shook hi. l - head "I've decided 1 was mistaken," he re plied. "That man can't bring back the deed." "Why?" asked Itunn in a sort of gasp. It evidently required a great effort for Donald to answer him. "Because," he said, as if tiie words were forced out of him, "the man's dead." Bunn looked at me and nodded. "What did 1 tell you?" he whispered. "Walmsley!" "1 am inclined to think," said Donald, "that I was mixing the past with the future. That's the great trouble with this foolish business. I don't doubt that you've all had similar experiences. Everybody must have them once in awhile. Something wines into your mind; you see it; you know it for an actual occurrence. But it has no time. There's nothing to tell you whether the thing is going to happen a hundred years from now or whether it happen ed a hundred years ago." "There's the little matin - of clothes," suggested Reedy. Donald showed mild surprise. "You clout always see clothes, of course," said Donald as if lie couldn't bring himself to believe that Reedy had been serious. "You see the thing that has 110 need of clothes or of tlesli and bones—the essence of an action. If you should strike me with a knife, Mr. Reedy, do you suppose that there'd be nothing in the aet except your arm and the weapon? You might as well say that there'd he nothing but your coat sleeve or your skin. Within the sleeve, within the skin, within the mus cle and the bone, is something far more important." "I guess you're getting out of my line," s-aid Reedy. "There may be something of the kind, but I never saw It." "I 11111 surprised," replied Donald. "But the point is," said Kelvin, bring ing his practical mind to bear upon the question, "shall we get hold of that pa per? Now, let's bring it right down to business. I'll give you or any other man SI,OOO for it. Y'es, and I'll hear ar gument 011 the question of more mon ey." I expected to see Donald get up and walk out of the house, but he seemed to be too deeply absorbed in his own thoughts or visions, or whatever they can be called, to take note of what Kelvin had said. "We shall know all about this mat ter in a few minutes," said Reedy, looking at his watch. "If Cobb doesn't come, it's all off. And he'll be here 011 time If he's coming." We waited, therefore, with such pa tience as we could command. At twen ty minutes past 9 Kelvin went into the library, which was dark. Thereafter we looked at our watches at least once a minute until a quarter before 10, when Kelvin came to the door and said In a tone of disappointment: "The fellow hasn't shown up." "There's no use in waiting any lon ger," said Reedy. "No Cobb; 110 deed. Y'our title is safe, Mr. Kelvin. The whole thing was a fake." "There is a deed, though," said Don ald so softly that 110 one but Bunn and I heard him. "And somebody, some body, will deliver it here—the same man whom I have seen. By heavens, dead or alive, he will produce that docu ment this night!" Bunn took me suddenly by the arm, and I could feel that he was trembling with excitement. "There are queer things in this world Mr. Harrington," 110 whispered. "1 don't know just what to expect, do you ?" "I expect Walmsley's ghost, if you ask me," said I, with a laugh, and the remark lacked very little of being per fectly sincere. At 10 o'clock Kelvin gave up the vigil and summoned us all into tne Horary. He had turned up the lights, and the room was bright. "I am sorry to have given you all this trouble, Mr. Harrington," said he, "but I had reason to expect a different end ing of this affair." "I don't think that it's ended yet," I responded. "Donaid says that the deed will be restored." "Well," said Kelvin, "I hope he's right. I'd like to get the thing off my mind. It would be worth money to me, as I've told you. I've got other things to think about." I was well aware that one of the things to which he referred was my own destruction, but this was a time of truce in our warfare, and I felt un der obligations to let the subject rest. Indeed, my attention was almost imme diately attracted to Donald, who had advanced to the end of a long and heavy table of black oak, the top of which was bare. He was staring down at this table, and his attitude was rigid. Bunn spoke to him twice and even laid a hand upon his arm, but the boy did not stir. Presently, however, he shook him self and stood erect. "I have a curious fancy," he said. "Mr. Kelvin, may I ask you where you got this table? It's a queer question"— "That was in the house," said Kelvin. "It's very old." Donald tapped upon It with his fin ger. "What made that mark?" he asked. The mark extended across a corner of the table and may have been ten inches long. It was quite deep at one end and a mere scratch at the other. "I don't know," said Kelvin, examin ing it."From the looks of the thing I should say that it was made a !oug time ago." "Before you were born, my son," said Reedy to Donald. "Looks as if some body had hit it with a cleaver." Donald drew in his breath through his closed teeth, and it made a pecul iarly eerie sound. I glanced hastily at his frfce, and it wore a very strange and almost terrifying expression. It was as if he were dead; as if the spirit had departed out of him. He stood by the end of the table, and we fell into a sort of group around it The light was above, and it showed our inverted images in the black and polished surface. "It was all in the past," said Donald. "I feared that it might be so. I cannot help you, Mr. Kelvin, further than to assure you that the deed of transfer once existed and that it came into the possession of the rightful owner of this property after having been in the hands of a rascal. This I judge by the scene itself. I know nothing of the people." "Come!" said Reedy. "That's worth knowing. I.et's hear your story." Bunn, who was standing beside me, suddenly leaned upon my shoulder. "I feel a bit faint," he said and point ed down to the reflections in the table, where for a certainty we all looked like dead men. "I'll have to do the best I can," said Donald, with something like a groan. "This takes the life out of me, but I'll have togo through with it somehow. It's as if I saw this room, but a good deal different, of course. This table is here, and there is a single candle burn ing upon it. Beside the table is a man sitting in a chair. lie seems to have a sort of light sack coat 011 over a part of a military uniform. lie is very broad in the shoulders. He's one of the strongest looking men that ever 1 saw, though not very tall, I should judge, lie lias a little black mustache that is too small for his face. It looks ridiculous on a man with f'ch a heavy jaw." "That's Westeott Norman West eott!" gasped Bunn. "When I was a boy"— Donald went 011 without seeming to hear this interruption. "I never saw a man sit so still," said he."lt startled me at first. I thought he was dead. After quite a long time another man conies Into the room—the man whom I described to you this morning. lie looks seated; ho has a pistol in his band. He comes in by that window, and the other niaii seems to see him without looking that way. "'Have you brought It?' he asks without a movement except of his lips. The other seems togo into n sort of panic, lie walks up to the table like a crab, the pistol in his left hand and that side of him coming foremost. "'Yi s; I've got it,' lie says, and then lie breaks into a sort of harangue. 'No tricks!" lie erics over and over again. 'You'll do as you say— Westeott!' "That's the ollieer's name—West eott." "And the other's Walmsley!" exclaim ed Bunn. Donald looked up dreamily. "WalmsleyV" he repeated. "What was I saying?" -Keep qu.et, everybody," said Reedy. "Don't break in. This is 100 big a thing to be fooled with. 'No tricks;' that's what you said. He was afraid the other fellow would do him out of something." Donald looked down at the table and put his fingers lightly upon the scar in it before lie proceeded. "'You shall have your price, Walms ley,' said Westeott, 'and you shall leave this room with it in your pocket, and I will not put the law upon you for this crime. 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J. 1' 15A UK, Treasurer. In account with the Directors or tiie Pan villeand Mahoning l'oor district. DR. To balance <lue Directors at last settl<- ment 1. To cash received from E. W. Peters on duplicate for 19,i0 imhi To cash received from K. W Peters on duplicate 1901 425 00 To cash received from K. \V. IVters on duplicate for iiHni 1»; 17 , To cash received from Win. K. Dyer on duplicate for 1)102 l>«0 4."> To cash received from It. Kiu-kcl on on duplicate for ism; •.'.'lßl To cash received from w. r. Kocher adminstrator for Nathan lenstei liiacher on duplicate for I'.')t 1.7 15 To cash received from Mrs. (ioim r Thomas •.•<> no To cash received from Kiiim.i u nods 7Uiki To cash received from Win. Evans & Sister .... . mi ju To cash rec. from Kennet P.staic 513 00 To cash received from Thomas Bogcrs I'ommtU W. 8. Roberts .i; hi To cash received from Montour Lodge . !>1 25 To casli received from J. P. Ilare, coin miltofs. Pickens 9!>OU To cash received from Thomas Hrlslin 2.75 I o cash received from Thomas Kogers in Thomas Williams Estate 99 21 To cash received from < Mher Districts... :c :c. cosh received from Just ice Oglesby t;7 cash received from Justice Hare.... I no cash received from Steward for pro duce sold 11117.; * 10019 74 Cl,'. By whole amount of orders paid by the Treasurer during the year 19K2 . 7:119 11 Hal due Directors at present settlement »270u t; ; Directois <■/ DanrilU'. and Mahonimj Poor I)is'i ict in Account irit/i the District. DR. To balance due fro: i Treasurer at last settlement 2171 i; To balance due from h Bucket at last settlement on duplicate tor IWHi 2Ki >1 To liabince due frooi JViilnn Fenste imicher at last settlemeiit on dupli cate lor 19 it itft 72 Tobalaneedue from K. W. Peters at last settlement on duplicate for the year 1900 1*95 To balance due from K. W. Peters at lasl settlement on duplicate for t be I'.Hii os To amount of duplicate Issued E. W. Peters for the Borough ol Danville for the year 1902 .>,77 ;;y To Penalty of 5 per cent on $027 2i'dup licate for the year 1902 31 :#j Amount of duplicate issued to Win. K. Dyer for the Township of Mahon ing for I he year 1902 7111 it; To cash rec. Iroui Mrs. (romer Thomas '.WOO cash received from Emma Woods 7111 m To cash received from Will. Kvans A S|s ter M(| cash rec. from Mary Kennet list 513 00 ro e:isii received from Thomas Bosers ( 0111 mitt of W. S. Roberts ::ii7>o cash received from Montour Lodice.. !M2."> To cash received from J. P Bare Co m. mtt Of 8. Pickens .... MM cash received from Thomas Brislin To cash received from Thomas Rogers in Thomas Williams Estate tiy 21 cash received from other Districts.. ">2 casti received from .lustice 1 it;lesby 117 cash received from Justice Bare I (JO cash received from Steward for Pro duce sold en 73 * 11277 r,i CR. By commission allowed D. Huckel of :i percent on SZJ3 ~>l on duplicate for the year |S!Ki 11 (17 By commission allowed Nathan Fensler inacher of"> per cent on fltiS 72 on du- Ilcate for the year 1901 S'i'j By abatement allowed Win. K. Dyer of 5 per cent on fl iii 00 011 duplicate for the year lixr2 21 so Commission allowed Win. K Dyer of U per cent on Sill 20on duplicate for the year l!K)2 12 -12 Commission allowed Win. K. Dyer of.) per cent S2J2 >7 011 duplicate for the year 1902.... 1212 Amount returned by Win. K Dyer on duplicate for the year 11*12 ..' 2(7 Exonerations allowed Win. E. Dyer on duplicate for tlieyear 1902 ". 1 :;i Balance due from Win. E. Dyer on duplicate for the year 1902..* 17 99 By commission allowed E. W Peters of percent on 81S 95 on duplicate for year 1900 y;, By commission allowed E. W. Peters of a per cent 011 :{7 on duplicate for year I vol i2'l7 ity balance due from E. W. Peters for 15H11 82 7! By abatement allowed E. W. Peters of "» per cent on Stsiti or, 011 duplicate for year i!K"2 Mtt By commission allowed E. W. Peters of 2 per cent 011 il3B>.;ki on duplicate for l'lf- 87 71 commission allowed E. W. Peters of."1 per cent on ?:>6B 12 on duplicate fort he year 1902 IS 12 exonerations allowed E. W. Peters on duplicate for the year 1902 (V>(;1 By balance due from E. W. Peters dupli cate 19(CJ «.">S .Vi By orders paid by Treasurer during the year 1902 7:11911 By balance due Directors at present settlement 2700 •«:> * 11277 61 Shitetne/it of Orders issued dnrimj the year 190,.'. Paid itnd outshindiiii/ ond purposes for which the same were issued. Directors Salaries t .10000 Steward ' ;a»> on Physician 1 Id (ill Attorney Salary Fees Expenses :(.">.'N9 Treasurer 7>oo Clerk 7;, (in Auditing and Duplicate is mi Transient Paupers :i Vi Ex. in settlement of cases 21 I*l Justices m mi Miscellaneous Items 1H f(i Printers bills (.;>7"> Kent 00 Horse hire incurred l.y Directors jn dis charge of their ollicial duties 20 00 insurance in mi *ll2l 19 Outside Relief us Follows: Medicine $ 21 7."> <!oai and Wood 111 7<i Shoes and Clothing :r>tu Undertaker In no Insane at Hospital 289:1 SO Paid other Districts 12111 General Merchandise 537:«{ Children's Aid Society stun #i7l2 (U For Mniuteiiii',ce of Poor House and Farm. Seeding drain and Plants $ 2553 Dime and Manure 145 20 shoes and shoe Repairing .'l2 85 Blacksmith lulls 10287 House and Farm Han.ls :;::i 17 Farm Implements and Hardware 229 95 Clothinu 105 31 Meat bill 93 15 Coal 109 SO Improvements and repairs .">2(l (>5 General Merchandise 210 S9 Tobacco lo 20 Flour and Feed IS 00 Drug Store bills 8 10 Wagon 85 00 Live Stock J2190 15 Orders Issued during the year 19.)2 *782:1 :ts Paid by Treasurer during the year 19C2 s7.;ui n I,caving outstanding orders for the year S 127 H. WIREMAN. i THEi 1. IKiFFM \N, Directors P. M. KKRN's, \ We, the Auditorsof tlie Rorough of I >anvillc and Township of Mahoning have examined the above accounts and lind them correct. D. It W 11, I, I A.MS, 1 KDW I't'ltPlK, -Auditors. I!. IJ. DIEHIJ, ) Siiiteuients •;/' Real Estate ami Personal Property 011 hand at date of Settlement. Real Estate $22500 00 House and Kitchen Furniture (>7O !»1 Hay and Grain 168400 Farming Utensils lost t>2 Dive Stock I OU9O Vegetables 188 00 Meat and Lard s(i!r> Clothing and Material MSS Fruit. Preserves, &c 9 25 Vinegar 4200 Flour 28 00 CoOeeand Tea 003 Sugar 15 00 saur Kraut sou Tobacco 11 to Coal MBM Lumber 4400 Separator and Scales 93 so Medicine 208 Funds of May Kennet 2(moo $27881 II Produce Raised. 45 Tons Hay * 540 00 280 bushels Potatoes 115 00 432 bushels of Wheat 324 ou ilil bushels Oats 88224 1920 bushels Corn ears 480 (Hi 7 bushels Onions 350 I bushels Onion sets 2 00 13 bushels of Turnips :>(*( 545 bushels Beet? 109 00 ' l<ft lb- Cabbage IX IK . "S> HandlesCornfodder iii, > 'I l»i ll» Isutter 220 20 .in it,,/ |6da >• no *jj"2 u Stock liaiv it. I"> I'lgs 112 4500 111 < 'Alrw Nllll 120 Chickens ii ig 11 Turkeys io >o 12 Iturks,... ; on tiwan N ii (itl.. i ■-I Patip'T- idmitti i i',d !• fi duringtlie year I 'AT> Admitted 7 ~ II I* nipt-rH in 11 on-, Inn. 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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, TIME TABLE In Effect May, 25, 1902 A A.W., Scranton(l»4tH)lv"; m 1 12 4 27 Pittston " " 705 11 no | a 111 452 A. M. A. M P. M. P.M Wilkcsbarre... Iv 5 * J< jiu J l"> >9 >»> Kljra'tk Tvtrj ■■ 1 7 :'i i 1114: 1 J vj 18 "7 Nantieoke •* 7 in M * M ®1" Mocana,jua " V,l II n; " 2() ®37 Wapwallopen.. " •- Id il ],; 331 647 Nescopeck ar *IK \\ i4J 70 , A. A.M.pji PottSTille IT $ ;ll 55 Hazleton •' 1J .VJ 4", Totuhicken " 1 II '3 051... Kern Glen " 1 1H :s r, [****" Kock <Hen .... "1 3 22,.'..," Nescopeck . ar II"' *.!!!!! Cat aw issa 4 0" " V \l A. M P. M. P >1 ~ Nescopeck... .lv j is man 4J 700 Creasy • : 3 11 :n, 3 709 " Espy Ferry... ' t 1 4 II 4 I 4 02 7 a """" E. lilooujsburi '• 411 .VI 4Oi 725 Catawissa Iv 8 a 11.." 413 ; south Danville " vl4la I 431 7-J Sunbury ar *> 35 la 411 155 Nls A. M. P. M. P. M RM. sunbury lv si 4:; sl2 e S •"> I" <1 41, Lewisburg.... ar it) 13 I 4 *> 4ti Milton lu us 1 n 6SS hi 07! Williamsport.. " lion 1 ll '• 30 10 y> Lock Haven... - 11511 22" 7 :t» Henovo " A.M. :00 - :I0 Kane " s J."> !..... P.M. P.M. I.oek Haven..lv <l2 10 145 ....I Hellefonte ....ar 1 o"> 1 11 .... 1 Tyrone •' a "i> ti on I Philipsburg " 1355 Hnj Clearfield.... " 5 S s 4", Pittsburg.... " 655U0 45 A. M. P. M P. M. P M Sunbury lv 'J io j 1 •a ■ s3l Harnsburg ar 11 3<i i 3 15 «• -) :u 10 P. M. P. M. P. Jtt. ,\ M _ Philadelphia., ar si 317 ti aJ 10 J.' 425 Baltimore '• j3 11 ti 110 '.l 4 , •• 30 Washington... " j 4 10 : 7 15 10 55 4 iv> IA. M. P. M. Sunbury lv slll 00 ; a I > 1 Lew Is tow 11 ,Ic. ar 11 1> I 0 ... . Pittsburg •' 655 |lO 45 A.M. P, MP. M. i>~M Harrishurg.... Iv II 45 r i o> , 7 1". ;ioi, P.M. A M. A. M. A M hittsburg ar fi 5 | 15" ; 1 oil 530 P. M.J P M A MAM Pittsburg lv 7I" '.IOO ;00 is 00 .... IA. M A M P M Haniiburg.... ar 2on 4 j :• :w 3 M AM A M; Plttsbu:g lv H I'd P M Jo. '• 7 :;e >3 00 Sunbury ar a 2- 1 50 .... P.M. A MIA M A M Washington... lv 10 4" 7 > 10 '<■ fialtiuiore '• II no 4 10 s4O II 4 , PkiiMMphi*... '■ 11 H 4 S 8 ;o II in A. M. A M A. M. P M llarrisburg Iv 3tS 756 II lu J 3 ••Jo Sunbury ar ."1 on!■ j, iOS sn> """ jl'.M. A M A M Pittsburg lv ;la4o ion s (»• Clearfield.... " i 350 !»•>"""* Philipsburg.. " I 411 10 la Tyrone " 7On sju 12 li"> Hellefonte.. " s Hi ... . itl (fi Lock Haven ar wls In m 2 10/"" P. M A II \ M P M Erie Iv Kane *• - 1 0 "0 Henovo '• 11 60 t» 4-">. 10 30 Lock Haven.... '• 12 :> 7 11 J ' 1 l*' A.M.! P M Willlanisport.. '• a 2!' 8 3 12 in 4it >1 nt on asi 117 las * M Lewisburg " v n.'> 11, 41.' Sunbury ar 324 yHi 15' 5 1"> ITM. A .-\I 1' M P Mi Sunbury lv ;6K , • •* tOl 5 25j South Danville" 7 ll! i 0 17 221 5 Catawissa " 7 10 35 2 (i "si E Hloomsburg.. " 737 10 43 2 l-i 81 > Espy Ferry.... " 742 fio 47 f# 10 Creasy " 752 in 56 V, 11 .at Nescopeck " so.' 11 o. 1 12, 3 o"> 840 "" A M A M P. M. P M Catawissa Iv 7 11l :is ti (H Nescopeck lv 82 1 I 5 06 7OS Kock (Hen ar II 7 as Kern Uien •• 851 11 28 S B 7 il Tomhicken " svs 11 s :;s t4J ] \ Hazleton " Si l'.i 11 58 5 50, 805 Pottsville " 111 15 AM AMP M P Ml' Nescopeck Iv 802 11 oft .11. 6 I ••• Wapwallopen..ar 81" 11 an Jo BIS Mocanaqua.... " 831 1132 ; ;II 701 •••• Nantieoke " 8v; 11 ft 410 71" P M Plym'th Kerry" I OIK la >a 1 7 Js Wilksbarre ..." wlO 12 10 4 0., 7 AM P M P M P M Pittston IMkH) ar |v I* IS 486 s H Scranton " " 10 08 121 "> ai . j or, ; Weekdays. ' Ilaily. I Flag stati„n. Pullman Parlor ard Sleeping Cars run on through trains between s.;:-i>ury. Willlamsport and Erie, between Sunbury I'hiladelpliia and Washington and between Harristiur:'. Piits burir and the West. Kor lurtiier information apply to Ticket Agents J.li. HUT CHINS OA, ./. R. WOOD, (len'l Manager, (ini'l Paiix'n'r A(j p\K( I TltlX'S \OTII r Est:»to of George \V. Myerlv, Into of borough of Danville, ,in the county of Montour ami strife of l* iinsylvan ia. deceased. Notico is hereby given that letters testamentary have been granted to the undersigned. All persons indebted to the said estate are required to make payment, and those having chums nr demands against the said estate, will make known the same without delay ID MKS. HARRIETS. MVERLY, Exec utrix of George W. Myerly, Deceased. Edward Sayre Gearhart, Counsel. Danville' Fa., December 10th, l'.K)2 T A' K.WVANN \ RAIL* MUI u BL'X'Msm Ri, DI VI>Ioj» W KHT. A. M A. VI. A H. P. M New «rk .Iv Iv .... mhi P. M. Keranton........ ..ar »• 17 l 311 P. M l!iiMali* Iv II » 2IS A. N NtunUm ar 1 <» 1 Scranton i: 10 HI 1 • ,11 A. M. A. vt |». M ■ ."■'■ranton...... I* ft. :sf> *lO IV ♦!'»» *»• !•» KrllrtM »i*.» Taylor •«! MI7 S«K •IN Lmkivmißa ...... •l- Mjl jin as* I>ur>«-u >,4.. I'ittKton K57 lext 11: . jit HutU|tiehanna Ave 7MM Hi 17 2 l!» ». 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Mop- I>n > 1 gnal or on not -e loeoixlurtor. T. E.l I.AKKK. T W. UK tien. superintendent. I ien. H»«, Age at Shoes Shoes St3rlisli ! CHeap ! DESelicLlole l Bicycle, Cymnasium and Tennis Shoes. THK CELEBRATED Caplisle Slkips AND THE Proof Rubber Boots A SPECIALTY. A. SCH^LTZ, am n! A Reliable TO SHOP For all kind of Tin Roofing. Spoutine and Conoral Job Work. Stoves, Heaters, Rano« ( Furnaces, eto. PRICES THE LOWEST! QUJLITt THE BEST! JOHN HIXSON NO. 116 E. FEONT BT. PEGG The Coal Dealer SELLS WOOD" —AND— COAL —AT— -344 Ferry Street
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