|"' DONALD '' I :: DONALDSON, JR. :: Being a True Record and Explanation ' ' of the Seven Mysteries Now Asso- '' I | ciatid frith llis Name In the i Public Mind, and of an T |) Eighth, UTilth Is th« I Kcu of Vie Seven ♦ | > By HOWARD FIELDING 9 I 1 Copyright, lI'JS, by Charle» W. Hunite 9 [Continued from last Week, j "'The money first.' said Walmsley. "Westeott had had both his hands under the table. He withdrew the left hand and threw down a little bag. Walmsley, still holding his pistol, man aged to open the string that fastened the mouth of the bag, anil he poured out the gold coins upon the table. Then he counted them off with his right hand, putting each into his pocket. " 'lt's right,' he said, 'and here's the deed.' "He took it from the breast of his coat and laid it before Westeott. As "Hiy/ii then!" he cried, striking his Iclt luilid hi ton the wall. he did so he lowered his pistol, and the ! next s:cond it went spinning across ■ the room Walmsley gave a cry like I some wild animal. He seemed to lose his wits Meanwhile Westeott had ris- j en to his feet, his right hand being he hind him. The document lay between them on the table just there." "I cannot understand what insane Impulse moved Walmsley, but be reached forward to snatch the deed. I i think he must have meant to get it anyway, protected by his pistol; to get ; the money, display the document and j then treacherously take it again in or j der to have a bold upon the other, j and his mind was so set upon this act that he performed it mechanically In j his terror, forgetting the loss of hi? j weapon. "Westeott made a sudden sweep with his right arm, incredibly rapid. I can hear the whistling sound of his sword in the air. He had been holding a cav alry saber under the table. Walmsley's fingers were closed upon the deed and he was drawing it toward him. Those fingers, long and yellow, remained clasped about that bit of paper, even after the hand fell away from the arm, severed clean by the strongest blow I ever saw or dreamed of." There was a pause during which I was aware that every one breathed rather hard, including myself. "Walmsley screamed, but not very loudly," continued Donald. "It was the quick cry of horror and surprise. He stared at liis own hand, lying there upon the table. In an instant Westeott caught him and ripped Ills right shoul der and arm bare. He had everything ready, and he worked with great skill. |He put a tight bandage around the arm above the elbow; then he did some thing to the wrist, tying up the severed 'arteries, I suppose. When this was done and tlie stump wrapped in cloths, he picked Walmsley up in his arms, for the man had fainted, and carried him out through that window." I"To the doctor's, of course," said !Bunn. ; "I have not followed him," responded happened outside this room. Wait!" he cried suddenly. "Westeott is com ing back. He takes the hand from the table, the deed still in it. By the Eter nal!" He sprang toward the wall and pull ed away a movable bookcase that had been putin since the Kelvins' advent. How he could have swung it away from the wall I really do r.ot know, for the thing with its load of books must have been a great weight. "Itight there!" he cried, striking with his left hand upon the wall. "He put it there!" 1 We all ran forward and examined the paneled wall, which seemed to be perfectly solid, but Reedy sounded it in the place indicated by Donald and declared that it was suspiciously hoi low. After perhaps ten minutes' work which showed him to be very expert In such matters, the detective found a spring controlling a panel which open ed outward, revealing a recess contain ing the dust of many old papers and some parchments well enough preserv ed. There was also the right hand of a man long dead, and the bony fingers still clasped that deed of transfer which Norman Westeott had bought of Ezra Walmsley, the miser. CHAPTER XIII. "TIIE DEBIHE OF THE MOTH FOIt THE STAB." THE affair of the miser's hand made a great stir. I never have been able to trace the ways by which it got into print, but within thirty-six hours the newspapers seemed to be full of it. I should not have regretted very se riously the publication of the exact facts; but the controversy which re sulted was somewhat annoying. Don ald suffered, but he bore it well. He was beset by interviewers and persons with cameras; all sorts of absurd tests were proposed to him; he received let ters from many serious minded inves tigators and a multitude of cranks, and there were several proposals from the atrical managers who wished to exhibit him. The photographers secured plen ty of snapshots, but the interviewers Iwere obliged to depend upon their own imaginations, for Donald would not say a word to any of them. All Tunbridge became debating so ciety, though there was far less skep ticism than I should have expected. My main concern is with the attitude of two persons, both of whom were witnesses of the manifestations—l re fer to Bunn and Kelvin. The effect upon Jim Bunn was most remarkable. I may truthfully say that he was never the same man afterward. He had been profoundly impressed. .upon liclvin tlie effect was peculiar. I will wager all I possess that lie had nd more doubt originally as to the gen uineness of the manifestations than I had. Upon that night he was shaken to his very vitals by what he saw. Vet upon the third day afterward he told Isaac Thorndyke, an old resident of Tunbridge, that it was all mere trickery. Thorndyke was the most notorious babbler who ever existed, lie never kept a secret longer than the time re quired togo from the person who gave it into his keeping to the next with whom he had a speaking acquaintance. Kelvin, though a newcomer in tlie town, could not have been ignorant of this. There seemed no escape from the conclusion that he had deliberately selected the person most likely to spread the story broadcast. I was enraged at this, and I taxed Kelvin with the slander, lie showed considerable backbone, saying that he had only expressed a private opinion to an acquaintance and blaming Thorn dyke for repeating that which had been told in confidence. The scene between Kelvin and myself was very unpleas ant, and I could not help feeling throughout its duration that he was secretly trying to make it worse. In the end I said something quite sharp, to the effect that he was an un grateful brute who ought to be walk ing on four feet and that, moreover, lie was the last member of the animal kingdom that had a right to accuse an other of underhand devices and dis honest trickery. This opened the breach once more between the Kelvin family and my own. Poor Donald! llis boy ish love affair was progressing over a very rough road. There was some reason to regret this quarrel which would embitter the war for the control of the branch road. Carl Archer had a talk with me upon this point and suggested that it was very unfortunate to involve Mr. Thorn dyke in the quarrel, because he was a stockholder in the branch I perceived the iniquity of the situation; but, hav ing already given Thorndyke a piece of my mind, I could hardly take it back. However, 1 < or.ld not believe that lie would make U4S an excuse for deserting our party, to which he had pledged allegiance before the incident arose. "I think that Donald is carrying this j matter a little too far." said Carl. ''lt is true that he doesn't se- m to be doi: g j any harm, but we can't be sure that | he won't, because we don't know the \ motive which luis led him into all this wonder-working." "Why don't you ask himV" said 1. "I wish that you would," he replied very earnestly. "He's outside. Call him in." "It won't do any good." said I. "Try it,"he rejoined. lie got up on a chair and looked through tlie (4lass of the partition | which is between my rt» »m and the i main office. The glass part was once , movable, but I had it 112; .;< ?.;■! pcrma- [ nently some years ago ami even added i a double sash in order to < x -hide more | effectually the noises from the outer j office, where many people were em- i ployed. "He's out there, talking with Tim ! Ilealy," he said and called Donald's j name, but the partition is so thorough- j ly impervious to sound that he was not heard, although Ilealy's tall desk ; is directly upon the other side of it. j "I'll go out and get him," said Carl, j "or you tell him when you go out, j Bunn," he added to the old cashier, who at th:.t moment opened my door. "Tell Donald that we want to see him." Bunn laid a paper on my desk and made some comment. As he turned togo Donald entered. "My boy," said I, "do you know what your future father-in-law is say ing about you?" "Yes," he replied cheerfully; "Mr. Kelvin thinks I'm bogus. I hope he'll be able to prove it, and then we shan't have any more trouble." At this Jim Bunn laughed nervously. "What is the exact truth, Donald?" said I. "Well," he answer* d. smiling, "the truth is that Mr. Kelvin would do well to wait. He has seen things that were hard to explain; he will see oth ers that are a thundering sight harder. But I can't help it.l call you to wit ness, Uncle John, that I was dragged into this business by the heels. You know how painful it is to me." "Donald," said Carl kindly, "in our presence and upon honor all joking aside—do you claim the possession of any unusual powerT' "A minute or two ago," said Donald, "you weren't so anxious about the power. You wanted to know what the motive was which had led me into all this wonder-working." Carl started and gripped the arm of his chair. "Your exact words," said I. Jim Bunn put a hand to his forehead ns he looked from Donald to me. Then he pointed to Archer. "Did he say that before Don came In?" he demanded. And I responded that he had said it precisely. "Tell us how you do it, Don?" said Carl lightly. "You pr<:me unreasonably." an swered Don. 1, with annoyance. "1 do !t by means of a power of which I pos sess a little, but there is some one in Tunbridge who possesses a thousand times more." "You mean your father," said Bunn quickly. "No, I don't mean my father," an swered Donald, "and unless Uncle John commands me I shall not say whom I mean." "I shall not command you, my boy," said I. "Indeed, it is not necessary. And I won't have you cross questioned any more," 1 added, seeing how deeply he was irritated. "I thank heaven that you possess this power, and I verily be lieve that it will be the salvation of us all." When Donald had gone, Bunn asked me whether 1 could bring myself to be lieve that Mrs. Donaldson was the source of all tin se mysteries. "I never doubted that she had the power," said I, "but I am skeptical about her having more of it than bet eon." At this Carl Archer arose and waved his arms around his head in a protest that transcended speech. "We have all gone crazy!" he cried at last. "There is no such power. There is not an atom of evidence in all the world's history that any human being ever exercised it. Donald is merely traveling the way of all im postors, and 1 think we ought to stop him." "What do you think about it, Jim?" said I. Bunn had his hand upon the open door. "I think that nobody will stop him," he replied. "He will goon to the end." And the old man went away mutter ing. On the following day Donald came to me with a remarkable request, and I despair of making clear the reason why I granted it.l can say no more than that the boy had begun to exercise an influence over me that was nearly ir resistible. "You have noticed," said he, "that my father is not very well. That is why 1 come to you with this matter and why I ask you not to bother him about it. He lias enough upon his mind without being worried by my foolish ness." I asked him what the matter might be. "My father has the papers in the old Strobel correspondence," said he. "A few weeks ago he got them together and put them in his box in the vault at the bank." It is not necessary hero to explain what the Strobel correspondence was nor why Donaldson had taken charge of it. as these things have no bearing upon the case. I replied that the facts were as the boy had stated them. "I want you to ask my father for these papers," said Donald. "When you go up to the house this noon, you can stop at the bank with him and get them. Don't let anybody else see you take tlieni, don't tell anybody that you have them, and ask my father not to mention the circumstance at all. Will you do t his?" I saw no objection, and told him so. Then I asked what I should do with the documents. "Put them into that little handbag," said he, pointing to one which was be side my desk. "Don't take them out while you're at the house. Afterward bring them down here and put them in this safe. When you have done so, change the combination." Evidently he wanted me to have them in a place where I could get them handily and at any hour of the day, not In a bank, which closed at 1 in the aft ernoon, and in a box which nobody but his father, then seemingly threat ened with an illness, could open. But what was the value of the pa pers? As I now know that it was noth ing, I will not enlarge upon the ques tion, though It bothered me at the time. The only indication I could get was that Isaac Thorndyke had been con- j cerned in the correspondence in ques- j tion, though how the fact could be I used to influence his vote in the com- , ing stockholders' meeting I was unable j to understand. However, I did lire- \ cisely as Donald had asked me to do, j and by 2 in tlie afternoon the papers reposed in my safe, the door of which 1 would answer only to violence or to ! my own hand. That evening Donald asked me very j particularly whether I had followed | his instructions. He seemed to regard ; the matter as extremely important, i and he took me into the library to I speak the more privately, though there j was no one about, for Donaldson had i gone to his room and Dorothy and ! Carl to a neighbor's house. We sat together in a window looking out at the moonlight which was flood ing over the roof of the long, low house and pouring down the slope of the lawn beyond in a great white stream. Suddenly I heard steps upon the path that ran in the shadows below the window, and a voice cried, "Doro thy!" The tone was strange, and some how it went to my heart. "Carl and my little mother," said Donald; "they're coming back." He left the window and walked out of the room. I was vaguely glad that he should go and was, indeed, prompt ed to follow him, but somehow I could not do so. Carl and Dorothy had stopped below the window. As the room was dark, they could not have suspected that any one was within hearing of their voices. After the single word which I had overheard there was silence for nearly a minute. "Carl," said Dorothy, speaking as one who has summoned up strength to meet an emergency, "I won't have this. It shall not be so." "You refuse to listen to me," he re sponded. "You will not let me speak." "I care nothing for that," she an swered. "I can protect myself from your addresses. What I won't have is the fact! The thing shan't be true." "I don't understand you," said he al most in a whisper. "You are spoiling something that is too good to be spoiled," she answer "Look at our life here in this house. See how this man, once loveless and alone, has gathered around him those who love him. See how beautiful a life we lead under his roof. Why, Carl, you and I have played together as in nocently as if we were children. Have you the heart to bring such common infamy as this into a scene so sweet?" "It isn't infamy," he protested. "My love for you"— "Say blasphemy, if you prefer the word," she cried. "It seems to me like that when uttered in this little corner of the world that has been sacred as j 'j- "H'c will not quarrel," nuul he racily. the very presence of Cod in his own temple to me. Be sane and honest, Carl. How can you deliberately sacri fice the friendship of my husband and of Mr Harrington, to say nothing of mine?" "As for you, Dorothy," he replied with an emotion of which 1 would not have thought him capable, "I cannot be your friend. Clod knows that I have tried." "If <D> 1 had known it," said she. "you would not have failed. He would have liven you the strength to succeed. No; I'ou have not tried." "I cannot be your friend," insisted v'arl. "As for the friendship of the others, do you fancy that I shall tell them?" "Do yuu fancy that I shan't?" retort, rl Dorothy, almost in tears from shame and rage. "How dare you hint that I would share a secret with you and ex i elude my husband? I wouldn't do it if it were about a pint of peanuts, and you should have found that out by this time." I had a glimpse of Carl at this mo ment, and his face was so white that it seemed to shine. "You will tell him," <1 he slowly. "It is honorable. But u;>on the other hand I was equally bound in honor to tell you." "You were bound In honor not to have any such tiling to tell," replied Dorothy with spirit. "We will not quarrel," said he sadly. "I have only one word more to say. The time must soon come when I shall offer you the deepest sympathy of my heart. I cannot offer it to you in the name of friendship. I won't lie to you. That is why I tell you now that I love you." "It seems to me that if you foresee trouble coming to me you have now put it out of your power to help me. Rut what do you mean? I»o you ex pect harm to come to my husband?" "Will you keep the secret?" "Not from him," she answered firm ly. "If there is good reason, I will keep it from everybody else." "1 cannot speak on such terms," said Carl. "Indeed, I would better not speak on any terms. I have lost your es teem. I cannot count upon your help. Y'oti would distrust me. But, Dorothy, remember this: There is some one very near and dear to you—much dearer than he has any right to be—whom I have honestly tried to save, but I have failed." Dorothy was more bewildered than alarmed. "I know that my husband has lost money," she said. "Mr. I>llllll has led him into a very foolish investment. He may suffer heavily, but it will be 110 such catastrophe as you imagine." This, by the way, was the first hint I had received that Donaldson had gone with Bunn into a certain wild dream of finance which I will here describe simply as the Harbrook Land com pany. I had earnestly advised Donald son against it, and I supposed that ho had heeded my warning. As for Bunn, I understood that he had drawn out with a marvelously small loss. My con science had been dragging me away from that window; now it dragged me back again. "That is but a small part of the . trouble," said Carl. And then sudden ly: "Dorothy, don't disclose this, will regret it. I have spoken to you from really good motives, even though they may seem to be mistaken, and in the strictest confidence." "There can be no confidence of this j. kind with a wife," said Dorothy, "it | she really is one. But, Carl, I begin p to see some sort of sincerity in you, , and this is what I will do to reward it: | I will tell my husband that you have spoken in a way to offend me, but • that I have forgiven you, and I will 1 beg him not to ask me any questions. ' I will not say, unless directly asked, i that you have spoken to me of his busi- ! ness difficulties, which I believe that ■ you greatly exaggerate. But I can take j this course only if you promise me to j change from the heart outward —to be j to me in all your thoughts that which ' you may honorably he, and 110 more, j Will you do this?" • "How can I look at you"— he began, I but she Interrupted him crying: "Carl, this is monstrous! I am air i old woman. I am the mother of a grown man. I have lived my life, and it has been ti wondrous and beautiful , life to live. I have had such love- ' such perfect love." "You trifle with me," he said in a sud den rage. "Your husband is as cold as 1 the dead. He neglected you openly, lie has no eye for your beauty, for this' living miracle of your unfading youth which has been bestowed upon you. In my belief, that you might wait for a real love." "I have not had to wait," said Doro thy in a voice indescribably sweet. "And now," she lidded, "tills is the end, ( absolutely the end. I asked you for a promise. Give it to me and think upon whatever is most sacred to you while you speak." "I will think upon that which is most sacred to me," he said, looking straight into her face, "and for the sake of it 1 will either conquer my heart or sur render it with all my mortal part to the dust of the earth—to the uncon scious dust that cannot suffer." This pledge struck me as somewhat theatric, and yet it was spoken with heartbreaking sincerity and seemed to have ti considerable effect upon Doro thy. "The way to cease to desire some thing," said she, "is to desire some thing else. Find a riglit love, Carl. I hope you may. There js a woman somewhere who is really young, who needs 110 miracle, who wiU not fade in a year or two. Find her." She turned away and wnflked toward the front of the house. He remained standing stock still for fully a minute and then sank slowly forward upon his knees and still lower, lie denied to be kneeling upon tin? body oi an ene my. 1 could hear him mirtter curses, and he beat the turf beside tlio grav eled path with his fists. It was the most extraordinary spec tacle of the abandonment of self con trol that ever I saw and was made even more remarkable by the sudden ness with which it ceased. The man arose and wiped his soiled hands with his handktnehief; then he felt nervous ly in his pockets. He found a cigar and crushed it in his fingers without realizing what he was doing. But a second was successfully lighted, and Carl strolled lout Into the moonlight beyond the shadow of the house with his accustomed careless and graceful stride. 'CHAPTER XIV. \* THE BETRITN OF "A BAD PENNY." THDHE was a great weight upon me as I left the library. My heart echoed Dorothy's words precisely. My protest, like hers, Jwas against any change in the ways of our lives, which had seemed so perfectly well ordered; not that I fancied they cotdtf ever be the same again. Upon the contrary, 1 perceived clear!£ enough that Arel'.-r must lie sent Uway fur his own sake and the peace of all of us. I blamed him bitterly. There was never less excuse for any man's folly. 111 the sixty years that I have been in the world I have never seen a woman wliow! heart could be read more eas ily than Dorothy's nor it man whose guilty thought had been hidden behind it mask so impenetrable as that which Carl had worn. If he had been mis taken in her, he must be mad, but it seemed to me that not even the niyste | rious power which she had once JKlS sessed could have warned her against him. His manner toward her, its I would have sworn from constant ob servation, had always been perfect. Yet it. is true, of course, that those who stand nearest to sueh tragedies of the Lome are often most blind to their be ginnings. Mrs. Kelvin's hint about DonaUi recurred to me, Tnd I wonder ed wUh a shudder whether he had looki*l into Archer's heart. It that were true, it could have been only to hate the man, never to fear him. When I came out upon the wranda, Dorothy was sitting in a big chair with her t4ort upon the arci of it. I saw them against !he brightest of the moonlight, and "tlil made Donald loom dark, like it greatH: latue of bronze. "Where is your father, Don?" she was ask'eng him as I stepped out. "11l h'As room, writing," li« (answered. "Shall I call hitnV" She answered "No;" that slio would go up. "l'il carry you," sai<! lio, ami in <lll Instant lie had lifted Iter with his right. . arm alone By a peculiar knock wliich I had never seen the like of Before. It was verv easy and graceful, and Doro thy was perched upon his arm like a bird 011 a hough. "Oh, Donald," she cried, steadying herself with a hand upon his hare head, "I'm too heavy! I'll topple yon over." "I have a pond lily in my buttonhole on the other side," said he. "I'm Bal anced perfectly." And he strode away with her into the house. I waited there it long time for Carl, but he did not appear, and at last I made up my iniiul not to speak to him of my plan for sending linn a way until I had had more time to mature it. 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To balance due Directors at Ia ft settle ineiil +. 171 I; To cash received Irom K. W. Peters on Uapllaite for WOO 18(9 To cash received from K. \V I'iters on duplicate l'.Hll li"»lW 'J'M raxli received from K. \V. Peters on duplieiUe for HMia Ii;l7 (Si To cm received from Win K. l>jrer on duplicate for lINU USUI.") Tocash received from I>. Kuckel on 011 duplicate for ism; '--1 SI To cash received from \V. K. Koclier adminstriitor for Nathan I'eiisler niacher 011 duplicate for lIWI J >7 1 i To casii received from Mrs. <Joiner Thomas HO AO To eMkraeeired fron Emma Woods TIN To cash received from Win. Kvans iV Sister 0980 To cash rcc. from Kennel Kstale -111 IK I To cash received from Thomas Kojiers Coin mitt V.S. Roberts 9959 To ejisli received from Montour IJ'MIKC ... '.ll J5 To cash received from .1.1 tare, com mit t of.S. I'i'kens !"l (id To cash received from Thomas lirislin ili 7> To cash received from Thomas Rogers in Thomas Williams Kstate HHBI To cash received from 1 itlier Districts... •">" ". cash received from Justice Ojflesby iIT cash received from .lustice Hare 1 <HI cash received froui Steward for pro duce sold till 7 ! t 1001» 7-1 I'll. Ity whole amount of orders paid by I lie Treasurer duriim the I'.NKi . . Tlhlll I'al due Directors at present set I lenient til Directoi "/ Danrille ami Moltintimj I'nor District in Ac fount ifith tin District. Dll. To balance due from Treasurer at last settlement '_'lTl I'! To balance due front I>. Kuckel at last settlement on linp i'-ate for >1 To balance due froji IVillim Kenste inucher at last settlement on dupli cate lor 19 >1 I<»T> 72 To balance due from K. W. I'eters at last settlement on duplicate for the year 11100 Is 05 To balance due from E. \V. I'eters at last settlement on duplicate for the IHOI .V*) lis To amount ot duplicate issued E. W. i'eters for the Horough of Danville for the year 1902 V 177 39 To Penalty of 5 per cent on S:S27 2e dup licate for the year 1902 31 :{ti Amount of duplicate issued to Win. K. Dyer for the Township of Mahon ing for the year 11)02 "Ollli To cash res. from Mrs. (romer Thomas Hit Oil cash received from Emma W00d5.... 70UO To cash received from Win. Evans A Sister t§ls cash ret*, from Mary Kennel Est al 1 (Ki To cash received from Thomas Kogers < oiuniitt of W. S. Huberts -Ji .">0 cash received from Montour Eodue.. '.'l2.') To cash received from J. I*. liare Com mit of S. Pickens Ht> no cash received from Thomas Itrislin ill 75 To cash received from Thomas Kogers in Thomas Williams K5ta1e........ Ha 21 casii received from other Districts.. 52•>! cash received from .lustice < Igleshy H7 cash received from .Justice liare.... 1 (X) cash received from Steward for Pro duce sold 61173 t 11277 H ill. By commission allowed D. Kuckel of ii per cent on $233 51 011 duplicate for the year ISiW 11 07 By commission allowed Nathan Eenster maelier ofs per cent on+H>s 72 on du licate for the year l'.Hll sift) By abatement allowed Win. E. Dyer of 5 per cent on 00011 duplicate for tile year 1!HI2 21 K) Commission allowed Win. E. Dyer of 3 per cent on Sill 20 on duplicate for Uieyeartttt 1342 Commission allowed Wlll. E. Dyer of 5 per cent $212 57 on duplicate for the year 1902 12 12 Amount returned by Win. E Dyer on duplicate for the year IHtri 217 Exonerations allowed Win. E. Dyer on duplicate fortheyear IHO2 1 ::i Balance due from Win. E. Dyer 011 duplicate for the year 1!H)2 17 lit By commission allowed E. W Peters of 5 percent on SIS 115 011 duplicate for year 19*9... s*s 1 By commission allowed E. W. Peters of 5 !>er cent on SD7 :i" on duplicate for year WOl 22 >7 1 By balance due from E. W. Peters for l'.Hll 8371 Bj abatement allowed E. W. Peters of 5 per cent on SPiHl<>s 011 duplicate for year IHO2 23050 By commission allowed E W. Peters of 2 per cent 011 ♦l3Bi.:ili on duplicate for 11)02 S7 71 coinmission allowed E. \V. Peters of 5 per cent 011 S-'MiM 12 on duplicate for toe year 1903 is 12 exonerations allowed E. W. Peters on duplicate for the year IMB Kfl Br balance due from E. \V. Peters dupli cate 1908 CSB '* '< By onlers paid by Treasurer during the vear 1903 • 7'.1u1l By Valance due DlroetOTl at present settlement 319998 ? 11277 51 Statement <>f Orders issued during the year I'M'. I'aid <in<! outstanding and purposes for which the name icc re issued. Directors Salaries $ liiiOOO Steward :M0 00 Physician 110 00 Attorney Salary Fees Expenses :tt:il'.i Treasurer 7500 Clerk 75 00 Auditing and Duplicate 18 00 Transient Paupers !i 55 Ex. in settlement of cases 21 00 Justices 10 INI Miscellaneous Items 18 to Printers bills lij 75 Kent 25 00 llorse hire incurred by Directors in dis charge of their ollicial duties 20f0 Insurance 10 00 51121 II) Outside Relief as Follows: Medicine $ 2175 Coal and Wood ill 7it Shoes and Clothing 35 (0 Undertaker in no Insane at Hospital 2**!':! 5o Paid other Districts 12 til General Meichandise 5:>7 :w> Children's Aid Society WOO *>71201 For Maintenance <>/ Pttor Ann am! Farm. Seeding Grain and Plants $ 2S s:i Lime and Manure Its 20 shoes and Shoe Repairing .'l2 5.5 Blaekftnith bills MBS7 linn-■ and Kariu Hands ; 117 Kami Implements and Hardware 29996 Clothing 105 31 Meat bill 1)5 15 Coal lli'.iso Improvements and repairs 52005 General Merchandise 210sli Tobacco 1020 Floor and Feed isoo Drug Store bills s 10 Wagon 9999 hive stock SO 45 j2I!HJ 15 Orders issued dnring the year 111 >2 ~7.12'i :is Paid by Treasurer during tl»' year 11" 2 >7:fl'.i II I.eaviiig outslanding orders for the year 1 ■; 127 11. WIK KM AN. 1 , THEO. IIOKK.M AN, Directors P. M. KEIIXS, I We, the Auditors of the Borough of Danville and Township of Mahoning have examined • the above accounts and find them correct D. K W 11.1 <IA Ms, 1 EDW ITHl'l'll, -Auditors. B. 1,. DIEHI,, \ Statements of Ileal Estate and 1\ rsonal Property on hand at diite of I Settlement. Ileal Estate $22500 00 , House and Kitchen Furniture >;7ti vi I Hav and Grain IW9O Farming Utensils l'>>» 7 «»2 livestock ISIDHI Vegetables lUido Meat and Lard *0 !t5 , Clothing and Material tl V> Fruit. Preserves, Sic !»25 • Vinegar 12 00 I Flour 25 en Cofleeand Tea '• '>{ 1 Sugar ....... ■ 15titl > Satir Kraut -"0 , Tobacco II I" Coal M9M liUIIIIMT Mim . Separator ami Scales I' Ini Medicine.... 2 00 Funds of May Kennel 30999 *27*81 II Produce liaised. - 45 Tons Hay 540 (111 230 hushelsPotatoes 11.1 no 1.12 bilsliels of W heat <24 INi bushels Oats 2-2 21 11)20 bushels Corn ears INI 00 1 baskets 1 Mess 393 I bushels Onion sets 2 IH) 12 bushelsofTtirnlps > 545 bushels Beet* It WHO KM I.lCaMiage I»i*> -25 Bundle* Hornindder ... .j . I HHm Butter ..X» cts 22020 IK) I>oz t&xs .. >m»i +SM2 II Stock (112. I'll'ijis ....♦ »•*.«» 10 Calves mux 12114 thickens .... jioo 11 Turkeys |o ~ti 12 Mucks jllli + 1 is SO Nuiulit r I'auper j i lmi !<• I mil i. ft ■luriiiKtlic y< >r 1002. \ <J in ittt-il 7 II I' mpi rs in House .ism. I*l. Il#i2 1 » '• In House .lan. Ist. IMM 7* I ramps Beli< ved for IWI2 7<i N lii i nir fill 1 rum | - I .7 Meals furnished TrainpN. \k FAMiLI EijyUATOR ■ should be an authority in all tht' jirin |< Ipal departrt ts of knowledge, and ■ should give in concise form all that It i t eonsulter net-d: to know about the Id. ■rivation, >|«-llinp, pronunciation, I land definition of words, a3 well as facts ahout cities, towns, and the natural features of every part of the globe, facts in history, biography, literature, etc. Such an authority is Webster's International Dictionary. NO HOWE IS COMPLETE without this compact storehouse of reliable information. Kev. I .> iniiii liilmtt, D.0., I.ditor of the Outlook liecit Ih. fiii. riti hi our hou>cli<.ld. anil 1 have seen no reason to transfer my alle giance lo any of his coni|ietiti t The New and Knlarged Edition has 25,000 New Words, Phrases, Etc., edited by W. T. Harris, Ph.D., LL.D., U. S. Commissioner of ■ Education, it is print'd from new plates throughout and has quarto pages with 0000 illu -{ratio; LET US SEND YOU FREE " A Test in Pronu v .atio:; " wii h ■! r.i-a pleasant and instructi*. • venintf's enter tainment. Illustrated pamphlet also fn-o. G. 6 C. MERRIAM CO.. Fubi., Sprlnpfield, Mass. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, TIMK TABLE In Effect May, 25, 1902 A i A.M.. Seranton(l»4tll)lv ? ' 12 -4 Pltteton " " 7U> fi wS 8 111 4SU A. M. A. At P. M P. 51 Wilkeatwrr*,.. IT 112" 25 sij 35 2ISH "" Plym'th Ferry " I 7 .'2 Il' l.' I J 52 IB "7 Nanticuke • T U UN *« « Mocanai|U:i .... " >■ iI 11 0. 3 2,, ® Wapwallopen.. " :• 10 II H! il "47 Neseopeck ar lls 11 >42 " ~ Al T7>T |». M . I PottsviUe lv ii ill IB llazletnn "* •••• 1- ~'2 :2 l"> » Tomhicken " .... 1 11 ■! 05 Pern Glen " 1 IS :i l.*»i J Hock (Hen .... •■ H 22i ; Nescopeek . ar 14> : Catawissa j 4 0" ~~ \ It A. M P. M P M Neseopeck... .lv. ■ls il Si • 4.' I«I (!reasv " .3 11 3"2 7 (Hi . Kspy Perry... ' ! 4: 11 4.; 14 02 7»• K. Bloomgliurk '• 4' 11 .V 1 4 Oil 7 2'» j Catawissa lv s 6 11.57 4i ; 7 South I'anville " I 14 12 1.. 431 7 ;,| Sunliury ar v» 35 12 4" 15. hls V. M. P. M. P. M KM. sunhury lv l» 4" :1J Is : ■"> !•' ;i 4,1 ' Lewisburg.... ar 10 l-i 1 4 >4O Milton " lu us 1 > 3."i |o 07 1 Willlamsport.. " 110' 111 •> »> 10 V. Ijock Haven... HUM 23M 734 ' j Kenovo " A.M. :: "0 8 H : Kane " s ->| ... ~~ P..M. P. M.| Lock Haven..lv :1- lo I.V Ilellefonte ....ar 1 OT> I 11 Tyrone " 2 •_"> 0 W I I 1 PliilipMburg " 4 .'») Jx 02 1 'leartield.... " 6iiS 545 t Pittuburg.... " B 5T> ilO ! I A.M. P. M. P M. P M ' Sunhury lv 950 112 1 - Harrisburg.... ar II 3" 3 l."> O' ;o 10 P. M. P. Al. P. M. \ M I hllailelphla.. ar 317 ii 23 i" -* 423 Baltimore '- $3 11 «"J '4 -j 30 WaMiintctnn... " ? 1 lo 7 li Ws# 1 N A. M P. M. Sunbury lv jjio 00 ij 2 I Ijewistown .lc. ar II I I 0 Pittsburg ti 55Islo 45 A.M. P, M P. >l. P M ~~ Hurrisburg.... lv 11 45 " 1 ' 1 > TOi P. M. A M. A. M. A M l ittsburg ar 1! -V> ,1 16'' ,1 50 3 :«> P. M.l P X A M A M ! Pittfburif lv 71" 000 .00 s .... •A. M A VI V M Harrisburg.... ar ■2 00 4 2-' '■< '■*) 31" AM AM Pittebmir lv 8 10 P M Jt*. J t *. " T .11«' Sunbury ar » 2 4 SO P. M. 2 MIA M A M Washington... lv 10 4" 7 • 10 .">•■ Baltimore •• II 00 4 10 s 1,1 li 4 , Philadelphia... " 11 » 455 -38 1 IB A. N. A M A. M. P M Uarrlsburg.... lv 3 3-"> 7v. ; 1 , .0 Sunhury ar •M v N 1 W a o"> [*'** ] P.M.I A M A M Pittsburg I\ .12 4j :: so. t leartield " 1* 3 5o Philipsburg.. '• lio 10 l-i 'l'vrone " 7 t>. sln 12 Uellefonte.. " 81« ... . 32 I i l "' Lock Haven ar 'J In 10 :;o 210 " P. M. A S! A M P M Krie lv .... Kane " si o< o .. Kenovo '• 11 ■"> «> 4 > lo : Lock Haven " 12."-- 7 !."> II . 3*> ' A.M. P M Wiliiainsport .. " 2 2!' S3 12 4 Milton 22. yi; i 2' 440 •;**. Lewisburg " 9 0-> I I > I I- Suubury ar 3>4 9Hi 15 sli "" —>U AMP M P M Sunbury lv ;0451 055 2"" •> - • .... South i'anville " 7 li, .017 221 1 Catawi?sa " 7 3-i 10 35 2 •) 1 ~ K Bloemshurg.. " 737 111 43 2 I 615 K."py Perry....' - 742 fl" 47 f<s I'. l ". Ureal; " 798 1" M 2 <■ '*• ' Neseopeck " sO2 tlo.', • o"> e i '' A 51 A M P. M. t t'ataw issa |\ 7 .2 10 Si 2 •> IN Nescoiieek lv S2l Book (Hen ar II 7 2s '.... Pern < Hen " 851 112* > . 7 M Tomhiekcn " s ,s ll - T42 Hazleton " !• lo 11 > . SOS ;... Pottsville " 10 1 > AM AMP M P M Neseopeck lv . 8 02 II 'ft 1 I I Wapwallupen..ar *1- >1 2" '• Moeanauua.... •• h :,l il 7 Nanticoke " 8 "i. II 54 ■ I;' 7to P M Plvni'th Perry " 112 0":. la '2 17 •••• Wiiksbarte ... " 910 12 10 (n, AMPM P M P M PittßtomlM.ll) ar 939 12 4:■ s M ■••• Scraiilon " " 10 08 I 2 1 524 o o">" Weektlaj s. lialy 112 Playstation. Pullman Parlor a: <l Sleeping i' ir< run en throuifh trains between r<>..-'oin , \v l!i,iii>-:>.,rt anil Krie. between Sunloirv »i,.: Philadelphia and Washinaton and Mmn Haililtk,'; Pitts burg and the West. por Uirtlier ml'rmation apply to Ticket Agents / it. m tciii.\s<>.\, j. /;. wood, (ieti'l Maiutgtr. (!>!■" / Vu/r Ag p\K( I Till \ > MITII I Kst;»t>' of Qeeqi W. Mjrerly, lata of borough of Dantille, .in the • ■mntT of Montour and of Peimsvlvun i:i, deceased. Hotico is hereby given that letters testanieutary have lieen granted to the undersigned. All persons iudehtt Ito the said estate are re«|iiir. il to m;ik' payment, and tlio •• hiiving claims or demands against the ii>l e-tat . will make known the same without 1 lay to MRS. HAKKIET S. MYKIiI.V, K\. e ntrix of (reorge \V My. rly. Di ised. Kdward Sayro Gearhart, t'.'tinsel DuiTille' Pa . Deeeitiber loth, l'-Hi".' T \< KAWA XX A li AI LH« >A D * bu M tmaiitt. m ■ wExr. A. M. a. M. A. M. r. M \e* Vork,; l\ 2*» .... I«'■» P M. Sera ii ton « 17 I so P. M. r.ntfitlo lv 11 II 215 A. M. -s- ran ton ... ar "> »i p»t«j Srranton lv • 5 l«) Ml I "»i KM A. M. A. M P. M p. M -.-raiiton. lv >. *lo lo il -V, *»• i» Bellevue. •. 3W ...... ...... .... Taylor >■ 4 In 17 2». •. 4* In 21 2lu «_> Imrw-a •, k; in 2* 2 I'. Plttston •57 1n... 217 >\ Sn- jii' iiHiina Ave 7<m |n S7 JI'J « .2 W.st Pittxtoo 718 I II 22. t. Wyoming 7!► 10 #. 227 h#i Port> Port 250 IU illicit 7 l"i |i > 2 H -47 Killusion ar 721 I'- '• 2#» *• ' Wllken-Bwrre :»r 740 II l« 7"<i 7 M Wilkes Bar re lv 71* in U 2»l «#1 Piyinoutti June I'lyiiioiitli . ;• ii iii 21* 7m: A von dale 7 46 XM Nanticoke 7~t II l : 3 > 7 M Huniock i« 7 4.1 11 It* :<•; 721 sbickKlilnny. 755 1131 t»» 7 a Hicks Perry fll A l» CI4I Beach Haven 11l II 4» 317 71* Berwick •» 11* 1154 .41 75: Briarereek PtXt . f-i 3d .... Willow «. rose r> 27 f;.%4 f- "i l.lmc Kidtri a:t fl2H' : > «7 Kspy «r. 12 15 I•« il2 Biooiiisliiirg Mil 12 22 412 •17 It u pert 547 12 2". 11. »JI < Hlaw isMi 554 12 :S 4J2 <3. I'aiivliie :•<». I*2 41 4 M:C i a Huron ..... . !• 21 12 57 41- Nortlinniberi'd ar Hi 110 50U 9*5 EAST. A. M. A. M. P. M. p M. I Nortliumtieri *>, :c» ilotiu i d .£, Cameron ' 47 . KOI r. i I'arn IIU i, ;,7 in 10 211 '4; I'atawtsKa 71U 10 32 2£. ltU|X*rt. 7IH In ; 7 2 «n| BloomMbu ri( 7Ji 101 l 2 .ti mi'. INr 7JI 10 la 2 M ft |3 l.in.e Itniife T.l» flO 54 f2 112, t». > Willow «• rove f7 12S# i Itrlarcreek 7il . .. r: ►! f>i-."7 Berw ick 750 H ir. 2 > «-Z Beech Haven 75* fll 12 :«i >. 0 llicks p. Try »<C fll 17 :no <. 44 sblrfeMhlnny »17 n :i .ji i».ii Hun lock's M 27 .1 f7 oo Nanticoke ... 1141 c3M 7 11 A vondale. .. »:t7 iO Plymouth sII iI 'a .4. 72s Plymouth June.... . hl7 ... Kingaton ar *si li Mt im ; # Wiiki-f-Barrc ar 9 ill 12 14 410 7 Wilkes Burrc 1% .in 11 t> n 7 Kingston i\ afWi r » ion 7 * Bennett »> 1«! 712 Forty Port r.M»> .. . *O7 Wyoming Oft. 12 112 7is West Pittstori oil! ... 117 75: su«<|uelianna Ave . 913 12 14 42" 7 .*• Pitt-ton 010 12 17 421 Mlii huryeii t»®t IJ. Mi», I l.ackawanna 02K 4 IM Taylor 0 r2 1411 m 17 Believue im tM S«-rantori ir 942 12.15 4 '"•» * 2'» AMP A M Scranlon lv Mi.lo 12.4" 1 *> P. St. New 5 ork ar 335 lOf .... »> <1 P. \l I Scran lon lv ISA .... 11 Ml A. M. Buffalo ar .... 755 . 700 *l»ally, tUally except Sunday, fstopn on signal or on notice to conductor. T. E. CLARK K. T. W. I.KK. ( «en. superintendent. «»en. P»s* \«eut Shoes Shoes St3Tlisix ! Ciieap ! DESelia"ole I Bicycle, Cymnasium and Tennis Shoes. THK CELKBRATKD Carlisle Shoes ANI) THE Proof Kuhlier Boots A SPECIALTY. A.. SCHATZ. HIS HEW! A Reliable TIN SHOP For all kind of Tin Roofing, Spouting and Conoral Job Work. Stoves, Heaters, Ranges, Furnaces. *?o. PRICES THE LOWEST! QIiLITI TDE BEST! JOHN HIXSO> NO. 116 E. FRONT ST. PEGG The Coal Dealer SELLS ; WOOD' —AND— COAL 1 —AT r I r 344 Ferry Stree.
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