t DONALD I I DONALDSON, JR.I ♦ T i Detna a I'rue Record and Explanation 1 y of the Seven Mynteries Now A*so- ▼ A ciatcd With His Name In the ▲ I'ubhc Mind, and of an T 9 Eighth, ntilch Is the A Key of the Seven T * ~ By HOWARD FIELDING y D Copyright, 1902, by Charles W. Hooke £ .s. 3.3 « 'O • [Continued from Week. | "How the dickens did we get such a result as that?" 1 asked. "Th:>rn dyke must have voted for us and Bunn against us." "Thorndyke voted for us," said Don aldson, "and Bunn voted for us. This man voted against us." "Carl!" I exclaimed. "Impossible!" "My son tried to warn me of this long ago," said Donaldson, "and I would not hear him." "It is a matter of business," said Carl harshly. "I am a '-*ock holder of this company. 1 vote «s my interest dictates." "Thorndyke," cried Donaldson, seiz ing the man's arm as he was passing, "did my son know how you were going to vote?" "Well, to be frank with you," replied Thorndyke, "your son is responsible for it. I had thought that I saw my Interest clear to vote with the other party, but at a late hour last even ing your son came to my house with Mr. Bunn, and I then learned what an infernally crooked game this man Kel vin has been playing. Between us, gentlemen, and to use the slang of the day, I couldn't stand for it." "Why didn't you lift the weight from our minds by telling us this?" I demanded. "Young Mr. Donaldson desired that I should say nothing," was the reply, "and I seemed to see his point." For the first time in his life Thorn dyke had kept a secret. "Don't you understand?" said Don aldson. "Archer, Archer! He's the man whom my s«">n was fighting against. If Bunn had stayed away, Archer would have votud with us, and we'd have lost the election just the same, supposing that Thorndyke had not changed his mind. But with Bunn here to vote for us and Thorndyke supp >sedlv safe for the Kelvin party. Archer's vote would turn the scale, and it <ould be tnrmd in iio other way. Kelvin would force him to cast it. Donald has foreseen this a long time. It was the only way to unmask this man completely." "Unmask, eh?" cried Carl. "Well, I'll do a little unmasking. Kelvin, whore's that man Gillespie?" "Come away!" growled Kelvin. "You're making a fool of yourself. It's all over." "No; not quite," said Carl. "Jim Bunn, answer me this: Who Mole that money? Who got the $10,<>00? You know. Is this the man?" He struck Donaldson roughly on the shoulder. "No," answered Bunn almost in a j whisper. "You'll get no lies from me. 1 am the man." Carl's hands dropped to his sides. "Are you— are you such a d d fool as tl:;;t? Goto state's prison, then, if you want to and die in a cage like a ' rat." Bunn shrank away as if he had re ceived a blow in the face, while Archer J turned oil his heel and walked out of i the room, followed by Kelvin. "lie has played the game too hard," j said Donaldson. "The strain has smash- i ed his wits." "Upon my word," said I, "I don't quite see what his game was." "Power!" answered Bunn. "Kelvin's control of this road would have forced your business into the trust. You would havi! made the best terms you , could and would have retired from ac- ■ tive management. Kelvin promised | Archer that he should have the whip hand of everything here, anil you can, see what that would have meant for j Donaldson. As for me, they had me In a trap." CHAPTER XVII. DON A 1.1 / S DISCLAIMER. THE room was now empty ex cept for Thorndyke, Bunn, Donaldson and myself. Arch er's outburst had not been un derstood except by the members of our group, and so the other men who had ] been present at the meeting had escap ed as soon as possible into the coulu: air outside. "Bunn," said I, "tell ine the straight truth." "I took the money," he replied. "I was hard pressed with that land com pany deal and other matters." "In heav< n's name," cried Donald son. "why didn't you hold on with the land company, as I told you? We've turned the corner with it in these last few days. The company is more than all ritfht." "My luck," said Bunn. "I thought that there was no way out; that I was ruined. Yet I hoped with that money to make myself whole. I meant to return it felt sure that I could. You know how 1 got it. I saw the parcel of Dills on your desk and made a dummy to take its place, which you putin the safe. I hid the money. You know that row of box letter files? 1 put it in the oldest one. There was no chance that it would be discovered. But it was. Some one pot it; stole it from me; rob bed the robber. Meanwhile I'd used 112" 1 " * "/ too/; the money," \ic replied. al>out $.">.000. I'd got out of the land scheme. I se<«ned to be in better shape, I felt that I could restore this money and that nobody would ever know. Then, suddenly, it was gone. Do you wonder that I went crazy Tr" "Who took it?" I demanded, "I onto - know what Donald says,"re plied Bunn. "But I don't see how there could be better evidence than his. lie j knows everything. He has told me the inmost thoughts of my heart. He says that Archer took the money from my hiding place." "Well, there can't be much doubt tibout it," said I. "One day in your office at noon Arch er accused me of being the thief," con tinued Bunn. "That was just after fiillespie came here as Professor Sev irn. He was in Archer's pay as a de fective. I suppose that he found tlio money. When Archer accused me, 1 did not know that it was not still in tlie ietter tile. You can understand what I felt when this charge was brought against inc. It meant—it meant just svliat he said two minutes ago; that I'd die in a cage like a rat. Vet when he told me what lie wanted me to do; thai I must redeem my stock from you ani vote It against you at this meeting, 1 declared to him that I would take my punishment before I would do such a thing. 1 said that 1 would return what was left of the money and raise the balance somehow to make all square with you. "'All right,' said he, 'but do it now, or I'll expose you.' "You, Mr. Harrington, were standing outside the office at that moment. I made my choice and went to get the money. It was gone. I accused Archer of taking it. but lie denied the charge in such a way as to convince me that he hadn't done it.l believed that some thief had found it. I suspected Tim Ilealy—everybody. Archer promised to help me recover it. lie had me in his power, for what could I do without the j money? "More and more this man got me un der his thumb until I half agreed that If the money could be found I would allow it to be thrust upon Donaldson. I had known all along that Archer was j plotting against him. Carl used to j walk the 11 <>• > r in your office at noon and say over and over again: 'Donald son, Donaldson! I'll have him under my foot!' He used to do tliis even be fore my crime. 1 overheard liini once as long ago as the early spring. I had j opened the door suddenly when his ! back was toward it." "Why didn't you tell me, Jim?" said I. "Tell you?" he echoed. "Would you 1 have believed it?" I was silent. Th< rein l;::< 1 lain the weakness of the case both for Bunn and for Donald. They knew that I I would not be convinced of Carl's real character. "Archer told me that Kelvin would furnish any amount of money that might be required." continued Bunn. "Kelvin was to know nothing about any robbery. It was merely that the money was needed. N >w. what was I to do, Mr. Harrington? I never would agree to vote my stock against you. Not even the threat of prison could make me do that. But I d:<l at last agree to absent myself from the meet ing. If you want to know just what I really meant to do." he cried, rising and seizing me by the shoulder. "I meant togo to New York and kill my self in a hotel there, where no one would know me. P>ut I had their pledge that the money which 1 had taken from you should be refunded." "Considering that they had 000 of it already," said Donaldson, "it wasn't much of a price to pay for the control of the branch road, with my disgrace and ruin thrown into the bar gain. They probably relied on Gilles pie to manage that." "I will tell you how they relied on him," said I, "and how they failed to count upon Donald; but, Jim, what changed this crazy plan of yours?" Bunn shuddered. "More and more," said he, "through out all these terrible days I have come to fear Donald. 1 had no faith in him at lirst, but that night at Kelvin's I saw my own fate in it. Well, let me finish. Last evening I went quietly across to Solway to take the train for New York. No man can know what misery I endured. A traitor to my best friend, a ruined man, a suicide at my age, unable to boar the weight of the year or two that would be granted me at the best! I was insane, truly insane. 1 walked across to Solway, and as I stepped up on the platform of the railroad station there I came face to face with Donald. " 'Ah. Mr. Buiiu,' said be, 'I was waiting for you.' ' I would have fallen if he hadn't caught nie in his arms. lie lifted me into a wagon, and when I .got my senses I found that Isaac Thorndyke was tin-re. We rode slowly back to Tunbrit _e, and upon the way Donald told me everything that had happened to me in these dreadful weeks. lie told me wli.it 1 had said to Archer and what Archer had said to me in our most private conversations. lie knew my crime aud my temptations and my sufferings as they are known in heav en. Do you think it's any wonder that not only 1. who was at his mercy, but Thorndyke also, who was merely a spectator, agreed to do precisely as Donald directed? 1 was hidden in Thorndyke's house, and Donald drove me over :e this morning. We were hidden .MSS the street. Thorndyke signal . to us from the window when I sbouid come over." "So far as my part of it is concern id," said Thorndyke, "this is all strict ly true. Of course I could have no part with Kelvin when such business as this was doing." And he entered into a weak explana tion and justification of his previous conduct. He was interrupted by a sound of confusion outside. We ran into the hall and saw men looking from the window down into the street. As we went toward them Donald came flying up the stairs. "Uncle," lie cried, taking my arm in a grip that nearly broke it, "don't you believe this! Don't you believe it! Fa ther. tell him that I had no knowledge of it.l didn't mean that the man would die!" "Not GillespieV" I cried. "Yes," answer'(l Donald, with white tins. "lie's dead. He's been sitting in fiis wagon before tire door here for hours stone dead, and no one suspected it. He was there by agreement with Archer to st< p Jim liunn in case lie should not ke< p his word—in case he should not stay away from this meet ing. as he had promised." "Dead!" I exclaimed. "It's heart disease," said Donald. 'Tncle. you won't believe that I knew it? I have no such powers. I am a fraud an absolute fraud—-and when I told Gillespie to denounce me yester day because today would be too late I meant that I should confess everything openly today, and I'm going to do it. I aave merely been playing trieks." "You're excited, Donald," said his fa (Sier, trying to soothe htm. "This man's death should not affect you so. You are In no way responsible for it." We made our way to the street. Gil lespie's body had been taken into a store, and the doctor who had pro nounced him dead was just coming out again. "The fellow had a weak heart," said he in answer to my question. "The blow which he got by falling against that hitching post weakened it still more, and liquor combined with the heat of this noon finished him. There's nothing unusual in the ease." "Isn't there, eh?" said a voice behind me. I turned and saw Kelvin, who raised his right hand and shook a linger at Donald. "I've got no cause to take sides with you," he said, "but one thing I'm will ing to admit: You are a wonder, a wonder! That's what you are." "Mr. Kelvin," cried Donald in a voice of agony, "1 have confessed"— "Confess all you want to," answered Kelvin. "I heard what you said to that man, and I know what has hap pened to him. That's enough for me." "But don't you see," exclaimed Don ald, "a coincidence was bound to come. It was certain. I couldn't goon in the way I was s, r oing without having some thing of this kind happen sooner or lat er. I never meant that he would die." Kelvin was turning away, but Donald sprang after him and caught his arm. "Let me tell you," lie pleaded. "The diamonds! I knew where they were. Some one told me. Some one in your house heard a noise in the night and looked out of the window. And there was Cobb digging a hole in the ground. It was dark, but she knew him by his extraordinary shape. Of course she had no idea what he was doing it for, but when the diamonds were missed she understood. Meanwhile she'd men tioned the incident to me. I'd confided in her days before. I had told her that I knew there was a plot against my father and that Archer was in it, but Mr. Harrington would never believe the truth unless some awfully queer thing was done to impress him. Well, she agreed to help me. She saw in the Cobb affair a chance for me to shine. She'd mentioned the incident to me in the morning before the diamonds were missed. She knew that 1 would know what it meant. So when Mrs. Kelvin insisted upon coming over to see me Amy chimed in with her. And you can understand the rest." "This may all be true," answered Kelvin, "but it doesn't change my opinion in the least." "When Cobb was let out of jail," continued Donald eagerly, "he went straight to your house and climbed in through the library window. You caught him taking down some books. What was the absolutely certain in ference? Why, that the deed was in that room and somewhere near those books. Cobb had found it weeks ago and had left it there because he could not think of a safer place. I told Amy, and she smuggled me into the library. We found the hiding place, with the deed and other documents in it. We took them all out. Of course it was certain that Cobb, having been prevented by you from getting the deed, would elude Reedy and return. "Joe Harvey, as we all understood, was in this plot to blackmail you by making a pretense of producing an heir of Walmsley and then selling you the deed. He had put up the bail for Cobb. When Cobb escaped from Ree dy that evening, he got into your libra ry and found that the deed was gone. What could he do? Tell Harvey and go back to jail? Not at all. lie skip ped, just as any other rascal would have doue. Then I went and bought a skeleton hand of a young doctor over in Solway, and, with the aid of that old scar on the table, I fixed up my story." Kelvin sawed the air with his fin ger. "That doesn't explain the finish of Mr. Gillespie," said be. "But don't you see," cried Donald in agony. "Nothing can explain that. It's luck, luck. It's mere chance. It was certain to come some time. I was playing with fire." "You play with it too blasted well to suit me," said Kelvin, with decision. "Now, Mr. Harrington," he continued, "you understand that I didn't know anything about Jim Bunn except that there was a string on him and that a little money would keep him away from this meeting. I knew nothing about the robbery. That's Hat. I'm not oversqueamish, but I don't make part nerships with thieves. In the first place, it is not safe." "I'll take your word fo s It, Mr. Kel vin," said I. CHAPTER XVin. THE SEVEN MVSTKLUNS. DONALDSON, Donald and I rode back to Tunbridgt in a car of our own behind 4 switch en gine. During the tflde Donald gave us a complete statement of his motives and conduct. Tliem ie no doubt that he told the truth as he MW it. "If you could understand the ago nies that I've suffered," Ue pleaded, " you would forgive me. Yuu promised to do it anyhow." "I have no idea of going back upon that promise," said I. "But what have Jto forgive? I cannot believe that you have intentionally deceived me." "Yes, I have,"he insisted. "I've been trying to lie without lying and to tell the truth without telling it. That's the worst nd of deception. I wish I could look back upon one good, honest, downright e." "Well," said I, with a smile, "you told me th: you were making use of ,n power u> possessed by the general ity of mankind. Understand me, I still believe tha in spite of what you said to Mr. Kelvin. Otherwise I cannot ac count for your knowledge of the exact language used in conversations which you did not hear and which could not have been reported to you, not to men ! tion any other phases of this mystery." "It's true," he groaned, "and that's j the worst of it. There!" he cried sud i denly, pointing through the window of ! the car which had not yet been drawn out of the station. "Can you tell me i what those two men are talking j about?" "Certainly not," I replied. "I can," said he."The taller man Is 1 trying to sell the other a horse. 1 | could describe the h rse, which I have never seen, not as he exists probably, but as the man who is trying to sell him has described him. Wouldn't that I seem like a miracle?" "It would have that flavor," I ad mitted. "I know what lie is saying by the motion of his lips," said Donald. "I have learned to do it. I got the idea from Tim Healy. You know that ho was deaf for years when he was young, and he acquired the power then. I am not very expert, but Tim is a wonder. When I said that there was somebody in Tunbridgo who was a thousand times more miraculous than i am. 1 meant Tim. He never men tions it to any one except me." A shudder ran through me at the thought of Jim Bunn having been at tended throughout his struggles and his downfall by such a companion. Bimn's lips, as I have said, were al ways in motion. Ilis desk was direct ly opposite Healy's. and for little Tim the experience must have been like lis tening to the voi> of another man'*} I conscience. (Toba continued.) MISS GERTRUDE BEEKS. A Talented Yoin»« Sociologist Who Avertn I.nbor Trouble*. Miss Gertrude Becks of Chicago is making history for herself faster than almost any other woman. It is alto gether a new kind of history too. Her occupation is one that has never before been undertaken by a nu inber of her sex. Miss Keeks is the gator of a scheme for averting strikes. She has the rare faculty of putting a stop to labor troubles and of reconciling capi tal and labor, and she is exercising her extraordinary ability to great advan tage. Miss Reeks is the head of what is known as the sociological department of the McCormick Harvesting Machine company's works in Chicago, but she does not confine her labors to this com pany alone, as other big concerns are calling her into requisition. Whenever her services are required she starts out cautiously. In the Mc- Cormick establishment she began among the 400 girls employed in the MISS GEItTKUDE BEEKS. twine binding department. There was dissatisfaction throughout the depart ment, and murmurs and throats of re volt were common. She saw that some thing must be done to avert the strike which was imminent. The first thing she did was to place large mirrors In the girls' dressing room. One small looking glass was all these 400 girls had been allowed. This inconvenience o* Itself was enough, so they thought, to breed discontent. Then she organized a girls' club, making it a center of amusement as well as one for mutual improvement. From one end of the establishment to the other Miss Reeks went about, suggesting improve ments for men and women alike. Miss Reeks' employers adopt her suggestions almost Invariably. She makes them so plain that there is nothing else to do. She plans all sorts of entertainments for the employees. Miss Reeks did not undertake her work on the spur of the moment. She has looked Into sociological activities. All her deeper study has been along these lines. She has been associated with business women and with broad minded, so called women of leisure who recognize no difference in the social scale simply because necessity impels their sisters to do their work in a prac tical way. Her thoughts have been directed es pecially to the improvement of sanitary matters, to toilet facilities, pure drink ing water, etc. She wants the public library made accessible by having books delivered to the employees of great in dustrial establishments at their work rooms. She does it all from the hu manitarian standpoint and simply be cause it is right. Miss Reeks was born at Greenville, Tenn. She lived on a fruit plantation. Then she spent considerable time among the primitive but Interesting people in the Great Smoky mountain near Del Rio. She was educated at tlio home of her grandfather, Robert Rreck enridge of Fort Wayne. I nil.—Philadel phia Press. The Corset and the Caricaturist. Caran d'Ache, the caricaturist, has a full page exposition of the corset ques tion in a recent number of the Paris Fi garo. The probl tn is discussed in eight of the artist's inimitably comic draw ings. No. 1 shows the bushy headed and fiercely bearded dress reformer who is going to abolish, banish, exterminate and otherwise discourage the corset; No. 2 shows him in a painter's studio. The painter agrees that the corset is an instrument of torture and should be suppressed. Then we see the dress re former at the dressmaker's. The dress maker wears a magnificent mustache and a splendiferous waistcoast. He hesitates, but finally gives in and prom ises his support to the corset abolition ist. The bloused and velvet capped sculptor assures him of Ins aid, and the fashionable photographer is per suaded to see beauty in an uncorseted subject. Husbands and bachelors also lend voice to the crusade. Rut at the end of it all the dress reformer is dis covered seated at his pamphlet littered desk being interviewed by a meek re porter. "And what are you waiting for now, dear master," asks the reporter, "before telling the world that the corset is dead?" "Oh, nothing, a mere nothing," replies the intrepid dress reformer; "a simple formality—the consent of the women!" Siulle Always. The girl who gets along In this world usually has only herself to thank. It in a survival of the fittest for girls ae well as for others. She must be cheer ful, she must be entertaining, she must know how to make and, above all, how to keep friends, for this last is what will in the long run count most for or against her, says the Pittsburg Press. A girl can't afford to make enemies. That is a luxury granted to very few ft ople, and those the high and mighty, ff she gives way to her feelings and grants herself the luxury of snubbing a disagreeable woman—and it Is a lux ury she will be sure to pay for the in dulgenee twice and thrice over. It is wonderful how small the world is, and nine chances out of ten she will run across that same woman over and over again. More than that, she will meet her at the houses of her friends, In ho tels and in any number of other places where a bowing acquaintance at least would bi> a good thing and the opposite is decidedly awkward. So the girl who wants to have a pleasant time of It in this world must smile, and smile always, regardless of her real inner feelings. Alfalfa furnishes lots of food for the bees, In which respect it is far ahead of red clover, whose nectar can only be reached by the bumblebee. FEMININE CHAT. Fran Frieuricli Matcrna, the original Rrunhilde, lins lost all In r money and is obliged to give music lessons in Vienna. Mrs. Phebo Hearst's gifts for are Ide ology and antliro; '• y at the Univer sity of California amounted to $lll,OOO during the last aeademie year. Miss Lizzie Sherinan. the only un married daughter of the late General W. T. Sherman, will not return to Wash ington this winter, hut will remain in Paris. Miss Emma I>. Sedgwiek, in the office of the quartermaster general, Washing ton, has just celebrated the fortieth an niversary of her entrance in the serv ice of the war department. Dr. Sara It. Ellison of New York is considered to have the finest library of books on conjuring and magic in the country, representing many years of search and labor on the part of ils own er. Miss Nora Stanton Blatch, grand daughter of the late Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was the only woman to take up civil engineering at Cornell univer sity. She will carry on her grandmoth er's life work. Under the will of Jane Anne Maid stone Smith, recently tiled in Philadel phia, several valuable paintings, in cluding portraits of Queen Matilda of Denmark anil Marie Antoinette, are de vised to the Duke of Argyll in trust for King Edward. The Comtesse de Castellane, formerly Miss Anna Gould, has a magnificent collection of jewels, among which is a tiara of diamonds, emeralds and sap phires once belonging to ex-Queen Isa bella of Spain. It was purchased by the comtesse for $125,000. Miss Mildred Howells, daughter of William Dean Howells, who is to mar ry David Fairchild, entomologist of the Smithsonian institute, has been the es pecial companion of her father and in her childhood figured in two or three children's stories which he wrote for a juvenile magazine. IMPERTINENT PERSONALS. Mr. Schwab seems to be tired of ev erything but spending money, and even that is becoming a bore.—Buffalo News. No one can contemplate the profound silence of Chauncey Depcw recently and say that marriage is a failure.— Memphis Commercial Appeal. It is said that Count Ronl de Castel lane has an SII,OOO overcoat. This re calls the cowboy expression, "A hun d'ed dollah saddle on a ten dollah boss." —Denver Post. Booth Tarkington in Indiana and Winston Churchill in New Hampshire will now proceed to give those com monwealths some novel legislation.— Washington Times. Dr. Harper may be right in declaring that the church is "alienating the rich," but he has the satisfaction of knowing that lie is entirely innocent of such fol ly himself.—Newark News. General Corbin has decided that girls may marry his baldheaded, stuffy, old generals, but they must not set their caps for his young otlicers. Great is Corbin, and lie has no prophet.—Bir minglia m Age Hera Id. CHURCH AND CLERGY. Dr. Moses Payson Parmelce, the vet eran missionary of the American board in eastern Turkey, died recently. He was in Turkey since 1 i.'J. In British Columbia there are more Buddhists than Baptists, more Confu cians than Congregationalists and near ly as many pagans sis Lutherans. Bishop John Jans en of the Roman Catholic diocese of Belleville, Ills., has resigned his bishopric at the age of sixty-two and will retire to a Francis can monastery. Dr. Cuyler, who has preserved his physical and mental vigor to the ripe age of eighty years, says,"l have eschewed ull indige-tible food, stimu lants and intoxicants; have taken a fair amount of exercise; have avoided too hard study or sermon making in the evenings and thus secured sound and sutlieient sleep." JEWELRY JOTTINGS. The moonstone is quite in the as cendant again and figures in buttons and sleeve links among other things. The revival of the cameo has brought to life cameo portraiture, which affords pleasure to those who delight in the unique and rare. Drawstring chain bags, large or small, introduced tentatively last sea son, have much increased their vogue. They are very handsome and are fre quently further enriched with fringe of gold balls or pearls. Quite novel is the manner in which large pearls and diamonds of equal size are mounted together in fine rings— for instance, a two stone ring, a dia mond and a pearl, and a three stone ring, diamond, pearl and diamond or pearl, diamond and pearl.—Jewelers' Circular- Weekly. RAILWAY TIES. On the London and Northwestern railway there are 17,000 signals lighted every night. On the railroads in Canada it is nec essary to keep over 000 snow plows In operation every winter. Over 20,500.000 passengers paid £119,- 38,5 in fares during the last six months on the Manchester corporation tram way system. An invention which all railroad trav el' rs will appreciate is to be tested on the new trains of the Berlin-Zossen ex perimental railway. It is a devic for carrying the smoke from the locomo tive to the rear end of the train through ft closed conduit running along the top of the carriages. rntti'H Brlft'lit Eyes. Mine. Adelina Patti has wonderfully youthful eyes, and thus accounts for their preservation: "1 never read at night," she says, "if I can help it. I bathe my eyes in hot and cold water, as feels best. 1 never read at twilight. 1 sleep fully nine hours, or more if I need it. I eat lightly many times a day. I keep my eyes free by not mak ing them tired. That is all." Dainty Draperies. Fish nets and lace striped scrims make dainty draperies for fancy bed dressing. A pretty way to make the spread is to join the widths of net and scrim with insertion and finish with a three inch frill to match. South Carolina clubwomen, through their state federation, have awarded sixteen scholarships in various educa tional institutions of the state ranging from kindergarten training schools to colleges. A cheap and sanitary treatment of ordinary wall paper is to give it a wash of thin varnish. This improves am} preserves the colors and makes any number of washings possible. , FOR THE HOUSEWIFE Room* With Expression. An expressionless room is no lonpror tolerated by pi p! • of retired taste, while rooms that mean something be come more popular every day, and of these the colonial room, the oriental room and the delft room seem to have tli» largest number of admirers. The oriental room is particularly good when [there are north windov.s and a warm, cozy effect is desired. The colonial style is not well adapted to small rooms, but under [tieper conditions it is decidedly satis-fact ry, and it appeals strongly to the wealthy, for it i ually represents a iaige expenditure. These rooms are most attractive In delicate tones, and since cheap stuff will not take the dye in these tones it is im possible to produce cheap imitations, a fact very gratifying to the exclusively inclined. The delft rooms are most easily attained by the artistic house wife of small means, and this style is a real friend in need, for it can be made wonderfully pretty at little ex pense. There are beautiful cretonnes in delft and white that work into the furnishings most satisfactorily. Then there are white curtains embroidered with blue in delft patterns that are exquisitely beautiful, and rugs in del ft and white may be obtained so cheaply that almost any woman may have one by doing without a new street suit. In upholstery hangings choose the bor dered ideas if you want the latest. You can find tlieni in the materials de signed for almost every style of room. And that reminds me. If you can't achieve a room with expression, have a cozy conn rand be happy, but don't put a Japanese cozy corner into a colo nial room. That would suggest a crazy idea that no room would be willing to express if it had a voice in the matter. (Iranire Cake. Beat to a cream the yolks of four eggs with o;:e cup of granulated sugar, to which add the whites of two eggs beaten to a stiff froth and a half cup of milk alternately with one and a half cups of sifted Hour into which a tea spoonful and a half of baking powder has been well mixed. Beat well and bake, in three layers if the pans are large or four if small, in a quick oven from seven to ten minutes, try with a broom straw, and when it conies out clean remove from the oven. Don't let them bake a moment too long, or they will not absorb the icing. Filling: The whites of two eggs beaten to a stiff froth, to which a<1(1 a cup of powdered sugar, pouring it in all at once and beating hard; then the grated rind or an orange select one dark in color— and the juice. The mixture should be like a tliiek cream. Spread thickly on the cake vh;!e hot. and to what is left add enough sugar—about half a cupful for frosting to harden. Ice the top and sid* s. This is a delicious cake, easily an 1 quickly made. A StriiiK I!ox. A square cardboard box not less than five inches across should be used for the foundation. It should be lined with some pretty colored paper and covered with brocade, embroidered linen or fan- O/O VERY CONVENIENT SOMETIMES. cy paper, which should be cut exactly to size and fixed carefully on by glue or seccotine. On one side two little pointed tabs are fixed by tiny stud buttons to form a case for the scissors. On each side of the lid a small pointed tab is fixed, which fastens to stud buttons sewed to the sides of the box itself. A hole is bored in the center of the lid for the end of the string to pass through.—Young Ladies' Journal. A Bad Breath A bad breath means a bad stomach, a bad ingestion, a bad liver. Aycr's Pills ?rc liver pills. They cure con stipation, biliousness, dys pepsia, sick headache. 25c • A*, cirlegists. 1 Want your • i«*' oc h\ :.r l L-. ui.i *1 | brown or ric:li I • 11 1 - BUCKINSfc'J&'S DYEWnS&ra SIC".. <■ FD' ' ''J ■' _ V 'I. _ The Itnsliiess Woman. Frequently when a girl enters busi ness she thinks of it as a temporary thing, not as a career or a profession. She takes it i t rely as a means of earn ing a living until she marries, and she gives to it ha'f hearted, indifferent at tention. There is no harm in looking forward to marriage "with the right person, when the right time comes," as grandmother used to say, but you sliouid remember that if you are a poor worker yon will he a poor homemaker. You must icalize that by devciop : tig your best powers of mild, by learning regular 1 ' ' ' of work, self discipline and coneei.. tioii you wiil Ie gamin;, what will be rs useful to yoti in homt life as in business. It is natural to wish for a home of your own, but you will be badly pri pared to make it a pleasant or a coinfor;;blo abiding place if you are inefficient, lazy, careless or undisciplined. NclScif CATARRH MWI In nit its stages there should be cleanliness. tj" Ely's Cream Balm A cleanse*", soothe? and heals t the diseased membrane. It cures catarrh and drives M yo»«V sway a cold in the lit :ul awjav-a*-® quickly. Cream Balm is placed Into the nostrila, sprer.da over the membrane and is absorbed. Belief is im mediate and a cure follows. It is not drying—does not produce sneezing. Large Size, 60 cents at Drug gists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents by mail. ELY BROTIIERS, 5G Warren Street, New York. J. J. BROWW, THE EYE A SPECIALTY Eyes tested, treated, fitted with glass e* ud artificial eyes supplied. Market Street, llloonisburg, Pa. Hours—lD a. in.to 5 p. m. Tel phone 14:$t ' - 0 ~.i J Br • - .vr* Consoiv ' - c Ids TJh as ■ cures t, . <_fj ! 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E Illustrated pamphlet also free. B G. 6C. MERRIAM CO., 1 ufas., § Springfield, Mass. RAILROAB. TIM ; TABLE In ! Til May 25, 1902 ■ bcranton(D&H) v § it 88 iIS H S < litlsloii '• " Ts f | , i.j f2lO 4 -''2] , A. M. M.IP. M. P.MI Wiikesbarrc,.. 1 v { ' 2» ht2 |5 16 80 Plym'th ferry I 7 ■'! rlO 421 112 2 52 18 "71 i Kanticoke •• 7 u io sol 801 ® ' Moeanaana ...." p ji ii uv 320 ® 3 ~ i Wapwallopen.. " .1 111 " -I 6 471 iNeseopcek ar .i- il 20 ;j 42 7 0:i A. A.M. i» \<.! Pottsville Iv .-j 'ill 55 " ! Hazleton • ' .... 12 52 ■/- 45 . Tomhlchen '■ i n 05] Fern Glen " i IS :l 15|]" 10>ck < Hen ....••! ■ 3 22 ■ Nescopcek . ur! I 145 1...... ' (Jatawissa 4 CO i U i.M P.M. P M Nesoopeck... .It . ~i 96 :» 42 -.7 00 j i 'reasy • 3 11 v 3 .".2 7 O'J K.-py Ferry... I 4 11 4'. I 4 I>2 72> .!.!!. L. IJloowsburk " 4 11 .V' 400 725 CaUwlSS* lvj b 1 11 571 4 i i 7 3>' I *-ou; h Danville " 1 14 12 i.'. 431 7 Sunbury ar s> 3'. 12 40 i sii| sls A. M. P. M. M j\M. | sunbury lv .• 0 4:: ,51- i\j to y4O Lcwisburg.... ar i 0 i; I 4-. 5 4;) 1 Milton "I lu 08 1 89] 35 In 07; i Williamsport.. "! 110- 111 t> 30 10 5.", LockHavcu... " U 2 2(. 7 ;;! Krnuvo "A. 'ii. ;) in >3O Kane '• 8 2o| if.SI. P.M.I ; j Lock Haven..lv iJ 10 SIV .... . . Bellefonte ....ar] 105 in 1 I Tyrone " 221 000 1 Pliiiipsburg " 1■• •is ('2 t'ieartield " 52" > 1 Pittsburg "I 6 55110 15 1 ; A.M. P. M. P. M. P M Sunbury !v 960 S 1 •'!' "• So|lß 31 Harrisburg.... ar II 3i> s ■! 15 . 650 10 10 P. M. P. -I. I'- M. A >1 Philadelphia., ar { 3 17 !i 6 23 ij 10 20|«4 35 1 Baltimore •• .•».; il 6■ 0 945 £ 30: j Washington 4101, 7 15'|1Q iis| 4 05j | IA. .M. P, 51. I | Sunbury lv in hi 5 2 15 1 Lewistown Je. ar 11 1. LOS Pittsburg <i 55 }lO 15 ! A.51. P, 51 P. M. PM _ ilarrisburg.... lv II 4i. 0 7 1 lU2 p. M. A M. A. M. A M 1 ittabarg .r 6 ... 160 150 580 !p. 31.! P M A M; AMI ritubnrg lv 7 H 1) " Wi !8 001 jA.M A P 51; llanisburg ar 2 fct' 4 2 !• ;i'i 3 lti| ; A 511 AM: PrtsbuiK lv -8 tu P 51 l,ewißtown Jj, " . 7 . 3 Oil i San bury r.r i 0 2>i 14 60j ! P. M. A M A M A Ml Washington... It 1 40 75. 10 5o ; Baltimore ■ 11 00 4 810 11 451 i Philadelphia... "1120 4 8 ll 40! j A. M A sijA. M.' '* Mj j Harrisburg lv 3 755 11 !• 'l2O i Sunbury ar 500936108 .6 05 | P.M. [A MAN j Pittsburg lv £l2 45 If 3 00]2 t» O , 'J Clearfield.... M I 3 50| .... 928 I Philipuburg.. " | 4 40{ I 10 12 | Tyrone...... " 7 0 it 810 12 25 I Belli font".. •• ■ 8 1) :n 1 «»■"> "HH I Lock Haven arl 9 151 'lO ;.o| tl M|"„. I P. Mv M\ M I'M | Krie lv 5 • Kane "Is IS| !j 6CO ***** ilenovo 11 ."in . 1; 45; 111 311 ■!'.!!! Lock Havon " 12 - 7 11 25 3 00, |A.M.I P M Williamsport.. ■ 22:1 8 12 11 400 51ilton •• 2 2 !) H 125 4 41; •;;; I Lewlpburg " 905 1 15 442 '*"| Sunbury ar 324 910 1 55, 5 151'"]* A.MJ A M P M; P M Sunbury lv 6 45|l 056 \ 2 i* l |5 25 Suuth Danville "I 7 111 >o 17 2 2li 5501".... Catawissa " 7"-, 10 3b 2 6 oxl']*" li Blimmsburg..'•] 7:17 It) 43' 243 • Js["*!" Espy Kerry " 742 fio 47 112 8 1!> ']' Creasy " 752 pi sc. 2 .Vi ,J Bo.']]]] Nescopeck " 802 U OJ-, 305 64U A 3\l A M P. M. P Mi Nesoopeck Iv 823 .... Ssos\ 705 Kock (Hen ar 11 22 7 3K Kern (Hon " 851 11 2>. 5 :!2 734 "" Toiuhlcken " th 11 s:> 742 ']]] Hazleton " !• in 11 - 5 .";i 805 ']"] Pottsville " 10 li 0 0-j •••• A 51 A M P M P 51 " Nescopeck lv s. 2 11 "6 •05 Blt "A'apwallopen. .ar S 1 ,; 11 21) 2t> ii £>2 Mocanaqua .... '• 8 ;;l ll 32 ;30 701 Nauticoko " 8 ill 64 :> ll 1 7 l! , r•••• PM Plym tli Ferry" I 9 t:.; 12 i 2 .'! 5. r7is j Wilksbarie ... " ulo 12 10 4 o;> 7 A 51 P 51 P 51 P 51 Pit.tßton(DAU) ar y I'll 12 >. 4Mi 8 3C> Scranton " " 10 0b 124 521{9 05 Weekdays. I Daily. 112 King station. Pullman Parlor arvi Sleeping c.irs run c»n through trains between '•urtiury. Wtlllnmsport an<l Erie, between Sunbury oii.J Pliil.ulvlphia and Washington :■ u-t between Harristn,. - Pitts tiurg and tlie West. For urtherin; rit •, , 1 y t. h. „ ? Agents r n ffUTCIfIA J. 11. WOOD, ' i .('' Maim/,, . Ot n'' I'tjsa'n'r Ag p\i:< I THIN Norit»: Est:»i t>f (i W. Mri rly, lat-o of i ■ villc, in the counfcj ! of Moiifot . til ; it'' of PoimsyJvan in, di i - '!i.- oil. Notice is hereby giveu that lt-tters testainoiihirv haw I ■ u r nihil tn Iho nndorsi(;iii d. A 1 ] rson- indohlcd to tho said i ,-fate arc ro([uirod to niako liaynieiit, au<l llto- • having olaims or demands against the .-aitl ostato, will i make known tho samo without delay to MRS. IIAKUIK I,• iMYKHIA, Exoo utrix of tii'ii!;:. W. Myorly, D«'ceased. Edward Sayro C'oiinscl. l)anvillo' P;i. , December 10th, T V KAWANXA RAILROAD. BLOOMSB IRQ DIVISK >N. wen. V .. A. M. A M. AV.p. M New i ork lv 200 .... ioim < , P. 51. >cranton (jj7 i -, n P. 51. Buffalo lv II :M 215 A. M. Seranton ar 553 loiC> Sera ii ton Iv t; io JIJ |y. i, in A. 51. A. M. P. > p. M. scranton Iv ffctt *IOM HM l»t'li«*v*ue «i 3i» Taylor (n £ 17' '■> |, Lackawanna 1; |> 11121 Jin 1; -JI; Duryea ti 5:1 jn 28 a, , Pittston ii 57 ng| jj- .S s ii>i|uebaiinaAve 7 no 1037 2 !■» Wi st Plttston 713 10 41 2; ii Wyoming 7n?< mp; 2"v t, in Forty Port "j lUiiii.tt ;„>c 231 «";7 K ingslon ar 72! |n s»> " |*i 1, Wilkes-Barre :ir ;11 11 in 7lu W ilke- Harre I v 710 10 4.1 2 .21 1. 411 iv 72; MM i« SB Plymoiitti June Plymouth 7 ;i, j; V., '• j , 7„. Avondale 7.;", , 2 51 Nanlicoke 7.1 lVi'; 714 llunlock k 7Pi 11 pt 3n>, 721 SlilckHhlnny 7 sf» II 31 320 731 1 licks lorry MI7 fil l; 3;w 17 41 j iH'acli Haven Hi; I) is ;.7 71- IJierw iek s|y 1154 14 jjj : llriurereek IV\ 1! low lirove p. 27 r: 54 f-t« , I-ime H :.\ fi jim .>. 07 - 537 12 15 4i« Hl2 11 Joonisburg Bli 12 22 1 I*' -*l7 I atiiWissa.. «54 11 2 422 s"5 Danville Oik; 1211 1"; s "77 • atnerori .. ii 21 1257 4 Nortliuuiberrd ar 0 3.5 Ilu ".iw y ft", EAST. A. M. A. M. P. M. P. M Nortbumberl' H"" +IW *525 Cameron t; 17 .. P2OI f5 34 Danville 1; 57 in tu 211 543 .Cmtawtem Tin pi 32 22. sS ■'upert 7pi Pi 17 2 2!» 601 I'.loonislmrg 7 2i) 101 l 2 «;ir> Kapy 798 1 is 2 m 618 Lime itiilgc 735 fi • ,4 fj h, pi 2k Willow Grove. .. f7 40 , f2 5n llriarcreek 7 ll 12 112 tVjr Berwick 750 11 05 25s 1, Tr7 Beech Haven 75S fll 12 3 fti 049 Hicks Ferry mi, fll 17 ;iei 1, it Khickshinny . .. sl7 1131 :i»i filai II unlock s is 27 . . I f 7 u» N'anticoke. . ... *34 11 II 3 711 Avondale B.'i7 . U Plymouth sit 1152 347 7^ Plymouth .lunc k 17 ; ~2 .. .. Kingston ur h55 11 1 4 i»i .is Wilkea-Harre ar 910 12 14 110 7 Wilkes Barre I\ >4O 11 In .; 50 7 Kingston iv 855 r .1 lon 7.S Bennett jo.; 742 Forty Fort p.ioo .. 407 Wyoming «♦ 11., L • 4:2 7ls •i" 4 Susquehanna Ave ... 818 *.'ll 118 7 88 Pittston . !l I!» J2 i 7 421 S til Duryea 023 •. 429 soti Lackawanna 920 1 r2 spi Taylor «.»• 440 hl7 Be I lev lie . y37 I 45 SeraatOß ar 942 »i2;ts 888 n~£i A 51..P. M. 1.1 Scran ton |\ 111.10*12.40 .... 150 P. M. New Vork ar 335 500 658 P. M- Kcranton Iv ... 155 .... II 10 A. M. Buffalo ar ' 755 ... 700 "Daily, fDaily except Sunday. ! fstops 011 signal or on notice to conductor. T. E.CLARKE, T. W. I.EK. Gen. Superintendent. lien. Ptos. Agent Alices Shoes St3rlisii! Clieap 1 I Bicycle, Cymnasium and Tennis Shoes. THE CELEBRATED Carlisle Shoes AND THE Snag Proof Hubber Hoots A SPECIALTY. A. SCHATZ, A Reliatole TIN SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing, Spoutine and Ceneral Job Work. Stoves, Heaters, Ranges, Furnaces, etc. PRICES THE LOWEST! i QUALITY THE BEST! JOHN 11IX SON NO. 116 E. FRONT ST. PEGG The Coal Dealer SELLS WOOD —AND— COAL —AT— -344 Ferry Street
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