o TWIXT LOVE AND DEATH By Martha McCulloch-Willie., my Copyright, IMS. bu T. C. McClure < ) O If Millie had not worn her blue gown the story might have been different, j Whether It was the color or the fluff j of It or the way It clung to and molded j her bllui suppleness, nobody could say, | but the fact was patent, somehow it transformed her from a very pretty girl Into an elfland queen. Millie was, i you see, a Spanish blond, with velvet 1 dark eyes aud hair of tlie palest gold. | Small wonder in the blue gown she j swept John Eustace off his feet and made him forget some things lie ought to have remembered. His betrothed, Alice Ellison, for ex ample. Alice was as good as her plen tiful gold, but stubby, dull colored and on the surface dull wltted. She was, above all things, dutiful Duty was Indeed the early root of her love tor John. If she had not happened to be born, the Ellison fortune would have gone to John's father, Ellison Eustace. I Her father had married In a tit of pique when he was on the edge of sev- i euty. He lived to see his daughter nine years old ami to impress upon her that she uiust marry her second cousin 1 and so keep the money in the Ellison J blood. John. five years older than Alice, had j accepted tils fate philosophically. I'n- ; til chance flung Millie across his path tie had never repined. Au only child and motherless, he had grown up his 112 .tier's intimate comrade. Thus wo men. especially youug women, had nev- j er worn for him the roseate glamour of unschooled youth. Still his futher had by no means tried to put an old head upon youug shoulders nor to breed In his son contempt for womankind. It was only that love anu women were pushed to the background, reckoned mere episodes beside the rush and scurry of truly manly pursuits. Mar riage was honorable in all men—mar riage with Alice would be thrice hon orable, safe and profitable. Thus when she came to eighteen John had a cer tain satisfaction In putting the ring upou her linger and even chafed a lit tle over the fact that by her father's express desire she was to stay single until she was one aud twenty. He honestly believed himself in love aod truly felt for her a tender fondness that had begun when, a sturdy little lud. be had guided her tottering baby steps. lie meant always to guide, Kuard and cherish her as became a gen tleman, even though In his swelling visions of the future she was no more than a dumb, submissive shade. If | •he would never be a brilliant figure, still less would she be one of whom husband must needs be ashamed. In deed he was altogether a little more than conteut with the ordering of things until six months before his wed ding day he came under Millie's spell, i lie saw her first upon a spring morn- ! ing full of hot, shining and languid ruf fling airs. Dew still sparkled on the grass, and overhead in the green gold of new leafage robins fluted delicately the Joy of life and love. To his en chanted eyes Millie embodied the shin ing, the bird song, the softness of the south wind, the warmth of the sun. What they said Is Immaterial. For two hours they walked together over the ragged lawn turf or stood In rapt contemplation of newly open roses, i And then in a safe seclusion of green- ; est shade ho drew her within his arms and kissed her, not lightly, but as one j who takes what Is supremely his own. Then followed a heavenly fortnight. ; Eustace masterfully pushed out of his mind all thought that might mar this new bliss. He rarely spoke his love and after that first kiss was sparing of demonstration. There was no need of It when each understood so perfect- j ly what was in the other's heart. Yet at the end of every day's comradery Eustace had a sense of something itn pending ever drawing nearer. He re fused to let himself look further than the next day's end, but somehow, some where, he knew he would be called to pay a bitter scot. His chiefest care was for Millie. No harm must touch her, however it fared with him. She was so young, so In- j nocently gay, so innocently foolish, he was doubly bound to protect her, even against himself. It was heaven to see her bloom and sparkle at his approach. She left herself so artlessly undefended now aud agalu there came a lump In hla throat. A man who could speak, | who could even think, lightly of her j would deserve death twice over. So the idyl drifted through hours. I •unlit aud starlit. Perhaps it wus some i 111 star In its course that brought home | Joe Cantrell, Millie's brother, who tired out In the big world aud knew its ways. He came unannounced Just as dusk fell down, making his way through the devious side path all tan gled with sweet shrubs. When Millie met him n little later, her eyes were •tartlke. her cheeks of damask bloom; but sight of tier could not win him from Icy auger. lie never explained anything "You will be ready togo back with me two days hence," he said, frowning heavily. Millie got very white, but went silently toward the stair foot. As she was mounting it her brother said, with a taunting laugh, "Ne*t time you choose to kiss and fon dle a man take care that I am not in sight or that he Is not engaged to mar ry another woman." She knelt, shivering, by her bedside until she heard him go out after a lei surely supper. And she was still kneel tog when he came In, stamping heav ily, well toward midnight. He stopped beside her father's high black secre tary, flung down the lid with a bang. then after o minute came upstairs, still moving ponderously. But his foot steps did not mask another sound—the clicking of pistol locks. Intuitively she understood—he had strolled over to the Country club, picked a quarrel with Eustace and would have him out at daybreak next morning. No thought of appeal to him stirred In her. Instead there came a firm de termination matching his own. She knew tier name had not been men tloned In the quarrel quite as well as she knew herself Its real root. The men must not fight. She could not have her brother's blood upon her con science. still less her lover's. There was but one way to stop them, a way bitterer than death; still she set her feet toward It unfaltering. She got up and sat by the window, watching with noteless eyes the wheel ing stars, the waning moonlight. But at the first pale dawn light she was tensely alive. Below she heard a stealthy stir, the cautious opening of a door, with muffled voices aud cautious steps outside. She got up and crept to her brother's room. Lighted candles still glittered there. Upon the table there was a brief will, the ink not dry In the heavily scrawled signature. Be side It was a briefer statement; "Let it be understood of all men if I die I 1 shall have died in a man's quarrel, j founded on no personal grudge, but I resenting unjust aspersions upon my j native state." She almost smiled over it. The native state counted to Joe j for so very little in the ordinary course | of life. Twenty minutes later, just as the sun j peeped over rimming trees, she came j out in a little clearing upon a wooded i hilltop and saw two men standing ! weapon in hand, face to face, ten yards ' apart. Three other men a little way off had scared, white faces, but neither ! combatant had lost wholesome color, i Millie sprang between them, white as a daw n wraith, but with eyes like ( glowing coals. She flung up her arms , and said clearly: "Fire, gentlemen! If anybody deserves death, I do!" "Millie! Co back!" Joe Cantrell thun I dered. Eustace dropped his pistol and leaped to the girl's side. In her ear he ! whispered brokenly: "Darling, let him kill me. It Is the best way out of It all!" Millie shrank from him a little, j "There i; no ived for bloodshed," she said. 'I I.en. i;tis!ng her voice so the seconds on.'d hear: "I call all here to! witn ' * t!:at I have not been deceived. | l knew at the very flrst of John Eus taee's betrothal. We have done no i wrong to anybody. We—we love each j other because we cannot help it. Oh, | it Is hard that my own brother brings i me to such open shame!" "Come home," Cantrell said roughly, j flinging away his pistol and clutching her arm. Eustace caught the other ; hand, saying: "Stay with me, Millie! , The whole world may go if I have : you!" "Goo 'by," Millie said, drawing away her haiii'. "I shall love you always, John, but your wife need not be jeal- j ous." • ••••** By the strange orderings of fate that was a true word. John Eustace went Btraight to Alice and told her all the j truth. She gave him back his free- j dom and would have given him half her money only he would not have it. But he could not persuade Millie to marry him until Joe, the masterful, had wooed and won Alice Ellison and her fortune. DANGER IN SODA SIPHONS. riiey Mar Kiplodr uml Cause Injur) , to Those Who May lie Si'ar, Do you know that the siphon bottle ordinarily used for vicliy, soda water »nd other effervescent drinks is usually \ charged with a pressure of from 120 to | lt>o pounds to the square inch? The : danger likely V) result from an explo- j siou of one of these little household ar- j tides Is by no means inconsiderable, j and yet the average person handles a j siphon as though it were the most j harmless thing in the world. There are two or three things to re member in handling siphons: Never 1 keep your siphons near the range, for the unusual heat is more likely than anything else to cause an explosion, j Don't subject the bottle to ar." sudden j change of temperature whatever For ■ instance, if you keep your siphons in j the ice box—and that is the best and j safest place for them—don't grasp the i glass part of the bottle with your warm | hand, for the sudden change of temper- j ature is apt to cause an explosion. The best way to carry a siphon at all times is by the metal top at the head of the bottle. It is needless to say the great est care should be taken not to drop a siphon, for au explosion is the inev itable result. Wlien empty, the siphon is, of course, quite harmless. That these bottles are considered a I great source of danger is evidenced by j the fact that the courts inevitably hold the bottlers strictly liable for all dam- j ages resulting from the explosiou of j one of them if even the slightest defect ; In the manufacture of the bottle can ( be shown.—Washington Times. This Horse Knew. A doctor was returning home from visiting a patient late one night in : company with a clergyman, when the ! horse stopped short at one of the most \ dangerous grade crossings within the city's limits. Absorbed in lively con versation with his clerical friend and seeing no gate down, he mechanically touched the horse with the whip and \ urged it by his voice togo forward, j But the spirited animal for once would not respond and instead of obeying stepped briskly aside and turned his j heud as far as possible from the train which Just then whizzed by at the rate of forty miles an hour. It was a close call for the occupants of the carriage, who sat breathless through the moments of terrible sus pense, but the horse maintained its attitude of a half circle until the dan ger had passed. It seeuis the gate keeper was asleep at his post and had neglected his duty, but the delicate ears of the horse had detected the sound of the coming train.—Boston Transcript. When the Poor Hide In Coaches. In the east side tenement house re gion coaches are associated with only two things—weddings and funerals. The coach is an indispensable feature of the wedding, and only the very poorest are buried without the attend ance of a mourning coach. The whole block knows when a wed ding is to take place, and everybody is on the watch when the coach and pair come dashing around the corner to re celve the bride. The vehicle draws up before the narrow entrance to a tene ment and presently is entered by the bride, half hidden in her white veil and all nodding with orange wreaths, while a gaping crowd looks on. The horses are lashed, the coach turns an other corner, and in three minutes the bride is at the place of ceremony. The ceremony over, the coach this time swallows up both bride and bride groom. Everybody is charmed at the sight. The gossips are busy for a day. —New York I'ress. The Stem Winder. When Michael McCurek was a long shoreman Mrs. McGurck took in wash ing and called herself a "washer lady," but when Mike became a stevedore aud gathered together the emoluments of his bossing his wife put on airs and decid ed that her two daughters should be educated and marry millionaires. Brid get McGurck found It somewhat dltti cult to Induce "tine people," as she called them, to invite her girls to their parties. Once she got them in at a "so cial" and went with them as chaperon, dressed in a stunning sea green silk with red trimmings. They had decided to get there early and not miss anything to be seen of "sassietv." Other guests were, as usual, late In arriving, and one lady of very humble lineage fidgeted nervously till Mrs. Met;urck beamed upon her and said It was "a folne avenin'." And, the Ice being broken, the nervous lady asked the lady in green the time. That lady felt around her corpulent anatomy and, with a sigh of regret and a look of sad ness. said: "Begorra, ma'am, I'm sorry, but I've left the self feeder at home." New i York Herald. ! VOICE AND ! : VIOLIN ! ♦ ♦ ♦ :By tO. tO. Hinej 112 ♦ ♦ * * ♦ Copyright, ISIOB, by T. C". McClure ♦ * Herman Muller was thrifty, very shy, very musical and very much In love. The fact that he was very shy and very much in love disturbed him greatly, and the fact that he was very musical disturbed other people, par ticularly the people in the house where he boarded. This house was In a very quiet part of Brooklyn, and from it Herman went to his work in New York every morning and returned In the evening. During business hours, from 0 to 5, he was Herman Muller, head bookkeeper for the importing firm of Drummond & Ilart. After business hours he was "that moon eyed Dutch man who plays the fiddle." Herman had tried one boarding house after another, but never had he found one where violin playing at night was encouraged either by laud lady or the other boarders. Finally he bad moved into this house and, in desperation, resolved to brave all the unkind remarks. The quiet part of the city suited him, and really the other boarders were not as entirely unrea sonable as some others he had known. Opening onto his room was a small lire escape balcony, and he had secured permission to sit 011 this in the even ings and play his violin softly. The softness was stipulated by the con cessionnalres. It was very cold on the balcony In winter time, but he was al ways cheered up by the society of his beloved "fidille" and the knowledge that spring was coming. And it was in the spring that he fell In love —not once, but twice. Now, It was grateful to his Teutonically senti mental soul to fall in love, but it is dif ficult even for a German musician to love two women at once with whole soulcd enthusiasm. Yet he was not ex actly in love with two women—he was in love with a woman and with a voice. The woman was the new stenogra pher in the office of Drummond & Hart. Slender, brunette and dainty, she was in every respect antithetical to the big, HE WORKED HIS WAY ALONG FROM THE FIRE ESCAPE blond, untidy looking fellow who so ad mired her at first sight. But Herman was a handsome fellow despite the careless manner in which lie dressed, and the new stenographer of ten glanced at him approvingly when she knew he was looking the other way. Mr. Drummond, the senior partner in the firm, introduced Herman to the new stenographer. He knew Herman's reputation for shyness and only by a great efl'ort kept down a smile when he saw the big German blush conspicuous ly upon meeting the frank glance of the young girl. The introduction over, Herman panuiptly turned to his books, more | tor the purpose of letting tbe blujAWe away than for any other rea son. As he pored over the books he re flected with delight that the girl's name, Helen Dumout, was a name that emi nently suited her. It was not until business hours were over, his dinner eaten and the violin and himself in close companionship on the little balcony that he decided he was at last in love. Then he took the violin into his confidence, cuddling It up to his chin and playing very softly a little love song of the Rhine country. It was a light thing, rippling and sun shiny, and it seemed to express his feel ings. He wondered if Helen was mu sical. She must be, her face was so sensitive, he decided. As he played lie heard a window raised in the house next door and re flected uneasily that some one would probably shout across to him to keep his fiddle playing for the daytime. However, no protest catue, and he changed the air he was playing to Schubert's serenade. Scarcely had he taken up the measure of this than he heard a voice accompanying him. No words were sung; it was a sort of hum ming, but in a voice of so pure a so prano quality that he was thrilled through and through. Then he played cue of Sauer's peasant love songs, and the voice still accompanied him, this time singing the words very softly. But other windows in his own house were raised to protest at the music. From the window where the singer sal n silvery laugh floated out. The win | dow closed, and the voice accompanied his music no more that night. Next day at the ollice he stole many furtive glances at Miss Dumont and 1 tried to decide whether he was In love with her or with the voice he had heard the night before. Already In 1 was beginning to think of it as Th« Voice, mentally capitalizing the words Before the day was over he decided that he was In love with Helen Du niont. The graceful turn of her bead and the purity of expression In her bU brown eyes seemed to him worth al the voices in the world. But In tin evening The Voice again accompanied his violin playing, and for an hour h< was near to forgetting Miss Dumont. This went on all through the spring 1 and Herman began to lose flesh undei I the strain of trying to decide whethei 1 he was in love with a beautiful gir or a beautiful voice. Time and agair he wrestled unavailingly with the shy \ uess which prevented him from get I ting better acquainted with Helen Du ! mont. He often met her on his waj home in the evening and knew thai she lived some ere dose, but hi could never qulte'get his courage iq to the point of asking permission U 1 call on her. Then he made up his mlml that ho would see the owner of The Voire lie knew that she lived in the house next to the place where he hoarded, lint a projecting hay window cut oft" the view of this house from his window, and lie had no way of knowing what . room the owner of The Voice occupied. One evening In June lie made his opportunity. At the end of a waltz j song which he had been playing he j softly laid down his violin and stepped j onto the next tire escape balcony. He was long armed and athletic, so it was with little difficulty that he work ed his way along from one lire escape to another until he had rounded the point of the bay window. The bright moonlight made him easily visible on the tire escape, and he knew that he stood an excellent chance of being shot for a burglar, but physical danger was not half so terrifying as the pros pect of continuing longer with ills love divided between a voice and a woman. As he reached the point of the bay window lie peeped cautiously around it. lie saw a girl leaning out of a win dow, and he instantly darted back. The girl was Helen Dumont. He had not known she lived so close to him, and he hoped she had not seen him. He re solved to wait where he was until the girl with The Voice should come back to her window. He had to wait only a few moments before he heard The Voice humming the refrain of the waltz song which he had been playing a few min utes before. Again peeping cautiously uround 1 lie wall, lie again saw only Helen Dumont. She saw him and laughed that sweet, silvery lauyh he had heard before. It struck him suddenly and very forcibly that he was a fool, a big Ger man, musical, sentimental fool. The owner of the voice was Helen Dumont. Therefore he must be twice as much in love with Helen as lie had thought it possible to love a woman. Very quiet ly he made his way back to his own balcony and picked up his violin again. If, stupid fool that he was, he could not speak for himself, he could make his instrument speak for him. The Voice was silent, but he did not care. He knew that she must understand. As a linale he played a composition of his own only in time to escape epithets hurled at him from half a dozen near by houses. And. once having told his love with the violin, he had less difficulty than lie anticipated when he called on Ilel- j en Dumont the following evening and j proposed indue form. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Muller live in one of New York's prettiest suburbs, in j a cottage where violin music and sing- I ing can disturb no neighbors. The wife ! is Just as happy as a woman can be j who takes vast pride In her husband's ! talent and stupidity. She Is even I prouder of his stupidity than of his J talent. Herman—well, he has never | got over falling in love with his wife twice, a thing possible only to stupid- I ity like this. SICKROOM TACTICS. A 9ocoe«»fol Nupue >lu»t He Gentle, : I'utient HII«I Tactful. The proper mental atmosphere creat- j ed in a sickroom is often as important : us the remedies given. A nurse should j be in touch with her patient—that Is, | ulie should be sympathetic and not al- j low irritability and whims to upset her equanimity. The nurse who can create an atmosphere of repose, who can hu mor without indulging her patient in all the idiosyncrasies of sick people, has won half the battle. An unsympa thetic, impatient nurse will do more to hinder recovery than the lack of rem edies. It is not acts and words alone that help or hinder; her very thoughts are as potent as her general conduct, tnd the sensitive patient will be influ enced for good or ill If the nurse were dumb. She should at all times main tain a positive uplifting mental atti tude and remember that the patient's Irritability or melancholia Is Justified by her physical condition and is not perverseness. Gentleness, n itienee and, above all, tact are the rt juisltes for good and In telligent nursing, and the nurse who lacks these qualities has Indeed missed her calling. Patients have often failed to improve simply because they did not fancy their nurse. A nurse must be likable and make herself liked, and It takes only plain tact and a little cir cumspection to ingratiate herself with the most uninteresting of patients. FROST FAIRIES. Tb«? Wonderful t>e»l«n« Thut Win dorr I'llii.-* I'lclnr«-. When the frost fairies have a mate rial ready for original design they often produce in the hours of darkness most exquisite decorations. The window panes are their drawing paper, and the window frames serve as picture frames on those particular occasions. There are said to be no less than a thousand forms of suow crystals, every one of them of the finest finish and of unim peachable symmetry. Some are like the patterns in honiton lace, while oth ers are elaborated with geometrical patterns so complex that it is difficult to analyze them. Hut on the window panes the frost pictures are by no means confined to what are "standard patterns" in snowflakes, but show the most various and dainty schemes of ornament. Some are like starry flow erH, set with stars In the center and with starr> shoots and comets flying Into space around them. Others take the shape of leaves arranged in set form by some human designers. The endive pattern is among the most beau tiful, the curves and "motive" being often scarcely distinguishable from those in which a goldsmith of the days of Louis XV. modeled the ormolu in which he graced some priceless vase of Jasper or crystal. Scale patterns, like the scales of fishes. with striated lines upon the overlapping disks, wavy pat terns, set with stars, fern patterns, moss patterns ami formalized sprays of maidenhair are among the choicest 011 th«' list.— I.ondon Spectator. \Ult'ri<-;tlift mi Gunrtl. There is 110 record that any such or der as "Put none but Americans on guard" was issued by Washington. Those who quote it do not know when It was supposed to have been issued. But it is a fact that on April 30, 1777, In an order Issued at Morrlstown, N. J., for rporuaniziiiK the improperly called "Washington's bodyguard" he did say that lie thought that men having an in ter-'st iii the country would be less likely to prove traitors than foreigners. The order continued, "You will, there fore, send me none but Americans." Washington directed that this prefer ence for Anierieans should not be made known, as lie feared it might excite the many foreigners in the army. —Ex- change. I iinrrmtirr. C'liolly—A fellow told me today that I didn't know enough togo in when it rained. Miss Sharp— And what did you »ayV Cliolly—l assuhed him it was quite unnecessary, doucher know, because I nevah go out when it rains. Philadel phia I**dger. PROMOTION BY RETORT, A (»( \ .isu fTH i't int QueNtfona i'i Suva roll. 'ill" : r«i iiii ii soldier. Marshal Suvai'oii . \\ ..s in ' i'-ibil of asking : uis men iii>'<i■ -1111 \ • n>;i-, sometimes ! foolish ones, and bcsiowing favors 011 , those who showed presence of mind in answering him. on one occasion a general of division sent him a sergeant with dispatches, at the same time rec ommeudi.ig the hearer to Swvaroff's notice. The marshal, as usual, proceed ed to test him by a series of whimsical j questions. "How far is it to the moon?" was the tirst query. "Two of your excellency's forced j marches," the soldier promptly replied. "If your men began to give way in battle, what would you do?" "I'd tell them that just behind the enemy's line there was a wagon load of good things to cat." "How many lish jire there in the sea?" "Just as many as have not been caught." And so the examination went 011 till Suvaroff. finding his new acquaintance 1 armed at all points, at length put a final poser: "What is the difference between your colonel aud myself?" "The difference is this." replied the [ soldier coolly. "My colonel cannot j make me a captain, but your excellency can." Suvaroff. struck by his shrewdness, kept his eye upon the man and soon afterward gave him the promotion for which he bad hinted. Proper Xmoiitit of Sleep. A proper amount of sleep is. of course, absolutely essential to continued good health, but if dietetic habits are cor rect it is a matter which will regulate Itself. If a rule is needed, one will fol- 1 low naturally from the fact that al most every one feels languid on wak ing and is disposed to take another nap, no matter how long he has been sleep ing. This is a morbid sensation which it would take too long to explain here. It Is enough to say that lack of sleep should be made up. if possible, at the beginning and not at the end. The best general rule is to rise at a given hour I every morning, whether tired or not, and goto bed when sleepy.—ltoger S. ! Tracy in Century. SOBS m ! A. neliatole TO SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing, Spoutine and Ceneral Job Work. Stoves, Heaters, Ranges, Furnaces. «tc- PRICES TUB LOWEST! QIiJLITY TOE BEST! JOHN Hl\SO\ NO. 116 E. FRONT BT. J. J. BROWN, THE EYE A SPCCIALTY Eyes tested, treated, fitted with <lass *AH«l artiiicia.l eyes supplied. Market Street, Bloomsburg, I'a. Hour*—lft a. m to "> p. in. Cash Given Away to Users d j We are going to be more liberal than ever in 1904 to users of lion Coffee. Not only will the Lion-Heads, cut from the packages, be good, as heretofore, for the valuable premiums we j have always given our customers, but In Addition to the Regular Free Premiums | the some Lion-Heads will entitle you to estimates in our $50,000.00 Grand Pri * e wilMie 1 make some of our patrous rich men and women. You .can send in as many est.mates as desired. 1 here wil ■ TWO CREAT contests The first contest will be on the July 4th attendance at the St. Louis World's Fa ir; l\Y^ dr o e^ t \ to n^ | EZJzrx'tx\nt rs *S* ««. we » y Grand First Prize of >5.000.00 iSUStSS ifZPJXSS Z. & a -r '« opportunities of winning a big cash prize. Five Lion-Heads "*8 Pr,nted blanks l " : cut from Lion °" ,OU " d | Coffee Packages and a k every Lion Coffee Pack " 2 cent stamp entitle you age * The 2 cent stanlp ij (in addition to the reg-covers the expense t ular free premiums) our acknowledgment i> - to'one vote in you that your es J either contest: IM, timateisrecorucd. J WORLD'S FAIR CONTEST PRESIDENTJAL VOTE CONTEST What will be the total July 4th attendance at the St Louis or co '■ 1 | World's Fair? At Chicago. July 4.1« B. the attendance was 2t0,273 {l'^- ■ n I^'Vss 6.vV t M-oHe voted for President. For neat-or « For nearest correct estimates received in'Woolson Spice 112 *..sHmat'es receive,! in Woolson Spice Co.'s. office. Toledo. <>.. jrj pany's office. Toledo, Ohio, on or before June 30th, 1904. we ; x- ov * we will srlve first price for the nearest <-»•* give first prize for the nearest correct estimate, second prize toe estimate second prize to the next nea' est. etc.. etc.. as follows: next nearest, etc.. etc.. as ioliuws: Y Firat Prl~e $2,500.00 1 First Prize .. *?£RR'on i Second Prtze . 1 000.00 " i II Second Prize J-RRSRR 5 Pri»«a_ sroo oo each l .000.00 : 2 Prizes $600.00 each J'SRS Rn r PHzes- 200 00 " 1 000.00 i 6 Prizes- 200.00 " 1 .000.00 lomlet-ioo'oo " ... 1.000.00 lO Prizes — 100.00 i'RRRnn hn fillll- 60 OO " 1 .000 00 112. 20 Prizes SO.OO iSSR™ %n Pri.et— 20 00 " 1.000.00 B BO Prizes— 20.00 " oRn p?i«2— 1000 " 2.500.00 B ocn Prlren - 10 OO " 2.500.00 200 Prizes iu.uvj 9 000.00 I lioo RUM- 5.00 0.000.00 1800 Prizes- 5.00 I 2139"PRIZES TOTAL. $20,000.00 2139 PRIZEB. TOTAL. $20.000.00 I 4279 —PRIZES —4279 Distributed to the Public-aggregating 545,000.00-ln addition to which we ehall gl*e >5,000 to Grocers' Clerks (see particulars in HON COFFEE oates) making a grand total of $50,000.00. | | COMPLETE DETAILED PARTICULARS IN EVERY PACKAGE OF J ' LION COFFEE .SO.-4 SPICE CO.. (CONTEST PEP'T.) J New Light on nil Old Snbjeef. The man who had been kicked by ft mule aud was quoted as saying he "considered the source" was speaking of it afterward to some u£ Uie othu fellows. "I wouldn't care," he said, "if ther*> hadn't been so much fuss made over it, as if it was a bright thing for any body to say, but the honest truth is that I never said anything of the kind. When you're kicked by a mule, you're not in a frame of mind for consider ing things. What I really said was; 'You denied old beast! If I had a gun and you were somebody else's mule nnd it wasn't against the law to sbo«4 Inside the corporation I'd blow your derned old head off, dern you!'"—Chi- I cago Tribune. It'.-itl Work. "I've just been reading lift? and the work lie did. He gov erned the nation, wrote several books, j studied two languages, saw a hundred j people a day and answered all his mail, besides sitting up all night reading j Ilomer." "That's nothing. Have you ever fol lowed a bride around for two weeks before her wedding?"— Life. | ! The Home Paper of Danville. ! Of course you read j II if MI. ( [ |i THE TYEOPLELS I KQPULAR I APER. Everybody Reads It. j j Published Every Morning Except Sunday at 1 No. 11 E. Mahoning 1 St. j I Subscription 6 cenN Per Week. ~ :r_; • Ilintor.v of fin* Three Hull*. Lombard street. noted in history R9 the groat London street for bankers.de rived its name from the Longobanls, a race of rick bankers who settled there in the reign of Edward 11. and whose badge, the three golden balls, taken from the lower part of the arms of the dukes of Medici, continues to this day to be the sign of pawnbrokers—money lenders. The balls on the rich crest of tiie Medici were blue, and only since the middle of the nineteenth century have they, in the pawnbrokers' signs, been gilded. The position of the balls is popularly believed to Indicate that there are two chances to one that what Is brought there will not be redeemed. —St. Nicholas. Two C»Ralen. "Why is it," asked Robinson, "that you always appear to be happy and contented "I suppose." replied Barker, "It's be cause I never borrow trouble or lend money."—New Yorker. Sincerity is speaking as we think, believing as we pretend, acting as we profess, performing as we promise and hetnL' ns we nDnear to be. Nothing has ever equjlled it. Nothing can ever surj ass it. Dr.King'ii New Discovery A Perfect For All Throat and Cure: Lung Troubles. Money back if it fails. Trial Bottles free. T AChAWANNA RAILROAD. U -BLOOMSBURG DIVISION WKHT. A. M. A. M. A. M. P. to New York lv 200 .... 10 00 140 P. M. Scranton ...ar 617 150 P. M. Buffalo... IvllSO 245 4. M . Scranton ar 058 10 05 M. A. M. P. M. P. to Scranton lv t6 38 *lO 10 fl 6ft »6 55 Bellevue Taylor 044 1017 103 614 Lackawanna 0 r.O 10 24 210 650 Ouryea H63 10 2b 2 lit 65a Pittston 658 10 88 217 607 Susquehanna Ave 701 10 37 219 6&» West Pittston 705 10 41' 223 702 Wyoming 710 10 40 227 707 Forty Fort 281 .... Bennett 717 10 53 284 714 Kingston ar 724 10 56 f2 40 720 Wilkes-Barre ar 710 UlO • 250 780 Wilkes-Barre .lv 710 10 40 280 710 Kingston lv 724 10 56 240 720 Plymouth June Plymouth 7Ma 11 05 249 729 N'antlcoke 748 11 18 258 787 II unlock s 749 11 19 806 748 SbiekslHnny 8 111 11 31 820 75a Hicks Ferry si! 111 48 830 f8 08 Beadi Haven t I; 48 887 SOW Berwick 827 1! 54 844 I Briarcreek fH 82 . . 13 50 .... Willow tirove r> 3d .... 18 54 r* 24 I.line Espy 8 41, 12 15 406 884 Rloomsbu-g 858 12a .4 12 8«J ttopert 857 12 2 '4 15 845 C tawlssa 902 12ii.' 432 Bto uanville 9 15 12 44 4 88 9 05 Cameron 924 112 67 448 ... Northuniber'd ar 985 110 455 980 EAST. A. M. A. M. P. M. P. M Nortliumberl *t> (5 fIOOO tl 50 »5 21 < lameron h57 .... f2 01 fb 84 Danville .. 707 10 19 211 541 Catawissa 721 10 32 228 556 Kupert 726 10 37 229 601 Bloomsburg 733 10 41 288 606 Espy 738 10 48 240 618 Lime Kidge 711 f!0 54 f2 46 f6 20 Willow Orovn f7 48 f2 50 Briarcreek 7 62 f2 58 112 627 Berwick 757 11 05 258 684 Beech Haven 805 fll 12 803 641 Hicks Ferry 811 fll 17 309 647 Shickshinny 822 11 81 320 f6 59 Hunlock's 833 881 f7 U9 Nanticoke 888 11 44 838 714 Avondale 841 342 722 Plymouth 845 1152 347 728 Plymouth June 847 .... 352 . Kingston . ar 855 11 59 400 738 Wilkes-Barre ar 910 12 10 410 750 Wilkes-Barre lv 840 11 40 350 730 Kingston lv 855 11 59 400 738 Luzerne 858 al2 02 403 742 Forty Fort f9 0C .... 14 07 Wyoming 905 12 08 412 74b West Pittston 910 417 7&» Susquehanna Ave ... 913 12 14 420 70# Pittston 919 12 17 424 801 Duryea 923 429 806 Lackawanna 926 432 810 Taylor 932 440 817 Bellevue Scranton.... ar 942 12 35 450 82t A.M. P.M. P. M Scranton lv 1025 11 55 .... lilt A. M Buffalo ... . ar ... 755 700 A. M. P. M P.M A.M Scranton lv 10.10 12.40 13 35 *2 l& P. M. P. M P.M A. M New York ar 330 500 735 650 •Daily, 112 Daily except Sunday, fstops on signal or on Dotice to conductor, a Stops on signal to take on passengers lor New York. Binghamton and points west. T. E.CLARKE T. W. LEE Oen. Superintendent. Oen.P 11 PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. TIME T4BLE In Effect Nov. J'.'th, 190,3. A.M. A.M. P.M. | Scranton(l)&H)lv §ti 3* >■» ill 1 42 54 28 Pittston " " 705f1015 §2lO 5 63| A. 51 A. M KM. P.Mi Wilkesliarre... lv « ? 2"> §lO 35 ; 2 45 iS iki| Plym'tb Ferry "*7 32 110 42 f252 16 07; Nanticoke " 742 10 50j 301 6 17 Mocanauua...." 801 11 07 820 6 37; Wapwallopen.." 810 11 1»>; 331 6 47'...... Nescopeck ar 818 11 2<i 342 7 00. A.M. A.M. p.M* Pottsville It 550 511 55 Hazleton " 705 245£2 45 Tomhicken " 722 j 305 805 pern Olen " 721 1 315 815 Kock Olen "| 735 322 3 22 Nescopeck .... ar; 802 Catawissa I 4 00 4 00 . —1 A~AT ATM" P.M. P M| Nescopeck... .lvs 818 §ll 20 342 s7 00; Creasv "I 83 1 11 38 3 ">2 7 09; Espy Ferry... n4i li 40 t 402 720 ...... E. Bloomsburg " 847 11 50; 400 7 2.) Catawissa lv 856 11.57j 4 13; 7 32! South Danville '•! 9 14 12 15| 431 7 51 Sunbury ar 935 12 40 4 55| 8 15' ~~ ATM. P. M. P. M KM. Sunbury lv ; t» 42 §li 48, S 5 IS y 53! Lewisburg.... ar 10 13 i 4."> 54S ] Milton " 10 OS 1 39, 544 10 14, Williamsport.. "j 11 00 141 t> 40 10 00j...... Lock Haven... " 11 69 220 7 (7 Kenovo ";A.M. 3 00! 8 30. ; Kane "1 8 25 ( j j P.M. P. M.I Lock Haven..lv <l2 10 3 3 45' Bellefonte ....ar. 1 05 l! 444 Tyrone " I 2 10 I 0 00 1 Phillpsburg " ! 510jj 802 j Clearfield.... " 654S 845 Pittsburg.... "j 655m0 45 1 A.M. P. M P. 51. P M Sunbury lv 960 Si 159 SHi!B 31 Hamsburg.... ar 11 80 8315 j 650 10 10 ~~ P. M. P. M. P. M. A M Philadelphia., ar S 3 17 h 6 23 || 9 28 . 4 23 1 Baltimore "j§ 311 600 j 9 4-> 220 Washington..."!§ 4 20,|, 7 16 10 55, s 30 ( ;A~SI~ P, 51. Sunbury lv §lO 00 § 2 15 j I Lewistowo Jc. ar 11 45 405 ; j Pittsburtr " 655 §lO 45 A.51. P, 51 P. M. P M Harrlsburg.... lv 11 46 d 6 2t> || 7 20 gllav I'. 51. A M. A. M. A M Pittsburg ar 6 55; || 160.|| 1 50j 5 30| P. M.I 1* 51 A Mi A 511 Pittsburg lv 7 II'; 9 00; : 3 GO! |8 00! |A.M A 51 | P Ml Harrlaburg ar OOji 4 "11 2.5,| 310 P. 51 A Ml Plttsbuilf lv 0 to ;i 8 00 A.M. j P Mi i.ewistown Je. " " 3" 3 300 Sunbury ar ;; u 80j 5< 60 Washington... lv I'. 4t* 7 5" .10 5o Baltimore " 11 On 440 b4" 11 4.i Philadelphia..." 1141' 425 ! 830 11 40 A. >1 A 51 A. M. P M llarrisburg.... lv 335 755 ill 40 \ 3 25l Sunbury ar 500 9 ;>(■ 10>s Jl3 ir>r A M A si, Pittsburg In ,i 2 46 3 00 \ 8 00 I'leartield.... " 3 :!0i ....• 920 '"" l'hilipsburg.. " 426 ! 10 10 '" Tvrone " 7Ot i 8 10 12 25 Bellefonte.. " 8 lti. ] 932 1 2oj" Lock Haven ar 915 1 10 30 210 P. 51. A M V 51 PM! . Erie 1* .">3.' ; Kane " 8 45' :0 00 Kenovo " II 50 , 0 40, 10 30 $ 1 13 Lock Haven.... " 12 7 so II 2-">j| 250 '" A.M P M | Williamsport" 214 8 i.12 40 350 I Milton •' 2 9l i 14> 4 38;"** I.ewisburg " 805 1 15! 422 ' I Sunbury at 330 915 1 6»■ 605 '"" ! A. M.! A M P M P M Sunbury lv ; 6 45; j9 55 200j 625 South Danville' 1 711 iO 17 221 550 Catawissa 732 10 85 23t 608 E Bloomsburg.. " 737 10 43 243 815 Espy Ferry... 7 4.' flo 47 112 8 19 Creasy....' ... 7 10 6ti, 2 6 30, Nescopeck.. s O2 11 Oj, 305 6 44' "**" A 51 7 51 P. M. V M I" Catawissa i\ 10 3K | | Nescopeck iv s J.. Jsos§ 705 Kock (Hen.. ir 11 22 7 28 Fern Olen.. s '1 H 2s| 582 734 •"* Tomhlcken . s > 11 3S ft 88 T42 Hazleton " ■' li' 11 57 5 59. 805 Pottsville " 10 1 • 1 50, ti 5") ( AM A 51 P 51 P 51! Nescopeck lv ;8 02 11 06 3 or, C4O • •*' Wapwallopen..ar S 1!' II 20 3 201 062 Mocanauua .... " 831 II 32 330 701 Nanticoke " 854 11 54 349 719 ■•••• P Ml Plvm'lh Ferry' I 902 12 c 2 357 f7 28 Wilksbarie ..." 910 12 10 4 o."> 735 A 51 P 51 P 51 P 51 Pittston(lKVH) ar sM 29 12 29 s 4 sti 804 Scranton " " loos 108 524 | b j Weekdavs. [ Daily. 112 Flag station. Pullman Parlor a?d Sleejiing run on through trains between Sarbury, Williamsport and Erie, between Sunbnry ai„l Philadelphia and Washington and between Harrisburg, Pitts liurg and the West. For turtlier Information apply to Ticket Agent* W. W. ATTERBI'KY, J. K. WOOD Oen'l Manager. Pass. Traffic Mgr. OEO. W. B«'Yl>, Oen'l Passenger Agent.
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