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J | By ELLIOT WALKER X
I ' Copyright, ISUU, b) T. C. MeC'lure J
"I'll kiss you for that!" cried the child
tretnuloucily. "I'd marry you If 1 was
big enough."
Her arm cluug about the man's mus
cul&r neck as he tried to dodge the iui
pul»ive caresses. Laughing faintly, ho
curried his light burden across the
street, put her down in Safety and
beckoned to a white faced, horrified
woman on the other skie of the track.
Curly did not quite comprehend how
be had done it. Just an instinctive leap,
a clutch at the pink frock, and the trol
ley's fender had grazed his leg as be
Jerked forward, trying to cast the lit
tle girl from him, with a flash of
thought that he himself was goue.
Voices cursing the uiotorinan, who
wtut not In the least at fault; voices
&ud hands applauding hummed in his
ear without meaning as he straighten
ed up with a long breath of relief, his
eye* on her grateful, childish face."
"Marry me, eh?" he whispered mis
chlevously as he diseutagled the cling
ing Angers. "Oh, no, my dear, you
wouldn't; not if you were ten years
older."
"I would! I'd be twenty-one theu,"
holding his none too clean haud with
both her tiny ones. "I'm going to wait
for you. Even day I'll remember Just
how ju look, and"—
"You tot!" smiled her rescuer, hasti
ly pulling from his breast pocket an
envelope and extracting a card photo
graph from n rather soiled bunch.
"Here take this. Look at it once In
awhile. That'll be thanks enough for
me, and maybe you won't entirely for
get a poor fellow who won't forget you
In a long while. Bless your little white
•oul! I didn't know I had a soft spot
its/t"
"Allena Raceway!" quavered the thin
lady in black, coming up with a rush
after painful Indecision in crossing.
"How dared you disobey me? Have
you thanked the klud gentleman prop
erly? Which Is he, Allena?"
"He's gone," answered her charge,
with a wall of disappointment, her
glance roving through the crowd. "Oh,
"O&AJi MI! I IK)N*T KVKN KNOW TOUB
NAME.''
dear! I didn't even find out his name,
l're got his picture, though, to remem
ber him by. See, Charlotte."
The governess gazed and bit her lip.
"A pretty hard face," she murmured.
"It isn't!" cried Allena In wrath. "It
was Just saintly when I kissed him."
"You kissed him! You dreadful
child! Come home at once. You!
Judge Raceway's daughter! Why, the
man might have had consumption—
or—or germs. He may have given
them to you!"
"He gave me his picture, anyway,
aud you and your old germs can go
to pot," retorted Allena impolitely.
"Bay, you needn't drag me along,
Charlotte Spleer. i can walk.'*
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Curly stood Irresolutely in front
of the saloon. The crowd Jostled hlin,
but he didn't move along. A flashily
dreased man seized his arm.
"You're shaky this morning, boy,"
he accosted cordially. "Let's get bi
fida. I'll break a small bottle with
you. Thut will put you on your feet."
"I'm on my feet now," returned the
other roughly. "Let me alone!"
His companion stared. "Curly!" he
coaxed good naturedly. "Come on,
now. liou't stand here in the sun.
Yes, yes, I know how a fellow feels
sometimes. It's the nerves. Settle
'«n, and you'll be all right."
"You don't know how I feel. Joe,
and you never will," smiling queerly.
"I've had an experience. Just say to
the crowd that I've cut my hair, and
the sooner they forget Curly the bet
ter It will please me. Say I'm Todd
Bhlpman now, the same who came
among you two years ago, when I
was kicked out of college. Joe, I'm
twenty-one today. Lord knows, I
want a drink, but I don't take It. I've
a little money coming, and I was go
ing to 'blow' It In good shape, but
something has changed my mind.
You've been a good friend and square.
Goodby and luck to you."
The museular figure straightened
with a half friendly, hulf warning
flash in the gray eyes.
A strong momentary pressure of fin
gers which were quick at dealing
poker hands and Shlpmnn's broad
shoulders swung down the street.
"Beats me!" meditated his sporting
friend and, more softly, "Maybe he Is
right, though twenty one- birthday
new leaf hum!"
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"Show him In," suid the Judge, a
bit testily "Right here in the library,
John. Tuin up that lamp a tritle."
He pored over the card. "Can't be
Otis Shtpmun s son." he ruminatt*d.
"Let's see. Todd's a family name.
Why, It v<as ten years ago that bOy
went otl goodness kiu> s when and
glud they were to b«* ii.l of him. the
Wild rascal! Seems to i. e I heard lit;
Lad done mi. I ty v.\ 11. but that didn't
cure him. 1 ii.iat.im ;. I remember,
a curly he.fdrd, ; r-iy <ye i scamp,
bright as a dolLr. l'«o bad! Too
bud!"
When the visitor emerge 1 from the
library after that !. rapid con
versation he went >i>'.tight t > the draw
ing room, and hi. host, with a puzzled
visage, pattered upstairs.
Shtpmun stood under the great chan
delier, a bron ed. v eil formed man,
the rings of clustering hair low on his
broad brow He trembled at the sound
of soft approaching steps.
"My father suid you wished to speak
with iiih," came a clear voice ah a );irl,
tall, bright eyed and sunny haired,
came quickly in without embarrass
went, looking at hlui keenly.
"I do," replied the stranger. "I have
every day for ten years prayed f<»r this
meeting that I might thank you."
"Thank me!"starting. "And for what,
please? Oh," she cried, "11 do know
you now! You arc my picture. 1 have
It yet in a tiny frame. You who saved
mo when 1 was a little girl. So often
I have wondered, dreamed, that I
might some time see you again. And
here you are."
"Yes, here 1 am," solemnly, with his
hands clasped behind him. "I have
had a tall, with your father, lie has
given me permission to tell you my
story, if- if you care to hear it."
••<>t* cour ;e 1 do." Allena's cheeks
were globing. "Let ua sit down. Hear
uic: I don't even know your name."
"Shipman Todd Shipman of Colora
do Springs."
"Oh:" she gazed at him Interestedly.
"That day," began the man, his tone
reverent, "ih trustful embrace of a
little child turned my steps. During
all i:.y struggle her face has been ever
In iv me i inspiration. 1 have been
true to it. 1' 'a s been my one thought
to li\e and work for this date, this an
niversary, that I might tell her what
she did. You do not seem strange to
me, but as I expected to And you.
(joodby! May (lod bless yon!"
"Hut you will come again?" cried the
girl, giving him her hands as he rose.
! "If I do," the deep voice trembled,
"you you will understand."
The fair head drooped and nodded al
most Imperceptibly; her fingers tight
ened on his. He bent his lips to them
and stepped softly away.
"Mrs. Todd Shipman," murmured Al
lena as she heard the front door close.
"Quite an attractive name!"
Vloatloun Vengi'anre.
It was undoubtedly a mean trick of
Sawyer, lie was a big man, and when
he came home late a few evenings ago
and found his little friend, Ben Al
len, with whom he shared his lodgings,
asleep in the middle of their common
bed he made little to do, but when he
retir»*d, with a little effort, he kicked
his small friend onto the tioor.
Ben said nothing at the time, but
when a few evenings later he found
that Sawyer had taken up a similar
position in b<-d he determined to have
his revenge.
Stealthily climbing over the huge
form, he braced his back against the
wall and. placing his feet against his
friend's spine, gave a tremendous push.
The effect was Instantaneous, if not
exactly w hat had been anticipated.
The big man moved, but the bed
moved with him, opening a wide space
between It and the wall, through which
Ben disappeared.
The little fellow had shot himself
out of bed.
Thte\li»!i Ilet-N.
Buckner in his "Psychic I.ife of Ani
mals" speaks of thievish bees which
In order to save themselves the trouble
of working attack well stocked hives
in masses, kill the sentinels anil the
Inhabitants, rob the hives and carry
off the provisions. After repeated en
terprises of this description they ac
quire a taste for robbery with violence.
They recruit whole companies, which
get more und more numerous, and
finally they form regular colonies of
brigand bees. But it is a still more cu
rious fact that these brigand bees can
be produced artificially by giving
working bees a mixture of honey and
brandy to drink. The bees soon ac
quire a taste for this beverage, which
has the same disastrous effects upon
them us upon men. They become ill ills
posed and irritable and lose all desire
to work, and finally when they begin
to feel hungry they attack and plunder
the well supplied hives.
One MAII'N Innniif Iden.
The writer once entered into conver
sation with the Inmate of an asylum,
at the request of the superintendent,
who said he was a monomaniac and
Invited me to And out if 1 could the
particular point of his insanity. "It is
a rum subject togo mad on,l must
say," he added, by way of helping me.
I tried him on various subjects without
success; in fact, he seemed better in
formed than myself, and I was turn
iiiK to KO w hen lie tapped me on tlie
shoulder and whispered in my ear:
"It's a long time coming, isn't It?"
"What is?" I asked.
"Why, the day of I'entecost, of
course!" he answered.
And that was the only irrational
thing he said during th« whole inter
yiew. -London Tit-Bits.
YOUTH AND AGE.
The Tltouichta Tlint Killed the Mnlilen
and the Old Lad}*.
It was 9 o'clock in the evening, the
night of the great dance In the assem
bly room.
She was almost ready. A few final
touches, a little readjustment before
the mirror, and then, beautiful and
stately, she stepped out into the hall
and slotvly descended the stairs.
She was very young, but her calm,
serious face, her ease and perfect poise
and other certain little gestures of
surety in herself indicated that slio
was not new at the business of the
evening. Somehow there was a touch
of sadness to her face.
As she passed down the stairs she
paused In front of the library, with her
party wrap over her arm. In the li
brary, her face half shaded from the
evening lamp, sat an old woman. Her
sliver hair was smoothed back from a
forehead that time had not spared
from wrinkles.
She looked up from the book she was
reading with a bright smile.
"Off again, my dear?" she said.
"Yes, grandma. It's another dance
I had to go. Rut it's so tiresome."
She sat down wearily and gazed for
a moment absently into the dickering
fire on the hearth. There was a brief
silence; then the old woman spoke:
".My dear, you do not seem yourself
tonight. Of what are you thinking?"
Her granddaughter looked up.
"Of the past," she said, with a sigh.
And then she said as she rose and
gathered up her wraps:
"But, granny, you seem unusually
cheerful tonight. <»f what, pray, are
you thinking?"
And the old woman replied, "My
dear. I was thinking of the future."-
Twentieth Century Home.
Kour Kitreturn. *
The coldest place on earth Inhabited
by man is Verkhoyansk, above the arc
tic circle, in northeastern Siberia. The
thermometer there drops to !MI degrees
below zero in January, but sometimes
rises to sr. devices ahove zero in the
shade In July dropping, however, to
the freezing point on the warmest sum
mer nights. The hottest place in the
world is the interior of the great Sa
hara desert, in Africa, where the ther
mometer rises to IL'2 degrees. The wet
test place Is (inytown. Nicaragua,
where the mean annual rainfall is 2t>o
Inches. The |.l u-e of least rain is I'ort
Noiloth, In South Africa, where less
thau an inch sometimes falls in a year
STORY OF AN ESCAPE
AN INCIDENT OF THE CHICAGO IRO
QUOIS THEATER HORROR.
The Way u Woman ami Her Two
Children Were Sated From the
II ii rri«*n ne of l'lniue anil I'll uic by
a Straiifter Who W'iin 111 to & leafed.
All great conflagrations that are at
tended with loss of life have, as a rule,
their serio comic as well as their tragic
incidents. Many peculiar escapes have
been recorded, but the following story
of how one woman and her two chil
dren were saved from death in the
awful horror of the Iroquois theater in
Chicago, where so many hundreds per
ished in the hurricane of flame and
panic, as told by Miss Kli/.abeth A.
Reed in the Chicago Record Herald
shortly after the fearful tragedy, Is
unique In many ways:
Mrs. Henry Stirling, with her two
children, sat In the fateful Iroquois
theater on that dreadful afternoon.
Little Bob was next to the aisle, then
the mother, and Dorothy sat on the
other side. Beyond the six-year-old
girl there was a vacant seat, but little
heed was given to it as the spectacular
drama went on and the wondering lii
tle folks looked open eyed upon the
scenes before tlieni.
At last an uncertain stop came down
the aisle and a well dressed tnan
lurched into the vacant seat. The cur
tain was up, but he was an old theater
goer, and as the extravaganza was not
entirely new to him he turned to the
child. Her conliding blue eyes an
swered his appeal for friendship; there
was wonder in the expressive little
face, but no fear, even when he ven
tured to lay a caressing hand upon the
golden curls.
Mrs. Stirling shrank from his con
taminating touch upon Dorothy's head.
He saw or felt her loathing and said
brokenly, "Don't you be 'fraid—ish all
right—all right sweetish li'l girl ever
I shaw sweetish li'l girl ever I shaw."
The gay drama went on, the crowd
cheered, the children clapped their
hands, and their merry laughter min
gled with the applause, but the stran
ger still kept his bleared eyes upon the
lovely child. Every few minutes his
hand would stray lovingly over the
sunny head and some expression of
endearment would fall from his uncer
tain lips. At last Mrs. Stirling called
the attention of an usher to the pro
longed annoyance, and a remonstrance
was made, but the answer came, "You
go way ish all right—all right—sweet
ish li'l girl ever 1 shaw— sweetish li'l
girl ever I shaw."
Again the big hand touched the gold
en hair, and this time it strayed down
ward and took the little hand in lov
ing clasp. The child looked fearlessly
into his face and smiled.
The mother grew more and more
nervous. Again an usher was called
and a complaint made. The slender
young man looked at the big fellow
and concluded that prudence was the
"better part of valor," so he went to
consult with another about effective
methods of getting the Intruder out of
the house.
The stranger looked at the stage
again; this time he saw a tiny flame
rapidly spreading to the scenery. Ris
ing instantly, he took little Dorothy in
his arms. Stepping beyond the mother
and unheeding her frightened remon
strance, he swung the child upon one
shoulder and with the other hand
caught up little Bob; then with both
of them pressed closely In his strong
arms he walked out of the house. The
doubly frightened mother Involunta
rily followed him.
This precious instant was the mo
ment of salvation. Another minute—
another half minute and it would
have been too late. They had nearly
reached the entrance when a cry of
horror rang through the house, follow
ed by screams of terror and shrieks of
pain.
Without further volition of their
own they were swept into the street.
Wholly dazed by the awful shock Mrs.
Stirling pleaded, "l'ut them down put
them down now:"
"Xo, thash all right. Where do you
want togo?"
"Right up this way to the Ashland
block," she answered. Then the
strange party pushed on through the
crowd which was already rushins
with helping hands to the scene of th*
disaster.
Lurching from one side of the walk
to the other and apparently in con
stant danger of falling, he still carried
his precious burden safely. Once
within the protecting doors of the
great Ashland block the elevator cur
ried them to one of the higher floors,
where Mrs. Stirling rushed into her
husband's office eryng, "Oh, Henry,
the theater is burning, and this man
has brought the children out!"
Although not half comprehending
the horror, the father put his hand in
his pocket and drew out a twenty dol
lar bill, which he offered with profuse
thanks. But he and his money were
alike ignored. With a majestic sweep
of the hand the drunken hero answer
ed, "Oo way—l don't want your nion
ey—go way tlutsh all right thash the
sweetish li'l girl ever 1 shiuv sweetish
li'l girl ever 1 shaw," and then he stag
gered out of the office.
FIRST USE OF GAS.
Thi- Way tin* lilra of I hliik It For
li«ht Was It Idle* u led.
Great was the amazement of all Eu
rope when at about the close of the
century William Murdoch discovered
that could be used for Illuminating
purposes. So little was the invention
understood by those who hud not seen
it in use that even the great and wise
(?) men of the British parliament
laughed at the idea. "How can there
be light without a wick?" said one
member of that august body, with a
wink anil a knowing nod. Even the
great Sir Humphry I»avy ridiculed the
idea of lighting towns and cities with
gas. He one day asked Murdoch, "Ko
you mean to use the dome of St. Paul's
for your gas meter?" Sir Walter Scott
also made merry of the gas idea and
;>f the coming attempt to "illuminate
London with smoke from a tar fac
tory."
When the house of commons was
finally lighted with the new illuminant,
the architect and custodian of the
building, who imagined that the gas
ran as fire through the pipes, insisted
that they lie re moved several inches
from the wall to prevent the building
from taking lire! Several distinguished
members were also observed carefully
touching the pij.es with their gloved
fingers and then smelling of them to
sec if they could detect the odor of
burned leather.
Two of H Kind.
"Sir." said the shipping clerk. "I
should like to attend my mother in
law's funeral tomorrow."
"You have my sympathy, ysung
man." replied the manager, with a sigh
long drawn out. "I have been wanting
to do likewise for thirteen years."—Au
gusta Chronicle.
THB OPIUM CIQAHHTTE
lOrlpinal )
"What's the meaning of this crowd?"
I asked of a railroad othcial at the
Charing Cross station, London.
"The Russian, sir."
"What Kussian?"
"Don't know, sir. He's some big
man in his country. These people are
to see Ului off, sir. lie's goiuK home."
I stepi>ed into the compartment
where I had engaged a seat. There 1
found two elderly women with several
children, all of one party. Heyond, by
a window, sat a young woman whose
appearance interested me at once.
Never have 1 seen such an expression
on any human face. The only descrip
tion I can give of it is that it reminded
me of a picture I had once seen of an
early Christian martyr who had nerved
herself to be buried alive. Hut this
gives only a vague idea of the woman's
whole appearance. She was well
dressed, and her features and bearing
indicated one of the highest class. It
was Impossible for her to conceal a
mental restlessness that showed itself
especially In the eyes, which were
constantly moving.
The train made but one Btop between
London and Folkestone, where the
party of women and children got out,
leaving only me and the woman I have
iK'en trying to describe In the com
partment.
"Thank heaven," she said to me Inn
contralto voice, "they are goue! I am
sure you will not object to my smoking
a cigarette in this compartment,
though it is not a smoker."
"Certainly not, madam."
"You speak French'/" she asked In
that language.
I assured her that I did, and after
that we conversed In the French lan
guage. I took out some cigarettes and
lighted one to keep her company, but
she insisted 011 my smoking one of
hers, which, she said, had been made
expressly for her from a recipe fur
nished by a member of the suit of the
sultan of Turkey. 1 threw mine away
and took one of hers. 1 knew at once
that it contained opium, but how much
or what other drugs I did not know.
One thing I (lid know. I was rapidly
passing into a delightful trance, which
every whiff seemed to make still more
delightful. 1 saw the woman watching
me, and when she was satisfied that I
was powerless she opened a hand bag
beside her and took out something
rolled in brown paper, opened it, took
r>ut a wedge shaped piece of wood and,
seizing my chin, opened my mouth and
gagged me.
This done, she took out a timetable,
which she scanned, looked at her
watch, cast a glance out of the win
dow, then momentarily gave way to a
terrible depression. I Judged that she
was obliged to wait for something, and
on the eve of some move—one involv
ing life and death, for instance—there
is nothing like delay to break one
down. I noticed that we were passing
through a thickly settled district and
that as soon as we had passed again
into the country she nerved herself
and prepared for something she was
about to do.
Iler first act was to disrobe. But in
stead or' displaying the undergarments
of a woman site lay bnre a man's out
er clothing. Her woman's attire was
merely a covering, which she threw
out of the window. Next she took a
glass globe about two Inches in diam
eter from her satchel, and the satchel
followed the clothing. Then she or
rather he, for by this time I had made
up my mind that the person was a
young man -cast a glance at me which
seemed to satisfy him, took another
look at his watch, peered out at the
passing landscape and after casting up
his eyes and muttering a prayer
climbed out of the window ami let him
self down on the footboard.
Ilad I not been under the Influence of
opium I should have been profoundly
moved by all this. As It was it seem
ed but a part of my dream, and the
moment the singular being passed out
of it he was forgotten. I remember be
ing Jarred by an explosion, but did not
at the time connect It with the young
mail.
Whatever occurred was hushed tip.
When we reached Folkestone a guard
was obliged to carry me onto the
channel boat, and I did not come to
myself again before we reached
Boulogne. I did not get an oppor
tunity to Interview any of the passen
gers, and the whole affair was to me
something of :i mystery. Indeed I fan
cied 1 had dreamed it under the influ
ence of an opium cigarette. If a bomb
was really exploded with a view to kill
Ing the Uussian official In another com
partment, it failed. My theory, based
on the view that it was a real occur
rence, was that the assailant dropped
the bomb beforo he was ready to ex
plode It in or under the compartment
occupied by the Uussian.
Two years afterward I was in St.
Petersburg standing in a crowd watch
ing for the emperor to pass on his way
to review some of his troops. Among
the members of his staff I saw a face
that astonished me. 1 never foiget
faces, and i certainly could nenn* for
get this one. It was the face of the
young man who had drugged me on the
train between Boulogne and Folke
stone. Happening to glance down upon
me. he caught my astonished glance,
which doubtless helped him to recog
nize me. The cavalcade passed on, and
I returned to my hotel.
That night I was trying vainly to
sleep, for I was troubled about being
recognized as a nihilist and been rec
ognized by him in the czar's suit, when
there was i knock on the door, and a
man entered.
"There is a midnight train for the
border," he said. "(Jet up and take
It "
In an hour I was on the train with
mv visitor, who saw me into another
country. CEDItCK A. I'AKKV.U.
I >l'<» |i |M*«I till' SubjOCl,
"Five thousand dollars for a dog!" he
exclaimed as lie l:iol;ed up from his
newspaper. I>o you believe any one
ever paid any such price, Maria?"
"I'm sure I don't know, James." she
returned without stopping her needle
work even for a moment. "Does the
paper say that much was paid?"
"Yes There's an article on valuable
dogs, and it speaks of one that was
sold for 1 don't believe it."
"It may be true, James," she said
tjuietly. "Some of these well bred ani
mals bring fancy prices, and there's no
particular reason why the paper should
lie about it."
"I know that, Maria. But just think
of it! Just try to grasp the magnitude
of that sum In your weak, feminine
mind. You don't seem to realize it
i ive thousand dollars for a dog! Why.
hang It, Maria, that's more than I'm
wort V"
"I know it, James, but some are
worth more than others."
She went calmly on with her sewing,
while he fumed and spluttered for a
moment and then dropped the subject,
esiM'ciully the weak, feminine mind
part of It. Exchange
AN INTERRUPTED SERMON.
I'rcnotiliiK I tuler l»illii'ultl«'» •« «»
I .iiKli*li < liur«-h.
In "A Treacher's Story of his Work,"
l>r. Itainsford tells ol' some strange in
terruptions be encountered while
preaching one ol' his earliest sermons
in the English cathedral town of Nor
wich.
Dr. Itainsford was in the middle of
his sermon when he chanced to look
down from the high pulpit to where
the members of the choir were seated
in a larpe boxlike pew, screened from
the congregation by a curtain. Much
to tli<' preacher's surprise, one of the
men in the clioir put his arm around a
girl, drew her head down on his shoul
der and then looked up at Dr. Itains
ford and winked.
The preacher stopped his sermon,
walked down out of the pulpit and
told the rector the members of the
choir were acting outrageously. The
rector walked up to the pew, drew
down the curtain with a jerk and ex
posed the spooning couple to the view
of the congregation.
Then Dr. Itainsford resumed his ser
mon. A minute later he chanced to
look down the main aisle, and there,
walking in solemn procession, were a
hen and a dozen chicks. To crown It
all, when the sexton tried to drive
them out lie was so drunk he fell right
011 top of the hen And then from his
place the old rector cried out:
"I/ot her alone, John; she is doing no
harm!"
A CtirfoviM Ferry.
Captain Ilauibro, while traveling
among the Ivazaks of Turkestan, dis
covered a curious way of taking a
heavily laden boat across a broad riv
er. The method consisted in piling up
the boat as full lis it would hold with
out sinking of all the persons and all
their baggage that it was desired to
take across. Then the boat was
launched. Then 1 were 110 oars and 110
sails. The motive power was supplied
by the horses, the cattle, the sheep and
the goats of the nomadic and pastoral
people swimming in front and along
side and so by degrees that were far
more slow than they were sure towing
the boat to the other side. 111 one in
stance which Captain Hambro men
tions the river that a party crossed In
this manner was 1!<XI yards wide.
SOMETHING NET!
A. Reliable
TIN SHOP
Tor all kind of Tin Roofing,
Spoutlne and Ceneral
Job Work.
Stoves, Heaters, Ranges,
Furnaces, eto.
PRICES THE LOWEST!
QUILITY TUG BEST!
JOHN HIXSON
NO. 116 E. FRONT BT.
J. J. BROWN,
THE EYE A SPECIALTY
Eyes tested, treated, fitted with glass
es strtiftciitl eyes supplied.
Market Street. Pa.
Hours—ld a. 111 to 5 ji. m.
! $50,000.00
I Cash Given Away to Users of
■LION COFFEE
ij W- 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 i\e
have always given our customers, but
In Addition to the Regular Free Premiums
the same Lion-Heads will entitle you to estimates in our $ 50,000.00 Grand wUUie
make some of our patrons rich men and women. You .can send in as many estimates as desire .
TWO GREAT CONTESTS
The first contest will be on the July 4th attendance at the St.
Vote For President to be cast Nov. 8, I'JO4. $t0,000.00 will be distributed in each of these contests. ma* g
$40,000.00 on the two. and.to make it still more interesting, in addition to this amount, we;wil\g;
■ r . ■ n • ~f 0C Ann nn to the one who is nearest correct on both
Grand First PriZ6 Of JO.UUUiUU contests, and thus your estimates have two
opportunities of winning a big cash prize.
Five Lion-Heads igT- VIE Pr ' nted blanks t0
cut from Lion M. t v °te on found ,n
Coffee Packages and a ;f every Lion Co,,ee Pack "
3 cent stamp ij" \|| °^ e " '^ C 2 cen * stam P
(in addition to the reg- IJ covers the expense of
ular " free premiums) our acknowledgment to
to' one vote in you that your es
elther contest: £NL. timate is recorded.
WORLD'S FAIR CONTEST PRESIDENTIAL VOTE CONTEST
What will be the total Julv 4th attendance at the St .Louis J'. h c * t n « e °9o4*°
World'* Fair? At Chicago. July 4. 1893. the attendance was 283.0Tf0r
For nearest correct estimates received in WoolsooSpice Com- weeded W office. Toledo. 0..
pany's office. Toledo, Ohio, on or before June 30th. 1904 we will rect t.■ 5 ]y(|< we will fftve first prize for the nearest cor-
Iftve first prize for the nearest correct estimate, second prize to the one second prize to the nezt nearest, etc..etc.. as follows:
nezt nearest, etc., etc., as follows: rect estimate sec $2,500.00
1 First Prize $2,500.00 1 First Prize ? 000.00
1 Second Prize 1.000.00 1 ® eco ° d P ,soo DO eacb 111111111 1 1000.00
2 Prises -5600.00 each 1 000.00 2 Prliei 1000.00 WO 1.000.00
5 Prizes- 200.00 } 'SSS RR ,n «!- 100 OO " 1.000.00
lO Prizes- 100.00 " 1 -000.00 10 Prlzet 100.00 §< i.000.00
20 Prizes- 60.00 " 1 000.00 20 Pr «" 00.00 .. •• 1,000.00
fiO Prizes— 20.00 " lO OO " . 2,600.00
2fiO Prizes— 10.00 ' g-fiOO.OO Prises lO.UO .. e,000.00
1800 Prizes— 8.00 0.000.00 1000 Prl»e» o.uu
2139 PRIZES, TOTAL, 120,000.00 2139
I 4279 —PRIZES —4279
Distributed to the Public—aggregating 545,000.00-ln » dd,,,on to * h,eh '*V
to Grocers' Clerks (see particulars In LION COFFEE caff) miking • M l * ** $50 t 000»0 ■
COMPLETE DETAILED PARTICULARS IN EVERY PACKAGE OF
LION COFFEE
WOOL SON SPICE CO., (CONTEST DEP'T.) TOLEDO, OHIO.
Our IlMultle Selvm.
In a form of experience which is al
most. as common as ordinary dreaming
wo see that t lio semisomnolent self
possesses a faculty not always given
to the waking self. Compared with my
own waking self, for instance, my half
usk-ep self Is almost a personality of
genius. He can create visionH that tins
Waking sell' can remember but cannot
originate and cannot trace to any mem
ory of waking impressions. These ap
parently trivial tilings tlms point to the
existence of ahnost wholly submerged
potentialities in a mind so everyday,
commonplace and, so to speak, super
ficial as mine.
How to Make ?rt <• u 111 * Ink.
Dissolve separately one ounce of ni
trate of silver with one ounce and a
half of good washing soda. Mix. th«
solutions and colic t and wash the pre
cipitate in a lilter. While still moist
rub It in up in u marble or stone mor
tar with three drams of tartaric acid.
Add two ounces of distilled water. Mi*
six drams of white sugar and ten
drums of powdered gum arable, half
an ounce of archil and enough water to
make up six ounces
The Home Paper
of Danville. |
Of course you read
JI 111 « ,
] THE HEOPLE'S I
KQPULAR
I A PER.
Everybody Reads It.
Published Every Morning Except
Sunday at
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No. ii E. Ma honing-St.
Subscription 6 cent* P w -r Week.
Tli«» Fretful Porcupine.
Irs the woods of Keewaydin there
once roaiiiod a very discontented por
cupine. lie was forever fretting, lie
complain**! that everything was wrong,
till it was perfectly scandalous, and
the Great Spirit, getting tired of his
grumbling, said:
"You and the world I have made
don't seem to tit. One or the other
must be wrong. It is easier to change
you. You don't like the trees, you are
unhappy on the ground and think ev
erything Is upside down, so I'll turn you
Inside out and put you in the water."
This was the origin of the shad.—
Kniest Thompson Set on In Century
A Match For Hlui.
At a political meeting in Wales the
chairman, a deacon of strong convic
tions, but no sense of humor, intro
duced a speaker thus: "I haff to Intro
duce to you tonight the member for
the Carnarvon boroughs. He hass
come here to reply to what the bishop
of St. Asaph said the other night about
Welsh disestablishment. In my opin
ion, gentlemen, that bishop of Asaph
iss one of the biggest liars In creashon;
but, thank goodness—yes, thank good
ness -we haff a match for him tonight"
Nothing has ever equalled it.
Nothing can ever surpass it.
Dr. King's
New Discovery
Fo r CiS^r^'i;, M
A Perfect For All Throat and
Cure: Lung Troubles.
Money back if it fails. Trial Bottle* free.
T ACKAWANNA RAILROAD.
U —BLOOMSBURO DIVISION
WEST.
A. M. A. H.A.M.fj
New York !v 200 .... 100U 141
P. M.
Scranton ~.ar 617 150
P. M.
Buffalo. IV 11 80 245
*. M.
Scranton ar 058 10 05
A. M. A. M. P. M. I'. M
Scranton Ivtbßs *lO 1U fl 66 •Bit
Bellevue
Taylor 844 10 17 208 044
Lackawanna 650 10 24 210 tt 60
Duryea 66S 10 28 2la «58
Pittston 658 10 88 217 657
Susquehanna Ave 701 10 87 2ID 650
WeNt Pittston 70a 10 41 223 702
Wyoming 710 10 46 227 7 Ir,
rortyKort 2 81
Bennett 717 10 52 284 7*14
Kingston ar 724 10 56 240 720
Wilkes-Barre ar 740 11 10 250 780
Wilkes-Barre 1» 710 10 40 280 TIU
Kingston lv 724 1056 240 720
Plymouth June
Plymouth 785 11 05 249 7 W
Nanticoke 748 11 18 258 787
Hunloek's 749 1119 806 748
HUlckshlnny.. J- 01 11 31 820 751
Hicks Kerry »11 111 48 830 WOB
Beach Haven Bid 1148 887 80V
Berwick 827 11 54 844 I
Briarcreek f8 32 f8 50 ....
Willow Grove f8 38 r« 54 tt *4
Lime Kldge 840 ri2U9 858 18 28
L«Py 846 12 15 406 884
Bloomsburg 858 12 22 412 84U
Ku pert 857 12 25 415 846
Catawlssa 902 12 82 422 86U
Danville 915 12 44 488 HOI
Cameron 924 fl2 67 443 . .
Northumber 'd ar 985 110 455 980
EAST.
A. M. A. M. P. M.P. M
Northumberl' »645 fIOOO tl 50 *62»
Cameron 657 1201 f6»4
Danville 707 10 19 211 641
Catawlssa 721 10 82 228 161
Hupert 726 10 87 229 801
Bloomsburg 733 10 41 253 806
Espy 738 IB 48 240 811
Lime Kldge 744 no 54 n4BfB 80
Willow Grove f7 48 f2 50
Briarcreek 7 62 f2 58 1 827
Berwick 75 7 11 06 258 fl SI
Beech Haven 805 fll 12 803 o<l
Hicks Ferry 811 fll 17 309 647
Shickshinny 822 11 31 820 fß6#
Hunloek's 838 881 f7 I*
Nanticoke 888 11 44 838 711
Avondale 841 542 728
Plymouth 845 1152 847 721
Plymouth June 847 .... 352 ...
Kingston ar 855 11 59 400 788
Wilkes-Barre ar 910 12 10 410 750
Wilkes Barre lv 840 tl 40 850 780
Kingston lv 855 11 59 400 7 M
Luzerne 858 al2 02 408 742
Forty Port f9 0C .... 407
Wyoming 905 12 08 412 7«*
WestPlttston 910 417 7il
Susquehanna Ave.... 918 12 14 420 7SI
Pittston 919 12 17 424 801
Duryea 923 429 801
Lackawanna 926 482 810
Taylor 932 440 817
Bellevue
Scranton ar 942 12 35 450 821
A.M. P.M. P. M
Scranton lv 10 25 11 55 .... lilt
A. M
Buffalo ar .... 755 ... 701
A. M. P. M P.M A.M
Scranton lv 10.10 12.40 {3 85 *2 16
P. M. P. M H.M A. M
New York ar 380 500 735 6 6C*
•Daily, tDally except Sunday.
CStops on signal or on notice to conductor
a Stops on signal to take on passengers lot
New York, Binghamton and points west.
T. K.CLARKE T. W. LEK.
(Jen. Superintendent. Hen. «■
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
TIME T&BLE
In Effect Nov. 2S)th, ltm.
A. M.I A.M.,P. M.
Scranton(DaiH)lv §0 88 tv 47 142 28
Pittston " " 7 05'f 10 15 §2 10 563
A.M.IP.M.F.M
Wilkesbarre,.. iv A. M. §lO 35 1245 it 00
Plyui'th Kerry "87 25'110 42; t2 52 ffl 07
Nanticoke " 732 10 !>o| 3010 17
Mocanauua .... " 742 11 o«'i 82n 637
Wapwallopen.. " 801 11 111 381 fl 47
Nescopeck ar 810 11 2(ij 842 700
A. M. A.M.
Pottsville lv 55n fll 55 '
llazleton "' 705 245£2 45
Tomhicken " 722 305 805
Kern Glen ..... " 721 315 315
Kock Glen " 7>5 822 822
Nescopeck .... ar 802 1
Catawlssa...... 4 00 4 00
~~ A~M~ ATM" P.M. P M
Nescopeck lv § 8 18;$11 2611 342;J 00
Creasv " 831 11 36 352 709
Espy Kerry... '■ f8 41 11 4tj f4 02 720
E. Bloomsburg " 847 11 50j 4 Oti 725 ......
Catawissa lv 856 11.57 , 4 la! 732
South Danville " 9 14 12 15 4 311 751
Sunbury ar 935 12 40 455 815
~M. P. M.|P. M IVM
Sunbury lv || tf 42 §l2 48 § 5 18j|9 53
Eewisburi'.... ar 10 13 145 i 548
Milton " lu 08 139 54410 14
Williamsport.. " 11 00 1 -411 61010 00
Lock Haven... " 11 59 -D. 737
Kenovo "i.V.M. 8 00! 830
Kane " * 25| ....
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Lock Haven..lv jl2 10 9 3 45 .
Bellefonte ....ar 105 i 444
Tyrone.. " 210 li 600 ...
Philipsburg " 5101 802
Clearfield.... " 654H 845
Pittsburg.... " 655 Hill 45
M
Sunbury lvi 950§1 59 it 10 118 31 ......
Hurrisburg.... arj 11 30 § 3 15 i 6 50 10 10
ip. M. P. M. P. M. A M
Philadelphia., ar Si 3 17 || 6 23 || 9 28 4 23j
Baltimore " § 3 11 !i 0 00 2 W 45 2 20
Washington ... 41 Si 4 'JOI, " 16 HO 55 ,S HOI
ATIVL P, M. ! I I
Sunbury lv §lO 00 § 2 15 !•••••!
Lt'wistowu .lc. ar 11 45 105 . | 1
Pittsburg •' 655 §1045 |
A.M. P.M.jp. M.l» Ml
Harrlsburg.... lv 11 46 II 6 20 || 7 20 «1105
P.M.; A M. A. m. A M
Uttsburg ar | 6 5511 150 || 1 50 5 30 !
|P. M. P M|A M AM .
PittsburiT IV 7 10 !M 00 300 18 00 ....
A.M A M| P M
HarrUburg.... ar 200 i 425 ill 25 (3 10
~P!M| A M
Pittsburg lv J v a S p M
Lrfjwistown jo. '• i : 7 3oj \ 3 00
Sunbury ar j 930 \4 60
r. 51., A M A M A M
Washington... lv 10 40 I 7 50 ;j 10 50
Baltimore " 11 00 | 440 840 11 4;>
Philadelphia... 11 40 j425 :l 8 :i0 ill 40
IA. M. A MjA. M. PMi .
llarrmburg.... lv! , 3 |7 55 :11 40 j8 25
Sunbury arjs 500j 886 108s 618 ••••
if. M. A MAM
Pittsburg lv :I2 45 I 3 00 j 8 00
Clearfield.... " 3:W »2J>
Philipsburg.. " 425 10 10
Tyrone " 700 58 10 12 ia ••••
Bellefonte.. " 816 932 125 ••••
Lock Haven ar 915 10 30 210 ••••
P. M. A M A M P M
Erie, ..lv 535
Kane, " 845 $6 00 ...... ""
Henovo " II 50 \ t> 40 10 30 jj I 18 ••••
Eock Haven.... " 12.38 7:*) II 25 |2 50 ••••
A.M. P M
Williamsport.. " 244 825 512 40 350
Milton •' 223 913 125 4:» •••
Lewisburg " »05 1 15 422 ••••
i Sunbury »r 339 v 45 164 605 ••••
A.M. A M P M p m
Sunbury lv S 6 45 | 9 55 ? 2 00 \ 6 25
Sduth Danville "1 7 11 10 17 221 550
Oatawlssa " 7M 10 86 23K 808
E BU«tmsburg.. 41 737 10 43 243 0 liV**"
Espy Kerry...." 742 110 47 ffl 10
t'reasy " 752 10 58 2 :vi 630
Nescopeck " 802 11 05 305 fl 401 ••••
TM Tlil I'. M. P M '
Catawissa lv 10 38 .1
Nescopeck lv 823 .... 5505 J 7 051 ••••
Kock Ulen ar 11 22 7 28 ••••
Kern (Hen " 851 11 28 5.82 734 ••••
Toiuliicken " 858 II 881 588 T42 ••••
II u/lei on " 9 1!' 11 57 55# 806 ••••
Pottsville " 10 15] 1 50 855 j ;;;.
A M A M F Ml F M
Nescopeck lv ; 8 02 ;11 "6 •; 3 0 > j fl 111 ••••
Wapwallopen..ar 8 li 1 11 20 320 662 ••••
Moranaiiua .... " 831 1132 330 , 701 ••••
Nanticoke "| 8 ■>) 11 54 349 i 7 19 ■•••
F Ml !
Plyui'th Kerry'lf #O2 la 02 3 57,17 28 ••••
Wllksbarte ..." 910 12 1«» 4 0,5 785 ••••
AW P 51 P MP M
Pittston*DAH) arc 939 12 29 j4 Wi 8„. ....
Scranton " ' li 10 08 108 521 w ....
t Weekdays. I Daily. t Klag station.
Pullman Parlor Sleeping Cars ruu ot
through trains between Surbury, Williamsport
iin.l lOrie between Sunbnry an>l PhlladelpUia
ami Washington and between Harrisburg, Pitts
burg and the West.
Kor lorther information apply to Tickel Ageuts
W. W. ATTKKItI BY, J. K. WOOD
Uen'l Manauer. Pass. Trultlc Mgr.
liKii. W B<D. Oen'l Passenger Agent