j LEFT j j CHA'RGE j 1 'By fh{! Hry ce 2 Copvrtaht, 1903, fry T. C. Moflure I "Now, Sadie," Raid Aunt Deborah Warner to her niece, who had come down from Chicago to pass a mouth at the old farmhouse, "I've pot to drlvo to town this afternoon to sign some law papers. You'll be left nil alone In charge for three or four hours. Do you think you'll be seared ?" "What will there be to scare me?" asked the girl of twenty, who was swinging in a hammock. "Why, nothing at all. If a tin ped dler comes along want to shako your bend before he has time to pet down from his wagon. If a tramp stops and opens the pate you must look as fierce as you can nrul motion him to pass on. If you see a mad dog you will run into the house of course, and If a robber tries to enter you just stand right up to him and tell him you've got a loaded gun in the house and know how to shoot." "But is there a loaded pun?" asked fiadie ns she slightly shivered at the thought. "I guess thnt old gun behind the closet door in my bedroom has been loaded for the last ten years. Uncle Ellsha kept it loaded for owls before he died. Don't shoot a robber unless he comes to rob and can't be persuad ed otherwise, and then shoot nt his legs and give him a chance to live and reform." "But I must shoot If he refuses to gt> away?" "You must. You must point the gun In hl.s direction and shut your eyes, and don't faint away when you hear the report." Half nn hour after Aunt Deborah's departure a tin peddler drove up to the gate, but before he had hardly halted his rig Miss Sadie was shaking her head at the rate of forty shakes a minute. He called out that he had added mouse traps and washboards : "AUK YOU A BOTWEB OB ONLY A COMMOW MAN?" LNyUIBED TIIK OIRL. I to his regular stock, but forty more shakes discouraged him into passing on. Twenty minutes later she heard the latch of the gate suddenly click, and she dumped herself out of the ham mock to find a first class specimen of the Weary Willie advancing up the path. She motioned ns Aunt Deborah 1 had told her to. She motioned with both hands at once, but the tramp paid no attention. He was within five feet j of her when slio cried out: "Stop where you are!" "That's better," he said as he came to a halt. "I took it from your flinging your arms about that you had St. Vitus dance. Any cold wlttles which want •atin' up?" "Sir," commanded Sadie as she drew herself up, "I want you to understand ' that I have a gun!" "Just so, little one." "And it's loaded." "Persaetly. A gun Is as harniless as • rag doll when It Isn't loaded. I'd like to change places with the gun for an hour or two." "If you do not at once go away," con tinued Sadie In trembling tones, "I shall be under the painful necessity of •hooting you." "By ginger, but what a heroine!" : laughed the tramp. He understood the situation. He Unew that she was alone and ready to be scured Into a flt, but was making a brave bluff against her womanly weakness. There was a strain of chiv alry In his composition. Stepping back and lifting his greasy old cap off his ' tousled hair he bowed and said: "Fair miss. please observe that I gracefully retire and give you the vic tory." When he had disappeared down the roud Miss Sadie congratulated herself on her nerve and sat down on the steps of the vernndi* to look for a mad dog Aunt I>ef*>rnli had said a mad dog would come next. There was a ■Up Home where, however, for It was a robber that showed up about forty min utes after the tramp's broad back hud become only a dot against the sky line. The robber came from the west, walk ing In the middle of the highway. As he reached the bam, a few rods below the house, he turned In and was quick ly lost to sight. Sndlo waited with beating heart for ten minutes to see if he Intended to advance upon the house from the barn and take her by sur prise, but as ilme went on she made uj her mind that he had come to steal hay or straw Instead of household effects. He must be driven away Just the same, and she was the only one to drive him. Aunt I>«borah depend*-d upon her. It was unother ten minutes before the girl could work up courage enough togo in after the old shotgun and drag it forth by Its muzzle, Itut once armed site felt braver and made her way HIOIIR the oath to the barn, whose doors stood wide open to the summor wind and sunshine. She approached them cautiously, fearing that the stranger was in ambush and ready to spring forth. Itut as she finally stood and looked Into the barn she was con siderably relieved to find the man ly ing at full length on a scant bed of hay. Itoblters do not generally take a daylight nap before robbing, and, though the man looked wayworn and Somewhat disreputable, his face as far as she could see it was not evil look ing. I'erhnp.4 he was not a robber. "Are you you a robber or only a common man':" Inquired the girl nt last as she hugged the shotgun. The man sat up and smiled in a sick ly way an.l looked around with a l»e --wikiei.*d ai?\ and it was a minute t>e fore he vaguely replied: "I guess I'm only a common man, but I want to rest, and I'm so tired, and I feel"— "It will be my duty to shoot you, you know, If you don't move on." "Yes? Well, I don't care much." "But I'll only shoot you In the legs and thus give you a chance to reform. Do you think you could reform after being shot in the legs?" "I—l dunno, but I'll try my hardest," said the trespasser ns he struggled to his feet. "However, I think I'd rather have a doctor than a dose of blrdshot. Is your—your father—or any one else— about—about" — Ho lurched and staggered and col- Inpsed, and Sadie let the gun fall to thfi floor and bent over him. It wasn't a minute before she discovered that he was burning with fever and shaking with a clilll at the same time, and nil further thoughts of robbers and shoot ing were driven from her head. She brought him water and later on stopped a farmer driving by and got help to move the stranger to the house and put him to bed. "He's n;> tramp," said the country doctor who was called In. "He's some college fellow probably, with a rich d.vl behind him, who's been making a walking tour. He probably got soaked in th.it taunderstorm yes terday, and he'll be in bed for four or five days as a result. Here's your little romance, and If you don't make the best of It you're a queer girl." That Miss Sadie Davis was not n queer girl and that she did make the best of It was proved a year later. The diagnosis of the doctor was correct, nntl the tourist with the rich dad wan taken Into the house ns a summer boi-.rler. Ho took advantage of clr cum [unc i to woo and win and take onto himself a wife and to preserve the ol 1 shotgun as a souvenir of theli Impi-ovliiK a ( Unr t>> Pattlnif It Out. Lighting a new Havana, a downtown professional man, after taking a few whiffs, blew Into his cigar and forced a lot of smoke out of the flery end. Then he inld it aside and permitted the spark to die out. When asked for an explanation he said: "Well. I learned that habit some years ago, and I find that a cigar which has been lighted and then al lowed togo out makes a much better smoke. I take several vigorous draws In order to bring the heat well through the weed. If a cigar becomes cold while It Is snturated with smoke It hus a musty odor; consequently it Is neces sary to blow steadily and quite hard before extinguishing the spark In order to clear out all the smoke that has been drawn In between the layers of tobacco. After permitting the cigar to lie ten or fifteen minutes or even n half hour I find on relighting It that the flavor has greatly Improved. The why and wherefore I am not philo sophical enough to explain, but I know it makes a cigar better. It also Im proves a toby. Try it and you'll agree with me."—Pittsburg Dispatch. IVaalrufarta oil Man. In his first novel, "Vivian Grey," written almost in boyhood, Disraeli writes: "The disappointment of man hood succeeds to the delusion of youth. Let us hope that the heritage of old age Is not despair." While he writes thus In youth, with all the world be fore him, In his maturity he says In his finest novel, "Conlngsby," "Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret" What has been called the most ex quisite expression of pessimism la that of Sir William Temple, "When all Is done humnn life Is at the greatest and the best, but like n froward child that must be played with and humored a little to keep It quiet till It falls asleep, and then the care is over." Leopardl, the Italian essayist, says, "Our dvellest pleasures spring from il lusions; hence It is that, while children find everything In nothing, men find nothing lu everything." The Air We Breathe, In the morning when a broad beam of sunshine pours through the window of your sleeping apartment you seo countless tiny particles floating along the path of the sunlight, but the air of the remainder of the room seems en tirely clear and pure. Ib it? Not ut all. There is Just as much dust in the air outside that stream of light as there is In it, but it Is not visible. So the disease germs In the form of Impalpa ble dust are floating about us often when we are unconscious of their pres ence. Our vitality may be strong enough to render them innocuous or it may not. If It is, we retain our health; if it is not, we are attacked with ty phoid or diphtheria or some oth»*r mal ady communicated In that way.—Roch ester Democrat and Chronicle. Doctor and Dtlb( Patient. In an address before the American Medical association an eminent physi cian, speaking on the question, "Shall a Physician Tell a Patient He Is Going to I >le," said: "The truth In not always so alarming to the patient, painful as It often Is to the physician. In fact. It seems to me this Is one part of our duties that does not become less trying with Increasing experience. To the sick man whose thoughts have been turned toward the end longer than others suspect, Intima tion of a fatal end often brings no shock, but rather relief from the end ing of a painful uncertainty. Accord ing to the rulers of the Roman Catholic church a timely announcement should always be given, and those who have witnessed the last days of members of this faith can confirm the statement that good often follows, speaking merely from a medical standpoint, and rarely harm, while the same thing Is true of many of other faiths or of no faith. Even where we have to give a fatal prognosis there are certain mollifying influences that can be Introduced, aside from those that spring from a tender heart. A hope can be expressed based on the fallibility of human knowledge In general and medical knowledge In particular." The Important Comma. A Philadelphia business man thinks he hart an exceedingly bright office boy, and nothing pleases him better, says the Philadelphia Telegraph, than to tell how he acquired the youngster's wrvlces. A short time ago ho posted In his shop window a notice which read as follows: "Hoy wanted about four tc< n years." A lad of that age, with 111 tie that was prepossessing In his ap pearance, enme Into the office and stated that lie had read the notice. "Well, do you think you would like to have the position, my boy?" asked the merchant, gazing patronizingly over the rims of his spectacles at the unabashed youth. "Yes," came the prompt answer, "I want the Job, but I don't know that I can promise to keep It for the full fourteen years." Then the merchant remembered that lie had left out a comma on his sign, but he told the boy he might have the position. Ti'AS THAT ARI: WORTH FORTUNES Twelve Hundred Kinds Are In China's Show at the World's Fair—The Most Populous Nation oi the World For the First Time Makes an Exhibit Worthy of her (Ireatness. Many expositions of stupendous char acter make up the World's I-'alr of 11)04. Each part Is a vast and distinct ■how. Each building shelters many acres of wonderful things wonderful because they are the choicest of their kind. Every nation on the globe Is represented. Every state and territory is here with its best and making the most of its greatest opportunity. The fuct that China has not been a large exhibitor at world's fairs gives to her great exhibit here a prominence quite exceptional. It is a wonderland of ingenious productions. We know China best by reason of her extensive exports of teas, which have found a vust market In the United States for generations. Her commercial interests therefore prompted her to make n dis play of teas that we should not for get. In sealed glass Jars China displays In the Liberal Arts Palace some 1,200 kinds of tea. Young Ilyson and Old Ilyson have a string of tea relations longer than the genealogical chain of a Plymouth Rock. They are neatly se lected "chops," in tin* language of the tea farmer, and these classes do not embrace medicinal tens, which are quite another lot in the rather modest number of 400. The teas exhibited vary in price from a few cents a pound to some rare and exclusive kinds that are worth their weight In gold, the tea in the latter cases being placed on one side of the scales and pure gold on the other— thnt is to say, tho tea of this expensive kind is worth about gold an ounce. Only a very small quantity of this ex clusive leaf is exhibited, and it is grown In carefully guarded tea planta tions or gardens right under the shad ows of the great wall of China. Its cul tivation is prohibited for any use save for the imperial family of China and a few of the favored high officials. Mention has been made of the word "chop" in connection with tea, and it may be Interesting to the everyday reader to know what the word actually signifies. The tea leaf is grown in va rious districts of the Chinese empire on NORTH ENTRANCE PALACE OF MINES AND MKTALLCBOY, WOHLI/B FAIR large ureas of ground which are often mistaken for single plantations. This is hardly ever the case, as tho large tracts are very often owned by hun dreds of different men, whose individ ual plots of ground bearing the tea plants are carefully mapped out, so that each individual owner may culti vate and pick his own crop of tea. Each owner likewise markets his own tea and puts his own special mark, or "chop," on the packages. Hence tho term "chop" signifies an Individual growth or picking of tea by one owner. In nn area of tea land of, say, a thou sands acres, all apparently under one ownership, there may be some forty, fifty or more owners of the plantation and consequently a like number of "chops" of tea. It must not be imagined that all these different owners of the tea get the same price for their commodity—far from it, as each of these Individual tea growers has his own secrets for im proving the quality and flavor of tea. Take, for instance, the Amoy and Fu chau districts, whence most of the tea for the United States comes The own ers of "chops" of tea varying from 10 to 200 chests of 50 pounds each bring samples of their goods to the variona foreign merchants for sale. These lat ter turn the Chinese tea growers over to the good otflces of the foreign or American professional tea taster, who passes on the goods as to price. The tea taster has the samples Infused, not boiled, in ids presence aiuT passes upon the quality, flavor, twang and manner of curing, fixing a price accordingly, from which there is never any varia tion and which the tea grower must ac cept or go elsewhere to dispose of his wares. In a single tract of tea land like the one cited above the price has ranged from 14 cents, the lowest, to cents, the highest, per pound among sixty-one different tea produ cers. A matter of great moment that also figures in the price of tea is thnt very often tea from the same dis trict will have the various "chops" blended together in order to produce special flavors. Not Worth the Monrj'. A tall woman with a determined ex pression and surrounded by six chil dren of assorted si/.es approached the attendant of the menagerie and eyed him with a relentless gaze. "What nationality is that elephant?" she inquired, indicating one close at band. "Comes from Africa, ma'am," said the attendant. "He's dreadful light colored to have come from tropical parts," Bald the woman sternly. "And look here," she added as the attendant started away from her family group; "they've got a mighty i>oor lot of camels here, accord ing to my lights. Not but one hump on any of 'em except that feller that's so old he keeps his eyes shut." The attendant again essayed to de part, but she clutched him by the sleeve. "You tell the owners of this show what I say," she commanded. "You tell 'em that when a woman pays 50 cents for herself and one-fifty for a mess of children she looks to see more'n one double bumper and more hair on the single humpers, not have 'em look 'eui. Now, mind you tell 'em." ff -«l [JESS Hy Martha McCutloch- USilliamj CwurUjht. 1003, I>U T. C. McClure —4* Jess was churning down at the spring house and Hinging like a lark the while. Her pink calico frock was turned up high in front, so high her feet were plainly visible —pretty feet enough. In spite of the scuffed shoes, smallish, well arched and light step ping, to say nothing of the slender ankles above them. The ankles match ed taper wrists, but gave no hint of the dimple swelling arms revealed by sleeves rolled halfway to the shoulder. Big, soft, new leufago flung down variable shadows on her bare head. She kept the dasher moving merrily, now and again patting one foot In time to it. Her voice, if untrained, was clear and not too loud altogether, tho man coming down tho creeksido In high wading boots, with a rod in his hand, a creel slung from his shoulder, would have been Justified in finding himself glad of her presence. He was distinctly not glad —cur mudgeonly fellowl He had been whip ping the stream for trout since sunrise with no luck at all. All his hope was centered upon tho cool, deep hole Just below the spring house. He knew the stream of old, and that particular reach of It had never yet failed to give him good sport. Why must tills crea ture go spoil his chances with her idiot ic trilling? Fish had sensitive ears he was certain of it. Nothing would rise to tho most tempting lure after ench affronting of the auricular sense. "George, I wish she was in—Halifax!" he said to himself as he prepared, rath er hopelessly, for a cast. He had hard ly looked toward the singer -besides Robin Adlar, with an accompaniment of whlshing, buttermilk rather got on his nerves. As the Bong kept up ho called over his shoulder, In anything but an amiable voice: "Madam, I will pay you double price for the butter you are churning if yon will go away until afternoon and lot me fish In peace." "Indeed you won't?" Jess retorted, with tho least toss of the head. " 'Tend to your own business, Mr. Fisherman. I promise you I'll 'tend strictly to mine. Buy my butter, Indeed! Sap pose I don't want to sell It? And I don't. It's going into cake for the pic nic tomorrow." Tho fisherman, Allan Beckley by nnme, scowled at his Image In tho wa ter and swore—under his breath. Ho knew landmarks and land lines there about—this noisy girl must belong to tho people who had bought bis uncle's place. Vaguely ho recalled tho name— Wilmot. Wllmot possessions came right down to the water's edge, albeit tho stream proper belonged to old Squire Bass, from whom he bad leased exclusive fishing privilege. The churn er was clearly upon her own ground, therefore unassailable. In high bad humor he splashed across the pool head and sent his fly spinning out In a tremendous cast from the opposite bank, although by all rules of angling the place was hopeless. It must have been a day for the traversing of art and rule. The fiy was hardly settled before, with a vig orous upswlrllng rush, a monster trout took it. For the next ten minutes Al lan Beckley was conscious of nothing but his quarry. The quarry was game and wary as ever rose to a fly. Up, down, athwart stream he darted, div ing, plunging, now and again leaping clear of the water, coming with such a rush bankward tho singing reel could not take up the slack, wheeling to bore headfirst against the rocky bottom so strongly the pliant rod tip bent almost double. The fisherman stood Just be low a high shelving bank. He would have plunged In the water but that there was no go<nl foothold. Cautious ly, with nice Judgment and sportsman skill, he played his catch. It was one to rejoice In the giant of all trout In Clear creek. Five pounds at the very least. Idly he began to speculate If it might not be the same wily fellow who had so often outwitted hiin whrn ho was a native stripling. Ills ill humor evaporated magically. He was at peace with himself and the world. The trout was weakening. Though he still fought gamely, the rushes were less electric. In five minutes more—in three—ln one—with a long steady pressure he drew the fighting creature to the bank, shifted his rod deftly and made to slip the landing net under neath. And then—and then! Some thing gave way under and behind him. With a huge splash he went down Into four feet of water, with a ton of loosened rock at his back, no flung out his arms to save himself. The trout, as the line slacked, dashed madly away and went to the bottom upon the farther side. But he could not break looso the hook nor Instantly chafe the line in two against the bot tom. There was 6tlll a bare chance of him. Beckley, bruised and shaken though he was, trhfl to turn about, snatch his rod and fight the battle to the bitter end. He could not do it. Somehow tho falling rocks had Jammed his feet Into a crevice of the bottom, beyond his power to pull them out. He tug ged and strained and swore, this time audibly, for some minutes. Ho was not in the least hurt. Ills feet had room a-plenty In their rocky channel, but he could not get them out until the stone was moved from over It. He had forgotten the girl, singing and churning at the spring house, but re membered her now, noting both sounds had ceased. ll© was on the point of colling to her when he caught a flash of pink on the farther bank and heard her say with saarkilm* malice: "How 1:0 you like it, gettln' caught yourself .' Ain't ;.ou ready to cry quits with the big trout?" "How do you know I caught him?" Beckley retorted. The girl shrugged her shoulders the least bit. "I watch ed you—to wish you bad luck you were so rude," she said. And as she said It he noted that neither accent nor intonation was rustic. He looked at her appeallngly. "I was rude —a perfect brute," he said. "Do please forgive me and go fetch somebody to help me out of this." "I'll help you out myself on two conditions," Jess said. dimpling beau tifully. Beckley bowed meekly. "Only name them," he said. "The first Is cut your line," Jess retorted promptly. "The Mg trout is a friend of mine. I've fed him now and again ever since we came In re." "Henceforth he Is sacred," Beckley said, slashli.g his line and tossing the rod away. "Now for condition sec ond." "You shall hear that when you're out of the woods and water," Jess an s\v< red, dimpling again. In a whiff she had to run to a foot log a little way up stream, crossed It and was beside Berkley, a stout fence stake In her hand. "<.'et a good purchase with it and push the rock down stream," she commanded. "The current will help you if It is slow here in the pool. Now! j All together! There, it's over. You can come out or stay in, as you choose, i lie careful, though, if you stand on thlsi side to fish the bluff is all honey combed with water veins since last j winter. The next landslip may be; heavy enough to bury you." "There will be no next landslip with me around," Beckley said, scrambling out. "I ought to have known better j without telling. You see, I grew up; less than three miles from where we stand. So I have guessed your name, j Miss Wilmot, do please accept my' thanks, my humblest apologies. I be lieve, too, you said something about a condition. I am waiting very irnpa-j tlently to hear It." "It's horribly hard for a man who ! likes to fish," Jess said, her eyes danc- j lng. "Because it is this, you must go! to our picnic and be, oh, wonderfully civil to us country folk!" "I shall be more than civil, abject, j to some among tho country folk," Beckley said, holding out his hand. Jess laid her pink palm, slightly hard ened by steady churning, in his clasp and said gayly, "If you try to run j away from your bargain you'll take along all the bad luck I wished you." »»••••• Allen Beckley did not run away. In fact, he was the life of the picnic. ! And. strange to relate, he lost interest In fishing, although he stayed in his home county a matter of six weeks. He did not leave it indeed until he was able to take a wlfo away with him. Her first name Is Jess, and she Is proud to tell that she can make beautl-1 ful butter. No (nfftc or Dmnrrt In Jnpnn. Coffee is not popular in Japan. When guests arrive for a dinner party they are received in an anteroom and im mediately served with tea and cakes before entering the banquet hall. The cups In which the tea is served are very small and of the finest procelain. They have no handles, but are passed on metal trays, which take the form of a leaf. The tea Is brewed directly In the little cups and served without BUgar or cream. Dessert, so dear to the occidental housewife, is also un known in Japan. At informal dinners rice forms the Inst course. It would be a breach of etiquette to serve the little cakes which come before dinner with the tea during this final course. 1U M! A Rellatolo TIN SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing; Spoutlne and Ceneral Jol» Work. Stoves, Heaters, Ranges, Furnaces, eto. 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For nearest correct esti en. our acknowledgment «o you U that your estimate is recorded, November s > 1904 - we wi!l S ive first You can send as many estU P riz « for the , n f* rest C ?"' C JL J liBF second prize to the next nearest, etc., mates as desired. etc., as follows: Grand First Prize of $5,000.00 | 1 am?.. v.v.v/.v.v.-.v.v. *?:S88:881 will be awarded to the one who Is nearest 5 Prizes— 200.00 " 1,000.00 _ . IO Prises— 100.00 " 1,000.00 correct on both our World's Fair and Presl* 20 Prizes— 60.00 " 1, 000.00 60 Prises— 20 00 " 1.000.00 dentiai Vote Contests. 250 Prizes— 10.00 '• 2.500.00 1800 Prizes— 5.00 " 9.000.00 We also offer «S,OOO 00 Special Cash Prizes to Grocers' —39 PRIZES, TOTAL. 120.000.00 Clerks. (Particulars in each case of Lion Coffee.) , i How Would Your Name Look on On© of These Checks ? Everybody uses coffee. If you will use LI OS COFFEE long enough to pet acquainted with it. you will be suited and convinced there is no other such value for the money. '1 hen you will take no other—and that s why we advertise. And Te are using our advertising money so that both of us—you as well as we—will get a benefit. Hence for your Liou Heads WE GIVE BOTH FREE PREMIUMS AND CASH PRIZEB Complete Detailed Particulars in Every Package of LION COFFEE • WOOLSON SPICE CO., (CONTEST DEP'T.) TOLEDO, OHIO. I.etvcs and Color*. Bright colors assumed by maples, ; sumacs and ampelopsis during tho uu tumn months are the result of the oxi dizing of the color compounds, or color generators, of the leaf cells. Ixing pro tracted cool weather is most favorable j to the production of autumn tints, and ! slight frosts that are not severe enough [ to kill the cells hasten the display of j beauty by producing an enzyme that ; brings forth the bright purples, oranges ' and reds. Leaves containing much j tannic acid never give bright autumn | tints, while those containing sugar give the very prettiest. it >'• I pray you, O excellent wife, cumber I not yourself and me to get a curiously rich dinner for the man and woman who have just alighted at our gate! • • • These things, If they of them, they can get for a few shil lings at any village Inn. But rather let that stranger see, if he will. In your looks, accents and behavior, your heart and earnestness, your thought and will, that which he cannot buy at any price in any city and which he may travel miles and dine sparely and Bleep hardly to behold.— Emerson. The Home Paper 1 i of Danville. Of course you read i iii«. |, I ™ i KQPULAR I A PER. Everybody Reads It. I / Published Every Morning Except Sunday at i No. ii E.MahoningSt. Subscription 6 cents Per Week. The Hook Inn Chair In the Dark. Although tho name of the man who invented the American rocking ebalr has been lost to us in the mists of time, it is considered highly probable that new arrivals on registering in the here after will be able to see It emblazoned on the scroll of fame In letters of brim stone and surrounded by an asbestus wreath of laurel. This Is the view shared by all who have encountered an American rocking chair in the dark. A rocking chair may be the Instrument whereby weary persons attain comfort; It may be the Joy of the flippant youth and the solace of blase ago In the day time or when the gas Is burning, but by some miraculous agency It changes its nature completely when darkness falls, becoming an Instrument where by the ruler of evil recruits his corps of coal shoveling imps. No longer, when night falls, It Is a padded bit of furniture. It Is composed wholly of rockers, and the rockers ure composed entirely of sharp ends which fly forth and strike the shin for choice with devilish accuracy of aim. This Is one of the wonders of modern life which eo far is Inexplicable.—Ban Antonio (Tex.) Express. Nothing has ever equalled it. Nothing can ever surpass it. Dr. King's New Discovery A Perfect For All Throat and Cure: Lung Troubles. Money back if it fails. Trial Bottle* free. T ACKAWANNA RAILROAD. U -BLOOMSBURG DIVISION WKBT. A.M. A. M. A. M. P. tt. New Yorfc ,|v 200 .... 10 (JO 14 Scranton ar 617 ... i 5(1 P. M. Buffalo Iv 11 8(J 245 .... ... V M. Scranton... ar 558 10 U5 M. A. M. p. M. P. * Scran ton lv 16 85 *lO 10 fl 56 •« » Bellevue Taylor 644 10 17 £OB 8« Lackawanna 650 10 24 210 8(x Duryea 66H 10 28 al3 63 1 Pitts ton 658 10 88 217 8 5 (Susquehanna Ave 701 1087 210 «6i West Plttston 705 10<1 228 70; Wyoming.... 710 1046 227 7 tr. Forty Fort 2 81 Bennett 717 10 52 284 71, Kingston ar 724 10 56 240 7 ill Wlikes-Kurre ar 710 11 10 250 7 8 Wllkes-Barre lv 71" 10 40 280 71 Kingston lv 724 10 56 240 7JC Plymouth June Plymouth 785 11 05 240 7 Nanticoke 748 11 18 258 7 Huniock's 740 11 10 806 741 Shlckshinny 801 1131 820 7 N Hicks Ferry 811 HI 48 830 f8 01 Beach Haven 810 1! 4* 887 80' Berwick 827 11 5j 844 I Brlarereek fBB2 18 50 ... Willow Grove 18 38 f8 54 11 >• Lime Ridge 840 11200 858 Espy 846 12 15 406 881 Bloomsburg 858 12 22 4J2 g«< ttupert 857 12 25 415 841 Catawissa 002 12 82 422 Hi) Danville 1' 15 12 44 488 8 Cameron U24 112 67 448 ". Northumber'd ar »85 110 455 8 . FAST. A. M. A. M. P. M. P. * Is'ort hum Deri'.. "6 45 tIOOO f160*6 2l Cameron K 57 f2 01'^»« Danville 707 10 It) 21i 841 Catawlssa 721 10 82 228 I(I Kupert 726 10 87 220 801 Bloomsburg 733 10 41 288 Bill Kspy 788 10 48 240 Bli Lime Hldge 744 flo 54 f2 46 18 2' Willow Grove.. 17 48 12 50 .... Brlarcreek 7 62 12 58 t 8i Berwick 75 7 11 05 258 8 4 Beech Haven 805 fll 12 803 (4 Hicks Ferry..., 811 111 17 800 8 4', Hhlckshlnny 822 1181 12U 18 61 Hunlock's 838 881 f7 l» Nanticoke 888 11 44 838 71» Avondale 641 842 721 Plymouth 845 1152 847 7<> Plymouth June 847 .... 852 .. Kingston ar 855 11 50 400 7St Wllkes-Barre ar 010 12 10 410 7 W Wilkes Barre lv 840 11 40 850 784 Kingston lv 855 11 50 400 7 8 Luzerne 858 al2 02 408 7 4 Forty Fort 10 00 ..... 407 ..... Wyoming 005 12 08 412 7«t West Plttston 010 417 li Susquehanna Ave.... 818 12 14 420 71 Pittston 010 12 17 424 BUI Duryea H2B 429 ID) Lackawanna 026 482 811 Taylor 082 440 81' Bellevue Scranton ....ar 942 12 86 450 bll AM P M i* M Scranton lv io 25 fl 55 .... lilt A. M Buffalo ... ar .... 755 70s A. M. P. M P.M A.M Scranton lv 10.10 12.40 J8 85 *2 01 P.M. P.M P.M A. M New York ar 830 500 735 861 •Dally, fDally except Sunday. fStops on signal or on notice to conductor a Stops on signal to take on passengers io - New York, Blnghamton and points west. T. F..CLAKKK T. W. LKK. Uen. Superintendent. Gen. 4' PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, TIME TABLE In Effect Nov. 29th, 1903. A. M.iA.M.,P. M. Scranton(Dis.H)lv §6f s- 47 liti< 28 Pittston " " 705* 112 10 15' §2 10 568 A.M. P.MjP.M Wiikesbarre,.. lv A. M. §lO 35 3 2 45 it 00 Plym'th Ferry " i 725 flO 42 1252 ft 07 Nanticoke " 732 10 :VJ 301 617 Mocanauua .... " 742 11 07 :8 2q 637 Wapwallopen.. " 801 11 1«! 381 847 Nescopeck ar BJO 11 342 700 A.M. A.M. Pottsville lv 550 611 55 ' _ Hazleton *' 705 ...... 245 45 Tomhicken "I 7 22 3 05 8 06 ...... Fern Glen " 724 815 815 Kock Glen " 7! 5 322 822 ...... Nescopeck .... ar 802 1 Catawissa ...... 400 400 _ . . A7M A.W P.M. PM~ Nescopeck lv 58 18 (ill 26 |8 42 00 Creasy " 831 11 361 352 700 Espy Ferry... '• t8 4: 11 46 f402, 790 E. Bloomsburg " 847 11 50 4 00j 725 Carnwiffa lv 856 11.157 413 J32 ...... South Danville " 0 14 12 15 4 31; 751 Sunbury ar 035 12 40j 4 55, 815 A.M. P.M. P. M p.M Sunbury lv'|| 842 §l2 48,§ 5 18, j# 53 Lewisburg.... ar 10 18 145 548 Milton " 10 OK 189 54110 14 Williamsport.. " 11 00 141 64010 00 Lock Haven... " 11 69 220 7 37< Kenovo "A.M. 800 H 80! Kane " 8 25 j P.M.I Lock Haven..lv gl2 10 3 8 45' . . Bellefonte ....ar 10511 444 Tyrone " 2108 600 Phllipsburg " 510| 802 Clearfield.... " 654S 845 Pittsburg.... " 655H0 45 _ A.M. P. M. P. M. P M Sunbury lv' 9 60 § 1 59 I 5 10 (S 31 Harrlsburg.... arjll 30 § 3 15 1 6 50 !0 10 p. M. P. M. P. M. A M ~ Phllaiielphla.. ar § 3 17 !| 8 23 || 9 28 j4 23; Baltimore "i§ 3 11 t| 8 00 i 9 4.> 2 20] Washington... "|§ 4 20 |, 7 15 jlO 55 8 30|.....„ "iajSL P.M. Sunbury lv §lO 00 § 2 15 Lewistown ,Ic. ar 11 45 4 05j I Pittsburg "j 6 55,§10 451 i ~ A.M . P,M P. M. P M Harrlsburg.... lv 11 46 II 6 20 || 7 20 glio.* P. M. A M. A. M. A M Pittsburg ar 1 6 55|H 160 || 1 50; 5 80| P. M. P M A M A M Pittsburg lv ! 7 10 112 9 00 | 8 00 18 00 .... A.M AM P M Harrlsburg.... ar | 2 00 | 4 25 |ll 25 | 3 10 .. KM A Mi Pittsburg lv 9 00 '■ 8 00 .... A.M. P M Lewistown Jj. " 7 30 j< 300 Sunbury ar i 0 30 \ 4 60,*..,. P. M. A MA M AM Washington... lv jltl 40 1 |< 750 1 10 5o Baltimore " 1100 ! 4 40' 8 40 11 45; Philadelphia... » ,11 40|i 4 25U 830 jll 40; A. M.| A Hi A. M. P II Harrlsburg.... lv , 3 35;| 7 55 jll 40 ? 8 2.) Sunbury ar jSOOJ 886 108j 618 | P. M. A M A M Pittsburg lv ;I2 46 I 8 00 \ 8 00 Clearfield.... " ' 8 :t0 920 •"* Phllipsburg.. " 425 10 10 Tyrone " 700 B8 10 12 25 Bellefonte.. " 816 982 125 Lock Haven ar 915 10 80 210 P. M. A M A M P M Erie, IT | 5 85 ; Kane " 845 g6 00 ...... Kenovo " 11 50 « 6 401 10 80i§ 1 18 1 Lock Haven.... " 12 88; 7 30j U 25U 250 "" I A.M 1' M Wllllaniß|>ort .. " 244 825 :12 40 860 ' Milton •' 2*; yll *'•' 4:« •" Lewisburg " 8 05, 1 15 422 Sunbury ai 3 8 45j 1 64; 605 "" aTM? A M P m P m Sunbury lv s 6 45 | 8 55 j 2 111 ; 6 25 South Danville "j 7 11 io 17 2 21, 550 Catawlssa "| 732 10 26 2 3ti| 808 E Bloomsburg..'• 737 10 43 243 0 15; Espy Ferry...." 742 110 47 f8 19 Creasy " 752 10 66 2 t>s : 680 •••• Nescopeck '■ 802 11 05j 805 640 •••• T~M A M P. M. P M I Catawlssa 1\ 10 88 Nescopeck Iv 828 8 5 05,\ 7 05j Kock Glen ar II 22: 7 281 Fern Glen " 851 11 2k! 582 734 "" Tomliicken " 858 11 88 588 742 Hazleton " 919 11 57 5 59, 806 •"*• Pottsville " 10 15 150 655 AMAM P M P M Nescopeck lv <8 02 11 05 jli 05 fl 01 Wapwallopen..ar 8 1!' 11 20 320 j 6 62; Mocanauua.,.. "I 881 11 82 830 701 "" Nanticoke " 854 11 64 349 719 P M! I Plym'th Ferry I 002 12 02 35T 17 28 •••• Wilksbane ..." 810 12 10 405 785 "" Plttston(ltAH) ar i 8 ?0 12 29 \ 4 ft<V 8 Scranton " "I 10 08 1 08; 524 \ 8 .... Weekdays. I Daily. 112 Flag station. Pullman Parlor and Sleeping Cars run on through trains between Sunbury, Williamsport and Eric, between Sunbnry and Philadelphia and Washington and between HarrisDWff, Pitts burg and the West. For lurther information apply to Ticket Agents W. W. ATTERBUKY, J K. WOOD Gen'l Manager. Pass. TratlicMg GFl>. W Geu'i Ageut,
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