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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."
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[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.
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Coffee Packages* and a a - cent for "»«•"««* (votes for all can
..... . W. dldates combined) at the electloa
»t«mp entitle you (in addition to
the recular free premiums) to MOtkAixiiSm la 1900 election. .3,959,653 peopl. voted
one vote. The 2-cent stamp cov=- B fljll^*l//^* or President. 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.
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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.
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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,