BREAKING THE
! RECORD
:By Jeanne Caldtuell
J ....Copyright, IWU, by T. C. McClure....
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The man grasped the lever of the
French touring car, and the crimson
demon stopped so suddenly that it
fairly sprang backward. The lane was
narrow, and the girl who stood directly
in the path of the machine had the Im
perious carriage of one who felt she
held the key to the situation. When
the dust had subsided, the man saw
that above the imperious ligure rose a
face of singular charm, surrounded by
an aureole of copperish gold. All this
he saw in a flash despite his leather
visor and ugly goggles.
The girl came to the side of the ma
chine.
"You are Mr. Benedict's chauffeur?"
The man nodded his head and made
a motion as if to raise his cap. The
girl put one foot on the step.
"Yes, I recognized the car. I want
you to take me to Barrington as fast
as you can make the machine go."
The man stirred uneasily.
"But I am meeting some people at
the 11:30 train" —
"That makes no difference." said the
girl, sweeping away his objections with
"WILL YOU PLEASE THANK HIM FOH ME?
true feminine finality. "I will answer
to Mr. Benedict for your disobeying or
ders. A woman is dying in that cot
tage. To save her life the doctor must
have certain things from his office in
Barrington. and you must take me for
them."
Even before she finished the sen- j
tence he had thrown open the low
door, and she sprang up beside him.
As she settled into her place the
mighty car swung round in a circle,
and they were off. She unfastened the
veil from her big flat hat. tucked the
latter behind her and tied the tulle
over her hair, which refused, however,
to be confined by such gentle measures.
The man saw all this from the tail of
his eye despite the goggles.
The road stretched before them,
smooth and level as asphalt pavement.
No teams were in sight.
"Faster!" cried the girl impatiently.
"You can surely make better time than
this!"
"Against the law," said the man curt
ly.
"Very well, break the law. I'll pay
the tine if you are arrested. Oh, don't
you understand? I've never seen any
one die, and we've got to get back in
time to save her!"
The car sprang forward. The girl
closed her eyes suddenly. She had
never ridden so fast.
"Accident?" hissed the man's voice
In her ear.
"Yes; she fell and cut herself. I was
driving by fn my pony cart when I
heard her groan. It was dreadful. I
had never seeu blood before, you know.
Just then I>r. Herron drove along. He
saJd something about an artery and
went to making bandages. I—l don't
think I was much good I turned so
faint. Then he wanted to drive back
to Barrington for some things, and—l
—I wiw afraid to stay alone with her.
He wrote the list on a paper, and 1
was Just starting with the pony cart
when I heard your machine. The doc
tor says she has Just one chance in a
hundred. You were the chance."
The car stopped at the top of the hill.
"Brace yourself," said the man curt
ly. Then came the plunge downward.
It seemed to the girl as if the wheels
did not strike the ground as they
passed through space. When they
reached the foot of the hill she realized
suddenly that the chauffeur had been
holding her in the car with an arm
firm and unflinching He did not apol
cglze when he removed its support.
They were turning Into the village.
"Which street?" he demanded. And
she pointed to a white gabled cottage.
He was evidently a well trained chauf
feur of a multimillionaire bachelor.
He knew enough to keep his place and
not to take advantage of an awkward
titration.
Tlie doctor's wife followed her to the
car, talking volubly.
"Now, don't you stay around that
place, fretting your soul out. Miss Carle
ton. The doctor will get some neigh
bor to stay with her "
The car panted up the hill.
•Isn't this dreadful?" asked the girl
nervously "Oh. excuse me; I know
you are making good time, but It
•eeins as If we were crawling. That
woman has the dearest baby. She can
not die and leave the poor little thing
all alone."
"Did you ever think. Miss —Miss
Carleton," said the inan, watching her
curiously, "that the baby might be bet
ter off if the mother died? The wom
an Is poor. You or some other rich
woman might adopt the child and give
It a better home than the mother ever
could."
"No, you don't understand. So many
men say such things because they do
not understand women and babies.
It Isn't the home; it's the love." She
hn/1 forgotten that the man beside her
was a servant. She was thinking only
• 112 the baby that had cooed confidingly
In her arms while the doctor worked
over its mother. "I've seen it curled
in her arms. If she died, no arm would
encircle It in Just the same way. No,
you can't understand, because you are
a man. But 1 I've felt always that I
was cheated out of something—some
thing that every other girl I knew had
a mother. There's a loneliness I
can't Just tell you what it Is. Some
times it comes in the dark when you
are alone and sometimes when you are
among other people and see other girls
with their mothers. I can't describe
my feeling, but I Just felt as if X must
save the mother to thnt baby."
The man did not answer, but the ma
chine did. It gave a despairing groan
and shot up the incline in a way that
would have made its makers proud.
The touring oar stood outside the
humble cottage until the girl came out
again. Her eyes shone like stars.
"We got here in time. She is alive.
I thank you very much. Is Mr. Bene
dict coming home today?"
The man nodded and put a hand on
the lever.
"Will you please thank Idin for me?—
and I will do so In person when we
meet."
.»•••••
"Mr. Benedict, if you are very good
you may take Miss Carleton out to din
ner," said his hostess. "You know she
has developed into a haughty Berkshire
beauty."
"Little Mame Carleton?" he mur
mured.
"Yes; only since she is old Charley
Carleton's heiress they spell it with a
'y'—'Mayme.' "
They crossed the room to where Miss
Carleton was chatting with her host.
She e\tend"d her hand cordially.
"I am glad to see Mr. Benedict home
again, and especially glad to have this
early chance to thank him for his tour
log car, which I borrowed so uncere
moniously this afternoon "
"And my chauffeur?"
At sound of his voice Miss Carleton
looked around as if for support, but
host and hostess had drifted awn..'.
"I—l thought"—
"Of course." he said, with a quizzical
laugh, "it has been live years since last
we met—and then there were the gog
gles." He was looking at her hair. "I
think I like It best tied down with a
veil," he remarked Irrelevantly.
• ••••••
"Please send your carriage away and
let me take you home in my car," he
urged. She hesitated, then gave the
order, and they went back over the
Barrington road.
"We broke the record right here," he
said gleefully as they slowly climbed
the hill. Then his voice turned serious.
"I like to break records—and yet here
I've wasted live years away from you.
wandering the world over. I never real
ized until this afternoon why it was
that 1 was lonesome too. I've been
wanting Just you- and I didn't know
It."
And then the big car shot into the
dim shadows of the narrow lane, and
not even the night birds and the stars
could see the answer he read In her
eyes
A Difficult flie to f«rf.
Once I was assistant to an elderly
doctor in Ontario, who also ran a drug
store. He was as peppery as a cay
enne pod, and from time to time cus
tomers and patients sprang Jokes on
him just for the fun of hearing him
growl. On one occasion a well dressed
young fellow called at the shop and
asked the doctor to prescribe for a
breaking out and a rash on his left
arm. The doctor examined the limb
and pronounced It to be a bad case of
eczema.
"I suppose, doctor, you can cure it?"
said the patient.
"Why, certainly," replied the doctor.
"How long will it take to get well?"
"Oh, I guess about two months,"
said the doctor.
"Quite sure, sir. Is it a bad case?"
"Positively the worst I've seen."
"Then I will leave it with you and
call for it again when cured," solemn
ly said the patient, slowly unfastening
his arm, which was an artiticial one
and painted for the occasion - Pear
son's Weekly.
Kiwi the 01df»t of Rlrda.
In New Zealand Is fouuil the kiwi, a
strange bird of the ostrich family. Os
triches have two toes, but the extinct
moas had three toes; so also have the
existing emus, cassowaries and rheas.
or South American ostriches. The kiwi,
however, differs from the other stru
thious birds In having four toes. Fur
ther, the kiwi cannot be said to be
quite ostrich like, for In Hlze It Is not
larger than an ordinary barnyard fowl.
It has a small head, with a large and
muscular neck and a long slender bill,
with the distinguishing feature that
the nostrils are placed close to Its tip.
The leg* are short, but the mu«cles on
the thighs are well developed, and the
feet are strong and powerful and pro
vided with sharp claws. The kiwi Is a
bird devoid of any external trace of
wings, and there is no trace of tall vis
lble, while it is covered with long, nar
row halrlike feathers, and on the fore
part of the head and sides of the face
ere straggling hairlike feelers.— Phica
go Chronicle.
The Bill Wan Not In the Smatr.
One of Senator Frye's scintillations
as presiding officer, when the Philip
pine bill was near Its passage In the
senate, should not be lost to the world.
Such measures, till perfected, are con
sidered In committee of the whole, not
In the senate, as the term goes. The
distinction is of little popular sig
nificance, but of great parliamentary
Importance.
Senator Bacon, wishing to make a
certain motion, was Informed that the
bill was not in the senate, but In com
mittee of the whole.
"Oh, I thought we were in the sen
ate," replied Mr. Bacon.
"We are in the senate," Mr. Frye re
sponded, "but the bill is not."—Wash
ington Post.
Henry VIII. and Podding;*.
Bluff King Hal, otherwise Ilenrv
VIII. of England, was exceedingly fond
of puddings. At one time he gave a
certain Mistress Cornwallls a house in
Aldgate for herself and li*»r heirs for
ever "In reward of fine puddings." In
King Henry VIII.'s private accounts
occur again and again entries of his
rewards to different housewives for
bringing him puddings. A typical In
stance runs thus: "Item. The same
day paid to the wife that made the
king podlngs at Hampton corte, vis.
viljd." This would be about $1.75, but
its value was much greater when the
entry was made. This love for "fine
puddings" explains much In the fa
miliar rotund figure of King Hal.
A Matter «>f (ifndcr.
The English language is supposed to
be very simple in the matter of gen
ders. but foreigners who triumphantly
handle questions of gender of inani
mate things In their own languages
often have their difficulties with the
English. A Frenchman recently came
to grief o* er his English. "I fear I
cockroach too much upon your time,
madame." he remarked politely to his
hostess. "En-croach, monsieur," she
smilingly corrected him. He threw up
his hands in despair. "Ah, your Eng
lish genders!" he sighed
!*(» Choice In the Matter.
"And what did Jane say about me?"
"Well. I'd just as soon tell you. Jane
said she thought you were strictly hon
i est."
"That's nice of Jane."
"Yes. She said you didn't know
I enough to be anything else." —Clave
-1 innd Plain Dealer.
[ The Chaplain's
j Cleverness
1 By C. B. Letvis
Copyright, 1904, by C. B. Lewis ,
..........
One day at the Third National bank,
In the city of Cornopolis, a stranger
walked through the president's room
jmd past the bookkeeper's and took
from the pile of money stacked nt the
paying teller's right hand four pack
ages of .SIO,OOO each. He was coolly
walking out again when stopped by the
president and a gun.
The man was known to the police as
"Slick Charlie," and to tell of all his
adventures would till a book. It was
for his attempted theft of the $40,000
that he was sent to the Woonson peni
tentiary for five years. The officer who
delivered him behind the doors of that
Institution said to the warden:
"Here is a man you want to keep an
eye on. Ilon't lose sight < »f him day
or night. He is bold and nervy <>n the
one hand and slick and sly on the
other Don't trust him for an hour,
or he'll beat the gam**."
The warden was a new man at the
prison; but having been sheriff of a
county, he thought he knew about all
sorts of criminals and replied that
No. 870, as "Slick Charlie" was re
corded, would have to get up early in
the morning to beat him.
If a prison chaplain were to be ques
tioned about religion In a prison lie
would answer that scores of prisoners
lived up to it and were earnest and de
vout. If an experienced warden were
to be questioned, he would answer that
Just when a prisoner began to "get
good" he should be watched the closest.
The chaplain at Woonson was a good
man and one who had faith in him
self. He thought his advice and ap
peals to burglars and murderers pro
duced the desired effect. Among the
prisoners he was known as an easy
mark.
The new warden was wary of antag
onizing the captain and n man not
well posted on the tricks of criminals,
BO No. S7O found things easy for him
when he entered prison. When he had
liad full opportunity to size up the
chaplain he began to "get good." He
was as earnest about this as he had
been In appropriating other people's
goods. He became contrite and hum
ble, and he wanted to be turned from
paths of wickedness. Of course tlie
chaplain did his best. When the po
lice officials heard that "Slick Charlie"
had been converted they notified the
warden in writing that he would be
HE WAS COOLLY WALKINrt OtT A<iAIN WHEN
STOPPED BY THE PRESIDENT.
out of the "pen" within three months,
and the chaplain sent an official com
plaint to the governor that the police
were trying to discredit his labors.
The chaplain was a man forty-five
years old, while No. 870 was only thir
ty. The chaplain was four inches the
taller, had stoop shoulders and sham
bled as he walked. He also had a pe
culiar intonation. The slick convict
gave up his original idea of digging for
liberty to study the chaplain. At the
•nd of five months he was one of the
teachers in the evening school. At the
end of seven he asked and got liberty
to hold a Bible class on Sundays. He
wrote and the chaplain delivered a ser
mon on "Christianity In Prison," which
was commented on by hundreds of pa
pers. Up to this time he had been
working in the tailor shop. He was
now given charge of the prison library,
and hta plans were as good as carried
out.
Tt was the habit of the chaplain to
visit the prison every afternoon from
Bto 5. A part of the time was spent
with prisoners in their cells—men who
were undergoing light punishment—
and a part in the library, and he al
ways left pretty promptly at 6. In go
Ing out he paired three guards at lock
ed gates and went through the ward
en's office and out of the main door.
No. 870 had held the position of libra
rian for three months, and it was mid
winter. One afternoon the chaplain
had been visiting in the prison and re
turned to the library at a quarter of 5.
As he entered the room he received a
blow that knocked him senseless, and
when he recovered bis wits half an
hour had passed and he was tied hand
and foot and gagged It was 0 o'clock
before he was released
In the course of that hour No. 870
had done some wonderful things. Aft
er knocking down the chaplain he had
stripped ->ff the latter's outer garments
and clothed himself in them; then he
had secured his man with ropes and
locked tlie door behind him as he
emerged. Shambling down the corri
dor to the first guard, he had said:
"James, I came away today with
only a dime in my pocket. Can you
lend me a dollar until tomorrow?"
"With the greatest of pleasure, chap
lain." And the money had been hand
ed over
The same game had been played on
the two others, and then the "chap
lain" had entered the warden's office.
He could have passed right through, as
the official was busy, but Instead of
that he took a chair and waited for
ten minutes. When the warden was
at liberty be was asked for a loan of
$lO, and the "chaplain" reported to
him on the welfare of three or four dif
ferent prisoners before saying good
night. Fifteen minutes after leaving
the prison the disguised prisoner en
tered the largest stoe in the town and
borrowed S2O of the merchant and
then disappeared.
When the library door was broken
open at '5 o'clock and the real chaplain
found therv was a great commotion.
Three gatemen were ready to swear
I that the clergyman had passed out
I taking a dollar from each as he did so.
The warden bad aud talked and
loaned money to the same man. Two
guards had also seen him. Here were
six prison officials who could swear to
a thing, and yet that tiling was not a
fact. No. 870 had simply imitated the
chaplain down to a line—his voice,
gait, speech and general look.
At 11 o'clock the next forenoon the
president of the Third National bank
of Cornopolis was called out of his
room for a moment. During his ab
sence a man dressed like one of the
clerks in the bank entered the room
and bore away a package of bonds of
the face value of !?IS,<>o<>. "Slick Char
lie" wanted to be revenged upon the
bank, and he wanted money with
which to leave the c<*ntry, and he tar
ried in the town to get both. The pres
ident of the bank is sure of this, be
cause a note left on his desk told hiin
so.
How Tliln»Me» Are Made.
In the making of a thimble there are
several operations, the blank passing
into the cup and then the rolling on of
the band. Then the thimbles, which
have assumed a form warranting th»
name, are carried to the factory prop
er, and after burnishing the more in
teresting process of knerling Is per
formed. This knerling is the forming
of the little indentations which receive
the end of the needle and assist in
pushing the point through the fabric.
Placing the cup In a lathe, the opera
tor with a suitable tool knerls the end
of the thimble. During this operation
a peculiar and by no means unpleasant
musical sound is emitted with varying
tones. The point of the thimble being
reached, a flat kncrler finishes the side,
and with a sharp edged tool the pol
ished cutting at the sides of the band
is performed. Then on another lathe
It is placed in a hollow block and the
inside burnished. All the oil and dirt
are then removed, and the thimble la
polished and made ready for the mar
ket.
Forecasting a II unban <l.
In Greece a young ■woman who
wishes to know what sort of hus
band she is going to have goes to one
of the gypsy fortune tellers, who are
regarded with much reverence. The
fortune teller (rives her a pie season
ed with aromatic herbs. This she eats
Just before going to bed, having hung
around her neck a bag with three flow
ers, one white, one red and one yellow.
The next morning she draws one of
the flowers out of the bag. If it be
white, she is to marry a young man;
If red, one of middle age; if yellow, a
widower. She relates what she has
dreamed in the night to the fortune
teller, who predicts whether her hus
band is to be rich and the marriage
happy. If the predictions are not car
ried out to the letter, no fault is ascrib
ed to the fortune teller. This deviation
by the bag and different colored flowers
Is equally adaptable to all countries
and has the merit of being a cheap and
easy way of settling one's future, If
one has only faith enough.
the llandlt*.
When Maximilian was emperor of
Mexico the country was overrun with
train robbers. They marched about In
large bands, tore up the tracks and
robbed everybody One duy the train
from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico
was bounding irayly along, the five
coaches filled with hidnlgoes, peons,
market women and farmers. Suddenly
It came to a standstill. The train
guard cried out, "Banditte!" Sure
enough, on either side of the road the
ragged but desperate ruffians were
lined up. Suddenly hldalgoes, peons,
market women and farmers arose.
\v»re >i hllrtdlm flush anil "
enlng volley from both sides of the
car, and 1"0 of the bandits fell dead,
while the 300 zouaves, disguised in the
costumes of the country, turned out of
the cars, pursued the flying robbers
and killed every one.
A Memory Method.
Association is the vital spring of
memory, and any one who analyzes bis
thought process may catch himself re
calling a thing hy a series of allied
things. Many people have tried to
systematize association and arrange a
scientific memory method.
A mathematical! has discovered o
most Interesting process for remember
ing dates. Suppose you have forgotten
the year of the Norman conquest. Take
the date of your birth and add to it
the number of the month when you
were born. Multiply the result by the
day of the month your father was
bom. Square the result. Add six.
Now divide by the cube root of the
number of people In the United States,
forgoC result, add 1,0*30 and you j
date
*o Paaprri In Japan.
With all our high wages and boasted
civilization the fact remains that you
will see more wretchedly poor in any
of our great cities In a day than you
will see In Japan in a lifetime. In
other words, you will see no destitu
tion in Japan. Though some are very
poor, yet all seem to be well fed, cloth
ed and housed and are Invariably
cheerful and. what is more surprising.
Invariably clean. There are no paupers
In Japan and therefore no workhouses
or poorhousesi, though there are many
hospitals where the sick are healed
gratuitously. Practically every one can
earn a living. Would that we could say
the same! —Pall Mall Gazette.
I)Hftt anil Consumption.
Dusty work seems to be responsible
for consumption to a marked degree.
In 2,101 cases of consumption treated
at the sixty institutions of the Ger
man empire 1,095 patients had been
employed in a dusty environment. The
kind of dust was not stated In 481
cases; in 182 cases it was metal dust;
In 129, stone, coal or glass dust; in 116,
wood dust; in 111. wool dust, and In
120, various other kinds of dust.
WralhrmUe Illver Men.
River men who have followed the
Potomac from youth to old age are full
of wise weather sayings that come as
near being correct as do the predictions
of the more scientific observers. An
old river man who as master on sailing
vessel and steamer has traveled to and
fro on the Potomac for the past fifty
years said that he had often noticed
that as the weather is on the first
three days of December in each year
so will the weather l>« In the three
months '>r winter that Is. as the Ist
of December Is so will December be;
■ January will be like the 2d and Febru
ary like the 3d. Another saying is as
the weather Is on the Thursday be
fore the new moon so will be the
i weather for the greater part of the
moon.—Washington Star.
Today Is your day and mine, the only
1 day we have, the day In which we play
! our part What our part may signify
j in the great whole we may not under
stand. but we are here to play it.and
now is our tlmr This we know, it Is a
cynicism. It is for us to express love
in terms of helpfulness. This we know,
for we have learned from sad experi
ence that any other source of life leads
toward decay mul waste David Ktarr
, Jordan
DINING IN JAPAN.
1/ lt'n Vonr I'irNt Jaiianene Mfal Yon
Will Have 11 Trylmt Time.
If It's your first Japanese dinner
you're having a dreadfully liard time.
Jn the first place you must sit on the
tloor, for tliey don't have tiny chairs In
Japan. You kneel down, and then you
turu your toes In till one laps over the
other, and then you sit hack between
your heels. At first you are quite
proud to find how well you do it, and
you don't think It's so very uncomfort
able. But pretty soon you get cramp
ed, and your legs ache as if you had a
toothache In them. You don't say any
thing, because you think that if the
Japanese can sit this way all day long
you ought to be able to stand It a few
minutes. Finally both your feet goto
sleep, and then you can't bear It a
moment longer, and you have to get
up and stamp around the room to
drive the prickles out of your feet, and
all the little dancing girls giggle at
you. This isn't your only trouble ei
ther. All you have to eat with Is a
pair of chopsticks, and you're in terror
lest you spill something on the dainty
white matting floor. Now the floor of
a Japanese house Isn't just the floor;
It's the chairs and sofas and tables
and beds as well. At home It would
be mortifying enough togo out to din
ner and spill something on the floor,
but In Japan, where people sit and
Bleep on the floor, It seems eve J worse.
Bo you are unhappy till your little ne
san (who is the waitress and almost
as prettily dressed as the dancing girls,
but not quitei comes laughing to your
aid and shows you how to hold your
chopsticks. After that you manage
nicely the rice and the omelet, but the
flsh and the chicken you can't contrive
to shred apart without dropping your
chopsticks all the time. So between
dances the maiko—the little girls about
twelve years old—kneel down beside
you and help yon. They can't keep
from giggling at your awkwardness,
but you don't mind; you Just giggle
too, and everybody giggles and has
lovely time.—St. Nicholas.
MARKS OF ILLNESS ON NAILS
How Accident ami (irent Mental An-
KUIMII Are AIMO Imiieated.
"One who makes a close study of
finger nails will find many curious
things about them to nxcite his won
der and interest," says an expert on
such matters, "but none more so than
the stories of physical condition told in
their growth.
"You know that the nail of a person
In good health grows at the rate of
about one-sixteenth of an Inch each
week—slightly more than many au
thorities believe—but during illness or
after an accident or during times of
mental depression this growth Is not
only affected and retarded so far as
its length is concerned, but also as re
gards its thickness. The very slight
est illness will thus leave an indelible
mark on the nails which may be read
ily detected as the nail grows out. If
one has a sudden attack, such as acute
rheumatism, which sends the temper
ature bounding npward to lU4 or 105
within the space of two or three hours.
It will be found on the nails, indicating
the difference in thickness of growth
between the time when health was en-
Joyed and the thin growth of the ill pe
riod.
"It"the illness Is one that comes grad
ually. like typhoid fever, for example.
Instead of a ridge a gentle incline
will appear on the nails. Should one
have an arm broken the thick ridge
can be seen only 011 the fingers of the
one hand, but in all cases of general
' . , , „*»nears on
siekncss the ridkte or sloi>e at'
the angers or both lianas. \\ lieu one
has passed through a period of extreme
excitement or mental depression, the
fact will be imprinted on the nails ei
ther with an abrupt edge or a gentle
slope, according to the acuteness of
the mental influence.
"In no Instance can the marks of ill
ness, accident or mental condition be
clearly seen on the nail until after the
growth has carried the line beyond the
white or half moon portion of it, but a
week or two subsequent to any of these
things the ridge or slope may be found
on the nails, usually readily visible to
the eyes, but if not the mark may be
found by running the tip of the finger
down any of the nails."
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OLD AND NEW COINS.
Intc rc*( i?: tr F:ict* Aliont < oliiajtc at
the I.'illerent Mint*.
The dirtU.ir of the mint is called on
to answer such a wide range of ques
tions concern IIU the values of old and
new coins and medals that he has
found it : c -ary to issue circulars
covering matters of this sort. They
tell some interesting facts It appears
that the mint (iocs not buy old coins or
paper money except some rare colonial
coins in tine condition, which are de
sired for the mint cabinet. Mutilated
or uncurrcnt United States gold and
(silver coin purchased as bullion.
The mint l;;:s no pattern pieces for sale.
The government pays no premium for
the return of any of its coins or pa
per money. New coins cannot be
struck until authorized by an act of
congress. The mint supplies United
States coins only and not of any past
date. The fifty dollar goldpiece and
the half dollar and quarter dollar
pieces in gold were struck by private
parties on the California coast during
the 1 N49 period and not by the United
States government.
The coinage of the following coins
ceased in the years named: Half and
1 cent, copper, in 1857; 1 cent, nickel,
18*54; half dime and 3 cents, silver, and
2 cents, bronze, in 1573; -0 cents, sil
ver, IS7S; trade dollars, 1883; $1 and
$3, gold, and 3 cents, nickel, 1889.
The Columbian half dollar was coined
In 1802 an! the Isabella quarter In
1803. The Lafayette dollar was struck
in IS!(9, the date on the coin (1900) be
ing that of the unveiling of the memo
rial.
There are certain markings on every
United States coin that enable the
place of its coinage to be located.
Those struck at the Philadelphia mint
have no mint mark, but those struck
at all other mints are distinguished by
a small letter on the reverse, near the
bottom. These letters are C for Char
lotte, N. C.. discontinued In 1801; CC
for Carson City, Nev., discontinued in
1893; D for Dahlonega, Ga., discontin
ued in 1801; () for New Orleans and S
for San Francisco. The coins of the
United Stntes now authorized by law
are: In gold, double eagle, eagle, half
eagle, quarter eagle; in silver, half dol
lar, quarter dollar and dime; minor, 5
cent, nickel, and 1 cent, bronze. A per
son may buy a proof set of gold coins
from the mint for $38.50 and a proof
set of silver and minor coins for $1.50.
When the business of the mints is
slack medals may be struck from dies
furnished by individuals, public insti
tutions and incorporated societies at a
charge sufficient to cover the cost of
the operation and the value of the
metal.— Itrool.lyn Eagle.
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Bellevue
Taylor tin 1017 iO3 611
Lackawanna 650 IU 74 210 850
Duryea 663 10 2b al3 653
Plttslon 658 10 33 217 657
Susquehanna Ave 701 10 37 2 11' 659
West Ptttnton 705 1011 22> 702
Wyoming 710 10 46 227 707
Forty Fort 231 ....
Bennett 717 10 52 2 3-3 714
Kingston ,ar 724 10 56 240 720
Wilkes-Barre ar 710 1110 2ou 730
Wilkes-Barre lv 716 1011' 23; 710
Kingston lv 721 10 56 21( 721
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-i'aily, fDally esoept Sunday.
• opw on Bi<ua! or on notice to -Oitil t'. inr
ti stops on maun l to take on for
New York. K'nghamton and points went
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD,
TIME T4BLE
In Effect Nov. 2 ( Jth, 1904.
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through trains between Surbury, Williamsport
and Erie, between Sunbnry aud Philadelphia
and Washington and between Harrlßt>u7g, Pltta
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