LADY BOUNTIFUL A Christmas Story By Mjvrthiv McCulloch - Willi&.m» Copynylil, 1903, by Martha McCullocli - W illums o Clouds art* never so black and threat eniug as they look to be when rising' to Bhut away sunshine. Lettice knew that very well, being that she was country bred and spiritually as well as actual ly a daughter of the open. Hut in this pinch the knowledge did not help her — that is to say. she did not think of tho parallel between clouds actual and metaphorical. The sun had shone for her so blithely, with such strength and power, the shutting away left her In a manner numb. Notwithstanding she had one consolation the Farnham girl did not know. She never should know if Lettice could help it, no matter what the keeping her ignorant might cost Lettice herself. They had never quarreled I.ettice was too thoroughbred for such a thing and the Farnham girl too politic but from the beginning they had been in tuitively antagonistic, although envi ronment enforced a certain surface cor diality, even friendliness, between them. Both were western, with yet a subtle difference. Fate had, it appear ed, an eerie, even maliiTous, pleasure in throwing them in each other's way. They had been classmates in the same fresh water college three years before they found themselves, wholly by chance, fellow lodgers in Mrs. Yanston ijuigley's New York apartment. Necessity and inclination had brought them there each to try for a literary career. By help of honest Ignorance, limpid innocence, a heart ever joyous, an industry that never flagged, Lettice was now a full fledged newspaper wo man, with a salary beautifully suffi cient if none too large, whereas Faith Farnham, in spite* of undeniable clev erness Joined to a personality as strik ing as it was unscrupulous, had still much ado to make ends meet. That went hard with her in face of the fact that she had an oriental de light in luxury and was withal indo lent. In excuse she pleaded "tempera ment," whatever that may be. With out these ki-en appetites, susceptible senses, she said, or with them starved and thwarted, she would never be able tndy to express the genius burning and writhing within. Lettice had smil ed over the excuse until she found it leading its possessor into squandering her money on violets at their costliest and leaving her laundress a month un paid, although the poor creature falter ed out something about hungry chil dren and rent day. Lettice, overhear ing by chance, thrust a bill into the woman's hand and mentally set her down to be thrice remembered at the Christmas tree the paper she worked for was even then planning. She said nothing to the Farnham girl except, that is, what was eloquently spoken by her altered manner. Unluckily Miss Farnham chose to hear in it other things than it was meant to express. "I fear I shall have togo away; it hurts in*' so to have anybody jealous of me," she cooed to Philip Arran as Let tice flashed in and out of the parlor, with the barest brief greeting to the two. "Ever since the Century asked me to let it share my work with Scrib uer's Lettice I ought really to say Miss Lane has bi-en as you see her. Of course I make allowances. It must hurt dreadfully when one Is ambitious, and she is frightfully so, to find you can do only low and common things. I should starve if I tried newspaper work, and I feel that I would rather starve than try it. Yet I am so glad lattice is wiser. She really does very well at it. But, only fancy, she isn't the least bit satisfied. Mrs. (juigley Bays Sundays—you know sho never goes to church she writes tilings sto ries actually—and sen Is them to the magazines!" Arran smiled at her behind his hand. Nature made him a critic. Fate gave him money; some 111 fairy thrust upon him aspirations for play writing*—aspi rations that had flowered into super fluous success. Lettice had written a Sunday special about him and In writ lug it had so managed to strike the middle line between ridicule and pane gyric as to come warmly Into the king dom of his regard. They had been cheery comrades until Faith Farnham had somehow managed to turn the du et Into a trio. After that everything went wrong. Slight, sinuous, ethereal. In delicately colored, high walsted, trailing robes, with always a knot of violets at her breast, she easily put Lettice, with her rosy cheeks, her hearty laugh, her walking suit and trim hair, out of court. Arran yielded himself Joyously to her fascinations. "She's a reversionary type, and a rare one," he explained to Lettice. "I like to study her, to see how she makes up to herself for all the things her ances tors felt it was religion to do without." "Take care," Lettice had answered, smiling a smile openly, honestly, un easily. "That's your part you are to take care of me always," Arran had an swered, speaking very low and trying to take her bands. Then the telephone bell had rung, with the result that Lettice found her self whisked out of town for a week. She came back to liiul Arran apparent ly a Farnham bond slave. The very first news she heard was that Faith was to make one of the Christmas house party nt Arranmore, I'hlllp's country place, where his widowed mother still dispensed a noble hospital ity. Lettice was also asked, but with Christmas but three weeks off going was out of the question. She had nei ther the clothes nor the time. All the money her common sense would lot her spend had gone Into overflowing Christmas boxes ready for dispatch to the dear folks at home. Above and be yond that the Christmas tree was spe cially In her charge She had helpers galore, but those in authority had said to her. "You have never failed in any thing set you; now go ahead and make this the biggest success of its kind the ctty ever saw." She was doing it Scoffers at her In experience, her country ways, were dis covering a very shrewd and level head upon her shoulders. The most part of her coworkers had fallen readily lu with her enthusiasm. "Let's feel real Christmasy ourselves, then everything will come easy," she had said to them In the beginning, going onto tell art less tales, gathered by the way. of the people the tree was meant for Before she was done the listeners were at one with her even the scoffers, silent and ashamed of their scoffing As a result upon the 2Hd of December the big trees groaned under bizarre fruitage, and all the ropes stretched above them were so laden they were a Joy to the kindly heart, whatever they might have been to an artistic eye. Nothing remained but to flash up the lights, the myriad tiny electric bulbs strung along tho green. Lettice turned away with a long, long sigh, too tired to be any thing but very happy at this good end to labor. For three days she had hardly thought of anything but the tree. Ten thousand gifts, good gifts, for mothers and babies otherwise glftless, "0,000 ' toys for little hands otherwise toyless, j had seemed to her enough to crowd her o\\ n concerns aside. Back in lier cozy room she ran through a sheaf of let I ters. her face as she read reflecting her mood as water reflects the sky. Home I news made her smile softly, bflt wipe 1 her eyes at the end. Three notes from j aspiring strangers puckered her fore ; head in a reflective frown, other notes, a handful, sent to Santa Claus and by some magic turned over to her, brought | lumps of varying hardness Into her ; throat, lumps that swelled visibly over I a line from Arran, a beseeching line, "Letty, if not for Christmas, can't you come the day after?" She dropped it and took up tho very last of the sheaf, her eyes too blurred to note the imprint in the corner, but • after the first line she sat up, breath- | ing hard, a bright red spot In either cheek, and at the end sprang up, wav ed the letter over her head aud said in audibly, since it was 1 o'clock: "Ilur- j rah. Lettice! Hurrah! Hurrah! A knock, hesitating, apologetic, made her turn about to see her door open be- ; fore she could speak, revealing Faith Farnham, who came In, closing It pre cipitately behind her, and said in her airiest way "Oh. Miss Santa Claus, I've come to you like the rest of the poor things! Lend me SSO, please. I've spent every thing 011 frocks and frills for this visit, and those wretched magazines are j | holding up all my checks"— "How funny! 1 got mine—my first," j Lettice said, holding out a note and , fluttering a blue slip so Faith could not choose but see. "As I am SIUO bet ter off than 1 thought to be, you shall i have the money," she ran on. Faith j covered her face, sobbing hysterically, ; but held out her hand for the bills Let | tice thrust in it, and, clutching them tight, ran away without a word of j thanks. Lettice looked after her, won- j dering at herself. This vengeance ought to be sweet, yet here she was finding It bitter. She was ashamed for womanhood, for humanity, by this clumsy lying. She flung open her win- 1 dow and leaned out of it, as though to let the night breeze sweep away some | thing unsavory, unwholesome. She never understood the Impulse that sent her scurrying to Faith's door, there to whisper through the barest open crack of it: "Don't worry. Faith. I—won't tell anybody. And I hope you'll have a real merry Christmas." The next twenty-four hours went by ' In a whirl. I.ettice slept normally, ate hurriedly and worked like a machine. Nothing else kept the Christmas tree enterprise from getting away from ev- . erybody, it was so unwieldy, so turbu- ! lent, so sloppily full of enthusiasm. The paper had called for volunteer helpers. They came lu droves and nearly swamped the distracted regu lars. But somehow, some way, the bedlam at last arranged itself in order ly semichaos. The ruler of the chaos, without whom it would at once hav« become uproarious, was smallish aud ( rosy, with the blackest eyes In the i world; not at all the figure of a saint, ; yet canonized in the heart and on the lips of one decent woman, who stood hugging a warm plaid and looking ! tearfully at her flock of five, brave in new shoes and each with a toy and a I fat bag of sweets. What she said to j the volunteer who had brought the ! gifts is not necessary to be written down. lie listeu«*d intently and aftei j ward went with happy, shining eyes straight up to Lettice, who started vio lently at sight ol' him. "You've overlooked one case of des titution," he said, plucking her sleeve. "I hope you will do something about it. Lady Bountiful." "If only I can. But we have only gewgaws left nothing the least use ful," Lettice began anxiously. Arran drew closer and said, with lils lips al most on Lcr ear: "It's my mother, Sweetheart. She's fearfully In need of a daughter just such as you. Will you come?" Lettice vows to this d&v there was a conspiracy. Certainly Mrs. Yanston Quigley must hpve been In the secret. However else should both h«| lodgers fcave been properly dressed at the Ar ran more Christmas dinner, wiiere the Iftdy of the manor announced her son's engagement to Miss Lettice Lane? Cure For Love. "Why, low could you break your engagement with Jack?" "We were seasick together."--Life. A LINCOLN STORY, When l.cn Wallace I'lmt Met the Third Itnte Lanjrr, The few uneventful years Lew Wal lace spent In Covington were distin guished by one important event. It was there that he saw Abraham Lln | coin for the first time. The Indiana bar had even then some brilliant and notable men among Its members, and a case of extraordinary Interest had called them together at the fall term of the circuit court. U» relating ihe clr ' cumstance Ceneral Wallace said: "Dur i ing the session we were in the habit of gathering at the old tavern in the even ! ing after adjournment. It was a bril ! llant company, whose talk was well ' worth hearing. Oue evening there ap | pea red suddenly In our midst a tall, 1 ungainly man, homely of visage and 1 rather shabbily dressed. He did not Intrude himself, but sat on the out skirts of the company, neither proffer | lug opinions nor taking sides In the controversies that occasionally became : pretty warm. No one seemed to know anything about him, and when I asked ! a friend who he was he replied care lessly, 'Oh, that Is some third rate law yer, 11 man named Lincoln from soiue- J where In Illinois.' One evening, how- I ever, after he had been there some time," General Wallace continued, "something moved hiin to speak, and j then he began to talk. We all sat spell : bound. "I have never," General Wallace said, I "heard anything that approached it the logic, the wit, the pertinent auee- I dote, that poured out in an unceasing j stream. He talked thus for three solid ' hours Some one said, "Whoever that fellow is, we shall hear from him again some day.' It was my flrst meet ing with Abraham Lincoln," he said, 1 "nnd the prophecy that we should hear from him again. It must be admitted, was abundantly verified."—Mary H. Krout in Harper's Weekly. Derby'd MnrL.-f S(on«. In Derby, England, there Is a cnrl l ous relic of the great plague of I(>J5. " It stands In the arboretum garden* 1 and is commonly called "the market ' stone." To avoid Infection tho coun ' try folk from the surrounding villages would leave their orders for anything 1 they might want with the watchman, who used togo into the town, make the necessary purchases and deposit ' them 011 the steps of"the market ; 1 ftoue." THE PECULIAR LOON. I thin IHrtl Man a Hide About n« Titunl | »n Thai of nil lis. The loon differs from other birds In a number of ways. I have reason to think that many people aro unaware of some at least of these peculiarities. The loon has a hide as tough as an ox, and its feathers cannot be plucked without lirst scalding the bird as you would a hog. This incident will giv« Some idea of the toughness of the hide: About thlrtj live years ago, when I ! was living lu Michigan, a loon was shot at with a shotgun Industriously all summer without apparently doing him any harm. In the fall I killed bini with a rifle Just to convince the people | that a loon could be shot and killed. ' He had many times been shot at with a rttlo by the same people who had used the shotgun, and they had become convinced that he dived so quickly that he dodged the shot 111 that way. 1 had i seen them shoot at him a number of ; times, and I could see the splash of bullet or shot In the water before the loon dived. I ridiculed the idea of the dodging, and that led to my shooting him to support my contention. When I j skinned the bird I found and counted over 11 hundred No. shot, all of them . stuck to the inside of the hide and so . doing him no permanent harm. It is remarkable that he was never hit hi j the eye nor sustained a broken wing. Another thing peculiar to the loon is | that after the chicks are hatched, If the mother wishes to move far, she will j make a shallow dive and come up un 1 der her babies and swim off with them i on her back. The person that succeeds ! In photographing her under such condi | tlous may well claim the pennant. On- I ly once have 1 seen a loon shoulder her i young, although for over twenty years j 1 lived in the part of Michigan where ! then there was the best chance imagi nable to watch loons. Now the timber has been cut off around most of the lakes, and such favorable conditions ; for observation 110 longer exist, i Although 1 have only once seen a loon shoulder her babies, I have seen her swimming with them on her back many times. Once one swam within twenty feet of me and never suspected ray presence. One of their calls when sitting on the water for volume beats that of any other bird or beast that 1 know of.l have heard them in the night when they were more than five miles distant, for they only make that kind of call from the water, aud there was no lake In that direction short of that distance. To say that the loon Is a very Interest ing bird is as mild as I can express It. —Forest aud Stream. — EASTER IN JAPAN. rhp Cherry IlloNnoni Featlval. B««r. reetfnu of Frolta and Flower®. j By reaching Japan Just at the begin ! ning of siu ing you will find yourself in the midst of the native Faster season, , which lu reality is the cherry blossom festival. Because k comes at the time that Easter is celebrated In the western countries it is given that name. The dawn of Faster in Japan is a dazzling and fascinating sight even to an American, used as lie Is to the great ! display of flowers and bright and ilaiu ! Tv costumes that come out on that day j in all the cities in the Cuited States to I welcome the season. The Japanese are like a lot of happy ' school children let out to play, happy in i their religious flower festival. None of the church ceremonies has any part in j their celebration, and, although the ! cherry festival commemorates the res urrection, it is the resurrection of the fruits and flowers. All Japan rejoices. The children have a day set«opart for their special delec tation, and the grown people do little but seek to make the young people hap py. Along the roadways, inch deep with fallen cherry petals, the children draw immense movable temples. Some times more than a hundred little girls dressed in gorgeous hues are in line, pulling on the ropes attached to these chariots, on which the boys, dressed in blue and white togas, ride and play 011 their musical Instruments, while the cleverest of their number in masked faces render religious dramas 011 the elevated platform in frout of the char iot. The streets are choked with thou sands of grown people, who give up the day to witnessing these processions, and as the chariot and the children pass down a carpeted avenue of cher ry trees, and the gentle spring breeze blows, a constant shower of pink per fumed snow falls from the cherry trees and everything becomes hazy in the entrancing mist of a pink snowstorm of soft petals. All nature seems to take part in this Faster festival of the Jap auese children. "Cherry blossom Sunday" at Uyeuo park, In Tokyo, is one of the prettiest sights In all Japan. The avenue of cher ry trees going up from the town forms an exquisite arch of pink boughs, under which the people throng purely on pleasure bent. The tea houses have spread their best red blankets on the matted plat forms, which serve for seat and table. Carriages and jinrikishas roll by, their occupants dressed lu their best, the women in exquisitely delicate crapes, because it is the time of spring aud flowers, and the light and dainty col ors are most appropriate. Fuder the trees are light hearted picnic parties seated 011 their blankets aud lunching on rice sandwiches. Kestraint is thrown aside during "cherry time," aud at Mukojiuia, where 1 a double avenue of cherry trees, the j most magnificent display of these love- | ly blossoms in Tokyo, stretches along ! the far bank of the Sumida river be side the road, the wildest carnival reigns. Mummers in all sorts of fan tastic costumes, in which red and white, the colors of spring and happiness, pre dominate, dance In and out among the tea houses that stand along the bank under the trees. The river is gay with roofinl pleasure boats, and the souud of the geisha's samisen is added to the j general clamor of rejoicing aud merry making.—Washington Star. Whom the f.oda l.oTr. There are two standards of measure- , ment of human life -tho oue by years, | the other by achievement Measured by years, Sidney Lanier's life of less than twoscore was a broken column; meas- j 11 red by achievement, his life Is not yet | ended he Is Immortal. Robert Burns j died at thirty-seven, Byron at thlrty i six, Foe at forty, Ilaphael at thirty six. | Lanier at thirty-nine. It Is whom the t gods love die young. And yet who ; shall say that the Scottish plow boy. j or the author of "Chilile Harold," or he ! who sang of the "Raven," or the paint | er of the "Transfiguration," or the coin poser of "Centennial Cantata," do not. i one and all, still speak to us in voices i whose echoes will command eurnptur I ed listeners away down the centuries? , | —Llpplncott's. SOME ODD LEATHERS. |'re|>arr<l From tli«* Sklun «t VarlAua Aliunde Animal*. Leather is prepared from the bides of nearly all aquatic animals, principally tlic si aI. whale, porpoise, alligator and walrus. The use of these hides Id al most as old as mail himself, tuid ti)bj* have ever been most eagerly after for the many uses to which could be put after belli),' prepared Oft leather. At the time of the Ilusslau occupation of Alaska they made great use <>f walrus hides. Furs were twual ly wrapped up 111 these skins, and when they readied Klaehta, China, the great lAart of those days, the skin was sewed over chests <>f tea. Oil arrival itt Mo»- tltw tlie soundest portions were re moved. cut up and stamped Into ko pecks and a variety of small change. This formed the chief currency of Alas ka for a time The Russians alwo made harness of walrus leather, while the natives of Alaska used the s&ln as u covering for their boats. A queerer kind of leather, however, conn's from the bodies of fishes. An extremely lino quality of green leather made in Turkey Is manufactured from the skin of an ugly tish called the angel tisli. The sword grips of tlie Oernjan army are made from shark leather, which Is beautiful In pattern, being marked with dark diamond shaped fig ures. 'l'h is skin comes from a North sea shark called the diamond shark. Leather manufacturers have tried to produce a substitute from autmal hides, but In vain. Unlike animal leath 1 -r, tish leather Is absolutely Impervious to water and never gets soggy from dampness. Therefore It Is Ideal for sword grips, as, no matter hov? much the hand may perspire, the grip re mains hard and dry. Leather is made from the skin of the Pacific coast and great lakes sturgeon, which is exceedingly tough and Is used In making laces for Joinlug leather belting. In Canada the skin of a spe cies of silurold Is used In making gloves. THE PARIS CAFE. It I* the Frrurhiuan'n Outdoor iloma |*art of tl»** !>«>'. For an Lour <»i two of tlie day cafe is tie- Parisian's outdoor home. There he gets all the morning and aft ernoon papers. There If he likes ho maj write ids business letters and prt vate correspondence. Many a "client" writes all or most of his correspond ence at his little marble topped table. The garcou brings him the black port folio Stocked with letter paper and en velopes and pens and ink. Notre client may use up as much paper and en velopes as he pleases. These are pro vided by the stair of waiters at theif j own charge, not by M. 1® Patron, the landlord—a curious custom. Notre client is welcome to sit there all day long over 11is newspapers and corre spondence and his glass of tiordeaux or his • iait chaud" (perhaps with a ulp of rum in it when the weather Is cold). The counter is reserved for waiters and for M. lo Patron's wife or daugh ter or lady clerk, who sits behind it re ceiving orders. The •'habitues," "uos clients" or pass tug < ustoniers are comfortably seated at their neat, scrupulously clean little tallies Outside the chairs and little tables .ire arranged in rows, three, four. live, six deep. There "iios clients" sit at their ease underneath the broad awning when the sun is ablaze. Win ter drives "uotre client' Indoors, though out he will come again on the slightest temptation from the weather, for your Parisian loves fresh air, loves to gaze over his light bordeaux or his "bock" at the tide of human life as It sweeps by. Ou the inner half of the pavement Inmi' itli the awnings, behind the trees, along the miles of boulevard, sit in their thousands In spring, sum mer and autumn the customers of ths Paris cafe. Loinion News. I'riinoiiM IIIIimI Man. Tne iianie i.; John Metcalfe of Knar.-s! ... ::gh. LmJand. engineer and roadiiiaU' r. is in these feverish times in danger of lapsing into undeserved obliv ion John Metcalfe was blind from the a tie of six years until he died. Yet as a boy and man he invariably dlspl.t veil a high spirited courage. ll< was a true sportsman, a line swimmer and a hard rider lo hounds. It was his solitary walk from London to Harro gate b> a way unknown to him that first turned his attention to roadmak ing The roads in those days were very bad lit-obtained authority from parliament to improve this state ot things when he was fifty years old. in Yorkshire. Lancashire, Cheshire and Derbyshire mo t of flu principal road were made by him He built bridges and leveled rough places. Some of the plans were made for him by others, but usually he designed them himself, and he did his own surveying. lit 1 climbed mountains, trudged along on the edges of precipices, he crossed swamps and morasses, waded through bogs and forded rivers, relying wholly and soli lj on the long staff that was forever in his hand. lie died in har ness, full of years am! laden with many honors, at the great age of nine ty-three. London Exchange. !'iibll«* Si»lrit«'<t. Little James (who has an inquiring nilndi I itlier. v hat do they mean when the\ call a man public spirited*! Professor I;:•••■ id ley Why. it usually means that he is very liberal in en deavoring to persuade other people tc spend their moiiev bountifully for tin nubile good. J J. BROWN THE EVE A SPECIALTY Eyes tested, treated, fitted with <ias*- s *nd artificial eyes supplied. Market Street, Hloomsbtirg, Pa. Hours 10 a. m. t ». r » p. in. 11l IV! A. Flellabl© TIH SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing, Spoutlne and Ceneral Job Work. Stoves. Heaters. Ranges, Furnaces, eto- PRICES THE LOWEST! QUALITY TliE BEST! JOHN IIIXSO\ NO. 116 E. FRONT 81'. I REVtALED THE TRUTH. Hun the I'liet* In it Will tiiruerf I n*,r Were llrouKlit Out. lu his capacity as judge Lord Bramp ton always insisted oil the imperative demand that every case should be In vestigated in its minutest details. Up on small points the great issue of a case depends. As exemplifying this Lord Brampton cites a curious case that euuie before him on the western circuit: "A solicitor was charged with forg lug the will of a lady, which devised to him a considerable amount of her property, but as the case proceeded It became clear to me that the will was vigued after the lady's death and then with a dry pen held in the hand of the deceased by the accused himself while he guided It over a signature which he had craftily forged. A woman was present when this was done, and as she had attested the execution of the will she was a necessary witness for the prisoner, and in examination In chief she was very clear Indeed that It was by the hand of the deceased that the will was signed and that she her self had seen the deceased sign It. Suspicion only existed as to what the real facts were until this woman went Into the box. and then a scene highly dramatic occurred lu her cross exami nation. After getting an admission that the will was signed In the bed, with the prisoner near by, the woman was asked: " 'l>id he put the pen Into her baud?' " es." "•And assist her while she signed the winr " 'Yes.' " 'liow did lit- assist her?' "'By raising her lu the bed and sup porting her when he had raised her.' " 'I»ld lie guide her hand?' " 'No.' " 'Ditl he touch Iter hand at all?' " 'I think he did just touch her hand.' " 'When he did touch her hand was she dead?' "At this last question the woman turned terribly pale, was seen to fal ter and fell in a swoon on the ground and so revealed the truth, which she had coiue to ileuy."- London Mall Flkli tint «112 Water. Many people think that tish when taken ftut of water die because air has a fatal effect oil them. The real rea son, however, is that their delicate gill filaments or membranes become dry and stick together, so that no air can can pass between them. Thus they los the power to imbibe necessary oxygen, and the circulation of their blood stops. The painful gasping of a fish out of wa ter Is nature's effort to free the pas sage through the filaments. / ■ 1 Conviction Follows Trial 'Wht*n buying loose coffee or anything your grocer happens to have in his bin, how do you know what you arc getting ? Homo queer stories about coffee that is sold in bulk, oould be told, if the people who handle it (grocera), cared to Bpeak out Could any amount of mere talk have persuaded millions of housekeepers to use Lion Coffee, the leader of all package coffees for over a quarter of a century, if they had not found it superior to all other brands in Purity, Strength, Flavor and Uniformity ? Thin popular succen of LION COFFEE can be due only to Inherent merit. There la no stronger proof ot merit than eon tlnued and laereaalno popularity. If the verdict of MILLIONS OP , HOUSEKEEPERS does not convince you of the merit® ol LION COFFEE, It costs you but a trifle to buy a I' SMA package. It Is the easiest way to w&jV I convince yourself, and to make Myl£*' jz!fsk I you a PERMANENT PURCHASER. W'L : I LION COKKKE ii iold only In 1 lb. waled packa#e«, 7'jfv* fjtiW I and r«achea yon as pare and clean u when It left ouj QffijJy*f M I on every package. t)av« th<M< Lion-headi for valoable premiums fl SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE The Home Paper : of Danville. Of course you read ,| IMIMB 8., | THE HEOPLE'S \ KQPULAH I APER. Everybody Reads It. Published livery Morning Except Sunday No. ii I:.Mahur.'ngfSt. 1 ! ; Subscription o cen P-r Week. . .wif LIFE IN THE MOUNTAINS. •ume of tlie UellKlit* of CnniplUK Out j In I lie ItoekleM. About dusk you straggle in with trout or game. The camp keeper lays aside his mending or his repairing or | his notebook and stirs up the cooking lire. The smell of broiling and frying j and boiling arises in the air. By the i dancing flume of the campllre you eat your third dinner for the day—lu the mountains all meals are dinners, and formidable ones at that. The curtain of blackness is drawn down close. Through it shine stars, loom mountains told and mistlike in the moon. You tell ] Horles; you smoke pipes. After a time the pleasant chill creeps down from the ! eternal snows Some one throws an other handful of pine cones on the fire. Sleepily you prepare ft'f bed. The pine ; 1 ! cones flare up, throwing their light In your eyes. You turu over and wrap the soft woolen blanket close about your ! chin. You wink drowsily, and at once > you are asleep. Late In the night you awaken to find your nose as cold as a ! dog's. You open one eye. A few coals mark where the tire has been. The mist mountains have drawn nearer; they i seem to bend over you in silent con templation. The moon Is sailing high lu i the heavens. With a sigh you draw the i ■ canvas tarpaulin over your head. In ! stantly it is morning. From"The 1 Mountains," l y S E. White. GAMBLING IS VULGAR It It* an I rritt lonul nud lunorunl For Money. j | All gambling is vulgar. Call it what j t you will, assign for It whatever iuo j tlve you please, it Is an Irrational, an i I ignoble struggle for money. - | Money got for nothing on the turning i I of a card or the revolution of a wheel ' brlugeth good to no man, not even to j i him who wins It. And to him that ! i losetli ? Sometimes perdition, often, • very often, that sinking sensation, that s tired feeling, even where the value loss Is immaterial, which follows futile ef j fort and says as plain as whisper In ! . 1 the ear, "The world's against you." j ; Gambling, like everything else. Is rel -9 atlve. The sin lies In the overplay, with Its collateral vices, chief among ! them Improvidence. The reigning sov i erelgn, who has only his money to lose, 3 and plenty of that, Is not to be classed ! s with the banker or the banker's confi dential clerk or secretary, who has ev il j erythlng at stake, character Included, V though each [days for the same eud - j Q that Is, the diversion and excitement. Asked what was the greatest pleasure i. In life. Fox said, "Winning at cards," i. | aud the next, "loosing at cards." There i- was a gambler for the love of it, and j i- yet Fox played never for high stakes after he was forty. If he played at all KILLTHI COUCH ' AND CURE THE LUNCB w,,H Dr. Kings New Discovery ONSUMPTION Price FOR I OUGHS and 50c & SI.OO Free Trial. Surest and Quickest Cure for all THROAT and LUNG TROUB LES, or MONEY BACK. LACKAWANNA kailruau BLOOMSBURG DIVISION WKHT. A.M. A M. A. M. P. v, New York .Iv lon .... 10 UU 110 P. M Scranton ar 617 151) P. M. Huifnio iv ii so iis .... A M Hcranton ar 5 sit 10 05 A. M. A. M. P. M. P. h Scrauton Iv ft> S!> *IUIU tl 56 (JSS Hellevue i Taylor «li 10 17 iUB 844 l.ackawunna 8 51) lU2I 210 ti 50 Duryea 863 10 !it( 2li 863 I'ittMon ... B loSi) 217 657 Susquehanna Ave 701 10 S7 218 B5« West Plttston 705 10 41 228 7 (tt Wyoming 710 10 46 '2'27 707 Korty Kort 281 .... Bennett 717 10 52 284 714 Kingston ar 7'24 10 56 240 720 W ilkes-Barre ar 740 11 10 250 780 Wllkes-Barro Iv 71" 10 40 23C 710 Kingston Iv 724 10 56 240 720 Plymouth June Ply mouth 785 11 05 24» 72« Nantlcoke 748 11 18 258 7^37 Hunloek's 74H 11 19 806 748 Hhlckshlnny 801 1131 B'2o 758 Hicks Kerry 811 111 48 830 112» 08 Beach Haven «1H 11 48 3 I*7 8 0t» Berwick. 827 11 54 844 817 Krlarcreek f8 82 f8 50 Willow drove f8 38 f8 54 f8 24 Lime Ridge 840 N2U9 858 Ifl'2B Kspy 846 12 15 406 884 Bloomsburg 858 12 22 412 840 K u pert.... 857 12 25 415 845 CatawlHHa WO2 12 82 422 850 Danville »15 13 44 488 »05 Cameron H24 TV2 67 448 Northumber 'd ar it 85 110 455 930 KABT A. M. A. M. P. M. P M iNorthumberl' *6 45 tl<'oo fl 50 *025 Cameron 657 f2 01 112 Danville 707 10 19 V 1! 548 CatawlHHa 721 10 82 223 558 . Kupert 726 10 87 229 601 I HloornNburg 783 10 41 288 605 , Kapy 788 10 48 240 613 Lime Ridge T44 MO 64 f'2 4£ fB 20 Willow Grove f7 48 f2 50 ..... Krlarcreek..... 7 62 f2 58 ?6 27 Berwick 757 Hub 258 684 Weecti Haven 805 fll 12 BOK 641 Hicks Kerry 811 fll 17 309 647 j Shlckslilnny 822 11 81 i2O (6 59 i H unlock a 838 ..... 381 HO9 I Nantlcoke 888 1144 838 714 I Avondale 841 342 722 Plymouth 845 lis* 847 .7 28 Plymouth June 847 .... 852 .. . Kingston ..ar 155 1159 4UO 788 Wilkes-Barre ar 810 12 10 410 750 1 Wilkes Barre Iv 840 11 40 850 730 Kingston IV 856 11 59 400 738 : l>u7.erne 858 al2 02 403 742 Forty Kort f9 00 ..... 407 ... Wyoming 905 1208 412.7 48 West Blltston 910 417 758 Susnuehanna Ave .. ®lB 12 14 420 756 x*lttston 919 12 17 424 801 ; Duryea 9 2!i 4'29 8 08 Lackawanna 9 '26 482 810 ; ray lor 932 440 817 | Kellevue ! Hcranlon.... ar 942 1285 450 825 A. M. P. M P.M Hcranton Iv 10 25 Jl 55 .... J1 10 A. M I Buffalo »r .... 755 ... 700 A. M. P. M P.M A.M i Scranton ...Iv 10.10 12.40 J8 85 *2 P.M. P.M P.M A. .V 1 New York ar 880 500 735 850 i "Dally, tDally except Suuday. | stops on signal or on notice to condaccor h stops on signal to take on passenger! for New York. Blnghamton and points west. [ T. K.CLARKE T. W. LKK 4mh Sni^rlnlf^nfl^nt. (^en. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, TIME TABLE In Effect Nov. 29th, 190 4 . A.M. |A.M.,P.M. I I Scranton(l»iiH)lv §6 hN #« 47; 143 i* 2h: I Plttston " " 705 flols|s 210 5 68| A.M P.M. P.M Wilkesbarre... IV A. M. §lO 3.V 2 4"> it Oo Plym'th Kerry "87 25 tlO 42,1 252 ffl 071 ! Nanticoke " 732 10 flOi 301 t 17; i Mocanaqua ...." 742 11 U7< 820 6 37| Wapwallopen.. " SOl II 16| 331 8 47) I Nescopeck ar slO 11 2i'»; 3427 Oo ...... A.M. | A.M. p.\l- | Pottsville lv aso >ll 55 _ ] Hazleton '' 705 ...... 245 j2 4._> I Tomhleken "l 7 22 1 3 05 305 Kern Olen " 721 815 815 Hock (Hen .... "| 7 r> 3 22 822 Ne9copeck . .. ari 802 ( alawissa 4 00 4 00 . . . A ll A.M P.M. V Mj Nescopeck lv 4s 18 sll 20 342 :7 00; Creasy "i JS 3' 11 :Hi 352 7 oi< Kspy Kerry... 'lB 4; 11 46 t 402 7 Sjtj E. Hloouisburk "| 847 11 50; 406 7 25: Catnwlssa lv 855 11 57: *l3 732 South Danville 900 12 lit 431 • 751 j I Sunbury ar 935 12 40 4 55; 815 ~~ A.M. P.M. P. M P.M Sunbury Iv-1| 9 42 §l2 4h § 518 y53 Lcwisburg.... ar 10 13 I 4"> 54« Milton •' 10 Oh 1 39| 54410 14 WlUlauisport.. " 11 00 1 41; 64010 00 Lock Haven... " 11 59 220 737 Kenovo "A.M. 800 8 30; Kane " 8 25 ! P.M. P.M. Lock Haven. .lv jl2 10 !l 3 45' Bellefoute ....ar 105( 444 j Tyrone " j 2 10 I 800 j Phlllpsburg " I 510 i 802 ; Cleartleld.... "i 6 .54 S 845 Pittsburg.... "j 655IiUi 45 A.M. P.M. P. M. P M| Sunbury lv 950s 159 10 !8 31 Harrlsburg.... ar,j 11 30;§ 3 15 i 6 50 10 10 P. M. P. M. P. M. A Mj Philadelphia.. ar,jj 3 17 jj 8 23 || 9 28 ; 4 23 Baltimore "i 5 311 BHO j 9 4-> 220 ...... Wa*nington... "jj 420|, 716 '.lO Ssj 3 30j.....« ' P. M. Sunbury lv §lO 00 § 2 1.5 Lewidtown Jc. ar 11 45 405 ; Pittsburg •' 6 55jj1045: j ~~ A M P, M P. M. I» M Harrlsburg.... lv ■ill 46 I 6 20 u 7 20 i 11<K> P.M. A M. A M. A M Pittsburg ar 112 6 551 il 16Q i| 1 50, 5 .Hi P.M. PMA M AM' Pittsburg lv 710|l 9 00! |3OO 18 00: .... I A.M A ftl PM, Harrlsburg.... ar 1 200 | 4 25ji 11 25 3 loj j i\M| IA M Plttsbuig Iv 'J 10 8 00 .... A. M.I I P 31 JJ. " 7 30, > 3 ui;.... Sunbury ar! ; 9 20 >. 4 60 .... P.M A M,A M AM Washington... lv 10 40 » 7 Wi|»lo 50 .... Baltimore " ill 00 |4 40 8 401(11 45 .... Philadelphia... " 11 A. M.j A m|a. M. P Mj Harrisburg.... lv 3 8. r >|| 7 .Vnjll 4U:; 3 25;.... Sunbury 111 5 o*' w Wij 108 5 6 181.,,. j P.M. IA M|A M Pittsburg lv ;12 46 1 8 00 ; s Oo Clearfield.... " 330 1 | 920 ■••• Pblllpsburg.. " 435 | 10 10 Tyrone " j 7 lit: il 8 101 12 25 .... Uellefonte.. "j * Hi 1 9 321 12« Lock Haven ar 915 | 10 301 210 •••• P.M. A MA Mi I'M Erie Iv J ft 35 Kane, ....."■ s 45) 6 00' 1.... Kenovo " 11 5o «ti 40| 10 30,s 1 13 ••• Lock Haven " 12 881 730 U 2ft 1 250 -- A.M.! !P M ;•••• WilllamsiKirt .. " 241 825 jl2 40 Milton •' 223 9 181 125 4 ••• Lewisburg " #OS 1 15 4 !•••• Sunbury ari 389 9 45; I 64j 6 !•••• Sunbury lv ti 45 |OM s 2 00■ 5 25 South Danville" 7 ll| i 0 17 ( 221 5 54» -♦ - • (y'atawlssa "t 32| 10 36 ' 236 ao« •••• KBloomsburg..' 37 10 431 243 6 15 1 --*- Espy Kerry " 4'J flO 47 ( o 19 •••• Creasy " 52 10 6tJ 2 ;w> « Nescopeck " 02 11 A M A M P. M < 'at a w issh Iv 10 38; Nescopeck lv 828 ... IS 505 p M Kock Olen ar 1122 •••• Kern (Hen " 851 II 2sj 5 32tj 705 •••• Tomhlcken " 85811 38 588 j .... lliizleton •' 919 11 57 5 59, 7;u •••• Pottsvllle " 10 15 150 655 7 4_» AM AMP M " 06 Nescopeck lv jit 8 02 11 Oft jj 305 ••*• Wapwallopen..ar 819 II 20 320 >1 Mocanauua .... "1 8 31| II 32 830 . g 411 •••• Nantlcoke .... "1 851 II 64 349 ' {,•_■ ■••• P Ml 7 oi .... Plvni th Kerry" f9 02 12 02 8 ft. 7 ]<i wilksbarie ... " 910 1210 405 '"'AM P M P Ml'; X, Plttston! I>A H) ar V3W 12 2i< 4 ftii Scranton " "I 10 08 108 52 J .... Weekdavs. 1 Daily. 112 Hag station. Pullman Parlor and Sleeping Cars run ou through trains between Scrbury, Wtlliamspori ami Erie, between Sunbnry and Philadelphia and Washington and between Harrlsburg, Pitts burg and the West. Kor further information apply to Ticket Agent W. W. ATTERBURY, J K. WOOD Ut-ueral Manager, Pass. Truffle Mg U KO. '-V. BUYl), Ut'U Passeugar Agent Hill lIJIL le m\ to Jo all Ms of Prilling I I (WD VII! i i irs fci. » \ 111I II ill h. : li s Rant. j ! I ir ■ i a 1 J 1 0 r A well printed tast} r , Bill or Le \) / ter Head, Post; «■ Ay A Ticket, Circulai Program, State r>J ment or Card 1 (V ) an advertisemen ? for your business, a satisfaction to you Ne« True, New Presses, ~ Best Pajer, StilM Work, " Promptness- All you can ask. A trial will make you our customer. We respectfully ask that trial. I ill II ifi ifi No. II K. Mahoning St.,
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