Kelly By GRACE THOMSON Copyright. bv 11. Sutolitle No doubt he had another name, but when the gray haired old cashier had asked what his first name was he had explained that Kelly was enough. "If I tell you the rest, you'll be callin' me some kid name, an' I'm a man uow," he announced. "I'm goin't' earn my own livin'." The cashier whimsi cally entered him upon the payroll as "Mr. Kelly," and so it had stood. Kelly had graduated to the dignity of long trousers and considered himself a veteran In the service of Edge & Lut ton when Kathleen came, a dainty, sen sitive little woman, f-esh from business school and yet very much unversed In the ways of business. She won Kelly's heart by calling him "Mr. Kelly." and thereafter any of the boys who dared play a trick on the new typewriter Invariably turned up at the office the next day with a bruised lip or d blackened optic. Few of them played more than one trick, for when he was but six Kelly could thrash any eight year-old youngster on the block. Kathleen, all unmindful of his cham pionship. merely noticed that the boys were lietter behaved, and told ber mother that life in a business office was not as hard as she had supposed it would be. "It's so very different from what we thought I should have togo through with," she explained, "and the little Kelly boy Is Just a dear." Later on, when Lutton began to take notice of the pretty typewriter, Kath leen changed her mind, but she did not tell her mother of the Invitations to drives and the theater. It was hard enough that Mrs. Lansing should be compelled to do without the luxuries to which she had been accustomed during her husband's life without having to know that the money that procured their bare livelihood was earned at the cost of keeping silent under covert In sult. Lutton was careful not to make his overtures too patent, and only Kelly saw the little things which made Kath leen's work so hard. She put aside his Invitations with a quiet dignity that admitted of no argument, and Lutton, tiring at last of a campaign of courte sy. begau to find fault. It was he who dictated most of the correspondence, and there were letters to be copied over because of some triv ial mistake. Night after night Kath leen had to remain copying letters, with only Kelly for company. And when at last she sought the street she never knew that only Kelly's presence saved her from further attention from Lut ton. waiting hi the cafe across the way. She thought it merely one of Kelly's little courtesies, never suspecting that Kelly. Idling at the window, had seen Lnttou crossing the street and had di vined his intentions. But while Kelly's presence saved her from trouble iu one way it Increased her burden In another, for Lutton, smarting under his rebuff, grew more vindictive. The firm was in a pool in Y. and M. G.. and the operations were conducted from the office. Somehow in spite of caution some facts leaked out prematurely, and the whole ojieration resulted in a crash from which the firm barely escaped with a whole credit. The whole office was uneasy. That there was a suspicion that some of the clerks were believed to be guilty of treachery was apparent, but John Edge would not have any one discharged un til his guilt was proven. "We must be careful for awhile," he had said to Lutton, when the latter urged wholesale dismissals, "but if we let every one out we could never again command the confidence of our em- ployees." Lutton let the matter drop, but when It was decided to make a raid ou Mem phis preferred and the news reached the exchange almost before the confer ence was broken up. even the senior partner was forced to admit that some thine must be done. Lutton very promptly discovered that Kathleen had access to all correspond ence of the firm and that It must have been she who in some manner had gained the knowledge that had resulted In a gain of thousands to some one on Use outside. Even then Edge did not want to work on circumstantial evidence. "Take it easy, George," he urged. "Watch her carefully, but do not dis miss her." And Lutton had smiled un der his heavy mustache. He had an Idea that he could kill two birds with a single stone. "That red ueaded kid seems pretty thick with the typewriter," he said. "I ahouldn't be surprised if they worked together. You remember he brought a telegram In Just as that Memphis deal wan put through." "Kelly V" said Edge. "Why, he's a part of the office." "All the same, I could show you"— Edge waved a protesting hand. He rouUl 11»' believe In the guilt of any • ne in t!;.'* office %'e.y well," he said wearily, "I leave the matter to you." That afternoon Kathleen waited aft er closing time to finish off her book. Kelly, as usual, constituted himself her escort, but he could not resist the temp tation to steal across the street to get the baseball scores. Lutton was there when he came back Kelly beard him before he open ed the door and stood for a moment In the hall. "So yon see." I Ait ton was saying, "I ran dismiss you. aud you will leave un der suspicion of having betrayed your •mployers. You can't K»'t a Job after that. I fancy. Now you say you'll fake lu the lieacti tins . i.m.g or I'll let you out tomorrow on ;::id that brick "trpp-d Uid. Now. give uie a kiss aud suy you'll g.>. There was a sound of a struggle, aud K .'!!}* burst int > the room. "Yon "iir wife will," was the retort. Lutton made a dive for Kelly, and the boy dodged. There was a chase around the table until Lutton, realizing that he was cutting no digni fied figure, stalked out. At the door he paused for an instant. "I was just Joking about dismissing j-ou, Miss Lansing." he said. "I beg that you will pardon me. We will say nothing more about it." The door slammed and Kelly gravely executed a double shuffle. "To a stand still," he eried Joyously. "You come on home. I guess Lut won't kick if those letters don't out tonight. If he says anything I'll fix It." There was a conference the following afternoon, aud Kelly, as his work took him in and out of the room, seemed bursting avitti ascllaamL Several times he eyed Lutton with a glitter of | triumph in his eye, and Lutton felt un- j comfortable. At last a decision was reached, and ! Sears, the head of the pool, looked around the table. "Then it is agreed that we run Tennessee Southeastern up to !M!V" he said. There was a murmur of assent. "We should make a twenty- j point profit," lie continued, "unless there is a leakage." There was a crash front the window, j and Lutton. who had gone over to ad just the shade, turned toward them with the cord in his band. "There ain't no leakage this time," announce*! Kelly Jubilantly. 1 tacked the shade down." "What do you mean," demanded Edge. For answer Kelly led him to the window. "See Cunningham's windows across the way?" he asked. "Mr. Lutton sig nals with the curtain. I got it out of . one of Cunningham's clerks. Cunning ham buys or sells according to bow Lut ton tells him, and they divide. They j made twenty thou, apiece out o' that Memphis deal. I hen he tried to blame Miss Kathleen for it." Half an hour later the discredited Lutton was leaving the office in which he was no longer a partner. He met ; Kelly coming in. "I suppose you think Miss Lansing will marry you now?" he answered. "No such luck," said Kelly placidly. "She's g «in' to be hitched to a lawyer chap uptown. The best I get 112 r mine is best man: but. say. I.ain't kickiu'; I ain't no hog." A Jadffnietit of Solomon. The ancient and tamous Holy rood Sanctuary For Debtors fell into disuse when imprisonment for debt was abol- j Ished in Scotland. The most famous worthy who took advantage ot It was Thomas DeQuincey. author of "Confes sions of an English Opium Eater." The sanctuary boundary at the foot of the Canongate was marked by a row of stones in the roadway, which was known as the Abbey strand. There is a most humorous story con nected with the institution, says the London News. A reckless debtor left the retreat and strolled up the Canon gate. lie was espied by a vigilant sheriff's officer, who promptly gave chase. The debtor turned and ran like a hare sanctuary ward. lie tripped and fell at the Abbey strand, but with his head within the protected area. All the same, he was arrested by the minion of the law and immured in the debtors quarters In Carlton jail. He sued the sheriff's officer for illegal arrest, and the court of sessions judge who tried the case gave a decision in his favor. His lordship held that the head, the Intelligent part of the man's anatomy, which contracted the debt, was within the sanctuary and thus se cure from capture. The trunk and limbs were undoubtedly liable to ar rest, but they could not be* detached from the head without fatal injury to the subject, which was contrary to the spirit of the humane law of Scotland. The Orininnl I'nnl Pry. Thomas Hill, familiarly called Tom my Hill, was.says Dr. Brewer, the original I'aul I'ry. It was from him ulso that Theodore Hook drew his char acter of Gilbert Gurney. Blanche in his "Recollections" says of Ilill: "His specialty was the accurate information he could impart on all rite petty de tails of the domestic economy of his friends, the contents *f their ward rolws, their pantries, the number of pots of preserves in their store closets and of the table napkins in their linen presses, the dates of their births and marriages, the amounts of their trades men's bills and whether paid weekly or quarterly. He luul been on the press and was connected with the Morning Chronicle, lie used to drive Matthews crazy by ferreting out his whereabouts when he left London and popping the information in some paper." Etiquette of Bygone Days. An old manual of etiquette shows that the people of bygone days were not so different from those of the pres ent. for the treatise thinks it necessary to state that one should never ask a friend where she bought her gown aud the uttermost farthing of its cost. To this rule, however, an astonishing ex ception is made. One might ask these things. it seem-, if one really wanted to get a go'vn exactly like the one In question and were therefore asking sin cerely for information. Evidently in these days, when sisters thought it smart to dross exactly alike, it was considered a uompliment to copy a friend's gown. Another interesting statement of this precious manual is that no lady looks worse than when "gnawing a bone." roe Term "O. K." The term "O. K." does not spring from an easy spelling of "all correct." It Is Choctaw. There is in that lan guage a word, "okeh," which meaus "it is correct." or "I agree or approve." It Is often used alone to give assent or approval to a suggestion or proposal. I "Okeh" was in common use among ! whites who had dealiugs with the , Choctaws more than thirty years be- I fore the Van Buren campaign. It was a convenient expression where parties \ understood each other's language im perfectly and was used to mean, "I un derstand you and approve of what you I eay," or "I understand your statement 1 and vouch for its correctness."—Bos j ton Herald. I>oii*f ll<- u Cbouae. The word chouse was formerly writ ten chiaus and is of Turkish origin. A Turkish interpreter, or chiaus, iu London in 1»u n> swindled some mer chants with whom be had dealings out j of a larg'- sum of money, aud thence forth a chiaus became the popular nume for a thief. Ben Jonson in the "AJchymist" makes use of tbe word in its original form Dapper-What do you think of me— that I am a chiaus? Face- What's that? Dapper The Turk who was here— ; as one would say, do you think I am a Turk? —Loudon Standard Monkey Willi Siifi'laolM. In tin* Itreslau Zoological garden there is a spider monkey which was operated upon for cataract and now wears glasses. For more than a year i after it v. .is received at the too it was very healthy and lively; then it became! very <|tiict. ceased to play and crouched In a corner, it was examined and found to be suffering from cataract, so was immediately taken to the eye hos pital and operated upon. In less than a month it was litted with a pair of spectacles, which it wears with becom ing gravity. .«eat, "Hold my horse, or derly." The sentry was an astute young man. He knew that the general had divined something from the manner of the in terrupted conversation. The request was merely to humiliate him before the girl. Yet his manner was respect ful, even meek, as he came to port arms again and replied, "I'm not the orderly, sir; I'm sentinel on this post." "Well, hold the horse, anyway." "The regulations don't require me to,"was the composed reply. General Barry's anger arose as a gleam of merriment kindled In the girl's eyes. "Nevertheless I command you to do It." The sentry apparently was deeply re gretful. "General orders say that I shall receive, transmit and obey all or ders from and allow myself to be re lieved by the commanding officer, the officer of the day, officers aud noncom missioned officers of the guard only. You're not any of those, sir." "Indeed!" was the sarcastic response. "And if you know your general orders fo well, how al>out the one which says 'to hold conversation with no one ex cept in the proper discharge of my duty?' Hold this horse or I'll put you in the guardhouse!" The sentry's reply was to resume his bent. Almost bursting with rape, the general took a stop or two toward Ken i nedy, but as the relief came plodding up the hill he decided, a smile of trl- | umph on his faectfiil yon can pre f. r ch.irnes, sir You're uot of our brt- | ! gade, are ,\ on, generalV" "No; l>m what of it?" "Then you had no right to ask him jto act as orderly General orders say, j I 'To receive' "Han}; general orders!" was the of j Beer's explosive Interruption. "You re | fuse to obey toi»V I'll have you re | du< ew ine. Fall in. Kennedy. Uelief, forwanl. niari'h!" And the grin | 1. e defeated General Harry | this in >ni;. ." smiled the girl. "And General Harry will do bis best l(» turn defeat into victory," was the grim ro-p-m-e as the man climbed Into the saddie. The general cursed himself for a fool «she galkvt d l»a''k to his tent. Ade sire to punish the sentry for his pre sumption i.i speaking to an officer's daughter h ■ 1 not caused his outbreak I as much as a desire to appear well be , fore the ;8r!. • He had met her the winter before I while she wax viaUtuw iu hi* bouie I town. The general iu private life was ■ a successful young attorney who bad j believed himself too busy to fall lu love, but at sight of Grace he had capitulated, During the fortnight of her stay he had made anient love and did not doubt that in time his suit would be favorably received. The girl liked him, for he was frank and hand some and not quite spoiled by success. Yet there was a l>arrier to her heart which he could 11 >t pass. She would not allow him to visit her at the little city where she lived, and he was forced to be content with the half promise that they might meet at eamp, and straight way Kandolph H irry began to count the days which must elapse before the encampment. Yet their meeting 011 the evening of the tirst day had not been encourag ing. The colonel's daughter had greet ed him as she did her other friends. And this second interview! He ground his teetli as he thought of his folly. An hour later he laid his version of the encounter with the sentry before Major General Goodwin, commander of the two brigades in camp. "Have a drink, liarry," urged bis su perior when he had finished, "and you'll probably feel better. I can't order those boys under arrest for that." 'tThis confounded young Kennedy was Impudent, I tell y< i." snarled Harry, "lie s a pretty soldier, quoting general orders to me when lie was disobeying one when I rode up! I want him in the guardhouse Just t•» square myself with (irace Van Tuyl." He clicked his spurs viciously. "Can't make regulars out of these fellows In ten days." was the conciliat lug reply. "Discipline is all right, in moderation. We can't shut down on 'em real hard. Why. this man Ken nedy owns a factory down in Trenton. He's got dead loads of money. I'm sur prised he was as decent as you admit lie was,"and the general's eyes twin kled. "Jim," returned Harry very earnest ly, "I've got to see him court martialed. I know Miss Van Tuyl well, and.and" —he hesitated a moment—"lt makes a difference what she thinks of me. You understand?" General Goodwin was silent a mo ment. When he spoke, he had dropped the half bantering manner which had marked the intervii won his part. His tone was kindly an I sincere: "I under stand, and I'm sorry—sorry I can't ac commodate you, and for another rea son. Tom Kennedy's my nephew, my sister's kid, and I've got to see him through. I told him he could have a place on my staff, but he wanted to be a real soldier, he said. So he enlisted In H company, an 1 in view of what you've said I have to tell the rest of it. but he's engaged t> Miss Van Tuyl. They're to be married in September." The younger man rose and walked to the front of the tent before he re plied. "I believe I'll take that drink, general." he said, with an assumption of his old gay maun \ "I seem to have bvM-n routed with Ins by "General Or ders' and his aid. < leneral Cupid. I drink" he removed his hat gallantly and clinked glasses with his superior— "to the future Mrs. Kennedy, God bless her"* Wnieh tin- Tliuiul>». A i»li;. siii.in ii < liarge of a well known asylum l"<>r the care of the In sane said: "There is utii* infallible test either 112 >r the appr >ach <>r presence of lunacy. If the person whose case is being examined is seen to make no use of his thumb, if In* l< ts it staiul out at right angles front tin* hand atul em ploys it neither In salutation. writlug nor any other manual exercise, you may set it down as a fact that that per son's mental balance is gone. He or she may converse intelligibly, may In every respect be guarding the secret of a mind diseased with the utmost care -ami cunning, but the telltale thumb will infallibly betray the lurk ing madness which is concealed behind a plausible demean Crai••yard Marrlaeea. A strange custom prevails among a certain tribe In the < aucasus. When a single young man dies, some one calls upon a bereaved parent who has car ried to the grave a mr ignnble daugh ter in the course of a year and says: "Your son is sure to want a wife. I'll give you my daught r. and you shall de liver to me the mat; ,: "-»• portion in re turn." A friendly oflVr of this descrip tion is never rejectc I n I the two par flcs som come to li mis as to the amount of the dowry. whi< - h varies ac cording 1 > 'he ad'. Itages possessed by the girl in her lifct : t:n». cases have been kn >••. ri w' ere *!i • y >"r ; mail's fa lh"r !n - givin as i . s cows to secure a dead wi.'e 112 hi-; dead *0:1. I>»K Tried, ConvioU-d nnil Handed. William Chambers, the famous Eng llsh publisher, once related au extraor uinary story of a >h -cp thief hanged at Peebles and buried at crossroads with a stake through his body. The remarkable feature of the case was that the thief's dog was tried for aid ing and abetting in the crime, convict ed, hanged and buried al >ng with its master. It was proved at the trial that the man when out with the animal used to tiKU« ..n- to it . ..nue particular | flock of --lie. i> Uf Avin:After reach ing home tli" dog rd wined io tlio place, rounded up tlie sliee;> and by devious ways, and only after dark, drove them home. There they were kept for some days and their owners' marks destroy ed or "faked." They wore then grad ed with others legitimately purchased ami driven to the 1 Im;!i-ii ninrketn J J. BROWN THE EYE A SPECIALTY Eyes tested, treated, fitted with *iass * artificial eyes supplied. Market Street. Bloonisburg, Pa. Hours —10 a in. t'> sp. m. mm! A. Reliable TIN SHOP ror all kind of Tin Roofing, Spoutlne and General Job Work. Stoves, Heatere, Ranees, Furnaces, eto. PRICES THE LOTO! QUALITY TUB BEST! :© • JOHN HIXSON NO. 118 £. i'RONT 81'. G- Q Racing ike liy CLAUDINE SISSON Copyriulit. IWB. I• \ K. That Keswick, after a college course, should return to Vaudon and take a place as mot trman on the Yaudou and Arverne trolley line was a little more than a nine days" wonder in Yaudon, where the Kcswicks had lived for half a century. <;'-e;:t promises had been made on Kenton Keswick's behalf when he de cided to take a p >rti >n of his father's insurance money and complete his col li go course, and it was eonlideutly pre dicted that he would make a name for himself in the city beyond when his four years should be up. Instead lie had quietly returned to his old home and had applied for and obtained a place as motorman on the new line just completed t > Arverne. Even Horace Custis had been some what surprised at Hen's request to be put on a car. "We could use you here in the office. Hen," he suggested as he swung ar nm.l in his <>t!ice chair. "No, thank you," was Itenton's quiet rejoinder. "I want to know something about trolleying before I sit in front of a roll top desk, and I guess the front platform of a car Is as good a place as any from which to study." So Custis had let him go, and that •'veiling when Dorothy Custis remon strated with him for not doing better by the son of his old friend he laid a hand on her shoulder. "Dot." he said kindly, "for your sake as well as for the sake of poor Tom Keswick 1 would have been glad to put the boy to work in the office, but a col lege education has not spoiled him. and I gave him the place for which he asked." Dorothy, blushing to find that her secret was known to her father. lied to her room, and after that, the subject was dropped so far as the Custis household was concerned. Yaudon was more interested, how ever, and tii.'re wre many who freely remarked t!,: t If Ken Keswick could not do betti-; than a motorman's job after all tlui schooling it v uiild have been better had he lo.d himself in the city. Meanwhile I. n stuck to the motor man's box, and in a short time he was reg.uVc 1 as the host operator on the road. He knew every curve and grade on the eighteen miles of track, and his car was never late, because no matter what the delay he knew how to favor the work an I come up to the Vaudon station on time. Once when there had been a break at the power house which shut off the power from the line for twenty min utes he had laced the accommodation from the brook crossing to the station and had beaten it bv three minutes. It was an eight mile run from the cross ing to the station by trolley, but the railroad took a curve to avoid cross ing Arverne creek twice and had four miles farther to go. Dorothy was a frequent passenger on the car. and il was natural that she should avail herself of her privilege as daughter of the president of the road to ride on the front seat with the mo torn.an. If she happened to take the car oil which Ken was the motorman It certainly had the appearance of an ao cldent. and not even Vaudon talked about it which was surprising. Those rides were precious times to Kenton as he stood at the controller ami nursed the heavy car over the tracks. Once when he had been late and was hutr;. ing to make up his time she had looUed up with glowing eyes as lie helped her down the step. "I'd just love to be with you sotra time when you are making a real fast run." she smiled, ami he, smiling back into the eager eyes, had replied: "If I ever have to make a real fast run I'll let you know." She was talking of his promise as they sped toward the town one evening I 'Die Home Paster ! ii ' i of Danville. | i % i 1 Of course you read a■ a I i' IF I I j \ 1 ! ' i | THE fiEOPi-E'S jl KOPULAR 1 APER. i i Everybody Reads it. : I ! Published livery Morning Except Sunday ;j* No. II b. Ma ho ng St. ! ' I Subscotion o cei i'-r Week. in August. There had been a dance out at Arverne lake, and Dorothy had left eariy to meet her father. A celebration was being held some thirty miles up the road, and her father was among the inviie l guest . They were coming home on a special train, the governor and his staff and half a hundred oth ers. The train was due at Vaudon at about the same time as the special, and Dorothy had left the party early in order to be home to meet her father. Once or twice Ken had let out the car on level stretches to see her eyes flash with excitement and had crept along the harder parts to keep his schedule even. They were taking it easy along the i stretch by the creek when, as they ap- j proaehed the railroad, they spied a i headlight up the track. There was plenty of time, and rather : than t .e chances Ken stopped on the near s ie < 112 the crossing and rested on the sea I a moment as the light drew nearer. A ; it flashed past there was a cry from Dorothy. In the moonlight she! saw that there was no one iu the cab. i "Did you see';" she demanded exelt edlv as she grasped Ken's arm. "Kunaway." he assented. "The train." she gasped. Ken's face j grew hard. Tie - wa.-s a construction camp up ; the 112 ' ;i : !u recognized this as the 1 engine of the work train. There had been threats made against the governor by some of the foreign laborers, and they ha 1 probably sent the engine adrift in the hope of obstructing the track and wrecking the train. If the fires burned down it would ome to a halt on the track, and !f tn« engineer of 'he special did not see It there v uid be a wreck. If the tires kept up steam, there might be an even more dangerous collision while the en gine was in motion. Ken turned to the conductor. There were but the three on the car. "Don't 10.-.e the wire!" he shouted as he turned toward the front. He bent over Dor othy. "Hold tight!" he cried. "Here is y.jiir fast run!" And he turned on tho current. For a moment there was a whir as the motor gained speed, and then they v.re on'. Ken knew that he must reach the station before the special left or there would be no hope. In another moment they were running at top fpet d, and the car swayed and rattled is though it would leave the track. Hut Ken knew every dangerous spot, and the sped along, slowing down at the curves just enough to hold to the rail . The gong rang almost constant ly at the crossings, but there was little traffic. and they had a clear road through. Once or twice a teamster pulled up suddenly and swore as the rush frightened his horses. Dorothy's eyes blazed with excite ment as she clung to the *eat. She guessed why the run was being made, and even her fear for her father did I not sp .11 her enjoyment of the speed. She h d conlideii.-e in Ken. At 11st tliey were in the village and : wire speeding up the street. He slowed up as much as lie dared, but he could hear the panting of the engine and knew that the special was already In the station. There would not be a long st >p. -uid he gritted his teeth as he threw on full power again, for in 1! e d : st)ince he heard the rattle of the wildcat. One game showed him that the en j.iue oft 112 special was below the only siding tli's side of the station. There W . IM til:» • I > back and throw open a ,:n .i' !i. ih" t iigine would be upon the 'trio before anything could be done. He - aiidieii hinsclf of this and made u;> hi ; mind quickly. He shut off the power and ground down the brakes, stop; tig in the center of the track. He spnig to Doroihy and, catching her up iu his art's. j imped from the car and st.ggeivd av.ax from the track. Another instant and a crash told that t'.e wildcat had run into the car. He set the girl down and turned to see. ngine had been thrown complete ly off the track, and the special was j safe. In a daze he received the congratula 'is showered noon him until he heard the president of the railroad company speaking. "We are »illir to putin several trol ley lines." tie was saying, "and we want jest such a quirk witted chap as yourself as general manager." IIP looked at Dorotliy, and Dorothy's eyes said "Yes." S1I«» had known all aloii'_ r t!i 'i he was seeking practical ex perience for just sucli a post as this, anil lliey v.ere to he married when he had won. A Siorj of ( urncxic llif Hoy. ' ! 011 -e visited Dunfermline, Mr. Car iii'gie's birthplace," said a Chicago i "They told me there a story ai -)i:t 111 J is that illustrated the tenacity and perst era nee of his childhood, his bulldog determination to ride down every obstacle and reach the end. "It seems that at the little Dunferm line sdto >1 the master called Andrew ii)> our day and asked him how much seven limes nine was. "The bi,r, unable to hit on the an swer i:iii!:e.liately, began togo over the entire table: ""Twice nine is eighteen, thrice nin» is twenty-seven, four times nine is thirty-six, five'— "i>ut the master interrupted im patiently " "No. no.' he said. 'Give me the an swer :-:r!' ! .;-'.t off.' "After some thought the boy again: •' "Twice nine is eighteen, thrice nine is twenty-seven, four times'— " 'No. Straight off.' repeated the master. " "ilaud yer gjb, man,' the boy cried passionately. "Ye've spoilt me twice, an' do ye want to spoil me a third time';'" A Literary I oiucldrnre. "My father, W. ('.ark l'ussell," said Herbert IJussell in telling of a literary coinci lein e, "lml finished maturing the plot of iiis novel, 'The Death Ship,' which is a version of the legend of Yan derdecken. | was his amanuensis at the time. He said to me. "Tomorrow we will begin the story.' On the fol lowing morning when I entered his study to take his dictation of the open- j ing lines lie showed nie a letter he had j just received. It was from W. S. Gil- j bert, th<- well known dramatist, asking j him why ho did not write a novel I about the Flying 1 mtchmap-" Alninnt lliiinan Intelligence. Mrs. Mcßryde—John, I'm simply dls j gusted. While I was out this mornin the cat got into the pantry and ate ! every single thing except a cake I had Just baked. Mr. Mcßryde—What a wonderful thing animal Instinct is, to j be sure!— Cleveland I.eader. I have seldom known any one who , deserted truth in trifles that could be j trusted in matters of importance.— Paley 1 rude Aiipemtinnnii. Dressmakers will not "fit" with I black pins, and regard it as unlucky to j tack with green cotton. Milliners re- j gnnl as of happy augury the drop of blood falling on n hat from a pricked finger.—London Notes and Queries. The Hnlr Hewtorer#. Dollie— He promised to send back my lock of hair, but he hasn't done it yet. Mollie-That's the way with these hair restorers—all promise and no performance. To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind In a velvet sheath. -George Eliot Her Coarse Lauftli. George You are not calling cn Miss Rosebud any more, oh? Jack—No; I j;ot disgusted. She has such a coarse laugh. George— I never noticed that. •Ja'*k Von would if you'd been within h<". !• ))•;' wli i I proposed to her. —New York W-ekly. KILLTHC COUCH AND CURE THE LUWCS T Dr. King's New Discovery /CONSUMPTION PRICE FOR 2 OUGHS and 50c & SI.OO Free Trial. Surest and Quickest Cure for all THROAT and LUNG TROUB LES, or MONEY BACK. 1 A» KAW ANNA RAILROAD k —BLOOMSBURG DIVIS; ON Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. In Effect Jan. 1, 1905. TRAINS LEAVE DANVILLE. {EASTWARD, r7.07 a. m.daily lor Bloomsburg, Kingston, Wilkes-Barre iiud Scranton. Arriving Scran ton at 9.42 a. m., and connecting at Scranton with trains arriving at Philadelphia at 8.48 a. iu. and New York City at 8.30 p. in. HUM a. m. weekly for Bloomsburg, Kingston, \V i Ikes- Barre. Scran toil and intermediate sta tions, arriving at Scranton at 12.35 p. m. and connecting tliore with trains for New York City, i'hiladelphia and Buffalo. ! 2.11 weekly for Blooms burg, Kingston. Wilkes Barre, Sc run ton and intermediate stations, arriving at Scranton at 4.50 p. m 5.43 p. m.daily for Bloomsburg, Espy, Ply inoutii, Kingston. Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, Scranton and intermediate stations, arriving at Scranton at -.25 p. m. andconnecting there with trains arriving at New York City at 6.50 a- m.. I'bilar'elpeia 10 a. m.and Buffalo 7a. m. TRAINS ARRIVE AT DANVILLE. I 9.15 a. m. weekly from Scranton, Pitts ton, Kingston, Bloomsburg and intermediate sta tions, leaving Scranton at 6,85 a. 111., where it connects with trains leaving New York City at 9.80 p. in., Philadelphia at 7.02 p.m. and I Buffalo at lU.HO a. m. I 12.41 p. m.daily from Scranton Pittston, 1 Kingston, Berwick. Bloomsburg and interme diate stations, leaving Scranton at 10.10 a. in. and connecting there with train leaving Buff alo at 2.25 a. m. 188 p. in. weekly from Scranton, Kingston. Berwick, Bloomsburg and Intermediate sta tions, leaving scranton at 1.55 p. m.» where It connects with train leaving New York City at 10.00 a. in., and Philadelphia at 9.00 a. m. it n."i p ni. daily from Scranton. Kingston, Pittston, Berwick. Bloomsburg and interme- I dints stations, leaving Scranton at 6.85 p. in., I where it connects with trains leaving New York City at 1.00 p. in., Philadelphia at 12.00 I p. m.and Buflolo at 9.31 a. m. T. K. CLARKE. Uen'l Sup't T. W. LKK. (ien. Pass. Agt. Pennsylvania RAILROAD. S< liriliile In KfTftl January I, ISMMS. 1 Trains leave South Danville as follows: ! Fort. alawissa. Fast Bloomsburg. Nescopeck, Naniicoke. Wilkes-Harre. riltston. Scran and intermediate stations.T.ll a in.. 2.21 ami 5.50 p. in wt*k days.and 10.17 a. in.daily l or sunbiiry and intermediate statlonß.9.ooa in.and 7.51 p. m. week days, and 4.8; p. in. I dally. | . Kor Sunbury only, 12.10 p. ni. week days. For Pottsvllle. Uet-ding. and Philadelphia, 7.11 a. ni and 2.21 pin. week days __ For Hazleton. 7.11 and 10.17 a. m„ 2.21 ond 0.50 p. ni. week days, l or l.ew isbnrg.Willianisrort and Lock Haven «.i no a. in.. 12.10 and 4.31 p ni week days; for Willianisport and Intermediate stations.7.sl p. ni. fft'i'K days. For Beliefonte Tvrone. Pliilipsburg. < lear tield. and Pittsburg. 9.00 a. ni. and 12.10 p. in. week days. For llarrislinrg and iulermediale slations d.oo a. in., 12.10, 4.31, and7.sl p. m. week days; 4.81 p.tni. Sundays. 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