The Man Who Arrived \— > i B> CLAUDE PANARES \ ) } -^-O A- I'.r!j>' 'lie vi- i t »wn of 2.<>00 inhabitants and I wasted a fair hotel. . there 1.1 l«-. !t arrivals there by train ! ,r \i.u - tint they w.Ti' what might ' .. i.-i 1 im rjii.iv arrivals. l»nnn- ; i.-r- i•:19< 1 the town a visit; men when j i,».: f.r nfi opportunity to no into j * miM <-oine that way; stran- ( (•«■!'- ul.o «';dn't always unburden them- j t<>th<* Inquisitive landlord would | ifMne and go. I ieh and every guest re j eH\«il more or less public notiee. hut j ''r*»j»j 1 out <*f mind when lie dropped ; iwt of sight. Th«» mm u' . titi.-tll \ arrived slip|>ed li »•» <|lliell. that lie had b«-en a gllest for three or four days lief-it was &m> lly K;. »wu that he was present. He \ ilked up from the depot in-tead ■f tiding In the bus and paying a ■|Uarter extra 11 »*■ didn't make a rush for the bar as « >on as he arrived. Ho lidn't cusk the train for l<eing late ■>r CUSH the town on account of the uII ies In 'he streets lie took the Hudknl into his eoiitideiK-e at on« e and •vpUine l timt H>- WHS In |KK»r health iiiid might spend a month lu reeuperat ,lb ><• sup|HT and then s.tt down ■ . t:.' Parro .in and sniok.il and dozed aud .ti - - end but few questions nnl -k<d none at all, and It was the gen oral verdict before he went to bed that he didn't amount to shavings compared with othiT arrivals. <ieorge K Jones, as the man who nr rtv.-d ha<l given his name, moved about • iwu for the nest week without al traetlng any particular notice and hh >ut nnv cue caring partlcularly ibout his health The landlord of the hotel had Just t «la a friend of his that .lon«*s was apparently a softy, who had tired hit self out in wondering why a iff- .- iiilll turiad to the right instead ~112 left, when he was asked for a private Interview. He instnntly made up hi-, i: jnd that Jones want»*d to stand him off. but he granted the request. In two minutes there was a great -♦ormatiou. Jones of the sleepy tram, »«w*atne as alert •ye» and lagging feet us a fo\ lie acknowledged that he ' a.l re_: tered under a false name; he roiifc~.i tiiat he was not what he -ee:n«-d, he owned up that he was at the head of a detective ageney and ready to do lwtsiness with his host on fhe i .-.-t liU-ral terms. There hadn't ■••• i any erime of anj aeeouut around P.- -\ ill.' ir several years. but this state of affairs could not last much !on*;«-r There would lie a crime wave sweeping pretty soon, and his agency wanted to lie in it and make most of the arrests antl receive most of the rewards. lie wis there in advance of the wave to lay his wires. He wanted to make 112 tlie landlord a detective v real old etjth ..f the first order and he had a print« '1 ■ ommisslon duly dated aud .nil that would l«e exchanged for a lwenty dollar bill The landlord was to «i«.t toliltera and murderers as fast - < they turned up and *eiid in his re ! -oi ts and r«v!ve half the rewards. It dM not take the proprietor of the IrS• • i mi<r live minutes to decide on liUDillic over. His income from the leteetlv.- business would not be less 'han a yeitr and might run to •'ree t that, and his opportunities ;..r '"sjNitting" were Al. of course he was told that looking \ and sawing wood was the founda tion of deteetne work and given many ••r!«'i! i structio-.s, and half an hour inter In- was down In his bar and all .g u three or four old toilers he had known tor fifteen years and wonder - :ng wl -h of them waa plotting mur d«-r That evening he picked out no le--s than wn-u men to keep an eye on . 112 ituie. and it generally remark I t1...t he seemed more alert than usual Next day the man who arrived saun- I Into the Inery stable, lie had .'intend lu there liefore. talked horse • r a I - n .uti-s and then sauntered out j n. much to the disgust of the owner This time he didn't talk horse. Ihe liveryman was all alone, but he - • as taken to the rear end of the barn ; t.» » communicated with. Mr. Jones 'idi. •' ■ I that he had a bead on him. Jooi"- ! I also noticed that he had an ••ye like an eagle aud a perspicacity that enabled him to tell a horse from a cow on sight. The liveryman was flattered He eouldn't help but In*. lie had tieen called a fool often enough for trying to conduct a livery business a a county where there were 2»U sep arate. d stiuct and steep hills and to find that all the people had lieen wrong atiout it all the time was like pouring I sweet oil on a burn. Aft r an hour's conversation tlie man of hor- -ail buggies gave up $25 and j received n commission to act as detec tive He was not to lie confined to any one sort of rrline. but could go ahead ami do ' .usHie**s with criminals of all -.•r's of age or sex Hefore Mr Jote*« had left the stables the new ly made detective had made up his mlod to keep an eye on the landlord of the hot •! He had long si"-, eted that eouuterfelt uioney was made In the garret of the Clarion. Tie- man who arrived took another -auuter that day He sauntered In t j Mrs Basi-omb, who kept a small milllne r y and notion store, lb- had not come for a fall hat or a pajier of halrj. i" What lie had come for he re lated In wh!-per*. accompanied by n <"onfidentlal demeanor. Ills agency needed women detectives. A word eaupht op now and then as a womaa etwton. »r w s trying on a hat or bny i } ■ • mi, it lead to the nn e-»rthi:i of a .. -..t mystery. Mr- "I was loeated next to t!i" j-. ..<( . i" could keeji her eye o.i the p nun r. Tiiere was a hlack stnith >• v '.'jsisite she could have the sii ij at. : !i his customers under ' oust a i.t espoaiL-e. As It was dull ti::ie* i.i the . imeiy business. It took i full 1 t to make Mrs. Has eomb p twi 'i >; iin csish lu exchange : for a 'i lei » s 1.1 ;ul-sion, but she finally pai and v. is advised to "<jw»t" all men mailing let 1 ter* at night after the p mtotfloe had rlndnt I Miring the next w««ek tut* man who arrlve»i was on the saunter most of the time Tlie two dry goods merehants aud one of the grocers refused to buy commission* on account of religious or some other scruples, but everybody else approHched had onlj to !»• talked to for a few minutes to pay a priee. If they wouldn't pay the price was L-radually n*dueed to s."i The arrest of a single murderer, they were told, would make them i;i»id a thousand tunes over Not less than twenty women were includi-d In Mr Jones' list, and when i«» . is. 'in i* ''»•*. iije'its in ?li ; . town ho worked tho surrounding coun try Not a farmer or a farmer's hired i;mil turned hint down. It happened ia several cases tlmt both the farmer and hi- man took commissions and were instructed to wntch each other. When Mr. Jones departed he left mof' than a hundred detectives behind . him to wati h for the coming of the crime wave. They were to mako re port* to the home office whenever they struck a clew. Not oa their life or lives wei they to give away the fact that the.\ were working for the agency or Keeping their eyes peeled. Craft, ctin i lug and silence niust lie the order of tho day. miring the next two months Brlggs- ! ville hail an un<*nmfortablo time of it. | Lvcry one had a feeling that he was under espionage, and his feeling \ya,s rluhl There was prowling about by d: and l>y night Men and women sit ting in their church pews of a Sunday j trhu ->1 around In a auspicious manner and forgot all about the sermon. Hoys and girls of tender years found them selves shadowed and went home to toll fathers and mothers who were shadow ing some one else. It was at n church sycial that the grand expose occurred. Mrs. Buscomb hi uglit It about by charging tho cross eyed cooper with mailing a letter at midnight This wtis in revenge for his hogging down more than his share of the ice cream. In live minutes It came out that there were about forty detec tive- present and that each one had been spying on the others, and then a five for all scrap occurred, and the po lice made several arrests. This brought out the whole plot and laid bare the character of the man who arrived, and there was weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. That was ten years ago, but the de-> tectlves of Bripgsvllle have never for given each other. The crime wave has not arrived, but they glare and shako their fists at each other. And In some locality the man who arrived Is arriv ing again and repeating his perform ance. I)|M*r Jl I n«l«*r A contemporary account says: "At the first performance of 'La Travlata' the tenor, Crazianl. took cold and sang his part throughout In a hoarse and al most inaudible voice. M. Varesl, the baritone, having what we would call a secondary role, took no trouble to bring out the dramatic Importance of this short but capital part, so that the ef fect of the celebrated duet between Yioletta and fSermond In the second net was entirely missed. Mme. Pona telll, who Impersonated the delicate, sickly heroine, was one of the stoutest ladles on the stage or off It, and when at the beginning of the third aet the don or declares that consumption has •wasted away the young lady and that she cannot live more than a few hours the audience was thrown into a state of perfectly uproarious glee, a state very different from that necessary to appreciate the tragic action of the last act." No wonder that "La Traviata" made a fiasco under these trying olr cumstances! Vet when more adequate ly performed the opera soon became an Immense favorite with audiences of all nations, and Verdi had no reason to remember the disasters attending its , first appearance In public. Attnrku on Royalty. The king most often and must seri- : oiisly shot at was Louis Philippe, Mho , somehow was never hurt by his would j be assassins The most desperate at tempt was made by Fleschl. tho Cor j sican, who operated with an infernal machine, lie was once fired upon at | such close quarters that the flash of the pistol set fire to tlx' bonnet of Queen Marie Amelle, who sat beside him In ; a carriage. Hut one serious attempt j was made to assassinate Napoleon I. It was with an Infernal machine. Na poleoti 111. had two narrow escapes. One was when the Orslnl bombs ex ploded around his carriage, and the other was at the Bols de Boulogne, when a bail meant for his guest, Alex ander I , whizzed by his ear and shot hi« aid de-camp's horse. — London News. ON THE SPIRE Thrilling I t In th«» Mfi* off JaitttN I i (M'ttiiiit 1 lark#'. When James Freeman Clarke was it young man he visited Salisbury, Kngluud Here the beautiful cathe dral lifts it- spire l"4 feet into the itlr ihe spire is topped by a ball, und on the ball stands a cross. From the ground the ball looks like an orange, but Its diameter is really greater than rt man's height. Workmen were repairing the spire. Mr Clarke saw them crawling round the slim steeple In the golden after noon like bugs on a bean stalk. The Impulse came to hlrn to climb the spire and stand on the horizontal beam of the cross Accordingly at dusk, when the workmen had left, the young American slipped in and made his way up the stairs to the little window which opened to the workmen's stag ing To run up the scaffolding to the bail was easy. Then came the slightly more bulging curve of the ball. A short platform gave him foothold. He reached up, put his hands on the base of the cross and pulled himself up. To gain the cross arm was merely "shinning" up a good sized tree, and Sf ;i he st ion the horizontal timber ai d. reachim. up, touched the top of the cross. After enjoying his moment of exalta tion he slid to the foot of the cross, and. with his arms round the post, slipped down over the croat abdomen Of the ball. II s feet touched nothing. Th» little plank from which he had reached up was not there! Ilere was a peril and one for a cool he id and sure • <■ of course lie could not l'i-i\ do- a The hugging hold that !■ h ito op on the bottom of the ci ,-is shorten I'd the reach of his body n: I made it less than when he had Ft id on the plank and reached up to th • cross with his hands. He must drop ■ i that h . feet should meet the pi nk for lie would never be able to pi himself li.ack if lie should let him si if d I'.VII it irius" leugth, and his feet hung o er empty air. Now his good he id began to work. He I<i!;ed up at the cross and tried t re ill o\ ■ •!I the angle at which he li I i'i hi | for It.to make Ids mem 1 11 hint Just h >w the edge of that square post had appeared. A few Inches t.i if:- right or to the left would mean dropping into vacancy. Bonding his head away back, he sir >-d hi-- eye up the cross and fig iii*i ■* I hi angle of approach. lie cau lloush wori-H'd himself to the right and made up III* mind that here direct h nnoi'i his fiH-t must be the plank Then lie dropped The world knows that he lived to tell the tale. 4IIKC. Hn band What has become of those Ind ■-•■tructiblf toys you got last week? Wife They ; >• out on the scrap heap, along with li e Indestructible kitchen utensils. —Li > e Obstinacy is the mask under which Weakness bide* its lack of firmness.-- Pan in. Mrs. Monteith's Country Cousin By EDITH M. DOANE fopiirifiht, ,ha II li. ' .V little way beyond Sheffield tlio I'ittsf.eld express stopped in tl»' open country. Jack Austin leaned back in I : - seat in tin- drawing room «-;ir aii.l gloomily viewed tlio discouraging vista ot mud ami driving easterly rain outside. He ilid not yearn for a week end in the wilds of New Knglaud in March, but Monteith's wife bud set her heart upon celebrating her husband's birthday at their country house, so Austin, being fond of Monteith, held his peace and wisely submitted to the Inevitable. Mrs. Monteith's note had not tended to brighten the prospect. Mv little co ;-in liutn ill. country. Kit tle Adams, w: Ibe ih-r. |th- l' tt< r ran] j and I shall <V p< 1 upon you a a Pick's friend to see that he enjoys herself, this is her flit experience in "sc iety." Kate Reynolds. the western helr-ss, whom i verj ■ • v : wll I about at Bar Harbor I . a - iramw. Is back from and will he l. r< ' o All the men aro sure to l» it he- t". et. and ft is only be cause 1 know your aversion t" the mod ,rn .-iy I- that I dare ask you to look ni l' r Kittle. < 'ordi.illy. DORA MONTEITH. lie i','li a I orrible conviction that he coi. 1 neve;- : :nd three days of it, but I;' ie i" u rst lie could be ii 1 -.ok t i New York by ur gent 1. ; r. . and if he must be drag ' ' '' E "WILL YOU TELL MR II '1 HI 111 IS ANY I) AN !It ?" god about th«« chains of the country cousin were preferable to the golden ones of the heiress. He hardly noticed at lir-t that the train had stopped, but when the stop page continued and one man niter an other g >t up and went out his curiosity was aroused, and he followed tliein out into the chilly, drizzling raiu. On the track ahead a confused lilnck heap was piled up. A freight train bad been wrecked, h)W no one knew No one was hurt, but it was an awkward business, and there was no saying how soon the rails would be clear. There was a ce.talu comfort in the thought that each hour added to the Journey meant one less with the country cousin. Jack Austin reflected grimly, swinging himself up the steps of tin. 1 ear, disgust written In the set of his broad shoulders, in every line of his face. Suddenly as he passed down the aisle ou his way to his seat a voice ex claimed: "Mr. Austin!" and then, "1 am sorry I to trouble you, out," anxiously, "will you tell nie If there Is any danger?" Austin turned pulled his cap from his head and found himself staring in blank surprise Into the face of a tall, dark eyed girl, wh > eyed him with a mix ture of amusement and apprehension. "I—l beg your pardon," he stam- 1 utered. "Is there any danger?" she repeated ; anxiously. "Oh, no; none whatever. I hope you were not frightened," he replied, pull ! Ing himself together as well as a man can who is face to face with a distract- Ingly pretty girl. "1 confess it did startle rne." He stood silent, looking down at her. "Hut of course," demurely, "I am not frightened now." "I wonder. If you'd mind telling me," he said Irrelevantly, "how you came to know my name?" She laughed, and a wave of color dyed her face a delicious pink. "With the Initials on your bag and a photograph at Mrs. Monteith's who talks a great deal of Jack Austin—it was not very dldieuit to make two and two Into four." A sudden light •illuminated Austin's brain. So this charming apparition was the "little country cousin." lie would not have jumped so quickly t > his con elusion had lie not dimly remembered that Mrs. Monteith had mentioned her | coining on this train. "Other people can make two and two into four," he returned radiantly. "I am delighted to meet • ou. Miss Adams." It was easy t> - that she was tre mendously sm 'i<ed. "How did you know?" she Ued and laughed, and then she l igl ed again. "Tele| ithy," he responded. "I am -..real i! it You would be surprised if I told you -11 1 know aliout you." •To examp!••?" •'Tli I you i! e in a small, but de lightful country town." " A ml V" "That you are about to make your lirst plunge i!.• i that much overrated whirlpool society." "oh," she said, how can you tell? It is wonderful!" She laughed again, subj-idlvg on her chair in her merri ment. "If you'll let me sit down," lie said. I'll complete the picture." While lu. l u - bad taken off hlc heavy uNtor ud thrown it over the back of t';e va ant chair beside her. I have !• u l of you from your cousin, Mrs. Monti :tlt," he said gently, j She told rue ! •<!i!!ieiilt it w to get you away an IliiM.de e i for luck's I. rt! No that it all wrong." The iliou 'it oi all this lovell ties wa li: unappreciated In Hlll dale lent a ed Ivor to his voice "You are bo I to ha a jolly time at the Mont' l h * "But it will be so different from Illlldale. So many people." Some thing perilously dose to a smile touch ed her lips. nil that," tranquilly. "Think how nervous I shall be before I i!,i Tho introductions - the first din ners." '•Hut I am to take ymi into dinner," he returned contentedly. Truly the fates had been exceedingly kind. She pin need at him swiftly. "How i rlo yon know?" "Mrs. Monteith promised." "Sure you won't regret it?" Tie eved her reproachfully, and she laughed again. -I»o yon know the rest of the party?" He mentioned what names he knew. • \ rii I the new western heiress," he added. "Who is she?" "Miss Uevii -Ms. I doubt if you will care for her. She has had a lot of at tention. and I dan; say her head has been turned by It." "Oh!" "I in ver saw a beautiful heiress yet who was 11 1 )t spoiled." he said tran quilly. The girl flushed and bit her lip. Their conversation became so engross ing that when at last the train after much wheezing protest began slowly to move they scarcely noticed It until I the braken; n opened the door. "Next station Lenox!" tie bawled. As the train slackened speed Austin helped her Into her fur coat, threw on , his own coat with a jerk, seized her posst si ijjs and his and helped her out on tl: • wet platform, where a carriage was waiting. The drive was not a long one, and tlie carriagt » 11 stopped before a ram blint stone house. At the sound of the wheel • the lo >r flew open and Mrs. Monteith peer. I out into the darkness. Tl.e ( Hi" e !• nip ! me on the faces of the arrivals. "Oh, Dick, if: .lack Austin, and Kate lieyn 'ids is wiili hint." she cried. Later, as U'-s Heynolds was about togo to her room, .lack Austin stopped her at t • f"«>t of Hie wide staircase. "I owe yen a humiliating explana tion." lie be -in "You do, biit 1 will si>are you," she niile 1, hi.ldi g ■ ;t her hand in friend ly fashion. She did not despise him, then, for be ing such a sublime idiot, lie flushed with hupp n< <)n tin- srcoiid stair she turned to him again. Her eyes danced with mis chief. "Remember you promised to take me to dinner!" Mrs. Monteith glanced at them, tlien looked rut fully toward a tall lean girl ' standing awkwardly on the hearth f'Ug. "Poor Kltt\!" she sighed. I.ui'li y. "Of course, like umM of your class," renmrke 1 the < yni- al < d. "you are su perstitious N > doubt you consider the horseshoe a gn of goiul ludl." "It is," rep'ied the sporting gent, "if it goes un I r the w ire lirst on your horse.'' Philadelphia I'ress. Of Vltttirhinr; liileiTMt. "Aside fr-i-ii the principle involved and in a• 1.1 it. Nt! reto," remarked the groat tinancier, "the banking business Is one of absorbing Interest." Toledo Illade We dare not tr 1 o':r wit f>r niak iu-,' our li use |k . nt to our friends, ami »we b.iy Icecream.- Emerson. ( on r:; rr». •'lines y iur boy .1 h take after you?" "So:: e," ■!nsw.'i-.'d Parmer Corntos sel. "lie doesn't like work any more than I '1" The only difference is that he has t!..• era eof his convictions.** —Wash in.:'o tar. lie Is v sl!Vii il !• rued that knows how to do well and lias power enough to rffraii from evil—Cicero A l"li n lor tit n n !!>n 11 * in. Rronson Ale", tlie Concord philoso pher onei !. Ide • strong and almost unanswerable plea for cannibalism. "If ynu are going to eat meat at all." ar gued the Y aikee Plato, "why not eat the best?" ZULU WAR TACTICS. Metlioil of Mtflfk Willi llie ( rr«oent Formal lint. Zulu military tactics are associated with the name of Tyaka, the ruthless Zulu conqueror, who welded into the sttvck ot tli Amazulu.'the people of the heavens, .ill the young men of the va rious tribe- he conquered, incorporat ing them into regiments aad thus building up a powerful military na tion. Yet it was t'i Dinglsiwayo, the wanderer, that the inception was due. This man, the son til the chief of the Pmtctwa, w - driven into exile In con sequeuce t 112 an abortive plot to seize the reins of po 1 ei During that exile lie lived in Cape Colony and saw the military methods of the Mritish. With instinctive genius he saw how the idea could be adapted to his own nation, and on his return -I !J.] divided his people into regiments. d;s tinguishing them by names and by a special color of shield for each regi ment, though for a time they retained the umkomto, or throwing assagai, as their chief weapon. He heard the great list' made by the Itritish infantry of their favorite weapon, the bayonet, and so he replaced the umkomto by the ixwa, or broad Mailed stabbing assa gai. The peculiarity of the Zulu tactics has earned it the name of the crescent formation for attack, and it is note worthy that, broadly speaking, it was the method employed by the Boers in their invasion of Natal and adopted by Lord Roberts in his advance through Orange 111 ver Colony, and It was the fear of its success which. kept the Boers continually on the run. The best thing with which to compare It is the head of the stag headed beetle. Horns are thrown out widely on either think, while the main body forms the head Itself. Prom the main body a small force Is detached to engage the enemy while the horns creep around the flanks. This force in the days of Tyaka was frequently dispatched with the com mand "(io, sons of Zulu, go and re turn no more," and death at the hands of their fellows was the fate of those who returned. While this force was holding the enemy the horns carried out their task if possible, and as soon as the two horns bad met In the rear of the cnein) the head or chest was launched upon the position, and the upshot was that the whole force of ; the foe tasted the assagai, for In war no quarter was given or asked. South ; African Sun POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Keep away from people you dislike anil don't talk about them. Put a hog in a parlor and he would break out and wallow in a mudhole. It bee ,nies necessary occasionally for every man to take punishment. Wheu your time comes don't annoy others with your screams. Isn't it a fact that the most success ful men you know are polite men? Then doesn't it follow that If you hope to succeed you must be polite? n. O | Three Old Maids and & Widow By C. B. LEWIS ? 1 \ i iltlll. 1 h\ M. M. < iinnin«!iam There are few towns of 1,500 popu lati .ii that can boast of three old maids and a widow living on the same street, but that was the case with Clifton. j Miss \ iini>ii was an old maid because! she never had met with n man good i enou h for her. Miss Hopkins was an I old maid because the young man she would have married at eighteen was 6awed In two In a sawmill and she had vowed to be true to his memory. Miss Warner was an old maid because she was determined to marry none but a minister, and all the ministers who came were already provided for. The Widow Carter was a widow because part ot' a house had fallen on her hus band. The old maids and the widow were on visiting terms in fact, they rather liked each other. Where there are no male candidates for matrimony con cerned old maids and widows can sit down together on the same veranda without quarreling. After the widow had solemnly assured tlie old maids that nothing on the fact* of this earth could induce her to be false to tho memory of her crushed, the quartet loved each other even more. One day one of the merchants In the town sold out and a stranger came to take his place. If he had been a mar ried man the d ive of peace would have continued to hover over lloso street, but as he was single, ouly thirty and a "catch" the dove saw a hot time ahead. The widow let no grass grow under her feet in calling at the store and in cidentally mentioning her name and or dering four pounds of sugar all at once. Sic was one of the Four Hun dred of the town, and on the part of the other i'» she bade Mr. Strong wel come to their midst. When he had thanked her she ordered two nutmegs ami a paper of starch, in addition to the sugar, t > let him understand that she wasn't obliged to pinch pennies, and then departed. An hour later her reprehensible con duct was known to the tl tree old maids, and up went three pairs of hands; six eyes were turned upward in horror and three mouths opened to exclaim in cho rus, "How shocking!" Then, during the next two days, each j of the ild maids made an excuse to call at the i ire and follow the pro gramme • a Tied out by the widow. Each thought she was sly and slick, but they found each other out. and from that moment the bond of friend ship snapped asunder like an old | clothesline left out In the storms of a year. When women make war on each oth- j er they don't use fence rails to pound ! each other on the head. In most cases j they g ' right on treating each other as j nicely as tiny can to their faces, but i u-'ng .i:r; ;s and the darkness to as- J sassinate. Tin* three old maids and tho I widow gathered together as of yore, but the dagger was used whenever 1 there was the least show. Mr. Strong proved a s icial success, j The willow i,e a little dinner anil j brought liini out. but the old maids | re dh nioiioi ili/.ed him for the even- : liil' Then Ms Warner gave an exhl- j b. nof her iwu paintings, which con- ! -i led "112 •jw appavutly thirty six j ft • t It k; ad of a river running up I Mr in inste; I of down, and the wid- [ ow la Id Mr. Strong's attention for an j hour while she talked about her crush ed and departed. At the end of six weeks the man v.h > ran he -\ isiill and had a mortgage on the • ill dam figured it out to Ills ' Wife "These arc three old maids to one w nlow, but ii the widow gets left she'll be the < ne I ever heard of." i en the >;nall boys around town no- I tiood how glrly the old maids were be er. T hey giggled, they uttered j cute I. le sere,ins when they turned a ! com aad ir>unti themselves face to j I'm v h , cow, they tittered when ' they a ked for gum drops at the gro- ' ce: v As I r the widow, she set her ; Jaw . nl walked into the store two or j thret tines a week to ask the mer chant if h • thought the Seventy-sev- ' enth .\ ti in il bank of Boston was per- j fe-tly a! aud to sigh with relief! when li • as ured her of his confidence in i ■ institution. Sly reports werij ' .ihiii :at Mr. Strong was paying his : t to this r that one of tho four Then the other three would reply as one: "Well, may be he is, but what on earth he can see in her is more than I can make out. She grows more home ly and dowditied every day. Of course I'm telling you this in confidence, and, of course, It won't go further." One fatal evening tragedy after trag- i edy happened, and the light went out | of several happy households. Mr. Ft rout boarded with a family living j half a mile from the store. lie wanted i the walk. He had to cross the bridge t ■ .1 •> l.iO I If. V KILL™! COUCH AND CURE THE LUNGS I w ™ Dr. King's New Discovery ___ /Consumption Price Fun I OUGHS and 50c &SI .00 Freo Trial. Surest and Quickest Cure for all THROAT ami LUNG TROUB LES, or MONEY BACK. Mil If! A Plellabl© TIN SHOP For all kind of Tin Roofing Spoutlne and Coneral Job Work. Stoves, Heaters, Ra nates. Furnaces, oto. PRICES THE LOWEST! QkiLITY TUB BEST! JOHN HIXSOJN NO. 116 E. FRONT BT. erea wiui woods, ami there wasnt a house between his boarding place and the town. The three old maids and the widow had had their eyes on this road from the lirst. They had soon begun walk ing for exert -i 112. They didn't walk at the hours tlx- merchant might be ex pected, and If they encountered each other they made all manner of ex cuses, but each one understood what ! the other was at and determined tot baltle her In the end. Mr. Stron/ had been given three months in which to declare his atten tions. ::i I he hadn't declared. Time Wit too • niimbl" to be wasted. His j habit w;is to return to his store niter a The tt-ainp fame humping along ; ! through the town, bent on llndlng a j foimtry stra \v -lack as soon as possible, and as the widow on the bridge heard his footstep.-, she began to look artless and coy. It was labor thrown away. The tramp was nearsighted and bumped up against her. aud in her fright sho went over the low railing and down into the water. If she couldn't swim like a duel; she could at least scramble like a cat. anil she managed to get ashore. Her condition was dripping, also drooping, also indignant. She re alized that no dripping, drooping wo man stood the slightest show in that contest, and she dragged herself home ward and was not improved in looks or temper by having to wade through a couple of mini puddles. Miss \ inton camo next. She was sauntering up the hill wondering how "that widow" dared be so bold and brassy when the tramp, who was now on the run for his l'fe, overtook her. In his nearsightedness he took her for a horse and wagon and tried to shy out. She shied to the right at the same time and was sent sprawling by tho collision. She got out of the roadside ditch to run into a patch of briers and scream for help, but there was no help. Sh» had to extricate herself and follow the bedraggled widow. The dog alone was responsible for what happened to the other two old maids. Miss Warner had discovered one woman ahead and two behind her, and, suspecting their llendlsh inten tions, she bad almost made up her mind to abandon her object when the dog, who had been calling on his broth er out in the country, came along and set up a barking and growling. Trag edy was the result. The old maid nev er had encountered a big bobtailed dog at night on a hill, and she at once scrambled over the fence into the weeds and ran for her life. She fell down and rolled over, and she rose up again and struggled on, and when she reached home two hours later she im mediately went into hysterics, and L>r. Seaton got his first night call for four teen years. The dog had met with such success that he was encouraged to persevere. He came upon Miss Hopkins out of the j shadows like a frisking haystack, and as she screamed out and spread her I wings to fly she tripped and went | down. The full might have injured her but for the fact that she fell upon soft mud. She couldn't go back to town j looking like the mortar mixer for a skyscraper, and she continued onto | the merchant's boarding house to get the use of hoes and scrapers. They ; were furnished, but while she was using them she heard the ten year-old daughter whispering to her mother that she'd bet a cent that Miss Hopkins had come out there to giggle for Mr. ! Strong. That was an awful night In Clifton, though only four feminine hearts knew 1 Just how awful it was. Morning I dawned with a murky sky overhead. It seemed to three old maids and a widow as if something more was still to happen. They were right. When the butcher boy called for his orders i lie repeated tlie same words at every ' house on his route: "Say, you heard tho news? Mr. String has gone to I'hiUipsville to git married today, and he's goln' to bring the bride home tonight. Hain't it great?" An Economical Plbit. Short I !-ay, old man, will y m !< :i ! j me $5 for an hour? I.oi - >,"o. > | sit In the park for au hour: tl ny m ' WOll't IH'fJ it." Il ; ...\ . The Home Paper of Danville. Of course you read «■«., i THE HEOPLE'S |j KQPULAR 1 APER. Everybody Rcads It. ' i I i Published Every JVlomiiv.v Except Sunday a* No. n I:. Main; ng St. Subscription <> cei r Week. of lllrdM. Tin- doctrine of veKCterlanism ap pears to l><: slij-lill.v shaken l»y the re sult <»f an hivcstiKatiiia that an Eng lish newspaper has made Into the sub ject of the longevity <»f birds. Wttb one not a I>1«' ex<*eption the carrion, or j meat fwMllii}? hinls, are the lonper J lived. The exception Is the swan. The J average ages of some of the best I known birds are given in the follow- ; lug: Blackbird lives 12 years, black- : cap 1"), canary 21, crane 24, crow 100, I eagle 100, fowl, common, 10; goldfinch i 15, goose . r ><i, heron 50, lark 13, linnet • 23, nightingale is, parrot (50, partridge j ir>, peacock 24, pelican r>o, pheasant 15, t pigeon 20, raven 100, robin 12, skylark j ;{O, sparrow hawk 40, swan 100, thrush I 10 and wren I! years. I iiprofeNNfonnl. "You s:tv she's only an amateur j nurse V "Yes. If she ! a<l been a professional j nurse she wouldn't have married the J first patient tl t came along. She'd j have 100 l -1 a round a little first."— i Cleveland I'iain Dealer. Jai»ai>«*M«» Lacquer. Japanese lacquer is a very curious substance A simple tree sap, like j maple sap, it i ■ yet when applied to j wood or metal quite Indestructible. A > coat of lacquer is proof against alco- j hoi, against boiling water, against al- I most all known agents. The lacquer | tree of Japan is very large. It is al j ways cut down at the age of forty j years, as thereafter it begins to dry j up. Each tree yields on its demolition j abjut six barrels of lacquer sap. The j Japanese tire wry careful not to let | foreigners *nto the secrets of lacquer lng. Men ought to calculate life both ut If they were fated to live a long and a short tLaie.—Bias. When you neai a iu*u "«• hind his back we do not think, "ITow unpopular other people are'.'' but "Ilow we all catch it when we are not around!" Don't worry if you are not good looking. You look all right to your friends. The best looks on earth could not make you look good to your ene mies, and those whn are not interested in you don't know how you look. Atchison Globe. She \Vn» Lefl. Miss Oldham awoke In the middle of the night and found a burglar ransack ing her trunk. She did not scream; but, looking him square in the eye, she pointed to the door and said: "Leave me at once, sir!" "Oh, that's all right, madam," said the burglar as he backed toward the door. "I had no intention of taking you." T ACKAWANNA RAILROAD. " -BLOOMSBURW DIVIHION Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. In Effect Jan. 1, 1905. TRAINS LEAVE DANVILLE EASTWARD. 7.07 a. m.daily tor Bloomsburg, Kingston, Wilkes-Barre :u.d Scranton. Arriving Serjui ton at 9.42 a. m..and connecting at Scranton with trains arriving at Philadelphia at 3.48 a. m.and New York City at 3.30 p. m. 10.1!) a. m. weekly for Bloomsburg. Kingston, Wilkes-Barre,Scran ton and intermediate sta tions, arriving at Scranton at 12.35 ji. m.and connecting there with trains for >e'w York City, Philadelphia and Buffalo. 2.11 weekly forßloomsburg,Kingston,Wilkes Burre, Scran ton and Intermediate stations, arriving at Scranton at 4.50 p. m. 5.43 p. in.daily for Bloomsburg, Kspy, Ply mouth, Kingston, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, Scranton and intermediate stations, arriving at Scranton at *.25 p. m. andconnect itig thers with trains arriving at New York City at 6.50 a- iu.. Philadelpeia 10 a. m.and Buflalo 7a m. TRAINS ARRIVE AT DANVILLE 9.1.ia.m. weekly from Scranton. Pittston, Kingston, Bloomsburg and intermediate sta tions, leaving Scranton at 6.35 a. m„ where it connects with trains leaving New Yorh City at 9.30 p. m., Philadelphia at 7-l>2 p.m. and Buffalo at 10.30 a. m. 12.44 p. m.daily from Scranton Pittston, Kingston, Berwick. Bloomsburg and interme diate stations, leaving Scranton at 10.10 a. m. and connecting there with train leaving Buff alo at 2.25 a. rn. 4.88 p. m. weekly om Scranton, Kingston, Berwick. Bloomsburg and intermediate sta tions, leaving Scranton at 1.55 p. in., where it connects with train leaving New York City at 10.00 a. m..and Philadelphia at 9.00 a. m. 9.05 p. in.daily from Scranton. Kingston, Pittston. Berwick. Bloomsburg and interme diate stations, leaving Scranton at 6.35 p. m., where it connects with trains leaving New York City at 1.00 p. m., Philadelphia at 12.1K1 p. m.and Buttolo at 9.30 a. m. T. K. CLAKKK, Oen'l Sup't. T. W. I.KK. Gen. Pass. Agl. 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