The Man Who
Arrived
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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?
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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
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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
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KQPULAR
1 APER.
Everybody Rcads It.
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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.
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