IN TENEBRIS. I heard her song Low in the night From out her casemeut steal away. Nor thought it wrong To steal a sight Of her—and lo! she knelt to pray. I heard her say: "Forgive him. Lord! Such as he seems he cannot be.** I turned away, Myself abhorred— Shepruyed— and lo! she prayed forme. —-T. W. Hall in Munsey's Magazine. NERVE. While Murat was in Madrid he was anxious to communicate with Junot in Portugal, but all the roads to Lisbon swarmed with guerrillas and with the troops composing Castanos' army. He asked Kr.isinski, the commandant of the lancers, to find him a brave and intelligent young man. Two days after ward the commandant brought the prince a young man of his corps, for whom he pledged liis life. His name was Leckinski, and he was but eighteen years old. Murat was moved at seeing so young a man court so imminent a danger, for if he were detected his doom was sealed. Murat could not help remarking to the Pole the risk ho was about to run. The youth smiled. "Let your imperial highness give me my instructions," answered lie respect fully, "and I will give a good account of the mission 1 have been honored with." The young prince augured favorably from the young man's modest resolu tion. The Russian embassador gave him his dispatches; he put on a Russian uniform and set out for Portugal. The first two days passed over quietly, but ou the afternoon of the third Leck inski was surrounded by a body of Span iards, who disarmed him and dragged him before their commanding officer. Luckily for the gallant youth it was Castanoß himself. Leckinski was aware that he was lost if he were discovered to he a French man; consequently he determined on the instant not to let a single word of French escape him, and to speak but Russian and German, which he spoke with equal fluency. The cries of rage of his captors announced the fate which awaited him, and the horrible murder of General Rene, who had perished in the most dreadful tortures but a few weeks before as be was going to join Junot, was sufficient to freeze the very blood. "Who are you?" said Costanos in French, which language he spoke per fectly well, having been educated in France. Leckinski looked at the questioner, made a sign and answered in German, "I do not understand you." Castanos spoke German, but he did not wish to appear personally in the matter and summoned one of the officers of his stuff, who went on with the ex amination. The young Pole answered in Russian or German, but never let a single syllable of French escape him. He might, however, easily have forgot ten himself, surrounded as lie was by a crowd eager for bis blood, and whc waited with savage impatience to have him decluied guilty—that is, a French man—to fall upon him and murder him. But their fury was raised to a height which the general himself could not con trol, by an incident which seemed to cut off the unhappy prisoner from every hope of escape. One of Castanos' aids dt camp, one of the fanatically patriotic who were so numerous in this war, and ; who from the first had denounced Leek ! in ski as a French spy, burst in the room, j dragging with him a man wearing the brown jacket, tall hat and red plume of ! a Spanish peasant. The officer confronted him with the j Pole and said; "Look at this man, and then say if it i is true that he is a German or a Rus sian. He is a spy, I swear by my soul.'' The peasant meanwhile was eying tne prisoner closely. Presently his dark eye j lighted up with the fire of hatred. "Es Frances, ho is a Frenchmanl" ex- ; claimed lie, clapping his hands. And ! he slated that having been in Madrid a few weeks before ho had been put in i requisition to carry forage to the French i barrack, and, said be, "I recollect that this is the man who took my load of; forage and gave mo a receipt. I was j near him an hour and recollect him. j When we caught him 1 told my comrade this is the French officer I delivered my j forage to." This was correct. Castanos probably discovered the true state of the case, but j lie was a generous foe. He proposed to j let him pursue his journey, for Leckinski | still insisted he was a Russian, and could j not be made to understand a word of French. But the moment lie ventured a hint of the kind, a thousand threaten ing voices were raised against liim and he saw that clemency was impossible. "But," said he, "will you then risk a quarrel with Russia, whose neutrality ( we are so anxiously asking for?" "No," said the officer, "but let us try this man." Leckinski understood all, for he was acquainted with Spanish. He was re moved and thrown into a room worthy to have been one of the dungeons of the inquisition in its best days. When the Spaniards took him prisoner he had eateu nothing since the previous evening, and when his dungeon door was closed 011 him he had fasted for eighteen hours. No wonder then what with exhaustion, fatigue, anxiety, and the agony of h Jtftreadful situation, that the unhappy prisoner fell almost sense less on his hard couch. Night soon closed in and left liiin to realize in its gloom the full horror of his hopeless situation. He was brave, of course, but to die at eighteen—'tis sudden. But youth and fatigue finally yielded to the approach of sleep and lie was soon buried in profound slumber. had slept perhaps two hours when the door of his dungeon opened slowly and some one entered with cautious steps, hiding with his hand the light of a lamp. The visitor bent over the x>ris oner's couch, the hand that shaded the lamp touched him on the shoulder, and a sweet and silvery voice—a woman's voice—asked him, "Do you want eat?" The young Pole, awakened suddenly by the glare of the lamp, by the touch and words of the female, rose up on his couch and with eyes only half opened said in German, "What do you want?" "Give the man something to eat at i once," said Castanos, when he heard the | result of the first experiment, "and let | him go. He is not a Frenchman. How | could he have been so far master of him ! sell? The thing is impossible." | But though Leckinski was supplied J with food he was detained a prisoner. The next morning he was taken to a spot where lie could see the mutilated corpse of the Frenchman, who had been cruel ly massacred by the peasantry of Truxil ' 10, and he was threatened with the same death. But the noble youth had prom ised not to fail, and not a word, not an accent, not a gesture or look betrayed him. Leckinski, when taken back to his prison, hailed it with a sort of joy. For twelve hours he had had nothing but gibbets and death in its most horrid forms before his eyes—exhibited to him by men with the looks and the passions of demons. He slept, however, after the harrassiug excitement of the day, and soundly, too, when in the midst of his deep and deathlike slumbers the door opened gently, some one drew near his couch, and the same voice whispered in his ear: "Arise and come with me. We wish to save your life. Your horse is ready." i And the brave young man, hastily i awakened by the words, "We wish to j save your life; come," answered still in j German, "What do you want?" Castanos, when he heard of thisexperi-1 raent and its result, said the Russian was a noble young man; he saw the true ' state of the case. The next morning early four men came to take him before a sort of court martial, composed of officers of Castanos' staff. During the walk they uttered the most horrible throats against him, but true to his determination he pretended not to understand them. When he came before his judges he seemed to gather what was going on from the arrangements of the tribunal and not from what he heard said around ' him, and he asked in German win re his interpreter was? He was sent for, and j the examination commenced. It turned at first upon the motive of j his journey from Madrid to Lisbon. He \ answered by showing his dispatches to j Admiral Siniavin and his passport, j Spite of the presence and the vehement ! assertions of the peasant, he persisted in | the same story aud did not contradict himself once. "Ask him," said the presiding officer at last, "if he loves the Spaniards, as ho is not a Frenchman?" "Certainly," said Leckinski, "I like the Spanish nation, and 1 esteem it for its noble character. 1 wish our two na-1 tions were friends." "Colonel," said the interpreter to the ! president, "the prisoner says that he j hates us because we make war like ban ditti; that he despises us, and that his j only regret is that he cannot unite the ! whole nation in one man, to end this odious war at a single blow." While he was saying this, the eyes of the whole tribunal were attentively watching the slightest movement of the prisoner's countenance, in order to see what effect the interpreter's treachery would have upon him. But Leckinski had expected to bo put to the test in some way, and was determined to baf fle all their attempts. "Gentlemen," said Castanos, "itseems to me that this young man cannot be suspected; the peasant must be deceived. The prisoner may pursue his journey, and when lie reflects on the hazard of our position he will find the severity we have been obliged to use excusable." Leckiuski's arms and dispatches were returned, lie received a free pass, and thus this noble youth came victorious out of the severest trial that the human spirit can bo put to.— H. K. in New York News. IV< uliariticH of Nervous Women. Says a physician who is a specialist in j nervous diseases: "The vagaries of nerv- j ous women would fill a volume. 1 have, j however, a profound respect for their sincerity and a deep sympathy with their victims. One of my patients, a fine looking woman, with a splendid physique, is reduced to a condition bor dering on insanity by a high wind. If | she is out in it her misery is heightened, j She says she lias a dazed, confused feel ing that amounts to bewilderment, and she feels as if any moment she would lose her hold on reason and sense. "Anotherof my patients cannot endure ! to hear toast crunched between the teeth of another person. She can eat it her self, hut has to leave the table if another does, so great is her distress. In other j respects she is a woman of strong char- j acter. It would be interesting to trace the origin of such apparently causeless conditions.'*—New York Times. The Zither. The zither is a stringed instrument which lias not as yet a very great follow lng in New York. It has the sweetness of the guitar and mandolin, witli the depth and richness of the harp. In the hands of an expert performer, who thor- ! ouglily understands the scope of the in strument, no music can be more deli- i cious. It is somewhat difficult to learn, ! is played with both hands, a shield being worn on the thumb of the right hand, and has from thirty-one to forty-four strings.—New York Press. Fine Clutlies. "The soil of California is so fruitful," j suid a native of the Golden State, "that a man who accidentally dropped a box of matches in his field discovered the next year a fie forest of telegraph poles." "That's nothing to my state," said a native of Illinois. "A cousin of mine who lives there lost a button off his jacket and in less than a month he found a brand new snit of clothes hanging on a j fence near the spot."—Texas Sittings. f WiLL ALL CLUBS BE OPEN TO WOMEN? The New Millionaires' Club, ef New York City, YViH Have un Annex. The new and very swell Metropolitan club, which is to l>e elegantly housed on Fifth avenue, will have a restaurant and other apartments for ladies. The breach i of ancient custom, which had its most, notable beginning in the "ladies' days" at the Loins club, is rapidly widening and extending into a general fashion. There are no finer clubrooius on Man hattan Island than those for the wives of the Lawyers' club in the Equitable building, and Jour of the leading clubs of Brooklyn now maintain restaurants and parlors for the women of the fami lies of members. The ladies' dining room on the ground floor of the Pick wick club in New Orleans is the most gorgeous apartment in the city—a melo dy of gold and white and floral fresco ing. Even the old Union League club in Chicago has its gentle side. Whoever goes to the cashier's desk to pay a bill sees a maid in a fluted cat) u "d white apron just beyond the desk, and learns that she is facing a ladies' entrance in readiness to take the wraps of the women as they arrive for luncheon or tea and a glance at the periodicals of the day, An old New York clubman, while speaking of tho innovation at the Metro politan club, made a prediction which astonished his hearers at a great Repub lican club up town. "I believe," su d he, "that all the leading clubs will soon provide restaurants and parlors for la dies, and 1 prophesy that in a few years the women will go to tho clubs to lounge at night just as the men do now. The old fashion of calling upon one's friends at night lias already died out, and nothing has taken its place. It used to be the rule that if 1 wanted to pay my respects to a friend's family 1 could call after dinner and spend an hour or two in that way. No one does that now. If I want to make a family call now I must wait for an invitation to dinner, and in my turn I invito to dinner those whom my wife and I are desirous of seeing. After dinner we spend that hour or two with our friends which we once enjoyed with them by calling upon them after a dinner at our own homes. "There is a good reason for this change. It may happen that if I call at yottr house yoti.are going out, or you are entertaining others, or you are not in the mood for my call. Perhaps our moods do riot tally, and the visit is a bore. But I cannot get up and holt. 1 must stay a reasonable time, as good breeding requires. At a club it is very different. 1 can go out when 1 like. 1 see Jones, and 1 talk with him as long as I please; then 1 move over to Smith and try him. Perhaps we don't agree as well as at other times, and i move over to a third man or 1 get my hat and coat and go somewhere else. The advan tages of these conditions appeal to the ladies equally. In time it will he nn- del-stood that 011 certain nights we may meet all the women of our circle and J their husbands in the ladies' parlors of our club. The women will see one an other and will chat together as at a re ception or ball, and we men will move from one woman or couplo to another. [ paying our calls and free to bow our- I selves away whenever wo find ourselves ! bored or inharmonious with the moods of those we know. I "Tlic women will like it. Whenever Jit is tried it will be adopted. It will give the ladies a chance to don their evening gowns and jewels for the in spection of their friends, to meet all their friends of both sexes, to mingle in a bright scene, to sip an ice or partake of a light supper, and to pay off loads of social debts with little trouble and under charming conditions."—New York Sun Women and Legal Knowledge. The growing interest among women ! for legal knowledge enough to protect I themselves is a step in the progress of the sex. A woman's club doubtless j there are more than this one—will have several legal meetings during the win ter to bo addressed by representative women in the profession on practical, everyday legal points. In the matter of ; servants, for instance, a woman often j finds her ignorance of the laws govern -1 ing mistress and maid extremely annoy- I ing and costly. Police sergeants and j justices will tell any one who chooses to I make inquiry that there are plenty of | unprincipled servants everywhere who ! ! make a fair living with little work, con- ! ! stantly taking places for a stated period ! i and within the first forty-eight hours I | making themselves so obnoxious that j their discharge is provoked, when they : claim and can legally get wages for | full contracted time. This is but one of a number of legal points upon which I women need enlightenment for their i own sakes.—Philadelphia Press. A Muiden'a Nuine. j Surely if Shakespeare could hare ! looked forward a few centuries he would | never have asked, "What's in a name?" j j The daughter of the Archduke Stephen , was baptized in the Lemberg cathedral a few days ago, and there was eonsider j able in her name. She was christened Marie Immaculata Caroline Margnrethe Blanca Leopoldine Beatrix Anna Jose fine Rafaela Michaela Stanislaus Ignaz Hieronymus Camiro Catherina Petra Cecilia—eighteen names in all. One can not help wondering what she will be called "for short."—Chicago Times. Tim Czar In LIU© Many Other Men. j Men seem to be very much alike the • world over. Whenever the czar has a spasm of economy he always begins to cut down expenses first in his wife's al lowance. The last time his majesty had ; an attack of thriftiness he reduced the amount of his wife's spending money. : This time it is a journey site proposed to take in the Caucasus that has been aban- I dotted on account of the expense attend ant upon her traveling with her suite.— ; Exchange. 1 Mine. Patti's will is said to contain a clause providing for a monster aviary, full of nightingales and other song | birds, to be placed near her tomb, and I to pay for a person to feed and care for them. 1 Mrs. George M. Co It man. Mrs. Pullman is well supplied with every luxury tlmt life can give aud is the happy mother of two beautiful daughters Florence, a ir.ll, graceful and dignified brunette a la,at twenty two years old, and llan ,■ i, a bright, vivacious belle about twenty. Both daughter, were educated in New York and Paris and made tlieir appearance ill society two years ago. ides the two daughters Mrs. Pullman - possessed of twin sons—George M.. Jr. aud Sanger, sixteen years old. The daughters as weM as the mother are continually engaged in charitable work. Sirs. Pnllmnu is vice president of the Hospital for Women and Chil dren and is a member of the executive board of both the Old Ladi home and Woman's hospital. Florence has lately furnished a large ward in tit. Cuke's hospital, which is popularly known as the "Florence ward." Harriet is the leading spirit in one of the most prac tical works in Chicago, known as the Wildwood club—au org.mi nation com posed of the most prominent women in the city, formed for tho purp e of building and equipping a house and grounds where self supp u-ting women and girls may go and taken needed rest, free from restraint and intrusion, at a very meager cost.—Ladies' Home Jour nal. llcr Slimier at toglitfca llollars. Modern Cinderellas do not lose their slippers coming down castle staircases. Instead they give them away, delivering them into the hands of l.iiu who takes the place of the prince or sending tliem to his rooms by messenger boy. Tlie slippers thus presented are the same that have graced a shapely foot during many a gay short hour of frolic and dancing, and in memory of which they are kept as souvenirs, while in some cases there is still more romantic episode connected with this trillo of sulin and feather. For instance, a half hour in tho conservatory and a question asked and answered They are really the same, although they look quite different, having passed through the hands of the chemist and silversmith in order to make them suita ble for a mantel decoration. As they stand in all t heir bravery amid the hundred other furnishings of the for tunate one's own room they glitter as brightly as though coat after coat of black lead had not been administered before it was safe to dip thern in the sil ver fluid. Eighteen dollars for 0110 slip per is the price paid for this embalming warranted to render everlasting a thing of perishable fabric.—Boston Globe. Tin, Wife of Mr. Illiilno. Mrs. Blaino lias been a most devoted mother to her children, receiving from them the most extravagant devotion in return for her years of unselfish care. She is a most brilliant and charming hostess and delightful conversationist, with tine command of words and graphic power of description. In appearance Mrs. Blaine is pleasing She is rather tall and in iigure is in clined to stoutness. Her hair is changing rapidly from gray to white, and is al ways well and tastefully arranged. Her eyes are a blno gray: her taste in dress is quiet, but elegant. Unconsciousness, oil world lilt ess, un selfishness and truthfulness, a power to make those who know her enthusiastic ally devoted to her, an industry almost limitless in its accomplishment, cheer fulness which never fails in the darkest of crises, and frankness—these are the characteristics of the woman who. though so little known in her own per sonality, has reflected in her husband's brilliant successes the strength and no bility of her life.—Exchange. Few Female Musieul Composers. The reason why women have done so little good work in tho field of musical composition is found in their lack of mental discipline. Such work requires thinking powers of no ordinary degree. It presumes an amount of intellectual discipline which men in general have always had, but which women were deprived of until lately. Yet in spite of hereditary impediments and social prejudices the amount of work done by women in the field of musical composition has been considerable. What it will be when a sound intellectual training and other indispensable condi tions will enable her to compete with man qualitatively the future will show. —A. Ende in Bel ford'a Magazine. fond llorriv and l'liickj Ilidcr. The greatest feat ill riding over per formed by a woman lias recently been accomplished by an English girl. Miss Thomasson, who rode on nn untrained horse over 20l miles in C3>hours through the mountains of the Tyrol. On the first day she went from Innsbruck over the Brenner pass to Bozen, 77'£ miles: 011 the second, from Bozen, by Meran. Vintsoligau and the Malser fleide, to Kt Valantin, fifty-six uiiles; 011 the third. I by Hochunsterniunz and Lundeck, back to Innsbruck,* this being eighty-eighl miles. Hider and horse are in perfect health, though the tour was a novel ex perience to both.—Chicago Tribune. lii llitt I*urs'.iit or IMviuure. Mrs. Lungtry is now forty years old, but her energy in the pursuit of pleasure is still untiring. Last season her whim was for racing and race horses, and hav ing made a success on the turf, as she usually does in all her business enter prises, she is going in for yachting, and j has purchased the steam yacht Lady | Mabel at the modest figure of $1:35.000 for an extended cruise through the , south seas.—Exchange. Tl Demand for Woman HuflTrugc. YVo used to ask for suffrage because women needed it as the means to larger opportunities. But the aspect of the woman question has changed Women are now saying, as in the days of the war, "The covntry needs us." Women need to stand oy the public schools as ' they stood by the nation—without much fighting or bristling, quietly, but effi- j ciently.—Mary A. Livermore. GEMS IN VERSE. Two Pictured from Li.e. Great God, when I look round ine and survey The shoeless shivcriiiß r.i;i.'d that crouch and In open doorways. sulTeriui; by the hour The bitterest terrors of this wintry day, My heart swells full of anger, and I i>:viy With ceaseless, longing yearning for the power To raise the standard of revolt ami slav The sins that work such ill. The lowliest (lower That nestles in the lap of Mother Earth Is tended with a kindlier, gentler care | Than these rank offshoots of a luckless birth. Dread victims, from their cradle of despair— i Nurslings of crime whom rigorous laws con demn. 1 But leave untouched the ills that bear on I hern. j But turn ye from such sights to that blest place Where nestles all that's holiest; turn to where Thy young eyed cherubs wait thee on the stuir, Counting each (lying moment till thy face Burst in upon (hem and thy fond embrace Rewards their loving vigils. Gaunt despair Finds here no habitation: love keeps pace With jocund mirth aud gladness, making fair The little world around thee. And when sleep Enfolds thy darlings in his sheltering arms. Haply thy grateful heart asks him to keep Their pure young souls from sin's alluring charms. And whilst thy dear ones press their warm, snug couches Some homeless waif upon thy doorstep crouches. —Liverpool Mercury. The Song of Work. Workl Work! Work! With brain, with heart and hand. Work! Work! Work! Till plcuty (Ills the land. For every stroke which labor gives Increases that whereon it lives. All wealth is made by labor's power. Labor's the root and wealth the (lower. Workl Work! Workl Aud be a nobleman. Work! Workl Workl As long as o'er you can. The man who works enjoys bis food; And that he eats, it does him good. With plenty food and littlo toil Muscles will rot and brain will spoil. Work! Work! Work! On that which yields return. Workl Work! Work! No honest labor spurn. It matters not what you may do- To make a nation or a shoo— For lie who works an honest thing In God's pure sight ranks as a king. Work! Workl Work! The planets in their spheres Work! Work! Work! Through days and months and veara. They never stop, but onward go— A lesson of steady work they show. The hand that made them never tires Replenishing their inward tires. Work! Workl Workl And never idle stand. Workl Workl Workl Be one of Nature's band. She always works that things may grow. Sometimes fast and sometimes slow. Her work is never done in haste. Sho works all up and leaves no waste. —John Parnell. Iler Name. "I'm losted! Could you find me, please?" Poor little frightened baby! The wind had tossed her golden fleece; Thestone lmd scratched herdimpled knees. I stooped and lifted her with ease And softly whispered, "Maybe." "Tell me your name, my little maid; 1 can't find you without it." "My name is Shiny Eyes," she said. "Yes, but your last?" She shook her head. "Up to my bouse 'ey never said A single fing about it." "But, dear," 1 said, "what la your name?" "Why, didn't you hear mo tell you? Dust Kbiny Eyes." A bright thought came; "Yes, when you're good, but when they blame You, little one—lt's Just the same— When uiamma has to scold* you?" "My mamma neber scolds," sho moans, A little blushing ensuing, " 'Copt when I've been a-t'rowing stones. And then she says," tho culprit owns, "Mehetahle Sappliira Jones, What has you been a-doing?" —Anna F. Burnham. Friendship. One day my bookish zeal led mo to look Through the rough pages of a dog's cared book That lay with many others on a stand Where musty volumes posed as secondhand. A friend, a fellow of the nicest taste. Was with ino and entreated mo to baste. Yet ere lie snatched me from the tome I caught From itsstained leaves tho kernel of a thought. That thought I took away, and when night 1 mused: "How small is friendship and how tame! I've known my friend for years, and yet I wis He never gave me such a thought as this." Next day once more i passed the bookstall by. Again the musty volume caught my eye. My friend was not in sight. With furtive joy I took it up as children clutch a toy. And then I saw, half stricken out with ago, Ilis name engraved upon tho title page. —Tom Masson. Faith. I will not learn to doubt my kind. If bread 1H poison, what is food? If man is evil, what is good? I'll cultivate a friendly mind. I seo not far, hut this I seo— If man is false, then naught is true; If faith is not tho golden clew To life, then all is mystery. I know not much, but this I know- That not In hermit's calm retreat, But lu tho thronged and busy street, Tho angels most do come and go. Who to the Inflnito would riso Should kuow this one thing ere be starts— That all its steps are human hearts; To love mankind is to bo wise. I will not leurn to doubt my kind. If man is false, then false am 1; If on myself I can't rely. Then wberoshall faith a foothold find? —Christian Register. When Love Goes Hy. When love goes by what can woman do? • Is there no prayer to pray, no suit to sue? Though he be fled beyond the wintry sea, Will not bis errant steps come back to inc? Will he not answer to my heart's low cry, Though he goes by? Nay, sweet, upon thy yearning lips command Tho seal of silence. Reach no asking hand To love once flown. Go on thy lonely ways; Turn thee a face of smiles to the world's gaze Or else sink down upon life's thorns aud die When love goes by. Kate Field's Washington. True Valor. He's truly valiant that can suffer The worst that man breathe, and make his wrongs His out.sides- to wear them like his raiment carelessly, And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it iuto danger. -Shakespeare. True Friendship. His is the truest friendship whoso high calm Hath reined his iirst fierce pity and upborne By his st rong presence thine own weariness. Then after silence and the soothing balm Of blessed tears, lie best with thee may mourn Who hath well learned how only teaVscan bless. -Frank Wolcott Hunt. CASTORIA for Infanta and Children. 41 Cant or i a is so well adapted to children that I recommend itaa superior to any prescription known to me." 11. A. AUCIIER, M. D. f 111 So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. 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" For several years I have recommended your 4 Caatoria, 1 and shall always continue to do so as it has invariably produced beneficial results." EDWIN F. FAROES, M. D., "The Winthrop," I:lsth Street and 7th Ave., New York City. GO TO Fisher Bros. Livery Stable FOR FIRST - L. AU" Si TURNOUTS 1 Ai.Sli"ii Notice. for Weddings, Parties Rnd Funeral-. ITuut St root, two squares below Free-land Opera House. GEO. CHESTNUT. The Shoemaker, Sells Bools dil Sbcs —at— "Ve x-y T-, C-W Prices. Twenty yours' experience in leather ought to be a guarantee 1 lint lie knows what he sellf. ami u liutr\ lT goods he guarantees can be te la <1 upon, Repairing nnd custom work 11 spe- I eta It \. Lverytliiiig in (he footwear line is In his store. Also novelties of every description. 93 Centre street, Freeland. 11118 IAILEIAD SYSTEM. LEHIGH VALLEY DIVISION. I I w—Anthracite conl used exolu j I j sively, insuring cleanliness and Alt HA NCI KM ENT OF I'ASS ENGL H TRAINS. DEC. 4, 1808. LEAVE FREELAND. 11.10, FT"), 0.40, 10.41 A. M., 12.25, 1.50, 8.43, 3.50, i U. 41, 7.12, 5.47 P. M., lor Drirton, Juddo, l.i.mljer Yard, Stockton and lia/leton. t 11. 0.4U A. M., i.50. 3.50 P. M., for Mauch chunk, Alli-ntown, llethlehem, l'hila., Huston and New York. 8.35 A. M. lor lk thlchein, Huston nnd Phila delphia. 7.20, 10.50 A. M., 12.10, 4.501. M. (via Highland llranehi for White llaven, (lien Summit, Wilkes-llurre, Pittston and L. and 11. Junction. SUNDAY TRAINS. 11.40 A. M. and 3.15 P. M. for Prifton, Jeddo, Lumber Yard ami Haxleton. 3.4 > P. M. for Delano. Mahanoy City, Shcn andoaii. New York and Philadelphia. ARRIVE AT FREELAND. 5.50, 7.00, 7.20. 0.1 S, 10.50 A. M., 12.10,1.15,2.83, 4.50, .03 and 3.37 P. M. from lla/leton, Ktock i ton. Lumber Yard, Jeddo and Drifton. 7.80,0.18, 111..'A A. M., 12.18. 2.33, 4.5 N. 7.03 P. M. i from D i,no, Mahauos City and Shenandoah I (via New iloston llruuch). | 1.15 and P. M from New York. Easton, I Philadelphia. Ilethh la in, Alleiitown and I Mauch < hunk. j B.P and in.m A. M. Imm Huston, Philadel phia, llethlehem and Manel Chunk. '.LIS, 10.41 A. >L, 2.13, ii II P. M lroin White ' I{a\t ti, <ileu Summit, Wilkes-Hums Pittston j and L. and li. .Junction (via Highland branch). 11.31 A. M. and 3.31 P. M. troiu Ha/Jeton, Lumber Yard, Jeddo and Drifton. II ;:i M. Irom Delano, Ha/Jeton, Phihulel : phia and Last on. 3.31 P. M. from Pottsvlllo and Delano. For lurlhcr information inquire of Ticket | Agents. ! I. A. sWKlli A III), Qen. Mgr. | c.G. HANCOCK, Clou. Pass. Agt. Philadcli Ida, Pa. ; A. W. NONNEMACREU, Ass't (1. P. A., South Ilethlehem, Pa,
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