HER LAST CAST.
BT W. ADDISON.
[Copyright, 1893, by the Author.]
MA S? T VVAkS in th 6
* AMI Dal H Alvarez circus
M that two Uer-
P ma ns, dressed
/ STvW as Chinese,
/ \ were exhibiting
[ \ their skill in
( ] t^iat m ° an "
knife-throw
which is fast
The Chinese
were the flrst
to bring it to
Europe in tbe forties, and for the time
being gained for themselves consider
able popularity by their remarkable
deftness and skill.
The artists in the Alvarez circus were
man and wife—she, with a serene smile
on her lips, her long, fair hair hanging
loosely over her shoulders, her deep,
blue eyes directed fearlessly and full of
confidence towards her comrade; he,
firm and cool, with an expression of su
preme indifferenco to the danger his
wife so boldly and unflinchingly faced.
The couple seemed to mock death,
playing with him as with a tame tiger
cat
But, however bloodcurdling the sang
froid of couple might be, they
were dwarfed into insignificance in
comparison with an incident dating
irom my strolling days, which comes
all the more vividly before ray mind's
eye, the remoter it is from that adven
turous, precarious time when I, a gypsy
among gypsies, strode in front of the
green caravan, which, slowly followed
by street curs barking furiously at its
SEEM TO MOCK DEATH.
Inmates, rumbled along in the evening,
with the last rays of the dying sun
glinting on the gnarled window panes.
Brigantina!
Oh! how distinctly I see that dark
gypsy girl with the supple, panther
like form, the "attraction of the stroll
ing circus of Belli," who, at the time of
this story was "doing" tho southern
provinces of Holland.
Her equestrian feats were the most
striking. Why she remained with the
small circus proprietor for the paltry
salary she was receiving, when she
might have had splendid remunerative
engagements in the largest and most
renowned circuses, was a mystery to
mo at iirst
But then I saw later on that Brigan
tina cherished a desire to become Mine.
Belli.
Belli was a young man of not more
.than five und twenty years of age, hav
ing inherited the circus not long before
this from his parents, who had both
died suddenly one after the other.
Tho circus was composed of half u
dozen green caravans and a couple oi
dozen of tolerably good horses.
Tho pride of the circus, however, was
a really well-trained elephant, "Molfa,"
which was brought into the ring by
Belli and Brigantina in turns.
The proprietor, with his Roman nose,
coal-black mustache ami athletic, well
built figure, was a prototype of a brut
al, masculine beau of the unnual fail
a highway Apollo, sclf-oouccited and
overbearing in his treatment with hU
subordinates.
Mrigantina always rodo in Indian
dress —a 'short skirt, edged with
feathers and shells, with a string o 1
coral beads around her neck, and at
her side a blue silk pouch, containing
small, gilded juggling balls.
With one leap she vaulted on to the
bare back of her gray horse, and with
*MSfc-like agility bent forward, pitching
the balls high up into the air, catching
them as they fell, and once more send
ing Hying into spaee, the mean
while poising herself gracefully, and
'with the utmost adroitness, on her
thorse's baeii while he continued to gal
liop round and round the ring.
After this performance a thick board
•va placed in the middle of the ring,
ipoQ which a small circle of not more
than one foot in diameter had been do
peri bed. and then llrigantina was
handed half a dozen small, glistening,
pharp-edged hatchets, which How from
her hands like arrows from a bow, one
a(U/r the other, without touching or
ver failing to enter the circle.
I luring this exhibition of skill the
rndience held its breath and gave u
sigh of relief as IJrigantina dismounted
and the board with the axes sticking
in it was removed.
They then chalked the girl's shoo
. oles and away she went again to the
mid strains of the music. Wilder and
♦v*|dcr played the music, and ever more
dafittg became her postures, more ve*
bcttt&ot her urging of the steed, until
jiie broko into a mad gallop. She flew
v like the wind.
JVc held the barriers —on, two, three,
■ fro barriers—over which she went
perched on the smooth back of her
Jiorse. With upraised arms, pressing
with licr dainty feet, she incitod the
horse toetill greater elTorts, shouting
ill I the time: "Ileidoncl En avantl
Caesar! Auimo! Animol"
Her switch whisked through the air,
her eyes flashed, her long, blue-black
hair touched the tent-poJes as she ca
reered past Swift as an arrow tha
, maddened beast rushed past with hia
.daring rider holding on by the toes of
fii.C fopt ~ -
The cool evening air blew softly in
through the curtains of the caravan iu
which Belli sat with Brigantina, whose
small hands he held tenderly in liis
own. She gazed up at him, as if under
the influence of some spell, with beam
ing eyes and a dreamy look. AH was
quiet. The night air gently caressed
the leaves of the lindens, whoso sweet
scent mingled with the fresh sea
breeze, penetrated through the win
dows of tho caravan, intoxicating the
lovers with its sweet incense.
"Your wife, Alessandro, your wife at
last!" she lisped softly, as if spep.king
in a dream.
"Certainly, Brigantina, in a few days
you'll be my wife," answered the circus
proprietor. "And then you'll bo mine
—mine alone."
He drew a ring from his finger.
"And I herewith pledge myself and
my life, darling; this ring shall bind
us together, never to be severed, what
ever our fates may be —yea, unto
death!"
Brigantina glanced hastily at the
ring, and fervently pressed it to her
lips. Then suddenly, with an almost
imperceptible movement, she plucked
a tiny dagger from her belt, and prick
ing her left arm with its sharp point
pressed the wound passionately to the
mouth of her beloved. He kissed the
wound and endeavored to stanch it,
but she held her arm out of'his reach,
allowing the blood to flow freely, and
exclaimed in a voice quivering with
emotion: '
• "Thine, Alessandro, for everl For
thee I am ready to shed my life's
blood!"
Alessandro Belli had engaged a
second equestrienne; a golden-haired
beauty, a proud, intriguing woman.
Jeannette was born in an old, cele
brated, professional family, who had
acquired considerable wealth in the
pursuit of their calling. A great por
tion of her parents' money fell to
Jeannette's share, whose talents, how
ever, were of too mean an order to gain
her admission into the higher branches
of her profession, and she was too fond
of a roving life to settle down quietly
and live a happy and contented life.
. After the arrival of this beauty Belli
underwent a change. Ho neglected
Brigantina, and began to make ad
vances to Jeannette.
This gypsy was a born speculator,
who scenting lucre desires to possess it
with the least possible trouble.
I often observed the dark threatening
glances of Brigantina, as she dug deep
into her lips with her white teeth.
"When shall we get married. Ales
sandro?" she asked Belli, one afternoon.
44 1 have reconsidered the matter,
Brigantina," replied he, coldly. "I am
too young to marry yet. I will strive to
earn more money, and you could also
do much better if you were to accept an
important engagement. Go, and come
back rich, and help me to m&ke a big
company out of this gypsy band."
She turned pale.
"You want me to go in order to free
yourself of your vow to me. I must
make way for this red-haired beast be
cause you covet her riches. Have you
forgotten your oath, Alessandro? Do
you want to break your solemn vow?"
"Don't be tiresome, Brigantina, but
goto where you belong!" rejoined Belli,
imperiously.
The woman laughed scornfully.
"Ah! that's the way you talk to mo, is
it? Take care, Alessandro I see
through you. You want to be rid of
me to marry your Jeannetto!"
"You dream, girl—l do not even think
of such a thing. I am, however, onl> a
KISSED TIIK WOUND.
poor director, who must see to how he
can earn his living best. With the
company as it is there is nothing to be
done, and that you know right well."
"I'll go and earn money, Alessandro;
but swear to me never to marry Jean
netto." .
"Brigantina, I am no longer a child!"
"Swear, Alessandro, swear."
"Go t > the 1"
Quick as lightning Brigantina sprang
to one side, and seized hold of an ax.
"Swear, or by Heaven—"
And the tigress threw the reflection
of the glistening blade on the torn can
vas of the tent.
Belli laughed mockingly.
He relied upon his brute strength
and athletic skill, as lie set about
wrenching the ax from her grasp, to
overcome her.
"You won't go of your own accord,
yon she-devil, so I'll pitch you out
against your will, and if you don't
mind you'll find the whip cracking
.tbout j-our cars! You dare to threaten
a Belli? You—you—poltroon!"
This was enough.
Poltroon —cowardl
That word stung her to the quick.
A wave of blood diffused Itself over the
face of the gypsy girl, a hard, hissing,
animal like cry escaped her llds, and
tho ax whizzed through the air. It
cut its way into the stroller's throat,
who fell to the ground without a
sound, and his blood mingled with the
freshly strewn sawdust on the floor.
With a shrill laugh Brigantina went
out past his corpse —she knew that she
bad aimed well.
It was her last cast
The next day we drew her lifeless
body out of the river
Only a few of the company followed
her coCJn to the wall near the church
yard, where her remains were laid
without chant or song of anv kind.
IN WOMAN'S BEHALF.
SMART BUSINESS WOMAN.
I>rtncsH and Tart Fit Many for Confi
dential I'oslt ions.
Somebody who makes it lier business
to study such thing's says that a cen
tury ago there were but a dozen em
ployments open to women, counting all
housework as one, and now there are
over three hundred. It is the fashion
to credit all this to the increasing liber
ality of thought and the long agitation
for so-called "woman's rights." Per
haps some of it is due thereto, but sure
ly most of it is the natural result of
that industrial and commercial devel
opment which has created so many em
ployments in which deftness, refined
taste and delicacy of touch are of far
more value than mere physical strength.
If you doubt it, consider this con
trast: France, in which the Salic law
prevails from throne to cross roads
post office, and the political rights of
women are not even so much as men
tioned, employs more women in clerical
and industrially technical ways than
any other country, while those new
states, in which political distinctions
are almost or quite abolished, employ
few or none. The more advanced the
civilization the less advantage has
mere muscle and the more have quick
ness of thought and delicacy of touch.
France makes her monqy by producing
articles of taste and beauty. Wyom
ing, Washington, etc., make theirs I y
felling trees and digging ores, by ranch
ing and rearing cattle.
With good men pay is the determin
ing factor in grading employment.
With women the neatness of the work
and the opportunity to maintain a good
personal appearance are at least equally
potent. In stenography all three con
ditions are satisfied. The pay is fair,
the work is clean, the finest costume is
not too good for it, the eyes and com
plexion are not injured. It is pre-em
inently a womanly work.
Arhl a deal of intellect may be put
into it. Hut it is there that we hear
the usual complaint. A woman stenog
rapher, we are told, studies until she
gets a position and can fill it fairly
well, and thereafter it is all routine
with her. She does not strive to ac
quire general information which would
greatly increase her value to an author
or editor. She does not, say the critics,
even interest herself in others of her
profession. Ask any man in that line
who the stars of his profession are, and
he will at once name you such men as
Isaac A. Dement, who won at a recent
contest by writing over 250 words a
minute for five minutes, or Fred A. Ire
land, who can "take" the fastest talker
in congress and never miss a word, or
vleorge It. Bishop, of the New York
Stock exchange.
Ask a womun stenographer as to her
sisters,, and the usual answer is' "Well.
I don't read the stenographers' journals
now, and I really can't think of any
just at present." Evidently the esprit
ilu corps has not yet been created.
There are, however, several very smart
stenographers of the fair sex, and in
New York they hold some very desir
able positions. Perhaps the most noted
one now is Miss Minnie Minton Dyke,
private secretary of the city's buildjng
commissioner. She is a petite Massa
chusetts girl, who began the study of
stenography but three years ago and
had quite the full average of trials and
disappointments in getting a good posi
tion.
One of the objections oftenest urged
sgainst her was that she looked too
young for the place, which is a very
nice saying indeed to a lady in society,
but a trifle hard on a stenographer.
After doing odd pieces of work her
first engagement of an}' length was to
assist Ollie Sumner Teall in a political
.ampaign. She then opened an ottice
of fier own and finally became private
iecrctarj', as aforesaid, to Commissioner
Anthony Grady. She loses no oppor
tunity to add to her general informa
tion and is a graduate of the Women's
Law school, an institution where most
of the teaching is done by evening
lectures. She is now a sort of assist
ant commissioner, and has a stenog
rapher to whom she dictates letters,
attending thus to much business she
formerly took in dictation from Mr.
Grady.
Commissioner Hans Heattie also had
a lady for private secretary when he
w&s at the head of the New York street
cleaning department. Miss Cynthia
WeStover made quite a reputation in
that position and is often quoted as a
fine example of what such a semi
official should be. In truth, the office
jf private secretary requires a happy
union of many qualities, most of which
we have been taught to consider pt*u
liarly feminine. One must have a deal i
of tact, ability to catch an idea with
jut requiring too many words in set
ting it forth, and especially if there are
many callers must the secretary have
the talent to say something to all and
yet leave none with any phrase that
may afterward bo quoted against the
principal.
Mrs. John A. Logan is credited with
having trained her own private secre
tary for several years, and as she had a
good subject to start on the result is
admirable. In her home there is a very
retired but comfortable and well-light
ed room where Mrs. Logan does her
work, and the ornament and pride of
that room is Miss Edith Marshall.
Miss Marshall is a rather slender and
timid-looking Pennsylvania girl, who
had worked her way steadily into a po
sition in Washington city when Mrs.
Logan met her and found her assist
ance of value. "She has my perfect
confidence," says that lady, "and has
charge of all my mail r the details of my
business affairs, draws checks for tho
payment of all my bills and is my other
self when I am absent." Mrs. Logan
has an immense amount of work to do.
Her mail is seldom less than one hun
dred letters a day. She is president of
the Garfield -hospital, editor of a inaga
zine, contributor to other periodicals,
collaborator of army literature and has
much private business besides. And in
all this Miss Marshall is not only secre
tary but trusted agent, and sometimes
adviser and friend.
During her four years in Washington
Mrs. Lovi P. Morton had for a pri ate
j secretary a Mib*i Hunt, of Louisiura,
! whose life is so very retired that evi n
her #iven name is not general ly know n.
Yet she is a scion of one of the olde. l l
official families, and her father was
minister to Russia at one time. She
was also companion to Mrs. Morton and
assisted at her receptions, holding a
place in Washington society by her
own Ainon<r those who knew
her well Miss Hunt is considered ex
ceptionally clever and even brilliant,
and as a private secretary Mrs. Morton
thought her a jewel. Mrs. Cleveland
has a happy faculty of avoiding litera
ry responsibilities, and during her
husband's first term she employed one
of his secretaries when necessary, but
there has lately been a vague rumor
that a young southern lady was to be
her special secretary for this term.
Miss A. lb Sanger is a typewriter at the
White House.
Mrs. Eliza Hoardman Burns, of New
York, is the veteran of her sex in sten
ography and is the author of "Burnz'
Conic Shorthand." She was born Oc
tober 31, 1823, has long been retired, of
course, from active work, but is so
much in love with common sense in
spelling that she will not even allow an
s to be used in her name where the
sound is that of z. Miss Preston ranks
as an official court reporter at Denver,
and so do Misses Flora B. Haddox and
Ozella Beman in lowa, Miss Mamie A.
Stockett in Louisiana, Miss Annie
White and Sadie M. Swift in Massachu
setts, Miss Jennie Gage in Michigan
and a few others in other states.
Perhaps the best position in this line,
at any rate a very good one indeed, is
that held by Miss Laura Hayes as pri
vate secretary to the renowned Mrs.
Potter Palmer, of Chicago generally
and of the World's fair particularly. If
any one has written to Mrs. Palmer
pnd received a prompt reply, though the
papers may have just reported her as
in New York or Europe, said writer
may hereby learn that said prompt
answer came from Miss Hayes, who is
jin every truth Mrs.'Palmer's alter ego.
She is the ideal private secretary, and
has a stenographer to do the actual
work. To Miss Hayes go all the news
paper men who want information of
Mrs. I'aimer's doings, and from her
come promptly all decisions on matters
which do not absolutely require Mrs.
Palmer's personal attention.
Miss Hayes is a native of Chicago
Her father was one of its pioneer busi
ness men and at the time of the great
fire was quite wealthy. He died when
she was but an infant, and she has de
veloped her talents under the stimulus
of necessity. Her family is of old
Massachusetts revolutionary stock, the
same from which President Hayes was
descended, and her relatives on the
mother's side were warriors in other
und some whet later days. Miss Hayes
herself is a lady of many accomplish- ,
raents and has won distinction in other
lines than her present one.
It is, however, as a private secretary
that she has no superior. Mrs. Palmer
usually goes through her mail very
rapidly in the morning, dictating as
she reads. Miss Hayes adds the liter
ary finish, and it is rarely indeed that
there is a word amiss or inapplicable.—
N. Y. Advertiser.
By Women Writer*.
The English women sent six hundred
books to be a part of their exhibit ;-.t
Jhicago. They are all by women
writers and perhaps the most interest
'ng arc the old and rare volumes. One
>f these, written by Mary Astell, two
fiundre.l years ago, is a somewhat bel
licose "Defense of the Female Sex."
Lho earliest of all the volumes is Dame
Juliana IJerner's treatise on "Hawking,
Hunting, and Cote Armour," entitled
"The Dolce of St. Albans." She also
.vrote a "Treatyso of Fyssliynge wyth
in Angle" (1480). The manuscripts in
the collection are interesting. Every
mo notices the great resemblance be
tween the handwritings of George
Eliot, Charlotte Dronte, and Fanny
Burney. Some of the manuscript pages
jf "Robert Elsmere" are there, mostly
written on sheets of notepaper size. A
valuable MSS. is one written in Erdu
by an Indian Begum, and another is
the first story written by an Indiun
woman in English.—N. Y. Sun.
WOMEN AT WORK.
Two HUNDRED women practice dent
istry in the United States.
LADY AMHERST has distinguished her
noble name by admission to the hon
orary list of turners. She has extraor
dinary skill as a manipulator of the
lathe, and her house is full of specimens
of her work.
Miss ELIZABETH TAOG has "proved
up" on a preemption entry for one hun
dred and sixtj' acres of land in Columbia
county, Or., and proposes to settle on
her claim and make a good farm outof
it. She is young, and has lived for sev
eral years in Astoria.
IF the World's Columbian exposi
tion has accomplished nothing else, it
hus made evident one thing which
alone is worth all the cost and labor
expended on the fair. That thing is
the inherent intellectual capacity of
woman and her right to claim an equal
place with man in every field of effort.
Baltimore Sun,
MRS. MARION TODD, whose latest lit
erary work, "The Railways of Europe
and America," has been recently pub
lished, is a New England woman by
birth, but has passed most of her life in
the west. In 1881 she was admitted to
the bar in San Francisco, and built up
a practice there. She has several times
been a delegate to anti-monopoly and
greenback national conventions, anil in
1882 was the greenback candidate for
attorney-general of California.
THE Women's Protective and Provi
dent League of Glasgow has been in
vestigating the laundries of the princi
pal Scottish cities. The girls there
have been found to average from
twelve to fifteen hours a day for six
days of the week. In one case a girl
| was paid at the rate of six shillings a
week, and she worked from 8 a. ni. on
! Friday until 10:30 p. m. the following
; day, the only intervals being an hour
I for dinner, one for breakfast, and time
to take tea.
FALL VERSE.
The Chimes.
Bark, O hark! how soft and olear
Bells aro chiming on my ear,
Bolls of even tide, they tell
Day Is over—all Is wolL
Rising, fulling, on the ear—
What is it they're calling clear?
Day Is over—toil is done.
Rest comes with the sinking sun.
Sweeter, sweeter, still they ring
And a benediotion fling—
O! forever I shall hear
In my heart those voices dear,
Like some soft, sweet lullaby,
Heard In days long since gone by,
When pressed to a bosom white,
Mother's singing hushed us quite.
So, I drop my weary bead,
Cure and trouble both are fled,
And on sounds as sweet as those
Drift t'ward islands of repose.
Rising, falling thought doth go
On those accents to and fro;
Bolls of slumber, bells of sleep,
I am sinking in the deep
Still I hpar you—o'er and o'er—
And shall hear for evermore,
Through my brain your accents float,
Each soft penetrating note
Farther, fainter, fainter still.
Sinking, rising, sinking, till
All piy soul, thrilled with delight.
Dreams of music through the night.
—lnter Ocean.
Indian Summer.
Warm sun rays sift
Through filmy mist
And overy leaf is color-kissed.
The softened gleam
O'er wood and stream
Makes earth an oriental dream.
An Incense rare
Drifts thro' the air
Swung from October's censors fair.
A soothing sense
Of Joy intense
Lulls us to dreamy lndolenca
Over the land, *?
With lavish hand,
Autumn has waved her color wand.
With overy breeze
The frost-stained leaves
Drift from their moorage in the trees.
The ivy dips
Her finger tips
In summer's blood, aud drips, and drips
O shade and shine!
Your neotared wine
Stirs us like some old vintage fine.
0 rythmic rune,
Alas I How soon
Will discord mar your perfect tuns
With fancy's ear
1 seem to hear
Tho requiem of the dying year.
—Detroit Free Press
A Summer Day.
Far-flashing in the bright gulf of the sky
The unavailing clouds float, and tho air
Burns quivering in the steady flame-fleroe
glare,
Down-beating, from the sun's throne, on the dry
Thirst-fevered fields, and on the roads that lie
Choked in the hot dust, while, only here and
there.
High in ihe glistening sycamores, or where
The willows are, a languid breath goes by.
But no touch stirs tho river's quiet deeps;
Therefrom tho wooded hill looms, green and
denso;
Therein its huge Inverted Image sleeps;
The locust's whizzing music, shrill and tense,
Sounds from the dusky elm, whose shadow
creeps
Across that wide and glassy Indolence.
—Robert tt Wilson, in Harper's Magazine.
The Welcome Man.
Of men and lovers, brothers—all—
lie Is the welcome one I
Whenever he may choose to oall
I gladly rise, and run
To moot and greet him with a smile
And eager-beating heart, the while.
At morn if I am not "in trim"
And other fellows come
I cleverly retreat. To him
I always om at home—
With bangs in crimp. I boldly stand
And willingly extend my hand.
And yet his presence sometimes brings
Regret, and pain, and blame,
And other aggravating things-
No matter! Just the same
I fly to ope the door aud see
If ho a letter have for me I
-Madeline S. Bridges, in Ladles' Home Journal.
Two Turnings.
I came to a turn In my fate,
And my love stood by:
I went to his side with a heart elate.
And "Little I care," said I,
"Little care I how rough the weather,
While thou and I are safe togetherl"
I cam© to a turn in my fate.
But my love was gone:
There came no word through the silent gate
Though I watched and prayed till dawn;
And "Little care I how fair the weather,
Since love and I are no more togetherl"
—Florence E. Pratt, in Ltppincott'a.
Compensation.
If at first you don't suooeed
Try, try again,
For perseverance overcomes
All things of mortal ken,
And if you do not got tho girl
You want, or think you do,
You're safe in betting you will get
The girl that's wanting you.
—Detroit Free Press.
An Excusable Omission.
! I hadn't an eye for the groom that day,
I • Though J pitied him awfully,
With everyone loooking right his way—
That is, everyone but me.
But, of course, 'twss the bride they were look
ing at,
For who wouldn't have looked at her,
When to even a fellow as blind as a bat
Hor beauty would havo to oocur?
But she was composed, and she wasn't affright;
She knew she was charming to see;
But tho groom anybody would venture to
slight,
And I couldn't have looked at—me!
■—Roe L. Hendrlck, In Puok.
Mountain of the Holy Cross, Colorado.
Engraven on the mountain side.
Where storm winds blow and cloud wreaths
toss,
By snow engrained, by ice retained,
Stands, Heaven Impressed, "The Holy Cross."
In by-gone days the Indian eye
Beheld from far tho wondrous sign,
And through the dark, one tiny spark.
Faint gleam of immortality,
Showed the Great Spirit's hand divine
The years passed on—the white man came
And told of human gain and loss.
Of mail's distress, of love's redress,
On Calvary's tree, "The Holy Cross."
Then simple hearts, long wrapped in night.
Found earthly shadows fade away,
Of sorrow's gloom, or chilly tomb,
In view of that far beacon bright,
Tinging the sullen mountain height
With radiance of God's perfect day.
Still striving souls, with love Inspired,
I Accounting earth's chief glory dross,
! May gaze untried, with rapture fired,
! Upon the snowy "Holy Cross."
For yet iho gleaming symbol stands
Upon the Rocky mountains' crest,
Whilst far below lights come and go,
O'er pine woods, streams and sunny lands,
And peaceful lakes, whose placid breast
Image God's final gift of "Rest"
—Helena Heath, in Good Word*
FREELAND
[OPERA HOUSE.
JOHN J. WELSH, Manager.
I THURSDAY, Dec. 7.
"The Burglar,"
(Direction of A. Q. Scammon.)
A COMEDY DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS,
by Augustus Thomas,
author of the successful plays,
"ALABAMA" and "SURRENDER."
Exactly as produced at the Madison Squure
Theatre, New York. Intermingled laughter
and tears. Presented with a great east of
popular players.
PEICES:
25, 35 and 50 Cents.
Reserved seats at Christy's book store.
BUSINESS BRIEFS.
Go to McDonald's for furniture.
Farties supplied with ice cream, cakes,
etc., by Lauuach at reasonable rates.
Don't suffer with indigestion, use Bax
ter's Mandrake Bitters. Sold by Dr.
Sehilcher.
•'Orange Blossom" iB a painless cure
for atl diseases peculiar to women. Sold
fresh by Amandus Oswald.
The reason why Arnica it Oil Liniment
is so popular witli the ladies is because
it not only is very healing and soothing
but its odor is not at all oilensive. Sold
by Dr. Sehilcher.
Cannibal King—"l don't see why I
shouldn't eat you."
Missionary—"l don't agree with 3'ou."
Medicine Man—"Take a dose of
Wright's Indian Vegetable Fills after
the meal, sire."
Prof. Barrett, of St. Lawrence county,
X. Y., speaking of pulmonary diseases,
says: Not one death oocurs now where
twenty died before Downs' Elixir was
known. Over fifty years of constant
success places Downs' Elixir at the head
of the long list of cough remedies. Sold
by Dr. Sehilcher.
STATE OK OHIO, CITY OK TOLEDO, (
LUCAS COUNTY. F SS
FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he
is tlie senior partner of the firm of F. J.
CHENEY A Co., doing business in the City
of Toledo, County ami State aforesaid,
and that said firm will pav the sum of
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use of HALL'S CATARRH
CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and Buliscribed in
my presence, this 6th day of December.
A. D. 1880.
i ~' — ) • A. W. GLEASON,
( SEAL Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. Send
for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Z-fi' Sold by Druggists, 75c.
A Story Full of Human Interest.
From the Bradford, Pa., Era.
."The Burglar" was presented last
night at the Wagner opera house by
Ncanimon's company of players, and it
proved to be a dramatic treat. Each
character in the cast was in able hands
and a smoother or more effective rendi
tion of the piece could not he desired.
Little Lottie Briscoe, tlie child actress,
surprised and delighted the audience by
her aptness and precocity. She sang
three songs that were remarkably well
rendered for a six-year-old, and her high
kicking was the quaintest hit of comedy
imaginable.
The action of the piece tells a story
full of human interest and one that has
a moral to adorn tlie tale. Mr. Scam
mon's company in a play of this kind
will always ho welcome in Bradford.
'•Anthony Kent."
The slory called "Anthony Kent," hv
Charles Stokes Wayne, and containe'd in
the December number of "Tales From
Town Topics," is particularly bright,
lively and dramatic, with a variety of
character and incident that holds the
reader's attention from start to finish.
Its opening chapter introduces to us tlie
hero of the tale, a happy-go-lucky man of
the world who, while strolling through 1
a street in \ enice, is attracted by a pair
of skirts, and Aiy means of a startling
piece of effrontery forms the acquaint
ance of a very beautiful und mvsterious
woman.
As it turns out, this incident is the
turning point in the young man's career.
The woman that Anthony Kent meets
in Venice plays a very important part in
his life. She is an adventuress who has
a past. She loves Kent, and devotes
her life to him. He is happy with her |
until, in America, he meets a young girt
whose innocence appeals to hissomewhat
sin-hardened nature, ami to this one his
heart goes oat. Ami when lie lias learn
ed to love her lie finds that she is the
daughter of ids mistress, tlie deserted
child of whom lie lias aften hoard.
Naturally enough this complicated and
romantic condition of affairs is interest
ing, and as the author lias treated his
subject with great lucidity and direct- i
ness, tlie novel is one of decided force, i
Tlie descriptive scenes in Venice and
Monte Carlo are particularly vivid, and
altogether Wayne can he credited witli
the production of a strong piece of nar- ,
rative work. Town Topics Fublishing j:
Co., 21 West 23d street, New York city, i ,
50 cents.
I
When Baby was stck, wo gave her Castoria.
When she was a CliiUl, she cried (or Castoria.
When she became Mtss, she clung to Castoria.
When she bad Children, she gave them Castoria.
RICH FRUITS
AT THE ROOTS.
Juxt ax sure as the rivers run to the sea HO
the tide of trade runs to t/ie counters of the
merchant alio advertises. Look at this:
; FURNITURE and
CARPE'I S
SLAUGHTERED.
| From the 15 th last until January Ist I
i trill sell you
\ Our Ofie Ingrain, all wool filled Carpet,
for 55c.
I Our 50c Ingrain for 42£e.
Our 40c Ingrain for 3.'lc.
Our 35c Ingrain for 2!) c.
Our 81 25 lirussells for 81.05.
Our 81.15 lirussells for 07aC.
I Our SI.OO Brussells for 85e.
1 Our 85c Brussells for 75c.
Our 75c Brussells for 05c.
Our 95c Brussells for 55c.
A $75.00 combination bedroom suit, SOO.
A 50.00 walnut bedroom suit. $40.00.
A 40.00 antiqne oak suit, $32.00.
A 35.00 antique oak suit, 20.00.
A 30.00 antique oak suit, 25.00.
A 25 00 antique oak suit, 22.00.
A 21.50 antique oak suit, 18.50.
A 05.00 parlor suit, rug, 55.00.
A 45.00 parlor suit, black hair. $35.00.
A 45.00 parlor suit, crushed plush. $35.
A 50.00 parlor suit, wool plush, $40.00.
Side boards, centre tables, extension tables
and thousands of other useful articles in the
furniture line.
For the battlnce of this month ice will give
you
TEN PER CENT. OFF
ON ALL
BLANKETS.
and 50 per cent, of on all coals left from
last year. This means
A SIO.OO ladies' eoat for $5.00.
Can you afford to miss all this?
Toilet chamber sets, worth $4, for $2.50.
, Cheaper than any ever offered in the coun
, ty. NOTIONS and HOLIDAY GOODS
[ we are aiming to have just what you want
far cheaper than you dreamed of —consider-
ing quality, li t hare a large stock of shoes
to select from; the Orwigsburg shoes for chil
, dren; erery jstir guaranteed; call and see
them.
GROCERIES ~~
and
PROVISIONS.
Shoulders, lie; Cheese, 14c; Butter, 28c
Lard, 12|c; Salt herring, St- lb; Salt, had
dock, uc lb; 3lh bologna. 25c; 3 lbs mix
ed cakes, 25c; 5 lbs rice. 25c; 5 lbs bar
ley, 25c; 3 lbs ginger cakes, 25c; 4 lbs
soda biscuits, 25c; Mint lozengers, 10c
lb; Mixed candy. 10c ll>; Stick candy,
10c lb; 5 cans sardines, 25c; 2 cans salm
on. 25c; 3 qts boms. 25c; 3 qts peas. 25c;
2 lbs dry corn.. 25c; 5 lbs currants, 25c;
3 lbs raisins blue. 25c; 5 lbs raisins, 25c;
Bonny fiour, $1.85.
Yours truly,
J. C. BERNER.
LEHIGH VALLEY
m.( RAILROAD.
Anthracite coal used exclu
/ sively, insuring clcunliiiess and
1 comfort.
ARRANGEMENT OF PASSENGER TRAINS.
NOV. 10, 1803.
LEAVE FREELAND.
0 05, 8 40, 0 88. 10 41 n m, 1 20, 2 27, 3 45, 4 55,
0 58, 7 12, 847 p m, lor Drifton, Jeddo. Lum
ber Yard, Stockton and Huzleton.
ti 05, 8 40 u in, 1 20. 3 45 p m, for Mauch Chunk,
Allcntowu, Bethlehem, Philu., Hasten and New
York.
9 40 a in, 4 55 p in for Bethlehem, Hasten and
Phi la.
7 20, 10 58 a m, 12 33,4:14 p m, (via Highland
1 ranch) for White Haven, Glen Summit, Wilkes-
Barre, Pitts ton and L. and B. Junction.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
II 40 a in anil 3 45 p in for Drifton, Jeddo, Lurn
er Yard and Hazicton.
345 e in lor Deiuno, Mahanoy City, Shenan
doah. New York and Philadelphia.
ARRIVE AT FREELAND.
5 50, 7 18 7 20, 9 19, 10 56 a ra, 12 33, 2 13, 4 54,
658 and 837 p in, from Hazleton, Stockton,
Lumber Yard, Jeddo and Drifton.
7 20, 9 19, 10 50 a m, 2 13, 4 34, 658 p m from
Delano, Mahanoy City uud Shenandoah (via
New Boston Brunch).
2 13, 0 58 and 8 37 p in from New York, Hasten,
Philadelphia, Bethlehem, Allentown and Mauch
Chunk.
9 19 and 10 56 a in, 2 13, 0 58 and 8 37 p m from
Huston, Philu-, Bethlehem and Mauen Chunk.
9 33, 10 41 a 111, 2 27,0 58 p m from White Haven,
Glen Summit, Wilkes-Barre. Pittston and L. anu
11. Junction (via Highland Branch).
SUNDAY TRAINS.
11 31 a m and 3 31 p in, from Hazicton, Lum
ber Yard, Jeddo and Drifton.
li 31 a in from Delano, Huzleton, Philadelphia
and Hasten.
3 31 p m from Delano and Mahanoy region.
For further information inquire of Ticket
Agents.
CHAS. S. LEH, Gen'l Pass. A gent,
U. H. WILBUR. Gen. Supt. East. Div., hUa " 1
A. W. NONNEMACHEU, Ass'tG. P. A..
South Bethlehem, Pa.
'I HE DELAWARE, SUBQUEIIANNA AND
JL SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD.
Time table in effect Soptember3, 1893.
Trains leave Drifton for Jeddo, Eekley, Hazlo
brook, Stockton, Heaver Meadow Bead, Koun
and lluzletou Junction at 60b, 6 10 am, 12 10,
4 09 p m, dally except Sunday, and 7 03 a mj 2 38
p m, Sunday.
Trains leave Drifton for Hnrwood, Cranberry,
Tomhieken und Doringer at 600a m, 12 10 p m
daily except Sunday; and 7 03 a in, 238 p m!
Sunday.
Trains leave Drifton for Oneida Junction,
Garwood Bond, Humboldt Uoud, Oneida and
Sheppton at 610 a in, 1210, 409p m, daily except
Sunday; and 74* lam,2 38 p in, Sunday.
Trains leave llazleton Junction forHarwood,
Cranberry, Tomhieken and Deringer at 637 a
m, 1 49 p in, daily except Suiiduy; and 8 47 u m,
4 18 p in, Sunday.
Trains leave Hazicton Junction for Oneida
Junction, Hnrwood ltoad, Humboldt lioad,
Oneida and Sheppton at 6 47,9 10 am, 12 40, 439
p m, daily except Sunday; und 7 40 am, 3 08 p
m, Sundav.
Trains leave Deringer for Tomhieken, Cran
berry, Harwood, Hazicton Junction, Bonn,
Beaver Meadow Bead. Stockton, llazle Brook,
Koklcy, Jeddo and Drifton at 2 40, BD7 pm,
! daily except Sunday; and 937 a m, 5 07 p m,
! Sunday.
Trains leave Sheppton for Oneida, Humboldt
Boad, Garwood Koad, Oneida Junction, Hazic
ton Junction and Boun at 7 52, 10 16 a in, 115,
6 25 p m, daily except Sunday; und 8 14 a m, 3 45
p ra, Sunday.
toil's leave Sheppton tor Beaver Meadow
Boad, Stockton, llazle Brook, Eekley, Jeddo
and Drifton at, 1016 a in. 525p m, daily, exeent
Sunday; and 8 14 a m, 3 45 d m, Sunday.
Trains leave Hazicton Junction for Beaver
Meadow Koad, Stockton, Hazle Brook, Eekley,
Jeddo und Drifton at 10 38 a in, 3 11, 5 47, 638 p
ra, daily, except Sunday; and 10 08 a m, 5 38 p m,
Sunday.
All trains conneet at Hazicton Junction with
electric ears for Hazicton, Jeanesville, Auden
rje<Uuid other points on Lehigh Traction Co's,
Trains leaving Drifton at 0 10 am, Huzleton
Junction at 9 10 u in, and Sheppton at 7 52 a m,
1 15 p in, connect at Oneida Junction with L. V.
I It. 11. trains oust and west.
I Train leuving Drifton at 600 a ni. makes con
nection at Deringer with P. It. B. train for
I Wilkes-Barre, Sunbury, Harrisburg, etc.
E. B. COXE, DANIEL COXB,
1 President. Superintendent.