ART IS LONG.
BY GERTRUDE WARDEN.
ICopyright, 1803, by the Author. 1
in haste,
repent at leis
n ure, my dear."
\ So croaked
/ fewA \ the aunt of
! \ Brandon
/ her Be l' aWay "
Vaugban, with
whom she had
' \/I fallen violently
\ \ V|l in love, after
attending a "pi- j
anoforte recital" of his own compo
sitions at St. James' halL
Paul Vaughan gave music lessons,
and had a flourishing connection in
Bays water. Young ladies under his
tuition took to playing Wagner three
hours a day, to the infinite distress of
their friends and neighbom within ear
shot
Fortunately for himself he possessed,
also—inherited from Scandinavian and
Teutonic ancestors—a pair of dreamy
blue eyes and an immense amount of
wavy auburn hair. The hair and the
eyes brought him pupils and disciples
which no amount of musical lore and
academic training could have procured
him, and among them was Edith Bran
don.
She was a charming girl; not at all
clever, but so high*ly educated as to
pass among her own immediate circle
for a marvel of artistic and scientific
acliieveme nts.
She had a charming slender figure
and a charming rose and cream oom
plexion, and while secretly laving lawn
RE LAID DOWN HIS PEN.
tennis and waltzing, barrel-organ tunes
and afternoon tea parties, she was con
sumed by a desire to sacrifice her life
and her little fortune on the shrine of
a genius.
Paul Vaughan wa9 the nearest ap
proach to anything in that direction
which she had ever met, and she
promptly fell in love with him.
She insisted upon receiving pianp
forte lessons from him, a desire which
her indulgent aunt gratified, with the
result that iq three weeks' time, moved
out of himself by the lovely Edith's
sympathetic appreciation of his work
and his aims, Paul Vaughan informed
her that she was his ideal—the only
woman for whom ho had ever enter
tained any feeling warmer than
(esthetic admiration.
. The result of this declaration was
that his pupil at once drooped from the
music stool into his arms, and that
Miss Brandon, senior, entering inop
portunely at that moment, her niece
announced her intention of marrying
no one else but her dreamy-eyed music
master; and a conventional Baysvvater
wedding, with white brocade, Brussels
lace, Buszard's cake, six bridesmaids,
two pages, and gifts of checks, but
ter-knives, paper-cutters, candlesticks,
and volumes of Tennyson bouud In
morocco leather, together with a
honeymoon trip to Norway, followed
in due course with bewildering rapidi
ty.
Edith's aunt' and guardian, a pleas
ant-tempered and sensible old maid,
disapproved of the whole thing.
"Paul is a genius," she said, "and
geniuses oughtn't to marry. Look at
Early le."
As the sage of Chelsea had been dead
some years that was impossible. But
looking at Mr. and Mrs. Paul Vaughan
they seemed happy enough.
Miss Brandon still maintained that
all this was a mistake. Edith ought
by rights to have married Harry Deni
son, a good-looking young stock broker,
who for three years had been so much
in love with her as to be unendurable
when in her society.
"Edith wants a lot of affection and
attention," Miss Brandon said, "and
Paul, with his head full of figures and
major fifths, won't be able to give It.
She won't let him go on giving music
lessons, because she is jealous of him.
Consequently, with all necessity for
mere money-grubbing removed, he will
be more devoted to his Art—with a big
A—and less dovoted to anything else
than ever. And in time even a woman
tires of all give and no take in the mat
ter of affection."
Miss Brandon was not far wrong.
At the end of a year of matrimony
Edith and Paul had a fragile, gray
eyed infant, upon whom the father
gazed wouderingly, and in whose
honor he composed a charming rhap
sody, in the invention of which he en
tirely forgot the subject, and was both
annoyed and troubled by the "infant
seraph's" squeals.
At the end of a second year the gray
eyea infant faded out of this world
altogether in the course of some
prosaic childish ailment, and beautiful
Edith nearly broke her heart in dry
. eyed agony.
Paul was more easily consoled. He
wrote a requiem upon the baby's
death, which greatly increased his
fame. The subject, moreover, sug
gested to him a cantata on the "Judg
ment of Solomon," upon which he at
once set to work with an artist's
fervor, while poor Edith, her lovely
face aud figure wasted by grief, betook
herself every day to that little green
grave among tho Surrey hills* beside
which she would sit for hours, moisten-i
I off the unresponsive earth with her
tears.
At length, one day as Paul sat in his
study surrounded by musical instru
ments and musical books of reference,
with the manuscript of his precious
cantata, now within a few iines of
completion, beside him, his wife tapped
at the door.
Paul did not want to be bothered by
anybody at that moment lie had just
finished a most admirable air, in
which the feelings of a mother over a
lost babe were suggested with marvel
ous delicacy and truth. Nevertheless,
he laid down his pen in a resigned
manner on his wife's entrance.
She had come to tell him that she
was going away from him, for a long
time, perhaps.
"I don't think you quite know, Paul,"
she said, with a painful effort to be
calm which made her voice sound cold
and hard, "how difficult it is for me to
go on living here as nothing in your
life. lam only twenty-one, you know,
just a selfish young woman, I suppose.
1 didn't quite know what marrying a
musician meant. I think you will do
your work quite as well and even bet
ter without me. Martha will do the
housekeeping and spare you All the
trouble. It would have been different
if baby had lived and—"
She stopped abruptly.
Her face looked gray and old.
Paul was groatly distressed. It was
evident to him that she did not love
him; while as for him, he had scarcely
even looked at another woman. Still,
he wished she had not interrupted him
just when he was in the vein of compo
sition.
He was very kind and gentle in his
manner. But ever and anon, whilst
speaking to her, his eyes went back to
his manuscript upon the table, and at
sight of this Edith's long pent-up re
sentment and jealousy broke out.
"You think of nothing in the world
but your work," she sobbed. "What
do such men as you want with wife or
child? Just a housekeeper to see that
your ineals are cooked and your clotheß
mended, and that you are not troubled
in any way. Love and affection are
nothing to you, less than nothing!"
He gazed at her with a gentle, won
dering.resignation, which irritated her
still more. The very next day she
would leave him, so she said, in order
to travel about and try to forget her
loneliness and grief. Then she left the
room, and Paul, after running his fin
gers several times through his long
hair, decided with a sigh that he must
put aside his work for the day and con
sult Miss Brandon concerning her
niece's extraordinary behavior.
He took the next train to London in
order to do this, but only arrived at the
Bayswater home to find that Miss
Brandon had left for Italy.
Tired, dispirited, and annoyed at hav
ing wasted a day away from his be
loved "score," Paul journeyed home,
arriving at the station nearest to his
cottage at eight o'clock in the evening.
. A short cut through the woods
would bring him to his own door in
twenty minutes, and as ho strode ovor
the first fallen leaves of September,
with his hands clasped behind him and
his head full of unfinished melodies,
he noticed a curious, red, flickering
light in the sky ahead of him, through
the interlaced branches of the elms and
chestnuts.
Too soon he was to know the cause
of this. Sounds of hurrying feet, of
shouts and cries, mingled with the
crackle of burning wood and the fall
of masonry, appraised him of the scene
of riot and ruin awaiting him where, a
J|-
SAFE WITHIN RRR ARMS WAS TIIE PRE
CIOUS MANUSCRIPT.
ft few hours ago, his peaceful, rose-em
bowered home had stood.
A lamp, accidentally overturned by
a careless servant, had been the cause
of the fire. The local fire brigade had
arrived too late, and the cottage was
enveloped in a cloud of smoke, through
which jets of flame shot up into the
quiet evening air.
"My wife! Edith!" Paul cried, in
frenzied anxiety, as the meaning of
the scene burst upon him.
His housekeeper, Martha, wringing
her hands, cried out to hiin that Mrs.
Vaughan had been standing where ho
now was, sound and unhurt, only a
few short minutes before; but that as
though suddenly remembering some
thing, she had dashed forward, before
her intention could he divined, and
h*wi disappeared within the burning
house.
Her husband, distracted with alarm,
would have precipitated himself into
the building in Edith's track, but that
strgng hands restrained him. He, as
well as all present, had given the un
happy girl up for lost, when, right
through the black smoke, pulling in
columns from the front entrance of the
doomed house, a slight form staggered
forth. Safe within her arms was the
precious manuscript—her rival in her
husband's love—to rescue which she
had risked her life!
Paul Vaughan is a great man now.
His cantata: "The Judgment of Solo
mon," was the first of a series of bril
liant successes in the musical world,
lie makes more money than he can
want and commissions pour upon him.
But although he dearly loves his art,
every spare moment of his time is de
voted to his wife, whom he cannot en
dure to have out of his sight, so dear
lias she become to him. And his ten
der care is needed now, for since that
terrible night of the tire Edith Vaughan
has been blind.
ELLEN OSBORN'S LETTER
Tha Salmagundi Colors at the
Subscription Tea.
Novel Combinations of White an<l Itlack -
A Medley of AH Colon* and Ail Cuts—
The Lonj Uasquo and the
Evening Gown.
[COPYRIGHT, 1893.]
"Another symphony in black and
white," she murmured to me as we
climbed the steps at Sherry's to drop in
at the subscription tea. New York so
ciety's new plaything.
The " symphony" was human.
Standing on the balcony were two very
small and very black boys dressed in
blue velvet jackets, baggy Turkish
trousers of white silk, blue stockings
and red shoes turned up at the toes.
The black hands held primly down by
the white trousers furnished just the
element of contrast which milliners are
to-day combining from Vienna to ban
Francisco.
The little living symphonies may be
dismissed with a word. After all, they
are but reduced fac-similes, maugre
VELVETS YOUR ONLY WE AII.
their fearsome scimiters of glittering
tin, of the turbanod black guards in
"Algeria."
But the tea, after a week or more of
trial, a week when nothing else has
been talked about, what a blessed in
stitution it has proved itselfl Every
pleasant afternoon carriages cluster
thick about the door on Thirty-seventh
street and pretty ladies in rich bravery
of velvet and fur pass in and out. In
the two delicately pretty rooms there
are the low hum of conversation and the
wafting of faint scents. Sometimes
there may be but a few ladies in the
room, sometimes the half dozen all at
once become twenty or thirty, and,
there are the hum and bustle of many
voices in the subdued tones of conven
tional good breeding and the flutter of
wraps and the swish and rustle of gay
gowning. Then restraint oozes away 1
bit by bit, and gradually the hum.
rises to a chatter as of chirping swal
lows under the old barn eaves in Berk
shire, and then, just as it is most inter
esting—
"l can't stop another instant. I only
just dropped in as I was passing."
"And I've got to go shopping this
minute."
"And I have a siege with my mil
liner" (you never say "dressmaker"
any more, at Sherry's, or anywhere on
the avenue).
And there is more bustling about
and drawing on of gloves and button
ing of wraps and mingled greetings
ENGLISH AFTERNOON GOWN.
and fond farewells for a
day, and then the chatterers drift
slowly down the steps,and comparative
Bilence reigns again until again the
room somehow fills itself and the little
ebony symphonies on the landing rest
their tired little legs and roll their big
e3 r es at each other with desperately
comical gravity.
"Why, it's just like a lady's club,"
you say. S-shl They don't say "club"
at Sherry's, and yet you are more than
three-quarters right. An exchange for
small talk, a daily meeting place
where friends may rendezvous and
swap confidences whose infrequent
pauses are punctuated with the sigh
ing, languorous, pulsing notes of an
exquisite orchestra—it is indeed very
like a club, and because it is like one
ft* _ Pinch because it is not
I called, the conservatives and the
radicals of the swell set unite in its
praise.
Not in all America, certainly not in
New York, has there ever been such
an opportunity for the daily display
and admiration of beautiful gowns. Is
this one secret of success? Perhaps.
The tea takers rarely remove their
hats or jackets, but here one sees the
picked women of New York in out
door bravery and takes note of the
changes wrought in the whirligig of
time, and admires again to see how
fine and bravo and strong and sensible
most of them look after all's said.
I think the use of black and white—
seriously, now—the most novel and
characteristic effect among the sea
; son's novelties. Such dressy ladies as
Mrs. Langdon, Mrs. Stanley Mortimer,
Mrs. Delancey Kane and Mrs. Kerno
chan have shown costumes in the "Sal
magundi colors," as they are beginning
to be called. For afternoon use, the
black and white combinations are
more in favor than for indoor display.
I Seldom is the room without one or two
pretty examples clustered round the
teacups and the illustrated papers.
, See, for instance, the pretty Rhode
Island heiress yonder, with flat hat of
pure white felt, bedecked with plumes
of white and black, flaring- hig-h from
her low classic brow; she has on her
three-quarter length jacket of ermine
and sable, of course, but the room is
not cool and she has thrown it back
and stands with graceful pose, reveal
ing a bodice of lustrous black velvet
with wide white belt and pointed yoke
of white. Iler skirt is pure black below
the jacket, but I feel quite sure—ah,
yes, as she turns, one sees that down
the farther side extends quite to the
ground a trellis-like arrangement of
black bars upon a white ground, for
all the world as if an admir ir's eyes,
modestly turned to the floor at meet
ing such a beauty, might slowly climb
that ladder until they rested at last on
the pretty retrousse face with big, pic
ture-like eyes.
Velvet for everybody. Not very dif
ferent from the prevailing contrasts
are the combinations of black and
creamy tints, such as cream guipure
rovers upon black velvet, cream and
black and petunia colors, deep purple
and cream. In many lights the pur
ple is scarculy distinguishable from
black and it has greater richness of ef
fect, if that is possible.
But come, it is time to leave the glit
tering "tea." Cast that one lingering
look backward which no woman can
forego; do you see that basque, thpit
actual basque, as of the old days,
reaching quite to the knees of the
wearer, black velvet with slashes and
gleams of white? It is the ground
swell from Paris of a coming flood of
long basques.
Perhaps the Salmagundi combination
is most effective in hats. See the
Punchinello flashing past behind that
pretty team of bays, the driver and
footman sitting bolt upright, with
eyes turning neither to the right hand
nor the left. The crown is covered
with black sequins, as they are absurd
ly called. There is a dash of white in
front, lace, I suppose, with a broad
black bow. There is an aigrette at
one side, black, with a cluster of bobs
and balls and fusements at the base
and—yes, and just a touch of pink to
keep the whole from being "poky."
ELLEM OSHOBJT.
TRAIN THE CHILDREN.
Tlcr o Exists a Crj Inqr Need for Mere
Practical Education.
Escape from the toils of penury
might be offered to some by furnishing
a more practical education to the chil
dren of the poor, writes Washington
Gladden. Some elementary industrial
training would enlarge the resources
of these boys and girls and might pre
vent many of them from dropping
down into the lowest grades of labor,
where the struggle is severest. Espe
cially would a little practical training
in domestic economy be useful to the
girls of this class. Most of them are
destined to be wives and mothers, and
the question whether the household
shall live in pinching want or in com
parative comfort often depends on the
skill and thrift of the wife and
mother. Here, for example, is a table
with minute accounts of the expendi
tures for five weeks of thirty families
in London; and the exhibit is a forci
ble illustration of the lack of thrift
which accompanies poverty. One fam
ily, with an income of about five dol
lars a week, made seventy-two differ
ent purchases of tea during the five
weeks. Inasmuch as this family never
took more than two meals a day at
home it is evident that they never
bought more than a single drawing of
tea at a time; seventy-two purchases
of tea in thirty-five days is two pur
chases a day (Sundays included) and
two extra. Of these thirty families it
is evident that quite a number went to
the grocery every day of their lives—
not a few of them several times a day.
This hand-to-mouth existence is at en
mity with thrift; it is scarcely possible
that any family should escape from
poverty until it learns wiser methods
of expenditure. That many of these
helpless people are pitifully ignorant
of the alphabet of domestic economy is
plain enough; is it not possible to give
the girls, in industrial schools, some
practical instruction in this most im
portant art?
PRETTY CENTER PIECE.
One That Is Novel In Shape as Well as
Pretty In Ueslgn.
The center for a dining table shown
in our sketch is novel in shape as well
as pretty in design. It should measure
from 12 to 15 inches from either extrem
ity, and may be cut with the scallops
less deeply indented if desired. Cream
or pure white linen is the best materi
al. Buttonhole stitch it around the
edge, and inside of this, just allowing
TRETTY CENTER VIECE.
the worked edge to appear, sew a very
scant frill of inch-wide ribbon; over
this set a ruffle of lace. Work with a
design of jonquils in yellow silk. Any
preferred flower, such as violets, but
tercups or sweet peas, may be used in
stead of jonquils, in which case ribbon
and silk must correspond. The ribbon
must be attached with as few stitches
as possible, so that it may be removed
when the piece is to be washed.—Amer
ican Agriculturist.
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.
MEND the torn pages of books with
white tissue paper.
MORTAR and paint may be removed
from glass with hot, sharp vinegar.
DON'T shut the lids of pots, boilers
and saucepans when putting them
away. It retains the odors of cookery.
NEVER put your stovepipes away
without rubbing them thoroughly with
linseed oil or something similar. This
will prevent an accumulation of rust.
To REMOVE tar, rub in grease (lard is
as good as anything) until the spot
seems pretty well loosened, and then
wash in plenty of hot water and soap.
SOME housewives say that the colors
of cotton fabrics will become "set" if
salt and water is employed three gills
of salt to four quarts of water. The
calico is dropped in the water while
hot, and there remains until it is cold.
TUHNIPS boiled with their jackets on
are of better flavor and less watery. A
small lump of sugar added while the
vegetable is cooking corrects the bit
terness often found in them. If to be
served mashed, run through a colander.
• IF you have never tried apple short
cake try it now. Prepare it exactly as
you would strawberry shortcake, using
apple sauce in place of the berries; and
by the time apples grow again you
may consider an apple shortcake as
great a treat as strawberry shortcake.
IF you have black or tinted cambrics
or muslins which you hesitate to trust
to the laundress, give them a first dip
yourself in water into which you have
stirred a teaspoonful of black pepper.
This is also said to save gray and buff
linens from spots when used in first
water.
LITTLE red ants cannot travel over
wool or rag carpet. Cover the shelf in
a closet or pantry with flannel, set
whatever you wish to keep from the
ants on it, and the}' will at once disap
pear. They may be caught also in
sponges into which sugar lias been
sprinkled; then the sponge should be
dropped into hot water.
Distance Traveled In Daiicing.
An average waltz takes a dancer over
about three-quarters of a mile, a square
dance makes him cover half a mile.
A girl with a well-filled programme
travels thus in ono evening: Twelve
waltzes, nine miles; four other dances
at half a mile apiece, which is hardly
a fairly big estimate, two miles more;
the intermission stroll and the trips
to the dressing-room to renovate her
gown and complexion, half a mile
more; grand total, eleven and one
balf mile*.
Direct Legislation.
With its first issue in December, 1893,
the Age, published weekly at Boulder,
Montana, began the publication of a.
series of articles on the very important
subject of "Direct Legislation," or the
i reference of all proposed laws to the
people for their approval or rejection.
I It is expected that all phases of the
subject will come under review, and as
the proposition is likely to be a prom
inent plank in at least one of the party
platforms in the political campaign of
next year, those who want to be well
informed in the matter should subscribe
for the Age immediately, in order to
have the benefit of the full series.
Among the prominent Montanians
who will furnish articles for the series
are Hon. Thos. 11. Carter, of Helena,
ex-member of congress and present
chairman of the national Republican
central committee; Rev. James Reid, of
Deer Lodge, president of the college of
Montana; Hon. John 11. I)eWitt, of
Butte, associate justice of the supreme
court of Montana; Hon, P. K. Arm
strong, of Bozeman; judge of ninth judi
cial district; Prof. C. W. Birchard, of
Twin Bridges, president of normal; Col.
J. J. Donnelly, of Fort Benton, attornay
at-law, A. P. Flannigan, of Miles City,
Ranchman; Hon. Theo. Brantly, of
Deer Lodge, judge of the third judicial
district; Hon. A. C. Botkin, of Helena,
lieutenant governor of Montana; Dr. J.
S. Hammond, of Butte, and about forty
others equally prominent in that state.
It will be seen that the series will run
at least six months, and the editor of
the Age is continuing his efforts to secure
articles, so that it seems probable that
the series will run through the entire
year. Certainly $2 can hardly be bet
ter invested than by sending it to the
Age for a year's subscription.
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LUCAS COUNTY. F
FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that be
is the senior partner of the firm of F. J.
CHENEY JUX'O., doing business in the City
of Toledo, County and 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 subscribed in
my presence, this Gtli day of December,
A. D. 188 G.
i — l } A. W. GLEASON,
■J 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.
by Druggists, 75c.
A Timely Hit of Advice.
In these times of grip and pneumonia
it is of great importance that we should
know where to look for a safe and sure
remedy. A slight cold may become a
serious one, the scarcely noticeable pain
in the chest is too often the forerunner
of pneumonia. The first cough may
lead to consumption (a cough is always
dangerous). Never neglect a cold or
cough for even one day, but get at once,
as a safe and sure remedy, Kemp's Bal
sam, the best cough cure, which is
recommended on all sides. It should be
kept in the house regularly to avoid
delay when needed. It is sold at all the
drug stores.
Free for All Who Ask.
A very fine photographic view of the
World's fair, Bxlo inches in size, the
work of the official photographer of the
United States government, and accom
panied by a graphic, interesting and
authentic description, will be sent free
by the Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean to
anyone who will send one 2 cent stamp
for postage. Address, "Librarian," Inter
Ocean.
1894.
Now is the time everybody wants an
almanac for the new year, Numbers of
these are published and scattered
throughout the country. The one issued
by the Centaur Company of New York
city is by far the most beautiful and
complete. They can be had free of our
druggists.
Too Smart a Roy for Thnt.
Mission Sunday School Teacher-
Benjamin, I was shocked to see you
picking* up a half-smoked cigarette on
the street as I came down this morn
inff- You ought not to smoke the vile
things. They are poisonous, filthy and
dangerous to everybody around you.
cig'rettes; I gits fifteen cents a quart
fur de stumps at do fact'ryl—Chicago
Tribune.
She Heard It.
The enraptured young man drew the
shapely head with its golden hair
close, close to his heart.
"Do you hear it throb, darling?" he
asked.
"Y-yes, Ilarold."
"What does it seem to say?" he whis
pered.
The dear girl listened a moment, and
answered softly:
"It says 'tick, tick, tick, tick, tick,' [
Harold."—Chicago Tribune.
The Had Hoy.
"Tommy," said the visitor, "have
you read your hooks in your Sunday- !
school library?"
"Some of them," ho replied, rather : i
doubtfully.
"Can you tell me what happened to j
the boy who went fishing on Sunday?" 1
"Yes. He caught thrco catfish and I
one eel."
"llow do you know that?"
" 'Cos I was him."--Washington Star, j
A Man of Affairs.
Mrs. Lookhigh—Mr. Short purso is
building a new house, and it'n ever so
much nicer than this old tiling of ours.
,*• Lookhigh—All right, mv dear;
we 11 watch our chance and sell this.
And build a new one?"
"No, indeed. We'll buy Mr. Short
purse's, at about half what it cost,
when he gets sold out." —N. Y. Weekly.
When Baby was sick, wo gave hor Castorla.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorio.
When she became Miss, she clung to Costoria.
When she htul Children, she gave thorn Costoria.
I - I
RICH FRUITS
AT THE ROOTS.
Just as sure as the rivers run to the sea so
the tide of trade runs to the counters of the
merchant who advertises. Look at this:
FURNITURE and
CARPETS
SEA UGHTERED.
From the 15 th last until January Ist 1
will sell you
Our 05c Ingrain, all wool filled Carpet,
for 55c.
Our 50c Ingrain for 42|c.
Our 40c Ingrain for 33c.
Our 35c Ingrain for 29c.
! Our #1.25 Brussells for 81.05.
I Our 81.1") Brussells for 9"ic.
i Our 81.00 Brucella for 85c.
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 antique oak suit, $32.00.
A 35.00 antique oak suit, 29.00.
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 balance of this month ice will give
you
TEN PER CENT. OFF
ON ALL
BLANKETS.
and 50 per cent, off on all coats left from
last year. This means
A SIO.OO ladies' coat for $5.00.
Can you a ford to miss all this?
Toilet chamber sets, worth $4, for $2.50.
Cheaper than any ever offered in the coun
ty. ACTIONS and lIOLIDA Y GOODS
we are aiming to hare just what you want
far cheaper than yon dreamed of —consider-
ing quality. We have a large stock of shoes
to select from; the Orwigsburg shoes for chil
dren; every pair guaranteed; call a/ul see
them.
GROCERIES
and
PROVISIONS.
20 LBS. GRANULATED .SUGAR, $1.00;
Shoulders, lie; Cheese, 10c; Butter, ,'iOu
Lard, 12£e; Salt herring, on lb; Salt had
dock, 5o lb; 3lb bologna. 2ac; 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 lozengcrs, 10c
lb; Mixed candy. 10c lb; Stick candy,
10c lb; ,i cans sardines, 25c; 2 cans salm
on. 25c; 3 yts beans. 25c; 3 qts peas, 25c;
2 lbs dry corn 25c; 5 lbs currants, 25c;
3 lbs raisins blue. 25c; 5 lbs raisins, 25c;
Bonny Hour, SI.SS.
Yours truly,
i. G. BERNER.
frpW LEHIGH VALLEY
RAILROAD.
I£— Anthracite coal used exclu-
J sivedy, insuring cleanliness and
ARRANGEMENT OF PASSENGER TRAINS.
NOV. 10, 1803.
LEAVE FREELAND.
0 05, 8 40, 0 33. 10 41 a m, 1 20, 2 27, 3 45, 4 65,
6 58, 7 12, 847 p m, for Drifton, Jeddo. Lum
ber Yard, Stockton and llazleton.
6 05, s 44) a m, 1 20. 3 45 p m, for Mauch Chunk,
Mlentown, Bethlehem, l'hila., Easton and New
York.
l 40 a in, 4 55 p in for Ilethlehem, Easton and
Phi la.
726, 10 56 a m, 12 33,4 34 p m, (via Highland
. ranch) lor White Haven, (lien Summit, Wilkes
i arre, Pittston and L. and B. Junction.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
11 40 a m and 345 p m for Drifton, Jeddo, Lurn
er Yard and Hazlcton.
3 45 pin for Delano. Mahanoy City, Shenan
doah, New York and Philadelphia.
ARRIVE AT FREELAND.
5 50, 7 18 7 26, 0 19, 10 50 a m, 12 33, 2 13, 4 34,
658 and H37 pm, from llazleton, Stockton,
Lumber Yard, Jeddo and Drifton.
7 26, 9 19, 10 50 a m, 2 13, 4 34 , 0 58 p m from
Delano, Mahanoy City and Shenandoah (via
New Boston Branch).
2 13, 0 58 and 8 37 p m from New York, Easton,
Philadelphia, Bethlehem, AUentownand Mauch
Chunk.
9 19 and 10 50 a in, 2 13, 0 58 and S 37 p m from
Easton, l'hila., Bethlehem and Mauch Chunk.
9 33, 10 41 a ill, 2 27,0 58 pin lrom White Haven,
Glen Summit, Wilkcs-Barre, Pittston and L. and
B. Junction (via Highland Branch).
SUNDAY TRAINS.
11 31 a m and 331 pm, from llazleton. Lum
ber 1 ard, Jeddo and Drifton.
II 31 a in from Delano, llazleton, Philadelphia
and Easton.
3 31 p in from Delano ami Mahanoy region.
*or further information inquire of Ticket
Agents.
CHAS. S. LEE, Gen'l Pass. Agent,
It. H. WILBUIi Gen. Supt. East. Dlv™'*"
A. W. NONNEMACHEIt; Ass't G. P. A.,
South Bethlehem, Pa.
'"T~ S IIE DELAWARE, SUSQUEHANNA AND
A SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD.
Time table in effect September 3, 1893.
Trains leave Drifton for Jeddo, Eckley, Hazlo
Brook, Stockton. Beaver Meadow Bond, ltoan
and llazleton Junction at 6 00,6 10am, 12 10,
4 01 p in, daily except Sunday, and 7 03 a m, 2 38
p ni, Sunday.
Trains lea\ e Drifton for Harwood, Cranberry,
; Tomhickcti and Deringer at 6 00 a m, 12 10 p m.
daily except Sunday; and 7 Oil u m, 238 p m.
■ Sunday.
Trains leave Drifton for Oneida Junction,
Garwood Bond, Humboldt, Road, Oneida and
Sheppton atti.lo am, 1210, 40 p in, daily except
| Sunday; and 7 03 a m, 2 38 p m, Sunday.
Trains leave llazleton J unction for ilarwood,
Cranberry, Tomhicken ami Deringer at 037 a
m, 1 49 p m, daily except Sunday; and 8 47 u m,
I 4 18 p in, Sunday.
| Trains leave llazleton Junction for Oneida
1 Junction, Harwood Bond, Humboldt Itoad,
i Oneida and Sheppton at 6 47, 0 10 a m, 12 40, 4 39
p m, daily except Sunday; and 7 40 am, 308 p
in, Sunday.
! Trains leave Deringer for Tomhicken, Cran
berrv, Harwood, llazleton Junction, Boau,
Beaver Meadow Bond. Stockton. Hazle Brook,
Eckley, Jeddo and Drifton at 2 40, 607 p m,
daily except Sunday; and 937 a m, 507 p m,
Sunday.
Trains leave Sheppton for Oneida, Humboldt
Bond. Ilarwood Bond, Oneida Junction, Hazle
ton Junction a-d Boau at 7 52, 10 16 am, 115,
5 25 p in, daily except Sunday; and 8 14 a m, 3 45
p in, Sunday.
Trains leave Sheppton for Beaver Meadow
Bond, Stockton, llazle Brook, Eckley, Jeddo
ami Drifton at 10 16 u in, 5 25 p m, daily, except
Sunday; and 8 14 a m, 3 45 p m, Sunday.
Trains leave llazleton Junction for Beaver
Meadow Bowl, Stockton, Hazle Brook, Eckley,
Jeddo and Drifton at 10 38 am, 3 11, 5 47, 6:W p
in, daily, except Sunday; ami 10 08 a m, 538 p m,
Sunday.
All trains connect at llazleton .function with
electric cars for llazleton, .leanesville, Auden
ried and other points on Lehigh Traction Co's.
It. R.
Trains leaving Drifton at 6 10 a in, llazleton
Junction at 9 10 a 111, and Sheppton at 7 52 a in,
1 15 p m, connect at Oneida I unction with L. V.
It. It. trains east and west.
Train leaving Drifton at 6 00 a ra. makes con
nection at Deringer with I. B. It. train fbr
j Wilkes-Barrc, Sunbury, llarrlshurg, etc.
E. B. COXE, DANIEL COXK,
' President. Superlntendept*