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I ®f)e p m n $ a n (Sxpres b PENN YAN, YATES CO., N. Y. REU BEN A. SCOFIELD, SDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. > 1 .2 5 t e r m s : P e r Y e a r in A d v a n c e . $1.50 ip N o t P a id in A d v a n c e . r e s s Express Express Express Express Express Express and N Y. Tribune Farmer, i yr....$i 60 and N. Y Tribune,thrice weekly.... 185 and Thrice-a-XVeek World, 1 yr ........ 1 65 and *Rochester Weekly Dem., lyr.... x 50 and Rural New Yorker, 1 yt. .......... 1 75 and Albany Semi Weekly Journal,.. 1 60 The Only Continuously ) Republican Paper in Yates County. £ P E N N Y A N , N.Y., W E D N E S D A Y , JU L Y 30,1902 Vol. XXXVII.—No. 17.—Whole No. 1897 Bneintes ilarbe. If The Citizens Bank DO YOU WANT TO BE WELL T AMES H. BRIGGS, ATTORNEY AND PENSION AGENT, All kinds of claims promptly attended to. Office, now No. 415 , old No. 77, Liberty Street, Penn Yan, N. Y. Past Commander Sloan Post. No. 93 . G. A. lb % R. O. E. NEWMAN, ffioe, first house below Baptist Ohnroh. No. 94 Main St. Penn Ian, N. Y. Phone, sr-X. A SPECIALTY IAM OF ALL DISEASES OF THE HBRVOUS SYSTEM, STOMACH, AND SKIN, Office hours, 8 to 10 a. m.; 2 to 4 , and 6 to p. m. PENN YAN, N. Y. Chartered April 14, 1899. Capital, JOHN H. JOHNSON, President. LORIMER OGDEN, Vice-President, J. A, UNDERWOOD, Cashier. A ROADE DENTAL OFFICE. All branches of Dental Work done by the latest and most approved methods. Gold and plate work a specialty. The best is the cheapest. Lady assistant. DR. DOLBEARE, D entist . Rooms, 11-12 Arcade, Penn Yan, N. Y. Directors. FRANK H. HAMLIN, HENRY M. PARMELE, JOHN T. ANDREWS, HOWARD L. WOODRUFF J. A. UNDERWOOD, LORIMER OGDEN JOHN H. JOHNSON. Certificates ot Deposit Issued. D B. M ao NAUGHTON, DENTIST, Penn Yan, N. Y Office over 1 Wheeler’s Jewelry Store. Main 8t. W .w . SMITH, d e n t i s t 68 East Ave., Rochester, N. Y S EOUliOTES Y LOANED AND MOB' CARE OF ESTATES A SPECIALTY. FARMS FOR SALE. 99 yl JOHN T. ANDREWS A SON. X J OTIOE.—At the office of DBS. H. It. PHILLIPS & WREAN From May 1 , 1900 , yon can get A Set of Teeth, on Rubber Plate, For $10.00, And Dentistry of the best at the Cheapest living prices. Consultation Free. C. ELMENDORF, Silas Kinne & Son R e p r e s e n t th e AETNA INSURANCE C0„ OF HARTFORD, \ The Leading Fire Insurance Company of America.\ AMERICAN FIRE INSURANCE CO., OF NEW YORK. YORK UNDERWRITER'S ACENCY, SPRING GARDEN INSURANCE C0„0F PHILA. a n d NORTH-WESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. OF MILWAUKEE, WIS. Policies Properly Written. Losses Promptly Paid. SILA S KINNE A SON, 94 yl A g e n t s . B O F E S S I O N A L D E N T I S T . 42 Main Struct. Opposite Baldwin Bank, Penn Yan, N. Y. I \ C . H . K N A P P , U N D E R T A K E R , (N e x t D o o r to B e n h a m Residence, 116 Benham St. Telephone, store, 66 W. Telephone, residence, 66 F. .) Carpets and Draperies, Store, 80, 82, and 84 State Street, R O C H E S T E R . N . Y . • Before Taking Life Insurance See the NEW TRAVELERS’ POLICY. I t i s f u l l y G u a r a n t e e d . N o p a y i n g t w e n t y p e r c e n t , e x t r a t o g e t a 1 0 p e r c e n t , d i v i d e n d a t t h e e n d o f t w e n t y The largest and choicest assort ment in the State. Best makfs and serviceable qualities in all the different kinds. We make a speci alty o f furnishing carpets for CHURCHES, LODGES. AN D P U B L IC IN S T ITU T IO N S . Un equalled workmanship. Satisfac tion assured in eveiy instance. Inspection invited. Goodspeed A Miller, Agts. “AGAINST ALL ACCIDENTS” “AGAINST ALL ILLNESS” Excepting Rheumatism and Insanity, Fidelity & Casualty Co., N. S. DAILEY, Agent, Office Room l,overLow n & Co.’s Store, Paying Too Much. It's an inflated idea to suppose that high priced goods are necessarily the best. High prices may come from slow sales and large profile, or the merchants bad judgment in buying goods, or bad management and consequently heavy expenses. Our Expenses Are Light, And our goods are bought at CLOSE FIGURES, And we sell on a SM A L L M A R GIN o f profit. JSl£ 3 & & i s i i n G E Bud QUICK SALES for a fair return/^ r The demand for our DR. DAY, Graduated Specialist. f t W. 8*. X. s p e c i a l t i e s : V Citinh md Diseases ol Lnngi and Throat, lifer, and Banal Organa. AMO Poiitire Cure of the liquor, Morphine, and Opium Habit. CiMfNATIONS FEEBI is never dull. It is'nt dull now. Quite the contrary. Couches Are Just Now Having the Run. See them and get prices. ClarenceH.Knapp NEXT DOOR TO THE BENHAM HOUSE. NEARiSIGHT and FAR SIGHT correctly fitted. Only the bent glasses used HOPKINS, J e w e l e r and Optician. A t K N A P P H O U S E , P e n n Y a n ^ M o n d a y , A u g . 4 , 9 t o 6 . Canandaigua, Webster House, Wednesday, July 30 . 9 to 6. Geneva, Kirkwood House, July 31 , 9 to 5 , and every 4 weeks thereafter. At home office, 211 Powers Bl’k, Rochester, every Saturday and Sunday. Treatment, if desired, not to exceed $2 per wk Special instruments for examining the Lungs Heart, Liver, and Kidneys. „ Cured Himself. Pronounced by bis medical brethren an in curable consumptive, he was led to experiment with certain drugs and chemicals to save hie own life. This ne succeeded in doing, and since that has cured hundreds of cases that were pronounced incurable. Weaknesses of Men and Women treated with a prescription procured while in Paris from one o f the ablest French specialists, that has proven a sure cure for all weaknesses, from whatever cause, o f the sexual organs, in male or female patients. A sure remedy at an expense not to exceed | 3 per week. Victim s o f the TESTIMONIALS. While we have hundreds of them of the strongest character, still we seldom publish one. Few responsible persons desire them pub lished. We invite all to call and read references and testimonials of the very best, that they may refer to or that they may know, and who live in their own town. C onsultation F bee and P rivate . J. W . DAY, M . D ., L . L . D . We promptly obtain U. S. and Foreign s Send model, sketch or photo of invention for freereporton patentability. For free book, HowtoSecureTDAflC KIADlfO write Patents and I K n U l l 'I v I n i m d to Attractive surroundings are half the battle for home comfort. The beauty of a room can be enchanced by its wall paper more than by any other one tbing. A new cover in g o f paper makes all the difference in the world. We can make the room harmon iously beautiful and please you with the quality and price of the paper. Let us show you our stock. Opposite U. 8. Patent Office W A S H ING T O N D. C. E. VAN GELDER 1 1 6 M A I N S T . i P A I N T E R a n d DECORATOR. CHICHESTER’ S ENGLISH ^ _ EWNYROm,PILLS SAFE. Always rellsble. Ladle*. 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H o w m a n y women gradually b u t s u r e ly losing their beauty I T h e ir h e a lth has be come poor, th e y a r e run down, th e y ieel w e a k and nervous, have h eadache, poor appe tite, indigestion, bilious ness, constipation, k idney or liver trouble, b a c k ache, fem a le w e a k ness, or some other difficulty, w h ich is surely sapping th e ir h e a lth and stren g th a n d ruin in g th e ir beauty. A t this season, SpringD e b ility is w o m a n ’s w o r s t enem y. A w o m a n ’s first d u ty is to regain and m a intain her h e a lth and beauty. I f she gets back her health, b e a u ty w ill su r e ly follow , fo r beauty depends entirely on good health. T h e g r e a t health- giver and beautifier for wom en is Dr. Greene’s N e r vura blood and nerve rem edy, fo r nothing in the w o r ld so s u r e ly and quickly restores lost health, gives stren g th and vigor to the nerves, p u rifies and e n riches the blood,and m a k e s women strong and w e ll as Dr. Greene’s N ervura. I t c lears the com p lexion o f t h a t dark, sallow , pale look, rem o ves eruptions, blackheads, and hum o rs, m a k e s th e skin velvety and glo w in g w ith rosy color, the eyes brillian t, the lip s red, im p a rting a fu ll, round contour to face and form . Above a l l it banishes m e lancholy and restores th e liv e ly spirits, v ivacity, lig h t , elastic s tep and exuberant life, en e r g y , and enjoym e n t w h ich constitute happiness t o wom en. Dr. Greene’s N e r v u r a does a l l this b ecause i t m a k e s w e a k women s trong a n d s ick wom en w e ll, and thus prevents them from grow in g old before th e ir time. Itm a k e s them look yo u n g a n d feel y o u n g , f o r i t braces wom en up as nothin g else in th e w o rld can. T r y Dr. Greene’s N e r v u r a ; you w ill never regret it. Use it now , fo r you certa in ly need a spring rem edy, and Dr. Greene’s N e r v u ra blood and nerve rem e d y is the best o f a ll s p r ing medicines. In ta k in g Dr. Greene’s N e rvura you are using th e w o n d e r ful prescription and discovery o f a fam o u s physician. Dr. Greene, o f 101 F ifth Avenue, N ew Y o r k City, w h o is th e m o st successful physician in curin g a l l form s o f nervous and chronic diseases, and w h o can be consulted w ith o u t charge, in regard to an y case, personally or b y letter. Spray the currant bushes with paris green to destroy the worm that eats the foliage. Nerd More Help. Often the over-taxed organs of diges* tion cry out for help by Dyspepsia’s pains, Nausea, Dizziness, Headaches, liver com plaints, bowel disorders. Such troubles call for prom pt use o f Dr. K in g ’s New L ife Pills. They are gentle, thorough and guaranteed to cure. 25c atT . F . W h e e l er’s drug store. Cows that are good producers of rich must be good consumers. — D r. D a v i d K e n n e d y ^ favorite Remedy CURES ALL KIDNEY, STOMACH ~ A N D LIVER TR O U BLES* W eeds to be at their best should die young. See to it that those on your farm do. Use Allen’s Foot-Ease, A powder to be shaken into the shoes. Your feet leel swollen, nervous, and hot, and get tired easily. If you have smarting feet or tight shoes, try (Allen’s Foot«Kase. It cools the feet, and makes walking easy. Cures swollen, sweating feet, ingrowing nails, blisters, and callous spots. Relieves corns and bunions ot all pain and gives rest and comfort. Try it to-day. Sold by all drug gists and shoe stores for 25c. Don’t accept any substitute. Trial package FRRS. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. R. In m ilking squeeze the teats just hard enough to get the m ilk. © A H ® are prepared to furnish ice cream in all flavors— or any flavor desired— at short notice and at low prices. They w ill gladly quote prices. Their cream is always pure and uniform in quality. Served by the dish in their elegantly appointed parlors. . /-V-. DR. E. F. BUTTERFIELD, of SYRACUSE, N. Y. The Famous Clairvoyant Physician Talks of the Progress that Has Been Made in the Ireatm e n t o f Chronic Diseases in the Last Forty Years. V e ry few Doctors, who began their prac tice forty years ago are left* to tell the story o f the ways and methods o f those earlier times. The old saddle-bags contained Dover’s powder, Calomel, F ink and Henna, the last given to the young to cure worms, and also to give proper religious bent. Bleeding, even to the point o f prostration, was an adjunct to the drug remedies. The Allopathic tichool held the fort for many years; it was finally changed and modified by the Homeopathic and Eclectic Schools, and the Galvanic Incubator. Taking all the different schools o f med icine, including those called irregulars, the Christian Scientists, Magnetic Healers, Os teopaths have failed to give us any surety of perfect diagnosis and treatment of disease. They make lamentable failures as yet, showing their knowledge very imper- iect and not to be relied upon. We still have heart disease, sugar diabetes, Bright's disease, dyspepsia, rheumatism, paralysis and all other various ills that seem to baffle the skill of the phys ician to rightly name the disease or perform a cure. First, we are aware that wisdom and knowledge are the result o f long years ol toil and research, and that deep down in human life the loftiest truths are born. Dr. Butterfield starts out from a differed standpoint, basing his knowledge upont spiritual insight into the causes of you condition and the reasons for your suffer ing. This spiritual insight is the incentive to all progress arid is the one method by which the right remedies can be used to suit the case. The Doctor has been coming to Penn Yan for eight years, and has cured hundreds o f cases that have come to him as a last re sort, and he Jias cured where all others had failed and hope had gone. He uses vegetable remedies entirely, which are as natural as fruit, in the system. They can be taken by any one, no matter how delicate the stomach. The Doctor cures some of the worst cases of kidney and bladder trouble, enlarged liver and heart disease, dyspepsia, rheumatism and all other forms of chronic diseases. A ll are welcome to a free examination. His long experience is worth everything to the chronic invalid. Dr. Butterfield w ill be at the Knapp House, Penn Yan, N . Y . on Wednesday. Aug. 2 0 th, 1902 . In order to secure rich m ilk start with a rich cow and feed her rich foods. with or without ice cream can be had at their soda water fountain at five cents a glass. Their trade has con stantly grown because their custom ers are perfectly satisfied with the goods and treatment they receive. LO W R A T E EXCU R S ION S . Greatly reduced round-trip rates to va rious points in the West are offered by the Michigan Central, “ The Niagara Falls 1 . ,'nte.\ I f you contemplate a trip to Col o r s >. Utah, Dakota, or to the Pacific coast,'* rite to W . H. Underwood, G. E. P. A ., M. <&U. R ., Buffalo. ti8 10 If rock salt kept in the yard where the cows can Hex it every day, there is no danger that they will get too much at once. Poisoning the System. It is through the bowels that the body is cleansed o f impurities. Constipation keeps A l i . i M n l A H C * * * : * E , P o e w l i i P i x I these poisons in the system , causing U i y n i p i c l l l r r u i l 0 i v 3 n u y O 0 * I h eadache,dullnessandm elaucholiaatfirat, then unsightly eruptions and finally seri ous illness unless a remedy is applied. DeW itt’a Little Early Risers prevent this trouble by stim ulating the liver and pro mote easy, healthy action of the bowels. These little pills do not act violently, but by strengthening the bowels enable them to perform their own work. N ever gripe or distress. T . P . W heeler. Main Street, Penn Tan. K icking a cow that is lying down may m ake her g e t up more quickly, but it will not induce her to give any more m ilk. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought B e a r s the S ig n a t u r e of In small quantities cottonseed meal is a good feed, bat in excess it irjures the butter. 4 I 0 5 Box P laited Eton Jacket* 32 > 3 4 * 3 6 bust. Gall and Ret a taahion sheet free, and if you want this jacket, or any other May Mauton pattern for ten cents, or if you want a nice chiffon or any other kind of hat at a great deal less money than you ever thought of get ting one, go and see them this week, also cor sets, corsets, and corsets, at Mrs. Frank Goldsmith’s. 124 Main St. Mother Always Keeps It Handy. “ My mother suffered a long tim e from distressing oains and general ill health, due primarily to indigestion,” says L. W. Spalding, Verona. Mo. “ Two years ago I got her to try Kodol. She grew better at once, and now,at the age o f seventy six, eats anything she wants, remarking that she fearskno bad effects.as she has her bot tle of Kodol handy.” Don’t waste time doctoring symptoms. Go after the cause. If your stomach is sound your health will be good. Kodol rests the stomach and strengthens the body by digesting your food. It is nature’s own tonic. T . F, Wheeler, THE ECHO OF CRIME 1 # * By Howard Fielding t o Copyrtoht. 1901, by ' Charles W. Hooke T H A T the room should have Its own peculiar atmosphere and influence did not surprise me. No one w h o has traveled much can have failed to take note o f the disquieting effect o f certain apartments. W h a t lias been suffered there remains. The w a lls have heard the voice of human anguish and must echo it forever. That is w h y you have lain aw a k e sometimes upon the softest of beds in the most quiet nights listen ing and afraid without tangible^ause. A s for m yself, I regretted having tak en the lodgings ns soon ns I w a s alone there. To the eye. however, the rooms seemed very suitable to my purposes, I BAT FOR PERHAPS AN HOUR STARING INTO THE COALS OF THE GRATE. the parlor, o f w h ich I speak particular ly. being large and high and w e ll light ed by tw o tall window's. The furniture w a s scanty, the floor bare except for a few' sm all rugs and the whole house quite free from noise or jar. It w'as rec ommended by the m anager o f the the ater w h e re I w a s to appear, and he mentioned th a t tb ^ I a n d lo r d w a s a countrym an o f miner I learned later th a t he w’as from Val Roger, a suburb o f P a r is which I call my home, as I ow'n a very pleasant villa there beside the river. It w a s not the man him self w ith w’hom I dealt in the m a tter of the rooms, but a black browed, surly fel low employed by him. Once, while standing in the hall, I heard the land lord’s voice calling down from the top floor, w h e re he dwelt, but I got no glim p se of him. I had never visited Am erica before, though frequently urged to do so, and, having no friends, I spent the first evening alone in m y new lodgings. As to w h a t happened then and nftenvard let me sa y that, w’hile m any places of tem p o rary abode had w'hispered their secrets to me in the quiet of the night. I had heard them alw a y s w ith the in ner ear. I wras perhaps as much a skeptic as yourself regarding any su pernatural perception by the physical senses. It had been m y intention to spend the evening in reading, but I had not turn ed a dozen pages in my book before I becam e aw a r e of an uneasiness that deflected my attention. I laid down the book and sat for perhaps an hour staring into the coals of the grate until my eyes ached. Restlessness then im pelled me to rise, and I began to pace the floor. All the furniture seemed to be hud dled around the Tire. The back of the room w’as like a corridor, and I could w a lk nearly thirty feet in a gentle curve from the door of the closet to the black cushioned bench below the w in dow to the left in the northern wall. TIic* windows, by the w a y . were point ed a t the top, ns If in a church, and somehow’ that end o f the room seemed fam iliar to my eye, though I could not have guessed w h e re 1 had seen the likt o f it. Not till later did I remember tin peculiar windows in the little chapel ol St. Clement at Val Roger, where mj uncle, the priest of the parish, wu* murdered ten years ago. I m a y have covered the distance be tween the closet ami the window throe When i w o m a n i i nervous h er \^im agina tion gives fantastic and threat ening shapes to the most fa miliar ob jects. By day she starts in fear at every sudden or unfamiliar sound. By night the furni ture o f her room takes on af frighting forms o f ghost or gob lin. You can’t reason with the nerves. Neither logic nor love can quiet them. They must be nourished and then the outcry of the n rves will cease as naturally as a hun gry child ceases to cry when fed. For nervous women there is no better tonic and nervine than Dr. Pierce’s Fa vorite Prescription. It cures the dis eases which produce nervousness in women, irregularity, debilitating drains, inflammation, ulceration and female weakness. It tranquilizes the nerves, encourages the appetite, and induces re freshing sleep. \ When I began taking your medicine I was not able to stand on my feet ten minutes at a time,” writes Mrs. Hattie Borradalle, of 113 Spring Street, Nashville. Tenu. MHad falling of uterus, and kidney and liver disease, and was so weak and nervous I could uot keep still. Would take nervous spells and almost die at times. I had several different doctors attend ing, but they could not do me any good. The last one I had said I would never get up again. Told him that I was taking your ‘ Favorite Pre scription 1 and 'Golden Medical Discovery/and he said, ‘ Might just os well take that much water each day.1 But I thought I would give the medicine a fair trial. Before I had finlsned the first two bottles I was able to get outside the house and walk around the yard. I kept oil taking the medicines and they cured me.” Dr. Pierce’s Pellets cure biliousness. times each wfay when I became aware of footsteps not my own in that room. They were audible enough ami perfect ly distinguishable for what they were. No ear could mistake this tread for any other sound, yet it possessed an inhu man peculiarity in this—the creature causing it walked only in one direction, lie walked outward toward the w in dows, but he returned in the manner of a spirit, m aking no noise upon the floor. I know not w h y a man should fear a ghost. If there Is one, there are mil lions, and yet the harm in this world, as we see It, is certainly done by the living, not by the dead. , A s I walked toward the window the steps came on behind me, gaining upon me and being very close at the point where they ceased. This point w a s al w a y s the same, as I determined by means of a small rug that lay diago nally upon the floor, rather aw k w a rdly placed as it seemed to me. Invariably when 1 reached the rug the footsteps ceased, but the rug itself had nothing to do w ith this, for I moved it aw a y , end the effect remained the same. Returning, I w a s not followed. There was silence, except for such noise as I m y self made, but alw a y s my invisible companion w a s ready, to begin the course. He returned noiselessly, but with precision. I could make nothing out of this phe nomenon except that some previous tenant had once walked that brief dis tance under the influence of that pe culiarly acute and concentrated emo tion which has the power of register ing itself upon the surroundings. As to w h a t emotion had swayed my predecessor In that room during the critical moments I attempted to make a guess, but it was vogue at first. Putting my mind into a receptive state, [ perceived only a strong, confused impulse, n thrusting forward, ns of one dominated by a fixed and desper ate purpose. Yet the man, to judge by the footsteps, had certainly walked rather slowly. He had a halting gait and stepped more strongly upon the left foot than upon the right, though l should have said that he w a s scarcely lame enough to have it noticed in his ordinary walking. In the present instance it required some hours of patient work to make this invisible creature visible to the eye o f the mind. It w a s 'long after mid night when I said to m y self that 1 could trace every movement that he had made, beginning w ith the first au dible footfall. This, by the w a y , was quite sharp and clear; it w a s the right foot that had touched the floor. The man had stepped out o f the closet w ith a considerable stride, his body partly supported upon the left side, obviously by his hand upon the knob of the out- sw inging door. A ll this I heard, over m y shoulder as it were, w h ile pacing slow ly there in the night, and a t the last, after I be cam e quite sure w h a t deed w a s regis tered in these fain tly echoing steps, I began to feel a slight disquietude re garding the closet from which m y in visible friend alw a y s stepped out. This illusion, by the w a y , w a s so perfect th a t fifty tim es I turned, expecting to see the door sw inging into the room, the hand upon the knob, the m an's face —pale, contorted—against the back ground o f darkness. No such spectacle presented itself, however, but when I lighted a candle a t the grate and w a lked tow a rd the closet w ith a definite purpose I beheld the sem blance of a dull gray eye look ing out through w h a t had been a key hole, but w a s now som ewhat enlarged, the lock having been wrenched aw a y . The candle’s rays struck fairly into this aperture, revealing the eye, which vanished instantly. The natural reluctance of the body— not fear, but the mere instinct of self preservation—held me for some sec onds. Then I opened the door and saw the closet bare, a? it w a s in the after noon. It had once been the lyilf of a passage com m u n icating w ith the next room, but w a s now closed off by a par tition of heavy and firm planks. Cer tainly there w a s no mortal creature in it. I returned to m y seat by the fire and arranged the facts definitely in my mind. It appeared that at some date not to be determined a man w ith dull gray eyes and of a compact and clumsy fram e, the more aw k w a rd because of a slight lameness of the right leg, had crept out of that closet. H e had held my bed without removing my clothes and slept three hours, heavily as the dead. I w a s wakened by the noise of lome one in the next room, and, rising hastily, I looked in. The Janitor was there with coal to replenish the fire, as w a s his custom doubtless in the morn ing. But when my eyes lighted on him he w a s carefully replacing the small rug over the spot of new varnish. I gave him “ Good morning,” and he nearly fell at the sound o f my voice. “ I have dreamed of the man who liv ed here before me,” said I. “ W h at w a s he like?*’ lie replied that he w a s a lean, gray old man given to solitude and his own D e n ial. \A re you the defendant In this rase?” “ No. sir: I’m oalv the man who committed tb e t h e f t . \ — New York World. T o A c c o m m o d a te. Shrewd. “ Whn* made von tell the jan itor the temper attire was Just r i g h t ? \ sa id Mrs. Wiley. \ B e e n u s e I know the |ani- to r ’s d i s p o s i tion,” answer ed her husband. * l f we make him believe we ar° thoroughly comfortable, he will b u s t l e a r o u n d a n d Tim Idd — If yon pHis®. Mrs. BoardbUl. I*m getting rather tir ed o f hash with m> coffee and toast for breakfast Mrs. Bonrdblll — All «• When were these things put In here?\ righ t Vir tell the girl m'fTke \ thi’n g / . to S|ve ? 0« no' 1,lnS d i f f e r e n t . \ — hot eoff®e and tons* W a s h I n g t o n Star. after this. — Chicago News. «• T H E SH A D O W O F D O O M By Howard Fielding Copyright, 1901, by Charles W . Hooke I WRESTED A PISTOL FROM HIM. counsel—a bit of a miser, as some said. And w h a t became of him? Oh, he moved aw a y ; left the city; w a s thought to have gone abroad. “ He w a s som ewhat deaf, was he not?” I asked. And at this I was aw a r e of a shuffling foot beside the outer door, which the janitor had not closed. .1 took tw o quick steps and looked out into the hall. There stood a stout man, having scanty gray hair, much disheveled, and dull gray eyes. A sudden insane impulse seized me. “ Y ou,” said I. “ w ill be better able to answ e r m y question.” He stared a t me, advancing into the room m eanwhile as though it were against his will. “ Y es,” I continued, “ this old man w a s deaf; otherwise you would have trod more lightly w’hen you crept out of that closet after him w ith the knife in your hand.” A t this the janitor sprang back, with an oath, his shoulders striking the mantel over the grate. H e w a s look ing at the landlord, Lorenz, w’ho in his turn gaped helplessly at me. I have the pow’er to hold attention. You m ay say it is a part o f m y trade. The eyes o f these men never left me as I repeated in rapid pantomime this crime. “ W h ere is the money you took from here?” I demanded, a t the last stam p ing w ith m y heel upon the hiding place. Lorenz knew him self to be lost. He had no hope in denial or excuse. He wheeled suddenly and ran out o f the room, I pursuing him. In the length of the hall, and especially when he began to climb the stairs, I marked the halt ing gait due to the slight lameness of the right leg. I might easily have overtaken him, but thought best to let him go as far as he would. This w a s to his chamber on the top story, and there I wrested a pistol from him just as he would have ended his life. “ Y ou spied upon me last evening,” said I. “ T h ere is, then, a secret way into that closet?” “ A plank moves,” he answered w e a ri ly. “ You were w a lking just as he used to w a lk so many nights. . I heard you from the hall and had an impulse to see you.” '•The money?” I demanded. “ T h ere w a s little,” he replied. “ I gave most of it to that man you saw’ 2 own stairs. He did not help me with the deed, but with the body afterward. We put it into the man’s great trunk and carried it out into the country, where we buried it in the Woods.” “ T h ere w’as more than money?” A t tills question lie show’ed me a hid ing place of his own, much more clever than the other, and there I found cer tain stocks and bonds,* useless as wraste paper to the murderer, since he had never dared to negotiate them. They W’ere mingled with documents of Ills own, and among these I found an ex tract from a Paris paper in which, re vived by some item of news from Val Roger, the story of the murder of my uncle W’as retold. It w'as a crime in every w a y similar to that w’liose secret I had discovered. The murderer had crept out of a-closet as the old priest paced tlie floor; had struck him dow’n with a blow of a 4 knife, severing the arteries of the neck, and had then stolen certain funds of the church. Lorenz, my captive, confessed that his account had suggested his crime. The shadow swayed from side to side. THE CANDLE’S RAYS STRUCK FAIRLY INTO THE APERTURE. hie right hand clinched close to his breast, his left arm som ewhat extend ed, ns if for balance. lie had taken seven steps and then had sw’ung upon his left foot with considerable force, obviously striking a sweeping blow’ w ith the right hand—a blow rather high, the plunging of a knife into a man’s neck, I would have wngercfl. Taking up the candle again, I exam ined the place from which I had re- n o r d to G e t a n O p inion# I have alw a y s wanted to know what disorder tlie medical world considers most painful, so I asked a prominent physician in Fourteenth street about it. “ W ithout doubt,” said lie. “an ab scess of the ear Inflicts the most excru ciating agony a human being is ever compelled to endure.” I went over to Thirteenth street and asked a physician there the same ques tion, telling him wlmt the Fourteenth street man had said. Tw o other doc tors happened to be in the room. The Thirteenth street man grinned. “ Did Dr. G. say that?” said he. “W ell, I dare say he thinks he’s right. I remember he had nil abscess in his ow’ii ear once. From experience in my own practice, however, I should say that, while other tilings m ay last Ion- moved that small rug. The new’ vnr- ger, the most intense pain any one ever nish of the floor In that spot was like a patch. W h a t had made it necessary? The answer w a s clear enough, and l returned to my place by tlie tire to endures is caused by nil a ttack of acute indigestion.” He looked at tlie other medical men for confirmation of ills opinion. One o f meditate upon it. W h ile sitting there, | them leaned forward earnestly, mv senses unnaturally acute, I per- Wlmt did you take for it?” he ask ed, and the Thirteenth street man mere ly blushed.— Washington Post. jeived a peculiarity o f the flooring be side the chtmncyploce, and upon close search I discovered a movable bit of plank, beneath w'lilch w a s a boxlike hiding place, empty. Returning to the spot where the rug had lain, I succeeded after many at tempts in tracing the footsteps from that point to the side of the chlmney- pjece> I It w ill do you more good to acknowl- B y that tim e it w a s near dawn, and I ®dge your faults than it will do your I wras so w e a ry that I lay down upon ! enemies.—Atchison Globe. It is never right to say wlmt one does not mean, but w h y not mean the nice things? Insincerity does not necessari ly follow in the wake of politeness.— Ladies* Home Journal. E R R Y had been at his desk since 8 o’clock, but he had not accom plished much. A t midnight he w a s engaged in drawing circles on a sheet of paper. He covered the sheet and two others, and the absurd occupation seemed to take an increas ing hold upon his attention. A t the last his eyes were wide open and star ing, and the palms of his hands w’ere w e t w ith perspiration. His head hung forward, and he licked bis lips as one does who Is sick w ith fear. An observer might have said that these circles were spells of the blackest magic and that Perry had succeeded in raising the arch fiend. Presently he got upon his feet, as if animated by a sudden resolution, and assumed a m ilitary attitude, with his back to the chair in which he had been sitting. The light from the cluster of electric bulbs hanging over the desk w a s throw’ll strongly down upon It by a reflector, but enough escaped to cast a giant shadow o f Perry upon the wall. The shadow sw a y ed from side to side. The unfortunate man opened his eyes, and perhaps he caught a glimpse of the moving silhouette, for the breath came out of him in a pitiful cry, and he pressed a hand upon his forehead that was wret with visible drops of cold sweat. “ It can’t be true,” he said and then laughed nervously. “ T a lking to m yself! That’s another symptom.” He stretched out his hand toward the desk. There w a s a numbness in Ills fingers, and queer little pains ran up and down his forearm. He picked up a bundle of proof sheets and glanced hastily over the printed lines. “ It certainly Is a coincidence,” he said, “ that I should have written this story. I was not conscious of portray ing m yself when I drew the character of Langhnm, but everybody will think so after the book's out, and I’m—done for.” He sw’nllowed a mouthful of air at these last w’ords. “ In a hurry to get rich was Langliam. He had too many irons In the tire. He thought all the time, even when he w’as asleep. A t that he had the best of me, because I don’t go to sleep. But paresis got him, and it’s got me. I’ve had two profes sions, either of them enough to drive n man crazy. I’ve been a broker and an author. I’ve gambled with my ow’ii brains and other people’s money. The money bet won and the brains are lost. I’m done for!” He paced the floor with strides. There was a band of pain about his head just above his eyes, and the fingers of his right baud tw’itched W’lth little nervous throbs that extended to the elbow. Suddenly tlie tears sprang Into his eyes. Ills lids w’ere wet in a flash, and he W’as ashamed. “ I must take this thing as a man should,” he said. “ She shan’t know, nor any one else. Thank heaven that It has come upon me now, when I can bear it alone! It won’t be noticed in me right nwny. It’s slow, but sure. Don’t I know the symptoms? Didn’t I stuff m yself full of them w’hile I was writing that cursed story? All right. I can hold it off for a month or two, while I settle my affairs, and then It will be summer, when a fellow can go out stilling alone and jibe her o ver with the sheet made fast or swim out a little too far from the shore at Coney Island. Meanwhile not a word to any one.” His cheerful soliloquy was interrupt, ed by n rap on the door. Perry admit ted a young gentleman named Ham mond, w’liose apartments were upon the same corridor. “ Alone, Jack?” queried Hammond, entering cautiously, for he wTas very Imperfectly clothed. “ I thought I heard you talking to somebody.” “ I w’ns talking to somebody who is now nobody,” said Perry. “ He’s dead and done for. Don’t bother about him.” “ I don’t see any corpses,” said Ham mond, glancing round the room, “ex cept myself. I’m d e a d - broke.” “ Money is a small mat ter, a trifle,” replied Per ry. “ A man may be poor one day and rlph the next, but there are treas ures which, once lost, arc never regained.” “ If you have such n contempt for money,” said Hammond, “you might lend me n hun dred. The experience will prove to you that money Is one o f the things tlfat can be irretrievably lost. Rut w’hat’s the mat ter? Have you got stuck In your story?” Perry made an impatient gesture and continued to pace the floor. “ I suppose this is the new writing ta* ble that Ethel Bertram gave you,” said the visitor. “ And tliat’s the hanging uneven He paced the floor with un- e v e n strides. lamp that used to 1>e hi the library at her house. You must be very solid with the fam ily, or they wouldn’t let her rob them for you. When were thebe things put in here?” ''Yesterday!** groaned Perry. “ Well, they’ll come in bandy for housekeeping when you quit these bachelor quarters. Let me see. When Is the wedding?” “ Never.” Hammond, who had been examining the chair that had been a part of Miss Bertram’s gift, slowly straightened up and looked at his friend. In the name of heaven,” he cried, “you don’t mean to tell me” — “ I didn’t mean to tell you anything,” replied Perry, “but there’s no way out of It now. Swear that you won’t whis per it to a human creature. Frank, I’ve worked myself to death. I have offered up my nervous system on the altar of Mammon. Here! Look at these circles I have drawn. See how the lines are w a v y and uncertain, ns if a drunken man had made them. That’s paralysis, general paralysis of the In sane—paresis, as it’s now commonly called.” “ You’re wild!” exclaim ed Hammond. “ Why, Johnny, you are the healthiest fellow I know! There’s nothing the matter with you ex cept that you sit up till 4 o’clock In the morning writing your confounded stories. As for these cir cles, nobody can draw them except artists.” Standing by the table, he took a pencil and rapidly traced cir cles on a pad. They were not very good ones, but they hadn't the w a v y outline. It was Impossible not to see the radical difference. I tried to stand steady with my eyes shut and couldn’t do It,” continued Perry In a husky voice. “ T h at’s a sure sign.” Hammond hastily closed his eyes, but he stood up like a tree. “ I haven’t got It, that’s sure,” he said. “ Have you seen a doctor?” Perry smiled wearily. “ I don’t need to,” he replied. “ I've been studying the subject for weeks. Character in a book, you see. Queer coincidence, isn't It? Hello! There’s some one rapping at your door.” Hammond looked out into the h a ll “ Some of the boys have come around to play cards,” he said. “ I suppose you. won't join us. You never touch a card. It’s all work and no play with you. Good night and cheer up, old chap. This thing may not be as bad as you think.” It Is utterly hopeless,\ responded Perry, “ I ’ve looked up all the authori ties. Mind! Not a word about this. I shall tell no one.” Hammond made a gesture that pledg ed his soul and body, but about 3 o’clock In the morning, under the influence of a beverage that is known as a club cooler, he confided to the other fellows that Perry w a s a wreck. “ I t's a dreadful thing,\ he said. He w a s a bril liant man. H e made money In the daytime and fam e in the even ing. And he w a s en gaged to the prettiest girl In town; rich too. Isn't it terrible? Well, deal the cards, Jim, and let's thank heaven that none o f us will die of overwork.” L e ft alone In his room. Perry tried to think, but the common sense where w ith he had made money w a s captive to the imagination of the story writer— an imagination overstrained by too much struggling with the troubles of the fictitious Langham. His mind was a prophetic panorama wherein he saw a short future full of grief. When at last he sought his bed, it was to find ten thousand nightmares stabled under his pillow, and in the morning he was unrefreshed and tremulous as a drunk ard. Upon leaving the building he went to the barber’s shop where he was* accus tomed to be shaved. The cheerful artist o f the razor gave him good day and as sured him that he was looking well. “ I'll give you a dollar,\ said Perry sharply, “if you’ll tell me honestly how I do look.” “ Y ou don’t mean that there’s any thing really the matter?” he asked in a tone of real sympathy. “ Nothing but paresis,\ replied the young man. “ Go w a y ,” said the barber. “ You don't mean it.” “ I mean just that, but you needn’t tell anybody. I shouldn’t have mentioned it.” Perry’s partner in busi ness was a cheerful, emo tional young man named Joe Lynwood. He was an expert in all matter relating to the stock market, and it was really due to him that the mod est enterprise had thriven so well. But Lynwood never would have said so. He had an infinite admiration and affection for Perry and believed that every word he said was directly inspired. “Joe,” said Perry as soon as he enter ed the office, “ what is my share of the business worth? I want to sell out.” Lynwood was speechless. Wonder and grief held him helpless. “ You're crazy!” he gasped at last. Perry glanced over his shoulder nerv ously. “ How did you know?” he whispered. \Do I show it?” The explanation which this remark necessitated was extremely painful. Lynwood could not believe the terrible news, yet he had so long been accus tomed to put implicit faith in Perry’s infallibility that he was greatly alarrn- H a m m o nd rapidly traced some circles on a pad. The cheerful artist o f the razor gave him good day. ed. \You must see a doctor right away,” Was all that he could say. And Perry at last promised to do so, though he as sured his friend that all the doctors in town could not help him. \I didn't Intend to ten anybody,” he said, \but I have mentioned it to one or two people—In fact, confound me, I’ve told every man, woman and car horse that I’ve met. It’s one of the symptoms. A few more won’t make any difference. I’ll have Dr, Fessenden come over to my place this evening.” Concluded on 4th pao°. H a ir S p lits “ 1 have used Ayer’s Hair Vigor for thirty years. It is elegant for a hair dressing and for keeping the hair from splitting at the ends.” — J. A. Gruenenfelder, Grantfork, 111 , • « Alone, J a ck ?\ queried Hammond. H a ir-splitting splits friendships. If the hair splitting is done on your own head, it loses friends for you, for every hair of your head is a friend. Ayer’s Hair Vigor in advance will prevent the splitting. If the splitting has begun, it will stop it. $ 1,00 e bottle. All druggists. 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