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Jest the same ez miss thet OF struck
by-ligtnin' sycamo' tree thet Jedge
Towns has had cut out Of the co't-house
yard. My mother had my gran'pa'
picture framed out O. sycamo' balls,
gethered out o. that tree forty year
ago.
But you see I'm maxim every eN-
cuse to keep from goin' on with the
story, an eff it's got to be told, we'll
whether somebody told the Mere
diths about the nigger's prophesy, an
they got excited over it, an forbid the
city feller the house, / don't know, but
he never was seen goin there after
that night. though he stayed in town
of which time he disappeared from the
face o the earth. an she along with
him.
An that's all the story, parson
That's three year ago lackin' two
weeks, an nobody amt seen or heard o
May Day Meredith from that day to
this.
"Of co'se girls have run away with
men, an it turned out all right-but
they wasn't married men. Nobody
spicioned he was married tell 1t was
all over, an Harry Conway he found 1t
out in st. Louis, an it's been found to
be true. An there's man living In
Texarkana thet testifies thet he was
called in to witness what he b'lieved tc
be a genuine weddin, where the
preacher claimed to come from Little
Rock, an he married May Day to that
man, standin' in the blue cashmere
dress She run away in. She was mar
ried by the 'Piscopal prayer book, too
which is the only thing l felt hard
against May Day for consentin' to--she
being we'll raised, hard shell Baptist
But o cose the man thet could gil
a girl to run away with him could easy
get her to change her religion
Hold up there, Danl" interrupted
old man Taylor. Hold on there! Not
always. It's good many years sense
my OF woman run away to marry me
but she was a Methodist, an Methodist
she's turned me, though I've been
dipped, thank God!'
We'll, of co'se, there's exception
An / didn't compare you to the man
I'm a-talkin' about, nohow. Besides
Methordist an 'Piscopal are two differ
ent things" returned McMonigle.
"But tellin' my story-or at least
sense I've done told my story, I'll tel
parson all I know about the old mig
ger, Proph', which is mighty little.
1T was jest three days after May
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Nov. Is. 1894,

NOV. 10, 1874.
Train leaves Scranton for philadelphia
am, 1905, 2.2S and 1l.3s pm, via D., L.. L.
w. r. r., 600 sos, 1l.20 am, and 1.3Q pm.
Leave Scranton for Pittston and Wilkes
Barre, via d., l.. & w. K. r.. 800, sos, II. 70
am, $50. co., $50 pm.
Leave Scranton for White Haven, Ha-
zleton, Pottsville and all points on the
Beaver Meadow and Pottsville branches,
via r. e. W. V. r. r., $40 m, via d. 6; II.
Z. x. at 7.45 am, 1906. 23S, 400 pm, via
$50 pm.
Leave Scranton for Bethlehem, Easton,
Reading, Harrisburg and all intermediate
points via ID. & Fl. r. r.. 7.45 am, 1905,
23S, 400, ll.38 pm, via D., l.. d w. K. H.,
800, sos, 11.20 am, 1.30 pm.
Leave Scranton for Tunkhannock, To-
wanda, Elmira, Ithaca, Geneva and all
intermediate points via D. & H. r: r., S45
am, 12.0 and 1l.35 pm, via D., L. & w.
Leave Scranton for Rochester, Buffalo,
Niagara Falls. Detroit, Chicago and Ill
points west via d. r. H. r. r., 845 am,
1905. 9.15. 11.3S pm, via D., l.. & W. Il. r.
and Pittston Junction, sos, 9.55 am, 1.J0,
$50 pm, via l.. 4 w. V. r. r., 3.4l pm.
For Elmira and the west via Salamanca,
via d. g. H. Il. r., S.45 am, u. .O5, sos p. M,
via D., L. & w. r. r., sos, 9.55 am, l.20,
and 6.0 pm.
Pullman parlor and sleeping or L. V.
chair cars on all trains between l.. & Z.
Junction or Wilkes-Barre and New York,
Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Suspension
RoLLIN H. WILBUR, Gen. supt.
CHAS. S. LEE, Gen. Pass. Agt., Phila., Pa.
A. W. NONNEMACHER, Asst. Gen.
Pass. Agt, South Bethlehem. Pa.
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Amt that about yore recollection O.
how he expressed it?" said McMonigle,
pausing now in his recital.
'Yas," said old man Taylor, 'he said
1t three times, l recollect that ez long
ez live-an' the third time he said the
yaller hair he let his arms fall down at
his side and he sort O. staggered back
ards, an turned round to Johnnie Burk
an seq he: Help me out, please, sir,
l feels dizzy Do you riccollect how
he said that, Danl?
But you're tellin, the story. Don't
lemme interrupt you"
No, interruption, Pete. You go on
an tell it the way you riccollect it, l
see my pipe has done gone out while
I've been talkin. Tell the truth, I'm
most sorry that you all started me on
this story tonight. 1t gives me spell
O. the blues-talkin' it over.
Pass me them tongs back here, doc
tor, an lemme git another coal for my
pipe. An while I've got 'em I'll shake
up this fire a little. This stoves ez
dull-eyed and pouty ez any other
woman eff she's neglected.
Hungry, too, amt you, old lady?
Don't like wet wood, neither Sets her
teeth on edge. Jest listen at his quart
while lay it in her mouth.
GO on, now, Pete, an tell the par
Son the rest O. the story. 'Tain't no
more'n right thet shepherd should
know all the ins and outs O. his flock
eff he's goin' to take care O. their needs"
You better finish 1t, Danl," said
Taylor. you've brought it all back
u heap better'n could a-done it,"
Tell the thruth, boys, I've got it
down to where I hate to go on" replied
McMonigle, with feeling. I've talked
about the child now till I can seem to
see her little, slim figure comm down
the plank walk the way I've seen her a
hundred times, when all the fellers set
elm out in front o. the stoes would slip
in an git their coats on an come back
I've done it myself an me a grand
father.
go on, Pete, an finish it up. I've
got the taste O. tobacco smoke now, an
my pipe Is like the stove. Eff | neglect
her she pouts
II left off where OF Proph finished
prophesyin at the old year party at my
house three year ago. | forgot to tell
you, parson, thet Mrs. Meredith, she
never come to the party-an' Meredith
hisself he only come and stayed a few
minutes, an went home count O. the
or lady bein' by herself-so they wasn't t
neither one there when the OF niger
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spoke. An eff they'd ever been told
what he said / don't know-though we
have got a half dozen smarties in town,
thet would "a busted long ago eff they
hadn't "a told it don't doubt.
GO on, now, Pete, an finish. After
Proph' had got done talkin' of co'se
hand shakin' commenced, an every
body was supposed to shake hands
with everybody else. I reckon, parson,
there knows about that-but you might
tell 1t anyhow"
"Of co'se, parson he knows about the
handshakin', said Taylor, taking up
the story, because you was here last
year parson. You know that it's the
custom in Simpkinsville, at the old
year party, for everybody to shake
hands at twelve o'clock at the comm in
of the new year. It's been our custom
time out O. mind Folks thet'll have
some fallin out an maybe not be
speakin' IL come forward an shake
hands an make up-start the new year
with a clean slate.
"Why, eff 'twasn't for that, I donno
what we'd do. Some of our folks Is so
techy an high strung-an' so many o
'em kin, which makes 1t that much
worse-thet eff 'twasnt for the New
Year handshaking, why in few years
we'd be ez bad ez a deaf and dumb
asylum.
But to tell the story. I declare,
Dan'l, amt no hand to tell thing so
ez to bring it befo' yo' eyes like you can
I'm feerd you'll have to carry it on"
And so old man McMonigle, after
tol,, L.,
his pipe, laid it on the fender before
him, and took up the tale,
"Well he began as usual, II reckon
thot rightly speakin' this is about the
end of the first chapter.
"The handshakin' passed off friendly
enough, everybody jinin' in, though
there was women thet lowed thet they
had the cold shivers when they struck
the city feller's hand, half expectin' to
tackle birdclaw. An know thet wife
an mccullough understand, parson,
we none O. us suspicioned no harm-we
was glad when the party broke up, an
everybody was gone-the niger S
words seefned'to ring in our ears So
well, sir, the second chapter O. the
story reckon it could be told in half a
dozen words, though I spose 1t holds
misery enough to make a book.
Il never would read a book thet
didn't end right; in fact. don't think
the law ought to allow sech to be
printed. We get enough wrong
endin's In life, an the only good book
maxim is, in my opinion, Is to ketch
up all sech stories an work 'em over
EFT / could set down an tell May
Day Meredith's story to some book
writer thet'd take 1t up where I leave
off, an bring her back to us, she could
even be raised from the dead in book
ef need be, my Lord, how I'd love tc
read 1t, an try to blieve it was true
ia like him to work the OF niger II
at the end too, eff he didn't think his
self above 1t. A Oh harmless. half
crazy niger, thet's been movin' rount
amongst us all for years, Is ez much
missed ez anybody else when he drop!
out, nobody knows how. 1 miss Proph
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Meredith run away thet I was ridin
through the woods twixt here an Clay
Bank, an who did run against but old
Proph'-walkin' along in the brush
talkin' to hisself ez usual
well, sir, l stopped my horse an
called him up an talked to him, an
tried to draw him out-ast him how
come he to prophesy the way he done,
an how he knowed what was comm
but, sir, l couldn't get no satisfaction
out o. him-not bit. He lowed thet
he only spoke eZ it was given him to
speak, an the only thing he seemed in
terested in was the strangers name, an
he asst me to say it for him over an
over-ihe repeatin' it after me. An
then he asst me to write it for him, an
he put the paper l wrote it on in his hat.
He didn't know B from bulls foot,
but / spose he thought maybe If he
put it in his hat it might strike in"
Like ez not he lowed he could git
somebody to read it out to him." sug-
gested the doctor.
Like ez not. Well, sir, after l had
give him the paper he commenced to
talk about huntin-had bunch o
birds in his hands then, an give 'em to
me, 'lowin' all the time he hadn't had
much luck lately, count o his pistol
bein' sort o. out o order Lowed thet
he took sech notion to hunt with his
| pistol thet twasn't no fun shootin' at
long range, but somehow he couldn't
depend on his pistol shootin' straight.
Took it out o his pocket while he
| was standin' there, an commenced
showin' it to me. An, sir, would you
believe it? While we was standin
there talkin' he give quick turn
fired all on a sudden up into tree, an
befo' l could git my breath. down
dropped squirt right at his feet
Never see sech shootin in my life. An
he wasn'tno more excited over it thar
nothin, Jest picked up the squirt ea
unconcerned ez you please, an, seq he
Vas, she done 1T that time-but She
don't always do It, Can't depend on her.
"Then, somehow, he brought Il
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RAILROAD TIMETABLES
Central Railroad of New Jersey,

Nehigh and susquehanya Divslon)
Anthracite coal used exclusively, insur-
ing cleanliness and comfort.
TIME TABLE IN EFFECT NOV. IS, 1894.
Trains leave Scranton for Pittston.
Wilkes Barre, etc, at $40, 9.l5. l.30 am.
12.l5, 200, sos, 500, 725. I.05 pm. Sundays.
800 am, LOO, 215, 7.10 pm.
For Atlantic City, $50 am.
For New York. Newark and Elizabeth,
$40 (express) a. m, l2.i5 express with Buff
fet parlor carr. So5 (express) pm. Sun
For KIauch Chunk, Allentown, Bethle-
hem. Easton and Philadelphia, $40 am.
l2lS,, 3.05. 500 Except Philadelphia) pm.
For Long Branch. Ocean Grove. etc.. at
$40 am, l2.45 I'm.
For Reading. Lebanon and Harrisburg.
Via Allentown, $50 am, l2.45, 500 PIN.
For fottsvllie, $50 an., 1245 pm.
Returning, leave New York, footof Lib
erty street. North river. at 9.10 (express)
am, l.10 1.30 4.3O (express with Buffet
parlor carr pm. Sunday, 40 am.
Leave Philadelphia, Reading Terminal,
800 am, 200 and 43O pm. Sunday 6.21
am.
Through tickets to all points at lowest
rates may be had on application In ad.
vance to the ticket agent at the station.
H. p. BALDWIN.
Gen. Pass Agent.
]. II. OLHAUSEN. Gen. supt.
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lie Follows Their TrentInen nj. .

From the Cincinnati Tribune.
MY friend" said the solenm-looking
man to the other soemn-looking man,
"are you not follower of the Christian
Science treatment"'
in one sense l am. / am an under
taker."
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WONDERFUL

Mr. C. W. Campbsll-Dear Sir: l have
given my boy, Freddie, years old some OF
DR.; Campbells Magic Worm Sugar and Tea,
and to my surprise this afternoon about 2
o'clock he passed tapeworm measuring
about Is feet in length head and all. ! have
1t in bottle and any person wishing to see
it can do SO by calling at my store. had
tried numerous otner remedies reGommsndea recon
estimation DR.. Oampbell's Is the greatest
worm remedy in existence.
Yours very resDectfully,
FRED HEFFNER, s32 Beech st.
Note-The above is what everybody says
after once using. Manufactured by c. W.
Campbell. Lancaster, Pa. Successor to Dr..
John Campbell s. Son.
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DELAWARE AND
HUDSON RAIL
ROAD.

q ; ! !
H. DELAWARE AND
Fzl/ I HUDSON RAIL
~ H. ROAD
AN~ Commencing Monday,
OAT~> day, July 30, all trains
Al" will arrive atnew Lack
awanna avenue station
" as follows:
30 Trains will leave Scran-
ton station for Carbondale and in.
termediate points at 20, e.l5, 7U0, S2o aho ,a
1910 am. 100. 22O, S.5a. OILS. 6lo, i2s, wv
and 1.20 pm.
ut 100, SIS and 1910 am, zoo. 20 and 6.lb
Pm.
and Montreal at s4s am. and 2.20 p. m,
For wiikes-Barre and intermediats
,ints at 745. S.A5, 93s and 10. 10 am, R.OS,
10, 23S, 400, $40. sos, 9.ib and L. pm.
p Trains will arrive at Scranton station
from Carbondals and intermediate points
at 7.4O, $40, 9.34 and l0,40 IN, 1900 l.l72.34t
34O, 46A, 555. 745, 9.ll and l1.SS pm.
From Honesdale, Waymart and Far.
view at s.A am, E.oO, LII, $40. 65s and
745 pm.
From Montreal, Saratoga, Albany, ETC.,
at l54 and ll.33 pm.
From Wilkes Barre and intermediate
points at 2.l5 S.04, 1905 and lis am, l.l6;
2l4, S.39. b.10, 6.eS, 7.2o, eos and Ills pm.
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Hotels and Restaurants.
Architects.

DAVIS & Won STORCH, ARCHITECTS.
Rooms "a, 25 and &c, Commonwealth
building, Scranton.
h. l.. WALTER, ARCHITECT. OFFICE,
rear OF COG Washington avenue.
+. l.. BROWN. ARCH. b., ARCHITECT,
Price building, l26 Washing ton avenue,
Scranton.
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THE NATIONAL LEAG UE.
Race of the BaJtinores and Cleuelands t,
Soon Close.

Race of the BattinaOTes and Cterefands to
Soon Close.
NEW YORK, N. Y, Sept. 20.-The Ma
tional League championship season will
wind up one week from next Monday. At
present the race between the Baltimores
and the Clevelands for the pennant is ex-
citing widespread interest, as each team
has chance for the honors.
The Cleyelands have five games yet to
play-two with Pittsburg, one with Chi
cago and two with Louisville. If they win
them all their record will be Sc victories,
46 defeats and 1855 perchtage.
The Baltimores have nine games to play
and all are hard to win. Two are with the
Brooklyns at Eastern Park, three are with
the Philaoelphias in Baltimore and the re-
naming four are with the New Yorks at
the Polo grounds.
In order to win the championship the
Baltimores must win six of these nine
games, which will make their record at
the finish eigh:y-six victories, forty-four
defeats and 1852 percentage If they
should lose four games the pennant
would go to Cleveland, as the percentage
OF Hanlon's men would then be 1854, or
two points less than that OF the other
team. Close observers are figuring on
Cleveland as the final winner, for they
have slated the Baltimores to lose one
game to Brooklyn, another to Philadelphia
and possibly two to the New Yorks.
The latter series will wind up the league
season in this city and bids fair to be one
OF the most exciting on record There is
no love lost between the New Yorks and
Baltimores and even now the local man
agement is saving Meekin for a game
against the champions.
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CORBETT NOT PRESENT.
The Champion Also Fails to
Send a Representative to
the Meeting.
DELAY IS NOW THE ORDER.
The Man to Decide Questions Will
Not Be Chosen Perhaps Until
the Eleventh Hour.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Sept. 20.-The i'm
portant act of selecting referee for the
Corbett-F ltzsimmons fight, which it was
proposed to settle this morning. has been
postponed until almost the very hour be-
fore the battle. Joe Vendig, acting for the
Florida Athletic Clue, and Martin Julian,
the manager for Fitzsimmons, met in the
office OF New York sporting paper this
morning and decided to let the selection
of a referee go until October 81, when the
principals, managers and all others inter
ested would be in Dallas.
From the lists submitted each side will
agree upon the man who will decide on all
the questions that may arise. Each side,
according to the understanding this morn
ing, will submit to the other the names of
four men. or more, if necessary, from
which to make selection.
There was no one present at the meeting
this morning who represented Corbett.
The champion had been asked to be on
hand or send a representative. He wired
back that only Brady, his manager, could
act for him in a matter of such import
ance. Brady is in Boston and could not
get here to-day. He asked that the meet
ing be postponed until tomorrow morn
ing.
Julian said that any date for meeting
was agreeable to him, and then added that
Fitzsimmons would not consent to select
ing referee so long before the fight, I'M
less Yank Sullivan was mutually agreed
upon as the one to hold that position.
Julian said that Corbett had announced
that Yank Sullivan would be agreeabl to
him in the capacity of referee, and the
manager of Fitzsimmons added Sullivan
was perfectly agreeable to them. He was
perfectly willing to agree on Sullivan at
the moment, but beyond Sullivan they
would decide on no one until the day be-
fore the fight.
Subsequently it was decided to hold
another meeting tomorrow, as Fitzsim-
mons and his manager are firm in their
decision not to select referee until just
before the fight. The meeting will result
in nothing unless Yank Sullivan be chosen.
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FOR BLUE AND GRAY DAY,
Many Men of Distinction Are
Assembling at the Ex-
position.
Atlanta to Be the Scene of One OF
the Most Notable Gatherings
In the South.

ATLANTA, GA, Sept. 20.-Atlanta is
afire with enthusiasm over the prospect of
Blue and Gray day. AS the opening OF
the exposition marked new era in the
industrial history of the South, so the
great reunion tomorrow will mark a new
period of comfy and good-fellowship be-
tween the North and South.
The nine Governors Of Northern States
who will take part in the ceremonies to-
morrow will be accorded great ovation.
They will be received with distinguished
courtesy and given places of honor in the
great procession, which will go out Peach
tree street to the exposition grounds.
Among them will be Governor McIntire
OF Colorado, with his staff and party OF
friends, who arrived tonight in a special
car. Governor Altgeld of Illinois and
party have already reached the city. Gov
ernor Holcomb of Nebraska will arrive
Governor Mckinley of Ohio will arrive in
the morning st O'Clock with staff of
eighty. and will be received with distin-
gulshed honor.
Governor Levi P. Morton of New York
arrived tonight, with his staff, also Gov
ernor Werts of New Jersey, also Governor
Woodbury. of Vermont and Governor
Greenhalge of Massa chusetts.
Together with these distinguished guests
will come thousands of veterans from
Chickamauga and Chattanooga, and they
will be met here by thousands of Confede-
rate veverans. The Western and Atlantic
Railroad brought down seventeen extra
trains from Chattanooga tonight.
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ON THE BAIL FIELD.
RGftting Games and brilliant Plays
among Eastern Teams.

RGttling Games and brilliant Plays
among Eastern Teams.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. 2o.-The
local team batted hard throughout to-day,
Thompson leading with home-run hit
over the center-feId fence, triple and two
singles.
AT no stage did Washington figure in
the contest. Molesworth pitched the last
two innings for Washington, but he was
even less effective than Gilroy. Weather
clear. Attendance $780, Score: Philadel-
phias, Is, 81, 3; Washingtons, 6, 10, q.
Orth and Grady; Gilroy, Wordsworth and
Mcclure. Umpire-Murray
CLEVELAND, ONO, Sept. 20.-Costly
bases on balls and errors at critical points
lost to-day's game for Pittsburg. Young
kept the hits of the visitors scattered and
pitched very steady game. Attendance
$500. Score: Clevelands 6. 7, Q; Pittsburgs
8. 10. 4. Batteries-You and thinner,
Hawley and Merritt. Umpires-Jevne
and Mcdonald.
ST. LOUIS. Mo-, Sept. 2O-The Chicagos
took game from the Browns to-day
through being lucky at the bat and the
errors OF the locals. Attendance 750
Score: st. Louis 8, Z, g.; Chicagos 4, 6, 2.
Breitenstein and Otten;. Parker and Kit
tredge. mpire-Emslie.
CINCINNATI, OHIO, Sept. 20.-The Gin
day by losing to Louisville, after having
the game we'll in hand. In the sixth inn
ing the visitors pounded Rhines out of the
box. Attendance, 1000. Score: Cincin-
natis-6, IA, 8. Louisvilles--9, IA, 1. Bat
teries-Rhines, Dwyer and Vaughn; Cum
ningham and Spies. Umpire-O'Day.
BROOKLYN, n. Y, Sept. 20. - Two
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ENGLISH ATHLETES FATORITEs.
Sudden Sniff In the Betting on To-Day's
International Contest.

sudden ShtTt IN the Betting on I0-DGy's
International Contest.
NEW YORK. N. Y, Sept. 2o.-Monta-
que Sherman, manager of the London
Athletic Club team, Charles Herbert, Sec
rotary of the A. A. U. of England, James
G. Gulick, secretary, and R. C. Williams,
chairman of the athletic committee OF the
New York Athletic Club, met this after
noon and made the final arrangements for
the games at Manhattan field tomorrow.
One important change was made in the
programme. The 220-yard run, originally
sixth on the list was shifted to fifth place,
and the fifth placed sixth. In case of dead
heats in the 100-yard run. they must be
run off fifteen minutes from the time of
occurrence. Every event on the pro-
gramme IS final, with two contestants
from each team.
The arrangements were all made without
the slightest friction. Matters have taken
such shape that the English athletes have
become fayorites in the betting. Eleven
events are on the programme, and the club
winning the greatest number of first places
will, of course, be the winner.
In the 100-yard race the New York Ath-
letic Club will start B. j. Wefers and John
V. Crum, and the Londoners Bradley and
Downer. From ali accounts Bradley is a
wonder. He modestly says he can run in
10 seconds. and if Wefers and Crum can
run in 8 40 they will win. In the 40
yard run New Workers will pin their faith
to Burke of Boston, with Sands as the
runner-up. The two hiers for the Eng
lshmen are W. Fitzherbert and Jordan.