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away. While he is here, | am contin-
ually apprehenSive. | am sure that he
followed u.s. in a close carriage as we
drove to the palace. | am certain that
he will shadow us, on our return to my
aunt's house"
The execrable scoundrcl!" l eX-
claimed. | shall, myself, accompany
you to your aunt's house and the order
shall Immediately thereafter, be put
into execution. | shall take you home
in my own coupe and it will be an un-
lucky day for the baron, if he crosses
our path"
Your majesty is everything that Is
noble and sweet and generous cried
the lovely girl while her magnificent
eyes glistened with moisture, and sim
gle tear drop stole down across her
velvet check
took her small white hand in mine
and gently patted it.
Tut tut my dear child" said /. You
make a mountain out of the merest
trihe. Compose yourself, and wait for
me here. | will return for you, in few
moments
Saying this, left Valeska, and pro-
ceeded to my yellow bedroom, where I
found Secretary Muller sitting. as ! had
left him at the escritoire. | told him
that ! intended to take the ladies 10
their house in my hCrseless coupe, and
bade him get ready to go with US.
Il am very glad that | am permitted
to do so, your majesty said he, las
! have long been desirous of trying one
of these carriages"
| now sent GOttfried Johannes to the
royal ecure with a request that the
electrical coupe should be at once
brought to the most private entrance
of the palace. During his absence |
dictated to Muller an order addressed
to the minister of war commanding
him to send Gen. Baron Won Ranen-
stein by the first train in the morning
to COnstantinoDle, where he was t.
wait until he received sealed instruc-
tons This business was no sooner eX-
pedited than my valet returned with
the information that the vehicle was
in readiness. We now rejoined Wales
ka and her aunt, and, preceded by
Cottfred, passed through an almost
interminable number of halls and corri-
dors and suites, and at length, issuing
forth from a small and secluded exit
at the rear of the palace, took our
places in the coupe.
The ladies We're upon the inside and
Muller and | We're upon the box. 4
proposed to run the thing myself |
possessed some knowledge of electrical
matters, and | had once run a trolley
car all the way from lOlyoke to
Springfield, | wish to say, however,
that it was as dilettante, and not as
a professional. We started off very
smoothly as soon as [ had moved the
lever, and, turning into the HOfgarden
street, we ran the length of it and
came into the street of the Residence.
(To BE Contnued)
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further anxiety about the matter, for
Will, this very day. issue an order that
will send him to Russia or to Constan-
tinople for a year or two"
How delightful that will be-" she
exclaimed, while she gazed at me CRATE
fully. "Do you know, your majesty
that you are not at all as | supposed
you would be. You are not as old, and
you are infinitely more | cannot eX-
press myself as | would wish, but | am
almost sorry that you are a king"
I'VE have to put up with the disad-
vantage of royalty" said /. "There are
many Inconvenience attached to the
position. For instance if king wishes
to marry, he cannot wed the maiden Of
his choice. He has nothing whatever to
say about the matter. and his bride
some ugly royal princess of a neighbor-
ing state, is selected for him by his
ministers"
And do you mean to say, sire" she
exclaimed, that you can never marry
for love?"
II have never been able to do So" |
answered. 81 viii say, however, that if
any of my line ever marries for love,
it viii be I. ! will also say this, that
| have never felt the weight OF these
restrictions as have felt it since gaz-
ing upon your charming face"
| accompanied this remark with a
tender glance, and she received it with
the divinest of bushes. My interest
ing visitor now arose to go.
II shall be so relieved. your majes
ty." said she, "when the order which
your majesty spoke of, is put into effect,
and that villainous monster is far
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.

Schedule in Effect November IS, 1895.
Trains Leave Wilkes Barre as Follows
7.5O a. M, week days, for Sunbury
Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Bati.
more, Washington, and for Fits
burg and tine West.
1915 a. M, week days, for HazIeton,
PottsviIe, Reading, Norristown,
and Philadelphia; and for Sun
bury, Harrisburg, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington and Pitts.
burg and the West.
3.I5 p. M, week days, for Sunbury,
Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Balti-
more, Washington and PittsburE
and the West.
S.i5 p M, Sundays only, for Sun
bury, Harrisburg, Philadslphi a,
and Pittsburg and the West.
coo p. M, week days, for Hazleton
and PottsViIle.
J. K. WOOD, Geal Pass. Agsl.
S. M. PROVOST, General Manas-:.
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co,,rtasv ,,d oo,eido,otio, .e ba oould
bnvc shown , man he was thinlsing
ahoiit fn,, tho oabinet
ME nrornseinn continund with
ont ever distuibino the calm minded
pOlitiriap to,vo,1 ,vbnr, If ,vas Irart :
ed This so,.t Of tline a.nas on etnod- -
ilN. NIc[inlev secs almost every
body who rolIs ana is unifn,,nIv COM
teous TO all"
The senator docs NOT mako mention
of any nf tbn mon Of distinrtinn Who
NAV have called ot the Canton house
during his stnv in if lie dwells mere
ly mon the nIsasont ,vav i'm which nm
i,nn1rtapt o1 II.re ,,..r, roc,i,,a1 4, r
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4 had Break.

Iagson-I tried to pay the New Woman
a compliment last night in my speech,
but it didn't seem to be appreciated.
Bagson-What did you say?
Jagson-I said that the New Woman
would leave large footprints on the sands
of time.--Tid-Bits.
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All trains run daily except sunday.
T. signifies that trains stop on signal for pas
sengers
secure rates via ontario & Western beforo
purchasing tickets and save money Day anG
Night Express TO the West
J.C. Anderson, Gen. Pass Aqt
4. Flitcrolt, Div Pass, Agt Scranton, Pa
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RA/LROAD HME-T ABLES
BEHlGH VALLEY RAILROAD SYS,
TEN
Anthracite Coal Used Exclusively Insur.
INN 1rAlI MN r....A
TRAINS LEAVE Sop 4 NtrGNr


TRAINS LEAVE SCRANTON.
For Philadelphia and New York via ID.
Fl. X. r. at G.i5, 7.i5 a. M, 1905, 20, 33i
(black Diamond EXpress) and ll.30 p. IN.
For Iittston and Wilkes Barre via d..
H. w. h. r., 600, sos, l1.20 a. M, 81
o'Ig' $40 and S.47 p. m.
for White Haven, Hazleton, Pottsvlle,
ana principal points in the coal regions
wa -. d IA. II. r., G.i5 a. m 1906 and Al
FOR Bethlehem, Easton Reading, Har-
ilsDufg and principal intermediate sta
tdons wa -. & II. K. r., 6.i5, las a. M,
iZVo, 10 S33 CBlack Diamond Express).
Al and ll.3O D. IN.
- for Tunkhannock, Towanda, Elmira,
lthaca, Geneva and principal intermediate
atatlohs wa y, l.. & W. X. r., GOO, sos,
922' a, m" l2.2Q and $40 p. m.
for geneva, Rochester, Buffalo. Niagara
6aiis, thicago and all points west via d.,
" H. Il; H., I45 a. m L.. .05, 1888 (Black Da-
Ih0hd ENpressl, $50 and l1.3O p. m.
Pullman parlor and sleeping or Lehgh
valley chair cars on all trains between
wilkes Barre and New York Phladel,
phia Buffalo and Suspension Bridge
ROl.LlN II. WILBUR, Cen Supt.
'tAS. S. LEE, Gen. Pass. Agt., Phila.,
a; w. NONNEMACHER, Asst. Gen
- Pass. Agt., South Bethlehem, Pa
Scranton Office, 3O9 Lackawanna avenue,
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Erie and Wyoming Valley.

Effective Jan. 4, 1897
Trains will leave Scranton for New
York, Newburgh and intermediate points
on Erie also for Hawley and local points.
at 7.O5 a. m. and 2.2S p. m; and arrive from
above points at 1913 a. m. ana 9.3S p. IN.
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E1--Lislsp amy VINO suffers rom Ill
S> health. II it were not for
disorders of the digestive organs, nine
teuthS of the medical books III the world
could be safely destroyed. Not only the
minor nialadies, but the majority of serious
diseases have their inception in disorder.
ed digestion. Consumption is undoubtedly
the most deadly enemy with which mau-
kind has to contend. Like all other vast
ing discase8 ii has its origin in disorders
of the digestive organs. As a result OF these
disorders, the appetite falls off; the life Civ
ing elements OF the food are not properly
assimilatcd; the blood becomes thin and i'm
pure; and all the tissues of the body are i'm
perfectly and improperly nourished; the
lungs become clogged with inert, half dead
tissues that offer an attractive soil for the
invasion of the germs Of consumption. 1t
has becu said thousands Of times that con-
sumption IS iucuTable. It is not.
Niuety-eighE per cent OF all cases cf con.
sumption are cured by Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, 1t coTects ali disorders
of the digestive organs irvgOrates the liver
and makes the appetite keen and the assi;l-
ilation perfect; il makes new blood, pure
blood, and lots of it, II builds new and
healthy tissue II is the great flesh builder
Ii acts directly on the lungs, driving out all
impurities and disease germs Thousands
have testified to its merits. All good drug
Gists keep it.
falo, n. Y, writes: " As | have not answered
your last letter yet, will now write to YOU,
took DR.. Picrce's Golden Medical Discovery for
cc2emG, and it cured me ! can always dud 4
good word for nr Pierce"
Good health Is the best endowment
fiilse who have it cannot be too careful to
preserve it, Constipation is the worst
enemy of good health It causes nearly
every disorder known to physicians. DR..
Pierces Pleasant Pellets are a sure, swift,
safe and permanent cure for constipation.
One little pellet" is gentle laxative, and
two a mild cathartic. They never grips.
Druggists SELL than.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-03
MISS sAuoET.s EYES.
From Hazel the French Actress Had
Them Changed to Black.

From Hazel the French Actress Had
Them Changed to Black.
Miss Louis Baudet's eyes on her last
visit to this country were light hazel.
Now they are dark, rich brown. which
at times deepens into a jetty black. The
change in the tint of Miss Baudet's
eyes was brought about by Prof. Henri
Plaeide Dumont, the famous Partisan
oculist, demonstrator-in-chie at the
Paris eye hospital, chief operator at the
Ophthalmic institute, and member of
many scientific societies Miss Bau-
diets hair is a rich, reddish brown. The
actress suggested one night to Prof.
Dumont that he ought to remedy ma
lures unkindliness and make her eyes
the same color as her hair. So he con-
scented. The operation was simple.
Miss Baudet was prepared for it by a
three days bathing of her eyes with
lniments which softened the ex-
terror of the ball" Then followed
some days confinement in darkened
room. Next she subjected her eyes to
vapor arising from chemicals, the COM
ponents of which are only known
to the professor. She says she smoked"
her eyes for an hour or more daily for
one week. They soon began to change
color. Little patches of brown ap-
peared on the clear hazel. These
patches spread until the color appeared
notified. Dumont suspended opera
tons for a week, and then resumed
them. The smoking" was continued
for three days longer, at the end OF
which time Miss Bandet's eyes were OF
the rich hue they are now. She de-
clares that her eyeSight is better than
ever.
DR.. E. S. Peck, of No. SO West Fiftieth
street, New York, has turned the eyes
of animals different codors. He caused
. rabbit to have one red and one green
eye. He said: ''The eyeball is rotated
inward by means of forceps, a hypoder-
mic syringe is passed through the back
part of the white of the eye containing
a weak solution of permanganate ID
potash, or of yellow or red prussiate OF
potash, or of nitrate of silver, or of sol
uble Prussian blue. In a few hours
these fluids will have entirely traversed
the vitreous humor of the eye and will
have passed through the canal outside
of the lens and into the anterior cham
Der in front, and will finally be forced
under the colorless external coat of the
eyebau. The length of time for such
transmission varies in different animals
and with different fluids. The usual
time spent in these transmissions Is
from three to six hours in the human
eye."-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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the telegraph company, its system and
its officials from the general manager
down you ask why, by all that's cleo
trieal, your message must wait for Is
hours before it is sent.
"Wires down west of Omaha and
south of Columbus, laeonically replies
the operator. Or perhaps he locates the
difficulty in some other part of the Un-
ion. 1t depends on where you happen to
be. Then you realize for the first time
that storm which is raging hundreds
of miles away and which may not reach
your locality at all is liable to cause you
some personal Inconvenience and per-
haps financial loss.
After you have partially forgiven the
telegraph company and resigned your
self to the inevitable you dismiss the
matter from your mind and never give
a thought to what it means to the men
whose duty it is to get the wires up
again. For convenience we will say the
break is between New York and Phila-
delphia. There are so many wires con-
Meeting these two points that only the
most severe storm would disable them
all at the same time. But the temporary
loss of one or two important wires would
be greatly felt because the normal vol
ume of business over them is large.
The operator sitting at his desk in the
big operating room in New York reoeiv-
ing messages from the west suddenly
discovers that something is wrong. The
message has been broken off in the mid
die. He calls up the other end, but gets
no response. Then he sends for the chief
operator.
"What's up?" asks that official.
''No. AIS down." replies the oper-
ator
The chief first goes to the big switch
board, where all the wires come in, and
makes test of No. AZ to see whether
it is crossed or grounded. Finding it is
all right in those respects, he goes back
to the operators desk and says:
''Call up Elizabeth.
Tick. tick, olickety, cliokety, click,
click, goes the sender. and in a mo-
ment the sounder responds:
"Elizabeth's all right
CHOW try Bound Brook. -
After more clicking the chief hears
from Bound Brook.
''Call up Jenkintown.
Vainly the operator rattles the call,
but Jenkintown does not respond, so the
break must be between the two stations.
''That' nearer the Philadelphia end. -
comments the chief. "I'lI see if I can
get Philadelphia on No. 49,
Philadelphia is reached and notified
of the break
1--WE know it," comes back the an
swer. "Sent 1inemen out ten minutes
ago.
Nice weather to climb telegraph
polesl 1t is what eastern people call a
blizzard. The moisture that was rain a
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Some Are Beautifully Painted and Most
of Them Very Costly.

Some Are Beautifully Painted and Most
of Them Very Costly.
The most expressive little accessory
of Homan's dress is her fan, if she
but understands the art of using it.
French fans are the most attractive and
dainty in design. Size is the important
point in the fashion of fans just at pres
ent, since they must be very small, and
if we go back to the time of our great
grandmothers and resurrect their tiny
fans, we will have the proper size for
use to-day.
The Empire and Louis Q,linze fans
are the popular shapes. The sticks are
of mother-of-pearl,i ivory, tortoise shell.
ebony, and violet wood, beautifully
enameled and inlaid with gold. Black
mother-of-pearl is a novelty this sea-
son, and the ornamentation of gold
shows off with good effect on the dark
background. Despite the small size,
these fans display the most perfect
specimens of fine painting in Vatican
figures, birds and flowers, and the very
prettiest mounts are transparent with
various designs in silk introduced at the
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COSTLY BUT BEAUTIFUL

top like the one illustrated. The sticks
are in black pearl, and the mousseline
de sole is black, with black silk at the
edge exquisitely painted with cupids
and figures in Louis XVI. costumes.
Paillettes are distributed over the sticks
and all. Fans of white mousseline
with fine Brussels lace on the edge and
tortoise shell sticks are the daintiest lit
tie trifes imaginable. Medallions OF
silk set in point lace and painted with
NEUROLOGICAL figures and finished with
mother-of-pearl sticks are the modern
reproduction of the Louis XIV. fan, but
in the old days these fans were of parch-
ment or fine leather.
Large sums of money can be invested
in this little article of dress, and some
of the later limitations of this old style
cost from $50 to 81 900, according to the
fineness of the workmanship. fan of
green silk painted with violets, with
violet wood sticks stained green, is a
charming little novelty. Much less ex-
pensive are the Chinese fans of fine
crepe painted with howers.-N. Y. Sun,
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She Got = Seat.

It was noon in a large quick lunch place.
A young woman, comely as we'll as self re-
liant, entered and glanced deliberately
around in search of a vacant chair.
She saw one that appeared to be unoccu-
pied. and providing herself with a cram
berry tart and cup of coffee started to
take possession of it. But a mani hat was
on the chair, and the owner of the hat hap
pened to be at her elbow with his modest
luncheon in his hand beg pardon, but
this seat is engaged, he said.
Returning to the counter, the young
woman put down her tart and coffee and
started to find an empty chair. She found
one in a remote corner of the big eating
room, and raising her hand TO her head
she pulled out couple of hairpins and
flung her hat into the chair with a defiant
s'There, that's takenP'
She then brought over her tart and coffee
and enjoyed them in the consciousness that
she was dependent upon no mans gallan-
try for the comforts of fe.-Philadelphia
PresA
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pockets stuffed with spare insulatOrs
and his wire nippers dangling from the
leather belt around his waist.
Perhaps he walks a mile or two over
the rails before he finds the break. Then
he climbs up the swaying pole, and,
with the wind bowling about him, his
fingers benumbed with cold and his eyes
almost blinded by snow, neatly joins
the severed ends. New York and Phila-
delphia are once more connected by No.
AZ, and he can tramp back to the sta
ton, where perhaps he has just thawed
himself out, when he is sent of on
similar errand.
Crossed wires are the bane of the
lineman. An ordinary telegraph wire
may be handled with impunity, but
when, as often happens, it comes in con-
tact with an electric light wire whose
insulating covering has been worn off
then it carries an alternating current of
several thousand volts and becomes an
instrument of death. Many "a lineman
has picked up an innocent looking wire
and been knocked lifeless to earth.
After every storm of any consequence
Gnemen are sent scurrying out by the
early trains to repair the damage that
invariably results. Winter storms do
the most mischief. Sleet storms are
more dreaded than hurricanes, for,
while the latter may NOV down path
few rods wide across the line of the
telegraph, taking poles and wires with
it, a sieet storm will so load down the
wires that for many miles the whole
system will be paralyzed. A wire need
not necessarily be broken to disable it.
Let few insulators be missing and let
the wind sway it, and it will become as
useless as if it were broken in dozen
places.
In every important telegraph center
big forces of linemen are kept ready to
send out at moments notice. Very Of
ten as many as 800 linemen are sent out
in one day from the main office of the
Western Union in New York. They go
prepared to do any kind of work.
'I acted as lineman one winter" said
an expert telegraph operator, land got
enough of it to last me for lifetime. I
was operator. station agent, baggage
master and several other things at a
little station on the Northern Pacific,
way up in the northwest. As the near
est lineman was 400 miles or SO away,
had to make my own repairs, and the
company furnished me with railroad
bicycle for that purpose. There were
several Indians who loafed around the
station good deal and whom coca
sionally got to help me. One of them,
whom called Jim, seemed to be more
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Chop up large head of lettuce and
stew it with a lump of butter. a pinch
of sugar, and 30 drops of Tarragon vim
egar. Keep stirring and do not let it
burn. Add a teaspoonful of -four, pep
per and salt, break in an egg. which
stir well. Then pour on some weak
broth, allowing two gills per person.
If you have not the broth water will do.
Lay dice of stale bread in the tureen,
add gill of cream to the potage just
before you pour the boiling soup over
the bread. Serve.
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intelligent than the others, and he had
learned to splice a wire as we'll as run
the track bicycle. One bitter cold day,
when my line gave out, asked Jim if
he would go out and fix the break. Jim
was delighted. gave him a coil of new
wire and sent him off. He came back in
a couple of hours and assured me that
he had done the job in good shape. I
tried the wire, but found it did not
work. Then I kicked Jim out of the
Office and went out myself. About two
miles down the track found the break
and Jim's connection. The scoundrel
had stolen the new wire, but had put in
it's place about % feet of old rope. He
had even tied on a piece of wornout
leather line, thinking, in his guileless,
Indian way, that 1 would never know
the difference. I trusted no more repair
ing to the Indians -
In the big cities a new type Of line
man has made his appearance within
the last decade or So He came when
the wires went underground, and he is
becoming more numerous every day.
While the city streets were still incum
bered with lofty poles whose numerous
crOsstrees carried network of wires the
midair hneman was quite a hero and
often attracted big crowds as he calmly
worked away 80 or 40 feet above the
pavement.
The underground lineman does his
work unobserved and silently. He dress
es like an ordinary individual, too, and
does not even wear a belt. He comes
along with a helper, who prizes off the
cover of a manhole on a street corner,
and down into the black hole the SUBJ
way lineman crawls. 1t is a great mis-
take, though, to think that all the dam
ger was removed from his occupation
when the wires were put underground.
Down in the subway death Turks as
we'll as up in the air. The very iron
ladder by which he descends may be
connected with an electric light wire,
and as soon as he puts one foot on the
earth the circuit is established. When
this happens the helper above calls an
ambulance, and there is vacancy to be
filed.
The work of the subway lineman is
even more hazardous than that of the
man who does field work" and fully
as many fatal accidents occur, although
not nearly so many men are needed to
look after the buried wires. But whether
he is sent up pole or down into sub
way the hneman is constantly facing
death in a terrible form and doing it,
too, for so much day.
CYRUS SYLVESTER.
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WHEN WIRES ARE DOWN
Then the Telegraph Lineman
Has Work to Do.
THE OLD L1NEMAN AND THE NEW.

Your Up to Date City Lineman Goes I'm
derground Instead of Up In the Air,
Vocation Is 3 Perilous One.
Cant guarantee to get this message
off tonight, SIR" remarks the telegraph
operator as he runs his pencil along and
counts the words
Cant send it tonightF' you exclaim
Indignantly. "Well, when can you send
it?i'
perhaps by tomorrow noon"
Your establishment and indignation
increase, and you try to express both in
fitting terms. After you have denounced