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SURPRISE PARTY
FOR c. P. G|LLEN
Fellow Members of Lemon Club
Give HOuse-warming in
His New Quarters.

Charles P. Gillen was induced to visit
his offices at 122 Market street last
night by fellow members of the Lemon
Club. When he reached the door, the
lights were turned up, revealing tables
set and many guests about him. 1t was
a surprise house-warming for Mr.. Gill
lens new quarters. His original offices
and, and he was ~forced-real estate
man though he was-to get out and &c
to 122 Market street.
In the course of the evening the
guests found time for a very interest
ing musical program. Mr.. Gillen was
presented with a handsome desk set
of hammered brass. The s~oloists were
John Nestor, Jake Sturges, Thomas
Breen and William Corcoran. Mart
King contributed several of his mimi
table stories in his own inimitable way.
Joseph L.. Mullin, Howard Pascal and
William j. McKenna also assisted in
the program.
Among those present were Samuel
Waldron, Anthony Waldron, Joseph
Harris, A. X. Brady, John Mcclellan,
William P. Macksey, James A. Pigott,
Dominic A. Walsh, Edward L. Butler.
John F. Quinn, Howard Pascal, Edward
V. Farley, John ]. Farley, James P.
Matthews, Joseph A. Carlton, James
Young, Thomas A. Duffy, j. Edward
Duffy, DIR. Sylvester Nestor, John ].
Hill. F. Crissy Johnson, Joseph L.
Mullin, Joseph S%pillane. Matthew A.
Cain; John p. Curtin. Christopher
O'Rourke. William j. Cain, James Sui
Ivan, Dennis Cronin, P. T. Powers, Mi
chael j.. Mclean, Patrick Blewitt,
{ Thomas j. Cummings, Henry Macksey,
George A. Lindsay. Frank A. Higgins,
Michael ]. Higgins, William j. Nc
Kenna, of Jersey City; T.. George Fitz-
patrick. Edward T. Mcguire, Edward
]. O'Brien, Mart J. King, William
Lynnott. formerly of Butte, Mont. 8;
James Dolan, of Norwich, N. Y; DR..
Hugh F. Fox, William Corcoran, DIR.
William j.. Ward, Michael A. Jackson,
j 1es Reilly. Judge Elmer Freeland,
Thomas Breen and John Sturges.
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CHILDREN
ATTENDED SCHOOL
Annual Report of Statistics for
l9GS-C9 Shows interest
ing Growth.

Progress in the work of increasing
the efficiency of the school system of
the city was shown last night in the
annual report of school statistics sub
mitted TO the Board of Education. In
creases in enrolment and attendance
as well as in additional teaching force
tended to offset the big increase in ex-
penditures.
The report shows that the total
enrolment Tor the year ending July 2,
1909, was 55,947, as against 1880 of last
year, an increase of 1901. In two cases
the enrolment by schools fell below the
mark of last year. One of these was
the Normal School, where % less pupils
were on the books in 1909 than in
1903, and in the primary grades, where
the enrolment dropped A. BY grades
the first grade and the ungraded
schools were the only ones to show a
drop in numbers, the first named hav-
ing 1853 less tina last ear and the I'm
graded two less.
The average attendance also shows
an increase of five-tenths of l per
cent. In 1908 the average was 1913; this
year 1t was 1878.
one thousand and seVenty-two pupils
were neither absent nor tardy during
the year, while IN 1908 the number only
reached S49.
Thirty-three new teachers were added
to the city's force in 1909, making the
total on the payroll for the year 1,276.
The increase in the payroll amounts
to $91. 100, while the general average
of salaries is greater by $46.63 than
last year.
The financial report of Secretary
Robert d. Argue, also submitted last
night, shows that there was on hand 10
the credit Of the custodian of the school
moneys IN June 80, 81, S91, 1885, SO. OF
that amount 81, $50, 5S5.25 was in the
construction account, representing
money raised on the sale of bonds and
not yet paid out. The balance in the
maintenance account was given out by
Mr.. Argue as $57, 701. 3s. The report
showed that all but $780, 900 has been
appropriated.
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POSTMASTERS ORGANIZE.

ASBURY PARK, July 3O.-Postmas-
ters of Monmouth county met at Nep-
tune Heights and organized the Mon
mouth County Presidential Postmas-
ters' Association. William H. Barnard
of Princeton football fame, of Asbury
Park, was elected president; A. I.
Woolley, Long Branch, first v~ice-pres.
ident; P. Hall Packer, Seabright, sec.
ond vice-president; E. L. Van Derveer
Freehold, secretary; O. Van Wickle
Matawan. treasurer. George f
Rainear, Ocean Grove. is chairman o.
the executive committee.
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N OF A RED NOSE
New FIesh-coIored Product That HenIs
and Hides Skin ImperfectiOns.

a peculiar feature of poslam, a new
skin discovery, Is that it is naturally
fesh-colored and contains no grease, so
that when used on the face for the COM
plexion, or for pirples. red noses, or
any other infammations. blemishes, or
discolorations. its presence cannot be
detected. 1t can thus be applied in the
daytime, the natural color of the skin
being Immediately restored and the
actual healing and curing process ac-
complished In a few days. It can be
had of any pharmacist who sells pure
drugs. Petty's and Smiths drug stores
make a specially of It. Fifty cents
worth will answer either for the troubles
mentioned Or In curing ordinary cases
of eczema. Itching stops at once.
Any n who will write to the Emer-
gency Laboratories. No. 80 West Twen-
ty-ffth street, New York, can secure.
by mail free of charge, a supply sufi-
Gent to cure a small eczema surface or
clear a complexion overnight and re-
mov pimples In t%wenty-four hours.
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CHAPTER XXXIII.
At the Foot of the Stairs.

a s l drove rapidly up to the house
A from Casanova station in the
hack, l saw the detective, Burns,
lettering acress the street from the
Walker place. So Jameson was put
ting the screws on-lightly now, but
ready to give them a twist or two, l
fcit certain, very
The house was quiet. Two steps Of
the circular staircase had been pried
off, without result, and beyond a sec
ond message from Gertrude, that
Halsey insisted on coming home
and they would arrive that night,
there was nothing new. Mr.. jamie
son, having failed to locate the
secret room, had gone to the
village. 1 learned afterwards tina
he called at Doctor Walkers. under
pretense of an attack of acute indiges-
ton, and before he left, had inquired
about the evening trains to the city.
He said he had wasted a lot of time on
the case, and a good bit of the mystery
was in my imagination The doctor
was under the impression that the
house was guarded day and night.
Well, give a place a reputation like
that, and you don't need a guard at
oii--tiluS 0oitliCools III SulG ClIOu6h,
late in the afternoon. the two private
detectives. accompanied by Mr.. jamie
son, walked down the main street of
Casanova and took a city-bound train.
That they got off at the next station
and walked back again to ~Sunnyside at
dusk, was not known at the time. Per-
sonaily. 1 knew nothing of either move
l had other things to absorb me at that
time.
Liddy brought me some tea while I
rested after my trip, and on the tray
was a small book from the Casanova
library. 1t was called 1.-The Unseen
World" and had a cheerful cover on
which q half-dozen sheeted figures
linked hands around a headstone.
At this point in my story, Halsey al
ways says: Trust a woman to add
two and two together, and make six"
To which 1 retort that if two and two
plus X make six, then to discover the
unknown quantity is the simplest thing
in the world. That a houseful of detec-
tives missed it entirely was because
they were busy trying to prove hat
two and two make four.
The depression due to my visit to the
hospital left me at the prospect of see
ing Halsey again that night. 1t was
about 5 o'clock when Liddy left me for
a nap before dinner. having put me into
a gray silk dressing-gown and a pair
of slippers. l listened to her retreating
footsteps, and as soon as she was safely
below stairs, I went up to the trunk
room. The place had not been dis
turbed. and l proceeded at once to try
to discover the entrance to the hidden
room. The openings on either side, as
l have said, showed nothing but per-
haps three fee of brick wall. There
was no. sign of an entranoe-no levers,
no hinges, to give a hint. Either the
mantel or the roof, 1 decided. and after
a half-hour at the mantel, productive
of absolutely no result. ! decided to try
the roof.
l am not fond of a height. The few
occasions on which l have climbed a
step-ladder have always left me dizzy
and weak in the knees. The top of the
Washington monument is as impossible
to me as the elevation of the presiden-
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LOWER DECKS FOR WAGONS.

JERSEY CITY, July 3o.-As a re-
suit of the diversion of more thar
half of the passenger traffic to the
McAdoo tubes under the North river,
between Exchange place and Cort-
landt street, Manhattan. the officials
OF the Pennsylvania Railroad have de
cided to eliminate the lower cabins OF
the ferryboats and use all of the space
on the lower decks for the
dalton of vehicular traffic. The rates
will be raised for wagon traffic, which
will mean many thousand dollars a
year to shippers.
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Copyright 1908,
The Bobbs-Merrill Company.


--L- = 80 = -
I think the detective had a plan, on
which ne was working, and which was
meant to be a coup. But things went
so fast that there was no time to carry
it into effect. The first thing hat &C.
CURED was a message from the Char
ity Hospital that Mrs. Watson was
dying n had asked for me. l did not
care much about going. There is a
sort of melancholy pleasure to be had
out of a funeral, with it's pomp and
ceremony, but l shrank from a death
bed. However, Liddy got out the black
things and the crepe veil l keep for
,1ch occasions, n l went. l left Mr..
Jameson and the day detective going
over every inch of the circular stair
case, pounding, probing and measuring
1 was inwardly elated to think of the
surprise l was going to give them that
night; as it turned out, l did surprise
them-almost into spasms.
l drove from the train to the Charity
d. Hospital, and was at once taken to a
ward. There. in a g~ray-walled room IN
q high iron bed, lay Mrs. Watson. She
was very weak, and she only opened
her eyes anti looked at me when L sat
down beside her. 1 a conscience
stricken. We had been SO engrossed
that I had left this poor creature to
die without ven a word of sympathy.
The nurse gave her a stimulant, and
in a little while she was able to talk.
So broken and h~alf-coherent, however,
was her story that l shall tell it in my
own way. In an hour from the time I
entered the Charity Hospital 1 had
he I'd a sad n pitiful narrative, and
Il Seen 2 oma slip into the uncon-
SEA ksness that is only a step from
death.
Briefly, then, the housekeeper's story
was this:
She was almost 40 years old and had
been the sister-mother of a large fam
lily of children. One by one they had
died and been buried beside their par
ents in a little town in the Middle
West. There was only one sister left,
the baby. Lucy, On her the older girl
had lavislled all the love of an impul-
sives and emotional nature. When
Anne. the elder, was 32 and Lucy was
] a young man had come to the town.
lie was going East, after spending the
summer at a celebrated ranch In
Wyoming-one of those places where
wealthy men send worthless and dissi-
pated sons, for a season of temperance.
fresh air and hunting. The sisters, of
course. knew nothing of this, and the
young mans ardor rather carried them
away, In a word, seven years before,
Lucy Haswell had married a young
man whose name was given as Aubrey
Wallace.
Anne Haswell had married a carpen-
ter in her native town and was, a
widow. For three months everything
wer fairly well. Aubrey took his bride
to Chicago, where they lived at a hotel.
Perhaps the very unsophistication that
had charmed him in Valley Mill Jared
On him In the city. He had been far
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tlai chair. And yeti climbed ont m
the Sunnyside o without a seconds
hesitation. Like a dog on a scent like
my oearskin progenitor, with his snea,
ana MS wild boar, to me now there was
the lust of the chase. the FRENZY of MIR.
suit, the dust of battle. l got quite q
niue OF the latter on me as l climbed
from the unfinished ballroom out
through a window to the roof of this
east wing of the building, which was
only two stories in height.
Once out there, access to the ton q,
the main building was rendered easv-
at least it looked easy-by a small
vertical iron ladder, fastened To tbe
wall outside of the ballroom. and per-
maps twelve feet high. The twelve feet
looked short from below, but thew We're
dlfncult to climb. l gathered nv silk
gown around me. and succeeded finally
IN making the top of the ladder. Once
there, however, l vas completely out
OF breath l sat down, my feet on the
top rung, and put my hairpins in more
securely, while the wind beloved nv
dresing-gown out like a sail. l had
torn a great strip of the silk loose, and
$500 AliAiolitd Liz utSlIuC-
ton of my gown by jerking it free and
tying IL around my head.
From far below the smallest sounds
came up with peculiar distinctness.
could hear the paper boy whistling
down the drive, and I heard something
else. l heard the thud of a stone. and
a spit. followed by a long and startled
meiou from Beulah. l forgot my fear
of a height and advanced boldly almost
to the edge of the roof.
1t was half-past 6 by that time, and
growing dusk.
You boy, down there!" 1 called.
The paper boy turned and looked
around. Then. seeing nobody, he raised
his eyes. 1t was a ome before he
located me; when he did, he stood for
one moment as if paralyzed. h he
gave a horrible yell, and dropping his
papers bolted across the lawn TO the
road without stopping to look around.
Once he fell, and his impetus was SC
great that he turned an involuntary
somersault. He was up and off again
without any p~erceptible pause, and he
leaped the hedge-which 1 am sure I'M
der ordinary stress would have beer
a eat for a man.
l am glad in this way to settle the
Gray Lady story, which is still a choice
morsel in ~Casapova. l believe the moral
deduced by the village was thai 1t is
always unlucky to throw a stone at a
black cal.
With Johnny Sweeny a cloud of dust
down the road, and the dinner-hour
approaching, l hurried on with my in
v~estigations. Luckily, the roof was
fiat, and I vas able to go over every
inch of it. But the result was disap-
pointing; no trap-door revealed itself,
no glass window; nothing but a couple
of pipes two inches across and standing
perhaps eighteen inches high and three
feet apart, with a cap to prevent rain
from entering and raised to permit the
passage of air. l picked up "a pebble
from the roof and dropped it down.
listening with my ear at one of the
pipes. I could hear 1t strike on some
thing with a sharp, metallic sound, but
it was impossible for me to tell how
far it had gone.
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Jacob Schroeder, of Twelfth venue
and Mrs. Schroeder, who started on a
trip to Europe early in the month, have
been heard from in Hamburg Ger
many. by Frank X. KEELING, a relative,
of lis Market street.
Miss Selma Endleman. of Rutgers
street. will spend vacation days in the
Catskills.
Miss Anna Kirster. of Boston street,
will be in Long Branch during August.
James Cowen. of the Court House
elevator force, will enjoy his vacation
in Rockaway Beach.
Miss Lulu Burdick has been spending
her vacation at Lake Hopatcong.
Mrs. Mary Bioren. Mrs. Jodson Bio
rem, Miss Edith Bioren and Miss Edna
Bioren have been stopping at the Bos-
cobel. Ocean Grove.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. j. Farley have been
enjoying a stay at Asbury Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Simon Heyman and
their daughter, Miss Ella Heyman, of
High street. are at Sharon Springs for
a stay of several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. ]. Bettinger, of Sey-
mour will sail for England on
the Caronia tomorrow, not to return
until some time in September. Their
daughter will spend the rest of the
summer in Millburn.
Or. and Mrs. j, l.. Duryee were recent
guests at the Brunswick Hotel. Asbury
Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Drake are at the
Carrollton Hotel, Point Pleasant.
Miss Mabel Rowe and Miss Ada Rowe,
of North Seventh street. are spending
their vacation at West Hampton, L. l..
at the cottage of their cousin. C. T.
Reynolds.
Mrs. Hattie Drake. of North Thir-
teenth street. is at Layton, Sossex
coutny, for the rest of the summer.
Mrs. Dewitt Clinton Rood, of Sum-
mer avenue. and Mrs. Louis p. Teller.
of Forest Hill. have been enjoying a
stay at Asbury Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Schlegel and
daughter. of 1879 Hillside avenue are at
Beach Lake, Wayne county. Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis IlllE and Miss
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TWO COUPLES WE'D SECRETLY.

ATLANTIC CITY, July so.-secretIv
wed on May %, Curtis Rislev. a civil
engineer OF this city, o of Job Risley,
OIL Pleasantville, has announced his
nuptlals to Miss Florence NJ. Risley.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Ris-
iey' OF Pleasantville. News of the
secret wedding of Miss Margaret Bur-
dick to Harry Goldstein, a newspaper
vender, on July 20, was also made
known.
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Mildred Illig are at sodus Point, Lake
Ontario.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Tarnet, OF Mount
Prospect avenue. are occupying a cot
tage at Basking Ridge.
Miss Florence Languski. of Verona
avenue, is sojourning at Ocean Grove.
MIR. and Mrs. Amos Bell. of Lake
street, are in the Catskill Mountains.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Harrison, OF
Hawthorne avenue. are enjoying q stay
in the Pocono Mountains.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Osborne, of Ber-
gen street, are in the Adirondacks.
They will return early in September.
Albert Hammock, of Elizabeth avenue.
is spending his vacation in Delaware,
Warren county.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Palmer. of 299
South Tenth street. are sojourning at
Mount Oak Farm, M~artinville.
Caster W. Gray. of ST. South Six
teenth street, is in Ellwyn, Pa, for his
vacation.
Miss Elsie Reed and Miss Elsie Gore
spent their vacations at the Empire,
Ocean Grove.
Miss Dora A. Behl, of Alexander
street, has been visiting relatives in
rutherford.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Hinchman, OF
North Third street, are spending their
vacation at Bristol, Conn
Mr.. and Mrs. R. T. Davies are So
iousning at the Spray View. Ocean
Grove.
Adolph Schenck and Frederick
Schenck, of Elizabeth avenue, have been
spending their vacation al Lake Ho-
patcong.
David Blake has been spending his
vacation at Ocean Grove.
Miss Helen L. Gibson has been en-
joying a stay at Asbury Park
Mr.. and Mrs. G. X. Henry and family.
of al Summer avenue, leave tomorrow
for a three weeks stay at the home Of
Mrs. Henry's mother. Mrs. NJ. j. Crea-
mer. at Lebanon. this State. Sunday
the seventy-f fifth birthday of Mrs. Crea-
mer viii be celebrated by a gathering or
the different children and ~grandchil-
dren.
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POSTAL INSPECTORS TO BRIpGE1oN

BR1DGEToN, July SO.-Postof1ce In
spectors Wardle and Gibbons sent word
today that they will be in Bridgeton
tuesday and asking Assistant u. s
District Attorney Walter H. Bacon to
meet them at that time. 1t is believed
that sufficient evidence has been SO.
cured to warrant them in makine
charges concerning several postof7ce
rooberies in South Jersey, includine
those in Fairton, Woodbine and Ruens
Vista. ~
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THIRTY-NINE YEARS WE'D;
CELEBRATE HONEYMOON.

TRENTON, July 3o.-Judge and Mrs.
John Wesley Hughes, of Etna, Pa, are
IL this city on their honeymoon, al
though thirty-nine years married. At
the time of their wedding honeymoon
trips were not the fashion, and until
now family cares hive kept them home.
They are as happy as any NEWLY
Weds."
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MILL OWNER is. MISSING.

NEW BRUNSWICK. July 3o.-Will-
lam Bender, part owner of Davison's
Mills, left here for Philadelphia to buy
machinery, and his absence is causing
some concern He drew all of the
firms cash, amounting to $1,000, before
leaving.
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WOMAN NEARLY cRrMATED.

JERSEY CITY, July 30.-Mrs. John
Brady, rs years old, of "a Grant street,
had a narrow escape from being
cremated. AS it is, she is in ST. Fran
cis's Hospital in a serious condition.
She was using some gasoline in clean
ing clothes, when the bottle, which
stood near a stove, caught fire and ex-
ploded. ~
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SANE FOURTH FOR CAMDEN.

CAMDEN, July 30.-That Camden
will in the future have a noiseless
Fourth of.July was made evident when
City Council adopted a resolution in
structing City Solicitor Bleakly to pre-
pare AN ordinance making it prohibi-
tive to either manufacture or sell. fire.
works-and explosives within the limits
of the city.
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FIVE GENERATIONS AT DINNER.

TRENTON, July 30.-Mrs. Warren
Anderson, 70 South Olden avenue, held
a family reunion yesterday, when five
generations sat down to dinner. The
youngest guest was Dorothy Croshaw,
aged 2 years, of Homestead, Pa, and
the oldest was the latter's great-great-
g~reat-aunt, Mrs. Jane Clark, aged 70
years. and living at Hamilton Square,
neal here. s
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tTo BE Continued Tomorrow,

Some men do SO much talking about
being square that We naturally expect
to see the corners sticking out OF them.
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grew shorter and finally ceased alto
gether. She died that night.
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Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Schlegel and
daughter. of 1879 Hillside avenue are at
Beach Lake, Wayne county. Pa.
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CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature sssss the of &HAZzzSx
Peach Orchard Land for Sale.

offer for sale two farms in Hamp-
shire county, w. Va, both in the peach
belt and would make fine peach or
chards
The first contains 232 acres. forty
acres cleared and the remainder in tim
Der. About 80, 900 feet of saw timber;
10000 props and lot of locust posts.
Situated u miles northwest of Spring
field, on the Romney Branch of the B.
& 0. R. K. An orchard of sixty bear
ing apple trees and some peach trees on
the place About thirty acres of run
bottom and five acres of this in meadow.
Improved by dwelling house, well, etc
| have been advised by good authority
that this farm would make a splendid
peach orchard. Convenient to churches,
schools, stores, etc. Price 81, 800, on
easy terms.
The second farm contains about $50
acres, partly cleared and part in timber
and has on It dwelling house and some
other improvements. About six acres
of run bottom now in meadow. Stua-
ted ABOUT one mile west of Springfield,
w. Va. on the Romney Branch of the
B. & O. r. r. Convenient to churches,
schools, stores, etc. Price 1,200, on
easy terms. Address DR.. Percival
Lantz, Alaska. W. Va. 7-tf