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News Notes Contino'd from Page l I on the plans and ixintem plated work of the Connecticut River Power Company at toe arnoal meeting of the Mens' Clnb of Pleasant Street Bapus-l Obnrch, last night, wnen J M Nil son, resident engineer of tnut company, ,'gaye an addreos on "Cnaractera tics of the work done by the Connect - ' cot River Power Company " Members who were (mimed t" feel that the talk would be tou_ technical and dry to retain interest, bad this idea speedily expelled after Mr. Neieong got into his subject and much in formation and knowledge was gaine by the 80 members present Mr. Nelson gave a resume of the company and its work and took bis listeners on trips from the point wheie j the company has harnessed the Connecticut River at Vernon, N. H.. down to the distributing stations in Clinton and Worcester. He explained many details in connection with the transmission of electricity. After the address there was a discussion during which Mr. Nelson answered many questions. Blue print drawings and the blackboard were used to illustrate the talk. These officers were elected at a business meeting for the transaction of annual business: President, H. J Knight, reelected ; vice-president, Myron F. Convene ; secretary, Wright E Burnham ; treasurer, Frank H. Howe, reelected." (• ft 9 Councilman Adam Suelke is Journeying in Florida and willfvisit Jackson ville. St. Augustine, Palm Beach and other places. He stopped at \be Hotel Seminole in Jacksonville which ■« called "Florida's most modern hotel," but he thinks it is'not equal to the Hotel Cape May. » » <• Congressman Loudenslager has again been choen by the Republican caucus : as a member of the Republican Congressional Committee, a deserved com- \ plimt nt to bis erergetic and successful : work as member and secretary of the ( committee for many years. The party | owes much to the hustling member from the First New Jersey district, whose devotion to its interests in congressional campaigns ever since he has been a member of the committee is widely known and appreciated by tbe party leaders.— Camden Post Telegram. •)«•) Second annual meeting of the Lord"? Day Alliance of New Jersey, will be held at W. O. T. U. Hall. 214 E State Street, Trenton, N. J., Thursday, January 27th. 1910. Sessions at 10 :80 and 2:16. Pastors are requested to give full notice of this meeting at the ; services on January 16 and 2«. 4 4® Atlantic City is a menace to tbe I moral health of the nation and is e - ' titled to no attention whatever from I either national or state government It Is the first and only rebel city the country has produced since the Civil War. 4. fa •) The Sewer Commission for the as- ' besimcnt of the cost of sewers, recent- 1 ly constructed, against the properties 0 servea, came in for a severe overhaul *• ing at the hands of Councilmen at a r recent informal meeting b" cause of 0 the ' dilatorii ess Forty- three thousand dollars worth of bonds were issued 0 in anticipation of the collection of the a* j ^ sessn.ents and ar still drawing interc-t s and t • '• assessments are not yet made, t The fommis-ion was appointed lart 1 1 May and consisted of J. .Henry £>- ; f mum: , 1- T. Stevens, Dr. V. al. l). | f Mate A bill trom Stevens for $92 * for clerical work in connection with j i thiB c m.mitsion has been presented to > B the city. j, b CASTOR 1 A ; For Infanta and Children. s The Kind You Have Always Bought t j Watch Cha-. A swain's advertise a ments. He will offer a "real" bargain „ each weak. 1 oaylSt^tore : — — — — — — — — . g Removal Notice j While alterations are be- j . ing made to our present 0 building we are conducting li business at * 505 WASHINGTON STREET \ and an prepared to! supply j the Made of th < public. ' I \ Our high atandardlof mar- ] V chaadueat papuklSpriceais " • I III I I u ow i csxifri^.i m Hi

!THE GIRL ACROSS - THE AISLE, t : 1 A Break In Her Reserve, Then a Break In Her Nerves. ! By ALOI8E JOHNSON. ' tCopyrlghu J90S. by Associated Literary I . Preaa.] e High in tbe air apparently the train hung, an air filled with swirling, feathery flakes. Above, below, on all aides was snow. Tbe whole world to all purposes bad faded away, leaving the L, stalled express the center of a deadly, . ghastly, unstable whiteness. e Helen Melrose turned from gating ! hopelessly from the window to the comparative cheer of the Pullman car. 1 As she did so she looked into the con1 templatlve eyes of the man across the > aisle and hastily carried her gate on to - the carved woodwork beyond his head, desperately restraining her inclination . to bite her lip in annoyance. The man across the aisle continned ( to watch Miss Melrose in the same contemplative manner. ' She had first interested, then irritated him. Her extraordinary type of - beauty had caught his eye, as it did E tbe eye of all who knew her for the first time— hair of a sheer downright . copper that was fairly alive in Its bright waving, a white face unmarred by the tiny freckles that lore to follow I in the wake of hair verging on the I red tones, lips as scarlet as those In a pictured face Knight bad once seen, wondered at and disbelieved. And behind It all tbe girl had a mind of her I own, as a glance into the wine brown eyes would convince one. I i It was her calm Independence that had brought irritation to supplant admiration In George Knight's breast. Unconsciously he' expected helplessness. appeal 1 ngness. in a woman. It ran counter to his sense of the correct order of things to have a girl so cheerfully able to look out for herself. When he had boarded a train In Chicago he had Instinctively put out a hand to assist tbe woman In front of him up tbe oar steps, the porter being engaged. It was not till she turned head briefly to thank £im that he

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knew whether the woman were yonng old, and the shock of Miss Melrose's queer beauty had beeu added to by the realization that her eyes were only coldly courteous, almost resentful. For two days he bad sat as near the girl as though they bad been opposite another at their own dinner table, yet they were miles upart. Other passengers chatted and exchanged reading i matter and anecdotes of the country. | copper haired girl held aloof even i from the women. But in spite of his exasperation the proud tilt of her the serenity of her level gaze. 1 her entire self sufficiency, drew him. I the station where the train stopped some minutes he wonld meet her walking up and down the platform with splendid gait. "I expect." Knight told himself on one of these occasions, "that if the Goddess of Liberty took a walk sbe'rt start off just that way!" And now bigh up In the Rockies the blizzard had gripped them, and the train had stopped. Tbe trainmen wenbeginning to get anxious, for the swirl ing drifts were so huge even the rota ry plows were helpless. As Knight stood muffled on tbe back platform on of his restless trips of observation the conductor stood beside him. "If we doi.'t get out of here tonight," he said grimly, "the whole train will be as neatly and completely .covered over with snow, to say nothing of 1 snowslides that may come, as though somebody bad dug a bole In a snowbank and Jnst dropped us in and covered us up again." The dismal prophecy lingered in mind as he returned to his car. There were mutterings of weariness and worry from most of the depassengers. Only Miss Melrose remained apparently unaffected. She was reading a book with intense inhaving given up the desolate view from tbe windows as tiresotre. Knight wondered, a little indignantly, nothing would more her from her calm. And so when after an noor or as hi the smoker Knight again trampad to the back platform he was »urprtesd to find the girl, muffled in an alatar. leaning over tbe hoa ran. strain fag bar ey«s through the white veil tela the hMdea valley below As turned at Us step antuatWng hagpSMSd. AH Katghtkurwwas that i htodrtjyan ley. wbhiglrtay^

I fa Mi ana. frantically bracing htin- ] wait against the rati When the slide j finally swept Itself away down the slope tbe two stood Ringing to-.octe another, gasping, beating the snow from ' eyes and noses. »■ "Are yog. hurt?" Knight asked anxiously. "TUa ideal woman would be I half fainting, frantic with Apar. This | wind blown, gasping creatfflfe actually laughed. Then she spoke to him for the first time, and her voice was riotous with mirth. "Hurt?" she echoed. "Why abould I ^ be hurt? You were here! If you hadn't been, however, I probably In should be following tbe snowstorm jj. down the mountain side! Thank you M for preventing that unpleasant trip!" ,11 Knlgbt laughed too. Her humor was infectious, if novel. ■ He watched her 6 sweep back into the warmth of the J> car with her free grace of movement, and again he was Irritated. He hated '8 being denied his manly right to proie tect womanhood in distress. Then he r- realized that the girl had not been In a- the least distressed, except momenta ri,e ly. He wished savagely something x would happen to bring forth the! deI- pendent side of her nature, if she posn sessed It Then she would be perfect And then he laughed a little sarcaa4 tically at his interest in a young wo- '• man whose name even he did not know. The hours wore on, and the coal gavs ,f out, and the care grew colder. Everyd body vetoed the porter's efforts to e make up the berths. Tbe cross and 't uncomfortable passengers wrapped * themselves in blankets and huddled In * the comers of their seats. Nobody ' wanted to sleep when they knew not ® what minute the gale and an B avalanche combined might sweep them • b from the track. I a Knight watched Miss Melrose solicit- 1 r ously It was at that hideous hour i D when the gray dawn makes everything i its ugliest that Knlgbt. to his unbe- i ' lievable amazement, saw Miss Melrose I quietly crying. Without volition he found himself i swept across tbe aisle. i ' "What is itr be asked breathlessly. < ' She turned to him frankly. "I've got i " the nerves!" she confessed, with a i pitiful attempt at a smile that ended S in a sob. "J— I bate this awful snow- 1 ' we'll never get out— I can't stand it 1 » another minute! And mother will be » so frightened— and— and I believe my ' feet are freezing.1" ? Here was a situation that Knlgbt | knew how to handle. Tbe unbeliev- £ able Joy of finding the Goddess of Lib- t erty only feminine and human after i all was almost swamped by his pleas- ( ure in finding she was patheticallv i glad to be cheered up and taken care j of. r Blithely be fetched and carried and 3 did woDders in the matter of hot cof- { fee at 6 a. ra. j Later in the day. when tbe stagger. t ing snowplows dug the train out and r again the wheels creaked and the t steam pipes sent out a saving warmth e and everybody again beamed in relief, t Knlgbt sat beside the girl with the e coppery hair. Now that she had melted in Ills t direction. Knight told himself, her re- l serve was entirely proper and the at- - titude he would wish her te take to t the rest of the masculine world. He t had got that far In three daye. And six weeks later he and the girl were traveling over the same route again— on their houeymoou. ^ ! i 0 No Money to Burn. j ^ "The meanest man we ever had in l t our town was Jake Boud." said Mr. i c ' Wilson, wlrti an air of finality. "Yes. | ^ sir, he was" tile meanest. Ever hear I c what he used to do with the fire in his | t last days, when be was so riddled with i c rheumatics be couldn't gel out?" j G "No." said the new can renter. "I ! v haven't her -d that yet." G "Time ye 'lid." said Mr. Wilson. p "an" I'll le'l ye. He was so full o' y rheumatics that the doctor allowed the r only way t><* i-ould get rid of any of! the fire, close to, and see U tbe hea* i Wouldn't try some o' the pain out o' ] ^ his bones. j a "Well. sir. he couldn't move round, so tie woman that took care o' him j y wonld put his chair close to the fire. ; and there Is-'d sit. An' by his aide he j a kep" a mop an' pall o' water, an" when | he saw tbe lire getting a mite beyond j the pint where he felt 'twas needed : an' saw a real live'y flame busting up I held out with that uiop from tbe pall and souse it right on to the stick o' p wood that was too fortbputting. I've sat there side o' him an' seen him do It. Yes. sir. here in Cedarviile we con ] sidered him the cap sbeaf for nighness; we eert'nly did."— Youth's Companion. The Wind Prophete. The city -nan on the porch smoked and llsteneo to the farm hand's talk. "Weather vanes is wind Indicators." said the farm hand, "but chickens and turkeys, by crimus, is wind prophets." "Come off." said tbe city man. « "Gospel truth." declared the farm ^ band. "In a cam, when there ain't goin' to be no wind, the birds alius q roost on tbe tree boughs with their A beads alternatin' each way— No. 1 faces 8 east. No. 2 west. No. 1 north, and so on. That's u sign of cam. But sup poeln' there's goiu' to be a strong ?- high wind. Then tbey all roost eve-- £ mothers son of 'em. fade' h. Acordln' as they face so joc can prop!. E esy the wind will blow before mom fa". "I flgger it oat" said tbe farm hand, "that in a cam tbe bunch faces dlf- H ferent ways so aa to look oat for dan- _ gar batter But If It's goin' to blow ■» in tbe night then tbey face tbe A blow Hi they can best bang oa " •tefa perch. What 1 isn't figgar out ssmU that wind irr or te^ fa M ra *00. "-New York Foean . e

e Miatake In the ML j. A gentleman, says Modern Woman. n who recently returned from a torn- fa 8paiD tolls this story: E- I left Seville on foot after a stay of e a week and was twenty miles away s when I was overtaken by tbe landlord y of the hotel In which 1 had stayed, r The innkeeper rode beside me for t- nearly an hour before he found courage to make known his business. I "'F tbe lienor and God please," be a began apologetically, T made a misv take in bis bill yesterday." n "How?" I Inquired, a "I forgot to make a charge for Iris candles to light him to bed." s "But it was moonlight and I bad no r candles." e "Then, senofc with the help of God, t I forgot to charge yon with tbe moona n«ht." The charge amounted to 2 cents fa s American money, and he had hired an i ass and ridden twenty miles to collect . it I was amused and astonished. ? Then I accused him of being a robber . and offered him a cent to settle the . bill. He worked up a beautiful smile . and held out his hand. T will take it with rh»ntw seoor," - he said. "God will bless you for an t honest man!" j 5 First Mortgage Bonds. By reason of tbe insistence of many > Investors that their bonds be of "first" I mortgage it may be sakl that the lmI portance of tbe word "first" is dependent upon the circumstances, says Moody's Magazine. A bond may be first in fact It may be ao only In a relative sense in that it Indicates tbe order in which the bond was put out by the issuing company or the use of the term "first" in the name of a bond, nn desirable and loose though it be in such instances, may be upon tbe aligbt ground that the mortgage is Indeed i first on some part of the property, while on other parts it may have but a third or fourth claim. It is therefore obvious that the mere presence of this term in a title does not neces- . sarliy make the bond an absolutely prior lien. It has been estimated that per cent in number and 95 per cent ' value of steam railroad "Urate" are liens in name only. The First 8lssping Car. The first real sleeping car was built 1864. It was called the Pioneer, and the builder further designated it the letter "A," not dreaming that wonld soon exhaust the letters of the alphabet. The Pioneer was boilt a Chicago and Alton shop and cost the almost fabulous sum of $18,000. was reckless extravagance in a when the best of railroad coaches could be built at a cost Dot exceeding But the Pioneer was blaring ^ Dew path in luxury. Without it was radiant in paint and varnish, in gay - stripes and lettering, it was a giant compared with Its fellows, for it was foot wider and two and a half highthan any car ever Dullt before, it had the hinged berths that are the distinctive feature of the American sleepcar today, and tbe porter and the no longer had to drag the from closets at tbe far end of the car.— Outing. Cape of Good Hope, j In 1487 Bartholomew Diaz sailed far I enough south along tbe western coast of Africa not only to descry but to i the Cape of Storms, as It was | called, and as the coast was as- ! | certalned to run toward the northeast j I tbe prospect of success In tbe direc- , i tion of iDdia seemed now so clear that ; ! tbe Portuguese monarch rena ined tbe | "Cabo de Boa Esperauza." or , ! of Good Hope. The "good hope" j realized In 149S by Vasco da who. doubling tbe southernmost | point of Africa, sailed on to Calicut j opening tip tbe loDg dreamed of ! route to India. He Wasn't Glad. | 8teve Long Is noted for attending to j | own business nod saying very little j I about it One morning an lquisitive ! neighbor met him returning from the woods with his gUD over b's shoulder, i "Hello. Steve! Where bev ye been— | a-ebooiln'T' "Yep." ! "What ye been a-sbootin'7" | "Dog." "Yer dog? My! Was be mad?" "Waal, he didD't look so danged well pleased."— Everybody's Magazine. the 1909 PENNSYLVANIA FIRE Insurance Comp INCORPORATED 1825. CHARTER ~PKRPE i'U ' OFFIC, 508-5 itTwALNUr ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA. | - - - $750,600.00 ... - $6,841,884 82 T - • $1,819,627 41 DIRECTORS. < Dale Benaon, John L. Thomson , J. Tate all Lea, Charles B. Push, I Richard M Cadwalader, ' . W Gardner dowel L. , BSaghaa B. Mama. Edward T, Stotesbory Bd win N. Benaca, Jr. R. DALE BENSON. President. 1 JOHNLTHOMSON. Vice President- 1 W. GARDNER CKOWELL, Secretary. . L. WARNER, Aaaiateat Seen- t J. DAWSON. Sec'y Agency Depart, 5 W. BAUD «. P. BMBM J HAND AMD EL0REDCE 1 LOCAL AfiENTS |

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