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Monslenr JoBQuelle repfcri In c
{he.eame eren voice. . " I
|t "Oar_ government, TxoeUency," ?
I Ions chair, hln legs extended,
i.'big voice interrupted. "That
Jt^nchman's voice illd not
^^^tjho Umo.^ Nobody be(^Jftlied,
Then|^"Dut It was
S pages of that journal must
Saigas jm^ctever^ that i have'
tfSbCno oscape, and ho under.0
do a thing tliat nut oat; reI
ttu>^ "soundest Intelllsence,
noss that has not beon equalanybody.
I feel that-1 ought
ui'dYand^ uncover wherever 1
^Ilknew what Chauvannes
ehswe were shooting on the
[He had the clow, ho.thought,
est civilization of an Immense
In the great wilderness of
Id ^Africa, a llttlo north ot tho
continued to speak In his
via not surprised that Chaul-.'tounu
some evidence o{
Jog he was looking tor! He
-tlrstclass archaeologist. He
all. about everything ot the
lit had boon uncovered. And
s a good, all-around explorer,
letter. It there ,wps any man
eWorld who could .have gone
30'ngo across the old trail ot
ary raiders, northwest to the
'Nyania, It was Chaavannes.
Mllerj'that'ChauyaJines wont
B fn Vifloa iin iltt;
WME?gyw** ut1 >bU1<
haveone^They c^n nc
l-' rGal^gndfstt them.at our st(
I jg
no saie, was precisely |L your :
opinion, -when the Journal finally
cahSe In. They thought Ohaovannes
wad" mad at the and. But ho wa? s
not mad!. He wassane and clever 0
?how tthe and.how' ' ?l$Ver . you J
will realize when you gat the 11
whole thing clearly in'your mind.. 1
It wan a long time before. we on- ?
derstood -It, although how wo 1
could haTe been eo etupld seems c
to me now a greater wonder than 1
the fantaatlc lncldesta with which 1
ChauVannes tilled the ctofVs c
pagee ot hie Journel. 1
"1 think the tlratjslew we got
Was the method Chauvaunos had .
taken to be aure that the journal
would get Into ParlB after hla
death :VHIa direction, written oithe
back of it, waa that the bearer
who brought It In should be paid
tire thousand francs by the executors
ot hie'estate. Ton see he was '
ottering a reward for the thlng-to
get In. ,
* "Only one ot the three men that |
Chauvannee constantly speaks ot I
In his Journal ever appeared. One I
can Imagine what happened to the '
other two?the same thing, doubt-,
lets, that happened to all the persons
who started with Chaurannes >
northeast to the Nyania after he
had abandoned his excavations."
The big man beyond Monsieur
Jonquelle In tho dark seemed to
have composed1 himself to llstV
He was silent, and Monsieur'johquelle
wont oh:
"These men, who were the oalv
norsnno nllvn yxHdVi P.liwtiwanhAa
when he finally reached the Itari
on the moiling of the 17thof December,
must, hare been three of
the most desperate adventurers In
the world. They .'were-' evidently
broken men at the end of their
tether, willing to stake everything
on a last chance ,or Sny would not
have joined Chauvannes. They
hover would have selected men ot
never would have selelted men ot
this character. They seem to have
followed him In end to $aye literally
annexed themselves to his expedition
when he left the Congo ,
east of the Leolopd. They must
have been an exquisite 'devil'sguard?those
three; the little'wolffaced
Apache Leture, the Finn
sailor, and the American beachcomber
they called Cantaln Dtx.
"The Apache was me one who
came In with the journal. Ho mu.it
have bom, after all, what yon
would call the "best man" of tho
three. Nevertheless It gros these
three hell-blrde who ca.me out alive
with .Chauvannes: And what he
had to\say about them 1b on nvaiv
page of tho Journal. 1-Ie muat'liivo
changed his mind very shortly sfter
they Joined him, because the
first impressions he wrote down. |
yhtch were' njpbably what our own :
would have been, were afterwar-l
scratched out. We migt't have hilleved
that some one >/se had
made those erasures but for tho "
fact that the Journal frSm this tlrji J
on never talle. to speak of those >
three men .in the highest tepms 8
Their tlrolessness, their energy,
their courage, their devotion to ! B
unauvannes IB trie one note urn..?
continues through thin journal to 5
the end. IS
"Of couree,.one could say that as 5
these men had to depend on Chan- J
vannes to bring them out, tho pras- i
ence of a common peril would ! J
have united them In his supt^rt a
and that vrhlle they "were apparent- I
ly exortlng themselves for him, I
they were, In fact, laboring to git 8
out of that wilderness alive. {
"They were evidently densely u
Ignorant persons of a low order, J
every one of them. The Finn and 5
the American -beachcomber had tic. !
education whatever; Leturc could S
read, he was a deserter, we think, 5
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Everything Delivered 9
?have just added a new light J
truck to my fleet and can de- 9
liver anything from a pocket >
handkefchlef to a circus train. J
Can Joe?517 I
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A FEW MORE I!
LEFT |
Of The
Nationally Known a
Famous Guaranteed I
MueDer Convector 3
I
Your last opportunity to 1
buy tha FAMOUS MUEL- 8
LER CONVECTOR at a . jS
saving of 80 per cent less if
than the cost of any other S
Furnace.-If you are consid- I
System this winter you 9
i liberal offer. Ask those 2
it praise them too much. ?
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Mumford
AVENUE I
fia f?l>t that /IhamniHliaa hnJ '? >
Visions hbout^Lheee min. Ha unerstood
each of them perfectly,
leplnnedtho success of hie great
Ian to an aocurata conoeptlon of,
he Apacho Leturo. He though this
esperatt' human "cfeathre was
rhat you would call, the "bO;
lan.yHe expected him to come
mt the'^it'man, knd'he laid the
Ilan :he had in mind tri tit' that
ventuallty. And he *u right. I
aw thht when I got to thinking
it/out the Journal. ' v
."And I saw something else, t
aw that-Chauvannos realised'his
wn situation -pretty early In. the
larch or events. He knew what
.w was going Into; And he knew
rhere the thing would ledl. Ho revised
.It a long way ahead. This
act. as I'havo Bald, was one ot the
onsplcuous features of the jourlal.
I suppose One,.In an Incipient
sadness, might realize al Ithe ao:urate:featnres
ot the situation
hat lay about Chauvannee, and
"THEY MUST HAVE BEEN AN'
SXQtrtSITB DEVIL'S GUARD THESE
THREE."
letore Aim, as ho dli; hut. I doubt
t. I think only a man Bound and
ana could have seen It with the
ertalnty that Chauvnnnes saw 1%
ltd at tlie distance beyond the
vent./ Only' the' soundest lutein.
lence.Mn the calm Control e? evetv
acuity, could have realised, (that
ho thing before him was lnovlt,ble.
A man In %ny othor state ot
atnd would havo~ undertaken to
leludd himself.'He would have re.
orted to futile devices, or to
ome tragic Issue before tbg end.
ir to some futile hope. It took a
nlnd like .Chauvannos', profound:
ane to soe that the thing thrt
waited htm was Inevitable 1 i
"I studied that Journal aA closely
an elnhsr .llnnniph wan 1
ea of Chauvarnios' mental conation
' did not appoar until the enrle%
beginning about the seveneonth
'of Decetnbef?tlfo day on
ehlch tbev finally came out of the
orest on the old elephant trail, uf
ourse, dtrnngo things had happend
before that?tho ileciminntlon o'
he force, for one thing. ,But Chanunnoa
never seemed to attribute
his to any but a natural cause, a
or.t of united , plhn bf the dwarf
f McCi
I ^ Toy i
f The Greatest Line oi
I Toys in Fi
a New and attrac
[ chajriical and elctri
engines, pianos, do
go-carts, games an<
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Whftit "Blunder" da yon suggest! n
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IMPRESSIVE SERVICES - I
HELD fOR LEWIS KEENER I
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Impressive funeral services b
were conducted yesterday after, t
noon for Lewis Keener, well
known resident of this city, whose {,
death'occurred Friday evening, r
from his late 'nesldence on State ,P
street, and burial was made IA *
Meadowdale Cemetery by R. L. 3
Cunningham, A large number or J
relatives and friends attended the '
services, and the floral offerings T
were numerous and beautiful.
The services were conducted by ?
the Rbv. C. C. Lawson. A number. *
of out-of-town relatives were hero ?
ror the funeral. > l "
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TO TREAT GOITER.
A free treatment for goiter Is he- ,
ing offered all the pupils in the I
Fairmont schools upou the writ- "
ten consent of .he parents Or guar
dlan. The trealment. which hu<
been indorsed by the Marlon Couu
ty Medical Society, consists ot taking
three grains of sodium iodine .
in n gtlass of water once a' day for o
twooreeks fit the fall and for d like d
period before the close of .thelb
school term In the spring. Letters'r
advlsjbg the parents of the pupils I It
of the tree treatment are being
sent out by the medical'inspector a
apd school nurse* o
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8K 1 o
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We Clean Men's Overcoats "
j ot cheaper .
j ' but better > 0
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Heinze & Co.
j Phone [phone]
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ray's j I
3iore |.,
' Reasonable Priced |j&
airmont -r; ?>
tive goods, mei- ?
cal- trains, steam m
ills, all kinds, doll
i Xmas-books., J <
IRTMENT AND 1 ;
J Save Money l l
's Store I ]
t'
hrough Service to Charleston
Provided byjhanging
Time of trains- > . .
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^Contrary to published roporu .no
dditlonal trains will be added by
be B. ft 0. between Cralton and
IharleatWh when the nlrhl
ervlce between Pittsburgh, Fairlont,
Grafton and Charleston starts
est Sunday. .
Effective next Sunday the B. A
>, will run a through, sleeping car
ervlce between " Grafton and
harleston. Train No.v67wtll leare
Irafton at 11: SO a. m., arriving at
lharleaton at' S:S0 a, m. It Will arIve
at Phillppl at 1:15 a.-m.t .at
luckhannon at 2:25 a: m.. at
.drlan at S a. m.. at/ Gassaway at
:05.a. m. and at Charleston Tat
:30 a. m. On
the same day a through sleepr
will, leave Charleston at 8:45 p.
i., known as train No. 58, and 't
rill arrive In Grafton at 5:20
. m.
These are really not additional
rains but the time has bVen changd
oh both, i Train No. 57 at prosnt
leaves Grafton atv 8:50 s. m,
ut this train will be discontinued
rain No. 58,-whIch. leaves Charles3n
at 1:45 p. nl., arriving in Graf
3h at 10:25 p. In. will also be dlsontlnued
. It means that both will
e night trains Instead qf day
rains. *
The Pullman sleeper will ha
laced on train No. 70 out of Pitt -turgh,
which arrives here at 9:10
. m.. and the sleeper will be
laced oh train No. 44 and carried
s far as Grafton, where.lt will o.'
ttacbed, to train NO. 68. This
leans through Pullman service beween
Pittsburgh ahd Charlestou
la Fairmont
Returning the train will arrive a I
Irafton at 6:20 In the morning, the
vasbington car being carried oaf
n train- N'o. 2, the Fairmont car
r'ought Here on train No. 43 and
be Clarksburg car taken there on
-aIn.N'o. 3. _ ,
Ireat for Rheumatic
Pains and Swellings
When rheumatism settlesjfi anv
f your iolnlB and causes agony.
Istress or mlsory, presale P
er thai Joint-Ease is tho one
emedy that brings quick and lastlg
relief. '
It matters not hbw* chronic or
ggraVated a case may be?ruli
n Joint-Ease and' relief is sure
3 follow.
Joint-Ease is for Jolt>t troubles
nly and is a clean, stainless nrelation
that Fortney Drug Co:
nd druggists everywhere are recommending.
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1 The STORE th
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' 7.!:.y~ if- '
> Hand Bags and Vanity
Cases
One of the mdfet complete
| selection In the city t<
choose from. New leathers,
new designs, new colors. Ac
Ideal Xmas gltt at prices t<
| salt all, parses
$1.00 T0 $6.50
I ' * - '
Women's Handker
i chiefs
f Of tine linen, lawn ''and. car
k . \-_r- it.? - J -e? l
i -ur?5, lui co auu -aix. in xani
Xmaa box from
f 50cT0 $1.50
^ Boudoir Caps
a Of fine crepe de chine lae
I ribbon and petal trimmed, a
wanted colore,. each >in Xmi
L, bo*.
50c *? $1.00
i Silk Camisoles
f Ot"line Xaffeta, Poplin, He
I salines, beautifully trimme
with fine lace *hd ribbons, ?
j coiort. J j
all In largo baskets. (or every
poor family, U the Christmas aim
Of th#' Salvation ArmyT and'to ful(HI
this Iron kettles on tripod!
hare bean placed on the'street In
front of the H. 4 H. Drug Stone
and the courthouse (or monetary
contributions. .
The kettles were placed on the
street Saturday moraine, and will
remain until the Saturday before
Christmas. They are presided over
by a Salvation Afmy lassie, hi uniform,
who rings a bell constantly
to Call attention to them; and on
Saturday the collections amounted
to 1100.
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TWO MINERS INJURED.
' Mike Cappelletti . ot Spence
street, an. employe o( the Bethlehem
COal Co., M a patient at Fairmont
Hospital \ Buffering from
crashed feet. the Injury having
been sustained while at work In
the mine. J. P. Oerkens of Bell
view ,an employe of Jamison mine
No. 7, Is also a patient at Fairmont
Hospital with a badly Injured.b&ek
and pelvis.'
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The
npHESE-sl<
1 runners
ifront as to (
. face; sled r<
to the slight
i steering ba
enamel, beai
gift for the
~ Pri<
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Fairmo:
Retail Depart
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yft" n1^
at HELPS Yqu to i.
- Silk Night Gowns
Extra heavy quality Crepe do
Chine trimmed with lace, ribbona
and rose buda. Nothing
could be more accept- (I'fA
able as a Xmaa tUt~?4.9U
Women's Hose .
Of silk and silk and wool, fashioned
and fiill fushioned of excellent
quality, all colors and
heather mixtures. Pair
50cT0 $*.95
. Women's Gloves
Of fine imported kid gauntlet
style in all' popular colors.
A pleasing gn ap
) gltt O
| Children's Gloves
' Of fine kid and suede for boys
' add gtrln. All wanted, colors.
All altea. a
$1.00 AND $1,25
Umbrellas
* A moat complete eelectton, steel
frames, rainproof 'covers, In all
favorite , shades and black,
n- Plain and fanoy bandies. .
!y $1.00T0 $8.50
Felt and Kid
Slippers
, A complete assortment for men,
,! women and children, all Colors,,
tploT combinations.. Plain1 and
u fancy trimmed from '
_ 75c TO- $2.45
' Large slso Turklib Towel and
* two- wash clothes, each set in
SO fancy bo*. A very ac- 7C?
ill cep'table gift. 8et I DC
? Women's Waists
Whit, Could be moro practical
< than a nld#.';'^fft'W6*?aS??
le moat varied collection fn silk
? ? ec
little tncoiw burning night lonips.
These lamps giro out the Vfttesl 1
warm glow while Incense or pen 1
ftune in itcy containers. - hlntel :
from the snail electric light, ball), 1
giro) opt' the sweetest aroma nnd
theylare not only delightful In the i
bedroom hot Mvally, so la library i
or lltrlng rronf. It will pay yam" to' i
drop in there sad see these hid a :
lot of other1 unusuolly attractive i
novelties tor tho ' Christmoitlde, i
such as'lvory, essle picture (runes, '
hand tooled leather bags and rthnl- i
curspets. >
" ' ' ' ' " " I
It yon are In a Quandary as to
what to bny a friend (or. a, Christ- I
cits gift, whether It be mother, i
wile, sweetheart, slater'or brother
you won't miss It tar by getjlniji
aa juaaiman nouaK at toe tiarry r. i
Neptuno Co. store. It will not only i
be a Joy atWhristmas but tho I
whole year round. Each time I so i
In1 there I am Impressed with tho 1
splendid and complete line ot East- i
man kodaks they carry and yon '
cannot tall to tind Just the one you I
want and ot ?>urte you want an i
Eastman?It you want the best. ]
2RING SL
Kind All Boys 1
;ds are well made and Yiicel;
of best crucjble steel and s
jive a maxiihum length of si
jsponds instantly without lc
est bend in the steel runner, i
r. Gear and ninners finis
itifully painted and decorati
,boy or girl.
c&d $1.50 to $4.
nt Wall Plas
:mept ; 31
l?^?? ???y?m
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SOLVE YOUR XM
Ribbons for Xmas I
An: unusually Urge selection to of
choose from In nil width and m!
colors. It:will pay yon to buy .11
ribbons here. m?
Muslin Wear
Extra flno quality Chemise and
night gowns trimmed with, fine ,
lace and hand embroidered, unusual
good value. \
$1.00~$1,7S S
>? D.iL trc
v/iiiiui en a oatii
Robes
Of the well known Beacon
Blanket cloth, pretty new designs.
All sizes from 2 to If s_
yeare. ! ,hl|
$1.95T0 $3.95 ?
Toy land
Third Floor . . /
Many surprises, await ;you In Oa
our wonderland of toys. Be eui
sure to pay It a.Tlsit tne" next eac
time you come. ' . 'hoi
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Men's SILK SHIRTS
All that Is new In silk ahlrta
well be fopnd hern in xaat
assortment?fine new tiesigns
and patterns .a now Of
end let to work to loT?i$fijo^>l
thine that would takeaway ttdhter
rore^oftha water, and , ayiuroly I
tloatlns: toys wonld make thh?tb J
blow.'Sfam up^lke you would bull
p a football and whan plaoad otW
water they float lo'natnraUy . '
I bare, already told you about I
thawondertul line of bedroomil
illppara 'l found at BhnitfctaiSM
Woltona tor man and children, ant fl
now I nmit tall you about UunvatyB
ittraottre onea they haye tir wo H
men and (Irla. They hare thtfl
3o?ay foes.,'Vhlch are aowBHH
> little different. son,.- of whtelM
have quaint little ankle etrapgM
then they hare tae alwava nooul; H
romljK" knd the HI Los, whuM
have n anal? fitting cuff, snl/H
sute?t Dutch sllppqrs. In allMH
jretty coVCre, Imagtna!
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EDS <1
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3a. An iaeai
*hi?
nen a l/reas oiuns ?
idras, pretty new designs lit TH
sites, some have collars to
$2.95T0 $3.95 fl
hundred dosnn to pick from jfl
silk broadcloths^and silk fl
o wis
ponder and carter uta, fl
rh grade make, ell^olors, M
Men's Sets II
per and arm band rets of
Men's Mufflers j|
Le silk knit mufflers in the "!
tcially ^priced aU: $2?95 jfl
Men's Mufflers Jfl
popular colors. Exception- (1
good value, M nr <M