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Very Bad Cough. Pe-ru-na Stopped It. i I I I'll LAUGHTER OF MRS. J. M. BROWN. "Mr?. J. M. Brown, Punneean, Mo., v it<>: 4*My little daughter, three vt : rs old, was troubled with a very had eouh which remained after an attack i f catarrhal fever, which was a great ?' ! worse at night. " sh" would wake up out of Iter sleep 'Cough until 1 feared she could not s it. ' Nothing that we cave her seemed to t't her any good. I then concluded to ? ;1 for I?r. Hartman's book emitted ie lis of Life,* which I promptly r. i-civotl. ' ! at thesametimecommeneedgiving !.< Peruna. Site has takeu one bottle i: all. through which she has obtained a complete cure. di also since her birth was troubled v. h indigestion, but since she ha? i on Peruna 6he can eat almost any kiudof food without any bad results. "She is now as well and happy as any linle girl can be. When our friends say how well she looks, I tell thorn 1'eruna did it. "I shall always be a friend of Peruna, as I consider it the best medicine tot toughs and Indigestion we have evet tried, and will recommend it to any one - similarly afflicted." MRS. LYDIA J. SPOONKR, Santa Monica, Cal., writes that they are never without Peruna in the home, that they find it the finest family remedy they have eier used. I Q CAMEO KIRBY. D one i go (Continued from Second Page.) T?d "man ever double" Banked Gene Kirby twice," said Larkin Bunce laconically, "and It'll be a good thing for you, Moreau, If he la past speaking, ^^^lch, I guesa. looks the case. If he ^^^Bpens to pull through you can gninHB he'll fix your case himself, but If ^HB^Bdoesn't. my fine old bucko. I'll settle honorable hash. Yoh've stunk ^^H^Ftbls river just about aloug enough." ^Blt will afford me considerable pleas ^^Ke, suh," replied the pseudo colonel iu his best manner, "to place yob in the same position which yob friend Mr. Kirby will shortly occupy. 1 re fer. suh. to a front seat In the grill room of his most Satanic majesty. Yob servant, suh. aud a very good evening." Bowiug, the Cower of southern chivalry backed nimbly through the door aud disappeared. CHAPTER III. ClOLOXELJACQUES GAS PARI) DESCHAMPS MO KEAU, to give him bis full '"3^*1 title, doing all things tbor oughly, as befitted one of bis honorable character, v as uot satisfied with, as he thought, dlsposiug of Klrby's physical existence, but considered It his pleas i urable duty to effectually ruiu whatever little reputation had survived during the other's downward career. Klrby. presumably fatally wounded, had been carried ashore by Bunce at . the uext landiug. and, in those days shooting aud stabbing affrays emanat lng from card games beiug ouly too J common, but little attention had been 5 paid to the affair. Cameo Klrby was notorious the length of the river, aud such an abrupt aud tragic termination Li of his career had not only beeu frert quently and cheerfully predicted, but I was. moreover, expected of all such ; 1 members as graced his questionable profession. Indeed, tor them a sober and respectable death would have been |w considered bad form. Among the gam bling profession there existed a certain IP code, which iu a manner served to link those at the top. who. like Kirby and Bunce, wooed formue honestly, to the Moreau type, graciug and disgracing the lowest rung iu the gamblers' social ladder. This code, if so it may be termed, was an understanding to the '> effect that in no instance, however it great the provocation, should the law < be invoked. Wrongs, fancied or auj? then tic. were to be redressed solely by the bearers thereof, the joint ottice of judge ami executioner being vested in each sc;orate and distinct individual. Id view of this accepted understanding, Larkiu Bunce had accordingly made no mention of the fact that a probable murder had been committed, and. the passengers and steamship officials dismissing it as u gamblers' quarrel, which was none of their affair, uo 6tiga?i or notoriety was attached to the guod*Colonel Moreau, who, c::*?uiiiig to Ka on .?!<! vfihioil frieiiit of UV ?* v.\* - - ? Randall, bad gone to tbe latter's stateroom and brazenly assumed charge of *" tbe body. Bunco's laconic statement was too pitifully true, for tbe old planter bad effectually ended bis life. Again referring to Colonel Moreau's happy faculty <>f doing all things well, it was quite < ha met eristic that to com plete his revenge against Cameo Kirby he now did uot hesitate to assume charge of Mr. Randall's body, did not hesitate to meet the son of the man for whose death he had been directly and shamefully responsible, for young Tom Randall had ridden over to the Plaquemine landing in order to greet his father, while over at the old homestead all was bustle and excitement in honor of the master's horaecoming. Anxiously Tom Randall waited to see the Jovial and well known tigure of his father march down the gang plank, waited to eaten a giiinp.se ui I the familiar and weather beaten green portmanteau which the planter always carried. The momenta passed. Other and numerous passengers stepped ashore, to be eagerly welcomed and claimed by their own, bat John Handa!! was not among them. A curious and seemingly pregnant hush had sucj at last, his father had come ashore, borne on the shoulders^of two roustabouts. while the captain and officers stood with bared heads and thankfully left the unwelcome task of explaining the tragedy to the amiable and willing Colonel Moreau. I "Mv boy," said the latter, now laying a fatherly hand on young Randall's heaving shoulder, "although 1 am a stranger to yoh. suh, 1 have ventured to assume temporary control of this terrible affair, fob I am a southern gentleman, as was Mr. Randall, and I feel bound to yoh all by the ties of sympathy and country. I was a witness, suh. to the events which preceded and prompted this outrage. and. although I am aware It is but pob satisfaction, still It Is something to know that the scoundrel who was instrumental In causing yob poh father's death has already paid fob it with his life. My name, suh. Is Colonel Moreau, and If I can be of any further service to yoh all In this dark hour of tribulation pray command me. suh. As an old soldier 1 beg of yoh to meet this calamity with the fohtltude of a Christian gentleman," with which admirable and pious adjuration the good colonel flourished his handkerchief and helped himself to a generous pinch of snuff. "I?I tbauk you. Colonel Moreau, for all you have done." said young Randall stonily, looking on the huddled thing at his feet "You?you say you witnessed my father's death?" "Not exactly, suh. foh he shot himself In his stateroom. However hard ! to bear. I think yob should know who and what prompted his death. The scoundrel, suh. was the notorious Cameo Klrby, of whom, perhaps, yoh have beard." Young Randall nodded dally, and Moreau, entering Into the spirit of the tale, continued: "I fohmed an acquainti onh voh ikoh father when he came aboard at New Orleans. He confided to every one that he had sold I his sugar crop fob ten thousand and bad the cash with him, and he was in mighty high spirits because he was on his way back home to see his children. Tob gentleman! As delicately as I can I must state that he was not quite himself, and by that sub. I mean that he bad been Imbibing a little too freely. I don't have to tell yob, sub, that there are certain characters on all the big l>oats who keep a pretty sharp lookout fob geDtlemen with money who are In the condition yoh pob father. : sub, was In tonight, and I expect there I was more than one river gambler on board who would have liked to get his hands on Mr. Randall. But the oue j who got him was the slickest and clev erost of the lot, the Cameo KIrby I whom I have mentioned. This rascal, sub. Inveigled yoh poh father Into a private stateroom, plied him with mob i liquor and won from him not only all his money and personal effects?even Including a miniature of yoh dead mnthor onh?hilt olsrt A ftppri tf> Ills en tire plantation and all his slaves, everything which he owned. 1 was too late to save Mr. Randall, but I knew Kirby by repute, and 1 was so screamingly I outraged by the whole affair that I denounced him fob the low scoundrel he was. Thereupon he drew on me. bnf i 1 was the quicker and shot him down like a dog. They carried him ashore, suh. at the landing below this, and the , river Is cleaner foh his death." "You have taken vengeance out o! my hands." said young Randall uu steadily. "The coward and villain: For a stranger, sir. the attitude wbiol. ceeded the landing of the freight, and off somewhere Ln the darkness a child whimpered shrilly. The boy's nerves were set on edge. Perhaps his father was having a farewell talk with the captain and would come dashing out at the last moment with all his old disregard for time and place. It was time the bell was clanging, the signal for backing away, for by now the landing of uasseugers and freight appeared to L>e terminated. .\nu sun no joun uaudall. The boy walked along tbe stringpiece until tbe Texas deck caine tbe more prominently into view, the glow from tbe open windows of the port staterooms silhouetting tbe lean visaged pilot, absolute monarch of bis realm, who now that an easy stretch of the river had been entered loafed about while his cub took the wheel. "Hello, on board the Shotwell!" shouted young itandall, looking up at the pilothouse. "Is that you, Mr. Bixby? This is Tom Itaudall. Do you know if my father is on board? We were expecting him by your boat, sir." For reply Mr. Bixby, usually the pattern of courtesy, offered a memo "?i.l lining m byiiuuic ulluiu.iutc um? the window. But young Randall had no time to nurs^ his quick resentment, for now, you have displayed toward my family has been most considerate, aud I will never forge? it. The?the hospitality of o house in ironm!????"? [to 37 continued.j SCRANTON SKETCHES | Penciled Paragraphs Pertaing to People and Perspective. Scranton, September 13: ? This date, the 13th. will be an unlucky number for some political aviators. Miss Alma Singletary left Monday , for Florence to atiend school. Mr L) P Waii, teiegrapn operator ; at Lanes,visited i:s parents here one ; day last week. Mrs .1 A Gantt and children of Florence are visiting Mrs Gantt's parents,Mr and Mrs P A Parker, on ; Church street. Hon J Walter Doar of GeorgeI to^ " passed through Scranton Tuesj da.* ming going to Hannah to | atten Vthian picnic. Mr Doar is ! Grand .... 'tcellor for the grand do-' I main <>f South Carolina. Dr C H Pate went to Charleston Tuesday to see his sister who is ill at ! -l r>: : i . I lilt* uneisiue inminai*. Prof W E King of Dillon was in ; Scranton Saturday. Prof King was 1 principal of the graded school at ' Greelyville last year, but he has decided to abandon teaching and take J up the study of medicine. A protracted meeting is in progi ress at the Free Will Baptist church, ' conducted by a preacher from Flor| ida. Mrs C H Pate has returned from J an extended visit to relatives at Bishopville and Effingham. Messrs Foster Matthews and Redin Wall will leave soon for the Charles ton Medical College to study pharmacy. Miss Rosa Tallevast of Georgetown is the guest of Mrs C H Pate. Miss Willie Hines is recovering from an attack of typhoid fever. The following Scrantonians went to Charleston Monday: Mr RB Cannon, Mrs Fannie Cannon, Miss Addie Cannon, Messrs D Lamar Lee, Geo Lee, L H MuCullough, L G Kennedy, W A Kennedy,R Mc Cooper, Robt Welch, Mrs S M Matthews and Mr Dallas Matthews. A number of gentlemen bought the right to drain and fjjh the Tim! mons' mill pond, a few miles out from Scranton, one day last weeK. There was quite a gathering of people to witness the fishing. Multitudes of the finny tribe were taken and a day of fun and frolic was enjoyed. W EC Mortuary. Friends here were saddened to receive news of the death of Mrs Genevieve Rhodus, which occurred at the home of her sister. Miss Lucy Rnrffpss. last Saturdav nierht at Greelyville- Mrs Rhodus had been sick for months with a lingering malady and her death, though painful to her loved ones, was not unexpected. The deceased was the relict of the iate Mr Samuel Rhodus, of this county, and leaves no children. The funeral rites and interment took place Monday morning at 10 o'clock at New Market church, Rev L E Peeler of the Methodist church officiating. LOU : MID-SUM The Largest Tl AT" \1'1 Ai >V J DRY GOODS, MATTINGS, Write for Sar Try us on a Mai -A.11 G-CO' SPECIAL! SPiSfgT - UDIES' I "SA 9 I I II -?? 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