Clive’s departure led to more flirta- tions by Ethel than old Lady Kew y could countenance, but Ethel had CHASE & SANBORN’S found out how undesirable a man Lord Phones I CONDENSED the Kew was and broke encasement OPTICAL SERVICE OF ^ AND COFFEES f j TEAS her heart. CLASSICS so dear to grandmother's When Clive heard that the engage- DEPENDABILITY | ment was over between Kew and Ethel t he set out in haste for Iondon. I was S. R. LEAP & SON, Inc. Installed ns confidant, and to me Clive ; Since 1879 we have been de- 2 THE NEWCOMES said: “Mrs. Mackenzie bothers rr.e so » f | I hardly know where to turn, and poor ; livering optical service that has 5 MAIN STREET, PENNS GROVE little Rosey is made to write me a 40 note about something twice a day. been accurate, prompt and in tree now!” Oh Pen! I’m up another !! R, W. KIDD, Treasurer and Manager THACKERAY ; every way dependable. By WILLIAM ’& Clive met his cousin Ethel at a party or two in the ensuing weeks of the Condensation b]> Charles K. BoHon. season, and at one of their meetings ; Our service by mail is con- !! Librarian of the Boston Athenaeum Ethel told him that her grandmother Fruits V? \V for its Groceries, fc ceived a letter from Ethel which set You Can Purchase Your from Us school, he went When Requirements son free. WILMINGTON gayly on his way, her | Indolent In study Ethel then turned to the lonely, 5 to shop bring your Pictures with you and them but In ardent in life. get J eager friendship, motherless children of her brother At twenty-one he owned and managed a * and found comfort In devoting Framed at the Old Reliable Place London newspaper, at twenty-five he was Barnes, 1 I IT H-I-M-M-* his I 1 I'l"!1 H-I-I-i 1 i I I'l-l-I-H I I 1 I-I-H-I-H I I I H-I-l-H penniless, after scattering a comfortable herself to them. Clive married fortune. But he had bought experience Rosey, and his father determined to invaluable to the young Journalist, price- become a member of parliament in Within Our Gates less to the novelist. 419 of Sir Barnes. One the Street g Strangers was night Thackeray's astonishing versatility place [ Shipley realized. He aspired to illustrate colonel returning from his electioneer- :|| i: ! 1 I I-M-H-I- early p.p-K-I-HK-l LOOK FOR THE RED FRONT til nillllilll! Dickens' novels; he wrote travel sketches, ing, met Clive, candle in hand. As each £ stories, ballads and burlesques. with the burial or of some rela- saw the other’s face, it was so very Who may be charged transportation “Barry Lyndon,” his first notable novel, will find consideration and sad and worn and that Colonel tive or friend fallen by the way, every was the history of a rascal; but, in the pale, careful of aedquate provision for their needs, in skilled and preparation most fascinating of feminine rascals. Newcome with quite the tenderness HARRY YERGER of the deceased, either for interment or shipment. Becky Sharp. Thackeray first brilliantly old days, cried “God bless me, my bey, [ | convenience showed himself master of the creation of Then, too, our Funeral Parlors offer the privacy, how ill you look! Come and warm living character (",” 1S46-48). si Is the Name service which may be desired before the burial, £ and comfort of any "'' (1849-60) was, like Dickens' yourself, Clivy!” or the to the burial -place of the departed. “David in essence auto- journey Copperfteld,” “I have seen a ghost, father,” Clite biographical. The need of money drove of father, Thackeray reluctantly to the lecture field said, “the ghost my youth, miiiiiiiiiiiiniiiicaBKiiiEiiiiiBiiHiniiiiiiiiii His course on Eighteenth Century Hu- the phost of my happiness, and the NOEL CROSS and America B. morists, popular In England best of life. I saw Ethel to- for "Esmond" days my UNDERTAKER AND CORONER (1851), prepared the ground (1852), his unsurpassed historical novel day?” “The Newcombes" (1854), “The Virgin- “Nay, my boy, you mustn't talk to ians" and the unfinished Dennis South Brad St. Penns Grove, N. J. (1859), me so. You have the dearest little 94 Duval" complete the list of his best wife at a dear little wife and R. F. WILUS No. 68 novels. home, & BRO. 1-30-ly Telephone child.” “You had a wife; but that doesn’t INCORPORATED THOMAS NEWCOME, the prevent other—other thoughts. Do you hero of Argom, and of Bhart- Railroad Station know you never spoke twice in your Adjoining COL.pour, had loved the beautiful | life about my mother? You didn't care Leonore de Blois, but having Incurred WHOLESALE for her.” and retail ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■MM* the wrath of his stepmother, he fled ; “I—I did my duty by her,” inter- to India to carve out his career. There DEALERS IN posed the colonel. ■ he had married the widow, Mrs. Casey, NEW LOCATION “I know, but your heart was with and a few years later sent their son the other. So is mine. It’s fatal, it Clive to England. He regaled the Mill-work runs in the family, father.” Hardware, Lumber, ladles of the regiment with Clive’s let- 40*&42S.BoradSt 5 The shares of the Bundelcund Bank- Feed ters; sporting young men would give Sash. Doors, Mouldings, Lime, Cement ing company, in which the colonel hud or take odds that the colonel would : made his fortune, now declined stead- and all other BUILDERS’ mention Clive’s name once before five SUPPLIES lly, and at last the crash came, wiping minutes, or three times in ten min- j and Wood out all the colonel’s money and with Coal utes. But those who laughed at Clive’s & 5 it all Rosey's fortune. The impover- Paperhanging Painting father laughed very kindly. COAL! ished Newcomes settled down first at COAL! I At last the happy time came for — Boulogne, and then in London, the s had been which the colonel longing, white haired, We are at service colonel weary, feeble, Garden and Field always your and he took leave of his regiment. In Seeds, Poultry and READY MIXED PAINTS Mrs. Mackenzie a perfect termagant. with the best for your money he had in his family circle Stock g England Rosey pale and ailing, and little Tom- Feed. FARM SUPPLIES two half brothers, Sir Brian, who had my, the baby, a comfort and a care to married Ann, daughter of the WALL PAPER E Lady the hard-worked Clive. Earl of Kew, and Hobson Newcome. PHONES 31 and 33. PeiUlS N. The colonel, no longer able to live GrOVC, J. One morning at breakfast while Sir under the same roof with Mrs. Mac- WINDOW SHADES Brian champed his dry toast, Barnes, Advise us and we will be glad to have j H. S. BARBER kenzie, found a home with the Grey the sob, said to his sister Ethel: “My our call on Friars and here I saw him. representative you. FLOOR of Street uncle, the colonel of sepoys, and his CONGOLEUM Foot Harmony misfortunes were amiable son have been paying a visit When the colonel’s nt their worst Ethel, in reading an old COVERING Penns Grove New to Newcome.” Jersey book, found a letter from the coloners “You are always sneering about our between the covers. It was CONGOLEUM RUGS uncle,” broke In Ethel, "and saying stepfather unkind things about Clive. Our uncle a memorandum of a proposed bequest SANSCO to Clive. Ethel at once determined to is a dear, good, kind man, and I love out this Intended and him.” carry bequest, SODA 50 she and I hastened to Clive’s home; WATERS ROBERTS & RILEY At Hobson Newcome s and elsewnere but not even news could soften the family party often assembled, the good Best Mackenzie’s evil That Beverages can be had at 40 and 42 So. Broad Street CONEY EXPRESS CO. colonel, his friend Mr. Blnnie and Bin- Mrs. temper. was a sad and wretched night. In nle’s sister, Mrs. Mackenzie with her THE PENNS 4 and 6 OAK ST. which Mrs. Mackenzie stormed until GROVE Furnished. daughter Rosey, Sir Brian and Lady Estimates the delicate Rosey fell into the N. i. Ann, and Clive who had become a poor W# Have Sold Over 15.000 Farm* to Date Penns Grove, fever to which she owed her death. BOTTLING CO. painter. From one of these parties No list]os fee and no withdrawal charset. You pay Phone 82-R21 Friars us our conomisston only after sale to our customer Write Telephone 231 Penden- We soon repaired to the Grey Clive and I, his friend Arthur or telephone. Pitman Street and where we found that the colonel was Lanning Ave» nis, walked with the usual Havana and in his last Illness. He talked loudly, E. A. Strout Farm Moving Hauling to light us home. “I can’t help think- Agency Penns Grove, N. J. ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■I| he the word of command, OF ALL KINDS ing,” said the astute Clive, “that they gave spoke Hindustanee as if to his men. Then 9-26-tf JOSEPH FERRANTE. Mjrr. fancied I was in love with Ethel. Now, Wm. M. Fleming Local and Distance he spoke words in French rapidly, Long Moving 1 suppose, they think I am engaged to MANAGER seizing a hand that was near him, and Vans Rosey. She is as good a little ceature Edwards’ Express 1” Ethel as can be, and never out of temper, crying, “toujonrs, toujours Room Post Warren C. * 3, Office Building McAllister Distance PIANOS A SPECIALTY nnd Clive and the nurse were in the Local and Long though I fancy Mrs. Mackenzie tries N. room with him. The old man talked Penns Grove, J. Before away ask for our 'ier.” Hauling moving on for then he Contracting Time passed and our Mr. Clive went rapidly awile; again ! 9-12-tf. Phone 59R2 estimates would sigh and be still; once more I to Baden, where he found old Lady Painter Hand heard him “Take care Second 8-20-tf Kew with her granddaughter Ethel. say, hurriedly, of him when I’m in and then “You have no taste for pictures, only India;” Furniture with a heart-rending voice he called A. S. HOFFMAN for painters, I suppose,” said Lady 23 for the love of his “Leonore, Naylor Avenue and Sold. A stock Kew one day to Ethel. youth CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Bought large The voice sank “I was not at the Leonore!” patient’s &-30-tf PENNS GROVE, N. X •on looking picture,” hand, especially Rugs. M. H. CLAIR into faint murmurs; a moan now Jobbing Promptly Attended to •laid Ethel, “but at the little green only nnd rhen announced that he was not Befor you build consult me for Esti- Successor to ticket in the corner. I think, grand- JOHN EDWARDS mates and Plans Frank Pettit mamma,” she said, “we young ladies asleep. Penns Grove At the usual hour the At R. F. Willis & Bro. 8-2-tf 27 S. Broad St., S. M. HUNT n the world ought to have little green evening chape! Ornamental Iron Works tickets on our with ’sold’ bell began to toll, and Thomas New- May 24th-t£. pinned bncks, Groceries, Dry Goods ivxitten on them.” come’s hands outside the bed feebly WM. SHOEMAKER 800 Master St., Philadelphia, Pa. Rarnes Newcome, too, was at Badeft, beet a time. And just ns the last bell Manrfacturer of Iron Fencing, Fire was struck a peculiar sweet smile shorn.- Notions ’or he to marry pretty little Lady JUSTICE OF THE PEACE LAIRD & COMPANY Clara Pulleyn, free at last from that over his face, and he lifted up his Escapes and Ornamental Iron Fruits and undesirable Jack Belslze, Lord High- head a little, and quickly said, “Ad | Collections Made York Stock Excha«e« Vegetables NmhIkm Krw gate’s son. Lady Kew had plans sum,” nnd fell back. It was the word in Season .vhich Clive's growing regard for his we used at school, when names were I 117 S. Broad St. 4-23-tf Penns Grove Salem National Banking Co INVESTMENT called and he wuose heart was as Orders Solicited and Delivered •ousin Ethel put in jeopardy. ; lo, of a little SALEM, N. J. “My good young man, I think it Is that child, nad answered to SECURITIES Anywhere KLAIR’S jme you were off,” Lady Kew said to tils name, and stood in the presence of We offer the public the best facilities Corner Franklin & Harmony Sts the Master. for the transaction of their business, Clive with great good humor. “I have BAZAAR both and Tables Del. 7-25-tf public private. aa