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<X*X^~X~X^^X~X^-X~X*5*{ would not receive him. It was then ; spicuous Promptness. ; that Clive Ethel worldly, al- William Make- thought much of her attitude was due Goods, Notions peace Thackeray, though Dry son of a civil serv- to the keen and unrelenting Lady ant in India, was Kew. The colonel and James Bennie born July 18, 1811, all this time their two fond and in Calcutta. He died during put Carpets Rugs Mrs. Dec. 24, 1863, in Lon- heads together, and Mackenzie don, where most of flattered both of them and Clive as MILLARD F. DAVIS his life was Furniture .... spent. well. From 1840 on his the Clara was not wife was insane, so Meanwhile Lady j there lived in his happy with her Barnes. All the life OPTICIAN heart, as in that of and spirit had been crushed out of the We will call for and deliver other hu- the great girl, consigned to cruel usage, lone- morist of his time, !! 9-11 E. 2nd Street Market & Tenth Street liness and to bitter recollections of the ;; order the same Dickens, constant your day. sorrow. past. Jack Belsize, now Lord High- Delaware. Thackeray began gate, could stand the strain no longer ;; Wilmington, 1; to call in school days rath- You are cordially invited and took Lady Clara away from her er to absorb life husband. The than to attain bullying but cowardly and make your own selections scholarship. He de- elopement of Clara opened Ethel’s eyes ■i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-M-i-M' 11 i; i i i i lighted even then to the misery of loveless marriages, to it in reproduce and the mamma of her new love, the comic verse and dis- iiinnuiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii At Marquis of Fartntosh, already of Town caricature. Cam- £ * Out bridge, in Weimor, tressed over the unpleasant notoriety ■ Why Buy ■ in Paris art schools Newcome re- of the proposed alliance, ■ When over and London law you go to Established 40 Years > 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 ("Vanity Fair,” 1S46-48). si Is the Name service which may be desired before the burial, £ and comfort of any "Pendennis'' (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.