THE FULTON r OUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURO. PA. T A STORY Of Tli GREAT NORTH WEST Oy vingie e. aoe 4; ibuujinnviv ATiv3'J" Ji nrinn wean QOfiypcrr oy podd. wad CHAPTER XXIX Continued. 15 "Tob would have followed mo across the world upon your knots, and you crved ma like a slave. And 11 re paid jo with a white man's coin! 1 loft you to break your heart union)? the dusky people who were kinder than I! ... But the WinJs of God blew upon my conscience and my heart and I returned. Your face and your faithful eyes, waiting, waiting, brought n buck from the far cities only to see you die In the lodge of Kolawmio with my babe on your breartt! Or you say I but dreamed, Kahwanna?" With failing sight the speaker tried to pierce the mystery, gazing at Siletz. "Did I dream of death and retribu tion and of Kolawmle, who bent bore the babe to put that sign upon her face? I struck his hand away when It bad set but a fraction of the fatal bar the sign that said you were wild, thnt forbade you to the shallow cities, that made you a white man's toy! You you Kahwanna ah, I have forgot. What Is It I would re merabor?" The eagerness left the Treacher's eyes, they became suddenly calm aud mild. With a cry that cut high above the I tea fly sounds of the wind and the fires Siletz sprang up. a hand Bung to her Up, wbcre'the sign of the SlleU stood out broken In i's inception! "My father!" she cried pitifully, "oh. my father!" Sandry was breathing heavily, a mist in bis eyes and a sadness upon his heart Ms victory over Hampden had loHt Its savor. But the past with its pitiful shad ows had drifted away from tho Preach er forever and the look of gentle ten derness had returned. "Jly daughter," he said softly, "why do you weep? Ah the niht closes down and It Is dark. 1 have lost my way. What Is the rath?" Hla Lagers groped blindly for the flute. "What Is the way out of tho laby rinth of youth and sin and prim roses? Ah. I have forgot!" With a sudden Inspiration Sandry stopped and picked up the instrument. He had played a bit at college. Softly, sllverly, the Joyous notes began, "Je sus. Lover of My Soul." to go on to that ancient plea cf trusting faith, "Other refuge have 1 none. Hangs my helpless soul on thee," a strange voice of glory amid the death and danger, the sin and stress of the moment. A holy peace spread on the white features. "Why, certainly!" whispered the traveler of the hills, "how could I for get! That Is the Way out." And then, "Hush! The murmur of many wings. Ah, It la Gods hand! I go de prcfundis! Gloria in ex cel si.-!" With that last whispered word the wandering player of hymns, the preacher to the Irresponsibles and the lover of humanity fumbled stiilly at bis habit's skirt Sandry knelt, found deep pocket, felt therein and brought out a small bible of a long past day. Its edges were thin and frayed and greatly worn. Its stiff beck, with the ago-black, raised lettering, had long since lost its corners. He knew It Instantly for the counterpart of that one on Siletz' stand in the little south room. It iad many openings of Its own, and It fell apart, first at the psalms and then at a passage whose beginning caught his eye as he placed tt In the loving hands that made to grasp Us familiar bulk and failed. Tho stately words whoso solemn fore cant had strick him once when he sought for some clue to ths Preacher's Identity now seamed to ring in his ears, a stupendous requiem for the nameless, hlgh-souled. drifter from the-ways-of-mon who had spent his blame less life In fanciful atonement for a shadowy wrong. Wtio utiall ascend Into Die hill of the I-enl? ! th;it lt:ith rWtin tmrrW ami t pure heart. Who haih not llfnil up hla oul uuta vanity. mr sworn ihewtfuily. Tue Preacher was of that past which he had so long forgotten and which Destiny had decreed should flash back to him for one revealing moment. CHAF-TER XXX. The Night Wind Is Not Afaid to Die." Sandry laid the Bible under the life lefts hnd, looked about desperately for something to cover the glorified face between its white curls, and find- Beauty and Grains. A pretty Kir' neivi necessarily be brainless, but somehow the combina tlon persists. Did you ycung fellows ever stop to analyre any of your conversations With that wide-eyed little blonde ho always wears pink silk blouses? No of course you didn't you hardly knew what you "'ere saying yourself. Trouble with you Is that you haven't Imagination enough to conceive of a pretty girl who could bring up a more interesting talk topic than her own sweet self. You sort of concede thnt a peach ot a girl is three-quarters mush, with a heart of utona Of course there Is such a thing as the pretty girl with brains, but she either married or else In love wiia some cuss that doesn't appreciate b-r Judge. Our First Nsval Hero. The Brat naval bero ot the t'nltecl States now almost forgouen wns .Jeietulah O linen, a Maine n:an whose racial descent Is clearly indi ca'ed lis name. He commandod $7y wtUi WJ inn viAfM a; h i' and cqcipant ing nothing but the tall ferns gathered an armful which he spread over the body. Then he faced Hampden In deadly quiet. "1 had meant prison," he said, "now I mean the electric chair." Tho other laughed. "Mean an' be damned!" ho said In solently, "you'll never send me there." Ills burning eyes were covering the clump of ferns that held his gun, but Sandry went over and picked It up. He stood a moment considering. A hot wind was shipping up the dips on every side and Black Dolt was stepping uneasily, pointing anxious ears this way and that. I'oosnah had crawled to where Siletz knelt, weep ing, with her hunds over her face. He crouched low to tho ground and laid his heavy muzzle against her boot, whining dolorously. Suddenly, In the momentary sllenco, Poppy Ordway spoke. Her face was (lushed like an April dawn. Chance and tho courage of tho last throw lent It the last touch of ravishing charm. "Kismet!" she said, "I am the only ono who wins In this game! Hamp den, you're right. I've bought you with your own coin. And let me tell you Hampden, that you were disgust ingly easy." The tlmbcrman winced at the bru tal words. His florid face darkened with rage. "Ah, yes! So you won his love with your pretty detectfve work! Y'ou'U marry him an' settle down." Thus wa9 the crucial moment pre sented to Poppy Ordway all suddenly, and she recognized It Instantly. It sent a chill to her daring heart, then Cred It with that love of chanco. that ability to cast great stakes on a single throw, which In a better nature would have mado her great. She felt with a flash of her genius the drama of the situation, the tense readiness of the moment for wild, fantastic things, and accepted It at once. "Y'cs!" she cried, "yes! I offer Sandry you and myself!" With a beautiful gesture she stepped toward Sandry and hold out both hands, her golden head up, her slumbrous blue eyes sensuous and black with excitement, her whole ex- Spread Ferns Over the Body. qulsite body a lure with the mighty abandon of her passion and her rock less gift. "Walter,"' she said tremulously, "I have said there is no law for a genius I Bay it again. 1 can save your future-and 1 give you myself along with It, because I love you! Oh, you can never know how I love you!" Her golden voice rose with the force of the emotion that shook her, broke and failed, and she stood pant ing. "Will you not take my hands, Wal ter?" she almost walled, "1 have done it all for love of you!" Sandry, his eyes upon her face, as If in fascination, did not move. It was as if he could not, though every fiber In his Jaded body answered to her call. "For love!", breathed Poppy Ord way, "for great love!" Acres? be word then cut a Bhrlll cry an American vessel in tbe first naval battle of the revolution, which was fought near Machias. Me.. June 12. 1775 Some little time before an Eng lish schooner, the Margranetto. was at Marinas, and a number of the pea Pie of the town, led oy Jeremtan O Hrlen and Benjamin Foster, con spired to rapture ner The attempt was successful, and with O linen in command, the Margranetto made a vovane to the Hay of Fundy. An Eng list) schooner and tender were sent out to look for the Margran"tto. and when O Hrlen returned to Machias b loiind them awaiting him. The first naval baltlo ol the United Slates was lought then and there, and 0 Unen and his men added the schoccer and tender to their prizes. Peaches In England. A long time ago someone said that an F.nglishman eats a peach us if n were performing a religious ceremony. No wonder' Id the London market a sale of a dozen peaches ranks as a wholeKaip transaction And the price' 1 be London Telegraph recemly print ed an article on "Cheap Fruit," in VijPk-r":-". X'frl'IS ' ro "She Hps!" Siletz had sprung to her feet, both hands feeling wildly lu her empty blouse. Miss Ordway swung heavily toward her. "Hush!" sho said warnlngly. She slipped a hand Inside her own gown and showed a corner of the soiled packet of proofs that Siletz bad guarded for so many days, the packet that she knew Instinctively meant harm to Sundry, tliut must never go east! It was then that Sandry was to be hold the Iron In this creature of soft ness, of faithfulness and of service. With a cry that chilled hla blood in its savage wlldness, the girl leaped across the silent form In the shabby habit, tore Sundry's gun from his hand and fired twice before he could seize her and wrest tho weapon from bor. Both shots went wild. "What would you do?" he cried aghast. Siletz fought for the gun like a wild thing. Then, as he held It high above her reach, she fell on her knees, clasping his limbs, her face upturned uud trunsflgurod with the lust lor blood. "Kill them!" she panted desper ately, "kill thera both! Blood for Preacher and she would ruin you! Shoot them, Sandry, shoot them or give me the gun!" Shuddering, Sandry covered her savage eyes with his hand. Tholr reversion sickened him. Hut she shook hltn loose, crying for death. "Kill them both, for they will ruin you If they go free! She's got tho packet Kill her and get tho packet!" "What's this?" bo cried hoarsely, i "Things sho has written about you a letter to a man by tho name of MtiRseldorn!" Slowly Sandry's face went white beneath Its grime as he raised his eyes and looked at Poppy Ordway. She returned his gaze. Then "True," she said, "that's why I went east I cannot lose you, Walter. There was danger from that wild creature there, though you did not know it, and I was determined to make sure. Fair means or foul 1 must win. And there's no law for a genius. I know and you know that you are" "Guilty!" he said, throwing up his head. Then Sandry dropped his eyes to Siletz and spoke as If bo obeyed somo compelling power, some urge to Justify himself before her. "I answer to the Right Law. I obeyed the ancient Right Law, little S'lctz, and I have no regrets." "I know!" cried Silet"., "I know'." the smoke was so dense that the actors In this drama could scarcely see each other's faces, but they took no note of It. The climbing roar had shut them apart In a sound-made si lence and they did not know It Only Hampden, edging sidewise, was alive to the possibilities ot the moment. He saw tho gun hanging in Sundry's hand, forgotten. He saw Siletz de vouring his face with her blazing eyes of passion. He saw his moment and took It. With ono great bound he flung him self high In tho air, leaped the space between and came down with his great weight upon the shoulders of . the other man. clutchlne for back and . throat, drawinc tho one to him In n I grip of Iron, pushing the other away. Sundry went down like a reed, and as his knees buckled under him there was an ominous snap. The bone of his right leg, newly healed and fragilo, gave way under tho strain. As the two men fell, both guns, the one In Sandry's hand and the one In his trousers band, tumbled loosely apart Siletz, clinging still to San dry's knees, was borne down with them. As they rolled over she tore herself from under them and with two sweeps of her outspread arms gathered the guns. Then she sprang up, drawing back a pace, her eyes like fire, and deliberately sought for a chance to kill Hampden. "Sandry," she cried, "He flat! Lie flat!" From under Hampden's arm that was choking tho breath from bis lungs the owner saw that slim fig ure of doom and strove to cry out. At last he got his voice for a moment. "Siletz!" he rasped, "don't shoot I command you, don't kill" Hut the bark of the gun drowned his words. Sho was firing around tbem. With the first shot Hampden, re membering the guns that he had failed to get, felt bis flesh rise on his body and be loosened hiB hold, shook off Sandry and got to bis feet, panting, fighting mad, his eyes red and awful. With the courage of the raging bull he made straight for Siletz, who fired point blank at him He took the ball In bis shoulder and spun half round. Tbe girl pulled the trigger again, got an empty snap, threw the weapon away and raised the other. "Silotz!" shrieked Sandry from the ground, "for my sake stop!" It was a command, a cry of owner ship, and it went straight to that part : of her nature which had obeyed for generations. She hesitated, holding ! the mn across the barrel. which the statement occurs that "small samples" were worth two or three shillings a dozen, but that the best fruit could be bcught at 12 shil lings a dozen. Think of paying a quar ter for a single peach! But there were some shops that cut tbe price, and that would sell you a peach for three pence six cents. Youth's Compan ion. Be Generous In Praise. There are occasions wheu speech is golden, rather than sllente, and wben an encouraging word would be of more value than tbe richest material gilt. Some persons are far too much arrald of the effect of a little generous and well tuned praise Tbey would keep all their flowers tn an icehouse Let ting a little sunshine upon them at times would not be aimas. Dr. A. Thomson. Daily Thought Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a niau brave id one way; and mural courage. kicu debut all opinion, will make man brave (a another. Colton. As for Hampden, ho stood, vavrr Ing druiikeuly, chuckling In his throat, a thing of horror In his malevolence "Well," ho rasped dryly, "I guess it's Just as well. I'll leave you to yor pleasant dreams. I sail fer Panama- Hawaii the Yukon. I'm done." lie turned on his heel, to stride away into the pall of smoke toward tho north. In one moment he came rushing buck to run down to fhe west For the first time tbe three people left together remembered the fires saw the thickened smoke, heard the roar that had mado them scream their tragic words, unconsciously, for the last half hour. It was all around tbem, that pouring mass of smoke, and It was black, as if the tires were near. Hampden's huge figure tore past them toward the nar row point of the ridge, then came lurching back, a long red streamer staining bis bedraggled shirt. "My God!" be shouted hoarsely "were hemmed In! Its on every sldo! We'll burn like rats!" He flung a tragic arm to the dusky heavens. Poppy Ordway found ber voice. She darted forward and "Who Wins Now?" He Said. Brains!" "Brain pounced upor him, again with that subtle suggcstlt n of the feline race, gripping bis arm with fingers of steol. "What do you mean?" she cried. "1 mean that we've ben playln' our own little game out to its conclusion like fools, while a bigger one has ben playln' Itself out We're iu a cup waitln'." There was something sinister about that last word. "When this damned wind sucks up a llttlo harder it'll draw tb' urea to gether on' we'll roast alive." He ceased, panting, moistening his Hps. Then presently a hideous grin distorted bis features. "Who wins now?" he said. "Brains brains! An' ex'cutlve ability an' cunniu'! I guess I win at last!" From somewhere up behind the low ering canopy r rumbling thunder drowned his words, as if all the rocks of tho tortu.ed bills were split asun- der In the beat. When It had died away ho turned to Sandry where he sat, pale under his grime, a prey to a thousand feelings. "I've hated you like poison ever sence I first cluppod eyes on your Johnny Eastern face. You thought you had me beat and bo did sho," ha Jerked his head at Poppy, "but I'm too great a force for both of you. Sho's the greatest woman in all th' world on' I'm glad I seen ber like that I loved her." There was Infinite pathos in bis heavy voice for tbe moment "But th play's over. Th' curtalnll drop In thirty minutes forty or fifty at most an' I'm the winner at last! You'll never marry her! But bow I had you on th" hip eastern lawyers an' all!" "An' old FVazer clumsy fool! Found your East Belt doed unrecord ed, didn't you? Laid it to him. Why didn't you lay It to Hampden, who had th' brains an' the power of the whole country? It was recorded all right, but I owned th' recorder same as I owned th' commissioner. Foots, fools, all of you! An' I win at last!" It was again the East and the West that Sandry saw with aching eyes in the two women who took Hampden's news of their fate. Miss Ordway raised palsied bands and let them drop while she stared with eyes of frightful horror. Siletz moved never a muscle. "I told you to go back!" she cried, "that big things were about to happen, and you would not. Now I shall pay you for all things for what you would do to Sandry. Also I fay him for that." She pointed to the still form uudcr the ferns. "There Is a way out the secret trail which only I know and which we take." She sprang and caught Black Bolt's bridle, dragging hlra with on motion Try This. If you will rake a pavement that Is clear, and walk brlsxly tn the center, you will find that before you have gone fU yards you have unconscjously veered very much to oue side. To make this test accurate you must not use any effort to keep In tbe cetiter. If you think of something else and endeavor to walk naturally, you will find that you are not able to keep going In a straight line. In tbe same way a person lost In a wide expanse of level country will describe a com plete circle as he keeps walking on and on The explanation of this lies In the propensity of one foot to walk faster than the other, or to take a longer stride than the other, causing you to veer to one side or the other. mm. Air for the Human House. Your body Is a human house, the place In which you live Food alone cannot make this house a healthy place The lungs, the ventilators of the bouse, must be tilled and refilled many times each minute with pure, fresh air The air breathed deep Into the tlnr to S.fmlry's side. Sho bent to hltn with arms of loving service, exerting all her strength "Climb!" sho commanded, "climb quick I Vy'e can mako It yet! Hut Sundry looked Info her blazing dark fure thnt was like the peaks th Btorni, so wild was it, so thrilling, so beyond comprehension, and shook btr hcud. "What would yo do?" he asked. "Do? Oo down tho trail across the Hog Bark. There is room for a horse if ho Is sure-footed, and Black Holt will go where I put him. Come! He's Jaded a bit but he'll carry us both." "And they?" Sho flamed from brow to throat with unholy Joy "Leave them!" ahe cried savagely, "leave them to burn with their proofs and their schemes and their wicked ness! It Is the right law!" "No," he said, "it cannot be. If there is a way you must go you are a worn an and you must take her with you." "What?" cried Slletx in anguish. "That Is tho way of the outtUdo world, Llttlo S'letz the way of honor. ' Ho saw the fires leap and flicker In her eyes, felt the tension of ber hands upon his arms. Here was a force as wild and erratic as the great Area In tbe forest, and he knew not how to handle It. Then came the words of the Preacher like a way out of bis dif ficulty. "The three bars of Bondage, of Faithfulness and of Service.' You are my woman," said the young man sternly, "Is it not so?' Yes." answered the girl aimply, I am your womnn. Then I command you to go and tako her with you." Tho girl dropped bis shoulders and aroso. "I will obey," she said. A change was working In her. The singing In her ears was growing faint er. She was coming Into the open country where Sandry lived his life, even as ho bad gone for a moment Into the fastnesses where hers was laid. "Come," she said to the staring woman, "thew is a way out You need not die." As the words forced themselves Into tho swaying brain of the other they stripped her of every rag of civiliza tion. With a shriek she threw her self forward, caught at the saddle, clawed at its trappings like one de mented. But Siletz flung her back. "A gift for a gift," she cried, "1 give you your wicked llfo. Give me the packet." Tho womnn tore the papers from her breast, thrusting tbem In frenzy at the girl and again tried uselessly to mount Black Bolt. Hampden came forward, lifted her gently In his strong arms and set her upon the horse. She leaned down and snatched at tho reins, but Siletz held them away. "Quick!" screamed Poppy Ordway, do you want me to burn, you squaw?" In silence the girl snapped her fin gers to Coosnah and the mammoth mongrel crept to ber feet. She tied the end of the long reins securely to his collar. Then she turned to Hamp den. "Go," she said, "get up. He will enrry you both nnd you must hurry. Coosnnh knows the secret trail. Urge the horso and he will fako It. Don't look down; ond hold her, or she will surely go over. Go now." Sandry, raised on his one knee, be held this thing aghast. "Siletz!" he cried, "you disobey?" She shook her black head. "I send her out. I stay. It Is my great privilege." She laid slim fingers against the broken sign beneath her lips. A woman serves and is faithful If she loves," she said softly, "and I am your woman. For a precious moment Hampden stood in Indecision. Hut the lure of the woman, the glimmer of distant shores, mayhap with her who knew? was too strong. He turned from the two and leaped up behind the saddle, striking a heel into tho flank of the mettled black who bounded forward, dragging the dog. But Coosnnh hung back upon the rein, turning anguished, adoring eyes to his one idol. The girl Btooped and caught his long ears, lifting bis wrin kled face. Go home!" she cried, commanding. 'Coosnah! Go home! "As you love me, go!" sho finished In Jargon, and the huge, shambllno. faithful creature turned from her Inbo the smoke to disappear toward that secret trail which only they knew and which led afar over the rearing spine of the Hog Back. He strained at bis tether to obey nnd Black Bolt broke Into a stumbling, hurrying gait, over burdened, half-blind with smoke. And the girl turned to the despair ing man upon the ground. "The Night Wind In not afraid to dlo," she said gently, "and she la Sandry's woman." "Oh, my God!" groaned ..he man, what have you done!" (TO RM CONTINUED.) cells of the lungs, meets and purities the blood which has been sent there by tbe heart the great pump In your hu man house. This pump Is kept busy every moment It must gather the wasteladen blood from every part ol the body and send It to the lungs, then it must take the purilled blood buck to the farthest point of the human bouse. Sometimes Invisible enemies, the microbes, creep iulo the human bouBe and try to steal our health away. Noth ing can do more In the way of driving these little enemies out than our ven tilators, tbe lungs, when they are al lowed an abundance of fresh air. To Drill Earthenware. To drill earthenware, use a steel drill, ground at tbe cutting end Into triangular based pyramid. Turn tbe tool rapidly, and aid the action by the application of a solution of camphor In turpentine. If no Buch drill can be obtained make one out of an old three-cornered file by soUenlng u, flj. tng up until the edges are sharp, and then tempering The extreme tip mav advantageously be made with a great er angle. THREE CONTRACTS LET FOR ROADS State Highway Department Accepts Bids For Work In Delaware and Chester Countioa. Harrisburg Three contracts for road building In Delaware and Chester counties were let at the State Highway Department and award on one contract withheld until Investigation can be made into the prices bid. Bids were asked on one section of the road In the south eastern part of the State, but none were received, this being the first time that such a thing has happened In the history of the State Highway Depart ment The contracts awarded were as fol lows: Juniata Company, of Philadel phia, for 2.76 miles of reinforced ce ment concrete 16 feet wide on section 4 of State highway route 131, in Bir mingham Township, Delaware county, at $47,566.14. Paul J. Snyder & Co., of rhlladol phla, 0.83 miles of bituminous pave ment, amlesltean Whltemarsh Town ship, Montgomery county, at $15,502.53. Sutton & Corson Company, of Ocean City, N. J., four miles of 16-foot pave ment, reinforced cement concrete, on section 9 of State highway route 131, In East Nottingham and West Notting ham Townships, Chester county, at $61,040.15. J. O. McGuire Company, New Brigh ton, for one mile of vitrified block pavement, in Rochester Township, Beaver county, at $28,744.05. Auditor General Shifts Nine Clerks. Auditor General A. W. Powell ac cepted the resignation of Halo Hill, of Tarentum, Allegheny county, as chief of the Corporation Bureau, and changed the status of nine persons con nected with his department He also hired two new men. W. Bingham Kay, of McKeesport, was promoted to fill Hill's place from the chief clerkship at $3,500, and O. II. Graff, Pittsburgh, advanced from chief of accounts, at $3,000, to chief clerk. J. A. Kennedy, Philadelphia, was made chief of accounts with a raise. Frank II. Lehman, Lebanon, was made spe cial corporation assistant at $3,000, an advance of $600. F. H. Him, Williams- port; S. Robert Pealer, Berwick; W. R. Kimball, Dunbar, and John C. Heagle, Philadelphia, got raises In salary of $200 each, nnd De.s R. Weller, Mid- dletown, was given a promotion to a $1,800 post. W. B. McCrory, Pittsburgh, was ap pointed a special assistant at a salary not fifVd, and John Fi enln, Harrisburg, appointed clerk. N. J.-Pa. Bridge Boards. Members of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey State Commissions to con- stdor means to eliminate toll bridges spanning the Delaware River between New Jersey and Pennsylvania held their first meeting at the State Capitol and designated WllliB Whited, engi neer of bridges of the State Highway Department, to co-openjte with an engineer to be named by the New Jer sey Commission In ascertaining the value of the sixteen brldxen. The re ports will be made at a Joint meeting to be held later in the summer. The Pennsylvania Commissioners arc Governor Brumbaugh, who was elected chairman; State Treasurer Young and Auditor General Powell, and the New Jersey commissioners, James A. Campbell, who was elected vice-chairman; Frank Thompson and R. Wr. Darnell, who was chosen secre tary. The Pennsylvania officials con st'tuto the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings. Franklin Man Game Warden. Herbert L. Boatty, of Franklin, was appointed a State game warden to suc ceed E. E. Tlrk. resigned. Frank A. Myers was appointed alderman of the Third Ward of Oil City. W. Curtis Truxal, first lieutenant of Company G, Tenth Infantry, Somerset, was appointed captain and assigned to that company, to succeed Captain Bert F. Lnndls, transferred to super numerary list, and Charles J. Harrison, Jr., second lieutenant, was advanced to first lieutenant and assigned to the same company. The Governor r.lso re-appointed Marvin P. Scaife, rituburgh, and O. D.' Bleakley, Franklin, trustees of the State Institution for Feeble-minded at Polk. Dye Shortage Causes Chocolate Tags. Chocolate brown has been selected by the State Highway Department as the color for the 1917 automobile li cense tags and the same size and style of plate will be used as now, the fig ures being In white. The selection was made because of reports that there might be a shortage of reds, greens, blues and yellows as a result of the dye situation. The chocolate colored tags are in uxe In New Jersey. Auto License Receipts. The State Highway Department last week passed the $2,000,000 mark in re ceipts for automobile licenses, break ing all records. The receipts for the who'o of 1015 amounted to $1,655, 276.50, which figure was passed on April 25, and It is esllmaled that this year the total of $2,225,000 will he reached. Licenses are being Issued at tho rate of fii'teen to twenty a day. 463 Graduated At State College. Four hundred and sixty young men nd women were graduated from tha Pennsylvania Stnte College. The exer- Ifcs were held In the Schwab Audi torium In the presence of more than 000 relatives of the sonlors, guests of the inVtltutlon and college officials. Because of the time required to award the degrees Individually, the usual commencement address was omitted for the first - time. The graduating class surpasKos all former classes by more than 100 persons. STATE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD The Latest Gleanings From All Over the State. TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS On a mountain top, a suburb of Shen andoah, there will be established a new town as the result of an order Issued by Judge M. 11. Wilhelm ot th Schuylkill Orphans' Court. It grants permission to the trustees of ths Girard estate to sell flfty-tbree acres, comprising tho McNeal Copo and Jack son tracts. Under the will of Stephen Girard, It was Impossible tJ perman ently dispose of any property, only five-year leases being provided for. Tha order of Court Just handed down dis poses of this handicap. Tbe new town is guaranteed by options on .the r leased ground already given. Miss Bertha Steckel, aged eighteen, of Easton, is In St LuI.e'a Hospital, South Bethlehem, In a critical condi tion. Miss Steckel was a main wit ness In the case of Kay Donecker, of Easton, who was charged with' shoot. Ing Miss Rachaol Styer, of Easton, on the night of March 31 last Miss Steckel was with the Styer girl at the time of the Bhooting. Donecker wan tried aud sent to a reformatory. Maggie Slowvitsky, ten years old, was run down on the Reading trucks at Shenandoah and both hands so bad ly crushed they probably will have to be amputated. The mother, Mrs. Joseph Slowvitsky, ran to save her child, and was also run down, one car passing over her right arm, which bad to be amputated. Her condition U critical. After five hours' deliberation, a Jury at Reading returned a verdict of guilty with recommendation of mercy in the case of John A. Smith, of Seyferts Station, charged with invol untary manslaughter iu cuusing the death of Mrs. Kate Gels, fifty-one yean old, of West Reading, by running ber down with his automobile. The wom an was deaf. A charter was approved by Governor Brumbaugh for the McConnellsburg tt Fort Louden Railroad Company, which when constructed will be the first steam railroad in Fulton county, the only county in Pennsylvania witnout a railroad. The company waa originally projected as a trolley line, but the character of the country is understood to have required a change in plans. One man was killed and two others hurt when the wheel of an automobile collapsed at Allegheny Furnace. The dead man is Samuel Stunerook, fifty, blacksmith, or Woodbury. The In jured, Jesse Settle, fifty-five, rlglit arm broken In two places, no.se virtually torn off and oihor face lacoiatious-; Howard Propel, forty-three, cuts and bruises. James M. Boyd, aged sevor.ty, one of the best known Odd Fellows in the State, was killed at CenteiviIIe when a Pennsylvania passenger train crash ed into his carriage, he waa a mem ber of the Twelfth Pennsylvania Cav alry during the Civil War and was prominent in polfticar-circlea In Craw ford county for many years, Ju.st $3,750 per linger was demand ed of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany by George E. Fornwalt, a former employe, in an action for damages filed at Harrisburg. Fornwalt says two of his fingers were, crushed at No. 2 Roundhouse while he was oiling a drill press on June 14, 1914, and be wants $7,500 damages. The annual reunion of tho Veteran Employes' Association of the Middle Division of the rensylvania Railroad brought railroad men to Harrisburg from points between that city and Al toona. Superintendent N. W. Smith presided over the business session and was toaMmaster at u banquet at night. To prevent running down a woman, Charles Overly, of Lafayette Hill, ran his automobile Into a trolley car. The machine was wrecked and the car slightly damaged. Overly and his son escaped Injury. Overly was ea route to the hospital to see his wlfo who is undergoing treatment. John Doster, aged 29 yearB, former turnkey of the Northampton couuty Jail, committed suicide by shooting himself In the head. Prior to the shoot ing Doster appeared to be In the best of health and Joked with friends. Edward Stutsman, of Reading, was Injured fatally, In an elevator Bhaft ut the Bethlehem Steel plant. The ele vator operator ran past the first floor underneath which Stutsman was work ing on a ladder. Both his arms ana legs were shattered, and he was In jured Internally. T f Pnirrl afrarl nWtv.nlni) VAnrU of v. .... -' 1 V w J M fi J ' r,vj J v . , - Ceiitervllle, a rural delivery carrier, was killed by a Pennsylvania Railroad passeimer train. He drove In front of the train. Dnvld C. Frederick, well-to-do poul try fanclor and former assessor of Douglas Township, killed himself with a shotgun, operating the trigger with a stick. He had been in 111 health. His wife also Is ill. The Pennsylvania Stale Red men's convention closed at Maharoy City with the selection of Altoona over Lan caster as the place of meeting In 19l7i John M. Coombe, of Mahanoy City, elevated to great sachem, was present ed with a dlnmond ring, by the Ma. hanoy City tribe. r
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