THE BREAKFAST.
. XY
4A ripple of laughter, amd repartee
bright;
rustle of curtains that shook
the light
Of the broad sun, new-risen,
meadows and lakes,
o'er
coffee and cake!
~ fast divide?
But a crust were a banquet with her
at my side!
IL
A ripple of laughter—a rill of
sweet
As the rills that toss lilies past mead-
ows of wheat
When the June birds are singing o'er
green fields and brakes:
And her eyes, and her red lips, and
coffee and cakes!
And who with the world that
fast divide?
But a crust were a banquet with her
at my side!
break-
Ii.
The light of her eyes, and the light of
her face,
And the sun's light, gold-sifted
through curtains of lace:
The breath of the morning
meadows and lakes,
And the blessing of Love over coffee
and cakes!
who with the world
breakfast divide?
But a crust were a banquet with her
at my side!
=F, IL. Stauton, in Atlanta Constitu
tion-
o'er
Ah!
would such
NORAH'S SACRIFICE,
“Ah, how pretty
“Was there ever such
d'ye think, Norah?”
“Perhaps not.” sald Norah: and she
took her milking pails and followed
May, going on before with a light £tep
and a gay song, toward the meadow
where {he cows browsed. But when
she was quite out of hearing of Ned
Wilton, sitting perched upon the stile.
she muttered to herself: “Pretty?
pretty! pretty?! AL, they ring the
changes upon that. these men. as the
old bell-ringer that knew but his one
tune used to do. dewn in the church
tower. Pretty! pretty! It's
aever ‘good’; it's never ‘honest’: it's
ever ‘true.’ It's always ‘pretty.’
Then she stopped and looked up and
said with a quiver of passionate grief
in her volce: “Oh, I'd give the world
Juat to hear Ned Wilton call me pret.
ty! What a fool I am! and she went
on with Ler pails toward. the cows
Brown Bess and Lily White
Pretty Polly.
Certainly Norah was not pretty: and
what there was in her face the man
on the stile would have been the las:
to see. Had she been a queen. many
would have seen something strangely
fair and regular in her face. Had she
been only a rich gentleman's daughter
Some one might have dreamed of
those deep blue eyes and that pure
brow of hers: but red. and white. and
fat, and dimples. were«the recognized
beauties of the locality. as Indeed they
are all over the world. to such folk
as her lot was cast among: and Norah
Was spoken of as “plain.” Two vears
before, she had taken into her foolish
head to like Ned Wilton very much:
and he. the farmer's son. had thought
well enough of the dairy-maid to say
Some very pleasant things to her. She
bad had a sweet dream. but May Brit.
ton’s coming broke it. Her beauty
was very bright and rare. and Ned
forgot the nice girl he had been so
fond of chatting with, for the pretty
one, who smiled and glanced at him.
She was not as good as Norah; she
had not half her earnestness and con.
staney: but the face was all to Ned.
So May Britton wore a little plain
gold ring that be had given her. and
promised to be his wife In midsum-
mer.
sald.
lass,
he
a pretty
she is!”
pretiy!
and
whet
their names. The farmers deepest
lore was the market price of grain.
The girls slept together in an upper
room of the house, and on her wed.
ding eve May spread out gown and
shoes and cheap white cell. and, dane.
ing about them, boasted that when
the morrow's sun had set she would
be mistress of the house and Norah
Lier servant,
in her heart,
next worning—-the morning of his
dead of night
ber beauty or even to end her life!
horrible that Norah could not be sure
of herself. May, watching her, saw
only a deadly whiteness creep over
her lips, and with the first touch of
pity in her heart folded her veil
waz. and sald. unwisely enough,
, meaning it kindly:
“No doubt the next wedding will be
yours, Norah."
Then Norah, without a look. turned
and left the room. She ought to be
safe from herself, for fiendish
ts possessed her; and, longing
solitude, she climbed a ladder that
lead to the tiled roof, and, seeking the
shelter of the great chimney, sat down
its shadow and looked up at the
It Waa calm and ull of Sears.
peacefulness an Instant in
fluence on her. Repentant tears be-
children pay: “Please make me
good!” And all the hate for May left
her heart, and her love for Ned—her
yearning, aching love for him--soft
ened into a sort of tender memory.
Soon, with her white, well-developed
At last she began to dream. The)
were going to church—May and Ned
going in at the door she saw, Instead
in black, and a coffin before the altar,
gave a scream amd wakened,
Bells were ringing, bur not wedding |
the bells that tolled if there |
were any need of the men of the
place—if fire broke out or robbers
were heard, or there were any rioting
the town, What could it mean?
Norah listened. A strange surging |
fell upon her ears. Lights]
The truth |
flashed upon her. Years Defore her |
old grandmother had told her how the!
old sea wall had been washed away, |
aud a tide had risen and swept in!
upon them on that wild coast, carry-|
ing with it, as it went out, kine and |
flocks, and little dwellings, and even
Lind itself: and how there was mourn
ing throughout the land for those!
that it had done to death—men and
women and children that many a |
housalLold long remembered it with
woe, This had happened again, The
wall was down-—the floods were
sweeping in. The bells were ringing
as they had rung before in the ears
of those who now lay In their graves
ringing to tell the same tale to those |
then unborn.
sO
se
who
The house in which dwelt
was old and near the from
all human aid, too: and its occupants
two very old people and two
The only one who would have
them was far away, and the
were rising even now above
the windows of the lower rooms. She
Knew that the old people must
drowned in their beds If she did not
wake them. She went down into the
room where they slept, and cried out,
them:
“The tide has risen again!
has risen again! Hear the bells!”
Then d them. trembling and
weeping thelr helpless old age, to
roof, and found May already!
crontched there, She was crying also,
ind she turned to Norah and clutched
her arm.
“will
asked.
was to be
can't
“hers
yere
Norah
sea, far
Were
girls,
aided
waters
be
as she shook
The tide
she leg
in
she
who
Oh, It
rise far?’
drowned —I
tmorrow ?
the water
“Shall |
married
Norah!”
will go
RO
her
he,
with you” said
North, “There are four of us"
“But no me would
have been so happy and @ proud to
morrow.” May moaned.
The old people shook and prayed,
and cried softly. Norah, calm and
silent, kept watch. The lights float:
ing about told that boats were out,
Help might come even yet, but the
water was creeping up. It filled the
house. It lapped the very eaves, Still
higher. Those upon the roof
he very apex of its slope,
there, but the water reach.
and May was quite mad
when a light glimmered
close beside them, and a said
CGood folks, there's room for some
here. How many of you are there?
“Four,” said Norah.
“We've room for three]
volee, “Is it Wilton's folk?
“Yes.”
Then a
f and
roof
then the old
others besides
it rose
climbed to
and clung
el their feet,
with terror
voice
’
said the
fellow strode over the
carried the old woman, and
man, and came back.
“We'll return for the other as soon
as we can” sald he: “keep up cour.
amd he seized Norah's arm.
“There's
stout
age:
“In with you!” he erled,
little time to spare.”
And May gave a scream, and eried:
“Don’t leave we! don't leave me!”
Then Norah, in whose heart jeal
ousy had lighted its fires but an hour
or so before, felt that the angels had |
quenched it with the waters of love,
“leave me and take her,” she said.
“I'm not raid: I'll wait. And she
is to be Ned Wilton's wife to-morrow.
Save her for Lis sake.”
She commanded, she did pet Ime
plore. The man who listened hardly |
thought of her sacrifice. He obeyed. |
May was in the boat. i
“Keep courage until we come back!” |
he shouted, and rowed away.
Norah clung to fhe chimney side,
apd kept her feet firma on the roof, |
dear Ned!" she cried, |
you'll have your Jove to-morrow, |
What's plain Norah to any one?
Who'll miss her but a poor old woman, |
who'll follow her soon? But she, |
May. 1s half your life, Ned. Oh, God]
be thanked that I can give myself for|
May for your sake!” !
“Oh, dear,
And in the starlight her face shone |
ter arose toward it, At last her feet
She wag lifted and whirled
away: the long. brown hair. unloosen-
ed, swept far behind her; the marble
face gleamed through rings of water
that the starlight made a halo of, A
volee sobbing through it said: “Ned,
Ned, darling Ned, goodby!” and there
was nothing fo be seen but the flood
still rising and the sky spread out
above it.
On the morrow Norah Abbot's body
was found lyiug close to the old
church, when by that time the water
had retreated, And Ned and May,
swong others, came to see. May
wept. Ned stood quiet, but with a
strange regret in his blue eyes. The
story of her sacrifice had thrilled his
heart. He looked down at her face,
on which the beauty of her beautiful
love and unselfishness had rested in
ber dying moments, leaving an an.
gelie smile upon the marble lips, and
sald, In a dreamy way:
§
"May, she was pretty. I mever
ila
knew Norah
fore"
And then he kissed her,
Abbot was pretty be
PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN NEGROES.
Colored Men Who Were Bronght Up in the
Jewish Faith.
“One of the most unusual experiences
I have ever had,” sald a commercial
traveller, “occurred two days ago In
Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, 1 met
children who spoke nothing but Ger
man, Before the day was
met at least fifty colored people who |
spoke German. And when It came to |
spenking English they were not at all
at their ease, I asked how this eame |
about, and was told that the colored |
people came, twenty, thirty and forty |
years ago, up from the south, and |
settled among th: quiet Pennsylvania |
German farmers of the Blue Mountal:
districts. The colored children grew |
up on the farms, where they worked
and heard nothing but German spo
ken, They soon forgot nearly all the
English they knew and now they rare
iy speak anything but German, Their!
children go to English country schools
in winter, but as quickly as they ave
ont of sight of thelr teacher they begin
to talk the German dialect, and noth- |
ing else. 1 have been told #liat io re
cent years in Germany colored people
be found
in numbers, but they also speak Eng.
lish. These Pennsylvania German pe
groes of whom 1 seak use absolutely
nothing but the German in their ordi.
nary affairs of [{fe. They are good
farmers, live on Penasylvania German
cooking and have all the habits and
customs of the Germans,
“Here in Reading I have just met a
smart, intelligent, middle-aged black
man, whose name is Solomon Williams
and who to the Jewish
Church. He says he knows only one
other colored Jew, a man named Mo-
88 Varns of New York, Both speak
German quite well, Williams’ parents
were servants in a wealthy Hebrew
family in New York, He was born
while they were employed there, amd
belongs
according to the Jewish faith. He ob
serves all the Hsbrew religious cus
toms. His friend Varns was born and
ralsed in the same conditions. I have
heard of another colored Jew in Phila
delphia, who also speaks
quite well. Ths other day 1 read in
the New York Sun of a black man ar
rested in New York who had a rich
Irish brogue and came from Ireland.”
Gorman
The Cute Yankee Farmer,
of those peculiarly
yankees, which the
duces in abundance, emigrated
oew locality. He was the very
ture of a close, shifty, cute yankee,
but as he put himself to work in good
earnest to get his house to rights th
neighbors willingly lent him a hand
After he had got everything fixed to
his notion of
chickens, for he was fond of eggs
He was too honest to steal them and
to poor to buy them, so he concluded
to borrow them. He formed his plan
and went to a neighbor and accosted
him thus: “Wal, 1 reckon you hain't
got no ola settin’ hen nor nothin’ yom
woud lend me for a few weeks?
“I will lend you one with pleasure ™
replied his neighbor.
The yankee took the hen home, and
then went to another neighbor, from
whom he borrowed a dozen ogee. In
due time the borrowed hen
hatched out a dozen chickens, Then
the yankee was puzzled he could re
One
gaunt
shab.sided,
PEt pro
to a
he bethought himself
course of
tain a dozen eggs.
Another idea—and who ever saw a
yankee without an ldea?-—came to his
relief. He would keep the hen until
she laid a dozen eggs He then
respective owners,
did so: “Wal, I guess I've got as fine
a cent, nuther.”" Chicago Times-Her
Better Tenement Movement in Germany,
Consul Monaghan writes
Chemnitz, Germany: “There
with better tenements, Now
they are crowded Into buildings which
like barracks. The pro
posed houses will be built upon lots
about 16 1.2 feet wide
deep, thereby allowing for a front
yard of flowers and a back yard for
a vegetable garden and shed, the lat.
ter for the keeping of poultry or some
domestic animal, The houses will
contain five rooms each. A parlor
the parlor containing a porcelain
stove and heating pipes, and the
kitchen a washboller and stove. The
three bedrooms on the second floor
will easily hold five or six persons,
and ean be made to accommodate
ten. In the largest room an iron
stove will be placed. A pump will
provide water where the city water.
works do not extend to the house. In
connection with the shed Is a walter
closet, The cost of such a house and
lot, when a number are bull at a
time, will be between $850 and £950,
It will rent for about $53 a year: that
is, for the same price the workingman
has to pay for two rooms in the bar.
racks-like tenements of the larger
cities.”
Russia's Progress In Poultry Industry.
Russia has made rapid progress In
the poultry and egg Industry, which
now occupies the fifth place in value
of her representing $11,087,
BOO in Pheasants dre success
fully
FRANCE'S GRIP ON SPAIN. .
rose
The Relations of the Two Countries Have
Long Had Peculiarities.
Ever since, and even before, the
days when the kings of France and
Spain met on the Isle of Pheasants
and made the treaty of the Pyrenees,
one of the chief alms of the French
policy has been to obtain influence
and control in Spain, It was for this
that France fought her {wo most
bloody and also most unsuccessful
The war with the Spanish
succession was chiefly fought out in
Bavaria and the Low Countries, but
the object of France was control in
Louis X1V,, in fact, defied the
world, and very nearly ruined his
country by insisting on his policy of
controlling Spanish affairs.
It was the same with
Though, like Louis XIV...
Nanoleon,
he did not
the manner of his annexation in Italy
Germany-—he know how danger-
' of a Span-
nerve to!
lard—yet he strained every
sula, and may indeed be said to have!
maimed the empire by his determina- |
tion to make Spain a political satellite |
of France, jut for Peninsular |
war Napoleon might have escaped his |
final debacle, But was Na- |
poleon finally overthrown and the)
lourbons re-established than the secu- |
lar desire to control Spain reasserted |
the
Ho sooner
In 1823 a French army crossed the |
Pyrenees and occupied Madrid, and
for the time France obtained complete |
ascendency in Spain. The influence |
thus obtained had doubt to
way to Euglish pressure;
again Louis
which so nearly
England and
0 much for French influence |
no give |
reap
Philippe’s
produced gi
seemed tol
but it
with
sehen
war with
promise
in the peninsula.
HL
of indirect
Napoleon exercised al
great deal
Spain, and
old icy
always
influence in
to
of possessiag |
Americans call “a pull the |
government at Madrid It was, in
the fear of French influ
enee in Spain that nominally produced |
the Franco-Prussian war {The
mediate War was a
pute filling of the Spanish |
throne.) After the war France was
for a time too busy at to pay
much attention to Spanish affairs, but
it deep indigua-
she learped that
had visited Berlin, had
the coloneley of a regiment
of Uhlans, and that Spain was appar.
slipping under influence
Triple Alliance Immediately
French statesmen error!
had beon made, and it
} tiie avowed obie
foreign office to do everyth ng
was possibile
careful
that
was maintain
the
what on
1
sing
deed,
im
cause of the dis
as to the
home
was with a sense of
tion and disgust that
Alphonso X11
a pti
entiy the of
the
the
hat
saw the
became at!
+ of the French
that
Spain and
influence at Ma
Chance helped the French by
of the King. and since then
influence over Spain has been |
and zealousiy built up by
possible means. loudod Spec. |
0 Con
French
iHinte
re-establish
drid
the death
French
steadily
aYery
tator.
The Mother No Meator.
I had taken a very toothsome but |
not highly finished dinner at
mountain farmhouse, and when 8
started on my way the danghter, who!
had after my wants at
table, informed me t] f 1 bad no ob
Jectiong she would “ride a piece” with
mo I gave an immediate
and we were presently jogging along!
toward the Camberland River. |
“1 presume.” 1 said. bowing with as
much gallantry as the circumstances |
would permit, “that if any of your!
beans should see us riding together |
my life would scarcely
their jealous rage.”
“Well, 1 #'pose of Jim wuz here”
she hesitated, “it mightn’t be sich a |
pienic as it looks, fer Jim's {
bad about me. That's why |
here now.”
“Why? 1 asked with considerably |
more interest and not so much bow
the |
looked the |
int
consent, |
mighty |
he aint!
“He shot a hole through the last fel. |
:
i
i
“Does your mother approve of your!
“No.” she responded easily. “Maw |
aint talkin' one way ner tother. She's!
been married four times and Las made |
such a dratted muss uv it every time |
to give advice on the marryin® ques.
tion, nohow. even of | wuoza't old
enough to do my own pickin’ an’
choosin.” which seemed to be such
an unanswerable argument that 1 re.
tired from the field. Washington Star
Mr. Billtops and Himsell
“Mra, Billtops says she doesn't won-
der the children are the way they
are,” sald Mr. Billtops, “because ir
anything happens to me | am ‘way
down, and anybody can tell it by just
looking at me.
“1 suppose that is so. and It makes
me laugh to think of hd¥ing it any
other way. Ive tried it time and
again, but, gracious me! I never hit
it at all. Um-m-Uve made a pretty
fair binf at life and achieved well, |
won't say how moch or how Hitle sue
cess, but there's one thing | have
never heen able to do yet, and that ia
to achieve a victory over myself,
“1 am still at it, and 1 expect to get
there some day, but the best I've been
able to do so far is to get a fence up
around myself, and keep myself with.
in certain bounds. And you heard
what Mrs. Billtops said Just nowsit
seems that when 1 come to the fence
and look over, If there's anything the
But
then I reckon there's a lot of us like
that."--New York Sun.
on mh—
CONVICT STEALS A STEAMBOAT.
Desperat: Escape of Heamry Bradley from
Governor's Island.
A daring and successful dash for
freedom was made recently by Henry
Bradley, a convict on Governor's
Island, the Government reservation in
New York Harbor, To regain his Hb.
erty he stole a government steamer,
and in the exciting chase by an armed
guard who followed on another
steamer he gave his pursuers the slip,
Armed guards watched over the
prisoners, but at 7 o'clock a. m.., while
the other conviets worked on the dock.
Bradle y was aloue the sieawer,
Shouting the guard standing on
the landing ship that something
gous wrong with the engines, he gaid:
“I'm going how works”
Immediately there was a puff of
steam, the bhawser was cast away
from the boat and before the sur
prised guards could recover from their
astonishment the General Fair had
steamed out of the dock apd was
heading for mid-stream with Bradley
for crew and passenger,
An outcry
four minutes
a government
pursuit
board.
ah
io
had
Bie
to she
once ralsed, and
Hettie Palmer,
steam lighter, started
with an armed guard on
Bradley, however, an ex-
and be was Able
to get every inch of spedd that was in
General Falr, When Lhe saw the
Hettie Palmer leaving Governor's
Island in he
the Atlantic dock at Brooklyn.
With full steam on be ranin between
a barge and a steamer moors in the
and to turn off
from
through
Was at
later the
x
engineer,
thie
pursuit ran directly
without waiting
steam. Jumped upon the barge.
which he
docks,
nade his
During
eRea In
the rufl Across
clothes of the
i Fair The
mer landed
ch of the
Bradley
engineer
i
sara
workin
af the Gen
Hettie
a thorough
at
linding
§
tae
ra
; on
a made
but
the and
Hy docks
An lagenious Fraud.
war In
great
running
Juse
method
who
with
ngenius quack
“practicing”
A most
the habit of
on board
and
Paris
He
during
KSUCCORE the boats
Calais has
Hix
embarked
Drover
been arrested in
follows
between
Was as on
and the cross
a woman, his accomplice, pretend
peasick., =o bad, in-
collected around her a
sympathiziog passengers,
turned with =a
as affirm-
drug efficary,
which be offered to the sick lady, She,
swallowed mouthful, de
miraculously
never
boat
ing
od to be violently
that she
group of
swindler
bottle
then
containing,
of
up
he
marvelous
having one
clared
The
herself restored,
failed to ask
and he,
inventor
lHspose
bystanders
for
himself
Secret
an
to England
sald that
sake he
a few bottles of his medicine just
arrived In
The silly
his gly.
who
of
for
ing ot as
was golog to «
parent,
humanity's
his nevertheless
would dispose of
for
boat
sum of £5 each
port
people who
to dis
the “drug” only col
an unlucky discovery re.
servi for their return Thia
svalier Jd'industrie
while walking in Paris. where he was
by one of his dupes. ses
that
water
cover Was
ored
voyage.
arrested
he was
Choctalk
Choetalk is, in two prin
a perfectly secre! language. It
nntaught lis
and it is fairly easy to learn if
one is possessed of common-sense and
a little patience. But though
talk ix earned or taught viva
diffienlty, yet
impossible as a
pal re.
tener,
Choe
Yiu
iz al
written
since it
it in print.
ut if one cares enough to learn it
to study the directions carefully, after
hie has mastered it, he will have no
trouble in teaching his friends,
the fun of using it will amply repay
him.
Firstly, then. each word of choctalk
i= an indication of the English word
which it represents, and ix accom
plished in the following manner: The
first “letter of the English word is pro
pounced, not sounded, but given ite
full name as in the alphabet.
initiad letter of a word is ©, say sve;
if it is h, say aitch; if w, say double
you: if a. say a. After the initial let
ter is pronounced, sound all the other
consonants in the word, omitting en
tirely the vowels
Wedding Put OH for Fifty Years
Major D. H. Stewart, 75, married
Miss Sarah Jane Evans, 71, at the
Presbyterian church, Morgantown,
Ww. Va. recently, with ring.
veil, orange blossoms, ete. Both
are wealthy, Stewart and Miss
Byans wer: lovers in childhood.
and were engaged fifty years ago.
Missa Evans's parents parted them. sc
Stewart married. raised a family, was
bereaved, met Miss Evans, found he
still a maiden who loved hime and had
refused dowens of marringe offers
proposed and was accepted. They are
a handsome couple. and Miss Evans
has always been a social favorite, go
ing regularly into society even to the
present. Baltimore American.
ain
» in
Russia ix experimenting with giant
searchlights mounted in balloons and
above the earth it w
a
——— a
News Gleaned from
Various Parts,
Latest
RAILROAD ABANDONED
Brave Engineer Richards Defles Threats
of Death From His Workmen — Willismes
port Terrorizted bys Man With » Large
Kuife-A Parrot, 100 Years Old, Had
Been in One Family for Fifty Years.
New developments relative to the aban
donmeat of the Delaware & Hudson gravity
road have eome to light. The proposal to
abandon the road has been known to the
officials for some time, but not until Friday
was it made publie. The decresse in the
shipments of eoal for the last few years, sud
the heavy cost of transfers has reduced the
profits to such an extent that the road be-
came an expeuse, and the officials bad to
face the lssus of running st s loss, or abap~
doulng the road entirely. The canal be
tween Honesdale and Rondout will also be
discontinued, and sithough the output of
coal wiil not decrease a sheaper route will
be taken to deliver it at New York efty. Is
ten years the number of boats on the canal
bas been reduced from 1400 to 250. Tbe
change will jeopardizs the future of Hones-
dale, as the loss to the town will amount to
$12,000 a month, & large number of the tax-
payers being employed on the cans! gad
gravity. Waymart and Prompton will suf.
fer mont, as aimost their entire sustensnos
comes from this soures, The loss will be
keenly feit in Carbondale, far mors than
500 men will be affected. The locomotive
shops will not be interfered with, but the
gravity car and repalr shops will be closed,
The bistory of the road is interesting ad
dates back to 1825, when it was commenced,
and was completed in 1828 Upto 18701
was estimated that the canal had oost $63, -
099.54, and the gravity road $35,703,00). The
first locomotive ever used in America was
run over this road. This was the BStour-
bridge Lion, manufactured {u Stourbridge,
England, and now at the Smithsonian Insti
tute, at Washington.
His Life in His Own Hands.
William Richards, of West Chester, a
elvil enginesr, in the employ of the Pennsyl-
vania Raliroad Compasy. is a hunted man.
A few days ago he killed one colored man
and wounded asother during an attempt to
murder and rob him, and nowagangof a
eouple of husdred solored men have noti-
fiad him thet bis Jife must pay the forfeit.
Mohards has been workisg in a lonely
losality, some distance abova Plitsburg, in
charge of & large number of colored mes,
who are known as dangerous characters,
He made his bome alone in a hut pesr the
scene of the work. A few days ago the pay
car visitad the place and left the pay for the
men. This fact was geserally known, and
It was thought Richards bad the money In
his sable. That night three members of the
gang went to the piace and broke into ft,
but Richards met them at the door with &
revolver, The first man was instantly killed
by a bullet through his heart, and the peo.
ond one was wonnded, but was taken away
by the third. Richards bas bess exoverated
by a coroner's jury, but sleeps with two ree
volvers beside him, He has received many
threats against his life, but will retain his
An Alleged Jack, the Ripper.
Tha people of the northeastern section of
the city of Williamsport are {na state of terror
sver the actions of an individual who de.
siares himsel! to bs “Jack the Ripper.” Sev.
sral persons who have been on the streeis
inte at night have been held up by the fel.
‘ow who flourishes a large knife and makes
sll manner of threats, On each occasion
the alleged “Ripper” has been frightened
sway by the approach of other belated
pedestrians, Women are afraid to venture
upon the streets In that section of the city
after nightiall, and many of the residents
have armed themselves and promise to give
the “Ripper” a warm welcome on his next
appearance. The police have made efforts
to eavtire the mas, bu’ have falled.
Gans! and Rallroad Abandonaf,
At a conference of the Delaware & Hudson
sompany running from Olyphant to Hones.
dale, a distance ot twenty-six miles, and the
sanal from Honesdale to Rousdout-on-the-
Hudson, a distavos of 108 miles. This de
cision will be a bad blow to the tows of
Honesdale, as it depends largely on the
ennal, it fs sald, will be purchased by the
Pennsylvania Coal Company, and ita termi.
pus changed to Hawley, It will be operated
in eonnrotion with the Erle and Wyoming
Valley Raiiroad Company.
A Hunter Accidently Shot,
John Bower, only son of Calvin M. Bower,
of Delistonte, while on the way home from
sompanion, whose gun was discharged by
sontact with a barbed wire fence. The load
sotered Bower's left shoulder above his
heart. Bower wiil recover, but it is said be
owes his life to a heavy padded corduroy
coat which he had on, and which impeded
the progress of the shot,
Rendered Homeless by Five.
Fire broke out at Reading in the Italisa
quarter and two houses were destroyed and
twe families rendered homeless. Frank
Stavagl has $75 in notes secreted in a trunk
representing the oarnlnge of several years,
This was destroyed. So was $100 belong
ing to Jobn Madoutl, a boarder, Stavagl's
tittle dnaughter was painfaily burned,
George W, Soheffor Dead.
George W. Soheff«r, Treasurer of the