“THE TOUCH OF A VANISH D HAND," We sigh for the touch of a vanished hand — The hand of a friend most dear, Who has passed from our side to the shadowy land, - But, what of the hand that is near? To the living's touch is the soul inert That weeps o'er the silent urn? For the that lives our alert To make love is hand return? soe sweet Do we answer back in a fretful tone, When life's duties press us sore? Is our praise as full as if they were gone, And could hear our praise no more? As the days go by, are our hands more swift For a trifle beyond their Than to grasp-for a Kindly lift The burden some one must bear? share, helpful We sigh for the touch of vanished hand, And we think ourselves sincere: But, what of the friends that about us | stand, And the here? ~—Johnu Troland in Youth's Companion. THE SANDALWOOD BRACELET Miss Considine was the rage wid] season: a tall, haughty looking girl, with magnificent great dark eyes, and a torrent of dead black hair, which she was always contriving to wear as nobody else did, tumbling over her shoulders clondily or wreathed about her small. elegantly shaped head. She was a stranger in the town, but she brought letters of introduction from people of the highest bility in the metropolis, and companied by a staid-looking lady of middle who alwags wore pearl colored silk and performed chaperon nightly in an altogether irreproachable manner Miss Considine’s toilets tic perfection. [Her laces less, said judges: her jewelry the eves of even accusio dom. Miss Considine the greater sensation, very chill whisper which thrill in the air about her, and had its foundation in the mere of the be brilliant flicker of her glans pected moments, for no reason, She was ter. That She had a through hers that was infinitely than a level glance would have and the smile which visited those lips only now and then was doubly attractive from its Infrequency A creature of dangerous graces, she was what mean when they call a woman fatal, Men imagined heaven glan and couated when her smile was withdrawn My Lady Dangerous met her however, toward the close of son. A yel touch of the hamd that's} respecia Was ao que HRY, were ariis- Were price 12zledd el upperten wis a perhaps, mystery, for seetnivl to s hilch fading AY 's colo the Heuid and if nnex apparent a coquette of the first wa earty made, sidewise of was a discovery way of looking silky Hey lashes alluring he those long. [sy ¥ 1 PeopDie 1 inst in her fow-halredd German, azure glance had a softer dazs her own, and who called hims if by the fascinating title of Count Ludwig Vermandorf, presented f alwnt that time to compete with ful girl for her place as the day. He was shy of Miss first, but gradually he seemed be drawn within the of wiles, yielding with such a reluctant, pensive grace as clad his radiant face with a pew chgrm. Even Miss Cor sidine drooped her dangerous eves with a flickering blush ander the tender brilliance of the count's smile, and her fingers trembled in his clasp instead of resenting the fond, faint pressure of his hand, Count Ludwig Yermandorf war an assiduons Never deve knelt at his patron saint with more untiring devotion than he at of Miss Considine. It was new the beauty to be songht humbly man was of even at game, He knew how im passioned moment with a ress that continually tiocked and tantalized. to say one thing and look another, to sting with a word and soothe with n touch. He never said too much, but always too little, His looks were elo quent of love: his tongue so siient on that fascinating theme, that the heart of the haughty beauty began to fairly writhe within her with mingled pain and anger. himself beauti of the sensation Considine at 10 fo cirele her Woo! of shrine rapt the yew the and feet {to fot coquettish ut this master, hier own to clothe hiz most ve talent, and he insisted that he paint Miss Cansidine’'s portrait. She wis not at all loath, though she feigned reluctanee when it was first spoken of, These sittings, from which she had hoped much, and for which she draped | hor perfect shape with every artistic vise, proved utter failures as far as fier object was concerned, Whether it was the same with Count Ludwig remaing to be geen, He would | subject, to look upon his pleture while it remained incomplete, Miss Considine, since her nequaint. ance with the fascinating count, had changed strangely. All that rich trop- {eal bloom, peculiarly hers, had van ished. Ionstead was a dusky pallor, varied by fitful crimson fashes, like the leap of a smoldering flame, Count Ludwig bad changed also. The soft radiance of Lis handsome face had turned te the chill dazzle of the snow peaks, His smile was like the ice be. “neath. His blue ores were like steel magnets, It was as tiongh from this man em influ. cowered mmated some deadly ereeping ence which Miss Considine before, but could not resist. It was gearcely lover amd loved one, It seemed rather the executioner and his vietim. One night Miss Considine invited a select few to witness the mysterious unveiling of the pleture about which there had been such conjecture, A sensation was expected. The magnifi- wnt drawing. room was ablaze with ght, a-flutter with expectant guests, The velled portrait oceupled a pro nent position at the lower end of the long salon, and thither pressed the the peerless belle consplenons Count Lud Both were pale, but the connt smiled dazzling. The beauty silent, watching the was grave and with a half-foreboding Hguid black From one lewelled hand stealthily upon her side, as If to still the throbbing of the stormy heart beneath, while she continually gues and her tively, in eyes, “Why do I fear? What is this terror that steals my very senses from me? At last Count Ludwig loosened her jeweled fingers from his arm, and step drew the curtain with a sweep of his hand. There was an instant's silence, An affrighted amaze seemed to stop the beating of every heart, Then broke forth exclamation and out ery, and above all, like the death seream of some dying animal, rose a woman's shriek, breathless rich In in a with Hix first, a room, and gold. reclined The picture was, in decorations of green foreground, half cushioned chair, an old man, long, softly curling white hair. head had fallen a little to one side, his were fixed in a glassy, yet re- proachful stare upon the exquisitely beautiful face of a woman, whose Jeweled hands he grasped with a dy- ing cluteh. loth his hands and hers were blood-stained. Hers held a letto-like dagger from whose glittering point also blood dripped. There was a gaping wound In the old man's and the woman's face was that of Miss Considine, When the whose sole eves sti side, woman for pletare had flung up her appalled benetit been painted, would have frenzied hands to shut out the Count Ludwig caught them in grasp, and almost shouted in in hizx excitement. “No, no, madam: and look, kills you, 1 this sig lst, au iron her ear vou shall look, and till the sight blinds you care not which, Dw you see him, false siren —the poor old man, who was kind you-—who took You out of poverty to marry yon-—who never harmed the nost helpless ren ture? What had he done that von Kill him, you murderess?” Miss Considine had ceased The blanched face and the thing awful to see, that broke Hips, enrdied “Shall 1 ts look, or io should to strug of her #OGe gie, whiteness startling eyes and her were tiie sereams rigid, ashen tothe heart you who 1 am?” continued, without releasing compelling her to look Ludwig no longer I am hix son-—-that Radelphus whom you have heard. but whom When I eanme ated found that the poor old man who loved me had been ruthlessly «iain, I swore until I had found and given to justice his= murderess. For, madam. 1 never doubted a single instant who she was, You laid your plans well. You married a doting old man for his wealth, with your sorceress designings yon in dues] hl to disown his own children and make a will which gave all Then you contrived that he should send the servants for a holiday, except that valet, who was hanged the murder. Poor old George! He wonld have died sooner than harm his mas ter. You pretended to quit the house yourself, But you came back in guise and did the deed.” He paused. Miss Considine had not uttered 5 somd for moments, The horrible ghastliness had not left her face, but ghe had in a measure ro covered her sell.posgession. Now she spoke In an utterly changed but com posed tone slowud Count Ludwi ig her, still “Count of You never saw home never to rest and You for lix- some “You ennnot prove a syllable of this mad story.” she begun, but he stopped her, with eves that seemed absolutely to blaze with rage and menace, Draw ing swiftly forth an purple velvet case, he Hfted the Hd and showed upon the white satin cushion an exquisitely wrought sandalwowd bracelet, It was stained with something which had dried upon it, and changed ix color, all except about a third, to a dark, sickly shade, whose hue 1t was not difficult to recognize, Haid Count Ludwig in an awed tone: “I foumd this among the cushions of the chair in which my father wns slain, It is his blood upon it. It slipped from your arm in your strug. gle with him. You wear ie mate this moment upon your arm.’ He held bis ensanguined token an instant beside the one on this woman's bare, exquisitely molded arm. Ax the | gutlty woman fainted Hodolpline Leanght her falling form. Then he ald her slowly down upon the carpet and “1 think she etly. It was true. Some vessel had burst inwardly in that wild struggle against the shock of Knowing that the man she had learned to love was the son of her unhappy vietim. Bhe had been dying while he spoke to her, A Thoughtiess Man. He (reading item In neviepaper) It is estimated that in on few taousand years the human race will have be. is dead,” be sald qui STRANGE ENGLISH INDUSTRY. | Recovery of Misshies That Are Fired in Naval Artillery Praciice. Mr. Beppings Wright has come neross many curious trades and pecu- | lar methods of earning a living in his |} wanderings through all corners of the globe, but the business of shotting he dizcovered at home, in England, for it daily pursued under the eyes of thousands of holliday folks and lnnus men generally, who neither know nor care what the longshoremen are about | in their fishing boats a few miles from | land, Bot these busy workers are en gaged upon the business of “shotting amd the pature of that peculiar pation we will now deseribe, Aw royal navy men training for the rank of seaman-gunner have to under take nn more or less lengthy term of regular practice in firing, and for these men during their period of training some two three of the old-pattern gunboats are set aside. These vessels are connected with every dockyard, and, while obsolete for battle purposes, umnke excellent training-ships, They are, of course, fitted with approved modern weapons, and dairy daring the season they carry squads of embryo gunners to the seaward ranges that lie outside the Spithead forts, The bear ings of these practice grounds depend particular conjunction of fiin objects ashore, and the targets are generally placed in shoals where a fair range can commanded of trathe, After a busy and much solid metal away into the sea, and it that the forth to when he gunboats have their and return to the dockyard. The eanges and the area in which the can non balls most probably le sabmerged are, of course, well known to earchers, Armed with experience and a long, ironshot pole, they sail over the the hallow bottom carefully Familiarity with ther task renders them skillifel, and an eapert knows in instant when his pole touches the hidden projectile beneath The shell found, low ered gripped and The price and rar ny a pound shot and Both studs coversdl shells is OCC. of on the Cor be free period Blazed is this metal noisy Rey has been recover fa=k shiotters set done thie ranges and probe an a pair of huge tongs the sea, and §. is carefully lifted aboard. tal shells is slight, dy exeseds one penny half-pen but the considerably are usually and the main iron of the re are sold to the roval navy, and prices aff ered appear sufficient many men at steady work on the task of recovering them is into of the me wttelx on the valine intact br iss a nore eit oat these the ta set Way of Measuring ileight of a Tree There is a story that during the there river be bridged and the engineers spent the night making plans. When they went in the morning they found the bridged practical farmers among the sol d the plans and turned workmen and pring ROVE wal Was 1’ fo ont rivew Morne diers had ial an army into Cary know an try, but some of thelr aceiriate " olsen iple of trigo by simple n problems which con life. They may hair's breadth, but the purpose wn tors single nome they the ins up Toes they dally not ton answer Supposing n Maine forest is told to for a yacht. He Knows find a tree which Is straight for sixty feet bwlow the branches. It would pe very troublesome to climb and measure them with a tape measure, #0 he, without knowing it tical trigonometry He measures off sixty feet in a straight line from the tree, and then he cuts a pole which when upright in the ground ix exactly as tall as him self. This plants in the earth his own length from the end of his sixty food For example, if he i= six feet tall he plants his six-foot pole fifty-four feet Then be lies down fon his back), with his head at the end of the line, and his foot touching the pole, and sights over the of it. He knows that where Lits eyes touch the tree is almost exactly sixty feet from the ground. Atlanta Constitution, woodchopper in the get ont a mast that he minst frees Hses rag he top Looking for Love Birds “We tried to Keep the railway car. ring otireelves from Liverpool io London,” writes a young bride, “The “tener was so crowded we really had not a moment to ourselves. At Bushy, I think it was, the guard opened the door, and, in spite of Fred's scowls, lifted a small girl into our compart. ment, making a lot of apologies about having no place else to put her, She wax # real Hitle tow headed English girl about seven, and she sat down on the edge of the seat and stared about hier, “What is the matter, Miss Vietoria?" asked Fred, who is the most good-na- tured man in the world, “4 don't see the birds’ small girl plaintively, “Birds? What birds?” asked Fred, “When I came from my other train | your guard said to my guard, “Shove | her In an Jong wif the Jovehinds” Where are they? "« Troy Times. fo said the Ee Proved His Theory By Death. The ace of realism was reached, though by accident, In a criminal trial a few years ago at Lebanon, Ohio. Two men had a personal encounter, One of them, after vainly trying to draw his pistol from hig hip pocket, turned to flee. A moment later he fell, shot 1. the small of the back, One chamber of his pistol was found to have been fired, His assailant was tried for murder, The defense con. tended that the man had shot himself while trying to deaw his pistol, which Bud Seco whip in the lining of the acl, sd that He Aa : contended that such a wound not have been self inflicted, Clement 8, to demon the dead man's pistol had hong in the pocket ad just how possible iL was to inflict such a wound, Suddenly there was a loud report, and the lawyer sank to the floor, The ball had entered the back almost in the dentical spot where the dead man had been shot, The de fondant was aequitted. Mr, Valandig ham died ~(develand Plain Dealer. Writes With His Mouth. Siuith, of the Mount Thues Review, cution could The defendant's counsel, undertook Aron editor Texas) is United Ntates, He places a pen in his routh and dashes off editorials as rapidly and as accurately any other editor with two arms, Mr. Smith does some of his writing with but the bulk of it Is done with his moutn, He user a pen because it does not require sich pressure upon the paper as when a common lead pencil is used, there. fore it does not tire his mouth. He savs he ean git down for hours at a time and write with but little incon venlence, amd the only thing that bothers him is dressing himself, in do ing which assistance Mr. Bmith mitted the suceessiully was npable to handle as blessed his toes, hie ix obliged to have some ad practiced law but foumd he with any ien bar years and Jeo Was in for awhile books degree of satisfaction He then embarked in a journalistic venture and has successfully published the 18608 His and en Smith Times-Review an eightqu fonrnal large circulation Mr a large man, weighing not Rife paper is 12 Joys a is not aver ninety-nine poids Policeman Secured the Evidence. Magistrate Pool. of the West Police Court, In New York City, known as a “stickier An old offender before him a few days ago Ride has evi become on dence. wax brought go iO answer What is evidence revolver will go off when the trigger Ix pulled or that its bullet 3-41 9 the magistrate must In to a shooting the charge to show that this asked solemnly: “these facts shown or the sooner will be discharged wn who made the disconcerted, 'H get tae evidence if Your Honor will hold the ease he said 4 mintes sfartied bv rel to r 01 profices Arrest was nu 0 Iw few later the conrt w fod re the as two ports that appen riost depths Pool orders the come from inne the building. Magistrate a court attendant to investigate cause of the annsaal disturbance. The officer penetrated the the eollar and ansit dark recesses of forth a blinking revolver in Your Insty right policeman, with a RoR ing hand i ET evidence hiiw Honor want blue these explained the loots all prove after going avy planks.” Magis je two fattened Iams cally, and the har “Ualand.” otedd for Argonaut big by ll Cot he gun = bullets will a= through three lu trate Pool took 1! of lead. then sentenced the looked] at them erit prisoner at ion tlie Blue ney long term on cont In itor i% Einoe eww pron ots conduct ihe A 300-Foetl Column of Water. Heceontly welldriliers Springs, (al. by their woman ROTI at Santa Fe confusion of were drill ground with a was appl drill, and leaped thrown shooting ont explo shaft antly a np The for some foerritie the blaze fxd to the the sion A innde hy inst Te nmin flame well burned brightly then the sappls ed. The diggers were e drilling ter, and not gas; drill into the shaft again and } wegan to work below the 300foot depth already reached. In a few hours a rumbling was heard in the earth, and soon ont the drill again. and following it an volumn of water that reached a hivight of 300 feet, The welldiggers decided that they had found what they hunting for, and the sur Iandscupe soon took on the of a small lake. If the water supply holds out it will be di irrigating the farm lands in the vicinity. It is estimated that the water supply fnnder the present pres wonkd be irrigate 5.0000 acres of land.~Chicago of zZas Gays; severed to hw exhinnst for wa "iy je «hot had been rottding Appearance io sure sufficient to aver Record A New Method of Hlumination., A new method of Hominatios on the ocean consixir of using a hollow eylin- der of steel tubing, charged with cal cium carbide, Thies shell ix to be shot from a gun to 6 distance of two miles, When it strikes the water if generates acetlyne gas and gives LOO candle power, which burns from the end This light cannot be ex. tinguished Ly water. Chicago Chroni- oh, On a Lower Social Level The petted honse cut looked askance | at the caller. “What is your name?” she asked, “Pom,” answered the tawny eat that had strayed upon the premises, “Tom what?" “Nothing. Just Tom.” “Then you haven't any surname? Well, 1 have, My name's Ann Gora, and 1 don't want to have anything to do with you." Chicago Tribune. His Frapk Confession. There had been a few words, and whe declined his proffered arm. “1 do not weed your support.’ she snid haughtily. “But I need yours,” he replied. He conld not forget, even in the ex. a had consinerable money in her own Hight. Chicago Post, CAUGHT BY A HAIR. Dace oi the Stightest Clues That Ever Put a Maa in Prison. “The least thing 1 ever heard of that put a man in prison was the clue that took me over the road between here and New York about a dozen times in 1875, when 1 an Inspector in toe postal service,” sald an old sleuth the other day to n who had just told fi good story, “It was an old case, had been on the books a long while, 3 or five good men had taken a try at it. but the fellow and hie kept taking letters and we could never take him. The complaints pointed very closely to the spot where the trouble was, but when we got there we were complete ly bailed. “1 had myself worked on little and gone nt something else. In nll these detective cases if in nine times out of ten a mere chance that leads to success, One day 1 happened to take out of a pigeont=ts in my desk a bunch of deedy letters that had been gent over the line to eateh this sharp rascal, who was robbing Washington people of their remittances to New York, Somehow [I «lid my Knife through the sealed joints of an en- velope, and there, caught in a corner, wis a short black hair. i.e flap of the envelope looked if it had not been meddled with, Yet it had been opened and a dollar bill marked had been out and the envelope sealed up and put back the “I took that hair carefully if it had been a diamond 1 bad found 1 knew that inst across Seventh street friend of mine, dead, who rful microscope. I rushed and asked him to let me Under ane Wins other or wis too sly, the job a in as dilly taken in mail. tj as n= WHR a now had a up fo his office instrument a Tia ivr se [HOW oment emed to i looked at it did my friend was 8 whisker, sure his tsa the glass the ie from % mustache 4 long We « ough, # max while and agreed that it and I was confident it of the thief wanted to eateh after again To went o sO Was 1 we and gone falled bwfore, had sic ped there should have EE Hitetely make an hie as eyYer nance doubly sure | in amd he wine rful micros Oe he bh vithont he f a but nnder ad. Al wn id put the har flitant i w hesitation fost IX I bhinck red ds ml Fike k it I looked enough iL was sn i office, put dnte in th for tn vse lf went hack desk in order, got all the and that night started New York 4 the thief worked be Philadelphia and New York until 1 got to the Dela Then 1 got down to busi. that handled on fo New my iB Ree, the line to were sat Ger OLE ort We tween I took it Ware river, Infied £0 CARY RW sYverv RE i man through ponches from thers York, and 1 af covery mastache in tween Philadelphia and New lonked for black m rixl and 1 was i ested In nny that had raph bw York i and for inily : Fags d took a mental fring the service ising hes Onew ORTH inter the least sign of fonnd a red 1 of il being dyed renton | fnsincin went on 1o fe LE for anothe f ro hin and the routs 5 i ¥ Was my ms eae hack home, im. sending through his hands nity per some with r hills money orders n hind him the road for two years eight months, and the “It all began with firding little stubby hair in the corner Washington Star haps decoy letters, some with dolls ous he and tHe weeks ana over we went stopped that of trouble ny one that envelope.” Magnificence of the Emperor. There ix Do in Europe,” writes a correspondent, “who travels #0 magnificent a style ax the Ger: man Emperor. and his journeys must cost him ao iounense sum of money. Even when only spending a week at Wiesbaden, it was necessary to from Berlin forty-two horses an! twenty carriages, and the Emperor, though accompanied by the Empress and his two youngest children, aas not a very large suite with him. It is said that his eajesty makes a point of bee ing magnificent, as his early teaching faunghi him that it was better to err in this way than to be too economical, It i= well Known that the Empress Froderick was always too economical in her way of conducting Ler house hold, and that often great offense was taken when she and her daughters ap peared at great festivals in shabby clothing, as it was said that she wonld not take the trouble to put on a smart dress for the future subjects of her husband, The Kalser saw this Zault of hiz mother very clearly, and though he shows a great magnificence out. wardly, and in =o doing gives his peo- ple great pleasure. his honsehold ai faire are comducted on a quite econo mical basis, and there is ne waste, as wax formerly the case, in th: imperial menage, sovereign in woul — London Times, Helped Them to Discover Themseives. Thomas A. Reott, a good judge of mien, “discovered” both Andrew Care negle and Frank Thomson, The for. mer was a telegraph operglor in Scott's office, showed himself frogal and Industrions and on one or two oc casjons demonstrated his ability to meet an emergency. Colonel Scott took an interest in him, gave him op portunities, and he was shrewd enough to use them to the best advantage. He picked out Frank Theisson from among the young engineers in the em- ploy of the Pennsylvania Rallroad and put him on a difficult path, which he wae able to walk successfully. Both these men owe much to Colonel Seott, but much more to themselves. Phila. delphia Ledger. la 1880 It was entimated (hat there re (50,000 IH Latest —— News Gleaned from Various Parts. BOY KILLED A MAN, fnd at Duryen, Huried a Srone st His Bister's Husband, Crushing His Head and Causing Speedy Donth Young Man Birangely Wounded nt the Williams port Golf Clubhousse—Uther Live News, Thomas Lambert, aged 34, wus killed at bis home in Duryea by bis vrother-lu-law, Joseph Tomlinson, a 17-year-old boy, while he latter was protecting bis sister from Lambert's assault, Lambert was in hiscups sud early in the evening bad been abusing bis wile. Lambert went away and she sent word Lo ber brother, young Tomlinsou, He srrived about the time Lambert retursed and his presemce infuriated the busband, who ordered him out of the house, Tomlin- ton said be was there lo protect bis sister sod would stay, *‘Bhe ls my wile and 1 can io anything I want with ber,” said Lam. bert, aud he struck ber and knocked her down, Tomlinson at once sprang at him snd the man and boy bad s terrifie struggle, Lambert's great strength prevailed, how. sever, aud be threw Tomiluson out of ths As he followed and kicked at Tom- Hinson the boy picked up s stone the size of bis fist and hurled it with all bis force at Lambert, who was but a few feet away. The sions struck the man under the right esr, crushing in bis skull, and be {+l uneonseious and was dead io a few minutes, The neigh- bors, sitracted by the quarrel, srrived just as Lambers died. Tomiioson at once gave bimssl! up to Justice of the Peace Motesks snd was lodged in jall, He was cool and collected and said: ~'1 bad a right to protect my sister and 1 defeuded mysell in the only way I could. 1 4.4 nor mean to kill him.” house, The Bhot of an Assassin, Henry Waltz, of Williamsport, is lying at the hospital with a wound in his head caused by a bullet fired by an unknown person. The shooting occurred st Vallamont., Ac cording to the story told Ly Waltz be was sitting on the veraudsa of the goif club house, pear the Vallamont gate, with a young wo- mas, when two men passed one of whom asked Waltz what be was doing there, Waltz replied that it was none of bis busi- ness, and at this be savs the fellow drew a revolver and fired. The first shot did take effect, aud Waltz sprang to one side and pieked up a club, with which 10 defend bimsel!, Ho» usknown assaliast then fired a second sho!, the Luliet striking Waltz in the n pioughiog through the iid of bis right The would-be assassin and bis companion fled. After lying un- conscious for some time, Waltz recovered suflicient!y to male bis way 10 the hospital, where his wounds were sitended to, He will probab ver, but will lose the sight of his right Waltz declares he does nct know who fired the shot, and the police have thus ie 10 obtain apy cl not se and rye then ¥ reco “ye, far been unat ue, Damages for Altered Grade first damage suit at Norristown grow. fog out of the improvemasnts under the re- pal ended, when & jury in rourt awarded Samuel H, Mensch #500 for a change of grade ia frost of the Wisdsor | Hote Arbitrators Iast Spring fixed the damages at £1200 Buh Mensch and the bor edied 10 court. Mensch sileg- ing that he was damaged to the extent of £4,000, while the borough contended that the improvements ¢ Meet the drawbacks, i OO cent muna ORE, ugh ap Fire Threntens x Town. Toe town of Girard, famous as Dan Rice's ow town, was the scenes of a fire which for a time thre! coed to destroy the town, Ton fire storted io F. 1. Rosslter’s laundry, and soon Fred Delker'#residonoces aud bak- ery, and the residences of Holert Strahl and Willinm Meyers were destroyed. Theodors Ely’s residence also caught fire, The town bas no facilities for fighting flee. The total loss Is about #60000. The town recently voted in favor of bonding it for sufficient money 10 erect a water and electric light plant, &d Young Man Kitied by a Traln. William ©. Sharon, aged 10 years, 8 resi- deut of Glo Rock, was killed on the North- ern Central Hallroad at Bmysers Siation. It 1s supposed that bis lutention was to board a southbound freight train, and be fore be accomplished this he was struck by a northbound passenger train, Leg Cat OF by a Tealn, Howard Byescher, aged 18, of South Beth. iehem, went to Easton 10 attend a plenie at Isiand Park. While on his way to the island Byescher jumped on a moving coal train. A few minutes later be foil from the train and bed his jeft Jeg out off at the kneas Toe unfortunate iad was takes to the Easton Hospital, Cotljeries Increase Working Time, Thousands of mipers in Shenandoah wers made happy when notices were posted at the different collieries giving the working tithe as five three-quarter days a week in- stead of two and three three-quarter daye, This ix better time than the collieries worked tae past four years. Wages Nill Ge Up, The KE. & G. Brooke Iron Compass have again advanced wages, this time sfecting ihe biast furnace employes. The advance is 10 per vent, nod will take effect mext week, The iaborers will receive $1.25 & day. This is a 40 per cent. raise since January 1, Monlders’ Wages Increased. The mouiders employed by the Royal Manufacturing Company of Royersford have
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