“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when her smile was withdrawn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