—— sn ——
' SUMMUM BONUM,
ow blest is he that can but love and do,
And has no skill of speech nor trick
of art
Wherewith to tell what faith approveth
true,
And show for fame the treasures of
his heart!
When, wisely weak, upon the path of
duty
Divine accord has made his footing
sure,
With humble deeds he builds his life
to beauty,
Strong to achieve, and patient to endure.
But they that in the marketplace we
meet,
Each with his trumpet and his noisy
faction,
Are leaky vessels, pouring on the street
The truth they know ere it has known
its action.
And which, think, ye, in his benign re-
gard,
Or words or deeds, shall merit the re-
ward?
~—Peter McArthur in The Atlantic.
The Silver Dollar.
BY EDWARD BOLTWOOD.
RERERRLIRRERERERIIRERRIRRE
“Oh, it's bound to turn out all right,”
said Ormiston to himself, for perhaps the
twentieth time that evening. “I'll strike
the story to-night, and write It to-
morrow, and get the check for it Wed-
nesday morning. A dollar is enough to
keep me until then”
He wound his fingers around the sil
ver piece in his pocket and turned into
the glare of Broadway. It was mid-
summer; the lazy, unhampered look ot
the street proclaimed that fact without
the aid of an almanac or thermometer
An informal air of fellowship pervadea
the sidewalk; the loungers seemed to
say to one “Here
New York on an August night, and let’
make the best of it.”
sauntered along with a vague
ment of this elusive friendiness.
another: we
enjoy
“You got it, aint’ you, Barney?”
“Naw—McPhee's got it.”
“He ain't neither—it rolled away off.”
The youngsters dispersed along the
stretch of the block, and this fact, ad-
ded to the tuning of fiddlers within the
theatre, put an end to the interest of
most of the spectators, Lord and Lady
Bountiful withdrew from the gallery,
the loungers lounged away, and the po-
liceman resumed his post inside the
lobby. Only Ormiston and the tall girl
remained.
He had been watching her with a good
deal of curiosity. She was dressed in
brown linen and her coppery hair was
twined Severely below the brim of her
straw sailor hat. In the shadow her
face seemed white; the lines of her
mouth and chin were proud and fine;
she had clasped her hands behind her
back and this threw her head and shoul-
ders into an alert poise of half defiance.
of an even
still Or-
and
huddle
to find alone on Broadway,
ing. She remained stock
miston drew nearer to
seemed to be watching
boys on the distant corner.
30 that he could
eyes. He was
at the
wis
as
hes
er,
of
the
Ormiston maneuvred
straight into her
smiling eagerly, but not
was smiling because he
of that delicious mental thrill
known only to story-tellers and poets,
artists and musicians—the thrill
comes from the discovery of a preg-
nant idea in a tired brain
look
CONSCIONS
which
“I beg pardon,” said Ormisto
I be of any help to you?”
“No, thank you," she rej
admirable and dignified surpri
in no trouble, I'm merely waiting
carriage.”
She turned her
to the young man a v
her head. Ormiston laughed delightedly
“I thought you might allow me to pick
up that coin for you,” rsued
“You cannot
that way.
you, and
belongs to the
She
for
on heel, vouch:zafing
iew of the back o
he
cl for
Siow!
friendless. From
was actually the offic
of a country newspaper in t
Ormiston had to New Yor
make his fortune by writing stories
had written many storie
tune consisted of «
that morning ome one
ton of a promising
thousand word stor:
was in hand Wednesday.
Bree
come
ME TT
ry
iy
lect Southern stuff the
overwise informant.
New York life. Something that
happen.”
Ormiston had nodded and walked out,
It was a chance—and yet a
of yours,” said
“Try a yarn of real
biblical epic
less thing of stone and
long he had racked his
ron. All day
brain for
him out of doors: and here he w il
haunting the streets and saying softly
to himself, “The story
story!” Where
as,
Perhaps bs
it
was
corner, perhaps in the cab which rattled
over the crossing, perhaps locked in the
lives of the two people who passed him
as he waited on the
story in the worid might be right under
his eyes and he unconscious
- 1
curh
The greatest
In this mood he found himself
down a side street which flanked ‘one «
the theatres left open at that season
in a row close to the playhouse in the
gazing. The little
expectantly, like
word of command.
there
the
stood
waiting
Suddenly
gamins
soldiers
and drum broke through the wall. and
the music rang in the street with lively
distinctness.
lowing the swing of the tune and cheer-
ing now and again in an excess of ar.
dor.
suppose they line up here every night
and wait for this. I wonder"
Could this be the story? The young
man laughed rather desperately and
turned away; he felt that his mind was
too hopelessly wearied to take up an im-
pression; he would have his bread and
milk and try to sleep.
The march which he had heard was
evidently the finale of an act of the
comic opera, for through the broad open
door he saw in the lobby knots of swel-
tering gentlemen in search of the open
sir. High over his head was the iron
grating of a fire escape, and from it
laughter and voices floated down to him.
When he had crossed the street he
looked up. A man and a woman wers
standing on the gallery; he was fan-
ning her, and the two were leaning over
the balustrade and looking at the news-
boys who were still loitering on the
pavement below,
The man took a coin from his pocket,
tossed it over, and Ormiston heard it
jangle in the street. The boys howled
simultaneously and plunged into wild
riot for the money, rolling about in a
tangled ferment. A policeman near by
grinned sympathetically at the bustle for
wealth, various loungers drew closer to
tontemplate the spectacle, and a tall girl,
along the street, walked before
the knew it into the very storm centre
of the scramble and retreated a step
TE it
woman on augh
heartily, and her escort, apparently
stimulated by her merriment, flung down
1 second coin. This one fairl
td on the asphalt.
thing in unison: They redoubled
exertions, scurrying about lke
Can suggest
lieve me
of a story, yo re
he broke off abrupt 3
standing on that money, aren't you!
think
here,”
show
I'm in error, I'll lie down and
' "
walk on me
“1 won't hun te myself”
claimed hotly business
yours? If you
the .
“You can do
1
police
$0, of ct
miston, “but that w
ending for the story.
he | nodded
gir
on ‘Mighty strange
on MIgNLY srang
‘3 . . +
it It comes out strong
ee
off where you
“I'm a Colquitt.”
he Colquitts
using.’
hey're my co
2
like
3]
mm
visiting
had
n
Ww
Gradually the girl averted her
$0 that
“I'm at work here,” she answered
studying the tips of her fingers, “trying
picture papers. I'm
well.”
Miss Colquitt made a brave attempt
Then she {
showed
not doin
very
her cheeks were flaming red.
“Oh, you caught me at a right despic-
able thing” she broke out “I'm
nearly starving, Mr. Ormiston. 1 did
see the coin rolling. I did stamp on it
in the paving.”
te
the young gentleman Finding's keep-
ing. Better that you should have it than
that those dirty brats yonder should
stand by, and let me rescue the filthy
lucre.”
She protested with a gesture, strug-
gling pitifully with her shame, but Or-
miston knelt down on the pavement, and
she stepped back and covered her eycs
with trembling fingers.
No coin was visible anywhere. The
wide crack in the flagging over which
the girl had been standing was quite as
bare as the stones about it. The man
scowled gravely, glanced at the girl, and
took his own dollar from his pocket.
“Here it is, Miss Colquitt,” he said
“No, no, no,” she replied, recovering
somewhat her self-possession. “What
must you think of me, sir? The money
is not mine.”
“Why not, if you need it?" insisted
Ormiston boldly. “Certainly it is not
mine—and I doubt if one could dis.
cover the dispenser of charity in the
theatre. Take it, Miss Colquitt.”
“Very well, 1 will take it,” she agreed.
“I'm grateful, Mr. Ormiston.”
Thankfully he laid the coin in her
pal She looked at it for a moment
and then, with a swing of her arm, she
pitched the silver dollar far across the
feet and among the newsboys. Her
was luckily accurate: the urchins
a yell of exultation; and Miss
took a deep breath as one who
n off a burden.
“There, that's #0 right,” sald she with
smile,
“But your purse"
“It's my pride that has kept it empty
Mr. Ormiston, and now, thanks to you
my pride has been taught a lesson. Per-
haps I shall see you again. Good night.’
She held out her hand shyly, Ormis-
ton grasped it, mumbling commonplaces
but before he could quite collect his wits
she had run away and left him wool
gatherig. He shrugged his shoulders in
grim amusement and walked supperless
to his lodgings, soliloquizing.
“That was a mean trick of mine,” he
mused, as the Broadway cars clanged by
him. “Can I follow—no, I'll write te
Brink Colquitt to-morrow for her ad-
dress. A mean trick. I should never
have caught her at it if I hadn't been
story hunting.”
He stopped short, staring blankly at
his own image in a shop window.
“The story!” he gasped. “I wonder
if that's enough—but it doesn’t end
Then Ormiston thought of the sweet
kindliness in Miss Colquitt’s eyes and
instead of finding a plot, he found in his
unprofessional. —New York Independ-
ent,
SOURCES OF CUTTA.PERCHA.
Efforts Now Making to Extend the Culti.
vation of This Usetul Tree.
Two years
France s alarm
to the future of
This gum has been utilized
ng
wunded with regard
sita-percha
insulat-
an
supply
for
purposes for over sixty years and ;s
for
itn the gum the tree is
considered a submarine
To
down,
neces ity
us bl
canies
3
cut while trees and vines
ing India rubber need only
yields ag
T%
This 1s not t
and the plant ain after
peration ¢ case
gutta-percha tree
H
ha
export
have been killed for
gutta-per
the gum became an article of
have
f
Mr
quaily
as
alt
cut bebo
irees
maturity
5
the
18435. Of
been
Weiller
gutta
1.1 1 s 1
cables would not
S41G
¢ 3 Yorram #1 ry
of percha sSmbhmarine
1
Lange
ionges:
\
the
fifteen years
rotect
’
lant grows best and report upon the
Fund rows
neans of
{
Under the
France is no in planting
. '
variety known as Jsomnandra gutia,
ts regarded as the best quality
gum A large number of the trees are
being planted in Reunion and Madagas-
It Ii that 1}
thy
of
car. we conditions
under
realized in s and every effort
will be mad make the
successful
The Dutch Government 1s now plant
of
1% asserted. how
ing the arts the
Dutch East Indies
by Fren
trees in various p
It
h experts, that the Dutch
ies of the plant
ritish authorities in the East In.
limited their efforts
ever,
are using inferior qualit
Ihe
dies have thus far
to regulations making it a misdemeanor
destroy immature trees
In a pam
last
to
published in Germany
year the writer asserted that the
are among the few places in
gutta
development
ppines
1 3
world whi
reaches its }
percha
it
whether
the the
mn
iree peat is
worth io ascertam
nt mn regard to
If th
cultivated
statem Our, new
™ JEACSSIONS 1s accurate
ese
ceasf in the
urce of wealth open
will be avail
may be su
Philippines a new
to American enterprise
The prospect is that within the next
half century mo ocean cable will he
fe
"SOCIAL CONDITIONS IN PERU.
The Final Distinction Between Men There
Is Founded Upon Riches.
The most interesting feature of an ar-
ticle on “Social Conditions in Peru,” by
Charles E. George, in Quinton’s Maga-
zine, is the paragraph relating to what
constitutes aristocracy in Peru. Mr.
George says that “the don, living in
Peru in his casa de hacienda like a lord
in his castle, having a numerous vassalry
at his beck—planting, rearing, distilling
his aguardiente, tending his flocks of
cattle—far though he be above them,
frequently betrays in his swart skin the
same blood as that which flows in the
veins of those He rules. Sometimes he
may be a white, again a mestizo, or even
an Indian, with the Indian's black, wave-
less hair and heavy features. He would
have become a chief had he been a sav-
age; he is now a don, because of his es-
tate, which lends him dignity. He hashad
the genius not to continue in poverty
and helpless dependence, therefore he
becomes the peer of the proudest in his
native land. It is one of the anomalies
of eastern Peru that a people so long
kept in servitude have acquired no taint
of degradation in consequence:
that neither aborigine nor cholo is any-
where spurned because of his blood:
that, in fact, no one thinks of his racial
origin, but is content with knowing his
upon respect as a citizen of the
The final distinction
founded, then, upon
not distinc
social
claims
nien is
riches—a
their uncommon
tion in other lands: but riches here be.
come too often translatable into the mere
ability a man
POSSesses to get himself
served |
of
yw others, to avoid manual labor
It of
aristocracies still operation
only in Peru, but in nearly the
Spanish
any sort, is a remnant
landed in
Here, net
shy of
yole America, destined soon
the nebula of the historic
as elsewhere”
d Experi mee
Sculptor's Od
. ils of
tor, the niptor, te an
up a racket in tt
rmpelled to get
secure
Cif nto
i 1
Raddie”
1 1
leg, sir, sb
‘Show a 2. Ow
leg.”
He was compelled to get up and meet
the peremptory demand. He planted
its
Just w ut the door; there was a
cato shriek and a hurrying
of footsteps down the hall
and Mr,
his toilet
After a
foot
Eo
i he
i door
was closed Proctor went
time female appeared at
She
her hands and
before
with the tray in
made a peculiar squat courtesy
and, dropping her eyes, remarked,
eprecatively
“Ho! Mr. Proctor
stockin’, ye knaow
Erotism of Cenius.
A writer in the London Standard de-
the idea genus usually
to be a popular delusion. On
contrary, he alleges egotism to be
essence of genius,
quotes many amusing examples
When Wordsworth, Southey and Col-
eridge were walking together and Cole-
ridge remarked that the day was so fine
“it might have been ordered for three
clares that 1s
the
very fue and
of gutta percha is adequate for the pro-
:
i
present time nothing has
supplant gutta
The demand
Up to the
purpose
limited and the price it commands makes
it a very {\fitable commodity to handle,
At present the supply is so short that
the mere laying of an American cable
50 per cent.—New York Sun
Old Silver,
Teapots and ocoffee-pots do not go
back very far, since tea and coffee were
not introduced into Europe until the sev.
enteenth century; and no silver tea pot
or kettle is known of earlier than 1700
Festoons and medallions are character:
istic ornaments of teapots of the time
of the early Georges. Not umtil the
middle of the eighteenth century, how-
ever, do we find silver urns, tea-strain-
ers, and tea-caddies. Cream-jugs fol-
lowed the fashions of the larger pieces
The first English sauce-boat in silver
belongs to the year 1727. Silver candle-
sticks are older, being found first, with
square bases and fluted columns, in the
reign of Charles the Second. Medal-
lions, festoons and drapery characterize
later candlesticks, and the Corinthian-
column pattern, so great a favorite, was
first introduced about 1765. Cake-bask-
ets of the beautiful cut silver in which
Paul Lamerie 20 excelled as a maker
belong also to the middle of the eight-
eenth century. Many trays and salvers
were made in this cut silver, which now,
by-the-way, is again in fashion, and de-
servedly so—Harper's Bagor,
It is said to have cost Sir Thomas Lip.
ton $462,083 to attempt to lift the Amer-
ica cup this year. The building of
Shamrock Il cost $325000. The rest
was spent in bringing her across the
ocean and in defraying the expenses of
her crew, :
exclaimed “Three poets! Who are the
two?”
Disraeli, then a mere youth, wrote to
“but tween
And
Our own Joaquin Miller wrote Walt
We know we are great
and if other people don't know it it #s
w
It President Grant who, being
was
joining, “Why should he? He didn’t
write it, you know." —New York World.
Canine Taste For Chesa,
“Do dogs like cheese? Well, I should
say 30,” exclaimed a waiter in a lunch
safe. “l imagine that dogs prefer
theese to any other food that is going.
1 didn't know this myself till two or
three months ago. hen, one after-
noon, a man happened in here with a
very nice fox terrier, and | tossed the
animal a lump of cheese irom a plate
which a pie-eater had just abandoned.
“Oh, he won't eat that," said the own-
er of the dog. ‘Very likely not said I.
But by the time the terrier had hopped
with a nt of joy on the morsel, and
he swallowed it with such a blissful
{ook as 1 never saw on a dog's face
before. And—would you believe it —
the next morning, right and early,
that fox terrier Eames n dere alone,
nd ran to me, and looked up
ce, WARRIng his tail. I oui X
knew what he wanted, but, to make
sure, I threw him a bit of meat. He
turned away from it in disgust. Then
I threw him a bit of cheese, and he was
happy. He hung around two days. His
owner located him at last and took
him home, I'll keep a stock of ¢
on hand for him hereafter,” said the
owner, ' or otherwise I knew he'll re
turn to you again.” Philadelphia Rec-
o
Not Six Jer Sum 08 21) the women, a
America spend as much money as
a vear on their clothes.
WEST POINT FREE FROM HAZING. |
improved Conditions at the Military
Academy Reported by Colonel Mills.
The most important feature of the
annual report of Col. A. L. Mills, Su-
perintendent of the Military Academy,
West Point, relates to the measures tak
en for the suppression of hazing, Treat.
ing of discipline, he says:
“The discipline of the corps of cadets
has greatly improved during the year,
and is now in an excellent state, It is
believed no military body of its size
exists which excels it in soldierly ap-
pearance and in the perfection of driil
and military exercises, as well as in the
higher requirements of devotion to duty.
The satisfactory condition has been at-
tained by firm adherence to the meas-
ures adopted during the past three years
to create among the cadets a higher sol-
dierly regard for their obligations, in
particular those pertaining to hazing.”
Col. Mills then reviews what has been
done, mentions the criticisms passed up-
on the Academy and the measures taken
to stop hazing, and adds:
“Throughout past summer's en-
campment, which is the time when new
cadets
the
initiated into their new
life and when hazing is
tised, it is a fact that the great majority
of
are being
. ! 5
ordinarily prac-
of cadets have obeved the new order
ally and
affairs and the ns loy
regula
se of maltreatment
Have f
required to per
{ 1
i
Ww Ol
been
'
a menial nature
}
5
i
geen a d
prearrange
training has
One
for giving
cadet
cadet
an un
order to a new
1
111s
{ i fe
for exceeding hs
over them
spirit
3 ¢ 3
other reform ha
i
i
wer, and there need be
haat th slOntage f suc
a ioe S10 page Ol
If ANY Way impair a proper
TY TL
self-defense against per-
aes
WW OINSQs
Cocoa, Cacao, Au Coca.
the use of
city from
3 time
to a physician
the beliet
“Speaking of confusio
words,” said
Nicaragua, some
ago which was
Was with
that he was either misquoted or that he
in his botany.
and 1
gotten slightly mixed
had
ie COCA,
i
attempted to straighten out
was talking about
las and things of that sort,
some o
{f the
popular errors, but instead of doing s0
made matters worse.
“Now, | am engaged ur
of a cocao planter, near S
ne
know
to
one thing,
an-
he seed
Cacao is
and COCA 15 still
mt
chocolate 1's
he cacao, the
her curious
invariably
all adver-
t Any botanical dic-
tionary will show the difference
between cocoa, the cocoanut palm; ca-
cao, the broma cacao and coca, the co-
caine shrub. Yet these words are com-
monly confused and misspelled in news-
papers and other advertising mediums,
and the members of the medical pro- |
fession, it seems, are not exempt from
the same mistakes. They are separate
things, with separate properties, and
are put to separate use, and any good
botanist will indorse this statement —
New Oriecans Timeg-Democrat.
tree,
seed
It
word
1
incorrectly
the
broma is t
fact tha
snelled
peiied
1sements
CACAO Is
in
neany
good
you
Untucky Names For Ships,
Nothing is ever likely to shake the
naval superstition that ships named
after things that sting are doomed to
loss. Besides the Viper and Cobra, the
Serpent was lost with nearly all her
crew, the Wasp was wrecked with
heavy loss off Tory Island, and a sec-
ond Wasp, a gunboat, disappeared in a
typhoon, never to be heard of again.
In consequence of this double disas-
ter to ships named Wasp that name
has been struck out of the admiralty
list of available names. In the past
we have lost a Rattlesnake, Gadfly and
Hornet. Probably a new Viper and a
new cobra will be built, but should
anything happen to either of them the
name ne the other is almost certain to
be changed by the authorities in defer.
ence to the sentiment that prevails
afloat concerning unlucky names. The
only exception that obtains is the Res
olution. The present ship is the tenth.
No less than eight of them have had
tragic fates, and the present one some
years since very nearly met disaster
at sea. Most of the old Resolutions,
however, earned glory first in battle,
hence the perpetuation of the name.—
London Chronicle.
“Cast Acts of Operas.
A laughable suggestion has been
made for next opera season. A musi
cal correspondent proposes to have a
night set apart occasionally for repre.
senting the last acts of famous operas,
as, owing to their freq com.
at or near midnight, there are
thousands have never heard the
final acts of many famous operas,
The flowers on many a man's grave
wre choked by the widow's weed.
LATEST HAPPENINGS
ALL OVER THE STATE
The Latest News Cleaned From All
Over the State.
\ $150000 FRE IN BRADFORD.
City Hall Among the Dozen Bulldings Burned —
Carsegle Men Receive Stock—Pitiston
Womas Eotertained Friends on Mer 107th
Birthday 5700 Found With a Corpse—
Coraopolis Oil Plant Damaged by Fire.
These pensions were granted: Penn-
sylvanias—Henry J. Westerman, Alle-
heny, $6; Frederick M. Atkinson,
Pittsburg, $6; Charles Matz, Pittsburg,
#; John Stauffer, Pittsburg, $6; John
Ashman, Greenwood Furnace, $12: Har-
non Moser, Waynesboro, $8; Jones
Shell, Miffinburg, $8; John F. House-
wilder, McConnellstown, $8: David H.
Harsbarger, Mattawana, $24: Andrew
Donaldson, Mercer, $6: Isabella Moon,
Connellsville, $8; Aggie A. Groscope,
Pitcairn, $8; Sarah A. McKeown, Pitts-
surg, $12, Margaret Moodie, Fisher, $12;
£liza J. Irwin, Barnards, $12: William
Weston, East McKeesport, $6; Cur-
4s TJ). Cross, Parthenia, $6: Daniel
Ringer, State Line, $6: Lothk Mader.
Zrie, $6; Henry Peoples, Allegheny, $8:
samuel Humer, Newburg, $8: He y £{.
Tarmon, Huntingdon $10; Martin
Wortse, Tyrone George Wigner,
Lewiston, $15: !
Routh, Altoona,
B¥; Henry C. Huhn, Smithf : Dan
wl Haas, Mt. Pleasant Mills, $10: Wil
liam B. Krape, Johnstown, $8: Rebecca
Risheberger, Johnstown, $8: Caroline
Kellogg, Sayre, $8
Fire in the livery stable of F. Koche-
nour, in the end of Harrisburg
destroyed the stable, with horses
and many carriages, and also three
dwelling-houses, were burned, and two
dwellings were badly damaged. The loss
estimated at $10,000.
3
upper of
3
ten
i
The members of the Farmers’ Union
of North Coventry attended
the Parkerford Baptist C
SETrviICes 1»
Potts
William
text was
sow.”
Mrs.
entry,
Mary
who
Milton
spent
N Nps - oy
sOn, sagiman,
her
about to enter
return home
ner gate
William Stebbins, a two-year-old
fell sump at Berwick
was unconscious from the effects of gas
when rescued by Mrs. Robert Good
Milton N. Bernh
State House of R t
Lehigh county from 1801 to 18
his home in Allentown, aged 5:
nto 3 sewer
epresent
The barn of Anderw Po
ned tos
horses
the three
with
four cows
Melvin F
MWeisensale,
On
son of Amos
a suburb of
Hanover, by the acc
dental discharge a revolver in the
hands of his cousin, Harry Miller, died
of his injuries, after suffering for about
ten hours. An inquest was held. After
hearing the testimony, a verdict was ren-
dered young Weisensale came to his
death by a gunshot wound, caused by
the handling of a shotgun by Harry
Miller, without any inention or fore-
thought of dischargin gun, and
without any intention of voluntarily tak-
ing life. Miller was afterwards arrested,
the Adams County
th
wie
Court
Twenty-one department heads at the
Edgar Thomson Steel Works, of the
Carnegie Company, at Braddock have
received blocks of company stock rang-
ing from $30,000 to $0,000 each. In
tach case the § per cent. interest guaran-
Wed on the bonds will produce an
amount equal to the recipient's salary.
At other plants it is said similar awards
this purpose as rapidly as the department
peads are thought to deserve it. The
beneficiaries at Braddock have their pay
doubled by this arrangement. and in ad-
dition will have the principal of the
bonds when they are due. Camille Mer-
rader, chief draughtsman of the com-
pany, who is said to be a Hungarian
sount, was given $75.000 worth of bonds
One of the worst fires in the history
of Bradford occurred Friday morning.
stable of
Frank P. Beamer and consumed a dozen
buildings, including the $35.000 city hall.
Thirty-seven horses in one livery stable
forished in the flames, and the $10,000
ibrary of Brown & Schoonmaker, city
bttorneys, was totally destroyed, to-
gether with valuable maps. The fire was
discovered at 3.30 A. , and it burned
fiercely until 5.30, when the firemen gain-
ed control of the flames. The fire burned
buildings on hice streets, Kennedy and
Boyleston streets and Patent avenue.
The loss is estimated at $150,000. The
tity records were in fireproof vaults and
were not damaged. .
«While driving from Factoryville to
Scranton, John McAnulty had an ex-
viting experience with a bear which rush-
ed from the woods adjoining the road.
McAnulty had a quantity of meat in the
wagon and this first attracted the atten-
tion of bruin. While the bear was
munching the meat, McAnulty left his
horse and wagon and fled to a house
some distance away for help and a gun.
A crowd of hunters was organized, but
Een they arrived on the scene bruin had
ished his meal and disappeared again
in the woods.
Miss Elizabeth Huey, of Reading, fell
dead in the drug store of John Br Rarer
& Son. After the body ha
person.
were sewed into the lining of her skirt.
In addition, and greenbacks
hifi ol igh J Cea
ing. money ted $700. Of
h in fo Peath i
Sis aso was in ge by heart inchy
Mrs, Sarah Kelly, of Pittsburg,
svening hin. to celebrate
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tn 1704. Mrs. Kelty sable in :
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