WISE WORDS. Not merely to appear good ought man to care, but to be so both pri- vately and publicly.—Plato, A fool and his money are soon parted, and if that doesn't justify the ‘ool to a commercial generation, noth- ing will.—Puck, There is no living without friends. Portuguese, The man that's goin’ to the devil always finds congenial company on the road.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. Laziness begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains.—Spanish. What is the oldest lunatic on ree- ord? Time out of mind—Christian Register, It is it. —— Irish. no secret if threz know It is unpleasant to turn back, though it be to take the right way. — Gern rv ian, If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the Jowest.—Syrus 1 expect to suffer a thousand ills, but none so great as to act unjustly. -—Socrates. — — Trawlers and Cables. in connection with the damage which is repeatedly being caused to the cables the Commercial Cable Company off the Irish coast by Brit- ish trawlers, a letter written by Mr. Clarence H. Mackay to the United States Becretary of State shows the cost and trouble to which the com- pany is put in order to maintain its service unimpaired. “During the past three months,” he says, ‘our cables have been injured and broken two and three at a time by fishing trawlers at a distance of about fifty miles from the Irish coast. We have expended over £20,000 already this year in making repairs to our cables off the Irish coast, and each and every one of the Interruptions has been due to these fishing trawl- ers, ‘ The injury to us is not only the enormous expense of repairs, but also the necessity of refusing to accept from the public for transmission The trouble is that it is impossible in most in- stances to find out who the gulity party is, and even after that is found out, it is almost impossible to obtain proof that the injury was wilful.” — Engineer. ’ Oi these busineas — Old English Slaves. Before the Conquest, and for a long time after, at least two-thirds of the people of England were denuded of all the substantial attributes of free dom. The lords had the absolute dis- posal of them; they might be attac 1 to the soil, or by deed, sale or conveyance, from one lord to ancther; they could not change their place or hoid they were slaves under their obligation of perpetual which the con. sent the alone dis- golve The was abolished until the reign of Charlies 11., and so as 1775 men were bought and sold in Scotland with the estates to which they were bound. aed transferred property; in short, servitude, could not fairly of master n ao v syster late Love's Labor Lost. olent A bene vl oF : FF ful of in ting a the telegr ¥ Oia gentiemar rmation wn r » re ; ENCE Wires he said aph countryman “Waiting ‘long, eh?” Ce a message go Ae The man grinned and sald, “Aye.” he benevolent old man got on the wall, and the next quarter of an hour tried hard to dispel his ignorance. “Now,” he said know something hope you will among for at last, "as you of matter i spread your knowledge your mates on the farm.” I don’t work on a farm" ural citizen. ire, then, may | ask?” mates and [ are tele and we are testing a n's Weekly. “ Would Tell The Truth. Sentimental Young Lady-—Ah, pro- fessor, what would this old ocak if it conld talk? Professor-—1t would say, ‘1 am an elm.” —Fliegende Blatter. the re- i linemen, wire." —Pearsc say HEALTH AND INCOME. Both Kept Up on Scientific Food. Good sturdy health helps one a lot to make money. With the loss of health one's in come is liable to shrink, If not en tirely dwindle Away. When a young lady has to make her own living, good health is he: best asset, “1 am alone in the world,” writes a Chicago girl, “dependent on my own efforts for my Hving. I am a clerk, and about two years ago through close ap- plication to work and a boarding house diet, 1 became a nervous in. valid, and got so bad off it was almost impossible for me to stay in the office a half day at a time. “A friend suggested to me the ides of trying Grape-Nuts, which 1 did making this food a large part of at least two meals a day. “To-day I am free from brain-tire, dyspepsia and all the {lis of an over: worked and Improperly nourished brain and body. To Grape-Nuts | owe the recovery of my health, and the ability to retain my position and income.” “There's a Reason.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road te Wellville,” in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. | ! i | ! | i i i i are genuine, true, and full of homar interest. i i i i | i i o ¢ Ye ViavBeBBD —— BANK RUNNER ROBBED. Philadelphia (Special). After choking Joseph A. Vaughan, a bank and robbing him of $1,800 trolley car, a runner, a Chestnut Street man whose identity Is unknown, dashed through the car, madly thrusting aside a score of passengers, and, leaping to the street, made good his escape. Several policemen pursued the dar- ing thief, but he vanished into a big department store, The wallet in money was inclogsed w Broad Street saloon. was missing, but checks to $625 were found In when it was picked up. Vaughan ig 50 years oll and is employed by the Empire Trust Com- pany, a West Philadeiphia concern He was on his way 1 the United States Subtr after making several collections when attacked He had $1,900 in notes, which carried in a wallet in an insid« pocket hand satch he car ried § The thief choked Vaug th one hand and reaching for the wallet with the other, was off In a twinkling Vaughan re sed the hand The made hig way from front platform to rear car andl dashed the department ire on the stolen found in a The money amounting the wallet which na as AsUry he coal a el papel han w o00 in money ! tai gatchel . » ihe thief he of the crowded the into Qty PLANTS ON FULL TIME, ¢ { Special) The mills of Tenth § and Pittsbu irown & Duquesne Way tments office that the re Company, Str reet t was stated at the business was had a num ad 5 company week Bri 8 GE more than last The American : secured a 2,95¢ Chicago & and 1,162 The Jones & the 14 orders, ¢ furnishing 650 Bailey Avenu in the last ing companies have signed scale with of Iron, the ensuing 3 Americ Middle Steel secured 3 ¥ 18d fow ympany has * t £ Of net in i . i € i PE Amalg: M town, Sts Com & © Pittsburg; Comp Any ] & N ut Company Worth mn + 5 Worth Kansas Kansas For Fort} Tex Wheel & Ir ; eciing ng Stes v on Cor h W. Va SAYS DOG WAS MAD bad] taken to man got ma: ig now Foster Kelly, the head | fing rom somo vs F £3 vy Lage Gi fe al inio is hand and swollen tha! I s13f- a badly ! u probat 10 a Paste with ni ‘8 he also ill be taken Institutic treatment n CALF HOLDS UP TRAINS, New Cumberland (Special) For 1 week a calf owned by Daniel Folk vhose farm adjoins this place, has stirred up excitement among the rail- roaders by its desire to wander on he tracks of the Northern Central Railway The Southern Express between Harrisburg and Washington was de- layed seven minutes by the calf trot- ting playfully in front of the engine for a mile, while the engineer and to chase it from the tracks. The unusual part of the calf's an- tics is that it crosses several open bridges and culverts without making Aa misstep. Mr. Folk has tried all kinds of ways to keep the calf at home. it BOY NEARLY HANGED, York (Special).—Mrs, Rosa Ab- romson, the proprietor of a grocery store, was arrested on the charge of attempting to hang Willlam Lands man, six yeas old, a son of one ok her neighbors. It is alleged that Mrs. Abromson seized the lad and tied a rope about his neck and sus- pended him from a balcony. The boy was almost strangled when he was discovered by Elec. Bair, a passerby, who hurried into the yard and cut the rope. Young Landsman was black in the face and it was sometime before he was re. vived. The father of the boy pre- ferred the charge, and Constable Ginter arrested the woman. Mrs. Abromson says she intended no harm to the boy. Her friends assert the boy was suspended by his arms and not by the neck. A A SHOOTS WIFE; KILLS SELF. Boyerstown (Bpecial), - James Heimbach, aged 35 years, attempted to murder his wife and then ecom- mitted suicide. Heimbach's wife left him last week and the would-be muy. dered called upon her to try to per- suade her to return to him. This the woman refused to do, and Helmbach shot her. It is not believed that the woman Is danger- ously injured. Heimbach then turn- od the revolver upon himself, dying instantly. A ch CR ERAS LIGHTNING HITS CAMP. Gettysburg (Special).—-On the eve of their departure for their homes three men of the Pennsylvania Na- tional Guards were struck dead in one of the most severe electrical storms ever experienced on this his- toric battlefield about 10 o'clock P. M. The identified dead are: PRIVATE BARBE, Bighteenth Regl- ment, PRIVATE ment, PRIVATE ment, The body of Garver was severed intwain as though by a sword The greatest confusion prevailed and the visitors to the camp as well #35 many of the troopers were panic giricken. When the MORRISON, Tenth Regi- GARVER, Tenth Regi- i storm came up Govern- or Stuart was entertaining friends in hig tent The storm broke with | such suddenness and fury that the | occupants of the tent found themselves entangled in canvas and ropes | in an tant, but all escaped injury There were nearly 50 men in regimental guard tent of the Tenth Regiment when the storm broke, and not one is belleved to have escaped 1 i i i the ins the | i h ! i b i { ’ " The me of the Second Brigade, whose tents were pitched in the low land, were forced to swim to safety, When the storm swept down upon " i ie camp there were hundreds of present Scores of men and sought sh in the Y. M This immense sheet of tossed like a toy bal- wind, but strangely person fs said elter A. tent X Was gale of of one io en injured Rain, which accompanied pment on a cloud- the storm, flood- and ding indating glreets two feet Dozens Gettysburg citizens from drowning Christian Asso- | was filled with | had taken re- was razed to | far as known, ! ininred inijureq J BLEVINS WAS | bordered sD ¥ the narrow The Young § Men's which who ent, { hn form, rt { 1k who re Frat of Pe wit is ampli of Cit Neweas i three other murders aid relative murder ¥ i Treasurer 31 sievins, in LO § nr f Was in the Barnes Us Were raise a suggested al Neweapstls to leave the pent West Une talk good i} ‘ i¢ planned #aid ne of io tL relatives . I wrote about * men undertook the as a roing in = outside Iwo anf RALx iff Une and when Bley man came him a then he h h ontinued Open 341; fanning &t ont in him ins Came up blow him § beat A 3 fi at dealt rk. # h with Foi a bleyele a ¥ fonth 0 Gents All this was it hace n io mn and done quickly offic the in going away, how much money the Treasurer's tien Line e, men lost | I do not know they got BODY EXHUMED BY ORDER OF | COURT. (Special). County De Jones, of Wilkes-Barre. ac companied by Deputy Coroner Lo mont and Dr. Danser, of Hazelton. arrived here and had the body of the late John Hartranft exhumed in obedience to an order of Court. The stomach was taken out and will be sent to an expert to have its contents analyzed It will be a week before the result of the an- | Freeland tective The detective stated that this ae. tion was taken on the petition to the Court of a number of citizens of Freeland. Mr. Hartranft died af- i ter a brief lliness and was buried | last week. His insurance amounted | to $2.000, and it is believed the company asked to have the post. mortem made PLANS MEMORIAL TO QUAY. —————— wa i Pittsburg {Special}. —Ia memory of her husband, United States Sen. ator M. 8. Quay, Mrs. Quay has com- pleted arrangements for erecting a mansion in Sewickley Heights, Pitta. | burg, which will be a sort of monu- ment to the great politician dead | It is to cost about $100,000 and will | be named Ballamona. The name was suggested to Sena tor Quay and his wife years ago io | Italy by Hall Caine, who with Mr, | Quay planned an elaborate Hbrary, which was to be in the house which Quay at that time intended building for himself. This library will be a feature of Mrs. Quay's now home, and Caine is being consulted regard ng it. AA Woman Attacked By Cow. Bloomsburg (Special). While! milking a cow at her home in Bugar loaf Township, Mrs. Frank Mitchell was suddenly attacked by the animal came to her assistance. She hae many wounds on her head and back and it is feared she is Injured inter nally, A A BA BI The New York Central employs 60.000 men and between $3,000,000 wages, A TERRIBLE CONDITION. Tortured by Sharp Twinges, Bhooting Pains and Dizziness, G18 South Oar ¥, Minn, says: “I was 80 bad with kiduey trouble that | could hot straighten up af- ter stooping without sharp paing shooting through my back. | had dizzy spells, was nervous and my eye- vight affected. The kidney secretions were Irregular and too frequent. | was in a terrible condition, but Doan’s Kidney Pllls have cured me and | have enjoyed perfect health since.” Sold by all dealers. b0cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y Hiram Center, street, Lake Cit be To Cripple The Ghost. This curious bit of Dalmatian £u- perstition turned up in a recent trial at Trieste: Antonia lago, a widow, was accused of mutilating a Corpse, Gf the dead, by severing the sinews in the fool of Mathe Duda, a dece ed landowner, al Salona near Spala In that locality exists a deeply rooted superstition that any evil-doer will, after death. be compelled wander round eternally in the shape of a greatly distended spirit, to the ror avd discomfort of himse!f and beholders As Duda’s daughter-in-law reasons for fearing that he might become a ""Bukodlak.,” as the Dal Mmatian vernacular has it, she employ- ed widow to cut the ligaments ! fool, and thus prevent ramblings later. Antonia widow, believed absolutely in the r conscientiously earn- as {to Lo iad the any the ide te perstit in and her pay Th lower risoner, bwcause of plety but the appeal reversed the decisi tenced her to three days’ men! for mistreatment of 2 Laicago News : ed ¢ court discharged » motives court yu u Tik im; corp The Expert Shoemaker, The expert shoemaker is in way a sory of Sherlock Holmes: { by looking al 2 ran 184 something Lie cust where ime r shoes about the Cust the of evidence in he ar the ahsence any such commonplace that, but by the manner shoes show wear But 3 ia shoes is not Here Wears the soles of her shoes very thin at their forward end, the there, at the 1oe; ~! and ips You live in - he shoe expert “No.” says the woman. “1 5 Why did you think 1 the country ™* ‘Hecause your shoes are worn the foes I macadam roads here the expert slipped, in this case by making lowance for & habit of these shoes but usually he can New York Sun the country, live in + 13S f Boon i he cl boy not Wearer: teil Senator Crane's Baseball Barebhall a of Senator Crane of Massachuseils is < aint Governor be took them by having the rigs al ap open field and an- g£ there was {oo be a baseball Two nines were chosen and ite game began Pretty soon some. body came along the road “What teams are they?” he asked ne of the drivers “SWhy. that man pitching is the Govenor of Massachusetts.” the driv. er replied “The one calchiog is the lieutenant gowernar. the first baseman is a Congressman: the sec ond baseman is the judge advocate general.’ ‘Say!” “Perhaps who 1 parte!" rized ¥ 3 the i ik noun UL game of interrupted the passer-by you would like to know am I'm Napoleon Bona- Boston Herald Wisdom Of Age. “Ma. why don’t you keep out of the parlor? Thinge are running smoothly now.” “You ain't enevaged yet. daughter, and your ma knows from experience that a young man who finds things running too smocthly is apt to get bored and quit!” Kansas City Jour. cal Hicks’ Capudine Cares Women's Monthly Pains, Rackache, Nervousness, and Headache, It's Liguid. Effects imme thiately, Prescribed by physicians with best results. 10c., Pe, and Se. at drug stores. Tactiul. In the parlor there were three: Girl, parlor lamp and he. Two is compay, no doubt; That is why the lamp went out. «Princeton Tiger. Ladies Can Wenr Shove Allen’s Foot. ares swollen, | of, SWrAURE & Bing Jures swol t of, sw a nails, corns and butions, At 8 Olméred,Lokoy N.Y. AS AS Proper Enough. “Gracious! children, slop that “But we're paying war,” replied “What? You mustn't play "war “But, ma, this is a religious war.” An Autograph Fan, i ‘e has a very good-looking husban whom she is most proud. ing marked attention to a lady Ler own set she kept a careful watch er among her husbands number of letters written 1 lady. She papers then reflected course she should thought long and at strange plan From among as to pursue last hit upon the and {Oo them on the back of her fan then accompanied her husband dinner where she knew she meet her rival It was not fore the fan attracted the long be- attention to the guests, who asked be al to look at it. The fan then passed hand, and when it reached turned crimson and a sudden indisposzitior hastily From the Gent Lae from han thi sivicl eon unger withdrew woman. oe Hitks' Capudine Cures Headache, \\ hether from Cold, Hest, Stomach. or | train. No Acetanilid or dangerous It's Liquid. 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