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A STRANGE TRAGEDY
Io his work of exploration in Egypt,
Nicholas Gemsohd, the famous archae
ologist, unearthed the sarcophagus of
Lo ancient queen He shipped 1t to his
bome in Paris, and there opened It
with the most exquisite delicacy, In
order that the mummy It contained
might not be disturbed. He found the
body In a perfect state of preservation,
enwrapped In mummy cloths and
shrouded in cloth of gold
He removed the body from the sar-
cophagus and set It up io his study
He _called In his servant and told her
the mummy must not be touched,
wuch less dusted, as it was very pre
clous and exceedingly fragile
The dead queen stood In ap alcove
of the Egyptologist’s study, the ob-
ject of an almost hieratic reverence on
his part. He longed to remove the
gold and resin that clothed her and
gaze upon ber face and form, but
knowledge that one touch of his hand
would destroy forever the fragile flesh
within caused him tg curb his curl
losity and to worship with his eyes
| alone. Once a month Gemond took a
| feather duster and, reverently and In
| trepidation, whisked from his treas
ure the dust that had settled upon it
No other hand but his was ever jald
upon her who in life had reigned over
Ezypt and who io death reigned with
no less authority over this quiet study
in Paris. He was ber high priest and
she was his goddess.
But Gemocnd was alone io his wor
ship. His servant, a plous, practical
Frenchr woman, saw with grave disap-
proval this corpse, that ought to be un
derground, standing In her master's
study. the fact that it had lain buried
thousands of years rendered the sacri
lege no less implous Io her sight
But it was the dust which gathered
upon the mummy that most shocked
her tidy soul, and ber busy fingers
fairly itched to take off those golden
robes aud give them a good shaking
and beating at an open window Fear
of her master alone restrained her,
but she would sulff with contempt at
Gemond's efforts to keep the mummy
clean with a feataer duster
Farldlan study for several months, her
high priest went out one day and for
got to lock the door of his room that
was his shrine. The faithful Gabrielle
eized the opportunity to tidy up a bit
She dusted the books, she shook the
rugs, she placed her master's papers in
peat plies, she washed the windows
and wased the floor and polished the
mirror and did all the
| things that only a woman's sense of
neatness impels. At last she stood be
fore the sacred mummy and looked
| with ever-increasing rebellion at the
| ven of dust that enshrouded it Ev
| erything elise in the room shone, and
this alone stood dusty.
CONIFATY *™ whal 00 Men auuw asvul
neatness, anyway’ She took the
cloth of gold from the shoulders of the
queen; despoiled her of the royal
death robes and shook them out of the
winuow. Then she brushed them care
fully and laid toem waside
Having begun her work she deter.
mined to finish {t, and make a good
job of it. So she began to remove
the brown mummy cloths in which her
Egyptian majesty had slept for all
these thousands of years, determining
to give them a good cleaning. But,
what was her horror when she discov-
ered that they fell to pleces in her
hands
Gabrielle stood as If transfixed The
soft brown linen dropped, bit by bit,
flaking away and crumbling as it fell
She selzed the golden robes and hur.
riedly draped them upon the silent
forms, hoping thereby to hide the rav
ages her hands had wrought. But as
she worked—too roughly Io her hurry
—she felt the whole mass crumble un-
der her bands, and the cloth of gold
fell in a shapeless heap over a plle
of brown dust .
At this moment Nicholas Gemond
entered the room. QGabrielle jumped
from her task and stood facing him,
her eyes wide with fright. The savant
looked at the spot whereon had stood
Lis anclent queen, and beheld f(t
empty. He seized the golden draper-
fes, and found beneath them nothing
but a handful of dust.
Then he turned in speechless wrath
and put a bullet through Gebrielle's
heart. }
The faithful servant fell dead at his
feet
Nicholas Gemond, the famous Egyp-
tologist, sits to-day in a cell in a Paris
prison, a convicted murderer, awaiting
-N. Y. World
What Riot Costs,
The trying days of 1877, when Pitts-
burg was !n the hands of destructive
rioters during the railroad troubles of
that year, are recalled by the fact that
on January 1 Allegheny county will
wipe out the debt that was laid upon
her by these disorders For 26 year:
that county has been paying for prop
erty destroyed. It has now provided
for the final payment of $364 000, and
when that has been turned over the
county will be cleared of a debt of §J -
500.000 which was caused by the burn-
ing of property by the rioters. Banda
for the total obligation were issued 'n
1880 and since then the payments have
been made In several Installments,
large amounts being taken from the
Property of the Penn
in Pitts-
burg and vicinity was destroyed, as
and the end of that heavy reck-
oning is pow happily lu sight.
Sport “Hazardous,
“What was the mortality amongst
Ray Hosmer spent Sunday at
Spencer, N. Y.
T. L. Hudson was in Towarda
today on business.
A. J. Roell of New York, is the
guest of friends in town
Mrs. Clarence Peck and children
were in Elmina Saturday.
Hon. 1 T. Hoyt returned to
Harrisburg this morning.
Edward Payne of Cornell, spent
Sunday with his parents.
Bruce Meade and wife were call-
ing on Ulster fricnds today.
Mr. Correy of Buffilo,
Sunday with Vine Crandall
The oil well was down 386 feet
at midnight Saturday night
Mrs, J. L Bartrand was in
Elmira on business Saturday.
spent
Miss Gray sang a solo at the
Teachers’ Institute in Sayre Sat
urday.
The business men n will hold their
regular meeting this evening at
city hall.
Judson Preston of Elmira, spent
Sunday with Charles FF K-11 gg
in Athens.
Harry K. Crandall | goes to New
York tonight to remain in the city
a short time.
John Brown of Doanetown was
was in Athens over night enroute
for Dushore this morning.
Miss Jessie Bullard came from
Vanetten Saturday afternoon and
spent Sunday with her parents, re.
turning today.
The ladies of the Universalist
church will hold a valentine social
at the home of Miss Martha Stulen
Wednesday evening.
Miss Ella Hassert of Bloomsburg
Mrs Harry Thompson and Leon
Fice of Trinket, spent Sunday at
the home of John D. Fice.
The Misses Jennie and Laura
Carson visited at George Jackson's,
Welles avenue, over Sunday aad
returned to New Albany this
morning.
A R. Brown lost a fine pair of
nose glasses somewhere on Main
street and if any one finds them
they will be suitably rewarded if
they will return them
The P. 0. S. of A will have a
debate at Sanford's hall tomorrow
evening. The subject will be:
Resolved, That the Promise of Re-
ward Is a Greater Incentive for
Good Than the Fear of Punish
ment. The members have the
subject well in hand and some
strong arguments will be presented.
Admission ten cents.
E B. Gavitt, while working with
his team, cutting ice on the Che-
mung river, back of the Mat Long
place, Saturday, came near losing
his horses. They got into an air
hole and floundered around in the
river, nearly freezing to death be-
tore they could be rescued. They
were finally got out by getting
chains about their necks and draw-
ing them up by main force.
The next entertaioment of the
high school course will be given
Monday evening, Feb. 19, when
the Blanche Vaughan Wales com-
pany will appear in Athens for the
first time. They are exceptionally
good and their program includes
music and readings of a very
entertaining character. Tickets are
now on sale at Sanford’s drug store.
The company will arrive in Athens
Saturday evening and will be the
guests of -some of our citizens over
Sunday.
Very Cheap Traveling
Beginning Feb. 14 and continuing dai-
ly until April 6th, the Erie R. R. will
sell colonist tickets to all Pacific Coast
and numerous interior points at ve
low rates, which will be quoted and all
other information given by calling on or
writiog any Erie ticket agent, or J. H.
Webster, D. P, A, Elmira. N, Y, I38-eod
Quickest Route to Chicago, 17
Hours
and arrive
EPOKANE, Wash, Feb. 12 Samuel
Glasgow, manager of a milling com.
pany of Spokane and Segttle, sald that | |
he had received from William Burtt,’
uy, newspapers and letters which say
that the Chinese Interpretation of a
speech made hy William J. Bryan be |
fore Chigese werchants at a dtaner |
given by them In bis honor hax been
used by Chinese agitators to stir up
renewed antipathy to American prod
ucts,
Previously to this speech by Mr
Bryan at a meeting held by about fifty
commercial representatives and dele
gates from the various Chinese guilds
of Shanghal, Canton and Hongkong
the delegutes Lad agreed on twelve
proposed modifications of the Ameri-
ean Chinese exclusion law. The Amer
ican representatives agrecd to have
thelr houses urge these on congress,
and the Chinese agreed Immediately
to call off the hoycott. Then, accord.
ing to Hongkong papers, Mr. Bryan
was entertained by the Chinese mer
chants at a dinner and made a speech.
One of the « hine=e merchants at the
dinner reported the proceedings to Chi
nese newspapers. He quoted Mr. Bry.
au as declaring that the labor party
was so strong in the United States that
Chine<e workmen skilled or ainskilled,
woltlld never be permitted to enter and
as drawing a gloomy picture of what
would happen to Americas workmen
if the Chlpese were allowed to take
away thelr ecmnplovment This in:
formant sald that, while Mr. Bryan
had agreed to support a8 number of
the proposed changes, he bad not been
able to draw from Mr. Bryan any
definite of support of the
policy which the Chinese would insist
on as the ouly condition on which the
boycott would be withdrawn.
After this interpretation of Mr, Bry-
au's speech was circulated the Chinese
merchants became convinced that con:
gress would not adept
recommended by the American wer
chants apd that their best policy was
to put ou the boycott screws tighter
thaw ever
AEsSAraiee
WILL TEST MONROE DOCTRINE.
President Castro Hes a Plotting Hi.
val Ig Vincente Gomes.
CARACASB, Feb. 12—A report says
that Vice President Vincente (Gomez
is plottiug a revolution against Presi
dent Castro io case of a French block
ade
It is reported also that General An
tonto Velutini, second vice president,
has a secret understanding with
France and that Le aspires to the pres
idency. All the turmoll over the
French Cable company's concession 1s
attributed to General Velutinl, and It
is sald that he will soon abandon Pres
ident Castro
The total strength of the Venekuelan
army is reported to be 5000 men and
not 23.000, as the arguy accounts state,
The total armament is 50.000 Mauser
rifles and 20000000 ball cartridges,
eighty pleces of small artillery of okl
fashioned types and ten moderu guns
in position at the ports
The treasury shows a
$200,000
President Castro is sald to be boast.
ing that he will test the Monrve doc
trive
balance of
With sa Pistol and a Bible.
HACRENSACK, XN. J, Feb 12
With a pistol In oue pocket and a Bl
ble in another, Dayton Touunley, twen
ty three years old, who says be Is a
son of Dr. 1. B. Tounley of Youngs
town, O., was found wandering on the
streets bere and taken lo custody by
the police. The young man is belng
held until his relatives can be commu.
nicated with Tounley says he lo-
herited a small fortune recently and
came eost to Join Mason's “Angel
Dancers” colouy at Woodcliff, N J.
No cue frow the colony met Lim at the
train, and he declared he had been
ashamed to ask any one the way to
the place
Perkins Will Repay $89,000.
NEW YORK, Feb 12-George W.
Perkins, it 1s sald, has decided to re
store to the New York Life the $50,000
paid In notes out of the profits of the
New York Security and Trust cowpa-
py deal, as detailed In the Fowler
comumittee’'s report. The company, it
is said, Is of the oplulon that Mr. Per.
kins can and will be successfully sued
civilly for the return of this woney.
Mr. Perkins will restore it voluntarily,
possibly paying it into the treasury
“pending decision.” Well known insur.
ance lawyers say that Andrew Hamil
ton can and will be extradited should
hie persist lo remaining In Paris
Hobbers Killed Itallan oa Trala.
EXETER, N. H. Feb. 12 —= After
blowing open a safe In a large shoe
factory at Dover and plundering it of
{ts contents two robbers shot and kill-
ed an italian on the St. Jobus rod Boa:
ton express at Rocklugham Juuction
Leaping over the body, they jumped
off the traln aud escaped lute the
woods, Posses from Exeter, Dover
aud Portswouth were soon ou the trail
of the desperadoes, and one of the
weu was captured.
Not an Encoufagihg Theory.
“A public official,” sald the old-
fashioned patriot, “is but the servant
of the people.”
“Yes,” answered the timid citizen,
“but in my house the servants some-
times get terribly autocratic.”--Wash-
ington Star.
A Plea Vor Niagara Falla
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12--Mrs. Mk
ram Mason Greeley, president of the
National Roclety of the Daughters of
the Empire State of New York, called
at the White House today by appolot.
ment and presented to the president a
morn. | Petition bearing the siguatures of
et: | about 2.500 residents of the state at
i
In
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heating system will
add value to your
property, give you |
more comfort and
better health. And
it doesn't cost so
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at Law.
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