NOW. Oh! wait not fill the mmn comes, 'Tii tbln to do the gentle deed, Hut apeak the tender word to-day; 'Tin thine to cheer the weary on The henrt that need the measage now Delay it not, for if thon wait, Will then be gone upon it way. The opportunity i gone. William Thomas McKlrov, Jr., in Herald and Presbyter. r By 1TTZ-JAMI8 O'BKBBf. I live on a quiet street In New York. The home has enjoyed for the last two years the reputation of be ing haunted. It Is' a large and state ly residence, surrounded by what was once a garden. The house Is very spacious. A hall of noble size leads to a large spiral staircase, winding through Its centre, while tho various apartments are of Imposing dimen sions. It was built by a well-known New York merchant, who threw the com mercial world into convulsions by a stupendous bank fraud. He escaped to Europe, and died of a broken heart. Almost Immediately the re port spread that the house was haunt ed. A caretaker and his wlfo de clared that they were troubled with unuatural noises. Doors were opened without visible agency. Remnants of furniture were, during the night, piled one upon the other by unknown hands. Invisible feet passed up and down the stairs In broad daylight, accompanied by tho rustle of unseen Bilk dresses, and the gliding of viewless hands along the massive balusters. The caretakers declared they would live there no longer. The house agent laughed and put others in their place. The noises and supernatural manifes tations continued. The house re mained untenanted for three years. It was then that our landlady, who wishes to ren'ove further uptown, conceived the bold Idea of renting this house. Happening to have rath er a plucky set of boarders, she laid her scheme before us. With the ex ception of two timid persons, all of Mrs. Moffat's guestB declared they would accompany her Into tne abode of spirits. Of course we had no sooner estab lished ourselves than we began to expect the ghosts. We absolutely awaited their advent with eagerness. Things were in this state when an Incident took place so awful and Inexplicable that my reason fairly reels at the bare memory. It was the 10th of July. After dinner was over I repaired, with my friend. Dr. Ham mond, to my rooms, to take our even ing pipe. Independent of certain mental sympathies, the doctor and myself were linked together by a vice we both smoked opium. We enjoy together that wonderful expan sion of thoiiKht. thnt marvelous in fensifying of the perceptive faculties which I would not surrender for a throne, and which I hope you, read er, will never, never taste. These hours of opium happiness which the doctor and I spent together In secret were regulated with a sci entific accuracy. While smoking, we carefully steered our conversation through the brightest and calmest channels of thought. If we talked of Shakespeare's "Tempest," we lin gered over Ariel and avoided Call- ban. This skillful colorlug of our train of thought produced in our subse queut visions a corresponding tone. The splendors of Arabian fairyland dyed our dreams. On the evening in question, the lOth of July, the doctor and myself drifted into an unusually nietaphys leal mood. Insensibly we yielded to the occult force that swayed us, and Indulged In gloomy speculation. We had talked some time upon mystl clsm, and the almost universal love of the terrible, when Hammond sudden ly said to me: "What do you con alder to be the greatest element of terror?" The question puzzled me. That many things were terrible, I knew (stumbling over a corpse in the dark beholding, as I onco did, a woman floating down a deep and rapid rlv er, with wildly lifted arms, and aw ful upturned face, uttering shrieks that rent one's heart, while we, the spectators, stood at a window, unable to save her. "I confess, Hammond," I replied to my friend, "I never considered the subject before. But there must bo one. Something more terrible than any other thing, 1 feel. I cannot at tempt, however, even the most vague dennltlon." a "I am somewhat like you, Harry- he answered. "I feel my capacity to experience a terror greater thau any thing yet conceived by the human mind." uoag. nere, Hammond,' I re Joined, ' let us drop this kind of talk for heaven's sake. We shall suffer for It, depend upon it." We parted, and 1 undressed quick ly and got into bed. The room was in total darkness The atom of gas that still remained alight did not illuminate a distance of three inches around the burner I drew my arm across my eyes, as it to abut out even the darkness, and tried to think of nothing. It was In vain. Tho themes touched on by Hammond kept obtruding themselves on my brain. While I was lying still as a corpse hoping I should hasten repose, an awful Incident occurred. A Some thing dropped, as It seemed, from the celling, upon my cheat, and the next Instant I felt two bony hands en circling my throat, endeavoring to choke me. I am no coward, and am possessed of considerable physical strength. The suddenness of the attack atrung every nerve to Us highest tension. In an instant I wound two muscular arms around the creature, and squeezed It against my chest. In a few seconds the bony bands that bad fasteied on my throat loosened their bold and I was free to breathe once mor . f Taen commenced a struggle of aw ful intensity. Immersed In profound darkness, totally ignorant of the na ture of the Thing by which I wm do suddenly attacked, finding my grasp slipped every moment, by rea on, It seemed to me, of the satire nakedness of my assailant, bitten with sharp teeth In the shoulder, neck and chest, having every moment to protect my throat against a pair of sinewy, agile hands, which my ut most efforts could not confine these were circumstances which required all strength, skill and courage. At last, after a silent, deadly, ex hausting struggle, I got my assall- nt under by incredible efforts. Once pinned, with my knee on what I made out to be Its chest, I knew I was vic tor. I rested for a moment to breathe. I heard the creature be neath me panting in the darkness. and felt the violent throbbing of a heart. It was apparently as exhaust ed as I was. At this moment I remembered that usually placed under my pillow, be fore going to bed, a large yellow silk pocket handkerchief. I felt, for it instantly; It was there. In a few seconds more I had, after a fashion, pinioned the creature's arms. I now felt tolerably secure. Never ooslng my hold for an instant, I slipped from the bed to the floor, dragging my captive with me. I had but a few steps to reach the gas burn er. Quick as lightning I released my grasp with one hand and let on the full flood of light. Then I turned to look at my captive. I cannot even attempt to define my sensations the Instant after I turned on the gas. I suppose I must have shrieked with terror, for a min ute afterward my room was crowded with the inmates of the house. I shudder now as I think of that awful moment. I saw nothing! Yes; I had one arm firmly clasped round a breathing, panting, corporeal shape; my other hand gripped with all its strength a throat as appar ently fleshy as my own; and yet, with this living subBtance In my grasp, with its body pressed against my own, and in all the bright glare of gas, 1 absolutely beheld nothing. Not even an outline a vapor. It breathed. I felt its breath up on my cheek. It strugglea fiercely. It had hands. They clutched me. Its skin was smooth, like my own. There it lay, pressed close up against me. solid as stone, and yet utterly in visible. Just then Hammond entered my room at the head of the household. As soon as he beheld my face which I suppose, must have been an awful sight to look at he hastened for ward, crying, "Great heavens, Harry, what has happened? Hammond! Hammond!" I cried "come here. Oh, this is awfnl. have been attacked in bed by some thing or other, which I have hold of; but I can't see it, I can't see it!' Hammond, doubtless struck by the Jiorror expressed in my countenance. made one or two steps forward with an aUxlous yet puzzled expression. A very audible titter burst from the re malnder of my visitors. This suppressed laughter made me curious. Hammond! Hammond!" I cried again despairingly, "come to me. I can hold the Thing but a short while longer. It is overpowering me. Help me! help me!" "Harry," whispered Hammond, ap proaching me, "you have been smok ing too much opium." 'I swear to you, Hammond, that this is no vision," I answered, in the some low tone. "Don't you see how it shakes my whole frame with its struggles? If you don't believe me, convince yourself. Feel It, touch it." Hammond advanced, and laid his hand on the spot I indicated. A wild cry of horror burst from him. He had felt it! In a moment he had discovered somewhere in my room a loug piece of cord, and was the next Instant winding it and knotting it about the body of the unseen being that I clasped In my arms. "Harry," he said In n hoarse voice for though he preserved his pres ence of mind, he was deeply agitated "Harry, it's safe now; you may let go if you are tired. The Thing can't move." I was utterly exhausted, and I gladly loo: ed my hold. Hammond stood holding the ends of the cord that bound the Invisible, twisted around his hand, while before him, self-supporting, as It were, was a rope laced and interlaced, and stretching tightly around a vacant space. The confusion among the guests of the house who beheld the pantomime of binding this struggling Something who beheld me almoBt sinking from physical exhaustion when my task of Jailer was over the confu sion and terror that took possession of the bystanders when they saw all this was beyond description. The weaker oneB fled from the apartment. The few who remained could not be induced to approach. Still thoy doubted. I gave a sign to Hammond, and both of us conquering our fear ful repugnance to touch the invisible creature lifted It from the ground, manacled as it was, and took it to my bed. Its weight was about that of a boy of fourteen. "Now, my friends." I said, as Ham mond and myself held the creature suspended over the bed, "I can give you self-evident proof that here Is a solid, ponderable body, which, never theless, you cannot see. Be good enough to watch the bed attentively." At a signal Hammond and I let the creature fall. There was a dull sound, as of a heavy body alighting on a soft mass. Tho bed creaked. A deep impression marked itself dis tinctly on the pillow, and on the bed itself. The crowd who witnessed this gave a low cry, and rushed from the room. Hammond and I were alone with our mystery. We remained silent tor some time, listening to the low, Irregular breath- frog of the creature on tho bed, and watching the rustle of the bedclothes as It impotnntly struggled to free It self from confinement. We watched together ... king many pipes, all night long by the bedside of the unearthly being that tossed and pant ed until It was apparently wearied out. Then we learned by the low, , regular breathing, that It slept. The next morning the house was . all astir. We had to answer a thou sand questions as to our extraordi- 1 Wi nary prisoner, for not one person ex- cept ourselves could be Induced to set i foot In the apartment. The creature was awake. This was evidenced by the convulsive manner In which the bedclothes were moving in Its efforts to escape. There was something truly terrible In behold ing, as It were, these struggles for liberty which yet were Invisible. Hammond and myself had racked our brains during the long night to discover some meAnB by which we might realize the shape and general appearance of the Enigma. As well as we could make out, by passing our hands over the creature's form, its outlines and lineamentB were human. There was a mouth, a round, smooth hend without hair, a nose, which, however, was little elevated above the cheeks, and its hands and feet felt like those of a boy. A happy thought struck me. We would take a cast of It In plaster. This would give us the solid figure. and satisfy all our wishes. But how to do It? The movements of the crea ture would disturb the setting of the plastic covering, and distort the mold. Another thought: Why not give It chloroform? It had respira tory organs that was evident by Its breathing. Once reduced to a state of insensibility, we could do with it what we would. A doctor was sent for, and after he had recovered from amazement he administered chloroform. In three minutes afterward we could remove the fetters, and a modeler was en gaged in covering the Invisible form with the moist clay. In five minutes more he had a mold, and before even ing a rough facsmile of the mystery. It was shaped like a man dis torted, uncouth, and horrible, but Btill a man. It was small, not over four feet and some Inches In height, and its limbs revealed a muscular development that was unparalleled. Its face surpassed In hldeousness anything I had ever seen. Oustavus Dore never conceived anything so horrible. It was the physiognomy of what I should fancy a ghoul might be. It looked as It It was capable of feeding on human flesh. Having satisfied our curiosity, and bound every one in the house to se crecy, it became a question what was to be done with our Enigma. It was impossible that we should keep such a horror in the house; it was equally Impossible that such an awful being should be let loose upon the world. I confess that I would have gladly voted for the creature's destruction. But who would shoulder the respon sibility? Who would undertake the execution of this horrible semblance of a human being? The most singular part of the af fair was that we were entirely igno rant of what the creature habitually fed on. Everything in the way of nutriment that we could think of was placed before it, but was never touched. It was awful to stand by, day after day, and see the clothes toss, and hear the hard breathing and know that It was dying. Ten, twelve days, a fortnlghmt passed, and it still lived. The pulsa tions of the heart, however, were dally growing fainter, and had now nearly ceased. It was evident that the creature was dying for want of sustenance. While this terrible life struggle was going on I felt miser able. I could not sleep. Horrible as the creature was, it was pitiable to think of the pangs It was suffer ing. At last it died. Hammond and I found it cold and stiff one morning in the bed. The heart had ceased to beat, the lungs to inspire. We hast ened to bury it in the garden. It was a strange funeral, the dropping of the viewless corpse Into the damp hole. The cast of Its form Hammond has still. Ab I am on the eve of a long journey, from which I may not re turn, I have drawn up this narrative of an event the most singular that has ever come to my knowledge. I Turbine steamers will In future be employed for both the Channel ser vices between Folkstone and Bou logne and vice versa. Suppose that one could find an al loy that would bear the same relation to aluminum that steel does to car bon or bronse to tin, Bays the Engi neering Record. The result would be a new structural material of Im mense Importance In mechanical work. The builders of light ma chinery are looking for just this thing. News of Pennsylvania To keep iron and steel goods from rust, states the Mechanical World, dissolve half an ounce of caphor in one pound of hog's lard; take off the scum, mix as much black lead as will give the mixture an Iron color. Iron and steel goods rubbed with this mix ture and left with It on twenty-four hours, and then dried with a linen cloth, will keep clean for months. A new electric furnace for deter mining the tii umi points of refrac tory substances has been constructed at Hanau by W. C. Heraens. Its es sential part is a tube of irldum four fifths of an inch thick and an inch and three-fifths in diameter, and in this temperatures between 1500 de grees and 2000 degrees centimeter can be maintained for any desired length of time. A Swiss engineer announces a new fire escape. It consists of a series of folding iron ladders, contained in frames, attached to the window cases, each reaching to the window below. By merely turning a small winch on any floor all these frames are pushed outward from the building, the lad ders extended and securely connected with er ' other, thus forming a con tinuous communication from the top floor to the ground. The manipula tion is simple and takes less than a minute. In place of fourteen strong arms pulling seven oars, with another pair at the steering oar, now a four cylin der, four cycle gasolene engine pushes the craft along at ten miles an hour. A solid eighteen inch pro peller with a reversing clutch propels the thirty-four foot boat. Two gaso lene tanks, one with a capacity of twenty-five nnd the other with seventy-five gallons of the colorless fluid in which is locked up so much effort, admit, according to Popular Mechan ics, a ladlus of 200 miles. SCRAPS. Cost of Superfluous Letters. Henry Holt, publisher and author, finds by actual count that five per cent, of the letters used in English composition are superfluous. The value of the printed products of the United States, according to census re ports, is about $353,000,000 a year. The five per cent, waste from super fluous letters would be approximately $17,000,000 a year. Before this matter was printed it had to be written, and basing his estimate on statistics the five per cent, waste in writing superfluous letters costs annually enough to raise the total waste to $26,000,000. Tak ing into account the waste In wear and tear and manufacture of type writers, writing ink, the extra cost of signs, labels, and so forth, Mr. HoU raises tho annual waste to $32,- 000,000. Figuring in the writing of letters with its Ave per cent, waste of paper, ink, and stenographer s time, like wise the Waste of time In handwriting letters, be increases the waste to $50,000,000. Then adding the loss of a year and a half in tho life of each child required in mastering a system of lawless spelling, adding the extra cost of teaching, books, and school houses, omitting waste of eye sight aud brains, he brings the loss to $60,000,000. Adding the rest of the English speaking world makes a total annual loss of $95,000,000. Qlven a chance to make this saving by reforming our spelling, the saving to be diverted mainly to the pockets of promoters and high financiers as has been, done in the case of certain other great economies of commerce, would then our great conservatives be so solicit ous as they now seem to preserve the Integrity of the English language? Lincoln Journal. Ancient Lead Cisterns and Sussex Ironwork. The collector on the lookout for windfalls is with us everywhere now, and even the vaat quantities of scrap' Iron that are melted down and con verted to various U3es by the dealers are carefully sorted and ransacked, mainly tor two classes of articles, old Sussex flrebacks and other Ironware and ancient lead cisterns, the latter being mostly regarded as works of art as well as curiosity. Time was and not so very long ago when all those vast, bare but beautiful tracts of Sussex we now know as the "Downs" were covered by rich forests, but most of tho wood growing In these was cut down In order to feed the Iron furnaces which then existed in varlons parts of the country, and which supplied the whole nation with its most artistic ironware, especially of the domestic kind. Then came Sheffield with its resources of coal instead of wood for the manipulation of the iron, Taus the Sussex, ware became rarer and more rare, and certain of tho ironwork of this kind now brought from ancient mansions fetches fancy prices. Many a fine piece has been discovered in old scrap iron. The lead cisterns in old mansions were not only melted into a mould all In one piece, but they were, as to their front portion at least, cast In the most artistic and quaint designs, some of the greatest craftsmen and designers in the country being en gaged in the making of the patterns. These old cisterns are sometimes discovered In heaps of material classed as waste, and not long ago a splendid specimen of the time of Charles I. that had come to a White chapel der.ler from an old Warwick shire mansion Bold for 200 guineas, the design being particularly beauti ful ar.d unimpaired by time, Tit Bits. A Tipping Story. Mrs. Potter Palmer told an amus ing story about country house tlp- ping, according to the Buffalo En j quirer. "You know," she said, "how huge I these tips are, how many servants must be remembered, how, indeed, i some people are obliged to refuse to I visit large country houses because i they can't afford the expense. "Well, there is a story in this line about the famous Jonas Hauuway. "As-Hanaway was leaving the coun try house of a duke a string of ser vants waited to waylay him. " 'Sir,' said one, 'your overcoat.' "And Hanaway put on the overcoat i and gave the man a sovereign. " 'Your umbrella,' said another. "And taking the umbrella, Hana way surrendered another sovereign. " 'Your hat, sir.' "Another sovereign. " 'Sir, your gloves.' " 'Why, friend,' said Kanaway, 'you may keep the gloves. They are not worth a .. ereiga.' " The Yellowstone National Park Is slxty-fivo miles north to south and fltty-ttve mile from east to vest. HOYS ST K.I I. 20.-i. Abstracted Farmer's Real Life in France. It tourlstr would go further on Into old France, into the old provincial lite. Instead of remaining quartered in Paris or some other big fashion able town,, they would really learn to know what French life is like. They would teel they have wrongly Judged us, and they would acknowledge that Frenchwomen are good wives, good mothers and good friends. C. A. La Nevan, In Modern Language Teach'' ! - - - Wallet From Wagon. Scranton (Special). Eleven small boys who stole Milton Petty's wal let from beneath the cushion of the farm wagon while the owner wbb selling truck were given a hearing In court hero. The one who ab stracted the money, which amounted to $295, had reached the mature age of six. The others ranged from that age to eleven years. The tJollce have secured only $40 of the money, the rest having been spent In dissipation with Ire cream, soda water, peanuts and pop-corn aa the basis of the orgies. A por tion went for an assortment of base ball bats. The small thieves had followed the farmer systematically and watch ed his bestowal ot tne money ue neath tho seat cushion as be re ceived it for his produce. They waited until nn opportune moment and then ran off with it unsuspect ed by their victim. It Ib probable that their parents will have to make good the farmer's loss and also that storekeepers with whom the children spent their gains in a surprisingly brief time may have to account for their lack of curiosity with regard to the source of so much wealth. ROY TAKES HIS LOU. Twrlve-Ycar-Old Lnd Resented Moth er's Reproof. Meadvllle (Special). Raymond, the 12-year-old son of Herman Whlteman, a farmer Just outside of Meadvllle, hanged himself because his mother scolded him. While Raymond, his little sister. two younger brothers and his mother were returning from the hay field the children got to throwing dust at each other. They wpre scolded and told: "Behave yourselves and go on home." Raymond, pouting, went Into the barn, clmbed upon a beam, wrap ped a hay fork trip rope three times around his neck and Jumped off. His mother found him an hour later. Ills neck was broken by the fall. STATE ASSESSMENT. IlltimM In Personal Property Sub ject To Four Mill Tax. Hnrrlsburg (Special). At the meeting of the Board of Revenue Commissioners It was shown that the valuation of the personal prop erty for tax assessment this year will bo about a billion dollars. Returns from all but fifteen counties show an Increase of $60,000,000. Last year the total valuation was $750, 000,000. but the increases in all of the counties will bring It up this year to a billion. The tax is 4 mills on the dollar, and there will be collected this year $4,000,000. Of this sum three fourths, or $3,000,000, goes back to the counties, and the other one fourth, or $1,000,000, goes to the State, about $300,000 more than It got last year. Fifteen counties are yet to be heard from. Of the counties re porting Ave showed a decrease, and their reports were sent back for cor rection, the Board declining to be llcvo that property had decreased in value In any county in the State. FREE DELIVERY FOR DARBY. Service Will Begin November First And Include Colwyn. Darby (Special). After an agita tion for over three years free de livery of malls for Darby has been granted by the Post Office Depart ment at Washington. More than that the free delivery will also In clude the borough of Colwyn, adjoin ing Darby, which will bo under the Jurisdiction of Postmaster Magnln. The delivery will be inaugurated November 1, and will be welcomed by the residents of both boroughs as a much-needed Improvement. Four carriers will be appointed for tho territory following a civil service examination. Encouraged by the success of Darby and Colwyn, the residents of Colllngdale, adjoin ing Darby, have circulated petitions to agitate the free delivery question In their borough. KILLED HIS FRIEND. Boy In Handling Weapon With Soapy Fingers L't Trigger Slip. Williamsport (Special). Harry M. Ulrlch, a young boy, residing near here, was shot to death by a companion with a shotgun. The two boys were examining the weapon and Clark MrWIlllams. an other young boy, bad the gun In his hands. His hands were covered with soap, as he was washing his hands when he picked the gun up, and as he pulled the hammer back his finger slipped and the weapon discharged. He claims that he did not know that the gun was loaded. The dis charge tore a hole In young Ulrich's back, killing him in a few hours. VETERANS IN KEl'NION. Cavalry Survivors Turn Out In Large; Numltprs. Norrlstown (Special). Twenty of the twenty-seven survivors of Com pany B. First Pennsylvania Resernj Cavalry, attended the twelfth annual reunion of the veteran organization, at the home of W. H. Rhodes, at Abrams Station, accompanied bi their families, to the number ot all? ty-flve. Comrade Pyrott, of Rochester. H. Y., and Comrade Michael Staub, o Cumberland County, were present for the first time since the muster out In September, 1864. The nexl reunion will be held at the home of William Devine, Ambler, next Aav gust. Monument Must Walt. West Chester (Special). The Board of County Commissioners de elded to defer action on the erection' of a soldier's and sailor's monument. They thought that owing to tha heavy expenses In other lines and the crowded condition of the County Home, the money cannot be shared at this time. Plans for a monument were drawn by Joseph M. Huston, the Capitol architect, and met with much criticism In certain quartera, the board Anally deciding not to un dertake the work now. The Grand Army are anxious to have a moa ment erected. MONEY FOR SCHOOLS. State Treasurer nerry Keeping His Promise To Pay Promptly. Harrisburg v'Speclal) State Treas urer Berry Is fulfilling his promise to pay the schools the money due them as soon as they asked for It and presented a report. Up to date he has paid out $3,000,000 and will send out In a short time $120,000 more, making over half the 15,500, 000 ot the appropriation for this year paid In less than three months. "If there is any complaint ot a district not receiving its money," said Mr. Berry', "it Is because the report from that district has not been received, or else U was sent In faulty and has been sent back for correction. When It Is sent In correctly the money Is paid." CHARTER FOR RIG MILLS. Chester Industrial Establishment In ' One Corporation. Chester (Special). The Aber foylo Mills Corporation, which oper ate several mills in this city, have been incorporated in Hartford. Conn., with a capital of $1,600,000. The corporation acquires either a whole or controlling Interest in the follow ing mills: the Aberfoyle Manufac turing Company, Galey & Lord, Hope Mills Manufacturing Company, Arasa pha Manufacturing Company. The goods manufactured are a high-class mercerized silk and all of the plants are located in this city with the exception of the Hope Mills, N. C, plant. The officers are: President, Wil liam T. Galey; vice-president, Charles E. Lord,; treasurer. Kenneth Lord; secretary, John P. Wood; directors, W. C. Houston. Robert Wetherill, W. 8. Blakely, H. John McGUl, Thomas S. Brown. Ice Cream True To Name. Harrisburg (Special). A general order Issued by Dairy and Food Commissioner Foust, relative to Ice cream, permits only unskimmed or unwatered milk to be used. The order sayB: "Ice cream must be true to name and must contain not less than twelve per cent, butter fat, together with sugar and pure fruit flavor. Eggs and a small amount og gelatin may bo used." Old Boatman Killed. Pottsvllle (Special) Stumbling, Valentine Frey, aged 65 years, had a heavy fall near his home, at Schuyl kill Haven, his back being badly In jured and death following. Frey was the oldest canal boatman In this section of the State. He was among the first to carry coal on canal boats from the anthracite region between Schuylkill Haven and Philadelphia. A large family survives. Mistook Poison For Tonic. Carbondale (Special). By mis taking, poison for a tonic she had been taking. Mrs. Mary Cook, of Mayfield, Is dead. She went to a cupboard and removing the wrong bottle drank the liquid without look ing at the label. ' She died in agony in a few minutes. Roy Longs For Prison. Pittsburg (Special). William Walker, 15 years old, from Oakland. Is a prisoner at the police station and. confessed that he entered and robbed tho home of Senator Magee. Walker made this confession with out being accused and wants to go to the penltontlary. The police doubt the truthfulness of the boy's assertion. A servant at the Magee home who saw the burglar Bays that the boy Is not guilty. He has re cently recovered from typhoid fever and they blame this for his desire to be convicted of a crime and gent to the penitentiary. he Faithful To His Muster York (Special). John H. DeHoff. 76 years old. of Paradise, while go lng from his home to Dallastown riding on horse back, was celzed with an attauk of apoplexy, fell from the back ot the animal and when found was in an uuconsclous con dition. The faithful horse never left him. but stood by his side until he was discovered by someone driving along the road. He. will probably dlo. ' Fright Fatal To Mother. Scranton (Special) .--Mrs. David Bowen, of Taylor, while at work In i,..r home, heard screams ot hor tour-year-old daughter, and rushlug to the kitchen, found the child scald ed i' i "in a kettle ot boiling water which she had tipped from the stove At the sight ot the flesh lrnnnina from the little body, which was horribly burned, the distracted mother plunged forward In a swoon, nnil when neignoora came in iney Offers To Hospital Debt. Chester (Special). Robert E. Ross, a former resident of this city, now a Philadelphia business man, offered the Chester Hospital board of managers $500, providing twenty four other residents of Chester could be secured who would give $500 each towards clearing the debt of $12,t00 against the institution. llrukcman Run Over And Killed. Mr. Carbon (Special). Losing his ly in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards before dawn. L. E. Knccht. aged eighteen years, of Nescopeck, a brakeman, lost his life. He had brought his train In and left It at the round house. Starting up the railroad toward Pottsvllle ho was run down by a shifter. Bull Defies Trolley. Reading (Special). Maddened by the red light of a trolley car gM the Oley Valley Railway, a big redJ bull, belonging to George Schlegol, stood on tho tracks with head low ered awaiting Its approach as It rounded a curve near Pleasantvtlle. There was a dull thud when car and, bull met, the passengers were tumfl led from their seat and the car waa knocked off the track. The wheels crushed the beast's bind legs and the men passengers cut his throat. Poured Gasoline On Fire. York (Special). Mistaking gaso line for coal oil, Mrs. Susan Haffner was seriously burned. The woman was making fire In the kitchen stove and being anxious to witness a parade she thought she could hurry the Are by pouring oil on It. Plck-j lng up a can she poured part of th contents In the stove. There waa an explosion and the flames flashed Into her face. Igniting her hair and clothing. Her condition Is serious. Short Time At The Mines. Reading (Special). There is a re port that tho Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company will order col lleries on half-time next week. An ther report is to the effect that tha collieries will operate but three days a week for some time to come. The matter will be decided In a feW days. The company has as unusual quantity of coal in its storage yard for this season of the year. Pastor Selected lly Lot. Lancaster (Special). By thelf peculiar custom of selecting by lot, the Mennonltes ot Sporting H1U chose Isaac Brubaker to be the pas tor of Erl8iuan's Meeting House, Brubaker was chosen from a dozen candidates, and he will give up farm ing to follow the duties of his new vocation. Physician Tukes His Life. Reading (Special). Despondent over continued illness, Dr. Paul E, Weltroer shot himself in the head while In bed at his home here and died instantly. He was thirty years old and a native of Lttitz, Lancaster County. Site For York Post Office. York (Special). The site for the Government building In this city has been definitely determined at the corner of South George and Prin cess Streets. It Is central and the ground will cost about $74,900 and ihe building to be erected will ap proximate $250,000. Drowned Learning To Swim. Reading (Special). While learn ing to swim In the Schuylkill River, Edgar S. Herr, who graduated from the Boys' High School in June wen attacked with cramps and sank. His body was recovered too late to revlvo blm. To Build New JTown. Pittsburg (Special). Jones sV l.aughlins are to build a town to accommodate the workmen for their new steel mill which they are erect ing at Alllqulppa, on the Ohio River, twenty miles below Pittsburg. Tha firm has Just purchased a tract of 108 acres ot land near the steel plant, paying $75,282.60 for It, and will at once lay it out In streets and erect stores and dwellings for the accomodations ot 1000 families. Tired Dodging Infectives. CheBter (Special) After having played a game ot bide and seek with detectives all over the country since last June. Harold Smith, a young hi. ii charged with stealing from the Adams Express Company, and who Jumped his ball bond, walked into the City Hall and surrendered hlm solt. Smith was not known by 8er nt and he said: "I am Harold Smith and I am tired ot going around i NEWS IN BRIEF. . . . . 1 I . . " . I l...tn a.l.kAl ji..nifHrt tne woman uuau. i tne muui i y nu iium The little girl win also die from desire to give myself up. 1 Ju 1 bar burnt. my ball bond." Samuel G. Gaily, superintendent of the water department of Altoona, was severely injured in a runaway at Klttannlng Point, where he had gone to look over the work on the new reservoir. Michael Villeke. a Slav, 26 years old, started to walk on the Reading tracks at Hellertown and was cut to pieces by a coal train. He be came confused at two trains passing in opposite directions. George Vivian, of Nantlcoke, aged 6, died from burns caused by scald ing coffee being spilled down his chest. He saw the cup on the table, reached for It, and spilled it upon himself. The State Board of Health Is forc ing the town of Canton, forty miles from here, to construct a sewage crematory. The commissioners of the new State Hospital for Epileptic and Feeble-minded, at Spring City, have appointed O. E. W'llllams. of Scran ton, chief electrician, aud S. T. Walsh, of Philadelphia, superinten dent of the grounds and . buildings. The Columbia County Commis sioners entered Into an agreement with the State Highway Department and the supervisors of Benton Town ship for the construction ot a mile and a quarter of State road In Ben ton Township. A reunion In honor of the seventy- second birthday anniversary of Mrs. Andrew W. Shaw was held at Hel lam. There were present sixty-three members ot the Shaw family, among them fourteen grandchildren. A quarantine of all the dogs in Plymouth Township, Luzerne Coun ty, has been declared by the authori ties because a dog which bit a num ber of others and several cows a couple of weeks ago was mad and the only Bate way to guard against a spread ot the rabies Is to have the dogs tied up. Margaret Gillespie, aged 6. of Al toona, was gathering sheep sorrel to eat, and with the leaf plucked Ivy. eating it, too. She was poison ed and abscesses formed in her neck. When they brokW' she strangled to death. Cbarlsj C. Burgesser, freight aad passenger agent ot the Western Maryland Railroad, In York, baa re signed his position with that com pany to take effect September 1. He will engage In the real estate business.
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