I i IT'S TIME TO SMILE. It's time to lure the smll tortp And hlp the world be gay; f It'i Mm to huh: the happy nong And whittle cere y. It - time to gladly leave behind The sorrow ana the atgha: It's time to look for joy and find Each cranny where it liei. It' time to hoiat the Anna for mirth And ahout hiuah to Glee; Oive Joy the freedom of the earth, Drive Woe into the tea; It'a time to hide the frowna and let The aonga of gladnca riae The world ia laughing; let'a forget The sorrow and the aigha. 8. E. Kiaer. " A An Old Woman's Romance. By HERO STRONG. I am an old woman now, wldowod ! Countess of Huntly. She was a gay, and alone. All my children have gone before me, and It la not long before I shall follow, and the thought gives me great comfort. On this vide of the river I have nothing; on the other Bide everything! Why should I fear to cross to those wh i love me ami whom I love? I am going to unfold for you a leaf of my early life. Perhaps the skep tical among you will not believe what I am about to write, but If so, pray ascribe whatever Is improbable and unreal about It to the wandering vagaries of a poor old woman, and think no more of It. I was the daughter of an English country curate. Of course my father was poor curates always are. I had one brother, older than myself, a wild, reckless, unprincipled fellow, whose conduct broke my father's heart at last. Oerald, that was my brother's name, was continually getting him self Into trouble, from which only money could extricate him, and there was on ono to help him but my poor father, and the consequence was that the family purso was always at the lowest ebb, and my mother and my self were put to all sorts of shifts to keep the family wardrobe in a state of shabby decency,. Until my mother died, I don't think I ever had a new dress. All my dresses were made out of hers, for she had been the child of a wealthy fnther, and ;it the time of her marriage her outfit had been lavish and costly. When she died I was sixteen then I had a suit of mourning. They were my vory first new .clothes, and dating from that time onward there has always been to me a sort of funeral significance about jew clothes. I always shudder when I put them on, so vldldly do I remem ber the dismal stiffness nnd coldness of that mourning bombazine, with Its heavy folds of charnel-hovse smelling crape. A year after my mother's death, Richard Earlo came to the rectory to board for a few weeks. He had come down from London for his health, and meeting my father In the village. -. had asked for rooms in our little house. Ho made no trouble, and old Boss, our one servant, declared It was a pleasure to wait on him he was such a handsome and sweet-spoken young gentleman. It is not hnrd for you to guess how It terminated. I was a young, slmple natured country girl, with a lonely, desolate heart, and he was a new rev elation of love and life. I loved him thoro was no other way for me. and he loved mo In return. It will not seem vain for me to speak of It, now that I am gray and wrinkled, but In my youth I was very beautiful, and almost every young man I mot told me so with his eyes, If not with his lips. In all my life I had never know what happiness was until, looking into my eyes, Richard Earle told me that he loved me. Ah, then for me rose the new heaven and the new earth created, and all the hours ran In golden sands; for, no mattor how tenderly she may have been shielded and cared for, a woman never knows what joy is till she loves and Is be loved; neither does she know the meaning of pain until love hy, made her heart soft enough to feel it. There was some mystery about Richard, which he could not then make clear to me. He trusted the time would soon come when he could claim me as his own, and until then he asked me would I wait? Would I? I would have waited for him until the grave covered me, and never hnvu thought It long If I had constantly the assurance of his love. So he went away, and for many weeks his letters came oh, so ten der, so gentle, and loving! Then they coated. A month of anguish, and my father brought me a London paper. In it I read a notice of the marriage of Robert Earle and LAdy Arethusa Cleares. After that I felt like a stone cold, passionless and apathetic. It was at this time that Lord New bury pressed bis suit. He had long loved and admired me, and my poor father was very earnestly bont on the marriage; tor Lord Newbury was very rich and generous, and my poor father had faced poverty all his life, and no wonder, now that old ago was approaching, he coveted a little rest, and a home where privation was not a constant guest. Lord Newberry was three times my age, but he wn a true, loyal hearted English gentleman, and I re- spocted him highly. When Richard was lost to me, what mattered it what became of me? As well one thing as another! To hurry matters on, Gerald be came involved In a daring forgery, and the prison stared him in the face. Then my father pleaded with mo to save him. If hia aon was tent to prison, he could never hold up his head again. If I valued my father'B life, I would become Lady Newbury, and then my husband would take care of hli wife's family honor! So I suffered my lord to marry me, and Oerald, for the time, was saved. Three years went by, and I had drank my fill of the world's admira tion. I waa a great favorite in soci ety, and my husband waa very proud of me. He waa one ot the noblest and beat of men, and Heaven knows ! was never anything elso to- him than a faithful wife, though I never loved him. In the third year of my married life I became acquainted with the beautiful woman, about ray own age and her husband an easy-going sort of man owned a house In London, a manor house down In Dorsetshire, quite near the coast. I had been there on two occasions with the count -as for a week's rusticating, and a most delightfully weird and mys terious old house waa Huntly Manor. When I was Invited there to wit- ness the nuptials of my lady's only brother, Lord Albert Trevelyan, of course I was immensely delighted with the idea. About Lord Albert there had always seemed to me some thing very strange and Interesting, not that I had ever seen him, but I heard his sister tell so much about him. An only son, born to a peerage, handsome and accomplished as Apollo himself, he had preferred the wilds of Asia to civilized England, for the past three years and more; but now he had come home, and was going to marry and settle down like a Chris tian. The bride elect was the woman his father, now dead, had selected for him the Lady Christine McDougal, a Scottish beauty of Immense wealth and surpassing beauty, but Lady Huntly whispered to me that she had a dreadful temper. Lady Christine's parents being dead, Lady Huntly had proffered her own house for the nuptial festivities, and the offer had been accepted. Lord Albert was now in Ireland, with a pat ty of gentlemen friends, hunting and fishing, for It was hard for him to give up his adventurous habits. It was very early lu June that we went down to Huntly Manor. My husband was of the party, and Lord Huntly came down In a day or two. A week before the wedding day Lady Christine arrived. A very handsome, stately woman she was Indeed; but if Lord Albert had been a friend of mine I should have shuddered for his life with her for a companion. I think she hated me from the first, though she could not probably have given a reason for It. But thero are some very strange and mysterious things In this world; and when all was made clear by time, I understood why It was that Lady Christine and I were so strongly antagonistic. Lord Albert delayed his coming to the last moment. His sister was an noyed with him for being so dilatory, and Lady Christine's steel blue eyes took on an ominous glitter as day after day passed and still he lingered. Two days before the wedding, Just before sunset, I was sitting In my chamber, which fronted the English Channel, looking out on tho glitter ing waste of water. The day had been calm nnd bright, and the sun was going down in a wilderness of golden and crimson clouds. Suddenly, as I gazed, a mist seemed to come before my eyes. I felt cold and numb, an icy wind blew full In my face, and tho placid waters grew white with foam and spray! Clearly out against the red sunset line I saw the outline of a yacht, tossing help lessly on the crest ot the billows; nt her helm was the figure of a tall man. Nearer and nearer enme the frail craft. I saw distinctly the face of the helmsman and It was Richard Earle! Only a moment I saw It, and then a thundering roll of foamy water shut It from my view, and crashing on the rocky shore came the lost yacht, and up from her crew rose one wild, last wall of agony! And high above it all I heard his voice calling: "Elizabeth! Elizabeth! My love! my love!" I shrieked out in my wild affright, and my Lord Newbury rushed In from the adjoining room In alarmed haste And when I looked out upon the sea again It was calm as glass, and not a sail In sight I excused myself to my husband as best I might for I would not toll him what I had seen hat I knew I had seen for he would have deemed roe lnsnne. But all night long I lay awake, trying to reason out the strange vision; and morning found me no nearer a solution than before All the forenoon I was restless and uneasy. The bright morning changed to a day of drizzle and rain the wind blew sullenly, and howled plteously through the long, lonesome corridors of the manor, and shleked like a dis tressed human being down the black throated chimneys. Toward night it increased to a gale, and the rain ceased falling, through great inky thunder clouds rolled in from the sea and enveloped every thing in midnight blackness. Morn ing broke at last, wild and stormy Never had I seen the channel In such a swirl ot foam Fascinated, yet full of dreary and foreboding horror, I wrapped myself in a cloak and went out on the rocks Many others were thero before mo among them Lady Christine McDou gal! Her face was white with somo suppressed feeltag, and her great blue eyes were turned seaward watching a tiny white sail far out on Jhe horizon a mere apeck of light in the darkness. Then I remembered that her prom lsed husband waa to come from over the water, and I knew why her cheek was so pale. After all her haughty coldness Bbe loved him, I thought, and my worn an's heart softened toward her; for this was her wedding day, and maybe her plighted husband was in deadly peril The sail came nearer and noarer Great heaven! it waa a yacht, ot the same size and build I had seen ouce before. I shuddered with something that was not the cold and vet. and clung to a ragged shaft ot rock for support, ror I knew what I was to see. The people on the shore ahouted to the yacht to keep off, and hurled im precations at the reckless voyagers for their temerity in venturing so near the hazardous coast; but all un mindful, the yacht stood on, making for Little Good Harbor, Just below. Suddenly a great wave came thun dering along and enveloped the wretched vessel from keel to mast head. She careened, shivered, went over, and the next moment her broken timbers were hurled on the shore at our feet. And through the blinding spray, and the death-cold foam ot the waves, as scattered by the sharp rocks, It pierced my gar ments through and through, I saw Richard Earle's set face, and heard his voice calling my name: "Eliza beth! Elizabeth! my love! my love!" The first body which came on shore was his. I had it in my arms ere yet the wave had left It dry upon the sand. Dead! but he had lovod me In dying. Could ever a woman ask for more than this? As I lifted my face from his pale lips I met the basilisk eyes of Lady Christine glancing down upon me. She fixed an iron hand upon my shoulder. "What was he to you?" she hissed. "My life's one love!" I answered her. And my plighted husband. Well, I understand now why I have hated ou! " I do not remember anything more of that dismal time. When I was fully myself again, I was with my husband at our beautiful country place in Middlesex, far away from the cruel, glittering ocean. My husband was kind and gentle to me as my mother might have been. He had learned everything from my wild ravings during my long Illness, and to his cautious and well-directed Inquiries I owe ray knowledge of Richard Earle's history after he left the rectory. For Lord Newbury ever the most generous of men had solved all tho mystery, and when I was well enough he told me gently what he knew. Richard Earle and Lord Albert Richard Trevelyn was one and the same. At the time of his visit to our vil lage, he had taken the namo of his cousin, Richard Earle, simply to es- Fishing. By n nib. Fishing Is a noble sport, for such as have the proper temperament. Ner vous, impulsive fishes naturally find It no great fun. Patience and the philosophic calm are requisite to the highest enjoyment of fishing. Fishing Is a dangerous sport; but danger within limits adds a charm. If It were not In some degree danger ous It were not sport. The appeal Is both physical and mental. The powers of body and ot mind are at once taxed, and a de lightful and salubrious balance of effort Induced. A worm never tastes as sweet as when It has been matched oft a hook, and the weakest digestion Is not in commoded by It; while getting away after being caught brings aa enlarge ment of spirit such as they who have experienced it include ever among tbetr choicest sensations. Some sensitive souls object to fish ing because of the toilsome part it imposes on the human being at the othor end of the line. This is going too far. What are these human be ings created for, If not for our uses? From Puck. News of Pennsylvania C UT-g - '- 1, m - ,! fan - ! tmm m - an, iJFk WORDS OF WISDOM. Take thy self-denials gayly and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of tby gladness fall on dark things and bright alike. J. F. Clarke. ' . FARMERS' LEAGUE FOR 1, XSTKH. Forming Organization On Hoard Of Trade Principle. Lancaster (Special). The farmers of Fulton, Little Britain nnd Dru more Townships, of Lancnster Coun ty, have formed an organization styl ed "The Fnrmor'B League." which is founded on the name principles as a Board of Trade. As set fourth In the constitution to be adopted, the organization Is Intended to be a permanent, active association iu the southern end of Lanacster Coun ty, in order that all farmers and citi zens generally may systematically work In unison and harmony for the general Improvement, advancement and betterment of the farming com munity, financially. Intellectually and morally. The Idea Is to enroll, as nearly as possible, all live, progressive farm ers and business men into one strong. well-organized association, In which 1 each shall work for the good of all and all for each. It Is the Intention to havo a membership of 200, and at tho meeting of the body mat ters of mutual Interest will be discussed. Happiness rarely is absent: it U we that know not of Its presence. Tho greatest felicity avails us noth ing if we know not that we are happy. There is more Joy In the smallest de light whereof we are conscious than there is In the approach of the might iest happiness that enters into the soul. Maeterlinck. Many a blessed revelation Is given to the willing and waiting soul, but scarcely any that surpasses this the disclosures that sometimes come to us of the exquisite goodness in human hearts. Well for us If we find out that goodness, because wo havo that In ourselves which is akin to it and calls It out. George S. Merrlam, The only really solid thing in this universe is love. This makes our life really life. This makes us Immortal while we are here. This makes us sure that death Is no end. but only cape notice. He wanted rest, and 11 j a beginning, to us and to all we love. TWO MEAD, TWO DYING. Mine Bosjej Fatally Wounded By Italians, Kills Two. Pittsburg (Special). Charles Gardner, a mine boss, and his sis ter, Mrs George Rexford, were at tacked by Italians and fatally shot, at Crowoberg, a new mining camp In the northern part of the county. Tho Italians attacked Cardner and his sister without warning, firing on them In the dark. The first bullet struck Gardner on the point of the chin, glanced and entered the breast, lodging in the the lungs. At almost the same mo ment Mrs. Rexford was shot In tho small of the back. They fell to the ground together. The Italians started to run Immediately after firing, but Gardner recovered suf ficiently to raise himself upon hla elbow and fired upon them. Two of the Italians were struck by Gard ner's bullets and fell dead In their tracks. he traveled as Lord Albert Trovelyn he would be obliged to receive a great many civilities from the gentry, which he wished to avoid. He was not of age, and consequent ly to some degree subject to hit father, and his father had selected Lady Christine McDougal for hia wife. In consequence, It was neces sary for him to keop his love for me secret until he Bhould reach his ma jority. By some means his father had discovered his entanglement with the daughter of a poor country curate, and our letters were inter cepted. The Richard Earle whose marriage notice I had seen was Lord Albert's cousin. My marriage with Lord Newbury had followed Immediately after, and Albert had left the country, rich and disgusted with life. He had never censed to love me. but he would havo married Lady Christine. This was what Lord New bury had learned, and what he told me. And If I had never loved him be fore I loved him thon, for his noble and thoughtful forbearance toward me. llut through every dark hour of my life, one sweat thought has ever been present to comfort and sustain me. In dying my only love loved me! And so alone, and yet not sad or weary, because hope gleams so -J. F. Clarke. Honesty Is the best policy, but ho who acts from that principle is not an honest mau. Archbishop Whately. He who has reached something like the measure of a full-grown man finds no great difficulty In getting over of fense or Injury. It is the small man who never can get over such things. Herald and Presbyter. POVKP.D OIL OVER WIFE, lights We like to come to a height of Idnd and see tho landscape, Just as we value a general remark In conversa tion. Rut it Is not the intention of nature that we should live by general views. We fetch fire and water, run about nil day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are the victims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment. If we were not thus infatuated, if we saw the real from hour to hour, we should not be here to write and to read, but should have been burned or frozen long ago. Nominalist and Realist. Fined at Lust. , Here Is a dispatch from Chicago which should be painted in large let ters on signboards and stuck up con spicuously on the shores of all point.-, lakea and river-; frnnnnnteri hv thonn brightly in the distance, I am waiting ; wno seek the waters for pleasure to go to ray better and truer life when durlne the summer months: thu Master calls. Good Literature A Test Case. Railroads and newspapers through out the country are Interested in the test case that the Interstate Com merce Commission Is preparing to bring to determine If It la legal for a railroad to give transportation in re turn for advertising, under the rul ing of the commission that transpor tation must be paid In money. G. W. Kretzlnger, attorney for the Monou railroad, has forced the Issue by ad vising his company and others to ig nore the commission's ruling and en ter into the regular advertising con- "A man and a woman accused of rocking a rowboat in which they were rowing in Washington Park Sunday afternoon, paid for their fun yester day, when they were fined by Munici pal Judge Lantry. The woman, Mrs. Annie Finnic, was fined the court costs amounting to $7, and the man, George Morris, was fined $25 and coBts. Both paid and promised never to rock a boat again." The boat rockers are seldom caught. They are either drowned with their victims or escape In the confusion following the climax of their prank. Unfortunately, the dis patch does not state Just how these particular offenders were caught in tracts with newspapers and neriod lcals, paying for space In transporta- j the act, but the fact that they were tion. The Mobile Register n niter- 1. ..!,... mi n... 1 i stands that several of the roads lu the give emphasis to the fact that public ouuiu are preparing to follow the sentiment and the law are in conjunc Monon eiample, in the belief that the Hun In tho crusade against this den- commlsslon has no legal right to in- I perately dangerous pastime. Wash- teriere in a business arrangement be- 1 tugton Star. iwoeu a ruuroaa company and a I newspaper, when such arrangement FIsU WoPth catching. other nroviainn t an. , . . .. I The talk around the club table other provision of the act regulating I . ... . . . n . , ranroaas. one or the local compa- 1 , " , 7, " " nles of Mobile, which withdrew all . ttit,onlhln 1m,equoncf- passes, outside its own mmv. u-. "Well, gentlemen," said the man who given an order to a printer for a suf ficient num'jer of certificates to meet the mutual business arrangement of exchanging advertising space for transportation. A Supplementary Statement. Old Dr. Ryland, clergyman and ed ucator, was greatly beloved In the I houtu, and his visits were always en joyed by his former pupils and par ishioners. In his later years it was his custom to offer prayer whenever he made a ministerial call. On one occasion be called at a house where three of his former pupils were stay ing. These ladles were all past the thirtieth year mark, but in the eye of the old gentleman they were still girU which explains the petition he offered : "Lord, bless these dear girls, just budding Into sweet womanhood." This waa too much for one of the was fortunate enough to tell the last story, "the best day's sport I ever had was off the coast of Southern Califor nia. Thero were three of us In the boat, each of us had three lines out, and we simply couldn't pull them in fast enough." "What kind of fish were biting?" asked an Indulgent listener. "I dou't know what the natives call them," said the fisherman, "but they were big enough to be ichthyosau ruses." "Maybe they were whales, Frank," nugp,i?ted an ironical member. "Whales!" exclaimed Frank, with a look of dlsdalu, "whales Indeed! Why, mau, we wore baiting with whales!" Woman's Home Companion. An Unwentloned Ancestor. Mr. B. Is very proud of his ancient lineage and never lets slip an oppor- number, who, taking advantage of tunlty to boast of It. At a dinner the doctor's deafness, added this : where he had been unusually ram- clause, sotto voce: "Alae, Lord, Pnt on th,g subject a fellow guest budded, bloomed, faded and atlll un- ' iu-t-d him by remarking: "If you picked I" Lipplncott'i. 1 climb much further up your family IM ' tree you will come fane to face with The Swiss Government Is consider- j the nkey."-l.lppluLott's. lng two new transalpine tunnel schemes. One Is to pierce the Splue gon. and tho other the Greiua, in the canton ot the Orisons. 'Ii-cman Who Came To The Rescue of Woman. Pittsburg (Special). Crazed with drink, Rupert Bmlttanar. aged 41 years, of 202 Spring Garden, Alle gheny, attempted to set fire to nil wife's clothes after he had poured coal oil over her. Neighbors heard the woman's screams and notified the Allegheny fire department. Op erator Brady despatched Flromen W. Relsmuyer and Den Hildorhruud to the woman's rescue. When the fire men entered Smlttnr.er waved a huge knife about his head and yelled that they were too early, that the hre had not commenced. Reismayer and Hilderbrand at tempted to place the Infuriated man under arrest a"d were met with a determined resistance. Men passing on the pavement came to tno reticle and Smlttaner was finally bound hand and foot, and sent to the cen tral station in the patrol. Mrs. Smlttnncr was not seriously Injured, but she Buffered severely from nerv ous shock. STATE obituary. Miminburg. George W. Foote. editor of tho MtfT.inburg "Times," suffered a stroke of apoplexy at his printing olllce. He was conveyed home unconscious, nnd at midnight died. Mr. Foote was the veteran Demo cratic editor of the county and found er of the Miminburg Times." He was Independent In his political prln clples,.aB he was opposed to the elec ton of Bryan and supported Palmer and Buckner. He waa a faithful Boldler In the war for the Union, a member of Company O, Fourth Regi ment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, hav ing served three years and four months and was several times wound ed. Coatesvllle. Ex-Burges3 Thomas H. Wlndle died at his home here, aged 74 years, from septic poison contracted while fishing at Wild wood, N. J., several weeks ago. Mr. Wlndle was one of the most wide ly known man In Chester County and has been more or less In public life since 1863, when he was elected clerk of the courts of Cheater Coun ty for a term of three years. He enlisted lu United States service in 1861 and was discharged on account of disability June 16, 1X63. He waa a ready and forceful speaker and was always in great demand during local campaigns. . Scranton. James Richard Mears died suddenly on Saturday night. Ho was one of tho richest men of West Scranton and was prominent In various organizations. A leading member ot tho West Park Quoit Club, he was Identified with the many charitable projects undertaken by that society. His wife died a month ago and grief and strain at tendant upon her Illness caused his collapse. Chambersburg. Rev. John Agnew Crawford, D. D., died at his homo here. He was born In Philadelphia In 1S22 and was graduated from tho University ot Pennsylvania in 1 84 1 , studied In the Reforew Presbyterian Seminary in Philadelphia and was licensed to preach in 1844. He was pastor in Milton, Pa., Xetila, O., and Brooklyn. Reading. John A. Esterly, land lord of the Central House, at Sink ing Spring, and a prominent Demo crat, died of consumption, aged r4 years. Stroudsburg. Dr. M. 0. Lesh one of the best-known physicians In Monroe County, is dead, aged 57 jears. He wbb graduated from the University of Pennsylvania In the class of 1873. He was for twolve years surgenti tor the Lackawanna Railroad Company for this territory. TWO-CEXT RATE LAW. Porry County Court Says New Sta tute Is Confiscatory. Harrlsburg (Special). Judge Shull, of the Perry County Court, In an opinion unique In literary con struction, declares the Pennsylvania two-cent rate law unconstitutional and void In Its application to the Susquehanna River & Western Rail road Company, which connects Dun cannon and Hloomfleld Junction. The law, he declares In his de cree. Is In derogation of both the United States and the Pennsylvania Constitutions Judge Shull quotes figures ot the Company's earnings to show that the enforcement of the rate ordained by the last Legislature would be confis catory and would result In loss of earnings. He adds: "This result the from actual figures Is easily comprehended. It requires but limited mathematical knowledge to attain a solution, and the time would not be remote when again would be posted the Sheriff's sale bills, the figures ot a man's hand would write upon tne plaster of the wall, like that In the palace ot the King when llelshazzar, grgatly trou bled and his countenance changed In hlra, Tokel. Would Rob landholders. "To compel compliance with the mandate of this statute by the plain tiff OOtnpun: means robbing the bond holders of their securities, In which they placed their money at a season able rate of Interest In good faith deprive the community of the facili ties for transportation of freight and passengers, which they now enjoy, nr.-.l confiscate the property and fran chise of the stockholders. And for what PUrDOMf "S'.mply to obey the caprice of a legislature, many of whose members wl'.hout rhyme or reason, facts or t'.gures. Information or reputation pledged to perform the act In the name of reform. "We might say of reform as was said by Madam Roland of liberty. In tho days of the French Revolution: 'Oh, liberty, liberty, how many crimes are committed In thy name?' "Reform Is a virtue of lofty attri butes, but It comes In the voice, 'As ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to them,' and Is not In black and blighting thunder oub clouds of destruction, havoc and confiscation. Regulation Ik Remedy. "Where It Is shown In the language of the constitution that charter rights are found to be Injurious to the citizens of the Commonwealth, let the law bo asserted, tho power abridged, and conduct regulated by a proper tribunal or the charter re voked. "In the case at bar, it is not even asserted that any Injury Is suffered by the public, no cttlzen Is heard to complain, while to throttle the opera tions of tho road, and relegate us to tho stage coach and Conestoga wagon will bring Injury, distress nnd dis consolatlon." The opinion was in tho suit of the Susquehanna River & Western Rail road Company and the Real Estate Trust Company, of Philadelphia, which latter sued aa well on behalf of Itself as on behalf of ull other owners of first mortgage bonds of the railroad company, plaintiffs, against Perry County, defendant. MISTER'S SUITOR KILLED. I'niiik Conxlino Convicted Of fluowsf Regret Murder. Enston ( Special ) . Frank CottXH no, an Italian, of Siegfrieds, was found guilty of murder In th aftoo4 degree, after being on trial several days, for the murder of Antonio Pn linae Corodlno's sister was the ob ject of the affections of both Aatoolo Uallrdl and Antonio Pngltes. Site) seemed to prefer Pugllese, but her relative favored Gallrdl. The latter, seeing that chances) were against the success of hla suit. conspired with Corodlno to pot tbs) rival out of the way. Pugllese wan shot on May 31, 103, and died snfeJ sequgntly In the Allentown Hospital.1 Corodlno and Galrldl had, and the) latter is still at liberty. Corodlno was arrested In EaBton Several months ago, after having traveled over a big section ot the country. He la 2C years old and a cement worker. Mennonlto Home Gets 9100.O00. Lancaster ( Special ) . The . Men nonlte Home, nt Orvllle, will coma' Into an inheritance ot I100,0tj eventually through the beneficence ot the late David Land Is, Who oont mitted suicide by hanging at bis home in Lancaster Township a week ago. His estate, valued at the above sum, is to beld In trust by a local bank, and the Income Is to be paid to his aged widow. At her death the Income bequeathed to three equally aged sisters, and upon their death the estate Is to revert to the Men nonlte Home. MARRIAGE ANNULLED. Woman Found After Eleven Yours First Husband Was Living. Plymouth (Special). Mf3. Ada S. Kepp, who found after boing mar ried to Benjamin Kepp for eleven years, that her first husband, Hiram 8teele, was alive, was awarded an annulment of her marriage to Kepp. Steele had deserted her in 1899. Two years later his brother wrote her that he was dead. Then she married Kepp and they had lived happily for eleven years. A short time ago she was told that Steele was alive. She set ont to find him and did so after several weeks' search. He is helpless and dependent upon the town of Berwick for sup port. The woman then considered It her duty, although she will have noth ing to dp with Steele, to secure an annulment of her marriage with Kepp and has donetfeo. SOFT DRINKS ADULTERATED. Picnic Refreshments Usually Made Scalded lly Hot Tomatoe. York (Special). White watching her mother can tomatoes Mildred Haack, 5 years old, was fatally 1 burned. The mother had filled tbe jar and after screwing on a cap In verted it as a test for leakage. It was then that the Jar burst and the boiling contents poured over tbe lit tle girl who was standing nearby. Tot Opens Mother's Letter. Harrlsburg (Special). Seven-year, old Robert Leonard was sent to the House ot Detention pending trial at the next term of Juvenile Court,' charged with opening a registered letter addressed to his mother. He. claimed that his sister openedtlha letter and burned It. It is said the lad believed that the letter contain ed money because it was registered, and that prompted him to open it. Accused Of Despoiling Grave. York (Special) Ida Holllngshead. 15, and Clara Chlmmlns, 13 yearn old, were arrosted. charged with stealing Images, ribbons and Mowers from tho grave of a newly burled infant In St. Patrick's Cemetery, near this place. The warrants were sworn out by the' father of the dead Infant. Killed, Pockets Full Of Money. Moadvllle 1 Special I . John TQrn. cum, aged 64, gang foreman of cat, penters at the Erie Railroad ahOpr a , was struck by a train at Walte.Ui Street crossing and killed. Ho leave a widow and two daughters. YocniA11 had S1017 in his pockets whe killed. -n- Physlcian Loses An Arm. Oil City (Special). Dr. C. O. De1-,, lonbeck, of Strattonvtlle, one of tb11111 most prominent physicians in Claiio t County, was the victim of a peculic on accident. He was repleulshlng tt . gasoline tank of his automobile wbr the Inflammable stuff Ignited frc B. the heat of the machine, burning k,niH arm so badly that amputation we necessary. NEWS IN BRIEF. Of Acids And Dye. Harrlsburg ( Special ) . Reports from Dr. William Frear, one of the chemists of the Dairy and Food De partment, made to Commissioner Foust, show that all kinds of soft drinks are adulterated more or less, especially those prepared to be sold at State gatherings and big picnics. At the encampment of the Second Brigade of the National Guard sam ples of root beer, pop and lemouade were taken, all of which were adul terated with drugs like dye tuffs, artificial flavors and sweetenod with saccharine Instead of sugur. Lanion ado was principally made of acids. Allentown Sprrnds Ont. Allentown (Special). Three hun dred acres comprising that portion of Salisbury Township known as South Allentown, were annexed to the city of Allentown at a meeting of City Councils. The newly annex ed portion ot the city has a popula tion of approximately 2800 aud is Democratic, according to roceut elec tion results In the ratio of about 3 to 2. Germany has ten Government polytechnic schools, having a total ot 16,468 students. - Consular Agent A. k Carleton, re porting from Almeria, says that the first direct beat leaving that Spanish port for America, which will reach New Yolk In September, carries something like 10,000 barrels of Almeria grapes. Hung To Red Post. MlnersvlUe (Special). William Dando, aged 60 years, was found dead hauglng trom tbe bed post at his home. He tied a rope around his neck, aud in order to make snre ot U being strangled to death get on nlu knees when his weight drew the noose taut. The deed as discover ed when William Holly, a son-in-law, went to Daudo's room to announce tbe birth ot a granddaughter. Tbe passport the time ot th back to Norman Green, a 14-year-old col ored youth, ot Chestor, while steal ing a ride on a Reading freight train fell beneath the moving train and had his right leg so badly mangled that It had to be amputated. Bequests of $1,500 each to the three Reading hospitals, $500 to two churches and $600 to two charitable institutions fall In the will of the late Mrs Kafe Hawley, who was the widow of Jesse G. Hawley, the mil lionaire publisher of the Reading "Eagle," because the will waa writ ten without attesting witnesses. The potato crop in York County la short The yield has not quite been two-thirds and farmers are holding back their crops with a view ot get ting a dollar a bushel. Contractor D. D. Nyce broke ground at Doylestown for the erec tion of a silk ribbon mill on Harvey Avenue, 76x50 feet, which will fur nish employment tor several hundred persons. I Joseph Market was held up by. four highwaymen near Shamokln who clubbed and stabbed him until be was senseless, after which they robbed him ot $10 and fled. He la In a serious condition. While aiding in extinguishing a fire at a busnens house nt Shamokln, Frank Licoak, fireman, fell thirty feet from a ladder and was seriously Injured. The State water supply commission has approved the plans for the piers of the Pennsylvania Railroad's new bridge at Linden, uear Wllllamsport, on condlton ot removing the old piers after the new bridge is com pleted. Eliza Mitchell was appointed post mistress at Spangler, Cumbria Coun ty, by the President. Jewish residents ot Lebanon have subscribed liberally to a fund tor the building of a synagogue tbere. A congregation has been organized to be known as Beth Israel. Blam Denllnger, Lancaster Coun ty farmer, found tbe body of George Palen, a farm hand, who had disap peared a week ago, lying in hia cornfield. It Ig.Vellevod that Palen had sustained a stroke a paralysis. George Baker, ot Mohnton, has been appointed deputy register of wills fer Berks County, to succeed W. B. Stoltz. who waa killed In the wreck of tho Sbrinors' train at Hon. da, Cal., last May. Rtahard Snyder, of ParryvlU iiur vy a central Hailioad fbi.e walking along the track. Bowaogas. and fatally hurt, t-aj is tz years old aud marrMd. 1 i
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