UTTLE WILLIE IN CANNING TIME (Vhn m gt l"iy cannm' thing about thi time o' yaar 'And leave m with the baby ftr to watch the little dear, , Krt. thing you know it falla some way nd get an awful bump An' ma come tearin' up the taire, nbout ix at a jump. She aendi me down to watch the atuff that'i boilin' in the pot. And oh, the ainell that cornea from here ia good, I tell you what! But pretty toon, aomehow, It geta to lub- blin' from the top And ma cornea falling over chaira and thinga to make it atop. She geta the cana all act in row, and when it'i boiled enough It aplaabea on her handa and burna while ahe pour in the atuff, And juat becauae I'm lookin' on there a anmething alipa aomehow And down the can gop on the floor, and gee! but there a a row. When ma gel buay cannin' thinga I wiah that I could go Far, far away from home about a thou- aand mile or ao And then come back along about the time the table' aet And inaV got out a can or two of good atuff to be et. Chicago Record-Herald. r HE CAME TO HIS OWN. J Herbert Vinton passed his band caressingly over his rather grayish, though still luxurious, locks, and studied the picture before him. It was the photograph of a girl, or rather of one who had been a girl the day before. Around him were many evidences of wealth. In spite of his bachelor hood he had all the cares and com forts of a splendid and well ordered house. He was not a clubman; he had little taste for society; he had traveled all he cared to; he had grown weary of plays, and at fifty, still as vigorous as he had beon at thirty, he preferred to spend his leis ure moments In his library. ' "Yes," he said to himself, still looking at the picture, "If her mother could be as she was twenty-five years ago they might pass for twins." He drew a long sigh. Twenty-five years ago her mother had said no to him and married a man who was fifty-five. "I was poor then," Vinton mused, "and he was rich. Now I'm rich and he well, I forgive him. He's dead. And they are poor, and she Is still ready to give not her soul this time, but her daughter, 'for money.' " The letter that lay on the desk was from her. It was the first she had written to him since their part ing. She had at least been loyal to the man she had chosen. Why, he asked himself, had she sent him the picture of her daughter, if not for the purpose that had first suggested Itself tb him? Why had she not sent her own? Her letter, coming so soon after the beginning of her widowhood and the loss of her fortune, meant but one thing. When he entered his library the next morning his eyes at once sought the picture of the fair-faced girl. "I'll go," ho said to himself, after taking up the portrait again and gaz ing at it for a long time. "Why shouldn't I? There will be no unfair ness about it not, at least, on my part. .hey both of -hem owe it to me. I've waited twenty-five years. Why shouldn't I be rewarded now? It will only be a case of turn about. He took her In the glory and fresh ness of her youth, when she right fully belonged to me. But here" he looked earnestly at the picture again "sho has returned just as she was whe:i they robbed me of her. 1 Fate to do. She forgot that, through tier a debt was to be paid, and that through her they were to be Insured against poverty. She forgot all save that Vinton was estimable and kind, and that It made her glad to know that he was happy. One day when she was away buy ing things fo the wedding, her mother and Vinton sat alone to gether. "You are going to be very happy after all," she said. "Yes," he answered "after all. My glad old dream Is to come true after all. You are good to let It happen so; bui I shall have only what Is mine after all, you know. The years I have lost can never be given back; they are gone forever. Still, 1 Digging Our Graves With Our Teeth. By na. tALRBUV. in tne whole realm of life there are no two tissues more contrasted than flesh and fat. Flesh Is muscle, consisting of extremely active cells of living protoplasm; fat consists also of cells , but they contain prac tically no protoplasm at all, and in stead of It are simply filled with life less oil. Fat cells are scarcely more worthy to be called alive than the ; cells which compose our nails or hair. Fat is In no sense part of the living tissue of the body. It may i act as reserve food; It may serve to relieve pressure and to retain the gladly give them for the Joy that is pwarmth of the body; but mnscular returned to me. Only those who have been robbed as I have been robbed and who have won their treasures back can know the gladness that comes with tho returning of what is my own. Only they who have been loved and lost can know how deep and how dark Is the valley which love has come to call me out of. Forgive me for saying these things to you. I know you cannot understand them. It is my present Joy that makes me look back with pity for the hopeless thing I was down there in the dark ness where it was so lonely and so cold. I have waited so long, I have denied s long, that I am Intoxicated by tho sweet aroma even before the cup touches my Hps. You have not " With a pitiful cry she put hat hands to her face, and for a moment, while she sobbed, he stood looking at her. Then he lifted her up, saying: "Ood help me! I had forgotten that all I have been denied you also have been denied, and that if I return to claim my love where It was taken from me you must go on through the darkness alone." Eleanor drew back from the half opened door anil went away softly, leaving her mother in his arms. S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald. ELECTRIC SLEEP IN SURGERY, will have her. She Is my own. has glve:i her back to me." He found them In plain little quar ters, and Eleanor they had given her her mother s name placed her hands in his and looked up with a look that awoke a thousand memories in him. It wps the look that he had o often, waking and dreaming, seen before. Her fingers seemed to give the old, glad, thrilling touch. Her voice was the voice that had been calling him through all the lonely years. He had found hlB love again ' fair, undented, just as Bho was wbon h had lost her. The other looked upon them and was silent. Youth was no longer hers. Gladness was not In her eyes. Her smile was not the eager smile of nope. Much of her beaut she re tained, but it was not the beauty that Inspires love. It was such bei.uty as might be chiseled out of marble. In the days that came and went Vinton's Joy was boundloss. There had been dark years, in which he had been sure that lie would never taste the sweets of love again. He laughed at hlniBelf for having harbored such doleful thoughts. And always he kept assuring his conscience that he was preparing to claim only what was hlB. "She is mine; she has been re turned to me by them that did me wrong," he declared. "I have won her by waiting. I will have my own. " Eleanor did not dread his coming. Often she sat at the window looking eagerly for him. She had learned from her mother why he had been liv ing in loneliness. She had heard from her mother of the wrong that he had suffered. She had learned that it was their duty to make reparation. Once, in a moment of depression, she had asked: "If he were still poor, would you think 1 ought to give myself to him to right the old wrong?" Her mother had turued from her and failed to answer. They returned to something akin to luxury. me doubts concerning ihe manner in WHICH thv were to lot along had been cleared away. In the mother's eyes there was a look that .was new and strange. Not a look of jay, not a look of content. Perhaps Hit look of the llonoss that has eaten Iter whelp to satisfy her own hunger. irernapB. j wul uieunor discovered In good time that she was not to be sucrin, 'Affection' for Vinton bad found its way into her bieaBt. She did not green for shame Ol the .alng she was Professor Leduc Says He Has Discov ered a Perfect Anaesthesia. Stephane Leduc, .the eminent pro fessor of the School of Medicine at Nantes, France, has discovered a ' method of causing electric sleep, which. It is declared, will replace ! chloroform and other anaesthottca in ' all surgical operations. The discov ery proceeded from study of the ef- -fects of intermittent currents and 1 from tho knowledge that the skull and brain offer but little resistance to the current. For a human being a current ol thirty-live volts Is applied intermit tently In its full strength for minute fractions of a second. Two electrodes aro applied to the skull in a special manner, ih polntc of application be ing first carefully shaved. Professor Leduc made scores of experlm .nts on dogs and on himself. All wer successful. The application : of the current on the head is not dangerous, and no ill effects follow, even when the experiment lasts for hours. Tho advantages of the electric sleep are said to bo numerous. Anaesthesia by chloroform, morphine or other is disagreeable, always dangerous, and has often proved fatal, while the ; awakening 1b painful. During the electric sleep the patient is perfectly I quiet and the awakening occurs U ! Boon as the electrodes are withdrawn. 1 Tiio sensations after the operation arc quite agreeable. The mind ap- 1 pears to work more clearly and more rapid, and there is a sense of in- creased physical vigor. This last circumstance led Pro feMOr Leduc to use his brain elec- : trlsation for cases of nervous exhaua- ! tion, and even ordinary fatigue and morul depression, with wonderful re- ; BUliS. Incidentally the scientist assort": ! that the application in a certain man Mr of hla special current will electro- cute a subject in an absolutely pain- 1 less mr.nnor, gentle sleep being fol- I lowed by Gradual hut certain death. New York Times. Wireless Money Lending. One of the most interesting typei; on tho American track Is the profes sional money londer. Money lending is absolutely forbidden, and so the ontlre transaction must be conducted sub rosa, but If a person who is "on" goes broke, and he has some article of jewelry of value with him, It is easy for him to realize money on it. The lender is an irreproachably dressed person who sits in the grand stand with the rest of the crowd, and Is known in his true colors only to the habitues of the track. A mnn who wants some capital makes an un obtrusive sign to him, and twirls a ring he may be wearing at the time. Shortly afterward both will proceed to a restaurant, where, for the benefit of onlookers, they will greet each other as ordinary acquaintances. The exchange is then made over tho drink they order; the loan broker has the ring and the better his capital. If the latter cashes in on the next race, he will roturn the money and the agreed upon premium, and will re ceive back his ring. From "The Peo ple and the Ponies," by C. F. Peters, in The Bohemian. tissue is crammed with life, and di rectly serves its purpose. We recognize this distinction, while Ignoring it, when we say that a man is "putting on flesh"; but he is never doing anything of the sort when we say so. He Is putting on fat; nay, more, if he continues the . process ho will very soon begin to replace flesh for fat. His muscle cells. Including those of his heart, will degenerate, die, and become I replaced by lifeless oil of fat. I say advisedly, then, that when a man Is said to be putting on flesh he Is losing flesh, for flesh Is muscle, and the . muscles of a man who is becoming j stout are undergoing either simple I atrophy or else atrophy with fatty ', degeneration and infiltration. No one has any business whatever 1 to bo as stout as the John Bull of our I artists who are wise in what they j select for the touch of caricature. : That gentleman's corporation is a sign not of health but of disease. He eats too much and works too little. 1 His blood pressure is too high, his ar I terles are becoming hard, his power of thought is becoming impaired; in t due course he will have a "shock." If he recovers from it his had habits will soon recur and he will have an j other. If the state of the nation j and its probable future has any cor respondence to the physical state of the grossly overfed and degenerate person whom the cartoonists portray it is high time that the national will was made and our possessions ap propriately bequeathed. As a German writer pointed out not long ago, "the whole secret of prolonging one's life consists in doing nothing to shorten it," and there is nothing more certain than that over eating shortens life. It is only quite lately, however, that we have begun to understand this question, and one of the discov eries we have made is that though obesity shortens life and is a sign of overeating, yet many a man may overeat who does not become obese. There is no question here of making unpleasant remarks about stout peo ple alone. The truth is that very few of us, Indeed, can escape a gen eral condemnation, whether we are stout or not. Thus there is no need for the stout person to point out that he eats no more than his neighbor, who Is not stout. Most probably his neighbor also eats excessively, but merely. has a different method of dis posing of the surplus. Now the point I wish to make is this that for every Individual, ac cording to his bodily structure, his habits as to exercise, clothing, work, worry, aim so rortn, mere is on any given day a certain amount of food which is the best for his health, and all beyond that is merely an excess. Matter is indestructible, we remem ber, and If, having use for a certain amount of matter, we deposit more within ouraelves something has to be done with it. Jt is quite possible that in some i v the least amount of harm may be effected by turning the superfluity into fat and storing ii away as con veniently as possible. Though this is bad enough in many ways, it may be less injurious than the attempt of the body to consume and destroy the superfluous fuel. In many caseB this is done, so that thousands of people who eat far more than Is good for them never become stout, though they may bo eating more largely and doing themselves more harm than their plump neighbors, at whom they point the finger of ascetic scorn. These aro all preliminary consider ations and I have not yet begun to approach the really Important matter to which I wish to devote these arti cles. It is really nothing to me that my neighbor should be too stout, but it is a serious matter to mo, as a student and lover of society, that the mental powers of the middle age,d and elderly of both sexes should full In any way below the level which may be expected of them. Perhaps my elders will forgive me for preaching at them it I aver that my prime motive is a recognition of the value of experience. Human ac tion Is controlled by Intelligence and not instinct, but though intelligence can learn everything, it has every thing to learn. For myself I pro foundly believe In government by the elderly In years. It Is a fact of biography that the greatest works In philosophy and political thought and science and organization have been the achievements of the elderly. What could be more natural? Other things being equal, the mere lapse of time, the mere length of education muBt tell. But now observe the famous dic tum that "a man is as old as his ar teries." For myself I prefer to' say that a i.ian Is as old as his mind, and that a man's body Is as old as bis arteries; but mind Is correlated with brain, and all nervous tissue Is abso lutely and continuously at the morcy of Its blood supply. There Is, there fore, a direct correlation between the health of a man's arteries and the health of his mental powers, as every doctor knows. The great achieve ments of thought which stand to the credit of elderly men and old men were most certainly associated wltb young arteries, and an elderly man with young arteries quite a rarity in modern society !s in effect a young mhn with an old man's experi ence. He, and he alone, can make the best of both ages, and where he exlsta he may be found to dominate and to lead his class, whatever It be. Now, the reader will say that I began to talk about overeating and have permitted myself to wander into a dissertation about arteries and old age, but there has been no digression, for in consequence of recent Investi gations it seems extremely probable that before long the doctors will be compelled on all hands to denounce overeating as probably the chief cause of the premature arterial de generation. Involving premature phy sical degeneration, which is one of the lamentable facts of our time, our surplus food is In effect a mild poison, or the source of poisonous substances produced within the body. Circulating in the blood vessels con tinuously, these poisons naturally Injure the delicate living cells which line their walls, and arterial degen eration follows, with consequences which show themselves in every or gan of the body, but most markedly, of course, in the most sensitive and dellcete and needy of them all, which Is the brain. Aertrio-sclerols, or ar terial hardening, is one of the most Important of all diseases, though the public hears little of it. I am not stating anything novel or sensational. Every doctor knows the truth of the saying that "a man is as old as his arteries," and great medical conferences will devote them selves for days to nothing but this one subject. This morbid arterial change may actually be felt by tho doctor at almost any elderly wrist In the country, and the wrist at which It is felt is elderly, whatever its own er's years. Arterial degeneration is the cause of practically all cases of apoplexy or Bhock. No man can burst a healthy blood vessel from within. The bursting is a mere accident, de pendent upon the fact that the vessel is diseased. But, quite apart from these calamities, arterial hardening 13 a personal and national cureo, es pecially as It effects the efficiency, the capacity for adaptation and the energy of those who rule us, whether in the pulpit or the press or Parlia ment or elsewhere. There appears to be a tendency toward the Incursion of the young man and the driving out of the old, but what I want to see is young beads on old shoulders, elderly men wltb soft arteries, who will combine the mental activity and fitness of youth with the experience of age. Most of our elderly men suffer from chronic food poisoning with arterial hardening, and they need some one to tell them bo. This is quito an un selfish task, for all the virtues of youth lie In its soft arteries, so to say, and If the middle aged learn how to keep their own arteries soft, Inex perienced youth will havo longer t wait for the prizes it desires. Pall Mall Gazette. When tlie Sea Smokes. Explorers tell of the peculiarity of the Arctic regions. When it is very cold a steam aa If from a boilin; ket tle arises from the water. At forty degrees below zero snow and human bodies emit this vapor. It appears that the colder the temperature the more numerous are the deoeptive signs of heat. When the tempera ture is lower than forty degrees the trees burst opeu wltb a loud report, and there is a cloud of vapor as If the thing had been done with powder. When it is still colder the earth cracks open with loud noises, rocks break and Btreama of smoking wa ter pour from the cracks in the earth. Fire on the end of a cigar will go out, but the cigar will emit smoke from the whole surface as if it were burning under tat wrapper. Phila delphia Grit. Foreiter Plnchot advises people to use the ood but save the roods. The Crime of "Shaving" Milk. Taking as a standard the thou sands of tests that havo been made, both in this country and abroad, it Is for the purposes of this argument more than safe to take throe and one half per cent, as the amount of butter fat in average New York milk before it is tampered with. Which is the same thing as saying that 100 pounds of this milk will make three and one half poundB of butter. Now the law declares that all milk which contains less than three per cent, of butter fat is adulterated. This means that any milk containing three per cent, or a trifle more of butter fat is perfectly pure milk. And here is where the dealer makes his little profit. The average milk that he receives has at least three and one-halt per cent, of batter fat a great deal more. In other words, than is necessary to pass the legal test. Why not' pocket the difference? Because the law declares that adulterated milk is not only milk to which something has been added, but milk from which some thing has been taken. But the law doesn't amount to so very much out in the country creameries, where in spectors are few. So some may ro move a cortaln amount from the cream, "Bhave" It just to the danger point, and send the cream thus gained into the city, where it is sold at from $5 to $10 the can. It is a very simple matter to estimate the amount of money which Judicious shaving would bring in from the milk supply of New York. The writer, to gether with several Board of Health officials, estimatod it at (4600 a day, making large allowances for pure milk, averages, etc. The amount of loot thus annually accumulated may be placed at awmttUtug over a million and a halt of dollars a year, a tidy sura. From "Life, Health and Out Milk Supply," by Carrlngton A. Phelps, in the Metropolitan Magazine. Optimisms. Our happiest moments are when we forget self In useful effort. Through the deBlre and effort to express, we will reach the highest good, or paradUe. Man has always fallen upward, and when ho haa kicked the ball. It has aiwa.4 been toward the goal. The wise man is ready to relinquish anything and everything, confident that something better is In store. Happy la the child born Into a fam ily where there is a competition of ideas, and the recurring theme is truth. Mankind Is moving toward the light, and such Is our faith now in the divine intelligence that we do not believe that in our hearts were plaut ed aspirations and desires that are to work our undoing. Elbert Hub bard, In Llpplncolt's. j i News of Pennsylvania J JI'DGE LAYS DOWN LAW. Sheriff Must Use t'p All The Force In The County. Bellefonte (Special) At a spec ial sitting of court here Judge H. A. McClure. of Union County, told 8horlff Henry Kline, of Center Coun ty, very plainly what his duties were under certain circumstances. When the Pennsylvania Railroad Company one nlgbt last week brought 600 men here and put down a branch road through the Nlttany Iron Company's yards but on land to which the Nlttany Valley Railroad Company claimed title, Superintend ent Oardner got out an Injunction and gave it to the Sheriff to enforce. The Sheriff merely read the Injunc tion, and considered his duty done. Judgo McClure told him that an Injunction was a document that must be enforced and It was his duty at tho time, when the Pennsylvania people refused to obey the law, to deputise force enough to arrest every nun or else throw them all in the ireek. even if he had to call on every able-bodied man In the county. McClure was brought here by the Nlttany Valley Railroad Company to hear argument on why the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company and Nlttany Iron Company had not obeyed the Injunction and the result was he is sued a writ of assistance compelling the Sheriff to see that the Nlttany Railroad Company's rights be con served. This action will provent the Ponnsy from using the new track and puts the case back where It originally was. 'PHONE COMPANIES PROSPER. State Convention Of Independent Association. Harrisburg (Special). Tho fourth annual convention of the Pennsyl vania Stnto Independent Telephone Association was held In the city. There were present 200 representa tives of ninety-eight companies. The President's report contained a summary of the year's work, and the treasurer, C. E. Wilson, of Philadel phia, reported that the treasury is In good condition. Some interesting figures were con tained in the report of the secre tary, H. E. Bradley, of Philadelphia. He said that In the last year the prosperity of the independent com panies has been general and steady. In the toll line business there was an increase of 20 per cent, over that of the previous year. There aro now 200,000 Independent telephones in the State, 331 exchanges and 2238 toll stations. Better and more toll lines are needed, he said, to effect bettor returns in the business. The question of admitting to the association the companies of Dela ware, New Jersey and Maryland was brought up. F. A. Demareat, of Trenton, and George Wllaon, of Phila delphia, spoke for admitting them. Thero wbb some, discussion and tho following committee was appointed by the president to consider the mer ger: H. E. Bradley, Philadelphia; E. D. Schade, tohnstown, and W. H. Donllnger, Patton. ENGINES CRASH. The Actress Was Suspicious. There is a charming young actress who numbers among her friends a well known clubman of Washington. During her recent engagement. In the national capital, the player was la menting to her admirer the fact that ahe was getting thiuner and thinner. "Oh, not at all!" came from the gallant clubman, who saw the lady's detestation of too lean a figure. "On the contrary, I assure you, you are aa plump as a partridge!" The young woman surveyed him for a moment through narrowed eyes. "Are you paying me a compliment, or are you making game of me?" she asked. Llppincott's. TELEGRAM'S STRANGE SEQUEL. Voriinn Revived From State Of Coma. Scrauton (Special ) .--A most as tonishing sequel has come to light of the case of Violet Klbler, who ap peared at borne alive when her fam ily expected ber dead body. A tele gram was received on Monday by Mrs. Henry Boetscher that her daughter had died In Wstertown, N. Y., and that the body would be for warded at once. The girl herself arrived In the train which was ex pected to bring her remains. Immediately after she came home she was attacked with convulsions and has been in a Berlous condition ever since. Thursday she confessed to her mother that the telegram was sent by a physician at the Hospital In Watertown, who supposed that she was dead. She revived from the state of coma In which she had lain and by huperhuman effort dragged herself to the station and started for home. - Her Illness, she said, was caused by the vlcloue attack made upon her by a young man In Syracuse whom she had refused to marry. Pursu ing her for a fortnight with all sorts of threats he Anally sprang at her throat and nearly strangled her to death. She still bears the marks of his Angers. During her dellmlum since she came home she has been crying "don't choke, please don't kill me," and the physicians here Bay that she may never fully recover from the experience she has undergone. Lives Of Many Workmen Were Imperiled. Mt. Carmel (Special). By the collision of two mine locomotives at the Richards colliery one man was killed and a half do.en others serl ouBly injured, while the lives of a hundred other were endangered. Locomotive No. 4 was coming down the mountain from the No. 4 slope carrying several cars on which a hundred miners were, ildlng. En gine No. 2 through Bouie misunder standing of orders was going up the mountain. At a sharp curve bulf way up tho mountain the two en gines mot. Both were smashod. En gineer James A. Shaffer was Instant ly killed. John Mohan and Peter Dugan seriously Injured, while a score of other.) sustained bruises. Mr. Shaffer was an old resident of thla place and for fifteen years was borough treasurer. For twenty- five years he was an engineer on the Lehigh Valley Railroad. SLEPT OX GOLD. $27,000 III Currency Ami Coin Dis covered in lied of Eccentric. Carlisle (Special). Secreted In a spiral-shaped spring In the bod on which J. D. McDurniond, n well known citizen of Newvllle, died there wnB found $25,000 In thousand dol lar bills and a small box of gold, amounting to a couple of thousand dollars. McDurtnond was rather eccentric, but none of his neighbors imagined that he had so large an amount of money In his possession. For tunny years he was a traveling man, and was 75 years old when he died. Ills wife, who Burvlvea him, and who Is also seriously ill, suspected that her husband had money hidden In the house and told her nolghbors whoni sho trusted to seach carefully, with the result that they discovered tho fortune. Blind Man Lost n Mountain. Pottsvllle (Special) Totally blind, Henry Meyers, of Philadelphia, i loBt on tho Broad Mountain, near here, and all efforts to locate him have proven a failure. Meyers start ed from the Ccmmerclal Hotel to walk to Ashland for the benefit of his health. When he was on top of the mountain some one started him on a short path through the woods. It is feared the exposure during the cold nights will prove fatal before he Is found. llrukemuii Scalded. Easton (Special). During a fog a collision occurred at Island Park between two east bound freight trains of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, resulting In all tracks at that point being blocked for several hours. A caboose was smashed and a steel car thrown across the tracks and tho onglne damaged, f-'red Mollur, aged 24, a flagman, who was In the ca boose, was caught in the wreck and had his leg badly scalded by escap ing steam before, he could be resou od. Ills home Is at Faokerton. He Is In the Boston Hospital. HISTORIC MANSION SOLD. Washington's Headquarters Before The Battle Of Trenton. Doylestown (Special). Historic Keith homestead, In Upper Makefleld Township, at one tlmo the bead quarters of General Oeorge Washing ton, haa been sold at public sale to Poore & Slgafoos, of Rlegelsvllle. Mr. Poore, the head of the firm, is County Treasurer. Besides the his toric stone mansion, there are 231 acres, 72 of which are timbered. Tho price paid was $9,200. It was there that Washington had his headquarters previous to te bat tle of Trenton, marching with his army to the river and crossing at what Is now known as "Washing ton's Crossing,'' at Taylorsvtlle, on tho night of December 25, 1776, and capturing the Hessians at Trenton. Ended Career In Poor House. Doylestown ( Special ). -"-Robert W. Kelly, an Inmate of the Bucks County Homo, attempted suicide by cutting a small gash in his throat with a pen knife. He died a few hours after Inflicting the Injury, but death was not caused by the wound. Kelly had beon In poor health for Bome time and his condition had gotten quite serious, scarcely being able to breathe. Up to a few years ago Kelly had been active in business and politics, but later met with re verses and a year ago landed in tho poor house. He was formerly a resi dent of Bristol. Hunter Lost Both Eyes. Honesdale (Special). The first 0 hunting accident of a serious nature that has occurred In this reglou this season took place near Pleasant Mount, Wayne County, when Earl Miller, a married mnn, was shot by one of four companions he was hunt ing with. Mr. Miller received the entire charge of bird shot In the face and lost the Bight of both eyes. QUINCES FOR STOMACH ACHH. Woninn Say She Took One To Relieve I'nln. Reading (Special). Charged wit malicious mischief in stealing quince from the farm of her neighbor, Mil ton Schlegel. of Exeter Township. Mrs. Susan Troxell, wife or a promi nent farmer whose property la near that of Mr. Schlegel, was arrested and held In bail for court by Magis trate Koch. The prosecutor alleges that for three or four years he has been ex perimenting, by grafting, in an effort to produce the best quinces In tho coluntry, having sent to France and other countries. for scions, or twigs, one object Being to avoid the Sab. Jose scale. He asserts that ho caught Mrs. Troxell stealing the fruit at 2 o'clock In the morning, havlnf set a watch when be noticed hla choicest specimens disappearing. Mr. Schlegel declares tbe Troxella are jealous of his line fruit. At tho hearing Mrs. Troxell assorted that she took a quince to relieve a pain In the stomach and that she had no Intention of stealing the fruit. Sho denied having made previous visits to the orchard, although the prose cutor alleges that the tree was strip ped of at loaBt three pecks of quinces, HUNTED FOR LEAK. A ut omo M list Found Where The Gasoline Was Escaping. Allentown (Special). Thomas Gehringer of this city had a narrow escape from death In a Are which de stroyed his garage and a new auto mobile. Gehringer had just return ed to the garage after a short run and noticed that the carburettor was leaking. Taking a lantern, ho crawl-' ed underneath the machine to looato1 the trouble, and succeeded in doldfj so only too quickly. There was a burst of flame, which enveloped Gehringer and set his cothlng on Are. Rushing out ol doors be extinguished the Aames on the Clothing by rolling in the grass, and then ran to a physician's office, a mile away, to have the burn dress ed. He is badly burned about both' hands and arms and his mustaoha' was singed from his face. The total loss Is about $4,000. FARMERS AOA1N8T GUNNERS. STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. Struck by a train and crushed, Stewart Kohler, a switch tender at Lehighton, died Just as he was brought to St. Luke's Hospital, at South Bethlehem. He was 29 years old. The directors of the Lewlsburg National Bank elected James C. Pnckor, of Sunbury, president, to succeed the late Major I). Bright Miller. John W. Rucher, for many years assistant cashier, was made cashier. Merchants In the western section of Chester want the Mayor to com pel storekeepers In that locality to close on Sunday. They claim that the Sabbath Is being openly violated and all kinds of establishments, with the exception of saloons, sell goods on that day. The timber men at the Reading's North Franklin Colliery retired from the mines because they would not submit to an alleged extra duty without more compensation. Probably the biggest field of corn grown In Center County this yoar was cultivated by Jerome A. Confer, on his farm on Marsh Creek, In the Bald Knglo Valley. Mr. Confer has u field of about fifteen seres and Its average height Is fourteen feet six Inches. It is nine feet from the ground to the ears of corn. Samuel J. Klstler, of Allentown, has puchased the Nace Farm of for ty-one acres, located back of Lehigh University, on tho top of Lehigh Mountain. The price paid was $20,- 000. Rev. J. P. Smith, later of Middle- burg, has been elected to the itussel Ulbllcal chair of German theolog' In Lebanon Valley College. J. W. Sherman, a painter, employ ed on the house occupied by Deputy Attorney General F. W. Fleltz, at Scranton, foil thirty-six feet from a ladder and broke both of his legs. Mrs. George Harmon, aged 70 years, one of the oldest residents of Munhelm, was fatally burned at her home, when she applied a match to a pile of waste paper In her yard, when her clothing took fire. While hunting rabbits, Earl Ruff. of North Berwick, in climbing over a fence discharged his gun, the load atrlklug him In the shoulder and causing a serious wound. Esther Myers, the 8-year-old daughter of Reuben D. Myers, died at St. Joseph's Hospital, Lancaster, us the result of bc.ng knocked down while fondling her pet cow. Henry Baruhart, 70 years old, a voteraa of the Civil War was knock ed down and trampled upon by a horse at York and severely Injured. Johu Salasavage, aged 19 years, a Shenandoah High School Senior, left home to go chestnuttlng on Septem ber H4 Ust, and nothing has bean heard from htm since, although dili gent search has boeu made of the mountains and mine breaches In this locality. Trespass Notices Posted In The Counties. Chester (Special). With a view of putting a stop to the destruction of their property by careless gun ners, the farmers in the southern and western sections of Delaware County have organized a protective association. Notices have been Is Miie6 warning gunners not to trespass' upon their properties, which in the aggregate comprise 5000 acres. The new organization will be known as the "Farmers' Protective Associa tion," and It will employ special offi cers to patrol their districts. Tho land owners are as determined as are the farmers of lower Chester and Lancaster Counties to stop the dep redations of gunners Murder Witness Killed. Shamokln (Special). Wallace Norozl, was instantly killed by a Reading freight, train near here. He was the principal witness for tho prosecution in an ensuing murder trial, hi- brother having been shot. It ia alleged by Michael Bednas and John Bernis, In jail charged with murder, a Jury having found a true bill against them. Think Murderer Insane. Hollldaysburg (Special). Pro ceedings were begun In tho Blair County Court to declare Insane Roc co Cirullo, who was recently con victed of murdering his wife and Is now resting under sentence of death. The petitioners are relatives: of Clrullo, who allege that he killed bis wife In a fit of Insane passion and that he cherishes the delusion that a bug crawled Into his head and is dancing on his brain pan. Wants Rabbit Season Changed. Reading (Special). Petitions to the Legislature for a change in tho rabbit season from October 15 to December 1 to November 15 to De cember 15 are being circulated here. The movement Is expected to Bpread all over the Slate, as the early open ing is very unpopular. Most the game bagged the last few days haa been under-sized and unfit to eat. Accused Of Murder. York ( Special). Believing that the murder of Warren Peterson was deliberately planned by Fletcher Vennble and Richard McVey, u war rant will be Bworn out charging the former with murder. Venable Is now in the county jail and McVey is a fugitive from Justice. Extru Money For Miners. Hazleton (Special). The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company has notified Its miners lu the Panther Creek Valley that they will be paid 1 11.000 hack monev thta mnnth Thts money was awarded them as extra compensation for double tim bering. Hough Rider Killed. York (Special). Warren Petor Bon, colored, a member of the Roose velt Rough Riders, was shot and In Btantly killed at Jacob's Mills, near here. The shooting was doue by a colored man named Richard McVey, of Philadelphia. Both men were em ployed on the work of building the trolley line between here and Han over. The shooting was the out growth of a dispute over the commis sary department. The dead man was from Olean, N. Y. McVey fled, but is being pursued by constables. Jump In Reservoir. Media (Special). Rose Sweonuy. a domestic employed In the family of William H. Corlies. of Media, Jumped Into the reservoir of tho Springfield Water Company for the purpose of committing uiclda, but1 upon being .rescued by Justice of the Peace Bonner said that the water was too cold to die in. She was later committed to jell fey Justice Bonner, who thought tho woman had ben dritkiog. She was released from Jail on the advice of the prison physician, who said that the woman Is suffering from brain fever.
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