THE OLD SOUTH ORCHARD.
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By L. M. MONTGOMERY.
It Is now more than seventy years
Since It had Its beginning, when
grandfather brought his brldo home.
Before the wedding he had fenced off
Ike big south meadow that sloped to
the sun; It win tho flneBt, most fer
tile field on the farm and the neigh
bors told young Abmham King that
he would raise many a crop of wheat
la that meadow. Abraham King
smiled, and, being a man of few
words, said nothing, but in his mind
ke had a vision of the years to be,
and In that vision he saw, not rippling
acres of harvest gold, but great leafy
avenues of wide-spreading trees,
laden with fruit to gladden the eyes
of children and grandchildren yet un
born. It was a vision to develop
lowly into fulfillment. Qrandfathor
King was in no hurry. He did not
set his whole orchard out at once, for
ke wished It to grow with his life and
klstory and be bound up with all of
good and joy that came to the house
bold he had founded. So on the
morning after he Had brought his
young wife home they went together
to the south meadow and planted
their bridal trees. These two troes
were yet living when we of the third
generation were born, and every
aprlng bedecked themselves In blos
som as delicately tinted as Elizabeth
King's face when she walked through
the old south meadow In the morn
of her life and love.
That was the beginning of the fa
mous King orchard. When a son
was born to Abraham and Elizabeth
a tree was planted in the orchard for
kim. They had ten children In all,
and each child had its birthtree. Ev
ery family festival was commemorat
ed In like fashion, and every beloved
visitor who spent a night under their
roof was expected to plant a tree In
the orchard. So It came to pass that
very tree In It was a fair green mon
ument to some love or delight of the
past years.
We, the grandchildren or Abraham
and Elizabeth, were born Into this
kerltage. The orchard was old when
We came to know it, and, for us, was
one of the things that murt have ex
isted forever, like the sky and the
river and the starB. We could not
think of a world without the oM
touth orchard. Each grandchild and
there were many of us, both on the
bomestead where father lived and
icattered abroad in far lands had Us
tree there, set out by grandfather
when the news of its birth was an
nounced to him.
In our day there was a high stone
wall around it instead of grandfath
er's split rail fence. Our uncles and
father had built the wall in their
boyhood, so that it was old enough
to be beautiful with moss, and green
things growing out of its crevices,
rlolets purpling at its base in early
spring days, and goldenrod and asters
making a September glory in its cor
ners. Grandmother, as long as she was
able, liked to go through the orchard
with us, down to the farther gate,
where she never omitted to kiss us
all good-bye, even if we were to be
gone for no more than an hour. She
would wait at the gate, her sweet face
all aglow, until we were out of sight;
then she would visit Uncle Stephen's
avenue before going back to the
house.
"Uncle Stephen's avenue," as we
always called It, was a double row of
apple trees running down the western
aide of the orchard a great green
kowery arcade It was. To walk
through It In blossom time was some
thing not to be forgotten. It realized
for us our most extravagant dreams
f fairyland wherein we wandered
ander the gorgeous arches of king's
palaces over pavements of pearl and
emerald. Heaven, we thought, must
aurely be an endless succession of
Uncle Stephen's avenues in blossom
that never faded.
Uncle Stephen was that first-born
whose birthtree stood nearest to the
two gnarled old patriarchs in the cen
tre of the orchard. Father, who was
one of the youngest members of the
family, had but one remembrance of
kim as a handsome youth of eigh
teen home from a long sea voyage,
with all the glamor of faraway lands
and southern seas about him. In
Uncle Stephen the blood of a seafar
ing race claimed its own. He had
none of grandfather's abiding love of
woods and meadows and tho kindly
wayB of the warm red earth; to sea
he must go, despite the fears and
Pleadings of the reluctant mother,
and It wsb from the sea he came to
aet out his avenue In the south
orchard with trees brought from his
voyage.
Then he sailed away again, and the
hip was never heard of more. The
iray first came in grandmother's
brown hair in those months of wait
ing. Then, for the first time in Its
life, the old orchard heard the sound
of weeping and was consecrated by a
sorrow.
To us children Uncle Stephen was
only a name, but a name to conjure
with. We never wearied of speculat
ing on his fate and harrowing our
mall souls in fearful imaginations
concerning hU last moments. He
P'yed an Important part in many of
our games and make-believes; he was
lways the good fairy who appeared
mysteriously in the nick of time and
reacued us from all difficulties. He
was all the more delightful In that
e never grew old like our other
ncles. For us he was always the
eurly-headed youngster, with the
"ughing blue eyes, of the framed
oaguerreotype hanging up in grand
mother's room. It he had ever come
Back In reality we would have ex
pected him to look just like that. We
5?' cherished a secret belief
hat he was yet living probably on
desert island and would aome day
return home, glittering with the gold
nd jewel, of tho pirate hoard dis
covered on the said island. To this
ay we middle-aged men and women
who were the children of that old
mth orchard do not say "when my
Jlp comes in," but "when Uncle
oiephen comes home."
,lh".e WM her POt in the
orchard which had a great attraction
r u, albeit mingled with something
of awe and fear. This was "Aunt
Una's seat," a bench of mossy stone
slabs arched over by a couple of
gnarled pear trees and grown thickly
about with grasses and violets. We
never cared to play there It would
have seemed like desecration, but in
our quiet moods we sought the old
stone bench to dream. Aunt Una
mingled In those dreams, but not
after the fashion of Uncle Stephen,
for there was no doubt concerning
her fate. She had died thirty years
before, on her twentieth birthday.
We children heard much of Aunt
Una, for she was one of thoso people
who are not soon forgotten, whose
personality seems to haunt the scenes
of their lives long after they have
gone hence. She had been very beau
tiful, with a strange moonlight beau
ty of white skin and night-black eyes
and hair, foreign to the fair, roBy
King style of loveliness; a dreamy,
spiritual girl, one of those souls who
have no real abiding place In this
world and only tarry for a brief
while. She had been gifted with the
power of expression, and a sort of
journal she had written was one of
grandmother's treasures. She some
times read portions of it to us, and
so we seemed to make a very real ac
quaintance with Aunt Una. Tho book
contained verses that appeared quite
wonderful to us indeed, I think even
yet that they were wonderful and
bits descriptive of the orchard, blent,
with a girl's dreams and longings.
Her phrases lingered in our memories
and the whole orchard seemed full of
her. Besides, there was a bit of her
romance connected with it.
Aunt Una had had a lover. This
man was still living; he was little
more than fifty, but we thought him
very old because of his snow-white
hair. He had never married, and
lived some distance away. Every
June, on Aunt Una's birthday, he
made a pilgrimage to the old orchard
to see her tree, all ablow with never
falling blossoms, and sib on her
bench. At such times we children
were not allowed to go Into the
orchard, but we sometimes peeped
over the well and saw him sitting
there, a melancholy, lonely figure. It
gave us, I think, a deep and lasting
sense of the beauty and strength of
love which could thus outlive time
and death. We were too young then
everywhere else was only sere brown
sod; the tree were In leaf and bud a
full week earlier there than In other
orchards. Summer brought ripe lux
urlaiire of growth. Long ago grand
mother had sown a little plot with
caraway just inside tho gate and It
had spread half over tho orchard.
In July, when It came Into blossom,
the long arcades were white with Its
billowy waves that swayed and
foamed In the moonshine of summer
eves like seas of silver. One day a
three-year-old baby wandered Into the
caraway thicket that met over her
head, lay down In It, and went to
sleep. When she was missed, great
was the consternation In the house of
King. Everybody turned out to
senrrh, distracted by direful possi
bilities of well and river. Search as
they might they could not find her.
It was fliinspt, with a mother In hys
terics, before an answering gurgle
came from the caraway In rcsponso to
franctlc calls. Father plunged over
the stone wall and Into the caraway
whore he came upon a rosy sleep
warm baby curled up In a nest of her
own fasihonlng and very loath to
leave It.
Autumn was, I think, the time we
loved best, for then came tho apple
plcklng. What fun It was! The boys
would climb the trees and shake the
apples down until we girls cried for
mercy. The days were crisp and mel
low, with warm sunshine and a tang
of frost in the air, mingled with the
woodsy odors of the withering lenves.
The hens and turkeys prowled about
picking at windfalls, and our pet kit
tens made mad rushes at each other
among the leaves.
Then came winter, when tho
orchard was heaped with drifts. It
was a wonderful place on moonlit
nights, when the snowy arcades shone
like magic avenues of Ivory und pearl
and the bare trees cast fairy-like trac
eries over them. Uncle Stephen's
avenue was a fine place for coasting,
and when a thaw came, followed by a
frost, wo held high carnival there.
Any history of tho old south
orchard would be Incomplete If It
failed to mention tho "King Bubble."
This was a spring of peculiarly sweet,
pure water which gurgled up In the
southwest corner at the foot of n
gentle slope. Grandfather had
rimmed It round with a circle of hewn
stones, and In this basin the water
brimmed up like a great amber bub
ble until It found Its way through
ferns and mosses to the brook below.
In our games the. King Bubble played
the part of every famous fount In
song and story of which we had over
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A Few Suggestive Don'ts.
Don't be afraid to think before you act.
Don't be afraid to use your time to advantage. It Is given
you for that purpose.
Don't be afraid of Imitators. Originality always bears a
trade mark.
Don't be afraid to risk. The great successes are born of
chance.
Don't be afraid to make your goods known.
Don't be afraid to admit it when you are in the wrong.
Don't be afraid to obey. A man must learn to obey before
he may hope to command.
Don't be afraid of experience. He Is the best teacher.
Don't be afraid of pleasure. It Is necessary for good work.
Don't be afraid of censure. We all need toning down as well
as toning up.
Don't be afraid of rivals. Things may be crowded below but
there is always room on top.
Don't be afraid to fight against odds. Most things worth
having are hard to got.
Don't be afraid to be polite at all times and under all circum
stances. It Is no disgrace to be called a gentleruau.
D?n'.1 .be. afra,d of Teautta- This may be your employer's
method of trying your grit.
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Don't be afraid of overtaxing your strength. Work kills
ijoupiu. i tie uanaazine.
to understand Its full beauty. The
romance of It appealed more strongly
to us; we glrlB had our favorite
dream of dying young and having our
lovers come to visit our trees thirty
years after.
But the orchard had happier mem
ories. There had been a wedding in
it for one thing long before we were
born. It was that of Aunt Iris, who
had been a celebrated beauty. She
was married In the orchard under tiie
apple blossoms of June. We never
tired of hearing grandmother tell of
it. We had heard tho Btory so often
that we could picture it almost as
plainly as grandmother herself the
lanes of white, iragrant trees, the gay
dresses of tho guests, the beautiful
bride in her white silk dress and old
lace veil. It was a favorite game with
us to enact it all over, and so coveted
was the houor of playing the bride's
part that It had to be settled t-y lot.
Aunt Iris' pear tree, planted by the
bride herself, after the ceremony, was
In our time a huge old tree Just with
in the entrance gate. The most de
licious pears that I have ever eaten
grew on It. There are no such pears
nowadays. I suppose they had a cata
logue name, but the old south orchard
had a nomenclature all Its own, and
we knew them as "Auut Iris' pears."
There were many plum trees iu the
orchard, as well as cherries great
luscious ox-hearts and a sweet white
klud pears and quinces, but of
course more of apple trees than of
uny other kind. Uncle Bob's tree was
our favo lte, because It bore a delic
ious, juicy, yellow apple with a streak
of red on one side. There were two
big trees the twins' trees which
were given over to us entirely, be
cause nobody except children could
eat their big, green, dead-sweet ap
ples. And there was a seedling tree
which had come up unbidden In a
unny corner, the fruit of which we
used when our games called for a
"trial by ordeal." The apples of It
were the sourest that ever grew;
hard, bitter, unpalatable. The "or
deal" consisted iu eating one of them
in large bites without making a single
grimace! Few of us ever passed It,
but there was one who never failed
our little French cousin, Laure.
She could muiich those dreadful ap
ple without o much a a change of
expresalon on her little dark, elfiu
(ace. But thon, Laure could do any
thing she attempted. We could
uovor "stump" hor, as our Juvenile
slang expressed It.
Every leason brought new beauties
to the old orchard. It would have
been hard to say whe wo loved It
beat. In spring It wa a rare ipot;
the grass would be green there when
but
NkTVsl
read especially the well of Urda and
Ponce de Leon's fountain of youth.
On summer days, tired and warm,
we would fling ourselves down on Its
fern-fringed brink end drink deep
draughts from an old blue chine cup
which always sat on a little stone
shelf below the brim and never
chanced to be broken despite the doz
ens of careless little hands that seized
it. To-day weary men and women
all over tho world think often of that
Bprlng and long for a cup of its
matchless water.
Near the spring was a huge granite
bowlder as high as a man's head,
straight and .smooth in front, but hol
lowed out Into natural steps behind.
It also played an Important part in all
our games, being fortified caBtle, In
dian ambush, throne, pulpit or con
cert platform as occasion required. A
certain gray-haired minister, famous
in two continents for eloquence and
scholarly attainments, preached his
first ermon at the ago of ton from
that old gray bowlder, and a woman
whose voice has delighted thousands
sang her earliest madrigals there.
"If you're a King, you slug," was a
countryside proverb in those days,
and certainly it was true of all the
descendants of grandfather and
grandmother. We all sang more or
less, although none could equal
Laure, and among tho dearest mem
ories of the old south orchard are
those of the long, mellow twilights of
summer Sundays, when old und young
assembled In the orchard and sang
hymns, grandfather beating time.
How clearly the whole scene comes
out on the wall of memory's picture
gallery grandfather and grand
mother, father and mother, sitting on
Aunt Una's bench, while we children,
with all Uncle George' brood from
the next farm, sat on tho grass
around them. Two voices sound out
for ma above all the others Laura's
glorious and silvery, grandmother's
sweet, quavering, tremulous. Deur
old Grandmother King! How much
she enjoyed thoso summer evenings
of song!
Grandmother and grandfather used
to walk much In the orchard on flue
evenings, haud in hand, lovers still,
lingering in Uncle Stephen's arcade
or at Am, i Una's ... at. Their devo
tion to each other wsb beauUful to
Me. Vi children never thought It a
sad or unlovely thing to grow old
with so fair an example before us.
One summer graudmothtr grew very
trail and could not walk In the
orchard. Yet grandfather was the
first to go; they found htm sitting In
hi armchair on one ummer after
noon, a smile on hi fine old faca and
the sunshine inaklug a glory of bis
white hair. Grandmother called :.im
by name, but for tho first time he
failed to answer her.
They carried Grandfather King
through tho old orchard on his last
Journey. It had been his wish. Chil
dren and grandchildren walked be
hind him under boughs laden with
the mellow fruit of trees his hands
had planted. Tho next June Grand
mother King was carried to hint over
the same wny the bride going once
more to her bridegroom under the
glory of their bridal trees.
I visited the orohnrd not lor.g ago
on a mellow afternoon. It did not
seem much changed. Most of the old
trees wcro standing; grandfather's
and grandmother's were gone, but
their places wcro filled with two
flourishing young trreB planted when
the homestead boy had brought his
brldo home. Aunt Una's Beat was
there and Uncle Stephen's avenue;
the King Bubble was as clear and
sparkling as of yore truly, It wob
a fountain of youth, for It never grew
old. And at the big granite bowlder
children were playing "Ivanhoo" and
besieging It valiantly with arrows nnd
popguns. My best wish for them was
that In the years to come the old
orchard might hold for them as many
sweet and enduring memories as it
held for me. From the Outing Magazine.
THE COST OF NAVAL
ENGAGEMENTS,
Expense of Ssa Battles So Crest
That Only Richest Nations Csn
Afford to Fig' t Now,
I NEWS OF PENNSYLVANIA .
S IN DAYS OF
HESITATION 2
It is now several months since Wall
Street undertook to cure a case of
financial grip with remedies that all
but produced heart failure. Since
then the country has been promising
itself a speedy recovery of normal
conditions. Convalescence has in
deed begun, but it is not as rapid as
some of the optimists expected.
We can hardly expect that the
business world will return to normal
conditions until there Is a readjust
ment throughout its entire extent.
For the man who was forced to ex
pand against his will, this period of
readjustment Is not likely to bring
serious results. Ills very objection
to exploiting prosperity will havo
proved a blessing.
There will be more or less distress
on tho part of tho3e who have been
living es If the feverish prosperity of
the last few years wa3 excessive
health. Tho penalties of extravagance
must be met by tho world at large,
whether that extravagance took the
form of rebuilding factories that did
not need rebuilding, mortgaging one's
house to buy an automobile, or buy
ing unneeded furniture on install
ments. Fifteen years ago a situation such
as we see to-day would have given
rise to a new populist movement. So
far as can be seen, there Is no evi
dence of radicalism. We face a Pres
idential year with no great i3sue be
fore us except that of whether we
shall maintain the policy of President
Roosevelt a policy that meets with
the approval of practically every man
In the country except those who have
overexplolted their borrowing power.
It Is a moment of hesitation, but
not a moment of despondency. It Is
a moment that suggests reaction, but
only to those who are the manipula
tors rather than the actual purchasers
of wealth, whether they be farmers or
manufacturers.
In a word, let us "sit light and
trust tho horse." Editorial la The
World To-Day.
WOHDS OF WISDOM.
Roughly speaking, a naval gun
will do effective shooting at a range
in miles equnl to Its calibre in
Inches. For example, a twelvo-lnch
gun would be effective at twelve
miles; n six-Inch gun nt sit miles, and
so on. This does not mean the ex
treme range of the gun, for at the ex
treme elevation of about forty-five
degrees, the gun will really carry
farther, but this extreme elevation,
besides muklng good marksmanship
out of the question, would create too
much strnln on carriage nnd dock,
owing to the recoil nt discharge, to
bo practicable on board ship.
The question regarding the cost of
firing the great guns of a battleship
can only be answered In generalities
nnd averages. The cost Is great, and
varies with the kind of ammunition
used. Armor-piercing shell, made of
highly tempered steel of finest qual
ity. Is more expensive than the com
mon shell, made of lower-grade
steel. The prices of various kinds of
powder also vary. However, as In
the case of the range of a gun, a
fairly good rough rule for estimating
the average cost or a shot from a
naval gun Is to place It at one dollar
for every pound Jn the shell's weight.
A thlrteen-lnch shell weighs 1100
pounds, nnd Its average cost, Includ
ing powder charge, is a little over
$1100. A twelve-Inch shell weighs
850 pounds, and usually costs about
$900. Following HiIb rough rule, a
shot from a ten-Inch gun costs about
$500; from an eight-Inch, $250; from
a Beven-inch, $200; from a six-inch,
$100; from a five-Inch, $55; from a
four-inch, $2b; from a three-inch,
$14, and from a six-pounder, some
where between $5 nnd $7, according
to make.
With these data, which are accu
rate enough for practical purposes, It
may readily be soon that a naval en
gagement, from tho standpoint of
ammunition used alone, Is a decided
ly expensive affair. Modern guns are
fired with great rapidity, even with
careful aim. Tho rapidity varies
with tho character of the shooting,
tho finding of the range, and the
proximity of tho enemy. It is safe
to assume that In a naval engage
ment under ordinary circumstances,
a twelve-Inch gun would bo fired
about twice a minute; an eight-Inch
gun, four times n minute; a seven
Inch, bU times a minute, a three-Inch
(not frequently used between large
ships), an average of six a minute.
These calibres are selected as repre
senting the guns of which the bat
teries of such battleships as the Con
necticut and the Louisiana are com
posed. Assuming the costs and the ra
pidity of Are stated, and remembering
that the Connecticut carries four
twelve-Inch,' eight eight-Inch, twelve
seven-Inch and twenty three-Inch,
not to mention hor secondary bat
tery of smaller guns, It requires but
a simple arithmetical computation to
discover that to keep all of these
guns on the Connecticut going nt tho
rapidity of fire named, for one mIn-
ute will co3t $30,880. To bo con
servative, let it be assumed that only
sixty per cent, of this battery Is main
taining the fire. The cost then be
comes reduced to $18,528 for one
minute, or $185,280 for ten minutes.
KILLED TRYING TO ICS' API1..
York (Special).- Samuel Knaub,
an alleged horse thief, fell under MM
wheels of the southbound Washing
ton express nnd was ground to pieces
shortly before B o'clock, when he
tried to escape by jumping through
the window of a toilet room on a car.
lie had boon arrester! at Harrisburg
nnd waB on the way to Jail hen', in
chnrge of Constable C. K. Weaver.
Several days ago a horse and bug
gy were stolen from the farm of
Harry Strayer, near Dlllsburg. Knaub
was suspected and was Captured nt
the home of his mother, Mrs David
Hartman, In Harrisburg. On the
way down abroad the train Knaub,
who was handcuffed, asked permis
sion to go to the toilet room. Shortly
afterward a passenger heard u crash
of glass and, looking from the win
dow, saw the prisoner full headfore
most to the ground.
The train was stoppod and the
prisoner was found dead with his
head cruhed und ono of his legs
severed.
BY TROLLEY TO GETTYHKI RG.
Hanover (Special). Announce
ment was made that work will soon
start on the extension of the Hati-
' over Street Hallway to Llttletown, a
distance of seven miles, by way of
McSherrystown. The contract for
the work was given to John Hob
bling, of York, nnd requires comple
tion within ninety days.
Another extension In contempla
tion Is from McSherrystown to New
Oxford, n distance of five miles. Tho
projected lino will then be run to
Berlin Junction where the East Ber
lin branch railway, which Is probably
tho shortest strum railroad In Penn-
I Bylvnnla, will be electrified, and the
line continued through AbbotBtown
! to East Berlin. After the line to
Llttlestown Is completed It Is pro
posed to extend tho rond to Gettys
burg, ten miles distant. Then it will
be possible to go from Lancaster,
York and Hanover, to thn historical
battlefield by trolley.
'AMI IN SCHOOL.
Hiitler (Special). A panic among
school children and their parents oc
cured at Hie Institute Hall School
building, when a report was circu
lated that President Mechllng, of the
school board, hud received a Black
Hand threat demanding $500 or the
building would be blown up with
dynamite. Many women, frantic
with fear, rushed to the school und
demanded that their children be In
stantly dismissed. When the teach
ers persisted in keeping the children
In their rooms a number of women
fainted. Tho children deserted the
building when they learned of the
report. All efforts to bold them In
check wcro futile.
WIDOW CHARGES ERA! ill.
RAILROAD CENTER ROOMER.
Cross bearing by proxy will no
wlu crowns.
In order to be humble one need
not he servile.
Infant hands can take a firm hold
on heartstrings.
Time is money, but the landlord
will not accept It.
To-morrow's industry will not bal
ance to-day's indolence.
Even if you can not toot a horn
von can follow the reform band. i
The pulpit would proflt by looking
at It from the pewpolnt once in a
while.
The more men you lift up the
fewer there are left to drag you
down.
Heaven Is a gift that must be ac
cepted with clean hand-j and clean
heart.
False teeth do not ache, but that
Is about the only good thing to be
said of them.
Widow's weeds too carefully cul
tivated are tha soonest to go to seed
and disappear.
Have you ever noticed that when
a man takes himself too seriously he
13 generally a Joke?
There was something wrong about
the good time of yesterday that pro
duced to-day's headache.
We don't think much of a man
who has a large social correspon
dence and keeps up with It,
It will take something more than
the fear of microbes and germs to
put a stop to the kissing habit.
We never worry about the spirit
ual welfare of tho man who always
sprinkles ashes on his icy sidewalk.
From "Brain Leaks," iu the Commoner.
Sorrows of a Secretary.
With the publication of any story
that Increases Loeb's mall, Loeb de
spairs. Once when the President
went off on a trip ho left Loeb a lot
of slips containing his autograph,
stating that the slips were for those
who asked. Loeb mentioned the In
cident to a reporter. The reporter
rushed Into print. Loeb's mall a few
days later was too big for the regular
White House mallbag. Loeb later
was seen whispering in the ear of
that print-rushing reporter, and it
was noticed that the reporter's face
became slowly sicklied o'er with the
pale east of contrition.
Tho publication of this story will
increase Loeb's mall within a week
by hundreds of letters. It's always
so, when some one does Loeb tho un
kindness to tell the people what it
means to be secretary to the Presi
dent. There was a Loeb article pub
lished by a syndicate, some months
ago, In 800 different newspapers.
Poor Loeb! Hia friends and well
wishers, fron the Rio Grande to
Alnska and from the Peuob3cot to
the Pacific, wrote him, either Inclos
ing a copy of the article, or saying.
"Did you see It?" Courtesy required
an answer to every ono of those zeal
ous admirers. So don't think Loeb Is
hankering for one Una of publicity
more than is thrust upon him by his
official duties for he has no such
hanker. Leslie's Weekly.
Pittsburg (Special). Standing tier
List ground In the buttle to save her
home from litigation that has gradu
olly dissiputed the huge fortune of
her dead husband, Mrs. W. C. .lutte
widow of the suicide coal millionaire.
entered suit, alleging fraud on the
part of James W. Friend and F. N.
HoffBtott, administrators of the deaij
financier's estate.
HofTstott now has pending In court
' an ejectment suit to oust the widow
i from her palatial Ptttsb,urg town
l house. Mrs. Jutte claims the deed
to this house wns given by her late
I husband to HofTstott and Friend as
collateral and that their claim against
Jutte was afterward satisfied in full,
I but that the property was never re-conveyed.
Youth Electrocuted.
Altoona (Special). Dick Marks,
aged 16, of Versailles, Pa., who is
visiting here, was sent Into the cellar
of Mrs. Ella Brandt's home to place
an electric bulb In the socket. "You
turn on the current when 1 make the
connection," he said. She turned the
swttch und Instantly there was a
scream. Marks was dead when Mrs.
Brandt reached tho cellar.
Landslide Wrecks Town.
Pittsburg (Special). Two China
men are believed to have perished,
scores of persona are suffering from
Inhaling gas. eight place were eith
er set on flro or were the scenes of
explosions and many persons narrow
ly escaped death as a result of u
I landslide which demolished the gas
regulator house of the Manufactur
er' Light & Heat Co., at Ben Avon,
a suburb.
Jefferson's Ten Rule.
Never put off until to-morrow what
you can do to-day.
Never trouble another for what you
can do yourself.
Never Bpend your money before
you have made It.
Never buy whut you don't want be
cause It Is cheap.
Pride cost more than hunger,
thirst and cold.
We seldom regret of having eaten
too little.
Nothing Is troublesome that we do
willingly.
How much pain the evils that have
never happened have ; A us.
Take things always by the smooth
handle.
When angry, couut ten before you
speak; when very angr, count ouo
hundred.
His Steamer Cliulrs.
'I have tho woodwork of seventeen
nteanier chairs In my ;;arret," grum
bled the man who had crossed the
ocean seventeen times. "Just as good
ns now. Each chair cost mo $4.50.
The canvas, duck, or webbing that
formed the seat wore out and I nover
was cblo to replace It. 1 tried forty
stores for Blmilar material, and gave
up the job. Now, whenever I want a
chair I buy a new one complete; no
use looking for colored, or striped, or
checked duck to form a seat." I had
a like experience. Plenty of white
duck can be found, but no subdued
stripes or colors. All you want Is a
strip seventeen or eighteen inches
wide and two and a half yards long.
It fcujat to cost about twenty-one
cents a ya;d. New York Press.
During tho last year mushrooms to
the value of $575,000 were exported
from Japau.
CfttCka to 1 Ili-taCon.
. 'When I wont abroad to Baden Ba
den last summer," said tiie little in
valid, "my husband gave me an Elk
pi a to wear and my father a Masonic
one. They said If there were any Ma
sons o:- Elke on board ship they would
loo',: after me.
' Every blessed man on board wp:
either a Mason or an Elk. and not r,
ono of :iem would llirt with me o:;
account of those plus.
"You ca.j bet when I tailed for
honu I put thoio blooming pin in
the trunk nnd kept thein there."
New York l'. as.
Mother Dies As Dnnglitrr Arrives.
South Bethlehem (Special). Mrs.
Mary Klerman, after reading a tele
gram from her daughter In which the
hitter Informed her mother that she
was on her way home for a visit,
died Just as the train, on which was
her daughter, pulled Into the depot.
Altoona (Special). Because
freight can he handled chenper from
Altoona to Sunbury, via Tyrone, Lock
Haven and Wllliamsport, than via
Lewlstown Junction, thr Pennsylva
nia Railroad I to Vlrtualy abandon
the latter place, which lor yearn has
been an important railroad center,
on uccount of being the Main Line
Terminus of the Sunbury Division.
Already ninety trainmen has been
discharged, together with seven tele
graph and telephone operators, and
twenty more of the latter are to be
dismissed.
WAS UKT ERMINES TO DIE.
Lancaster (Sperlul). As he had
frequently threatened to do. John
Druckenbrod, aged 70 years, of Clay
Township, walked three miles from
his home to Middle Creek and com
mitted suicide by drowning himself
In a narrow stream. When his body
was discovered It was found that the
man had waded Into a shallow hole
and deliberately burled bis face In
mud.
CRAZED RY LACK OF WORK.
Carllslo (Special). County oft!
clals here dealt with a sad case, when
they removed to tho county asylum
Frank Fink, a well known young
married man, who became crazed be
cause of lack of nmployment and
worry over his financial affairs. A
baby arrived In the Fluk homo on
Saturday, after which time the
young father completely lost his
reason.
LODGER saves WOM v
Altoona ( special ) .-Nick Corral DO
saved the life of Dan Bretlno'o, wire
nnd the house from destruction by
fire In return for n night's lodging.
Correlno Was given tho the privilege
of sleeping on the kitchen floor
when ho applied for shelter.
During the night. Mrs. Bretino le t
her bed and fell with n lighted lamp.
It exploded, igniting her night dress
and the house. Correlno extinguish
ed the fire.
RATS GNAWED FIEF HOSE
Altoona (Special). When flro
broke out In George B, McClellan's
Store at South Altoona firemen
rushed to got out the apparatus and
found that rats had gnawed holes
In the hose. The town was threat
ened. Finally two good sections of
hose were found and the blaze kept
In the store. i
Woodsman Klllod Ry Tree.
Illoomsburg ( S p e c 1 n 1 ) . Jacob
Yeager. woodsman, employed on
the North Mountain lumber tracts,
was Btruck nnd Instantly killed by
a tree ho was felling-. lie wus 31
years of age.
Youngest Attorney Dies,
llouestlalo (Special). Lawrence
M. Atkinson, u prominent llonesdale
citizen, died of apoplexy during the
night ut his boarding house. He wus
Wayne County's youngest practicing
attorney ami was admitted to the bur
In 1K97. He was also a member of
the Philadelphia Bar, haviug been
admitted shortly after his graduation
from the University of Pennsylvania
Iu 1S!I7. .He crved a term as Dis
trict Attorney of this county and was
a director of tho Dime Hauk.
Lightning Klres Post Office.
Franklin ( Special ) The building
occupied by Hockland Host Office was
struck by lightning and burned to
tho ground The loss Is $15,000,
with $10,000 Insurance. All of the
muil matter was burned.
Druggist Held For Court.
Carlisle (Special). Dr. Irvle Pelf
for, a Shlppensburg druggist, war
held under $1,000 bail here by Mag
ietrate Hughes, charged with violat
ing liquor laws.
State To Help Build Highway.
Harrisburg (Special). The State
Highway Department will co-oporute
with the county officials of Lacka
wanna In the construction of the pro
posed Improved highway across the
county. The project has received the
Indorsement of the Court and Grand
Jury und meetings are now being
held along the line of tho proposed
road at which engineers of the State
are present. The St'.ite surveyors
will assist the county authorities.
Finds $15,000 In Old Desk.
SleBholtzvllle (Special) The heirs
of the late Samuel Dlttenbender, one
of the oldest end wealthiest farmers
of Hereford Township, were very
much surprised when the only son,
who is the administrator, discovered
in the father's desk cash amounting
to $15,525, of which $5,520 was in
$20 gold pieces.
Must Pay Wife Borrowed Money.
Pottsville (Special). William
Trout, of Ashland, who has been le
gally seperated from his wife, must
pay the later $396 he borrowed from
her while they lived together. A Jury
heard Mrs. Trout testify that tho
money she gave her husband be
longed to her before her marriage
and promptly rendered a verdict In
the wife's favor.
Stute Medical Board Examination!).
Harrisburg (Special). Tho State
Board of Medical Examiners has an
nounced these dates for examinations:
State Board, Philadelphia and Pitts
burg: Homeopathic, Philadelphia,
and Eclectrlc, Harrisburg June 23 to
26. The Dental Board examination?
will be held In Philadelphia and
Plttesburg June 10 to 13.
President Invited To Chester.
Chester (Special ) . President The
odore Roosevelt may be present dur
ing the visit of the scout cruiser
Chester to this city in June, when
Councils will present the vessel with
a $2000 sliver service set. A com
mittee will wait upon the Chief Ex
ecutlve and if possible secure his acceptance.
Melting Snow Reveals Suicide
Snow Shoe (Special). Mcltinp
snows disclosed In the wood near h la
home the body of Postmastor Theo
dore Musser, of Clarence, missing
Ince December 7. He had commit
ted suicide by shooting.
Ilurd Coul Strike In Potter County.
Wllliamsport (Special). Word
reached here that John Scholard,
while drilling for oil In Hebrou town
ship. Potter County, discovered a
vein of hard coal twelve feet tWck
Section Meu Killed At Avoca.
Scranton (Special). Frank Caa
ttne and Joseph Massl, section men
In the yards of the Frio Hallroad ot
Avoca, were struck by a switch en
gine and killed.
Rev. Abraham C. Riiebuah, a
Methodist minister of Port I ava a.
Tex., aged 65 years, has 12 boys and
16 girls. In the Confederate army
he was In 41 battles and was wound
ed five times. '
The price or egg in England has
advanced greatly In late years. Thu
value ot last year's home product was
2.500.000 greater than that or 12
years ago
Everyone wears silk In Madagas
car, as it Is cheaper there tha., linen.
Switzerland Is the center
Miuil cultivating industry.