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By ALEXANDER SMALL, 8 . L.
JHHHSSSSHJSn
CHAPTER I.
"Would anybody elie like to look
t the corpse before It. Is nailed
Iowa?"
The gruesome Invitation uttered In
the huaky voice of Sandy Wright, the
ndertaker, set the lawyer's teeth
on edge. He was standing Just with
m the door of the darkened rnnm
where the mourners were assembled,
and as Sandy spoke he caught him
by the arm and whispered In his
ear.
"Stircly this Is unnecessary. Miss
Hurray wouldn't like it." And at the
ame moment he cast a pitying glance
towards the far corner of the room
where the orphaned daughter sat
In a drooping attitude, a pathetic fig
are of grief.
But Sandy was Irrepressible.
Hoots! Shell no mind. it's svo
dune; and Miss Murray hersel' gae
me orders to see that everything was
done In the usual wav."
At last all was over, and the com
pany were on their feet readv to irn
The undertakers, with what seemed
unnecessary noise, had taken the
eoffln with the old Dominie's body
through the narrow lobby of the
house out to the garden In front
wheft the company were assembling
to can y It to the old kirkyard beside
the loch and the ancient tree-shaded
church.
Sydney Anstruther waited till the
gut to snake hands with Edith Mur
ray and whisper a word to her be
fore ho went. She was standing at
the door of the room, her nale. r
lined face looking whiter by contrast
with her sable garments, but he no
ticed that she -was not weeping; by
a strong effort she had maintained
her self-control. But the few words
of sympathy he uttered made her lips
iwitcn and her eyes fill with tear
and she thanked him In a broken
yoice.
"There are some things business
to talk over," he added; "but I won't
eome back to-day. I will leave them
over till next week," and she bowed
her mute appreciation of his kind
aess.
It was a bright winter day, and a
goodly number had gathered to carry
me old uominle to his beautiful mat
Ing-place. But as Svdnev
.walked vlth them to the grave his
inoughts were more with the daugh
ter who had been bereaved than with
the old man who had been taken
away. How well he. remembered the
day on which be had first met Edith
Murray!
It was fifteen years ago since he
ad come to Dunthorpe, a young law
yer from Edinburgh, to take up a
business and the agency of a bank;
and Mr. Murray, the old Dominie,
had been one of the first to welcome
him. His only daughter, Edith, was
then a lovely golden-haired girl, who
had just finished school, with cheeks
like twin roses and bits of blue
heaven for her eyes; a laughing,
happy-hearted maiden, whoso friend
ship had always been a delight to
him, and had served to brjgkten the
otherwise dull and monotonous ex
istence he led in Dunthorpe. Hp had
watched her grow up into woman
hood, and his admiration for her had
only increased with her growth of
character; for though an only child,
and much Indulged by her father!
he was In no way spoiled; and,
thpugh educated to r. higher degree
than most young ladies in the place,
was not ambitious to shine In any
way, but was content to be a good
housekeeper.
But now his heart was sore for
her for she would have to go out
Intothe world and earn her living,
and'the thought of It filled him with
uismay and foreboding. That was
the one thing to be prevented if pos
Ihle, and he set his brains a steep
to see If ho could contrive a plan by
which it might be obviated.
"Yes; he spoke to me about it.
He thought-It would bo such a splen
did Investment for me; the shares
were to bring In five per cent; that
would on sixty pounds year. He
was counting on that when he esti
mated my Income at a hundred and
twenty."
"Ah! yes; I see. The fact Is, Miss
Murray, I would like to j would
you mind selling me those shares; I
will give you, let me see, say fifteen
hundred for them, and put the money
In a less speculative investment.
That amount at four per cent, will
bring you In the same Income, and
It will be safer for you. You see
those shares weren't fully paid up,
and there's a liability for "calls" at
taching to them, and as you have no
more capital to Invest In them you
would have to get rid of them, so
you may as well sell them to me.
Shall we hold that as agreed? I took
It for granted that you would, aud
I brought the papers here for you
to sign."
Edith would as soon have thought
of doubting the solvency of the
Bank of England as of suspecting
Bydney Anstruther of any "sharp
practices," but her eyes were keen
and her mind was alefl, and she
could not help being struck by his
apparent nervousness, and by his
rnminir nni Thav toll ma tt'a m
great favorite with the Laird; oh, of
course I know We comes here pretty
often too my cousin said so to me,
but I (old her to mind her own busi
ness. It's natural he -should come to
see ydu, Miss Murray, when your
father and he were such friends;
but I did wonder to find him going
so often to Laird McGregor's.
'Hoots!' says my cousin, 'there need
be nae secret about It; he would like
fine to marry the Laird's young leddy
they were danoln' thegither for
'oors at the last Volunteer Ball.' Oh,
you needn't pay much attention to
such talk as that, Miss Murray; there
may be nothing la It, of course."
"Mr. Anstruther is surely at lib
erty to marry MJss MacGregor If he
likes," snld Editn. "For my part I
consider he's quite her equal, though,
of course, he can't have so much
money." ,
"Just what I said myself, my dear.
And to be sure she's very common
looking and rod-haired, and he's as
handsome a man as Is to be seen in
the county. I was always wondering
why he never got married; he must
be forty if he Is a day, and he could
get his pick of the ladles of Dun
thorpe for the asking."
Edith's cheeks burned, and she did
her best to change the subject, but
Barbara Grant was Irrepressible.
She had Just beard a piece of gossip,
and was In agonv. til! she could got
It out.
"But the reason why h3 remains a
bachelor Is no secret now," she added
nodding her head triumphantly
"When he was a young fellow in
Edinburgh living In lodgings he fell
In love with his landlady's daughter,
a stllv creature with nolhinrr In her
When he got more sense he wanted to
break off his engagement, but she
wouldn't let him; and from that day
to this she bus m-evented him marrv
lng anybody-else by threatening to
as
Women love dresB because they enjoy the' admiration
of men and the chagrin of other women.
Life without love is a forest deep,
Where songbirds never wake or sleep,
Where all Is silence, shadow, gloom.
That makes of life a soulless tomb.
People who are always reaching out for greater things
ytrely have sense enough to grasp those at hand.
Glrls,-
-'Tls better to have loved them all
Than never to have loved at all.
A woman may not reason; but she can render decisions
that would put a Supreme Court Justice out of business.
Many women are like walking dolls with phonograph
attachments.
An ordinary mortal may try to represent himself as an
angel who chanced to alight on the wrong perch.
When a man is a rank failure, he always blames some
woman; when he succeeds, he forgets to.
It would take an awful lot of soft soap and silver sand tc
wash out some people's pasts.
If some people could not have their say, they would
either explode or choke.
When a man thinks that he understands woman
gets some awful Jars.
he
Some people go through life as If driven by a blind bridle.
sudden relief when the papers were i bring an action of breach nf nrnmt.o
signed and the transaction con-' against him."
CHAPTER H.
"I have been looking Into vour
father's affairs. Miss Murray," said
Sydney Anstruther. They were sit
ting together in "The Laurels." the
Id Dominie's cottage, a week after
the funeral. "He left no will, but
that doesn't matter, for, of course
you Inherit everything. Did he tell
Wu anything about bis affairs? His
Illness was so sudden that per
haps "
"He couldn't say very much
about these things," she said; "but
"e told me that he had left enough
tor me to live on comfortably; about
hundred and twenty a year, he said
i night reckon on. and that will be
quite sufficient. What I would like
would be If you would Just take
charge of it all for me, and pay me
"e income quarterly."
here8"' y" iW lntend to on
''Yob; and I'm very thankful I'm
ame to do that. I have lived here all
aw f." WUh the cePtion of the
short time I was in Edinburgh at
school, and all my friends are here,
Slace " COl"dn't bear t0 ,eye tie
but you'll need somebody to
SedtUhaCtTPany- yU CCn"
andTh.ye8h l'Ve thousnt 811 v''.
think ?'n" Very klnd; ani
RnhJ " HrranK to have Mrs.
Roberuou to ve with me and
aAvo?d"fl"rate PlRn' 00 5a,d' B"t
.avoided her gaJe, and toy(ti ufc
-SrePwaa?0?rHn'M 0n th8t-
aimert am, n bretn 1,ke 01e whs
&0U heawehnet
Did W"1 father tell you that
Srpounr, he "wel"
kOBhh? X a.frm bank t0
Rest mi ? ,n tue Mexlcn Qoid
! Mining Company?"
eluded.
"I don't pretend to know anything
of business," she said; "but I leave
everything lu confidence In your
hands, Sydney; if I couldn't trust
you, I couldn't trust anybody; you
have always been a good friend to
my father and- me."
Her voice trembled as she men
tioned her father. Svdnev'a heart
throbbed at her words of gratitude;
he shook her hand impulsively;
gathered up his papers and departed.
He had done a good stroke of
business that day. and he was elad:
but all the same he felt like a crim
inal, for he had deceived Edith Mur
ray. J I ib only excuse was that he
had done it for her good. But was
It after all for her good, or was It
only that he might keep her in Dun
thorpe? But how could he reveal
to her the real facts that the shares
her father had purchased were worth
less than'nothing, since the comnanv
had become bankrupt and there was
a large liability attaching to them
which he would have to make good?
In fact, he stood to lose two thou
sand pounds altogether over that
transaction; 'vhlch was not quite all
the money hi had In the world, but
near It. But what of that so long as
Xdlth was liappy and did not need
to go out Into a cold world aad
make he. living! And as for him
self .,a business was Increasing
every year, and brought him in twice
as much as he could spend. Aud p
It was with a light heart that he
marched back to bis office.
CHAPTER III.
So Edith Murray remained fn Ig
norance of the sacrifice which Sydney
Anstruther had made for the
of saving her from the consequences
of her father's foolish speculation.
Jtacn quarter shn received her In
come regularly, aud as the days went
on time assauged her grief. She be
lieved In keeping herself always busy,
and what leisure she had to spare
from household duties she devoted to
charitable and church work.
A little place like Dunthorpe Is al
ways full of gossips; but the greatest
gosalp of the place was Miss Barbara
Spenoe, an. old and angular spinster
of uncertain temper, who meddled
with everything with the utmost Im
partiality. It was the dUtant pros
pect of a church bazaar, and the Im
mediate prospect of a cup of tea
which led her to The Laurels one af
ternoon in the early spring.
"That's very fine tea, Miss Mur
ray," she said, putting down her cup
and wiping her Hps as though she
had finished, though she onlv vmtui
a little presslug to tuko a third cup:
"that's as good as I get anywhere,
even at the Laird's. I was up there
last week seeing my cousin she's
Housekeeper, you know - and I met
Mr, Anstruther, the lawyer, as I was
cuuns eyes blazed. She rose to
her feet. "I would rather not hea
any more of this." she said,. "Mr
Anstruther is my friend "
"Oh, but it's true as gospe!, I ns
sure you. I wouldn't utter a word
of gossip or scandal about any man
for the world if I weren't sure that it
was absolute truth. And I'm very
sorry to near that poor Mr. Anstruth
er's very badly oft. He's been specu
lating and losing monev heaviiv
Ay, I knew you would be sorry to
near it, as I was. Miss Murray. It
iuoi mexican Mining Company
mat turned out such a fraud, von
know. Fancy a business man like
iur. Anstruther not knowing any bat
ter than to put his monev Into t
ten concern like that! They tell me
he has lost some thousands nf nnnnH.
over It."
Miss Spence paused with -satisfaction,
for she saw she had made an
Impression at last. Edith's face was
a siuuy.
"It's a good thing your father had
no shares In the concern," she" con
tinued; "or you would have been
ruined this day, Miss Murray, and
your furniture probably sold off. Or
was it possible that he had any
shares?"
"He had: but Mr. Anstruther
bought them, and paid me more for
them thau my father paid," said
Edith.
"What!" shrieked Miss Spenco
"Upon my word, I didn't think he
was such a fool."
How Edith Murrav tmt h ,.,,..
to the door she never remembered;
but as soon as she was alone lu the
house she sat down at her desk and
wrote a letter to Sydney, asking him
w "? ana see ner. And then she
sat a. long time in silence thinking.
CHAPTER IV.
So far gossip was correct. Id his
foolish student days In Edinburgh
Sydney Anstruther had been en
trapped Into an engagement with his
landlady's daughter. When he found
out her true character he bitterly re
pented. He declined to marry her,
but she vowed at leaBt she would
prevent him marrying anybody elso,
and she had never failed to send him
an annual letter to keep blm la mind
of the action for damages which she
held In terrorism QVer his head. Aud
now he bad hopelessly lost his heart
tp Edith Murray. But the bitter
drop in his cup was that he could
not tell her his love, for he could
not endure the Idea of drunrliu ,..,
fair name Into any scandal.
But his patient waltlns- vu rai
warded at last. One inr,:,rhi
morning In February a letter reached
him lu the handwrltluar h
learned to fear. Ho opened It. trmn-
Lihvily, but when he read Its con
tents a fervent Thank Onrt?"
caped his lips. At last be was free.
It was a charasierlaHc enlstln. Ill
spelt, Jocular and Impertinent, bflt
It conveved the all-imnnrtnnt nowa
that the woman to whom he had been
so long bound by his word of honor
had herself cut the bond by getting
marked to another. "So you are
free now to do ns you like." she con
cluded: "and you'll be fortunate If
you get as good .-. match as I've got."
He rose to ht feet and breathed
freely. A hurdrti seemed to have
been rolled off his head. And Just
at that moment Edith Murray's note
wps delivered to hlni, and he sped
off to-The Lalirels.
There had been a storm for three
days, but It was over, and the sun
was shining brilliantly from a cloud
less sky. The sound of the wind
among the trees was music to Syd
ney's ears; there was In It nothing of
the sndnpss of nutumn when the wind
Is driving the dead leaves to their
burial; it was full of hopefulness and
Joy as It sang reveille to the sleeping
birds, and awoke new life In every
herb and tree.
"Sydney," she said, looking at him
very seriously. "I want you to tell
me the truth about those shares. Was
it the case that they were worth
nothing when you paid me fifteen
hundred pounds for them, and that
you have lost stjll further on them!"
He flushed hotly and frowned.
"Who what mlBchlrvous lint:v ha .
been talking?" ho fhqulred; but she
Interrupted him.
"We have known each other long,
Sydney, and I have a right to etpect
you to tell me the truth. You admit
It?"
"I was quite willing to do It." fie
said feebly.
"But was It right? Was It right
to keep me in ignorance of my real
position? And to humiliate me by
making me live on charity" (she
swallowed a sob and went on bravely)
"yes. charity, for I have been liv
ing all this time on your money,
when I should have been earning my.
own living. It was kindly meant, 1
believe, but, oh. how could you think
I would take it If I knew?" Her
touching appeal unmanned him.
"Oh, my dear Edith!" he cried,
seizing her hands in his; "I would do
far more than that for you; I would
give you all I have to make you
happy."
"But but " she stammered, "I
thou ght you "
"That I was to marry some one
else? That's all over; I'm a free
man, thank God; fres to marry the
woman I love and have loved all
these fifteen years. Oh. Edith, dar
ling, will you be my wife?"
"Oh, Sydney!" she said, and her
voice broke, "I was beglhnig to fear
you didn't care for me!" and with a
sob of happiness, she hid her face
upon his breast. And the silence
that followed was too sweet to be
broken by words. The Dumfermline
Press.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
The race for wealth merely leads
to a mausoleum.
Spontaneous thoughts are often
like the gun we didn't know was
loaded.
The man who
single blessedness Is doubly blessed.
It's a pity that the
doesn't always make himself agreeable.
There Isn't anvthinn more narvn.
racking than an old maid of fifty
trying to he cute.
The average woman u r ,i.. i,
about her age. It is better to tell It
than have it guessed at.
Even a noet will stumble unlace ha
Is -,ure-footed.
When a young man's fieart la la.cr.
ated, look for the lass.
It takes a certain amount of nhiiitv
to back up even a bluff.
A girl may have teeth llk-a nanrit.
and still bs as dumb as an oyster.
A sermon Is sometlmaaJinj
a text, and sometimes upon a pretext.
Love laughs at locksmltha in
fact, locksmiths won't even Iroen th
wolf from the door.
Time Is money,, but we can't nay
oi..- debts with It.
A fighting chance Is all the averace
woman requires.
We wouldn't mind the n
if It didn't happon so often.
The trusts demonst rate that mnnv
a profit lu without honor.
Success merely mnnrna hard mnvl.
but then so does the lack of It.
A man may feel that he is stand
ing up for his rights when he keeps
ins seat In a crowded car. From
Musings of the Greenwood T.iikn
PhlloEopher," In the New York Times.
WHENCE CAME THEY?
Visit U Italian Town Dennnnlnted
by Emigration.
Whence came they? Doubtless
this question has framed Itself In the
minds of many persons as they havo
stood in front of th" big Immigration
building on Kills Island and watched
the men, women and children in their
foreign dress pouring across the plaza
from the barges, to be swallowed up
by the wide portals of the station
three thousand, four thousand, five
thousand, In the course of a cycle of
twenty-four hours.
On May 31, last year, as I- stood
In the ''new port." at Naples the query
framed Itself In my mind. Before me.
moved a line of Italian men. women
and children, two thousand strong,
dragging bundles after them. A
Vulted States hospital surgeon, offi
cially protecting the health of
America really advising the steam
ship companies. In addition, who
would be rejected at Ellis Island
was turning Inside out the eyelids
and running his hands through the
hair of each as the line slowly pnsaed
him. The Inspection card of each
was duly stamped with the American
consular seal, and one by one the
procession of short, bronzed Sicilians
and Calabrians fllod out, the pampn
letllke Italian passport in hand.
Whence came they?
A few days later I was on the Pal
mera express bound -for Calabria and
Sicily.
Arriving at Gaso I walked down
through the main street. It was
Utmost as deserted as the streets of
Pompeii. The appearance of an
American drew forth from the dank,
stone flagged houses scores of wom
en, children and wrinkled old men.
One was surprised to see so few young
and middle-aged men. The reason
was given by the syndic, or mayor.
They were In America. A few years
ago Gesso had a population of nearly
six thousand persons. To-day the
houses, with the worm-eaten wooden
doorB. are peopled by only about
eighteen hundred women, children
and old men, who are supported
largely by money sent home from
America by the able-bodied men who
have gone hence.
"e stopped at Battiro, and a man
beside the road, who had returned
home after living several years in
Buenos Ayres, said that four hun
dred of its former population of four
teen hundred were in North' and
South America. From Monteleone,
which stands on the site of the an
cient Greek city of Hippo, five hun
dred had cone to both Americas and
three times as many from the sur
rounding country. At Tlriol
a former population of six thousand
one thousand had found their way to
Naples from their mountain home
and sailed for America. The num
ber is being increased by upward of
two hundred each year.
Whence came they? The question
Is answered for one who has visited
these communities, which are truly
deserted villages.
In the beginning, apparently the
emigrants were chiefly middje-aged
men whose finances had reached a
hopeless condition through poor
crops and the payment of taxes, the
demand for the latter being regular
If the crops were not. They went
to America, leaving their families
at home, In the hope of repairing
their fortunes. Money began to
come back. Then the men them
selves. They wore better clothing
than they had ever worn before. They
had watches and chains. More thau
that, they had money, greater
amounts than they had ever before
possessed. The younger men, ob
serving the success of the older ones,
reasoned that by going to the
United States they could avoid the
troubles of the older men, and at
their age be comfortably well off.
Then wives, sweethearts, brothers,
sisters, parents, were sent for, and in
course of time the avalanche.
Herbert Francis Sherwood, in The
Outlook.
NEWS OF PENNSYLVANIA
n itons inn CAPITOL n:ii.
Hairisburg, (Special) . Sheriff
Dnnkle and Jury Commissioners
Klugh nnd Smith drew the Jurymen
from whom will be arlected the Jury
to try the next Capitol conspiracy
case. The men were drawn from the
nnmes put in the wheel on December
C. Seventy-two wen; drawn, and
from these men will be selected
Juries for the contract cases. Those
not required In Capitol trials will be
used In regular Common Pleas trials.
The Capitol trials will begin May 11.
The list drawn contains the names
or some well-known men, the bulk
being men of a good order of intelli
gence. Among them are John K.
Royal, former City Treasurer and
former Prothonotary ; Henry C. Orth,
former president of the Harrlsburg
School Board, and F. C. Frascb.
prominent Ice cream manufacturer.
DOCTOR kinds poison.
Pottsvllle (Special). Testlmonv
was taken before Orphans' Court
Judge Wilhelm on the contest of the
will of Mrs. Kllzaheth Holland, of
Mahanoy City, to show that Mrs.
Holland was told that her son was
poisoning her, nnd that she thereforo
changed her will, cutting Out the son.
- It is the second will which is con
tested, as Mrs. Holland's son claimB
mat l)r George W. Reese exercised
undue Influence over his mother. Dr.
Reese testified thnt he found symp
toms of poisoning in Mrs. Holland's
Illness. On investigation, be said,
a box of arsenic was found.
To OUST MITCHELL MEN.
Seranton (Special). It is declared
that all Mitchell men who have been
prominent in the local mine workers
union will bo
president. I nomas . r . j
that men especially devoted to his
Interests will be Installed In their
places.
Among those who. it Is declared,
are slated to go are Adam Ryscavagc,
vice president of District No. 1 who
receives no salary, but is paid $4 a
day for expenses as national organ
izer. Martin Memlo. T. It. Watkiiis
and John B. Walsh, other national
organizers, are Bald to have received
notice of their dismissal.
("II.VIKJi; DISCRIMINATION'.
Duliols (Special). Atlosnoys be
gan action at Clearfield ngntnst the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company on
a charge of Idscrinilnatlon. The dam
ages claimed by the prosecution ag
gregate $3110,000.
There are fl ve r.'tdnfl In nil Tin.
Walnut Coal Company, prosecutors
in mo nm case c aim tiiov ,.,. m.
j fused the right to place Individual
cars on the road. They ask 100. 000
imuiuges. ine -etuer suits are
brought for discrimination in the dls-
i milium oi cars- ine prosecutors
are Puritan Coal Company, damages
ft,uuu; htclnman Coal Companv.
damages $60,000; Hillman Coal &
Coke Company, damages $70,000;
Clark Brothers Coal Mining Com
pany, damages $25,000.
SHOT HIS SWEETHEART.
York, Pa. (Special). Because bin
sweet heart, Miss Stlvln Kenlsh.
threatened to desert him. Antonio
Pologovltrh fired four bullets Into iiei
body and then fled. The shootlnp
took place at Saginaw, about 13
miles nortli of t It let city. Rather than
have his sweetheart Join a rival,
Pologovltrh derided to kill her
The shooting took place at a lone
ly spot, and the woman dragKl ln-t-self
fof several miles over a rough
country road before she could sum
mon assistance. A physician who
wns Hunimoned, seeing that her con
dition wns critical, ordered her sent
to the York Hospital, where she Is
now in "h critical condition. Detec
tives are searching for the man. One
of Mie bullets entered the woman's
breast near the heart, two lodged In
the right arm and another struck her
right band.
FORGED to GET pass.
Pottsvllle (Special). In order to
get transportation over the Philadel
phia & Reading lines from Potts
vllle to Catawissa, Michael O'Brien
forged the name of George E. Fink,
a fireman, to a telegram and for
warded It to Superintendent J. E.
Turk, of the Shnmokhi division, ask
ing for a pass.
Fink was found to be at work.
When O'Brien inquired as to whether
an answer had come to his message
an officer placed him under nrrest.
Justice McCool committed him to
prison.
ITEMS IN RRIEK.
Thirty or more young people of
Cataaauqua presented "The Deestrlck
SlU-nln" It, tli.. I) -1 .1 cia n i...
......v. nuiftlin - v. ,,, . .IIHTI. l eSIIJ -
ousted by the now: terlan Church. The proceeds of the
una I I i ntj ...111 l. .
in"j vm imeii to purrnase a new
heating plant for the church. The
players -were trained by Mrs. M. O.
I lini niond. wire of I he pastor of the
church.
Henry Forrnm. a deaf mute, nged
RB, was run down and killed on tin
Delaware & Hudson Railroad tracks
at Seranton. lie was employed as
D reman at the Raymond Colliery and
was on his way homo from work
when the locomotive struck him. Six
months ago a deaf mute fireman em
ployed by the same company was run
down at the same hour of the day
and under similar circumstances at
Luzerne.
Thirty thousand dollars will bo
spent in beautifying the P. A. S.
Small building at York. The im
provement will add grently to the
beautification of York's old Colonial
Square, which marks the spot Where
the Continental Congress at one time
sat and tranacted important business
for the benefit of tho Colonies.
The Senate Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds lias ordered
reported a bill for a new Government
building at Easton, to cost $150,000.
An Adams Express Company horso
at Altoona in the agony of death
from blood poisoning, seized the left
arm of driver Charles Barnes in its .
mouth crushing it and tearing the
floBh from the bone.. 1
E. Benjamin Norris, a young Phila
delphia druggist, and Miss Mary
Charlotte Sands, wore married at
Jersey Shore.
The Wlllianisport Merchants' Asso
ciation adODted resolnlinna ,1..,. i.. ,.;,.
the State Mercantile Tax law unneces
sary and unjust nnd asking for its
repeal, also onnoslnc rnirwii n,n
legislation.
ENDS LIFE IN RIVER.
Lock Haven (Special). Mrs. Wil
liam W. Weaver, of Hynor, wife of
a president of the Karthaus Fire
Brick Company, committed Buiclde bv
drowning In the river.
She arose ut an early hour, pre
pared breakfast for the family and
then went to the river nearby. Af
ter tying one end of a rope about
her body and the other to a clump of
bushes she plunged Into the water.
Searchers found the rone and imd n
difficulty in receiving the body. The
act was due to melancholy.
EXPECT TWENTY HANDS.
Shooting Stars.
Shooting stars are not real stars at
all, but are small bodies which the
earth runs Into and which are made
so .hot by friction In the atmosphere
that they are burned un. The real
stars, as those of the dipper, are very,
very far away, sp far that no one
knows the distance. They are bright
bodies like our sun, but Beeni like
points of llsht because they are so far
off. As tho earth moves about the
sun It frequently meets little bodies.
It is mot in:: bO fast that whn it
strikes them the friction in the air Is
very great and usually they are
burned un. Thev seem lilrn mnvlni
stars, but are really only a few mlleB
above us in our atmosphere. Some
times one Is so large that It comes
through the air, without being wholly
burued up, and falls on the grouud.
From "Nature aud Science," in St.
Nicholas.
New Zealand CoaL
It Is estimated that New Zealauu
has an available coal Bupply of 1,200,
000,000 tons, of which not more thau
20,000.000 tons have been touched.
This was the first of the British colo
nies to try the experiment of State
ownership of colliery property. Engineer.
Assistance.
Those who are constrained to il
licit for assistance are really to be
pitied; those who receive it without,
are to be envied; but those who be
stow It unasked, are to be admired.
Children of the Army.
Tho conditions confronting officers
and men who have children to edu
cate are simply pitiful. Many an offi
cer Is at this moment In debt and pay
ing Interest on borrowed money so
that he may send his son or his
daughter to a good school, or keep
them In some city whero their educa
tion will be continuous and uninter
rupted. No matter of domestic econ
omy touches officers more deeply than
this of the children's educatiou.
It is true that the public schools of
a city, If the post be near a city, are
generous in taking boys and girls In,
and some do so for a tuition fee, but
It Ib, nevertheless, a fact that an armv
officer cannot demand local school
service as a right, because of his pro
fession and his residence on a mili
tary reservation. Even when near a
city, the post is outside of it, and the
children spend from two to four
hours dally traveling behind army
mules to and from the schoolhouse.
The so-called "nost schools " nnv
established, and to which children
are sometimes sent through absolute
necessity because of Isolation, nre a
farce, for the officer having the high
sounding title of "Superintendent of
Post 8chools" is generally so fully oc
cupied with other engaging military
duties that he can give little or no
attention to the school development
and system, while the man who Is
teachor has usually never acted In
that capacity before. Army and
Navy Life.
Sbamokln (Special). Tho com
mittee on the twenty-fourth annual
session of tho Odd Fellows' Anni
versary Association, to be held here
Tuesday, April 28, announced that
ten bands had already been contract
ed for by different lodges through
out the State and that at least twice
' tnat number will bo here for a big
parade to comprise fully 10,000 men.
r,ignt special trains have so far
been chartered from different towns
and the railroads will run excursion
trains.
TWO HOTELS ItORNHJ).
Meadvllle, Pa. (Special). Half a
hundred persons had a narrow escape
from death and two hotels vvero de
stroyed In a lire at Conneaut Lake,
near here. The only fire-fighting
rorce at conneaut hake I
THIS AND THAT
The United States rauks first in
tho matter of copper productiou and
Japan second.
The curious fact is noted by Pro
fessor hamdain, of Bresluu, that
careful measurements of the inten
sity of gravitation in different parts
of the globe show this to be greater
on Islands than on continents.
Lieutenant General Baden-Powell "
speaking at a meeting In collection
with a crusade azninat ainuu.
smoking, Bald that 15.000,000
($75,000,000) a year was Bpent on
cigarettes. Ho thought this could
be easily saved.
In Europe house cars or caravans
are rapidly passing from experimen
tal to practical use. One popular
car contains a completely equipped
kitchen and sleeping berths for six
persons, and has seats on top like the
old London buses.
The gold mine owners In South
n atimll
bucket brigade, and for . MlITE. ?F ! rM Bpent ONI
town was at the merev of th nZ,. L ' LV'"UU:UU" fruiting laborers from
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The fire was imtten nminr mwImI
after it had completely destroyed the
Taylor Hotel and partially destroved
the Chilcott House. Several barns
and outhouses were also destroyed.
The loss is estimated ni l:tn nnn
The fire was discovered Just In tlm
000 negroes, and few of them could
stand the winter. Then 67,000 Chi
nese were brought, starting tho labor
troubles.
Tho Hidden Secret mine In Aus
tralia yielded $200,000 nf unM i
- ' ' - til It
ii-w nays ana was sold for $2,500,
tn alinix ik. it 1 1 i i ... ,- I few days a
....... w..., nviw iv in on i i u III ana 14 ... "
tbe building In safety. 'J WM tMen called the Golden
iiuic. i in- entrance was sealed and
a stock company formed with
Lost Job; Dies Ih-iirllirokiu
Pottsvllle (Special). Heartbroken
because lie was thrown out of work
In his old age nnd had no means of
curing for his family. Frnnk Iteubort
died suddenly at Cressona Ho was
laid off at the Reading ear shops at
Schuylkill Haven, after forty-eight
years of Bervico, went home and cast
himself upon bis bed. where lie re
jected all efforts to cheer him, death
Boon following.
The Parsees.
The Pnhiefln of to-day are tho dl
reci. des -endants, religiously, of the
auc: ;ut i.oi oastr'ans of Persia. They
still maintain the fundamental beliefs
and ceremonies of the old altb. The
odarn Parseea number about 150,
000. tho graaler part of them being
found In British India. Their moral
and intellectual standing is high, ac
cording to tho atatements of all who
havo dealings with them. New ,,
American.
Liille Drrds Important.
It Is sometimes good to bo cunttot
with doing little; the great aud splen
did occasions In which a man can
benefit his country are few; the hura
blo dntlrs by which her benefit may
be advaucad art of daily occurrence.
Si dney Sniliii.
Plow Turned l p M VYntcn.
Hamburg ( Special i . One year
ago farmer John Bchaner, Sr., of near
Strause, tills county, lost IiIb wutcli
on one of his fields. While plowing
several days ago the timepiece was
recovered by Ills bou It was un
harmed by the loan einiir i.. ,..
elements of the weather, and is again
running as before it was lost.
and, K Wreck A t'liun-li.
Mahanoy City (Special). -Vandals
broke Into the new Caihnllo i-i
i at Malxeville, nmashed costly statues,
siasneu valuable paintings
('might Ity Post mast i-r.
Wllliamsport (Special). Several
attempts having been made recently
to rob the post olfi.ee at Unity villi-,
this county, Postmaster Seward took
to sleeping in the office, and saya he
surprised l . Smith. 17 years old,
In the act of unlocking the door!
Smith was arrested und lodged in Jaii
here to await action by ttus postal
authorities.
John Harkenburg. while cleaning
a revolver at Portland MHIb. Elk
county, accidentally shot and killed
his R-year-old daughter
7,10,000 capital. When It ... 21
opened tho mine proved to be a pock
et. All the gold was gone.
The world's production of gold
was $4 2.1,000.000 Inst year and con
tinues to climb. A hundred years
ago the yield was $12,000,000 Eight
years ago it was $262,000,000. The
world's stock of gold has doubled
since 1X93. in recent years the Hue
of profit In working gold ores has
been lowered from $14 to $12.
There is to be an underground
railway across busy, crowded Toklo
The distance Ib to be 12 miles, and
the cost of construction will not bo
leas than $H2.1,000 a nille. The rall
wuy company will have $87,500,000
capital. A uniform fare of 2 cents
cent, for the shareholders.
When In 17X9 Hadji Mirza Akast
then prime minister, ceded tho sole
right to navigate the Caspian Sea
to the Russians, he flippantly re
marked: "Not being water fowl,
whnt ned have we of salt water?
Nor for a few drops of It should we
embitter tho palate of a friend."
Korean ruirway laborers In Jupau
get 35 cents a day. from which the
contractora may deduct 12 cents for
food.
Asbestos sheets arc being institut
ed under the mattresses of'aleeplng
cars on some of the railways of thf
' - niaies io Mb in out the
from the radiators underneath.
heat
The first Chinese School of For
estry has Just been opened tn Muk
dun. The Chinese Empire paid no
stteutloii in the past to the destruc
tion of Its forests.