THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURO, PA. MUCZ MT2ANCTS ERDE E05TMTM5CDfflODr5 CHAPTER XXVI Continued. 13 1 mat be going," the said, rlslnf. g;M will give me my envelope?" ft erossed to the safe and got it lor cunoany wns sun seen 4jt4, but he beat It back manfully 1 visk yo woman t hurry, be taia tapKably. He wai searching the duugeful eyes for the warrant to say Bore, but be could not And It lie was obliged to let It go at that; Mt when they reached the phaeton u4 the horse-holdlug clerk bad teen relieved, be spoke ot another matter. I'm a little worried about Ken- stth," be told her. "He came down tfeja morning looking positively rrrtched, but he wouldn't admit that be wis sick. Hare you seen much of tin lately?" "Not very much guardedly Did yen say he had gone home?" 1 don t know where he hat gone. lie left hero about halt an hour before jon came, and 1 haven't seen him dwe." "And you are worried because be feeen't look well?" "Not altogether on that account I'm tfrald he Is In deep water of some kind. I never saw a person change as bt bas In the past week or so. You know Mm pretty well, and what a big keart be bat?" Ebe nodded, bait mechanically. "Wll. there have been times lately vtiei I've been afraid he'd kill some body tu this squabble of ours, you know. He bas been going armed ihlcb was excusable enough, under the drfiEisiancet and night before last. ibft we were walking uptown togeth er, I bad all I could do to keep him from taking a pot-shot at a fellow vfco, k thought, wai following us. I lost know but I'm taking all sorts of infalr advantage of him, telling you llli behind his back, but" 'No; I'm glud you have told me. Ma j be I can help." He pul her Into the low basket teat ind tucked the dust-robe around her carefully. While he was doing It he looked ap Into her face and said: "I'd lore ynu awfully hard for what you have done today If you'd let rie." It was like her to smile straight bits his eyes, when she answered him. nnen yo can say mat in just that way to the right woman, you'll tni a great happiness lying in wait tor yot, Edward, dear." And then she tpoke to the Morgan mare and dis tance came between. As ence before, In the earlier hours of the same day, Miss, Grlerson took the roundabout way between the Ray mer plunt and Mereelde, making the circuit which took her through the college grounds and brought her out it the head of upper Shawnee street The Widow Ilolcomb was sitting on her front porch, placidly crocheting, then the phaeton drew up at the euro. Mr. Crlswold," said the phaeton's occupant "May I troublo you to tell him that I'd llko to speak to him a moment !" Mrs. Holcomb, friend of the Ray- oers, tha Fartihams, and the Oswalds, ind own cousin to tho Darrs, was of the perverse minority; and, apart I from this, she had her own opinion of J young woman who would wait at the i ioor of a young man't boarding house j ind take him off for a night drive to toodncss only knew where, and from! which he did not return until good-j Best onlv knew when. So there wan nn i stitch missed In the crocheting when j ihe ald. stiffly: "Mr. Grlswold Isn't In. He hasn't been home since morn ing." Wfs Ciiereon drove on, and the Best casual observer might have re narked the strained tightening of the Hps and the two red spots which came ud went In the damask-peach cheeks. Rut It was not until she had reached McTc.-Ulo, and had gained the shelter of the deserted library, that speech cane "0 pitiful Christ!" she sobbed, drop ping Into a chair and hiding her face the crook of nermann; "he's done It t last! he's trying to hide, and that't that they've been waiting for! And 1 don't know where to look!" But Matthow Broffln, tilting lazily ta bis chair on the downtown hotel Krib. knew very well where to look, he was watching the one outlet of the hiding place as an alert, though Mvardly disregardful, house cat ches a mouse's hole. CHAPTER XXVII. The Quality of Mercy. On no lets an authority than that of JJ16 Ereat doctor who came agnln from Co'engo for a second consultation "h Eoctor Farnham, Andrew Gal Jfaith owed hit life during the two 0iT following hit return to conscious ""ss to the unremitting care and de Uon of one person. Seconding the efforts of the physl jwn. and skillfully directing those of nurses, Margery threw herself luto vicarious struggle with the gener-self-sacrifice which counts neither t nor loss; and on the third day bad her reward. Her Involuntary FOUND HIMSELF UPSIDE DOWN ,rlh Aviator Lived to Tell of Weird Experience That He Had In a Cloud. British naval airman when flying "ard recently entered a thick white (mi and wfiolly lost his sense of lrctton. He only realised that be "lBlde down on finding that "t were falling out of bis pockets bis belt broke, and he bad to U"S on by bit kneet an Ohowt. At ter, and again, to the two doctor de clared, the balance was inclining slight ly toward recovery. It was In the afternoon of this third day, when she had been reading to htm, at bit own request, the saying of the Man on the Mount that be re ferred tor the first time to the details of the accident which had so nearly blotted him out Upon his asking, she related the few and simple facta of the rescue, modestly minimizing her own part In It, and giving her com panion In the catboat full credit "The writer-man," be said thought fully, when she bad finished telling blm how Grlswold had worked over him In the boat, and how he would not give up. "I remember; you fetched him out to the botel wltb you one day; no, you ncedna fear I'll be for getting him." Then, wltb a shrewd look out of the steel-gray eyes: "How long have you been knowing blm, Maggie, child?" "Ob, for quite a long time," the has tened to tay. "He came here, tick and helpless, one day last spring, and welt, there Isn't any hospital here Id Wahaska, you know, so we took blm In and helped him get over the fever, or whatever It was. This waa bl room while be stayed wltb us." Andrew Galbralth wagged hi head on the pillow. "I know." he said. "And ye"re doing It again for a poor'auld man whoso siller has never bought blm anything like the love you're spending on him. You're everybody' good angel, I'm thinking, Maggie, lassie." Though he d'd not realize It, his sickness was bringing him day by day nearer to his far-away boyhood In the Inverness shire hills, and It was easy to slip Into the speech of the mother-tongue. Then, after a long pause, he went on: "He wasna wearing a beard, a red beard trimmed down to a Bplke this writer man, when ye found him, was he?" She tbook her head. "No; I bave never seen him wltb a beard." The sick man turned his face to the wall, and after a time she beard him repeating aoftly the words which she had Just read to him. "But If ye for give not men . . . neither will your father forgive. . . ." And again, "Judge not that ye be not Judged." When he turned bark to her there were new lines of suffering In the gray old face. "I'm sore beset, child; sore beset," he sighed. "You were telling me that MacKarland and Johnson will be here tonight?" "Yes; they should both reach Wa haska this evening." Another pause, and at the end of It: "That man Broffln; you'll remember you asked me one day who be waa, and I tell't ye be was a special officer tor the bank. Is he still here?" "He Is; I saw him on the street this morning." Again Andrew Galbralth turned bis face away, and he was quiet for so long a time that she thought he had fallen asleep. But he had not "You're thinking something of the writer-man, lassie? Don't mind the ctavers of an auld man who never bad a chick or child of his aln." Her answer was such as a child might have made. She lifted the big Jointed hand on the coverlet aud pressed It softly to ber flushed cheek, and be understood. "I thought so; I was afraid so," he said, slowly. "You say you have known blm a long time; It canna have been long enough, balrnle." "But It Is," she Insisted, loyally. "I know him better than he knows him self; oh, very much better." "Ye know the good In him, maybe; there's good In all men, I'm thinking now, though there was a time when I didna believe It." "I know the good and the bad and the bad Is ouly the good turned up side down." Again the sick man wagged his head on the pillow and closed h'.s eyes. "Ye're a loving lassie, Maggie, and that' a' there Is to It," he commented; and after another Interval: "What must be, must be. We spoke of this man Broffln: I must see him before Johnson comes. Can ye get him for me. Maggie, child?" She nodded and went downstairs to the telephone, returning almost Imme diately. "I was fortunate enough to catch blm at the hotel. He will be here In a few minutes," waa the word she brought; and Galbralth thanked her with his eyes. "When he comet, ye'll let me see him alone Just for a tew minutes," he begged; and beyond that he said no more. It was after the click of the gate latch had announced Broffln' arrival that Margery drew the shades to shut out the glare of the afternoon sin, lowering the one at the bed's bead so that the light no longer fell upon the Instruments of the small house tele phone set mounted upon the wall be side the door. "Mr. Broffln la here, and I'll send him up," blm said. "But you mustn't let him stay long, and you mustn't try tn talk too much." length be emerged from the cloud and naw the sea apparently over his head, tut was able to right his machine and continue bit flight A young Lngllsh aviator, the bullet bolet In whose planes bore testimony to bit repeated exposure to Are, had one narrow escape wltb an amusing ending Mistaken lor a German air man, be was fired ci b; the French and forced to dsrend through the puncturing or bit petrol tank When the mistake was discovered, of course, profuse apologlot were forthcoming. The alck man promised, and as the was going away she turned to repeat the caution. Andrew Galbralth't eyet were closed In weariness, and be did not see that the wai standing with ber back to the wall while the admonished blm, or that, when the had gone to tend the visitor up, the earpiece of the house telephone set had been detached from Its hook and left dangling by It wire cord. Mlsa Grlerson wont on Into the li brary aftor abe bad met the detective at the door and bad told blm bow to find the upstairs room. When tbe sound ot a cautiously closed door told ber that Broffln had entered the sick room, she snatched the receiver of the library bouM phone from It hook and held It to her ear. ' For a little time keen anxiety wrote Ita sign manual In the knitted brow and the tightly pretsed Hi. Then the smiled and the dark eyoa grew softly radiant "Tbe dear old saint!" she whispered; "the dear, dear old saint!" And when Brof fln came down a few minutes later, she went to open the hall door tor blm, serenely demuro and with honey on her tongue, at befitted tbe role of "everybody' good angel." "Did you find him worse than yon feared, or better than you hoped?" she asked. "He' mighty near tbe edge, I should say what? But you never cat) tell. Some of these old fellow can claw back to Mmi tup o' the hill after all the doctor In creation have thrown up their hands. I've seen it What does Doc Farnham tay?" "What he alwayt say; 'while there' life, there's hope." Broffln nodded and went his way down the walk, stopping at the gate to take up the cigar ha had hidden on hit arrival. "So Galbralth't out of It lock, Btoct and barrel," he muttered, as he strode thoughtfully townward. "I reckoned it'd bi that-a-way, as soon a I beard the story o' that shipwreck. And now I ain't so blamed sure that It't Ray mer aholdln' the fort In them pretty black eye. The old man talked like a man that had Just been honeyfugled and talked over and primed plum' op to the muzzle. Why the blue blazes mmmm "Ht'a Trying to Hide and That What They've Been Waiting For." can't she take her Iron-molder fellow and be satisfied? She can't swing to both of 'em. Utnp! the old man want ed me to skip out on a wild goose chase to Frisco In that bond businrss, and take the first train! Sure, I'll go but not toduy; oh, no, by grapples; not this day!" It was possibly an hour beyond Brof- fln't visit when Margery, having suc cessfully read the sick man to sleep, tiptoed out ot the room and went be low stairs to shut herself into the hall telephone closet. The number she asked for was that of the Kay mer Foundry and Machine worka, and Ray mer, himself, answered the call. "Have you heard anything yet from Mr. from our friend?" "Not a word. But I'm not worrying any more now. I've been remember ing that he la the happy or unhappy possessor ot the 'artistic tempera ment' and that accounts tor anything and everything. I'd forgotten that for a few minutes, you know." "Well?" she said, with tho faintest possible accent of Impatience. "Ho has gone oft somewhere to plug away on that book of his; I'm sure of It And he hasn't gone very far. I'm Inclined to believe that Mrs. Holcomb knows where he Is only she won't tell. And somebody else knows, too." "Who Is the somebody else?" Though the wire was tn a measure public, Raymcr risked a single word. "Charlotte." None of the sudden passion thai leaped Into Margery Grlerson 't eyes was suffered to find Its way into her voice when she said: "What makes you think that?" "Oh, a lot of little things. I was over at the house last night, and there Is some sort of teapot tempest going on; I couiun i mane out just wnai But from the way things shaped up, I gathered that our friend waa wanted In Lake Boulevard, and wanted bad for some reason or other. I had to promise that I'd try to dig him up, be fore I got away." "Well?" went the questioning word over the wires, and tht time the Impa tient accent was unconcealed. "I promised; but this morning Doc tor Bertie called me up to say that It waa all right; that I needn't trouble myself." "And I needn't have troubled you." and be was presented by the mayor of the district with a uouquet Talking of bullet boles, by the way. I may mention tbat tbe record sure ly belongs to a British aviator wbo. es caplng from a hall of shrapnel, count ed 90 separate puncture In bis planes C. L. Freotlon in Scrlbner's Maga line. When Glass Adheres. If sheets of plate glass be piled up horizontally to a considerable height without the precaution ot separating , said the voice at tbe Mereslde trans mitter. "Excuse me, as Hank Billings ly used to tay when be happened to shoot the wrong man. Come over when you feel like It and bave time. You mustn't forget that you owe me two call. Good ty." After Margery Grlerson had let her self out of the stifling little closet un der the ball stair, the went Into tbe darkened library and sat for a long time staring at the cold hearth. It was a crooked world, and Just now It was a sharply cruel one. There was much to be read between the line of tbe short telephone talk with Edward Baymer. The trap was sprung aud it Jaw were closing; and in his extremity Kenneth Grlswold waa turning, not to tbe wom an who had condoned and shielded and paid the costly price, Imt to the other. "Dear God I" abe mM aoftly, when the prolonged stare bad brought the quick-springing tears to her eyes; "and I l could bave kopt blm safe!" CHAPTER XXVIII. The Ptndulum-Swlng. To a man seeking only to cacape from himself, all roads are equal and all destinations likely to prove uul foimly disappointing. Turning his back upon tbe iron works In the day of defeat, with no very clear Idea of what he should do or where be should go, Grlswold pushed through the strikers' picket Hues, aud, avoiding the militant suburb, drifted by way of sun dry outlying residence street and a country road to the high ground bank ot tbe city. In deserting Raymer be was actu ated by no motive of disloyalty. On the contrary, to much of the motive at had any bearing upon his relations with the young Iron founder sprang from a generous Impulse to tree Ray mer from an Incubus. If it were tbe curse of tho Mldas-touch to turn all i things to gold, It seemed to be his own peculiar curse to turn the gold to dross; to leave behind him a train of disaster, defeat and tragic depravity The plunge Into the labor conflict bad merely served to afford another strik ing example of his inability to break the evil spell, and Raymer could well spare him. On Urn long tramp to the bills the events of the past tow months mar shaled themselves In accusing review. No human being, save one, of all those with whom he bad come in contact since tbe day of dragon-bearding In the New Orleans bunk had escaped the contaminating touch, and each In turn had suffered loss. The man Gavltt bad given his name and identity; the mate ot the Belle Julie had sacrificed what little respect he may have had for law and order by becoming, poten tially, at least a criminal accessory. Tbe little Irish cab-driver had sold himself for a price; and the negro deckhand had earned bis mess of fried flsh. Tbe single exception was Char lotte Farnham, and he told himself that she bad escaped only btcause she bad done her duty as she saw It And as the bedeviling thing bad be gun, so it had continued, losing none of ita potency for evil. In the little world of Wahaska, which was to bave been the theater ot Utopian demon stration, the curse had persisted. Tbe money, used with tbe loftiest Inten tions, bad served only as a means to an end, and the end bad proved to be the rearing of a,n apparently Impas sable wall of bitter antagonism be tween master and men. And the se cret of the money's origin and acquisi tion, which was to have oeen so easily cast aside and ignored, had become a soul-sickness incurable and even con tagious. Grlswold was beginning to suspect tbat It had attacked Margery Grlerson; that It had subconsciously, If not otherwise, thrust Itself Into Charlotte Farnham' life; and the days lately past had shown him Into what depths It could plunge Us wretched guardian and slave. Now that the plunge bad been taken and be bad been made to understand tbat he must henceforth reckon with a base and cowardly underself which would not stop Bhort of the most hein ous crime, be told hiiusetf that he must have time to think to plan. Caring nothing for Its roughness, he followed the country road Into a valley forest of oaks. After an hour of aim less tramping be began to bave occa sional near-hand glimpses of the lake; and a little farther along be came out upon the main-traveled road leading to the summer resort hotel at the head of De Soto bay. Still without any definite purpose in mind he pushed on, and upon reaching the hotel he went In and registered for a room. Here he drew the window shades and lay down, and since the week of strife had been cutting deep ly into the nights, when he awoke It was evening and a cheerful clamor In the dining room beneath told blm that It was dinner time. It Is a trite saying that many gulf. seemingly Impassable, has been safely bridged In sleel. Bathed, refreshed and with the tramping atalna removed. Grlswold went down to dinner with tbe lost appetite regained. Early on the following day he sent a note to Mrs. Holcomb by one of the Inn employees; but the copy of tbe Dally Wahaskan laid beside bis break fast plate made It unnecessary to tele phone Raymer. The paper had a full account of the sudden ending of tho lock-out and the resumption of work In the Raymer plant, and he read It with a curious stir ring of self-compassion. As be had reasoned It out, there was only ono way In which the result could have been attained so quickly. Had Raymer taken that way, tn spite of bis wrath ful rejection of the suggestion? Doubt less he had; and on the heel of that conclusion came a sense of deprivation them by sheets of paper, the glass tn certain places adheres at tightly aa It It were cemented, to tbat It is neces sary to remove It bit by bit This is due solely to cohesion which Is the property of bodies to adhere as soon as their molecules are In contact It It almost impossible to make surfaces so smooth and to exert pressure so great tbat the molecuhs of the two surfaces will actually be in intimate contact I but In certain machines this does oc casionally take place with both steel and lead, eflectlng a sort ot welding so that was fairly appalling, and tbejjonnson; I want you iu annuo handi neaitny breakfast appetite vanished. Grlswold knew what It meant, or be thought he did. Margery Grlerson wa gone out of bis life gone beyond re call. After that, there was all tbe better reason why he should grapple with himself In the fallow Interval; and for, two complete days he wai lost, even to tbe small world of the tummer resort tramping for hours In the lake shore forest or drifting about in one of the hotel skiffs, and returning to the Inn only to eat and sleep when hunger or wearlnesa constrained him. On the whole, the discipline was good. He flattered himself that the sense of pro portion wa returning slowly, and with It some saner Impulses. Truly, It had boen his misfortune to be obliged to compromise with evil to some extent and to involve other, but was not tbat rather due to the ineradicable faults of an Imperfect social system than to any basic defect In his own theories? And was not the same Im perfect social system partly responsi ble for the quasl-crlmlnal attitude which had been forced upon him? He waa willing to believe it; willing, also, to believe tbat he could rise above the constraining forces and be the man he wished to be. That he could so rise was proved, he decided, on the morn ing of the third day, when he chanced to overhear the hotel clerk telling tbe man whose room was across the corri dor from his own that Andrew Gal bralth still had a fighting chance for life. In the pleasant glow of the blgb resolve the news awakened none of the murderous promptings, but rather tbe generous hope that It might be true. It was late In the afternoon of this third day, upon his return from a long pull in the borrowed skiff around tbe group of islands In tbe upper and un frequented part of the lake, that he found a note awaiting him. It was from Miss Farnham, and Its brevity, no less than Its urgency, stirred him apprehensively, bringing a suggestive return of the furtive fierceness which he promptly fought down. "I must see you before eight o'clock this eve ning. It Is of the lust Importance," was the wording of the note; and the heavy underscoring of the "last," and a certain tremulous characteristic In the handwriting, stressed the ur gency. It was still quite early In the eve ning when tbe Inn conveyance set him down at the door of his lodgings In upper Shawnee street To the care taking widow, who would bave pre pared a late dinner for him, he ex plained that he was going out again al most at once; and taking time only for a bath and a change, he set forth on the cross-town walk. It lacked something less than a half hour of the time limit set In Miss Farnham's note, but he attached no special Importance to that. He knew that the doctor' dinner hour was early, and tbat in any event he could choose his own time for an evening call. It nettled him angrily to find that the premonition of coming disaster was still with him when he crossed the courthouse square and came luto the main street a few doots from the Winnebago entrance. Attacking from a fresh vantage ground It was warn ing hlin that the town botel was the stopping place of the mun Broffln, and that he was taking an unnecessary haz ard In passing It. Brushing the warning" aside, he went on defiantly, and Just before he came within Identifying range of the loungers on the hotel porch an omnibus backed to the curb to deliver Its complement of passen gers from (he lately met northbound train. Grlswold walked on until he was stopped by the sidewalk-blocking group of freshly arrived travelers paus ing to identify their luggage as It Deftly the Man Catcher Worked Them Open. waB handed down from the top of the omnibus. Alertly watchful, he quickly recognized Broflln among the porch loungers, aud saw him leave his tilted chair to saunter toward the steps. Then the fateful thing happened. One of the luggage sorters, a clean-limbed, handsome young fellow with boyish eyes and a good-natured grin, wheeled suddenly and gripped him. "Why, Griswold, old man! well, I'll be dogged! Who on the face of the earth would ever have thought of find ing you here? So this is where you came up, after tbe long, deep, McGinty dive. It it?" Then to one of his '.! low travelers: "Hold on a minute. perfect that even the microscope can not detect the place of union Out of Do-r. To him who sleeps out of door these days there will be no confused feeling In tbe mind as be springs from bis blanket, no heavy taste In his mouth. The sweet airs from the hills, the healing breath from the woods will not permit that "wrong-way-out-of-bed feeling" so common among the dweller ot closely packed tenement. with an old newspaper pal of mini from New York, Mr. Kenneth Oris wold. Kenneth, this is Mr. Beverly Johnson, of tho Bayou State Securltj bank, In New Orleans." Thus Balnbrldge, sometime star re porter for the Loulslonian, turning ui at the climaxing Instant to prove the crowded condition of an overnarrow world, much as Matthew Broffln had once turned up on the after-deck of the coastwise steamer Adelantado te prove It to him. While Grlswold, with every nerve on edge, was acknowledging the In troduction which be could by ao means avoid, Broffln drew nearer From the porch tteps he could both tee and hear. Balnbrldge, cheerfully loquacious, continued to do most of the talking. He was telling Grlswold of the streak of good luck which had snatched him out of a reporter's berth In the South to make him night editor or one ot the St Paul dailies. John son was merely an onlooker. BrolTln's eye searched the teller't face. Thus far It was a blank a rather bored blank. "And you are on your way to St Paul now?" Grlswold said to the news' paper man. Broffln, whose cars were skillfully attuned to all tbe tone varia tions In tbe voice of evasion, thought he detected a quaver of anxious Im patience In the half-absent query. "Yes; I was going on through to night, but Johnson, here, stumped me to stop over. He said I might be able to get a news story out of his sick president" Balnbrldge rattled on "Ever meet Mr. Galbralth? He la the bank president who was held up last spring, you remember; fine old Scotch gentleman of the Walter-Scott brand." "When did you leave New Orleans? Grlswold asked; and now Broffln made sure he distinguished the note ot anx iety. "Two days back; missed a connec tion on account of high water in tbe Ohio. Might have stayed another 12 hours In the good old levee town If we'd only known, eh, Johnson?" And then again to Grlswold: "Remember that supper we bad at Chaudlere's, the night I was leaving for the banana coast? By George! come to think of It I believe that was the last time we foregathered In the Say, Kenneth, what have you done with your beard?" Something clicked In Uroflln's brain. The final doubt was cleared away. Grlswold was the man he had seen and marked when the two were saying good by on the banquette In trout of Chaudlere's. BrofTln's right hand went swiftly to an inside pocket of his coat and when It was withdrawn a pair of handci.ftg, oiled to noiselesBness, came with It Deftly the man-catcher worked them open, UBlng only the fingers of one hand, and never taking his eyes from the trio on the Bldewulk. One last step remained; If he could only man age to get speech with Johnson first During the trying Interval Griswold bad been fully alive to his peril. He had seen the swift hand-passing, and he knew what it was the Broffln was concealing In the hand which had made the quick pocket dive. He knew that the crucial moment had come: and, as many times before, ihe sav age fear-mania was gripping him. In the cold visc-nlp of It he bad become ome moro the cornered v.ild beast (TO RE CONTINUED.) Whooping Cough. The Bureau of laboratories of the New York board of health has been conducting an extensive investigation of whooping cough, and Dr. Paul Lut tinger recently reported to the Medi cal association of the greater city of New York some of the results ot that Inquiry Among the most Interesting con clusions reached is that the early part of the disease Is the most Infectious. The bacillus tbat Is believed to cause It Is rarely found in the sputum after the first week of the paroxysmal, or whooping, stage, so "there would seem to be no necessity for the child to be kept In the bouse for more than a week after the waoop appears." Doctor Luttlnger says physicians un derestimate the seriousness of the dis ease and fall to report cases. Only 28 per cent of cases tn a certain area were reported, and "probably not more than 10 per cent are reported in Greater New York." Good Men Are Scarce. Col. E. Polk Johnson of Ixulsvllle, who fought for the Confederacy, read something In the dispatches from the front the other day that reminded him very much of what happened when be was serving In the western array tn the Civil war. "I remember It was a wet cold, rainy night In the middle of winter," said the veteran, "when a long, lean chap In my regiment was or dered to go on picket duty. He thought the situation over for a min ute and then be turned to the ser geant who had brought the message. 'You go right straight back wiiar you come from," be drawled, 'and tell the cap'n I J!8t natchelly can't do It I got a letter from Gin'ral Brags this mawnin', and be said good men was gittln' almighty Bkeerce In this here army, and for me to take good cars of myse'f." " Respirators tor Mir Raids. As a reBuli of the police wamlnx advising people to keep all windows closed In the event of an air raid on London, and thus prevent the admis sion of deleterious gases, there has been a rush to buy respirators Stores were sold out within an hour or two. The most popular form was tbat made of either nontnflammable celluloid or rubber, except the mouthpiece. They have motor goggle fittings to protect the eyes. London Globe For Men of Forty. The United States public health service states that the expectation ot. life after the age ot forty la less now than It was thirty years ago, owing largely to the increased prevalence oi diseases of defeneration. It recoin mends as a remedy for this state of things: "Take exercise. Have a nobby that gets you out ot doors. Walk to your business, to your dressmaker', keep chickens, make a garden, play golf or any other game, but lake two hour' exercise a day." STATE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD The Latest Gleanings From Ati Over tbe State. I0LD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS Child Incinerated In Kerwvrtt Squaw Fire Raise Men's Wage tf Per Cent Farmer ReuU Highwayman. Falling from a haymow, Thomas Atn, a Zenith fanner, aged sixty-nine, died as the result of internal la.'triea. Principal Ross, of the Doyloetown schools, Is arranging to get the co operation of business men in making' the commercial course fit thoir kusl nes needs. Having run away from borne. Rich ard, seventeen-mnnths-old son of D. P. S. Boyer, Mldvale, walked across a rilro:,d track and his right leg wa cut oft by a train. Lewis Martini and Joseph Nortlni, after firing a shot In a breait at tho Alaska collier, were blown many feet by an explosion of gas and probably fatally injured. As the result of a fall downstairs, Mrs. Ann Kelly, aged 107, died at the home of her son, J. J. Kelly, Pitta burgh. Mrs. Kelly had resided In Pittsburgh seventy-five years. I. C M. Ellenberger, superintendent of Sunbury schools, declared that the school facilities are entirely too small, and told tbe school board that some of the pupils are quartered in a shack. Governor Brumbaugh granted a res pite staying the execution of H. E. Filler, of Westmorelund county, from tbe week of October 11 to the week of November 8. J. B. Millard and Company, owner of limestone quarries In the vicinity of Annville, has announced a voluntary raise of 10 per cent In wases, effective at once. Forty men will be added to the pay roll. Colonel Joseph B. Hutchinson, who recently resigned as chief of police, Harrisburg, will become head of the police department of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, at Steclton, it ia re ported. A Pennsylvania Railroad train crashed Into an automobile In charge of C. A. Wert, Mt Carmel, the cor hav ing stalled on the crossing near John son City. Wert escaped by leaping from the machine which was wrecked. Miss Mary E. Morgan waa acquitted by a Jury in the Blair County Court, at Alioona, of the charge of larceny, preferred by John A. Fox, manager of an Altoona furniture company, by which ehe had b-en employed a book keeper for six yeva. Jacob Innefht, a Jacobus butcher, held up at the point of a gun by a highwayman while on bis way to mar ket In York, handed over his small change, but A. Downs, a farmer, who followed him, slashed the road agent across the face with his buggy whip, and the latter beat a haaty retreat Into a cornfield. The stone tenement house on How. ard Griffith's farm, Kennett Square, was destroyed by fire. It waa occu pied by Arthur Atwell and his family nt eleven, all of whom escaped In their nl?ht clothes, except the youngest child, Irving, aged three, which wa burned to death. The eldest daughter, Margaret, fifteen, was injured from Jumping from a window and waa taken to a hospital. Without showlns the slightest emo tion, Mrs. Catharine Strlngfellow signed a plea of guilty of murdor in the second degree, thereby Insuring hprself a term In the penitentiary. At the same time, however, she made sure of her escape from the electric chair. Mrs. Stringfellow was charged with the murder of James A. Bowen In Chester on May 19, as the latter waa leaving the home of Mrs. Charles Rostron, a widow, whom Mrs. String fellow Is alleged to have considered a, rival for the affections of Bowen. Six employes of the Reading High way Department bad a narrow escape from death when they were overcome by sewer gas In a trench sixty-five feet below the street level. James J. Gal-. Ingher, forty-eight years old, and Wil liam M. Burleigh, aged thirty-eight, are In a serious condition at the Reading Hospital. The others were revived with a pulmotor. After serving three months and nine days of a nine-months' sentence, Im posed following his conviction of ex tortion of $55, former Constable Seneor A. Phlllippl waa released on parole by Judre George W. Wagner, at Reading. Affidavits were presented to the ef fect that Philltppl's health had failed from Imprisonment A complete set of by-laws has been made by the newly-formed Student Council at Urslnus College, which will give the students complete control over student conduct Mrs. N. Gulley Finch, of Allentown, accidentally threw a paper in which '"r d'amonds were wrapped on the rubbish pile, and the ashmen, hauled them to the dump. The gems, worth several hundred dollars, were re covered. Miss Annette Umbenhen, a public school teacher, daughter of Rev, J. H. Umbenhen, pastor of Trinity Luthoran Church, rottsvlllo, was married to George Wolf Ryon, a State forester. The ceremony waa performed by th bride's father.
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