FAIR INES.
© saw ve not fair Ines?
She’s gone into the West,
To dazzle when the sun is down,
And rob the world of rest;
fhe took our daylight with her,
The smiles that we love best,
With morning blushes on her cheek,
And pearls upon her breast.
O turn again, fair Inis,
Before the fall of night,
For fear the moon should shine alone,
And stars unrivaled bright;
‘And blessed will the lover be
That walks beneath their light,
‘And breathes the love against thy cheek
I dare not even write!
Would I had been, fair Ines,
That gallant cavalier,
Who rode so gayly by thy side,
And whispered thee so near!
Were there no bonny dames at home,
Or no true lovers here,
That he should cross the seas to win
The dearest ¢f the dear?
I saw thee, lovely Ines,
Descend along the shoa,
With bands of noble gentlemen,
And banners waved before;
And gentle youth and maidens gay,
And snowy plumes they wore;
It would 'e been a beauteous dream-—
If it had been no more!
Alas, alas, fair Ines,
She went away with song,
With music waiting on her steps,
And shoutings of the throng;
But some were sad and felt no mirth,
But only music's wrogg,
In sounds that sang farewell, farewell,
To her you've loved so long.
Farewell, farewell, fair Ines,
That vessel never bore
So fair a lady on its deck,
Nor danced so light before;
Alas for pleasure on the sea,
And sorrow on the shore!
The smile that blessed one lover's heart
Has broken many more!
—Thomas Hood (1798-1845).
LETTER-
&
S103 HE big,
square, weather-
¥ worn house looked in its
© T © silence and isolation like
q R the relic of a long dead
bh 4 past. Not the abandoned
relic, however, for the hand of a pains-
taking florist and gardener was in evi-
dence in the little yard on which the
house fronted. :
In spite of the flowers, however,
there was such an atmosphere of sa-
cred quiet about the house that except
for the presence of a tabby cat on the
step, it would have seemed to be unin-
habited. But any urchin along the
street could have told you who lived
there; it was “Miss Phoebe,” while the
question, “How long has she lived
there?” would variably have brought
the answer, “Slje’s always lived there.”
Just across tite road from Miss Phoe-
be’s residence stood a plain, grim, old
two-story building, whose front. door-
step abutted on.the pavement. As of
the other house across the way, any
one in the meighborhood could have’
told you who the occupant was, and
of him, too, would have said that he
had always lived there. re
‘Certainly every morning for more
than twenty-five years Mr. Lorton had
been seen to issue from his front door:
punctually at 7 o'clock, in. order to
ride to the station in the old, ‘bus
which passed at that hour.” And from
her- window Mics Phoebe had watched
his departure each morning. and not-
ed his return at evening, by the faint
glow of a light through the chinks of
the ever-closed blinds.
Thus had passed twenty-five years,
when one morning there occurred an
unprecedented break in the - chain
forged by long habit; the old ‘bus
passed down on its 7 o'clock trip, and
Mr. Lorton failed to make his appear-
ance. Naturally, Miss Phoebe was
moved from her wonted placidity, as
one planet in a system is disturbed by
the least erratic movement of another
in its orbit.
All through the long hours of the
morning she watched the door cf the
house across the street for the appear-
ance of its owner, but at last she was
forced to conclude that some import-
ant engagement must have called him
forth before the fixed hour of his ris-
ing.
Late in the afternoon she went about
the garden attending the flowers with
her usual care. There was a small
square hole in the side of one of the
gateposts, where a pair of the prettiest
pf the blué-coated songsters had nest-
ed every year, feeling secure from mo-
lestation under Miss Phoebe’s kind-
ly protection,
From time to time Miss Phoebe
glanced at the closed house over the
way. It was’silent and still. It was
not yet time for the return of Mr.
Loring, if he had gone away that
morning. : ;
While Miss Phoebe was leaning
against the little gate, her spirit drift-
Ing with the gentle current of happy
memories, she was suddenly startled
from her dreamland voyage~ by a
strange noise in the post at her side.
Quickly she glanced around, just in
time to see a rat leap from the little
square hole in the post, dragging with
it to the ground the debris of a blue-
bird’s nest of the season past. The
agile rodent scampered away among
the ground. cinging vines, and Miss
Phoebe stooped down to pick up the
pest. It seemed the first time that the
fittle square hole had ever been emp-
ty; and as she rose she stopped to
peer into the long-inhabited -shelter of
the nesting birds, now: cleared of its
litcle specimen of bird architecture.
As she glanced into the cavity, ber eye.
caught sight of some white object far
back in its depths. After trying in vain
“fo “make out what it was, .she picked
up a little stick, and thrusting it ‘into
the bole, encountered—what? Jt
seemed only a piece of waste paper,
yet at the sight of it Miss Pheebe
straightened up and leaned forward
with one elbow placed on top of the
old fence post, while her breath came
and went in little cuick gasps.
With an effort she roused herself;
and this time dragged the liftle paper
from the hole. Perhaps the bluebirds
had ‘carried it in, and, finding it un-
available for their use. had pushed it
to the rear out of ibeir way. At any
rate, it had evidently lain there for
many years, as the curves of the wa-
ter marks were brown with age. Half
eagerly, half fearfully, she unfolded
the little sheet, and, although the twi-
jight was deepening, and Miss Phoe-
be’s ‘eyes were Bot as strong as they
once were, she read on till the last!
f ¥
HA &
THE GARDEN 5 J.
OX. C. S. REID.
faded letter was deciphered. Then,
without a sound, she sank down and
buried her face in her hands.
It was almost dark when Miss Phoe-
be finally dragged herself from the
damp grass and entered the house.
Once inside the stately old drawing-
room, she drew the folded paper from
her bosom, and again read it over,
while tears coursed slowly down her
cheeks.
She approached an old brown cabi-
net which stood~ in: a corner of the
room, and, taking therefrom a little
rosewood casket, laid the scrap of pa-
per within it.
Then she turned out the light and
crept to the window, where she sat
looking out across the way. Evidently
she was still uneasy about her neigh-
bor, for there was no light from his
window, nor did one appear while
The following morning she again
took her place by" the window. Bui
the ’bus passed and Mr. Lorton had not
appeared.” Fai] .
- During ‘tlre day Miss Phoebe called !
Dinah to.-het room. - ».. “Er A
““Dinaly?} -she ;said; “I believe. some-
thing has happened. to Mr. Lerton, ov
he; is ill over there in, that house all
alone.” ; :
“I spec’ you said it "bout right, Miss |
Phoebe, ’cause I ain’ seen
nor yistiddy, neither.”’
“Oh, Dinah, it would be awful if he
should die there all alone,” and Miss
Phoebe turned away her head.
The afternoon wore away. At length
the shadows began to grow long and
the anxiety of Miss Phoebe’s charit-
able heart overcame her patience.
“Dinah,” she said, as she passed
through the hall, “I am going to Mr.
Lorton’s. I feel that it is my duty, for
I am sure he must be ill; and think,
Dinah, if he should die there with no
one’’'—surely the sweet voice trem-
bled—*with no one to hear his last
words.”
Qut in the yard she sought among
the late flowers until she found a .sin-
gle white rose ready to scatter its pet-
als. This sh» plucked; then, passing
+hrough the gateway, crossed the
street.
The gorton house was an old-fash-
ioned one, with a street dcor at the
end of an open entrance. Through this4
doorway Miss Phoebe entered and ad-
vanced along the passage, made dark
and gloomy by the dense, untrimmed
growth of shrubbery in the little side
yard.
Approaching the door of what was
probably Mr. Lorton’s sleeping room,
she tapped gently upon the panel.
After a moment a weak voice from
within said, “Come in.”
Mise Phoebe hesitated = moment,
while she felt the blood rush to her
temples; then she firmly turned the |
knob and entered.
At the scund of her step the figure |
turnel, revealing the dazed, feever-
brightened eyes of Mr. Lorton; then a
hand wandered toward a table that
stood at the head of the bed, and on
which rested a pitcher of water, a
goblet—and, yes, Miss Phoebe drew a
long breath as she saw that the hand
was reaching for a little box in which
lay the long-seered petals of a once
red rose:
With a swift impulse Miss Phoebe
placed the white rose over the with-
ered petals of the red one. Then lay-
ing her cool hand on the hot fingers of
the sick man, she said gently: :
“You are ill. ‘Why didn’t you send
for some one—foér—for me?” :
The eyes of the sick man met hers
with a half-dazed expression. Then
he tufned to tite wall.
“I know- you,” he muttered. = ‘You
seem real, .but ‘you're not—you with
your :white rose——""_. ._
“Listen, she said. “I'm going .do-
send for a doctor now—at once—and
then I will come back and fake care
of you~! ¥ sn
Again the fevered eyes turned to
hers, and again they sought the wall
“No usé,” murmured the hoarse
voice, “no use to live: ne future—ro
one ‘who cares—only red roses—red
roses 2
But his visitor, her soft gray eyes
misted with tears, was already hurry-
ing across the road; and, although it
was dark, Dinah was dispatched at
once for a doctor, while Miss Phoebe,
hastily gathering from her stores such
remedies as she thought might relieve
the sick man, hastened back to his
bedside.
For more than a fortnight Mr. Lor-
| out
|
Miss Phoebe.watched, although it was | £
late when she retired.
: | rose
Yim to-day.) oS
ed daily by the physician, and hourly
by a gray-haired little woman, who
always wore in the folds of her dark
gown a single white rose,
Three weeks from the night that his
neighbor made her first call he had
dmproved so rapidly that Miss Phoebe
ceased from her visits, though each
day she sent Dinah with little delica-
cies and cordial inquiries. Finally,
one golden autumn evening, Mr. Lor-
ing took his first walk down the road;
an occasion long remembered by the
neighbors, who remarked with delight
the old kindly smile and his wonted
pleasant though short bow of greet-
ing.
Miss Phoebe had no thought of his
return until she looked up and saw him
pausing before the gate. As his eyes
met hers she flushed ever so slightly,
stammered some little phrase of pleas-
ure for his recovery and then turned
toward the house.
“Phoebe,” said Mr.
“Well, John?”
He put out his hand, in whith she
allowed lrer own to rest for a moment.
“Phoebe, it’s twenty-five years since
—since we used to stand and talk here
together at sunset; but—is the little
postoffice still open in the old gate-
post?’
“It is open now; but, oh, John!” ex-
claimed Miss Phoebe, burying her face
in her hands, “I did not get your last
letter until the day before I found you
Ea
“Phoebe! Phoebe!” cried Mr. Lorton,
gently drawing her hands away from
her face. The tears stood in her eyes,
and John thought them a gentle show-
or that freshened the springtime beau-
ty of her life.
“Have you got the letter now?
me see it?’
He drew open the gate and went in-
side, while Miss Phoebe took the lit-
tle serap cf paper from her bosom and
zave it to him.
The letter was undated and read:
- “My Dear Phoebe—You tell me you
are going away in the morning to be
sone a whole month, a length of time
to mie will seem a whole year. I
feel that I cannot let you go away with-?
Lorton,
Let
that
SHRUBS ABOUT THE HOUSE.
Some Simple Ways For Beautifying the
Home Grounds.
vines will transform the appearance of
an old schoolhouse yard has been many
times made clear to readers of The
Companion., An expert of the Agricul-
tural Department has recently been
making an investigation of what may
be done in simple ways for beautifying
home grounds, whether they include
only the back yard of the city resi-
Jence or embrace the spreading acres
of the old farm.
Trees and shrubbery, the Govern-
ment expert suggests, should hide un-
sightly buildings without interrupting
the line of vision where the outlook
is pleasing. Their use as screens and
windbreaks may be combined with
pleasing effects.
Walks should generally be straight.
Any ornamentation that sends the trav-
eler a longer way round defeats one of
its own objects.
Greensward is everywhere an ele-
ment of beauty as a common back-
ground for almost everything that
grows. The perfect lawn is a posses-
sion hardly less rare than beautiful
paintings; it usually represents a tri-
umph over difficulties in addition to
giving restfulness and delight. :
Shrubs ought to be grouped so that
those of upright habit and robust
growth will occupy the rear, and form
a general background for all the lower-
growing sorts. The eye may thus be
carried from the: turf to the highest
foliage without resting on bare stalks
anywhere. In this nature herself is
one of the safest guides; her compan-
jonships usually include plants which
love the light and those which can bear
the shade, growing side by side. The
hand of the gardener should always be
concealed.
Evergreens seem to many Reople
sombre. Nevertheless, in the winter
of Northern latitudes they offer a
striking contrast of the
dead. i 4
They are also useful as a means. of
emphasizing slight elevations. The
living with the
some token. I have tried to ex-
press, not only in words, but in a thou-;
sand other ways, my consuming love
Now, O Phoebe, blest angel
for you.
hefore v o Ti - rife?
before you go. Will you be my wife? fire's
id ie 1 Yo ey and effort.
of my dreams! send me a simple-token, place of ‘enlisting a little of na-
value of vines in decorative planting
Ss well understood. © a
£ Such ornamentation “of the home
‘grounds costs something in time. mon-’
But the effect on a
s aid can never be measured in
ATay ano? av 3 > : sx } c
May T hope? If I may, then send me | goiars. There is a restfulness in the
Lope. then send pie the blood-red rose,
| that I may see in i y own poor’ sila
that I ma) seein it my 0 vn poor bleed fess adds to t
ing heart. Your ever devoted fu >;
“JOHN.
Mr. Lorton’s hand
i ter droppeil -t6 his Knee. . 1.:
“And, Phoebe, you
that evening.”
“Oh, John, how could 1 know? It
was by chance that I sent it as a tok-
en of remembrance. Then for. some
reason we ‘went away that night in-
stead of the next day, so that I never
thought to look in the letter box. When
I came back a month later the blue-
birds had settled there, and it was
only by accident that I ever received
your letter, twenty-five years after it
was written!” '
Then, in a few broken phrases, she
told of how the long concealed bit of
paper had been discovered, and of hos,
on the afternoon she found him ill, she
had covered the withered petals of the
red rose on his table with a fresh
white one.
But before she could finish Mr. Lor-
ton was close at her side, his hand out-
stretched.
“Phoebe,” he said hoarsely, “if—if it
was for mere cominon charity you
brought me that rose, then give me—
give me pow the answer I've missed
all these years.”
Without a word Miss Phoebe reached
out a trembling hand to a nearby rose-
yush. Plucking the flower slowly,
carefully, she held it out—still without
a word. Quite as silently the man
closed his fingers about that symbollie
blossom and about the hand that gave
it. ‘And straightway in the face of
both there dawned the look of those
for whom the world had suddenly
turned back through twenty-five years,
and for whom the bluebirds sang with
all the ecstasy of long past springs.—-
New York News.
sent me a red
ee
Tobacco Heart.
It is estimated that about twenty per.
cent. of the young men who recently
applied to enter the Naval Academy
have failed in the physical test, and the,
failure was largeiy due to the use o
tobacco, resulting in the irregular beat-
ing of the heart. Nowadays physi-
cians speak of the “tobacco heart,” a
of the weed. When the smoker de-
velops into a “cigarette fiend” ‘the ser:
vices of a physician are necéssary,
but before this point is reached the
Leart- may be permanently injured.
The trouble is often of gradual growtl,
and it is only when the young man is
subjected to a physical examination
that the extent of the disorder becomes
known.
.An observant. Englishman, recently
in, no country in. the world had
seen smoking carried to sucli excegs
in America.—Baltimore Hérald. Ao
A Religious Enthusiast. ; . }
Brother Karl of tke Benedictine
Order, who was recently buried at
Prague, was of noble blood and had a
remaikable career.
Schoenberg, ke was handscme, dash-
ing, and of rare promise. But at thife
ty-five a change came over his spirit,
and one day he rode straight to the
abbey from the parade ground, and
in full uniform, asked the prior for
admission. The head of the order at
first refused, but the prince broke his
sword, threw away his epaulets and
decorations and begged for a monk's
habit.
ing lay in the grip of the fever, attend- | studied theology, and was o
He afterward went to Rome,
ned.
which held the let-¢
La pure avhite rose; if I must no longer beauty of the plant life to those who
ana that doubt-
enjoy its atmosphere,
which they
he vigor with
v
"Companion. :
pe Disastrous Alpine Year. ;
"The deathroll in the Alps is increas
ug this year with terrible rapidity, and
promises to exceed that of any other
year of which reliable records have
been ‘kept. - There have been already,
this year no fewer than 160 deaths,
either from avalanches or climbing ac’
cidents, in the Swiss and French Alps.
Among the most recent victims is M.
Dubois, who, in making an ascent of
great difficulty and danger without a
guide, accompanied only by a friend,
slipped and fell, and succumbed to
shocking injuries before he could be
cartied down to the hospital. Mr.
Rooke's death at Zermatt appears alsc
to have been due to an attempted as
cent of a difficult passage without a
guide. At Saentis a German musical
director fell and was instantly kilied
a few days ago on the Bodmer Alps
Two soldiers belonging to an Alpine
regiment were swept away and killed
a week ago near Epierre; the accident
on the Dolderhorn, due like so many
kothers to the absence of a guide, re
sulted in the death of one of the three
climbers and such injuries to another
that he will probably never be able tc
walk again; another guideless ascent
on the Wetterhorn ended in the fall
and instant death of one of a party of
Swiss tourists; while on Mont Pilatus
an Englishman; exploring in thin sum
mer shoes, slipped and fell, landing al
most unhurt on the very brink of a
trouble caused by the excessive usé |
on a visit to the United States, said §
As Prince Edward :
200-foot sicer drop. Miss Nicholas, a
Scottish lady, a few days ago fell intc
a deep, crevasse on the Mer de Glace
at Chamonix, though her fall was for-
tunately arrested, and she escaped with
a few minor injuries.—London Pall
Mall Gazette.
A Briel Interruption.
i T.ooking' every inch
jurist, Judge Clay N. Merriton, of Ala.
‘hpama, was at Seelbach’s Hotel last
night surcharged with a fund of
clever arpecdotes concerning himself.
Judge Merriton was asked by a re
porter how he had acquired the facility
with which ‘he turned from one case
to another. In explanation he stated
that he had learned this from what
he saw at a baptism of colored people
avhen a boy.
t# The weather was very cold,” said
Judge Merriton, “so that to immerse
the candidates they were obliged to eut
away the ice. It happened that when
one of the female eonverts was dipped
pack into the water the cold made
her squirm about, and in a moment she
LBaq slipped from the preacher's hands
nd was down the stream under the
ice. ;
s “The preacher, however, was not dis-
goncerted. Looking up .with perfect
almness at the crowd on the bank, he
said: ‘Brethren,
parted—hand me down another.” "=
Louisville Herald.
© cm
The Fish and the Voice.
Fine voices, it is said, are seldom
found in a country where fish or meat
diet prevails. Those Italians who eat
the most fish (those of Naples and
Genoa) have few fine singers among
them. The sweet voices are found in
the Irish women of the country, and
not of the towns. Norway is not a
country of singers, because they eat
too much fish: but Sweden is'a coun-
try of grain and song, The carnivorous
pirds croak; grain-eating birds sing.
How wonderfully a few shrubs and |
dan take up duty’s rotnrds «Youth's
the eminent
this sister hath de
SPECIALISTS IN THIEVING.
How Burglars Will Ignore Some Articles
of Value in Preference to Others.
It is a remarkable thing, said a de-
tective to the writer recently. but I
can assure you that many of the rob-
beries which are taking place every
day prove beyond 2 doubt that there
are certain thieves who confine them-
selves to annexing one class of goods
only. In some instances this is fo pro-
nounced, and the specialty stolen so
extraordinary, that I thoroughly be-
lieve the thief must have ~ mental nut
loose somewhere.
To give you a case in point. A few
months ago the establishment of a
well-known firm of oboticians was
broken into. The place contained a
magnificent stock of valuable lenses,
microscopical instrumen -, gold chains,
zold-rimmed “pebbles,” etc, worth
several thousand dollars. But did the
robber take any of these things,
though they were lying round ready
to his hand? Neo! Fe simply secured
about a hunared glass eyes and de-
camped. The same thing happened
about two months later, when another
shop of the same description was
broken into.
When the fact of the burglary
became known to the proprietor we
received notice at headquarters and I
went dow: to lock into the matter.
We went over the stock and, after
careful inspection, found that appar-
ently nothinz had been removed. I
congraiulated the proprietor on his
good fortune, and was about to take
my leave when he called to an as-
sistant and asked where the case of
artificial eyes was. It had vanished,
or, rather, the contents had, and, put-
ting two and two together, I came to
the not unnatural conclusion that one
‘burglar had been “operating” in both
places. We never discovered the thief,
but doubtless it was someone who had
a mania for collecting glass eyes, and
was even willing to risk his liberty
in doing so.
It is scarcely credible what a num-
ber of communion cups are stolen from
different churches every year, both
here and abroad. Though these cups
are valuable; of course, I do not think
that they are always stolen for their
worth alone.: I know of one Presby-
terian church where every communi-
cant is provided with a separate cup,
and swhere, curing a sirgle year, 216
of these miniature chalices have been
stolen. The very valuable large jewel
studded chalice and paten, however,
appear to bave no fascination for the
thief or thieves, though they might
be'as easily carried away as the small
cups.
All attempts to trace tif miscreants
have failed, and now special watch is
being kept in this church, but appar-
ently no further robberiecz are contem-
plated, for the probable reason that
there a.2 very few cups left. The
“alders,” too, have decided to go back
to the more usual custom of having
one cup for all communicants. Mean-
while, numerous other cases of stolen
cups continue to be notified, and when
we do capture the burgiars and ask
them to explain why they commit such
sacrilegious acts, thev usually refuse
to answer. .
——
Japanese Man Power.
The present war in the East is prob-
ably the only instance of a great cam-
paign between civilized nations in
which one of the combatants has re-
lied almost entirely on man power,
instead of horse power, for transport,
the whole of the supplies of each Jap-
anese division of infantry being carried
by as many ‘“coolies” or porters, as
there are fighting men. The Japanese
porters are mainly men whose phy-
sique is not judged to be good enough
to entitle them to fight in the line of
battle, though according to modern Eu-
ropean notions theirs would be consid-
ered rather the more arduous task of
the two. But the Japanese have shown
up till now that their choice of means
has generally been correct, and it is
not likely that they have made a mis
take in this case.
They know their own people, and for
centuries human transport has been
the occupation of a large class of their
unskilled labor. The litter or rick-
. shaw, has been adopted, in imitation
of their method, even in Simla, the
governing city of India. By a simple
mechanical eontrivance they have also
greatly facilitated the work of Dear-
ing burdens. A bamboo is carried
on a kind of pad over the shoulder,
and the load, carefully balanced, is
suspended to each end. The carrier
thus avoids one of the greatest sources
of fatigue—mamely, the effort of pick-
ing up the burden when it has been
laid down to rest—for by merely rais-
ing the bamboo and putting his whole
body under it he lifts it with the least
possible effort.—London Spectator.
Teeth Made of Paper.
One of the novel inventions which
hail from Germany is artificial teeth
made from paper. Many of the den-
tists are using them and find them to
be entirely satisfactory. They have
several advantages over the ordinary
‘pnes ‘made of porcelain “or mineral
composition, as they are cheap, do not
break: or chip, are not sensitive to
heat or cold, nor has the moisture of
the mouth any effect vpon them.
Bishop Olmstead.
Bishop Charles 7%. Olmstead, who
succeeds ine late Bishop Huntingtosn,
is sixty-two years old, was educated
at Trinity College, and the Berkeley
Divinity School. and was ordaised to
the priesthood in 1868 by Bishop Ho-
ratio Potter.
British Ships Built.
English shipbuilders in May put into
the water twenty-five vessels, of about
53,191 tons gross, as compered with
twenty-seven vessels, of 54,715 tons
gross, in April, and twenty-five vessels,
’
' of 55,906 tons gross, in May last year.
-niata river bank.
KEYSTONE STATE CULLING
MISTAKEN FOR GROUND HOG.
Foreigner Kills Countryman in Butler
County—Fired at Moving Ob-
ject in the Bushes.
Newton Tannehill killed Frank Isa-
bella in mistake .for a ground hog. .
Both men are coal miners, living near
Hillard, Butler county, and both were
hunting after ground hogs on the
Rumbaugh farm. Tannehill -saw
something move in a clump of bushes
and could see one eye. He leveled
his Winchester rifle and fired. The
bullet struck Isabella in the left side,
near the heart, and passed through his
lung. Tannehill carried the wounded
man to the nearest house and secured
a doctor but he died within half an
hour. Tannehill gave himself up to
the authorities.
Disputing as to which one should
act as escort for Mrs. Samuel Epler
on her way to her home, Jacob Epler
and Frank Yanney, tarmers, wno live
near Dushore, quarreled and Yanney
shot both Epler and the woman. Ep-
ler was so badly wounded that he
died. Mrs. Epler was shot in the
right thigh. Yanney alleges that he
acted in self-defense. He is locked
in the jail at Laporie. The tric had
just returned from an excursion to
Harveys Lake, near Wilkesbarre, and
the shooting occurred at the railroad
station at Dushore.
The Pennsylvania Canal Boatmen’s
Association held its twelfth annual
reunion at Freeport. The bcatmen
were welcomed by R. B. McKee, who
was responded to by Dr. J. C. Kenne-
dy, of Pittsburg. The officers elect-
ed are: President, Dr. J. C. Ken-
nedy, Pittsburg; Vice President, Rob-
ert Bingham, Aspinwall; Secretary-
Treasurer, M. E. Brown, Blairsville.
The next meeting will be held at
Blairsville.
A fire, which is alleged to have been
started by a spark from a traction
engine, destroyed the barn of Robert
Johnson, in North Strabane township,
Washington county, entailing a lossof
several thousand dollars. The flames
broke out just before a large thresh-
ing had been completed, the grain hav-
ing been placed in the barn. ‘Several
horses were burned. Little insur-
ance was carried. ;
Mystery continues to surround the
disappearance of ‘John A. Lawver, the
Altoona publisher who. left for New
Bloomfield Friday, and whose cloth-
ing was afterward found on the Ju-
Every foot of the
ground which he traversed has been
searched thoroughly witnout results.
The hunt will be continued. l
The State of Pennsylvania, throlgh
its district Health Officer, the county
of Westmoreland, the Board of Health
of Hempfield township, officials of the
United States Coal Company and four
physicians are battling with the small-
pox scourge at Edna No. 2, a mining
town three miles southeast of Irwin.
There are 18 cases. 2
The Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts-
burg ‘Railroad announced that a new
boiler shop, 300x140 feet, will be built
at once. When this addition is com-
pleted the DuBois shops will have a
capacity of turning out an engine
every 36 hours. The road has or-
dered 10 new locomotives.
Mrs. Thomas R. Roberts, 60 years
old, is suffering from injuries and
nervous shock at her home in Scuth
Sharon, following a frightful exper-
ience with a negro. William Mahan,
her assailant, was landed ‘in jail, after
a lynching had been narrowly averted.
When John Pomeroy, an undertaker
at Anita, opened the front door of his
house he was shocked upon discover-
ing the dead body of an Italian lying
on the porch. The clothing was
soaked with blood, and an examina-
tion showed that the man had been
killed by a bullet.
Has ‘Henri Bentzel, of Dover town-
ship, a young school teacher and jus-
tice of the peace, been murdered?
Bentzel was a teacher at 'Stough’s
schoo] near Dover. His father is:rich
and it is known that he himself had
$5,000. He often carried large sums
of money and valuable jewelry. °
The Shenango Valley steel plant at
New Castle resumed after a Week's
idleness. The new 500-ten biast fur-
nace just completed by the Carnegie
Company was also placed in opera-
tion. © The other. new 500-ton fur-
nace will be ready early in Cctoper.
The plant of the American Sheet
and Tinplate Company at Leechburg,
which was closed for four weeks, re-
sumed. All other industries, imelud-
ing the Pittsburg Steel Shovel Com-
pany and the West Leechburg Steel
Company, are in full operation.
Additional rural free delivery serv-
ice. will be established Qetober 1 at
Wampum, Lawrence county, wit | one
carrier. Length of route, 24 miles;
population, 650. kx i
Samuel Cohn, of Butler, fell from
the top of a Bessemer and Lake Erie
Railroad train, and received injuries
that may prove fatal.n :
W. T. Emenhiser, 2a lumberman,
was killed by a train at. Howard, Cen-
ter county. He leaves a wife and
four children. vo
The store of G. N. Fry, at Oil City,
was entered by burglars, who eseaped
detection and secured goods worth
about $300. TH © a
George Harris, formerly of Pitts
burg, escaped from the county jail at
Uniontown. A reward of $100 has been
offered for his capture,
Frank ‘Costa, aged 17, shot and fa-
i tally wounded his father, John Costa,
at the latter's home in Carbondale
The boy has not ‘lived at home for
some time but paid a visit there and
became involved in a quarrel Which
ended by the ‘young man draWing a
revolver and shooting his father mn
the breast.
Robbers entered the Jewish synago
gue of Kenhera Israel at Harrisburg,
and took everything in sight in the
way of valuables except a Hebrew
Bible ang a copy of the ten command-
ments.
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