Pittston Gazette

              ESTABLISHED 1850. t VOL,. XLV. NO. BO f Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY. MAY 10, 1895. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. {•'•SflSWiSS'" ' to his other grounds for detesting her. I And this very detestation it was which brought matters to a curious climax. One winter's night, jnst as he was rising from his lonely dinner, a groom came riding down from Squire Fairoastlo's, the richest man in the distriot to say that his daughter had aoalded her hand, and that medical help was needed on tho instant The coachman had ridden for the lady doctor, for it mattered nothing to the squire who oame, as long as it were speedily. Dr. Ripley rushed from his surgery with the determination that she should not effect an entrance into this stronghold of his if hard driving on his part oould prevent it lie did not even wait to light his lamps, but sprang into his gig and flew off m fast as hoof ooald rattle. He lived rather nearer to the squire's than she did apd was convinced that be could get there well beforo her. And so he would but for that whimsical element of chanoe which will forever muddle up the affairs of this world Ttie Doctors ol Houland dropped his hat and forgot to pick it up again. womanly nature, peeping out in ner talk, shining in her greenish eyes, showing itself in a thousand subtle ways which the dullest of men oould read. And he, though a bit of a prig and a pedant was by no fbeans dull and had honesty enough to oonfess when he was in the wrong. ENGLISH AND FRENCH NOVELS. BILL NYE REPLIES. but wandering on one occasion by a enst.uit lake these pnro and happy little gillies, fresh from the hand of the Creator, living on a purely vegetable diet and free as a bird, came upon a covey of women who had never seen a bargain day in their lives." EXPLOSION AT THE SCHOOLEY THESE WILL SERVE AS JURORS. "What!" he gasped. "Tho Loe Hopkins prizo man! You?" He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his wholo oonaervativo soul rose up iu revolt at tho idea. Ho could not rocall any Biblical injunction that tho man should remain ever tho doctor and the woman tho nurse, and yet he folt as if a blasphemy had been committed. His face betrayed his foclings only too clearly. The Former Run to Adventure, the Lattei to Character and Pension. HE TELLS A CORRESPONDENT WHAT HE THINKS ABOUT WOMAN. List of Citizens From this Vicinity Drawn to Decide Cawi in Court. Three county juriea were drawn yeeterday. Among the name* taken oat of tb» jury wheel were theee: By A. OONAN DOYLE. It is curious and Interesting to note that the English and French take opposite sides in novels, the English preferring now, as always, tho roiuanoe, or, rathei its modern form, the novel of adventure, while the French take the keenest ploasuro In the analysis of characters or passions playing within the frame of everyday lifa Before attempting to deeide which Is the better of these two productions It mny be well to try and explain how the English came to ohoose the romantic and the French the realistic method. The explanation seems to lie on the surface, to be seen by any one who considers the circumstances of the two peoples. Five Men Burned By Powder Lasl [Copyright, 1896, by the Author. ] Friday Morning. Dr. James R;pley was always looked upon as an exceedingly lucky dog by all of the profession who knew him. His father bad preceded him in a practice in the village of Hoy land, in tho north of Hampshire, and all was ready for him on the very first day that the law allowed him to put his name at tho foot of a prescription. In a few years the old gentleman retired and settled on the South coast leaving his son in undisputed possession of the whole country side. Save for Dr. Hortou, near Basingstoke, the young surgeon had a cloar run of six miles in every direction and took his £1,500 a year, though, as is usual in country practices, tho stable swallowed up most of what the consulting room earned. IVginning With IIIk Own Fall, With a Few Remarks About the Business Manager, "I don't know bow to apologize to you," he said in his shamefaced fashion one day, when he had progressed so far as to be able to sit in an armchair with bis leg upon another one. "I feel that I have been qnite in the wrong." Therefore, Mr. Irving says, they were very slippery, and not having received calls from these gents they left word that they were not in or not dressed and then lit out with wonderful alacrity. Tho men bocamo curious and ran after them like a lot of guests from a burning hotel But the.se mysterious sprinters, these strange livii m ictures, couldn't bo caught. They were too agile and eely. So they hired some men with rough and leprous palms to overtake and secure some of these smooth yet evasive girLs. Four were secured, and they become the motners of our race. I have always been clear on tho origin of our forefathers, but Mr. Irving has now set my mind at rest regarding our four mothers. Common Plena, June 3.—Jenkins, Robertson Balrd; West Pittaton, Patrick Loftua, Joaeph W. Rasper, Pittaton, William Qainn, George Dendle, John J. Mangan, John Cavanaugh. He Ooes on the Right Side of the Qaen- ONE OF THE VICTIMS MAY DIE. tlon. [Copyright, 1895, by Edgar W. Nye.] Washington, D. C. It Is Supposed That While a Miner Was "I am sorry to disappoint yon," said the lady dryly. Hon. Edgar W. Nye Preparing Cartridge*, Two Kegs of Pow- "Why, then?" Dear Sir—I am ■willing to pay yon any reanonnblo price to write mo out or give mo any lnfamation where 1 can get some good argument on the negative Ride of this: "Resolved, That the women of tho United Static should be allowed to vote." 1 am on tho negative and need somo literature, which I will freely pay for if I can get it. Do not slight mo. Tell me what it costs, and I will pay in advance anything reasonable. der Became Ignited, Causing an Explosion That Iujured Those Standing Common Pleaa, Jnne 10.—Pittaton, Abel Beynon, Edward Barrett, John Connell; Jenkina, Henry Evans; Hugheatown, David P. Williams; Pittaton townahlp, Jamaa Keating; Avoca, Q. W. Snyder; Marcy, Robert MoMnllen; Exeter townahlp, E. E. Kelaler; Wyoming, Samnel Honeywell. "You certainly have surprised me," he answered, picking up his hat "You aro not among our champions, then?" "Over this woman question. I used to think that a woman most inevitably lose something of her charm if she took op such studies." Around—No Damage Done to the Mine, A serious explosion occuired f ast Friday morning, at the Sehooley abaft of the Bntler Mine Co. Five men were injured as followr-. "I cannot say that tho movement has my approval." "And why?" "Oh, you don't think they are necessarily nnsexed then?" she cried, with • mischievous smile. The English la a colonizing race that seeks adventures and finds them In every quarter of the globe. If Englishmen do not push across pathless forests to conquer dragons and deliver fair maidens or plunge Into sunless sea caves to war with monsters more terrible than any to be found in upper air, It is simply true to say that the dangers have only assumed new forma. Fighting fevers and famine In India or tolling for a livelihood on the frozen plalna of Manitoba, seeking gold amid the rainstorms of Mashonaland or on the sunbaked waterless wastes of West Australia, the Brlton'a life Is apt to be one of great vicissitudes, filled with events as strange as those whloh, In the telling, charmed Desdemona. It Is not to be wondered at that the raoe that most loves adventures and perils and feels more keenly than othera the fascination of the unknown ahould prefer worka of art that render Its peculiar passion. The novel of adventure is still, as It has always been, the chief type of English oreatlve work In prose. John Jenoeki, aged 26, burned in a tor rlble manner over three quarters of the body. His condition Is critical. Common Pleas, June 17.—Pittaton, W. H. Young, Patriok Sheridan; Avoca, Thomaa O'Malley; West Pittaton, Edwin Cooper, John T. Jonee, George Von Manr; Pittaton townahlp, Thomaa Mitchell; Wyoming, W. 8. Fowler; Jenkins, Thomaa O'Brien; Exeter borough, William Slocum, Jamea McLnakey. "I should much prefer not to discuss "Please don't recall my idiotic expression. " My Young Friend—There was a time a few years ago when I would prostitute my great gift of word painting to almost anything at a price. it" "But I am suro you will answer a lady's question." "I feel so pleased that I should have helped in changing your views. I think that it is the most sincere oompliment that I have ever bad paid me." George Belcbus, aged 20, badly burned about the back, head, arms and hands, but will probably reoover. Dr. James Ripley was two and thirty years of age, reserved, learned, unmarried, with set, rather stern features and a thinning of the dark hair upon the top of his head, which was worth quite a hundred a year to him. Ho was particularly happy in his management of ladies. He had caught the toije of "bland sternness and decisive suavity which dominates without offending. Ladies, however, were not equally bapjay in their management of him. Professionally he was always at their service. Socially he was a drop of quicksilver. In vain the country mammas spread out their simple lures in front of him. Dances and picnics were not to his taste, and be preferred during his scanty leisure to shut himself up in his study and bury himself in Virchow's "Archivos" and the professional journals. "Ladies are in danger of losing their privileges when they usurp the place of theothorsex. They cannot claim both." I fell in the summer of 1876 when a sad looking man came in and laid on my desk the statement that'' Brignoli, Jr., will bo along here in about a Week and remain a little over a fortnight." This origin of the Easter hat, as I may call it, may bo found in almost the same language, except where I have taken the liberty to soften down and correct the harsh language in Irving's "Life of Columbus," volume 1, pago 421. "Why should a woman not earn her bread by her brains?" "At any rate, it is the truth," said he and was happy all night at the remembrance of the flush of pleasure which made her pale face look quite oomely for the instant Frank Pelroeti, aged 24, burned on the arms aDd back. Dr. Ripley felt irritated by the quiet, manner in which the lady cross  tioued him. In a moment he had gone, having thoughtlessly left a square package containing a box of cigars. I was glad to get the cigars and tickled that Brignoli, Joaeph Koeoensky, aged 27, burned on the bands and baok. DEATH OF ROBERT KLOTZ. Alexander says in his "History of Women," volume 1, page 1, "The Hindoos have a legend which says that men were created with tails, and that, the affair being rather ugly, and also in the way, catching in doors, and painful when the better classes got to docking their slaves, the Creator cut off these tails, and not wishing to throw away anything in tho great economy of nature he fashioned, with man's consent, these nubbins of the gifted yet charitable man into woman. " John Ktlcullen, of Exeter borough, a brattioeman, was slightly burned. For Indwsd be wu« already far paa the stage when he would acknowledge her as the equal of any other woman. Already he oonld not disguise from himself that she had become the one woman. Her dainty skill, her gentle touch, her sweet presence, the community of their tastes, had all united to hopelessly upset his previous opinions. It was a dark day for him now when his convalescence allowed him to  • visit, and darker still that other one which he saw approaching when all occasion for her visits would be at an end. It came around at last, however, and he felt that his whole life's fortune wnnld hang upon the issue of that final interview. He was a direct man by nature, bo he laid his ban! upon hers as it felt for hia pulse, and be asked her if she wonld be his wife. A Prominent Resident of Maucli Chunk "I should much prefer not to bo led into a discussion, Miss Smith.'' The four foreigners are at the Hospital, and Kiloullen is at his home. Passes Away. "Dr. Smith," she interrupted. Robert Klotz, of ttaaeh Chunk, brother of Joseph Klotz, of Weet Pittston, died May let at hia home, aged 76 yea it. Mr. Klo'z waa prominent in Demooratio politioa for many years. He was born ia Carbon county, Oct. 27, 1810. He served as -a lieutenant of volunteers in the Mexican war. In 1855 he went to Kansas, where he served as a member of the Topeka Constitutional Convention, as Secretary of State and as brigadier general. Returning to Pennayl▼anialn 1859, he served as treasurer of Carbon oonnty and two term* in the State legislature and as a member of Congress from 1878 to 1883. He was a trustee of the Lehigh University and one of the managers of the Laflln & Band Powder Co., of New York. He had been il foe some time. « "Well, Dr. Smith! But if you insist npon an answer I must say that I do not think medicine a suitable profession for women, and that I have a personal objection to masculine ladies." It was an exceedingly rude speech, and he was ashamed of it the instant aftor he had made it The lady, however, simply raised her eyebrows and smiled. The four men were at work on the night shift in a chamber in the four-foot vein, about 700 feet from the shaft. Two were miners and two laborers. At first It was thought that the exploeion was rausod by gas, but an Investigation leaves no room to doubt that it was a powder explosion. It is supposed that the men were preparing cartridges a short distanoe back from the face of the chamber, and that aa all were around the kegs of powder, they In some manner became ignited At any rate, there Is nothing now to be seen of two kegs of powder that were known to be at the place last night. There waa no damage whatever done to the mine at the only point in the neighborhood of the ex ploelon where gas might have accumulated, and a safety lamp and other articles by were blackened as though by a powder xploeion. One snick of a tendon. and dumfound the prophets. Whether it oame from the want of his lights or from his mind being full of the thoughts of his rival, he allowed too little by half a foot in taking the sharp tarn upon tho Basingstoke road. The empty trap and the frightened horse clattered away into the darkuess, while the squire's groom crawled out of the ditob into which he had been shot He struck a matoh, looked down at his groaning companion, and then, after the fashion of rough, strong men when they see what they have not Been before, be was very sick. The Frenoh Idea of prose Action la wholly different, corresponding olosely, as it does, with Frenoh lite and Frenoi character. The Frenchman Is neither adventurous nor romantlo, but gifted with the Latin reasonableness and clearness of vlow, an art lover from his birth, with a leaning toward refined sensuality. These qualities and many other excellent differences will be readily conceded to him by every student of art or literature. For the model of his prose fiction, for the masterpieces embodying his characteristics, as "Robinson Crusoe" embodies the characteristics of Englishmen, we most not go to "Gil Bias," with its Spanish intrigues, but to" Manon Lescaut." Every one knows the story of the Chevalier des Grieux and his passionate love for Manon. Every one knows, too, bow Manon's lightness and gayety tortured and fascinated her lover; how the chevalier's parents made oonmon oause with the authorities of Paris to separate the devoted pair and how they failed. Mo one who has ever read it can have forgotten the story uf Manon's death in that Amerioan desert and of the chevalier's Inconsolable grlof. "It seems to mo that you aro begging the question," said she. "Of course, if it makes women masculine, that would be a considerable deterioration." So they felt as one does who has tried to sit on a mallet handle arranged on the top of a croquet post in the early fluff and bloom of life's yoting springtime. Study was a passion with him, and be would have none of tho rust which often gathers round a country practitioner. It was his ambition to keep bis knowledge as fresh and bright as at the moment when he stepped out of tho examination ball. He prided himself on being able at a moment's notice to rattle off the seven ramifications of some obscure artery or to give the exact percentage of any physiological compound. After a long day's work he would sit up half the night performing iridectomies and extractions upon the sheeps' eyes sent in by the village butcher, to the horror of his housekeeper, who had to remove the debris next morning. His love for his work was the one fanaticism which found a place in his dry, precise nature. In those days physical force ran the world, and, as Copernicus once said in a speech in the grove back of his house, "woman cut no ice wid him." It was a ueat little counter, and Dr. Ripley, like a pinked fenoer, bowed his acknowledgment "I must go," said ho. "I am sorry that wo cannot corno to some more friendly conclusion, sinoo we are to bo neighbors," shg remarked. "What, and unite the practices?'' said No man knoweth whence came woman. The rib roast that the press has given her is wholly unworthy of her He started in pain and anger. "Surely yon do not attribute any such base motive to me,'' be cried. "I love you as unselfishly as ever a woman was loved." He bowed again and took a step to ward the door. "It was a singular coincidence," sho continued, "that at the instant that you called I was reading your papor on Locomotor Ataxia' in Tho Lancet" The doctor raised himself a little on his elbow in the glint of the matoh. He caught a glimpse of something white and sharp bristling through his tronset leg, half way down the shin. TTTK GIFT OF CIGARS. HEBE'S GOOD NEWS. "No, I was wrong. was a foolish speech," said she, moving her obair a little back and tapping her stethoscope upon her knee. "Forget that I ever said It I am so sorry to calSse you any disappointment, and I appreciate most highly the honor which yon but what you ask is quite impossibfjl" Jr., thought enough of me to send cigars to me, probably on his father's account, for I had been one of his father's "standing room only" at one time. Erie and Wyoming Passenger Trains Will PRESBYTERIANS' NEW PASTOR. Bun to the Foot of No. 2. "Indeed," said ho dryly. "I thought it was a vory able mono graph." "Compound!" he groaned. "A three months' job," and fainted. It is announced officially that on May 12th, the Erie and Wyoming Valley Bailroad will issue a new schedule. The changes in time will be slight, but an important fact in this oonneotlon is that be ginning with the new eohednle, passenger trains will be run by way of the Pittston branch, to the foot of old No. 3 plane on Broad street, which will make it very convenient for passengers, who heretofore have been required to go to the top of SootchHill to take Erie andWyomlng trains. Pnrher, it is said on good au'hority that a new station will be built very soon at the foot of No. 2 plane, cloee to Broad street. These Improvements will add to the business Importance of Broad street, and cannot fall to boom the company's passenger and freight business. When he came to himself, the groom Was gone, for be had scudded off to the Quire's house for help, but a small page was holding a gig lamp in front of his Injured leg, and a woman, with an open case of polished instruments gleaming in the yellow light was deftly slitting up his troasers with a crooked pair of scissors. In the flash of the eye the foreman had the little note out in the composing room and the printers—the foreman and a small soiled boy—took several of the cigars, and we were quite merry, yet I felt that I was doing a wrong, for the man who owned the paper was away for much needed rest and change of scene eating wild meat up the canyon and corresponding with the sheriff regarding a criminal act on tho part of the editor by means of which ho had thoughtlessly reduced the Democratic majority and then "flow as a bird to his mountains." Rev. S. Ross McClements Occupies Hia New Pulpit for the First Time. "You are vory good." Bev. W. Scott Stitee, of Wyoming, occupied the pnlplt of the First Presbyterian Church Sunday morning, preaching an excellent eermon In the evening, Bev. S. Roes McClements occupied the pulpit for the first time as pastor. There waa a large congregation present to greet him. Mr. McClements spoke from Job 19:28-27. His subject was, "Job's Living Redeemer." He depicted Christ's redemptive work and showed out strongly Job's faith in Him as bis Redeemer, and his conviction that all would come out right some time, notwithstanding all toe calamities that came npon him. He concluded by urging those present who had not accepted Him, to acoept Jesus as their Bedeemer and Lord. "But the views which you attribute to Professor Pitres of Bordeaux have boon repudiated by him." This great work resembles "Robinson Crusoe" In nothing save the fidelity to life of Its character drawing. Robinson Crusoe is a finer study of an individual, far more Intimate, soul revealing and elaborate than the somewhat careless, sketchy portrait of Des Grieux. But Manon can be classed perhaps even higher than Robinson Crusoe as a portrait taken from lite/ The varying fortunes, too, of the French lovers are conditioned by their characters and by the circumstances of the time, and are not to be compared In strangeness and physical excitement with the wholly accidental adventures which oalled for Crusoe's Indomitable energy. Both books are acknowledged uasterpleoes, and the charm uf one for mature readers Is oertalnly not surpassed by the fascination whloh the other exercises over the Imagination of boyhood.—Saturday Review. It was the mure to his credit that he should keep up to date in his knowledge, since be had no competition to force him to exertion. In the seven years daring which he had practiced in Hoyland three rivals had pitted themselves against him, two in the village itself and one In the neighboring hamlet of Lower HoylaUd. Of these one had sickened and wasted, being, as it was Baid, himself the only patient whom he had treat ed during bis 18 months of ruralizing. A second had bought a fourth share of a Basingstoke practice and had departed honorably, while a third had vanished one September night leaving a gutted bouse and an unpaid drug bill behind bim. Since then the district had be come a. monopoly, and no one had dared to measure himself against the established fame of the Hoyland doctor. With another woman he might have urged the point, bat his instincts told him that it was quite useless with this on& Her tone of voioe was conclusive. He said nothing, but leaned back in his ohair a stricken man. "I have his pamphlet of 1890, "said Dr. Ripley angrily. . "Here is his pamphlet of 1891." She picked it from among a litter of periodicals. "If you havo time to glance your eye down this passage"— "It's all right doctor," paid she, soothingly. ."I am so sorry about it You cau have Dr. Horton tomorrow, but I am sure you will allow me to help you tonight I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw yon by the roadside." "I am so sorry," she said again. "If I had known what was passing in your mind, I should have told yon earlier that I intend to devote my life entirely to science. There are many wome with a capaolty for marriage, but fe with a taste for biology. I will remain true to my own line then. I oanie down here while waiting for an opening in the Paris Physiological laboratory. I have just heard that there is a vacancy for me there, and so you will be troubled no more by my intrusion upon your praotice. I have done you an iujustioe, as you did me one. I thought you nar- Dr. Ripley took it from her and shot rapidly through the paragraph which she indicated. There was no denying that it completely knocked the bottom out of his own article. He threw it down, and with another frigid bow he made for the door. As he took the reins from the groom he glanced round and saw that the lady was standing at her window, and it seemed to him that sho was laughing hoartily. But it was the beginning of my falL I had also turned when trodden upon some weeks before by being sent to board out a bad account, which sowed tho seeds of gastritis and things. So I began to be loss technical about wedding cake and other little acts of kindness which any child may show. "The groom has gone tar help," groaned the sufferer. goodness and her greatness. But each of us knows how one woman came into our lives and took us just as we were and stuck by us. ON THE TOST. "When it comes, we can move yon into the gig. A little more light John! Sol Ah, dear, dear, we shall have laoeration unless we reduce this before we move you. Allow me to give you a whiff of ohloroform, and I have no doubt that I can secure it sufficiently to"— Well do I remember how my wife came to mo some 87 summers ago, when the country was new. I can remember as if it were yesterday. WEST POINT CADETSHIP. All day the memory of this interview haunted him. He felt that he had oome very badly out of it She had shown herself to be his superior on his own pet subject She had been courteous while he had been rude, self possessed when be had been angry. And then, above all, there was her presenoe, her monstrous intrusion, to rankle in his mind. A woman doctor had been an abstraot thing before, repugnant, but distant. Now sho was there in actual praotioe, with a brass plate up just like his own, competing for tho same pationta Not that he feared tho competition, but ho objected to this lowering of his ideal of womanhood. She could not be more Be Pasted the Labels am Again. Prof. Coles Turns Weather Prophet. For this District to be Decided by Cam- A Chloago woman who has traveled e» tenslvely, and who Intends to make her annual departure far Europe In a few weeks, sent ber steamer trunk to a Randolph street establishment to be repaired. The workman who was put Is charge of the Job was a willing sonl, and he wanted to make the trunk appear as If It were new. Accordingly be went over It with hot water and a sponge and peeled off all the disfiguring labels plaoed there by the steamship oompanles, railways and hotels of foreign oountrles. But, oh, how meanly I felt when those cigars were all gone and Brignoli, Jr., came and turned out to be a great big coarse horse with a hoarse voioe and no expression to it Then we printed some full sheet colored work for him and got $6 for it, and through our literary influenoe tho horse was sold for $200 more than he was worth. Prof. Coles in Wilkesbarre Telephone petitive Examination. It was, then, with a feeling of some surprise and considerable curiosity that on driving through Lower Hoyland one morning he perceived that tho new house at the end of tho village w as occupied, and that a virgin brass plate glistened upon the swinging gate which faced the highroad. He pulled up his CO guinea chestnut mare and took a good look at it "Verrinder Smith, M. D.," was printed across it in very neat, small lettering. The last man had had lettering half a foot long with a lamp like a fire station. Dr. James Ripley noted the differenoe and deduced from it that the newcomer might possibly prove a more formidable opponent He was convinced of it that evening when he oame to consult his medical directory. By it he learned that Dr. Verrinder Smith was the holder of superb degrees; that he had studied with distinction at Edinburgh, Paris, Berlin and Vienna, and finally that he had been awarded a gold medal and the Lee Hopkins scholarship for original research in recognition of an exhaustive inquiry into the functions of the anterior spina) nerve roots. Dr. Ripleyjpassed his fingers through his thin haQ in bewilderment as he read his rival's record. What on earth could so brilliant a man mean by putting up bis plate in a little Hampshire hamlet? Dr. Ripley never heard the end of that sentence. He tried to raise a band and to murmur something In protest but a sweet smell was in his nostrils, and a sense of rich peace and lethargy stole over his jangled nerves. Down he sank, through dear, oool water, ever down and down into the green shadows beneath, gently, withont effort, while the pleasant ohiming of a great belfry rose and fell In his ears. Then he rose again, up and up, and ever up, with a terrible tightness about his temples, until at last be shot out of those green shadows and was out in the light once more. Two bright shining golden spots gleamed before his dazed eyes. He blinked and blinked before he oould give a name to them. They were only the two brass balls at the end posts of his bed, and he was lying In his own little room, with a head like a cannon ball and a leg like an iron bar. Turning bts eyes, he saw the calm face of Dr. Verrinder Smith looking down at him. I subscribed for her, and she came From the 1st to the 7th great and peon liar changee will take place; rain, bail, snow and ciondbursts are among the disturbances to be expected. A very sharp and cool wave may be looked for before the reactory storms, which will make their appearance along the 10th. Threatening olouds and showers will appear between the 10th and 15th. Fiom the 15th to the 31st, heavy rains, strong wind gales, snow, hall, floods and cyclones may be expected rhese storms will prove moet dangerous throughout the southern and western states, and in foreign lands. Watch the telegraphic reports. My predictions for April proved true in every Instance. Proofs on file. Hon. John Leisenrlng, the Congressman from this district, has decided not to name any oadet to Weet Point, bnt he will have an examination of all candidates and the one standing highest will be recommended, says the Wllkeebarre News-Dealer. The examination will take place in the Wllkeebarre Higheohool on Saturday, May 18. The examining board will consist of Prof. T. B. Harrison, the oonnty superintendent, Prof. Shiel, of Pittston, and D. A. Harman, of Hazleton. Applicants are required to sfend a medical examination first. This will be held on May 15. Three prominent physicians will act. There are a number of applicants for the nomination. But what would you think of a party liko Chrysostom, a man of standing in his time, too, going on about women this way: '' I pronounce woman to bo a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic, a deadly fascination and a painted ill." Since that timo I have fallen over and over again. My life has been a complete somersault If Chrys had lived in these days and talked that way, his Christmas tree would have looked like a holocaust in a hoopskirt factory. I did not intend to say a word on this subject, but if you're on the right side it's real fun to do it. He did nut know that the especial pride of » traveler la the number of labels on bis trunk. These labels show that be baa been In London, Pari*, Berlin, Vienna, Borne, Constantinople and Cairo, stopping At first olass hotels and traveling by the best routes. A trunk baa no dignity until It la plastered over with the oolored pieces of paper. But lately I see on the municipal press a gross being with a bluo pencil, and he marks out beautiful word pictures regarding hotels and railroads that pass in the night Does the business manager see in my work a paragraph that dwells with tender sentiment on the beauties of the Christian life, he pulls out a big bluo ship carpenter's pencil, and marking out my noble paragraph ho calls up the tube to the editor's room and says : than 30, and had a bright, mobile face too He thought of hor humorous eyes, and of her strong, well turned chin. It rovolted him tho more to recall the details of her education. A man of course could come through such an ordeal with all his purity, but it was nothing short of shameless in a woman. lie laid his tuuid upon tuTB. row and pedantic, with no good quality. I have learned during your illness to appreciate you better, and the reoolleotion of our friendship will always be a very pleasant one to ma " Tbe workman didn't know that—at least not until tbe woman oame in to Inspect the repairs, and then there was a aoene. First she screamed and then she wanted to break down and cry. The proprietor told bow sorry be was, and tbe workman made his frightened apology. He happened to remember that he had thrown tbe labels Into a waste basket, so be searched and found most of tbem, although they were rather torn and orurobled. However, be spent two hours In piecing out the labels and atloklng them baok on the trunk; so there was some balm for tbe woman's feelings. Signs: Venus will be Id Taurus on the 5th; Mara in Qemlni on the 12th; Jnpiter in Qemlni on the 10th; Saturn in Libra on the £6th. Therefore: From the lit to 3d good time to plant moat any kind of vegetables. From the 7th to 9th good time for roots—grass cornfodder, millet, etc. From the 9th to the 12th good time for grain, vines, peas, beans, etc From the 19th to the 22d good time for grain, field-beans, etc. The beat days for planting potatoes will be between the 19th and 22d. On the 17th is the day for planting cucumbera, melons, squashes, eto. The vital forces of vegetable life will be at their highest ebb on the 1st, 2d, 9th, 10th, 11th, 19th, 20th and 27th, and at their lowest ebb on the 3d and 4th, 30th and 31st; then it is time to kill weeds Do not transplant any kind of vegetables on those dates nor set out fl jwers of any kind. Plant potatoes as early as possible this year, as the potato louse will again make its appearance. HOSPITAL REPORT FOR APRIL. A Hopeful Outlook. "Well, my dear madam, and how are you today?" Also a Synopsis of the Work Done During: And bo it oame about that in a very few weeks there was only one dootor in Hoyland. Bat folks noticed that the one had aged many years in a few months; that a weary sadness lurked always in the depths of his blue eyes, and that he was leas oonoerned than ever with the eligible young ladies whom chanoe, or their careful country mammas, placed In his way. "Is Eocema there, the man that did our soap work last year?" the Past Six Months. Bat it was not long before he learned that even her competition was a thing to bo feared. The novelty of hor presence had brought a few curious invalids into her consulting rooms, and onoe thore they had beon bo impressed by the firmness of her mannor and by the singular new fashioned instruments with which she tapped and peered and sounded that it formed the core of their conversation for weeks afterward. And soon there wero tangible proofs of her powers upon the countryside. Farmer Eyton, whose callous ulcer had been quietly spreading ovor his shin for years back under a gentle regime of zinc ointroont, was painted round with blistering fluid and found after throe blasphemous nights that his soro was stimulated into healing. Mrs. Crowder, who had always regarded the birthmark upon her second daughter, Eliza, as a sign of the indignation of 'f i Creator at a third helping of a iry tart which she had partaken of during a critical period, learned that, with the help of two galvanio needles, tbo mischief was not irreparable. In a month Dr. Verrinder Smith was known, and in two she was famous. "Yes, he's hero, reading a paper." "Oh, doctor, I have terrible pains all over my whole body, and it seems impossible to breathe. Of course I can't sleep at all, and I havon't a particle of appetite." Dr. J. B. Mahon was on duty as the attending physician daring April. "Well, send him down hero. I want to see if ho can't go to the Throne of Grace for a two column ad. Nyo speaks highly of it" "Ah, at last!" said she. "I kept you under all the way home, for I knew how painful the jolting would be. It is in good position now, with a strong side splint. I have ordered a morphia draft for you. Shall I tell your groom to ride for Dr. Horton in the morning?" Patients in Hospital, April 1st, 19; admitted, 33; cured and discharged, 24; died, 8; remaining in Hospital Hay 1st, 26; largest number any day, 29; smallest, 19; average namber dally maintained, 23; single, 34; married 11; widowed, 1; Catholics, 42; Protestants, 10. That shows that the business manager suspects me. I paid a visit to the president a fow weeks ago and spoke kindly of him and his family. It was cut out, and in a week the position which I had thought some of taking was given to the business manager's niece. "But otherwise you feel all right, don't you?"—Toxas Siftings. "I should prefer that youBhonld continue the case," said Dr. Ripley feebly, and then, with a half hysterical laugh, "You have all the rest of the parish as patients, you know, so you may as well make the thing complete by having me also." It was not a very gracious speech, but it was a look of pity, and not of anger, which shone in her eyes as she turned away from his bedside. THE END. Where Will It StopT Now there Is a rule In that shop, "Never remove a label from m trunk or valise." —Chicago Record. "And now they are actually calling a new butter after Du Manrier'aheroine!" " No. Impossible I'' Total number of patients nnder treatment since November 1st, 157; of the above 126 have been discharged, 5 died, and 26 are under treatment; 124 cases of recent accidents have been treated; 31 operations have been performed, and 70 cases have been treated in the out patient department during the past six months. But Dr. Ripley furnished himself with an explanation to the riddle. No doubt Dr. Verrinder Smith had simply oome down thore in order to pursue some scientific research in peace and quiet. The plate was up as an address rather than as an invitation to patients. Of oourse that must be the true explanation. In that oase the presence of this brilliant neighbor would be a splendid thing for his own studies. He had often longed for some kindred mind, some •teel on which he might strike his flint. Chanae had brought it to him, and he rejoioed exceedingly. Committee Reports. A St Louis society found that the custom of having detailed reports by all the oommitteas and officers read at each semiannual business meeting was not as interesting to the greater part of the members as some other parts of the exercises, so they had the reports submitted two weeks in advance, and a synopsis of them transcribed on the typewriter. Copies of this "review," as it was called, were mailed to all the members and ohurch offioers some days prior to the meeting. Thus all were enabled to have the fullest possible understanding of the condition of the society.—Exchange.Malibran's Voice, I cannot, therefore, write up your argument for the press or otherwise, Perry, for it will not appear. It is said that kind words can never die, but if in the business manager's office on a warm day you will notice something that is not a dead letter. It will generally bo some kind word that I 'have said about a "scenic route," or the toothsome viands at some hotel where I have tarried. "Yes. Tompkins calls his new goat Trilby."—Detroit Free Press. Malibran's voioe was a contralto, with much of the soprano register superadded, that enabled ber to pass for a mezso soprano. It was not a faultless voice, but she had wonderful tact In oonoeallng its faults and generally managed to koop even the orltlcs In ignoranoe of her weak points. Her obarm seems to have consisted in the peculiarity of quality and unusual extent of her vocal powers, In her Improvised passages of strange beauty and boldness and In tbe musical culture that always kept her Improvisations within tbe bounds of good taste. There wore not lacking persons, however, who affirmed that her personal oharms had more to do with her bold on the audience than her voice. She first appeared on tbe stage in 1824, and her last appearanoe was In J 836, a few days before her death, wblob was caused by Injuries resulting from a fall In a carriage accident—Exohange. Didn't IJke the Anthem. Fifty years ago the Presbyterians of Scotland insisted that the servioe of praise shonld be expressed by singing to plain, simple tunes the Psalms of David in "Rouse's Version," or in "meter." This custom, which maybe regarded as a precept of worship, explains the following aneodote: Dr. Ripley had a brother William, who was assistant surgeon at a London hospital, and who was down in Hampshire within a few hoora of his hearing of the accident Ha raised his brows when he heard the details. JAMES McGEE KILLED. Thore is more "dead matter" and proud flesh in the waste paper basket of the average great metropolitan paper than along the tail of a trolley car. Crushed to Death by a Fall of Rock in Old An old Scotch lady who had no relish for modern church music was expressing lior dislike to the singing ot an anthem in her own ohnrch one day, when a neighbor said: Death of W. I- Lance. Forge No. 3. William L. Lance, of Whitings, N. J., at one time a prominent coal operator In this county, died last week, aged 78 years. He was a resident of Wilkesbarre I from 1850 to 1855, and opened the Black i Diamond colliery. He went to Plymouth in 1855 and leased the Qrand Trunk oolllery, which he operated for twenty yean. Lance colliery of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Co. was subsequently named for him. Among his sons are Walter Lance, of Wilkeebarre, and Oacar Lance, of Plymouth. James MoGee, a young married man employed as a miner In Old Forge Mine No. 2, of the Pennsylvania Company, was instantly killed shortly after noon Saturday by a fall of ooal. He lived in Mudtown, and leaves a wife and two children. "What! You are pestered with one of those 1" he cried. And this joy it was which led him to take a step which was quite at variance with his usual habits. It is tho custom far • newcomer among medical men to call first upon the oldor, and the etiquette upon the subject is strict. Dr. Ripley was pedantically exact on such points, and yet he deliberately drove oyer next day and called upon Dr. Verrinder Smith. Such a waiving of ceremony was, he felt, a gracious act upon his part and a fit prelude to the intimate relations which he hoped to estab lish with his neighbor. "I don't know what I should have done without her." That is not all, Perry. Do not rush to the funny man or tho reputed funny man to got argument against tho legal rights of women. I was on that side of the quostion once while at Yale. I sat up all night with Blackstono and Coke and the constitution and a jug of milk and with red eyes—eyes full of unshod teara "I've no doubt she's an excellent nurse." The Coming Woman. "Why, that is a very old anthem! David sang that anthem to Saul." Occasionally Dr. Ripley met her as he drove upon his rounds. She had started a uiga uogcarc, uuung tne reins nerseu, with a little tiger behind. When they met, he intariably raised his hat with punctilious politeuoss, but the grim severity of his face showed how formal was the courtesy. In fact, his dislike was rapidly deepening into absolute detestation. "Tho unsoxod woman" was tho description of her which he permitted himself to give to those of his patients who still remained stanch. But indeed they were a rapidly decreasing body, and every day his prido was galled by the news 6f somo fresh defection. The lady had somehow impressed tho oountry folk with an almost superstitious belief in her power, and from far and near they flocked to her consulting room. ill To this the old lady replied, "Weel, weel! I noo for the first time understan why Saul threw his javelin at David whon tho lad sang for him."—Youth's Companion. "She knows her work as well as too or L" Wyoming Seminary Defeats Bloomnbiirg "Spoak for yourself, James," said the London man, with a sniff. "But, apart from that, you know that the principle of the thing is all wrong." Normal School. An Old Story Retold. | The Wyoming Seminary bue ball team played one of the moit brilliant games of the —eon at Bloometurg, Saturday, defeating the strong Normal Club of that town, by a score of 9 to 6. A Whltocbapel ooster having one day recently bad a deal of trouble with hU donkey, determined to have his revenge. On his way home he bought a largo saokful of shavings and put them In the manger. He tben purchased a very large pair of green spectaoles and fixed them on the donkey's nose. Had that worthy animal's Intelligence been equal to his contrariness he might have suspected sometbl ng. But be did not, and fell Into tbe trap. Surprised at such an enormous feed, be devoured the whole lot before he discovered It was not grass he bad been eating!— London Tlt-Blts. As soon as I could get my laundry I went homo (a little piece at a time), pausing now and then to help sorno busy farmer. A RUNAWAY CAR. "You think there is nothing to be said on the other side?" "Good heavens, do yon?" I learned in later years that my failure with th« groat question was that there woe no negativo to it Dashing Down the Stevens Slope, Catches Two Men. The bonne was neat and well appointed, and Dr. Ripley was shown by a smart maid into a dapper little consulting room. As he panned in he noticed two or three parasols and a lady's nunbonnet hanging in the hall. It wan a pity that hia colleague should be a married man. It would nut them unon a different footing .... . . .o with Ibose long evenings of high scicntifio talk which he had pictured to himself. On the other hand, there was much in the consulting room to please him. Elaborate instruments seen more often in hospitals than in the houses of pri- Yate practitioners were scattered about. A sphygmograph stood upon the table and a gasometerlike engine, which was new to Dr. Ripley, in tho corner. A bookcase full of ponderous volumes in Frenoh and German, paper covered for the most part and varying in tint from the shell to the yolk of a duck's egg, caught his wandering '-yes, and he was deeply absorbed in their titles when tho dooropened suddenly behind him. Turning round, he found himself facing a little woman, whose plain, palish face was remarkable onlv for a Dair of shrewd, tfanmoroaa eyes of a blue which had two shades too much green in it. She held * pinoenez in her left hand and the •doctor's card in her right "Well, I don't know. It strnok me during the night that we may have been a little narrow in our views." At the Stevens colliery, on Saturday evening at 5:30 o'clock, a serious accident occnrred. Half a dozen men who bad finished work were walking np the slope when they were met by a runaway track. All bnt two of the six managed to escape. Jonathan Parry, a miner, was struck on the hip, sustaining a painful braise. John Gravel, a miner, was lnjared the most seriously. He sustained a deep gash for several inches around the left eye, the bridge of his nose was broken, and two of the small bones of the leg were broken His injuries are serious, but not necessarily dangerous. Dr. Beven 1« attending him The accident was caused by the breaking of a chain between two tracks that were being loaded with iron rails at the top of the slope. When the chain broke, the first truck, with the rails, dashed down the steep incline. The men coming up the slope were on the look out for the oar, but did not expect a runaway, and it came with such terrific speed that all were not able to get out of the road. The men who were injured recently removed to West Pittston from Jermyn. They live on npper Luzerne avenue. Asher Miner fur Inspector General. "I have need Burdock Blood Bitters In my family for two years. It Is the best medlolne I ever need. It cared me of erysipelas in very short time; also cured my son of scrofula after the doctors had failed." Louie 8. Woodward, Laurel Hill, Fayette county, Pa. A Harriaburg dispatch says: "It is reported that Oaptaln Asher Miner, of Luzerne connty, will be the next Inspector general of rifle practice in the national guard to succeed Colonel Osthaus. An or der issued from National Quard headquarters plaoee Colonel Osthaus on the roll of retired officers, which implies that he will not be reappointed. Colonel Thomas Potter, Jr., of Phllapelphla, will be reappointed assistant quartermaster general. The question, Perry, is not shall wo or shall we not allow women to vote, but about how much longer shall we doprive her of that right? "Nonsense, James I It's all very fine for women to win prizes in the lecture room, but you know as well as I do that they are no use in an emergenoy. Now I warrant that this woman was all nerves when she was setting yoar leg. That reminds me that I had better just take a look at it and see that it iD all right." But perhaps I do not quite understand your question. Four Big Successes. You say, "I will pay you any reasonable price to write mo out or give me any iufamation whore I can got some good argument on tho negative," etc. Having the needed merit to more tha make good all the advertising claimed for tbem, the following four remedies have reached a phenomenal sale: Dr. King's New Disoovery, for consumption, Coughs and Colds, each bottle guaranteed. Electric Bitters, the great remedy for Liver, Stomach and Kidneys. Bucklen's Arnica Salve, the best In the world, and Dr. King's New Life Pills, which are a perfect pill. All these remedies are guaranteed to do just what Is olalmed for them and the dealers whose names are attached here with will be glad to tell you more of them. Sold at Wm. C. Price's drug store, Pittston; Geo. D. Stroh's drug store, West Pitts ton. Mistaken Identity. But what galled him most of all was when she did something which ho had pronounced to bo impracticable. For all his knowledge ho lacked nerve as an operator and usually sent his worst cases up to London. Tho lady, however, had no weakness of tho sort and took everything that came in her way. It was agony to him to hear that 6he was about to straighten little Alec Turner's club foot, and right at tho fringo of tho rumor came a note from bis mother, the rector's wife, asking him if he would bo so good as to act as chloroformist. It would be inhumanity to refuse, as there was no other who could take the place, but it was gall and wormwood to his sensitive nature. Yet in spito of his vexation he could not but admire tho dexterity with which the thing was done. Sho handled tho little waxlike foot so gently and held the tiny tenotomy knife as an artist holds his pencil. One straight incision, one snick of a tendon, and it was all over with out a stain on the whito towel which lay beneath. He had never seen anything more masterly, and he had tho honesty to say so, though bor skill increased his dislike of her. Tho operation spread her fame still farther at his ex nense. and self was added One of the regular Washington correspondents tells a delightful anecdote of the reportorial days of one of the well known editors of metropolitan journalism."I would rather that you did not un do it," said the patient "I have her as surance that it is all right" The spelling at your college is so qnaint that I have had to prune it a good deal, and possibly where yon speak of getting infatuation you mean to secure some highly injurious or defamatory points against women generally, and of course including your mother and sisters with tlurresl. Hut, seriously, you negative chaps must spell better or you cannot get the full benefit of your more powerful arguments, and it is hurting the rising generation on your side, too, If the young student buys his argument What would your mother say if she knew you wrote me to prepare an abusive article about her, maybe while she's praying for you? Brother William was deeply shocked. —New York World. A Catsklll Hotel Man. (From Catsklll, N. Y., Recorder.) "Of court*), if a woman's assuranoe is of moro value than the opinion of the assistant surgeon of a London hospital, thero is nothing more to be said," he remarked. Before the female society reporter had usurped the social domain as completely as at present he was assigned one night to report a great social function at one of the swell houses in New York. He stationed himself at the head of a stairway to take the names of the ladies as they passed him to go to the dressing room to take off their wraps and prepare for their appearance on the lower floor. He had been standing there for some time, taking notes, when a gay young damsel, heavily wrapped in furs, lightly tripped up the Btairway and suddenly addressed him. Mr. Joseph McMffert, one of our prominent hotel proprietors, has reason to extol the merits of Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy. In speaking of it to our reporter he said; "I was all run down from kidney and liver tronble, three physicians treated me after the old school methods, but I grew worse. One of our bankers said to me, 'Why don't yon take Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy? It cured me.' So I began its use. The result was I gained daily, and in a little while I was sound and well again. 1 suppose I have recommended It to a hundred or more of my snmmer boarders, and in every instance it has done tbem good." A Lost Opportunity. "And so she rejeoted yon? I suppose you told her yon were 6 feet?" "Yes, but what has that got to do with it?" "I should prefer that you did not touch it," said the patient firmly, and Dr. William went back to London that evening in a huff. The lady, who had heard of his coming, was much surprised on learning of his departure. "Everything, my boy. Yob should tell her that yon wi re 6 feet onoe, bnt that yon are only 6 feet now. She'd have snapped yon np as a bargain instanter.''—Boston Transcript Belief in six Honrs "We had a difference upon a point of professional etiquette,'' said Dr. James, and it w:ts all the explanation he would vouchsafe. Distressing kidney and bladder dlsrsss relieved In six bonis by the "New Great South American Kidney Cure." This new remedy la a great surprise and delight to physicians on aoooont of Its exceeding promptness in relieving pain in the bladder, kidneys, back and every part of the urinary passages In male or female. It re llevea retention of water and pain In past, quick relief and cure, ihle s your remedy. Sold by J. H. Houck, druggist, nnnon Guild* of ConrlMj, Every junior society oould with profit adopt the suggestion, made by an Australian superintendent, that "guilds of oourtesy" be formed among the juniors. The object is to encourage a spirit of ohivalry, to be oourteons, to promote habits of neatness and cleanliness and parity of notion and speech. The rules are very simple and ooqld be printed at a trifling expense on small cards and distributed among the ohildren. Here they are: "Courtesy, at home, at sohool, at play, in the street, at the table, to yourself, everywhere."—Selected.  "All, beg pardon, sir. Are you the footman?" For your stupid and ignorant letter I pity you. For your insult and misjudgment of me I despise yon, and for the sake of the mother who bore you I hereby conceal your name from the world. For two months Dr. Ripley was brought in contact with bis rival every day, and he leamed many things which he had not known before. Bhe WM 9 charming companion as well as a most assiduous doctor. Her short presenoe during the long weary day was like a flower in a sand waste. What interested him was precisely what interested her, and she could meet him at every point upon equal terms, and yet under all her learning and hef firmness ran a sweet, ItARN, HOR8KS AND COWS BURNED. English Spavin Liniment removes all hard, soft or calloused lumps and blemishes from horses, blood spavins, ourbs, splints, sweeney, ling-bone, stifles, sprains, all swollen throats, coughs, etc. Save $50 by use of one bottle. Warranted the moet wonderful blemish cure ever known. Sold by J. H. Houok, druggist, Pittston, Pa. "How do you do. Dr. Ripley?" said ■he. "No, madam," quietly retorted the reporter. "Are you tho chambermaid?" —Washington Post Sf»riuiiM I.oss by rx-Sup«rvimDr Patrick "'How do you do, madam?" returned the visitor. "Your husband is perhaps out?" But times have changed now and the "negative" on this question. The ablest orator of our country said the other day, "The meaner a man is tho better he considers himself than a woman." Mcttroarty, at l'laiiift. Moved. F.nrly Sunday morning the large bam of Patrick McQroarty, ex Supervisor, at Plains, waa destroyed by a fire supposed to have been started by tramps. Four teams of horses, three cows, a number of vehicles, bay, grain, etc., were all burned. The loss ia $1,600. j "I am not married," said sho simply. "Oh, I beg your pardon I I meant the doctor—Dr.Verrinder Smith." "Did Miss Reciter movo her audience very greatly?" "Yes. Inside of half an honr after ibe began two-thirds of the bouse had goue to the box offloe to demand their money."—Chicago Inter Ocean. , Shlloh's Cure is sold on guarantee it cures incipient consumption. It is ths best ooughoure. Only one cent a doae. Mots., and $1.00. Sold by druggists. 111 the early days you will find this legend existed, according to Washington frying: "At first there were uo women, "1 am Dr. Verrinder Smith." Dr. Riolev was so surprised that he Hsnses In Weet Pittston at $« to $25 pa month. G. B. Thompson.