Pittston Gazette

              to^.abx®vei?o"i«'l Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY. JUNE 21. 18115. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. 191.00 PER ANNUM 1 JN ADVANCE next wnn an earl in disguise wnoni you { desired to captivate, Arnold turned round to her sharply and asked, with n rapid | sweep, which fairly took her off her guard: I integrity oi a uuuiu unuufii wuumii, inv by bit Kathleen Hesslegrave had won back the soured misogynist to a belief in her sex, in its goodness, in its unselfishness, in its nobility of nature. He knew she could have married Rufus Mortimer if she wished, but he believed she had refused him for the penniless sailor's sake. It was because he believed her capable of real disinterested affection like that that he had fallen in love with Kathleen Hesslegrave. "I must go, mother," she cried, breaking away from her like some wild and wounded creature—"I must go at ouce ami see tiiui. i uih cruel uiisa|if«reiieiisiou is more than 1 ran endure. 1 didu't know who he was till Canon Valentine told us. I fell in love with liiiu for himself as a common sailor. 1 never knew he was Lord Axmiiister. 1 must go and tell him so!" SERIOUS MINE ACCIDENT. "BEYOND THE SKIES." WYOMING SEMINARY. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. Five Men and Hoys I turned at Reiidham Children's Day Exercises at the West Animal I'rize Speaking Contest anCl the "Have you seen the English papers? Do you know what's being done in this Axminster peerage case?" A serious explosion of powder occurred at Je rmyn mine No. 2, of Jermyn & Co., Rendham, at ten o'clock last Friday. A cartridge, while being prepared, exploded. The following were burned: Colliery. Side M. E. Church, Musical Soiree, Toplo Fop the Week Beginning Jane S3. The Children's Day exercises held in the West Side Methodist Church Sunday morning were quite elaborate. The decorationD always of exceptional beauty at this church, were up to the standard, and much credit is due to Messrs. Chapman, Coward and others, who furnished and arranged the floral decorations. This is commencement week at Wyoming Seminary, and It is attended by the interest and enthusiasm that usually mark the closing of the year's work in this honored institution. Toprc.—The world for Christ; Cmr worlds for Christ.—Acts xl, 1-11. (A missionary topic.) Comment by Rev. S. II. Doyle. It was a bold Btroke of policy, but it committed him to nothing, for the subject was a common, one and it was justified by the result. Mrs. Hesslegrave, full herself of this very theme, looked up at him in astonishment, hardly knowing how to take It. She gave a little start and trembled quite visibly. In her perplexity, indeed, she clapped her hand to her mouth as one will often do when the last subject on earth one expected to hear broached is suddenly sprung upon one. The movement was unmistakable. So was the frightened and hesitating way in which Mrs. Hesslegrave responded as quickly as she could: Mrs. Hesslegrave's sense of propriety was severely outraged. Not only was it dreadful to think that n young lady could have fallen in love with a man unasked, and that man, too, a common sailor, but it was dreadful also that Kathleen should dream of going to see him in person instead of writing to explain to him and asking him to call round for the further clearing up of this painful entanglement. The Jews divided tho world into two classes of people—those who were Jews ind those who were not Jews, whom they called gentiles. They thought that all of God's grace and favor was reserved for themselves alone. But in the incident narrated by Peter in our topical reference God taught them differently; that the gospel was to be preached and the Holy Ghost given to the gentiles as well as to the Jews. The middle wall of partition between them was fallen to the ground. Then was no more Jew and gentile, circumcision and uncircumoision, but all men one in Jesus Christ. Jew and gentile for Christ meant the world for Christ. , And uow what a disillusion! He found ho had been mistaken in her from the very beginning. The woman whom he had thought so far raised above her fellows that she could love a struggling artist without past, without future, for his own sake alone, turned out after all to be an intriguer more calculating and more deceitful in her way than Lady Sark herself had lDeen. Kathleen must have known from the beginning thnt the man whose advances she had accepted with so much blushing uncertainty and with such pretty coyness was really Lord Axmineter. She had been saying those sweet things about respecting him so much and not caring for rank or wealth or position because she thought that was the way that would lead her to a coronet. With incredible cunning and deceptivenesa she had managed to hide from him her knowledge of his original position and to assume a sort of instinctive shrinking from his lowly calling, which she allowed her love and respect to overcome, as it were, quite visibly before his eyes with consum mate cleverness. As a piece of fine acting in real life it was nothing short of admirable. If that girl were to go upon the Btage, now, ArnoM said to himself bitterly, she would make her fortune. Those modest side glances, those dexterously summoned blushes, that timid demeanor at first, giving way with fuller acquaintance to an uncontrollable affection, so strong that it compelled her, against her will, as it seemed, to overlook the prejudice of birth and to forget the immense gulf in artificial position—oh, as acting it was marvelous. Rut to think it was only thatl Arnold Willoughby's brain reeled. Ah, why could he never cast this birthright of false adulation and vile sycophancy behind him? Why could he never stand out before the world on his merits as a man and be accepted or rejected for himself alone without the intervention of this perpetual reference to his artificial value and bis place In the peerage? Will!am Arch, miner, terribly burned Mikb Kilkorkie, laborer, terribly burned. Monday afternoon the annual oratorical contest took place for prizes offered by George F. Nesbitt. Tbe attendance was large. The speakers and their selections were as-follows: Arnold Lohman, representing the Amphlctyon Society, "Mnrder Will Out;" Miss Julia E. Van Deusen, representing the Adelphlan Society, "Jack, the Fisherman;" Morgan B. Wilcox, representing the Independent Society, "The Black Horse and His Rider." The judges, Rev. T. C. Edwards, D. D , Rev. J. B. Sweet, and Prof. T. E. Hopper, M. A., awarded the first prizs, $15, to Arnold Lohman, and the second prizj, $10, to Mlas Van Deusen. Mikb Tigue, driver boy, badly burned, Mikb Griner, driver boy, badly barned. Fred Gardner, driver boy, badly '•Beyond the Skies" was the title of the ererolse presented. It consisted of mus'c, recitations, &c., all appropriate to the day, and was as follows: Organ voluntary, Misa May Powell; song, "Sing Praises," school; invocation, Rev. W. G. Simpson; scripture reading, Rev. W. G. Simpson, response by school; recitation, "The First Children's Day," Mite Minnie Kyte; song, "The Conquering Host," school; Scripture selections led by J. W. Thomas; recitation, "Summer Is Here," Miss Stella Von Storch; song, "What Says the Sunbeam?" school; recitation, "Crowns for Children," Miss Frances Graver; rf citation, "Out In the Meadows," Bertha Ltntern; Scripture reading; recitation, "Step by Step," Miss Liura Rowley; song, "Little Climbers," by inter mediate pupils ; special exercise Mr?. Cool, leader, fifteen older pupils and six primary pupils; address, Rev. W. G. .Simpson; concerted scrip ure reading; Isong, "The Many Mansions," by the school; song, "O Clap Your Hands," by the school; song, "I Will Bless Thee With Peace," school; song, "Jesus' Love," school. The various songs and recitations were render ed in a splendid manner, and as a whole tbe exercise was one of the best ever given by the school, i. large congregation enjoyed the programme. "Oh, my dear," she cried, drawing back, "you're not surely going to call fbr html It would look ho badl Do you think it would be right? Do you think it would b»» u-omnnlvV" burned. CHAPTER Xn. A MOTHER'S DILEMMA. snamng it, "wnata stranger you are, to be sure! You never come near us now. It's really quite unfriendly of you. Kathleen was saying this morning we must write round to your chambers and ask you to dine with us. And she hasn't seen you for the last day or two on the Xattere either! Poor child, she's been so occupied I We've had some friends here who've been taking up all our time. Kitty's been out in a gondola all day long with them. However, that's all over, and she hopes to get to work again on the quay tomorrow—she's so anxious to go on with her spire and canal. Wrapped up in her art, dear girl. You know it's all she lives for. However, she'll be back at it, I'm glad to say, at the old place in the morning. Our friends are just gone-—couldn't stand the climate—?aid it gave them sore throats—and Kathleen's gone off to say goodby to them at the station."All of the victims live in Old Forge. Arch and Kilkoskie, the men, are the most seriously injured. They were taken to the Lackawanna Hospital, and were alive at last acci unts. The boys were taken to their homes. "Oh, yes—that is to say, no—well, we haven't seen much about it, but—the young man's dead, of course—or do you think he's living—I mean—well, really it's so difficult, don't you know, in such a perplexing case to make one's mind up about it." Canon Valentine had intended to stop at Venice. He stopped just two days, and then, to Kathleen's secret Joy and no small Telief, bronchitis seized him. That stern monitor hurried him off incontinently to .Florence. "Yes, I do," Kathleen answered, with unwonted boldness. "Right and womanly to the last degree. Most right and most womanly. Mother, dear, I don't blame you. You did what you thought best in my interest, as you imagined, but you have left hitu under a cruel misapprehension of my character and motives—a misapprehension that would be dreadful for me to U-ar with any one, but ten thou Kind times worse with a nature like Aruold Willoughby's, and I can't sit down under it. I cant rest till I've seen him and told him how utterly mistaken he is about me. There's no turning back now. I shall see him I" "I'm sorry, Mrs. Hesslegrave," he said. "*I can't tell you how sorry. I'd looked forward to seeing everything In this She drew out her handkerchief and wiped her forehead in her confusion. She would have given £10 that moment to have Kathleen by her side to prompt and instruct her. Arnold Willoughby preserved a face of sphinxlike indifference. How dreadful that he should have broached to her that difficult and dangerous subject! What would Kathleen wish her to do? Ought she to pretend to ignore it all, or did he mean her to recognize him? The world justly belongs to Christ He made it, Ho sustains it, and He died for it. Christ died for the whole world and not for a part of it. This was the lesson that God taught Peter and the Jews. The benefits of the gospel were not to be confined to the Jews alone, but gentiles as well as Jews were to be the recipients of its blessings. Christ wants the world. He gave His disciples command to preach the gospel throughout all tho world This should be sufficient far every Endeavorer. It should be our great joy and delight to satisfy all the desires of Christ, and particularly this desire for the salvation of the whole world A GAZETTE CHANCE. In connection with the prize speaking tbe following pleasing programme of vocal and instrumental music was given; Piano duet, Misses Grace Bailey and Nell Woodward; violin trio, Misses DorT and Arm strong, and Mr. Whlteman; vocal solo, Mr. Jar via L. Thorpe; piano solo, Miss Esther A. Davenport-, piano duet, Misses E. E. Johnson and Ida Wagner; vocal solo, Mlas Geuia Smith; piano solo, Miss L. Maude Raub; violin duet, Miss Dorr and Mr. Whitman. charming place under your  guidance — she's a capital cicerone, I must say, your daughter. We did so enjoy going round the Grand canal with her day before yesterday. It's so delightful to bi*D all these beautiful things la company with an artist! Hut the damp of the lagoons is really too much for my poor old throat. We're given to throat trouble, you see. It's common to my cloth, and as I went along with Miss Hesslegrave to the academy yesterday in an open gondola I felt the cold air rise up bodily from the canal and catch hold of me and throttle me. It took me just so by the larynx, like a hand, and seemed to choke me instantly. 'Amelia,' said I at the time, 'this chilly air has done forme.' And, sure enough, I woke in the night with a tickle, tickle, tickle in my bronchial tubes, which I know means mischief. When once that sets in, nothing for it but to leave the place sphere you are immediately. Change the air without delay, that's the one safe remedy. And indeed, to tell you the truth, Venice is so spoilted, so utterly spoiled, since the Austrians left it that, except for yon and Miss Hesslegrave, I must confess I shan't be sorry to get out of it. Most Insanitary town, I call it—moat insanitary in every way." The ItuftliieHs Office to be Removed to the For nearly forty years the business office of the Gazette has been located on the sec ond floor of the building whioh It has occupied since tha erection of thee ame. Prog reea, however, demands that the Gazkttb's patrons should have more conveniences With that end in view, the storeroom on the ground floor of the building has been secured and in a few days will be occupied by the Gazctte. In the front will be loca— Ground Floor. * \ "Is be dead or living? Which do you think?" Arnold asked again, gazing hard at her. And in her own heart she said to herself a great deal more than that—"I must and shnll marry him." "That's fortunate," Arnold answered a little stiffly, feeling somehow a dim consciousness that against his will he was once more a lord and lapsing for the moment into his bad habit of society small talk, "for the lights on the canal have been lovely the last three days, and I've regretted so much Miss Hesslegrave should have missed them." Mrs. Hesslegrave quailed. It was a trying moment. People oughtn't to lay such traps for poor innocent old women, whose only desire, after all, is the perfectly natural one to see their daughters well and creditably married. She looked back at her questioner with a very frightened air. So with face on fire and eager Bteps that never paused she rushed hotly down the stairs and out into the Piazza. The pigeons crowded round her as if nothing had happened. Thence she tcok the narrow lane that led most directly by many bridges to the little salt fish shop and went to make her first call on the man of her choice at his own lodgings. Monday night, the annual musical soiree was held in Nelson Hall, the pnpils of the Music Department furnlehlng the programme, and by their excellent renditions reflecting credit upon themselves and their teachers, Prof. Stadler and Ml— Taylor. ted the btulneea office,and the jobbing com position room will be on the same floor at the rear, so that ouatomera will have no ■Ulra to olimb. The world wants and needs JeSns Christ. No sooner had Peter seen the vision teaching him that the gospel was for the gentiles than three men stood before hitn ready to direct him to the place when the representatives of the gentile nation were ready to receive him and the gospel The world wants the gospeL The time was when many parte of the world were «losed to Christ, but it is no longer so. Every door is open, and from every clime and nation comes the Macedonian cry, "Come over and help us." The world is ready for Christ. Souls are hungry for the bread of life. Open doors, open hands, open hearts, stand ready to receive Him. The world is ready. Are we ready to send Christ to the world? The world needs Christ. He is the only one who can satisfy it God has made the human soul for Himself, and it is restless until it rest in Him in Christ. There is no true peace until Christ speaks peace. He is the only one who can save the world, for there is salvation in none other. "Not more than she has, I'm sure," Mrs. Hesslegrave went on quite archly, with her blandest smile—'' Mother's society smirk,'' as that irreverent boy Reggie was wont to term it. "I don't know why, I'm sure, Mr. Willoughby, but Kathleen has enjoyed her painting on the quay this winter and spring a great deal more than she ever before enjoyed it. It's been a perfect treat to her. She says she can't bear to be away for one day from the dear old Ban Trovaso. She just loves her work, and I assure yon she seemed almost sentimentally sad because these friends who've been stopping with us kept her away so long from her beloved picture and from her fellow artists," Mrs. Hesslegrave added after a pause in some little trepidation, uncertain whether that last phrase might not go just one step too far in the right direction. Arnold Willoughby eyed her closely. All his dearest suspicions were being fast aroused. He began to tremble in bis heart lest somebody had managed to pierce the close disguise with which he had so carefully and so long surrounded himself. "Well, of course you know," she faltered out, with a glimmering perception of the fact that she was irrevocably committing herself to a dangerous position, "if it comes to that, you must know better than any one." Little Cecca was at the door playing with a big new doll. She looked up with a smile at the beautiful lady, whom she recognized as the • person she had seen out waikiug one day with "our Inglese." This Improvement la bnt one of a number that are contemplated, the idea being to give oar patrons generally the beet possible service, and to keep pace with the tide of newspaper progress that is so mani feet throughout this section. "Why so?" Arnold Willoughby persisted. He wasn't going to say a word either way to compromise his own incognito, but be was determined to find out just exactly how much Mrs. Hesslegrave knew about the matter of his identity. "Is the slgnor at home?" Kathleen asked, too deeply moved to return the child's smile, yet touching her golden head gently. "THE GOLDEN GATE." AFFIDAVITS FROM MYERS. A Pleasing Children's Day Exercise at the And the secrecy of it tool The baseness! The privy planning and plotting! Why, this woman whom he imagined all frankness and candor, with a heart as straightforward as that open, brave face of hers, had concocted this vile trap to catch a coronet unawarea, all by herself, pnajded, and had concealed her inmost thoughts from her own mother even. There was a cold blooded deliberateness about it all which disgusted and disillusioned Arnold Willoughby on the first blush of it. He had gone toto that house that afternoon in a lover's fever and with a lover's fervor, saying to himself as he crossed the threshold: "There is none like her, none. I shall ask her this very day. I could risk my life for her with Joy. I could stake my existence on her goodness and purityl" Broad St. M. E. Church. Kxonerating tlie County CommlsHtoners From the Charges Made by Norrin. The little one looked up at her again with all the saucy southern confidingness. -'TheGolden Gate" is the title of the in tereatlng Children's Day exercise presented on Sunday by the children of the Broad 8t M. K. Sunday school. There was a very large congregation present. The ohnrch was beautifully decorated. The prolamine consisted of mnslc, recitations, and responsive readings, and was as follows: Singing, by the congregation; re sponsive Scripture reading; anthem, choir: prayer, superintendent; introductory address, "Children's Day, and How to Oo serve It," Miss May Mac Don aid; recitation, "Duty," Harry Weaver: recitation, "Truth," Sadie Morris; reci'ation, "Wis dom," Bert MacDonald; exercises by the infant class, incloding singing and recitations by Helen Pedrick, Ida Pod rick, Ralph Stark, Howard Snowden, Beesle Pedrick. Bessie Mathews, G. Stear, R Harrison, G. Stark, W. Abbott, Charlie Weaver, J. G. Eoableton, M. Picklns, Mabel Woodslde, Ethel Woodside, Lou Hunter, Clyde Smith, Elmer Stark, Edna Cobb, Nellie Hall, Emma Lewis, Flossie Memory, Addie Stark; song, choir; song, quartette composed of T. R. Staley, A Mathews, Mrs. K S. Miller, Mrs George Daniels; address, R9v. G. C Lyman. A prominent feature of the floral dC corations was a pretty "Golden Gate," bnilt upon the pnlplt platform, and which was guarded by Miss Clara Helwig, who took a prominent part In the exercise. The County Commissioners, as a vindication from the charges made by ex Clerk Norris, have made public the following affidavits, received from Architect Myers, and which explain themselves: Mrs. Hesslegrave gazed up at him with tears rising fast in her poor puzzled eyes. FELL FROM A TRESTLINO. Kathleen could hardly even pretend to regret their departure. During the last two days she had lived in instant dread that the canon would somehow knock tip against Arnold Willoughby. And if the truth must be told it was the very same dread on the canon's part, not bronohltis alone, that was driving him to Florence. For as they stood on the balcony of the doges' palace the day before, looking out npon the Riva and the busy quays and the panorama of the harbor, Canon Valentine behekl a man's back in the distance, round- corner by Danieli's, and he said to himself with a shudder, " Axminster's back or the devil's!" Being an old fashioned clergyman, the canon, you will perceive, was not afraid of a very mild unparliamentary expression. And the more convinced he became that the mysterious person thus flitting about Venice was really Load Axminster the more desirous did he grow tcD avoid the misfortune of actually meeting him, for if they met face to face and caught one another's eyes the «anon hardly knew how for very shame he could let Algy go on with his claim of right without informing him—which he was loath to do—that his cousin Bertie had never been drowned at all, but had been sighted in the flesh and in sailor costume in the city of Venice. "No, he isn't," she answered, dimpling. "The signor's gone away. But he gave me 2 lire before he went, don't you see, and I bought this pretty doll with it at Neighbor Giapomo's. Isn't it a pretty one? And it cost all 8 lire." JaiueH Boyle Receive* Terrible Injuries *'Oh, what shall I do?"shecried, wringing her hands in her misery and perplexity. "How cruel you are to try me so! What ought I to answer? I'm afraid Kathleen will be so dreadfully angry with me!" at Coxton. James Boyle, aged *8, an unmarried Cnan whose home is in Towanda, but who has been boarding In Upper Pittston while employed by the Lehigh Valley Company as one of the construction gai g at work building the new coal chutes at Coxton, met with a terrible accident. While at work with an iron jack on the treetllng, twenty feet from the ground, the j*ok slipped, and Boyle was thrown to the ground, the j«ck falling upon him. He was taken to the Hospital, and the physicians describe his Injuries as follows: Nose cu; almost completely off; compound fracture of the thigh; dlskoatlon of the fingers of the right hand; lacerated wound of the right hand; severe sprain of the left wrist Boyle was la pretty bad shape when he arrived at the Hospital, but he Is a very plucky fellow, stood his lr.jaries well, and by next morning had rallied considerably, and waa feeling an ponfortable as could be expected. His reoovery Is confidently looked for. State of Michigan, County of Wayne, ss. Elij h £ Myeis b -ing d"ly sworn de poets and says that he is the person who heretofore has been awarded the contract for the preparation of plans and specifications for the erection of a county oonrt house at Wilkeebarre, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania; that on or about February 22nd, 1895, r e received from the Commissioners of Lnzerne county the sum of five thousand dollars on account of said plans and specifioa ions and that on ot abont the 27tb or 28th day of February, 1895, he received from said Commlesioneis the further sum of five thousand dollars on account of said plans and specifications, that he did not nor did anyone on bis behalf pay to said Commissioners, Thomas Smith, Patrick T. Norton or Thomas M. Dullard, or any one of them, nor to James M Norris, clerk of said Com iniseioners, or to any other person any sum whatever In consideration for the letting to affiant of the contract aforesaid or for any other purpoee any sum or sums whatever or any consideration of any nature for the letting of said contract aforesaid."Gone away?" Kathleen echoed, a cold thrill coming over her. "Gone away? Not from Venice?" "Why angry?" Arnold Willoughby asked once more, his heart growing like a stone within him as he spoke. Then the worst was true. This was a deliberate conspiracy.xnecnild nodded and puffed out her lips. "Si, si," she said, "from Venice." And then she went on singing in her childish nursery rhyme: "Because," Mrs. Hesslegrave blurted out, "Kathleen told me I wasn't on any account to mention a word of all this to you or to anybody. She told me that was imperative. She said it would spoil all— those were her very words. She said it "Will Mias Hesslegrave be back by and by?" he asked in a coldly official tone. "Because if she will I should ilka to stop and see her." "Vate a far una barca o una bate la; Co ti l'a fata, butila in mar; La ti condurra In Venezla bela. And now he came put of it coldly numb and critical. He hated to think he had been so readily-deceived by a clever nomau's wiles. He hated and despised himself. Never again while he lived would he trust a single one of them. Their most innocent smile hides their blackest treachery.To win the world for Christ our worlds must be for Christ. We must have our affections centered upon Him alone and consecrate ourselves entirely to TTim We must be ready to sacrifice and deny ourselves in order that we may send Christ to all the world. "But he hasn't done that," she added in her babylike prattle. "He's taken his l»ont and gone away from Venice, away from Venice, from Venezja bela, right away, right away from Venezia bela." Mrs. Hesslegrave jumped at the chance with nnwise avidity. This was the very first time, in fact, that Arnold Willoughby had ever asked to see her daughter in so many words. She scented a proposal. Kathleen stood for a moment, reeling. The child's words answered her. She had hard work to restrain herself from fainting then and there. A terrible weakness Heemed to break over her suddenly. Gone, and with that misapprehension on his mind I Oh, it was too, too pruell She xtaggerd into the shop. With an effort she burst out: "Oh, yes," she answered, acquiescent, with obvious eagerness, though she plumed henelf inwardly as she spoke upon her own bland ingenuity, "Kathleen will be back by and by from the station and will be delighted to see you. I know there's some point in that last year's picture she's touching up that she said she wanted to consult you about if possible. I shall have to go out myself at 4 unfortunately—I am engaged to an at home at dear Lady Devonport's, but I dare say Kathleen can give you a cup of tea here, and no doubt you and she can make yourselves happy together."It's a way men have when they're out of conceit for a time with their wives or their sweethearts. Bible Readings.—Gen. xii, 1-8; Ps. xxii, 27, 28; xxiV, 1, 2; Isa. xlix, 6; lii, 7; Jer. xxxi, 84; Dan. xii, 8; Hoe. ii, 28: Mio. iv, 1, 2; MaL i, 11; iii, 10; Math, xxviii, 19, 20; Luke, xxiv, 46, '47; John i, 29; viii, 12; Acts i, 8; xiii, 2, 8; xvi, 9, 10; Rom. i, 14, 15; x, 14, 15; I Cot. ix, 19-82; I John v, 19-21. As for poor Mrs. Hesslegrave, the unoffending cause of all this lamentable misapprehension, she sat by herself, meanwhile wringing her hands In impotent despair in her own drawing room and wondering when Kathleen would come in to comfort her. Each minute seemed an hour. What could be keeping Kathleen? As a rule, the dear child came back no soon from such errands as this to her beloved work, for Kathleen was never so happy as when {tainting or sketching, and she wrought with a will, both for love's sake and for pioney's. But today she was somehow unaccountably delayed. Her stars were unpropitious, and the real cause of the delay, as fate would have it, was one of those petty circumstances upon which our lives alt hinge. She had gone round Zattere as a woman Jn love will do, expects ing to fiud Arnold Willoughby at work on his canvas there and honing to seem as if mere accident bad brought her back tq the place aha had abandoned during the Valentines' visit. Threw days was so long a time to go without seeing Arnold I But Instead of finding him she had fallen In with Rufua Mortimer engaged npon his christening scene, and Mortimer, guessing her object, aud generously anxious, as was Uis nature, to aid her in her love affair, bad kept her talking long In front of the picture he waa painting under the belief that Arnold would shortly turn up, and that he was doing her a kindness by thus making her presence there seem more natural and less open to misconstruction. Yet, as often happens in this world of mischances, Mortimer's very anxiety to help her defeated his own purpose. It was the kind hearted young American '■ fate in life to do as much harm by bis well intentioned efforts as many worse natures do by theijr deliiierato malice. "The signor, your lodger—the Ingleee —Rignor Willoughby?" There promises we all make now and again with our consciences, and there are points where we feel the attempt at compromise becomes practically impossible. Now, the canon was quite willing to give Algy and his wife the benefit of the doubt as long as he felt only just morally certain that the person in the street with the trick of twisting his back hair was the last Lord Axminster. But If they met face to face and he recognized his man without doubt, as he felt sure he must do when they came to close quarters, then the canon felt in his heart he could no longer retain any grain of self respect if he permitted the claim to lie pushed through the house of lords without even mentioning what he bad seen to Algy. He might have kept silence indeed and let self respect take its chance if he met the man alone, but what on earth could he do if he met ahim full front while out walking with 'Amelia? That was the question. And I may remark parenthetically that most men feel keenly1 this necessity for preserving their self respect before the face of their -wives, which is a very important ally Indeed to the cause of all the virtues. A large, young woman of the florid Venetian type, broad of faoe and yellow of hair, like a vulgarized Titian, was sitting Iteliind the counter knitting away ata colored headdress. She nodded and looked grave. Like all Italians, she Instantly suspected a love tragedy of the kind with which she herself was familiar. Elijah E. Myers. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day of June, 1895. Wm E Finwick, (*eal) Notary Public, Wayne county, Michigan. A Household Endeavor Society. THREE MINERS KILLED. What is probably the only society of its kind in the world is in existence at Nalpa Station, Australia. Nalpa Station is 60 miles from Adelaide, on the shores of Lake Alexandria, and it is therefore cut off from the usual opportunities for Christian fellowship. But the members of the household of Mr. Joseph Bonnin have organized themselves into a Christian Endeavor society. This unique organization has been in existence far more than a year, and it has proved an entire success in developing the Christian lives of its members and in promoting fellowship in the household Six active members are now on the rolL This little society takes up a missionary collection at every consecration meeting, and in other ways does good work for those in the "regions beyond" There are three committees— All Victims of the Deadly Hoof Hock in the Mines. She beamed as ahe aald It. The appointment with Lady Devon port was a myth, to be sure, but Mrs. Hesslegrave thought it would be wise, under the circumstances, to leave the young people alone with one another. Arnold Willoughby'a suspicions grew deeper and deeper. Mrs. Heaalegrave was one of thoae transparent people whose little deceptiona are painfully obvious. Be could see at half a glance something must have occurred which gave her all at once a much more favorable view of him. He measured her doubtfully with his eye. Mrs. Heaalegrave in return showered her sweetest smile upon him. She was all obsequiousness. Then she began to talk with ostentatious motherly pride about Kathleen. She waa such a good girl 1 Few mothers had a comfort like that in their daughters. The only thing Mrs. Hesslegrave couldn 't bear was the distressing thought that sooner or later Kathleen must some day leave her. That would be a trial. But there, no mother can expect to keep her daughter always by her side. It would be selfish, wouldn't it? And Kathleen was adapted to make a good man so supremely happy. And then Mrs. Hesslegrave, leaning forward in her chair, grew almost confidential. Had Mr. Willoughby noticed that Mr. Mortimer, the rich young American, thought so much of Kathleen? Well, he certainly did. He quite haunted the house, though Mrs. Hfsslegrave believed in her heart of hearts Kathleen didn't really care one bit for him. And she was a girl of such high principle—such very high principle I Unless she truly loved a man—waa fascinated, absorbed in him— she never would marry him, though he were as rich as Croesus. Kathleen meant to come back by the Zattere, she believed, and she knew Mr. Mortimer would be waiting there to see her. He always hung abont and waited to see her everywhere, but Kathleen was such a romantic, poetical minded girl I She would rather take the man of her choice, Mrs. Hesslegrave believed, with an impressive nod of the coffee colored Honlton headdress, than marry the heir to all the estates in England if he didn't happen to please her fancy. In the Alden tunnel, Thomas Bryan, a miner, and John Rlnka, laborer, were builed by a fall of rock. Several houra' time were required to remove the rock, and then the bodies were found horribly mangled. State of Mlehlgan, County of Wayne, ■!: Geoige W. Myers being duly sworn, depjees and says that he la the son of Eltjih E. Myers, who has the oontraot for the preparation of plans and specifications for the erection of the oonnty conrt honse at Wllkesbarre, Ln Berne county, Pennsylvania. That he aoted as agent for his said father In the cashing of the orders referrt d to in the affidavit of E. E Myers, vie: An order for five thousand dollars dated February 22, 1895, and an order for &ve thousand dollars dated on or about February 28th, 1895, and that the money paid ttaf reon was by him turned over to his fatter, said E E Myers; that he did not pay any portion of said sums to Thomas Smith, Patrick T. Norton or Thomas M. Dullard, Commissioners of said county, or to James M. Norrls, clerk of said Commit sloners, nor to any other person for or tn behalf of said E E. Myers, in consideration of the letting to said Elijah E. Myeis of the contract aforesaid, nor did the said affiant promise to either of said Commlsloners or said James M. Norrls or any other person any sum of money or any other valnable consideration on the behalf of said E E. Myers in consideration of the letting of said contract. * You may say gnodby for mc to Mist HcusUgravc." would spoil all, and she begged me not to mention it. And now I'm afraid I have apoiled all. Oh, Mr. Willoughby—Lord Axminster, I mean—for heaven's sake don't be angry with met Don't say I've spoiled all! Don't say sol Don't reproach me with it!" "Is gone," she assented in a really sympathetic tPne- "Si. ai, ia gone, signora. The little one says the truth, la gone this very evening." A TRAGEDY OF THE MINE. A Miner Supposed to Have Been Killed by "But where?" Kathleen cried, refraining with a struggle from wringing her Itoor hands and repressing the rising tears before the atranger'a face with visible difficulty.Friday night the body of Andrew Yletsy, -ged 30, a Lithuanian, who worked at the Blackman mine, Wllkeabarre, was fonnd dead under a pile of coal in his chamber in the mine. He was taken to hla home and was to have been burl-J Sunday. The undertaker who had the funeral In charge found that the dead man's body had been washed and dressed by his wife and two boarders and they refused to allow him to examine the corpse. He notified the police and examination followed, and it was found that Yietay had been murdered. Bullet wounds were found In the baok of 'he head, in the aide, the right arm, aid the small of the back. All had been inflicted by a thirty eight calibre revolver. The police arrested the dead man's wife, Anna Ytetsy, Anthony Zsnltla, William Zanitls, John Orbeln and William Skillfon, boarders In the house. Coal Was Murdered Instead John Zapka, a Hungarian miner, was crushed Into a ahapeleea mass by the fall of a aulphur bell In No. 6 slope, Glen Ljon. "■mat you certainly nave," Arnold answered, with disdain, growing colder and visibly colder each moment. "You've spoiled more than you know—two lives that might otherwise perhaps have been happy. And yet—it's best so. Better wake up to it now than wnko up to it afterward. Miss Hesslegrave has been less wise and circumspect in this matter, though, than In the rest of her conduct. She took me in completely. And if she hadn't been so ill advised as to confide her conclusions and suspicions to you, why, she might very likely have taken me in forever. As it is, this eclaircissement has come in good time. No harm has yet been done. No word has yet passed. An hour or two later the result, I dare Bay, might have been far more The bountiful looking Italian woman spread her hands open by her aide with a demonstrative air. "Who knows?" she answered placidly. " 'Tis the way with these seafarers. A bella ragazza In every port, they sny—one here, one there, one In Venice, one in London, and perhaps, for all we know, one in Buenos Ayrea, Calcutta, Rio—but be may write to you, signora! He may come back again to Italy I" FATALITY AT PLYMOUTH. D. D. Honeywell Struck ami Killed by !D., L. & \V. Train. A south bona I paaeenger train on the Bloomaburg Division at rack and lnatantly killed D. D. Honeywell, a well known resident of Plymouth, who wae walking along the traofc a abort distance above that tDwn, on June 13th. Honeywell waa a married man and leaves a wife and one child. prayer meeting, lookout and music.— Australian Christian World. So on the third morning of bis stay the canon left Venice. Kathleen breathed freer as soon as be was gone. The load of that gnawing anxiety wa« much lightened ■pon her. Kathleen shook her head sadly. Much ■s the woman misunderstood the situation, reading into it the ideas and habita it ber own class and country, Kathleen felt she meant to be kind and was grateful for even that mechanical kindness at such a terrible moment. Society and Pastor. If there is coolness between the pastor and the Christian Endeavor Bociety, the first duty of the members is to inquire what can be done to correct the eviL It is not necessary to inquire who is chiefly responsible for it, the only question of practical importance being, How can good feeling be restored? If the members are desirous of accomplishing this end, they will find some way to do it In any proper effort in that direction they will find the pastor ready to meet them more than half way.—National Presbyterian. That very same day, as it chanced, Arnold Willoughby, reflecting to himself in bis own room, made his mind up suddenly to step round in the afternoon and have a word or two with Kathleen. Ever since that morning when they picnicked at the Lido he hud been debating with himself whether or not he should ask that beautiful soul to marry him, and now his mind was made up. He could resist no longer. He had decided that very day to break the ice and ask her. He was quite sure Bhe liked him—liked him very, very much. That she showed unequivocally, and he had waited so long only because he could not muster up courage to speak to her. Would it be right of him, he asked him•elf, to expect that any woman should share such fortunes as his would hence forth be? Was he justified in begging any woman to wait till an obscure young -painto could earn money enough to keep her iif the comfort and luxury to which ahe had been accustomed? —i — DD "He will not return," she answered de"[wtiringly, with a terrible quiver in her voice. "Hut it wasn't that I wanted. 1 wanted to siCeak with him before he went and—to chwr up a misconception, Which way has he gone, do you know? By sea or by land, the jDort or the railway station?" "She didn't tell me," Mrs. Hesslegrave burst out, anxious now the worst bad come to make things easier for Kathleen and to retrieve her failure. "It wasa't she who told me. I found it out for myself—that is, through somebody else"  KINGSTON COAL CASE. The tjury Coi|]Cl Not Agree Vp«n « Qkorob W. Myers. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10th day of June, 1895 Into this unconscious trap Kathleen fell readily enough and waited on as long as she could In the vain hope that Arnold Willoughby would turn up sooner or later. But when at last it seemed clear that he was taking an afternoon off and wouldn't be there at all she accepted Mortimer's offer of a lift home in his gondola, and having wasted her day hopelessly by this time went in on her way back to fulfill a few small commissions at shops in the Callo du Molse, which still further delayed her return to her mother's. Verdict. In the suit for big damages brought against the Kingston Coal Company by W. H. Binee and E P. Cosgrove, for alleged illegal mining of coal, the jury failed to agree, and was discharged. Havins L. Brooke, (Seal) Notary Public, Wayne county, Michigan. "Found out what?" Arnold asked coldly, fixing his eye upon hers with a stony glare. Then; was time even yet, for at that moment, as it chanced, Arnold Willoughby was still engaged in registering his luggage for Genoa, whence he hoped to get employment on some homeward bound steamer. And if the woman had told the truth much trouble would have been averted. But truth is an article of luxury in Italy. The vulgarized Titian looked at Kathleen searchingly, yet with a pitying glance. It waa learned that on Friday m rnlng Yietay and Zeultls had quarreled, Yletsy accusing Zanitia with being criminally intimate with Mrs. Yeltay. They afterward went to work In adjoining chambers in the Blackman mine, and it is supposed Zanitls came up from behind and killed Yietsy. Then the murderer covered up the body with rock and coal and reported to the pump runner that a fall of rock had oc curred. No one waa in that part of the mine when the shooting occurred except the murderer and his victii^. WANT TO BE INSPECTORS. Mrs. Hesslegrava looked away from him in abject terror. That glance of bis froze her. Examination of Candidates for Three Im- port ant. Positions. Christian Endeavor Notes. | "Why, found out that you were Lord Axminster," she answered, with one burst, not knowing what to make of him. "She knew it all along, you know, but she never told me or betrayed your secret. She never even mentioned it to me, her mother. Bhe kept it quite faithfully. She was ever so wise about it. I couldn't Imagine why £e—well, took so much notice of a man I wopposes to be nothing but a common sailor, and it w«i pnly yesterday or the day before I discovered by accident she had known it all along and had recognized the born gentleman under all disguises." Pe&th of Mrs. Pickett- The terms of the mine inspectors in the Third, Fourth and Fifth Districts expire this year, and this week the examiners— E. H. Lawall, A. Rellly, W. B. Jones, Allan Moffatt and John W. Berry—are holding an examination In Wllkesbarre of candidates for the positions. There are nine candidates, as follows: John M. Lewis, Bazleton, prepent Inspector; Hugh Mc- Donald, Pittston, present inspector; G. M. Williams, Wllkesbarre, present inspector; James E Roderick, Hazleton; William E. Howell, Plymouth; Morgan D. Rosser, Kingston; P. J. Stanton, Dorranceton; Harvey Faulds, 106 High street, Wllkesbarre; Luke Nanklvell, Plains. Five hundred Michigan Endoavorers for Boston! The Boston 1895 committee is arranging for a special vestibuled train to leave Detroit and go right through to the convention city. The many friends of Mrs. Nancy Pickett will be pained to learn of her death, which occurred at about four o'clock last Friday afternoon at the family home on Franklin street, West Plttston. Mrs. Pickett had been in 111 health ever since the death of her husband three years ago, but her condition did not become serious until last Sunday. It was not generally known that she waa so ill, and the announcement of her death waa a painful surprise to her many friends. Mra. Pickett »as 73 years of age. She waa born in Dairy, Ireland, came to this country 47 years ago, and since then has resided moet of the time in Plymouth and Weat Pitts ton. For the past twelve years she had resided here. She waa a woman of many exoellent qualitiea, and waa beloved by all who knew her. 8he waa a member of Trinity Episcopal Church. The following sons and - daughters survive her: lira. James Benard, William Pickett, Mra. George Connor and John Pickett, all of Plymouth; Miss Margaret Pickett, who resided with her mother in West Plttston, and George Pickett, of Kingston, the well known conductor on the Weat Plttston electric Una. When she reached home and went up stairs, she was astonished to find Mrs. Hesslegrave rocking herself tip and down distractedly in her chair, and the yellow honiton headdress in a last stage of disorder, which betokened a long spell of very vigorous misery. "Oh, he's gone," she answered, nodding her head, "he's gone altogether. He got out his box and his pictures quite suddenly just now, and our Pietro rowed him off to a steamer in the harbor. And J saw the steamer sail. She's at the Lido by this time. But he'll write, he'll write, make sure! Don't take it to heart, signora." The Baptist juniors of Houlton, Ma, have given a window to the new church. The Congregational society of Calais, Me., conducts a prayer service at the city poorhouse on Sundays, alternating with the Milltown (N. B.) Congregational society. He put that question to himself seriously, ami he answered it in the affirmative. If be had really been always the Arnold Willoughby he had now made himself by his own act, he need never have doubted. Any young man just starting in life would have thought himself justified in asking the girl he loved best in the world to wait for him till - he was in a position to marry her. Why should be not do what any oth*r man miKht do lawfully? He had cast the past behind him. He was a painter sailor now, but why need he hesitate on that account to ask the girl whose love he believed he had won on his own merits if she would wait till he could marry her? Arnold Willoughby would have done It, and he was Arnold Willoughby. As she maundered on, floundering fur ther into the mire each moment, Arnold Willoughby'a conviction that something had gone wrong grew deeper and deeper with every sentence. Ha shuffled uneasily on his chair. For the first time since he bad practically ceased to be an earl he saw a British mamma quite obviously paying court to him. He would have liked to go indeed; this queer talk made him feel so awkward and uncomfortable. It reminded him of the days when adulation was bis bane. More still, it jarred against his sense of maternal dignity. But he couldn Vgo somehow. Now the doubt was once abused, be must wait at least till Kathleen returned, that lie might see her and lDo rid of it. Yet all this strange dangling of inartistirully wrought flies before the victim's teye was disagreeably familiar to him. He had heard a round dozen of Mayfleld mammas talk so to him of their daughters and always in the same pretended confidential strain when he was an earl and a catch in London society, though he confessed to himself with a shudder that he had- never yet heard anybody do it quite so fatHously,  ly and woodenly as Kathleen's mother. She, poor soul, went on with bland self satisfaction, convinced in berown soul she was making the running for Kathleen in the most masterly fashion and utterly unaware of the disgust she was rousing in Arnold Willoughby's distracted bosom. The prisoners were taken before the mayor and held for conrt without ball. "Why, mother, dear," she cried in alarm, "whnt has happened since I went out? You haven't had another letter from Reggie asking for money, have you?" Kathleen pn-ssed her hand to her bosom to still its throbbing and went forth into the street. All was black as night for her. She staggered home in a maze. Her Mrs- Hesslegrave thought that last was % trump card to play on Kathleen's behalf. But Arnold Willoughby arose. ON TO DENVER, Mrs. Hesslegrave broke down. "J wish I had," she answered, Bobbing. "I wish it was only thatl I wish it was Reggie! Oh, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty, how am I ever to tell you? He's been here since you went out, and you'll never, never forgive mel" Again "Opportunity" Knock* at Tour Fifty of the 60 members of the First Ptesbyterian society of Santa Rosa, CaL, give to missions according to the 2 cents a week plan. Twenty-seven associate members united with the church during the year. "Well, you may tell Miss Hesslegrave," ha said stiffly, "that if she thought she was going to marry an English earl and live like a countess sh#was very much mistaken. That was wholly an error. The man who loved her till 10 minutes ago— the tqan she seemed to love—the man who, thinking she loved him, came here to ask for her hand this afternoon and whom she would no doubt have accepted under that painful misapprehension—is and means to remain a common sailor. She has made a mistake, that's all. She has miscalculated her chAnoes. It's fortunate, on the whole, that mistake and miscalculation have gone onfurther. If I had married her ladder the misapprehension which seems to have occurred, she might have had in the end a very bitter awakening. Such a misfortune has been averted by your lucky indiscretion. You may say goodby for me to Miss Hesslegrave when she returns. It is not my intention now to remain any longer in Venice." Oopr. "|f Sleeping, Awake." July 3rd, 4th and 5th, excursion tickets will be sold by all lines In the east, via Chicago and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Hallways. "Chicago, Council Bluffs and Omaha Short line" to Denver, Pueblo or Colorado Springs and return a' one standard first class fare, plus two dollars, for the round trip. Tickets good to return until September 1st. Special side trip to points of interest throughout Colo rado at reduced rates. Sleeping car ac commodations can be reserved in advance, and the "opportunity" of extending the trip to Salt Lake, Ogden, Helena, Butte, Yellowstone Park, returning to Chicago via St. Paul, is offered at greatly reduce1, ratea. For full particulars call on any oonpon ticket agent or address John R. Pott, District Passenger Agent, Chicago Milwaukee and StvPaul Railway, Williams' P°rt. Pa- 16m6t "He's beeu here?" Kathleen repeated, not knowing what her mother could mean. "Reggie's been here? Today? Not at this house—in Venice!" ONE KILLED, ONE INJURED. Fifteen hundred invitations are distributed every Sunday afternoon on the streets, in theater entrances, hotels and restaurants by the young people of the First Baptist church of Kansas City. Many souls have been won through this work Serious Accident at the Hurtling mine in "No, no, no, not Reggie," Mrs. Hesslegrave answered, rocking herself up and down still more vigorously than before. "Mr. Willoughby—Lord Axminster!" Ha?let»n. At the burning Hazle mine of the Lehigh Valley Company, A fall of rock occurred. John Condy, aged 38, was instantly killed, and Benjimln Leaherhonse was serious/? Injured. So about 3 o'clock be went round, somewhat tremulous, in the direction of the Piazza. He hadn't seen Kathleen for a day or two. She had told him friends would be visiting them without mentioning their name, and she had given herself a holiday while the friends were with her from her accustomed work on the Fondamenta delle Kattern. In a second the color fled from Kathleen's cheek as if by magic. Her heart grew cold. She trembled all over. A unique feature of tho Boston convention will be the special state headquarters, looated in Machinery halL The space will be portioned off among the various state unions, and each will be asked to decorate and fit up its own •hare in a characteristic manner. "Mr. Willoughby!" she cried, clasping her bloodless hands. Every nerve in her body quivered. Never til) that nioment did she know how far her love had carried her. YOUNG MAN KILLED. Struck by a Central Train at White When he got to the door, Francesca, who opened it, told him with a sunny display of two rows of white teeth that the signorina was out, but the slgnora was at home, if he would care to see her. "Oh, mother, what did you say? What did lie do? What has happened?" Haven. Fatal Wreck Near Foster. Arthur Smith, a well known young man of White Haven, while walking over a Central oiosalng In that town, was struok by a passenger train and InBtautly killed. Rebecca Wilkinson, brownsvalley, Ind, says: "I have been In a distressed erudition for three years from nervousne*?, weakness of the stomach, dyspepsia ana ndigestlon until my health wsgone. I had been doctoring constantly with no relief. I bought one bottle of South American Nervine, which did me more good than any $50 worth of doctoring I ever did In my life. I wonld advise every weakly person to use this valuable andj lovely remedy; a few bottles of It has cured me completely. I consider It the grandest medicine in the world." Warranted the most wonderful stomach and nerve cure ever known. Trial bottles 15 cents. Sold by J. H. Houck, Druggist, Pittston Pa. "He's gone!" Mrs. HessleKravecried feebly, wringing her hands in her distress. "He's gone for good and all 1 He told me to say goodby to you." A wreck occurred on the D., L. & W. road between Nicholson and Foster last week, when brakeman William Hasten, who resided at Wlmmer Summit on the £ & W. road, was killed. He was forty-five years of age and leaves a wife and three children. Fire cars were wrecked and the track was blocked for several hours. Much disappointed, Arnold went up, anxious to learn whetl.er any chance still remained that later In the afternoon he might have a word or two with Kathleen. To his immense surprise, the moment be entered Mrs. Hesslegrave rose from her seat with obvious warmth and held oat her hand to greet him in her most gracious manner. Arnold had noticed by this time the seven distinct gradations of cordiality with which Mrs. Hesslegrave was accustomed to receive Her various guests in accordance with their respective and relative positions in the table of precedence as by authority established. "Hils afternoon, therefore, he couldn't help observing her manner was that with which she was wont to welcome peers of the realm and foreign embassadors. To say the truth, Mrs. Heealegrave considerably overdid it in the matter of gracionsness. There was an lnarttstio abruptness in her sudden change of front, • practical Inconsistency in her view of his •rtatas which couldn't fail to strike him. The Instant way in which Mrs. Hesslerravo, who had hitherto taken little pains fo conceal her dislike and dlstruet of the dreadful sailorman, flung herself visibly a* hU head made Arnold at once suspect som* radical revolution must have taken plao* meanwhile in her views as to his position. "Why, Mr.Willoughby," she cried, holding his hand in her own much longer than «n strictly necessary for the purpose ot "But you'll stop and see Kathleen?" Mrs. Hesslegrave exclaimed, awestruck. "No, thank yon," Arnold answered, taking his hat in his hand. "What you tell pia is quite enough. It is my earnest wish after the error that has occurred never as long as I live to set eyes on her again. You may give her that message. You have indeed spoiled all. It is she herself who said Hi" Death of Mrs Makely "Goodby!" Kathleen echoed, horrorstruck. "Goodbyl Oh, motherl Where's hs going thonf What can it mean? This Is very sudden 1" "He u lll not return," the answered. head reeled nnspeakubly. But an soon an she was gone the woman turned to a man who lounged among the packing canes at the back of the shop with a smile of triumph.The many friends hereabout of Rev. and Mrs. O. N. Makely, of Brooklyn, N. Y., were shocked to learn of the death of Mrs. Makely, which occurred early yesterday morning at her home. The primary cause of death was Bright'a dls ease. It will be remembered that Mr. Makely was formerly pastor of the Langcllffe Presbyterian church, Avoca. In October last he was married to Mary, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wll'lam Loveland, prominent residents of Kingston, who hps thus early and suddenly been taken away. Eczema of the scalp or Scald Head, even ln Its moet severe form is never falllngly enred by Doan's Ointment, the surest specific for all Itchiness of the skin. At last Arnold's suspicions could no longer be concealed. The deeper Mrs. Hes•legrave probed the more firmly convinced lid her patient lDecome that she bad sotnabow surprised his most inmost secret and was trying all she knew to capture him for Kathleen, and trying most  ibis sudden change of trout trom her attitude of sullen nonrecoguition to one of ardent syoophancy roused all his bitterest and most cynical feelings. Was this day dream, then, doomed to fade as his earlier one had faded? Was Kathleen, the sweet Kathleen he had invested to himself in his fervid fancy with all the innocent virtues, to crush his heart a second time as  Sark had once crushed it? Was she, too, a self seeker? Did she know who he was and what title he bore? Was she allowing bim to make love to her for his money— such as it was—aprl his earldom? "I don't know," Mrs. Ilesslegrftve answered, bursting afresh into tears, "but he said I sailed nil. lie said so more than once, and lie told me it was you yourself who said so." "He was a good fellow," shp 8(*id,  the southern tolerance, "and I wasn't going to tell her he'd gone by the train to Genoa. Not likely 1 would! Vou know what she wanted? Bhe would have stuck a knife into him. I saw It in her eye, aud, aliH, I prevented It I Hut sailors will be sailors, and Signor Villabi, say I, was always a pleasant one, Why should I wish him harm? He liked little C'ecoa and paid his bill punctually. She's not the first signora, we all know well, who has been deceived and deserted by a good looking sailor. But what would you have? 'Tis the way of them I Mariners, mariners—- like the gulls of Marangl Here tod«y and there tomorrow!"  A Minister's Experience With Heart Disease. CHAPTER Xm, A MlSSINa IjOVEH. For a minute or two Kathleen was too agitated even to inquire in any intelligent way what exactly had happened. Just at first all she knew was a vague consciousness of fate, a sense that some terrible blow had fallen uiDon her. Her mother had committed some fatal indiscretion, and Arnold was gone—gone without an explanation! But slowly, as she thought of it all, it lDegan to dawn upon her what must have happened. With a fearful shrinking at he/irt she hardened herself for the effort, and drew slowly from the reluctant and penitent Mrs. Hesslegrave a full and complete confession of her share in the misfortune. Bit by bit Mrs- HemDlegravtD allowed the whole painful and humiliating scene to be wrung out of her piecemeal. As soon as she had finished Kathleen stood up and faced her. She did not reproach her mother—the wound had gone too deep by far for reproach—but her very silence was more terrible to Mrs. Hesslotrrave than anv number of renroaches. The Merti noy Dead. Rev. L. W. Showers, Elderton, Pa.: "For many years my greatest enemy has been organic heart disease. From uneasiness about the heart, with palpitation, it bad developed Into thnmping, flutteiing and choking sensations. Dr. Agnew's Cure for the Heart gave instant relief. A few bottles have rid me of almost every symptom of heart disease. It Is a wonder worker." Sold at James Kane's. 'Twas in bitter disappointment that Arnold Willoughby strode away from the Hesslegraves' door tliat afternoon in Venice. For the second time in his life his day dream had vanished. And the new bubble had burst even more painfully than the old one. He was young, he said to himself, when he fell in love with Blanche Mlddleton. With a boy's simplicity he mistook the mere blushing awkwardness and uncertainty of the ingenue for innocence of mind and purity of purpose. He had a rude awakening when he saw Lady Bark sell herself for money and title and develop Into one of the vainest and showiest among the heartless clans of professional beauties. Hut this time, he had said to his own heart, he was older auCl wiser. No such hasty mistake for bim nowadays! He knew the difference now between the awkward bash fulness of the frightened schoolgirl and the pure white About two months ago, Elmer Mertz, aged fifteen, of Ashley received a bullet in his brain, at the hands of two young companions named Yonng and Hargreaves The bullet oonld not be found and the boy has been In a critical condition ever slnoe the shooting. Last Friday at 18:10 he died. The boys charged with the shooting were lately released from jail on ball. Farmers Take Notice. We have for sale at the Wyoming Valley Lumber Company yards, West Pittston, Canada Hard Weod Ashes of the beet quality. Parties wishing to use a few tons for the spring crop will do well to call on C F. Watrons, Jr., at the Lumber Co.'s office, who will sell you any quantity required from a bushel to 20 tous. Special arrangements can be made for car load lots. B. F. Mathers, Geo. Manager, A Rrakeman's Horrible Death. - Samuel Decker, 25 years old, an Erie Everywhere We Go and Wyoming Valley brakeman who re- We find some one who has been enred by sided at Little England, near Dunmore, Hood's Sarsapai-llla, and people on all met a violent death on the Delaware, Lack- h*nC*8 are praising this great medicine for awanna and Western road what It has done for them and their friends, awanna ana western road near Nay Aug Taken ln tlme Hom's SarsaparlUa pra- Docker, with several companions, had vents serious illness by keeping the blood caught a ride on a freight train from the all the organs in a healthy conyard in Soranton. On aliffhtiniz aifcion. It is the great blood pnrifler. f-oir, a r» i_ Hood's Pills become the favorite ca from the train neur No. 6, Decker was run thartic with every one that tries them own hy the passenger train from the east 25o. per box. witu a sudden resolve oe determined to put the question to the proof forthwith. He knew Mrs. Hesslegrave well enough to know she could never control her face or her emotions. Whatever passed within that quick countenance betrayed to the most casual observer. So at a pause in the conversation, whep Mrs. Hesslegrave was Just engaged in wondering to herself what would be a good fresh subject to start A Good Suggest Ion. Rochester, N. Y—John Davies, of this this city, took a severe oold and suffered pain throngh the back and kidneys. His physician pronounced his case gravel, and failed to help him. Dr. David Kennedy** Favorite Remedy was recommended, and after taking two bottles he considered himself enred It has never failed in this or qilnaTf troubles. "I am an old soldier of the rebellion. A year ago I was in bed all winter with chronic rheumatism. Three doctors failed to give me relief. Two bottles of Bar lock Blood Bitters pnt me on my feet. It is worth its weight in gold." W. B Knspp, Litchfield, Hillsdale Co., Mlc^t. Kingston, Pa Mrs. T. S.Hawkins Chattanooga, Trail., says: "Shlloh's Vltaliaer 'saved my life. "I eonsldar It the best remedy for a debilitated n*i used." For dyspepsia, liver In Kidney trouble It excels. Price 76 ots.