Pittston Gazette

              Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY. JULY 5, 1895. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. {•*«?3«9SP" ESTABLISHED! 850. ( VOL.. XLV. NO. IK t "No, tt ain't that this time, Morton," he said briskly, with charming sociality. "No larks, I promise you. I'm on the pay just now—como into a little oof and arranged with my people." That impersonal form sounds so much more manly and so much more chivalrous than if one were to Bay outright, "My sisterl" "Hut I want some weeds, too, now I come to think of it, bo you may send me round a couple of boxes of those old Porto Kicos. But if you like you needn't deliver them till after the bitt's paid. Only," he added, looking his purveyor very straight In the face with a furtive yet searching glance, "I'd like you to put them down on the bill, don't you know, and if It's all the same to you I'd like you to antedate them—say last February—or else I expect my people won't pay and will cut up rusty." at a neavy uiscount. no reatnereo nig nest from me. His kites must have swallowed up five y«*ars at least of the Membury rent roll, I should think, lieforo he was'through with it;'as that American girl says. I know he's left me pretty well oleaned out. And Florrie will have it all, I supiiose. The girl's name is Florrie." look at all the pit-iurrs." And these fleeting moments grew dearer and ever dearer to Florrie Clarke's mind. They came as a revelation to her of a new force in her bonopi. Till she got engaged to Captain Bourchier she had never herself suspected what profound capacity for a simple sort of everyday romance existed within her. termonger called it,. Life was now one vast blank. He didn't know where to turn for consolation and comfort- coup oeioreiianu. i went to ine surrogate and swore a declaration"-—— "A what?" Florrie exclaimed, overcome by so much devotion. KICK IS l'lU:Si«ENT Jl'IXil BILLS SIGNED AND VETOED. His first idea, in fact, was to slinK ott nnpercfived and never keep the engagement with Florrie at all. What use was he now to Florrie or to anyliody? He was simply stone broke. Not a girl in the world would care for him. His second Idea was to fling himself forthwith over Waterloo bridge, but fr-rni that, heroic cowardice he was del erred by the consideration that the water was cold and if he did ho would proliably drown liefore any one could rescue him, for lie was a feeble swimmer. His third and final idea was to go and tell Florrie every word of what had happened and to throw himself, so to' speak, on her generosity and her mercy. Third ideas are b-st. So he went, after all, to Rutland Gate, much dispirited. A manservant, in a mood as dejected as his own opened the front door to him. Was Miss Clarke at home? Yes, the servant replied, still more dejectedly than ever. If hi* liked, he could see her. Reggie steplied in, all wonder. He hail rather fancied that manservant, too, must have lost his all through the astounding and incomprehensible victory of the Plunger. The Story" of the A |D|»oiiit lueut, as Tulil by the R«cor«l The Controller Rill and H*v«nU Import. ant School HtMirM "Declaration," said Reggie. "Don't you know, a sort of statement that we both of us wished to get married at once and wanted a license, and here the license is, and I thought when Canterbury Bell had won, nnd I was as rich as Cru'siw, if I brought it to you, just so, you'd say like a bird:'Never mind my people, never mind Captain Bourchier. I've always loved you, Reggie, and now I'm going to marry you.' but that lieastly fCxil the Plunger plunged in and spoiled all. If It hadn't been for him, you might ]Derhaps have been Mrs. Reginald Hesslegrave tomorrow morning. Mrs. Reginald Hesslegrave is a fust rate name, darling." Judgf Bice la not only tu he a member of the new State Appellate Conrt, bnt he is also to b« PKHidaut Judge of the same. I H | bills or I/, dec. dlstn B CC tlfiea cla« •cliot teee tc dlrecto BUCll lnf foi ln(j trolib. Repeal In a«ei» May nnltD tain hIol no sea con »mui ;haee paten by nek men the people. iRrisbubg, Jnne 29.—Thi folloarlag were signed by the Governor: Anting the publication of aaaool laaa aafi eions; eatabllsbiugof Hbrartaalaaahtat lets; authorizing the tppotatoMl a( nmtttee on permanent imhra' eartee; regulating the eetabttshaieat, fication and maiataoaaea of Mgh ile; authorizing Normal School teaao enter Into agraamsat wltk aokotl to. a for the lnatrnetloB of pnnfli froet district at tha Normal School; Mt fixthe number of teachen amtmmj separate inatltntaa at fifty; Biaal the office of ooonty eoa* er. Theae bill* vara wtnd: waling an act relating to kaokatedag Bedford oounty; relieving raal aatoto %e from the provtotone of the aet at 1850, taxing their raoalpta; maklagtt wfnl to charge toll for travel over mmtnrnplkee; authorizing eoonty eoMBteersto actual aettlaca aad oonvev -!®d lands belonging to fha aitiaal utlee; providing (or the ooUeattoaatf 4fca its doe the eoaunoawMlto flat faa/ money, intereat and fee 4m m annted lands; relating to  ♦ax collectors; providing Cm the manif submission of oonatttattaaal aaaeads and other qaaetioaa to tha vote af "Do you think Axminster would ask me to meet her?" Captain Bourchier Inquired tentatively. Moreover, 'tis a peculiarity of the thing wo call love that it gets out of every man and every woman the very best that is in them. Reggie Hesslegrave liegan to feel himself in his relation to Florrie quiteother tlmn he had ever felt himself in any other relation of his poor wasted existence. He loved that girl with a love that for him Was very nearly unselfish. He thought of tier and dreamed of her. He lived day and tjight for her. He risked Kathleen's money recklessly for her sake on impossible outsiders and hacked the favorite at race after race in utter disregard of worldly circumstances in order to win her a princely income. That was about the highest ptint, Reggie's industry, affection and unst Ifishness could reach. In his way he w is raised above his own normal level. F )r Florrie he would almost have consented to wear an unfashionable coat» or to turn down his trousers when Bond street turned them up, or to do anything. In fact, that a woman could wish, except curb his expenditure and lay by for the^uture. So for about IS months things went on It neeCl not bt) said, after Col. Asher Miner's vlnit to Harrisburg, that Luzerne county has no one who can get close to the gnbernatorlai ear, ways the Wilkesbarre Record, and then it tolls the story Of Jndge Rice's appointment to the Superior Court baneh, an follows: "Jol. Asher Miner, who has done so much to secure Judge Rice's appointment while all other workers were loth to clutch at the lost straw, arrived in town from Harris bnrg last night and w?s elated over his success. He stated that he had no diiliculty in seeing the governor and when he waa ushered into his presence he found the executive considering the last of the appointments, whether it should be Judge Brown, of Lane aster, or Judge Rice, of WilkesbaTre Col. Miner stated that the governor seem ed to think he was under obligation to appoint Judge Willard, of Scrauton, and therefore could not ignore the Lackawanna county candidate, but the ability of Judge Rice hail been so assiduously pressed upon him and he had heard such favorable mention of him from prominent man all over theState that he was inclined to appoint him also, notwithstanding the fact that Judge Willard live9 only eighteen miles away. The impression has gone abroad, said Col Miner, that the appointment of Judge Brown had been settled npon several days ago and that Judge Rice's name had not been seriously considered. This seems a mistake, as the governor at no time fully , decided to appoint Jndge Brown. He merely asked him whether he would accept an appointment if tendered him. Tue only appointments definitely decided upon several days ago were those of Beaver, Willard aiDd Wlckham, and Jndge Rice's name was being as prominently considered one of the other appointments as the names of any of the other candidates When Col. Miner had spoken of Judge Rice for half an hour the governor stated that he might telegram h the news of Judge Rice's appointment to Wilkesbarre. Before Col. Miner left the executive chamber the list of jidgee as completed was made up for the first time and given officially to the United Press, previous reports, excepting thoee wi'h reference to Willard, Beaver and Wlckham having been hearsay. Col Miner found the sentiment in Harrisbnrg very strong in favor of Judge Rice. The governor was very much impressed -frith his ability. Attorney General McCormick spoke of him as one of the moet learned judges in the State and other State officials who were present joined • in the words of commendation. Col. Miner deserves great credit for following up what was at least considered a lost hope, but which circumstances prove, according to the Colonel's statement, to have been as bright a hope as the Rice boomers could have wished. The Colonel's words undoubtedly turned the governor's mind for the balance and decided the appointment of Luzerne's president jadge." The new peer raised his eyebrows, "I'm sure I don't know," ho replied, with a doubtful air, like one who could hardly answer for Lady Axminster's conduct. "They're not exactly the sortof people my wife cares to ask—not even before we'd got things set straight with them financially. Her Acquaintance with Miss Florrie and Florrie's mamma was always of the most formal and perfunctory descrip- Florrie looked up at him confidingly. She recognized the adapted quotation from a well known poet. CHAPTER XVI. WITHOUT SECURITY. joy ttiat charming spectacle. J toon t matter tTi me. I'd soon net used to it, though I would have thought mere family affection, to say nothing of family pride, for I perceive you haven't got any"  The tobacconist smiled a meaning smile. He was well acquainted long since with suoh threadbare little ruses, which, after the fashion of gentlemen doing a risky trade with young men about town, he condoned as in the end very good for business. As soon as the funeral was over Kathleen returned to town to prove her mother's will. Mrs. Hesslegrave hud little to leave, and her jx*n#ion died witJl her. Her own small property, a trifle searcely worth considering, she divided in equal shares between Kathleeu and Reginald. But Mr. Reginald was not a little surprised at this equitable arrangement. "Of course I don't grumble," he said magnanimously to his stater us she turned her pale face up to him from her newly made mourning, "but it's beastly unfair, that's what I call It, and I confess it isn't quite what I'd have expected froua the mater " it —■ "• D*; k »• Kathleen stared at him with tears in her eyes. It shocked her inexpressibly to hear him speak of their mother at such a moment with so little feeling. "And it's no good now," she said plaintively, "since the Plunger put a atop to it!" "But Reggie," Kathleen cried, horrorstruck, "you don't menu to tell me that with an income of £200 a year you're more than £700 in debt. It isn't really true. Is it?" "All right, sir," he answered, with a nod. "I quite understand. They Bhall be entered as you wish. We deal as between men. And Just to show you, sir, that I trust you down to the ground and have perfect confidence in your honor as a gentleman there need be no trouble about writing for payment. I'll send the cigars up to your rooms this evening. Will you tab? a lieed now, sir? I cau offer you a really \Wy nice Havana." A gleam of hope dawned in Reggie's eyes. Ho was in a lover's mood, all ronumce nnd poetry. ("Well, the license is all right," he said, taking Florrie's hand in his and smoothing it tenderly. "The license is all right, U It conies to that. There's no reason, as far as the formalities go, why I shouldn't marry you, if you will, tomorrow morning."Reggie gazed at her contemptuously. In the drawing room Florrie met him, very red as to the eyes. Her mien was strange. She kissed liiin with frank tenderness. Reggie stared wider than ever. It began to strike him that all London must have backed Canterbury Bell for a place and gone bankrupt accordingly. Argentines were nothing to it. He had visions of a crash on 'change tomorrow. Hut Florrie held his hand in hers with genuine gentleness. "What a storm in a teapot I" he answered, with gentlemanly scorn. "Maybe .£CD50. May lie £800. A gentleman doesn't generally trouble himself about the delta lis of these matters. lie buys what he can't do without, and he pays for "It by installments from time to time as occasion offers. His tailor Bays to him, 'Would it be perfectly convenient to you, sir, to let me have a few pounds on account within the next six weeks or bo? For, if so, I should be glad of it. I'm sorry to trouble you, sir; but, you see, your little bill has been running on so long,' and he rubs his hands apologetically. And then you say to him In a careless way: 'Well, no, Saunders, it wouldn't. I don't happen to have any spare cash in hand to waste on paying bills just at the present moment—Ascot coming on, don't you know, and all that sort of thing—but I'll tell you what I'll do for you, you can make me a couple of more suits, tweed dittos and knickerbockers.' That's the way to manage tradesmen. They don't mind about money as long as they get your custom, though as a consequence, of course, one doesn't always remember exactly what one owes within £150 or so." in tb1s way, and then flying rumors be- K«n to iiit about town that Spider Clarke of late had not been doing quite so well in hi» money lending as usual. His star wim waning. It was whispered at the clubs thru, emboldened by his success with A1 gy lledburn, whom he was known to have financed during the tedious course of the Axwiuster peerage case, he had launched out too freoly into similar speculations elsewhere and had burned his fingers over the monetary affairs of a very high personage. With bated breath people mentioned 11is serene highness the Duke of Saxe-Weisf.niehtwo. Whether this was so or not, it is certain at least that Spider Clarke was less in repute in St. James' than formerly. The ladies who returned Mrs. Clarke's bows so coldly at the theater returned them now with the very faintest of possible inclinations or affected to be turning t heir opera glasses in the opposite direction and not to notice her. Even Captain iiourrhier himself, whose suit had been pressed hard and warm at first, began to fancy it was a precious good thing that innocent looking little Decoy Duck had played so ffist and loose with him, for as things were turning out now he was confoundedly inclined to doubt whether the man who got her would get enough pickings with her to make it worth his while to givb up that very mysterious entity he called his liberty. Henceforth he was seen less and less often at Rutland Gate and affected more and more at the Flamingo club to s|Deak of his relatious wth the Spiderette as a mere passing flirtation that had nearer been meant to come to anything "Then what stands in the way?" florrie inquired innocently. Baggie was ho delighted with the encouraging result of this first attempt that he ventured to go a single step further in the same direction. It's convenient, don't you know, for a gentleman to have a little spare cash in hand for emergencies like the projected visit to Richmond. "And look here, Morton," he went on evasively, "would you mind Just doing me a very small favor? I'm in wunt of ready cash— no rhino in hand—hut my people, I'm proud to say, are behaving like bricks. They're paying up everything. They'll settle anything in reason I bring In Just now as part of my embarrassments. They're prepared for a lump of it. Could yoa make it convenient Just to lend me a mere trifle of 5 quid for the immediate present—a nominal loan, don't you know, not to take effect till I've iDaid my debts, but antedate the I O U, say from last December or January. It'd give me a little ready money for current expenses, don't you see, which is really an clement making for virtue,' as Charlie Owen  cause it prevents one from getting Into new debt the very day one's out of the' old "You," Reggie answered at once, with a sudden burst of gallantry. "You yourself entirely. Nothing else prevents it." DARING ROBBERY IN Young Man Gagged by Bobbw While "Well, you've heard what's happened," she said, "you dear, and still you come to see me?" Florrie flung herself into his arms They Go Through m Ml. One of 1 nailing liMria la the Wyoming Valley Knitting MID. Tw of the employes, Jowph Weat and Ificbotoi Chelius, were sleeping b» oriH morning at about one hillock, whoa bu masked robbers entered the plane. The yonng men were awakened to find Omselves surrounded by robbers and revolvers. Chelius showed fight, wbereapaa he was overpowered, hie hands and flaal Had and a stocking placed In Ma »"■* The ropes were palled so tight as In him. West wss also bound and  The thieves them forced the ante dear open with dynamite. The yoaag MB were close by and they expected to be killed by the explosion. Thievsa wsee aaperts, however, and bat little damage Wm done except to the door. They helped themselves to everything of valna to toe safe, and then with a "good bye,  the yonng men, ooolly left than bond and gagged aid went their way. Waal aad Chellns managed to lirtmsn thstr koall after considerable bud work. The robbers got $65 In cash aad sons valuable papers. "Unfair!" she exclaimed, taken aback. "Why, how do you make that out, Reggie? We're both to share alike. I don't qtlle see myself how anything could well be made very much fairer." "Reggie, Reggie," she sobbed out, "I love you with all my heart. I love you! I love you! You're the only man on earth I ever really loved. With you and for your sake I could endure anything, anything." Haggle gazed at her entranced. She was really very pretty. Such eyes! Such hair! He felt himself at that moment a very noble creature. How splendid of him thus to come, like a modern l'erseus, to the rescue of beauty—of beauty in distress at its hour of trial! How grand of him to act in tlio exact opposite way from that detestable Bourchier creature, who had failed at a pinch, and to marry Florrje offhand at the very time when her father had passed under a serious cloud, and when there was some sort of merit in marrying her at once without a penny of expectations! Conduct like that had a specious magnanimity about it which captivated Reginald Hesslegrave'B romantic heart. The only point in the case ho quite forgot to consider was the probability that Kathleen, unconsulted on the jjroject, might be called upon to support Ixith bride and bridegroom."Well, how qocs It this vwrnincit" "What, the Plunger?" Reggie ejaculated, unable to realize any save his own misfortune.tion. Besides, if you want to know the girl, there's no need to approach her as if she were a duchess. It's easy enough for anybody with a stiver to his name to pick up Florrie Clarke's acquaintance." But Reggie plumed himself on the sense of what Aristotle describes as "distributive justice." "The Plunger!" Florrie repeated in a vague sort of reverie. "I'm sure I don't know what you mean. It's this about poor papa. Of course you've heard it." "Oh, yes, of course. I con see that for myself," Captain Rourcliier went on, with the same cynical candor. "It's plain enough to any one she's the sort of young lady who's directly approachable from all,quarters. Rut that's not what I want, don't you see. I want to be introduced to her fair and square, In the society way, and to Judge for myself whether or not she'll do for me. If she does do, then 1 shall have to put things from the first upon a proper basis, so that her father and mother will undertsand at once in what spirit I approach her. Hang it all, you know, Axminster, when a man thinks it on the cards he may possibly marry a girl, why, respect tor uie nuiy « n.» tuny in uie euu become his wife makes him desire to conduct all his relations with her from the beginning deoeutly and in order." "I don't at all agree with you," he answered, with vigor, digging his hands Into his trousers pockets doggedly". "I'm a man; you're a woman. That makes all the difference. A man's needs in life are far greater than a woman's. lie has society •to think of. A woman can live upon anything. Her wants are so few. A man requires much more—cigars, cabs, theaters, » n occasional outing, a Sunday up the rtvi t, a box at the opera." In \.~hich chivalrous theory of the relations of fhe sexes Mr. Reginald Hesslegrave is kept in countenance by not a few of his kind in London and elsewhere. "I don't see why a man should have all those things any more than a woman. If be can't afford them," Kathleen anewersd, with more spirit than she was aware she possessed. "Recause bo many wome* are content to scrape and slave for the sake of the men of their families I don't see that that entitles the men to supiDose every woman is bound to do it for them. Why should yon be any better entitled to a Dox at ine opera, It It comes to tuat, k than I am?" "Oh, well, if you've no sense of family (.*tenity," Reggie Interjected obliquely, taVfog the enemy by a flank movement at the w point, "and would like to see your b. other sit stewing In the pit among a promt *!nous pack of howling cads or "Not a word," Reggie answered, with a pervading sense that misfortunes, like twins, never come singly. "Has anything dreadful happened?" "Anything dreadful!" Florrie echoed, bursting at once into tears. "Oh, Reggie, you don't knowl Everything dreadful, everything!" And she buried her fluffy head most unaffectedly on bis shoulder. "Reggie," Kathleen said firmly, "I call it wicked of you—wicked." Reggie was really too chivalrous a man at such a moment when beauty was in distress to rememlDer his own troubles. He kissed away Florrie's tears, as a man feels bound to do when beauty flings itself on him weeping, and as soon as she was restored to the articulate condition he asked, somewhat tremulous, for further particulars. For "everything," though extensive enough to cover all the truth, yet seems to fail somewhat on the score of explie.itness. "Soone's people generally remark," Reggie answered, with perfect unconcern. "I was talking over this subject with Charlie Owen yesterday, and he told me his governor made precisely the same remark to him last time he struck for an increased allowance. It's astonishing how little originality there is in human beings." Morton hummed and hawed. To antedate the I O U was a act, he rather fancied, but in the end he gave way, and the net result of Mr. Reginald's day was finally just this-— that he had induced poor Kathleen out of the slender patrimony, which was all had for certain to cowt upon In the world, to pay off his debts for him, and that he now found himself with £25 of her money in his pocket with which to begin a fresh campaign of silly extravagance. Rut if you think these proceedings g ve Mr. Reginald Hesslegrave a singK qualm of con»cienoe you very much misunderstand 'hat young gentleman's character. On the contrary, meeting Charlie Owen on the way down the Strand, he begged that like minded soul Co partake of a dinner with him forthwith at a first class restaurant, triumphantly confided to him In the course of the meal, without extenuating aught or setting down aught in malice, the whole of these two dialogues and finally extended to him a cordial invitation to share a boat up the river with him. and the Clarkes some day very soon out of the remainder of poor Kitty's plundered money. one." He clasped the poor panting little Decoy Duck to his bosom. It was useless lx'ing angry with him, so Kathleen began again: Lord Axmlnster'B lips curled. "I appreciate tiie delicacy of your feelings, my dear boy*" he answered, with a faint "Now, Reggie," she said in a serious voioe, "I'm not going to make you a present this time of anything. You must fiud out wnat you owe ana snow me tne mils, and then perhaps I may bedisjiosod to lend you what you need, on note of hand, you understand, till you're rich enough to pay me." "Look at the paper," Florriecried, with another burst of sobs. "Oh, Reggie, it's too dreadful! I just couldn't tell yon it!" "Florrie, dearest," he murmured, "I h»ve nothing. You have nothing. We have both of us nothing. We know now it's onljrfor pure, pure love we can think of one another! I love you. Will you take mei- Can you face it all out with mef" touch of irony, "and if Ethel doesn't mind you shall meet the girl at dinner." serious. She handed him an evening journal as she si»ke. Reggie glanced at the place to which her plump little forefinger vaguely referred him. The words swam before hiseyes. This was truly astonishing: "Arrest of the Well Known Money Lender, Mr. 'Spider' Clnrke, For Fraud and Embezzlement. Alleged Gigantic System of Wholesale Forgery. Liabilities, Eighty Thousand. Probable Assets, Nil. The Spider's Web and the Flies That Filled It!" It was a proud evening indeed for Mrs. Clarke and Florrlo when first they dined at Lady Axminster's. To be sure, their hostess put up her tortoise shell eyeglasses morp than once during the course of the dinner and surveyed the money lender's wife through them with a good long stony Rrltish stare, for (ill the world as if she were a specimen of some rare new genus just introduced from central Africa into the zoological gardens of English society. Hut Mrs. Clarke, who was too stout tiD notice these little things, lived on through the stares in the complacent satisfaction of the diamonds that glittered on her own expansile neck, while as for Florrie, with her short black hair even more frizzed and fluffy than ever, she was too deeply taken up with that charming Captain Rourchier to notice what was happening between her mamma and their hostess. Captain Bourchier, she felt, was quite the right sort of man—a perfect gentleman. lie was older than Reggie Ilesslegrave, of course, bat very nearly as good looking, and then he was well connected and held such delightfully cynical views of life—in fact, disbelieved in everybody and everything, which all the world knows is so extremely high toned. Miss Florrie was delighted with him. He wasn't rich, to be sure—that pajia and mamma had heard — but he was the son of an honorable and the first consin of a peer, not to mentlou remote chances of succeeding through his mother to a baronetcy in abeyance. Florrie felt at once this was a very different case from poor dear Reggie Ilesskgrave's, and when at the end of the evening Captain Bourchier gave her hand the most delicately chivalrous pressure imaginable and trusted Mrs. Clarke would allow him to call some day soon at Rutland Gate Miss Florrie realized on the spot this was jpnuine business and responded with a maiden blush of tho purest water. That dainty little baby face was always equal to such an emergency, for Miss Florrie had the manners of the most shrinking ingenue, with the mind and soul which might reasonably be expected of Spider Clarke's daughter. So matters went on till the end of the senson. Meanwhile the less Florrie saw of the accepted lover the more and more did she see of t he clandestine and romantic one. As for Reggie, he began to plan out a mighty schcuie tor winning himself fortune at a single stroke—a heroic investment of every penny he could raise by pledging his slender credit on a famous tip for the coming Cesarewitch. He Intended to be rich, and to cut out that beastly Bourchler man, and to make himself a swell, and to marry Florrie. On the very afternoon when the news of his fortune was to reach London by telegram, however, he received a dispatch at*is office in the city which considerably disquieted him. Just at the first blush, to be sure, he thought it must be meant to announce the triumph of Canterbury Bell, whom be had "backed for his pile," but when he opened it what he read was simply this: "Come round tonight to see me. Ask for me at the hall door. Important news. Must sp.'ak with you. Floirie." Florrie hid her face yet once more in Reggie's best white waistcoat. He didn't even stop to reflect how she tumbled It. FRED PRICK * *'Oh, dear, yes, I understand," Reggie answered, with alacrity. "I understand down to the ground. Notes of hand are my specialty. Almost all this that I want to clear off Just now is on note of hand, Kitty. Fact is, I'm in a hole, and It's no good denying it. Of cou$-,e, if you choose to leave your brother in a hole, like Jacob's sons, for the Midianites or somebody to pull him out and sell him up, you're perfectly at liberty, I ndmit, to do it. But a hole I'm in, and it's notes of hand have put me there. You see, I exjiected to come into whatever private property tho poor mater had, and 1 expected it to turn out a good deal more than it actually has done. I'm a victim of misapprehension. I flew a kite or two, making 'em payable within six mouths of—well, you know what they call a postoliit. And now I find I can't meet 'em, which is awkward, very, and unless the members of my family come forward ajid help me I suppose I must go Into the court and lose my situation." "Darling, darling,"she cried, "how unselfish, how noble of you!" Given SlOO Fin* and Mx Month* la JaU. Fred. Prloe, formerly proprietor of the Grand Central Hotel in WllkMbam, who was convicted in oonrt early in tbs «nk on the charge of keeping • bawdy hoosa, was called in court on Bttnidty saatenced to pay $100 fine and undergo In* prlsonment at hud labor in the 1—iratj jail for sir months. The ssntsnsa to mmsidered a light one, in view ot the (Ml thai the maximum penalty is $1,000 fine and two years in the penitentiary. The Jadga, in imposing sentence, said ha fait no sympathy for the prisoner, hot oat of so| gird for his wife and n Hght m I sentence was imposed. Heggie drew himself up with an ineffable sense of having acted in difficult circumstances like a perfect gentleman. He was proud of his chivalry. wearing a D. tat that would disgrace an office boy, why, *»f course there's no answering you. It's wasting words to argue. I was taktnK it for granted you had still some sense left of sisterly affection and some decent pride in your relation's position. But I suppose you'd like to see me sweeping a crossing. Besides," he went on after a brief pause, "you've your painting to fall back upon. You can earn money at that. It's a Jolly good profession. The mater ought to have considered the difference in our positions and have governed herself accordingly,' as we say in the city." m "But you have your salary," Kathleen exclaimed, distressed to hear hhn question so lightly their mother's sense of justice, for, like most good women, she was more loyal to her mother than her mother, to say the truth, had ever deserved of her. "That's something fixed and certain. You Cfcn always count upon It, while my work's precarious. I may happen to sell, or I may happen to make a failure. And then, too, ■you're a man, and what's the use of being * man, I should like to know—a superior being—a lord of creation—if you can't be trusted to earn your own livelihood lietter than a woman could? If there's to be a ■difference at all, surely it's the women, the weaker of the two, and the less able on the average to take care of themselves, who ought to receive the most I A man can work for his living. A woman can't so well—more doors are closed to her—and I think all that ought to be taken into consideration in arranging Inheritances as between sons and daughters." "My -salary," Mr. Reginald repeated, with supreme scorn In his voice. "My paltry salary! A beggarly 2001 How can yon expect a man brought up with the tastes and feelings of a gentleman to live upon a miserable pittance like that? You don't understand these things, that's where it Is. You're not In society. You go and paint half your time at some place or other in Italy"—Mr. Reginald had a profound and impartial contempt for all foreign countries—"and you don't understand^the needs and requirements of a man about town. They don't come home to you. Why, neckties alone I There's an item for you! I'm distracted with the difficulty of providing good neckties. And flowers again! How can one do without flowers? I don't •uppose I should ever have a chance of rising to be an authorized If Jones were to see me without a gardenia in my buttonhole!""Rising to be a what?" Kathleen inquired, looking puzzled. "Ad authorized," Reggie replied, with a superior smile. "Oh, no, I didn't expect, you to understand what I meant. It's a Reggie read it all through ■with a cold thrill of horror. To think that Florrie's papa should have turned out a fraud, only second to Canterbury Bell, in whom he trusted I It was terrible, terrible! As soon as he had read it he turned with swimming eyea of affection to Florrie. His own misfortunes had put him already Into a melting mood. He lDent down to her tenderly. He kissed her forehead twice. "My darling," he said gently, with real sympathy and softness, "I'm so sorry for you, so sorry! But, oh, Florrie, I'm so glad you thought of sending for me!" "Then tomorrow," he said briefly, "we will be married with this license as the archbishop directs at St. Mary Abbott's, Kensington." Florrie clung to him with all her arms. She seemed to have a dozen of them. "Oh, you dear!" she cried, overjoyed. "And at such a mogient! How grand of you I How sweet I Oh, Reggie, now I know you are indeed a true gentleman!" CHAPTER XVII. TUB HEAKT OF THE .DECOY DUCK, It was about these same days that the brand new Lord Axniinster, strolling down the Row one afternoon arm in arm with his impecunious friend Captain Bourchier, nodded a little familiarly to a very pretty girl on a neat chestnut mare, accompanied by a groom of the starchiest respectability. Reggie thought so himself and stood six inches taller in his own estimation, though even before heaven had grai ted him a fairly good conceit of himself. Florrie drew out a letter in answer from her pocket. Mr. Reginald wonde- « _auch what this message oould p- 'le determined to go round to R ' C he earliest possible inornor. ' bad satis- [TO BE CONTINUED.] GARB BILL SIGNED. Andrew Bntehok, oonvicted of Mgaiooi wounding, was eentenoed to pay $K Aa» and undergo imprisonment tor two yean and two months in the Eastern penttaDtiary."And Just to think," she cried, with flashing eyes, handing it across to him with Indication, "that dreadful other man—before the thin# had hnp]Dened one single hour—the hateful wretch, he wrote me that letter! Did ever you read anything so mean and cruel? I know what to think of him now, and, thank goodness, I've done with him!" GOVERNOR STILL SIGNING BILLS. Others Made I*aws by the Signature of the Lord Axminster's salute was too easy going indeed to be described as a bow. It resembled rather the lDalf playful bob with which one touches one's hat to some man acquaintance. But the pretty girl considered a recognition, no matter how scanty, from a man in Ioord Axminster's position too Important a matter to be casually thrown away, and relaing in her mount Governor That was a good trump card, and Mr. Reginald knew it. fled himself tha. . _ .'1 had behaved as be had a right to expect of such a filly, ami that be was indeed the po®- **»sor of a marrying competence. Many Acta Made Laws Yesterday, But No Harbisburo, June 28 —Among the bills signed by the Governor yesterday are these: Providing for the employment of persons sentenced to oonnty jail; to cede jurisdiction to the United States over cer tain pnblic roads within the national park a» Gettysburg; empowering boroughs to tax persons, property and occupations for general borough purposes; authorizing oitiee to appropriate private property for pnblic park purpose; to permit corporations organized either for the purpose of carrying on any manufacturing business or for the supply of water or for the manufacture or anpplying of light to purchase bonds or stock of other corporations of the same character or to guarantee the payment of intereet and principal of such bonds, of either principal or interest, or to lease and operate corporate property, amending an act to regulate the nomlna" tion and election of public officers and punishing certain offenses in regard to such elections; making dying declarations competent in prosecutions for criminal abortion authorizing the erection of work houses in the several oonntlep; to authorize the Courts of (Quarter Sessions to consolidate ejection districts; to provide for the more immediate relief, care and support of indigent insane persons committed on criminal charges, in**than felony; punishing the printing ar.d distributing of any written or printed libelous paper; relieving real estate agents from tne provisions of the act of 1861; to prevent the wearing in the public schools ky any of the teachers thereof of any dress, indicating the fact that such teacher is an adherent or mem-i ber of any religious order, sect or denomination, to repeal an act to provide for the, division of counties urn1 the creation of' new counties. "But you solemnly declared to me only six months since you hadn't n debt in the world except the ones I paid for you," Kathleen exclaimed reproachfully. "Why didn't you tell me t.heu the exact amount of your indebtedness'?' Vetoes. Habrisbubg, June 27 —The following bill* have been approved by the Governor: Providing that only citizens shall be employed on public works; to provide for the support of indigent parents by their children; to provide for game commissioners; dividing the cities into classes; exempting sewing machines leased or hired from levy for rent: authorizing school directors to qualiry one another; amending aot of 1874 fixing pay of road commissioners and bridge viewers; repenting act of 1870 for the preservation of minlug records in Schuylkill and Luzerne; legating the dehorning of cattle; to permit the use of eel pots; to honor the United States Hag and to protect It from nsult; to encourage the use of wide tires on wagons; amending aot in regard to the wearing of Loyal Legion, G. A. R , and U. V. L. badges or buttons; amending election act of 1840; dafinin r train robbery and punishment; prohibiting the public exhibition of physical or msntal deformities; amending act regulating the taking of burial places for school purposes; for the protection ol sturgeon; for the in corporation of wholesale merchandise com panles; authorizing cities, boroughs and '.owns to appropriate money for Memorial Day services; preventing the use of expto lives by fishermen; amending aot of 1885 in regard to the adulteration of dairy products; to provide against the adulteration of food; to provide agalnBt the adulteration of milk; extending the power of mothers over their children; to pro vide for the National Guard; for the protection of persons unable to care for their own property, preventing Interference with electric light machinery; amending act for greater certainty of title of real estatechanging minimum size of black baas to be caught; providing for the publication of State archives, providing for the incorporation and regulation of tunnel com panie*; providing for the Incorporation and maintenance of societies for the im pro7ement of streets and public places; authorizing school boards of second class cities to establish kindergarten schools; authorising township officers to erect town ship buildings; for the Incorporation of institutions of learning; providing for public parks in cities and boroughs; revoking ex luslve rights, franchises, privileges of gas companies which were in existence prior to act of April 29, 1874j authorizing the employment of private watchmen; |fiD- Ing the compensation of appraisers; con ferrlng rlghtjof eminent domain ou munlcl palities to secure property for the N. G. P ; to regulate and determine what weight of anthracite coal shall make a too in Je liveries by retail OQftl dealers, THREE MEN BUN DOWN. Horrible Accident on the Lehigh YmBmy rRKt'OXTltACT OF MATRIMONY. CHAPTER XVIH Reggie read the letter through with virtuous horror. As poor Florrio observed, it was a sufficiently heartless one. It set forth In the stillest uud most conventional style that after the events which had happened today before the eyes of nil London Miss Clarke would of course recognize how impossible it whs lo'r an officer and n gentleman and a man of honor to maintain his relations any longer with her family, and It therefore begged her to consider the writer in future as nothing more than hers truly, Ponsonby Stretfeild Bourchier. Road near Phillip*bury. "No fellow ever does tell his people the exact amount of his Indebtedness," Reggie answered, with airy candor. "It's a trait of human nature," which was no doubt quit* true, but not particularly consolatory to Kathleen in the present emergency.That night was the most eventful of Mr. Reginald's life. For some weeks beforehand indeed he had lived in a perfect ferment of feverish excitement, intending in hi» own expressive dialect to "pull off a double coup" on the day when Canterbury Bell provided him at one stroke with a colossal fortune. To say the truth, he held in his pocket against this foregone contingency a most important document, which iie designed to pull forth and exhibit theatrically to the obdurate Florrle at such a dramatic moment of triumph that even Florrio herself would have nothing left for It but to tlirow overboard Incontinently the cavalry officer and fly forthwith to love in a cottage with her faithful admir!_Dr. Mr. Reginald had planned thU all out beforehand In the minutest detail, and he had so litte doubt of Canterbury Bell's ability to land him at once in fume and fortune that he pulled forth the document many times during the course of the day and read it. through to himself oncc more with the IntHhsest satisfaction. Eirlv Sunday morning, the orew oi a Lehigh Valley freight train found tin aemains of three men on the traek rt flTOea'a Bridge, near Phillipeburg, N. J. Tbay were recognized as the bodies at three Hungarians employed at the AlphaOanaat Works at Whitaker, N. J. The mm wan seen walking along the tiaeka frost ftflD lipsburg intoxicated and had baao warned to get cff the traek about two honra baton they were fonnd dead. Their bodfaa wan badly mutilated. sne drew near to the rails ana exciaimea in a saucy yet sleepy voice, "Well, how goes it this morning?" "Oh, all right,'' Lord Axminster answered in a nonchalant tone. "Are you going to the Graham Prlngles' hop this evening?" "It's very, very wrong of you, Reggie," she said again, trying to be properly stern with him. "I don't think so," the pretty girl responded," with a careless smile. "Too hot, you know, for dancing," which was a graceful way for covering the unacknowledged truth that she had not in point of fact received an invitation. / - "Oh, that's all rot!" Reggie answered, with his usual frankness. "It's no good pitching into any chap because he behaves exactly the same as every other chap does. I told you there's precious little originality in linrnun nature. I've gone on as all other young men go on In a decent position, and you've gone on in the ordinary way common to tlieir jieople, so now suppose we drop it all and get forward a bit with the business." Reggie handed it back wVh a thrill of genuine disgust, , "The man's a end," he said shortly, and, to do him justice, he felt it. Meanness or heartlessness of that calculated sort was wholly alien to Reginald Ilesslegrave's impulsive nature. Lord Axminster asked a few more of the usual useleks society questions and then stifled a yawn. The pretty girl stroked her muse's glossy neck, and with an easy nod went on her way again rejoicing in the consciousness that she had attracted the attentiou of the loungers by the rails as the acquaintance of a genuine nobleman. As soon as she had gone Captain Bourchier turned to his friend. And yet not wholly so, as things turned out In the end,.for after Captain Bourchier had called ouce or twice at Rutland Gate and had duly poured into Miss Florrie's ears his talo of artless love and been officially accepted by Miss Florrie's papa and mamma as the prospective inheritor of Miss Florrie's thousands ft strange thing caire to paas lu the Inmost recesses of Miss Florrie's heart—a thing that Miss Florrle Jierself could never jiosslbly have counted upon—for when she came to tell Reggie Ilesslegrave that she had received ft most eligible offer from a captain in a cavalry regiment and accepted it with the advice and consent of her parents poor Reggie's face grew so pale and downcast that Florrle fairly pitied him. And then with a flash of surprise the solemn discovery burst In upon her—in spite of papa nnd mamma and the principles they had instilled sho and Reggie Ilesslegrave were actually In love with one -~-therl Superior Court Confereuoe. Harrisbcro, June 29.—The anbaM of the new superior oonrt mat at the axecutive department yeiteiday afternoon, had a long consultation with the nmn mi and got acqnalnted with eaoh other. They aso agreed to meet In Harrlsborg on Jsh 24 and will probably tranaaot aome baaneea if there la any at Their "if missions iwere preeented to than and they will take the oath of oSee on next ot their homes. Any paraon qaiBtei to administer an oath, can awaar tkn lb. "Thank you, Reggie," Florrie said, drawing nearer and nearer to him. "But you know, dear, I don't mind. I never cared one pin for him. After the (Irst few weeks, when I thought of him beside you, I positively tinted him. That's the one good thing that has come out tf all thistrouble. He won't bother me any more. I've got fairly rid of him." And get forward with the business they did accordingly. After a great many subterfuges and petty attempts at deception Reggie was at last induced to furnish Kathleen to the best of his ability with a tolerabU complete li*t of his various creditors and the' amouuts he owed them. Every item, he explained in detail, was simply "unavoidable." These gloves, for examplfe, were necessaries, most undoubted necessaries, any judge would pass them for a fellow in Ids position. Those flowers were naturally part of his costume—hang it all, a man must dress. If people appeared in public iBsiifiiuitxitly clod, why, as a matter of common morals, the police interfered with them. As for that fun put down at 50 shillings, Florrie Clarke had bought that one evening when sho was out with him, and he saiCl to the shopman, "Put it do|rn«to«M|,":as also with the bouquets, the brooch and the earrings. "I say, Axminster," ho observed, with a tinge of querulousness in his voice, "you might have introduced me. I call it beastly mean of a man to keep all his good things to himself like that. Who is the young woman? She's oonfoundedly good looking." Still it's hank to wnlt for boure, slaving itnd toiling in an office in the city, when you know full well—on the unimpeachable authority of a private tip—that wealth and immunity are waiting for you all the while— to a moral certainty— at a bookmaker's at Newmarket. But necessity knows no law, and Mr. Reginald nevertheless so endured til! 5 in the eveuing. By that hour he had reached the well known office in the Strand where he was wont to await the first telegrams of results from the race courses of his country. As he approached those fateful doors, big with hope and apprehension,u strange trembling seized hlin. People were suigi'ig and shouting round the window of the office in wild excitement. All the evil passions of squalid London were let loose there. But Mr. Reginald's experienced eye told him at once the deadly news that the favorite must have won, for the crowd was a Joyous one. Reggie pressed her to his sld». "Florrle, dear," he whispered chivalrously, "when you talk like tnat, do you know, you almost make me feel glad all this trouble has come—if it has had the eneci oi mailing us ura\D ciuser to one C*u other," Rebevca Wilkinson, Biownnllaj, M, aays: "I have been In a dfcfaaaaad oobdition for three years from urn inmiiaai. weakness of the stomach, dyspepsia nl udigestion until my health wagone. I had been doctoring constantly with Mi n* lief. I bought one bottle of Sontli fmrrl can Nervine, which did me man goad than any $50 worth of doctoring 1 ever did in my life. I wonld ad viae every iraaklj person to use this valuable and| tonljt remedy; a few bottles of it haa cured net completely. I consider it the grandnt, medicine in the world." Warranted tbaD most wonderful stomach and nam tva ever known. Trial bottlea 15 nana. Sold by J. H. Honck, Druggist, PUtatom h. "Yes, she Is a nice little thing," Axminster admitted, half grudgingly. "Nothing in her, of course, and a kind of sleepy Venus, but distinctly nice looking, if you care for them that way. A trifle vulgar, though, and more than a trifle silly. Rut she's good enough for a trip up the river, don't you know. The sort of girl one can endure from eighteen to eight and twenty."And that it had that effect at that pres ent moment was n fact just theu visibly and physically demonstrable. ■beastly vulgar slang, the slang of the Stock Exchange, but what can you ex- If a mini's put by his people into a ferfe of a stockbroker's ofltoe Instead of Into a cavalry regiment, where his appearance and manners entitle him to be, why, of course he must pick up the vile lljigo of the disgusting hole lie's been stuck in. An authorized is a clerk, a superior clerk, a sort of trusted servant, Who pays a special subscription to the house and is entitled to act on his employer's account exactly iike a broker. He gets a Jolly good screw, an authorized does, in a good flrnD. I hope tn time, by my merits, to rise to be an authorized. I'll make things hop then, I can tell you, Kitty. Threadncedle street won't know met" Florri# laid the frizzy curls for a minute or two on his shoulder. In spite of her misfortunes she was momentarily quite happy. More Appointments M;wlc It was true, quite true, so far ns those two young people wert» capable of loving, they were actually In love with one another. The human heart, that very incalculable factor In the problem of life, hod taken its revenge at last on Miss Florrie. She had been brought up to believe the heart was a thing to be lightly stifled in the Interests of the highest bidder, social or mercantile, and now that she had aocepted a most eligible bid, all things considered, she woke up all at once to sudden consciousness of the fact that her heart, too, had a word to say in this matter. What she had mistaken for the merest passing flirtation with Reggie Ilesslegrave was In reality a vast deal more deep and serious than what she bad been taught to regard as the grave of life with Captain Bourchier. She had feelings ft little profounder and more genuine than she suspected. The soul within her was not quite so dead as her careful upbringing hod led her to believe it. Harrisburo, June 27.—Governor Hast ings hasannonnced the following appoint tnents: Allen Parkinson Dickey, president judge of tho new Greene Couuty district; John Jones, Montgomery County, to be trustee of the Norristown Icsane Hospital, vice Charles Hunslcker; Daniel Coxe, Lnzerne, trustee of the State hospital at Hazleton, vice Eckley B. Cose, deceased. "Who is she?" Captain Bourchier asked, looking after her with obvious interest. "I always loved you, Reggie,"shecried, "and I can't lie sorry for anything that "But what could I do?" he pleaded plaintively. "She said she wanted them. I was a man, don't you see!1 I couldn't stand by and let a woman pay for them." "Who is she? Ah, there you come to the point. Well, that's Just it, who is she? Why, Bpider Clarke's daughter. You're heard of her—the Decoy Duck." wnkes you lovfine." And she nestled to nls bosom with the most confiding self surrender. This confidence on Florrie's part begot In return equal confidence ort Reggie's. Before many minutes he had begun to tell that Innocent round faced girl how narrowly he had just missed a princely fortune and how opulent he would have been if only Canterbury Bell had behaved as might have been expected of so fine a filly. ".It strikes me you're going to let a woman pay for them now," Kathleen put in, with just severity. Reggie mniJed bis graceful smile, and as he did so Kathleen couldn't help admitting that, after all, he was a very good looking boy, Reggie. Captain Bourchier pursed bis lips. The news evidently interested him. "So that's the Decoy Duck!" he repeated slowly, with a broadening smile. "So that's Spider Clarke's Decoy Duckl Well, I don't wonder she serves her purpose. She's as personable a girl as I've seen for a twelvemonth."Now, the crowd in front of a sporting paper's office on the everting of a race day Is only jubilant, when the favorite has won; otherwise, of course, It stands morose ami silent before the tidings of its failure. But Canterbury Bell was what Mr. Reginald himself would have described in the classic tongue of the turf—the muddy turf of Fleet street—as "u rank outsider," for It is only by backing a rank outsider at heavy odds "on unexceptionable information" that you can hope to haul In an enormous fortune at a stroke without risking » corresponding or equal capital to jt art with. Ho the ptBuns of delight from the crowd that danced and yelled outside the ■flice of the sporting paper made Reggie's lieart sink ominously. ' Could his tipster have played him false? It looked very much like it. A ItDDm;t%OKivsii Enactment (.Philadelphia Times.) A Minister's With teal Thoughtful people will deplore Governor Hastings's failure to measure the religious garb bill at Its true value as a purely demagogical enactment and tc refuse it his ap proval. It ia a piece of legislation that will yot plague its authors and everyone oonneoted with its enactment besides as - noying and threatening injustice «o many of the worthieet citizens ox t'nt Commonwealth.Rev. L. W. 8 ho wet*, EUdsrton, Fa. : "Far many years my greatest enemy hat lieen organic heart rflimaen Pram an»a»l ness about the heart, with plrHiWm. II had developed into thumping, flattering and choking eensations. Dt. Agnaw't Cnre for the Heart gave instant relief. A few bottlee have rid me of almost every symptom of heart disease. It la a wonder worker." Sold at James Kane'a. "Ah, but that's quite a different matter," he answered, laying one brotherly hand on her shoulder, with caressing glance. "You see, you're my sister." "And it was all for you, Florrie," he said ruefully, Angering the document all the while in the recesses of his pocket. "It was all for you, dear one! I thought I should be able to come round to you tonight in, oh, such triumph and tell you of my good luck and ask you to throw that vile Bonrchler creature Overbourd for my Sake and marry me offhand, because I *o "And who's Jones?" Kathleen inquired once more, never having heard till that moment of this mysterious personage. "Why, our senior partner, of course," Reggie answered, with gusto. "She Is pretty,"Lord Axmlnster admitted in the same grudging fashion. "Any brothers?" Captain Bourchier asked, as though the question were one of not the slightest importance. And what a creature a woman Is! How focoasfeUfciM How placable! That one fraternal act made Kathleen overlook all Reggie's misdeeds at once and forever. I regret to have to chronicle it, hut she stooped down and kissed him. The kiss Settled the questiop. Reggie swej)t the field in trlnmiib. Haforc helcft Kathleen's loom .that afternoon he had extracted a promise that, 911 hie producing his hills "But I thought he was a Greek, with a very long name," Kathleen answered, much puzzled. Lord Ax minuter smiled. "Ah, there you go straight to the point," he answered, " like a good man of business. That's Just it, no brothers. She's the only child of her father, and he's a money lender. I admire you, Bourchier, for the frank and straightforward way you put your finger on tho core of whatever subject you deal with. No beating about the bush or unnecessary sentimentality about yon, dear boy. She has no brothers. She represents the entire reversionary interest at 14 per cent in old Spider Clarke's money." "So he is," Reggie replied. "His fuU name's Ioannipulides. Now, no Christian body can 1*) expected to say 'Mr. Ioannipulides' 50 times over in the course of a working day, which is only eight hours, •o we call him Jones for short. It's every bit as effective and a deal less expensive on the vocal organs." A NEW l'OOR LAW, Belief la Six Boon. In point of fact, when real tears rose spontaneously at tho announcement in Reggie Heaslegrave's eyes real teurs rose to meet them In Miss Klorrie's In turn. They were both astonished to find how much each thought of the other. loved you. Awl now it's all none t o smash through that beastly wretch, the PI linger I" Dlstr "ting kidney and bladder disease relieveD n six houra by tfee "New Greet 3outb -uierlcan Kidney Cnre." 1 his new remedy is a great surprise and Might t» physicians on account* of Its ntranting promptneee In relieving pain In the Mad der, kianeys, back and everv part of tb* urinary passages in male or female. II a»D lievee retention of water and pain la JSSl, quick relief and cure. Thls.li your remedy, Sold by J. H. Honok's, druggists, Ptttston. Poor Districts to Receive .State AU\ in Maintaining Insane at llouit. A Doiilih' WfMldiiiK Worse and worse, as he drew nearer he could catch the very words of that jubl lantcry: "ThePlungerl ThePlunger!" A hundred voices echoed it wildly to and frd In tiieir excitement. The whole air was fairly rent with It: "The Plunger I The Plunger!" One of the bills signed by Governor Hastings interests the people of this city. It is that relating to the indigent insane of poor districts, providing for the same allowance for thai? treatment as is given by the commonwealth to state hospitals far the insaue nnder the conditions prescribed by the act of assembly approved June 13, im According to the new law, the poor districts will hereafter receive the same amount of assistance from the State in the care of Insane patients iflalntained at the district poor farm as for those sent to the State insane asylnms, which is $1.50 a week, or abont one-balf. The Pittston poor district generally keeps quite a number ol the m'4d Insane at Han som, for whose maintenance it has rtoeived in the past nothing from the St*te. Here after the district will receive $1 50 a week for each Insane patient. The only question hh to our poor district coming within the operation of the new law is on aoconnt of the fact that several townships and bor onuhs are inolnled with the city in the uirC:rlct, and the law applies oniy to cities oi the third class. The Misses Jennie and Nellie Richardson, well known young ladies, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. John Richardson, of Welsh Hill, participated in a unique social event on June 27—a double wedding. Mi-w Jennie was united in marriage to Qeorge Roierts, and Miss Nellie to Henry Dampman. The ceremonies were performed by Rev. Dr. P«ke at his home, and afterward the newly married couplet: were driven to their own home in the Ferguson house, on Warren street, Went Side, where a reception was hold. O ily a email company was* present, principally relatives of the contracting couples. Ihey are all worthy young people and many friends wish them happy sad prosperous lives. "Did you really think nil that?" Florrie cried, looking upnt him through her tears and smiling confidingly. and stating the precise amounts of his funded debts In the way of notes of hand with his various'creditors he should receive a ■uflident man I" ready cash to settle in full and life over again. He meant to turn oVtr a new leaf, he said, cheering up at the prospect. And so he did—lu the ledger. A clean sweep of all his bills would allow him to start afresh with increased credit, since his creditors would now conclude he had come Into money. Indeed ho instantly formal in his own imaginative mind a splendid scheme for inviting Florrie and her mamma down to Richmond on a drag, with Charlie Owen to asshtt and a few-other good fellows to drink the Ury.Monopole. What's ttie 'good of getting your people to pay ofI all you onre if lioliody but the beastly tradesmen Is to th rive any benefit from their generous behavior? Not that Florrle had the faintest intention—just as yet—of throwing o vert ton rd her eligible cavalry officer. That would be the purest quixotism. But she recognized at the same time that the cavalry officer was business, society, convention, while Reggio Heswleurave was now romance—a perilous delight she had never till that moment dreamed of. As romance she accepted him, therefore, and much romance she got out of him—risky romance of u sort that stirred in jxDor Florrie's sleepy, sluggish heart a strange throbbing and beating never before suspected. She was engaged to Captain Bourchier, of course, and she meant to marry him. One doesn't throw overboard such a chance as that of placing oneself at once in the very thick of good society. Ilut week after weelf and month after month, while she met Captain Bourchier from time to time at dance or race course, she still went on writing In private most passionately despairing letters to Reggie Hesslegrave, whom she could never marry. As she put It herself, she was dead stuck on Reggie. Week after week and month after month she made stolen opportunities for meeting him, unawares as It seemed, by Hydo Park corner or saying a few hurried words to him aa she passed in Piccadilly. Then the Interviews between them grew bolder aud bolder. Florrie penciled a few hasty lines: "Will be at the academy with mamma tomorrow at 10. Meet me if you can in the architectural drawings—it's always empty. I'll leave mamma in one of the other wxima KLm diuatri'i uum CnD rouuil ajui "Isee," Kathleen replied and was silent for a moment. "Do you doubt it?" Reggie asked, half drawing the document from the bottom of Ids jiocket. "N no, darling, 1 don't exactly doubt It," Florrie answered, gazing still harder "But 1 wonder—if you say it Just now so aH to plense me." "However," Mr. Reggie continued, returning to the charge unshattered," "it doesn't much matter how the poor mater left the money, don't you know, one way or the other—that's neither here nor there. The long and the short of It is, whether you like it or whether yon lump it, you'll have to fork over your share to me as soon as we've got clear through with this beastly probate business, for I want the tin, aud, •o put it fair and square, I can't do within t it." Captain Bourchier assumed at once an apologetic air. "Well, you see," he said candidly, "if one's looking out for tin it's such a great point to find the tin combined with a young woman who isn't wholly aud entirely distasteful to one. I don't go in for sentiment, as you Justly observe; but, hang it all, I don't want to go and fling myself away upon the very first young woman that ever turns up with a few thousands to her name irrespective of the question whether she's one eyed or humpbacked, a woolly haired nigger or a candidate for a lunatic asylum. Now, this girl's good looking, she's straight and well made, and I suppose she has the oof. So if one's going to give up one's freedom for a woman at all I should say the IJecoy Duck w-as well worth inquiring about." "Very possibly," Lord Axmlnster replied as one who dismisses an uninteresting subject. Now, the Plunger was the name of that ivretched horse, the favorite. Reggie came up with bated breath. His beitrt stood still within him. Bnoblen's Arnica Salve. "What's won?" he usked a costermon■Ciu who was shouting with the rest. And the man, giving |iim a cool stare, made answer at ouco: "W'jr, can't you see it up there, you image? The Plunger I The Plunger?' Reggie's time had come. Fortune favors the brave. He held forth the document itself in triumph at the dramatic moment . After all, it had come in useful ,• The best salve in the world for Onta^ Bruises, Soree, Ulcere, Sanlt  Fever Sores, Tetter, (Stepped Huda Chilblains, Corns and all Skin  and positively cures Pilee, or no required. It is to iIti Wttalk satisfaction or money refunded. fries Mt cents per box. For sale by Vn. 0. Alee,, Pittston, and Qeo. IX Stroh, Wast Pltteton. "Road that!" he aloud In a victorious voice, like a man wfc!Tproduces irrefutable eviJuiA?. j!iorM6 gazed at the very omciai looKing paper in Intense surprint-. She hardly knew what to make of it It was an instrument signed by tlie right revercud father in God, tin- archbishop of Cnutir bury, and it set forth in fitting term;, hi? archiepiscojial blessing upon a proposes union between Francis He-si* Reggie raised his eyes at once to the big Iimelit transparency ou the .front) ol the signboard and read there Ills doom. It was the Plunger! . . 'And Canterbury Bell?" hp gasped out, half clutching the man for support. Kathleen stood aghast at the proposal. •What, all dear mother left me I" she orlsd, thunderstruck. " You expect me to give it up to youf" '•What I Kat Does Me NoGootl A S«iuwhoM Tin—i. Mr. Reginald assumed a severely logical expression of face. So convinced was Mr. Reginald of this truth indeed, ajul so firmly determined cu iev rvtiunieeu a utD nani/cu for nothing, that on his way down town again from his sister's rooms he turned casually into his tobftcoonist'a in passing. ''1 any, Morton," lie observed In an easy tone, "will you Just let me have your little bill tonight? I'm thinking of paying it." "Canterbury Hell!" the costermonger res|Doii(ifu, wiui an insuncLive gesture ui profound contempt, "You 'aven't gone anil risked your money on Canterbury Bell, 'ave yer? W'y, Canterbury Bell was never In it at all. I could 'a' told you that much if you'd 'a' axed me  How often this expression is he-»rd—Life destroying dyspep*fy» has told on you when yon feel thus, and shonid not 1D» trilled with. There 1s bnt~one remedy that C an permanently cure you, Dr. Kei tiedv'k favorite Remedy, made at Rohdout, M. Y , a vegetable comiHDnnd endorsed lDy the dollar a bottlesslou. Dr«fcgiets sell it, on medical profe. D. W. Fuller, of Oanajoharla, N. Y., says that he always keeps Dr. King's New Discovery In the honae, and hie family has. always fonnd the very best results folon ts UBe; that he would not be wi&oiU It, Itprocurable. Q. A. Dykeman, druggist, Cateklll, N. Y., says that DD. King's New Discovery is undoubtedly the beet ooogb. remedy, that he has used it in hie family* for eWht years and It haa never failed ta do all that is claimed for it. Why not try* a so long tried and tseteat Trial* lDot.tl«a free at W. 0. Price's drag atom, Pltteton, and Geo. D. Stroh'a, West Pitta, ton. "I don't expect anything," he replied, with conscious moderation. "In this ~»rld I know one's exposed to perpetual -ppointinent. People are so selfish, jit's the fact, they never think at all of grave, bachelor, of the parish of St. Man \bbott's, Kensington, and Florence Aue Ha Barton Clarke, spinster, of tin partsht Westminster "Well, has she tho dibsf That's tho question," Captain Bourchier continued, returning to the charge undismayed, as becomes a cavalry officer. her people's situations. They won't put aemselves In their shoes. All I say is this—I expect nothing, but if you want to see your brother hauled up in the bankruptcy court—liabilities, seven hundred and fifty odd; assets, four aud tuppeuce— 'the bankrupt was severely reprimanded by the learned commissioner and did not receive bis discharge'—why, of course fou're quite at liberty to look ou and en- Canterbury Bell's a bloomin fraud. She wati't meant to stay. She never so much as in it." yiorrtu gaM«t at It, all puzzled »'\Vhy, what does this mean, dearest?" she faltered out, with emotion. "I don i at all understand it." "Oh, certainly, sir," the subservient tobacconist answered, with an oily smile, wondering mutely to himself whether thisi was a dodge to obtain fresh credit. "Spider Clarke is rich, I suppose," Lord Axminster answered, with a little irritability. "He ought to be, I know. He's had enough out of me anyhow. I'm one of his flies. He did all those bills for me before anybody believed my cousin liertie was really dead, and as it was very speculative business of oourge he did thyy Reggie's brain reeled round. With a •ickeuing sense of disillusion and disappointment he clutched the document in It Suits Ilia- lVo|»l«C That was a proud moment for Reggieahout the proudest of his life. Is what druggis's say, because they are tired of the many bitter remedies, Pan Tina is the most pleasant medicine, quickly cnre* con«hs, colds, throat i.tid lung disorders, 25 cm* Fan-Tina is sold at J. H. Hoock's and Stroh's drug stores. "Well, it's called a special license, dear," he answered, Itendiitg over her. "You see, Florrie, 1 took it for granted Canter ibury Bell was safe to win is sat. as Hives are not dangerous to life, but they are a prolific breeder of misery and profanity. Doan's Ointment give* instant re I'ef, eveu In the worst caaee of this and other exasperating diseases of the skin. Reggiu read the thought lu his eye and gave a nod of dissent to correct the misaporehension before it went auv further. his pocket. Then all was up. He could never nuurv Florrie. The bubble had burst. He nail chucked away his bottom Hhillintrou a hloomlucr fraud, hm that rm. bouses—sol made up my mind to try a