Pittston Gazette

              Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Valley. I'lTTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., ERIDAY. JULY I'). 1£95. * Weekly Local and Family Journal. l"-,'!?SWaS"* ESTABMS11KIH850. j VOL,. -\LV. NO. r.O | tmirtUHT «iu« witnout one s purse in L»onaon. 'i'n ta, then, till Saturday." "lie's going to be my brother-in-law," Reggie thought complacently to himself tut he descended the stairs, "and, after all, a gentleman may borrow any day from his brother-in-law." So firmly did he act upon this prospective relationship indeed that this was only the first of many successive fivers, duly entered in Rufus Mortimer's book of expenditure, as "Advances on loan to K. H.'s brother." Btit notes of their repayment on the credit side were strangely absent. for Uieir Hives in ine opposite direction. It was away from the in their present strait. the first thiug'to be thought of was avoiding the present,danger from the Icebergs at all hazards. By and by the bo'sun spoke again. "AWm thtnkin," he said slowly, "*tha're toornin themsels this way, mates " HiKausa. t or noun iney rowea on neipiessly over the trackless waves. It was dark before the/ sighted the missing ship in front of them. By the time they had reached It Arnold WUionghby, now faint and Half unconscious with oold and exposure, - _ M fct a. m « - PENNSYLVANIA STILL LEAD1". | DEATH OF HOK, J. L. MfMILLAN HOT TIME AT SCHOOL HOARD. I-ABOKST shaft in the wobld. Tli© Clone of a Rimy and Useful Career Comet*. Operations M ill Soon Be Started at u»e S 1 We Have 4.139 Societies «f Christian Endeavor. Tbongh not unexpected the announcement of the death of Hon Jiidm L. Mo |Mlllan, which occurred at 11 o'clock 8 .t-i urday morning at the family home on the | West Side, will be received with sincere regret by the oommnnlty. Mr. MeMlllan wan one of onr forem iat cltlz ma, and hie death Is a pnbllo loaa Par several year* be had not been In good health, bnt It »m only within the la«t year that hie condl tlon developed into aertoaanee*. Qe ia( tared with a complication of dUeaaaa, chief among which waa heart trade, and tbe best medical attention failed to give Mm relief. Daring tbe last few weeka, hi* condition ha* been rttj aeri Doa, and yesterday afternoon the ohaage for the worat began which recnlted In dl-eolation. Directors Wrangle Over the Upp,r The rorkwoik of the Msx*ell shaft of he Lehigh A Wllkesbarre Goal Company, at Ashey, begun three yean ago, U la'"h d. The work wai commenced la the latter part of 1893 and op nnttl Jnoe, 1688, the men could reach only a depth of 800 'net. After the shaft reached a depth of 500 feen, the Baltimore vela* «m reached and opened out. The sinking """tlnnrd to a depth of 1,( fiO and the Bed A*h vain attack last week. To the Baltlmme two carrying ways have bean suik and t*o to tbe Red Ash. There 1* hCdda a pnmpwty and an np cast, both of whtoh extet d to the lower vein. Tbla mine will h,ve a capacity of 4,000 tona to be ram thiongh the mammoth breaker, whtoh to the largest In the anthracite region Darthe el Dr lug of this shaft there were bat two accidents, in one of whleh one man Wirt killed ard another slightly li.Jureu. Mining operations will be began la a month or two, and will give emplojment to about 3,000 men and boys. Maxwell iu Ashley. JjArdly realized as yet the full extent of ItU Injuries. Bat when next morning he woke again In his bunk after • night of semluncon•clousness he diecovered that his arm was really broken, and, worse still, that his right hand was so crushed and maimed as to be almost useless. Pittston Principalsliip Arnold AVilloughby glanced round. It was only too true. The icebergs, which were two enormous blocks of white shimmering crystal, half a mile or more In length, had shifted their course somewhat and were now coming together apparently, uutu ueuiuu muu iu n-uub ui uttMit. j. tie boat lay helpless In a narrow channel of blue water between high walls of ice that gllHtened in the sun like chalk cliffs in August. ALSO TAKE TWO JCNIOR BANNERS. LIST OF THE TEACHERS ELECTED Interesting Extracts From the Report of Secretary Baer Head at the fireat En- All of the I.ast Tear's Corps Retained, Nay, so much elated was the honest hearted young American at this fraternal visit, with the opportunity It afforded him of doing some slight service to a member of Kathleen's family, that as soon as Reggie was gone he sat down and Indited a letter full of love and hope to Kathleen herself, declaring that ho would honestly do his best to find Arnold Willoughby, but asking with much fervor whether, if be failed in that quest, there would yet be any chance for any other suitor. He wrote It in a white heat of passionate devotion. It was a letter that Kathleen could not read without tears in her eyes, for no woman is unsusceptible to the pleasure of receiving a declaration of love couched in ardent terms from a man she can respect and admire, even if she cannot accept him/ But Ac sat down, none the less, and answered it at once with tenderness And tact tyi the decided negative. — . — "Your letter has touched me deeply," sha said, "as all your kindness always does, and if 1 could say 'yes' to any man apart from him, I could say 'yes' to you. dear Mr. Mortimer. If I had never met him, I might perhaps have loved you dearly. But I have loved one man too well In nip time ever to love a second, and whether I find him again or not my mind is quite made up. I cannot and will not give myself to any other, f speak to you frankly, because from the very first you have known my secret, and because I can trust and respect and like you. Rut if ever I meet him again I shall be his and his only—and his only ( must be if f never again meet him." The voyage back to Dundee was for Arnold a terrible one. He lay most of the time In his hammock, for he was now useless as a "hand," and his arm, clumsily set by the mate and the bo'sun, gave him a groat deal of trouble In the small hours at the morning. Moreover, his outlook for the futnre was exceedingly doubtfuL It was clear he woaVd never again be fit to go to sea, while the damage to his hand, which he feared was irrevocable, would make it impossible for him to return to the trade of painter. Whither to turn for a living when he reached home again he knew not. Nay, even the desire to see Kathleen again, which had come over him so fiercely when he eat under the shadow of the Impending iceberg, grew much feebler and fainter now that he felt bow impoasibie It would be for him in future ever to prorirte for her live libood. Mem tkmM.vir previous time the self deposed earl begM to realise to himself what a failure be bad proved on equal terms with his fellow man in the struggle for existence. deavnr Convention In Itont on This and Two Additional Teachers Chosen, Morning. Mlaa Barnes and M ins Caw ley—The Tax Levy Twenty Mills. At jast nine o'olock yeetC*rdsy morning, the Christian Endeavor *xourslonlste from Northeastern Pennsylvania, numbering In all 187 people, arrived in Boston. The ride down the Sound whs very enjoyable. The afternoon was spent in sightseeing and In registering at the Pennsylvania hradqaart ers in the First Baptist Church on Olaren don street. The first regular session of the oonvention was held last evening. The principal feature of the convention this morning was the reading of the annual report of Secretary Baer. The re port wae read simultaneously by Secretary Baer In Mechanics' Building, by Bev John Bajetow, Med ford, Maes , in Tent Williston, and by Mr. J. K Cheesman, Clave lend, 0 , In Tent Endeavor. B flroir. Mass , July II A spe lal meeting of the Pittston school board was held last Friday, with President R A Hlnes In tbe chair. The meeting had been (tailed for th-D purpose of electing teachers for the coming school term, and fixing the tax levy. At the rate the bergs were moving, it would take only some 10 or id minutes for them to shock and shiver against one another's sides. The prospect wae appalling. Human arms could hardly carry the boat free of their point of contact before they finally collided. In that moment of danger not a word was spoken. Every man saw the peril for himself at once and bent forward to the long sweeps with terrible intensity of energy. Meanwhile those vast moving islands of ice came resistieady on, now sailing ahead for a moment before a gust of wind, now halting and vtferlng again with some slight change la the breeze. Yet, on the whole, they drew CHAPTER XXI. THE WISE WOMAN. "snail i ten yon my own story, Ctearr it happened in this way: When 1 was young, very young—only just 17—my mother was left with a tiny little income. It was almost less thau would keep ns three alive, herself and me and my sister Olive. Then Colonel Irving saw me and was taken with me for the moment. He was a very rich man, /ears older tljan myself, and one of the biggest officials on the council in India. He proposed to me, I was frightened, though, girllike, I was flattered, and I told my mother. Instead of telling me to avoid the snare, the begged and prayed me ttraccept him. 'nut I don't love him, ' IdWrt. Aa soon m Reggie was gone poor Kathleen delivered herself over to pure unadulterated searchings of spirit. The world indeed la pretty equally divided between people who have no scruples of conscience at all, and people who allow their scruples of conscience to run away with them. Now. Kathleen Hesslegmve belonged to the latter unfortunate self torturing class. She terrible fears of her own as to what she the electing of teachers was the first ovier of boalasea taken np. Each one was etoced separately. Mr McMllian'e career wse a long, bucy and useful one. Born in Wan lock head. Dumfrleehlre, Sootland, on April 4, 18*)] be was sixty-five years of age. A portion of his early life wae a pent in England. In 1854 heptme to thia oouatry, settled in Pitts ton, and worked la the mines of the Pennsylvania Coal Oompsny. From 1857 to 1888 he w»s in partnership with AB drew H. L*W (q the mercantile hoMnees, and the firm enjoyed a very Urge trade Since 1888 Mr. MoMillan has been occu pied with the business of the rations eom pantee with which he was o«ciaUy connected. Before voting for principal of No. l sohojl, Upper Pittston, Mr. Carry said he wlehe I to make a statement. The president said If be was going to make any complaints againat any teacher he oouH not be heard, and by prC mlalng to talk on the matter before tbe buard, he was allowed to proceed Mr. OaDry requested that a male pHnrtp .1 be elected to said school, lor Ihe Soholar« had growu at In nnrobers, and for other Naaona, he though* that a mah wonld have better control over them and the school wonld be kept In better condition By thU time tbe preetdent waa calling loudly that Mr. OqrTy waa ont of order, while mur men of "p illtical scheme" and other *uC h remarks floated through the air Mr. Carry, again galnl Dg the fl tor, said there waa no political scheme aitont it, and said that If be though* that by electing a male t«cher as principal of N #. 1 school It ahuuld do aboi* Reggie. # ,J Of course no kiUflr. Reginald's character as wet| aa would ever for a moment have been silly enough to believe be really contemplated suicide. He was far too muohof a physical and moral coward to ever dream of jumping over Waterloo bridge, for, though it may be oowardly In one sense to run away from the responsibilities and difficulties of life, yet none the less It is often still deeper cowardice that prevents many people from having recourse to that cowardly refuge. To Kathleen, however, the danger envisaged itself aa a real and menacing one. When tt come's to one's own relations one la more credulous In these matters and more timorous of giving the slightest handle for offense. The threat of suicide is the easiest form of thumbscrew that a selfish, unscrugrnlous and weakmlnded lad can apply to the moral feelings of his relations. Moreover, Reggie bad happened upon a fortunate moment. When he called that •day, Kathleen had just been deeply Impressed by Rufus Mortimer's goodness and igeneroslty. Indeed she had said to herself -as Rufus Mortimer left her room, "If only i had never met Arnold Willoughby, I really believe I could have loved that man dearly." 8o when Reggie began to throw out hla dark hints of approaching buicide Kathleen seriously debated in her own mind whether or not It was her dnty to save "Vna from such a fate by marrying the man wthO-had shown himself so truly and dlsln,-terestly devoted to her. Hfca wtH,' mr mother answered. I fctD w I was doing wrong, but when one's only 17 one hardly quite realises that when yoi marry once you marry for a lifetime. stosdlly nearer and nearer, till at last Arnold vTIIloughb//looking up, saw the green crystal mountains rising almost sheer ftbove their heads to the terrific height of several hundred feet, like huge cliffs of alabaster. COMHtlSSHWBRg VS. Oi "I accepted him at last, under that hor* rid mistaken notion that I was sacrificing myself nobly for my mother's sake and was so very unselfish. He took me out to India. For a year or two we lived together, not happily indeed—I can never say It was happily, but without open rupture. Then Colonel Irving saw plainly that though he had bought me and paid for me I didn't and couldn't lo\'e him. I did my best, it's true, to carry out as far as I could that wicked and cruel bargain. I tried to like him. I tried to act. fairly to him. But all the time I felt it was degradation, misery, pollution, wiokedness. And he saw It too. 1 have no worn ot Diame tor mm. At last one morning he disappeared suddenly and left a note behind him. He had gone off to Europe, and—somebody else had gone with him." Refuse to I'ay Them for Services la the Yet even if you are • failure It is something to accept your position bravely, and 4fP°ld Wllloughbv always accepted his owij (ik# ft with the* cheery pessimism which )s almost pfrqya#afetlo ot blecaste f n "Innrl Jury Box. "Noo, look oot, boys," the Wu»n cried in a solemn voice of warning; "tha'li strike afore long." And every eye in the boat wu fixed «ut once as he spoke.oq the approaching monsters. Extra Dte from the report are as follower "Every neeful wheel mnst have Its hub Every huCD, to be useful, should have Its wheel. Figuratively speaking, Christian Endeavor Is a useful wheel; oertatnly Bob ton le the Hub As we are In the Hub, let us turn the wheel upo:t lie axis, and from the hub view lfe rewluttons. f « clroumferenp* thiols that of the globe, and its spokes uqtnber thnqsanda upon thousands Each year the circumference of the Christian Endeayoi wheel wideut; each year thousands of spnkee ars added Leaf year onr wheel wm strengthened by 7,750 new societies (..r 'spokee,' if you pleas-). Thin Is the largest Increase for any one year slope the 'wheel' commenced revolving, fourteen years ago The County CommWloners not only rC - fns.-d to give the second order for $ 0,000 to Architect Myets bat refneed to pay tine Court House of&.ilxli their ieee foe a irilUg on the jury at tbe laat term oI Pleas court, says the Metee-Osolar. Tfcer* Scarcely room was left between them ten the boat in ou*, and she was still man; yards froi# the bUyf, jvtyere the blue chan-1 nel between tho bergs began to w44ei? again. A sort of isthmus of water, * narrow, ppen strait, Intervened between jthei# aud the wider part of the interval. 7*wq clashing capes of jce .obstructed J,t On and oq came jthe great mountains ot glistening white crystal, tall, terrible, beau tlful, io irresistible energy. The men crouched and jVlUough by knew their last hW pome. There was no out of |t now. fa another second the bergs would praab together with a thunder at ttyj se#, cbuir little cock boat would be shivered to fragioopts before' the mighty masses of the Jarring |ce moan tutna, And they themselves, mere atoms, would be crushed to a pulp as Instantly and unconsciously as an ant is crushed under the wheel of a carriage. Not * man tried to pull another stroke q.t the oars. Every eye was riveted on the horrible moving deaths. Ttu-ir arms were as if paralyzed. They could but look and look, Awaiting their end in speechless terror. (TO BE COinXKTKD.) In public affaire generally he wee promt nent He waa n Bepquiioa in pufittae, a|)d waa a member of the tagtala'g e of being to the House from the oil} Seventh 01st riot Qher pollti o*l poeltione held by him at y art one times were thoee of oonnollman In both Plttatou t(od Weet Pittatoo, ant} bargees of Pitie-r ton. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR were from lea to tmln ofioltli and  eleika drawn on the jnry and km of Umm spent the week on diff rant eaaea Tm other day thfj fall in Hoe with all Otter jurjm.n with the ex pacta Ion nf |«IHi( their order from tbe Commtodoaata tot their week's work. To their aorprht tla Commii-fitonem refnsed to pay them (or their services, claiming that they were tm Itloyes of the eouoty and node* salary and we,e obliged to nerve wttbont pay. Thti noon raised a general klok, bat the Oomral*eioners are firm and attll ohj ot to the payment The matter will be taken iuto aoort end It will be for the Judge to aay whether the Commlwionere will pay it or not. ffit WPP* JnI7 *♦« Vmmp'# Pf #• Tonp.—4 cloan Ute.-Bs. exjx, 0-W. (4 tetnperunco topic.) Mortimer read the letter with dim eyes. Then be folded it up with reverence and placed it securely in ft leather case in his pocket. There he carried it for many days and often looked at it. Rejection though it waR, it yet gave him ft strange delight to read over and over again those simple words, "If I could say 'yes' to any mauapart from him, I could say 'yes' to you, dear Mr. Mortimer." The question of the Psalmist in tha first verge at the topical reference, " Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse {lis yvqy?r' implies that the way or the ife is Rf}oleai{. TMsJj fa TWegPI*- erate state the past). We are [torn iq sin. The natpral hear£ is sinful and corrupt, for "it is pot subject to th« law of Ood, ueithpjr Mftfl UD," Afl BPcleaq }ife is the peppssary of an pRr clean as ftp impure stream must follow ho impure fountain- Tim important of * p holy, ho«' est, upright life cannot be estimated- It if) tha oiie thing above all others that should bt» desired and earnestly sought after- Nuthing will compensate us for a loss of it. It is of Inestimable value even from tho standpoint of this present life, not to consider the fact of its tremendous importance in view of the fact that nothing unclean can enter into tLe Kingdom of }j«nvHr, |f a clean life is of so much importiim*; We may wpU ask, How roar we have clean lives? this question is povtioularlv applicable (a the young, for then it is that the character of the life ia formed, and then it is easier, too, if mistakes have been made to rectify them and to make the life cleap. won Id deprive Miss Bnrke of a position, he Would never think of agitating sn ih a thing. The preeidgnt wanted to know 1* • petition bad not b.Csn circulated In that district r a obange Mr. Cnrty stated tn»t lr, had been thought of, bqt w*a abandoned The dis coaaion hy thU time had b. oome decidedly warm and Onrry, MoNamar* and M. C .r-talek were all talking at onoe, while the president wee trying his beet to keep order by nalag hie gavel. lioOormlck being left oa the fl atr, said there was no poliiloal soheme, an J that all they were after wit Jostles, stating that a number of the chtl dren were compelled to walk all the way from the Jnoetton to attain a higher grade, which shoo d be setablished In that school. Ill this time the president hit 1 been vainly hammering on the table and stating he was out of order. "And then?" Kathleen asked, bending forward. From the quueantUe business and from profitable investments In «oal land, Mr ■foltlllan accumulated oonalderable pioperty, much of which —Istnfl In tmlldtng Up local He «M tressnrer o the pitta ton Q as light Oompany from th«. time of ita organization; vice president ot the Miners'Aavinga Bank; president of the New York and Pltl|ton CkDal Company, and a director of the Wstar Street Bridg- Oom way. "Well, then, dear, I felt it was all over, and I knew it was my fanlt, because I hadn't had the moral courage at first to say no outright to him. I did what no woman ought ever to do—let him take my hand when my heart was not his, and I had to pay the penalty of it. And so will you, too, if you do as I did. One way or the other, you will have to pay the penalty. He was just to mo after hi9 light—severely just—I migiit almost say generous. Ha offered to make me An allowance of half his income. But 1 wrote back and said no. I would never again take a penny that wan his. I would earn my own living. So I began at art—in a small way at first, and I worked on at it with a will till I could keep myself easily. Then I did more than that. I worked aud saved till I could send him one day a check for every penny he had ever spent upon me. He refusec} to receive it. I refused to take it back. I sent the money in his name iu gold to his banker's. He wouldn't touch it. And there it lies to this day, and neither of ub will claim it." CHAPTER XXII. ISLES OF WINTER. " 'Spoke' after Npoke' oqr vision rapidly In this whirl of Inspection, ia all 41,229 Of th«ae 4 712 are from other land*, the United I(lnhdr,tn heading the list with 2 (HQ. Pennsylvania' still leads •1th 4 ISA; New York ne*t, with 8,822; Ohio, 2 787; lllluols, 2,44«; Indiana, 1,762 lows 1,568; Massachusetts, 1,309; Kansas, 1,847; Missouri, 1,138; Miohlgan, 1, 082; New Jersey, 1,04-5, etc. In all, from the United States, 83.412, as against 28, 696 last year. Arnold Willoughby had a strong constitution, but that second summer In the northern seas told upon his health even more seriously than nil his previous seafaring. Perhaps it was the result of his great disappointment; perhaps it was the sense of nothing left in this life to live for, but at any rata he grew thin and weak and lost heart for bis work in a way that was unusual with so vigorous a sailor. The skipper, as he looked at him, thought yViJloughby wouldn't ever be flt for another sealing voyage—thought it in that bard, purely objective way that is habitual to skippers in dealing with seamen. And Arnold Willoughby himself began to recogthe fact that he was growing ill and worn with these continued hardships. Life bad been a failure for him. His day was over. He was one of those, he who must go to the wall in the ceaseless snaggle for life which nature imposes upon us. But at any rate he would go to the trail like a man; be would live or die on hisown earnings; he never went back for a moment upon the principles he had established for himself in early manhood. From the day when WW his cousin Algy's claim admitted in full by the bouse of lords he considered himself as notbtog run re than Arnold Willoughby, an ableboaied and not even that now, as things were taking him. Yet he was himself for all (pat. Even though you go sealing on the Greenland coasts you can't quite get rid of the cultivated habits and tastes of a gentleman. Arnold Willoughby, for his part, never desired to get rid of them. He leaved the things of the mind Iff spite of everything.All that night she lay awake and reason«ed with herself wearily. Reggie wasn't worth all the trouble she bestowed upon iilm. Early next morning she rose and wrote him in haste half a dozen long letters, one after the other, all of which she tore up as soon aa she had finished them It is so hard to know what to do in such difficult circumstances. Kathleen wonder«d end watted and argued with her own heart and worried her poor conscience with Interminable questions. WEST SIDE TEACHIB8. He was a prominent member of the Plr»t Presbyterian ohnrcb of PUtston and sev eral times served a* president of the board of trustees. At that awful moment, just before the unconscious masseA struck and shivered into pieces, a flood of strange thought Lroke at once over Arnold Wlllougbby's mind, and ,lt summed Itself up In the tkou sand/old repetition pf pfre one word—Kath leen, Kathleen, Kathleen, tfiftblepftl Appointed by the School Board am Satur- day Evening. At a special meeting of the Weat Pittaon School Board Saturday evening, tiq following teachers were elected for the enan ng echool term: F. J Stettler, Bapatv's'.ng principal; Ooroelia K. Orafta, Intaar distant, High School, Mary A. Fpratt, aaoondj HsiUtaot, High School; Mary A. Inorj, thjrd assistant, High Sohtol; Helen, Davidson, A Grammar; Mary J Bitter, ft QrarLmv; Martha Jamea, 0 Grammar, lirst a 1 vision; Jnl'a O. Welecargar, O Grammar, second division; Kila H. Bassert, A Intermediate, Aral dlvMon; Lid a Hornet, A Intermediate, saooi A division; Margaret McDonald, It Intermediate, fi at division; Beaata W. Herman, B Intermediate,second division ;UlyB.Morria, A Primary, first division; Ir ihaMa Monte, A Primary, seeond division; Nellie M. Banker, B Primary, &cst dlvtaloo; Jennto Hngh-e, B Primary, second dtviatoii; Fannle Falrclough, 0 Primary, 11 rat division; BHztbeth W. Thorbnra, 0 Primary.a*noni division; Lncy A. Coeper, 0 Primary, third division; G irtrnde Coolehan. Geo, Lovell, Music Instructor; H. W. Chapman, Janitor. He took much lntertst In lodge sff*lr. He was a member of Wyoming L idge, Knights of Honor, and was the treasure, of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania {(nights of Honor, from Iti organisation this death. He was also s member of Pitts ton Ooonell, R Dyal Araaanm, and  Oonncll, American Legion o Honor. He thought It over and over again in a sudden agony of penlteuoe. With a rush it burst In upon him that he had done wrong, grievously wrong, to be so hasty and impulsive. What misery he might have caused hert What injury he might have infllofce$J all, no man can ever be quite pertain eVpftTpWe fpfernrttatlon of the most seemingly |rre*isURle facta. What wrong he might have dope her—ah. heaven, how irrevocable Irrevocable! Ir revocable! For tbe mighty masses of ice stood above them like precipices on tbe brink of falling, and in one second more they would shock together. "And now for the Jnnlors. Io sddltlon ti tbe 8 859 Junior 'spokes' from the United States there are 886 from Canada, •nd 224 from other lands, making In al 9,182 Junior societies, with a membership of 340,0C0. While the nnmber of Jnnlois were Included in tbe enumeration by States, it will be of interest to know that Pennsylvan a still lesd-i tbe Juniors, with 1,023; New York, not very far behind with 020; 111 note next with 746; Ohio,  Indiana, 470; California, 414, eto. And now we have oounfed the 'spokes' as they have swept by onr vision. A t tal of 41,229 societies, with an Individual mem benhlp from every clime and ev*iy nation, with skins ot vary ng c .lor, of which 480 sre red, 20,300 are yellow, 109 400 are black, and 2,843,560 are white; In all, a great Intemolal brotherhood of 2,473,740 The badge banne-, awarded each for the greatest absolute gain, and which was taken by Pennsylvania twice, returns to England this year. Ontario and Pennsyl vanla, In ths order named, were not far behind In the eonteet. Pennsylvania, however, secures two bsnneis—one for the largest total nnmber of Junior sooletlee and one for the Isrgest Junior gain In one year. The Junior banner for the largeet proportionate gain In Junior socletlee goes to the Provlnoe of Asslnlbola. The DIs crlot o Columbia secures the Chinese "umbrella of stats" for having reported che largeet nnmber of socletlee adopting tbe plan of two 0 nts a wsek for missions After breakfast a light burst upon her. Why not go and talk the whole matter over with Mm Irving? After a warm and long controversy, orler waa Anally rea'ored, and the work in hand starts. 1. All of the old teachers «ter»- deotod, aa also were two additional teach are, and the list la aa follows: Now, Mrs. Irving w as a friend whose acquaintance she hod made some years before on the quay* at Venice—a painter like herself, older and cleverer and great deal more successful. Her faoe was beautiful, Kathleen always thought, with the beauty at holiness—# chastened and saddened face, with marks of its past stamped deep upon its feature*. Her silvery hair was prematurely gray, but the light in her eye showed her younger by a decade than one might otherwise dare judged her. It was a happy inspiration oa Kathleen's part to go to her, for wheu a girl is in doubt she can seldom do better than take the advice of some elder woman in whom she has confidence and who can look at the matter at issue from the impersonal standpoint. "Tie that very impersonality that is so Important aa element in all these questions. You get rid of the constant disturbing factor of your own emotions. "That was splendid of you," Kathleen cried. Mr. MoMlllan wsa married to Hannah Bowartb, who died seven years sgo Twi daughters and one son survjv*— Mary T , William H and Sarah, all of whuas resldt st the f«mlly home. "No, my dear, it was Just. Nothing more than bare justice. I had made a hateful bargain, which no woman should ever make for the sake of her own dignity, her own purity, her own honor, and I was bound to do the best I could to unmake it. But I tell you all this now that you may see for yourself how wrong it Is for any woman to do as I did; that you may learn to avoid my mistakLs betimes, Reggie or no Reggie, while it may yet be avoided." Bigh School—Prances M Coyle, Hiw -ipencer, Clara Howell, Mame Morrow, Vice Ml Hale, Mtrle Dmpsey, Clara Col iter, Margaret Patterson, 8usie GDrdon, Agnes Sharp. The Psalmist here )ays down the only true rule or principle for ft clean life— namely, that we take heed to the word of God, that we square onr Uvea by God's word, that we live in accordance with it God's word is the only true solution of the problem of a true life. It transcends all human philosophy .and ethics of men In that II applies the ax at the root of thft trpe, demanding that first of all tbe heart, the inward life must be clean. The Bible solution is regeneration—change of heart—rather than reformation, simply a change in tte form of life. The logic of this standard is apparent to all Yon can no more make a clean man by changing his form of lift* thap joy can cure a consumptive by putting on him a new suit of clothes. Given a clean heart and a clean life necessarily follows; without the first, the Moond is impossible. FVHEKAL OF J. L MfHILUN. Crashl crash! crash! Even before he bad finished thinking It a noise like thunder or the loud rumble pf an earthquake deafened their ears with its roar, redoubled and Ingeminated, Ths bergs had met and clashed together lu very truth, and all nature seemed to clash with them. A horrible boiling and seething of the water around them—a fearful shower of Ice shot upon them by tons! And then, just before Arnold Wllloughby closed his eyes and ceased to think of feej, he was dimly aware of some hugs body from »bqv$ crushing and mangling bim helplessly, pains darted through him with fierce spasms, and then all was silence. High School, old building— Agnes Battle. Li»z a Blewltt. A Great Throng of People Pay Their Last Tributes of Respect. The funeral of th« late James L Ifoif 11 lin vn hold Tuesday afternoon, front lbs family borne on the West Side. Besidee a ureat throng of Pittaton and Wm( PltUtou people, Including repn sentativea from the various lodges and financial organizations with which Mr. MoMDlan was connected, there were many In Attendance from neighboring cities lad towns. Among them were the following ofiftoers of the Orand Lodge, Knights of Honor: Grand Dictator John (I. Hansom of Pittsburg; Vice Grand Dictator f Fisher, of Johnstown; B. 0. chalrmtn executive committee, burg; Deputy Grand George A. DuBree, of delphls. The services wsre at the family home. The remains lay blank cloth covered oofflu, almost beneath beautiful fl Dral offerings, which were the following! New and Pitts ton Goal Oo., scroll; Bagla Co., panel of English Ivy leaf, brother and sister; pillow, Miners' Inge Bank. Beaidss these, than numerous boqueta and wreaths from pathlelng relatives and friends. Upper Plttaton—Kate Burke, principal; Mame Jordan, Grace Gallagher, May Ktat tag, blanche Lavln, Belinda Carroll. "You're right," Kathleen said. drawing back with a sudden flash of conviction. "It's debasing and degrading when one fairly facet* it. But what am I to dof Reggie declares if I don't marry Mr. Mortimer he'll commit suicide instantly. He's in a dreadful state of mind. I had to make him promise last night ha wouldn't do anything rash till he saw me today, and even now I don't know what he may have done meanwhile as soon as he got alone and was left by himself with his remorse and misery." "Reggiel" Mrs. Irving exclaimed, with a sudden melodiousdrop from the sublime to the ridiculous. "Oh, my dear, don't you trouble your head for a moment about him. He's as right as ninepenee. He's not going to commit suicide. Remorse and misery! Why, I was at the Court theater In the boxes last night, and there, if you please, was Master Reggie In the stalls with a pretty young woman, close cropped and black haired, with a cheek like a ripe peach, who, I suppose, was his Florrie. They were eating neapolitan ices all through the interlude, and neither of them seemed to have the slightest intention of committing suicide in tiie immediate future." Welah Hill—Margaret Kearney, prlncli a'; Margaret Price, Chrle'lna Martin flllte Cooli an, Theresa Clarke. During his earlier years of apprentloMbip to the perils of the sea he yearned for art. Now he had given up art for the moment. He took Instead to literature. The sallow in the fo'c's'le of the Sheriff Ivory of Diinjdee fvere much amused from time to timi Willoughby's rummy way of writing at i moments in a pocketbook he kept by h and indeed at all spare hours he was gaged by himself in a curious of wc whose meaning and import the svi Orapon—Sarah Fay, principal; Katie Cunningham Now, a certain halo of mystery always surrounded Mrs. Irving. Who Mr. Irving was, or whether Indeed there was still or not a Mr. Irving at all, Kathleen never knew. Whenever their talk, had approached that topic Kathleen noticed that her friend glided carefully over the thin ice In the opposite direction and distracted the conversation by imperceptible degrees from Mr. Irving's neighborhood. Nevertheless there bad always been some surmise and gossip about the hypothetical husband at Venetian tea tables, for you may take it ps an invariable rule in life that whenever a woman, no matter how innocently, live9 apart from her husband she will always abide under the faint shadow of a social cloud. Let it be 20 times his fault and 20 times her misfortune, yet it is she and not he who will have to puy the price for it. 80 the petty world of English Venice bad always looked a little askance at Mrs. Irving as "a woman, don't you know, who's living apart from her husband," and then, with an ugly sneer, "that Is to say, if she has one." But to Kathleen the beautiful woman with the prematurely gray hair was simply the dearest and kindest of friends, the most trustworthy person she had ever come across. Market street—Mar? A GUlleeple, prln olpal; Annie (i. Oawlev. Additional teachers—Jennie Cawley, ttame J. Barnes. Newspapers and Booster*. sat Kid lm, The Wllkeabarre News-Dealer tin the qnes'lon, "Does oar frleqd Tbeo. Bart of Half an hoar passed away before Arnold, lying stiff, was again conscious of anything. By that time he opened his eyee and heard a voice say gruffly: "Why, Wllloughby ain't killed neither. He's a-lookln about him." The principal* were located ae ab Dv«, bat the other teaohera were not lceated, neither were the atlarlee fixed. C?, Ohripy Pjtto Dictator Fhlla bald . 5«D • railed UDODg Yprk iOM %T-I ware "J®- -4 T_ anbatanpe tola j perfect /rom a}n. or for atoy grafce. Ua left i tmktf*tto I UmDQ«hom paaoa, to ; of It. .fee bat hta work w privilege to kndwl  the bloom ajtdK leak hta fortune | j and ln|Oo^ ha h»k and halp«r.  fully ra4l 7~ trained ** In the Polm - taken with «tndy. in early Ufa ha _,«u Ohurob, In niU \a& effea-, promotion - ■J" th*t el*" | school* waye be railed ott-It- , •ork; and what be I , In toalneai rela-1 °*mtD recognized tala ability they traatcu ne occupied _j bla neighbors ooanaellor, a genial oo unfriend. Ha w^ retiring. Whateveo among bla faUowmati He loved bla home make It attrma do thie he ot olrcle oi him aM mtaaei •hid aariatad In tlx I hytnna, In *at," and "Abldi quartette oompaa- , w -1" " - Mattlalege Mo-lb the F ittston Gajsrib know aaythlag To bo effective in cleansing the life God's word must be laid up iu the heart. It must be studied and meditated upon, and it mast be practiced in the daily life. Let us devote more time to Ghxl's word that we may keep the heart pure and the life clet^i. Bible Readings.— U*. zi, 45; xx, 7, S; Deut. vi, 17, 18; Ps. xvi, 11; xxiv, 8, 4; xxxvii, 91; li, 10; oxix, 19-24; Prov. iv, 25, 26; Isa. xxxiii, 14-16; xxxv, 8; Math, xxiii, 85, 96; John xv, 3,4; GaL v, 19-311 Epfc vi, 10-18; PhiL iv, 8, 9; Col. iii, 6. 6; I Tim. iv. 8; t, 22; Heb. xii, 18, 14; I John 111, 9-4; Rev. xxi, 27. about ihat $10,000 Qaay packagt? 'Nothing whatever, Brother Boyd; and If yon arelntlra ttlng that Qoay has pnt oat a large i«g of money In Lnzsrne oonnty yon gtn htm credit for isee sense than we do Qaay wttt Cet what he ge e In thfa oonnty at Mttte i.04t—and don't yon stake anything on kk getting left, either. Now, neighbor, can yon tall oa anything about newspaper Investments mada by members of the Governor's stall In this oonnty for the publication of anti Qoay reading matter? Two of HMtlngi'ootoaaii (who tried to conceal themaelvaa aa "W. Snwell") sent ont propositions to Um ptaas CDf the Stste to print matter to ha furntabed by them, offering to remanarate pubttehera who accepted their propoattlona, and some newspaper* have si nee ohangad thalr positions altogether. Another oolooal of Bastings' staff was inter via wad by a Wilkesbarre Telephone reporter the oibar day, and he aald, "We have secured tba ansistance of the Bepnblloui newspapers la this end of the oonnty, with tba axospttoo of the Pittston Qazbttk, to stead by tba Administration." It looks like a deepavate case when a Republican State admlnlatra tlon finds it necessary to secure tba support of Its own party papera. mariner's mind could hardly fathom. He was deciphering and translating Elizabethan English sailor's manusci The tax levy waa then taken up and af tor or nsldarable discussion was 6x d at 2n mills—13 tor school purposes; 5 for bulll Ing pnrpoaes, and 3 tor bonded debt and tntereat At sound of the voice, which came from one of his fellow sailer?, Arnold strove to raise himself on his arm. As be did so another terrible shoot of pain made him drop down again, half unoonncious. It occurred to him dimly that his arm must be broken. Beyond that he knew nothing. And he lay there long, nobody taking for the tints any further notice of him. which he had picked up by accident In little shop at Veuiee. He did it merel; please himself, and therefore was ai over doing it to perfection than he coi to spend a great deal wore £ime and troi The board »dj mrned to me:t at the call of the chair. possibly have spent if he were one of "After careful g ttherlng of other statistics and in rmatlon, and from advioe reoeived from he representatives of mis •lonary boards, heme and foreign, we And that the sooieiies in the United States and Oanada have oontribnted not leas than $4*5,000 for missions at home and abroad. The largest amonnt reported to me by any me board is from the Preebyterlrn foreign missionary board. The treasurer of that board states that during the last year $33, 180.53 have been received, and that in the last fire years the total is $.06,704 77. ' miserable drudges who live by the prof MINE INSPECTORS APPOINTED. faced regime. He translated It careful sional pursuit of letters under our hi When he opened hU eyes * second time, he could see very well why. They ware still surrounded by whole regiments of Icebergs, and the remaining valid men of the crew were still rowing for dear life to get clear of the danger. But one other man lay worse crushed than himself—a mangled mass of dotted blood and torn rags of clothes at the bottom of the boat, whtla a second one by his side, still alive, but barely that, groaned horribly at lntervala In the throe? of deadly agony. Arnoia lay oac* once more, quite passive all the while as to whether they escaped or were engulfed. Be was weak and faint with pain, and so far aa he thought of anything at all thought merely In a dim way that he would like to live If only for one thing—to see Kathleen Besslegrave. Hours passed before he knew what had really happened. It was a curious accident. An Iceberg Is a hnge floating mass of iqe, only an insignificant part of nthloh shows visibly above water. The vastly greater portion is submerged and unsuspected. It Is impossible, of course, to guess at the shape of this submerged part any more than one could guess at the shape of the submerged part of a piece at ice as It boha up and down In a glass by observation of the bit that protrudes above the water. These particular icebergs, however, had such exceptionally sheer and perpendicular sides that they looked like hugs fragments of an extended Icefield broken off laterally. They seemed to show that the submerged portion was flush with the cliffs they exhibited above water. Bad that been quite so, Arnold Willoughby's boat could never have escaped complete destruction. It would have been staved In and crushed between the great colliding walls like a nut under a steam hammer. But, aa It happened, the submerged block was slightly larger in that direction than the visible portion, and the bergs thua crashed together for the moat part under water, caoa- Ing a commotion and eddy which very nearly succeeded in swamping tha boat, and which rendered rowing for a minute or two wholly Impossible. Hugh McDonald Retains His Position In That was a fortunate accident for Kathleen. It relieved her mind immensely for the moment. It decided her that Mrs. Irv- Ing's advice was sound, and that she would be doing Injustice to her own higher nature If, for Reggie's sake, she accepted the man she didn't love to the exclusion of the man ■he loved so dearly. lovingly, laboriously. Day after day In the Plttston District. spare momenta he took out a page at a The Board of Mine Inspectors' Examiners met In WUkeebsrre Monday and dec I ted to recommend to the Governor the ap and transcribed and Englished it wl studious pains in his little pocket ni book. For two seasons he had gone with this amateur authorship, if such Aa Exception to the Old Saw.' Rev. Dr. Puke, tor many yeui Mi. tfliUn'a pastor, oondocted the and delivered the address. Hia taxi Psalm 87:37, "Mark tba perfect man, behold the upright; for tha and of man la peaoe" He aald, in "Oar brother, whom we have met away ont of onr sight, waa not t man in the aenaa of being free vVe make no auoh claim for bin. man. He waa a (inner aaved by The righttouaneaa in which b« and that brought him ifeaoe, waa nov own righteouaneaa. But he haa ' oharaoter for slnoertty, honesty naaa, and uprigbtneaa in all tin of life. Tbeee ware not thtD blessed hope that bronght him they were the evidenoea reeta from hta labors, abides. It haa been my r. Hr. McMillan since, in the rigor of youth, he eame toee and to make hia home In Pltteton: all the years of our aaaoolatioD been my friend and oounaellor' rhe promlae of hia yontb waa iztd in hia maturl Ufa. Ha waa when a boy by a Christian mother knowledge of God's word, and r" her to the houae of (Jod. nnlted with the P mbyte run which he quietly and oonatantly tlvely maoo himself faU In tba of lta iQtereata. Ha belonged tc of good men who can alw»— ' on to help in any g od did he did cheerfully tione bis aawoiatea reu.  and his strict integrity, and they him, as tha poaltion i of trust among them evince. Among be was a wise oonoet. panlon, and a dooer* naturally modaat aad of promotion he had a came to him unsought. and hia ambition waa to  tlve for those ha loved; and fc «pared no pains or exoenee. home he will be missed by a lam relatlvee and frienda, who loretf were proud of him, bqt ha will bt nowhere else aa in the home from we carry blm today." Be?. X. W. Swan alec aervloee. Several beautiful eluding "Lead, kindly Light," in Me," were aung by a quartett ed of Mlaa Jessie PerVn, Ifia Richards, F. H. Aatrlw and W. L. Dougall. Atter the aervioee tha remains were eon veytd to Pittaton cemetery for Interment The honorary p«ll bearen were A.. A. Bry den, Alex. Uratg, Andrew hrydeo, J no. An deison, J. B Shifter, J. W. Thomas. Tbt carriers: T. B. Lanoe, Alex Bryden, J. B Law, H. Ullvar, O. K Campbell, 0. 0, bowman, Geo. 8. Ferris, Joe. Langford. among the out of town people attending the funeral were the followiug: Mr. Tine, Law, Arch bald; Mr. and Mrs. Jaa. Btott, Carbondale; Judge Blrdaall, Honeedale; James Young and Andrew H. Allen, Dunmors; Mrs. William Law. Avoca; krs. Eugene] Mulligan, WUkeabarre; Mr. and Mra. A. L. L ndaay, Wyoming; J. Roberts, Mooalc; Mrs. T. H. Watkln-, Arub Law, Walter Brlggs, Seranton; K J. Stnrdevant and aon | Walter, Wilkes bar re. polntment of the following Inspectors: fhlrd (Plttston) d'strlct, Hugh McDonald ; anight be called, and toward the end of "They say"— It was to Mrs. Irving, then, that Kathleen went at once to impart her difficulty about Reggie and Rufus Mortimer. Her friend listened to her with tender interest and Instinctive sympathy. As soon as Kathleen had finished, the elder woman nee and kissed her forehead affectionately.But while Kathleen was discussing this matter thus earnestly with Mrs. Irving her brother Reggie, on his way down to the city, had managed to drop in for a few minutes' conversation with Rufus Mortimer at his house In Great Stanhope street. He had called indeed for a double diplomatic purpose, cloaked beneath a desire to see Mortimer at dinner with his wife on Saturday. "Our rooms aresmall," Reggie said airily, with the consummate grace of a great gentleman exteuding an invitation to a lordly banquet in his ancestral halls; "we've hardly space for ourselves even to turn about in them, and as to swinging a cat, why, It would almost amount to culpable cruelty. But we should be delighted to see you at our annex, the Criterion—first door on the right as you enter the big gate; dinner a la carte; best of the kind in London. Half past 7, did I sayf Yes, that will suit us admirably. Florrie's longing to see you. I've told her so much about you." second he had pretty fairly finished  allotted task work. But the fo'c's'le of a sealer in full parsuit of oil is by no means an ideal place flor literary composition. Many a time and oft Arnold was interrupted by rude pleasantries or angry calls; many a time he was delayed by the impossibility of finding room for a few minutes' work even on 00 humble a basis. At last, one afternocm, toward the close of the sealing season, be was told off with a dozen other men for a run in a boat down the icebound coast In search of fresh sealing grounds. His party was on the lookout for Greenland seals, which usually bask and flounder in the sttn on the blocks in ice floes, and they had rowed to a considerable distance from thalr ship without perceiving any "fish," as tfee sealers call them. Their road lay through a floating mass of blue oyrstalline ice blocks. The Gterman gentleman held the object ont at arm's length. —"that oircumstanoes alter cases, bat"— He smiled softly to himself. (Wllkesbarre) district, Gwllytn M V11IUm!i; Fifth (Bazletoii) District, James E Roderick. These three made the highest omc Cntages In the examination. Messrs He Donald and Williams are the present Inspectors In their respective districts. Mr. Roderick was once before inspector of the HarJeton district, bnt at present is a mine superintendent in the Hasleton region. —"no cli in the world can "la the United States the denominational representation Is as follows: The Presbyterians still lead with 6,283 Tonng People's societies and 2,269 Junior soot etiee; the Uongregatlonallats hare 8,090 Tonng People's societies and 1,008 Junior societies; the Disciples of Christ and Christiana, 2,687 Toung Peopled societies and 862 Junior societies; the Baptists, 2,686 Tonng People's soaietlee and 801 Junior Societies; Methodist Episcopal,931 Tonng P«o pie's societies and 801 Jnnlor societies; Method tat Protestants, 853 Yonng People's societies and 247 Janior societies; Lutherans, 708 Tonng People's societies and 245 Jnnlor societies;Cumberland Presbyterians, 600 Tonng People's societies and 281 Junior societies, and so on through a long list. alter this sweitzerkase.'' Seizing a knife, be hurriedly cat into the limbargrt and devoured it ere the neighbors could complain to the board of health.—New York World. ''Now tell me, dear," she said, gazing Into Kathleen's frank eyes, "if your Bailor were to come back to yon, would you love him still r" For Kathleen had only de- A CC Death of Professor Powell. "Well, old man, this is the first time I've seen yon since yonr marriage. Allow me to congratulate jou I" "Thanks, my dear fellow, thanks I" "Have yon and yonr wife decided who is to be the speaker of the house?" Professor WlllUm George Powell, of doranton, » yonng men well known the Wyoming and Lackawanna ▼alleys aa a taacher and writer, passed laat Friday evening, after a long ill oeaa and hla death brings to an untimely No, Brother Boyd, the Gazbttb hat Ml *een anybody's boodle and in—n't opMt ro. Pan your query along to tki raat ol the brethren. "Well, no. We usually oocupy the ohair together."—Pittsburg Chronicle* Telegraph. ■ life that promised much. Professor Powell «h barn In Bellevae (feranton) At last the pack grew too thick for thetn to penetrate any farther, and the bo'sun In charge, blowing his whistle from the stern, gave the word to return to the Sheriff Ivory. They rowed back again about halt a knot, in full sight of their ship, when It became gradually apparent that they were becoming surrounded by icebergs. A change In the wind brought them along unexpectedly. One after another the great white moun- Private Car for Supt. Mltrhall (From the Wilkes bar re Record.) " Whyf" Mortimer asked, with a smile, half guessing the reason himself. 1, 1866 Hla family removing to [Sohajikiti county, he received his edaca In the SI. Olalr High Sohool. In 1883 waa appointed to a cidetahip in West Academy, hot resigned after a year's Afterward he attended the l'otta- Reggie smiled and hesitated. "Well, I thought it not improbable from what I saw and heard," he answered at last, with affected delicacy, "that we might in future, under certain contingencies, see a good deal more of you.'' And he looked at hi* man meaningly. QUAY A SURE WINNER. One of the hands .maet private out oa the Valley rond la the one jaat goapllted for Snperlntendent Alexander Mltohell, of this city /which came down the road yesterday from the Ithaca ahopa, whan It was made. It la a veritable ptlaoe ear and ia complete In every detail The front ti of pla-e glass a&d the Inalde of tha ear la furnished with upholstered ohalra, Ana tapestries, Brnaeela carpeta and A. whistle la at the command of tha superintendent by a lever placed at his right band. A fine cntre table adoroa hta rooas, made by the employes, aa are all tha other fnrnlahlrn. Passing Into tha next dapartmsnt I* the bed room furnlshad with all the necessary furniture, with toilet rooms and closets. Then comes tha kitchen with articles complete for a long trip, rhla is one of the moat complete eats on tha road. The ear is so oompleto in all Its appointments that Mr. Mitchell oculd wall live in it for a year. ▲ similar oar haa een completed for Superintendent O O. Ewer, of the Northern division. Careful Figuring Gives Him 79 Majority In the Coming State Convention. Philadelphia, July 11 —Senator Quay left the oity last night for his home in Beaver, where be will enjoy a abort season Of needed rest Just before taking the train he was requested to make a statement of the situation. In response he said very dellbsratelj: "Heretofore I have made neither claim nor statement For two weeks, however, I have given my attention to the present contest, and am now fully conversant with the situation in every oounty. The convention will be made np of SCO delegates. Of this number 139 have been chosen, of whioh 101 an favorable to my election to the State Chairmanship. The delegates yet to be named, inolndlng  quota of 70, nnmber 153, of whom 83 are oertala to be nay filends. Of the total number comprising the convention, there fore, I will reoeive the votes of 184—a majority of 70." "Did you not start in the fight rather late?" "Ia all, 202,185 Endeavorers have joined the churches sinoe the last Convention In 1890, 70,000 new church members were reported; in "91, 82 500; in '92, 120,000; In ■98, 158 000; In '94, 183,650; and now tn D95, 202,185; in the last six years, 816,835. Rafufl Mortimer wm reserved, as Is the American habit, but he couldn't help following out this decided trail. By dexterous aide hints he began questioning Reggie as to Kathleen's intentions, whereupon Reggie, much rejoiced thHt Mortimer should to easily fall into his open trap, made an- Hlgb School for two years, and in 1886, at the age of twenty, he began hla career aa a teacher in the EdwardavlUe this ooanty, soon being promoted Voyagers for Pleasure Or business, persons onjthe point of tak Ing an "outing" on land or sea, yachtsmen and tourists need end should be provided with some preventive of sea sickness and corrective of the occasional ill effects of unaocustcmed air, food and water Many nervous persons experience qualms akin to sea siokness when traveling by rail. They, too, require a medicinal safeguard. The beet in existence Is Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, whloh promptly relieves naugea, sick headache, billiousnsss, cramps and oollo. etc. If bneinsss calls you to some looallty where ohllls and fever or billons remittent Is prevalent, don't fall to provide yourself with it. For oons 1 pat Ion, rheumatism and inactivity of the kidneys it is an excellent remedy. Eminent physicians oommend it highly. Lay in a sup ply before yon start by boat, steamer or train. It is a moat serviceable traveling oompanion. prlnclpalabtp. Two jean later be be Th$ elder woman rose and kissed her principal of No. 14 preparatory Kohool In 8oranton, and oontinned In that poattlon qntil Sept fl, 1894, when he »m •trloken with an Ulneaa that finally proved fatal. Oreratndy had mined his eyealght forehead affectionately. scribed Arnold Willoughby's reasons for leaving Venice In the most general terms and bad never betrayed bis secret as to the earldom of Axminster. «wr In the direction that best suited his awn interests. He rendered It tolerably clear by obscure suggestions that Kathleen had once been In love and still considered herself to be so, but that, in ber brother's opinion, the affection was wearing out—was by no means profound and might be easily overcome— moreover, that she cherished for Rufus Mortimer himself a feeling which was capable of indefinite Intensification. All this Reggie hinted at great length in the most roundabout way, but he left in the end no doubt at all upon Rufus Mortimer's mind as to his real meaning. By the time Mr. Reginald was ready to go Mortimer was quite convinced that he might still win Kathleen's heart and that her brother would be a most powerful auxiliary in the campaign, to have secured whose good will was no slight advantage. At the door Reggie paused. At toe same time a projecting pinnacSB that jutted out above from the face of tha cliff came in contact with another part qf the opposing iceberg, and shivering |nto fragments a hundred yardsaway from them broke up with such force that many of it* shattered pieces were burled into the boat, which they, too, threatened to swamp, but which fortunately resisted by the mere elasticity of the water about them. For a minute or two all QQ board had been tumult and confusion. It was Impossible for those who were Issa seriously hurt to decide offhand upon the magnitude of the disaster or to tell whethec the bergs, recoiling with the shock, might not wheel and collide again or lose balance and ca. reen, sucking them under as they went with the resulting eddy. As a matter of fact, however, the collision, which had been little more than a mere sideward gliding, like the kiss of a billiard ball, was hy UQ means a serious one. The twq moving mountains just touched and glanced off, ricocheting, n» it were, and leaving the boat free In a moment to proceed upon her course. But as soon as the bo'suq could collect his wits and his men for a final effort, he found that one was dead, while two more, Including Arnold Willoughhy, lay wounded and senseless at the bottom of the gig, whether actually dead or only dying they knew not. "I love him now as it is," Kathleen answered candidly; "of course I should love him then. I love him better than I did before he left me, Mrs. Irving. I seem to love him more the longer he stays away from me." He became totally blind, and finally was stricken both bodily and mentally. For several month* paat bla oondltion has been orttloal. During hie brief life, he showed erldenoes of oonalderable ability as a ■niter, for a time, he was aesoolated vtth Samuel Smith, of Kingston, In the indication of the Wyoming Mig uine With Mr. 8mlth, he alao published a vol iae of poems. The Cambrian, published it Ramsen, N. Y , and the newspapers also irlntod articles from his pen that reoelved vide attention. Hla death at so early an ge and under noh aad circumstances Is a leavy blow to hta family and Is felt also yy a wtdC* olrole of ftleudj and acqaaln "And yoa don't lore Mr. Mortimer?" Mrs. Irving said once more. "No," Kathleen answered, "I only like him and respect him immensely. Bat Regseems to think that's ail that's necessary."The security was Insufficient, but 'tis so that good women will bow to the opinion •f their men relations. Mrs. Irving took tbe girl's two hands between her own caressingly. A beautiful, middle aged woman, with soft, wavy hair, and that chastened loveliness which comes to beautiful women with the touch of a great sorrow, she revolted in soul against this fraternal despotism. "Tea. Had I known three months ago that my enemies—among whom were some of my professed frisnds—contemplated this fight agalnat me, I am aatlefied that, from the oountles In whloh primaries have already been held, I would nave had, instead of 101, at least 190 delegates, which would have made a total of 209 out of the full number, 280, a majority of 117- I am, however, satisfied with my setimated majority of 79. Qf oonrss this olalm is bassd upon the faet that my friends are aotlve and alert throughout the State, and determined to leave nothing qndona which will bring about sucoeea. And In this oonnectlon do not hesitate to say that, In all my experieooe In polltlos, I have never encountered such generous support, such loyal devotion, suoh self denial aa I have witnessed la this contest. It is needless to say that I havs been exceedingly gratified at this exhibition " .Fust What'* Needed The gallon were, much amused at WilD Exola'ms thousands of people who km taken Hood's SanapariUa at tbla iiinn at the year, and who have noted the aaooeaa of the medicine in giving them relief ttom that tired feeling waning appetite -nil state of extreme exhaustion after the ok** cor ft'lenient of a long winter aeaaon, the busy time attendant npon a large and pressing business daring the spring months and with vaoation time jet aome weeks distant. It la then that the building up powers of Hood's Saraaparilla are fully appreciated. It aeema perfectly adapted to overcome that praatraliut caused by change of season, ellmate or Ufa, and while It tones and enstaina the ayetam. it parlfiee and vltallaxa the Mood. louyhby's rummy way of writing. tains loomed up and approached them from all sides, apparently sailing in every direction at once, though really, of course, only veering with the breeze from different quarters In the same general direction. The bo'sun looked at them with some dislike. "Dear me," he said, feeling abstractedly in his waistcoat poeket, "I've left my purse at home and I meant to take a cab. I'm late nlready, and now I'll have to tramp it. That's a dreadful nuisance, for their death on nnnnt.ualitv at, our nfflcp In the citv " "Can I led you a few shillings?" the unsuspecting American asked, too innocent to ■ee through Mr. Reginald's peculiar tactics. "Oh, thanks, awfully," Reggie answered in his nonchalant way, as if It were the smallest matter in the world. "I should be glad of a sovereign. I can pay it lDack on Saturday when we meet at the Criterion." Blijah Myers, the Detroit architect who was awarded the contract for furnishing the plans or a new court honse for Luzerne, and who was paid an installment of $10,000 by the Commissioners, made a demand tor the seooud 910, (#o this week. The Commissioners refused to pay the monsy and now the architect has hegun a suit against the county to recover t he above named amount. He has employed Jan. I. Lenaban as his attorney and will PU h the caee in the court. layers Sues the County. Rebeeca Wilkinson, Browns valley, led. ■aye; "I have been In a distressed condition for three yeara from nervousne*, weakneea of the atomaoh, dypepala an ndigeetion nntil my health wagone. 1 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 wetkly person to nee this valuable and| lovely remedy; a few bottlee of it has cured me completely. I consider it the grandest medicine in the world." Warranted the moet wonderful stomach and nerve cure ever known. Trial bottlee 15 cents. Sold by J. H. Honck, Druggist, Pitta ton Pa. "Reggie!" she cried, with a little contempt in her tone. "What has Reggie to do with It? It's yourself and the two men and the essential truth of things you have to reckon with first. Kathleen, dear Kathleen, never believe that specious falsehood people would sometimes foist upon you about the unselfishness of marrying a man you don't really love for the sake of your family. It isn't unselfishness at all; it's Injustice, cruelty, moral cowardice, infamy. The most wrong thing any woman can do in life is to sell herself for money when her heart is untouched. It's not merely wrong; it's disgrace; it's dishonor. Out of the bitterness of my heart my mouth "Ah doan't care for barge," he said in his thick Sunderland dialect. "Tha've got naw pilot aboord." And indeed the Iceliergs seemed to be drifting In every direction, hither and thither at random, without much trace of a rudder. Closer ant) closer they drew, those huge glacial islands, two large ones in particular almost blocking the way to the ship in front of them. The bo'sun looked at them again. "Toorn her aboot, boys," he said once more in a very decided way. "Easy all; bow side. Row like blazes, you oother unsl Ah'm thlnkln we'll naw be able to break through them by that quarter." James At. Nan-is Hack. "I've nothing less than a fiver," Mortimer observed, drawing it out. Summoning up all their remaining nerve, the uuinlured men seized their uaru onoe more and rowed lor dear life in the dtreotlon of the open. It was half an hour or ao before they could consider themselves at all clear of the ice, and even then they had no idea of the distance from the ship, for the Sheriff Ivory herself could nowhere be James M. Norrls, who recently resigned his position as ohief clerk to the County Commissioners after telling the hoodie story at the investigation of the conrt bouse plans, and who returned this week from a Be ran ton Sanitarium, occupied bis old place in the Commissioners' private office last Friday, and apparently waa holding the reins as of old. Those best acquainted with Senator Quay and his manner of oondnoting campaigns say that hs has doubtlsss figured on the safe side and that hia majority la likely to be greater than that named by hlmaelf. Reggie's hands closed over the piece of paper like a shot. "Ob, it's all the same," he replied, with a smiie ne conia not suppress, sticking it carelessly Into his pocket. "I'm awfully ofeUgeg to you. It's so awkward to go Bicycle lanterna from 50o. and up. W, S. Shelton. The men turned the boat instantly In obedience to bis word and began rowing