Pittston Gazette

              Oldest Newspaper in the Wvoming Vultey. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY. JANUARY 17, 1896. It Weekly locel end Family Journal. weren't williii for him to leave 'em; his father was gittiu old, aii there were lots of rooms ill the house, aii his mother was glad he was goiii to marry an bring his wife there, she was so lonesome now all her girls was gone, an a heap more sich staff." •low rwas oan, mis .lonnson. *• .Ann Mrs. Johnson allowed it was, too, and the story went on: bring her over. But it did seem as if there was u spite to be worked out agin me, for that very evenin it set in to rain on that stiffened the ole man up bad an for days he could not move hisself, an I was kep' close at home for three weeks, hearin from the neighbors every once in awhile that Rhody was gainin slowly, but the baby wasn't right somehow. sold everything he had an went to Californy."NOIES AND roMMENTS. My OrMd. As other men have creeds, so have I mine. I keep tUu holy tmith In God, in man And in the angel* ministering between. I hold to one true church of all true souls. Whose churehly seal la neither bread nor wine Nor laying on of hands nor holy oil, . Bat only in the anointing of God's grace. I hate all kings and caste and rank and birth, Yor all the sons of man are sons of God, Mor limps a beggar but is noble born, Nor wears a slave a yoke, a cxar a crown That ™rw**° lees or more than a man. A COSTLY FIRE LUZERNE'S REPUBLICAN DELEGATES DEATH'S RICH HABVEST. "Did he forgive his mother?" I asked, but the conductor took my arm and marched me out, and to this day I am wondering about "Jim" and his mother and "ole man Curtis." If I knew where Aunt Nancy lived, I would write to her. On Timely Toplea of Local and General Interact. Spirited Contest for Boats la the National Edward Morgan, One or the City's Oldest "In a day or two I managed to go over to the Curtis place, an thongh Mary Ann Curtis didn't seem overpleased to see me, I'll say that for her, she treated me well enough, an asked me right np stairs to see Rhody an the baby. My, but my girl was glad to see met Convention. Residents, Passes Away. "Dean," the Oaekttb'b Wilkesbarre correspondent, has aroused considerable interest in fljod history by his story of the carrying away of the Pittaton bridges la One week frora joday will be held the Republican primaries for electing delegates to district and oounty conventions—the six district oonvsntlons to meet on the 20th to ehooae nine delegates to the State convention, and the oonnty convention to meet on the 21st to elect two delegates to the National oonvention. The State delegates will have a voioe in the selection of sight National delsgstss at large, to be chosen bj the State oonvention in April. Edward Korean died January 10th at 8:30 o'olock at the family home on North Main street. The announcement of his death was a surprise, as his illness was not generally known, even among his friends. *ee out for the last time on Saturday. He complained of chills when he returned home, and although they were not regarda® serious at first, Mr. Morgan being strong and hardy despite h Cs advanced age, the ailment developed into bronchial pneumonia, and by yeeterdsy his condition was critical. He suffered much until death came to his relief. "Lonesome, indeed!" snapped Mrs. Johnson. "She was glad to git rid of her girls, so she was! Laws, don't I mind what times them poor girls had to git decent clothes? She jist grudged 'em everything an kep' 'em workin like—I was goin to say darkies, but no darky ever worked like old Mis' Curtis made her girls. No wonder they up an tuk the first feller 'at came along an asked 'em. But I stopped you, Aunt Nanoy— excuse me—for I knowed Mis' Curtis so well. ' The idea of her a-bein lonesome 1 She wanted somebody to help with the work, she did. Her own girls got away soon's they could. That Jim most 'a' been a fool!" THE END. It Lookout Breaker To- "Well, Jonathan got able to hobble round agin, an a purty spell of weather sot in, but there was garden to make an soap to bile an another week, slipped away, an I says to Jonathan, says I, 'As sure as I live I am goin to see Rhody tomorrer if old Mis' Curtis '11 let me in, an the words wasn't hardly ont of my month when somebody knocked at the door. 'Come in,'says I, and who was it but old man Curtis, lookin like a ghost 'What's the matter?' Bays I. He r'al'y couldn't speak for a minit, an then he got out sometbin 'bout Rhody an the baby, an comin, but I sensed it all, an in less 'n a minit I was ready an in the buggy with him. Napoleon and Joeephlne. The day before the ceremony a delegation of the senate had formally announced the result of the plebiscitum, and the emperor not only had guaranteed the popular rights as secured by the revolution, but had promised to transmit them unimpaired to his children, 1875, and we shall probably get down to the bottom facts ere long Amos Stroh, who Is recognised as good authority on modern local history, isn't quite satisfied with Mr. Llntern's recent statment that be "was tola the Ice waa four feet thlek." Mr Stroh says that he haa aeen every Ice freshet in the Susquehanna for the last " 'Aunt Nanoy, • she says, 'is Sarah's baby bigger'n mine?' An she turned down the kiver an showed me the littlest mite of a boy, with such a wrinkled old face! I wonder what does make a pore weakly baby look so much like old folks anyhow. Did you ever notice it. Mis' Johnson?" tally Destroyed I love my country and her righteous oause; So I dare not keep silent of her sin. And after freedom may her belli ring peaoe. I love one woman with a holy fire. Whoa I revere aa priestess of my house. I stand with wondering awe before my babes Till they rebuke me to a noble life. 1 keep a faithful friendship with my friend. Whom loyally I serve before myself. I lock my lips too okise to speak a lie. X wash my too white to touch a bribe. I owe&o man a debt I cannot pay Save only at the love men ought to owe. LOSS OVER (100,000. The contest for the two delegatea from the Lnzerne Congressional district has narrowed down to fonr candidates, Hon. John Leiaenring, Morgan B. Morgans, Ool. W. J Harvsy and the editor of the OAum It la generally agreed that Con- but where were they? That same night "i*ty-two years, and that he has never at the last hour the empress, who in the any toe In the river four feet thlok, or eyes of the church had so far been only even three feet thlok. Continuing the a concubine, obtained by the pope's in- story, be says, "The Ferry bridge waa W ZZ the » i»'- Lin tern state., her heart, but what had so often been k.. .* aia ... . , ... __ refused by her husband—a secret mar- ! . . ... * P° bridge, riage to bim by ecclesiastical rite. I f'j bridge moved before the Ferry Would this work a miracle and remove Everybody preeent aaid that the the reproach of her barrenness? In any- *m7 bridge waa dcoated, bat I told them case it the bar to her corona- 'bat it depended on circumstances, that If tion by the pope, of which nothing bad the loe started below the bridge It would beon said in the preliminary negotia- aettle back to Its natural plsoe to about Jons.-Professor,W. M. Sloane's "Life thirty minutes. The loe moved beyond .f Napoleon in Century. the first pier about the distance of twothirda the width ot the bridge and broke "t In two. I, with several others, then rant out to the first pier. I stepped down Dn the upper side of the pier and saw that •he first span of the bridge had been raised 'bout twelve or fourteen Inches above the pier. Some one said, 'That will take the other bridge.' I looked through the gap oanaed by the break and aaw that the depot bridge had already move t. We then went down to the lower bridge, and saw It stand on the loe about forty or fifty feet below th- piers When the loe next moved, it started below. The loe between the first pter and ths eastern shore also moved and the first span settled on the pier within an tnoh of where It first stood. Mr. Llntern states that afterward It froze thiol enough to allow a horse and eqttef to cross the loe. Tab is an enor. Nobody oonld get on the river with a horse, owing to the loe being "Oh, yes, often," said Mrs. Johnson. "There was my Silas, looked jist like his Grandfather Johnson when he was born. But was her baby weakly ?" In the death of Mr. Morgan, this city loses another of its oldest and best known residents. Deceased was seventy years old on August 13th last. He was born in win lmce Aggregating (83,000. Withal each day before the blessed heaven I open wide the chambers ot my soul And pray the Holy Ghost to enter in, TOiat reads the fair oonfession of my faith, . Bo arosaed with contradictions of my life. That now may God forgive the written lie. Yet (till, by help of him who helpeth men, I face two worlds and fear not l'te nor death O Father, lead me by the hand I Amen. —Theodore Tiltov "I saw it was in a minute," said Aunt Nancy, "but I never let on. I looked at the baby an praised it all I could—said it wasn't as big as Sarah's, bat size was nothin. "Oh, no, he wasn't," went on the »oft voice. "It's mighty little a young feller like him knows about housework, an his mother's work never bothaMd him. So as soon as Rhody'ssohool waa out in the spring they was married. You see, her unole thought for a pore girl she ptlrty well, an I 'low she waa if ' she bad been jist marryio Jim Curtis, but she warn't—she was a tyin of herself to his mother." g rearm an Ldaenring should be chosen as on* of the delegates by aoclamttlon, in aooordanoe with party usage, and the other candidates all oonosds this, we believe; to that the oontest Is really between the three others for the remaining place. Morgans and Harvey are both residents of Wilkeebarre and a very spirited fight Is in progre* bstween them to secure the delegatea from that olty and vicinity. Montgomeryshire, South Wales, but oame to this country when seventeen years of age. He reelded in Oarbondale for a short time, but the greater portion of his adult life has been spent in Pittston, where he hss been very widely known through his business intereets. ' "From what I could make out as we druv as fast as we could, «Fim had been away from home over to the Duncan place from airly in till a boat 6 o'dodrftat afternoon. When he got home, be ran right up to Rhody's room, an found her a-settin there with the baby in her arms, asleep as he thought, but when he spoke to Rhody she began to scream, so that he was scared an tuk hold of the baby an it was dead. , "Mis' Curtis she sniffed sort of scornful, an says she, 'The child might have been bigger if its mother'd knowed GOOD WORK OF FIREMEN. BElilD on! CM « //ji Dlf  I 1 v ■ f Mr. Morgan upent four years In the gold fields of Australia, there securing the •tart which resulted In the aocnmnlatlon o£ considerable property, chief among them being the three-story brick boildlng at tLe corner of Main and William streets, and a three story brick block on South Main street, near Market street. For many yean he was engaged in the stone quarrying business. In the prime of life he was a hard worker, but of late years he had not been engaged in business, spending the time In oaring for his properties. His figure was a familiar one on the streets, ;he being almost a dally visitor into the buslnees seotlon of the otty np to the time of hla fatal lUnees. * A Malicious Misinterpretation. The nasi aid Adjoining Buildings Saved. "More fool Jim!" snarled Mrs. Johnson.Pat Alexander, to whom "Shirley" makes reference in hia memoirs, was well knows in Glasgow and Edinburgh for his eccentricities. On one occasion he met Dr. William Chambers on the North bridge, Edinburgh, and askecj him excitedly, "Have you found her?'* "Found whom?" woman you were advertising for." "Woman! I haven't been advertising for any wow? fill." "Oh, yesi here it is I" Anfl from bis waistcoat pocket he extracted a soiled advertisement clipped out of The Scotsman. The doctor took it and read: "Wanted, a Woman to Glean Chambers. " When he looked for Alexander, that gentleman had disappeared—wisely perhaps.—London Realm. As the friends of Hon. Chaa. A. Miner will endeavor to have him named for one of the delegate* at large, the candidacy of two other W likesbarreans before the oounty oonventlon rather handicaps him; and in view of the fact that Lucerne's National delegates and candidates for Presidential elector have always been given to Wllkestoarre heretofore, it doee not eeem unreesonable to eek that theae honors go By Ma. E. V, WUJ30I. "Now, Mia' Johnson," caid Aunt Nancy, "Jim meant well, an he worshiped the very ground Rhody walked on; bat, you see, old Mis' Curtis she didn't believe in young folks pmkin simpletons of themselves, and when she see Jim slip his aim roan Rhody, or her ran her band through bis cnrly hair, she'd snap ont somethin sort at hateful ; so Rhody she got afraid of her, an there's where the tronble began, in my 'pinion, for if my pore child had let Jim see how she was imposed on he certingly'd have made a change, bat to keep peace she jist made believe she was happy 'nough. I use' to go over sometimes, though I knowed Mia' Curtis set no store by my comin, but Rhody was alius that glad, an I tell you it riled me to see how she was treated. It WfkB, 'Rhody, bring the milk out of the suller,% 'Rhody, fetch some W°°di' 'Rhody, set the table,' till I wondprp} she didn't drop. [Copyright. 1886, by the Author.) '* 'Then he hollered,' said the old man, 'an me an Mary Ann an Tom (that's the hired man) ran up there, for we was jist settin down to supper, an when we saw what it was Tom went for .:ie doctor an I came far yon.' It wm very tiresome riding on the oars all day, with the same monotonous stretch of prairie to be seen from the window; so I am sure it was pardonable in dm to listen to the conversation of way fellow passengers. BREAKER WILL BE REBUILT. The line breaker of the Mount Lookou Goal Company, in Exeter borough, wai "An, oh, Mib' Johnson, Iueyer want to see such sights agin! The baby was dead, sure enough, pore little thing, an out of its misery, but Rhody, she jist went out of one faint into auother till the doctor came, an then we worked over her a long time, an when she quit faintin she was ravin in a high fever. Dangerous, the doctor said, an turned everybody but Jim an me out of the room. Such an awful time! Rhody would scream, 'Oh, do come, mother! Mother! Mother! Baby'sdyin!' till she couldn't scream auy more, an then 6he'd ask for the baby, ftn }ip still, waitin like, an tliep scream agin. Just in front of me (their bundles on a aeat before them) sat two elderly Woman, old friends, it seemed, who had chanced to meet in their journeying, and it was a sentence or two of their talk that caught my attention, and pres ently I became ao interested that I no longer felt my weariness. totally dea toyed by fin January 8, and nothing remains of the Immense structure-, with Its line rquipment of modern machinery, bat a mass of smouldering ruins. to the npper and lower ends of the oonnty this year, neither eeotton having ever had a National delegate. "Rhody, the fire't goin down." now to taite aeer ot nersen, au men sne says: 'Well, I ain't no time to be a-foolin. I must go to work.' The plant was In fall operation at 4:40 o'eloek, when one of the dust-begrlmmed breaker bays shouted to the bow that the breaker was on ire. The boy had noticed a blase about the timber* whioh surrounded the main shafting In about the oenter of the breaker, and this fact gave rise to the report whioh spread widely that the ire originated from a hot journal. Operator Clarenoe Simpson, however, dose not place much reliance in the report. He After the heated light over Ihe State chairmanship last summer, many of the party leaders in the oonnty advised that, ae Congressman Lets- " 'I suppose you've got a girl?' says I. " 'No, I ain't,' says she, 'an, what's more, I don't want one. I never seen one yet that they didn't eat an waste more than their work came to, let alone their wages.' An off she went down stairs. Mr. Morgan married Jane D inlets, a sister of Bev. Daniel Daniels, the veteran preacher of Dandaff, who died in Hazleton quite reoently. Mrs. Morgan snrvivee him, ae also do two daughters—Mrs. Solomon Stroh and Mrs. W. H. Holmes, both well known reeidente of this city. "An ao," aaid one, "you say they ace livin all alone in that big house of tbe|r'nl I kpowed the girls was all marfi/M} an gone, but I heerd Jim  tuk a wife home to live with the old folks, an I said to Simon, says I, 'Well, it'U take more'n a mortal woman to live wfch Mary Ann Cnrtis on lews she's mightily changed sence I use' to know bar,' ww I" "Weft," aaid the other voice, and a sweet, patient sounding voice it was— ao sweet, indeed, that I glanced over to look at ita owner. She was a little, qaaint old woman, with soft brown eyea and a pathetic, lovable face. I fell in love with her at onoe, Her companion waa a younger woman, with shrewd, black, observing eyea and sharp noae and chin. From appearances and manner, I judged both were wives of well to do farmers. ■ad Gone Kmr Knough. A South Side man tells a good Stan on himself. en ring had eeponsed the antt Quay side In that eonteet, and ai the Gazbttb waa the only party paper in the oonnty that had supported the other aide, It would be In the Interest at party harmony, and tend to Pe ooiuea pf Revolutionary stock, and pU«d op along the shore. Mr. R. Qoa hie family lor several generations tuyok wm the first man taken aoroDs the river ii has been prominent in New York state, a boat on the 17th, It waa a dangeroui hut be has never worried much mora. If tha lea, whiok waa In alghl his ancestry, having beep too bWllj-W' .bore, had broken locee It would have faaec giged ip trapping the unwary doUar. „„ dMih to htm (n Mn His wife cornea of good old Virginia . T. .. \^» . 7^ stock and knows all flbdut her lineage. 1*me". *w. ,n.WM 1,1 to Qro"1 She has frequently insisted tbM I r 'n • D*t- WM on Mm husband m«ko some effort to traoe hie niornlnn of tb« 18th." family biatoey, of whioh he could give *«• no earlier aooount than that one of hit In tbto oonnectlon, the following oopy ancestors moved from Massachusetts to of a raoord kept by J J Ktiiohner, which Connecticut about 1760. Ab the family, baa fallen Into Mr. Stroh's hand*, to of lnname Is thoroughly English she beller- . ed It possible that this anoestor came in , PmMV„ M . 1(W_ direct line from aome old pilgrim aet- QnMonday, 83d. .h.riometer*Dodtbree At last the hnsband yielded to ber gresatolow"'to™ j the persnasions and wrote to a Saaquebaima river (banka witb'n ftve feet in the east to find out t be pould ot fall) on the toe, two and a half abopt the family in Massachusetts prior luohee thiok. The three bridges wishod to 1760. In the coarse of a few weeks on Taeed*y night, Marsh 16, 1875 fc™oe,™dh* is"" The man who dig- up family biatorlej hooM on m nf tt The water r^oh •aid be had obtained a clew. He had ad 3 feet 8 Inabea higher than the freshet learned from early reoords that in , cf 1866 I alao saw one man brio? a bog Mass., in 1686, Que James bad gy aeroaa on the k». John J Kklcbtcb "Rhody said nothin for a minute, an | either. Wfl jjtet looked at the baby, an it begun to pucker its face an ory a little, 'bout as loud as a young kitten. I thought of Sarah's squaller of a boy, but J didn't say anything, an when it was quiet Rhody says: " 'Aunt Nancy, is my baby like Sarah's baby?' An she looked so pitiful I felt as if I could cry. allay any factional feeling, if Mr. Leisenring and Mi. Hart were eleoted ae tht National delegatee without opposition. Other aspirants have, however, deolined to aseent to such an arrangement, notwlthetandlng MlSk ADDtB BE AS*. "It was miduight before the doctor got her qniet, aud then she lay in a stupor like, with Jim settin watchin her." Then I thooght of the pore baby an \vent to see pbopt jt, but spme pf the othpr neighbors had come in, an I found they had it laid pnt nice in the parlor. The many Pittston friends of Miss Addle Beaee, daughter of Mr. and Mre. Frank P. Bease, will be grieved to learn of her death, whleh occurred In Blnghamton Jan. 10th. No paTticnlare of the sad affair could be learned, bnt It is fuppoeed that dpath must have oome suddenly, since none of her friends here were aware of her illness. The Beaee family, It will be remembered, reeided in West Pittston for a number of years, but now live In Ballngton_ West Virginia, where Mr. Bease ie engaged as a coal operator. Mies Beaee was attending the H igh School In Btngiamton, this being her eeoond term, and eeveral times since the family moved away visitxl friends here, her last visit bslng quite recent. She was a bright young lady, about 18 years of age, and her untimely death is the source of much sorrow among her many friends^ "One awful hot day I waa there, an Rhody she was ironin iq the back porph, qn Mis' Curtis she was makin pies; she was a master Jiand pt poolfin. You'll 'low that, Mia' Johnson." ■ays that there had never been any trouble fr Dm hot J ureal* In the breaker, and waa Inclined to regard the queatlon of the origin of the fire aa insolvabls. It has been oommended by Senator Quay, and consequently the matter must be determined In the oonnty oonventlon to be held on the diet lost. "Ob, yea," snapped Mrs. Johnson, "Mary Ann Curtis was a master at anything she put her band to," The breaker waa well equipped withhoee, water, and other fire fighting apparatus, bat it eeema that tha flames spread with such lightning-like rapidity that nothing oonld be done to wlth*t*y their progress. Tbe hratkar hoys karrledly grabbed their dinner palls and eoata and ran oat of tbe breaker. One of the breaker bosses la an aoed man named Thomas Pritehard, who suffers with asthma so badly that he la unable to walk rapidly Under hla crippled condition and the excitement attend Ing tbe discovery of the fire, he wsa in danger of being burned, bat some of the older boys took him in ohsige and carried him oat to a plaoe of safety. " 'Well,' I says, 'Sarah's is bigger. WhT do you ask that?' "Per lips quivered, an she says: " 'Everybody 'at sees it says; "What an old fashioned baby I Pore little thing 1 Re'ly it's so odd lookin." la it odd, Aunt Nancy? An is there fashions in babies? I thought babies were all alike.' An sbe tried to smile while tears rolled down her white face. "Mis' Cnrtis was settiq by the kitchen store, for it was a pool evenin, an I says tQ her, 'Mary Ann,' says I,' what ailed the child? It was tuk suddent, wasn't it?' "A3 I waa aayin," went on Aunt Nancy meekly, "Rhody waa ironin, an aioh a pile of olothea 1—white winder curtains starched like boards, an tablecloths, let alone shirt* an other thing* —an I waa thinkin bow pale she waa, an peaked lookin, when Mis' Curtis calls out: 'Rhody, the fire's goin down. Wonder if you spect to iron with oold irons. If you do, you kin quit, for I don't have my ironin done that way, if some folks doeg. ' f'Bhodv never said a word, bpt Jis* went to the wood pile for more wood, an I say to Mis' Cnrtis, saya It 'If J was you, I'd have some of the men folks bring in the wood. Rhody don't look well.' While Harvey and Morgana both claim D be now friendly to Quay, we understand "She looked at me. Iknowed she was mad as well as feelinbad, but she didn't want to show it then, an she says: that the latter w« an active opponent last summer. As to Harvey's candidacy, it asanas Ill-advised, nnder the dreamstanoes, slnoe It is calculated to divide those known as Qo people, and ahoold neither he nor Hart be sleeted It will be more than likely to reopen factional dlfferenoes that have well nigh diaappsared and which should be "Well," said the sweet voioe, "Jim did marry a mortal woman, but Mary Ann aoon made a angel out of her. I jaiowed Jim Curtis' wife aa well aa if she'd peety pwn child, and no won£*, awfff a# ebe Wded witfc me an Jonathan nigh on to a year. You see, ahe waa left an orphan, an her uncle that raised her, not bein well off, give bar What aohoolin he oould, an then whan ahe waa about 16 year old be got bar first the summer school in our deeetrlo', an then, aa ahe suited the folks, the d'rectors they let her have it for the J. was sort of feared for her to tackle tfcp winter school, seein as aome of the big boys, an girls, too, for that matter, 'a pritty obstreperous, but Rhody she laughed aa tooted her head an aaid, '111 git along, Aunt Nancy I' (You know everybody in the neighborhood oalla me Aunt Nancy, an Rhody ahe picked it up aa nat'ral aa oould be.) "Well, ahe did manage aomehow, an never had a bit of trouble. An I use' to watch of evenin'a far her to come, alius smilin, an with somethin funny to tell about the acbolars. I declare to yon, "ijTabe-'q jjeen our own, Jooafiuw an ma po#Ws't # W* P"»e by Im. Why, whenever it waa rainy dr snowy the ole man would saddle a horse an go far ber, an abe'd look that cute, aettin babio ao ale Molly an boldin on to the ole man! " ' Yes, I reckon yon might say it was, 'though I never spected the child to live from the first. Wbat'd Jim marry that no 'count epindly girl for? He might 'a' knowed.' "I tried to cheer her »»p. She was a baby herself—only a little over 18, you know—an I went down an made her some toast an tea, pn then fed the baby an got it to sleep, an left her feelin pretty cheerful, tttMia' Cnrtis ' pays J, 'Rhody'U not trouble yon long, an it's my belief, ' says I, 'you've hurried her into her grave,' In the coming oonventlon. The editor of the Giarn desires to express his thanks for the many friendly expressions ooneernlng his sandldaoy from "After that I went over as often as ever I oould, an sometimes carried a little somethin I cooked to Rhody, but I aaw Mia' Curtis didn't thank me. Onoe abe'a good as said so—eaid her victuals waa good 'nough for anybody. Says I, 'Sick folks like strange cookin sometimes, Mis' Curtis, an Rbody alius liked my waya.' Which was an unfortunate thijig for me to say, for Mis' Curtis she fiew all to pieces, an said | put mischief in Rbody'a head. " 'Jt's no sich thing,'says sha 'I waited on her as good as«if she was my own, but I had lots to do today, an 1 The rapidity with whieh the fits spread was something wonderful The boys had soarwly got olsar of the breaker room before it waa entirely enveloped la flames, ▲s soon aa the news resetted the offioe, whioh is about a hundred yards from the breaker, an alarm waa sent by telephone to this city eslitng oat the fire department. By the time the gong was sounded, the whole balldlng was enveloped in flames and great throngs of people gathered in the neighborhood of the bridges and other available places to wDtoh the terrible yet beeqtifnl fight MBS. MARGARET WI8NKB. been sentenced to six hoars in tbe stocks Wltn-ssss: Jambs Davis John Kilchfor pablio Intoxication, and that in tbe ***' ®B » Knumunn A meeeage was reoejvtd here Jan. 0th from Scraitton, anatranclng the death of Mrs. Margaret Wiener, widow of the 1st® fi. J. Wiener, whtoh occurred at the homo of her step-daughter, Mre. Thoe. E. Jones,. 8inoe Mre. Wlsner left West Pittston, abont ten years ago, shortly after the death of her hneband, the widely known foondryman, she has made her home with Mrs. Jones. Last summer, whilo at Warwick, N. Y., she was stricken with a severe illness, from which she never fully recovered. Her condition was not conside-ed dangerous, however, and the announcement of her death waa a surprise to the friends of the family here. The immediate cause of death was apoplexy. Mrs. Wlsner was seventy-four years of age and was a native of New York city. She was married here in 1863. "Youxraghter seen her look at me I Ber eyee fairly scared me. 'Our men folks,' says she, ''s tired enough when they come in, 'thout havin women's Work to do. If they waa shiftleaa aa aome I knows, that's all they'd be fit for,' xjle ber this morn In I wan done packln fictuala np stairs for a lazy trollop like her, an she could come down to dinner if she wanted any. She's plenty able to, Nanoy Riley, an it'a my 'pinion she didn't take half oare of that baby. An she set Jim agin me. He's flxin to go off to live by hisself." same town the following year this V aforrwaid James en joyed the nnlqne Charles H. Faster, a member of the distinction of being the first prisoner to West PUtston So tool Board, was one of woupy a newly bnilt jail, the ohaig? the oommlttes of firs which represented tgainat him being the the# pf « pas* q$ Luzerne oonnty at the meeting or oonvenrnm" I tion of the schoo1 [From the Baslaton Sentinel.] Hon. Theo. Bart, of Pltteton, in a visitor in town today. He is going the rounds of the Congrf mrtoritl district in advocacy of his choice m a delegate to the National Republican convention, which will be determined at the oounty convention to be held the 81st. He was welt received hereabouts, and Mb prcepacta appear flattering, "My dear." Mid the husband after T",;" . . * ?!?°tor". °f *^e ®UtC had read the report to bis horrified hedln Harrlsburg thU week, and be rewife, "we haven'tgot far enough along btgbly both with tbe trip to prove tbat James waa a relative C5 *DC* w1"1 proceedings of tbe oonvenonra, but I think we can do it with a lit- Hon. He says that there were preeent tie more research." come of the moat promloent educational "The investigation has gone far worker* in the State. There wm a oordlal enough," said she. feeling manifest and the very evident de- Now, when she tells of ber husbwtf'p fer .dvancmeni of tbe eauae of family history, she is content to dwell ,.r. ... on the Revolutionary period. ° **•«*« • :r ■' • • | aim of the gathering was tbe formation of la 8Ut) Directors' Anoeiation, and this I wss accomplished, it being the ssnttmsnt "I tell yon, that sort of riled rpe," went on the gentle voice, "but Rhody came in with a big armful of wood, so I didn't say anything." " 'Here,' she says, 'is her baby three weeks old, an her barely settin up. Your Sarah waa at work afore her baby was that old, an I know it, au if Mis' Rhody can't wait on herself now she can go 'thout waitin on for all of me,' she pays. "I jiat turned round an left ber, an she bounced up an rays to one of the women, 'I a'pect you're nil hungry, an I'll git aupper, an, in spite of all they eoald do, to work she went." [From the Haaleton Standard.] "As if you would have aaid anything, you good soul!" said Mrs. Johnson. Thea. Hart, editor and proprietor of the Pittston Qazcttb, and an aspirant for delegate t D the Be publican National convention, spent yesterday In this city. Mr. Hart created a vary favorable Impression among the Bepnbli- "Ton don't know me," said Aunt Nancy. "Jonathan says .1 am right ■mart when I git riled—scares him." And a mellow langh rippled over her thin lipe. which sounded so sweet that Wore' than one passenger turned to see the laugher. Jfrs, Johnspp ioiped the merrimeut, and I smiled, too—the idea of that voice soolding was so absurd. And now it went on egain; The fittetan, Wart Pitta ton, Exeter and" Wyoming fire companies wan on th« soene in a wry abort apaoe o( time. The Mount Lookout property la wall auppli d w th water plnga, for nee in oaaa of Bra. Than la alao a large oiatern oonneoted with the Spring Brook water main, and the Eagles' eng n* wa* put Into connection with tti'a, worklog splendidly, and furnishing several good rtnema. Besides, several atnams wen secured from plnga, and the whole energy of the firemen was dlreoted toward the saving of the adjoining building*—the engine houses, the bqilar houses, head tioussa, eto. "Oh, yes," said Mrs. Johnson, "the uiadder she got the harder she'd work, an a mighty good worker, too, she was. Bat how did that pore Rhody get along?" "IjVeU, she lay quiet all that mornin, put pbout the piddle of the afternoon phe roused up an seemed to know me an Jim, an asked for the baby. " 'Mis' Curtis,' says I, 'my Sarah's a different woman from Rhody.' " 'I guess she is,' says Mis' Curtis, mad as fire. sans of this section and will undoubtedly poll a Urge vote. We sincerely hope that he may be successful. One of the men foremost In bringing oat a candidate in this section to oppose Hon. John Leisenring informed a reporter that the proposed fight is now off, and Leisenring will hare no opposition whatever. " 'An,' says I, 'Jim onght to git pomebpdy to help wait on Rhody an take pare of the haby,' says I, 'or else it's my 'pinion he won't have 'em long, for,' says I, ' Rhody's gittiu weaker instead of stropger, an she ain't got milk for that pore baby.' "Then Mis' Curtis she jist let loose, an I ketched it She said it was all my doin's that Jim married that pore no 'oount, stuck up schoolmistress, an brought -her there to be waited on, an she knowed it' all along, an now I needn't oome a-tryin to make out as Rhody wasn't treated well, for she had wore herself out trottin up an down M) she didn't mean to do it any mgm-, Coorteoos Hints, perhaps there is no greater strain up-1 of the convention that snch an organisa-00 "neighborly feeling" than living next tion would be highly desirable and profitdoor to 8 poultry yard whose Inmates »bU. H. H Qaimby, of Montgomery are allowed to "run"—making execoiae „_nt_ u , * ground of the adjaoent flowerand vege-, ™ *' w"6ho*8n pr**1dent cf toe •*001' toble gardens. A San Diego young lady \ *tloDD *cd Ln,"roe "■ honored by the ee who was subjected to this annoyanoe l*ot'°n °f John ▲ Opp, E*q , of Plymouth, politely asked her neighbor to keep his " • member of toe executive committee pets at home. She asked it several The constitution provide* that the memtimes, and still no attention was paid to benhlp shall consist of representative* her grievance. Finally she hit upon an from the Boards of Education of f jiladel ingenious method of protecting herself. ' ph1a, P.ttabnrg and Allegheny Otty, or She prepared grains of ooraby tying g.ni«ed county of school di to them with strong wjat tta*4 sw*H reoton Bod ,, d UNoUtk)Illo{ Mhool cards bearing the words, "Please keep D ... . "L . , . your chickens at home," and distributed dlreoto™ cities and boroughs having the grain about her flower beds. | sepante teachen' institutes, with the State, The chickens oame to feast aa usual county, elty, borough and township suand greedily swallowed the com, not perintendent and prtnelpale of normal perceiving the thread until the oard waa schools ss advisory members. Etch of the against their jaws. Then they could said boards and association* *h*" be enneither swallow the oard nor rid them- titled to send five representative* The a* selves of the swallowed corn. elation will meet annually at Harrlsburg Twenty or thirty of the marauders ran ... , „ . ;. . _ . ■ home bearing the polite request to their ' . ° rusry. culpable owner, who, struck with the me 'n a dlacnaalons wen aroused, method of the hint, promptly cut the Then was objection to a resolution reoom threads and cooped up the birds. mending an appropriation by the Leglala- This was forcible, but a delicate hint tun of a run sufficient to defray the upon a like offense was conveyed from necessary expense* ot the annual ponvenone aggrieved relative to another where "on dlreoton, lnoludlng the nsoessarv •teonger measures would have bet* oft STSl& Zw™ Ihe suffering victim of hens waa tak- *Jft£ llteto en ill, and the perhaps unoonsoious of- Meesra. McCarthy and Opp, of Luaerne, fender slew his ohoioest bird and sent m *de apeeche* opposing these resolutions, to the invalid. - The invalid feasted i A resolution waa adopted urging the and sent back a message of , Legitlatnn to pass a law fot the establish* thanks to the effect that the fowl was menJ °* hJ8l1 schools throughout »he oouldelioious and tasted of b*t violate.— . 7 i" *h nf? I order that each ohlld of the 8tete Youth s Companion. may enjoy th* same educational pr vlleges John W. Gilchrist, aged 55, one of Wilkesbarre's most prominent residents, died Friday morning, Jan. 10, aftar an illness of five weeks with gastritis. Mr. Gilchrist has held a number of poeitio" of responsibility. He was once chlef-o polloe of Wllkesbarre, for three yea warden uf the Luserne jail, an tax receiver of Wllkesbarre from 1883 ;to 1895. Daring the Civil War, he was captain of do. A, Fifty-second Pennsylvania Infantry, serving from 1861 to 1865 He was a member of the G. A B ; of Dlen le Vent Oommandery, Knights Templar; Lodge 61, F. A A M., and of Lnln Temple, A. A. O. K. of M. S., of Philadelphia. The fnneral will take place on Monday morning. JOHN W. GILCHRIST. " 'It's down stairs, Rhody,' says L ''She looked at me so queer. " 'Js it?' she said. was mad, Jim, an wouldn't come upstairs, an baby was so sick, an I tried to call ber an I cooldu't make ber hear, an then I tried to go down stairs an couldn't, an baby got so stiff and cold, an I couldn't git him warm.' An then, oh, Mis' Johnson, she began to scream agin. It was awful, but after awhile she was still again for several hours, au I tried to git Jim to lay down, but he wouldn't leaVe her, an his mother come up for jiiiq to git him to go down an pat somethin, but he jist looked at her, an she went an left bira. "On# oold even in (it was a Friday even in, too—I'll never fcrgit it), Jist as Jonathan got the saddle on the mare, we heard sleighbells, for I was out at the fence talkin to the ole man, an who should oome sailin np the road, large as life, but Jim Curtis in his new sleigh, with our Rhody, amilin an rosy, beside 'There, ole' man,' says I, 'your pake's dough-' 'An f declare for it, if he worrfr that put np be (XH)j4 Jparoe he civil to the yogpgstpfs. "Of ponrse yon know how it was after that—no needpeesity tor the ole man hotherin any mare; not 'at It was bother, for he allns liked goin for Rhody, bat laws I Jim was alias on hand, no matter boir the weather was, an be tnk her to her uncle's two or three times, an to meet in Sundays, an I np an tole her one day that I b'lieved I'd ask Jim to board with us, an her face got mighty nd, an she stepped ap an pat both arms poon my neck, she was such a lovin lee- "I thought I'd say somethin to Jim. about Rhody, for I felt cm easy about her, an so when be was helpin me on my horse in the evenin (Rhody oonldn't oome to the fence, 'cause His* Curtis called her back when she started), I says to him, 'Jim,' says I, 'Rhody looks mighty bad. I'm feered she's doin too much this hot weather.' You Bee, it was September, an you know what tirin weather we sometimes have in September[from the Ha*]aton Plain-Speaker.] Boq. Then, Hart, of Pitta ton, was a vis tl tor in thia city yesterday,reviving old and making new friendships to assist him in his contest for delegate from Luserne county to the Bepublt oan National convention at St. Louis. Mr. Hart is an exceedingly pleasing and agreeable gentleman who long since won his spare in po- Thess building* wan In th* greatest danger of dsstmotion, on aooouat of being •o * oss together and being almost oonneoted with th* burning breaker by th* large wooden trertling and plan* by whloh th* coal wa* hoisted to the breaker. Saveral time*, during tit* progres* of th* fin, It wa* feared that the tnatllng would be totally destroyed. Fortunately th* air waa calm, and till* fact, together with th* exoellent rtreama furnlahed by th* Eagl* engine and the good work of the Unman genera ly, resulted In th* saving of th* greater portion of the trertling. Th* firemen played upon the treat ing from threg aide*. It waa jpetty hot work at times, but the ftrem®n stuck to It bravely and had the aatlafaotlon finally of seeing their effort* successful litical battle and established for himself a rep_ tttatkm for honesty and candor. He is an ex* member of the Legislature, where he served with abilitv. He is nD/w editor and proprietor cf the Pittston Gazbttb , and during the Qaay-Hastlng* fight of last " 'Oh, she's all right,' wq Jijp. " 'No, she ain't,' says L "Jim laughed, an his face reddened up, an says 11 summer his was the only Republican newspaper (n the entire county to espouse the cause of Senator Quay. It is presumed on this account that his selection would be very acceptable to the junior Senator. Mr. Hart has also made for himself many warm friends in the lower end by his able and steadfast efforts in the cause of Quay county and should receive generous help from onr section. ''Jist then the kitchen door was ppened an old Mr. Curtis come in. " 'Why, bowdy, Aunt Nancy?' says be as cheerful, though I knowed* he must have seen somethin was up." " 'Yon better take good care of her, Jim. She's not a strong woman like your mother; she can't stand everything, ' an no more she couldn't, pore little thing. "It was night when Rhody roused up agin, an she looked so much better out of her eyes that I felt sort a-cbeered. MISS ANNIE STERLING. "Yes," interrupted Mrs. Johnson angrily. "that's the way people do an call it keepin peace. I despise sich ways. Why didn't he make her behave herself? Suppose there was a fuss. If she'd found he was goin to be boss, she'd soon give up." "'Jim,' she says, whisperin, 'is that Aunt Nancy?' Miss Annie Sterling, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Sterling, of Browntown, died Jan. 9. She had been ill for abont one month, from the effects of a oold, bat nothing serioas was thought of it nntil a few days ago, when she gradually grew worse and died. The deoeased was a popular school teacher in Pittston township and has a host of acqaalntanoee, all of whom will bs grieved to learn of her sad demise. She was aged about 27 years and was an active member of the Ladles' C. M B A soolety. "Well, the very next Sunday, here came Jim an Rhody to see us. An I tell you the ole man an me was that glad he would have Rhody sing for ns, an she sang some of the songs he liked, but not many; she said she Jiadp't sung any for so long it tired her. " 'Yes, dear,' he says. " 'An has she got the baby?' Bhewent MEW COURT HOUSE BITS. IscsmaMaM by the Grand Jury This MorBlng. IBM! yjf- _  4 yflfw "Well, Jim didn't say nothin, pore feller, an sho says; "I gpess not, Mis' Johnson," said the ptber. VfShe bad sich a temper." Among the returns made by ths Grand Jury last Saturday was the following -. 1' 'Aunt Nancy, when Jim an me's keepin house you'll come an see us?' C "'Yes, dear,' I says. 'Now go to sleep, like a good girl' " 'Why don't you sing, Rhody?' says the ole man. 'You use' to sing like a bird.' ?'Asif Ididn't know that! An I know when folks give np to sich tempers they make 'em worse. Wouldn't it been better if ole man Curtis had jist let her see from the first that he didn't care for her temper? Why, she jist nat'rally drove her girls to marry, an think of pore MoJljr tied to that jirunken, shiftless Ned 'Pelton, an Betsy married to a old widower with seven or eight children, an him nearly as old as her father! 1 tell yon, Annt Nancy, Curtis is to blame." Operators Slmpaon and Wfttklns, the general manage)* of the oolllery, wen la New York attending a meeting of th* Individual Goal Oj)erators' Association whan the fin occurred. They wen notified by telephone and airived home at midnight Early next morning they w*n at the colliery office In consultation with tha super Intendedts and foremen. At the oonclualon of tha oonfennce, a Oaxam reporter held a conversation with Mr. Slmpaon In regard to th* fin and plana for th* future. He waa unable to tell what the exact loa* would Le. Report* of loss** aggregating several hundred thousand dob lan wen olroalated last night, but they wen far from correct It la true that tha entire plant would run In vain* to that amount, about $$00,000 having been *p*nt In linking the ahafta through quick* aand and inatalling the fine mining plant, but all of thla waa untouched by the fin and la aa good aa ever. Tha breaker, when conrtructed in 1891, coat about $95,- 000. Slnoe that time the oompany, which ia one of the most progressive in th* region, had introduced mueh modern machinery and new applianoes, lnoludlng an eleotrlo lighting plant and steam heating apparstqa, whloh ran the value considerably above $100,000. Nearly everything in and about tha breaker waa Insured, aid the total inraranoe la $83,000. Whuui, Two former grand juries have reported that they deemed It adviaaola that a new building for the acoommodation of the oourts of the oounty and of the several offioers of the oounty and for the reoeption and safekeeping of the record* and other pepen is charge of said oflloen, be built, wUoh report has been approved by the oourt, now, Therefore Tbls grand jury do report that the neo—lties ot the oounty of Laseroe require groan! at the oounty eeat for the purpoae of the erection of suoh building as may be neeewary for the accommodation of the oourts and foi the several offioers of the oounty, and for the reoep tion and eafe keeping of the records and other papen In charge of such officers. K J Lynch, Foreman. " 'All right,' she says, 'you keep the baby, an, Jim, kiss me good night. 1 love you—Jim. We'll be so happy—by —ourselves.' " 'I guess I'm not like a bird any more, Uncle Jonathan,' she says. An then she sighed, but catchin Jim lookin at her shp lightened up an says, 'I am an old mapped woman nojr.' * "After awbije Jim an the ole man thoy went out to the stable, an then the pore little darlin says: "The last words were a long time comin, an Jim, after he kissed her, looked at (lie an whispered, 'Send for the doctor.' I hurried out, but before the doctor came he was not needed. Rhody had said her last good night. " A REMARKABLE CASE. For Eleven Tears a Girl Has Lived With a Ballet In tier Brain. " 'Oh, Aunt Nancy, I'd be (be happiest woman in the world if Jim an me was livin by ourselves I Mother Curtis is a good woman, but somehow I can't please her, an I try so hard. Sometimes I'm so tired I can't sleep or eat, an she thinks I'm pnttin on airs, abe V The physicians of Stroudsburg are watching with interest a remarkable case. For eleven years a young daughter of Morris Newhart has been living with "How did Mary Ann take it?" said Mrs. Johnson, wiping her eyes. Judge—Prisoner, did you commit the burglary alone or with the help of others?With Their Aid. A contemporary give* tom* good advice In the following; Don't be satisfied with your boy'* education or allow him to handle a L Dtin or Onek book until you are ann that he can— "Well,'1 said the old lady gently, "I went up stairs an found Rhody lookiu better'n I expected, with that midget of • baby, with its eyes wide open, ou hor lap. She was glad to see me. "Laws, she tuk on like all possessed, cried and hollered till I thought she'd go inter fits, but somehow I felt sorrier for the ole man. He'd ston au look at the pore thiug after she was laid out, an bullet in ner brain. Pavslclane probed (ot the bnllet without sncoess. It looked as if death most claim the little one, bnt still she lingered on. Far months she lay paralyzed. Her eyes were blind and she oonld not hear. Suddenly a change came over the little sufferer. Her hearing returned and she waa able to see. She grew and to all app°arancee waa healthy. Doctors marveled at the strange recovery, bnt predicted that the first serious illness would cause her death. Presently it came in the shape of a bad attack of soarlet fever. Tae report of her death was daily expected, but to the wonder of all she lived through it, and today she is as healthy as ever, although atill carrying the bullet. It is thought that the bullet by this time has becjme inoysted—that is, a sac has formed around it irhiah may prevent any return of the dangerous ailments. Mise Newhart is now 15 years of age. Prisoner—With the kind help of the Eighty-third Regiment band. Ton ain't mad. Aunt Nancy, are vouT" fie oritter, an she says:' You ain't mad, Ifwqr. 7oa? ¥°o llke Jim. top't ToqV " 'Oh, Aunt Nancy!' she cried before I got my bunnit off, 'Jim has rented the old Duncan place, an as soon oh I am able we are goin there to live. He it* over there now, flxiu up.*' Judge—What? Explain yourself. Prisoner—Well, you see, judge, the band made a halt, and all the people in the house went to the front to listen, sq that I worked quite undisturbed tha hack.— Fliegende fitotte* Death orKn. Thornm W. Thomas. calls it, am she's alius sayin she pities a man with a do nothin, whiny wife.' Write a good legible hand. Spall all the words he knows how to use. Speak and write good Eagllah. Write a good social lstter. Add a oolumn of figurea rapidly. Make out an ordinary soeount. Deduct 1(4 per oent from the face of It Beoeipt it when paid. Write an ordinary reoaipt. Writ D an advertisement tor the local papar.lira. Caroline lhomaa, wife of Thomas W. Thomas, of Parsonage street, Hugheetown, died Friday afternoon at the age of 51. She waa atricken with paralysis ou Wednesday and never regained eon- f! fft'a a shame I' says L 'Why don't /ou tell Jim, an coax Jiim to get an- Other placp?' " 'Well,'says f, 'if Jdcq't, somebody ijae (tow; bPt f'4 like to know whftt this deestrio's goin to do for ft teacher.' *'?Aba,' thought I, 'that's what's ppl* But I said I was glad, an that I had brought Jier pome Apongp cako an otbpf tjiiiiKH, an I 'panned the baby while she et a little—a mighty little, I was sorry to see, but she went on to tell me Jim had been to the doctor aliout ber, an be said she needed tonics, an be sent her some, an she was goin to take the jned'cin' an would soon be well on strong an so happy) 'But, Aunt Nancy,' she says, 'baby don't grow a bit, I'm afraid lie is too old fashioned. Mother Curtis says I don't stir round enough to git an appetite. Do yon think that's it—that baby don't git enough to make bim grow because I can't eat?' She looked so weak an pitiful " 'Oh, Aunt Nancy/ she says, wipin her purtjr eyes, 'I can't bear to make trouble, an what would Pap Curtis do? He's awful good to us. He brings me candy au sometimes oranges from town, an gives 'em to me when she don't see bim, an be often helps me, too; gits wood an water an milks the cows— but there's Jim with the buggy.' An off she went. No IMsqqall^loAtiocVi ''Do you know, he never read* a book!" " 'Oh,' she says, blush in more an rrer, 'I am goin to teach my school out.' " 'An then what?' says I " "Then I'll tell you,' she says, and run off laugbin. solotiansas. Mrs. Thomas waa a native of Pembrokeshire, South Wales. She had reeided Hugheetown for the paat twelve yean, and waa a highly respected lady. Her hnaband alone survivea. "Why, somebody told me that ha was the foremost literary critio in tha oityl" , "So I says to the ole man that night, ifter we'd gone to bed, says I, ' Jonahan, Bbody iff goto to marry Jim Curia, an 1 dunno whether to be glad or rry.' "So he is I"—Chicago Record. (Trite an ordinary pomtaeory note. Baokon the Interest or dUooont on It foi days, months, or year*. Draw an ordinary bank flbeok. Take It to the proper plaoe to a bank to get ouh. Make neat and oorreot entrlee In daybook and ledger. Tell tbe number of yards of oarpet ieinlred for yonr parlor. Meaanra a pile of lnmber In yonr abed _ — 1 M % U-l- » Luaerae Ooaailllasleaesa OrgaaUe. The LuaerneOounty Oommlssloners have organiaed for 189Q by eleotlng T. M. Dullard chairman. The old elerka and employes wan retained. Theae comprise: Chief olerk, James H. Norris; clerks, T. B. Peters, W. B Bobtnson, T. W. Haines; Janitor, Lewis Prioe; night watchman, James Llewellyn; Mia. Pailllps, Mrs. Oronln, Mrs Flannery and Mrs. Gallagher, and Carter, the oolored boy, cleaners, etc. Safeguard, "I made up my mind to have another talk with Jim Curtis; but, laws, we never can tell. The ole man he took the fied with rheumatik8 in October, an I never seen anybody much for three fnonths, an then our Sarah's baby was horn, an I was over there awhile, an mv own worrimnjits drove other people s clean out of my head, tiHone day 'long the last of February Jonathan pame in (he'd been to town for some- Jhin or other), an says be: "Why did 1 assume the shape of a serpent when I tempted Eve?" repeated the prince of eviL "Oh t I wished be very sure not to put my foot iq If.'' which be lit a fresh oigar.— Detroit Tribune. i"Aa be laughed till the bed shuk, an aya he,' Why, what op Drth is there to • sorry 'bout?' says he. "There ain't a kelier feller 'n the neighborhood than tm. an as for Bbody, pshaw! she's good tough an purty 'nough for anybody.' "Oh, Aunt Nancy!" ▲t th« conference of owner* and managers next mora log. it was deol led to rebuild the breaker at onoe, and the bill of tt nber required In rebuilding was out at onoe, H*rry P. Slmpeon, the purchasing agent of the oompany, oelng present. The general plan of the old brewer will be followed In rebuilding, thought* will be somewhat larger, and the interior will be arranged differently. Oae side will be arranged for the preparation of dry soal, with patent slate ploken, while the other side will be fitted with "jigs" for tbe preparation of wet ooal in sizes below stove ooal. Tbe latest appliances In ooal preparing machinery wi l b# plaoed In po sltlon. While the wsrk of rebuilding Is In progrees, both the main shaft and the air shaft will be sunk to the lower veins, so that when the new breaker Is oon pitted, the plant will be In better shape for mining and preparing ooal tha i ever Wore. the big tears'd ruu down his wrinkled face, an lie says to me, 'She's too good for this world, Nancy, fthody wan.' " Death of Slater Doloras. f' 'Qh,' says I, 1 'tain't that—they're tth well 'nough, but how's our little f ji gpin to git along with Mis' Cur- ''J says, 'Well, it ain't your fault; *1 reckon you can't piake yourself eat.' Just then the brakemuii shouted the namo of the town, at which I was to stop, and I must gather up my traps. I leaned over and whispered to Aunt Nancy, "What did poor Jim do?" Both Way*. Miss Nellie Garrity is in receipt of a letter announcing the death of her cousin, Sister M. Doloras, who died Nov. 87th, 1886, at the Monastery of Norristown, in the forty-third year of her age and fourteenth of religion. Sister Dolores waa Maggie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Garrity, of Sebastopol, now deceased, and niece of Mrs. John Garrity. She is eurvived by one sister, who is Sister of Nativity of the Convent of the Good Shep. herd, Beading, Pa. Sister Doloras has many friends here who will be pained to hear of her death. For a long time after he had succeeded in insertiug himself through t|ie doo| at 8 a. m. she regarded him itt sileuoe. At length she spake. Tell the number of boahele of whe«D |i your Urgeet bin, ud the veloe at current rate*. ''She laughed a little. 'You are sich ft comfort, auntie I' she says. 'But that Wonderful tonio'U set me up agin.' "Yea," interrupted Mrs. Johnson mreoifttively, ''that was ft question, hat did yo§ jet 'em go there to live rf That's what I Wftot to know, Nan- Ooaamea Pleas Jurors. If 'Nancy, Bhody's got a boy !' ''An so | left her an went home, promisin to be back in a day or two an take her Jiome with pie for a little visit if she was strong epough. You'd jist oughter to seen ber face when I said that; it jist Jit up. " 'Mother Ctfrtiaf she whispered. The old lady's face flashed. yon a-listenini" says she. "Was A lso, she npuke at length- —Indianap- Indianapplis Journal Tall aomethlog abcmt the great author# and at*teem«n ot the preaent day. C If he oan do all thla, and more, It la likely be haa sufficient eduoaHon to make hi* own way In the world If yon have more time and money to ipend upon him, all well and good—give him higher Kogllah, glTe him literature, give him mathematloa, give htm edeneer*Bd If he la very anxlooa about It give him Latin and Greek, or whatever the eonrae be Intends pursuing la UN demand*. Among the jurors drawn last week to eerve at a Court of Common Pleas during the week beginning Monday, Feb. 18th, are the following s ''Laws I I was jist as s'prised as if f'd never thought of sicb a thing, an says J, 'Whq tole you?' "I couldn't help it," I said. "Po«r Rhoda 1 But what pbopt Jim, Aunt Nancy?" Front mo Authority. Riley." "Wall," sighed Aunt Nancy. "I did r to prevent it I talked to Bbody, t she thought aha eould surely flit Dug with Jim's mother—said aba ■ad her already, pore thing I Then I i Jim to task. an he said the ole folks " 'Ole man Curtis,' says be, 'an he's that sot up he wants you to come right over.' First Editor—Are you going to publish that article on the servant girl question?West Plttetou—Joeeph Langford, gentleman ; George Stanton, Sr., gentleman. FUtaton—Charlee Waters, druggist; C. Donnelly, merehant. "This way, madam," said the conductor briskly. "Let we have your valise. " "Jim," she whispered excitedly, "be like to went wild, bnt be was mighty onipt an noon'* the fnnnral wan ewer be " 'An so I will,' says I. 'The blessed darlin I An it's a boy, an our Sarah's is a boy too. Y?ell4 jjiat Jigats An I "'Ob,' says I, 'she'll be/glad to git rid of you for awhile.' An I went off nlannta Knw I'd aee Jim and make him Second Editor—Great Soott, yes! was written by a policeman.—Truth. Jenkina—Michael Nolan, hotel keeper. Sister—Frtnk O'Brien, b'aokstnlth. Dr. Miles' Nerve Plasters tar Rhenmaitam.