Pittston Gazette

              F"'rABTjISHKDt 850. I lOU XLVI. KO.34 f Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Valley. 1'ITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY. MARCH 27, lSllfi. A Weekly Local and Fam If Journal. (•'•ffilESS?,? It was a cluster ol pea tncssoms—not the bright winged creatures of the field, but poor, pale, drawn, as though grown in. a narrow, crowded window that got only morning suu rays. THE COURT MOl'SK SOIAKK. A Literary Critic. tfte old man on the hack and said," Hope you'll lnnch with me today, sir.' Old man went. Next day Mrs. Eton got the order for specials—three a week, you know—and it's my solemn belief that Pen rewrites every one of them. Else why should he be always too busy for a word with her?" "xnat will do, Mrs. Eton. Wow tell me how I can serve you in this matter." Meantime niv thanks. quarters, wnem i Mian D. WIHDISH TALKS 8UAFFKR "CONFESSES" AGAIN. A DISASTROUS FIRE. Talk about yer litterytoor, poetry an prose, Never couldn't see Jest why it's writ: Alius tellin people things thut everybody knows. "By 8peaking the truth, the whole troth and nothing but the truth,'' sh® said, dropping into a chair and wiping her moist forehead. "Excuse me; I am going out," l i said, striding toward the door. Iho t' Judge Snarls Decides That It May Used Now He Says There Wan No Trutft In HIs for a New Court House. First "Confession." The West End Planing Mill Totally Er things ye didn't understand n bit. Words ez long ez lightnin rods, wetii facte thet can't be true. er followed him totho elevator and t .tic as they went down: "Wo shall Lo awaj a year, Mr. Pennington. Depend on it, though, for your sako The Blazer shall have exclusive news of our first great success.'' The hearts, though, lacked nothing of perfect sweetness. The breath of it brought back to Pen the August day, the August night, so curiously linked with this supreme moment. Judge Hearts, of Mootroee, has announced hie decision in the Lnzirne county court bouse case which he heard In Wilkeebarre t» few weeks slace. It was an action The monntiln murder case was up before the court on Saturday again, when Borne surprising developments were revealed. It will be remembered that Njleon Miller (colored) was convict ad of being the chief criminal in the plot which resnlted In the explosion and lose of several lives on the Wilkesbarre mountain a year or more ago, the charge being murder in the first degree. The conviction was based mainly on the testimony of Frank Shaff ar, also colored, who swore that he (Shaffer) touched the electric button which caused the fatal explosion and that Miller was the one who planned the crime. Effjcts have recently been made to secure a new trial for Miller. Shaff ar himself has keen held In j*11 for complicity In the crime. List evening he sent for his attorneys, Messrs. Shea and McGovern, who went to the jail with Notary Pnbllc Jones, when Shaffer made a statement to the effeot that all of the testimony agalnbt Miller which he swore to at tha trial was false, that the detectives had secured his signature to the oonfesslon whlsh they had used while be was drunk, and that they promised to give him $1,000 and a tioket to California. Shaffer was taken into conrt this morning, when his latest statement was presented. Judge Bennett ordered Siaffar'a release on $60 ball and also ordered the release of Mary Kern, a colored woman who has been held tor complicity in the case. Her husband broke in. "You see, sir, I know your word goes a long way with the critics. Managers, confonnd them, are roled by them. So what I'd like is a letter to my wife there saying you've read the play and—well, what you think of it I am sure it's original." Destroyed Sentences e« orooked ez a tree. Take along e* much o' my share ez yc're minded to. The almanack Is good enough fur me. "Give it tip. Widow, is she not?" brougnt to determine the fight of the Conn-- ty Coinml'sloners to rebuilt on the Publio Square plot and especially their right to occupy more ground than Is occupied by the present building Ju'ge Searle decides that the com mission sra may eteot a new court house upon Public Square and may tee as much of the oqnare as they need for putting up a bulldlug of «tifficleDt Biz*. The Judge bases his opinion upon the argument that the Public Square was conveyed to the custody of the  sommlsstoners, and that thus It passed out of the control of the municipality, and that the acts of assembly authorize the construction upon thla equaTe of a count court hones. The Judge construes the acts of assembly upon this subjiat to this tff ct and cites several parallel cases and de eleions. Judge Bearle, In deciding that more ground may be used than is dow occupied, says that the law never intended that only a certain portion of Publio Square should be used when the requirements of Dusluese demand more room and Practically Admits His THE LOSS FULL TWENTY THOUSAND. "Worse—got a crank matrimonial attachment. I know her people down Carolina way—lots of blood; no money, or next to none. She was a sort of ugly duckling. What little there was was spent on her beautiful sister. One day there was a fine row. Martha Creighton, the ugly one, had run away to New York. Next news was she had married an actor, a good looking beast With just enough brains for a two line part His ambition is to star. Because he cannot do that be doe» nothing and lett his wife mi»5ntain him. So muoh I know becau ,,.-er people asked me to find out ana it came to starvation with her to send her back to them. Otherwise they disown her. In fact, she is dead to them so long as she persists in her infatuation. But, hello 1 She's talking to Pen herself and turning as many colors as the flowers she is giving She must be thanking him for revising her work. Moses and green spectacles! Won't we hoar some choice, ablebodied profanity when she goes away!" Ain't no murders in it nor bo hynotlzin cranks Ain't no robberies nor hidden wealth; Ain't no bogus marriages, fur which I offei The elevator car stopped noiselessly. Pen strode past him into tho world of night without another word. He laid the flowers against his cheek, bowed again and went slowly out of Surrounded by Frame Buildings and Sheds It Makes Hard Work for the Fire De- view Guilt thanks. '' Quite,'' said Pen, with a bow. •' But to write such a letter I must go on to the end. Will you trust me with anything so precious as a new idea?" Very early next day he had climbed dangerously near heaven and stood beside a slender, black robed woman looking earnestly at a mat of leafy vines despoiled of all their blossoms. Stripped as it was, it brougnt cheer to the plain room, of whose plainness Pennington, tho superf.istidious, was quite unaware. Touching his companion's arm, ho said softly as she ceased speaking : partment, But They Do It Well and It's all about the weather an yer health. Still it hez its tragedies, ez make yer bosom quake; It was 4 o'clock in tire morning when ho came home, but only the stars and the red river lights had borno him company. When he sat dawdling over his breakfast, the post camo"in. Always his mail was heavy, even in this dead summer season. He tore open lettor after lettor, skimmed idly through each and tossed it to tho ragged, growing heap at his left hand. Save Everything Outside the MHll— Narrow Escape for Several Niagara Escapes ei narrow ez escaiws kin be By folks thet learns by accident what medi cine to take— "Gladly, only too gladly," Mrs. Eton said, thrusting the manuscript upon him and smiling over at her husband, who ed blackly at her open fondness. SERTESCED 10 0110 Boys Thq, Weet End Planing Mill, one of the old-time industrial structures, owned and operated hy Messrs. Dershimer & Griffin, was ruined by fire Maroh 19;h. The fire broke out shortly after twalve o'clock, and it was the hardest to fight that the fire department has had to contend with for a long time, the building and its contents being of so inflammable a nature and being so closely surrounded by frame s tiaetur s, sheds and lumber. There's read in as Is readtn, seems to me. —Washington Star. PEAS BLOSSOM. fen turned away, saying shortly, "Good night." A "Wait a minste. I'll see you safe down stairs," Mr. Eton said, picking up his hat and avoiding his wife's appealing eyes. She made no other protest and femiled a brave adieu from the lighted doorway as the two men plunged downward through cavernous, half lit depths. "You were cruelly wise to let me believe you dead. Otherwise I should have sought you the world over. Tell me, what did you think when you read that your play was to go out to the world as mine?" Bnii pates a statement io Court. The very last epistle made bim start. It was flatly thin—a coarse, cheap envelope witft inside it a single sheet of the unruled manuscript paper ho knew so well. By MARTHA ITOULLOOH WILLIAMS. [Copyright. 1860, by American Press Assocla- Across it in a hand as familiar as the paper, a hand whose quaint curves and ragged shading somehow seemed to typify their maker's untrained mind, ran the words: "Pure joy," said Martha, hanging her head. "Oiijy jfc£*it Way could the debt bo discharged, and while it stood between us"— Yoo never eaw such a nosegay— winged blossoms, *iT*pHly."ftarple, all tender pink, blue gray, clear white, blackish crimson; a lavish cluster too. tion. I At the pave Pen felt a timid touch upon his arm as Eton said, all his bravado gone, "Tell me, Mr. Pennington, is there really anything in that stuff?" TELLS 1B0ITTBE HOOD The origin pf the firo i® unknown. The flames started in Mr. Griffia'a office on the second fljor, in the upp« end of the mill. There were no stoves or lamps about the place. Watchman Mitchell discovered the flames befo.e they had gained ranch headway, and sonnded the fire gong located at the mill. A few moments afterward, an alarm was sent in to the electrio light station from box 56. The fire companies were on hand promptly. The Eagles attached to the plug at the corner of Market street, and the Niagaras to the ping on Tompkins street. Later the Meehanios and Weet PlHstons ariived, and got streams on the fire, the latter securing a good one from the Pennsylvania (lug at Oak street. The Eaglas' engine was finally placed In operation, furnishing good streams for the Eagles, Niagaras and Mechanics, and the firemen worked liked "I could uever have my peas blossom," Pennington cried, drawing her to him and kissing the tears from her The small fingers holding it conld barely encompass the stents. The breath of it filled the crowded "L" car with a sweetness that brought memory of country gardens and singing birds and long, level lances of summer sunshine. Mrs. Eton had surely a grateful soul. Oi y the flowers, though, spoke her tha ks. She laid a choice half dozen timidly beside Pen's racing quill and said tremulously: "You have been so very good I—I—that is—will you come to our apartment this evening? My husband—I wish to make him known to you and—and something else—something important, terribly so—to me," the words stumbling and huddling like a flock of frightened sheep. "Why do you ask that here?" If Mr. PonnlnRton will buy "Cynthia'n Sacrifice" for $1U), by considering It henceforth his lawful property, hu will confer a favor beyond words! upon his very humblo servant, "Because—because—you see, it's this way—I want to know if—if you would give $100 for it?" eyes. a larger mm-icie Mai; in a C. Eton THE END. A Recoid report-.r interviewed County Commltsloner Smith last evenlDg, and he stated that the opinion was received so late that the Commissloneis have not bad time to consider it. He said this case would have to be taken to the Supreme Conrt for final disposition, so that all doubt would be removed. If this court i-ustalns Judge Searle's opinion the conrt house will in all probability bs elected on Public Sq lare. Says His Wife Slrack Him lith Pen got np heavily. "He told her, after all. Oh, the hound, tho hound!" he said, flinging on a street garb with reckless haste. Yesterday's heat was intensified, though the sun no longer shone. A hot, steaming air lay breathless over everything, ohoking out sap and vigor of man or beast. He Doenn't Count the Cost. "I might, under some circumstances —say, if I.were dealing with the owner of it" When one man is heating a furnace for another, he never thinks about the price of coal.—Ram's Horn. till Chisel, The woman who held it was as fresh, as dainty, as bktssomy as ber flowers; as generous too. From the seat opposite another woman looked in longing silence across at her treasures. The flower bearer caught the glance, felt the wistful appeal of its quick withdrawal, smiled a little, deftly parted the cluster and laid the larger part in her neighbor's lap, saying: "You mean poor Martha. I don't want to rob her, indeed I don't, sir. She's a good lot, much too good for me. But now I've got a real chance—that is, with a $100 string to it—and I do want to take it." Our Church. LOCAL CHRISTIAN END EAVORERS. "Onr church" ought to be talked about more. "Our members" ought to be considered oftener and loved more loyally. If the church, in its pastor or membership, have infirmities, bear with them bi avely and say not a word to the outside world. The church is not an institution to be criticised or enjoyed at pleasure. You are part of the church. If one member of this body be lacking, it is not yours to complain, bnt to make up in yourself that which is needful. If the" ear be slow, the eye must be qnick. This natural law applies perfectly to religions life. In the light of this indubitable tiuth see how foolish church quarrels, petty strivings and vainglorious ambitious become. THEN BIS RAGE BROKE LOOSE Trl-County Convention Will Come to Pitts- ton—Dr. CUrk In Scranton. Notwithstanding, Fen went in the briefest space to Mrs. Eton's door. It stood wide and through it in and out went tht* stout German couple from the floor below, carrying the rooms' poor plenishing to their own domain. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Tri-Cjuuty Caristlui Endeavor Union, held In 8cranton on Friday afternoon, It was decided to hold the next aeml annual convention In this city on Friday, May 23. It is not yet known in which of the churches the convention will be held She was asking something preposterous. She knew it. Pennington knew it He wrote on doggedly for a half minute with downcast eyes, quite as though he had not heard her. He knew, though, better than through eyesight, that the new, strange splendor was dying out of her face, leaving it wanner, more haggard than before. And somehow he began to choke, his heart to knock furiously against his stout ribs. The noises of the street cumo dim and blurred to his ear. He set his teeth hard one seoond, then said: "When shall I come? About 8 or half past?" "Say what you mean and say it out Claims He Was Not Guilty of Murder in the First Degree. plain." "I am sure you have seen them growing."Just this: Take the play. You can make a fortune out of it. I know it lacks something, but we could never put it in, and with the $100 I get for it I'll make my fortune." DEATH OF KKV, DB. M'ANULTY. Then she passed out of this chronicle forever—as an actuality, that is; to the end she is potential. The other gave a half gasp over this sudden largess. She tried to speak, but only a broken murmur got past the lump that had risen in ber throat at sight of the bright blossoms.Pen's heart stood still at the sight. Pund Away Thl» Morning at the Eaaton Ghorge Wlndlsh, of Hnghestown, connoted on Nov. 16, 1895, of the murder of hie wlfe.muat die. Hie attorneys, it Will be recalled, made a motion in court for a new trial. Monday morning, Judge Woodward handed down an opinion refusing the motfon. Wlndlsh was then oalled for sentence. The Judge aaked the prisoner if he had anything to say before sentence should by pronounoed and he s "Where is she?" be demanded, so sternly that the good German wife let fall the very rocker in which he had sat last night and stood looking at him in terror. Sanitarium, rojans on the flimee, which by the time all the companies were at work, had enveloped the whole structure. "How? At faro?" Rev. 0. H. McAnulty, D. D., a former paetor of the West Pitteton M. E Church, died Thursday morning of last week at the sanitarium in Easton, Pa. The committee having in charge,the work of arranging for the State convention to be held in Scranton thle year has secured Bev. Dr. Francis E. Clark, of Boston, president of the Uoited Society of Christian Endeavor, to deliver a lecture in the Frothlngham Theatre, that city, on Thuraday evening, April 30. An admission fee of twenty-five cents will be charged, the purpose being to raise money to defray the expenses of the State Convention. "No, no. I saw you reoognized me. I have played in the most cursed luck There was no hope of saving the mill, and all energies were bert on keeping the fl imee from spreading to the surrounding property. On the east side of the mill, with bat a narrow driveway between, was a shed containing planed lumber and mouldings valued at $5,000. On the lower side was the glazing house, containing glass worth $2,500, and several other frams » shops. The west side was lined with piles of lumber. At one time, when a breeze oame, It seemed as though some of the surrounding property would certainly be destroyed, but fortunately the wind went down and with the several good streams of water, danger in this direction was averted, nothing outside of the mill being burned. The pair spoke little English, but at last he made out that "the lady" had been alone all night. They heard her come in late—oh, so late—and after ward pacing the floor above where they were sitting with their sick child. At dawn eheliad come to them, calm, white faced, had parted with her few possessions for what pittance they chose to offer and afterward bad gone away jus! as the sun was rising. No, she had left .no word of any sort. They had known her barely by sight, not even her name, only that she smiled always at the baby in his mother's arms if they met alone upon the stairs and hurried by it with heedless eyes if perchance her husband bore her company. So they gathered that she loved him and he was jeal ous ii sne smiled even on a baby or o bird. The news oannct be said to be surprising, having been expected for some time, bnt it is nevertheless sorrowful, for Dr. MoAnnlty was one of the brightest and most prominent clergymen in this seotion of the State, and his taking away in the prime of life is greatly to be regretted. y Pea blossoms! Had she not seen them —acres and acres carpeting Carolina cornfields, making delicately faint all the fine, summer air? When there is proper church life, the pastor is not burdened with the sole responsibility. He is not the church. He aloue cannot create church life. He has been appointed of God as the head of this family, to be loved and honored and supported. But God has not rolled npon him the burden of tho success of the church; that is yours to bear in colaboring with him and with the One whe said, "One is your master, even Christ, and all ye are brethren."—William T. Ellis. It was something earlier—twilight indeed had hardly fallen—when Pennington found himself in a poor, bare, little parlor so far over on the west side that from its windows you looked up and down the North river. It was qijite at the top of a tall building. With the outlook and the clean, fresh river air a very little money might have made it dear and homelike. Pen knew now why it was not, why the windows were undraped, the floor spread with ugly, cheap matting, the walls bare; nowhere any ornament save the glass of pea blossoms upon the bare mantelshelf. On their painted wings she crossed in one small minute the thousand miles between, and saw in clear sunlight the wide, low plantation house, the sighing pine woods, far in the distance a blue mountain rim. Sunshine lay over it all, sunshine that stole into and somehow transfigured her face. "I am not guilty of mnrder in the first degree. Nobody ever asked me in the right way to tell what I knew of the murder, but I am not guilty, Tae blood that was found on the window sill was my blood. Taat came when she hit me on the hand with a chisel and tried to kill me. They wanted me to tell who killed her. I oould not tell them just how It happened. They did not ask me In the right way. She grabbed the chisel and struck m?, and I had been devilled that way for ten years. I got wild, and oh! the rage that was in me broke loese It seems that I oould not make *t worse and how I left the bouse I do not know Dr. McAnulty's death was due to nervous proetratlon. His Illness datee back a little more than a year. Whea first stricken he was pastor of the West Pitteton II. E Churoh. At the time of the last session of the Wyoming OoLference, his oondltlon was such that he asked rot to be given a charge, and was placed on what is known as the stationed list WANTED 85,000-GOT 81. Charles A. Reeves Sued the Trftctioi Co. With Above Resalts Of ten est it was a pale faoe, thin, too, with shadowed eyes and tense curves about the mouth. When she pinned the flowers at the throat of the black gown that would have been shabby had it not been so well brushed and well fitting, it seemed as though the heat and burden of her dreary life were lifted, a free soul left to walk upright and thank God. The case of Charles A Reeves vs. the Wllkesbarre and Wycm'ng Valley Traeflon Company, was begun before Judge Savage tn court room N D. 1 on Friday and went to the jury about 3 o'clock. The plaintiff, who aued for $5,000 damages, was driving a milk wagon in the summer of 1893 at tbe corner of North Canal and Batler streets, Wilkesbarre, and his wagon was struck by an electric c*r and wrecked. Beeves was out about the face with flying glass fed his eyesight permanently injared. The accident, it was alleged, was due to the ne gleot of the motorman, hence the suit. The plaintiff was on Saturday awarded a verdict of $1 by the juiy after they had been ont all night trvlns to agree. The Altar of Private Prayer. While the fire was at its height, an exalting incident occurred. Charles McCanna, Louis Selhel, Jr., and Mike Sullivan bad hold of the Niagara nozzle and were playing npon the west side of the building when suddenly the side fell over. The men jumptd with all possible haste, and all escaped bat McDauna, who was caught by the leg beneith the burning timber. _ Dozens of willing hinds went immediately t j his rescue, and in a few m kin tee he was released. He was painfully tut not seriously, Injared. Keep tho altar of private prayer burning. This is the very life of all piety. Tho sanctuary and family altars borrow their fires here, therefore let this burn well. Secret devotion is the very essence and barometer of vital and experimental religion. —Spnrgeon. Since then he bad made his headqiar ten at his old home in Scranton, where his mother and brother, Mr, J. S. McAnulty, the only surviving members of the family, reside at 301 Madison avenue. Much of the time, however, he spent at Clifton Springs md at other health resort. For • month past the worst has been feared, and three weeks ago he was taken to the Easton Sanitarium In hop* of prolonging his life Mrs. Eton presented with a little smile, "My husband, of whom I hope you will one day hear a great deal." All they knew was she was gone and had said she would never come back. It was blinding summer. White hot glare filled all the streets, with no breath of air to stir the loftiest flag upon its staff. Yet the pea blossoms held their beads up cheerily, so cheerily indeed that their wearer, unconsciously bathing her soul in their freshness, gave back its radiance in her face. Presently she turned into a big doorway, climbed flight after flight of dark, winding ■tain, all a-quiver with the throbbing of huge presses, and at last came out into an airy region of comparative peace, where many men in shirt sleoves sat about at many desks, with a lurid litter of paper, pencil, paste, scissors and ■mall boys pervading the intermediate •paoe. Pen was glad that the other merely nodded and stood stock still three feet away. "She followed us last night, has followed him this morning, poor fool," Pennington said as he went away with "Cynthia's Sacrifice" burning in his pocket. In the handsome, sullen fool he had recognized one hanger on of a dashing ballet dancer, one, too, who spent money like water till his pocket was empty. No dollar of it but was minted from the wife's brain. Pen had never before comprehended why, with her income, sho had found it necessary to wear one stuff gown the year round and went gloveless all through the pleasant weather. "That will do, Mm. Eton." since we have been in this city. What I mean now is real business—leading man in a new troop just organized on a mutual basis."' Patience With the Poor. Be must find her nod Rive it at the earliest possible minute. Otherwise he roost despise himself us the meuner partner io the robbery of her poor braio. A word to the charity dispensers: Have patience with tho poor and sorrow laden.—Jewish Voice. That U all I've got to aay." "Miss Lily Martin, I suppose, is at the head of it?" Dr. McAnalty was a native of Scranton and was a gradotte of Ltfayete College, tie became a member of t a Wyoming Conference In 1877, and since then bad been oca ted successively at Park Place (■Jcraneon), 1877; Sherbune, N Y , 78-80; Marathon and Klllawog, N. Y., 81-8; Norwlub, N. Y , 84-5; Carbondale, 66-7; Oaeonta, 88-92; West Pittaton, 93-4 Sentence was then imposed. The judge directed that the prisoner " be taken from the oourt room to the connty prison and be kept there notll the time be appointed by the Ezecntlve of the State of Pennsylvania for yonr execution. When the time so to be fixed shtll arrive, that yon be taken thence to the place prepared for yoa* execution within the walls or yard of said prison and be then and there hanged by the neck until yon are dead, and may the So thinking he hailed a cab aud wan driven to The Blazer office. There he fonnd a little flutter about the telegraph desk. Some one was reading aloud ovet the telegraph editor's shoulder. Pen caught the words "6 o'clock express," "tunnel," "collision"—bare, halcl details of an everyday horror, thrilling in Bpite of its commonness. Christian Endeavor Jotting*. "You are right. How did you guess: We make a team that is bound to draw; so you see the profit of the investment " A novel Christian Endeavor society exists in the insane asylum at Independence, la. It is composed of the attendants.TRAGEDY IS FOREST CITY The m 11 proper Is totally rained, as also are Its contents The brbk engine and boiler house on the lower side of the mill were not materially damaged. The cffioe farniture, books and papers were taken out safely, and the safes were not injured. Frank Creagie Shoots His Wife and Then Kills Himself. The knowledge gave him a sudden, raging desire to fling Eton bodily oat of the window. Instead he tnrned to it himself, murmuring something about the stairs making him so dizzy. "No doubt. If you get the money, when will you leave New York?" All the church printing ®f the Campbell Park Presbyterian chnrch, Chicago, is done by the Intermediate Christian Endeavor society. At Fjreat City, leit Friday, Frank Creaglo went to the house where his wife, from whom he had been separated, we? staying. When Mrs. Creagie refused to return to him Creagie fired at her foni times with a revolver, one o' the bnllets going completely through the woman's body. Creagie then shot and killed htm self. Mrs. Creagie is in a serious condition. "Six sharp tomorrow morning. That is why I am crowding things so. Packed my trunks and sent thom off today while Martha was away. Poor old Mar tha! I—wish now I had kissed her guodby."The owners estimate their loss on bailing, machinery and atook at about $20,000, jn whioh there is an insurance of $5,000 in companies represented by Joseph Hlleman. Most of the men were writing, a few gossiping in whispers, ene or two downright loafing. One single individual was industriously doing nothing—that is to say, he had a full inkstand, a new pen, a pile of fair, white paper before him and withal an air of intense occupation, though he had not moved a finger since coming in two hours before. He waa a tall young fellow, well made, though rather stoutish—quite the star member of The Evening Blazer's staff. He bent forward andalet his own eyr run over the filmy yellow sheets. A new pago caogbt it. It read: Tennessee Juniors are circulating pledges among the mothers, asking that all the eggs laid by the fowls on Sondays be given to them for missionary purposes. BOY ACCIDENTALLY KILLED. "They are appalling; truly so," Mr. Eton graciously assented. "I am always threatening to move where there is an elevator, but she," noddiug toward his wife, "insists upon staying here, all because the can see the water and trees and hills." "You think I will trade with you?" "I hope so." "The rear car was occupied by the Lily Martin burlesque troop, at least five of whoso members are among th« killed. They are James Edgar Eton und wiftf"'— Shot by a Companion in the Woods near Too mn?h credit cannot be given the firemen for their excellent work. That hey confined the fire to the mill, saving til of the adjoining property, is highly creditable to the department, nnder the conditions presented. n Wiikesbarr*. "I will not. My impulse is to knock you down for thinking that I would. Don't go. I shall not do it. But I will lend you the $100 upon your note, the condition being that you never let it be known how you came by it?" Thirty-seven members of the Christian Endeavor society in the Texas state prison have asked to be enrolled as links of the World's Christian Endeavor Prayer Chain. Patrick Mahon, aged thirteen, of Comin-4ky street, Wllkeebarre, was accidentally shot and killed by bis companion, Edward Richards, aged sixteen, on Saturday afternoon. The boys were In the woods neaT Hanover cemetery. Each bad a Flobert rifii, being In qaest of sparrows. While the boys were going np a hill, Mahon a little in advance, Edwarda'sgnn was accidentally discharged. Tae ballet entered Mahon's oead, and he died within a few mlnnUr. Coroner M-Kee will bold an Inquest. Lord have meroy on yonr soul." Windish was visibly aff-.oted while Jadge Woodward pronounoed his doom. He was pale and trembled. When the Jadge had concluded, Windish said: "There will be another murder in Lucerne. I am not guilty of murder in tha first dagree. I do not want the case taken to the Supreme Conrt. Let them hang me and be done with it." AMERICAN FABLES. With that he came closer. Pen, eying him severely, saw that he was well dressed — fashionably even—with no trace, though, of foppery; well groomed, too, faintly redolent of fine essence, with an old, silver set diamond flashing upon the right hand. Save for a disfiguring scowl, the dark, brilliant face was perfect in line, curve, color. The Fox and the Ground nog. He turned away steadily, but his lipwere dry, aud there was a hard note ii his voice as he asked of the old man "Have you sent anybody?" Pen got no farther. One clay the fox called on the ground bog and said he had long wanted to do him a favor to show his appreciation. The time had now come. In walking about be had discovered something good and was only too glad to put his friend on to it. The ground hog followed him to a thicket a mile away and beheld a toothsome bait attached to a stick. THOSE DETECTIVE PAYMENTS. Eton's sigh of relief was almost a Some Colorado Endeavorers have organized a Washington '96 club, to which each member contributes $5 monthly toward his convention expenses next July. "On to Washington !" He knew his importance too. Word went about freely behind the backs of hands that nobody else would dare thus ait immobile through two precious morning hours, especially with the "old man's" humor an edge and the devils all hot foot bowling for oopy. The others envied but dared not imitate him. Pennington had conquered a following several thousand strong. The old man realised that The Blazer would much better pay him to do nothing for it than risk forcing him to work for a rival sheet sob. After a minute he said thickly, "1 see you despise me for this, but really you will be doing her a kindness"— The Bills Sent In By the Barring-Mc- "What do you take me for? Is this C last year office?" the old man began in his choicest roar. Something in PenV face stopped him. He dropped his eye:-, drummed hard with the ruler on top of hie desk and said: "Maybe you'd bettei go, too, nnd look ont for poor Mrs. Eton. No doubt she's better off so, bu: I'd like to have everything done decent ly for her, and she told me once that outside the office here she had nobody alive to look to." Sweeney Detective Agency Regarding the oritloiem of one or two papers with reference to the Birring defective agency for drawing considerable sums of money from the county treasury in connection with ferreting cut recent murder cases, oounty commissioner Patrick T. Norton said ti the Klmlra Telegram representative: "Yju know that it was on the recommendation of the court thu »e hired the Barring detective agency. Crne, we wete not instructed to hire this agency In particular, but we knew of none better, except the Pinkertons, which I now very much doubt has done «ny better work than that performed by Barring and his men. In order, however, to obtain the beet as cheap as possible, we oommunloated with the Plnksrtons, who Informed us that their terms were $9 per day per man. We then consulted with Mr. Barring, and he agreed to do the work for $6 per day per man and expenses To s ow you that we have not been in any way extravagant, and that we have accounted for everything, you can copy the Birring agency's bill." "I know it," Pen said savagely. Good literature to the extent of 76,000 or 100,000 pieces in the shape of papers, magazines and books was distributed last year by the Chicago Qood Literature exchange. ■ With a sick spasm of disgust Pen admitted to himself that a goodlier person never rode among press of knights or made a football of a woman's heart. The other went on as though Pen had not spoken. "Martha is the best woman alive, but our marriage was a big mistake—for both. You see, we lived in the same house. One night upon the street a fellow followed her. I happened to come by and knocked him into the gutter, for though I'd never spoken to her I'd seen her for three months every day and knew how straight she was. When I drew her band through my arm to take her home, I felt it tremble and looked down there in the electric light to see her blushing and beautiful. You are a man, sir, and don't need to be told how such things flatter one. I saw she"— Windish was then led away by the Sherift, and taken to the county jail. "There it is," said the fox, "and though I'm a bit hungry I won't a6k you to divide. Just walk up and help yourself." PENNSYLVANIA CO. BLACKSMITHS. The husband smi.'ed in vacuous content as his wife set her poor best chair for Pen, so placing it that the river air came full in his face. After a little space of inconsequent talk, throughout which the house's master stood leaning against the open window frame, he said with a tinge of impatience: A Christian Endeavor society of 00 members exists among the soldiers at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Trtr. Out of it Lave come a Sunday school and a midwwk gospel meeting. Many conversions have also been effected. (York Will be Done by the Day Hereafter, The prisoner's attorneys said that they were+ery muih surprised at the statement made by Windish. They said that he had never eo much as intimated to them any connection with the crime, and they were not aware that he wonld make any snch statement. They stated also that they would appeal the case to the Supreme Instead of by Contract The ground hog advanced to seize the bait, but before his nose touched it he found his fore feet in a trap. —4£or a number of years the blacksmith »ork of the Pennsylvania Coa Company Vminea has been done by contractors, the latter ownlDg the outfit, finding help and dotng the work at a fixed price per mor.th Now these contractors have been notified by the company to set a prioe upon their tools, the company purposing on the first of April to bny the same and have the work done by the day He was an odd fish, was Pennington, as full of quips and cranks as of genius and good fellowship. Toward womankind his habit of mind was feudal. Women were to be defended, protected, worshiped—"in their place." When they came out of it, especially into a newspaper office, what word could sum his misliking? "Alas, buf I'm a gone ground hog!" he cried after a vain struggle to free himself. Pen went, trD find only such poor, charred wreck of humanity as made recognition out of the question. One of them, though, had been Martha Eton. Her name was among the passengers of the ill fated car. Moreover the agent remembered perfectly her coming barely in time, her wan face and heavy eyes. He \Va» Called. "Yes, it does look that way," replied the ff)x as he seized and devoured the bait. "But what am I to do?" "Remember, Martha, It's very good of Mr. Pennington to come. We must not take too mnch of his evening." A dealer in stuffed animals, who al so kept a few live creatures for sale, gave his shop boy, who was permitted to sell the staffed specimens, orders to call him when any ono asked for any of the living animals. Jonrt. "Dunno. I let you in on the ground floor and have nothing further to say about it." "Indeed, ho is good; nobody knows it quite so well as I do. That is why I—it seems such imposition, really," with a pitiful little tremulous*laugh. "I am a wretched conspirator when it oomes to acting out my treason." Pennington turned upon him savagely. "Silence, if you pleasa I know quite as much of you and your affairs as I care to endure." FOR AN ODD FELLOW ORPHANAGE He was, however, fair minded enough to admit that some women have really a message for their kind. To such he flung wide the gate of pure literature. He readily allowed that genius had no ■ex, though he was apt to add that Pegasus abhorred a sidesaddle. That whieh made bim emotionally resemble the fretful porcupine was the woman of poor, small talent who sought to make market for it in the daily press. In the face of it all Pen could not doubt her fate. So one of the black husks that once enveloped a soul was borne by his order far away from set cemeteries to a fair hilltop whoso crown of sighing pines made*all the tenderer the sunlit silence that lay all about. Pen could not bear to think of her who all her life had loved nature, the great mother, sleeping her last sleep amid the trim, clipped splendors of a city of the dead. One day a gentleman called and demanded a monkey. WYOMING COUNTY CONVENTION, Dallas Makes a Bid for the Proposed Moral.—When you get something for nothing, there's always a back action to it.—Detroit Free Press. "Any one of these?" asked the boy, who was in charge. He pointed to the stuffed specimens. Establishment. As they went forward so swiftly in eilence tide by side Pennington's sonl rose in rebellion. Here was a woman whose love might honor the noblest man alive pouring it at the feet of this hulking brute, whose attitude to ber was an ungracious permission. It must be that women were like flowers—when blossom time came, their hearts opened perforce, no matter how wan or sullen was the sun god then beaming in the sky. This woman, he well knew, was one of those to whom love is a necessity. It was denied her in her poor, safe, slighted homo life. What wonder that she lavished it without stint upon this handsome wretch, of whom ber fancj had made a demigod long before his hand was raised to shield her from an noyanceI Delegates Elected to National and State Dallas, through the Poit, make) a bid for the location of a large orphanige for the establishment of which it is said there is a movement nader way among the Odd Fellows of Pennsylvania. The Pjst says : " The Dallas lodge may safely guarantee to have the citizans of the town contribute a plot of twenty or thirty aores of land at some point easily accessible from the village. If is said thare is some talk of making an eff jrt to locate the proposed institution at Wilkeebarre, bat the good sense of those who are leading io the movement will surely not allow a public home for children to be eaUbllshad in the Wyoming Valley, nor in any large city. D*1 las is located j ist right for all the purposes required, and every lodge of Odd Fellows, from Nanticoke to Pitteton, ought to take a lively Interest in securing the location of the orphanage at Dallas. Here is an op portuntly for the Dallas Odd Fellows to make a bold stroke of enterprise and die tlngulah themselves for all time." "What is it?" Pen asked. Then noting that both hands were held hard behind her back added gravely, "I can guess—it's a manuscript novel on which I am to sit in judgment." Special to the Gazette Conventions. The Man and the Lion. "No—I want a live monkey," answered the customer. Iunkhannock, Pa, March 23 —At the i Republican connty convention today, Dr Catkins, of Mehoopany, was elected delegate to the Rapni'ltcan National convention, and Dr. S'urdevant, of Laceyville, delegate to the Republican 8tate convention. Resolutions were adopted endorsing Qaay for PreeideLt A man and a lion traveled together through a forest. They soon began to boast of their respective superiority to each other in strength and prowess. "Bah!" said the lion. "You talk too much. What have you done that may be considered great?" "Pooh to you!" quoth the man. "You are talking through your mane. I have done everything and everybody I have ever met, for I am prizefighter." Then the man stood on a stump beside the narrow road and talked a blue streak. Presently tl lion became ennuied, and, countering with his right, landed heavily on the place that the man lived with, after which he sat down and ate a hearty meal. The boy stepped to the door of the back shop and called to liis master: "Yon're wanted, sir!"— Youth's "Worse than that—it's a play—our work,'' with a proud stress on the pronoun, "and—and I asked you to come eo The Items in the bill are as follows Companion. Barney Relck casp—Investigation Jan. 6,1895, to Dec. 1, $16 616 70 Oat of this ooaneel fees, $1,750; for witless fees, rail road fare, board, etc., $3,616 49; .expert testimony of physicians, etx, $650; commonwealth's casts, inclnding serving of - warrants, extradition papeis, etc , $2,500 Pennington sat full face to the door. As the lady with the pea blossoms caine in be gave the ghost of a start, then fell frowningly to furious work. * Sorely Most Welcome News to Sufferers we might read it to you and get the benefit of tfll your doubts before we faced a manager." There he left her to the healing of silence, the loving of wind and dew and rainy cloud—left her with a thanks giving upon his lip to the power that had vouchsafed her the mercy of death. • ••••• From Female.. Com plaints It is a fact thrt oar women who suff r from female complaints and are conseqiently weak, tired, nervous, dragged-ont and fall of pains »' d aches, do not have the same opportunity to be oared as do the residents of the great cities, where the most successful specialists in female diseases reside In other words, oar women are debarred from seeking a care by the great and skilled physicians owing tithe cost of travel to the large city and the high faes charged by such specialists. A little way off one of the envious ones said low to another: "Say, the old man had better give Mrs. Eton a regalfir place. Pen never would quit writing when she was in sight.." The other laughed lazily. "He hate? her, faot he does. D'ye kno v tht reason?" "They're a lot of jealous thieves. No man who outshines them has a ghost of a8bow,"Mr. Eton said, beginning to study himself in tho cheap mantlo mirror.Bootblacks Were the Bobbers The numerous burglaries in Wllkeibarre during the past fonr months were oleared op by the arrest Flrday of six bootbUcks from eight to thirteen years of age. A lit- Mountain murder case—Investigation Dec. 17, 1894, to Sept. 25 1895 $3 804 71. Fivo years later a city theater in its first night fervor rang with cries of "Author! Author!" "Peunin&fon! Pennington !" Pen said only: "I am at your servioe till 10 o'clock. Later I have an engagement.''Mountain mnrder easf—Investigation April 8, 1895, to Dec. 2, 30,001 circulars, etc , $3,253 79. Ont of this amount was (Vtld for witness fees, $515 16, expert testimony, chemical examinations, etc., $355; foreign telegrams and general cost? of alarm, $150; postage and cost of general alarm (teoond) $3)0; commonwealth's oosts, $2 070.16 The audience, unusually brilliant, rocked and reeled iu its enthusiasm. With good reason too. A master hand hqd laid hold upon its breast and stirred it to tears, to laughter as the sough of wind stirs tall meadow Krass. Three well known critics were already explosive in thoir enthusiasm. A fourth, the best known of all, disciple of Tolstoi and Ibsen, was in rage, three adjectives doep, for the play was wholesomely, naturally real throughout—a most potent moral antiseptic to the high flavoring he loved. Besides he hated Pennington on personal grounds. tie fellow named Sigbolz gave the gang away, and told how they had robbed Miner & Billard'a Mill, Doctor Boyle's honse, Baldei & Arnold's, "No. Always thought it was on general principles, as I always thought till thin minute she was uglier than homemade bId. Now 1 see she's almost, yes, positively handsome. What can she have done with herself?'' The play proved at ODce a martyrdom and a revelation. Its motive was original, quaint, whimsical, delicately humorous, withal so obvious that you wondered how it had so long been left unused. In the first scene Pen grasped its possibilities, saw what might be made of it by a master hand and thereafter sat iu torment. When they came presently to the door of Pen's bachelor apartment, Eton's eyes thirstily took in its splendors, for Pen nington was a sybarite fin de siecla AD that was possible to art, to wealth, to the most perfect taste found its flower ing upon his floors and walls. Just now the splendor, tho harmony, the luxury of it oppressed him. The moniory ol that poor, bare place, with its slim fig ure smiling out of the open door, liuiifc over him with the oppression of anight mare. Flinging wide the shutters, hi looked down at the street from his eighth story's dizzy height. Moral.—Thank goodness, that was one prizefighter who talked himself to death.—Truth. i. L. Dougherty and the Globe store. The boys told where the plunder wei (.tared, though much of it was in the shape of eatables and was not t) be found. Officers Gallagher and Jones made the arrests The boys will be held for trial In oourt. Here, therefore, is a ohauoe for the slok ani pufferlng wom-n of our oommunlty which should not be lost Dr. Greene, of 36 West 14th Street, New York City, who has the largest practloe in the world and who is without doubt the moat successful specialist in curing female complaints, offeia to give free consultation by mall ti all women suffering from these distressing weaknesses, disoba'ges, pains and Irregtlirltics. Yon have the privilege of ro-D- adltlng Dr Greene by letter describing jour complaints and he will, aftercarefully oousldertng your oondition, send a letter oarefully explaining all yoar sympt 'mi, telling you everything about your complai ts so plainly that yon #111 understand exaotly what alls yon He will also give you his advice, basrd upon his vast txperlence and wonderfnl snocees In trealiug snob casee, as to jnst what t i d i to get cureJ. All this will oost yen nothing and yon can thus have consultation with the btst known and acknowledged most sncoeesfal specialist in the world without leaving home and at no expense whatever The doctor is the discoverer of that greatett of all known medicines, Dr. Greene's Nervnra blooi and nerve remedy, and he has discovered many other most valuable remedies. Write to him now about your casf, for this is a ohance to get cured whloh you may never htve again. He Wax Making Money. "I was amused at the answer I received to a question on a Chicago and Alton railroad train," said E. I?. Chapman at the Howard House. "At Bloomington two men entered the train and took a seat immediately in front of me. I did not sej them come in and paid no attention to them until one of the men went into the smoking car. It then occurred to me that I wanted to know something about Bloomington as a business point, so, leaning forward, I commenced a conversation. "Realized her possibilities, maybe. That is the root of Pen's grievance. He preached about her one day. The old man had somehow inveigled him into reading a lot of her copy, and the air was bine for five minutes afterward. Then he began. 'Here,' said he, 'is a creature with divine possibilities as a woman in womanly ways. But she throws them all away to swathe herself in a hideous black stuff business gown and trail into newspaper offices doing work that it is a compliment to call bad. The most aggravating part is that It might so easily be good. To a most exquisite instinct of choice and point of ▼lew she joins an absolute genius for .maltreating both.' There was a lot more fOff the same piece. Old man beard it— ■bought rare Mrs. Eton's day was over. (When she came in just after, he did say, 'I'm afraid we won't have room for any Eiore of your copy. * She looked up at lm with the bravest smile and tried to say something. All she could get out was ' Well'— The rest stopped in her throat Pen wrote on like a steam engine; didn't raise bis eyes till she had gathered up her bits of things and was going away with them. Be watched her MM to fltnr nliMi hOT- nattftd Investigation in Ballentlne case which resulted In showing that Ballentlne came to his death by ao;ldent, $311 80 Funeral of Bev. T. E. Colburn For the theme was laboriously overwritten, quite to the degree of bathos. The play owned fault possible tc either amateur or professional work. Yet from almost every page there came u flash of wit, a touch of fancy, a dainty, delicious turn of phrase. Listening was cruel work. Pen clinched his hands in shadow as the woman's piping, untrained voice wjrh its TCoft, slurring, southern accentuation slipped and slid now grave, now merry, always too rapid for perfect comprehension. The funeral of R-iv. T E Ooiburn, who died at the home of Bev. R. 8. Hnlsart, in this city, and whose body waa shipped to Lynchburg, Va., took plaoe from the If. P Church ftt that city, on Saturday morning, March 14th, at 10 o'clock. The services were deeply impressive and solemn. A large conoonree of his friend* were pres ent. The funeral sermon waa preached by Rev Dr. T. H. Lewis, president of the Western Maryland College, from Ln\e 12:37 He was followed by Rev. Dr. Tagg, ed tor of The Methodist Protest int, Baltimore, and Rev. E. L Watfiild, pastor of the ohurch. A long procession followed the remains to their last resting place in Spring -Hill Cemetery, and the monnd above the arave was literally covered with beautiful fl Dral tribut«s. Hazleton highway robbery casts—Inves- Investigation from Angust 14, 1695, to' Djc 1, 1895, whhh was discontinued when constables took hold and made arrests, $1,- 168 34. Charged With Counterfeiting. Four men and one woman were arrested n iayre, charged with passing oonaterfelt money. They are Claries Gardner, Ward Rockwell, Carrie Blymshl, Patriok Clone, Elmer and Herbert Gardner. A oonaterfelt half dollar was pissed on a Sayre con fectlonery store, and waa traced back to a disreputable house. Here offiiers found Charles Gardner and R ickwell, with aboufive dollars in counterfeit ha ves and quarters. Gardner claimei that he received the money from hit brothers and they were also arrested. All five were oommltted to the Towanda j til to await trial. Yeteveu his rancor dropped a little as Pen, bowing again, yet tigain, to the storm of applause, Paid with a thick undertone of tremor: "I thank you more than mere words can say for the honor you do—the play. I do not say my play. It is not mine. The seed thought cuine to me from a dear soul long dead. I have been, am, but the artificer who has polished the gem and given it proper setting." He saw faintly a dark, slim shape going slowly back and forth on the street's other side. Total amount of bills, $25.229 34. imonnt paid out by detective agency, $10,730 65; det ctlve services and expanses, $14,498 69. Eton's voice made him turn, " 'I see you got on at Bloomington. How is it as a business point?' "Here's the document, properly conditioned," he said, with a poor bravado that did not mask his uneasiness. When Pen without a word laid the money in his hand, he kissed the crisp notes and thrust them instantly within the breast of bis coat, as though fearful they might be snatched from his hand. " 'Fairly good.' " 'Were you in business there?' UNKNOWN MAN KILLED The man did worso and bettor. Self conscious almost to suffocation, there was a timbre and quality of tone that with a brain behind it would surely have meant fortune. •' 'Yes.' " 'What line?' " 'Making money.' Struck by a Delaware *»od Hudson Train at Smlthville. A storm of bravas, of hand clapping, drowned his words, made his heart leap so wildly further speech was impossible. Again he bowed low and turned to go away. Those thrilling shouts, that tempest of glad sound, forbade. " 'No, I am moving to Joliet. It is not so good a point for me as Bloomington, but I had a chance to take a steady contract there for live years, and I took it. There is too much uncertainty in the money making business.' " 'Are you going to Chicago?' laBt Friday at about nice o'clock the body of an unknown foreigner was found on the Delaware and Hudson north-bound traok at Smithville crossing. To all appearances he had been struck and killed. The body was taken to the Avoca station, where It lay unidentified at three o'clock ' this afternoon. Ooroner MoKee empanelled a jary t3 investigate the case. A raging sense of nature's incomplete work grew upon and possessed the auditor. If theso two must suffer gifts out of the common, wherefore had they not such others as might suffice to make use of them possible? There was no present answer to that question. Heredity, environment might perhaps explain. Before the play was half through Pen rose, saylpg:_ . Notwithstanding, he staid for a minute, looking himself over in the long mirror at one side and dwelling with a measuring glance upon everything in the room. Death of a I.nzerne Centenarian Hugh MoCiovern, of Askam, died on Saturday, of general debllltv. He was 100 years of age, and he had eoj Cyad fair health up to within a few days of his death. His wife survives him at the age of 95. The father of the deoeased was 112 when he died, and his grandfather 114. Rev. Mr Colburn was a sonof Jadar* W. O C Dlburn, of the Eistern Shore of M»ry- Und, and a cousin of Hon. Joshua Miles, a member of the present C ingress from Maiyland. Mrs Colburn and her mother had reaohed as far north as Philadelphia on their way to Pltteton, when a telegram Informed them of hia death. As he turned to the door he said awkwardly: "I know this—advance—can- advance—cannot embarrass you. If I have any sort of luck—to match getting it, I mean— why. next year J, too. may have such He stood still, his face tense, his eyes burning over the sea of faces alight and a-thrill. • "Then I noticed that he was handouffod to the seat. Ho had told me the exact truth—he was going to Johet penitentiary five years for rxinterfeitins,"—Washington Star. An usher hurried down the aisle. What his hand bore almost stopped Pen- Qiagtoo's breath. Use American Eagle White Soap.