Pittston Gazette

              ri it •  K8TAH1.1SIIE1)IH5«. » VOL. MA I. NO. 37 I Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY. APRIL 24, 1896. A Weekly local and Family Journal. spell of semlclvillzatlon a tenth of the available rooms made ample lodging placo. "My lirHt also, and I've luipuii usut for woeks." terod ami crlnched, and the whin waif filled with flying boards, and Cambol found himself with olio arm clutching the weed clnd st ump of n pile and the other wrapped round IClfio Kililare. '•Hurt?" lie Khoutod anxiously "Not a bit. Sound ns a Im'U. "A11 rijrht trimng compared witn wnai tnoy mignc have lieen. Three thousand people died in that night's work among the southern states, and tho nir was torn withtho mont of those who were loft, lamenting as the} sought thoir death wifo had hoped ho would at least hn famous in his fall. SBBASTOPuL MAN HURT DEATH'S TERRIBLE REIGN Still there was a summer season of sorts at Point Sebastian, which was merry enough in its way. Most nights on tho parquet of the hall a cheery score danced under the glare of electric lights to the lilt of Teuton fiddles, and in the cool gloom'of the piazzas outside, if straitened means did prevent the actual drafting of marriago contracts, even penury undisguised could enjoy the dallylngs of the woek's flirtation. Mr. Kent-Williams and his tribe wero entertaining fellows enough to meet for a limited time, and maidens, oome into the hotel for an annual outirg, basked in the odor of their pretty sayings and frankly prepared themeclvos for nothing beyond temporary amusement. "It's an undoubted fiict, Klsio, wo do. We Kooiii to brliiR 0110 another luc!; Ho had a scheme, too, In his waiting of taking n vcngeanco on this same wife who had made it necessary for him to fall at all. Without her wild extravagance ho would havo been nblo to weather the commercial depression which had weighed him down, but she had scoffed at warnings end increased the muster roil of her guests and fed them on bank notes. What this schcnio was he confided to no one but George, and Georgo did not split. George hated' Mrs. Shelf to the extent of showing Ivory whenever sho was near him. Found on Saturday Along a Railroad An ; Unusual Number of Fatal Accidents The (Induction seemed to fjivo riso to thoughts lu each of them, und they lc! their eyes rove vaguely over the gulf waters for the next minutes without speaking, while the boat rodo gently over the windless swells which slid in through the outlying keys. A porpoise surged past Near Until, N. IT ami Crimes T. F. Bnrke, D L & W. agent at the Juactloo, on Saturday received a message from Kanona, a small station on the D. L. & W. road near Batb, N. ST., telling of tne finding of a man injured along the track at that place. The man said his name wss James McNnlty, and that he lived at 40 Mitchell street, Flttston. He had suffered a bad gash In his head, and hlB body was severely bruised, he being In bad shape generally. From the description given in the dispatch there la no donbt but that tbe man is James Mc Nulty, a yonng unmarried man about twenty-eight years of age who lived with his mother at 40 Mitchell street, Sebistopol. A Gazkttb reporter visited the house this afternoon, but could learn scarcely anything about the nutter bej ood tbe fact that the young man had left home two days ago. The young man's sister had received a message telling about the acc.dent, and the family was so grieve! over the aft ilr that they did net care to talk about it At the Eddy Creek mine, Olyphant, a terrible accident occurred on Satneday, resulting in the Instant death of fonr miners. Tne men were driving a heading. A blast had been fired, and ae the men returned to their working place twenty-five tone of solid rocs fell upon them. The following four were killed: James Abbott, aged27, of Throop; Ralph Abbott, aged 36, of Hyde Park; John McHale, aged 25, of Dunmore street, Scranton; John Harvey, of providence. The bodies were terribly crushed, and were not recovered for several hours. Francis Lewis, another of the party, was injured by the fall. He was near the rib when the roek came down, while the other# were in the middle of the road. The little son of Ralph Abbott, one of the victims, was tending door but a short distance away from where his father was killed. You?" That day all who could lift a pair 01 hands had work to do, and the next and tho next, but on the fourth day from the ayclone, when tho fallen had been buried and tho quick housed, Gambol managed for the first timo to get a word en tete-a toto with this woman who had said slit lovod him and had promised to bo his wife. Ho had conned tho matter over in his mind, and after heavy argument had decided not to hold any of his affairs socret from her, this, of course, having par ticular reference to tho one affair by which he hoiDed to make a compotonco. Ho had visions of difficulties with her over it, but ho bogan his confidence artfully. "Hut whore's tho wntor? Thero should ho six foot horo, itnd I can fefil nono." "Blown away to ma. Wo may thnnk GoCl the wiiid Js not on shore, or we'd havo lx:rn drowned, as hundreds of other poor wretches nro this moment. Ah! That's a shave A lightning flash showed them a huge treo plucked from its roots nnd blowing past thorn, squirming nnd crushing about, like n live,. mild tiling. Then n heavy squared roCif U'am hit their jagged pile and missed Cambel's arm by a nail's breadth. "George," said Mr. Shelf at tho conclusion of one of thoso grim confidences, "I shall bo a lonely man. You must como out there with me." And George poked a cold black noso into Mr. Shelf's hand and said that he should be vastly disappointod if ho was left behind. mqs TMf AtfTMOR CHAPTER XVI. ririfi them before Jio emptied onto tne pewter counter. "I don't think—ar—Duvornay was anybody. I didn't know him here, but I—ar—don't recollect meeting him at tho club or anywhere before we camo out—by ged! look there! Fours, first Eliot! Of course the Kildares are all right as far as family goes. But they're poor as regards the—ar—almighty dollar. If it wasn't for that, by ged! I wouldn't mind going In for the fair Elsie myself. Wobinson, old chappie, take the box and agl tato. You won't beat tny four ladies." Patrick Cambel met nt least Ave men there ho knew, which shows the great advantage of being a university man, bernuso since at Oxford and Cambridge they most successfully refrain from teaching anything that is of commercial use to any one except a parsou, or a doctor, or a schoolmaster, it naturally follows that many men from those seats of learning fail to make a living at home and drift across the seas. ST7TUKCTM Fult MATRIMONT. "Elsie," he said, Ida on business." Miss Kikhire gave a shrug of her shoulders. "Yes," she said, '"1 suppose it is a different inc. I've not luy hair ilono up jiiul longer skirts and all the rest of It. In fact, like tho young person In the book, I've growod. Hut I don't see that you've altered much, except that you've just a tiny-iny bit crowsfooty about the eyes. You haven't even grown a mustache, as I always wanted you to do." uTho air will Im full of this stuff iti it minute, and if wo try to move wo shall ho hralnod before wo'vo got a yard. Crouch down, dear, at the bottom of the post." The hotel's going Clown!" he shouted. "I came hore to Flor Now, Mr. Theodore Shelf intended to have his vengeance on the night of n ball which hi* wife was going to give, and which for sheer gorgcousness and distinguished assembly was to rival by far all her previous efforts, and ho was quite satisfied in his own mind that the action would bo entirely justifiable. Still ho was a man not without natural affoocions. He was extremely fond of his ward, Amy Rivers, even though through the old fashioned wooden headedness of his cotrustee ho did not have the actual handling of a penny of her money. The cotrustee was a lawyer with an admiration for 4 per cent corporation stocks, and ho insisted on Miss Rivers' fortune staying in these and showed cause why the script should remain in his own office safo. Tho money tempted Theodore Shelf to tho sin of coveteousness continually—ho could have mado such oxcollent use of it—but to tho man's credit belt said ho nevor visited his irritation on his ward. Indeed ho was only known to bodisagrocablo tohoronce, and that once was the last timo he and sho had speech together, and what ho had said was ontirely to her Interest and without any profit to himself. It was on tho morning of the great ball, and he called her to him in his room and asked if Fairfax would be there that evening. "Then," replied Miss Klldare, "I'd lik6 to givo business a knob of sugar to cat and flowers to wear on his heodstall. Whni color was business? White?" You, tot No, tlieri isn't room Theii I ali'-ll stuml.." "Black, distinctly black, but valuable. In figures slightly more than a quarter of a million in tinglish money ought to conm to me for my share out of him, or rather, as it now is, our share, yours and mine, dear." Sho dragged at his sleeve and pulled him to her side. "S-t.iy by iuc here, I'ut. You might get swept ft way, und I couldn't bear that." Frank Prebiliskl, aged eighteen, a Pricebnrg Pole, shot and killed a fellow countryman named Frank L'baadz'inakl, at the latter'a home in Dickson City on Sunday afternoon, a doable barrelled breech-loadi3(. .»!hC t gun being used. The two boys were alone In a room when the shooting occurred. There was no evidence to show that there had been / any trouble, and Preblllskl's story that the / - shooting was accidental is generally sup- j poeed to ba correct. Notwithstanding this, J the mother of the dead boy swore out a / warrant for Preblllskl's arrest, and he was committed to the Lackawanna jail. f Michael J. Cjj, a Pirsons young n/nn who has been working as a firemaD at /the Hotel Jermyn in Scranton, died *ndd«)qly In that city on Siturday as the result of— being overcome by the heat. Ha was twenty-three years old, and was of strong physio*! build. He did not make the smallest secret about his advent. As the newspapers had told thein already, he had been on the unlucky Port Kdes when she caine to grief, but had managed to get ashore by a marvelous streak of luck and found himself at n spot where less than a year ago he had linen wandering about on a shooting expedition. Thence he had made his way in a dugout, bought from a Seminole, to the hotel on Point Sebastian. Volla tout. There wps nothing surprising about It. He had had several opportunities' for drowning before that, but none of them hnd over come off. So he supposed that the Pare® marked him out to live. And —what would they havef His shout. •'Didn't know ] was going to meet you, or 1 might have spared my razor." l,I wish," said Kent-Williams meditatively, "I knew what Cambel was going to da Mabel Duvernay's n charming woman, and she's got at least £500 a year. I don't want to make a fool of myself If Camlx-l's still in the running. And, by Jove! 1 know she's as fond of him as ever. That beast Duvernay used to twit her with it when he was in an extra vile tempor." ''Of coor:so I'll stay by you, dear. I'll never go tlll.yon turt. n*«\vuy." Ho took new crip with his urnis, pinning her between his breast and the wood ragged leg of the pile. "Klsie, 1 want to tell you something. Yon know I've always liked you as a friend, but now it has como to luore than thut. Much more—lovo. dor- "Oh, you duck, Pat! You don't mean to say I'm to inarry a rich m*uf Wherever did you steal the money fromf Speculation?""I wish you'd knuwn, then. But fancy your turning up here of u'i-places) It Is on extremely small world. There's no doubt nbout that. Well, Pat, as we've each said at loast 90 times apiece how surprised wo am to see one another, suppose you come out onto the piazza and tell mo things. Wo shall have a crowd round us if wo stay hero in the hall much longer." "Speculation of sorts, though steal describes it better. It's there, and that's the main thing." SPRING BROOK OFFICIALS HERB. "Then take the cinch from nu , sir." thoni, coughing as he chasoil a shoal 01 mullet, and overhead a string of purple and yellow cranes screamed wearily as theyVlapped home to the Everglades aftei a hard fishing on n growing reef. Confening to Regard to tlie New Pipe Line Across the River. "Go slow," advised Robinson, '"and hang back for bets. Here. I can't Improve pn two pairs, so you and I throw again. Here's the box. Ily the wny, why not ask Cambel yourself? You knew him well enough at Cambridge,and you aren'tshy." '"Money in the pocket Is better than ten plans to get it there, any day. Pat, we'll havo n big steam yacht, and when we get sick of London wo'll go and see all the rest of the world. And you of all people to become a successful speculator! And what have yo* been making your cornor in? Nothing unclean, I hope, like short ribs of pork?" Ool. Watres, Mr. Amm irman, T. H. WstklDB, J L Crawford and other membere of the Spring Brook Supply Company werain town Saturday morning confsrring with Charles P. Ereritt, a representative of the Chapman Derrlok and Wrecking Company of New York, In regard to the new pipe line which the company intends to lay across the river at this place. Tae pipe, twenty inches In size, has been on the gronnd forsome time, and the location tor the line Is the only point to be decided before the work of laying it will be commenced. It may be laid near the present main across the Ttver or it may be laid some distance above. Arrangements concerning rights of way have considerable to do with determining the ez ict location, but it is ex pected that the matter will be settled within a week or two. on re my mind was lull or nnothei woman, and I thought I could never cart for nny one else us I cared for her, Imt that was years since, thou.-aiitls of years, it seems now, and, Elsie, I've—I've forgotten her. She is only u name to mc and your sister. Dear, if wo get. aSvay from this, do you think you could like me, too, a little more than an ordinary friend?" "My dear child, what things!" asked Cambel, laughing. "I've been chattering history to you ever since I turned up at the hotel." "They've all got to make their living." said Camliel. "I'm ntit shy, dear boy, and I used to know Patrick Cambel well before I came out. He's a devilish genial follow so long as you rub him the right way, but I shouldn't like to cross question him too much about Mrs. Duvernay. You see, don't you know, he was most infernally struck on the lady beforo she was married, and he's oneof those fellows with a long memory who don't forget. Now, I, dear boy, hnvo boon in love with heaps of women in my time, and they with me, but when they gave me tho ehuuk, or I got tired of them, I didn't break my blessed heart, or play th«D goat, or do anyt hing of that kind. I simply went on to tho next caravan, which is a devilish eomfortablo amusement. Hut old Pat isn't built that way. He's one of those fools who would get gono on a woman and keep her in mind for years and years afterward. Mighty dreary sort of game to my way of thinking—by Jovo! four kir.gs! If you beat those, dear boy, may I live on sweet potatoes and mullet all the rest of my life." "Who?" asked the girl. The jrirl seated hcrsolf In a cool cane rocker and picked up a palm loaf fan. At that period Mr. Patrick Cambel was feeling extremely pleased with himself. He hated tho work at which he had been engaged, as any man must hate being mixed with a swindle, be It great or small. And the end seemed near; the end, conjoined to full success. "1 was thinking of those animals in the water ami in the air ard, by analogy, t ho rest of the animal world. We nil of us prey on something else, down to the asfD who eats grass, or else we die." "Hundreds of tilings. To Ix-gin with, what an- ix'opln wearing in town just now?" ''Gold, If that will suit your ladyship." ''Oh, this is delightful! You've been trading on American necessities. Tell me all about it. I think I can follow. One hears so muoh about the silver question that one can't help understanding it a little."Sho put licr lips to his car. "Do yon think wo filuili cumn ant of it alive, Pat? Toll mo honestly." "In Ixindon? Oh, frock conts rather imiKiT than over and narr jw st ripo trousers and toppers with just twopenny worth of curl In thorn, not more." '"That's n very suge remark, Put.. JInvo you been rending Schopenhauer lately, 01 is your bank account unhealthy?" I hope so." Honestly, I'nt "Of course," she said, "why?" " After what has passed between ugf" Ho had had a struggle for it, because once more Captain Kettle had felt inclined to fight for his own hand rather than do all things for mere employers who only paid him a paid salary. It was when Cambel woke from that dead sleep on the wheel grating of the upper bridge and came down to learn of the tragedy of the plumo hunters, which had taken place during his unconsciousness, that he got the first hint of this. The littlo captain receivod him with cold stiffness, was wooden when asked for any suggestion and snarled when Cnnihel inquired what ailed him. It was the donkeyman who put the difficulty into words. Cambel laughed. ''Was it pessimistic? I'm nut given that way as a general thing. It!s bo much plensanter for oneself and everybody else to look at matters from the cheerful point of view. But I was thinking at the time that if I'd heen well off and if other things had uot happened as they did my life would have been writter. very differently." I'm afraid, clnrltnp, it's a poor chance." "You weal) in the city?" " Fifteen yards to the skirt, and they're lioKinniiiK to drape (ham. Tho fashionable deformity nt present is elephantiasis of tho biceps—I menu sleeves. They start at the ears and go down to thoellxiws; some of then farther." "Hut I mean thci women." Her sofh, wet cheeks nestled against him, nnil strands of her hair intertwint*! themselves 'Vit.h lii-t 'j'at," ?.lio i-aitl. So with a pardonable coulour de rose, wherorar tinting was available, Cambel told the story of his finding the channel into the Everglades, his compact with Shelf, the hazardous voyage of the steamship Port Edes and the subsequent disposal of the specie. The girl listened to the talo with close attention and unmoved face. Evon the account of the mutiny and thogrewsome encounter between Nutt and his friend failed to oall up comment, because in domestic Florida a little dashing homicide is such a very common occurrence. But when Patrick Cambel had finished his say and looked to her for approval he only got a grave and decisive shake of the auburn bead. "I do, my dear. Mr. Fairfax has displeased me much. First of all, ho resigned from the directorate of my new company, the Brothors Steamship association, on which I had placed him, a very flattering position for so young a man, and then ho caused mo deep sorrow in doubting tho pureness of iny motives in floating the company at all. I am long suffering, Amy, and because it is my duty to bear with the hasty I do so as much as possible. But Mr. Fairfax overstepped the mark. Such a spirit as his would cause dissension among our simple minded workors, and I felt it duo to them that he should no longer be at their side." William Pilfer, of Petersburg, aScranton snbnrb, committed Balclde on Snnday evening by shooting himself In the head with a shot gnn. The.family had just celebrated a christening, and a few of the visitors were still in the house when Pilger went to a bed room and committed the deed. Pilger was found lying npon his bed with his face blown entirely off One of his children 1 .y on the bed and . it waa covertd with blood. Piiger's death was lcstantineons No cause la assigned for the crime. The man had always been prosperous and healthy and never complained of being tired of life "you never know, hut I lovtwl yon all nloiiK from thn lirst " Then for the first time during ninny yearn Patrick Cnmhe] knew what it was to fear (lentil, iieforetime life had hold many torments for him; and if lead or water or storl chose to show him the great secret ho did not very much caro. Now it was all different lie lusted to live with a fierceness which almost drove him mad. "You are trembling," tho girl said unx "Ah," said .Miss Kildare thoughtfully, "I usi'd to have good arms. Not quite as nice as Mattel's, though. But latterly I haven't been in places where evening dri-ss was used. By tho wny, do you dance Btill?" "You muau you might liavo )Deon majesty's embassador to thucourtof Timbuktu?""Or something in that line. Possibly, yes." ALLEGED MCBDEHRRS HEARD l-Keon on It as "error." "Mabel," said the girl, "Is free now." Habeas Corpus Hearings In the Plymouth "What's the waltz liko now?" "And, captain, now," Mid he, "how much might yez lie getting out of all this for yersolf?" Cambel nodded dreamily and once more let his gaze roam out across tbo wa tew. The boat rode uncared for over the gentle oily swells, and the sound of the surf crumbling on the distant keys fell on his ears and droned to him a lingering tale of might have been. Mattel was fret'! The woman who had once promised to bo his wife; the woman whose memory had driven him from pillar to post across the wona tnrougn all tnose long wnu years, because his abiding love for her was too great a torment to be borne when ho rested for a breathing place in one and had time for thought; the woman who had by pressure been made to marry another man, whom, neither on her wedding day nor at any after time, did she ever love. She was free again. Mabel Dnvemay now, and Mabel Kildare no longer, but Mubcl still, and free. iously and Exeter Caieit. "Capering on hot bricks. J leaps more cxerciso to the furlong. Peoplo kill thein- Bclves at It much sooner." ''Reveraef" "Oh, LDorCl!" said Robinson, '"£500 a year—$2,500—one could pig along with that very comfortably in Jots of places. What unlucky brutes some of us arc! Oh, curse it! Just my form, two pairs again. Wo won't prolong the agony. My shout. What'll you fellows have?" "I know I am. You have made me a rank coward, donr." Two habeas corpus heatings were held 3atnday before Judge Lynoh in court 'oom No 1. Both were marder cases, the first being that of Michael Poshka, charged «ith killing John N ce in Piymoatb dnriog a drnaken row. Although Patrick Dilton, the chief witness in the matter, siid that Poshka was not the man who did tbe killing, the defendant was leld in $2,500 ball to await the action of {rand jury. "Five hundred pounds." Sim understood him and kissed his mouth, but no other words passed between them. "Well, dear," he asked at last, made very anxious by her silence. "So you gave him the—well, the sack, Of course I know. " "Begor, it's a mighty lot of money and little enough too. 1 wish I'd it meself an more. 1(1 like a house ashore, an a wife, an an ass cart that I /night dhrive her out in like a gentleman, besides other things." "Perhaps,'' said Mr. Shelf, with a smile of pain, ''he will be able to obtain employment elsewhere, or being a young man of means ho may chooso to set up In business for himself, but I fear, my dear, that he will miss many of the Christian lnfluouces which so elevate nnd purify the dependents of Marmaduko Rivers & Sholf." "In the north of England, where they all dance well, they're like the Americans and go each way alternately. In London and the south, where most of them waltz vilely, reversing la aceldama." "No, Vat," she said quietly, "I can't sharo in a fortune which has been laid up that way. Hcuven knows I'm not squeamish. Hearing what I do out here about trusts and corncrs and syndicates, and 6coingwhat I can't help seeing of tho way the people round make their living and still evade the law and rotain respect, my notions of morality aro very easy and slack. But"— While John Mlahm.sb, of F rest City, a German laborer employed in the Clifford shaft, was returning from work on 8*tarday afternoon, he met with an accident which will probably cause his death. He was orosslng the £ :le tracks when he waa tun over by a D , L & W. pusher. Ooe of his lege was cat off and the other one was broken and he was otherwise qnlte seriously lDjired. Tho oyclono blew on, bellowing nnd tearing. and the llcud finger* of the wind did miaohiof beyond nil reckoning Tinil)cr which had stood hv flreds of years, oeibas and like oaks and pii)08, sprawled down amoi:g the tanghCd undergrowth. lucre masses of splintered They drank their cocktails and went into the vust bare dining bail where a shining negro waiter supplied oach with a tumbler of iced tea and two dozen oval dishes of comestibles. "Oh, stop that! .Don't tell nie what a man might do if he'Cl his pick of the money in this ship. 1 can figure that out for myself without suggestions from any blasted Irishman." "I suppose," said Miss Klldarc, with lier eyes meditatively following a bronze green humming bird which was darting about a trumpet Tine on the piaza posts, "I suppose we shall have a hop here tonight. I shan't reverse, and when my partners ask why I shall tell them it's the latest thing. One always likes to he as English as possible. Tell me something else that It's tony to do?" Miss Rivers shrugged her shoulders. "Isn't this," she said, "to do with the oity and not Park lane? As Airs. Shelf says, we're ordinary society heathens when wo'ro here, and as she sent Hamilton his card I don't seo that it matters. It's Mrs. Shelf's 'at homo.' " ''Cambel seems thick enough with tho Kildaro girl," Kent Williams observed. "Hut of courso ho knew her when she was a kid, and they'd have heaps to talk about. What do you think, Willief" "Ah,-now, captain, dear, don't be cross wid me, because I was going on to say that in ease of trouble, in case there was, we'll say, a thrilling argument, I'd be on your side. Mr. Cainhel, yer a gentleman, an I like ye well, but the captain here's me officer, an—well, sor, a boy must look after himself sometimes, spocially when there's a chance like this ready to his fingers. 'Twon't.come again in a lifetime." But I have gone too far?" John Goeeck was the second man to receive a hearing on the charge of murder, together with Slatlnol, George Mlcheisok, Andrew Bcdnar, and Andro Slcz naaoo, .harged with riot In the same trouble. GoCeci Is charged with throwing a stone and filling Mike Halko In Henry Bergman's aaloon at Exetar on April 6. He was held In $5 000 bail and the ctber defendants In the snm of (500 each, Ex-Jndge Stanton Eugene Ward, Frank S attery and John Menovsky represented the defendants and Assistant District Attorney Wadham the C Dmmonwealth. Sbo bowed her face gravely. "How should I know, dear chappie? I'm not one of those thought reading fellows. Hut perhaps she's—ar—telling him about her sister. Girls always try and run a fellow for their sisters if they can't get the fellow—ar—for themselves." "And so," ho said bitterly, "after all that I have gone through and all I've dono, you want mo to Rive this fortuno up. My God, Elsie, you know what a hateful thing poverty In as well as I do! Think what this money would buyl Love for ono another we have already, and we can get besides every pleasure tho heart can wish for. I know as well as you do that it was dirtily earned, and I hated tho work of getting it, and I'll never dabble in anything so foul again. My Instincts bid me live as an upright gentleman, and with the income I'd do that and forget I vsasevcr anything else. When I cease to be poor, I cease to be In tho wny of temptation. Don't you see? And, besides, there is no chance of being found out. The money Is supposed to be blotted out of existence, and it's thore now in the Glades as a private mine to dig at as we choose. Besides I'm bound In honor to go on aftor getting thus fnr. It isn't as if I were working for my own hand alone. Shelf's my partner, and I can't neglect his interests for a sentiment." catholic temperance men. '•And not mine, Amy? You are right in the word, my dear, but not in the spirit. As a Christian, of course, I have already forgiven the wrong Mr. Fairfax has done mo in doubting tho pureness of my motives. But this humblo roof is mine, Amy, and it would grieve mo to receivo under it any one with whom I am not on terms of brotherly amity. But perhaps you can assure me, my dear, that Mr. Fairfax has already repented him of his hasty and unjust words." "Read nasty novels written by women you wouldn't sit in the same room with and then gush nliout them afterword. That's n very fashionable amusement with the up to date young women."' Meet In Qouterly Session in Ashley on CHAPTKR XVIII. Sand ay. "Probably not," said Cambel. He lay hack in his chair, with linked fingers behind his head. "Look here, Kettle, if you want to shoot me, pull out your gun and get it over. Then you and Sullivan can run the cargo where you please and share it how you like. Hut that's the only way you 11 make mo consent to your taking what's beyond your duo. Shelf trusted Hie, and, by Jove, I'm going to act fairly by Shelf if he were a ten times bigger thief than I know him to bo already. Now, then, jump quick—let's have It over." THE CYCLONE. • The twelfth quarterly convention of C; T A. U societies of the Third District was held In Ashley, Sunday afternoon, D. B. Gtildea presiding. Diocesan President O'Hara addressed the convention, calling attention with pride to an Increase of 1,000 in membership "Here waiter," shouted Robinson, "what did you b" ins sweet potatoes for? Nobody ordered thein. Take the d d 'things away and vary them"— The waiter grinned and vanished with the dishes, and Robinson set to savagely tearing at a tough beefsteak with a silver bladed knife— '"Money's run out," ho grumbled, "and back wo go tomorrow to livo like wild lieasts In a palmetto shuck on that accursed food and nothing else. I believo that foul grinning nigger knew and brought thoso swept spuds here just to insult us. I've n great mind to break his beastly nock." A shining faced negro waiter camn up In answer to the bell and brought tumblers of tinkling Ice'and water. lJoth Cambel and Miss Kildare drank thirstily and tlim lay back In their cano chairs, panting. The close hrat was something terrible. There was not a breath of either sea breeze or land breeze, and the electric fan which whirred on the table Ix-hind them did little more tlinn send a hla»t of sickly warmth. Down the long lino of tho piazza were the rest of the people In the hotel, the men cursing and mopping their faces, the women with closed eyes fanning themselves languidly. And overhead the shingles of tho roof crackled and rustled in the liaking air as though tliej were alive. " Ugh, Pat, don't be a pig. Besides, that wouldn't suit my stylo a hit." '•But why want to change, Klsio? Don't you appreciate yourself an you are at present? I'm sure other people would.'' That's blarney." "No," paid Camliel judicially, "I think It's ordinary fact." "Not that," eaid Miss Rivers. "I'm euro he hasn't." C. J. Boyle, of Plymouth, reported in regard to the proposition to orgaoiz* temperance work among the foreigners, that owing to the expense it would be a rather diffi nit matter to undertake the task now. "Is it rv-ally, though? I nm glad. You know, I're thought lately my prcscntstock In trade wouldn't p.iss muster outside Floridn. 1 can handle n Itont in any weather, and ride anything that'scalled a horse, and dance decently in American fashion, hut I can't do anything olso, except perhaps talk, if that counts." "Then," replied Mr. Theodore Shelf, with a sorrowful firmness, "I cannot receive him. I couldn't do it." CHILD UMDE1C T11E WHEEL1} They wero in the charirooin. Captain Kettle {metered his head for a minute's thought and then, getting up, shut an(J locked the starboard door. He took that key and the key also of tho other door whloh gave upon the head of the companionwny and handed them both to Cambel. ''Now, sir," said he, "you lock me and the donkeyman in here and* go and do as you like. Rut I advise you to take your d d gold somewhere out of this ship, liecauso as sum as It's there when I nest noine out of this room so suro do I «C and loot lu That's n.y bunk there, bang above the pl»f'o where It's stowed, and I'vo sat on top of those sovereigns like a hen every watch below I'vo had this voyage and heard 'oiu chlnkle and wondered what they'd hateh out Into. You perhaps understand what I mean?" "I suppose you know," the girl retorted ehnrply, "that if Hamilton does not com« here tonight I shan't rit.hor." The Terrible Fate of a IJttle Polish Boy at Dnryea. Last Friday, a Polish boy, fonr years old, Bon of Prank Plasecki, was playing on (he D. L & W. tracks opposite the Cilnm bia colliery at Daryea, where an engine was shifting cart. The child got nnder a oar and one leg was cut off I: is feared he cannot live. A resolution to the effect that "It 1b the sense of thib convention that the of- "What's tho use of gottinj? hot over It this weafhor?" said Kent-Williams. "If you did break tho nigger's neck, it would not add to your income, anfl that's the only occupation I know worth living for." "You are my ward." "I may bo. But you've never tyrannized over 1116, and you are not going to begin now. I toil you flatly that if it's no Hamilton it's going to ho no me. I shall go to Hampstead tosta.rwith my cousin." Seers of the Diocesan Uaion make an-effort to organize ladles' temperance societies in all parishes where a 0. T. A. B. society now exists," was unanimously carded. C"»iiibltjlaughed. "Younro refreshing," ho said.* "Hut why1 this inventory of gtock?" - Night came, and the lDrll clashed out It? summon* to dinner, hut no oiuD went In The wooden sides of tho hotel, tinker! through and through by a month of trop leal sun, had made the rooms unendurn ble. So they staid where thc.v were In tin hot, oppressive dark and blinked at tlx white summer lightning which splashed the violet heavens in front of them. Ir heavy, panting boata the night seemed tclose down upon them and pen them iu so that It was a labor to breathe. "Mr. Shelf may do as ho chooses, Pat. You yourself may do as you choose, dear, but I can't alter v:hat I've said. I love money, heaven knows, but I couldn't nse money of that sort. You might forget how It came. I couldn't. I can't forget some things. I've a terrible memory when I don't want it to act. I tried to forget you, Pat, over since you left us In England till tho day I saw you here, but I couldn't. I used to pray for forgctfulness all those years, and it wouldn't come, and if I wero to marry you now, dear, with that money, I should always remember, just in the same way." "Because, Pat, I'm wondering how I shall get on in England. I'm going there this fall. I'm two mid twonty, you know, and 1 can do lis I like, and living in the back blocks is iM'ginning to pall." "And therefore you want to marry Mrs. Dim-may." The question of abandoning parades and using the money to employ lecturers was* voted down. "Or nny one else with a modicum of dollars. I'm iiot prejudiced. Believe mo, dear boy, I could pour out a whole wealth of affection on sweet Mabel or sweet-Kitty or swoet anybody else who was ablo to support me in moderate comfort. At-present my talents are thrown away during nineteen-twentieths of the year, because nature never intended me to shine as a noble savage. Consequently, dear boy, I'm ready to Wirow myself away on any one." "I cannot give wny iu this, ifmy. conscience will not permit mo." My "Very well. May I have a carriage, or tnust I ordor a hansom?" DEAD BODY FOUND. Cambtl found hlnuclf vlutcMny the weca rlml ni mii)) The question of Increasing the per capita ' tax was referred to the diocesan convention by the delegate*, and the mattsr of abolishing the quarterly convent one was disposed of by a motion p »ssed to postpone indef- the quarterly conventions. "No, I'm not (juite ho Independent as that. TIjp Vim Llewa, tho people I'm staying with here, upend the winter In Loudon, and thoy:re going to take ine -with tbom." 'fining there by you reel f?" matchwood. The mangrovo thickets woro clogged with stones, with grasses, with grny tangles of Spanish moss. Lakes wore licked from their beds and spirited far over tho creaming waters of the gulf. The land birds were driven like helpless spume flakes far away to sen and choked with tho calo before they were fiung breathless from its clutches. Tho palmetto shucks of tho humbler coast dwellers vanished in dust. Tho frame houses of tho better to do burst atoll their angles and spread like platforms upon tho ground. 4'My dear child, I can refuso you nothing in ronson. The brougham is now, ns It always has been, entirely at your disposal."Fishermen Come Across It In the Woods Hack of Avoca Last Friday, while Harry and Frank Webb, of Avo sa, were fishing along Monument Creek, in the woods seven miles back of Avoca, they found the dead body of a man, so badly decomposed as to be nnreoonlzible They reported the find to *£qilre Whalen, of Avoca, who left with a j iry for the place. So far as known, nobody is missing from Avoca. "I can't stand this," said Miss K Hilar, at last. Miss Rivers left tbo room, and Mr. Shelf scrubbed liis dog's ragged head. "She's angry with me now, Goorge," he said, with a fat, satisfied smile, "but I think she'll change her mind aftorward. She's a clover girl, and she'll see. So with that young beggar Fairfax, confound him!" "And afterward you como baok again to the Staterf" Mifia Kildnro nuatn wntcliod the bronze groon humming bird. "Quleu salio?" be Raid. "I iimy bo Induced to stay." ''Oh, I liko tliat!" said Robinson. "You migLt have married a girl here last winter."Cmnbel nodded, -• "Then take the cinch from me, sir, and cart your boxes away to hell as quick as you ran. Poor men like me shouldn't havo big temptations. It isn't healthy— for their neighbors. No, by (Jod. Here, get out of tliis, Mr. Cambel, or I shall bo doing you a violence yet, and mind you lock tho door. Donkeyman, you hound, there's whisky In that bottom locker. Take the clean glass yourself and give me the illrty one." camuei reau tne little man's mind to a comma and bowed gravely without speaking. Then ho did as he was bidden with tho door and the key and went below and began the herculean task of bringing up the iron tDound specie boxes one by one out* of tho cabin where they had ridden from the Mersey dock. Ho placed them In the port quarter boat, which ho had lowered from its davits flush with the brjdgu dock rail, and when she was loaded he put the boat into the river. Ho rowed her far up stream, past bights and bayous, till he found a narrow canal loading off the main river through mangrove clumps, and held on up that till the boat reached a great round vat of black water, walled all round with solemn cypress trees and roofed to darkness by their fringing branches. "You've got to," replied Cam hoi wearily, "unless you choose to go down the beach and Kit In the water with your clothes on." The convention resolved that it wonld be beneficial to the inorease of membership to have eaoh society to keep a roll of honor book of members bringing ia the most new members, and that the union ia in favor of giving prlzjs to the member who procures the largest nnmber in a specified time. "What ib the use of carrying thumbscrews in your pocket?" he asked half angrily."What! You'ro going Uf get married?" "Why not, if I have an invitation? Twnnty two's getting on." "The traveling English person witherat the aitches? Yes, dear boy, I did think about It. Hut I came to the conclusion that«ho was too old to reform, and, don't you know, one really couldn't stand living with an aitchless person eternally for any artiount of income. Of oourso it was a sacrifice, nnd the jtoor giri was very let down, but I think sho'll get over It In time. They all do." "That would bo some relief, although the wnter Is as hot ax tea. But I shan't do that. I shall walk out along the pier over the sea. One may faint half Dvny and tumble over and get drowned, but anyway that's better than staying here and being cooked slowly." \ / Sho smiled a little pained smile. "Can't help It, Pat. I suppose it's the way I'm built. But I'm only telling you facts." Then Mr. Shelf put George on a comfortable chair and turned to his table. He had, os may lie Imagined, a good deal of writing to got through, and a considerable deal of burning, and the work took him till very late. Thon ho dressed, slipped out for dinner and returned by 11 o'clock to stand behind his wife and watch her as she received her guests. Ho thought ho novo* coon th/D wnmqn 1 onV an Imtidsomo or no queenly, and once or twice hi half regretted the blow which he was go ing to bring down upon her. Rut then his eyes would fall on the walls of the room, and the silver lamps, and tho flowors, and the items of that gorgeous display would go Into his soul and wither up any morsel of coit passion which might have been there. "Ah, his chair. " said Cninlwl and set to rocking And mean while tho great Ktrnggling wooden hotel on Point Sebastian dissolved away like a wind hank in a flooded estuary. ""First the heat twisted shingles had tx'en stripped off, flying away into the wind liko somo strange dark fowl sent as avant couriers of more fearsome things to conio. Then weatherboards followed, singly and In coveys, then gahlo ends and joists and rafters, all floating and pitching in the air as though the wind had the density of a tossing ocean stream. Chairs and wooden bedsteads, clothes Mown out into grotesque shapes as though the freakish spirits of tho storm had donned them, the I scantling of tho long piazza, and still more hoards whirred out into tho night and vanished forever down the track of the cyclono. And In of this devil's bombardment crouched men and women, and other things, shapeless and norrioie, wuicn nan neon men unu women once. The tale of the dead grew with awful pace that night. YlD8?" "I thought," he said brusquely, "you wanted to go back Into society and have a steam yacht and do things comfortably. Now, without this quarter of a mlUion, which is lying ready to be pioked up, you have £200 a yoar, and I have £300, which makes £500 in all. Now, I might point out to you that one can't do much continuous splashing among smart people on that, in London or anywhere else, unless, of course, you married some one olse." FATAL ACCIOKNT AT AVOCA. "I didn't- 6ay anything." "You Bald "Ah,' Patrick, and that meant you thought n lot besides." A Toting Barber's Bead Cat Off by ■ Coal WINDISH'S DEATH WAKBiNT. They got up together and strolled wearlly over the loose white sand and then more crisply over the worn decking of the pier. Between the lightning Hashes the darkness above them was the darkness of a cave, but faint phosphorescent fringes showed out among the piles beneath, and these guidod them from walking over tho edge of the planks, Train "Quite right, 1 did. It had never quite struck nuD till then that you were a completely grownup young woman now and might any day see a mnn to go into permanent partnership with. It's a bit of a Jar—I mean it comes oddly to one at first to think of you as married, Klsic." Last Friday »fterno Dn, P itrick Tougher, unmarried, aged about 21, a barber la West Avoca, was Ins'aotly killed by a train en the Lehigh Valley branch at Avooa colliery. Tongher, it seems, had orawled under the coal oars and gone to sleep. When the train started np, his head was severed from the body. Coroner MoKee, having gone to Avoca on another case, Wis on band. Read to the Condemned Han by the Slier- , Iff Saturday Morning. "Probably she has done," s-iid Robinion grimly. "From what ho said, her father was quite resigned to your loss be foro he left here." The death warrant of murderer George Windish was reoeived by Sheriff Martin from Harrisbnrg Friday afternoon, ani was read to the condemned man in tbe prison offiae this morning bf tbe Sheriff. Windish was the eooleet man in the place, and took the matter lightly, remarking that it was a pity to waste so mnch good paper. He said farther that he wonld rather be hanged than-spend "twenty years in prison. "My prospective fathcr-ln-law was sordid. Ho couldn't appreciate a gentleman. Now, Mabel's papa Is In a bottor land, and, by Jovel that's a great point In he* favor. I never could stand paternal advice. " ''Shoo—fish—Pot, get up and drivo that humming bird awny. Ho won't go for me, greedy little beast, and if ho stays any longer I know he'll overeat himself. Well, you'd letter liraco yourself up for a blow, because married I mean to I to some day. Who knows hut what you'll boat ino in the race?" "You shouldn't stay down there this weather," ("a in be I said as they paced down tho narrow platfonn with fingers intertwined. "'You'll Jose your color and your beauty if you do »nd get thin and sallow like Mrs. Van Llew." Sho flushed pnlnfully. " Pat!" she said, "I don't think I ileservod that from you." C He dropped his arms round her And drew hor to him tendorly. "No, doar, yon didn't. I was a brute. But it's hard for a man to speak soberly when he's just had all his plans sniashod to the smallest kind of fragments and stamped upon by tho only person In the world whose opinion ho cares a rap about. Of course I know all this business was a theft, a pieco of piracy pure and simple. But circumstances elbowed mo into it, and I bowed my head to them. Circumstances—you, that is, and you entirely—now drag mo out of it, and I'm going to bow again and say 'kismet.' Only I wonder what will becomo of tho monoy. I swear Shelf shan't havo the whole half million and tho steamer too. But I don't see how we aro to givo my sharo back to the rightful owners. Ono can't very well draw a check on the Rverglades and send It to them anonymously by post." "A man's impelling motive is not always under his own hat," he overheard some one saying as they passed him, and ho applied the words to himself, and when he remembered tho ruthless extravagance which no words or entreaties of his own could stay, and which alone—so ho be lievod—had forced him into knavery, hn felt that social death was a poor requital to tho woman who had worked his ruin. A kntfo was more her due. And yet—and yet 6ho was such a monstrous fine woman and so thoroughly clever in tho rolo she had set herself to play! *'Yon eocm to bo mnklng pretty sure of getting the lady." "I'm not at nil sure, but I want to find out how the land lies. And, by Jove, clever thought! I know how to do It! I'll go to Cambol after dinner and toll him I'm going to call on Mrs. Duvernay tomorrow nnd offer to take him down thero In my dugout. I shall soon see what hli game Is. If he's' after her still, he'll look jealous nnd trust me for seeing, and If he Isn't, why, It's a walk over." No reply came, and Camhel said nothing more, but walked on, thinking. SUDDEN UK \TH AT ATOCA "You've bt«o here now nine wholo. days, Pat," the girl said, breaking silencn for the second time, when they were half n mile from the shore. Maggie Murphy, • Well Known Tonne For County Treasurer. ( WilfceaMrre Ricord. )' "W'by not? When Duvoruay di«d, Mn bel lxCcaino a widow." Lady, 1'aues Away. Miss M*ggie Marpby, a well known young lady of Wtet Avooa, di»d very sudlenly April 16'h. S*h? left her home to seek employment at the alike mill, and ap on not securing any returned to her homa. Shortly after reaching there she was seized with a violent headache and pa°sed away within a very short time after. L C. Dart«, o! Kiigscon, la a candidate for ihe offioe of county treasurer. There are several candidates already named in connection with the offi ;e of oounty treasarer Mr Darte is personally poonlar and the Republican masses in the county have i»reat confidence in him, as he is a man to be relied upon in every way. That, ' sajtl Cniiilx'l, "Js tho usual se "It can't be. Yes, you're right. Nino days! Time has gone quickly." Onco thorowas a slight lull In the blast of the gale, nnil tho driven out waters of tho shore l)opau to return and swirled kneo hiprh about the two who were taking refuge at the foot of the pile. qucncn of o%flits." 'You know fhti never wanted to marry One by one tho boxes wore raised on tho gunwale and launched with a sullen plunge, and It seemed an age before the foul Kindling bubbles camu up to tell that they had sounded bottom. And then away back for another locd. And then for a third. Tho Inky oovcring closed over ai:, and not so much as a splinter from one of the boxes floated on the surface. Aim." And you'vo never been out of the place oncc. At least not n dozen miles from Point Sebastian." '•So I wng l.'d to understand some flvp ynars back. Yot marry him #ho did nevertheless, unci that lifter tlu«- publication of banns. , I miuht. remark, Klsie, that thut liummmg hiril yon wero interested In is still K'»'ginK himself out of those red flow crs just on tho other side of you." '"Come," said Cambei, taking thiD girl by the hand, ''we must run for it." And ho led the way Utachward, blundering through piled up pounds of wreckage, while the stinging spindrift swirled around their heads and hit them upon the faro liko whips. But a llylngmissile from out of the inky blackness struck him on tho curve of the temple before he had gone with her 20 yards, and tho grip of his lingers loosened, and he swayed and fell without a word. The girl threw herself on his body, wailing that ho was killed and that sho, too, would sthy theqj and die, but a wild hope seized her that ho might bo only stunned, and she took his iHtdy in her arms, and half dragging, half carrying, began to go with him once more by tedious Inches toward tho beach "All the snmc " remarked his other friend, "I don't think I'd—ar—bet very long odds on you, old chappie. There's nothing certain In this life, and widows are apt—ar—to keep a fellow dangling till a fellow gets tired. Finished? Then let's go to the bar and throw for liqueur*. Mine's crome de menthe." Mrs. Duvcrnay'a place wag IS miles away. Cambel saw the point. "No," ha said. "X haven't found time. You and I have had so much to tell one another." It certainly was a gorgeous assembly, not jnade up exclusively of the vi ry lDest people perhaps, though many of them wore there, but it looked wealth unspeakable. Men in evening dress cannot show this. If they fail to appear like waiters, Uiat Is the utmost they can expect. But the womon! They carried it on tlieii shoulders and backs, as they have dona since tho beginning of time. Their dresses wore a dream of cost and loveliness, theii jowolry a chain of rainbows. It U truthfully said of him that be has done political pork for other people ia every camp ilgn during the past fifteen or twenty ye.rs, and little for himself personally. L 0. D irte la a reliable and successful business man and if popularity, integrity and probity count for anything whatever in polltioa, his chances for filling the offija of cianty treasurer of Luzerne con ity are firsSclass, indeed. Small fear of any one raiding that cache, Canibel thought, and two days later, with a cloar mind, ho was cabling ' Right!" to Theodore Shelf from the Western Union Telegraph company's office in the hotel hali at Point Sebastian. "We always have been very good friends," said the girl and was going to add something else when her words were drowned by a furious crash of thunder. Death of George XV. Munnlng: "Somn creatures never know when to Btop. Now, 1 do," Kniil Miss Kihlnre. "That's the liel! for dinner. I mu«t go and tidy myself-" George W. Manning died at hie.home 03 GIddtngs street, Wednesday, April 15, at four o'clock. Three weeks ago he ws« taken 111 with pneumonia and since then be has been In a critical condition, ontil death cam1) to relieve him from his enff wrings. Daceued wis born in Greenwood township fifty-six ya-i ago and for the past thirteen years h«d been employed by J. E. Patterson & Cj In this city. He wis well known and highly esteemed. He Is survived by his wife and the following sons, well known residents of this city : J. (J., of the firm of Manning and McGrind'e ; Harry F and George P , *h D are em ployed as painters. Besides these, he Is survived by twi brothers, H. D., of Bloomsburg, and W L., of R Dohester, N 7. and one sifter, Mrs. Adam Utt, Rohrs burg, Pa. "That's close overhead," Cambel remarked, 'and something else will follow. If it's rain, we shall have a deluge frilling in ropes, but I fancy we're In for something different. We had better turn back, Elsie." Mr Kent-Williams, a younjr Kentlwnnn of Knglnni] who was throwing poker (lit* nt the bar with two friends for anteprandial cocktail*, whs looking nt tlio subject from a different CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XIX. MB. SHELF'S LITTI-E SURPRISE. Now the great rambling wooden hotel in which Miss Klaio Kildare was staying under coro of licr friends, tho Van Llews, though on tho end of a telegraph wire nnd within easy day's steam of n railroad, was not particularly far in crows' flight from that uu&harted rivor where the Port Kdes lay strflTided on a sand bar. The hotel, in fact, backud upon the Kverglades and faced the blue crisping waters of the Mexican gulf. At one side of it was a plantation of sisal hemp, and beyond that thickets of sawgrass, and beyond again cypress treos and cabbage palms sprouting from an undergrowth which was bound into an impenetrable cheval dp frlse with waita-bit thorn. At the other sido were newly planted umbrella trees, two decrepit orange bushes without fruit, 30 luxuriant clumps of elephants' ears, nnd then straggles of palmetto scrub, right down to tho soft white hanks of gulf snnd. Beyond was clear blue water with a rickety wooden wharf straddling a mile out into it like some uncouth gray legged centlped. And beneath the water dented, rusty food cans grew intimate with the coral polyp. at point Sebastian. Now, modern scienoe enables us to cry a messago by wire round half the earth at brtsakfast timo and have an answer returned to us before tho gong sounds foi luncheon, and it was in anticipation of i quick exchange of news like this thai CamlDel had come to the nearest outposi of civilization. Mr. Theodore Shelf hnd reached the end of his tether, and like a shrewd business man he knew it. '•Oh Lord!" said ono young mnn with prodatory instincts who propped a wall, "why aren't I a practicing bushranger just now? There's some of the finest diamonds here in all the world, and two Johnnies with pistols could stick up tho whole house. Why's England such a beastly safe place? If there was a hard wooden chair anywhero hore to sit on and think, I boliove I'd turn anarchist on tho spot." coign of view. Hewas a young gentleman who ha«l nut made a conspicuous tumxm of himself in Kngland ami had been deported to Florida with a view to extracting a fortune from orange growing. As on reaching the spot he found this was difTicuIt of achievement, he wisely did not worry his hrain with any vain attempts, hut was content with living in inexpen dive retirement for ninetec.n-twentietha of each quarter and blossoming out during the remain Ins days in riotous living on the allowance which reached him from home. And with him wertf two others who had lieen Roftly nurtured atid who wero also taking their quarterly nip of semlcivi'ization. *'In view of this heat, a wetting would be a distinct luxury, but I think, as you say, there is something else doming besides. Oh, Pat, here It is. Kun, or wo shall be caught!" Thcro ia a cortnln mad cxcltemcnt in staining on a high lodge of an  when the stops which you hnvo clambered u,D CDj nikve itpiintoroa «way una wo nandred foot cliffs above aro threatening every instant to descend in crashing avalanche. You know you have to jump into the cold green waters below or bo crushed out of existence, and lingering to the very last second Is not without its fierce pleasure. The dive is chilly, the waters beneath unknown, final escape most hazardous. Hut It is not thoso things which stay you. It is the nearness of the crash bohiud, and that Is fascinating lDeyond all words. A Good Coal Find Near Shickahlnny The Cadwallader coal traot j lining the Salem Coal 0D.'e lands jnat below ths Shicka'iinny borough line, has proven to be a rich find. Men have been at woTk for a week or ten days driving a tnnnel through the lowar or third vein, and have found five feet of excellent cial, free from Ho had hidden his £500,000 of gold, re leased the two men in thecbartronm, with instructions thnt when they felt Inclined or sufficiently recovered for work they should, with the negroes, help set about transforming the steamer's apituarance, and afterward had made his way, partly overland by an Indian's path he knew of, partly in dugout through lagoon and bayou, to Point Sebastian. The storm gave but one weird inonn, n rustle and a shriek (runt over the tree tops and then was upon them. In n minute It was blowing with ahurrlonuo force which no human being oould stand against. Then the cyclone burst out afresh with all tho torrvnt of its fury, and to move or even stand against the wind was a thins iin]Missblo. The girl and her burden* wore flung heavily to the ground, and a mass of driving wreckage slid above them and pressed them down. "Oh, Put, l'at," she cried. "I did so want to live with you, and now we must both die hero!" The wind plucked the feet from under them, and they fell to tho decking of the pier, gripping with their lingers In the gaps between the planks. A storm of ssind and leaves and twigs beat against their heads. The crazy trestlework of the pier buckled and swung beneath tb3lr bodies. "Don't reduce tho crowd to £. s. d.," said a fellow prop. "It spoils the poetry of the thing. Now I And them good enough to look ut." bone and slate. Operations on th« second vein, thns far, give promise of even a richer yield than the third. The tract oovers nearly 2T0 aores and is being proved by C. R Stauflbr, William Fanlds and several other local capitalists. Threo terrible hours more they spoilt there, tho girl expecting violent death to fall on her overy next second, tho man in her arms gradually returning to consciousness. And then, like nn organ whoso wind chamber has emptied itself, tho cyclone suddonlyCdropped its voice. It had nrisorii in a minute to the full of its strength, and i» » single minute it lulled to a (breathless calm leaving the air scoured and sweet und the land a tangled desert. Tho sea alone remembered its lash ing ftctlvrly and fumed in n swell of sullen ivijesty in its d«*per parts and sent its angry waters hack iu rippling surf on to those shallow western beaches from which it had l«*en so ruthlessly cvh ted. He not a return inoHHflRO, it la true, but not boforo noon on the following day. It said: "Take no stups. Am writing," and aeemed to hint at a change of plan. "Never said they weren't," rojoined tho other. "Only thiiiR is they aren't mine. Now I could Clo very well with the lot of Mr. Shelf wf i in n similar position. He knew that his commercial ledge was growing more and more dangerous every minute by reason of the law of the land which loomed above liiin, and yet for tho life of him ho could not tear himself away. Ho had waiting for him that snug hacienda on the banks of the Klo Paraguay which ho had time before made ready against a possible cataclysm, but it was left to wait. The excitement of lingering on in London was meat and drink to him. llis daring would bo spoken about afterward, and though he might not be blessed, it is true, still ho would not be forgotten. That last was |Dorhaps the chief reason which made him stay on. Tho vanity of tho man was colossal. Ho had been tickled by the improving young men, he had been tickled in his talDcrnacle, he had been tickled by a parliamentary constituency, but these did not glut him. He wanted more, far more, and if he could not distinsnish himself in tbe way fete Died at » Ripe Old Age. "We must get shoreward," Cam Ixl yelled In his companion's ear. "This jam crack tiling will go by the board directly." them." Mrs. Caroline Brown, after a long end useful life, passfd peacefully away la«t Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A,. R Harris, In Scranton. Mru Brown hsd been in 111 health for some time and her death ww not entirely unexpected. She was eighty years old, and to the infirmities of age chltfl may be attributed her decease. Mrs Brown was a native of Germany. Most of her married life was spent in New York, but upon the death of her husbaud. she ci-me to Pltteton and made her home for a number of years with her son, A B Brown The past year she had spent with her daughter In 8oran ton. The following sons and daughters survive: Mrs. A. B Harris and Moeea Brown, of Scranton; A B 1: own, Albert Brown and kin. A. Uompem of this city. '"I tell you," snM Mr. KC'nt Williams, "she's a clinking lino specimen, that Kildare girl, nIU'D '»y Jove! I ought to Imi a judge if any one in now here. Ijook—three sevens, first shot! Good! I'll keop these and seo if I can't rattle out another. She'll go to England and mnrry a duke as euro as fits, don't you know. 1 wonder If Camhel will hitch onto the other sister. ]Dioks like It, his coming hero after the Duvernay lusast turned up his toes. I never could stand Duvernay. Not a varsity man, don't you know, and hadn't been anywhere to school. Simply a hit of money and thought he could swagger on that. By Jove! two bullets. That makes mo a full house, and I'll stand on it. Collar the box, Willie, dear boy, und teat me If you can." In another place he might have resented the delay. At least 11 days must pass, and probably more, lDefore a letter could reach him, and all the while he would be condemned to inuction and anxiety. But as it was he read Mr. Theodore Shelf'a reply cablegram with a frown which wan quite evanescent and felt a mild satisfaction in the respite. In the Afternoon he took out Miss Kildare to fish for tarpon. "This Isn't Turkry," said his frlenil roprovingly"Right o!" came back the responso cheerily enough, and together they liegan to warp themselves toward the beach and the wind, plank at a tliue. The girl was strong and accustomed to using her muscles, but skirt* are a poor rig to play caterpillar In, and her progress was slow oven with Cambel's help. When thry had gained a score of yards, she bade him leave her to make the best of his own way. "I shall get along all right," she orled. '"Go and tell them I'm coming." "Oh, not the women. I'vogotone wife, and she's enough for inc. But I'd like tlia drosses. And the diamonds. I'd sell 'em secondhand and rioton the proceeds. Talking of sales, oomeand find some burgundy cup." Democratic State Delegates. Tae Lnz Crne deleg-.t« to the D moc ratio St»te Convention have been selected »nd are as follows: First district, John T. Lenaban, John IfoQahren, E F. Boiert; Second, W. I Hibbs and Bobert Hutching; Tnird, John Sm~Dnlter, Jr., Thomas B Phillips; Fourth, Harry W. J icobs, Michael Failon, Hngh Shovlin ; Fifth, C F Bohan, P. F. Joyoe, H. B. McDonald ; Sixth, Dr. S. W. Trimmer, Hon. P. F Ctffrey. In winter time Point Sebastian wns n resting place for n.ibobs of the north, nnrl a congregation spot for thorn delightful American women who leave a convenient husband at work elsewhere on the dollar mill. Hut in the warmer month those worthy people, did their pleasure living at the seabenchcs of the north or the hotels of the Alleghanies, and the resthouse at Point Seliastian locked and covered most of its glories. The Floridlan who stays in Florida all summer does so usually because of a tightness in the exchequer, and for the few of him who came to dissipate * small but bardlv serened ud hoard in a They wont away from tho ballroom, passing down tho lirond shallow stairway, and were going to cross the hall when a man stopped them and told them the way was closed. By one of those singular chanoes which occur every century or bo a tarpon they did actually cntch on that first day of fishing—a 80 pound monster, with glittering silver scales on him as big as dollars, who gavo three hours' frantic fight before he turned his belly to the skies and submitted to traveling Iteachward in the boat. It was from thin l ist returning tidnl wave that the final danger came, Init tiio two under that pil "Naturally I should," he shouted back, with a laugh. "Here, let me link my nrm inside yours. That's right. Now we'll ferry along at twice the pace." f wreck tro managed "What's the niattor? Has there boon an accident f" to slip from beneath 4ho wood when the waters loosened it mul to run in the breaking dawn to the higher ground beyond. They wero bruised, both of them, and Ciimbei was bleeding from a jugged eut on Uto bead; but, after all, their hurts were "Well, perhaps it might bo an accident, air. "Han't for mo to 9ay." "Who tho devil nre you anyway?" "A member of the metropolitan police forcn «lr! a plain clothes man, at '-"»r "We got him botwtien us," said Miss Kildaro. "That's my first, and I've tried fo» him Mntoo Ant nf nninhflf "  But they did not get much farther. A minute afterward, to the kick of a hard •ouaU. the gray old pier tottered and elafc «■ — p HOOD'S PIIjLs cure Liver Ills, Biliousness, Indigestion. Headache. A pleasant laxative. All Dnmut» "No," said Willie, scooping the dice Into the leather box and thoughtfully atlr*— — ConelndMl on Page 4