Pittston Gazette

              K-STABIil«ItED18IIO. » vol.. XI.VI. NO. 38 t Oldest Newspaper in the w»oming Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., "HA., FRIDAY. MAY I, 1896. A Weekly local and Family Journal. . {"-SSZ&lSiS Luck of the I "Captain Stephen," cried Mehetabel, ' boldly lifting her glass, "Success to the | Susan Bell. And," she whispered, glancing at his averted face, "a speedy and a happy return." So she drank off the whole glass, and replaced it on the table. But the young captain, recipient of so many gifts aud good wishes, Still hung his head, and looked, as one may say, little better than a fool. "And now, frienils." said the owner, "we must get over the side, unless we would be carried to Baffin's Bay, and spend the winter, perhaps, on the coast of Labrador." There stood apart on the qnay, as bo! longing neither to the richer class nor to the craftsmen, a girl of eighteen or nineteen. She was accompanied by an old negress, who crouched on the ground at her feet. The girl stood quite still; she kept her eyes fixed upon tbf ' ip w •D-h * wistful, longing look. She v as I'reweia simply, with a russet wanned all the nouso. Beside the house were farm buildings, pigsties and poultry; and in the farmyard moved heavily Jonathan Burne, Ruth's brother, the farmer. "Call your mistress," said Mehetabel. "Why," the old woman chuckled, the negro's irrepressible chuckle, "if it isn't Miss Mehetabel I What you want with Miss Ruth?" witch is commonly Believed to hold it as but unchristian folly. slightly on one side, as, with the preacher, he critically divided the word. I THE SPHIKt BROOK VALLhY. Roberta, G. R Bedford, John Grahaoi, B. M Espy, A. J. Davis, A. H. VanHorn, Roger Mclarry, H. W Palmer, A' ram Neebltt, H. H. Harvey, W. P. Ryman, A. H McOlictock, Morgan R. Morgan, Isaac Long, Walter Roberts, Benjamin F. WU-1 ami, William Williams, J. B. Davenport. Prom Plymouth—J. A. 0,Dp, J. B. Smith, Edwin Davenport, Peter Sbnpp, W. L McKenm, representing Redmond, Kerr & Co., of New York. TWENTY YEARS APIECE. What could be more comfortable? But still the cold doubt returned and the terror. Then Mehetabel bethought her of the wise woman. There is always a wne woman. She of Nantucket was also, the herb doctor; she lived alone in a cottage full of shelves and drawers and cupboards, which were stuffed with the herbs used in her profession, wherein she was skillfnl—and it was whispered that she sometimes practiced with the cards, which might bring her into trouble. Suddenly the door flew open, and a man flew up the aisle, terror and haste stamped upon his face, and whispered to Captain Waite, who, for his part, sprang to his feet, and leaving his gold laced hat and his gold.headed stick in the pew, ran out of the church with as much rapidity as can be expected when one is 60 and corpulent. "SsJ|L  3$5us^nE Invaded by a Jolly Company Last Stiff Sentences for the Hazleton Italian Gang. ell It was seven in the morning, anil the moor was still wet with the dews or the rain of the night. The snn was high, but the midst had not yet cleared away. Now, •!)«hold! the summer mists of Nantucket whenever they arrive, which is often, always work a miracle, which is unregarded. For in this part of the island there are hills and valleys, steep hills and deep valleys. To be sure the hills are not, any of them, more than a hundred feet high, and the valleys are not, any of them, deeper than the feet of the hills, yet, when the light, feathery mists of June fall upon them, they seem to grow higher; higher, higher; and the valleys grow deeper, deeper, deeper, so that, t~ an Englishman, they show like unto the hilLs and combs on the edge of Dartmoor, except that they have no trees. "What does that matter to you? Tell her 1 have come here to speak to her." The old woman chuckled again. "Ho!" she Raid; "come to tell her 'bout her young man, Cap'n Will? T'ink you done got him, eh? Hoi ho!" Friday. GUESTS OF THE NEW SUPPLY CO- JUDGE WOODWARD HAD NO MERCY, "You insolent old woman! dare you speak to me?" How An Ingpectton of tbe Fine Gronnda and Two of the Gang Moat Spent Twenty-live Tears In tbe Penitentiary-The WanMl Murder Oaae Neartng the End—A Light Sentence for Selling Liquor on Sunday, T"' D1 "Not done got him yet; not yet—not yet—not yet—not yet," related the old crone, in a kind of Georgian chant—self taught, because she knew nothing of St. Gregory. A whisper ran from pew to pew. With one accord the men arose and left the church. And then there was heard outside the tramping of many feet, and a confused, half hushed tumult of voices which in a week day would have been loud cries and peremptory orders, and a dreadful roaring, crackling, as of pistol shots, and a hissing; and through the open windows of the church were borne black particles and a smell as of a bon fire. The women whispered and caught each other by the hand; the girls wanted to shriek; the boys wriggled and twisted in their seats. Two persons in the church alone paid no attention; the preacher, who went on dividing the word from a bulky manuscript—some members, otherwise Christian folk, thought him too learned for Nantucket —and Mahetabel Waite, who sat un moved, as if she were above earthly con siderations while the voice of the divine was speaking. Keaervolrs Followed by an Klaborata From Pittston—Thomas Ford, Wm. 8. Simpson, A. A Bryden, Alexander Craig, G. F. Anthony, Thomas Monte, 8. B. Bennett, John B. Law and 9. M. Parke. Spread, and the Whole a Royal Kuter- To her, in the evening after dark, Mehetabel repaired. The herb doctor was alone: a middle-aged, keen faced, snarp-eyea woman. sne ioci:ea inn door when the girl entered. "Is it you. Miss Mehetabel?" she asked. "What brings you here?" talnment. List Friday was the Spring Brook Water Supply Company's day on*, and to say that the excursion np the 8priDg Brook Valley, nnder the management of this company's D ffi lals, was a success Is but faintly expressing it. The s ffair was arranged for the purpose of giving a company of representative business men of the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valleys and, through them, the pnbllo generally, an opportunity of.lnsptcting the company's magnificent supply of water. While the day was Slightly oool frr th« trip, it detracted little from tbe keen ei joyment of the oocaslon. Wilkksrarrk, Pa., April 25. From Scranton—Harry P. Slmjaon, A. H. Christy, J L Crawford, 0. d. Zshnder, C 8. Weston, Benjamin Harris, Thomas D. D»le, J. J Jetmyn, E. D Jenkins, W. G. Parke, A. H Storrs, William 0. Monle, James 8. McClue, R G Brooks aiid E 0. Fnller. The three Italians, Jos. Pasarella, James Oarone and Michael Spere, who were convicted yesterday of arson and felonious wounling, received their sentences this morning. Judge Woodward made a few forcible remarks concerning the horrible nature of tbelr crime and sentenced the defendants to pay floes aggregating $4,000, pay the costs of prosecution and undergo an imprisonment in the State penitentiary for the term of twenty years each. Pasarella and Oarone had been previously sentenced to five years imprisonment for robbery, and today's additional sentence makes their terms twenty-five years each, rhey were very much disheartened when returned to jalL -• "The woman's mad! Where is your mistress?" Mehetable pushed into the groat keeping room of the farmhouse— kitchen, dining room, parlor, workroom, everything. "Ruth!" she called. "Ruth! where are you?" The wise woman produced a pack of cards. "You know," she said, "these things are forbidden Yet . . . tell "I want to ask you a question." CHATTER L The Quay of Nantucket Port was U Wt nbbon about her neck, crowds. Not with a noisy throng; « ** aat. and cotton gloves white the better sort of Nantucket Island but notf hlte M th« an"8 they leuft were there ; the captains, the part uncovered between the wrist and the proprietors and the shareholders of the third finger beneath bar whaling fleet. Their' dignity forbade gloye a ring was visible, and this V,ng noise. They stood togetUar with their , tlle girl kept feeling, as if to make sure ■wives ai d Jaufnters, conversing grave- that lt; was stl11 there. When she ly-in the year 1790 there was not on I looked round she showed a face of tiiis island, whatever you might find in sweetness, with soft hazel eyes Boston, much idle discourse or crack- 1411(1 hght brown hair not feather), ling laughter, even among the yoUng, but lying m a solid mass upon her head, partly on account of the deplorable un- "Nurse, she whispered; they are certainty as regards the next world, running about; there is the bo*us partly on account of the unreliable whistle; they are going to weigh the habits of the Right Arctic Whale, who ;lnC; r" Shall LTs?f lrrl 0 8 cannot be depended on to go where he sillls' Captain Waite is getting over is sure to be harpooned. The Susan the side. Bell was now ready for her voyage; "Sho, child. He 11 be on de quartershe would weigh anchor immediately, dock, great and grand. and was bound for Baffin's Bay, the Then- to the shrill whistle of the last of the whaling fleet which that bo's'n's pipe and the \ eo heave- oh! of year set sail from Nantucket Island. ' the men, the anchor was weighed. A new ship, only three years old; but They ran out upon the yards and shook sha had already the reputation of be- • OQt the sails, an 1 the ship began to ing a lucky ship. j move—slowly at first, but more quickly As for the ship's company, they were j88 the 84118 filled out 81111 she felt all, without exception, Nantucket men; young fellows, lusty, and in good heart; they leaned over the bulwarks and exchanged last greetings with their friends on the quay; now and then one lifted up his voice and sang a verse of a sea song; and in the forecastle was a fiddler ready to cheer up those, if any, who were in the dumps, "It jes' 'minds me," croaked the old woman, "of a young lady in Car Tina long ago. Tried to take 'nother gal's man, she did. Den misfortuues came— oh! terrible misfortunes. T'ought dey would never stop. Money done gone, friends done gone, eberything done gone. An' she nebber got dat man. T'ink upon dat Car'lina gal. Missy Mehetable. Oh! she was berry fine and gran"—like you; jes' like you. Tried to take 'noder gal's young sweetheart. Jes' like you. Dretfull bad luck she had. Jes' like you, jes' like you!" There was no answer. The newspaper men were Llvy 8. Richard, Scranton Tribune; G. M. Wilner, Pittston Item; B H. Pratt, Scranton Republican-, Llddon Flick, Wllkesbarre*! imes; J. S. Sanders, Wllkesbarre Telephone-, Dr F O. Johnson, Wllkesbarre Record; Richard Beamish, Scranton Free Press, and Theo. Hart and 0. J Coward, of the GAZETTESuddenly, as Ruth looked—to be rare, the phenomenon was thrown away upon her—the mist cleared away; it did not. roll away or fly upwards, it simply vanished. Then the hills and the valleys resumed their true appearance, only that the tiny hills looked as if they had been designed for lofty mountains, and the little combs looked as if they had been modeled on Alpine valleys.me what is your question?" "I fear misfortune." down before Mehetabel sat '"What misfortune?" "Indeed, I know not; tell me if mis fortune is coming." The herbalist laid out the cards and studied their reply; three times she dealt them out; three times she studied them. The party, which included officials cf th" Spring Brook Company, stockholders, tews paper men and friends, numbering in *11 about seventy people, met at Mooelc, be del gation from the lower end reaching there on a special train, and those from Scran ton and vicinity coming on eleotrlo oars. Arriving C.t Mocsio a long line of ooaches was In waiting, and after becoming orm fort ably seattd In these, they were driven over the roo'e mapped oat, a somewhat rough, but, in the summer, very delight ul road, winding in.and out with the stream and up and down with the traversed bills a distance of some eight mtlee to the 'ntrance of the broad water shed which 'he company has purchased, embracing over fifty-three square miles, an area surely protective of the upper waters against contamination This was the first time a procession of thii kind had tver driven through the sparsely populated region, and the few people mst along the line gazed with awed arprlse at the spectacle presents. . "Well?" asked Mehetabel. "The cards are threatening; they promise misfortune." THE REFORM LEGISLATION. The trial of Peter Waaail la nearly finlahtd. The defense called several-wltneesee this morning who testified that Waaail was In hie own house at fifteen minntea past' Ruth had been up for nearly three hours; she had milked the cows, made the breakfast, washed up and clearedaway the things, and she wanted to be alone. Therefore she plunged into the moorland among the hills, the lonely moor, whither no one ever except herself. Hither she came, when she was happy, to sing and bask in her happiness ; hither she came, when she was unhappy, to sit quite still, and give herself wholly to her misery. This morning she was just as miserable as any girl can wish to be. I believe that she was in reality wrapt in meditation upon a certain gal lant sailor, and upon the things that she would bring him; her face and her wealth, her dignity and her position; and on the faithful lifelong service that she would receive in return—a beatific vision. Composition of the Four Bills Endorsed Mehetabel turned pale. An old, withered, wrinkled, gray wooled negress shaking lier head and" her forefinger with horrid warnings is a terrifying thing. Then she remembered that to be afraid of au old black woman was undignified, and she rallied. "Oh!" Mehetabel got up. "If it comes, it comifi. Are there witches in Nantucket?" by tlie Convention. Habbibbubg, Pa., April 28 —The reform legislation framed by Senator Qaay's special committee and endorsed by the convention today la as follows : twelve on the night Erupt rsavage waa shot and that whan he came home he waa bleeding from a gaah on his forehead. Waaail claims he waa at home and in bed on the 14th of January by half-paat twelve, whloh was some time b afore the murder waa committed, and that be knows nothing abont it. He aays he received the cat on hla head during a fight with some man who attacked him in Tdphey's saloon. The evidence waa all In at eleven o'clook and Mr. Waid Immediately commenced his address to the jury for the defendant. He hid not finished at half-past twelve. The case will probably reach the jnry this afternoon. "There are no witches in America Once there were; they killed some and frightened some, and the secrets died." At last they came out. Captain Waite's house was a hundred yards up the street, standing alone. Good heavens! A column of smoke rose from one side of it, wreathing in the still air of the hot July morning up to the blue sky, which it smirched and spoiled. Two long lines of men, heated, steaming, black with smoke, stretched from the hose to the port. They passed buckets of water from hand to hand, so that a continuous stream fell hissing on the flame. "Lord knows what witches could do— "Could witches bring misfortune?" The first and longest bill, consisting of 'twenty one seotions, Is "an act to create and establish the civil servlcs of the eommonwealth and of ths cities thereof and of oonntles confining over 150,000 inhabitants, and to provide penalties for its violation.'' Under this act the g jvernor is Authorized to appoint three persons, civil service otm nlss,oners, wao shall hold of fice one, two and three years respectively from the first day of July next, and on or before the first day of Jnoe tiereafUr appoint one person to serve for three years. Not more than two commissioneis shall be members of the satne political party They shall receive a salary, but the amount is not stlpnlated. The commts sloners shall classify all the salaried offices in the State, and shall prepare rales and regulations, subject to the approval of the governor and nuke an annual report to the governor. The fourth section of the proposed act indicates the oharaoter of the rules whloh the commission shall adopt There must be opsn competitive examlna dons, and selections must be made from those 'aking the highest grade. Pro motions shall bs made upon ths basis of merit and oomptthlon, preference being given to those who served In the army or navy. Even laborers are required to be examined as to their ability to perform the duties. Copies of the rules must be published and distributed. There ehall be a chief examiner who shall have a saoretary and eubardlnate eximlners, who shall reoelve |5 a day compensation. The natnee of all persons appointed as examiners must bajmblished. • CIVIL SERVICE BILL. Call your mistress, I say." or could not. Because, you see, no one knew except themselves, and they mostly bragged. Don't be afraid—there's no witches in Nantucket—and none to hurt you. if tlie»e were." "Little misfortune first; baby misfortune. Not of any 'count. Den de big ones come. Ah! JP1 ! gracious Lord! how big. Eberythmg dun gone. First on t'ing, den anudder. Den you cry out. Ah! Den you pray and cry. Ah? Go home. Missy Mehetabel, go home. Not done got him yet. Not yet—not yet—not yet," she repeated in her GtDozgian chant. The moor is covered with a dwarf shrub, which grows low, clinging to the ground as if on a wind-swept plateau of great altitude. Everything on Nantucket pretends to belong to a mountainous country, the air is fresh and keen, and whistles in your ears; on the little liills one feels as if upon a mountain side; and the ponds and lakes of which there are many scattered about the moor, are like mountain tarns, aB deep and as tdack. Ruth climeu the little hill before her and stopped for a moment on the top. She turned, from habit, to look at her brother's farm lying at hor feet; an unprofitable farm producing scanty crops from a sandy and unwilling soil; but the Nantucket farmers regarded his sheep, his turkeys, his ducks and his poultry more than his crops. The cultivated ground lay along the edge of a low cliff; beyond the cliff was a florid, or inlet of the sea, a lovely sheet of water ae beautiful in the sunshine as if it belonged to the Mediterranean, branching out into a dozen smaller creeks. On the other side of the farm lay a black lake; it had no flowers upon it, no reeds in its shallows, no birds on its waters, no boat on its banks; it looked as lonely and as desolate as a lake in the heart of the Welsh mountains. Mehetabel went home only moderately consoled. Perhaps what followed soon after this consultation was itself a misfortune. You shall judge for yourself. Before that fearfully wagging head and that shaking forefinger, Mehetabelactually retreated. When the old woman finished her chant, Mehetabel was outside the door. She turned and walked back, with as much dignity as circumstances permitted, to her carriage. This was an unexpected reception. She had intended, she now said to herself, to present herself to this girl Ruth as the fiancee of the man who was to Ruth a brother. She had wished to ma,ke a sister—a younger sister, a humble sister—of her. Now, of course, after such rudeness, kindness was out of the question. Dear Will himself would perfectly understand. Mehetabel went forth in the afternoon when the sun grew low to take the fresh air of the quay, followed by her negro boy carrying her fan. "Never fear, madam," said one of the mea, as Mehetabel gazed in dismay up•»n the wreck. "We've got the flames under; one-half of the house will be saved.' The argument on the application for the incorporation of Dupont as a borough, which was set down for this morning, waa continued until the next term of eourt, and meanwhile depositions will be taken. At the t *rminus of the routa the party alighted from their carriage* and took in the majnlfioent view presented from this point. They wandered about, or from carefully se'ecfed standpoints viewed the l»y of the lanCt, ai d it r« quired but a few momenta to determ ne that the spot was well chosen, and the wonder was expressed hat it had not before been utiliz-4 to the vast extent now contemplated. The main stream the Spring Brook, Is entered at this point by aLother large feeder, Green Ran, tnd there are in this Immediate vicinity, several streams that ga .her their oontribu- Mons into the main one, and drain a wide expanse of terr tjry. The entire valley of '.he Spring Brook is susceptible, all along he stream, of economic reeeivolring, and here seems no limit to the storage capacity of the bdj*cent hillside and tht nature of the soil is snch that It oannot oot t minate the stored supply. This 53 qqare miles alone, at the upper end, will produce one billion galiona of water, and operations are already under way to store tbat billion for any emergency, and to put it within reach of two hundred thousand families by meaas of vast pipes varying rom 42 to 30 inches in diameter and three nndred miles in length, one on eaoh side Cf the Su quehanna, to Plymouth on the west, and t D Hanover on the east side. In addition thereto a thirty-inoh pipe will b - Uid from a point In the Susquehanna river j ;»t below Coxton and above the month of cbe Lackawanna, where pan leroai enginee *111 pnmp water dlructly into the oom pany's mains, for all possible emergencies, I'jto all of the towns named The better class stood, I have said, apart; all ronnd the quay were the friends of the sailers. They were the fishermen, boat-builders, rope-makers, block-makers, sail makers, mast-makers, and all the "makers" who belong to a seaport. The v sat on the cranes, they sat on trucks and drays, they leaned against posts, and they dis cussed the ship, the skipper and the crow. 00* The smoke blew aside for a moment. It was her own side that was burned; the side which contained her own parlor, where the ladies drank tea in the afternoon; her own bedroom, her own cupboards, armories, cabinets, where everything that she had was kept. "Was—was nothing saved?" she asked the man. W. H. Bosenonnce, convicted of selling liquor on Sunday, was sentenoed to pay a floe "f $50, eoeta and undergo imprisonment for thirty days in the oounty jail. Death of Wells Stevens. The death of Wells Stevens, whloh occurred at his home on Luzerne avenue, West Plttston, early Sunday morning, after a brief Illness of the grippe, removes one who oooupled an important place in this community as a school teaoher for a long term of years. Mr. Stevens waa born in Turners, Orange Co., N Y., In 1888, and waa therefore in the 68d year of his age. He waa the oldest of a family of aeven children of Isaac Stevens, who settled on Mount Zlon, In Exeter township, when the deoeaaed was a small ohild, and spent hla life there engaged in farming. Wella ia the first of the seven children to pass away, there remain Miles H. and Cornelius M., of Plttston, J ioob, of Carverton, and three unmarried sisters, Mary, Harriet and Elisabeth, who reside upon the old homestead. As for the ship, they were rapt in admiration of her. The Susan Bell was a craft of 330 tons, round in the bows, strengthened doubly and trebly against the grip of % Greenland floe, rigged for safety rather than for speed, with squat thick masts and heavy yards; her bulwarks, like her bows, strong as timber could make them. "A lucky ship," freshing breeze. The young skipper said these honest fellows, with whom a 3tood on the quarterdeck for all to see, character for luck is worth all the sail- but he waved no farewell; on the con-1U^rUa^t'es 6Ter *nvented- trary, he stood quite still and took no When they had considered the vessel, notice of thq cheers which followed hiin they fell to piais.ng her company, until they could be heard no more, which, they said, surpassed all other "What's wrong with the captain?" companies that ever went afloat in all asked the boatmen on the quay. "He seamanlike qualities—but this was to looks as if he's seen a ghost." be expected of Nantucket men. Final- -'Let us go," said the girl. "Wehave ly, they spoke in high praise of the him; that is enough. And oh! skipper, \\ illiam Stephen, than whom the weary months before we can see a finer young fellow never put hand to j him aga.nl Let us go home, nurse." harpoon. This was his first voyage as j They could not move for the moment skipper! He, too, like his ship, was on account of the pressure. The whole surely born to luck as the sparks fly . crowd, in fact, were seized with the upward. | game intention—nothing more was to On board the ship, in the captain s he seen; they might as well go home, cabin, was gathered a little company. I First passed, walking together, the first there was Captain Gamaliel , better sort. Among them Mehatabel V\ aite, once himself skipper, now ( Waite, tall and queenly, in her lovely owner, in the whaling trade; a portly frock and hat. Her cheek was still man, with authority, as well 88 success, . blushing, but her eyes were bright with written on his face. He wore a blue triumph. As she passed the other girl coat, with brass buttons; his hair pow- 8be towsed her head and laughed aloud tiered; he had white silk stockings; I—but she might have been laughing at there were gold buckles on his shoes, something said. Then came Captain he carried a hat red with gold lace, and Waite, talking in his loud authoritative a gold headed stick. With him stood way his daughter, Mehetabel, the greatest, ••'Yes,"be said. "I have confidence beauty, as well as the greatest heiress, in the young man. I have promised of Nantucket. She was dressed in silk, ■ him on his return to make him niypartand wore silk gloves; she wore also a 1 ner and my son in-law." hat with a cascade of ribbons behind it, | The girl in the crowd caught the old and round her neck, floating airily, was negress by the arm. "Do you hear an ethereal cloud of lace. Her figure nurse? Do you hear?" % was tall, her face was handsome, "Yes—sho', child." though the features were too pro- "A fortunate young man, indeed," nounced; a proud and self-reliant girl said one of the elder, t ententiously. she seemed, and perhaps obstinate. The "Wealth and station and beauty! What itev. Dr. Eliezur Horder and Mr. Bui- more can a young man want? A lucky livant, the apothecary, made up the ship! A lucky skipper!" party. A bottle was on the table with The divine saw his opportunity for a glasses—a bottle of Captain Waite's commonplace. He uttered it with the own Madeira-and they were drinking air of one who makes an original dis luck to the good ship on her voyage, covory "Yoking man" the owner addressed "Beauty Hved. It vanishes Captain Stephen, and his manner was ilke the dew It flies like the flowers pompous -"I am about to drink luck to 0f summer. Let ti e young man rather the Susan BelL You are full young to consider the solid qualities of our command a ship, but I have had my sister." eyes upou you-my eyes, mind. If I ' "Beauty may be short lived," said don t know a good sailor, who should? Captain Waite, sturdily, mindful of past Answer me that!" No one answered loves. "But it lasts a good hjt. Blesshim, but Mr. BuUivant raised his glass ] «d, I say, is the woman who has it and to the light and roiled it about as if. ad- the man who gets it!" miring the viscosity and the richness \ So they swept on and the golden color of it. "I eay, "You heard, nurae-you heard? Oh! young man, that I have confidence in you beard—oh! It is like a knife—a you. And I mean to prove it. Eh? I knife in my very heart. That was why can understand other things beside sea- she laughed when she passed. Oh!do" manship. Eh? Young men will have they mean it? Do they mean it? Will their eyes on the girls. Eh? Why not? he? " Therefore—I say this in the presence of Half way home, after a long silence my esteemed friends, Dr. Eliezur Hor- the old nurse looked up. "What dat der and Apothecary Bullivant—when young cap'n say to ye, Miss Ruth?" you bring this ship back to port with a "Nothing. He gave me this ringcargo—'tis a lucky ship—you will find and he put it on—and he looked as ifwaiting for you a wife "—here Meheta- a8 if—he would like to kiss me." bel blushed and dropped her eyes—"why "Heart up, pretty! What? That shouldn't I say it? The best-looking young cap'n ever look as if he wanted girl in all Nantucket—eh, Mehetabel?— to kiss Missy Mehetabel? Na, na! and because J grow old and want the Heart up, honey!" support of a younger man—with a wife ' chapter ii in partnership in my— exton „ n . . . sivo affairs. What do you say, girl? ' *°,th Burne lifted the latch stepped • -Surely, father." she murmured mod- UghtlJ ?veT the nndl track that estly, "Captain Stephen can .peak for IT" road. »nd «D tile °pen himself moor. Between the gate and the house ' The young skipper was a good-took a 8tr,eteh of cofrw grass-in ing, well built young fellow—clear of a '*• would have been a garden eye, as becomes a sailor, square of an o ard D behind the grass stood shoulder and hard of mouth, as be the farm honae-a wooden house of comes a ekipper who may at any mo 80me a«e- Pamted a hBht d™b. with ment have to knock down one man and clap another in irons. He wore his brown hair long and tied behind without powder, and, like Captain Waite, he had a blue coat with brass buttons. He received** this communication in a surprising manner ; that is, he showed no external symptoms of joy; he appeared embarrassed; he changed color; he dropped his eyes; and he turned his face so as to avoid iooking upon "his promised bride, "Nothing," replied the man. "The flames were not seen at first, because we were all in church. They had a terrible hold before we could begin with the buckets." No one, however, likes to be told that misfortunes are coming. Yet why should misfortune come? Because Will Stephen was her engaged lover? Nonsense ! As if Providence was going to interfere with a love affair! Mehetabel laughed scornfully. Yet no one likes this kind of prophecy. An ignorant, angry old hag of a negress! Yet there is a certain superstition about the old * ■" Mehetabel turnrl sick and faint. All gone; her silk and satin dresses, her winter furs, her embroiderod skirts, her laces, her rings, bracelets, necklaces, chains, her pretty boxes, her fans, her boxes, her French trifles, the miniatures whioh her mother had brought from England—they connected her with an old English house—could all these things be gone indeed? "WITH SQUAT, THICK MASTS AND HEAVY YARDS." A few steps further and the hill lay between the girl and the sight of the farm. She was quite alone—in the whole wide world there was nothing Hut hprsfilt—herself-.with her thouelitb and her dreams. Not that she made any remark to this effect. But she craved to be alone, and she sat down with a sigh of relief that she was alone. "IT IB LIKE A KNIFE; negress! A KNIFE IN MT VERY HEART." Now, just as they got home an unlucky accident happened. It might have happened at any time, but on this day the accident frightened her. The horse put his foot into a hole and fell, breaking his leg badly in two places; there was nothing to do but to kill the creature. And all that evening Mehetabel heard the words of the old woman ringing in her ears: "First little misfortune come; den big ones, each one worse'n what go before." Upon the quay she found her father, and with him a man, still young—not more than 30 or so—by hi* dress and his manner a sailor and a oaptain. "My daughter." said Captain Waite. "Mehetabel, this is Captain Fairweather of New Bedford." "Gone!" echoed a voice beside her. Mehetabel turned; it was the old negress. "Done gone! Great misfortune I What Missy got for dat young man, now?" The commission will alt In Hanisburg and keep a record ot their proceedings. They are required to inves igate the mannet of the enforcement of the act, and are given the power to summon witnesses and administer oaths, and where persons refnae to appear as witnesses they can be tried in the conrts. Officers haying appointments to make mnst certify that fast to the commission, whloK will make*a selection and report the sails to tie governor; promotion or removals and d'schargee mnst be reported to the commission. Officials are prevented from receiving reoom mendatlons from any other person for appointment.Although Mr. Stevens had little opportunity to secure an education, be made good use of auoh opportunity as he had, supplementing the training of the country school and his unaided etudiee at home by a year's attendance at Wyoming Seminary, onder the instruction of the late Dr. Nelson. For thirty-seven yean, he followed the occupation of teaching, and nearly three decodes of this long period were spent as a teacher In the schools of PUtston and Jenkins townanip. For ten years he had oharge of the Butler Hill school, and the tat ten years of his work were spent as prinolpal of the Welsh Hilfsohool. He tangbt in every public school in Pitta ton, we believe, except the Oregon sjhool. Few teaohers could name more prominent business and professional men who acquired their education so largely under his instruction, and he always took great interest in noting the sncoenful careers of his former students. He loved his work as a teacher and was thorough in it. He was broken In health when he retired from active labor, a few yeats ago, and a valvular trouble of the heart made him a quick victim of the grippe. Close beside stood Rut'.v, gazing upon the smoking wreck. Mehetabel thought that her face showed triumph. She was wrong. Ruth was thinking only of the dreadful calamity of fire. At her feet was a carpet made of the low close growing shrub with dark green leaves; on her right was a little coppice, mostly made up of the same shrub, only five or six feet high; here the wild vine stretched out its long branches now just coming into leaf; there were the low bushes of the huckleberry, there were ferns, there was the dog rose, growing abundantly; there was the cytisus, also abundant; there were not many/wild flowers but among them, in groatpatches, spread and blossomed the do^violet. She sat motionless. Then a bird began—it might have been an English lark—so much its song resembled our skylark; but this bird sang sitting on a branch or rail. When he had finished another bird began crying: "Get on, get on." And another followed—a big fellow, who made a grand pretence of not being able to fly, and fluttered fussily. And a brace of partridges got up with a whirr. "At your service, madam,'' said the captain politely. Indeed, his eyes spoke his admiration of the beautiful girl, so finely dressed, who stood before him. A hearty, stout figure of a man he was, yet somewhat rough; a touch of the tarpanlin still lipon him. "My daughter—it was her father, his hands bruised and bleeding, his face blackened, his powdered hair pulled about his ears, his clothes burned, torn, and scorched—"this is a heavy misfortune. But we have saved one side of tlie house. The smoke will soon stop, and you can take refuge—such refuge as it is—in the rooms that remain." CHAPTER in. The loss of the horse was a misfortune, one of a kind that might be expected in a country like Nantucket, where the roads are but tracks of sand and holes are common. Captain Waite grumbled at the accident and said no more. The old woman's sinister prediction would have been forgotten but for one or two other little accidents, which kept the prophetic words in Mehetabel's mind. A day or two afterward she broke her mirror. It was a beautiful thing set in a silver frame, with a chased silver handle. Mehetabel knocked it off the table, and the glass flew into a thousand pieces. She stood gazing at the wreck with something like dismay in her heart To break a looking glass is always unlucky; and then there was the old woman's warning. And the very next day she dropped her watch—her beautiful gold watch made in London by one Bennett, of Bunbill Fields—and broke its works so that it stopiDed. There was no place nearer than Boston whertf such a watch could be repaired. And again, the day after, she found that her best fur cloak was eaten and destroyed by moth. He came home with them to supper. After supper Mehetabel placed a bottle of Madeira before her father had retired. Everybody who knows Nantucket has heard of Captain Waite's Madeira. For softness and delicacy it had no equal; nor in these days of vanished greatness is it likely to be equalled iu the island. At 9 o'clock or thereabouts, the two captains being alone over their second bottle, Captain Fairweather, though this was his first visit, spoke words of weight. The present storage oapacl'y of the eom paDj is over 900,000,000 of gtllons, but the i'Orpose, during the c ming year or two. '« to ereot such reservoirs, by means of Iw D uummoth dams, th Dt three billions of galore may tt all ' imee be held i a reserve. Id D11, the company owns eleven thousand ores of water shed, and this will be sacred •f kept from being contaminated by so muoh-as a residence or any other menace to public health. The people pressed forward and offer•*1 shelter. Mehetabel could not bear to speak or answer. She refused, and presently found herself in the rooms rbat had escaped. It is made the duty of any persm in the service ot the state to assist the commission in carrying out the provisions of the same. Controllers, treasurers, and auditing officers are prohibited from paying any person in the olasaifl Dd civil ssrvioe, unleee they have been appointed under the'provisions of this act. Escaped! They reeked of burning afters. The stairs were half consumed, |hxD1s and puddles of water lay about; the furniture was dragged out of place; f.he windows and the sashes were oroken; everything was in dirt and iness, and confusion indescribable. supper, and when there was no more than half a bottle of Medeira before him, "we might have fared worse. It is true that the fire has destroyed youi mother's jewels, the family jewels; the molten gold must be somewhere in the ashes, and all your dresses and private possessions. But jewelry may be re placed, and so may dresses. As for me, why my own papers are safe, and we have half the house. In a month we will have the whole again, and my oel lar of Madeira"—here he took another glass—"is, thank God, safe and unhurt. We shall not be broken, my dear, for the cost of half a house and a new rig out of frocks and fallals. When that young man comes homes we shall see no difference. "Captain Waite," he said, "you have heard of me, though you have never seen me before. If you want to know more about me, ask in New Bedford. Now, sir, by your leave, I am the owner, or part owner, of three stout vessels in the whaling trade. I have a great house well furnished; I have money laid out in other houses and in land. I am sober, temperate and of good character. Very well, then"—he took another glass of Madeira to in crease his valaincy—"I want a wife. Give me your daughter. Captain Waite. She pleases me. Give her to me; she shall have, d'ye see?—a man for a husband—as good a man as there is in New Bedford—and she shall have as good a house as there is in Nantucket." The stop at the mouth of Green's Bun was of short duration and a return was made to the co'tage of Ifr. Steuben J. "Jhurch, formerly of Wyoming, who is employtd as superintendent of the oompany'a jlant In that plaos, and which Is located just a short distance below the Intake dam. The long drive through this delightful oonntry had sharpened the appetite of the party and when they arrived at the Every person ahall hold his office as long as hs shall behave himself well, and shall not be reoioved therefrom except for a cause, whioi shall be neither politloal nor religions. In case of removal a detailed statement in writing of the Canute of such removal mnst be filed in the office of the comuieaioa, aad If rC qaestdU, .nruiahed to the person removed No appolnt've cffi i't or employe of the com m jj wealth or any olty or cjnat/ to whlo 1 ihle ajt applies, shall soil-slt ora iy or by letter, or receive or oe received in any manner concerned In receiving any asee** . ent for politloal purposes, nor shall hs in any room occupied for the offijial dmoaarge oi the dntiee of any officer of the commonwealth, connty or city receive any oontri bntlon; in short, politloal assessments cannot be received or made. No offi.er Is permitted to remove or reaten to ranuve any pnbllc employe for po Utioal reasons. No app.luant for appointment can pay or promise to piy any nis appointment. Ruth noted these things. She knew them all, she expected them, she wanted them, because they carried away her thoughts out of herself—they helped her to fall into a trance, and to Bee what she came to see. First, it was a boy with a girl three or four years younger than himself, playing on the moor, hunting for birds' nest, gathering huckleberries, running down the hillsides or fishing from a boat, of digging for clams in the sandy spit. She saw next a gallant lad going off to sea, and leaving the girl in tears; then he came back, and hurried out to the farm to see his sweetheart. Year after year he went away to the Arctic Seas and came back. The girl had grown a woman; he kissed her no longer; he seemed afraid of her; he looked at her and was silent. One day, only a week before he sailed as captain of the Susan Bell, he placed a ring upon her finger and sighed and said not a word. Yet what lover was more eloquent? Deceased was a member of the West Side M. E. Church and was a consecrated Christian. He was one of the charter members of the West Side M. E. Sunday school and assisted In its organisation. This was the first Sunday school In the town. His wife and son Oharlee, at present residing in Perth Amboy, N. J., survive him. He was a good oltissn and neighbor, a true friend, and a devoted husband and father. hureh cottage were in a condition to do jnstlce to the inner man, and it was but tD short time before the entire company were seated before one of Caterer Huntingdon's famous spreads. The wants of the guest? *eie supplied in numerous courses by a jorpa of colored waiters and included trout -•aught from Spring Brook and all other delloacles of the season. The dinner was -tn elegant affair and was geatly enjoyed by .11 All these misfortunes put together amounted to nothing. A mirror, a watch, a fur-lined cape—a few dollars would set everything right. Yet greater misfortunes were promised. Mehetabel was uneasy. "Sir," replied Captain Waite slowly, "I thank you for the honor you have done me; but I fear you are too late. There is talk of taking into partnership, when he returns, and marrying to my daughter one of my own skippers—a young fellow of merit and parts, now commanding one of my own ships." So uneasy did Mehetabel become that she consulted the Rev. Doctor of Divinity Eliezur Horder. She spoke ii» general terms. The subject, she said, caused her doubts. If there were witches of old, why not now? If, in former times, she asked, witches were able to bring misfortune upon people, why not now? BURGLARS AT MAUOH CHUNK. The Poatofflee Safe Dynamited by Tramp* An adjournment was made to the spacious lawn surrounding the cottage, on *hlch a tent had been erected, and a pro gramme of Informal speeches was the order. Lieut G Dv Watres was toaetmaster tie opened with a speech in which he gave 4 brief history of the company, what they had accomplished and what they intended o accomplish. Gov. Watres stated that fhn oompany now had a clientage of 200,- 000 people, had 300 miles of pipe, and *lth a connection with the river f. r em»rgencier, could never fall to have an abnodant supply of water. Who Come to Grief at White Haven. CHAPTER V. On April 34th a gang of five t rare pa dynamited the safe In the poet office at Manch Chunk. The oharge w.s so large that the Bafe and the baildlng were badly wrecked, and the noise of the exploaion was eo great that it awoke the neighborhood. The trampe boarded a Central freight train going north. At White Haven, a party of offioeis met the train and opened the door of the oar in which the trampe were riding, when the tramps opened fire with revolvers. The fire W is returned, and two of the tramps were seriously wounded. The other threes "Is that settled?" A wooden house is soon rebuilt. Wood, to be sure, in Nantucket, is dear, because there are no trees. But wliat matters the cost when one has the purse of a whaling owner. In six weeks Captain Waite's house was rebuilt, painted and restored from the Dutch steop at the door to the deck on the roof, where he could walk up and down, as on a quarter deck, and scour the sea with his telescope—an occupation of which sailors never weary. , "Humanly speaking, I should say that it is settled." "Then," Captain Fairweather rose from his chair, "there is no more to be said. There's as good fish in the sea as out of it. I shall not stay single for never a pretty woman. But, if so be, she should change her mind before I've found another, why, let me know." And now—oh! now—he was offered the most beautiful girl in Nantncket and the daughter of the richest man and a partnership! He would be part owner of a ship—what sailor would refuse such a chance? And what had she, this simple country girl, to offer that could outweigh these splendid gifts? "My sister," replied the divine, "you did well to come to me. These doubts sometimes foster in the mind. I cannot think that to mortals was ever permitted the power to *aise tempests, Any person violating the provisions of this act shall begullty of a misdemeanor, and on conviotlon be imprisoned for not lees than thirty days nor more than o e year, and by a fine of not more than $500, as the court shall Impose. (Jmi fain |« y A I' k j V,\ This was all the wooing that Captain Fairweather ever attempted. The house was something like the Second Temple of the Jews. A creditable building, but where were the treasures of the first house. Alas! they were gone. It is true that promises were made as to replacing them, but these promises were not performed. The second bill prohl jite the payment 01 any occupation or poll tax assessed for stste or oonuiy parpoees of nay elector by any person other than the eleoior agaiunt whom moh tax has been ae-fesed t xoept apon the separate wrlttea and signed or d-r of such assessed electors. I c makes it unlawful for any person to vote a* vy election apon a tax receipt obtained In vio Utlou of the act It mike« it unlaw.nl for any t ffioer or oiher pete on authorized to oolli-ct tax to receive th sime from an/ other pe son than the elector. V olatiocs of this act ate punishable ay fine mid imprisonmentPOLL TAX "Mehetabel." said her father next day, '"about that young man, Will Stephen " Thus she mused and thus she lamented, sitting in the sunshine on the moor, while the wind whistled in her ears, and the sun of early June climbed up the heavens. Messrs Palmer, Bedford, Law, Johnsor, immerman, Watklns, Opp, Williams at(3 others followed Gov. Watres In a bumorne vein. Much amusement was oansi d 'hronghont thie part of the day's programme, and It only endtd with the advent of a shower. 'What about him, father?" "Ls it understood between you? Have any words passed?" eecaped. Pumping Coal From the River. Arthur Squires, who perfected a plan for raising waste ooal from the bottom of the river, and operatel the scheme quite profitably for a time last season, opens np the campaign at Sunbury agtln this week. There are large quantities of ooal lying in the eddiea and slaok water of the river down below the ooal fields, and Mr. Sqalree's method is to pnmp It np to a screen, where, after the water is drained ont, it is raked off into boats. It is stated that twenty tons a day can be raised in this way.—Tunkhannock New Age Now, while Ruth sat upon the moor, there came along the road slowly, on account of the deep sand, a four wheel vehicle, drawn by a single horse and driven by a negro boy. In the back seat sat Mehetable Waite. She was dressed with almost as much splendor as if she wag going to court, but that was her way; nobody ever saw her dressed otherwise; her laces and her silks seemed to belong to her and to be part of her. She was Imperia—my Lady Imjieria, "For words—before you all—no. But the eyes can speak, father, and the hands." And soon Mehetabel found that they never would be performed. "Oh," Captain Waite sighed, "Captain Fairweather is a solid man—a man of substance. And he did say, last night—and besides I heard some talk about another girl and Will Stephensome fanner's daughter." She asked no questions about it; as soon as she was persuaded of the truth, she just charged her father with it. It was remarked that the company comprised a representation of oapltal and business Interests of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys, considering the limited namber present, such as has seldom been convened The manuer In which the officials looked after the comfort of their KQtsts, Is certainly to be oommended and nothing bat oompllmenta and words of gratification were expressed by the oompany'g guests. "Father," she said, more money left." "you have no He jumped in his chair; his face changed color. SUFFRAGE AT KLICTI 58 "Father, look at me 1" The girl drew herself up—she was tall as well as comely, and her dress became her—a rich dress, with a chain of gold and lace at the neck, and rings on her fingers. "Look at me, father! Do you suppose that a man of tastfc—nay, even a log— an insensate log, even a mere tarpaulin, would hesitate between- me anti a trolloping farmer's wench?" The thlid act is to proteot the free exercise of the right of snff age at pvlm ries and general or special elections, ar d tD prohibit interference with the right to vote at primary elections and incetiuge fur pany purposes, and affixes penalties of fines and Imprisonment. Ic makes it unlawful for any officer ot m-mber of tbe pcllce or pi'.d ft e depart nect or any employe of the state, to loflaenoe or attempt to influence any eleotcr at primary or other elections. It makes it unlawful for mayor or ohiec of any department to dlrect or suggest to any memoer of the polloe force or any official or employe how he shall vote; it also makes it nulaw'ni for any railroad, railway, or traction cfiber to solicit or lnflaenoe any voter in reepect to the exercise of the right of snffrige. This extends also to primary meetings. The penalty la imprisonment of not less than one month or not more than two years and fiae not exceeding $1,000. "Mehetabel!" he cried. "What— what—what is the meaning of this? Money? Plenty—plenty—I mean" he stopped because she turned upon him a cold, stern, and accusing eye. And he trembled. llli At the farm gate the carriage stopped and the lady descended and waJked with a majesty beyond her years up the path to the house door. Mehetabel, in fact, had come with the kindly object of crushing her rustic rival. She was by no means ignorant of certain passages and rumor of passages between Will Stephen and this simple country maB. linperia, also in love with the gallant Bailor lad, looked upon these passages with with impatience. What couluthey matter when she, the all conquering, appeared, bearing in one hand a ring, and in the other a whole cornucopia of gifts, of which the first and greatest was—herself? Yet the country maid must be admonished to bear herself prudently. "HER FIOCRE WAS TALL; Death Of John P. Ford. News has been received here of the death of John P Ford, of Archbald Mine (Scran-N ton), which occurred Wednecday, April 21st. Mr. Ford had been ill for abont two months with Bright's disease. He was forty-one years of age and leaves a wife and two children. Mr. Ford was a brother of Mn. James Dougherty, of Searle street; Mn. Mary MoOanley,!|of West Exeter, N. Y., and Mrs. G B. Rommel], of West Plttston. He was also a oousln of Jjhn T. Ford, the South Main street merchant, Mrs. Mundy, of Parsonage street,, and Mrs Ann McGHnn, of this city.  HER FACE WAS HANDSOME." "No more money," she repeated. "You have spent, year after year, all that you made. You have only credit. If this season's cargo is a failure, you Following is the oomblned watersheds of the new company : cause rain, and bring misfortune, disease and death, upon their fellow creatures. 'Twere to give into one ignorant hand a power too great for any mortal to hold. True, there were witches anciently, since we read of them, and the law is stringent against their sufferance; but what power had they? On this point we may conjecture that it was limited, and consisted chiefly in terrifying the inquirer. The Witch of En lor was amazed when the ghost of Samuel arose. I cannot believe, in spite of the persecutions of a hundred "Hands upon it, Captain Stephen. Mehetabel, your hand. Now, friends, drink about! Here's luck to tiie Susan Bed, and a happy return to my son in law that is to be—Will Stephen I" Spring Btook 58} square miles Hnntsville system 40 J square mllta Lnurel Run I0i square ml its Crystal Lake 1i square miles CHAPTER IV will be . say it. , Oh!" she could not They were in churc h, the day being Sunday. Neither on this day nor in this place does one look for misfortune. Mehetabel, being dressed exactly as she wished, and conscious of looking her best, gazed upward, either wrapped up in the holy meditation which falls upon many maidens in the Temple, or with the air of intelligent reception which also sits well on the maiden during a sermon. "Hush, child!" her father whispered, hoarsely. "Walls have ears. No one knows . . . Yea—yCM_ It is true. Who told you?" Total 106 So they all drank. But the young captain, taken aback, probably, by this unexpected good fortune, hung his head and looked at his wit's end for words—no doubt he was looking for words of gratiiude. The verbal expression of gratitude is, we know, as difficult as the emotion itself is rare. The company hopes to have Its water in Wilkesbarre Inside of sixty days. "You told me yourself. You are silent and unhappy in the morning. In the evening you are boastful. From your own talk I have learned the truth.". The party Included the following offiiers of the Spring Brook Water Supply Cj : L. A. Watres, president; T. H. Watkine, secretary; Robert O. Adams, treasurer; O. M. Lance, assistant general manager; directors, 0. D. Simpson, Lemuel Amennan, William F. flalletead and Morgan B. Williams Those preeent from Wilkesbarre were Judge Darte, Judge Lynch, Mai. Jacob PROHIBITS ASSESSMENTS. Her father hung his head. "It is true," he said. The fourth bill is an act to prohibit assessments. It prohibits any officer linking an assessment upon the pay, wages or salary of any publlo officer or employe. The penalty is fixed at a fine of not more than $2,000 and imprisonment of not more than i two years.  "What, Mehetabel!'" criad her father; "you do not drink the toast. Come, girl, say the words with a will, and toes off the glass, and make the poor chap " H® WORE A BLUE COAT WITH BRASS BUTTONS." green window shutters and a green door. At one end rose the brick chimney, which, with its open fireplace years ago, that there have ever been It was in the middle of the discourse, any true witches. Sure I am that a The Rev. Eliezur was a powerful rea- C'hristian need fear nothing—not all soner, but sometimes lengthly. Captain the united powers of all the devils; and Waite, as an elder, sat bolt upright as as for terror of an old woman, such as a regards his back but carried his head The door was opened by the old black woman, the nurse. She pulled it open and stood with her fingers before her eyes, as if blinded by the sunshine. They said no more, either then or afterward. But the girl's face began to harden and her lios were set. because Coaelodml •• Pag* 4. Make it a point to see that your blood la purified, enriched and vitalized at thta eaeon with Hood's Barsapartlla.