Pittston Gazette

              Oldest Newspaper in the Wvoming Valley. K8TABLJMIIKM 18fiO. » VOL. XLV1. NO. 83 tv PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY. JANUARY 10, 1896. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. semens 01 tno ooionei, partly lrow uitD occasional remarks of the girl: conrso. It was blowing a pleasant breeze of wind, and, lost in thought, I leaned over the rail at the weather fore end of tho poop, watching the cold sea glow shining in the dark water as the foam spat past", sheeting away astern in a furrow like moonlight I will swoar I did not doze. That I never was iruiltv of while on duty itf an tab years I was at sea, but I dop't doubt that I was sunk deep in thought, insomuch that my reverie may have possessed a temporary power of abstraction as complete as slumber itself. thrust. Tho body was clothed in white drill trousers and a white linen shirt, which was slightly stained with blood where the knife had pierced it rayed in white. Probably she was attired in her bedclothes. She seemed to see mo at once, for she emerged directly opposite, and I thought she would speak or hastily retire. But after appearing to stare for a little while she came to the taible and leaned upon it with her left America. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. CHANGES IN COUNTY OFFICES. TWO CHILDREN DIB SUDDENLY. O beautiful tor halcyon skies, For amber waves of grata, For purple mountain majesties Above the enameled plain! Colonel Atkinson had married her father's sister. Her father had been an officer in the army and had sailed from England with the then governor of New South Wales. After he had been hi Sydney a few months he sent for his daughter, wnom ne nan leit Deniun mm with a maternal aunt, her mother having died some years before. She reached Sydney to find her father dead. His excellency was very kind to her, and she found very many 6ympathotio friends, but her home was in'England, and to it she was returning in the White Star under the care of the master, Captain Edward Griffiths, after a stay of nearly five months in Sydney with her ancle, Colonel Atkinson. Who had done this thing? It was horrible, unprovoked murder I Throughout the ship the captain had been the most popular man on board. The forecastle liking for him was as strong as sentiment of any sort can find expression in that part of a vessel. There had never been a murmur. Indeed I had never sailed with a better crew. Not a man had deserted us at Sydney, and of the hands on board at least half hud sailed with the captain befpre. LESSON »l, FIRST QUARTER, INTER- Toplc For the Week Beginning Jan. IS, Comment by ltev. 8. H. Doyle. Topic.—The peril and the powe* of ambition.—Luke ii, SB.; Deut. viii, 11 20. The Terrible Affliction of Mr. and Mrs. America I America 1 God shed his grace on thee Till sonls wax fair as earth and air And music hearted sea! NATIONAL SERIES, JAN. 12. Democrats Go Out, and Republicans Kdward Loftaa. Go In. A doable »ffllotion haa come to the boms of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Loftaa, of Carroll street, In the death of two of their children within a few hours of each oih»r—Edward, aged tbr«e years and seven mouthy and Boy, tged one year. The children were land, sighing several times in the most Text of the UlMn, Luke ii. 40-53-Mei*. ory Verses, SI, 63— Golden Text, Luke ii. 53 -Commentary by the Bev. D. M. Stearns. Ambition is an inordinate and oager desire of preferment, honor, superiority or power. The peril and the power of ambition are ii Inst rated in the lives of many of the worlds most illustrious men. The power of their ambit; Dn has been so great that, regardless otffco just rights of others, regardless of the laws of God, they huve sought only to accomplish their purposes, and when position and power havo been attained God has been forgotten, and no claims that even He has had upon them have been oonsidered. O beautiful for pilgrim feet, Whose stern, irapussioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness! America! America I God shed his grace on thee Till puths be wrought through wflda of thought By pilgrim foot and kneel iieartbroken manner, and now I saw by the help of the dim lamplight that her right hand grasped a knife—the gleam of the blade caught my eye in a breath I DEMOCRATIC OFFICIALS ARE SCARCE. "Good graciouhl" I oried to myself instantly, "the woman's asleep I This, then, is the ghost that frightened the Dane. And this, too, was the hand that murdered the captain I" 40. "And the child grew and waxed strong In spirit, filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon Him." In our recent Christmas lesson, which must still be quite MtSnh In our minds, we had the wondrous «Ctory of His birth and were, I trust, profited by tho faith and testimony of the shepherds. Then followed the visit of the wise men, the presentation In the temple, the flight into Egypt and return to Nazareth. After which we know nothing of Him till His baptism at the age of 80 beyond what Is recorded in this verse and In this lesson. In the quiet retirement of Nazareth He grew both In physical and In spiritual stature and lived In the favor of God. He had a body of flesh and blood, such as we have (Heb. 11, 14), but He had no sin (Heb. v 11, 86; II Cor. v, 21). 41. "Now His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the pasaover." While only the males were commanded to attend the feasts (Ex. xxill, IT) It would soem that women also went to the feast of tho passover (I Sam. 1, 7). When wo oome to a passover story, it Is always well to think of the safety of those who are under tho blood and the fellowship of those who obediently feed upon the Lamb. Salvation depends upon the blood alone, but fellowship and growth depend upon our eating Him continually by whose blood we are redeemed. His own testimony is "He thai eatoth Me, even he shall live by Me" (John Tl, 57). , 48. "And when He was 18 years old, they went up to Jerusalem, after the custom of the feast." We would like to know« His thoughts concerning this, His first visit to the Holy City. We may Imaging that as He was not taken up with seetpg the city when He got there, so He was not overmuch occupied with sights along the way. Whatever of Old Testament story was associated with the places they would pass through we may be sure He would think and perhaps talk of there, tof H? was well versed In the Scripture^. , .. _ _ MDP«»ntIy in good health last Friday. '* ** ™" Aboot 8 o'clock la the evening one of the , "Bd"~ became 111, and .fterw.rd the J otjher. At first the parenta thought that the trouble was bat a alight It deln the ooopgf of- rapidly, however, Into mrmbrantonday. ThfefAoee *Dns oronp, and proved fatal Kdward, and Ooroaer were who was first taken in, died at 1:80 a. m., moorata to the B - ud Boy at 7:80 a. m. The parent! an heae ehangee were grief atrioten over their sadden 1C aaaa. holding .ooanty —— ■ • ■ — u»t Of Both the Old I was startled into violent wakefulness by a camionnde of canvas aloft and found tho ship in the wind. I looked aft. The wheel was deserted—at least I believed so till on rushing to it, meanwhile shouting to the watch on dock, I spied tho figure of the helmsman CM his face, close beside the binnacle. panta of the Office* Chances to the Salarlee Officers, by a Mew We carefully searched the cabin, but there was nothing whatever to tell as that robbery had boen committed. However, a ghastly, shocking murder had been perpetrated. The man on whose skill and judgment had depended tho safety of the ship and the many lives within her had been foully done to death in his sleep by some mysterious hand, and we determined at once upon a course. O beautiful for glory tale Of liberating strife. I stood motionless, watching her. Presently, taking her hand off tho table, sho turned her face aft, and with a wonderfully subtle, stealthy, sneaking gait, reminding one strangely of the folding motion of the snake, she made for the captain's cabin. When once and twice, for map's avail Men lavished precious life! America! America! God shed his grace on thee Till selfish gain no longer stain The burner of tho free! The annual obangee ftoen took place last of Sheriff, Becorde; Half au hour passed before the captain arrived. When he stepped on board, I lifted my cap and left the poop, and the captain and the others went into the cuddy. Oar day of departure came round, and not a kittle rejoiced was I when the tag had fairly got hold of us and we were floating over the sheet calm surface of Sydney bay, past some of tho loveliest bits of scenery the world has to offer, on our road to the mighty ocean beyond - the grim portals of Sydney Heads. We were a fairly crowded ship, what with Jacks and passengers. The steerage and 'tween decks were fall up with peoplo'going home. In tho caddy some of the cabins remained unlet We mastered in all, I think, about 12 gentlemen and lady passengers, one of whom,needless tosay.was Miss Georgina Le Grand. In the first Scriptural reference we have pointed out to us a laudable ambition and the gracious results of it We are told that Jesus grew in favor with God and man. Christ was in the true sense ambitious. He was filled with an inordinate desire to do the will of GcxL We cannot be filled with too mnch of this kind of ambition. Paul also had a worthy ambition. He expressed it when he said, "We labor that whether present or absent we may be accepted of Him." We cannot be filled with too strong a desire to serve God and to so labor that we may be accepted of Him. This should be the one ambition of our lives, and if we make it that we will not only grow in tavor with God, bat also with man, as Jesns did. tamed, over by the I thought he was dead. The watch to my shouts came tumbling to the braces, and in a fow minutes the captain made publicans, and when O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster eitios gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America] God shod Mm (Trace on thee made, the only Democrat* Now, that cabin, ever since Griffith's offioee were Register of Wills £t*ntoj Davenport, mln lrity CommMour TtiC*. Dullard and mlDoMty Auditor Bennett. A VALUE* WRECK. , Book port Tunnel. Kdward Huff smith, engineer of engine 458, smashed Into a freight train at Bookpoit tunnel on the Lehigh Valley about two o'olook Sunday morning, layi the WtlkMbarre Neva-Dealer. X ngln—D John Bedlng, of engine 465, Waa lying on the gain track, delayed on aoeount of a looee rail on the eaat end of the tannel. In the meantime Hnfiunlth oame along C seeing no fligman or signal oat into the end of the train Hnffomith and hie fireman escaped by jompiig. Engine 458 waa totally wreiked and a dozen freight oan piled up and pilohed to one An Engine Crashea Into a Freight la Till nobler men keep once again Thy whiter jubilee! First I sent for soma of the best and most trustworthy seamen among the orew, and bringing them int* the captain's cabin showed them the body. I then, in my capacity as commander of the vessel, authorized them to act as a sort of detectives or policemen and to search every part of the ship, and all the berths in the steerage, and 'tween decks for any clew to tho doer of the deed. It was arranged that the cabins of the first claps passengers Rhonld be thoroughly overhauled by the second and third mates. From the Sheriff's office, the fo'lowing Democrats go out: Sheriff, William Walter ; chief deputy, 0 Bart Sutton; aasUt- A STRANGE TRAGEDY. anta, Henry Brenner and William Walter. Jr. The Bepnblloans who enter are: Sheriff, Jamee Martin; ehlef deputy George Wall, Plains; deputies, Jamee Mack, Wilkeebarre; Samnel Hooper, Plains; Robert W. Williams, Wilkeebarre; attorney, George S Ferris. Weet Pitteton. By W. CLARK RUSSELL. ( I Copyright, 18D5, liy tho Author.] It is proper I should state at once that the names I give in this extraordinary experience are fictitious. The date of the tale is easily within tho memory of the middle aged." From the Recorder's office the following Democrats step ont: Recorder, M H. Roasell; ohief deputy, Byron Shoemaker; clerks, John J. Boeeell, Edwardsville; J J Lyuoh, Plymouth; T. 0. Mullally, Plains; F.J. Russell, Eiwardavilla. Tbelr places are taken by the following Republicans: Recorder, Philip H. Richards, Nantiooke; chief deputy, J. R Williams, Wilkeebarre; David Davie, Nantiooke, W. J Perry, Lu ■erne Borough; K W. Tompkins, West Plttston; Thomas Zakosky, Plymouth; J, H. Miller, Hszleton. In the second reference there is a solemn warning against forgetting God in the time of prosperity. The children of Israel conld not bat see the hand of God in their guidance and direction in the wilderness, but in the land of Canaan it would be different There the blessings of prosperity and wealth would oome from God through second causes, and there might be a temptation in the pride of their hearts for them to say, "My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me thfh wealth." This Is the great danger of prosperity—that it may make us proud and ambitious, that we will take all the credit to ourselves and forget that we are indebted to God for all things. False ambition always leads to destruction. God solemnly warns us against it It has ruined some of the world's greatest men, and is supposed to have caused the downfall of the angels who fell from heaven. True ambition— a burning desire to serve God—receives His blessing and favor and the favor and confidence of men. Let us then "labor that whether present or absent we may be accepted of Him." All this brought us to the hour when the passengers arose, and the ship was presently alive. The news swept from lip to lip magically In all parts of the ship I saw men and womeu talking, with their faces palo with consternation and horror I had not .the courage to break the news to Miss Le Grand and asked the doctor, a quiet, geutlemauly man, to speak to her. I was on the poop looking after the 6hip when the doctor came from the young lady's berth. I had been busy on the forecastle when she came aboard, but heard afterward from Robson, the second mate, that the governor's wife, with Colonel Atkinson and certain nobs out of government house, had driven down to the ship to say goodby to the girl. She was alone. I wondered she bad not a maid, but I afterward heard from a bright little lady on board, a Mrs. Burney, one of the wickedest flirts that ever with a flash of dark glance drew a sigh from a man, that tho woman Miss Le Grand had engaged to accompany her as maid to Europe had omitted to put in an appearance at the last moment, in perfect conformity with the manners afid habits of the domestic servants of the Aus- The large, well known Australian liner White Star lay off the wool sheds In Sydney harbor slowly filling up with WooL I say slowly, for the oxen were languid up country, and the stuff came in as Fox iB said to have written his history—*'drop by drop. " We were, how ever, advertised to sail in a fortnight from the day I open this story on, and there was uo doubt of our getting away by then. side. It was a very fortunate affair, as no Cma was lrjared. The wreck delayed all txalna for about fire hours. ▲BOthar Old Beeldaat Qoh. Plunged it once, deep and hard. At the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. H. Keaat, on Broad street, last 8urd*yJ in the 77th year of his age, William & Maloney passed peacefully away. He had been troubled with asthma for many years. Mr. Maloney was born In Taaley, near Bath, Somersetshire, England. He to Plttston some forty-three year* ego and hss ever since resided hew. He worked at i He lay on the deck. his appearance. The ship was got to her course afresh, by which time the man who had been steering was so far recovered as to bo able to sit on the grating a baft the wheel and relate what had happened. death, I had occupied, and yon may S;uess the se»sations with which I folowed the armed and murderous sleepwalker as she glided to what I must call my berth and noiselessly opened the door of it The moment she was in the pabin her motions grew amazingly swift. She stepped to the side of tha bunk I was in the habit of using, and gifting the knife plunged it once, deep and hard, then came away, so nimbly that it was with difficulty I made room for her in the doorway to pass. I heard her breathe hard and fast an yhti swept by, and J stood in the doorway of my pabin watching her till her figure disappeared in her own berth. "How did she receive the nows?" 1 asked. Dr. Harry Trimmer, Coroner, la succeeded by Dr. Prank L. McKee, of Plymouth. Jamee Crockett, purveyor, la succeeded by W. H. Poet, of Wllkeabarra. I, who was chief ofllcer of tho vessel, was pacing the poop under the nwniug, When I saw a lady and gentleman approaching the vessol. Thuv t poke to the mate of a French bark wh ich lay just ahead of as, and I concluded that their business was with that ship, till I saw the Frenchman, with a flourish of his hat, motion toward the White Star, Whereupon they advanced and stepped on hoard. "I wish it may not break her heart," said he gravely. "She was turned into stone. Her stare of grief was dreadful —not the greatest nctress could imagine such a look. There'll be no comforting her this side of England." 48. "And when thoy had fulfilled the days, as thoy returned the child Jesus tarried behind In Jerusalem, and Joseph and His mother knew not of It." Jerusalem la oalled the Holy City, and the City of the Great King (Math, lv, 0; v, 86); by Its groat ■In It is called the city where Q\ir Lord waa crucified (Rev. xi, 8), but it shall yet be oalled 9 City of Truth, and the Throne of the Lord (Zech. viii, 8; Jer. Ill, 17). That Lord shall prove to be none other than thVl same Jesus without whom Joseph and Mary started from for Nazareth. Old they think enough e4 Hton? 44. "But suppoJrog Him to have been In the company, went a day's journey." Supposing and wondering are not the roads to peace and assurance $nd tvr? apt to causo us many Just think what dismay it (night work If we should attempt to travel by train or steamer supposing that we knew the time of starting. Lot no ono in matters eternal rest In anything short of an assurance well founded-46. "And wt»W they found Him not, they t tuned back again to Jerusalem, seeking Him." Any one who has ever tod* child stray away for a longer or shorter time can sympathise somewhat with Mary In this experience. Did they oonfess to Sod their negligence and aek Him to guide themf Did they remember Ps. xxxli, 8; Is*, mw, 81, and Ps. 1, 16 f Perhaps they will toll us about It some dav, 46. "And It oameto. puss that after three, days they found Him In the temple."  swing the sight* of the groat city, hat His Father's house at a Bible fltudy. W* may safely think $ mm, g* gay tug to these teachers, 11tykjrt ** written*" "H«* read W Joseph and Mary one hours neglect had brought three day's wxU&jf, To many an hour's neglect has* Wten brought a life long sorrow. To negkwt the soul's welfare will bring eternal sorrow. See Job xxxvi, Hcb, U, % 47. "And all tba» heard HM" were ftfr tonlshfd at His understanding and gp- SWera. " If Jjohn the](WDtWt wt»§fllled with tjiio Spirit from hi* birtu, how much more WWfc 3i*us ha ve been so filled I A nd will not tjnj (Dnraso "Jesus knew from tb$ Wguinlng" (John vi, 64) reach, fetch to this Stage of His life as to the beginning of His, ministry P He would understand the !3orlptures better than those who questioned Him, and many would doubtless receive some now light that day at n hoard the Scriptures quoted In SM r simplicity And beauty. 48. "Son, $®ou thus dealt with UBt. t«y father and I havo sought sorrowing." This was His mother's, greeting after the three days' search, might have replied, Why did goja go without Me, parents, look ftftw ehildren, not children parents. In chapter 6 of the SontL vt Jkioaion tbe loved one has a sorrowful search because she did not  enough for her Beloved to let \{\y\ ta promptly when He called. 48. "How Is it ye sought MeP Wist ye not that \ must be about My Father's Tola Is His answer. The reD yked version gives "in My  bouse," or "In the things of My  Thus early In life did Ha understand and speak of Hia mission. 90. "And (hey understood not the saying He spake unto them." They C%1 not kaow Him, even His mother did not understand Him, and just before Ha died He had to say to one of the twelve, "Have I been so lung time with you and yet hast thou notj known me, Phllipf" (John xlv, Unknown and misunderstood as. a hoy and as a man, how strangely lonely was all His life. Dues any boy or girl, young man or young woman, feel in them movlngs of the Spirit which even father and mother cannot recognize, think of Jesus and wait God's time. Blessed are they tlftkt wait for Him, xxx, 18). 61. "And He went down with them and came te, Naoareth and was subject unto thenv" And this covers the next 18 years. Where are the young men and women of today who are thus cheerfully subject? Where are the older ones who are always cheerfully subject to all owr heavenly Father's plans and appointment*? Blessed tTO all such, for thoy are la the greatest wJLsslon on earth—that of submission* He was a Dane and spoke with a strong foreign accent, beyond my art to reproduce. Ho said he had been looking away to leeward, believing he saw a light out upon tho horizon, when on turning his head he beheld a ghost at his side. NIn thi* connection toe follcwtrg frCm the Wlikeabsrre Loader Is of interest: "An act of the Legielature. signed by Gtov- mlnlng until about ten yean ago. From childhood he has been a Christian and for upward of thirty years has been a member of the First M. S. Oburoh. His wife preceded him to the grave about two two years and a half ago. Four children survive them—VIra. J. H. Keaat, John 8. Maloney, of this place, George 8, of Dun mora, and Joseph 8., of Providence. •ralian colonies of those days, and the young lady having no time to procure another maid had shipped alone " Doctor, could he have done it himself?"ei nor Hastings in July, i89D, mikes numerous changes ln the salaries of the oounty officers. The new Sheriff will receive $6000 a year inetetd of $6500, as at present. This will make a differ* no# of $1600 in the three year. Qalteasum to At dinner on that first day of our departure, when the ship was at sea and I was stumping the deck in charge, I observed, in glancing through the skylight, that the captain had put Miss Le Grand upon the right of his choir, at the head of the table, a little before the fluted and emblazoned shaft of mizzenmast. I don "t think above five sat down to dinner. A long heave of swell had sickened the hunger out of most of them. But it was a glorious evening, and the red sunshine, flashing fair upon the wide ppen skylights, dazzled out as brilliant and hospitable a picture of cabin equipment as {he sight could wish. "Oh, heaven, no, sir I" and he explained by recalling the posture of the body and the situation of tho hands, not to mention the absence of the weapon, why it was impossible the captain should have killed himself. I went on to the quarter deck to receive them. The gentleman had the air pf a military man—short, erect as a royal mast, with plenty of whiskers and mustache, though lie wore his chin crop ped. His companion was a very flue woman pf about six and twenty years, above the average height, fault lessly shaped, so far as a rude seafaring eye is privileged to judge of such matters ; her complejdon was pale, inclined tQ sallow, but most delicate, of a transparency of flesh that showed the blood eloquent in her cheek, coming and going With every mood that possessed her. She woce a little fall of veil, but she raised it when her companion handed her over the side in order to look round and aloft lit the fabric of spar and shroud towering on high, with its central bunting of bouse flag pulling in ripplea of gold and blue from the royal mast head, and so I had a good sight of her face, and particularly of her eyes. "A ghost, sir, soholp me"— and herp tho little Diine indulged in some very violent language, all designed to convince us that ho spoke the truth. "A what?" said tho captain. So, then, the mystery was at an end. Poor Captain Griffith'& murderers was his adored sweetheart r She had killed Jiim in her sleep and knew It not In the blindness of slumber she had repeated the enormous tragedy, as less nevertheless as the angels who looked down and beheld her and pitied her. | went on deck and sent for the doctor, to whom I communicated what I had seen, and be at once repaired to Misg L& Grand's berth, accompanied by the stewardess, and found her peacefully resting in her bunk. No knife was to bo seen. However, next {popping, the young lady being then on deck, veiled a« she always now went, and sitting la a retired part of the poop, {fee seoond mate, the*doctor and the stewardess agaiq thoroughly searched Miss Le (brand's berth, and they foond In a hollow in the ship's side, a sort of scupper, in fact, or the porthole, a carving knife, rusted with old stains of blood. It  belonged to the ahipj and it (('knife the steward had on thy day the baptaiq Was fcijted Since the whole ghastly tragedy was % matter of somnambulism all points of U were easily fitted by the doctor, who quickly understood that the knife had been taken by the poor girl in sleep just as it had used What demon her ig slumber who shall tell? For my part, f put it down to Mrs. Burney and a secret fever of jealousy which had operated iq thd poor soul when f&w was suspended in her hy slumber. Wo triC$ Va keep the thing secret, faking oare to lock Miss Le Grand up every night without explaining our motive, but the passengers got wind of the truth and shrunk from her hprror. It came, in factj, t0. waiting upon iUj a W Uuistiug upon my ynmuring hei In the steerage in company with ofe of # the 'tween deck's passengers, a female who had Qifored her services as a nurse, for htm This action led to.tk* poor girl herself find- OUt what had happened. God knows Who told her or how she managed to discover it, but 'tis certain sho got C0 learn it was her hand tba| la sleep had killed her lover, we went mad on the selfsame day of her understanding what she hod done lose. The next Clerk cf the Courts will fare better, his salary being (4000, Instead of $3600 as now. D• The next Register of Wills will be better off by $500 a year, the new salary being fixed at $4000. The new tleoorder will get $500 per annum more than the outgoing one, or $4000. The man who succeeds Bill Beed In the Oonoty rreasnrer's office a year henoe will get $1,400 a year more, the pr sent salary being $4,000. Surveyor eleet Poet will gat $200 a year lees than his predecessor wh( reoelTcd $500. The O-JUt' Bible Readings.—Gen. 1-9; I Kings i, 5-58; Ps. xvili, 27; Ftov. xvii, 19; xxix, 28; Isa. xIt, 12-20; Jer. li, 49-58; Ezek. ***i, 10,12.; Math, xviii, 1-8; *jc. 20-28; xxiii, 1-12; Luke xiv, 8-11; xxii, 24-26; Rom. xii, 10; Phil, il, 8 12; II Thess. ii, 1-4; Jas. iv, 0-10; I Pet v, 6, (J; m John ix "What was it like?" asked the captain.I don't know how it came about, but while I paced the deck waiting for the reports of the mates and the seamen and the passengers who were helping me in the search it entered my head to mix up with this murder the specter, or ghost, that h;id frightened the Dune at the wheel into a fit, along with tho memory of a sort of quarrel which 1 guessed had happened between Cuptata Griffiths and Miss Le Grand. It was a more muddle uf fancies at best, and yet they took a hold of my imagination. I think it was about a week before this murder that 1 had observed the coolness of what vou might call a lovers' ounrrel betwixt the captain and his young lady, and without taking any further notice of it I quietly set the cause down to Mrs. Bumey, who, as a thorough paced flirt, with fine languishing black eyes and a sancy tongue, had often done her best to engage the skipper incono of those little asides Which ure as brimstone and tho undying worm to the jealous of their sex. The lovers had made it up soon after, and for two or days pre viously had been as thick and loverlike sweethearts ought to be. Died at a Ripe Old Ago. "It was dressed in white and stood looking at ma I tried to rim and could not, but fell and maybe fainted." Jamee Patterson, aged 61, died on Jut. 3 •t tbe home of hla son-in-law, ex-3 her'. IE William Peon Kir ken 1*11, la Delta. Mr. Patterson was a native of Orange oounty, N. ¥ , and was of Revolutionary ftoek. Hla grandfather fought to the war for lndependenoe, and hie father was In the war against Tripoli from whloh he never returned. The surviving thlldren » Elrkatidall, Mrs. Ma. L P. H. Fatter- "The dnrned idiot slept," said the captain to mo, "and dreamt and dropped on his nut" "Had I dropped on my nut, should not have woke up then?" cried the Dane in a passion of candor. THE ENDEAVOR PLEDGE. I had a full view of Miss Le Grand, and occasionally paused to look at her, bo standing as to be unobserved. Now that I saw her with her hat off I found something very peculiar and fascinating in her beauty. Her eyes seemed to fill her face, subduing every lineament to the full spiritual light and meaning in them, till her countenance looked sheer intellect, the very quality and spirit of mind itself. This effect, I think, was largely achieved by the uncommon hue of her skin. It accentuated color, casting a deeper dye into the blackness of her hair, sharpening the fires in her eyes, painting her lips with a more fiery tinge of carnation, through which, when she smiled, her white teeth shone like light itself. "Go forward and turn in," said the captain. "The doctor shall see you and report to me." There Is No Exeosc a Christian On Give For Not Keeping It From tbe beginning of the Christian Endeavor movement some one hw wanted to try his hand at tinkering the pledge. '' The pledge i» too strong," or "The pledge coaldnt be lived up to," or "Something must be changed to adapt it to the peculiarities of our society." It is amazing how many "peculiar* societies there are in the world. There are not so many of these pledge tinkers as there used to he, but we hear of them every now and then, even in these days. Now there is not much objeotioa to altering the phraseology, if th§ meaning is not ohanged or the stronnousnesB or tbe pledge is not weak- but thit is the very thing that most pledge tinkers desire to da Now I should like to whisper in their ears that tbe revised Christian Endeavor pledge was prepared very carefully and prayerfully. Days of time were spent in weighing each word, so that every one might be the right word in the right plaee. The strength of every phrase was ooualdered and special paiaa waa taken not to have a single tetter or syllable in tbe pledge whieh the youngest and weakest aetlve member could not keep. Twioe, in tbe heart of the pledge* at tbe risk of tautology, and perhaps to the detriment of tha queen's English, the phrase i« substantially repeated, "Unlet* prevented by a reason which 1 can conscientiously give to the Lord Jesus Christ." That is the only excuse which the Christian ever ought to be willing to five for the ton performance of any known duty. This is twioe admitted and insisted on In tbe heart of the pledge, and it fully excuBea any consoientious Christian, if he has any excuse worth giving. A Christian Endeavor society that fully understands what tho pledge means in ninety-nine cases opt of a hundred will vote against altering it What is needed is a careful study of the pledge Have a meeting to explain it and talk about it and to understand its thorough reasonableness.y Commissioner* ate: Mn. ~ act will raoetve KliasOeth Lewis, ot Dallas; $1,500, the salart lokmmaa, of Delias; Wlllian Bat the Oonnty «on, merchant, of Wyoming. Tn $400. In other —  lm will be $100 M" Ao.id.nt.ii: ded there iD 0fl luL * "hUe Fwd * Prison War- Athena, war A000 Instead • of that plaoe, hk 0 roner will get discharged, and the J, a nighty Ma faoe waa blown away, O immtasioaei. will When the man was gone, the oaptain asked me if I had seen anything likely to produce the impression of a ghost on an ignorant, credulous man's mind? I answered no, wondering that ho should ask such a question. "How long was the man in a fit, d'ye think?" said be, "that is, before you found out that the wheel was deserted?" who follow the present |2,00fc a year instead of paid those now In offioe. Auditors will be eat d r words their pay per urn Instead of $500, pro* «orthap, aqed hunting la tlw •tumbled. His • Controller. The next I never remember the like of such eyes in a woman. To describe them as neither large nor small, tho pupils of the liqnid dank of the Indian's, the eyelashes long enough to cast a silken shadow of tenderness upon the whole expression of her fare when the lids dropped —to say all this is to convey nothing, simply because their expression formed the .wonder, and beauty of ihem, and there is no virtue in ink, &(: all events in my ihk,$o communicate It I do not exaggerate when | assure Pthat the surprise of the beauty of eyes, when thwy came to fnine and rested upon me steadfast in their star? £s ft nictfcre, was of shfick in its way, comparable in sense to One's unexpected handling of something Slightly electric. For the rest, her b«i* was very JDlac£ and abundant' and pf tiwt sort of deathless of hup which yd find among the people of Asia I cannot describe her dross. Enough if I say that she was in mourning,  {arge admixture) of white,' for those were the hof wpeks in Sydney. "Is the captain on board*" inquired the gentleman, 1 "He is not, sir." den's salary will be $1,600, and the near ldft aide of killing blm la- "Throe or four minutes." $2,000 Instead of $6T He looked into the binnacle, took a turn about the decks; and without saying anything more about the ghost went below. : jump. The next Jary ec $600 a year, and tha detective fl .800. It will be noticed that In the aggregate the new i ffiolale will be belter off than the old. The chief deputy to the Sheriff receives $1,800 a year and the otheia $1,500. Quite at at salaries, enrely. The aalarles of the Stats of Ohio, City o* Tclido, J Lucas County. ' j The doctor next day reported that tto Done Was perfectly vVpl} pud sound foind, and that he stuck with many implications to his story. He described tho ghort os a figure in white that looked at him with sparkling eyes and yet blindly. Ho w unable to describe the features. Fright no doubt stood In the way of perception. He oould not agine where th;, thing hud pome  P® wa«, as be at what looked life! a spark or star to leeward when, turning his head, he found the finale clotio NiflMoliinu iL1? PfiPtfj'fi fufj t5«dootor talked tho thing over in my presence, and we decided to consider it a delusion on tho part of the Dane, a phantom of his im agination, mainly because the mun swooned after he saw the thing, letting go the wheel so that the fcatne up into the pud it Was impossible t« t&noeive that a substantial object oould have vanished in the time that elapsed between the man falling down and the flap of sails which had eallec\ attention t« tho ft tumped beton' However, uathiug was said about the matter aft The sailors adopted the doctor's opinion, some viewing the thing us a "Dutchman's" dodge to get a "night in." Frank J. Cheney makee oath that he la the aenlor partner of the Arm of U. J. Cheney & Co., doing boalneae In the (Sty of Toledo, Cjonty and State aforeeaid, and that said Arm will pay the earn of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for eaeb and every oaae of Catarrh that cannot be rated by the nee of Hall's Catarrh Curb. I noticed even on this first day, during my cautious occasional peeps; that tho captain was particularly attentive to tho young lady, in which jndeed { should have found nothing significant, for she had In H special degree been committed to his trust, but for the circumstances of his being a bachelor. Even then, early and fresh as the time was for thinking of such things, I guessed when I looked af that life hardy mariner alongside of her would not keep his heart whole a week, if indeed, for the matter of that, he was not already head 6ver ears. §£ TO ft louring man in his way; not everybody's type of manly bwpty perhaps, but certain of admiration from those who relish a strong sea flavor and the color of many years and countless leagues of ocean in looks, speech and deportment He was  3$. fhe laugher that ever strained a rib In merriment, a genial, kindly man, with a keen, seawardly blue eye, weather colored face, short whiskers and rising in'his socks to near 6 feet I believe £0 yra§ (4 WeWl blood This was my first voyage with him. The rigorous (Usciplino of the quarter deck had held us apart, and all that I oould have told of him I have here written. Put what had the ghost thst had affrighted the Pane to do with this Harder? And how were Mrs. Bnrney's blandishment* and the short lived quarry betwixt the lovers to be associated with it? Nevertheless these matters rag In my bead as I walked the deck 09 {bo tnorhjng pf that crime, arid I woqght and thought, scarce knowing, however, in what direction imagination was leading. The two the seamen and the oaatteiiHttm arrived with their rejiorta They had nothing to telL The steward Aid stewardess had searched with the two mates in the saloon, or cuddy. Every cabin had been ransacked, with, the willing consent occupants.' The forecast and 'tween decks and steerage and lazaretto had been minutely overhauled. Every accessible part of the bowels of the ship had been visited (o no purpose. No.stowaway pfD any sort, no rag of eyifeiUM wr weapon to supply «leW was discovered. Recorder and hli deputies will be aa follows: Recorder Riehards, $4,000 a year, oh'ef Deputy. J. R Williams, $1,800; dep uties, E. W. Tompkins, $1,200; J H. Mil ier, $1,200; W. J. Perry, $1,200; David Dstvit, $900; Fred Ruodda, $900; Thomas Zakoeky, $900; Attorney, J. V. Brown ell, $100. FRANK J. CHENEY. • Sworn to before me and subsoil bed In my presence, this 6th day of Deoember, A. D. 1886. A. W. OLEASON, Death of William HeaL | SEAL. | The many friends of William Heal, son of Thomas Hsai, of Oregon Heights, will be grieved to learn of his death, which ooourred at the family home at 10:90 p. m. last Fridao. Deceased was twenty two years of age, and was a very estimable yonng man. His death ooourred nnder peculiar olroumitanots, which rendered It all the more sad. He was engag d as drivsr for William Diary, and had not been feeling well for some time put Reoently while handling a heavy barrel, It fell upon his side. It was thought at the time that he had not been injured, bat afterward he oom plained of pains In his sids, which oon tinned to grow worse until three weeks ago he was compelled to quit work. Slnoe New Year's day his ooudition has been serious. The Immediate causes of death were internal hemorrhages. The phyelo ian on attendance did not believe the In-, jury reoeived was suffiolent to oanae death, but said it probably aggravated the yonng man's previous ailment. Deoeased was a member of the Bethel Baptist Ohuroh, and was very aotive in church work and In the work of the various societies oonnected with the churoh. His untimely death la the sonrce of much sorrow to hla many friends. Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mnooos surfaces of the system. Send for testimo. nials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO . Toledo, O. far Sold by Druggists, 76c. "When do yon expect him?" "Every minute." •'gn? wb Aophoref'' "Certainly, will you walk Into the cuddy or on to the poop?" At a meeting of the directors of tha Ferry Bridge Co , held Thursday, a dividend of three par oent. waa declared from the earnings, payable on or after the 10th lnat., at the office of Joseph Hlleman, treasurer. Ohas. H. Foster, seoretary. That afternoon we buried tho body, and I took command of the ship. "Oh, We'll keep in the open—we'll keep in the open," cried thepentlomafl. with the impetuosity of a man rendereq Irritable by the heat "You'll have bad enough of the cuddy, Miss Le Grand, long before you reach the old country." She smiled. I liked her face then. It was a fine, glad, good hnmor**}  ani| |ier wOnderfu} eyes just though yCm a ghost in flesh, making the specter natural and cominonplaceI saw nothing of Miss Le Grand for two days. She cabin and was 8een, by the Stewardess, who wait- Mi upon her. At the expiration of that time I received a message and went at ooce to her berth. I never could have figured so striking a change in a fine of In so short a time as beheld. The fire bad died out # her eyes, auc} $(iU there lurked something weird in the very spiritless and dull and vacant sadness of her gaze. Her cheeks were hollow. Voder each eye rested a shadow *a though it was cast by fcrtten leaf. Her first words were, "Cannot yon find out who did it?" Nor did she ever recover h®r mind. She was landed sent at once to an asylum, where she died, God rest hpr poor soul, exactly a year after the paspir- away, in fact, at the Very hour tha deed was done, as I afterward heard. Jan. 4th, 1896. 6j-eod 8t-w2t A Minister's Experience With Heart A tew days \ater brought us into cold weather, This was followed by the ic« and conflicts of the Horn. We drove too far south, and for a week overy afternoon we hove to under a clot*) reefed main topsail foj fear of the tee throughout the long hours of antarctip blackness. We were in po, tepipw tC* think of ghfjsts, and yet, though no one had delivered tho news authoritatively, it had come by this wild, bleak time to be known that Captain Griffiths ftud Miss Le Grand were engaged. Mrs. Bur uey to]A so one duy in the cuddy, and with a wicked flash of her dork eye wondered that people could thiuk of making love with ioebergsclose at hand. for sopie time after we left Sydney nothing whatever noteworthy happened One quiet evening I came on deck at 8 o'clock to take charge of tho ship till midnight We were still in the temperate parallels, the weather of a true pacific sweetness, and by day the ocean a dark blue rolling breast pf water, feathering on every round of swell in soa flashes, out of *rhich would sparkle tho flying fish to ssil down the bright, mild wind for a space, then vanish in somo brow of brine with the flight of a silver arrow. Rev. L. W. Showers, Elderton, Pa.: "For many years my greatest enemy has been ocganio heart disease. From uneasinsss about the heart, with palpitation, it bad developed into thumping, flattering and choking sensations. Dr. Agnew's Care for the Heart gave Instant relief. ▲ few bottles have rid me of almost every symptom of heart disease. It Is a wonder worker." Bold at James Kane's. My earnest advice to pledge tinker* is, "Don't—Secretary Baer. //  THE END. ©UH GIRLS. Aa we ascended the poop ladder the gentleman asked me who I was quite courteously, though his whole paannpr was marked by a quality pf ffiilitarf abruptness. When he understood I was chief officer, he exclaimed I Feints For Eniftsnren. We trust tho advent of U-ap yciw will not seriously oniharraHS tho new woman movo- j mont.—Detroit Tribune. Boston, Lcwell and Woburn each reports a Greek Cbrietian Endeavor society.If tho bustle Is coming, tho ladies arc not making much fuss about it. (Jaa it be tliat they are losing Interest oven In what goes on UDhU(d their books? —Philadelphia TU"«*. Many of the Indian Christian Endeavor societies of the west are organized into a separate union called the Dakota Christiau Endeavor union. "Then, Miss Le Grand, permit me to Introduce Mr. Tyler to yon. Miss Georgina Le Grand in going home in your ship. She will be alone, (lagf placed her in the pari of the paptaln," "Perhaps," Bwid Miss Le Grand, with another of her fine smiles, "I ought to introduce you, Mr. Tyler, to my uncle. Colonel Atkinson." "No, madam Wo have tried hard— harder for the captain's sake than had he boon another, for the responsibility that rests upon the mastnr of an ocean going vessel makes h'Hl un object oi mighty significance, boliuvo me, to us •ailora." We have for sale at the Wyoming Valley Lumber Company yards, West Plttaton Canada Hard Wood Ashes of the best quality. Parties wishing to use a few tona for the spring crop will ao w«ll to o&ll on C F. Watrons, Jr., at the Lnmber Oo.'s offioe, who will sell yon any quantity required from a bushel to 30 tons. Special arrangements can be made for ear load lota. B. F. Mathxbs, Gen Manager, This uight tho moon was dark, the weather somewhat thick, the* stars pale over tho trucks and hidden in the obscurity a little way down the dunky slope of firmament. Wtnd sails were wriggling fore and aft like huge white snakes, gaping for tho tope and Yffitbing out of the htM'u* ' 1'be (Josh of rnset was dying wheu I came on deck, saw the captain slowly pacing the weather side of the poop with Miss 1A Grand. He seemed earnest in bi6 talk and gestures. Enough western light still lived to eqabta Ree faces, and { observed tbat Mrs. Burney, standing to leeward of a skylight talking with ft gentletnau, would glance at the couple with a satirical smile whenever they came abreast of her. DlrtD ftttt* Murs« Huddors says It is difficult to gut a woman to hold a broom  erly. It Is also beoomlng more and mugn difficult to gut a woman to hold a troofli at all.—New York Press. There is hope that Christian Endeavor will soon gain a foothold in the land of the czar. It was uo business of mine, and seemingly I gave tho matter no hoed, though I could find leisure and cariosity 6timtD- times for ap, planoe at the captain and bin beauty when they were at table or When the weather permitted the lady to come on deck, and their behavior left mo in very little doubt that he was deeply in love with be*. Vnt whether she was equally enamored of him 1 oopld not guess. "And Jesus increased In wlsdoia apd stature and In favor with God and man." Almost tho same words aroused of Samuol (I Sam U, SH3k and we think of David, of whom it is written that "David wnt on and grew groat (going and growing, margin), and the Lord God of Hosts VFttti with him" (II Sam. • v, 10). The Words of Ezuk. xll, 7, ait come to mind In reference to the daily life, fur we read there of an enlarging and a winding about, hut tt 1p always "still upward," and "by the midst" may "still upward" be our motto and "Jesus la the midst" oar inspiration."C. E.,"saysa Junijrworker in New Zealand, "stands for 'Children Especially. ' " The Stadiaj-Joplln Nuptials. The Chicago judges have resolved not to We*r wigs and gowns. And they are right. Wigs and gowns should be left to the new women who are so soon to oocupy the bench.—St. Louis Republic. evening, Dac. 31, at the home of the bride's fatheT, Jaaes Jopliog, at Inkeiman, occurred the marriage of his daughter Anna to Joeeph Stndley, of Phila delphia. Mendelssohn's wedding maroh waa sweetly performed upon the piano by Mrs. ffm. Rooke, when the ilbbon bearers, Graoe Bold, Ethel Walker, Edith Booke and Jennie Walker, nleoes of the bride, opened the proo eelonal way. Merrl t Lynde Harding acted as groomsman and Miss Sadie Jopllng as bridesmaid. The marriage rite was performed by Bev. Wil son lrlebe, of Wyoming, followng whloh hearty congratulations were ex tended by the guests who had the pleasure of being present and to whom also a dainty and bounteous collation was served. The briae was dressed in cream silk, with pearl trimmings, and with her affianced and attendants presented an exo sptlonally pretty bridal group. The rooms were handsomely deoorated with potted plants and evergreen. "But tho person who killed him must be in the ship," sho cried in a voice that wanted much of its old clear music Tho most northern society in Great Britain is one just organized on one of the Shetland islands. Again I pulled off my cap, and the colonel laughed as be lifted his wide "One should suppCise so, and ho is undoubtedly on board tho ship, but we V-ay't find him." If the good sisters of the church would contribute the cost of the vxtru number of yards of cloth put Into their dress sleeves to the cause of missions, the preachers yrould tiave little ur no trouble In raising their missionary collections.—Denmark (S, C.) Times. Kingston, Pa. The Rev. J. Carr Arnette of West Point is now state president of Mississippi.People seldom make the mistake of bo ng real estate in t« Pittstons or vicinity without first seeing me. A man lost $700 recently by not taking this precaution, as he paid that mnoh more for a property tD»»n he would have paid me for an adjoining one of equal value whloh Is yet fot sale, (tell and see about li I now have some very desirable homes and Investment properties at very low prioes. "Pid he ooinmit suicide?" "No; everylxidy is accounted for." The dates for the next International xmvention at Washington have been fixed as July 8 to 18. We beat clear of the latitude of roaring galea blind with snow, and mountainous ice islands like cities of alabaster in ruins, and seas ridging in thunder and foam to the height of our mizzon top, and goading north blew under wide wings of Btudding sails toward the sun, every day sinking some sou then) stars ofit of sight, and every night lifting above tho sou line some gem of. the heavens dear to northern eyes. "What motive," she exclaimed, with a sudden hugst of desperate, passionate grief, that wrung; bC!r like a fit from hojvd to. foot, "could any.ono have for filling Captain Griffiths? Ho was the gentlest, the kindest—oh, my heart, my heart I" and hiding her face sho rocked herself in her misery. FOREIGN FOLK. MOTHERS OF GREAT MEN. His Self Control. On tho whole, tt might help Abdul Hamad's case to plead tho insanity dodge. Otherwise he may be adjudged a fool or a Ifnave and be treated as such.—Baltimore Herald. Tho mother of Lord (jornwallls did not at first favor tho idea of a military ooreer for bor son. Bald this man. with an accent of pride, "1 can drink It or cost it aside." But tho fact that is rife Is, he drnnk it through life And he left it alone when hn died. G. B. THOMPWM. Bnt soon the night came down in darkness upon |he deep, the wind blew damp out bf the dusk in a long moan over the rail, heeling the ship yet by a couple of degrees; the captain sang out for the foro and mizzen royals to be clewed up and furled and shortly after ward went below, first handing Miss Le Grand down tho companion way. I tried my rough, seafaring best to soothe her. Certainly until this moment I never could have supposed her love for tne poor man was so great 1 Emperor William can never baa great ruler until he stops being jealous of Prlnoe Blsmarok, and Incidentally quits writing doggerel and painting mediocre pictures *-St. Paul Globe. Gibbon's mother was passionately fond of reading and uuoouraged her sea to follow her example. A False Dlacaoel*. Education and Crime. La grippe is oonfonoded by many persons with a severe attack of catarrh, which In some reepsets resembles the former. These individuals suffer severely with pain a boat the forehead, eyes and tats, with soreness in the throat and stoppage of the nas»l passages, and in faot, are incapacitated for work of any kind for days at a time. Theee are catarrhal sufferers. Ery's Cream Balm has been used with ths best results In snoh cases. The remedy will give instant relief. " Coleridge reverenced his mother. He onoe said, "A mother la a mother still, the holiest thing alive." There is no doubt that there is a relation between education and crime- British statistics show plainly enough for a blind man to see that the wider'tbu edilcatloiial privileges are the lower is the ratio of crime. Bow could It ye qltherwlso? A great many crimes are C*nrimltted by men who are because thoy have no resohreetfand don't know how to get a living. An education gives them opportunities. It makes them self reliant, and if they can't do one thing they do another. The temptation to lead a vicious life Is thereby weakened. The world Is a pretty bad world, and yet I believe that the men who prefer crime to vlrtuo are very rare exceptions. Nearly everybody would be reasonably honest If he had a fair show.—New York Herald. I went below at eight bells on a Friday morning when we were two months "out" from Sydney, as I very well renumber The ship had then caught the first of the southeast trade wind All was well when I left the deck I was awakened by a hand violently shaking my shoulder. I sprang up and found Robson, the seoond mate, standing be- Hide uty hunk He was pale as the ghost the Dane hsui described. Tho fear brod of this mysterious as Bftssinution lay in a dark and heavy shadow upon tho ship. None of us, pas songers or sailors, turned in of a night but with a fear of tho secret bloody hand that had slain the captain making ite presence tragically known onco more pefore tho morning. Said Pasha's bead Is level enough to know that an Invitation to Yildlz belongs to tho "Will you come Into my parlorf" variety. In consequence his cervical vertebral are likely to remain lntaot.—Philadelphia Press. Beethoven's mother was a stout, brisk, hardworking housewife, who seemed to have not a thought above her dally duties. | guessed the game was up with the worthy man. Ho had mot his fate and taken to it with the meekness of a sheep. He might do worse, I  as I started on a solitary stroll, so far as looks are concerned, but what of her nature—her character? It was puzzling to think of what sort of spirit it was that looked out of her wonderful eyes, find site was not a kind of girl that a man would care to leave ashore. So much beauty full of a subtle endevil ment of some sort, as it seemed to me, must needs demand the constant sen tineling of a husband's presence. That was how it struck ma "I oti\iht to intrrxlupp wow Mr, Tyler, to uncle, CoUmel A tkln*on." Straw hat. I guessed he laughed at a oertaiu naivete in the girl's way of introducing us. Machiavelll's mother gave him his first lessons in deceit—lessons that afterward bore fruit In the duotrlnes taught In "The Prlnoe." Niagara Engine Co. Officers. At the annual meeting of the Niagara' Engine Co., held Jan. 2, the following c ffioers were eleoted : President. John H. Mullln; vice president, C E Kuechel; recording secretary, L. Selbel, Jr.; assist ant recording secretary, C. F. MoOanna , financial seoretory, W. J Webber; treasurer, Oliver Burke; foreman, W. J. Walsh; first assistant foreman, P. J Gallagher; eeoond assistant foreman, Pe'er McDonnell; plpeman, Henry Kusohel; asListant pipemen, M. J. Sullivan, W. J. Earley and John Evans; board of controllers, John H. Mullln, E G Gage, B J P J G*ll*yher, W It happened one midnight, when wo wero something north of tho equator, in the oalms and stinging heat of tho in tertropio latitudes, that, having eomo on dock to relievo tho second ma to and take charge of the ship till 4 o'clock, I felt thirsty and returned to tho cuddy for a drink of water. Of tho three lamps oue only was alight and burned very dimly. There was no moonlight, but a-plenty of starshine, which showered in a very rippling of spangled silver through the yawning casements of tho skylights. Don Not Favor m Greater Bottom. Mayor Curtis expressed himself as op- Ewed to what is known as "greater oston" before the Boston Paper Trade association, at its first meeting of the season. "It strikes me," he said, "that Boston has little to gain in taking other towns and cities. The advantages they would gain in our water supply system and street system and other similar matters would almost entirely rest on their side. At the last session of the legislature they very kindly put npon Boston a new water system, in which this oitj will have to pay the greater share of the enormous expenfo. " — Boston Trrvn- Ollver Wendell Holmes was fond of talking about his mother, and often declared how much he owed to her core in training. Your Boy Won't live a Heath. The colCj»»"l was disposed to chat. Out of Engliu.A Englishmen are among the most talkative of the human race. Likely enough he wanted to interest me Jjj Mis* Le Grand because of my sitqlition on board. A chief mate is a considerable figure. If nuy mishap incapacitates the master, the chief mate takes charge. We walked the poop, the three of us, in the violet shadow cast by the BSBSW'fiRfcf captain was ooming. During this stroll to and fro the white planks I got these particulars, partly from the direct as- Co Mr. Oilman Brown, of 84 Mill St., South Gardner, Mass , was told by the doctors. His son had lung trouble, following typhoid malaria, and he spent three hundred and eeventy-five dollars with doctors, who finally gave him up, saying: "Your boy won't live a month." He tried Dr. King's New Disocvery and a few bottles restored him to health and enabled him to go to work a perfectly well man. He aaye he owes his preeent good health to use of Dr King's New Discovery, and knows it to be the b it In the world for lnng trouble. Trial bottles free at the flrng of "** P P '«•- P • -"'on, and (J U .•Hub, 'hi t llteluu. « "There's been murder done, sir," he cried- "The captain 'a killed." I stared at him like a fool and echoed mechanically and dully: '' Murder done I Caption killed I" Then, oollecting my wits, I tumbled into my clothes and rushed to the captain's oabin, where I found the doctor and the third mate examining poor Griffith's body. It was half past 8 o'olock in the morning, and the daylight strong, but none of the passengers was moving. The captain had lieou stablDed to the heart. The doc- The mother of Whltefield, the great pulpit orator, was a woman of high character. He always bore tribute to her Christian virtues. The mother of Miohacl Angelo was, In her way, as heroic a character us her son. He onoe said, "Whatever a man Is ho generally owes to his mother." Bare ef His Choir. A peppery parson down east, who was disturbed by his choir during prayer time, got even with them when he gave out his closing hymn by adding, "I hope the en* tire congregation will join In singing this jrrand old hyinn, and I know the choir * •• D 1 -an: "«r If during Byron's mother was an ill tempered, passionate woman, very indlsoreet in her language. She called him "a orlppled brat." Her lnfluenoe on him was as permanent as It was bud.—St. Louis Gloho- By 11 o'clock all was hushed throughout the ship—lights out, the captain turned* in, nothing stirring forward save the flitting shape of the lookout under tho Tuwu of the oalo sauarc of fore Just as I returned the tumbler to the rack whence I had removod it, the door of Miss Lo Grnnd's cabin was opened, ami tho will stei.xed forth. Slio wits ur J. Wa.L'U, I'Mtl *1 U Uiini tor said he hud been killed by u single lViniCioPktt