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The evening times., 1896-10-12
LOST AMONG The LIVING
Telegraph Operator Finds Himself
Sailor in Mii-0cean.
bad Been Sandbagged Near Hi Penn
syIvania Home and Lost All
Consciousness.

VIII. c>harrc, Fa., oct. 12.-On the 23d
Of Marco. S95, Jason l.. Miller, chief tel
egraph operator at the l. nigh Valley rail
road depot, disappeared as suddenly as
though the earth had swallowed him up
In course OF lime his family mourncd him
as dead Mrs. Miller and her two chill
dren were overioycd on Saturday 10 see
the husband and father walk into the
house The meeting was very pathetic
one.
Miller. who is a man about forty years
old, told a remarkable story. He says all
i blank To- him from the night he iisap-
peared in Wilkcsbarre until ten days age,
when he found himself ON board an English
merchant ship. He says ON the night he
disappeared he was passing an alley when
two men dragged him in and sandbagged
him. He could feel the men rifling his
pucEets. That was the last he remembered
and he gradually lost consciousness. He
tried To veil. but could not, and his tongue
seemed 10 I've paralyZcd.
He partially regaincd his senses some
time later on, and it seemed 10 him as
though he was being carried by strange
men. He again partially came To and found
himself in a box car loaded with iron east
ingS. 1t was bitterly cold III Sht and he
was nearly frozen. Again he became un.
Conscious and remembered nothing until
October / when he found himself on board
vessel inthe middle of the Atlantic OceIn.
He could not realize for hours that
was really So that he was on the ship FAR
away from the bosom of his family. He
went and looked in n mirror and there be-
held himself As he Cftrn had done before.
There was only one change and that was
that he was attired as a sailor.
His first thoughts Were of his wife aud
three children Then came back 10 him the
thoughts of that awful struggle in the
alley, when be was knocked down and
robbed. He stopped to think. Could ii
be possible that he had wandered away
from home and been lost to friends for
one year and six munths-lost, in fact,
among the living, and his relatives unable
20 find him? II was more like 4 dream
than anything else the longer he thought
oft
Miller found n card in his pocket on
which it was stated that he. Fred Cook,
W.. to serve Il . sailor on the English slip
from Liverpool 10 Philadelphia aud re-
turn and receive his buaId, clothing. and
2 shillingS for his services. The other
sailors bad known him Cook. When
the vessel reac. ed port Miller took the
first train for Wiikcsharre.
The evening times., 1896-10-12
PoST-SEASoN BASEBALL NOTES.

shortstop Ely has signed Fittsburg
contract.
Ho,ne-run Breckenridge. of the Brockton,
Mass club, Is no: on the BrocktopS' reserve
list Pittsburg has been after him. but has
nos signed MIN yet. Breck is u good man,
and would do well at first.
President Young is delayed in his work on
the annual official averages of the ma jor
leugue players. and several dilatory record
ers of official scores are responsible for the
delay. Those scorers have been notified re-
pea,cdiy by Mr.. Young to send their scores in
assoon as possible. no later than a week after
The end of the regular playing season, but
there are a large batch of scores yet to be
filed in Nick's office. In the meantime the
public general aud the pla yers inparticular
are awaiting anXiously the all-:mportant
averages.
Graceful indeed was the manner in which
the Clevelands said farewell to the Temple
Cup. The Leader says: The Cleveland
playerssaid farewell 10 the Temple Cup at the
Hollenden Hotel last evening At O'Clock
the players OF both clubs. together with
Messrs. Frank DeIIass Robinson and Harry
Vunderhorst. gathered about the bar, upon
which Mr.. Temples trophy WAS placed and
filled with champagne by tn Cleveland club
in honor of the team which has three times
won the pennant. and finally the cup. The
champagne was soon disposed of and the
Orioles took possession of their trophy"
The Scranton Baseball Association has
rcorsaniZed. W. G Parks was reelected
president; j. &. Shepherd, vice president;
II. I. Simpson, secretary and treasurer, and
these, with the addition of Thomas and
John ii Brooks, will he the board of direct
ors. One OF the fist things the association
did after reorganizing was to engage
SANDY" Griffin as mana ger of TIL club for
the season OF '97. and give him absolute
control oil the players. The Scranton Base
bail association made no money this year,
but that does not discourage the members.
for they know they have gained some adj
vapIages that viii mean money in the
future.
President killilea. OF the Mil waukce Club,
says: II never before appreciated the
justice of the board of arbitration, and now
feel assured that baseball manager or
owner having the righ on his side is sure 10
be sustained. Mr. Soden, of Poston, is a
very able man. honest aud just in his de-
cisionsI and Nick Young is not half ap-
The evening times., 1896-10-12
GOSSIP OF THE wHEELMEN.

A cycle yarn now ON a tour in England is
to the effect that William X. Vanderbilt ha S
tcp-lap cycle track on the deck of his
big yacht Vigilant.
Gauss, French road champion. while
training short time ago, colIided with n
wagon willie riding at rapid Face with
his head down, and fractured his skull.
Willis Troy says that Zimmerman Will
train for the '9T racing season, and If he
can get in good form he will ride, but he
will not ne seen on the track unless his
work is up to high standard.
The bicycle model is filling moro i'm
portant pnst in the big stores just now
than the cloak model. She is tile fair young
woman who sits on wheel and tries on
boomers, IeGgins. sweaters, waists and
skirts for her sisters who want to look
natty OH wheel
Battle Creek, Mich, boasts OF bicycle
forevcry family and Il tandem for every i4O
persons. The mayor, most of the city coun-
Gil. the police force, fircmen and all the
professionals in the city are represented Ill
the great army of cyclers- The city's
streets and roads are the. poorest in the
country, but the wheelncn are allowed to
ride on the sidewalks
Trainer Tom Aiken 81 Us that such affairs
as the s.x-day and twentyTfour-hour races
affect 4 man very much lie warned bert
Harding before lie went Ia Chicago that his
ride In the twenty-four hour event might
forever incapacitate him from doing any
good short distance riding. The chances
are, however, that it will cut but little fig
Ure in Harding case, as he is such Won
derfuny constituted fellow that no distance
or track seems to make any difference TO
him l7n
Howardsville, Nd, sthehome OF an infant
prodigy in the shape of CarrOllton McCol-
Tough, u three-ycar-old bicycle trick rider
Little Carrollton, attircd1n5a Iatty velvet
suit, and with a head of pretty golden curls.
presents pretty picture to spectators at
race meets when lie appears on his tiny
wheel. He thinks nothing of doing the
stand-still-hands on, rides backward. turns
his front wheel clear arouEt. while in motion
and numerous other tricks. For finale,
heusualIy W works up good sprint ,and climb
ing onto the saddle, stands erect with his
arms folded. and gracefully drops off back
wards in front OF tie center OF the stand.
THIS feat never fails TO bring rounds of ap-
paluse
The evening times., 1896-10-12
DAUNTLESS GOT AWAY.
FiiibuSt Ster Gave Revenue Cutters the
Slip and Landed Expedition.

Palm Beach, Fla, Oct. I2.-The eXpcdi-
| ton which left this place early Friday
mornln. On the steamer Dauntless WAS the
largest that has yet been dispatched to
Cuba from + lorida.
The Dauntless carried nearly 200 men
and four carloads OF arms and ammunition.
The mu nitions consisted of 1000 900
cartridges, l ,O0O shells for artillery, 500
machetes, 5000 rifles, l,200 revoIvers,
four Hotchkiss and five Mcnnite guns and
great quantity of dynamite and gunpow-
der.
The Dauntlcss left Jacksonville last Mon
day. escorted by the revenue cutter Bout
well. Once outside the marine limit, the
Dauntlcss showed her heels to the Bout we'll
and rapidly steamed southward, The cutter
following for a few miles and then return
ing to Jacksonville. Tuesday AFTERNOON
the Dauntlcss reached Bisca yne Bay, south
of here, where she dropped anchor.
Tie revenue cutter WineIa entered the
bay and came to in easy gunshot of the
Dauntiess. Thursday night a gale cane
Oh and the DauntleSs in the darkness gave
the cutter the slip and proceeded north
to t:,is place An hour after the Dauntless
anchored at the Palm Ecach pier a special
train came in from Jacksonvile over the
Florida East Coast Line and pissed TO the
rier where the filibusecr was waiting. Inc
train was laodcd with arms and men Tor
the Daunticss. BY O'Clock the M uDitions
and men were on hoard and the Dauntless
steamed away for Cuba.
Eight hours after tie DauntloSs had left
the cruiser r Newark from Jacksonville passed
here in quest Of her. hut the war'hip was
too late Late this afternoon gentleman
here who is in touch with he CuhinS re-
ceivcd word from Key West that the Daunt-
less had landed the men and arms just
before daylight this morning On the south
COZ st of pinar del Rio and was row headed
for American waters.
The evening times., 1896-10-12
IN HONOR OF vIRCHOw.
Scientists WIN Gather at Berlin u
Celebrate His BIRTHDAY.

Berlin, Oct. 12.-The scientists of the
world will gather here tomorrow to cele-
brate the seventy-fifth anniv crsary of the
birth OF the illustIious German physician,
Rudolph VirchOw. He was born OctoberI 3,
1921, at SchievelbeiD. small town in
PomeraDia. Details of his family and his
childhood, which would he very interesting,
are not available. Educated at the Gymna-
sium in Berlin. he left il at Easter, 1889,
to begin his medical studies, and was grad
uated from the University OF Berlin in S43-
The folio wing year he became assistantin
pathological anatomy To Frioriep; in S46
he was made prosecutor Of the Charlie
Hospital, and in 1s47 was appointed
The evening times., 1896-10-12
= HE MADE STONES PAINT.
Centennial Celebration of the Inven-
tiOn of Lithography.

New York, Oct. II. .-AIois seDefelGer the
inventor OF littography, will be publicly
hunored onthe occasion OF the one hundreith
anniversary II lis invention. A circular
has been sent out by a committee, OF which
Joseph X. Keogh is chairman and Ernest
Lauckhardt secretary, In which 1t was said
that the celebration would take the form
Of an exhlbitionOf all the different products
Of lithography. comprising the history and
growth Of art from its birth To the present
day, illustrated by. specimens and prints
from the earliest date and from all civil
lied countries.
The exhibition will take place two days,
beginning next Friday, and in the course OF
The evening times., 1896-10-12

preciated. lie is a credit 10 the National
League, at the head Of which he has stood
so many years, and is the soul of honor. In
the hands of these men feel assured that
the national game is safe, and that the
franchises now held in tie We>tcrn Lea que
are perfectly safe so long as the national
agreement is Observed
The evening times., 1896-10-12
Arti,leryman Convicted of Theft.

George ID. Webster. a. private III tEe
Fourth United States Artillery Stationed
at the Arsenal, was convicted OF thcit IN
Judge Miiler's police court to-day lie ap-
peared in the dock attired IN styiish.t i"tn'S
and pleaded guilty to the charge. Webster
was arrested by Policeman kilmartin upon
complaint OF Mary Clark, colored, " no keeps
house at Thirtcen-and-i-ha'fan and Dsireeis
northw est. She said the artiilerNman .iah
stolen l; finger ring from her vGlned at
SO. The ring was found on the soldier.
He was fined SO or thirty days In iti!.
The evening times., 1896-10-12
T., Resist rynan's Extraditio

London. Oct. 1.-THE Morning Post pub
lislies dispatch from Paris saving that
at the next meeting of the cabinet NJ Dar-
Ian. minister of justice, will recommend the
re action Of the British demand for the eX-
,rad, ion of Patrick J. lyman, the alleged
dvna.nitcr. who is now under arrest at Bou-
ioGne-S Sur Mcr.
The evening times., 1896-10-12
krup,, Makes a Grea, Discovery

NTUIIS -NUhtS u UTcstt p1SCUNcTy'
London, oct. 12-The Chronicles Ber-
lin corresponding teiesrapiis that 1t is
stated that there is remarkable activity
being displayed at the Krupp gun works
at Essen. owing to an Invention which
greatly increases the power and dura-
bility of guns. Emperor William will
shortly visit the works aud. inspect the
Invention.
The evening times., 1896-10-12
HAIL TO THE SHAH.
New Ruler of Persia to BE Crow ned
In State

Tehcran. Persia, Oct l2.-The coruna-
tiUn Of the new shah, which win soon take
place, will b. one OF the most memorable
events that have occurred in this part of
the East for many years The new shah
gets his place by virtue Of the assassD's
ballet.
on Nay l last year Shah Nasr-ed-DiD was
killed while drivin. in carriage to the
tombmosQue OF Shah Abdul sun, place
ofpiIgrimIge a Tehcran. The assassin was
a folio wer OF the sect of the Ba bis. His sue
The evening times., 1896-10-12
A STATEMENT.

The general excellence which distinguishes
our bottled beers is not due to good mate
rias alone, or to the skill with which they
converted into the amber fluid, but in a
measure to the great care which is exercised
in bottling.
If exposed to change Of temperature, beer
will suffer. Our beer is bottled at the
temperature at which it leaves the vaults,
thereby insuring that vivacity and perfect
condition for which it is justly celebrated.
Champagne Lager per of "a pints. ST. 90
eIivered IL unie ieredw Phone
Washington Brewery Co., FOURTH AND SIS. NE
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hi AIax s...m strnnco.

But IL is true, that the Times Real Estate
Bureau can sell YOU q corner house ON
Columbia Hcghts-10 rooms, bath and
ccilar-for S2,TO0 less than 1t was built
tn sell for.
The evening times., 1896-10-12
METHOD OF PREVENTION
Health Officers Plan for Pub
lie Disinfecting Service.
HIS REASONS ELABORATED

Argument Advanced That the Work
Should Be Done by Experienced Of
ficials-Suggestion of Danger to the
Public Where Infected Premises
Are Not Properly Cared For.
The evening times., 1896-10-12
shot Hissw.e,heart and Himself.

St Louis, Mo-, oct. l2.-At lZ:3" CLOCK
this morning Phillip thinner, black
smith. fatally shot Celia NetZ, his sweet
heart, ut her home. No. I23 Polk street; shot
his sister slightly and then committed sui
eide by shooting himself through the heart.
His body is at the morgue. thinner and his
sister called on the dead girl, and quarrel
over another young woman led to the
tragedy.
The evening times., 1896-10-12
Pure Old Berkshire Rye.

Highly recommended for medical rsc-A
fun quart, 5uc full pint. 25c full balf-pint
sc.d only by ]. 4 q. BCSHs
SCI Seventh street ". W.
The evening times., 1896-10-12
MORRIS PARK TOMORROW
Racing Drawing to a Close in
the East.
SOME OF THE STAKE EVENTS

Attractive Program Arranged, and the
Best Horses I'm Training VIII he
Seen for the La st Time This Year.
Belmar Likely to Lead the Han
dIcap Hor ses.
The evening times., 1896-10-12

What DO Sou Think
OF a Groom brick for 81 800. We have
i;. The Times Real Estate Bureau.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16
Where Are tho Benehts9

If so cent silver dollars should double
the prices of farm products, it is quite
as certain that the prices Of all the
products which the farmer consumes
would double in the same way. In that
case it is not easy to see how the farmer
would gain anything by the free coinage
of silver. Even the wages of labor, the
last to rise in an epoch of deprecated
currency and inflated prices, would
finally, after much distress of the work
ingmen, straggle up to the common
level.
But whether the farmer should re-
ceive 800 for 100 bushels of wheat and
pay OUT 800 for the necessaries Of living
or should receive 5000 for the same
wheat and pay out $3.50, in both cases
the balance on hand would have Just
the same purchasing power. But in &C.
complishing the degradation of the
monetary standard, which could do
neither the farmer nor the wage Garner
any good, an enormous depreciation of
values and confiscation Of accumulated
earnings, involving public and private
credit in a maelstrom of destruction,
would inevitably ensue. Are the farm
ers and workingmen of the country will
ing to invoke such a catastrophe?-
Philadelphia Record.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16
GEMS.

An extreme rigor is sure to arm every
thing against it.
Better be i'll spoken of by one before
all, than by all before one.
Nature has appointed the twilight as a
bridge to pass US out of night into day.
Genius may, and often does, require an
interpreter; but love speaks a language
which all can understand.
Do good constantly, patiently and
wisely, and you will never have cause to
say that life was not worth living.
A crowd is not company, and faces are
but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a
tinkling cymbal where there is no love.
Mind, it is our best work that God
wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion.
l think He must prefer quality to guam.
tity.
1t is always best to avoid controversy
with two kinds of people those who can
not understand you and those who will
not.
The happy are those who possess their
own souls, whose attitude toward life and
their fellow men is firmly chosen and
faithfully preserved.
The man who is in the highest state of
prosperity, and who thinks his fortune
most secure, knows not if it will remain
unchanged till the evening.
Great soals attract sorrows as noun
tains do storms. But the thunder clouds
break upon them, and they thus form a
shelter for the plains around.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16
A LETTER.
BY MARGARET E sANasTRR.

1t seemed so little, the thing you did
just to take the pen in your hand
And send the warm hearts greeting, hid
Meath the common two-cent stamp of the
land.
But over the mountains and over the plain.
And away DER the biIlowy prairies went
Til small, square letter, to soothe the pain
OF one who was fretted with discomfort.
She was ill and tired; the long, hot day
Had worn itself to the merest shred;
The last of light. as it ebbed away,
Fell on her patient needle and thread.
A ado came flying across the space
Where the fading sunlight filtered through.
There was just the CLEAN of a sweet young
face,
And a voice said, "Here is a letter for YOUR,
The quick tears blurred in a sudden mist,
But she brushed them away, and then she
smiled.
And you should have seen how she kissed
and kissed
The postman's ~circlet, like a little child.
Why. the name brought back the long ago
When she dressed in her best afternoons,
When she found it a pleasure to set and sew,
And her seams were hemmed to tripping
tunes.
Poverty, change and drudgery
OF work that goes on without an end,
Had fettered the heart that was light and
free,
Till she'd almost forgotten she had a friend,
The people at home so seldom write,
Her youth and its pleasures lie all behind:
She was thinking bitterly but last night
That out of sight is out of mind.
Now, here is yourletter! The old hills break
Beyond these levels fiat and green,
She thrills to the thrush as his flute notes
wake
In the vesper hush of the woods serene.
She sits again in the little church,
And lifts her voice to the choir once more.
Or stoops for a tour-leafed clover to search
In the grass that ripples up to the door.
1t was very little it meant for you
An. hour at best when the day was done;
But the words you sent rang sweet and true,
And they carried comfort and cheer to
one
Who was needing to feel q closing hand,
And to hear the voices she used to hear.
And the little letter, the breadth of the
land,
Was the carrier dove thai brought home
near.
Youths Companion.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16
Evil Speaking.

/. / will speak no unkind or harsh word
of anyone.
g.. will repeat no unkind remarks 1
hear of anyone, and discourage others. as
much as possible, from saying unkind
things.
3. I will judge my neighbors leniently,
remembering that my own faults are pro.
badly far greater.
a. l will never say one thing to others,
and yet think quite differently. This ID
hypocrisy. deceive no with thu lips.'
81 will make no injurious remarks on
the failings of others. remembering these
words, "Consider thyself, lest thou also
be tempted"
6. l will put the best construction on
the motives and actions of all my neigh
bors.
4. will act unselfishly, peaceably, and
forgivingly, obeying my Masters COM
mand, "Love one another 1.-THE Rssby.
terrain ReuieW.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16
50 44oo PURE
THE AFTERGLOW.
BY DAVIS.

IT'S a witching time when the sun has set
And the cattle homewurd go,
Across the meadows, dewy wet,
In the twilight atterglow.
A hush falls over all the land
As the softly fading light,
Like the lingering clasp OF a friendly hand
Bids the old world goodnight"
A nameless something fills the air
That seems to promise rest
To weary hearts, bowed down with care,
And souls with grief oppressed.
Fen as the roseate western skies
Give promise of new day,
So hope the minds horizon dies,
And trouble flee away.
In that mystic time, when day and night
Mingle and meet as one,
When they seem to pause in their restless
flight
At the gates of the setting sun,
Then the world seems touched with &
wizards wand,
And above, around, below,
In a glory that never a painters hand
Was given skill to show.
All nature seems TO wear a smile
Beneath that witching spell,
And fancies bright our minds beguile
That tongue nor pen may tell.
Lite is a symphony divine,
That no discord doth know
In hat tangled wool of shade and sh line
h twilight afterglow.
Each life will have its afterglow.
And in that hour so dread,
w hen these who sOtt1v nonoa opd oo
Shall whisper II is dead"
May the light OF kindly actions lone
nlumine mem'ry's sky,
And clothe the path of our last sun
With immortality.
-ChicnOO Record