half-dozen such ‘dirty rascals as you
are.”
“Silence, woman !”’ thundered the
Tory, in a commanding voice, “and do
our bidding-" “I'll soon give you some-
thing to cook,” leveling his carbine as
he spoke, and bringing down a plump
turkey gobbler that wasstrutting along
under cover of the garden wall. “There
now go and pluck that fine fellow, my
beauty, and don’t be long about it, or
we might be ‘tempted to serve you in
the same way.
Leah, who had shrank timidly into
a corner, started up in alarm when
she heard this threat, and made her
way out to the spot where the bird
had fallen:
Randolph Darell, alarmed at the
shot, was just on the point of dashing-
out ot his cover to the rescue of the fe
males, when he saw his affianced rush
out, and bear the turkey hastily to the
house.
In a moment he divined the cause of
the firing ; and not apprehending any
immediate danger to his sweetheart, so
long as the Tories were only anxious to
appease their appetites, he went back
to Iris cover.
The quick eye of the Tory leader
took in the graceful outlines of the
fair girl’s figure, 2s she rushed from
the house.
“By the beard of King George |” he
exclaimed, admiringly, “who ’ould ’ave
hexpected to see such ahangel in petti-
coats ‘ere. Came my lass, and give
us one kiss from the rose-bud of a
mouth.”
“You dare to lay your cowardly
hand on my Leah,” cried the enraged
mother, doubling up her great, bony
fist, “and I'll strangle you like a cur!”
“Why, you squint-eyed old beauty,”
retorted Tory, mockingly, “I took you
for a bangel, but I find you are wick-
eder than a she wolf with whelps!”
The rest of the gang laughed boister-
ously at this weak attempt at wit.
Then turning to Leah with a gallant
smile, the Tory inquired how long it
would take to pluck and cook the fowl.
Leah answered in a modest tone of
womanly anxiety, that it would require
at least three hours to serve it to their
liking.
“But,” she added, in a tone of con-
ciliation, “we have a piece of roast
pork and some cold potatoes and corn-
cake in the pantry, 1If they will
answer.”
The hungry party, who had been
seme hours fasting, declared that the
articles named were good enough that
they would forego the turkey on this
oecasion for her sake.
With great alacrity, but an anxious-
ly beating heart Leah spread the
hemely board, aud brought forth the
promised viands, which she laid out
temptingly before them. She then
placed what chairs and stoolsthe house
afforded around the table, and politely
invited her unwelcome visitors to be
seated.
Complying with her invitation, the
Tories carelessly stacked their carbines
near an open window, and seating
themselves at the tale, fell to greedily
devouring the repast.
Mrs, Hart, in the meantime, with a
heroism superior to her sex, had watch-
ediber hungry guests till she was not
observed by them, when she slipped
out slyly from their midst, and noise-
lessly approaching the open window,
she succeeded in drawing out three of
the carbines before her litde game was
discovered. .
The moment the Tories perceived the
deadly purpose of the giantess, the three
nearest the window sprang to their feet
in terrified astonishment.
“Stand back !” she cried, in a threat-
ening tone, presenting one of the loaded
carbines with an air of resolute determi-
nation. “The first villian of you that
stirs & step, I'll shoot ; and the first one
that touches another mite of that pork
I'll blew his brains out !”’
Without heeding her blazing eye, or
her stern verbal warning, the Tory
leader sprang fearlessly toward the
stack of arms; but before he counid
reach them there was a report of a car-
bine, and the advancing ruffian fell to
the floor, while the slug, which had
passed eatirely through his body struck
Bellefonte, Pa, November 14, 1890.
AUTEMN DREAMS,
BY:PAYARD TAYLOR.
‘When the maple turns to crimson,
And the sassafras to gold;
When the gentian’s in the meadow
And the aster on the wold;
When the moon is lapped in vapor,
And the night is frosty cold ;
When the chéstnut burrs are opened,
And the scorns drop like hail,
And the drowsy air is startled
With the thumping of the flail—
With the drumming of the partridge,
And the whistle of the quail;
Through the rustling woods.I. wander,
Through the jewels of the year,
From the yellow uplands calling,
Seeking her who still is dear;
She is near me in the Autumn,
She, the beautiful, isinear.
Through the smoke of burning Summer,
When the weary wings are still,
I can see her in the valley,
I can hear her on the hill,
In the splendor of the Woetllands,
In the whisper of the rill.
For the shores of earth and Heaven
Meet and mingle in the blue;
She can wander down the:glory
To the places that she knew,
Where the happy lovers wandered
In the days when life was true.
So I think when days are sweetest,
And the world is wholly fair,
She may sometimes steal'uzpon me,
Through the dimness of the air,
With the eross upon heribosom,
And the amaranth in her hair.
Onee to meet her, ah | to-meet her,
And te held her gently fast
Till I blessed her, till she blessed me—
That were happiness at last,
That were bliss beyond our meetings
In the Autamn of the past.
a ——r—————
A DETERMINED WOMAN.
BY MAURICE. 8KINGSBY.
In one of the back settlements of
South Carolina, in the days which ren-
dered the name of Marien, and other
heroes, forever glorious in the annals
of their country, dwelt a brave and de-
voted family of patriots, named Hart.
Abijah aud Abigail Hart were scarce-
ly past the prime of lite, although they
had been blessed with a large family
of children, only three oi whom, how-
ever—two boys and a girl—had sur-
vived the common ills incidental to
childhood.
The elder son would have been two
and twenty bad his life been spared ;
but eight mouths, before he had fallen
an innocent victim to the rage and
malice of the Tories, who swarmed in
predatory bands throughout this sec
ne.
Upon these murdering wretches, who
had thus wantonly deprived them of
their eldest born, at a time when he
might have been of inestimable service
to them, the father and mother, and
only remaining eon, Silas, now in his
nineteeth year—afterward the celebrat-
ed Indian fighter of Hardin ‘County,
Kentucky—swore to be revenged,when-
ever and whereever an opportunity
should offer to.srreak their vengeance.
Leah, their second remaining off-
spring, was a beautiful and warm-heart-
ed maiden of seventeen, andthe affianc.
ed bride of Randelph Darel, a brave
Young officer, at ove time upon the
staff of General: Marion.
Young Darell-was in the habit now
and then, whenever he could make an
excuse to obtain a furiough, of paying
a flying wisit 1to ¢ Gam-Tree. Farm, the
humble, though comfortable, home of
the Hants:
On one of these eccasious & party. of
seven mounted (Tories purssed him
nearly the the entire distanee*from the
American camp tothe residenes of the
Harts, he, however, contrived to elude
them in a piece ofwoods just before
reaching che farm.
An abraptikend inthe road had fav-
ored him, and the Tory rangers, not
dreaming of this adroit move .on the
part of the flying ‘fugitive, dashed fu-
riously on till they .came to the farm-
house, where they ‘tumultuousky de-
manded of Mrs. #Tart,.who was etand-
ing in the door-way, if she had-seen a
horseman pass by who wore ‘the (uni-
form of an Ameriean officer.
The womaa shrewdly enrmised.who
that officer might be.who would be
coming along in dhat direction, and
promptly inquiged iif the harse he rede
was a sorrel ome. To her seemingly
careless question the Tories promptly
gave an affirmative maply.
“Then he has rid into the swamp
yonder, by a cartpath that leads on to,
the Beechknoll road,” answered fhe}
quick-witted woman, with an ,admira-
ble presence of mind, asd an .apparent-.
ly cool indifference to the subject,
which carried instant eonviction to the
minds of the Tories, who again spur-
red on in supposed puurswit of the fu-
gitive; but, to their great disappoint.
ment, the cart-road presently tenminat-
ed in a beg, and, on a careful examina-'
tion, they discovered that mo other:
tracks had been left there but those of
their own animals.
“He must have taken (o the ticket,”
said the leader, after fully satisfying
his mind on ¢he subject. There is no |
use at all in eating the ground farther
dor he has had ample time, already, to
escape. We may as well make a vir-
‘the of necessity, and go back und see
‘what is to be got of the squiat-eyed old
woman at the farm hoase in the way of
eatibles. Bntisa’t shea bigone in
size though !”
“And uglier-looking than sin, thua-
derin’ sight I” added one of the meu.
The Tory horsemen now wheeled
about and retraced their way to the
farm-house, which was only a short
distance, just as Randolph Darell was
on the point of emerging from the
wood ; but luckily he diecovered them
in season to escape their notice, by ab-
ruptly retreating back again under
cover.
Aligliting once more at the door of
the farm-house, the Tory leader order-
ed Mrs. Hart to prepare dinner for the
party, and bestir herself:
“How can I give you dinner when
I've nothing to cook 2" retorted the re-
eolute-looking woman, angrily, 4]
should need a full )arder to satisfy a
at the table, killing him instantly.
ing situation, made a reckf®ss attempt
to get possession of one of the carbines
aud instantly paid the penalty with his
life.
Throwing the second empty carbine
aside, Mrs. Hart caught up the third
one, with which she now covered what
remained of the terrified party.
There were but four left, and not one
of the four dared to move a finger.
“Leah blow the dinner-horn I” cried
the mother, in a tone of resolute triump
“tis safe now to call in Silas and your
father.”
T'he young girl, half terrified out of
her wits, promptly obeyed the materral
command, and adong, winding blast
echoed and re-echeed through the in-
tervering woods.
She had left the house and joined
her mother on the outside before she
essayed to blow it, as she lowered the
horn from her lips now rendered color-
less from her recent fright, her anious
eyes were bent in the direction of the
distant cornfield, where ker father and
aud brother and a faithful negro ser
vant were at work, although a narrow
belt of timber stretched between them.
She uttered a quick exelamation of
joyous pleasure, forat that moment she
saw all three strike out ofthe wood and
start ou a rapid run toward the house.
Hearing the first shot that had been
fired and then alarmed by the other
two which had followed in such ramd
succession, they canght np their loaded
carbines and started on a run from the
ficld where they were then at work.
The moment they had quitted the
timber they saw at a glance by the sev-
eral horses hitched tothe fence and the
belligerent attitude of the heroic gian-
at the window, pretty nearly how mat-
ters stood at the house, and they all
three sent up an encouraging shout to
the woman,
Just at this point they heard the
ringing sound of a horse's hoofs in an
another in the temple, who was seated | ;
| sands of dollars’
ird, I pe
2 GS onjereides pi neg ay athletically built man, and is possessed
opposite direction, and turning sudden-
i ly, Leah beheld her lover dashing fur-
This addi-
iously toward the house.
tional reinforcement, coming #0 oppor-
tunely, yet so unexpectly, filled the
‘heart of the timid maiden with iccreas-
ed confidence,
“Oh, mother !” she burst out, excit-
edly ; “Randolph is coming—see ! He
is just leaving thewood. Isn't it lucky
for him to come just at this time, when
we had no reason to expect him ?”
“I expected him,” said Mrs. Hart,
with quiet assurance. “I knew it was
he the Tories were in pursuit of, and I
was determined to outwit them, if it
lay in the power of 2 woman to do it.
Everything has turned out for the best
for had Lieutenant Darell ridden
straight here, instead of lingering in
the wood, as he did, he would douth-
less have been captured, and perhaps
murdered beford our eyes. So you see
my girl, the ways of Providence are
better than our ways, for they always
turn out for the best in the end.
In another moment Randolph Darell
had alighted at their side, and in the |
next, the blushing and happy Leah
was enfolded in his manly embrace.
While the lovers were thus pre-occu-
pied, Abijih, Silas and the negro ar-
rived, fearfully excited and wholly out !
of breath,
Silas recovered first, and was about
to shoot down one of the Tories, when
his mother resolutely interfered-
“Don’t sh oot them! Leave them to
me, Silas. I will mete out their puau-
nishment to them. We haven't for-
gotten Eben’s murder yet, and shooting
is too good for 'em. We will just hang
them likea pack of dogs,the whole cow-
ardly kitof them Get the clothes] ine,
Leah ; we can afford to cut it on such
a righteous and heaven sent occasion 1”
Randolph shuddered, for he under-
stood the determined character of the
woman and knew that she would not
be long in putting ser terrible threat
into execution Nor, indeed, was she;
for within the ensuing hour, ir spite of
their prayers and protestations, the
bodies of the four Tories went dang-
ling from the nearest tree. And thus
at the hand ofa resolute and heroic
mother, was the death of a beloved son
simply and satisfactorily avenged.
After the Tories had hung a suffi-
cient time, they were cut down and
tumbled indiscriminately, with the
other three, into one common grave.
Shortly after this eveut, Leah and
Randolph Darell were happily united
in wedlock ; and soon after the close
of our glorious Revolution, the whole
family emigrated to Hardin County
Kentucky, where they could have, as
Mrs. Hart expressed it, more. “elhow
room,” if less civilization.— New Yorfk
Weekly.
Wealthy But Insane.
Millionaire Lehman's Luxurious dpart-
ments in Bloomingdale Asylum.
Descending to the first floor the lock-
ed doors on the right of the parlor open
upon the private suit of apartments, oc-
cupied by the insane Chicogo millionaire
KE. J. Lehman. Mr. Lehman was and
is still the proprietor of the biggest re-
tail dry goods store in Chicago.
Mr. Lehman is suffering from a form
of paresis, and although he is but 42
years old there is not the slightest hope
ot his recovery. He lives like a king in
his apartments, and his family pay for
the luxuries with royal liberality.
He has three apartments, which occupy
all the right side of the house on the
lower floor. For these rooms and board
alone he pays $150 a week. Then he
has three special attendants who keep
with him night and day, These cost
$42 a week additional.
He keeps his horses and carriages and
rides out once a day One of the attend-
ants does the driving, while the other
two sit on either side of him. For the
many other luxuries he enjoys Mr. Leh-
man pays in all $400 a week. He pays
more than any other inmate of the asy-
lum.
While at times he is quiet and pleas-
ant Mr. Lehman is one of the wildest
men in the asylum when an insane fit
strikes him, Itis because of this that it
is necessary to keep three attendants
watching him. He Dis smashed thou-
worth of furniture
since his incarceration. He is a tall,
of enormous strength when he becomes
wild. Although his three attendants
are all athletes they have great difficulty
in holding him at times.
While hesleeps in one ‘of the small
rooms an attendant sits at his bedside and
watches all night, while the other two
sleep in the large room a few feet distant
In addition to the usual iron gratings
vn the windows several iron bars have
been placed. Several times a week the
Chicago Millionaire tries to break out of
the rooms, He has almost wrenched
the iron gratings from their places, and
on one occasion almost succeeded in
climbing up the wall to the glass tran-
som above the top of the door and break-
ing through. To guard against a repe-
tition of this the glass has been removed
and wooden boards have been nailed in
its place.
About once a month Mr. Lehman's
wife comes on from Chicago to see her
husband. Sometimes ehe brings one of
her four children with her, She is not
permitted to speak to him or allow him
to see her.
While shestands in one part of the
grounds he is driven past her in his car-
riage, and in this way she is enabled to
catch a brief glimpse of his face.
In his rational moments Mr. Lehman |
talks to his attendants about his wife
and children. He says that he has the
sweetest family in the world and that
they all love him.
In his parlor Mr. Lehman has a hand-
somely carved organ. He is very fond
of music and is a musician of no insig-
ficant skill, He plays upon the organ
at times half the day and completely en-
chants the other inmates of the house.—
New York Journal.
The new Masonic Temple in
Chicago is to have eighteen stories, and
the roof will be 240 feet from the pave-
ment. The grounds dimensions will be
117 by 114 feet. The structure will be
built principally of steel.
How the Census is Taken in Europe.
Census taking in Prussia dates from
the time of Frederick William II. The
Prussian census of to-day is very exact |
and complete. It is tuken by civil of-
ficers in one day by means of printed
schedules. The first cersus in Austria
was taken in 1754, and for 100 years
was taken every three years for military
purposes only. In Sweden the science
of statistics has been particularly culti-
vated, and Belgium ranks among the
first nations of the world in complete-
ness of its national statistics. In Italy
the returns of this character are very
complete, the range of inquiries having
been greatly extended. The movement
of the population is determined from
civil registers kept by the municipal au-
thorities In Turkey enumeration is im-
per.eci, the chief object of taking it be-
ing to provide a basis for taxation and
conscription. In France the first cen-
sus of which records are extant was taken
in 1700.
Of course, as in everything pertaining
| to statistics, work of that kind is thor
{ough in France. The first census of
| Great Britian was taken in 1801, and
{ embraced the sex bat not the age, of all
i subjects. The families and occupations
were ciassified, so as to exhibit the num-
ber employed in agriculture, in trade
and manufactures or handicrafts and
those not comprised in the classes.
Blanks or householders’ schedules are
left all over the kingdom by an army
of enumerators, and these are required to
be filled upon the night of April 2nd,
and are collected by the enumerators
the following day. The police assist in
enumerating the houseless population.
The army and navy are returned by the
naval and military authoriues.
EE
A Tipsy Grasshopper.
“I performed an experiment the other
day,’” said a man, “which was undoubt-
edly cruel, but which was highly enter-
taining to me. I was sitting on my ve-
randa sipping a mint julep, and had
just placed the glass on a stand when a
grasshopper cooly jumped into the glass.
I left him there to enjoy the julep, as
long as he had jumped my claim. He
seemed to like the drink as well us most
julep drinkers do, and would dip one of
its legs into the liquid and then place it
in his mouth. Mr. Grasshopper repeat-
ed this operation until he began to get
rather foolish. He was pretty groggy
when I fished him out and set himdown
upon the smooth table. He tried to
walk, but seemed to find this rather
difficult. He was so drunk that I fan-
cied I could see him leer at me. His at.
tempts to hop were simply ludicrous.
His feet went in all directions, and he
finally rolled over as if to go to sleep.
When he got up again he was unsteady
on his legs, and gravely felt of his head.
I took a drop of the julep on a piece of
mint and placed it near his mouth, He
turned away as if in disgust and stag-
gered across the table, failing to the ve-
randa and making a wild attempt to
keep in the air. My shout of laughter
brought out my wife, who declared that
I was a brute, and took the drunk and
disorderly grasshopper and carried him
out into the grass, where I suppose he
fell into a drunken slumber.”
: re ————
. The Kind She Wanted.
Katie lives in the suburbs of Boston
and her small head is not infrequently
badly mixed upon things that relate to
the difference between the ways of the
town whereshe lives and the ways of
Boston. She has alwas a great scorn,
however, for having things different
from city fashions, and this shows itself
in the most unexpected ways.
Not long ago a traveling photograher
came along and established himself not
far from her father’s house, and her
mother decided to improve the opportu-
nity to have some pictures of the chil-
dren taken.
“Come Katie,” she said one morning,
after it had all veen talked over before
the child, who had made no comment
whatever, “go to nurse and get on your
things and come with baby and me to
have your tintypes.”
But Katie drew back.
“No, mamma. dear,” she said, grave-
ly; «if you will excuse me, I won't
have any tintypes taken. I'll wait, it
you please, till you can take me to town
and get a real telegraph of me.
——————
Gold Plowed Up.
Nicholas Boswein, ar old German
farmer, while plowing in his field near
Portsmouth, Ohio, recently, turned up a
heavy, rust-eaten iron lid, beneath
which was a vessel containing $3,000
worth of Spanish gold coin, most of
which bore dates over 100 years old. No
living soul can tell the how it got there.
It may have been buried by one of the
early French settlers, who was afterward
killed or driven away by the Indians.
Some years ago strange parties were in
this vicinity digging in (different places
after night,
It was ascertained that they had a
chart of mysterious directions, which
had been left by a man convicted of
highway robbery, who died in the
Ohio penitentary a great many years ago,
after having confessed to having buried
stolen money in the vicinity. So far as
known the strangers never succeeded in
finding the object of their search. Tris
may have been the treasure. At any
rate Mr. Boswein is some $3,000 richer
by the accidental work of his plow.
BAkEp ArPLE DuMPLINS.—One
quart flower, three large teaspoonsful
| baking powder, one-half teaspoonful salt
| mixed well together. Add one large
tablespoonful of butter and enough
sweet milk to make a soft dough. Roll
lout nto half-inch pieces. Peel and
quarter some good tart apples. Put
each quarter on a square of dough,
sprinkle over it sugar, and press the
edges firmly together. Place in a deep
| pan, sprinkle over sugar and a little
cinnamon and put a bit of butter on
(each. Fill the pan with water (boiling)
just leaving top of dumplings uncovered
Serve with sweetened cream or hard
sauce.
TE ——————
After spending two or three
months and hundreds of dollars in liti-
gation as to the ownership of a dog, two
Chicago gentlemen are now advertising
for the dog which has mysteriously dis-
appeared.
The Stimulus of Debt.
An Incentive to Save Will Make Any-
one Independent.
A young carpenter, with wife and
| three ~ children, became tired paying
house rent. His savings amounted to
$100. He purchased a lot in the village
for $300, going in debt $200. This was
four years ago, He erected a small
house the first season and moved into it.
Hecontinued building until now he has
a nice large house, an excellent poul-
try house, and a work shop. His real
estate is worth $3,000, and he is entirely
out of debt. Hedid every bit of labor
with his own hands, evento laying the
basement wall and painting the struc-
ture; meantime he labored at his trade
every day his employer could give him
work. His own work was done morn-
ings and evenings and at odd spells.
This is a notable example of wise econo-
my of assuming indebtedness and of
praiseworthy perseverance in working
one’s way to the blessed privilage of in-
dependence. Another case: A man |
who had himself acquired a competence
by running in debt (I have heard him
say that one makes all the better busi- |
ness man by having a debt hanging '
over him), purchased a salt manufactory |
for $3,000, paying only $200 down, and |
then gave it to his two rather wild boys
as 1t stood, saying, “Now take that and |
pay for it if you have any snap in you;
I shall not help you further while IT
live.” The young men cut off their |
useless expenses, went to work with a
will, paid for the property, branched out
into other business, and became men of
wealth.
If a young mar has a goad head on |
him it is not only safe, but advisable to
assume financial obligation where a way |
can be seen through it by perseverance |
and economy. A fool can do nothing |
either in debt or out. Debt is a stimu- |
lus to exertion. The hanmer of the
mechanic who has purchased his little |
home on part credit is beard to resound |
earlier in the morning and latter in the
evening. He expends less money for
trivolities, because “that mortgage must
be met.” The merchant in debt takes
better care of his stock in trede, buys
closer, and is more agreeable to his cus-
tomers. The farmer goes to town less,
makes fewer purchases not absolutely
needed. Debt is a wonderful stimulus
to thrift. There are few farmers who
did not go into debt for their farms. It
enabled them to secure a home at once,
and instilled into them good habits to
pay forit. Ttis wise for a young cou-
ple to purchase a modest home, and
then go to work and pay for it. They
will thus acquire habits of economy.
Most capable business men have at some
time in their lives seriously in debt.
Nine-tenths of the business of this coun-
try has been built up by judiciously
borrowing capital to do it with.
A A US ST
Wildcat on a Train,
Adventure stories are generally, and |
most naturally located on the far West-
ern plains, in the mountains, or in the
jungles of Africa or Asia; but now and |
then a thrilling adventure in real life
happens in the midst of civilized sur-
roundings.
According to the newspapers of St.
Louis and Kansas City, Mr. George Tay-
lor, who is an express messenger’ on the
Chicago and Alton Railroad, did not
need to gofinto the Rocky Mountains in
order to have a desperate combat with a
wildeat. In fact, he had it on the very
express car on which he daily travels
between St. Louis and Kansas City.
One night not long ago, as Mr. Tay-
lor was at his post in the car, which was
then flying along at the rate of thirty-
five miles an hour, he was startled to
see that a wildcat, contained in a cage
which was one of his express packages,
had escaped from his prison and was
about to leap upon him.
He would perhaps have been glad to
escape from the car, being entirely with-
out weapons, but the car door was lock-
ed and he could not get it open. The wild-
cat leaped upon him, scratching and bit-
ing him severely, though he fought
as desperately as possible with his hands
to get the mastery of the animal.
Beaten off, the cat for a moment, the
messenger siezed a large piece of packing
cloth which he saw lying in a corner,
and placed it in front of his face, like a
sort of a screen. ;
The wildcat jumped again, but entan-
gled his claws in the mass of cloth
which Taylor held before him. Quick
as a flash the man wrapped around the
cat the outspread edges of the cloth, and
in a moment had the creature securely
folded up within it.
Then he jumped upon it with his
boots, and with a series of well directed
blows soon rendered the wildcat insensi-
ble and powerless.
An Awful Load.
An enterprising merchant placed a
number of brass plates cut in the form
of human tracks in the stone walk lead-
ing toward his door. He moved away
shortly afterward, and desiring to use
the brass plates at his new establish-
ment gouged them out, of course Jeav-
ing the foot forms imbedded in the stone,
One day an old fellow from the coun-
try, accompanied by his son, came along
and seeing the tracks in the stone stop-
ped, and after a loud exclamation of as-
tonishment said :
“Bill, fur mussy sakes, jest look here.
Gracious alive, what a load that fellar
must a’ had when he come along here.
Sunk right down into this solid rock,
I'll bet he was either a-totin’ a yoke of
oxen or had filled up on that drug store
licker,”
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A ConstpkraTE LirrLe Bov.—
Mother—Tommy, I hear you got a
thrashing in school, to-day.
Tommy—Yes ma, the teacher whip-
ped me, but he is getting so old and
weak that it didn’t hurt much.
“Did you ery ?”’
“Oh, yes, I bawled so you could have
heard me on the next block."
“Why did you do that ?”’
“1 wanted to make the old man feel
happy once more.— Texas Siftings.
Notice that man over there, how
nervous be appears—constantly looking
around to see if anybody is watching
him. T will bet he is a burglar.
Yes, or a bridegroom —Munsey’s
Weekly. :
; house which Christopher
Pm MINT RII
spawls from the Keystone
—The grip is at Reading.
—The brick output at Reading was about
30,000,000.
—Incendiaries are
Erie.
making excitement at
—There are nearly 23,000 school teachers in
the State.
—A. Pittsburg compositor committed suicide
with his necktie.
—A runaway horse at Reading jumped into a
canal and was drowned.
—A calf born near Allentown was found to.
be without a stomach.
—Retail liquor dealers at Homestead are fight
ing the wholesalers.
—Daniel Heller dropped dead at a political
meeting at Boomsburg.
—Elizabeth Scheck, of Pottstown, has a
kraut knife over a century old.
—Diphtheria is still epidemic at Bangor and
Penn Argyl, Northampton county,
—Joseph Smith, of Mountainville, picked up
a three-foot copperhead snake for a stick.
—A 60 year-old man at Pittsburg is held on a
charge of assault nade on a 13 year-old gir.
—During the past year there has been an in-
crease of 11,05 pupils in the schools of the State,
—A crazy Chinaman recently terrified the
residents of Forest City, near Carbondale.
—The temporary buildings erected during
! the flood at Johnstown are just being demol-
ished.
—The Methodist Church of Cornwell, Bucks
county, although but two years old, is free of
debt.
—Chester jokers carried a dummy man
through the streets on a stretcher on Hallow.
een.
—Two men named Lamerer, of Washington
county, killed ninety-frar squirrels in two
days.
—A 2-year-old youngster, at McKeesport,
nearly lostits life by drinking a bottle of
cough srup.
—Miss Hannah Epright, of Berwyn, has at-
tended the Teacher's Institute for thirty con-
secutive years.
—A mother hasbeen arrested at Williams-
port for nearly killing her child with a stick of
kindling wood,
—Robert Washington, a colored man, touch-
ed an electric light at Braddock, and the
shock killed him.
—John Frankhouser, while hurting on
Stone Mountain, shot a flve-pronged buck that
dressed 177 pounds.
—Miss Emma Bretles, of Doylestown, has a
chrysanthemum plant with 2388 buds and
flowers by actual count.
—A large number of the Lutheran churches
in Lehigh county on Friday night celebrated
Reformation day.
—The fires were recently lighted in the
Robesounia furnace,which has a capacily of 1600:
tons of iron per week.
—The ower part of Lehigh county and the
upper part of Montgomery county were last
week over-run with gunners.
—Gideon Roth, of Limeport, Lehigh county,
has a Bible that gives a complete record of his
family for over 200 years.
—A small boy and a dog near Johnstown
kept a bear up a tree till the boy’s brother ran
after their father, who shot bruin.
—Mzvs. Julian and her baby at 8 uth Bethle-
hem, who were burned by a coal oil explosion
on Monday night have died of their injuries.
—D. M. Landis, a farmer at Shimmersvil'e o
Lehigh county, is the owner of a cow with six
teats on her milk-bag, from all of which milk
flows.
—Three Philadelphia gentlemen have ap=
plied to South Bethlehem Town Council for
permission to build four miles of electric
street railway.
—Only one person besides the four speakers
were present at a Republican “mass” meeting
at Village Green recently, and the meeting
was, therefore, postponed.
—At a recent Hungarian christening at
Tarr, Westmoreland county, 150 pounds of
beef, 10 gallons of whisky and 35 kegs of beer
were consumed by the guests.
—Two Bucks connty Farmers’ Institutes
will be ‘held this winter, one at Langhorne on
December 10 and 11, and the other at Reigels-
ville on February 27 and 28.
—Rev. J. C. Chambers, of West Chester, had
a presentiment that Marshall Walters, of West
Goshen, was dying, and on driving to that
place he found the man in the throes op
death. :
—Farmer Imler, of Utahville, near Houtz-
dale, was followed by thieves who attacked
him as he was entering his farm, but his big
dog came to the farmer's assistance and drove
the robbers off.
—Tritz Reinhardt, who was recently killed
at Hatfield on a railroad, gained a livelihood
during the past ten years principally by trav.
eling through the country and writing in-
scriptions in Bibles.
—The Commission appointed by the Legis-
lature to survey a route and report on the
practicability of building a ship canal between
Lake Erie and Pittsburg has decided to rec.
ommend such an enterprise.
—P. H. Featherman and wife, of Pen Argyls,
‘have brought suit against the Bangor and
Portland Railroad Company to recover $20,000
damages for injuries sustained by Mrs. Feath-
erman last winter in consequence of being
thrown from her carriage by runaway horses
which had been frightened at passing trains
on defendant’s road.
—Jacob Savage was found dying in the woods
near Shickshinny on Wednesday night with a
little round hole in his head that was suppos-
ed to indicate a pistol shot. Physicians
found in the wound small splinters of wood, in-
dicating that a small jagged end of one of the
limbs of a falling tree had struck him on the
head.
A TTT
Failed to Escape.
WILKESBARRE, November 1.—Thom-
as Henry, who attempted to kill two men
at Meshoppen recently by shooting
them, made a desperate attempt to break
jail at Tunkhannock this morning. In
some manner he gotout of his cell, gain-
ed the jail yard and, making a ladder
out of old chairs, ascended the high wall,
In attempting to leap from the wall and
gain the roadway, Henry broke an arm
and leq. He criel with pain and beg-
ged the jailers to take him in out of the
cold. His wish was complied with.
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The municipality of Genoa has
it is reported, consented to restore the
Columbus
lived. Ttis rapidly falling into decay
and has long stood in need of repair.