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Bellefonte, Pa., Mar. 4, 1898.
THE MAN YOU CAN HELP.
There are plenty of men who will grasp your
hand,
With a pleasant, cordial smile ;
There are plenty of men who will pass you by,
In the most indifferent style.
You may be “cut” sometimes by those
Whom in boyhood days you knew ;
But a man will always treat you well
When he wants a favor from you.
How glad is he that you look so well,
And how do your children do?
Your wife is in good health, he trusts,
And you business prospering, too.
He struck a new brand of cigars to-day—
By the way, just try a few—
Oh, yes, a man will treat you well
‘When he wants a favor from you.
When the favor’s done—alas ! alas!
How suddenly he forgets .
How he loved you when he needed, perhaps,
Your help to pay his debts;
But the fact remains and everyone knows
That this assertion’s true;
A man will always treat you well
When he wants a favor from you.
PAUL AND VIRGINIA.
I
When Paul Irving applied for the posi-
tion of assistant teacher in Pemberton
academy and was chosen through the influ-
ence of Harold Redmond, who was princi-
pal, nome, save the interested parties,
knew that he was a Harvard sophomore
rusticated for a year.
Irving had looked upon this sentence in
the light of a joke, but when his father re-
fused to view the escapade in the same side
splitting manner, and had intimated that
for one year at least the young man’s pres-
ence was not desired under the parental
roof, Paul had remembeaed his friend Red-
mond, who gladly smoothed over the rising
difficulty.
“You'll find the town lively enough,’’
said the principal, as with the new assist-
ant he walked toward the school house,
‘‘and what’s more, there are lots of pretty
girls among the pupils. But let me give
you one piece of advice : Don’t get smit-
ten on any of the students, for this beloved
village is full of gossip.”
“All right, Hal; I’m going to behave
myself while I’m here,’ answered Paul.
“I don’t think that I’ve committed a capi-
tal crime, but the Governor rather feels it,
and when I go back I'm going to work
hard and take my degree or die.”’
“That sounds pretty fine,” laughed the
other. ‘But here’s the academy, my boy,
and remember I expect great things of
you.”’
‘‘Blessed are they that expect nothing,
for they shall not be disappointed,” said
Paul softly, as he took his place and began
his first day’s work.
II
Twelve months later there was an air of
subdued excitement throughout the build-
ing. During the whole school year Vir-
ginia Adams had been in open revolt
against the new teacher. Paul Irving had
instituted a stricter regime than the pupils
of Pemberton academy had known ; idle
students soon found themselves in disgrace
and dull ones in despair. The new and ex-
acting methods brought no terrors to Vir-
ginia at first, for she scorned imperfect les-
sons. Naturally bright, she had no diffi-
culty in mastering the daily tasks allotted
to the senior pupils, but she was such a
lover of her own free will that Irving saw
rocks ahead, and was on the lookout.
The unavoidable conflict soon came.
‘We have been accustomed to omit learn-
ing the list of States in which certain laws
are enforced,’’ said the teacher, ‘‘but here-
after, beginning with to-day’s lesson, you
will please learn the two or three extra
columns in connection with the usual
amount. Virginia coming in late, did not
hear the timely warning, and walked into
the recitation room without even glancing
at the extended lesson.
‘“There is but one state where fine and
imprisonment are added to the loss of prin-
cipal and interest when usury is the of-
fense,” said Mr. Irving. “Miss Adams
will tell us its name.”’
“I don’t know,’’ answered Virginia.
‘‘Didn’t you learn the lesson ?’’ demand-
ed Paul.
‘Yes ; but I didn’t know we were sup-
posed to learn the states,” was Virginia's
answer.
“Where were you when I announced
that in future we would omit nothing ?
Late, as usual, I believe. You will re-
main to-night and I will hear you recite it.
Miss Gilman may answer the question.”
‘I don’t know whether you’ll hear me
recite that or not,’ said the girl to herself.
“I'm no mind reader and I’m not to blame
since I didn’t know the lesson had been
extended,” and the black eyes betokened
stormy weather.
The dismissal bell had rung, but still
the girls waited in the corriders. ‘I'd
like to know what he says to her,”’ said
one, ‘‘for he looks awful cross and she’s as
mad as she can be.”’
_ “I'm sorry it happened,’ said another,
“for it’s only five weeks to graduation,
and if she don’t learn that I’m afraid she’ll
be expelled.’’
‘Perhaps we'd better go,” returned the
first, ““for if Virginia has one of her usual
freaks she’ll make him wait until she’s
ready to recite, and that may take some
time,’’ and soon the last echo in the great
building died away and nothing could be
heard save the ticking of the clock in the
room.
III
Irving sat at his desk and Virginia stood
near a window overlooking the square.
‘“When you are ready to recite, Miss
Adams, I will be glad to listen,” said Paul
when fifteen minutes had ticked away
slowly.
“I am not going to recite that lesson,”
she answered, looking up at him with a
world of defiance in her dark eyes.
Irving sat in silence. Long before he
bad admitted to himself that she was
the nicest feminine thing he had ever
met, and with the best intentions in the
world—a 20-year-old heart is not a steel-clad
fortress. But yielding was no easier for
him than for her. The desire to conquer
her perverse will took possession of him
and visions of a delightful reconciliation
afterwards danced before his eyes.
“Very well,”” he answered quietly, ‘‘you
will remain here until you answer that
question, then I may omit the remainder.’’
She started toward the doorway, but Ir-
ving frustrated her design by closing the
door and standing before it.
She stopped suddenly and stood facing
him. A dainty little creature, rather be-
low medium height, with a slender girlish
figure, and carrying her head proudly, as
if to make up in dignity what she lacked
in stature. Her hair and eyes were a glor-
ious black, her cheeks crimson with exoite-
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ment, while the full, red lips quivered
nervously.
‘If she cries,” thought Paul, “I'll sur-
render instantly.”’
But Miss Adams had no idea of spending
the time in idle tears as she walked back
to the window and began to beat a dismal
tattoo upon the glass.
‘Perhaps you are not aware,’’ he said
sharply, after five minutes of mournful mu-
sic, ‘‘that you are making a very irritating
noise.”’
“Very likely,’’ she answered softly, but
the sound did not cease.
“I want that noise stopped,’’ he said, as
he jumped from the platform and crossed
! the room.
Virginia folded her hands with a gesture
of resignation.
‘You will please be seated and take out
your book. It is nearly five o’clock, and
the sooner you learn that lesson the better.
I shall call and see your father this even-
ing,”’ now thoroughly angry, ‘‘and perhaps
he can use some influence and insist on
your compliance with the rules.’”” Vir-
ginia sat down at the desk and bowed her
head on her hands. Twenty minutes
passed away, and still she did not move.
Paul began to show signs of weakening.
‘After all,’ he thought, ‘she didn’t know
I had extended the lesson. Dear little girl!
I wish the confounded states were in Kala-
mazoo before I told her to learn them. If
she’d only cry and give a fellow half a
chance to say something.” Here he
walked over to the desk.
‘‘Virginia,”’ hesaid softly, but there was
no reply. Suddenly seating himself beside
her, he took the little hand in his, but the
slender fingers refused an answering touch.
“I give in, Virginia,’ he said. “You
need not learn that lesson. Let me teach
you another, dear. I hope with more suc-
cess. Surely you know that I love you,
but please answer me this time.’
And Virginia looked at him with her
heart in her eyes and answered meekly :
“The State is Idaho.’
Iv
‘What did he say to you?’ asked the
girls in chorus when Miss Adams appeared
the next morning 10 minutes before the re-
quired time. ‘‘Gertie Gilman said she saw
you walking up together as jolly as could
be long after five o’clock, and Belle Mar-
shall’s brother met him in your street aw-
ful late last night. Did you recite to him,
and what did he say ?”
“Yes, I learned my lesson, but he called
to see my father,’ answered Virginia.
Fourteen Were Hanged.
During the administration of Governor
Hastings up to the present, fourteen execu-
tions have taken place, and the sentence of
capital punishment was commuted in
twelve cases to imprisonment for life. Two
prisoners died while awaiting the day of
execution. Two murders are now await-
ing the day set for their hanging, Frank
Johngrass, of Lawrence, who murdered
his sweetheart and will be hanged Feb.
24th, and Philip Hill, of Allegheny, whose
case was in the Supreme court.
In 1895 there were six executions—Dan-
iel Werling and Albert Woodley, Alle-
gheny ; Charles Garrett, Lebanon ; John
Eisminger, of Greene ; John Good and Wil-
liam Freeman, of Westmoreland. Six
death sentences were commuted in that
year. :
In 1896 there were four hangings—the
notorious H. H. Holmes, in Philadelphia ;
Joseph Orsorz, Allegheny ; Crezenzo Moro-
lo, Lackawanna, and Frank Morris, Lafay-
ette. Abraham T. Eckhart, Luzerne, com-
mitted suicide on the morning he was to
have been hanged, and George Windish,
Luzerne, died while awaiting execution.
Three murders were committed during the
year.
In 1897 there were four men hanged—
George Douglas, Allegheny ; Herman Paul
Schultz, Pike; Peter Vasalka, Luzerne,
and Pasquallo Dadario, Philadelphia.
There were three commutations of the
death sentence, among them that of James
T. Gentry, of Philadelphia, who murdered
Madge York, the actress. It is said that
Gentry’s friends will in time endeavor to
have him freed.
Trusts and Politics.
Republican newspapers have been given
a new lesson to learn by the political
bosses. They have been instructed to
speak all together, in a good round tone:
‘‘Trusts are not formed all along political
lines.” This oracular deliverance has been
ordered because the trusts have grown so
numerous and so aggressive that the peo-
ple are beginning to recognize the fact that
the Republican party fosters trusts, was
placed in power by trusts and is to all in-
tents and purposes the slave of trusts. In
order to succeed, trusts must have po-
litical protection. An attempt was made
by trust managers to control the Democrat-
ic national convention, and when that at-
tempt failed the trusts flocked to the Re-
publican standard. Mark Hanna organ-
ized the trusts, assessed them for political
contributions and as a result sold the Re-
publican party to the trusts. President
McKinley has been kept busy carrying out
the bargains made by Hanna. His ap-
pointments have been entirely in the in-
terests of the great money combines of the
country. His secretary of the treasury
represents the bankers’ trust. His attor-
ney general is the next friend of all kinds
of trusts, and in the person of Mr. McKen-
na the trusts have a pronounced attorney
on the supreme bench. As the situation
exists to-day the trusts are all on the side
of the Republican party. Democracy
would make no bargain with the money
power,and hence antagonized trusts of every
character. ‘Trusts are not formed all
along political lines.” It is not necessary
that they should be so formed. They own
the Republican party and that settles it. :
Boxing a Bride's Ears.
In Lithuania, a providence of Russia, it
is customary that the bride’s ears should be
boxed before the marriage ceremony. No
matter how tender hearted her mother may
be, she always makes a point of adminis-
tering a hearty smack to her daughter in
the presence of witnesses, and a note is
made of the fact. The mother’s intention
is a kind one, though the custom itself is
bad. The reason for it is to protect the
bride should the marriage prove an unhap-
py one. In that case she will sue for a di-
vorce, and her plea will be that she was
forced into the marriage against her will,
and on that score the verdict of the judge
will be in her favor.
Sterilizing Copenhagen.
In Copenhagen the diary companies work
on a large scale. At one place the milk is
Pastuerized by passing through 800 feet of
tubing heated to 85 degrees, and cooled
down by ice at the end, so it is thoroughly
sterilized. In another place where they
handle 50,000 pints a day, every drop is
filtered through sterilized gravel, and some
of it in sterilized separately after that.
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Paste This in Your Hat.
What to Do in Emergencies.—Some Interesting
Points in Dr. Alfred C. Wood's Lecture to Nurses.
Dr. Alfred C. Wood gave an instructive
and interesting talk to nurses at the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons, in Phila-
aBiphia, on emergencies, arising from acci-
dents, disease or nervous condition, which
they are likely to meet with in their ex-
perience.
Nurses he said, are expected to know
rather more about the treatment in such
cases than others outside of the profession,
although it has been generally understood
that the nurse should be only a pair of
hands for a physician. He confined his re-
marks to the commoner forms of emergen-
cies, such as fainting, hysteria, drowning,
wounds, burns and scalds, suffocation, epi-
lepsy and apoplexy, giving brief directions
how to proceed and what to avoid in the
treatment, with a little insight into the
causes of some of the conditions. A few of
‘these points will be of general interest.
In any case of unconsciousness, if the
nurse does not know its cause, first exam-
ine the pulse. The action of the heart in
the circulation of the blood is one of the
most important functions of the body, and
a person can live but a few moments after
it ceases to beat. In persons who have
fainted, the heart beats so feebly that it
would not long sustain life. In most cases
placing the person on her back will proba-
bly restore her. Fainting is caused by a
bloodless condition of the brain, produced
by a weak action of the heart. It is a con-
dition which usually need cause no alarm.
A condition commonly confounded with
fainting is hysteria, a well recognized nerv-
ous disorder, in which the person simulates
any form of disease. In such cases the
pulse is not affected, no matter how skill-
fully the person may feign. The same re-
mark applies to the temperature. If both
pulse and temperature are normal, there is
nothing serious the matter, and such cases
do not need any treatment. It is unwise
to throw cold water in the face, or use
heavy currents of electricity to arouse them.
It is also objectionable to pay too much at-
tention to the symptoms, but to ignore
them as if they did not exist.
It isa bad plan to givea person every-
thing that is recommended in cases of
emergency. A nurse should do nothing
unless she sees some indications requiring
certain action. Some persons give every
remedy in reach that they ever heard of, as
in the case of a man who waked up with a
soreness in his windpipe, and before the
physician could arrive his faithful wife had
put a mustard plaster on him, given him
powdered alum, sulphur, coal oil and
would have used other remedies had time
allowed, while the patient husband was
nearly choked to death by the treatment.
In cases of epilepsy, commonly called
‘‘fits,”’ the person becomes very pale, and
the muscles become absolutely rigid, pre-
venting breathing. After a few moments
the spasm relaxes, there are a number of
convulsions, and respiration is resumed.
The condition at the outset is perfectly
plain. It needs no particular treatment.
During the convulsions the person should
not be allowed to hurt himself in any way.
Apoplexy, or, as it is called, a stroke of
paralysis, and by various other names, is
caused by the rupture of a blood vessel,
which allows the blood to pour out and
cause a pressure on the brain. If a large
rupture, the person losses consciousness
and the power to move certain portions of
the body at once. If small the effget is
produced gradually. In such cases the pa-
tient should be set upright, with the head
as high as possible. A person with apo-
plexy would not be apt to have any con-
vulsions. It occurs almost invariably to
persons past middle life. If there are any
premonitory symptoms they would be
headache and dizziness. No stimulants
like whiskey should be given.
Convulsions commonly occur in children
from all sorts of causes, some of them very
simple, like the scratching of a pin. The
best thing is to put the child in a tub of
hot water, the temperature 100 or 103 de-
grees. If the child has fever, ice should be
applied to the head while in the hot water.
What is called shock results from any’
general injury. Any local injury should
be allowed to wait until the patient has
been partially restored to a better physical
state, the pulse and temperature being the
best guide. In giving stimulants, particu-
larly internal, do not make the mistake of
giving an over-dose, as it prejudices subse-
| quent treatment.
In case of drowning, the person should
be placed face downwards so that the water
may escape from the lungs, and the chest
pressed at not too rapid intervals, so as to
clear the lungs. Then the person should
be turned over on the back and the motions
of breathing be simulated by pressing the
chest about sixteen times a minute. In
cases of suffocation from choking by some-
thing in the throat, care should be taken not
to push the object further down. It is
well when the person is coughing to strike
a smart blow on the back at the moment of
the cough to assist in forcing the object
out.
Burns or scalds, if superficial, are hest
treated by a strong solution of baking pow-
der. If deep, and the whole skin is in-
volved, care should be taken to bring noth-
ing against the wound which is not surgi-
cally clean. Strong anticeptics on the raw
flesh should not be used. Boric acid could
be used freely without harm. Having
cleansed the part, it should be protected
from the air until lime water and linseed
oil could be applied.
Walrus Leather.
Walrus leather is used for making buffer
wheels, for polishing brass, steel and silver.
It has a peculiar coarse grain that holds
the emery or polishing powder well. It
takes about five years to tan a walrus hide.
Some walrus leather is made in this coun-
try, but the bulk of it is imported from
England. Leather made from the hide of
a cub walrus would be about half an inch
thick. The hide of an old bull might be
two inches thick. The value of the leather
depends upon its thickness. Half-inch
would sell for about fifty cents a pound ;
one-and a half-inch would be worth $1.40
a pound ; and walrus leather, from one
and five-eights to one-and-three-quarter
inches thick, smooth and well trimmed,
would be worth $2a pound, and a side of
such leather would cost about $300.
Walrus wheels are made in a variety of
shapes, depending upon the work on which
they are used. They are made with a flat
face, grooved, cone-shaped, or of any shape
that may be desired, and by cementing
layers of leather together wheels of any de-
sired thickness are made. Walrus leather
is also used for valve packings.
Bull necks are used, also, for polishing
purposes. Three-quarter inch bull necks
sell at about 50 cents a pound. Leather
made from the hide of the sea lion is used
for polishing purposes. This is a smoother
and softer leather, used for softer metals.
Sea lion leather of an average thickness
costs about 50 centsa pound. Built-up
wheels of any thickness are also make of
sea lion and of hull neck leather.
About Ammonia.
The part played by ammonia in the de-
structive work of the great fire of Pittsburg
makes pertinent some notice of it and its
characteristics at this time. Briefly ammo-
nia may he described as a gaseous com-
pound of hydrogen and nitrogen, with a
pungent smell and taste, often called vola-
tile alkali and spirits of hartshorn. Several
origins are ascribed for the name, one being
that it was derived from the temple of Ju-
piter Ammon, in upper Egypt, near which
it was first produced from animal refuse.
Another theory is that the name came from
Ammonia, a Cyreniac territory, while a
third looks to the Greek word ‘‘ammos,”’
meaning ‘‘sand,’’ because the sal ammoniac
was found in the sands of Africa. Pliny
was probably acquainted with it ;it was
afterward discovered in 1677 by Kunckel ;
still later, in 1756, by Dr. Black, and final-
ly more fully described by Dr. Priestly, in
1774. It is composed of one volume of ni-
trogen and three volumes of hydrogen,
which on combination condense to two
volumes. In its pure state and at the or-
dinary temperature and pressure it is a
colorless, pungent gas, wholly irrespirable,
not a supporter of combustion, excepting
of bodies which readily combine with hy-
drogen, strongly alkaline, having a specific
gravity of 0.59, and readily converted into
a liquid by cold or pressure. The liquid
ammonia is colorless, very mobile, having
a specific gravity of 0.63. It freezes under
a pressure of 20 atmospheres at 75 degrees
centigrade and at 87 degrees in vacuo.
Liquid ammonia is a powerful solvent
for a number of metals. It has also been
utilized as a means of motive power and
for the artificial production of cold. One
gramme of water at 0 degree centigrade
and 760 mm. pressure absorbs 0.877
gramme, or 1.149 times its volume of am-
monia gas ; at 20 degrees centigrade it ab-
sorbs 681 times its volume and yields the
liquid ammonia of the shops. A great part
of the aqua ammoniae of the shops is de-
rived from the waste liquors of the manu-
factories of illuminating gas. coke and
beet sugar. Ammonia is produced in the
juices of various nitrogenous animal and
vegetable substances in their putrefactive
fermentation. It is given out in their de-
cay, and, passing into the atmosphere, is
condensed by the aqueous vapor and re-
turned to the earth in rain water, mists and
snow. It furnishes to plants the nitrogen
they require, and is thus the principal val-
uable ingredient in manures. Guano isa
great repository of it. The shavings of
horn have been used to prepare it, whence
the name spirits of hartshorn. Refuse ani-
mal substances and rags of wool and silk
are made to yield a variety of ammonical
salts, as the carbonate and acetate, by dis-
tilling them. From the solid matters that
will not distill are obtained animal black,
used for clarifying sugars and carbonaceous
substance employed in the manufacture of
Prussian blue. Ammonia yields numerous
salts, some of which are employed in the
arts.
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In medicine ammonia also has value.
The water of ammonia, the carbonate,
chloride and acetate are used by physicians,
the first externally as an irritant or to de-
velop the gas ; the othersinternally. Their
effect is to temporarily accelerate the heart’s
movement, by an action rather on the mus-
cular than on the nervous apparatus, and
to liquefy mucus. Ammonia has also been
proposed as an antidote for poison. The
elastic force of liquid ammonia increases
rapidly under heat pressure and its explo-
sive force is great.
The Pension List.
We believe that every deserving soldier
should have a pension. So long as he did
his duty bravely and honorably to the coun-
try, we are not only willing that he should
be the recipient of the country’s bounty
during his life, but we believe that the
country should and does esteem it a privi-
lege to make his last days as comfortable
and pleasant as the last days of an invalid
can possibly be.
For the information of our friends among
the real soldiers, however, we wish to state
precisely why we believe that the pension
list needs purging. In the first place, let
us repeat that we are sure that a very large
number of pensions are deserved, and so far
as they are deserved we are sincerely in fa-
vor of paying them, even if payment in-
volves an increase in the public debt.
But what are the reasons for believing that
the government has pensioned hundreds of
people who are fraudulent recipients of its
bounty, and how has the presumption been
created that the list is tainted with fraud ?
In the first place, it will be recollected that
James A. Garfield stated in 1873 that the
high-water mark had then been reached,
and that from that time on the pension list
would decrease. It must be admitted,
therefore, that the enormous increase in the
number of pensioners and in the annual
appropriations for them since 1873 cause
suspicion. In 1873 there were 238,411 pen-
sioners on the rolls. since then 321,485
pensioners have died, and there are now on
the rolls 976,014 pensioners, of whom 733,-
527 are survivors of the war. In 1873 the
amount paid to pensioners was $26,502,529,
and now the annual appropriation is about
$140,000,000.
There are now carried on the rolls 6405
more ‘‘survivors’’ than thereare living sur-
vivors of the war. How is this consistent
with the theory that the pension roll is en-
tirely a roll of honor of veterans and their
dependents >—Harper’s Weekly.
Kansas Debt-Paying.
There may be inquiry as to how Kansas
could pay off so much of her mortgage in-
debtedness since 1890. One reason is that
a change in the law in that year gave the
mortgagee the privilege of paying off a
mortgage in installments of $100, or multi-
ples of that sum, and thousands of farmers
availed themselves of that privilege, and
this year will see their farms clear despite
the hard times. But how did they get the
money, even the small sums? The answer
is found in the amazing productiveness of
Kansas since 1890, notwithstanding the
crop failures. The State Agricultural De-
partment’s figures show that since 1890 the
farmers of the State have raised in crops
and live stock nearly $2,000,000,000 worth
of produce. The value of those seven years
of produce is more than the national “debt
of the United States. The grand total for
1897 is put at $230,000,000. In 1890 it
was $325,000,000; 1891, $287,000,000; 1892,
$273,000,000; 1893, $220,000,000; 1894,
$192,000,000; 1895, $201,000,000; 1896,
$189,000,000; total, omitting all but gen-
eral figures, $1,917,000,000. The product
of Kansas farms for 1897 was $41,000,000
more than in 1896, and of this increase
$15,000,000 was in corn, wheat and oats.—
Harper's Weekly.
‘‘No, thank you, I’ve got some money of
my own,’’ said little Tommy, politely, as
the contribution plate passed in front of
him on the occasion of his first visit to
church.
A Young Hero of °76.
The Part That He Played in the Capture of Ti-
conderoga.
Of the boy heroes of the Revolution, the
first and almost forgotten one was Nathan
Beman. "In the spring of 1775 he lived
with his father, a farmer, near. the village
of Shoreham, which was opposite Fort Ti-
conderoga.
Farmer Beman was an American, devot- |
ed to the cause. Being of a roving dispo-
sition and fond of play, Nathan had often
crossed the lake and formed the acquaint-
ance of the boys whose fathers composed
the garrison.
The little fellows had fine times under
the walls of the fort, and every now and
then Nathan went inside and saw how
things were moving along there.
In the month of May, Ethan Allan, at
the head of the famous Green Mountain
Boys, came up through the forest to sur-
prise and capture, if possible, the fort and
its garrison.
The expedition with which Benedict Ar-
nold was connected was composed of three
divisions, one of which was to capture
some boats at Skenesbore and send them
down the lake to Allen and his men, who
were to get them at Shoreman, but when
the renowned Green Mountain leader
reached the latter village, in night-time,
not a single boat awaited him.
This was a bitter disappointment, for Al-
len had but 83 men with him, and his po-
sition was one of great hazard. It looked
like madness to assail with this small force
an armed place like Ticonderoga, yet it
was still more dangerous to remain idle.
*‘We can’t wait for boats my boys,’’ ex-
claimed the intrepid Allen.” ‘“We must
assault the fortress !”’
In looking for a guide the Vermonter
found Farmer Beman, who as soon as he
found out what was wanted, said :
‘Why not take my boy? Nathan knows
all about the fort. He’s been all over it
and knows the location of every rathole,
inside and out.”’
The suggestion delighted Allen, and lit-
tle Nathan was called in and questioned.
“I'll go sir,”’ he said at once. ‘I know
the way to Delaplace’s quarters, too, if you
would want to find him.”
Delaplace was the commandant, and of
course the very person whom Allen wanted.
The spoil that fell into the hands of the
victors amply repaid them for all the dan-
gers they had faced, and the fort remained
in the hands of the Americans until many
months later, when it was abandoned and
dismantled by General St. Clair.
The little party crossed the lake in such
boats as were at hand. The oars were
dipped silently in the starlit water, and no
one spoke above a whisper. Morning was
near at hand, and so much precious time
had been lost that every moment had to be
put to use.
When the patriots reached the opposite
shore, their commander turned to
Nathan Beman and, lying his hand upon
his shoulder, said quickly :
‘We're ready now. Show us the way
to the sallyport.’’
Guided by the farmer's son, the moun-
taineers moved toward the fort and, com-
ing suddenly upon the sentry, heard the
snapping of a fuse-lock and saw him run
through a covered way within the walls.
‘Quick !”’ cried the hoy looking up at
Allen, and the soldiers sprang after the
guide and made their way to the parade
ground unopposed.
The enthusiasm of the patriots now
broke forth in sounds of victory, which,
reaching the ears of the British soldiers,
caused them to spring from their pallets
and rush from the barracks, only to be
made prisoners as they appeared. Never
was a surprise more complete, thanks to
Nathan Beman.
When Allen had secured most of the gar-
rison, he asked the boy to show the way to
the commandant’s rooms, and the two
were soon running up the steps leading to
them. Bang, bang! went Allen’s sword
against the colonel’s door, and the British
officer hurried out of bed to answer the de-
mand.— Lake George Mirror.
Survivors at Key West.
Their Stories Tend to Increase the Conviction
That the Blowing up of the Maine Was the Re-
sult of Treachery.
“From knowledge of the construction of
the Maine and the location of the magazine
it does not seem possible to me that the
Maine could have been destroyed by inter-
nal explosions. It must have been by a
submerged mine or a torpedo.”’
This statement was made to The Dispatch
correspondent by one of the survivors of
the battleship. This man is a sailor and
was in the steam cutter of the Maine wait-
ing to make the trip tothe shore. He
says :
‘‘We were fast to the boom on the star-
board side of the Maine when I was blown
out of the launch, and I found myself in
the water. I saw a great flame ascend into
the air, and hearing someone calling for
help, Iswam to him and found it was one
of my comrades who had been in the
launch at the time of the explosion. He
asked ‘Is that you, Mickey? I replied,
‘Yes.’ He said, ‘What do you think of
the treacherous devils that blew us un?
Let us keep together until some boat picks
us up.”’
‘‘I got on a floating mattress and he got
on some floating hoards, and we saw two
boats coming toward us. He got into one
and I got into the other. I found myself
in one of the hoats of the Spanish cruiser
Alfonso XII. I heard persons crying for
help and asked the men on the Spanish
boat to go to the rescue, but after pulling
close to the Maine we could find no one.’
Another survivor declared that a com-
rade said that at 1:30 on the day of the dis-
aster there was seen to pass the Maine a
tugboat with a small barge in tow proceed-
ing toward Morro Castle. The barge had
up a powder flag, he declared, ‘‘and it is
ny opinion that she dropped something
that exploded under us when we swung
over it.”’
The tug and barge were reported to the
Captain of the Maine as being mining boats
at the time.
——A Williamsport dispatch says: On
Tuesday, near Montgomery, Mrs. Theo.
Hess, while pumping water from a well in
the barnyard, was attacked by a vicious
bull. She was terribly gored, and would
doubtless have been killed had not her
daughter, sixteen years old, heard her
screams and ran to her rescue. With a
pitchfork the girl drove the animal away
and dragged her mother outside the fence.
——My friend, asked the go-as-you-
please missionary, are you traveling the
straight and narrow path to the best of
your humble ability ?
The man in the evidently-sometimes-
slept in suit said nothing, but handed over
his card. The missionary read: Signor
Ballancio, Champion Tightrope Walker.
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FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
Miss Florence King, of Chicago, has
been appointed Alaskan commissioner of
| deeds for Illinois, and is not only the first
woman to hold such a position, hut also
has the distinction of being the only woman
lawyer registered at the United States pat-
ent office.
"The best shirt-makers have sent out their
patterns for the summer, and there is little
or no difference from last year’s styles.
The sleeves are smaller, and there is per-
haps a trifle less fullness in the front.
Yokes are made square or pointed in the
back, as is most becoming. A plain band
finishes the neck, so that either a turn-
down or a high collar can be worn. The
preference 1s as yet for the heavier wash
materials, such as Madras and duck, and
judging from the samples of fancy white
materials, the white shirts are to be as
fashionable as they were last year. The
thin materials are not among the new fab-
rics. When they are used they will be
made up in the fitted and more fancy
waists. The different shades of wood color
a steel blue and a pink are among the new
shades. Then there are the checks and
plaids, whose name is legion, but the dif-
ferent patterns of white and tan are easily
the smartest. Among those that have yet
been shown there is one style that must
not he forgotten, of plain color—dark blue
preferably—made with square or pointed
yoke at the back, medium full front, and
down the centre of the front a flat pleat
edged on either side with a ruffle of sheer
white linen. This isa pretty style, and
looks very smart when worn with a white
leather belt and white linen collar, the
blue and white combination being a peren-
nial favorite for summer.—Harper’s Bazar.
No two girls are built alike. Therefore,
no two women walk alike naturally. In
order to bring about a perfectly correct
walk the teacher is obliged to study each
girl separately. Some ‘slouch,’ some
walk stiffly, some bend at the knees, some
sag from the hips, others have round shoul-
ders, others have badly curved backs, and
so the defects go on.
Here are some of the laws laid down by
a specialist upon the subject of correct car-
riage.
‘“The first poise for the purpose of obtain-
ing an easy, graceful carriage is called the
harmonic poise,’’ and its object is to limber
up the hips. A great majority of women
have what we call a sloppy carriage ; they
let their hips sag and break. Have you
never seen a woman who stands with one
hip higher than the other, as though one
limb was shorter than the other? Such
women walk like jointed dolls, first one
hip goes up and then goes down.
‘Always keep the body in the centre,
and have the line from the forehead run as
though it were a plumb line. The upper
part of the body must go first, never the
lower. The abdomen must always be held
in and the chest expanded. Nine-tenths
of the women you see walk with the heel
first, the arch and ball of the foot after-
ward, the abdomen prominent and the
head sunk between the shoulders.
‘A good exercise for acquiring a correct
walk—that is the walk which comes from
the limberness of the hips—is to swing the
leg ahead and bring the torso with the leg
in order to keep the perfect line of the
body. The chest line must be over the
toe. Hold yourself very erect in the torso.
The muscles should support the body, not
the bones.
‘A woman’s arms should hang at the
sides, relaxed, but never swing. Nothing
is more ungraceful in a woman than swing-
ing arms.
The Parisians have their pupils learn to
walk ona crack. The body is balanced
just as it would be on a tight rope, by the
hands, and it sways to and fro from the
hips. One foot is placed directly in front
of the other. We do this for a reason
which is little known, and that is, that
many women walk with their feet very
wide apart, while others fall all over their
feet, and others again stub the toes on the
heel of the advancing foot. Do you know
that the generality of women are knock-
need ? That comes from the binding of
their heavy cloth skirts.
The principal thing for acquiring a
graceful walk is the limberness of the hips.
That is really the pivot, and is the first
motion taught. To acquire a graceful car-
riage of the head we have copied the peas-
ant women of Europe who carry heavy
bundles on their heads. I have my girls
walk around for hours sometimes with
weights on their heads. I train them to
look sideways, backward, to turn their
heads slowly and quickly with the weight
always poised on the head. This motion,
to be, correct, must come from between the
shoulder blades.
Too much washing is to apt to make the
hair harsh and dry. At bedtime the hair
should be unfastened and thoroughly
brushed and then plaited loosely. Hair
that is regularly brushed night and morn-
ing will keep clean and glossy and require
less frequent washing.
There is as yet but little preference for
the close coat sleeve with every sort of odd
little garniture as a finis to the tops, in-
cluding the wing decoration consisting of a
three-cornered piece of the dress fabric, or
else of a material matching the trimming
used on the gown, this piece hemmed, ruf-
fled, piped or satin-lined with a contrast-
ing color.
The third short point is tucked away un-
der the folds; the two longer points are
then brought to the top of the shoulder and
simply tied, the ends left to somewhat re-
semble the wings of a bird in flight. A
full, soft knot is left in the center. Wide
ribbon loops in place of a puff, a number of
horizontal tucks taken in the fullness of
mutton-leg sleeves, and straight, flat rows
of gimp laid across the tops of close coat
sleeves are other popular modes.
For hickory nut cake one cup butter,
two cups sugar, four eggs, one pound flour,
one large cup split and stoned raisins, one
large cup very finely chopped nuts ; dredge
the raisins and nuts with two ounces of the
flour, which stir in last ; flavor with nut-
meg, ice with pink icing and put home-
made pink burnt almonds around the edge.
Flavor icing with rose water.
A pretty gown was of gray cloth, braided
at the left side from the bust line to the hem
of the skirt, the belted blouse giving the be-
coming princess effect. The yoke of white
satin was finely tucked in groups, with
strips of insertion between, thus forming a
striking contrast against the black braid
which outlined the rounded bodice.
Spring skirts will be exceedingly narrow
as compared to those in vogue for the past
three years. Three and a half yards at the
foot will be the correct measurement, and
he widest will not be more than four and
a half. One distinctive feature is the close-
fitting ‘‘pilow-case’’ effect at the sides and
front. The fullness in the back is grouped
in bellows pleats.
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