SET i B 8 i i i so CR Bellefonte, Pa., Oct. 14, 1900. What need have I to worry About the future state ? I am living in the present Content to work and wait. 1 know that if my life is Just what it ought to be, Eternity, wher’er it is, Can bring but rest to me. And when this weary body Is laid beneath the sod, Whatever the awakening I know T’ll meet my God. Better vhen my life should be Of earnest faith and haope, Een though the darkn’d doors of death May never for me ope’. Then doubt like other skeptics, And live on hopelessly, To find beyond a dismal grave, A lost eternity. H.W. .D. ——— THE OTHER SIDE OF THE QUES- TION. Carefully closing the door behind the stately matron, who on the plea of an “‘agonizing’’ headache, had just excused herself for leaving him, Mr. Wilford drew himself together and walked back across the room to the window, by which the stately matron’s daughter was sitting. *‘Your mother is subject to headaches ?"’ “Yes. “They seem to come on rather sudden- 1 9 ‘Yes,’ with aslight decrease of pallor faintly suggestive of a blush. “May I give you some tea ?”’ iPleasé. No sugar.”’ ‘‘Bat plenty of cream. me yon like it.”’ “Ah, they found that out when we had been together after the pantomime. I was obliged to keep them in countenance.’’ I guessed how it was. You have been very kind to them.” ‘‘Indeed, it is they who have been kind to me, After thirty years of India one is glad of an excuse for seeing a real English pantomime. And I've always had a liking for school boys. Still, I don’t want to talk about them just at present.” ‘Naturally. After being at their beck and call for a month, you must realize the charms of freedom.”’ ‘Oh, there’s another reason.’”’” He un- derstood that she was trying to postpone an evil moment, and in kindness to her went straight to his point. “Did your mother tell you that she and I had a long conversation last night?” ‘‘Yes, she told me.”’ “And you know its purport ?’’ Ven? “Were yon vexed that I spoke to her. “Certainly not.”’ Under the eircum- stances it seemed best. Had she objected there would have been an end to the mat- ter, and you need have been none the wiser. As it was, she assured me’’ (this slowly and distinctly) ‘‘there was no one else in the field, and that I had, at least, a chance.” “‘Yes; mother explained all this, and I ought to thank you for your considera- tion.” “Thank me! That's the last thing I want you to do. If you say no, I shall have no right to complain. If you can say y, jt will be my place to be grateful.” Violet Jooked across at the trees in the square, “Yoa don’t see these things as society sees them, Mr. Wilford.” “No; a man who wishes to keep his self respect musn’t trust society with the choice of his spectacles. Now, Miss Errington, I’ve given you an opportunity of shutting me up and you haven’t taken it. What does that mean ?”’ ““That I am prepared to listen.’’ “Well, I suppose there’s no necessity to tell you what I am. You are more likely to be troubled by what I am not.”’ I believe you to be a good man; I know you to he a loyal friend. That is suffi- cient.” *And as my wife you would not easily get to the bottom of my purse. At my death you would find yourself a 1ich wom- an. Is it to be yes or no?” “Yes.” “Youn have thought it over ?’’ “I thought of it all night. thinking of it all day.’” “And it’s still yes ?”’ . “It’s still yes. That is if you wish it to be so after you have heard what I have to tell you.” “Something dreadful ?’* “Not dreadful, only mean and miser- able. Yon were very frank with my moth- er, and I told her I would accept your proposal on condition that I might be equally frank with you.” ‘That it what I should prefer.’’ “Your life seems to have been so broad,’ and now her eyes were fixed on the carpet, “that I don’t think you understand the narrowness of the world in which such peo- ple as my mother and I live. You see, we are always troubled, not about what is right or wrong, but about what is ex- pedient. We choose our friends because they have got on, or because they can help us to get on. We shouldn’t care to have a Shakespeare or a Mozart on our visiting lists unless they had made their names and would recite or play gratis for the amuse- ment of our guests. We just turn life in- to a big game of make-believe, and try to cheat ourselves into the conviction that we are deceiving one another.”’ “Well, in a. measure I dare say you're right., But (quietly) need one learn such lessons at twenty 2” “I could plot sscape the learning. When my father died he'l The boys tell I’ve been Bat the feeling of other people had to be considered; and if we could succeed in; keeping up appearances, it mattered little how it was done.”’ ‘You are bitter.”’ “No; I am simply trying to be just to you. It is only fair that you should know what my training has been. It may save you {rom disappointment by and by. For the rest, I won't pretend to love you, but 1 do respect you, and will honestly do my duty as your wife.” “And is that the whole of the story? Can we write Finis and be done with it, "or are there still a few words to be said ?”’ “Qh, the last chapter’s a short one, and scarcely worth telling—still you shall hear it. There was some one else who thought he cared for me, and for whom I thought 1 cared. But that was folly. I could never have been.” : “Why not?” ‘Because he is poor. I would not spoil his career; he could not give me what I want, what I must have—money to pay my mother’s debts; influence to start the boys in life.” “So ‘much for others. For yourself— what ?"’ ’ > left enough for us to live upon, had we been content to live plainly. “If I had only myself to study, Mr. Wilford. you would not have heard all this. And now that you know how much, or rather how little, I have to give, are you content to let the bargain stand? If so, may we talk of something else 2” “Will it do if we substitute ‘some one’ for ‘something 2° You wrote a letter last night.” “Yes.” (This with a quick upward glance of surprise.) “Well, I had to pay pretty dearly for that letter. Roy Chester chose to make it the excuse for a morning visit, and flung it on -my- table, as though it were the last thing in explosive bombs, and he hoped it would destroy both himself and me.” ‘‘He had mo right—"' “Pardon me, I think he had. As he said, he couldn’t be expected to stand by and see you sold to the highest bidder—a man too old and too selfish to appreciate the sacrifice you were making. He really said more than that, but. being in a rage, he didn’t stop to choose his words, and I won’t repeat them. You see, I was his father’s oldest friend, so the lad found it bard to forgive me. And I didn’t blame him.” ‘He has only made it worse for me.”’ “On the contrary, he brought back to my memory the days when I, too, thought love everything and money nothing. I've never risked boring you with my past his- tory, but I married when I was 22. My wife was a country girl, a nursery gover- ness, and we considered ourselves rich on an income less than the wages I now pay my coachman. At all events, we were happy; but itdidn’t last. On my 24th birthday my wife and her baby were buried. Still, she had lived long enough to show me what a real marriage means.” “And she would say that you deserve something better than a sham.” “We'll let that pass. Now, with regard to this matter we are discussing. Will you try to look at it from my point of view? For some time my big house has seemed lonely without a mistress, and I fancied it would be pleasant to have you show me how to spend my money; for even that does not come quite natural to a man who has had to work all his life. I also pictured to myself how well you would look at the head of my table. Now it’s all different. If you were my wile, there would always be a shadow between us. If you seemed unbappy, Ishould bz afraid to ask the reason. ' If you were si- lent, I might believe you were thinking of some one else. If you looked tired, I should feel sure yon were being bored and —by me.”’ ‘You are hard upon yourself. Not up- on me. I should at least have helped my mother and the boys.” ‘Yes, but, even so, was it quite fair? Your mother—well, she is your mother, so we'll say no more. The boys will be all the better for being obliged to rough it a little. And, frankly, I don’t see why, in order to save these three people a certain amount of discomfort, you, Roy and my- self should be condemned to a long course of heart aches. My dear, the fact is yon good women do a great deal of harm with your crooked notions of duty. A clergy- man mighs do worse than preach a sermon on the occasional immorality of self- sacrifice.” “Possibly; I don’t know. Good-bye, Mr. Wilford, Mother will be angry; but I—yes, on the whole, I am grateful to you.” ‘Oh, you don’t get rid of me just yet. You're not going to marry me, still I shan’t forget that I wished to put you in my dear wife’s place, and for her sake as well as your own I want to brighten your life. After all, you didn’t attempt to de- ceive me, and I promised Roy that if you'd be straightforward I would see that you didn’t suffer for it.” {What do you mean ?’’ “Well, I think I know of an opening for Roy that will enable him tokeepa wife who will not be too extravagant. As for the boys,” I'll undertake to give them a start in life, but they’ll have to put their shoulders to the wheel. They can't ex- pect to be pushed through the world in bath chairs.” “You make me ashamed of myself.” she said, tremulously. ‘‘I shall never be able to repay you.’’ “You can do something towards it, if the next time you feel inclined to sacrifice yourself—and others, you will stop to look at the other side of the question. How long will your mother’s headache last?’ ‘Until she hears yon go.”’ “Humph, youn look tired. Can'c you keep out of her way for a time?" ‘Yes, I shall find the headache that she will have lost. One always has that ex- cuse, you know, when—"’ “When one is a woman. Good-bye.” In the Forbidden City. Chinese Rip Van Winkles Disturbed in Their Slum- bes. TH Nana ae Cini : A very picturesque account of the march of the allied forces through the Forbidden City of Pekin is given by the special cor- respondent of the London Telegraph, who speaks of it as “‘the most imposing historic pageant of the century,” in which, *‘to the accompaniment of the flourish of trumpets, the strains of bagpipes and ‘national songs chanted in chorus, the West has hurled de- fiance at the East. ir “The Russians led the way, arrayed in white smocks and carrying bapuers with embroidered images of saints. Then came the Japanese, in gallant and splendid form; next the British, Americans, French and Germans, i sbitliones o pay “We proceeded through the numerous rtals, with their massive wooden doors swards; up the granite stairs, trampling the graven demons down on the flag paved alleys, through whose crevices grew rank weeds and scorched grass tuifs; past cur- jous columns, arches, architraves, bronze tortoises, stone dragons, artistic elephants, yellow sedan chairs and under domes and rafters frettered with weird and barbaric shapes. ! “‘Negleot was written large in the dust, dirt and decay which everywhere were visible; windows with tattered paper panes inste of glass, roofs semi-dismantled, walls need- with’ pigeon feathers; even the throne in the reception room was faded, and an air of stuffiness was evident in the Yellow Sacred Chamber, which is adorned with an inscription in a former Emperor's hand- writing. : i “In various parts of the Forbidden City stood withered, wizen faced, statuesque Chinese, like Rip Van Winkles startled from their dreams. There is nothing fresh neat or modern in the city. - The few flow- ers might. be opiates, which. had sent. the inmates to sleep years ago. “When the ceremony was over I learned that a Chinaman bad exclaimed: ‘Europe has profaned China’s sacred symbols. It remains still to desecrate ‘the graves; but the Chinese cannot be born again.’ | — Canal Dover, Ohio. 8 eading to courts and squares with grassy . | consumptives and find a way to prevent ing repair, the imperial apartments filled Telepathy of Twins. John and Robert Evans Have no Need of the Tele- graph. A most singular power of telepathy, or mind reading between twins has heen dem- onstrated near the isolated village of Trail- ville. John and Robert Evans are the twins who have this peculiar gift. The boys are about eighteen years old, and are sons of J. E. Evans a well-to-do farmer. Both have light hair and blue eyes, and they are so much alike that the father has never been quite sure which is John and which is Robert. : The twins are alike in temperament, and have always shown the closest sympathy with each other. Itis only recently, how- ever, that they bave discovered their telep- athy power. The first exhibition of it took place about four months ago. John had been sent into the woods to hew some trees, while Robert helped his father build fences on another part of the farm more than a mile distant. Just before dinner Robert suddenly dropped a piece of timber which he was helping his father to carry, and cried out, as if he was hurt. Turning about in alarm, the father saw the boy standing with his eyes closed. ‘John is hurt! I can hear him scream and I can see him,” Robert said. ‘‘The axe glanced from the tree and the sharp edge struck him on the foot. He is sitting on the ground and is bleeding dreadfully. He has begun to tear up his shirtand is trying to bind up the wound. He is near the old spring back of the peach orchard.’ Suddenly the boy opened his eyes, look- ed at his father an instant,and then started on a run toward the point where his broth- er had gone in the morning to work. Mr. Evans looked after him helplessly and then followed, somewhat dazed. When he ar- rived at the spring he found the conditions precisely as Robert had described them. John had cut his foot severely by a glance blow of the axe and had torn off his shirt sleeve, with which to bind up the wound and check the flow of blood. John him- self testified that he had cried out in pain when the axe struck him, and seemed not atall surprised that his brother Robert knew at once of his plight, although the sound of his voice could never have carried half the distance they were separated. The facts were told to the boys’ mother, and were repeated to the neighbors. At first people did not credit the story fully, but since then they have had ample evi- dence of the singular phenomenon. Not long afterward Robert was working alone behind the plough in a field more than a mile from the house, where he had left his twin brother that morning. While steer- ing the plough through a rough and rocky piece of ground the plough share was brok- en. There seemed nothing to do but un- hitch the horses and go home, although the hour was only mid-afternoon. Then Rob- ert suddenly thought about the time John cut his foot with the axe, and he determin- ed to make his wants known to his twin. He accordingly closed his eyes and tried, he said, to get his brother’s attention al- though John was more than a mile dis- tant. When be felt that John was listen- ing to him he told his brother to go to the barn, where there was a new plough point in the buggy shed hanging against the wall. He also told John to bring a monkey- wrench which was in the tool chest. Rob- ert then sat down on the plough and wait- ed. It was not more than five minutes un- til, he said, he plainly felt John asking him which monkey-wrench heshould bring —the smaller one or a larger one. After again bidding him to bring the large one he again sat down and waited patiently. Not more than half an hour elapsed be-¢ fore he saw John junning toward him with the now plough point and the large monkey wrench. The broken point was hastily removed and the new one put in its place. Then Robert continued his plough- ing and John returned te the house. The twins seem to think there is nothing re- markable about their marvelous gift of communication with each other when they are far separated. The distance they are apart seems not to make any differ- ence. Not long ago John had occasion to go to the county seat, which is twelve miles from his home. At the wish of their par- ents the twins determined to demonstrate, whether they could communicate with each other at this distance. Robert remained at home, and after John had been gone more than an hour he said he could see his brother driving along the road, and that, they were talking with each other and bad uttered the words aloud. This conversa- tion was kept up at intervals as long as John remained in town. Just after Reb- ert had said John was leaving on his re- turn journey the mother discovered that she needed some fruit cans. Robert atonce stopped John on his return journey and told him to drive back to get three dozen tin froit cans and some sealing wax. John asked a few questions and then told Robert he would return for the cans. About twi- light that evening Joh arrived home with the three dozen fruit cans and the sealing wax which he had beeu told to get. : These are only a few of the wonderful demonstrations the brothers are able to give. Their power has proved a helpful one on many occasions. Each kuows the, other’s whereabouts at all times. They. can see each other and exchange thoughts however widely they may be separated. Dr. Rothrock Talks Abont Forests. The members of the State Forestry Asso- ciation have been on a tour of the forests of the State. Dr. Rothrock. who is a mem- ber of the Association, in an interview id aii Linn ; i al “The State wants to cultivate and rear forests on the same order as the extensive Black Forest in Germany. The culmina-’ tion of our: present ideas may not bein this generation, but will come later on, It took Germany two hundred years to make the famous Black Forest what it is now, but the United States will probably make as much progress in that line in fifty years as Germany has done in two centuries. It is only a question of time when Pennsylva- nia will be called upon to take care of its the spread of a disease which claims each year as many victims as there are men in the National Guard of Pennsylvania. This is an astounding statement, but it is true, nevertheless, and the State will bave to meet this question at no far distant day. Our State timber reservation will be the remedy to help the State out of that di- lemma.” on i ——*Why is it,’’ asked the girl who tries to be funny, “why is it that they al- ways say that'a man pines for a woman? Why, conldn’s they just as well say he oaks for her, for instance?’ = Lo; “*‘Because,’’ growled the old bachelor, ““hecause pine is about the softest wood there Mr? iF Acre Li : ; .—=-Suhscribe for the WATCHMAN. Millions Given to Charity Needs. Large Contributions Made to Further Education, Art and Literature in 1899.—Some of the Sub- Scribers. In the year 1899 more than $80,000,000 was given to the religious, educational and charitable institutions, libraries and art galleries. It is a record of generosity which exceeds that of any previous year by many millions. The larger contributions alone are within a few thousand dollars of $80,000,- 000. They aggregated $24,000,000 in 1898 and $34,000,000 in the previons year. In 1896 the subscriptions were $33,000,000 and $29,000,000 in 1895. No record was kept in the compilation of these statistics of subscriptions of less than $100,000. Educational institutions got the bulk of the vast fortune distributed in 1889. This sum exceeded $56,000,000. To charities $13,200,000 was given and churches re- ceived $3,000,000. Art galleries and li- braries secured nearly $8,000,000. THE BIGGEST SUBSCRIBERS. Those who made hequests and subscrip- tions and stated their purpose to give and the objects of their generosity were. Mrs. Leland Stanford, San Francisco to Stanford University........icevieeeneiennnn $28,000,000 Phoebe Hearst, San Franeiso to Uni- versity of Californif........coceeeerieannarinns 10,000,000 P. A. B. Widener, Philadelphia to char- JOY oe ccrivinrareccinnnsresasssnansensrieasasssssssssvers 2,000,000 CHATILY .ccoineeissreissrenseessssssssessassntesasinn 2,000,000 Estate of John Simmons, Boston, fora female college......ccvnirrviiissinransinnnnins 2,000,000 Andrew Carnegie, to Pittsburg Library 1,750,0(0 P. D. Armour, Chicago, to Armour In- SHBRL@... cesses sirisssissanisnnrs srseasvasgeromssesssres Maxwell Somerville, Philadelphia, to University of Pennsylvania....... ......... Unknown donor, to Yale University...... Lydia Bradwell, Peoria, Ill, to Bradley Polytechnic Institute.......eeeerrenciiannnns Samuel Cupples, St. Louis, to Washing- ton (University... ...ccivumniisivarmsssinnnnie Jacob Schiff, New York,to Harvard Uni- VRTSILY. i ite iasesiassssss ster rasersnnss 750,000 600,000 500,060 500,000 400,000 350,000 eiasusssasrrusttantsusessn ana shissrasaasarannserasrdran 350,008 Edward Tuck, New York, to Dartmouth College......... coiresnininiiniiiesninssssoninianenns J. D. Rockefeller, New York, to Brown AINIVErSIY... ci conus as necisiocsracassesspionsens Unknown donor, Philadel versity of Pennsylvania......... Crocker Estate, San Franci 300,000 250,000 250,000 WD ae a 250,000 F. H. Cooper, Chicago, to charity......... 200,000 Margaret A. Kelley, New York, to CRITTER... cocsrivesssnceissnsssavsssnspenennseraass .. 200,000 J. D. Rockefeller, New York, to Roches- ter Theological Seminary........ccceevivncns 150,000 Pennsylvania Steel Co., for school at Steelton, P: 125,000 Jno. O. Pillsbury. Yee co nssinrirnes 100,000 David Sinton, C of Cincinnati 100,000 Z. G. Simmons, Kenosha, Wis., for li- 1, Re A 100,000 A. Carnegie, to Pennsylvania State Uni- VOISItY icuiuiiiiiiinnensissnssiniscisniosiennssnisenens 100,000 A. Carnegie, to Atlanta Library............. 100,000 Unknown donor, to Kansas Wesleyan University......... Sev isNib ates ieia aaa ka vere 100,000 H. C. Fahnestock, New York to charity. 100,000 J. D. Rockefeller, New York, to Dennis- on College..........ccons can crensenrnssssesssnsrinn 100,000 W. K. Vanderblit, New York, to Van- derbilt University......iscecessssnserssssnsnes 100,000 Unknown donor, to Princeton College... 100,000 Estate of Samuel Jones, Philadelphia to CRUECN o.oo vereicesirsies iss soinprpsmessssnnss = 100,600 Mrs. J. E. Leggit,St. Louis,to Washing- ington University..... ....oiiniiiiiiin 100,000 E. 8. Converse, Matden, Mass., to char- TY .e.orisennsrine crtrssnmenessrisrssasrsristessssensan 100,000 William L. Williams, Richmond, Va., GRATIY Jos coiniidsins ditsinnmnenase dose idoritass soni 100,000 EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AIDED. The list of educational institutions re- ceiving $200,000 and upward follows Leland Stanford Jr., University........... $28,000,000 University of California........c..ccovinnnnns 10,000,000 Harvard University... 2,300,000 Pennsylvania State University. . 1,055,600 Armour Institute.......... © 750,000 Yale University............. 889,000 University of Washington........... 750,000 Bradley Polytechnic University.. 500,000 Mass. Institute’'of Technology... 450,000 Princeton College............c.ceeun 390,000 University of Chicago... 389,370 Brown University......... 362,000 Columbia College...... 308,200" Dartmouth College... "A 305,000 Alma College. ..ciirurrnsensnicniinisiinineniiins 225,000 University of the City of New York..... 200,000 New York Teachers’ College................ 200,000 The above list does not include large gifts of real estate and houses. If these gifts were included the amount would be greatly increased. The Ideal Convention In Philadelphia. With ah unusual opportunity to test her renowned hospitabie qualities, Philadel- phia will rise equal to the occasion—and: surpass your. expectations, we feel sure— when in seeming never-ending numbers, the bands of Christian Endeavorers will storm her citadel in November next. The 21st and 22nd days of that ofttimes dreary month will be ‘‘sunshine’’ days in a very special sense—sunshine that will permeate the inner being, clearing hearts and minds of clouds gathered in struggles with ‘‘fears within and foes without.” Pl * Delegates from outside points. however distant, may come with full assurance that their needs and comforts, have been the thought of those well fitted to ‘attend | to them. Homes—Philadelphia’s strong-. | hold and worthy of the title—stand ready. to receive ‘‘the stranger ‘within onr ”; gates. Fok i Men whose names in many instances are world-wide are on the program for this three days’s feast and yours will be the privilege ‘of seeing and heaiing among others, Rev. Charles: M. Sheldon (whose life is a continual answer to his world moving question, ‘What Would Jeseus Do ?'’ Then appears that name dear to all Endeavorers, be they American, Chinese, French, Spanish or what-not—" ‘Father Endeavorer”’ Clark (Rev. Dr. Francis E.) Added to these is a galaxy of stars, lumi- nous and admired by all—Rev. Russell H. Conwell, (Philadelphia’s special pride;) Rev. John Henry Barrows, D.D.,: Rey. Charles Cuthbert Hall, D.D., Rev. Tuenis S. Hamlin, D.D. ; two former State Presi- dents, Rev. Geo. B. Stuart D.D.. and Rev. J: T. MeCrory, D.D.; Mr. Robert E. Speer, the most charming and interesting of missionary speakers, and one of Phila- delphia’s trustees in the United Society ; Rev. Floyd W. Tompkins, D.D., a man of such deep spirituality that a service in his charge, however few may be the minutes, is as a walk with the Master Himself, so real becomes the presence of the One Whos he ‘serves, and Who is only leader of the Endeavor hosts. . The railroad rate is good going November 17th to 22nd’; returning, to November 26th. 5 sald SRE» — The frog may he in the swim and th ‘hopper always on the jump, but Be nite ve got in the Pal. Boy Burned at the Stake. in Awful Agony.—While Fire Was Burning at Feet a Companion Threw Gasoline into the Flames Thinking it Was Water. Eddie McBride, son of John McBride, Trenton, N. J., a flagman on the Penus New Anaesthetic. ee ii ald = Fatal Ending of a Wild West Show.—Victim Died Philadelphia Man Laughs and Jokes as an Oper- his ation is Performed. Seven hundred physicians and students crowded into the amphitheatre of Jeffer- of | son hospital recently to witness a re- yl- | markable surgical operation demonstrat- vania railroad, died Saturday morning |ed by Dr. W. W. Keen, who used, for the from the effects of burns received while playing “Indian?” with his schoolmates. The boys went into an open lot Friday afternoon after they had been dismissed from school. and started to play ‘‘Wild West.”* They remembered some of the sen- sational features of Buffalo Bill’s cow boy show that was there a few weeks ago, and started a scout and Indian chase. Eddie McBride was a_pale-face in the arrange- ment of the program, and when he appear- ed from the concealment of a clump bushes the Indians’ eried :'*‘There comes a pale-face ; let’s burn him at the stake !’ PROVED A WILLING VICTIM. first in this country eucain, injected into the spinal column. So effective was the anaesthetic that the patient felt no pain, and talked and joked with his attendants during the operation. The subject was Wright Williams, col- ored, 65 years old, feeble, and suffering from hernia. in aggravated form. His physical condition precluded the use of chloroform, ether or any other of the anaesthetics applied by inhalation. Nor was it considered wise to attempt the im- portant operation without the use of an- aesthetics. Dr. Keen who has just returned from an of ’ Eddie was a willing victim, and made extended trip abroad, determined to try no protest when he was forcibly taken t spot where a pile of dry wood had been prepared. He was bound to a stake and the wood ignited. The flames leaped and set fire to the boy’s clothing. When his playmates heard his cries of agony they became frightened, and one of them, George Myers, picked up a can, which says he thought contained water, and The can dashed it on the boy’s clothing. contained gasoline instead of water, and an instant the boy at the stake was a pil- lar of fire. In his agony he broke from his fasten- ings and started to ran home, screaming at One of his older the top of his voice. playmates caught him and rolled’ him the ground. The flames were extingui ed, but not before the boy had been fatally burned. He was taken to his home and medical aid summoned, but the physicians were unable to alleviate the sufferings the little fellow and he died about two o’alock Sunday morning, CORONER MAKES AN INVESTIGATION. Coroner Bower made a personal investi- gation Saturday afternoon in the case. The Coroner questioned all the boys who were was - burned. Among those questioned was Myers’. My- ers’ statement is to the effect that he had started a bonfire and that McBride was Young Myers then says he took some liquid from a bottle and threw it into the fire and that the flames rushed up and ignited McBride’s clothing. Myers says he found the bottle and did not known what was in it, and had no inten- tion of doing harm. The otlier hoys cor- roborate Myers’ statement,and the Coroner is disposed to accept the boys’ statements. present when McBride standing close by. Train Robber Killed. Express Messenger Fired a Bullet Through Heart.—Companion of the Outlaw Escapes. Lying in the morgue at Council Bluffs, | Iowa, with a bullet through his heart is a | 80Y pain. man, powerfully built, black hair a moustache, about six feet tall, aged appar- He was one of two men ently 45 years. o a | the experiment of Professor Tuffler, of Par is, who reports that he has operated successfully in 160 cases through spinal up anaesthesia by means of cocaine. Dr. Keen announced that the French operator had experimented with 2 per cent, solu- tions of cocaine, which he had injected in- he | to the spinal column, producing total an- aesthesia below the spot where the needle entered. in| ‘Dr. Keen said further that he preferred to use eucain, a newer preparation, discover- ed by the Germans, which had the advan- tage of being capable of thorough steriliza- tion, and consequently was freer of the dangers sometimes attendant upon the use on | of cocaine. The duration of anmsthesia sh- | 18 from thirty minutes to an hour and a half. Dr. Keen was assisted in the operation by Drs. John H. Gibbon and William P. of | Hearn. The eucain’ used was specially prepared after the German formula by Dr. George W. Spencer. The contents of a hypodermic syringe were emptied into the sermon contained within the sack surround- ing the spinal cord, the operation being al- most painless. : Meanwhile, the hundreds of physicans and students craned their necks. Wil- liams chatted pleasantly with the opera- tors, describing the gradual numbing of his extremities. Eight minutes after the puncture was made in the spinal. column the patient lost all sensation below the shoulders. The operation is known as one of the major operations—that is, one of the serious operations, still ‘Williams said he did not feel the slightest pain from the incision of the knife in the abdomen. He remained couscious throughout, con- versing in low tones with the attendants and actually joking. The operation lasted nearly an hour, and from first to last was absolutely painless. After the operation the doctors said that it would have been possible to have ampu- tated the man’s leg without causing him One of the surgeons said last nd | night that no surgeon in this country had ever before attemped the operation with the use of hypodermic injections into the His who held up the Kausas City passenger spinal column, and that the result would train on the Burlington road three miles be watched with great interest by the pro- south of that city, at midnight. Messenger Charles Baxter killed him. Two men boarded the train at Uni Pacifie transfer and climbed over the tend- Express fession. Last night Williams was resting easily and complained only of a slight sen- on | sation of smothering. Should eucain, administered into the er just as the train was crossing the Mos- spinal column, prove safe and certain in quito Creek bridge. Frank Holman, fireman, who were charge of the engine, were ordered to slow Engineer Donelly and the operation,surgeons are prepared to hail in | its discovery as greater than that of chloro- form. Its action is downward from the up as soon as the train had crossed the point injected, 80 that an operation upon bridge. While the man who is now de; ad | the foot would be injected in the lower held a revolver on the engine crew his | SPINe. companion went back and cut off the bag- gage and mail cars, leaving the day coaches and sleepers standing on the main line. Acting under orders, the engineer pull the train half a mile down the track where Here the robbers ap- proached the express car and ordered Messenger Baxter to open the door. He | oloves- a stop was made. refused to do so. Sources of Kid Gloves. ed | Colts Contribute Materially to the Modern Hand Covers. Barefooted boys and hens form a curious partnership in the making of a pair of fine Thousands of dozens of hens’ eggs e Under compulsion En- | are used in curing the hides, and thous- gineer Donnelly attached a stick of dyna- ands of hoys are employed to work the mite to the side door of the car and blew | gkins in clear water by treading on them it open: In the meantime Messenger for several hours, says the Philadelphia. Baxter seized his gun, escaped. from the | Record. door on the opposite side of the car. As When a woman buys a pair of gloves she soon as the door was opened one of the rob- | speaks of her purchase as ‘‘kids.’’ If the bers entered the car while his compani marched the engineer and fireman back the engine. on | glerk who sold ber the ‘kid’ gloves: to | knew the secrets of the glovemaking busi-- ness he might surprise his fair customer by Baxter crept around in front of the en-| telling her that those beautiful soft, smooth- gine, and seeing the robber keeping guard fitting ‘kid’? gloves came from the shoul-- over the engine crew, fired one shot and killed him instantly. As soon as the shot was heard the robber in the car jumped the ground. and fled through a cornfield. The dead man was picked up, placed ders and stomach of a three-weeks-old colt,. whose neck was slit on the plains of Rus-- t0 | sia: and whose tender ‘hide was shipped, | with huge bundles of other colts’ hides, on | to France, where they were made up into board and the train was backed into the | kid?" gloves : or he might, with equal re- city. The body was searched, but mnothi was found on it by which: it conld be In the man’s pockets were identified. ng | gard to the trath, tell her that those gloves. in: the other compartment once darted from. tree to tree in South America on the back. found ahout fifteen dollars in money, and | of the ring -tailed monkey. a watch and chain. man, being apparently above six feet The robber who escap- ed was larger and taller than the: dead Ana if he made the rounds of the store- ad | and could distinguish ‘one skin from an-- in | other he could point (out : ‘‘kid’’ gloves. height. Both men were masked and both | made from the skins of kangareos from. wore overalls and jumpers. e door the express car was badly shattered by the explosion of dynamite. The robber inside : the car was prepari to blow the safe at the time his compani of | Australia,Jambs or sheep from Ohio or- Spain’ or ‘England; calves from India, | muskrats from anywhere, musk oxen from ng | China and other parts of Asia, rats, cats- on | and Newfoundland = puppies. But the- was killed. He ceased operations at once | Russian colt, the four-footed baby from. and no damage was done to the contents the car, nor was anything taken. Se— The Young Men of To-Day. The young nien ‘of to-day are too finicky —too much given to self analysis, too self: pampering. Their shoes and neckties cost. more each year than did the entire ward- robe of their grandfathers. They feel ‘of | the plains where the Cossacks live, the- 11 colt from the steppes of Siberia, where | horses are raised by the thousands, supply therkina whi laos the bulk of the- inty coverings for my lady’s hands. Fell Dead On His Wiss Grave, ‘a! | While cutting the grass om Wednesday ins sense of degradation in small ‘beginning | bis plot in Riverview cemetery, at Trenton, 1 and plodding, and they wait for success ready made to come to them. There not a. young man. in the country w would imitate Ben Franklin and march through the streets munching a loaf’ N. J., where his wife and three children. is | are buried: Frederiek Fritz seventy years: ho | 01d, @ retired : favmen, was stricken with: heart disease and fell; fonward; dead, on his- ‘of | wife’s grave. : bread while looking for employment. He, | Fritz’s wife ded 1 {iui AZO as the re-- dare not, indeed, because society has be- sult ‘of an accident whith” picking cherries.” 4] come also finicky, and he would be ar- | She fell from a steplad: jer and broke her: EE Sh SY a unas to Pious | gestive obill and the others from diphtbe-- week he is from school, he feels li Eli Pussley, that he has ‘no chance.” A Mother's Awful Deeds. ke | ria. Two sens only survive the father. "| When the eoroner arrivedihe found $189.-- 80 in the dead Wan'y pocket, $160 of which. | was in gold. All of his spare time lately | the old man spent in caring for the ceme- ‘Mus, Lillian Smith, of Inwood, borongh | tery plot. of Manhattan, New York, Friday after- noon killed herself and her six-year-old son, Andrew, by shooting and administer- bolic acid. She also. shot Ethel, ing car her daughter, 12 years of age, in the | ia Sevolioc acid over the breast an red carbolic acid over child and’ then shot her four-year-ol child, Mabel, in the breast and poured ) 0 Ethel and Mabel 1 earholic acid over her. were taken to a h jE Two Laws of Health. ‘A physician mouths shut when get killed. ¥— Indianapolis Journal. Tornado Caused Eight Deaths. BIWABIE; Minn,, October 7.—Saturday a tornado passed through a Finlander set- Howes of Pike river, about two miles north of Biwabik, wiping out an entire: family ‘of siz—husband,. wife and four iN 0: { £ 1 thei i lin, Sint onl ns f not be learned. lhe bod Maro; tn, a as that was missing yester- day ‘alter the tornado passed Biwabik, was. ys that people who sleep | found a quarter of . ‘mile away from his with sir Sa Ca ai house gu the Is ina orsikiy sutilatod ‘Well, go around with their | condition. Wi trom, anothers ell people 3.0, ground nid liam steal anoth Hi | tornado. wictim,. who had ractur-- { ed, died: last night ab the hospital ere.
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