Pemorvalic; Waldman Bellefonte, Pa., January 24, 1902 e—— Unseen. “And where is God 7” the Doubter asked, “I do not sez Him anywhere— Behind what creature is He masked, In sea, on earth, in clouds in air 7° “And where is death ?” the Mourner sighed — “And yet I know that he is near : There lies my dearest friend that died— Nor voice, nor footstep did I hear.” “Where are the violets?” asked the child— “I do not see them, yet I know, Although the winds are blowing wild, They are alive beneath the snow.” — Maurice Franeis Egan, in January Donahoe's. CHRISTMAS CHARITY. [From Mrs. Letitia Overmuch to 3s. Caro- line Harmony, wife of the Rev. Mr. Ear- nest Harmony. | WATERTOWN, Wednesday. Dear Mrs. Harmony : You can never know how glad I was to get your long, delightful letter, and to learn that the children were quite recovered ed from their illness. It wae so good of vou to write when you had so much to do. And then to think of your taking time to inquire about our poor little Volunteer Aid Society. But you and Mr. Harmony were always so interested in our work when you were here. I’m sure you understand how much we all like dear Mr. Blandley ; he is such agood man, and works so hard for the upbuilding of the church; but, do yon know, sometimes it seems to me that he isn’t quite so much interested in our chari- table work as he might be—not so much in- terested, I’m sure, as your husband was. But few could be expected to take the in- terest in everything which he did. We’ve decided not to hold a fair this year in benefit of the Aid Society ; Mr. Bland- ley appeared to think that perhaps it would not be best. He is such a good man, though sometimes it does seem, dear, as if his notions were just a bit peculiar. We made so much money by our fair last year, and there are so many poor. Of course we can’t see them starve, so we wust raise money in some manner. Mr. Blandley thinks that it would be best for each of us to contribute in cash what she feels able ; but to me this seems rather crude. Be- sides, one has so many ways for one’s money at Christmastime. Really, as I was saying to Mrs. Carr only yesterday, actually giving one’s money to the poor has always seemed to me ectravagant. But of course we must do something for them somehow. Mis. Bishee was reading of the quaint ways the ladies of a little town in Michigan have taken to raise Christinas money. They have given up a fair—I think the paper said something about some scandal concerning not giving haek change at the last fair—though there didn’t seem to he any proof that the person wanted change. Anyhow, the ladies are doing oth- er things to raise money. Some of them are selling evening papers, and others are shoveling off sidewalks, and still others are painting the church, and some are actually sawing wood—so the paper said. The arti- cle spoke very highly of the plan, and said the men of the place were enthusiastic over it. I think that would be quite like the men. Though for my part I can’t see why the ladies would be obliged to give back change when they sell papers unless they want to. I hardly think I'd eare to saw wood, though painting the church might be rather pleasant, especially if it eounld be doue in water color. Idon’s know yet if we shall follow the plan of the Michigan ladies, but we ire thinking about it. I will write you again jnst as soon as we de- cide. Please do answer this scribble, and remember all of us to Mr. Harmony. Ever your friend, LETITIA OVERMUCH. P. S.—I’ve just become so much inter- ested in the case of a man named Shook— Daniel Shook—who livesaway out in Grabh- wood Street. He's a widower with a large family of children, and everyone agrees that he is an honest and hard working man. His eldest danghter keeps house for him. But I fear they will have a pretty ¢heerless -Christmas unless something is done for them. TI have told the ladies that IT will look after the family. How well one feels repaid for any amount of labor when one knows that one is lightening the troubles of others ! LO; II Friday. Dear Mis. Harmony.-—You are always so prompt in, answering my letters that vou actually make me ashamed of myself. 1m sure you’ll never know how much the kind | message from your hushand about our so- ciety encouraged us. He is always so thoughtful. Well we've decided on fol- lowing that Michigan plan this year, though of course we're not going to do anything quite so horrid as sawing wood. You didn’t think that, did you, dear? My hushand wanted me to, though--or pretended he did—you know how he will go on. Offer- ed to get the saw filed—one of those big saws which look like ‘a harp, that we keep to frighten tramps. I even found it hang- ing on the hat rack one morning, with a hit of bacon rind dangling from a string to gvease the blade with. Each one of the society has promised to carn $5, or just as near it as possible, and all by doing legitimate work. No one can talk about our methods this year. A few of the ladies have already decided on their work. Mrs. Barlow is going to. Pestle’s |. drug store, in the holiday goods depart- ment. Mrs. Parkinson is going to deliver evening papers. Mrs, Spaulding will milk Deacon Peunypacker’s cow, and have half the milk and sell it. Mrs. Dobbs has agreed to black her hushand’s shoes every morning, and she will get ten cents for it, ten cents for each shoe, though Mr. Dobbs doesen’t know tiie yet. Idon’t think it will be nice of him if he lets her do the work at all ; he can just give her the nioney and get it done outside. The others will decide on something in a few days. I posi- tively must stop. Remember uns all to Mr. Harmony, and believe me dear, ever your friend. LETITIA OVERMUCH. P. S.—I almost forgot to say that I have decided on my work. Mr. Smallpint, the grocer, is going to let me drive one of his delivery wagons for the week hefore Christ- mas: It is an extra wagon and will be sent chiefly to deliver orders at the villages round about. Don’t you think me fortu- uate to get such pleasant work? Driving! you know what an enthusiastic whip I am. IIL . , Monday Evening. Dear Mrs.§jHarmony.—I am so tired to- night that I know I couldn’t write to any- body else in the world; and I'm afraid, dear, that even you woulll go ‘without a concerning that man ‘Shook. letter this time were it not that I know just how anxious you are to learn about our work for the society. I can’t speak much of the others, having been too busy myself to see anyone else, though I hear that Mrs. Spaulding had trouble with Deacon Penny- packer’s cow at the first milking. I believe that the creature kicked over the pail and spilled half of the milk, and Mrs. Spauld- ing had hard work to convince the deacon that it was his half that was spilled ; but she did it at last, so the society loses noth- ing. I’ve not yet got fairly started on my work. But I was down at the store, and helped put up packages of sugar, coffee and starch. I got them all mixed up, and couldn’t tell which was which. Mr. Small- pint came along and said, quite rudely, “Smell of ’em !¥’ I gave him a look. He forgets that Iam a good customer of his. However, I picked out the coffee that way, but I'd like to see even a grocer smell out starch from sugar. I suppose I shall have to open each package to-morrow—and they’re all tied in hard knots. Did I tell you that Alice Constable is to assist me? She is, and we are to get $5 apiece for our week’s work. I’m sure the money is going to do so much good. Re- member me to your husband, please. LETITIA OVERMUCH. P. S.—We took time to go out to that man Shook’s this afternoon. Poor fellow, we found him at home. Some work which he expected has failed him, he said, and he’s very anxious about the children’s Christmas. We told him not to worry, that we’d see that they are provided for. Alice and I have decided to devote all our money to this family. It seems so hard when a man is willing to work and cannot get work to do. 1. O Iv Friday Evening. Dear Mrs. Harmony.—It will be one while before I drive an old grocery sleigh again ! Alice and I decided that wedidn’t care to work tomorrow, and we told Mr. Smallpint so. He was very pleasant about it, and said he would try and get along somehow, aud gave us each our $5. I think it occurred to him at last that we are good customers. In fact, I know it did, because I told him so. He tried to be disagreeable about an overturned jug of molasse:, so I simply had to remind him to whom he was speaking. Ido hops Mr. Blandley is sat- isfied ; we refrained from holding one of those terribly wicked fairs, and half killed ourselves working to éarn money in the hardest ways. I fear I’m cross tonight, but I’m =o tired. I dare say I shall feel better tomorrow; if I don’t I shall wish we had all turned burglar. © : I’ve learned something about grocery hoises. I supposed they were like other horses, but they aren’t. Mr. Smallpint gave us one who carried his nose about a foot from the ground. Alice thought per- haps it was a good plan, because he could see where he was going hetter ; but it didn’t help his looks. And as for getting him by a house without stopping, it was an utter impossibility. We bad to stop and pretend to deliver something anyhow. His fastest gait was a walk. Don’t think I mean it was his only gait—in fact, it wasn’t even his favorite gait. When we couldn’ endure his walk any longer and nrged him to go faster, he would hob off into what Alice called his perpendicular trot. When going this way he vibrated up and down quite rapidly, but he got ahead more slow- ly than when he walked. It was a very hard week’s work, but we would have very little of the spirit of true charity about us if we complained. The money we earned is going to bring a happy Christmas to those poor little Shook chil- dren. We shall see about the matter to- morrow. Their father has remained unable to get any work, and we shall devote all our money to them. It seems to me that something is wrong when a man cannot get work te'do. Iam going to ask Mr. Bland- ley to preach a sermon on the subject. Per- haps it will dosome good. Remember me, please, to your hushand, and I remain,ever your friend, LETITIA OVERMUCH. P. S.—I forgot to say that that beast of a horse finally ran away with us this after- noon. Idon’tthink he was frightened—he seemed to he running simply for exercise. He finally got stopped, and there was no barm done, though it mixed up the groceries a good deal, and most of the labels were lost; but this didn’t matter much, as it was our last trip, and we settled it by leaving two packages if the house was large and one if it was small. Everybody got something. 1, 0. : v Saturday. Dear Mrs. Havmony,—I had such a good rest last night, and I feel so mueh better to-day. ‘Alice and I went out te Shook’s the first thing this morning. We decided as the time was so short, we would simply give him the money and let him Jay it out for the children himself. We are assured he can be trusted. Poor man, there were tears in his eyes when he thanked us. It was a terrible week, but we feel that we have been repaid. We have brought a happy Christmas to one household. I have uot time for another word. Your friend; LETITIA OVERMUCH, P. 8.—It was really too touching! You see it was the first time the man had ever had to accept charity, and he explained a dozen times that he would not have been compelled to now if he had got that job he counted on. I shall certainly ask Mr. Blandley to preach a sermon on the case. Only, dear, I wish your husband could take it up. I’m sure he could do it very much better. L. O. VI : [From Miss Alice Constable. Postal card.) : Monday. My Dear Mrs. Harmony, —Poor Mrs. Overmuch is not at all well today, and she asks that I drop you a postal and tell you what has upset her. You know she is not strong, and last week was so hard on her. With holiday greetings to Mr. Harmony, i Yours cordially, ALicE CONSTABLE. P. S.—As I started tosay, Mrs. Over- much is quite prostrated by developments It appears that the job he was disappointed in getting was that of driving Smallpint’s extra de- livery wagon which we took. And Mr. Blandley is going to preach on the subject ! > A.C. By Hayden Carruth, in January Harpers. Suggests Catholie Hymnal. the early publication of a Catholic hymnal. The Rev. Father H. G. Ganss, composer of. sacred music, General Secretary of the Catholic Indian schools in this country, is the originator of the idea. Father Ganss will compose the music and the literary: labors of production will probably fall to the lot of Monsignor Loughlin, an officer in the house hold of Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia, and the Rev. Father H. T. Henry, Principal of the Catholic High school of. Philadelphia. Father Ganss is a resident of Carlisle. A movement has been inaugurated for | clergyman and the best man Planned Big Frauds in Cuba. The hearing in the postoffice cases was resumed in Havana, on Friday, and the examination of W. H. Reeves, one of the accused, was continued. He was on the stand four hours. He testified that he was originally ap- pointed to the Cuban postoffice department by order of the Washington authorities, but former Director-General of Posts H. G. Rathbone appointed him chief of postal accounts. The fiscal asked him if he had any conversation with C. F. W. Neely, who was chief of the finance division, re- garding the burning of surcharged stamps ordered destroyed by the government, and whether Neely had suggested to Rathbone that money could be made thereby. The witness replied that he had such a conver- sation. Neely stated that Rathbone re- fused to enter into the transaction at first, but subsequently agreed. Rathbone appointed the witness, Neely and Morfield a commission to see the stamps burned. Morfield did not know that there was anything fraudulent con- nected with the matter. Packages of stamps were taken out of the vaults by the three members of the commission. The stamps were not checked except that the amounts marked on each package were noted. The stamps were placed in a cart and taken to the electrozone plant and burned. A report on the burning of the stamps was made out by Neely and signed by the witness and Morfield. The report stated that $310,000 worth had been hurned, and that the packets included all the surcharg- ed stamps except some struck stamps. Rathbone issued an order to credit the stamp account by the amount of the re- port. The commission did not know when the entry was made that a fraud had heen committed, though some of them kuew that the intention existed to commit fraud. At this point the witness was confronted with Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow’s report,accoiding to which Reeves had not stated that he was aware of any intention to commit fraud when the entry was made. Reeves said he refused to recog- nize the report of Bristow. Continuing his testimony, the witness said that in conversation with Neely later the latter had said that $15,000 less stamps bad been burned than the report stated, aud that there was a profit of $6,000 for each of them, Rathbone, Neely and Reeves. This occurred before the burning of the sec- and lot. . The witvess said that Rathbone paid off a mortgage on his property in Cincinnati with his share of the spoils. Subsequently in conversation with Rathbone, the latter stated that burning stamps was an easy way to make money. Ratnbone, therefore, knew that the burning was fradnlent. Be- fore the second lot was burned Neely told the witness that if Rathbone hecame civil governor of Cuba, he could do business of this sort on a larger scale. Reeves would then become auditor of the island and Neely treasurer, Correct Speaking and Writing In Harper's Magazine for this month, Alice A. Stevens, after insisting that the publie schools may best fulfill their duty to children by giving them a thorough knowledge of ‘The Three R's” and a taste for literature, says : ‘It is with the keen- est regret, therefore, that we find evidences in the very centers of the most advanced educational methods of conditions which may be briefly summarized in the follow- ing out line : *‘Inaccuracy in applying the foundation principles of good reading, good writing, and good reckoning. : “Indifference to the importance of ac- curacy in the same. ‘Ignorance of the fact that literature, if it is to be of any vital use, must mean more out of school than it ever can mean within.” ? These are very serious charges, and one who has not bad an opportunity to verify them by a thorough and widely extended observation of the work actually accom- plished by the public schools is hardly at liberty to give them an unqualified com- mendation. But Miss Stevens bases her conclusions upon a comparison of the re- sults obtained respectively in French and American schools. She declares that the ideas advanced in her article took shape after a series of visits paid to French pub- lic schools in the city of Paris. These visits, she explains, were made because of ‘‘a conviction formed during considerable intercourse with French people of various grades—a conviction, namely, that, taking them all in all, the French people have a wider command of their native tongue, a keener sense of its dignity and worth, and a greater familiarity with its laws and literature, than have the Awerican people in relation to the English language. Or, to state it differently, the average French child who has attended a public¢ school for ten years has more intelligent knowledge of his native language than has the average American child who has been subjected to an equal length of training.” Former Nun Now a Bride. Miss Cudlip, Lately a Sister Superior in Montreal, Becomes Mrs. R. P. M. Davey. The pretty love romance of Sister Hilda, of the Sacred Order of St. Margaret, came to a climax at Montreal on. Wednesday morning, when, in the presence of three friends, she became the wife of R. P. Mon- tague Davey, of the Dominion bridge works. V With the renunciation of her vows of celibacy about three weeks ago, Sister lip,danghter of J. W. Cudlip, of St. Johns, N. B. High church society talked of noth- ing else for many days and the clergy were astonished at the breaking of the vows. When the story of the resignation of Sis- ter Hilda as superior of the order in Mon- ‘treal hecame known a personal was insert- ‘ed in the papers that she was to wed Mr. Davey soon at her father’s home. Owin to the breaking of the high church holy vows there was great interest as to who would perform the marriage ceremony. The services of the Rev. M. Bushell, of St. Matthias’ church, in Westmount, a low church, were obtained. Without notice to any of their friends Mr. Davey and Miss Cudlip were married at seven o’clock Wed- nesday morning, and drove immediately to the station, where they took the train for New York, en route to Atlantic City. News of the marriage hecame known through a cabman’s remark. When the were seen | they declined to say anything whatever. The church of St. John the Evangelist, the highest Anglican church in Montreal, :di- | rectly maintains St. Margaret's home, in Montreal. The entire congregation is up- set over the matter. The romance was began through Mr. Davey, who is an expert musician, visiting the home. He thus often met Sister Hilda, the superior, with whom he fell in love. His love was reciprocated. Hilda once more hecame Miss Hilda Cud- | Desserts for Diabetics. One of the most difficult tasks that con- front a housekeeper is to furnish a suffi- cient variety in the daily fare of a diabetic patient without encroaching upon the list of interdicted articles. The diet prescribed for this class of invalids forbids, as a rule, the use of sugar or starch in any form, and it is not until the housekeeper endeavors to make out a list of menus for one week that she realizes how many articles of food which are not ordinarily considered starchy contain a large percentage of that material. The list - of available vegetables is also a brief one. In many cases milk is allow- able, and when this must be excluded cream may be used. To the average diabetic the greatest pri- vation is the lack of desserts. With a lit- tle extra trouble, however, many appetiz- ing dainties may be prepared. Sour ap- ples and lemons are about the only fruit available for this purpose, and saccharine, which comes in tablet form at 25 cents for one hundred half-grain tablets, must be used for sweetening. One tablet is suffi- cient to sweeten a cup of tea or an indi- vidual dish of dessert. Gluten flour, while it contains a large percentage of starch, is allowed by the majority of physicians, and forms the basis of many substantial desserts. In cooking any preparation containing sac- charine,care must be taken that the utensils are of earthen or granite ware, and under no circumstances should copper, pewter, ete., be employed. The spoon used for stirring beverages should be of bone, horn or porcelain.—New York Tribune. She Gets After Lazy Men. Woman Crusader Begins Her Work in Alton, 11. Mis. Sophia Demuth, the ‘‘anti-laz man crusader,’’ hegan her active work in Alton, Ill., on Wednesday, when she caused the arrest of George Scott on charges of cruelty to childien and failure to support his fam- ily. Mrs. Demuth seized three of Scott’s children, for two of whom she found com- fortable homes in Alton. One of the two escaped from the police while being fitted out with new clothing. Scott threatens to prosecute Mis. De- muth for taking away his children per- manently. He wants the officers to keep them until he can obtain work, but he says he is able to support them ost of the time. Mis. Demuth, who is the probation of ficer for Madison county, with the s- c.al duty of looking after children who® | arents do not look after them, avers t* the chii- dren were starving and f zing. Scott says they got two meals a day. The chil- dren said thev were used to that sort of thing. To Mrs. Demuth Scott admitted he had not worked for eicht months, but his friends declared that he was the victim of circumstances. *‘T am able to take care of my own chil- dren most of the time,”’ said Scott, ‘I nev- er was fick a day in my life. 1 consider myself the healthiest man in Alton,”’ The Scott children are good looking, aud there are many applications for possession of them. Mrs. Demuth said, after the ar- rest of Scott, that heretofore she had con- tented herself with giving warnings to lazy men, hereafter she would bave them ar- rested and dealt with hy law. Great Work by a Blind Man. William Brinkman, the Kokomo blind man who two years ago married Jennie Lamb, who besides being blind is totally paralyzed, has disarmed his critics who in- sisted that he had his hands fall in taking care of himself without assuming additional burdens. In two years, Brinkman, unaided by charity, has paid fora home and im- proved it to a present worth of $800. The blind man has sold 3,880 pounds of pea- nuts and 31,000 popcorn balls. After pre- paring the morning meal and guiding the food to the mouth of the helpless wife, he rolls the peanut roaster down town. re- turning home at noon and night for the other meals. He does all the honsekeep- ing. Besides that he tunes pianos. repairs clocks and organs. Recently he took an organ of 420 pieces apart, cleaned it and bad it together and playing on it in four hours. He declines all offers of charity. A short time ago Mr. Brinkman performed the perilous feat of climbing the court house tower and repairing the town clock, when experts had failed. Mr. and Mis. Brinkman became acquainted at the State Blind school and with them it was a case or *‘love at first sight,’ as both expressed it.—St. Louis Glabe- Democrat. Boy’s Gruesome Death, Walter Campbell, aged fifteen years, came to a sad and untimely death early Friday morning in the West school house at Elyria; O. He, with Leo Hunkey. had been asked to stay in the school house by the Principal —Charles Williams—and see that no one stole a skeleton which had re- cently been added to the school. The boys borrowed an old navy pistol belonging to the janitor and, armed with this ancient weapon, felt prepared to pro- tect the skeleton. During the night the boys took turns going down into the base- ment to fire the furnace. It was nearly morning when Walter Campbell went down for the last time, and as he stooped to throw in a shovel of coal the revolver slipped from the belt he wore and fell to the floor. The concussion caused the weapon to explode, the ball penetrat- ing the hoy’s abdomen. After a short time he lapsed into unconsciousness and died at 7 o’clock Friday morning. These Go Abroad. To Represent the United States at the Coronation. The cabinet meeting recently was devoted largely to the consideration of appoint- ment of representatives of -this country at the coronation of King Edward VII. Ag its conclusion the following designations were announced by the secretary of state : Special ambassador, Whitelaw Reid, of New York, Representative of the United States army, 2 { General James H. Wilson, of Delaware. Representative of the United States navy, Captain Charles E. Clark,commander of the battleship Oregon during the Span- ish- American war and now governor of the naval home at Philadelphia. There are to be three secretaries, as fol- lows : J. P. Morgan Jr., son of J. Pier- pont Morgan, of New York; Edmund Lin- coln Baylies, a barrister, of New York; and William = Wetmore, son of Senator Wet- more, of Rhode Island. Hash for Horses. A mash composed of two quarts of oats, one quart of bran and half a pint of lin- seed meal is good for horses. If the horses are to secure the greatest amount of benefit from their feed, give them sufficient time to masticate it before putting them to work, says Kansas Farm- er. A horse should never be fed more than it can digest readily. It is not what is eaten, but what is digested and assimilated, that furnishes strength and muscle. He Fought a Dentist. Montgomery Young Man Comes Near Committing Murder. What might have resulted in a tragedy, was enacted in the office of Dr. H. K. Frontz at Montgomery. Had it not been for the timely arrival of assistance the doc- tor would probably have been killed by a patient who was made insane and irrespon- sible through the action of gas adminis- tered during an operation GAS MADE HIM WILD. Morris Tyson, a muscular young me- chanic. and one of Montgomery’s best known young men, had heen troubled con- siderably of late hy the root of a tooth, and he determined to have it extracted. He went to Dr. Frontz’s dental parlors. in the Decker block on Main street. In order that it might be as painless as possible, the doctor administered gas. After the patient succumbed to the influence of the gas the root was extracted, and the doctor was waiting for Tyson to recover from the effects of the anaesthetic. Suddenly the patient leaped out of the chair and violent- ly attacked the doctor. Tyson was in a frenzy and his eyes stared like those of a maniac aroused. He grasped the doctor by the throat and hurled him to the floor as easily as he might have handled a child. His strength was abnormal. A DESPERATE BATTLE, The doctor endeavored to rise and of- fer some defense, but in an instant Tyson was upon him like an enraged animal. Though Dr. Frontz weighs nearly 175 pounds, Tyson lifted him bodily from the floor, and, holding him aloft for au instant, Lis pitebed him half way across the room. then followed him, and hefore the doctor could get away he jerked him to his feet. and pushed him to the wall. But the doc- tor, before his breath was throttled com- pletely, managed to give utterance to sev- eral cries for help. Fortunately his alarm was heard by Ralph Stryker, who occupies rooms in the rear of the dental parlors, and by Bert Springer, who was passing through the hall. ; AN EXCITING SCENE. Stryker and Springer found the doctor a helpless prisoner in the hands of Tyson. The latter was still clutching the dentist by the throat. They grasped Tyson's arms. His arms were like iron. They jerked him back, hut the grip on the doe- tor’s throat had shut off his breath and he was fast suffocating, Tyson’s fingers were like steel hands about the doctor’s neck. Springer then ran around the two men and looked Tyson in the eyes, when he imme- diately loosened his hold on the doctor’s throat. They led him to a chair, where he grew quiet, and a few thinutes was him- self again. WRECKED THE OFFICE. The encounter had played havoee with the furniture and furnishings of the room. The Japanese screen was a pile of ruins, and tables and chairs were upset. Mr. Ty- son’s mind ix a blank as to the whole oc- currence. He remembers nothing from the time the gas took effect, until he be- came conscious in the presence of Springer and Stryker. The doctor, on the contrary, has a very vivid recollection of the few minutes, which seemed like hours to him, and he says the next time he administers gas to a muscular young men he will ar- range for a hody guard to be present. Five With Skulls Broken. As the result of the discovery of the dead body of Mrs. Rose Nowak Thursday morn- ing Meuneslaus Czeslik, who is himself mortally wounded, was arrested in Pitts- burg, charged with the murder of Mrs. Nowak and with the attempted murder of the three childien of the couple. Two of the children are not expected to live. The police had at first a theory that Czes- lik first attacked the children and was in turn attacked bv Mrs. Nowak and that in the fight the woman was killed. Later, however, three men who had boarded with the couple were arrested. They are Michael Zalenaki, Joseph Smidget and Joseph Scuarow. All the persons concerned are Poles. Czeslik, the woman and the three children occupied three rooms in a house in Spring alley. Until Saturday night the three men arrested hoarded with them. A family named Suhatske lived in the front of the house. Mis. Nowak is about 35 years old. She has a husband in Austria, but had lived with Czeslik several years. Czeslik is 42 years old. Mrs. Suhatske called on Mrs. Nowak Thursday morning. Czeslik stood against the wall covered with blood and moaning. Mrs. Nowak lay dead on the floor. The two girls, aged 8 and 2 years, and the boy Frank, 5 years old, were on the bed covered with blood. The police took Czeslik and the children to the hos- pital. In the room was found a ‘‘rail cutter,”’ a hammer with one end wedge-shaped. It was covered with blood. Mrs. Nowak’s skull aud the skulls of the man and the children had been broken with the weapon. The police thought it advisable to arrest the three boarders, when the physicians said Nowak’s wound could bardly bave been self-inflicted. On last Friday the couple quarrelled with one of the boarders, who afterward set the bedding a fire. He and the other boarders were ordered out of the house that night and the police think it possible that the men returned and tried to kill the entire family. Fight on Edge of Precipice. On a precipice edge in Tiadaghton gorge, 300 feet above Pine Creek. The other, day a man named Wood had an encounter with a hear that stood her ground to defen her two cubs. Shooting one cub, Wood ad- vanced towards the old hear ‘as the other cub ran away, but the infuriated mother began the attack before the hunter could fire, and advanced rapidly until halted temporarily by a bullet. A hitch on the working of the gun gave the bear time to strike at Wood and he was obliged to use the firearm for a club until the hear re- treated enough to allow him to reload. Seven quiet shots brought down bruin and in her death struggle she fell over the precipice. ‘ The Immensity of Siberia. Few ‘people realize the immensity of Siberia. To think of a single state stretch- ing through one hundred and thirty de- grees of longitude and possessing one ninth of all the land surface oi the globe is stag- gering. Let us measure it by the countries we are familiar with : The United States and all its possessions, and all Europe, except Russia, could he put into Siberia, with land enough left to make thirty-five States like Connecticut. And Manchuria will make seventy more. In view of this, people may ask why does Russia want more land ? Simply because most of Siberia is worthless and much of Manchuria not much better. The Horses of Venice. There Are Several, But They Are Only Old Art Treasures—The Gondola is Supreme. It is a popular joke to say that there are but six horses in Venice, four over the por- tico of St. Mark’s cathedral and two bronze animals of heroic size, one bestrode by Vie- tor Emmanuel and the other by Gen. Col- leone. But this is a mistake. There are four other horses also of bronze, in the Church of St. John and St. Paul, and quite a number of plaster and marble in the dif- ferent public buildings, making altogether at least fifteen or sixteen. Ruskin and other competent critics have declared the statue of Colleone to be the hest equestrian monuments ever cast in bronze. It was de- signed and cast by Andrea Verrocchio, painter, sculptor jeweler, engraver, poet, and musician, a man of infinite genius, whose greatest fame lies in the fact that he was the instructor of the greatest artists of all centuries—Michael Angelo, Raphael, and Leonardo di Vinci. The statue of Vie- tor Emmanuel is not so highly thought of. The horses on the top of St. Mark's are famous, and have had a trying experience. They date back to the prehistoric age, and are supposed to he the work of a Greek art ist, named Lyssippus, and designed for a sculptured chariot. They were taken to Rome during the empire, and first used as ornaments upon a triumphal arch erected by Nero, and afterward by Trajan. The Emperor Constantine took them from Rome to Constantinople, where the Doge Dandolo seized them as loot and brought them to Venice. When Napoleon entered the city in 1797 he had them taken down from the roof of the cathedral, and shipped them in wagons over the Alps to Paris. They serv- ed as ornaments upon the triumphal arch i in the Palace du Car 1 till 5 Then he grasped the dentist by the throat ; In Mie Palace da Carrousel fl 1815, hen the Emperor Francis I..of Austria, redeem- ed them, and they were replaced at his ex- pense where they now stand. These won- derful animals are of pure copper, and each weighs about two tons. They were form- erly gilded, hut the gold has been worn off by the weather, and the verdigiis which has accumulated upon the copper gives them a rich green tint. Singularly, enough, there is no yacht club in Venice, the city of waters, and the people have never taken an interest in yachting. There are no sail hoats in the lagoons except, those used for commercial purposes. Perhaps the citizens have enough of the water without using it for amuse- ment. It nay seem too much like bnsiness. There is a small boat club for rowing, but the members are chiefly Englishmen and Americans. They have several single and two four-oared shells, and sometimes have races between themselves, but the public do not give them much encouragement. There are two riding clubs, however, in a city without a horse or a carriage or a wheeled vehicle of any sort, which you will admit is quite an anomaly. The papers this morning announce a paper chase to be given by the members of one of the clubs next Sunday. ‘The president of the Club di Equitazione has the honor to announce “il primo paper hunt dellaatt valle sta- gione’’ at 12 o’clock,and says that a special train will leave at 10:30 for Mestre, the first town on the mainland, where it will take place. Venetian sports keep their horses over there, and when they want to ride they are compelled to make a railway journey of twenty minutes, where they have a riding school. There is another club composed of officers of the army, on the Lido, an island in the Adriatic, where nearly forty horses ate kept. All the transportation in Venice, as everybody knows, is done by gondolas, big and little. The freighting and delivery service is carried on by means of barges built on the same lines as the gondolas,and merchants either send the goods of their customer’s home that way or in panniers upon the backs of men. James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, who spends a good deal of time in Venice, hasa white gondola, trimmed with gold, which he uses as a runabout when he comes here, and creates a great sensation because all the other gondolas ave black. They look as if they were draped in mourn- ing, the bodies being painted dull black and the upholstering being black broad- cloth, such as is used on cofiins. This has been the rule since the fifteenth century, and was adopted in order that the citizens might escape the surveillance of the spies of the government, hecause one black gondola cannot he detected from another. Many of the private gondolas are hand- somely upholstered and the costumes of the gondoliers are picturesque. They handle the awkward looking boats with wonderful skill with a single car, which they use standing. They seldom lift it out of the water and do not pull, but push, *‘feather- ing’’ to return the blade. The movement looks very easy and simple to those whe have not tried it, but a person who has once attempted to navigate a gondola will not be apt to try it a second time. The accuracy with which a gondolier can guide his boat without a rudder is marvelous, for they pass through the crowed canais in an almost miraculous manner, without dis- turbing the passengers or colliding with other boats, and able to stop suddenly when going at considerable speed. You hire a gondola in Venice justas you doa cab in any other city, the tariff being fixed by law. It costs 20 cents for a single trip for two passengers. and 30 cents for three or four passengers. By the hour you pay 1f., and 6f. for the whole day for one per- son, and one-half more for every additional person. During the carnival season there are gon- dola races upon the Grand Caval, which used to be very exciting, and all the gen- tlemen at Venice took part. It was con- sidered a proper fad to navigate a gondola, just as in England and, elsewhere gentle- men ride in steeplechases. The windows in the Bal'1 palaces are pointed out, where Napoleon and Josephine witnessed the gon- oola races given in their honor while the French occupied the city in the latter part of the eighteenth century. The palace is now occupied by a Jewish dealer in antiquities. named Guggenheim. It is not customary for gentlemen to take part in gondola races nowadays, nor do the private families per- mit their gondoliers to enter, because jock: eying has made the races disreputable. Foreigners who come to Venice to live can rent gondolas by the year for $90 or $100, paying the wages of two men. The chief gondolier will ask $18 a month, and the second $10 a month, with board, but they cannot be employed in any other service. It would be the eternal disgrace of a member of this romantic profession if he should demean himself in that manner. ——Admiral Schley is about to receive from his Pennsylvania, New York and Maryland friends the gift of a $10,000 sil- ver service made of coins taken from the Spanish cruiser, Cristobol Colon, one of the vessels sunk by the Brooklyn in the battle of Santiago. This would indicate that de- spite all' the persecution that has been heaped upon him ‘Admiral Schley still oe- cupies a warm place in the hearts of his. country.
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