Pemorvalic; Waldman
Bellefonte, Pa., January 24, 1902
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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;
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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
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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.
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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.