Bellefonte, Pa., May 2, 1902 A SASH ISR. HE HAD TO TAKE TIME AT LAST. He was “chilly old business,” he used to say, And early and late he worked ; Each day in the week was his busy day ; He hated a man who shirked. Dollar to dollar and dime to dime, But for anything else he had never the time. He hardly could spare enough time to sleep, Nor time for his meals by half. He boasted he never had time to weep, We knew he’d no time to laugh. Golf he maintained was a cardinal crime — The very worst method of murdering time. He wouldn’t take time for a friendly chat ; He wouldn't take time to read, Excepting, of course, in his ledger—that Was enough to supply his need. His family knew him but slightly, for he Had no time at all for society. A time came at last when he rushed no more To his office with breathless haste. He took time at last, though he must have felt sore . At having the time to waste. This necessity may make some other men sigh ; He's had to take time to fall sick and die. ~ —Chicago News. PINK STRING PROMISES, It was good to be back in the club house, good to receive the smiling greetings of the ebony servitors in the halls and the cloak- room, good to hear the clink of glasses and the shouts of laughter from a distant card- room. : So thought Dick Dean as he paused in the reading room and gazed with satisfac- tion at the rich furnishings in the mellow lamplight. His trip abroad had done him a world of good. He was ready to take up the old life with new vigor. Suddenly the light died out of his face. Who was that speaking? Whiteleal ? Yes, that was Whiteleaf, the banker. ‘Jonas Norden will be the next mayor of this city, gentleman. He was promised it last fall, and today the directors of the Daily Times voted to support him as the candidate in the coming caucus.’’ Dean stood motionless, his eyes fixed on the curtained doorway leading into a small committee room, an ominous light flashing from his deepset eyes. Whiteleaf was the acknowledged party boss. ‘‘That will be merry music for Dean _to hear when he lands,”’ remarked a second speaker. ‘‘He told me just before he sail- ed that you had promised him your sup- _ port during the coming campaign.’ “Well,” drawled Whiteleaf, ‘‘things have changed. The welfare of the party and—er—that North Benson franchise call for a different chap than Dean for our can- didate for mayor. But, mark my words, Dean will take his medicine like a little man. He'd never desert the gang. Be- sides, I did not promise; just hinted that he was in line for the lightning to strike— a sort of pink string promise. He’ll land an office some day. He’s young.” ‘Yes, but suppose the buzzing bee de- mands honey ?”’ The curtains parted, and Dean stood be- fore the astonished politicians. ‘‘He does demand it, gentlemen. I am here to exact of Mr. Whiteleaf the fulfill- ment of that promise—pink strings or no pink strings I" Whiteleaf was the first of the quartet to recover his composure. He was mentally calculating just how much of the conversa- tion Dead had heard. “Glad to see yon, Dick. Didn’t look for you before the middle of the month. ‘What will you have ?”’ ‘*Nothing.”’ replied Dean, ignoring the outstretched hand, ‘‘until you have ex- plained the meaning of the speech I un- fortunately overheard.’ ‘Come, come, my boy, don’t be hot headed. You have had enough experience in wirepulling to know that all is fair in love, war and politics.” **A promise given and received in good faith should stand in love, war or politics. When I withdrew from the nomination in favor of Jenkins two years ago, you gave mea promise. Do you intend to redeem it? Whiteleaf quailed before the angry young man and glanced uneasily as his colleagues. **Think of the welfare of your party’’— ‘Will you redeem that promise?’ in- terposed Dear inexorably. Whiteleaf lost his temper. “I’ll do as I darn please !”’ ““That’s all I want to know,” replied Dean, with a calmness that should have warned the red faced banker of impending catastrophe. Then he walked back to the cloak room, donned his raglan and went forth into the black, drizzling night. A moment later he met a young political worker in bis party. They bad been school- mates. Now one was a rich manufacturer, the other a wage earning mechanic. Daniel Porter was leader of a certain faction of the party, fo the manufacturer halted the me- chanic, and as their bands met the rich . man said : ‘‘Dan, I'm out for the nomination this fall. Are you with me?” ‘*Every minute, on conditions.” ‘Can you swing the boys into line 2 ‘Yes, if you’ll do business.” ‘“What do you mean 2’ ‘Square yourself on certain points, *’ ‘Name them.”’ “Tne city laborers want a fifteen cent a day raise in pay, the hoys want Colonel Handyside for city marshal, and they want M. J. King appointed on the board of li- cense commissioners, and, of course. yon’ll be expected to remember your friends when it comes to other appointive officers.. That is abont all my end of the combine wants.’’ ‘‘And that is about all there is to be had, isn’t it?” asked Dean, with a smile. *‘Oh, there's a few more things we may think of later. How do the ones mention- ed hit youn ?”? ‘I am favorable to the city granting its laborers more pay. Colonel Handyside would make an admirable maishal. There can be no doubt as to Mr. King’s qualifica- tions for a seat on the license hoard, and I should most certainly, if elected, favor my friends as far as possible.”’ ‘‘Say, Dick, you're just like all the rest of the silk stocking politicians.” ‘‘How so, Dan 2” Porter tossed his cigar stub into the gut- ter, squared his shoulders, thrust his bands into his trouser pockets and answered : ‘“Just this way : A fellow like me, with a little bit of a pull with a few hundred voters, runs up against a man like you who wants us to help elect him. Weask him right out plamp to promise us certain favors, and it’s nine times out of ten a case of yes with a string on it.” “Ido not understand how this applies to me.” *‘Well, then, I’ve told you that we’ll turn out and fight for you if you'll agree to do certain things, but you're unwilling to give us an ouf and out promise in return for our help for fear some of your rich elub friends will trot out the hammer. Old Whiteleaf led us into Jenkins’ camp two years ago and we got it in the neck. Our necks are full of bumps, and this year we won't accept any pink string promises. If you wand to land in the mayor’s chair, you’ve got to do business on the level. If you agree to that, we’ll deliver the goods, and, I tell you frankly, we won’t unless you do.”’ “I understand now, Dan, what yon mean exactly, but Ido not feel that I should give pledges. It seems too much like’ — **You want to be mayor, don’t you ?"’ *‘Yes, but I want to win honestly.”’ ‘‘Well, now, if you want to be mayor, let your friends make your platform and go into the fight and win on it or lose. Half the rottenness of municipal politics would be done away with if this rule were followed, for the winning platform would have to be for the best interests of the city, or the people wouldn’t have it.”’ : “You are quite a municipal student, Dan.” : © “Do you agree with my theory ?’’ “‘I must.” ‘Then all you’ll have to do is to decide as to who you want for platform builders. Let them submit it to you. If you feel you can honestly carry out as an executive what the platform declares for; sign it. Let it be published in the newspapers, and the majority of the voters will decide on elec- tion day whether the platform is of sound or rotten timber. Let members of the city government be elected on the same plat- form, and there will be a backbone to your administration—men working under orders from the people, and not a lot of puppets wiggled about by a clique of moneyed men, as is the case at present. What is your opinion ?’’ ‘My opinion is that your views are quite correct, but your associates and mine might differ greatly as to platferm planks and’’— “Call together some of your friends— two men from each ward. Pick out men of intelligence, irrespective of wealth or so- cial standing. Tell them what you wish them to do. The platform will be drawn up by majority rule, and the voters will decide whether it is for the city’s best in- terest or not. Doing this, you establish a precedent. The opposition party will be compelled to follow suit,and each side will strive to present in future years the best platform possible for the people’s consid- eration.”’ ‘‘By Jove, Dan, your argument has won nme, and I'll do it!” “You will?” ‘‘Yes, and I want you to serve on this— this platform committee from ward 3. I leave it to your good judgment to select for me a man from each of the other wards. I will name a man in each ward myself, and a meeting will be arranged for Thursday evenings at the Worthy House. We will try this municipal scheme of yours, and, win or lose, I will cheerfully abide hy the result.” Greenville Whiteleaf sat at his breakfast Friday morning scanning the columns of his morning paper. The table girl entered the dining room in time to see him teara page from the paper and, after kicking his chair aside, hastily leave the room. From the moment of leaving his breakfast table until the closing of the ward caucuses, nearly a month later, the old banker work- ed incessantly for the defeat of Dick Dean and the success of Jonas Norden. Money was used freely, but many of those who ac- cepted it went into the booths and, pro- tected by thesecret ballot system,cast their vote for the man who had dared to say what he would do if elected. The bank- er’s protege was buried by a vote of two to one.—By Adrian L. Potter. Eugene Field’s Story. In the last months of his life Eugene Field was an invalid, and suffered particu- larly and abnormally from anything like cold weather. Upon his doctor’s advice, he went to California, and visited a cousin, Henry Field, who lived at Alameda, near San Francisco. While there, he heard daily the usual glorification of the splendid climate of California, but in his extremely sensitive condition did not take kindly to it. One morning he came down to the break- fast table looking the picture of dispair. “I had a terrible dream last night,’’ he said, addressing Mrs. Field. “*You must not tell it before breakfass,’’ she replied ‘‘it is bad luck.” *‘Oh, well,” said Field, ‘it might have been worse. I dreamed that Henry, your husband, had died, and when he approached the gates of heaven he found St. Peter sit- ting there with the key and the great book. As he was about to enter the pearly gates, he was stopped, and St. Peter an- nouced that before he entered there must be an investigation to see whether his name was in the great book or not. ‘But who are yon ?’ asked St. Peter. ‘‘My name is Field.”’ ‘‘Oh, Eugene Field! Well, walk right in.” ‘‘No, unfortunately not Eugene Field, but a cousin of his, Henry Field.” ‘Well, then,” said St. Peter, ‘I must examine the book.” And after an inspec- tion he said : “I am sorry, Mr. Field, but I do not find your name here, and you can- not enter. oun must go below.” ‘And =o he scuttled away, and went down below. There hefound the gaardian with cloven feet, and all dressed in red. He was about to push his way in without ceremony when he was stopped, and this guardian also said, ‘'I must know whether your name is on our book before you can enter.’ : ‘‘But it surely is,’’ said Field, ‘I was- refused admission up above, and I must go in here.’’ 3 ‘No,’ said his Satanic Majesty, after ex- aming the register, ‘I don’t find it.”’ ‘Great heavens,’’ said Field, “must I go back and live in Alameda ?”’ ~——The Pennsylvania has given another order for engines. In addition to the sixty ordered from the Baldwin weeks ago they have just given orders for forty-nine more, a total of 109 new loco- motives under construction at the Baldwin works alone. They will also build about fifty passenger engines at the Juniata shops. More than 200 new engines will be added to the equipment of the Pennsylva- nia and the Pennsylvania lines this spring and summer. It has been estimated that, for new power alone, this system will ex- pend this year about $2,000,000. The work on the new engines is to be rushed as fast as possible. : ——Little Margaret had fallen asleep, and during her nap a terrible thunder storm came up. The lightning flashed incessant- ly. The little one started up affrighted, but soon a calm, sweet peace passed over her face as she said : ‘‘Idess Dod has turned on the das in Heben.”’—Chicago Little Chronicle. The Bituminous Coal Field of Pennsyl- works some | vania, The bituminous coal field of Pennsylva- nia embraces the northeastern end of the Great Appalacian series of the coal meas- ures. It includes an area of about 12,200 square miles, lying chiefly in the western part of the State, and spreading from Ohio, West Virginia and Maryland northeastward to New York. The coal bearing rocks cov- er praetically the whole of Greene, Wash- ington, Allegheny, Westmoreland, Beaver, Lawrence, Butler, Armstrong, Jefferson, Indiana, Clearfield and Cambria counties, and the greater part of Fayette, Somerset, Elk, Clarion and Mercer counties, besides parts of Crawford, Venango, Forest, War- ren, McKean, Cameron, Blair, Centre, Clin- ton, Potter, Lycoming, Tioga and Bedford counties. Besides the main area, the Broad Top basin in Huntingdon and Bedford counties has an area of about 50 square miles, and is about 30 miles east of the Al- legheny Front. The principal commercially workable beds of the State are : the Sharon or block coal, whose commereial history dates from 1837, mined in nine counties; the Mercer or Alton coals, mined in twelve counties ; the Brookville coal, mined in thirteen counties; the Clarion coal, mined in nine counties ; the lower Kittanning, mined in seventeen counties; the middle Kittanning, mined in a few places, the upper Kittanning coal, mined in twelves counties; the lower Free- port coal, mined in thirteen counties ; the upper Freeport, mined in eighteen coun- ties: the Gallitzin coal, mined in five coun- ties; the Philson coal, mined in three coun- ties ; the Bakerstown coal, mined in two counties; the Berlin coal, mined in Somer- set county; the Elk Lick coal, mined in four counties; the Little Pittsburg coal and the Painter coal, mined in localities ; the Pittsburg coal, mined in six counties ; the Redstone coal, mined in four counties ; the Sewickley coal, mined in three counties; the Uniontown coal, mined in three coun- ties ; the Waynesboro coal, mined in three counties ; the Washington coal, mined in two counties. The Sharon block coal, strong, free from sulphur and valuable for furnace use near the Ohio line, becomes dirty, sulphur- ous, patchy and of little value to the east- ward. The coals of the Mercer group, dirty and of little account westward, are locally very free from sulphur toward the northeast in Tioga, Lycoming and Bradford, where the celebrated Bloss coal is highly valued for forge and domestic purposes, and pro- duces from 73 to 82 per cent of coke near Blossburg. The Brookville bed in Jeffer- son county and along the Allegheny slopes, is serviceable only as a somewhat sulphur- ous heavy steam coal; but in the Broad Top basin, in Huntington and Bedford coun- ties, it is proving a valuablesteam fuel and has been coked. The lower Kittanning coal, mined to asmall extent for steam pur- poses in the Allegheny Valley, is a valua- ble coking coal in northern and eastern Clearfield county, in eastern Cambria coun- ty, and in Blair county. In the eastern region it is also locally important as a smithing coal, and is a valuable heavy steam coal in the Broad Top field. The upper Kittanning, of minor value for steam and gas purposes in the western districts, becomes of some importance as a steam and domestic fuel in parts of Clearfield, Cam- bria and Somerset, and makes a good coke in the Snow Shoe basin and Centre county. The lower Freeport coal, mined in southern Elk, eastern Jefferson, northern Indiana, in the Shawmut-Reynoldsville-Punxsutawney basin, and in northern Cambria and in eastern Clearfield county to the Moshannon creek, in the Philipsburg-Houtzdale basin, is especially valuable for high grade steam, gas and coking purposes, and also for smithing and puddling. The upper Free- port coal, mined chiefly in the lower Alle- gheny and Kiskiminitas valleys to the west, and near the Allegheny slopes on the east, in Armstrong, Westmoreland, Indiana and Cambria counties, is used as a steam coking coal. The great Pittsburg coal is adapted to high grade steam, smithing and rolling mili use in Somerset county ; and to steam and railroad uses in southern Indiana county. In eastern Westmoreland and Fayette counties it is the source of an enormous coking industry, and farther westward it is especially valnable as a gas coal. Everywhere it is a high grade steam coal. The earliest record of coal mining in the Pittsburg region is that supplied by Capt. Thomas Hutchins, who visited Fort Pitt (now Pittsburg) in 1760, and found a coal mine opened on the opposite side of the Monongahela River. With the advent of the first steam engine in Pittsburg in 1794, the demand for the new fuel increased, and by 1800 a number of mines were in opera- tion on both sides of the Monongahela River, and the coal was used quite exten- sively in salt works, glass factories, and for general purposes. The first coal was ship- ped from Pittsburg in 1803. As early as 1804, barges with coal for sale were loaded in Clearfield county and floated down the Susquebanpa to Columbia in Lancaster. By 1825 it is reported that about 3,500 tons were used in the vicinity of Pittsburg. This local consumption increased to 464,000 ton in 1846. in which year 214,000 tons were sent down the Ohio River, and, 53 steamboats were built for the river trade. The next year 56 hoats were added to those already in use. About 1842 the Blossburg basin, Tioga county, began commercial shipments, and the development of the Barclay basin, Bradford county, followed not long after. The use of the Sharon block coal in the furnaces of Mercer county is said to bave begun in the same decade. The rapid exploitation of the coals in Cam- bria county dates practically from the time of the construction of the State Portage and the Pennsylvania railways. The remarka- ble development of the Reynoldsville basin began soon after the construction of the Low Grade division of the Allegheny Val- ley railway in 1872. The, development of ‘| these fields is eclipsed by the wonderful progress made in the size and number of plants and in the increased production of coke in the Connellsville and adjacent ba- sins in the past forty years. From less than 100 ovens in 1860, the field has grown to about 25,000 ovens in 1901. The bituminous coal production of Penn- sylvania has increased from an estimated output of about 1,000,000 tons in 1847 to over 42,000,000 tons in 1890, and to the immense total of over 79,000,000 tons in 1900. The production of coke in 1900 was, according to the State records, over 12,000,- 000 tons. Somewhat more than one half, or nearly three fifths, of the bituminous production of the State in 1900 was derived from the Pittsburg coal, the remaining, about 40 per cent. being derived chiefly from the lower Kittanning and the two Freeport coals. The number of bitumin- ous collieries in Pennsylvania, as listed by Mr. Baird Halberstadt in 1892, was 706. The list published by the same author in 1901 includes 935 names. The number of new mines opened in 1900 was 175; the number of mines abandoned was 28; the number of mines reopened was 6. The dis- tricts of most rapid development within the last decade include Cambria and Somerset counties, northwestern Indiana county, the Shawmut basin of southwestern Elk coun- ty, the Pittsburg coal region of southern Allegheny and vorthwestern Fayette, and the Connellsville basin of Westmoreland and Fayette counties. In 1892 the number of mines was : 88 in Allegheny, 85 in Fay- ette, 92 in Westmoreland, 122 in Clearfield, 76 in Cambria, and 19 in Somerset—a total of 482. In 1901 there were 99 in Allegheny, 117 in Fayette, 188 in Westmoreland, 127 in Clearfield, 130 in Cambria, and 53 in Somerset—a total of 714. The average number of days of operation of the mines during 1900 varied from 181 in the eighth inspection district to 261 in the ninth dis- trict. In geperal, the steadiest operation was in the coking districts. The average period of operation during the year for the entire region was 219 days. The cost of production of coal f. 0. b. cars varies ap- parently from ahout 47} cents to $1.30 per ton—which figures do not seem to be relia- bly suggestive. The number of men en- gaged in and about the mines in 1900 was 109,018, each of whom produced an average of 726.5 tons of coal during the year. Park of Petrified Trees. Congress Likely to Pass Bill to Protect Great Arizona Formation. The hill to establish a national park, embracing the famous petrified forest of Arizona, which was passed by the House of Representatives, has every chance of passing the Senate. The bill originated with Judge Lacey. of Iowa, who has es- tablished a reputation as the protector of native birds and animals and the generous friend of all interesting features of natural history. The propesed park embraces 2,000 aces, lying in the land grant of the Santa Fe Road. It is the largest petrified forest in the world. It is 7.200 feet above the ocean, and absolutely a desert,incapable of vegeta- tion of any sort. The trees are of an ex- tinct species, coniferons in character, with a diameter of from four to five feet at the butt and often two or three feet in the tops, their height being sometimes as great as 150 feet. It is explained by scientists that the petrified trees are not lying where they grew, but were carried there hy some pre. historic flood. Submerged for ages at the bottom of a great sea,they became saturated with the salts, which gradually petrified them. A deposit of soft sandstone. in some places forty feet thick, overlies them. In the process of petrification the trees be- came huge masses of beautiful chalcedony, combining great variety of colors and won- derful phases of iridescence. The park is within easy reach of several stations on the Santa Fe Road,and is destined to he visited by thousands of sightseers now that Con- gress has called attention to the place. The railroad company has never under- taken to do anything with the place, but a few years ago a commercial company built a mill in the forestand began to cut up the petrified logs into emery wheels. It was found that there was a similar formation in Canada which would better answer the purpose, and the Arizona project was abandoned. A number of the finest petri- fied trees have been blown up by curiosity seekers in order to secure the crystals im- bedded within them. Delay in Miles’ Retirement. Secretary Root Says no Order Will be Issued for the Present. The order for the rzatirement of Lieuten- ant General Nelson A. Miles will not be issued this month, and may be longer de- layed. The announcement was ade re- cently by Secretary of War Root, before leaving for a two weeks’ trip to Cuba, that General Miles in no event would be retired during his absence, and that no fixed time had been designated when he would be re- lieved from his present duties. Secretary Root would not, in fact cor- roborate the statements emanating from the White House last week that General Miles was to be retired and some other of- ficer, presumably Major General John R. Brook, was to succeed him in command of the army. There has not been conveyed to army headquarters the slightest intimation of any immediate attention of the President to retire General Miles, although it is ac- cepted as a foregone conclusion, even by General Miles, that he is to be retired. This feeling is based on no information of- ficially or privately conveyed to him by anyone high in authority. General Miles meanwhile is carrying out the routine of his office and preparing for an inspection tour which he originally in- tended should extend to the Philippines. It would be necessary, however, for him to receive orders from the secretary to proceed to foreign shores, and there is no probabil- ity of the request being granted. General Miles says if he is to be retired he does not expect to hear of it until the order is sent out by the President. This, be thinks, will probably be his first official notification of the administration’s pro- posed action. The Old Fashioned Boy. ‘What has become of the old-fashioned boy ? The one who looked like his father when his father carried the sort of pom- posity which was like the divinity that hedged a king in the time when kinghood was in its break-of’-day. The boy who wore a hat which threatened to come down over his ears. The boy whose trousers were made over his father’s, by his moth- er, or aunt, or grandmother. The boy whose hair had a cowlick in it, hefore, and was sheared off the same length hebind. The boy who walked with both hands in the pockets of his trousers, and who ex- pectorated between his teeth when his teeth were clamped together. The boy who wore boots, run down at the heels. The boy who never wore knickerbockers or a roand- about coat. The boy whose chirography was shaped by the gymnastics of his ton- gue. The boy who believed his father was the greatest man in the world, and that he could have been President if he wanted to be. ‘The boy who was his mother’s man when the man was away from home.”’ A Farm Hand’s Revenge, Confesses Burning Barn and Asks Prompt Sentence. Henry Heberly, who for three years has been a hired man on the farm of Charles Wolf, of York county, went to York yes- terday and confessed setting fire to Wolf’s barn. The loss was $8,000. His reason for his incendiary act was that Wolf treat- ed him badly. He said: “Yesterday I went to Loganville and got some whisky. I then went home, hav- ing decided to get even with Wolf.” *‘Where did you start the fire ?’’ contin- ued the detective. “I lighted a match and stuck it in the straw. Oh, I did it right. I watched the blaze until it got a start. Seeing that ib was right, I skipped out. Here I am now, and I want my sentence this week.’’ Contest Is Bitter. Republican Senators at Odds Over Concessions to Cuba—Opposition to Reciprocity—Administration Senators Making Urgent Efforts to Secure a Re- duction of 25 Per Cent. At white heat is the contest in the Senate over the Cuban reciprocity bill, and the feeling in the Republican ranks is mole bitter than for many years. In order to force the fighting a confer- ence of the Republican Senators has been called for. This is to count noses and to try to get into line enough Republican members to pass the reciprocity bill with- out Democratic votes. It is: very doubtful if there will be any break in the ranks of the beet sugar Re- publicans. Aecording to the New York Herald's poll of last Sunday, which was the first intimation the administration had of its danger, there were eighteen Republi- cans who would oppose any concessions to Cuba. These, with the Democratic votes, would place the administration in a minor- ity by twelve votes. The eighteen ‘‘recalcitrants’’ have grown to nineteen by the accession of Senator Burton, of Kansas. Mr. Burton attended the conference on Wednesday and when a proposition was made to pass a reciprocity bill without the House amendment and he was asked to consent to it he made a speech which fairly sizzled. ‘You gentlemen from the East,”’ Sena- tor Burton is reported to have said, ‘have been keeping the tariff up at the expense of the farmers, who are clamoring for re- duction of duties and for wider markets. You ignore their plea, and now, in order to help Cuba, propose to make the farmer who is growing sugar beets pay the bill. ‘You have thrown aside the policy of the late President McKinley, as to reciproc- ity, and at this session and the last you have refused to cousider the reciprocity treaties endorsed by him. Why? Because a few manufacturers in New Englaud feel that they will be hurt. I hear threats of punishing Senators for holding out against the Cuban bill. Let the punishment be attempted.” Senator Quarles, of Wisconsin, also spoke in a similar strain. He called atten- tion to the fact that the Michigan and Wisconsin Senators had been threatened with free lumber. He intimated that he would meet on the floor the Senators who wanted to force action in that way. These speeches have not added to the placidity of the Senate, and on Wednesday the administration Senators went further in their intimations as to what they would do. One of the most prominent Senators— one who is quite as influential as Senator Allison—declared that at the couference to- day the heet sugar men would be given the alternative to vote for a straight reciprocity bill, making about twenty-five per cent re- duction, or have the administration Sena- tors combine in favor of the House bill, for which every Democrat would vote, and which the President would sign. BEET SUGAR MEN IN CONTROL. This threat to send to the President the bill abolishing the differential and counter- vailing duties, which would be a blow at both the beet sugar trust and the American Sugar refining company, might be expeot- ed to frighten the beet sugar men but for the fact that as yet the Democrats and beet men are in control of the committee having charge of the reciprocity measure. This committee still stands four in favor of Cuban concessions to seven against the concessions. There will be no immediate prospect that it will report favorably any Cuban relief. On the contrary, it is ex- pected that at the next meeting of the com- mittee the first business called up wiil be by Senator Teller’s resolution providing for an investigation of the charge that the sugar trust, in anticipation of a reduction of duties, bad bought up the entire new sugar crop of Cuba. Beet sugar Republicans as- sert that if this bill is reported from the committee it will receive at least twenty Republican votes and all of the Democratic votes, and will pass. This would result in indefinitely postponing concessions to Cuba. Some of the administration Republicans have been talking of discharging the com- mittee from further consideration of the House bill. They think they can get the Democrats to vote for such a motion. It is very rare, however, to thus override a com- mittee. Red hot talk on the tariff bas been the order of the day. Administration senators like Messrs. Lodge, Aldrich and Platt, have been threatening Messrs McMillan and Burrows, of Michigan, and Spooner and Quaries, of Wisconsin, with free lumber, and Messrs Scott and Elkins, of West Vir- ginia, with free coal. This, of course, is pure talk, because in order to punish West Virginia for the action of their senators the senators from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana would also be punished. Sen- ators from Virginia and Alabama, on the Democratic side, might also have something to say about it. 2 Beet sugar senators have replied to this threat from the New England senators to revise the tariff and place cecal and lumber on the free list by saying they would be very glad to meet them on this subject of tariff revision by voting to place on the free list the knit goods and cheap jewelry of Massachusetts and Rhode Island and the watches, cutlery and clocks of Connecticut. - Altogether the situation in the Senate is decidedly mixed and the party leaders, who do not care to go before the country this fall without having relieved Cuba, are very much worried. Personal Gifts to the Pope. "A Fortune in Presents Given Leo Xl. Since he reached the Papal Chair Leo XIII bas received many personal gifts, the value of which according to a writer in Lady’s Realm, aggregates $10,000,000. The magnificent jewels he received at his recent jubilee included 28 tiaras, 319 crosses, set with diamonds and other precious stones; 1200 chalices in gold and silver, 81 rings, of which the one given by the Sultan is worth $100,000; 16 pastoral staves of gold, set with precious stones; 7 statutes in gold and silver, as well as the largest diamond in the world, valued at $4,000,000. An America woman is said to have pre- sented Leo XIII with a splendid snuff box of immense value, containing a check to the value of $50,000, as her contribution to the annual collection of Peter’s Pence. The Holy See is in the happy position of having no debts. A Cousin of Li Hung Chang. Lee Hong, or Li Hung, a cousin of Li Hung Chaug, has opened a laundry in Wil- liamsport. He has lived in the United States twenty years. He believes in Con- fucius, does not repose in a bunk like or- dinary Chinamen, but has a fine carved bedstead, with a headboard as high as that of any ‘‘Melican man’s.’’ ——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN. Train Sets New Record. Runs So Fast that Even the Railway Officiais Doubt. ] : ge 0 The report of a run of fifteen miles at the rate of near}y one hundred miles an hour, which eame to headquarters the other day from the Western Division of the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney Railroad. was so startling that it was discredited by the Chicago officials, aud a detailed report call- ed for. The result is the following report from conductor G. H. Burns, whizh established a new world’s speed 1ecord for runs of four- teen miles and over, the nearest approach to it being the run of the Lehigh Valley Black Diamond Express in April, 1897, when 43.96 miles were made at an average rate of eighty miles an hour. Conductor Burns says: “‘Train No. 6 left Denver for Chicago March 24th, ten minutes late, having to wait for a through California car from the D. & R. G. Ry. "A heavy wind prevailed to Akron, 112 miles from Denver, which put us out from Akron thirty minntes late. No special in- structions were given as to speed because it is customary when late to run from Ak- ron to Wray, a distance of fifty-four miles, at the rate of seventy to seventy-five miles an hour. We passed Eckley, thirty-nine miles east of Akron, running at seventy- five miles an hour. Between Eckley and Wray, a distance of 14.8 miles, I was 1n the observation car. In the car were sever- al gentlemen talking about the run—Mr. Arthur Johnson, of Denver; Mr. Wells At- let, of Los Angeles, and H. C. Bash, Traf- fic Manager of the Colorado Midland Rail- way, and Mr. Foley of Omaha. We pass- ed Eckley at 7:56 p. M.. all hands holding watches corroborating. It seemed so short when the whistle was blown that Mr. Johnson remarked, speaking of the engi- veer, ‘Oh, well, he is not doing so much as we thought be might.’ Mr. Johnson be- lieved we bad only reached Robb, a dis- tance of 6.1 miles from Eckley, but at that moment the train dashed over a well- known bridge between whistling post and depot. Then I got up and said, ‘Gentle- men, we are at Wray, and you have ridden 14.8 miles faster than was ever made be- fore.” We bad made the distance in ex- actly nine minutes, or at the rate of 98.66 miles on hour. “I then went to the other end of the train where Mr. Lindsay, of Pittsburg, manager for Mr. Andrew Carnegie, with a party of seventeen, were occupying special cay Grassmere. Mr. Lindsay was on the platform,and when I told him of the record, said, ‘Well, that was a terrific burst of speed; I thought we were flying.’ The train consisted of engine, mail car, “baggage car, two reclining chair cars, special car Grassmere, three sleeping cars and a dining car, nine cars in all. It was the east bound fast express for Chicago, the reverse of the famous train west bound, “The Burlington’s No. 1,”’ fast express Chicago to Denver. Chased Husband 90,000 Miles. After Finding Him Thirteen Times Mrs. Brotin Gives Up and Gets a Divorce. After chasing her truant hushand 32,500 miles across Continental Europe, England, the Atlantic ocean, America, and twice back and forward over the whole route, Mrs. Mary Brotin has concluded to let the runaway be free. When Mrs. Brotin was Miss Mollie Knoch and lived with her parents in Odessa, Russia, eight years ago, she was married to Brotin. He deserted her, and she followed him to London, where they lived for a time. Then he disappeared. He went back to Odessa, then to New York city. In the next three years the whole chap- ter was repeated. He was chased from New York to Odessa, Odessa to Bucharest, Buch- arest 60 London, London to Glasgow, Glas- gow to Odessa and Odessa to New York. In 1900 Mrs. Brotin learned that he was conducting a store in New York, and for the twelfth time she swooped down upon him. He took a night train for Columbus. In March, 1901, his thirteenth hiding place was found out, and be fled from it to Buf- falo. His pursuer was not far behind, but when he escaped into Canada she lost cour- age. Not a trace of him has she been able to discover since then. A short time ago she gave up hope, and after establishing a Chi- cago residence, sued for divorce, which was granted on Wednesday. She has gone Columbus to live with a relative. : Two Die im Nightmares. Terrors of Dreamland Superinduce Heart Failure and Death. Harry G. Koontz, aged twenty-six years, who was recently married, died suddenly in bed at Smithsburg, near Cumberland, Md., Tuesday night from heart failure, superinduced by an attack of nightmare. His wife heard him muttering and making a peculiar noise in his sleep. At times he shouted. She raised him up and he fell over dead. He rode all day Tuesday serv- ing summons and retired in good health. Thomas Carney,an iron worker of Sharps- burg, has been killed by a nightmare. He was stopping with a friend in Susque- hanna county, this State, just across the line from Binghamton, N. Y., when Tues- day night his room-mate was aroused by Carney springing from bed with a scream, but suddenly apparently awakening and remarking, ‘‘I guess I was dreaming,”’ he then fell back on the hed dead, the result of heart failure brought on by tbe excite- ment. A Bible Said to be Worth $50,000. New York has a Bible said to be worth $50,000, bat for the present it is in the hands of the collector of the port there for a just appraisement. It is a manuscript property of J. 8. Morgan, a nephew of J. Pierpont Morgan, who arrived on the steamship Oceanic Thursday with it in his possession. It is a magnificent work of great rarity. The headings of every chap- ter are illumined exquisitely and the cover of the book is set with precious stones. The collector said that he had ordered the Bible to be temporarily confiscated as a precau- tionary measure, as a quick appraisement on the pier was not advisable. ~——On Monday night a young man named Harry Casner attempted to ford the Tuscarora creek leading from the home of his uncle, John Bitner, to Port Royal, where he had spent the evening, he became frightened as the water flowed into the buggy box, and giving the young horse a sudden jerk leaped out into the water and waded to the shore. The horse reared up and fell backward on the buggy and was drowned. ——That arbitration is distinctly gaining ground as a means of settling disputes be- tween labor and its employers is one of the surest signs of the advancement of society.
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