1 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBUIW. PA if i i I 1 . I r. i Hi i !' -. CONDENSED DISPATCHES. tabic Rrenta of lb Wttk BrleAf The French cruiser Tape has nailed from Baltimore for Now York. ' General Kuropatkln. Russian war minister, has sailed front Vladivostok ftr Japan. Prince OeorRe of Bnvarin hns arrived t Ban Francisco on lils way home from Japan. A duplicate mast und spars for the (bamrock III. hare been sent by atsamnr from Glasgow. President Loubet of France during his coming visit to Home may not seek fcfi audience of the pope. Twenty-live striking miners were scat to Jail at Clinton, Tcnn., for vio lating a court injunction. In the flrst inning the University of Cambridge cricketers uiado 37!) runs to 309 by the Philadelphia players. The Mississippi river at St Louis lias fallen. Conditions on the Illinois side are still serious. Memphis now ex pects a flood. The Philippine commission has enact ed a law providing a government for the Moros, making their province an autonomous colony. Tumdar, Jane 9. The Brooklyn police have copturod a man who is believed to be I'olleoman McGovern's assailant. A Jewish boy fugitive from Klshl nsff has orrlvcd at Ellis Island, New York, on his way to Missouri. The government has decided to re strict the franchise in Pretorlu, Trans vaal, to white British subjects. It Is believed that soldiers at Jack son, Ky., prevented an attempt to as sassinate the pi-lnclpul witness ugnlimt Jett and White. Constance, the young daughter of Archibald Grade of New York, was killed in an elevator accident at the Hotel dc la Tremnllle, Paris. Crop reports throughout Canada in dicate record crops ij half the area, average crops In about one-third the area and poor crops in oue-tenth of the whole. Graff Bros., contractors of Wash ington, were indicted on a charge of offering bribes to A. W. Machen, for mer head of the postal free delivery service. In consequence of the refusal of the proprietors of the large bakeries in Baltimore to grant the demands made recently by the journeymen bakers' union a general strike has been started. An Irish National league meeting near Tallow, Wntcrford, has denounc ed the proposal of the corporation of VTaterford to present an address to King Edward during his visit to Ire land. At an Immense open air meeting held tit Sofia Mlchallovski, the president of the Macedonian committee, declared that the only hope for Macedonia was i direct rapprochuient between Bulga ria and Turkey. Samuel Parks, one of the most ag irressive leaders In the great labor movement that has recently paralyzed many industries, has been arrested on t charge of extorting $2,000 from the Heel a Iron company. Nine hundred ' employees of the .Vmerican Cigar factory at Kingston, .V. Y., are on 3trike because of the re !usal to allow them half holidays dur 'ng the summer. Two hundred boys struck, and 500 girls joined them from sympathy. While Emperor William was driving 'a Berlin a lady admirer threw a bou iuet into the imperial carriage. The 'minuet struck the emperor's helmet nd was so forcibly thrown that the mpress, who was sitting beside him, .limped up, frightened. Monday. Jane 8. Many transatlantic liners were de tained by the haze off Sandy Hook. The loss by the fire at the Buffalo Carting and Storage company's plunt was $400,000. In accordance with a government de cree the Prussian authorities will ex pel all Mormon missionaries. Mayor Low of New York has named i committee to receive contributions .'or sufferers from the floods. President Loubet will visit London 'uly 0 on his return visit to King Ed vard. He will remain In London 'three '.ays. A Hebrew tailor has died at New York from starvation, having sent all lis money, to his family in Ilusshi for heir passage to America. David J. Wyatt, the East St. Louis ehoolteucher who fatully shot Charles lertel, superintendent of schools, was ortured and bunged by a mob to a elephone pole. Eight thousand persons grown Impa tient at delay caused by accidents wept away the ticket boxes in a mad ush at the Manhattan end of the trooklyn bridge. One man has been killed and two ergons fatally and several others bad T Injured In a runaway car accident n the Alum Jtoek Park Electric rail vay near San Jose, Cal. The break In the Madison county '.11.) levee, which gave way, widened, .nd the water rushed through a gap a .undred yards wide, covering 10,000 'cros of fertile farm hind and three 'Hinges Oldenburg, Mitchell and West s tranlte. The official announcement of King Victor l'miiianuel's visit to Paris and 'resident Loubet's return visit, ol hough foreseen, lias produced consld rable impression at the Vntican, as ''resident Loubet will be the first ruler f a Catholic country to visit Koine of Icinlly since the fall of the temporal ;ower. Hut unlay, June fl. E. F. Newman, druggist, of Ithaca. . Y., committed suicide In Honolulu. The grand Jury has reported an In dictment against August W. Machen, former sujerlutendut of the free de livery service ot tuu pom uuice uepuil- ment. A hurrlcnne has swept over the Phil ippines, doing great damage to ship ping. Ninety thousand children, members of Brooklyn Sunday schools, marched in their annual parade. Hurry Emmons was killed at Lardo, Ida., by his partner, H. M. St. Cyr, a well known mining engineer. Author Isbell of New Hochelle, N. ,Y wns arrested in Connecticut on a charge of stealing an automobile. The rendering plant of the Connecti cut Abattoir and Oil corporation, near Bridgeport, wos destroyed by fire. The big Hamburg-American liner Deutschland, which went ashore In New York harbor, has been floated. W. J. Idelmnn, deputy United States collector, was arrested at Eagle City, Alaska, on a charge of embezzlement. Miss F. E. Osgood won the Massa chusetts championship In the Boston Women's Golf association tournament. A Jury ut Norwich, Conn., lias found William II. Galllvan not guilty of mur der in taking the life of Jeremiah Shuniway. An agent representing n Japanese syndicate Is negotiating for the Intro duction of lno.oon Japanese laborers for Hie Transvaal diamond mines. The "muck," famous for producing potatoes, wns ablaze along the valley from Fort Edward to Whitehall, N. Y., n distance of fifteen or twenty miles. The Jury In the case of Lulu Miller Youngs at Rochester. N. Y., charged with the murder of Florence MacFar lane, brought In u verdict of not guilty. The dead in the Topekn flood now number seventy-eight. A boatman re ported that seven bodies had been found near the north end of Harrison street. The governor of Cape Colony hns told parliament he hopes soon to relax remaining restrictions on liberty as n result of the policy of peace and recon ciliation. Mariners of westward bound vessels arriving ut New York had eager ques tions to ask about the great field of i smoke caused by forest fires which they had encountered when 000 miles out nt sea. They found patches so thick as to make It necessary to slow down the engines to half speed. The atmosphere in the locality of Geneva, N. Y., was filled with smoke nnd atoms of ashes, evidently the re sult of the great forest fires In north ern New York. Frldny, June 8. Hnnger of war between Japan and Russia over Manchuria is apparently increasing. English polo players have abandoned their proposed visit to the United Stntes this year. It Is officially announced that King Edward and Queen Alexandra will vis it Ireland in July. The French Academy has given a re ception to Edmond Rostand, author of "Cyrano do Bergerac." Ten thousand children nre reported sold in exchange for food by starving people in Kwangsi, China. Sentences of most of Transvaal Boers convicted of military offenses during the war have been remitted. The German emperor and the czar of Russia will visit Vienna simultaneous ly at the beginning of September. Extensive forest fires are burning In nil parts of Nova Scotiu, nnd hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of tim ber is being destroyed. Miss Laura Biggar, the New York ao tress, has been sued for $100,000 dum nges for alienation of her husband's affections by Mrs. Charles C. Hen drlck. Water Commissioner Monroe of New York has explained the water supply situation and asks for caution in the use of water while the drought con tinues. The Hamburg-American steamship Deutschland stuck fast on a mud bunk in New York harbor and was hauled off, and she put to sen after a delay of twenty-four hours. Smoke and ashes from forest fires In New York nnd neighboring states hns obscured the sun as though by some heavy yellowish mist for three days, and a pungent odor of burning wood permeates the air. The Building Trades Employers' as sociation of New York has submitted to nil the unions in the building trades a proposition for arbitration which provides for n court of appeals on ev ery question Involved. Thnradar, Jane 4. The village of Briggs Corner, N. B., was destroyed by fire. The state pawnbroking establish ment at Naples has been burned; loss, $2,400,000. For forty-eight consecutive days no rain has fallen In and about Plntts burg, N. Y. A fire destroyed twenty -eight houses In the suburbs of the city of Hull, op posite Ottawa. A large portion of the business sec tion of North Emporia (Belfleld) was entirely destroyed by fire. One passenger was fatally nnd oth ers severely Injured In n wreck on the Rock Island road near Alta, 111. The death list from Monday's torna do in Gainesville, Ga., has passed the 100 mark. The situation has at no tlnio been exaggerated. The Duke of Argyll Is said to have sold Iona Island, Hebrides, to Carthu sians expelled from Grande Chartreuse monastery In Franco. An excursion train londed with ne groes bound from Fair Bluff to Colum bia, S. C, went through n washout fif teen miles from Sumter, S. C, and is n complete wreck. Three dead. A seaman of'the German navy was sentenced to eighteen months' impris onment for striking an ensign, who conmilted htiicldo because lie could not identify the sailor who struck him. u NEWS IN 1815 AND NOW. The Unfile of MnlerloA Was Xot Ueard Of Till Sis Weeks After It Hu Fought. Leopold tie Rothschild, nt a dinner of the Newspaper Press fund, drew an interetlngcontrast between, the meth ods uned for transmitting news in lsli and now. His own firm claims to have been the first to announce the victory of Waterloo In England, says Country Life. By the by, there is a tradition at Noinersky, where Tennyson wns born and lived, thnt they did not henr of the battle of Waterloo there till six weeks after It was fought. Mr. Leopold de Rothschild, however, said thnt his grandfather, who was the owner of some tdiips, gave his captnins direct orders thnt wherever they went they were ulwaye to bring him the Inf est newspapers, and in this way there came Into his hands a Dutch paper which contained the intelligence in one line, "Great victory of the English nt Amsterdam." His grandfather took the news to Lord Liverpool, but was scouted be cause the intelligence had arrived on the previous day thnt the English troops had been benten. If there is u Waterloo fought in the future, we wonder how the first intel ligence will reach London. Will it be by what we have come to regnrd as the somewhat prosaic cablegram? Will It, be by telephone? Or shall we have It In a mnreonigrom? Perhaps there may ' be nn invention before then that v ill render all these obsolete. EASILY UNDERSTOOD. Votoiih-iiik of (he 1,1 p ill rialnflr Vn deratandnule to llrnl Mates aa Spoken Words to llenrera, "You need not. think you nre always telephoning In secrecy," said a teacher I in the deaf mute college in this city, relates the Washington Star, "when yon go in a booth and close the double doors after you, an I see people doing every day. I notice these people in I their retreats in which they think ' their words are drowned from the j , outer world, talking often while they I look on the people outride of the glass 1 doors. "Now, do you know," he continued, j 1 "thnt every word that is so spoken is ! understood by n deaf mute whenever he sees what is going on under such ! conditions? That Is a fact. The deaf ; mute becomes so proficient in learn- i ing to read the language of the lips I thnt the motion is nn expressive to I him ns is the sound of the h union voice to other people. The next time you have n secret, to impart to some friend over a telephone in a public bootii where people ore wntching you yon should be careful to speak directly in the mouthpiece of the 'phone so that your secret be not given away to some, who happen to understand the lan guage of the lips." MONTANA SOCIETY NOTE. CharneterlNtle Description of a Ilrll Unnt Soelnl Function In the . Cow Country. The boll given at the Palace parlors over the Crimson Wing saloon lust Fri day nigjit wns a ronrlng success, re ports the Alknli Gulch (Mont.) Herald. Pap Henderson, tuned up the catguts and rosined his bow about nine p. m., and started in on "Turkey in the Straw." Buck Lewis, Bnldy Williams, Fight in' Pharaoh, nnd a few more punchers from the Double Cross ranch rode over, bringing their senoritas on their cuyuses behind them. There was nothing special doing nil night. About two a. m. Big Abe Hall, proprietor of the only respectable faro joint in Alknli Gulch, blew in nnd began to prospect for a pnrdner. Abe had been taking too much bottled comfort and when he. jerked Choctaw Kate awny from Don i Weimer and backed off and "pulled," Big Abe, being some doped, fumbled his gun, and Dan's lend pill went lookin' for room in Abe's attic. The faro joint is now looking for a new manager. The boys rounded up their ladies about four a. m. and vamoosed. Hwoa one of the most brilliant heel-and-toe stampedes ever held in this settlement. TELEGRAPH - POLE INDUSTRY. Million of Forest Treea Are 1'aed to Support the Wires of the Varlious Line. Between Chicago and Denver, a distunce of 1,500 miles, along one line of ruihvay, there are 31,500 telegraph poles, says Arboriculture. They are set 176 feet apart, or 30 to a mile. As there are considerable more than 2, 000,000 miles of steam railway in the United States, increasing in mileage ench year, and many ronds have double lines of poles to accommodate the great number of wires required to transact the telegraphic business of the coun try, there are 8,000,000 poles in use on railway lines. When, to this is added the poles used by trolley lines and by telegraph nnd telephone companies we find on aggre gate of 15,000,000 poles In use, If these should be replaced at once It would re quire 250,000 flat ears to transport them; 8,000 locomotives w ould be neces sary to haul the trains, 'which if con tinuous would reach 1,750 miles. If the poles were placed end to end they would reach more tlinn th-ee times around the earth nt the equator. Negroes In Penn Stnte, Pennsylvania hns a larger number of persons of negro descent in Its population than liny other of the northern states. To Cure Huruiuntlam In Iloraea, The idea of curing rheinatism in horses by the means of brine baths is receiving the support of veteriui.ry surgeons. SUICIDE IN SIBERIA. When Onre a Wish to Die la Ai aonaeed There la No Snrli Hi In ft n Taking It Hack. I know of a case where n man, ofter t violent quarrel with his five sons, an nounced aloud his wish to die. The next morning he thought better of it and retracted his words; but so 1 wus informed, in nil seriousness the re vengeful spirits shortly afterward in flicted the hoof disense on his herd, slid took nwny three of his sons, one nftcr another, guys n writer in Harper's. Usually, however, the man who has proclaimed his wish to die remains firm until the end. 1 met. in lS!5,nt the Anni fuir in the Kolyma country, a man by the name of Kntik. who sold thut he wanted to get rid of the troubles of this world. He had no apparent illness, but his zest for life had completely vanished, nnd he intended to start for the land of his forefathers. He was ns eager for death ns if it meant, for him a pleosnnt journey to a distant but very interesting country. The vicinity of the Russian fort was no place for the fulfillment of his wish, so he had to delay it for a couple of months; but when next I met Knflk's wife, enrly in the full, she was already a widow. She told me the details of her hns bund's death In a very simple way. lie wns strangled with n lasso. She held his head in her lap. and two of his sons pulled the ends of the rope. Knl ik's wife told me also that he was cheerful to the lost, and even joked the very moment his face was being covered with the hoed of the death coat to prevent those present from see ing his last struggle. OLD BEAUX ARE DELIGHTED. One AVnmnn Who Una Xot ItrleKnted Their Virtues to the Manly Garret. As a rule when a woman gels mar ried she tries "to pluck from her re membrance all thoughts of those who once paid .court to her. Yet she can have n kindly feeling for them with out in the slightest degree being un true to the man who finally won her, Sflys the Chicago Chronicle. "I love my old benux," said the wo man who is bound to be cheerful. "They comfort me and make me for get unpleasantnesses. An old benu is very nice if he's at nil presentable. My husband says hateful tilings to the effect that I'm ruinously ext ravngnnt, lways wanting things, and he inti mates that only nn nngel of his magni tude could manage to get. along with me at nil. Not so my old benux. They say he's the luckiest of men and inti mate that they would have been bet ter men hod Providence been thus kind to them. Even the married ones aren't so bud. When their wives sue for di vorce or -their bnbieg get the mensles they look volumes which seem to say that all would have been uinerenthnd not an undeserving one borne off the prize. These unsolicited testimonials are as stimulating; to me a old wine. It isn't the slightest use to repent, them to my husband, however. He simply reminds me that women are so easy that they're tiresome and that those 'nincompoops' don't have to pay the bills." BEAT HIS WIFE FOR HONOR. Itiaailnn SWldler Deemed It Ilia Duty to Reaent Insult at Her Randa. A Prussian officer stationed at Strnsburg uppeured before the court at Ku lmar, in Saxony, and gave the following evidence in sujiport of his demand to be divorced from his wife, says u London paper: "One night," he said, "I hud a qunr rel with my wife, In the course of which she exclaimed; 'You nre too much of a cowurd to strike me!' What could I, as u Prussian officer, do wjien my wife accused me of cow. ardice? If the wife of another offi cer had thus insulted me, I could at least huve challenged her husband to a duel, but I could not challenge myself, because my own wife insulted me. "I got," continued the officer, "into a stnte of intense excitement over this terrible dilemmu. I lit the can. die and requested my wife formally three times to withdraw the insult ing expression, which wns incomputi ble with my dignity and honor as a Prussian oilieer. My wife sulked, und did not withdraw the insult. As it wns my duty to enforce satisfaction for the insult I seized n stick und bent my wjfe." The triul wns adjourned. Not (aeorirc' HutcSiet. Carpenters who were repairing the Mary Washington house, opposite Fredericksburc. recently found in the ceiling n small hatchet of peculiar shape. 1 liey hegan to talk or the cherrv tree nnd the small bov who could not tell n He, and un old negro woman wus iounil who remembered Peeing George hide the hatcliet after its famous achievement. But and so the romance disappears from life Wushington was a grown man before his mother bought the house. And the cherry tree hatchet is still un found, ult hough it is not unlionored or unsung. Queer C'n.use'of Strike. More than a tiiousanii rennsylvnnla miners "struck" the other duy to de cide the question wneiner or not a bridle is part or u mule t iiurness. j h troube rose from t lie refusal of iha fctiiblemen to put on the bridles. Ue ferees recommended that the males be driven without undies, mid their siurfrest Ion was ndonted. Then the men came bock. The mules huve passed a voie oi lupous. An Old Ohnrch- Christ Epiicorul Church ot Milton Celebralei its 1 10th Anniversary. Thursday, Ma 28th, marked the 110th anniversary tf Uirist Episcopal church of Milton. In May I7CM Mathias Webb ap peared at the ninth convention ol the church at Christ church, Phila delphia, and was admitted upon signing the act of association. There were with him two others, Klisha Harton, of Fishing Creek township, and John Punston, cf Christ church, Dcrry township. This marks the organization o f three parishes two of which exist to-day, viz., St. Paul's, Moomsburg, and Christ church, Milton, then called Christ church, Tttrbot town ship. As carlv as 1795 men: was a church built of logs, the first house of worship in the immediate vicini ty on the lot now occupied by the Lincoln street school bulletin?, which came into possession of the borough about 1894. The ground was given by Joseph Marr and Susanna his wife, to John Covert, Sr., Matthias Webb and Samuel Stadon, trustees of the English Episcopal church, for a considera tion of five shillings. The old log church was heated from a large square hole in the middle of the building in which a fire of logs was made early and burned to embers. There was no chimney, simply an opening in the roof to carry off the smoke. Some worshippers carried with them charcoal foot warmers. About 1826 or '27 the log church seems to have been unfit for use. The first rector was Rev. Caleb Hopkins, who served until about 1818. Others who served Milton were Kevs. JUijan l'ltimn, i2o; Chas. G. Suowden, 1822; Win. El dred, 1826; Christian Wiltberger, 182S; Isaac Smith, 1S35; Rev. j3. W. Morris, now bishop of Oregon, 1847-50. Rev. Morris built the present cnurcli wnicli was tlie only church that escaped the flames in 1880. Rev. D. N. Kirkby, St. Paul's, liloomsburg, attended the anniversary last Wednesday. Bioomsburg has it too. Just what the walk of the New York girl of the future will be like, says the New York Journal, is rather a hard matter to determine. Present indications point toward a combina tion of a slide, a stumble, a shuffle and a wriggle truly a graceful per formance. The walk practiced by many of the leading young actresses of the day is undoubtedly responsible lor the kan garoo contortions which are ruining the grace and style of the average girl. A girl deceives herself with the idea that this walk gives her a smart appearance. In tnis she is greatly mistaken. This walk is simply ?, reversed cake walk, the difference being that, where as the real cakewalk has the virtue of relaxation, this proceeding keeps every muscle strained and taut. The pr.-ttiest, best-dressed girl in the world would look grotesque when practicing this ridiculous kangaroo walk. The athletic girl scorns to be a slave to such an uncomfortable fad. She knows that true grsce springs from free, natural movement of the limbs, and there is nothing free or natural about the kangaroo pose. If it keeps on for a generation or so, perhaps we shall revert to the ways of our monkey ancestors, and go about on all fours. Straighten up, girls, and don't give the men the epportunity to laugh any longer at this absurd pose. Plenty ot outdoor excercise and sensible dressing go a long way toward giving a girl a free and graceful car riage. No girl who is stumbling about on French and military heels can ever expect to look anything but ridiculous. Common sense heels and well-built shoes are the first essentials toward a free and natural walk. The girl who lakes but little exercise and tires out after a quarter of a mile of city pave ment or country road, will never achieve a graceful walk. She shows by her languid movement that she is unused ta exercise, and that she has no backbone, so to speak Her more energetic sister, vho thinks nothing of a five-mile tramp, swings along with an air of breezy buoyancy and health that is quite irresistable. To-day the athletic girl is "queen of the rosebud garden girls," and the kangaroo walk has no place in her category of charms. She stands erect on her well shod feet, her back straight as a young fir tree. Nature, not fashion, is responsible for her graceful curves. She pities her kan garoo sisters. Ktnrllnir; Illlif. In every yrcat race much depends upuii die start, "lictliin; away" with llie whole system tinejiiiU wiih confidence in the strength to win is Imlf llie battle. In the race of life the stait each day h at the breakfast table. A dish of 'he new cereul, icrved witli milk, in vigorates llie body and refreshes tlie brain, "f " makes the start right. " U cooked and ready to eat Young and old like "f. You can eal "f" at any lime. At gioccis everywhere. n-iajy WILL ENF0RJE GAMS' LAW. Under the new la authorizing the appointment of a Deputy Game Pro tector in every county, the State Board of Game Commissioners has sent out the following notice to the men appointed to fill that responsible position: "The forms presciibed by law should be strictly followed in all cases where that is possible, and no arrest should be attempted either with or without warrant, unless you are per fectly satisfied that there is a just cause for such action. The law as it now stands prevents the placing of costs upon an officer, where the prose cution is brought in good faith. This is intended as a protection to you. The people of the Commonwealth also have rights that are to be protected and you should in no instance bring suit unless you are morally certain the party is guilty, and that he should be convicted and that there is a fair chance to so convict. The Game Commission will not permit its officers to bring suits unjustly or for the pur pose of simply making costs, no mat ter who may be compelled to pay them. You have no right to settle any case of violation of the game laws unless the full penalty as prescribed by t'.ie act of Assembly is paid. If any person charged with violating the game laws, shall feel disposed to pay this penalty without prosecution, and for the purpose oi saving costs, it might be well for you to accept same and give a receipt therefor. Where it is possible, and a case is to any extent complicated, we should be glad to have you write this office before bringing suit. Where this is not pos sible, as where parties are caught in the act, we expect that you will use your own judgment, with caution and the fixed idea of justice to the ac cused as well as to the Common wealth in mind. "We do not desire, and will not permit the prosecution of anyone for what is known, as 'securing satisfac tion' or for spite, yet the fact that in formation comes to you, of a violation of the game law through spite or a desire to secure satisfaction, should be no reason for your refusing to in vestigate the charges made, or to fa'' to prosecute if you find said charges true. You may have nothing to do with the causes that prompted the in formant to come to you. You will be expected to treat all violators of tiie game law alike, showing no partiality or any cause. We have no discretion in these matters and you have none. We have no power to grant privileges and the same applies to you. You are expected to use good common sense in your work and be satisfied a violation was knowingly and not accidentally committed before you prosecute. I do not mean by this that the persons sjiould know they were violating the law, or that you must be in a position to prove that they knew they were so doing, before you prosecute, tor ignorance is no excuse. What we want is, that you be satisfied that the offense was com mitted intentionally, and that the State has been injured thereby. Your bond has been given to insure the faithful performance of your duty. . Should you arrive at a point where this cannot be done, we would suggest that you at once resign and thus save possible trouble to yourself and. to us. One of the rules of this office is to retain the name of an informer in strict confidence, unless he be willing to have it published. We frequently meet people who are able and willing to give valuable information, but who prefer, for different reasons, not to be known in the matter. We caution you to adopt the same rule and keep it without variance. Publio Has Paid the- Cost In reviewing its business of the past year Lewis A. Riley, president ot the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co., oper ating the collieries in the Panther Creek Valley, says that his company had by January 1 of this year nearly recouped its losses caused by the last strike. He also says that the public has paid the cost of the suspension. After referring to the recoup of the company's strike losses President Ri ley says: "As a consequence the added busi ness that is coming to us this year, and that we expect also next year, will leave the company a substantial gainer, for the fact of the anthracite strike of 190a. During the grogress of the strike we stated that the compa nies were fighting the battle for the public. Tjhe public however, sided with the miners, an j have been paying the losses of the strike ever since. "We have been able to recoup our selves so early because of the 50 cents advance in coal, in which we followed the Reading, and which is no a per manency with us. No anthracite road, of course, can be expected to go back to old prices after the report of the Anthracite Commission. "While the company makes it a practice to keep its figures for the an nual report, the fact that we have already earnings sufficient to pay both dividends for the present fiscal year indicates the satisfactory business that we are doing." a-'J
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