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VOLUME XXIV.
WE IKI i0T PLEDGE
l Ourlvs t keep abreast, but to keep tks lead
aver all otoerrt in eeum- yea
ri re, . asi.i Tri. r rnr, a bid
WELL JIATIRII), HIPr WHIK-
KIM AXD WIXU
At'prlcc that maks all other dealers noiU.
Jam ILink 01 It :
Ov.rbolts fc Co.'t Par Ry. Bv year eld.
Full quartsll.io, ur lu.o per dotsn.
Still better I
lock's (iulden WnMloc. tea yean. old. Fall
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(Setter mill !
Kentucky Mourboa. ten years old. 'Fall
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r Full qnart II or (10 pr doi.a.
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that It I. nttrrljr lmpoiiibl to duplloat It.
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and fln. flavor la any particular of the Para t' ali
tor la Vinr w . ara now palllnir at M eeoU per
bottle. Full qrt.'ur 16 no per dutea.
la ioakini( up your order please eocloee P. O.
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wholksale;ind ketail.
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Try the Cure.KAV-T R,
A partirle l applied lot eacb onetrll aad la
wrf il,l. Prto 60 rent at Itrairicirt ; bv mall
r-i.ir.. to ol.. ELY UR M Warrea St,
ew Vurk.
IHE ST. CH&RLES HOTEL,
Chailes S- Cill. Proorletor.
I Table unsurpas-sed. Remodel-
ru ilu oiuce on ground iioor.
Natural gas and incandescent
light in ull rooms. New steam
laundry attached to house.
Cor. Wood St. & Third Ave.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Pollcle wrtttea at abort Dutlc la tb
OLD RELIABLE "ETNA"
d ejllaer Firat lama 'empailea.
T. W. "DICK,
itil.M FOR THE
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FIHE lSURANCKC()MV.
UUJaMENCEU BUSINESS
1704.
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NATURE'S
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tbaa forty year a panU
lavoni. Soa irwcull
Sick-Hcadachs,
AND
DYSPEPSIA.
ESSENTIA la OILS,
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. Enen.hurir, Pa. (jffle. la bulldln t T
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maanar ol l.aal ba.laee atten.led t. .atlfa
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Mmm,
Publisher.
MY MOTHER'S HYMN.
My Mother' Hyma! I bear It now,
A tbrougn lb. tree abov aer home,
Tbe n'.a'bt wind whispering 10 ft and low,
Like angel muaie aecma to omff.
And waft upon my ravished ear
In atraina as from the harps of fold.
And srraph olc swret and clear
The hymn she sung so oft of old.
Bow many times my hand have pressed
For htr the throbbing organ keys
To that dear tuue .ho loved the best,
Sweetf.l of red melodies.
And as I at ruck Ward-" well lored chorda,
A far-off look camn to her eye.
Her sweet voice trembling through the words:
"Ilow blest the righteous when he dies.
How blent the rlrfcteous, oh ' how blest.
When fireed from earthly toll and pain.
The spirit leuve. the expiring breast.
With Christ forever more to reign.
' So fade a summer rlowd away,
0 sinks the gale when storms are o'er;
Bo aped her soul, at close of day. .
To loved ones on the other shore.
And when we laid her form away,
Ne more to rvr t war mortal eye.
We -.ong t'j "Ward" shot, her clay:
"How bleat the rVhtooue wheat he 11 loot
Essie M. Howell, la tfciod Housekeeping.
AFTER THE PARTY.
An Explanation That Waa Alto
gether Satisfactory.
He Good-night. Mii Wllmott.
She You are not going?
He It i hard to tear one's self
away from such, pleasure, but It Is
la to; most of the guests are gone.
She Stay till they are? all gone.
He I ara afraid I will
She You are easily frightened note.
You will wait. I must spalc to you.
She At last! Thank heaven, they
are gone.
He Why such a sigh of relief. It
has been a delightful party. "
She (wearily) Ha UP I don't
doubt it has been delightful to you,
except for these last fifteen minutes. .
Ho They have been, so far, the
happiest.
She Of course you had to say that.
I know you wanted to go.
He Don't let us talk nonsense. You
told mcy
She I told you I wished to speak to
you since you will not speak to me. "
lie What do you meaof
She Do sit down. Youmake me
nervous, standing there, pod like a
stattiij, with those searching eyes look
iinr through me.
He They're looking for something
that is not there.
She I suppose you want me to ask
you what? and then you wUl aay, a
heart. I've had so much of that, so
very much of that; and I expect some
thing better from you.
He You are bitter this evening.
She Toll me what have I done to
you?
He Done to me?
She Yea. Have I offended you?
Havo I bean rude to you?
He ' a. I don't know of any thing
you have done. You could not ba
rude.
She Then you have been.
He I! How, when, where?
She Will you turn some of those
lights down? The glare hurts my
eye
He Will you not tane the easy
chair? You look more natural in
that.
She What have I done? For two
years wo have been friends, close,
warm friends almost brother and sis
ter. Ho Yes. We are friends stiiL are
e not?
She I never used to go anywhere
that you did not find me and come to
me. if it waa only for a moment, only
to bhake hands, only to look at xne.
You came here very often and it
seemed as if you could do nothing,
think of nothing, withont telling ma
He Yes. I remember that.
She You remember that! You
apeak as if it were something of the
f: r past- Yet it was only last year.
Ho Only this year.
She Suddenly it all came to an end.
Suddenly you began to avoid me.
Kvery thing, even the grasp of your
lwind when we did meet, told me you
had changed. What was it?
Ho I have not changed.
She You know, for-the last three
months, you have never coane near
me. To-night, even. In my own house,
you have avoided me all the evening,
you havo devoted youreolf to others
to another.
He I didn't want that is
She Why do you hesitate? You
did not want to tell me you had
wearied of my friendship that It has
become a lore to you.
He Edith! I beg your pardon I
Sho Speak out. I am a woman,
but I do not live on compliments. 1
can bear the truth sometimes.
Ho But I could not.
She What do you mean?
He How it blows outside. I used
to like the storm. Do you remember
how one night last winter we sat here
and talked, and as we talked we
beard the wind rUe and bowl around
the house, and then the rain came
dashing against the window until the
storm's great charm put a spell upon
us and we lis toned in silence till it
few quite late, and as I stepped out
into the wild night your faoe close to
the window-pane in this cozy room
seemed like a picture of an angel?
She I do remember that hour of
J reaming but not the angel part of
lU . .
He 1 was very happy la those
lays. There was one summer day
out in tbe redwoods, you and I to
gether. Wo sat under a tree, and the
sua made fantastic figures that danced
on the carpet of dead, brown ferns,
and ine bees wcro humming sll around
us
Sho (in a low voice) Yes. I re
member I have never forgotten. The
world seemed so beautiful and life
such a blessing. " I remem
ber. You told me what your ambi
tions were, and I
He You you hold out your hand
to me as if you would have led mo to
their fulfillment.
M A miMU WHOM TBI TBDTH
EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 7.
She And I would. If I could. Every
woman wants to be an Inspiration to a
man. Women can do so little that
their greatest effort is self-sacrifice,
and of that solf-sacrifiee the world
hears nothing. Man can dare, and do.
and compel the world's homage, and
when it comes the woman's heart tills
with pride if she can think to hersolf:
I was his inspiration."
He And If I had doue something
great, something that made people
talk of me with praise and with respect
I should have come to you
unhappy until you had said: "1 am
proud of you."
She Would you? I don't be
lieve it
He Do you think I am happy now?
Do you think that this est. aogement
has come from my desire to be rid of
such a friendship?
She No. 1 would not like to be
lieve that But why have you neg
lected me? If you had found some
other whom you loved who was
nearer to you than 1 could you not
have trusted me and told me? Can
you not tell me now?
.He There is no such one.
She If there were I suppose you
would never speak to her at alL If
you give such odd expression to friend
ship, what expression would you give
to love?
He I was only too happy with you.
But you began to make new friends.
She) Bcganl I was always making
new no, not friends acquaintances.
He And thn they told me
Sho What?
He That you were to marry Mr.
Blackstona.
She It waa not true that is I
mean, of course, papa, at first, wished
me to. and
He And there's no partioular rea
son why you shouldn't.
She Only oaa. I don't love him.
lie That is hardly necessary now
adays. She Cheap cynicism does not be
come you. That - remark is very
stupid. ; ,
He Well he is wealthy he is
good-looking he is -
She A numskulL I am not very
particular, but a nu,mskull I can not
endure. .
He Still you must marry in your
station. I know. thaU I know that
somebody will come along and carry
you off if not Mr. Blackstona, some
body else.
She My station! What is my feta
tion? He Yon are a belle. You have all
pleasure, all the luxury life can
OfTer. Your fortune must, I suppose,
mate with another fortune.
She Tin sure I don't know why a
million . should have to matt with
another million, any more than a man
six foet high should have to marry a
woman six feet high. . , .
He But society . .
She What is society?
He The people who decide the
status of other people.
She That reduces character to a
matter of opinion.
He Society Is simply opinion in
authority.
She You are getting heavy. I
thought you had a flower In your button-hole
I'm sure I saw her take a
bud from her bouquet and put It there.
Where is it?
He Dropped bo mew tier e, I suppose.
She There there's a pink. That
will "drop, I suppose," too.
He No.
She So they told you I was to mar
ry Mr. Blacks to no. I think ho wants
me to. But why did you not ask ie
about it?
Ho It was a delicate question.
She Yet it was not fair of you. You
know me well enough, and you know
I would have told you.
He 1 was afraid you would.
She Would it have hurt you very
much? I doubt it. Your attentions to
that other
He There is no other.
She I certainly heard and then
the way you have avoided me.
I have so wanted to see you somotimes.
Do you know but I won't tell you.
Ho What is it? Do tell me.
She I will because we have been
uch good friends. I havo begun a
dozen letters to you and torn them
all up.
He Why did you not send them?
She It did not become my amour
pro pre to beg a friendship, even so
sweet as yours has been to mo.
He Has it been so sweet?
She I don't know why, but you
have been so much more to me than
any body else. I have told you all my
secrets, and somehow it has been the
most natural thing in the world for
me to do.
He Then you have not found me
unworthy of your confidence?
She No. no; even when I na you
grow cold and avoid me, it did not oc
cur to me to doubt you.
He Cold! Avoid you! If you only
knew what that coldness CUt xn; how
1 suffered.
She Why did you need to suffer?
He What had I, a poor devil pick
ing up a precarious livelihood, to do
with a girl whose sphern was so far
from mine?
She So far from yours? 1 do not
understand you.
He No? That Is by.I avoided
you.
She Philip! SurIy you don't think
I am one of those miserable women
who play with men's hearts? Surely
you don't doubt me? No, you can
not believe me so bad? I did not seek
to make you fall In love with me. I
wanted your friendship.
He No. I never doubted you, and
now I know the truta?
She What truth?
He Can you not se that through
our friendship I looked forward and
saw that some day it must all end? If
I had had a name any thing that
would have balanced your position I
might have dreamed of no end. But I
should have kept away from you.
She Kept aaai- from me! What
MUM FKIL, IKS ALL 1B1 SL1TXI Basis
would I have done without you? . You
don't know how- much happiness I
have had in these two years how
peaceful, how content, I have been,
feeling that in this miserable world
one man seemed to be so worthy of my
confidence.
He If I have given you happiness
I am happy.
Shus I would not have made you
stay to-night, but I could boar It no
longer. Throe months without one
little tete-a-tete. -Ail those dreary
weeks, and not a grasp of your hand,
hardly a sound of your voice. Some
evenings I have felt that I would give
all the world if you would walk in at
the door and sit down beside me as
you U9ed to do.
. He And I would have given all the
world to have been with you.
She Ilow could you pay eo much
attention to that other.
He I did not But what did It mat
ter? She It was a reflection upon my taatj.
But you will come back to me just as
you were, won't you?
He If you wish to ba kind, tell mo
not to come.
She You do not wUh to como?
Ho Yes, I do. Edith, can you not
see that my friond.hip has long ago
ripened into love? 1 am jealous; I
suffer from every glance, every Bmile
you give to other men. I have nothing
j to offer you save an allegiance. Some
f day, perhaps. I may be able to offer
you a name that Is known; perhaps
our positions may be more equal. But
it will bo death to me whn that other
comes and wins you from me.
She If I insist .
He 1 can not refuse. But be kind.
Give mo your hand, say 'God bles
you" and let me go.
She Stay a moment. If I tell you
something a secret if I toll you that
a year almost ago papa came to mo
one night and talked to me, and told
me that If I had guessed aright
and- you were to ask mo to bo your
wife and if I loved you very dearly
he thought I might say 'Yes."
Ha And do you lovo me very
dearly?
She My darling, bow the storm
rages but it is poaceful here, is it
not? Peter Robert -ion, In the Argo
naut. THUMB AUTOGRAPHS.
A Means of IdaatifloaUoa Which I Said
to Have No Equal.
Two men of science in two different
countries Mr.; Francis Galton in En
gland and M- Bertillon in France
have lately recommended a means of
identification which policemen and de
tectives, with all their ingenuity, teem
never to have employed.. These gen
tlemen have observed that the human
thumb dippod in ink. in blood. In
black-lead or in anv other loose ad
he ring Bubetanco and pressed upon a
sheet of paper, leaves ;a mark which
is perfectly characteristic of the Indi
vidual. .
Mr. Galton has remarked that no
two persons' thumbs make the same
mark; the lines and expressions in the
skin, which make a series of wave
lines when pressed upon paper, aro
never tho same In two different Indi
viduals. It is urged that this fact should be
of very great valuo in the admiaibtra
tion of justice, because a criminal's
thumb-mark would be a suro moans
of identifying him. no matter what
disguise he might assume.
If a business man wishes to make
usi of a signature which is quire im
possible to forge or counterfeit, he
has only to dip lus thumb in hi ink
bottle and make a mark with it in con
nection with his written name No
other thumb will make tho tame mark,
and it would bo practically impos
sible for any one to imitato this new
kind of "autograph" with a pen or
other mechanical moans.
"In testimony whereof I hereunto
set my hand nnd thumb," the new
form of superscription may so mo
time in the future run, tho seal having
by . that time, perhaps, completely
gone out of use. as it has now. except
on official documents and with fash
ionable lettor-writora.
The experiment with tho thum"b
mark may bo mado by any ono who
will take a knife-blade, hold it over
a lamp until it is black with smoke,
allow it to cool, apply the thumb to
the black surface, and then press it
lightly upon a slightly sticky bit of
paper, such as the back of a postage
stamp. Examined with a magnifying glass
the differences in the thumb-marks of
individuals come out very 6trougly.
According to Mr. Galton. thumbs
run in family group, dividing them
selves, as it were, into seven or eight
distinct types or grand divisions; but
within these divisions the differences
are so marked as to leave no chance
for confusion. Household Words.
Aa Eve to TBaainea.
"I harp just lon up In Vermont. said
a Treasury rlrk yurday. "Tho na
tives hav lot none of thr-lr cuton.s
The town whrr I was stopping has
ahout4..00 inhabitant. Ono of tho so
letmoa runs a hardware More, and two
wwe: ago his dig was bitten by a neigh
bor's dog. It 14 a ktuall enough mat
ter, but sre what happened. First, he
had the neighlwr's dog killed; then he
raised th cry that the dug had Txoq
mad. and had litta other dg Tho
select men met aad ordered thatfvfry
Artff should I muuled for forty days,
and tho thrifty hardware man has Hold
nearly 50 muzzles at SI apiece. Staid
old family dnjrs travel around town with
leather thonfr around their jaws, which
never elorfd on any thing wore human
than a bW bone. - I saw on big mas
tiff that had worked his muzzle off and
was lugging it around in his mouth. "
Washington Post.
'ncsus (to hotel proprietor) 1 Can
you arcom.-uwlatenje by caching a chock
for 510.4MW.'"' liotel proprietor "Ten
thousand dollars' Why, I norer saw so
much money in my life! However, my
porter U around somewhere, and be will
doubtless be giai to a'vcm'aodafe you."
Time. .....
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81. SO and
1590.
MISNOMER ED MAIDENS.
A sojourn In New England haa convinced me of
tbe foot
That female nomenclature there Is very Inexact ;
The girls 1 met and flirted with had certainly no
claims
To ail the gifts and graces indicated by their
names.
Faith Jonnoon was the first I met; I thought
her name so sweet. - t
Ahd Hhe was Very beauufu, accomplished, and
so neat ; ..
But Faith proved falthleii anto me she was a
pay deceiver
And in religious matters, too, she was an unbe
liever. I found nope Smith a darling girl and wonder
fully wise,
And yt I could not understand her hopeless
kind of sigh.
For she wis given to despond," aad said, when
e'er I chaffed her.
She had no hope of happiness in this world or
hereafter.
Then later. Charity De Kalb ensnared my youth
ful heart.
Bhe bad a graceful figure and a manner very
smart,
Tet In bar disposition envy was the reigning
feature.
And Charity tnrned out to be a sordid, selfish
creature. . t
The r.et I met wss Prudence Jones, a girl of
elfrhteen sprlnps.
But she vu iray and giddy and too fond Of cost
ly things; . . , -- . -
Eztravagutice in dress ao doubt was her beset
ting sin; , . -. .......
God help the man whose cruel lucli list damsel
dear shall win 1 ,
T had an introduction to Humility Bordette, .'.
Whose vanity und self conaelt I Dover can forget:
IMHtlnjruLshel o'er her slaters lor insufferable
pride.
Humility was just the gift which she had been
denied! .
I then made the acquaintance of Peace Robin-
on. of Maine,
A flery girl whose temper mortal never could '
reatrain.
She used to get quUe violent aad tear her hair
and mine. "
So uiarriave with that maiden I of course hod
to decline. - -
The nr.xt of the Kcw England girls t met was
i'atienre Brown,
Tbe daughter a banker In a Massachusetts'
town; " . '--. -. i-
Her Irritable nature, and the) way she'd fume
and fret. .
Indure.1 me to bid her good-bye without the
lonst regret.
The lt I met was Wealthy Green, and I was
rather ra-h.
For I prupod and married her, depending on
her cash: . " . ' -
But afiir w were wedded I bad reason to re
pcot. . ''-'..
For I very soon discovered .Wealthy wasn't
worth a rent '. ,
Jrhn 8 Grey, fa Texas Sifting.
LINEMEN.
After a Storm Their '- Taaks 1 Are
Bard and Perilous. " ' "
Man Drift Into tho Trade Naturally
Tbalr Work aad How It Is Paid
' Thy Dread Storm Hor. Thaa .
Sallormem Do.
It is in the room whoro tho linemen ,
meet to find out where there are wires
In trouble that they will have to fix.
Just ' which oue of the companies it
may be, never mind, for the com
panies do not like to have their line
. men talk of the hardships and dangers
of the work and the little pay given
for their sorvites, and if the lineman
were discovered tolling tho secrets of
their work it might , go hard . with
them. It is Monday morning, and the.
linemen have come from their homes -to
report to their foremen for duty.
Sunday was a bad day. There was a
cyclone down off tho coast, and through
the night it blew briskly over Man
hattan's housetops. Wires got crossed,
insulation sheaths became abraded,
long stretches of lines were swayed by
the wind till they grew slack, and all
through Sunday night there was diffi
culty in Bunding messages either by
telephone or telegraph. And now this
Monday morning is even worse lhan
was Sunday. There is fog. there is
rain, and onoe in awhile thero - are
swift gusts ol wind. It will be 'what
tho men call a trouble day. and there'
will be more than a plenty of work
for them to do. Already the districts
throughout tho city havo reported to
headquarters the trouble in this street
and that ttreet. Tho foremen of the
various gangs of linemen have re
ceived tables showing whore the
breaks, tho crosses and the other
faults are. and now. at a little after
eight o'clock this Monday morning,
the foreman and his gang go out in
the rain and wind to make tho wires
sorviccable.
It is a familiar sight to New York
ers, these groups of throe, four or
mora sturdy men in rough clothes
walking umartly along, tools for fixing
wires in their hands, and the etraps
and spurs of their "climbers" hanging1
over their Ehoulders. They are all
men with courage written on their
faces and - agilo strength shown in
their bodies, arms and legs." Oa and
on they walk, with their eyes, from
force of habit, glancing up toward the
wires reaching from pole to pole and
extending across house roofs. Pres
ently the foreman halts, and the others
stop bohind him. Here is the first
plaoo of trouble in tho district whicn
this gang is covering. Tho foreman
gives his inttructions and tho men
prepare for work. First they bind
around their legs the spurs, and then
taking ono comprehensive survey of
tho wire aioft they see that their
tools are all right in their pockets.
Now the climbing begins. Ono man is
at this pole, another is at the nextone,
and another somewhere ele along the
stroeu The tall sticks of timber aro
sixty or seventy feet high. . In a jiffy
the linemrn are up among the crots
piece. Often there aro loiterers who
linger on tho curbstones to watch the
work. But it is difficult to toil just
what the laborers aro doing away up
there In tlio air. It isn't pleasant to
turn up one's faoe to tho failing rain
drops, and besides, tho maze of wires
hinders close obaorvation. and . the
most careful of onlookers finds himself
unablo to soo fully the operations of
the lineman. One thing you can easily
see. though, and that is thattne work
man displays exceeding caro In select
ing his position and in managing not
to touch certain wires.
At last he descends from tho cross
pieces and stands upon the flag walk.
But he has no time to waste, and is
soon off to another pole, up that, at
woikln the maze, then down again
postage per Year In advance.
NUMBER 2.
and off to another pole. Then, per
haps, his work takes him to tho roof
vi a uuudqi o.uu us uiuai triiLuu careiui-
ly over the slanting . tin or slate, ba
careful about clumsy scuttle holes, and
often support himself delicately at the
eaves, five, Blx. perhaps eight stories
above tho ground. So it goes with him
i until six o'clock p. m.. and at that hour
the regular work of the day oeases.
This Monday It is hard to keep the
work up until six o'clock p. m., for it
is dark, and even at five o'clock the
lineman has to strain his eyes to soo
clearly that he does his work right.
Besides, it is raining even now, and the
poles and cross-pieces are slippery. A
false stop, an Incautious movement, a
weak thrust of the spur into the tall
stick, and the lineman would fail to the
stones below.
. "Well. I am glad there's one more
day's work done." remarks the work
er among aerial wires, as finally he
touches the earth again. Tm glad,"
ho goes on, "for now I know that for
a dozen hours or so I won't be running
any more chances of taccldentthan men
in other kinds of work. Ordinarily we
linemen don't bother much aboutthmk-,
.ingot the danger we are In on'the poles'
and on housetop .That is, a year ago
we didn't mind it much, but now we
seldom . begin a day's work without
wondering whether it is going to be
our turn next to slip and fall or touch
a deadly wire as Feeks did. You see
it's been pretty nearly within the last
year that the fatal accidents have hap
pened, and I . tell you they have made
us men . rather nervous. We always
knew we had a hard life, but we kind
er got used to it. There didn't use to
be so much danger of getting a death
shock.- Now the danger has in
creased." i
"How do men get to be linomen?"
"Oh, Just the same as men get to be
engaged in any thing that is perilous.
A young man hasn't had a chance to
get some safe, pleasant trade; he
wants work, and he takes the first
thing that comes his way. 1 lived in
a small town up the State, and had
been doing various things. A tele
graph company came along and want
ed me to help put up a new line. I
got a job, just the same as lots, yes,
most linemen, got started in hand
ling the reels of wires or helping the
men that strung them on the poles. I
was a ground man that's what thoy
call 'em and did my work all rhrht.
None of us groundmea had to climb
poles." The foreman wouldn't let us.
He said it was risky and the company
wouldn't let us go up the pole and fall
down and smash our heads. They
didn't care for us or our getting hurt,
but they did care about having to pay
damages. That's what was tho matter.
Well. I worked along for some months
and never went up a pole. But I knew
I could do It, for there wasn't a treo
anywhere around my town that I
couldn't got up along with any other
boy, and without being : boosted,
either. - So one Sunday a lot of us
ground men were talking about climb
ing wo were boarding at a farm
house along the road where the line
was being built, and Sunday we didn't
work and ; while we were talking
about skinning up trees and climbing
telegraph poles a fellow dared me to
go up a pole. It was a big one, and
the ground all around was 6tony. so
that a fall would have been serious;
but I put on a pair of climbers and
sailed up that pole as slick as the fore
man could have done It. " That's what
made me a lineman. The - foreman
heard there was a groundman in the
gang that could go up a pole, and cext
time be had to recommend seme fel
lows for promotion I was one of those
he named.' So here I am, going up
poles and fussing around with wires.
How did I learn what to do with the
wires? Oh, from watching the line
men whenever as a groundman I had
the chance. It isn't hard work just to
repair or change wires; tho difficult
part is in the having o do it eo high
up in the air with such an awfully in
secure footing. '" Sometimes a wire is
slack;, then all there is to do is to pull
it taut and fasten it. Perhaps a lino
has got out of place and crosses an
other. The current is spoiled then,
and we have to, straighten the wires so
that each will' bo independent of tho
other. Or may be there is a piece of
bad wiro somewhere. We find it out
and cut It down, and then put in a new
stretch and splice it at each end. None
of these things is very hard nor re
quires much expert knowledge. Still
a lineman doesn't get them all at once.
Generally he begins on easy work.
The first thing ho has to know how to
do is to climb a pole. Then when he
gets there he must know just what to
do.. Some groundmen. learn to ciimb
a pole, but there they stop. Perhaps
it's because they don't know how to
work in wire even a little bit, or may
be it's because they get nervous and
are so rattled that it takes too long for
them to get through a simple job."
Tho lineman struck an important
subject when ho spoke of nervousness.
Many men can tell just what ouht to
be done with the wires, and could do
the work if it wero to be done on the
grouad. They fall utterly, though,
when the' Job must bo dono on the
crosa-pieoe of n stick of timber as high
as a mast. The successful linemen do
not drink. They bay that even a little
liquor makes them unabio to stay on a
high cross-pioce. Their legs are
sheky. and sometimes they drop their
tooia. It's dizzy work under all clr
cuuistanoes. ttui when tho nerves are
affected and a man is dizzy, too, the
combination is more than bu can stand
Soma companies will not engage a
man unless he has bad experience.
Others tako them from the ground
men. The men who repair wires nU
look after all tbe forms of trouble int.;
which the ' wires get are often re
cruited from the construction gangs.
They may work on the poles and wiro
for ten years, but it is unusual. Either
they are promoted to other sorts of
electrical work or they find the ex
posure and danger too much for them
and quit the telegraph, telephone and
light companies altogether. Linemen
get from fifty to sixty-five dollars a
month. If they are beat cut of ton
Advortiwing Jin ton.
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WRtMOUitim or proctedH4 of any corporation
oeietn, J commvtitcattvnt dmonrd to cm.it ttrrt
tton to wf Mflr of trmuf or n'tirfua inlna
uf (wjMwn at sifeerrt.etarntJ.
Jo PaiaTiKo of all klrnl. neatlv and expei
onsly xeatd at lowest price. Don't yoa lore
their railroad faros, meals and lodg
ings are paid, but in town tho only ex
penses they can charge are car fares.
Tools and climbers aro furnished them.
Frequently linemen are sick. Co. us
and affections resulting from ex
posure aro their chief ailments. Often
in winter they have to toil all day
under all the disngreeablo conditions
that follow a sleet storm. Snow i
not so bad for wires as eleet, nor as
unpleasant for tho trouble men. But
when there aro wind and sleot to
gether, then the hardship is grateL
The first thing a lineman thinks of
when ho wakes up mornings is tho
weather. Often, according to the wea,
they will bo roused nt night by tho
howling of a storm. They know th.-n
that work will bo hard on tbe morrow
It is rather rough labor to have to go
up a pole slippery with melting ioo.
Often it doesn't pay to wait for tho
sun to dissolve the frozen lump that
fastens the wires, the insulating glass
and the cross-piece in ono mass, as if
some evil genius had Boldeicd them.
At these times it's cold and dangerous
to cling to a pole with one's leg-s and
gontly cut and pry away the ice so as
to prevent the electric current from
being divorted and running down to
the ground. It is tough, also, to havo
to grasp sleet-covered wires and pull
them through one's hands until a slack
stretch is taut again. But the men
work without much complaint, and
say they will put up with all these
hardships if only they can bo spared
the fearful risk ot touching a death
dealing wire. N. Y. Sun.
MRS. B. REMEMBERED.
Her Memory Was I'onr, rnt One Fact She
Had Not Kntlrely Forgotten.
Mr. Uillus bat iu his comfortable arm
chair, with Lis fet comfortably resting
on another chair. Mr. llillus was tn
joyir.g himself. He Lad dined, and he
detUni fate to do its vi-or-a, even as an
other great man is said by historians to
have d.ne under like circumstances long
before the p ri.i of Ilillus.
"Maria," Le observed, "this is tho anni
versary of our wedding, isn't it?"
"It is, John."
"Twenty-three years, Maria," said Mr.
Billus, reflectively, m Le took the poker
and Ktirred the fire ia tho grate, "is a
thundeTlcg long h'm! h'm: lotig time
for some married folks, l-in't it?"
"It is, John."
"And yet it doesn't Keeni h'u.1 h'm!
as if it were thirty years siuee I first
met you at the Jasper County fair, does
it?"
"It isn't thirty years," replied Mrs.
Billus. rather shortly. "It is only ttvi-n-ty-six.'j
"I meant twenty-six years, of course.
Maria. S;eaki;. of that fair," continued
Mr. Billus, "I wotider if you remi-:..' r r
that big artichoke i;i tho aricti!
hall?"
"No, 1 don't remember any ig arti
choke." 'Have you for;.-. .tti-n the long car of
corn sent in by eld Ali-.ulo.ii WykoiT.'"
"I have no r''o":h ' ti..u of it."
"Don't you r-nftrb.-r the big l t
that I'm-).. Jakoy Iiubois Lad ou exhi
bition?" "No."
"Maria," aid Mr. BiUm. impatiently,
"where's your memory? Don't you
reeolWt the great hii? uuiikin that
weiphed one hundred at id .;veni.y--ix
pounds that Cal Hepperly twin showing
every Inxiy that cam. lo tho J;-i;-.'"
''llhwuis lo uit 1 do renii iu ij r a Lig
pumpkin."
"I thought so. Your m. r.ory is a
mighty sr one, Uiriii, hut you couldu'.
forget that hijr pumpkin. IV you hsve
any idea." persisted Mr. Billus, with
growing recollections of sundry Arn his
good mother Lad mad" shortly after
thal fair, "whatever became of that
pumpkin, Maria?"
"I think I have, John."
"You have, hey," he retorted, iu sur
prise. "If it is all you can do to re
member the biggest pumpkin at that
fair how 'do you happen to know what
became of it, madam?"'
"I married that pumpkin, John."
Tho fire burned feebly in the grate,
the canary bird si u mix-red peacefully iu
its cagi. and amid a silenc so profound
that the shadows could bo plaiuly heard
dancing on tho wall Mr. and Mrs.
Billus sat in their cheerful little parlor
and dreamed tho happy hours of their
wedding anniversary away. Chicago
Tribunn.
A SHARP REASONER.
How Code flla n.nkn "Hung " Utr All
Over an Attorney.
L Silas llenks called on a lawyer. Instat
ing thn Abject of his visit he said:
"Some time ergo, shortly atter I come
tor dis town. 1 tuck tip bo'd wil Miz
Hempsy, -r widder lady. I wan t doiu
no work at dat time, an' I didn" pay tip
reg'lar, an' alter while do fuck come ter
tny know llgi' dat 1 ou e-1 de lady fifty
dollars. Sho come tr m- an' tsaid dat
ef I didn" git her do mon'-y at otico
suthin' would happen, an' thinkin' dat
it would be. N-t ter ef suthin' did happen.
I drapped on tny knees, so tor peak, an'
tolede lady d:t I lubod her, an then
axed her ter N my wife. S!i 'jfrwl trr
depropersif ion, an' w wuz married, an'
I 'gratulated myse"f dat ono dr-bt wuz
Bettled. anyhow. Wall, whut do you
reckon hascomo tir pa-s now?"
"You want a divorce now, I vjr.poo,"
tho lawyer answered.
"Oh, no. nah; ain"t been thinkin
erbout no di vo'ce. Do casr. now SLaii's
dis, way now. tab. Kz I tells you, whin
I married dc lady I didn't hub nuthin'.
Wall, I got a sort o'er start atter I wiiy.
married, an' it wa'n't r greit w-'ile till
I wuz wuth a putty av'ar. sorter row,
fr chunk o' r-r Los, er dray an' ir lew
dollars ia money, but, sal., wh.it has
come ter pass? My wif looks wid t-r
jealous eye on my property."
"Does w hat?"
"Looks wid er jealous eyr-, f-ah; wants
me ter pay dat blamed boa'd lull."
"Well, why don't y;.u pay he-?"
"I dosn' feel like puym' i.er, an' I but
com tr ax ef you will sort o' trin me
pom advice."
"If you ow e h-r, pay her. That s tL f
only way I see out cf it."
"Ah, hah. but hoi' on er raimt. I
owed Miz Llempsv, an uow Miz Honks
wants de money. 'I doan owe Miz Henks.
I neber boa'ded wid her; I libs wid her.
Now, ef Mia llcmpsy wants Ue money,
all right, but dar ain"t no Miz He-mpsy.
Haw, haw'"' he laughed- "Didn't kuow
I wuz sich er lawyer tz dis j er . Whir
pusson, pit onten do way. I ken flinr
lawallober yoti." Arkanvfv Traelr