NEWSOF THE WEEE.
~James Knucky and George James
were killed in the Jackson mine at
Negaunee, Michigan, on the 31st ult,
They were working near a charge of
blasting powder wnigh had been put in
a week ago and failed to explode, It
exploded without warning on the 31st
ult, Michael Makel arrived in this
country ten days ago and found em-
loyment at the Aldon Company’s
ine in Wilkesbarre, Penna, On the
Jist ult., ke was standing at the bot
tom of a great chute that held hundreds
of tons of coal. He did not understand
the signal given to warn all away, and
in a moment the mass of coal came
pouring down upon him and crushed
him to death,
—A Pacific express train ran into a
freight train on the Peansylvania Rail-
road near Bennington, twelve miles
west of Altoona, on the morning of the
1st. Two train hands named Decker
and Alexander were dangerously in-
jured, and several others sustained
slighter injuries,
~The public debt reduction during
December was $15,250,000, and the re.
duction during the year $117,010,000.
—Stephen Conroy and Patrick
O'Donnell were drinking together on
Lhe evening of the 31st ult, at the home
of the former in Baltimore, About
midnight a quarrel took place, in
which O'Donnell was beaten and
thrown out of the house. The police
went to arrest Conroy and found that
he had killed his aged mother with an
axe. It is thought O'Donnell will die.
Hugh Oblherst and Morris Cohen were
locked up in the Tombs Police Court,
in New York, on the 3ist ult., to await
the result of injuries they inflicted on
Max Loenberg. Ohlberst was to have
been married on the evening of the
31st ult,, and the wedding guests were
waiting his arrival when they heard
that he was locked up forgetting drunk
and beating a man.
— A despatell from Rochester, New
York, says William N. Smith, of the
German-American Bank, is $0000
short in his cash account and has de-
camped, His bond in a guarantee
in New York is good for $5000, Mar-
cus W. Rasbach, cashier of the Herki-
mer National Bank, of Herkimer, New
York, was reported on the 31st ult, to
bave absconded alter having stolen
about $34,000 of the bank’s funds,
—Johin and Peter Mullahy, brothers,
and a man named Hughes were
drowned by the upsetting of a scow in
Gravesend Bay, near the print of
Coney Island, during the storm on the
evening of the 23th ult.
—The Fhiladelphian named Stevens,
arrested in New York on the evening
of the 31st ult, with a roll of alleged
counterfeit greenbacks, was on the 2a
held mm $1000 bail on the charge of
having stolen $225 from the overcoat of
Charles A. Smith, in a restaurant,
Jacob H. Delaplaine, a confidential
bookkeeper for the Portage Straw
Board Works, in Cirelevilie, Ohio, 1s
missing, and an examination of his
books for December shows a deficit of
$3000, 1t 1s stated that Delaplaine has
for years followed gambling in margins,
with varying success, C. W, Knowlton,
real estate broker, of Brooklyn, New
York, was ou the 24 held in $5000 bail,
at Athol, Massachusetts, for the alleged
embezzlement of $2000 from Eva, Grace
and Samuel Simonds. William T,
Young, a shoe merchant of Waco,
Texas, was robbed of $750 and dia-
mounds valued at $350 by footpads in
Cincinnati, early on the motning of the
24. Young bad been on a protracted
Spree. An attempt was made to blow
up and rob the safe of the Drovers’
National Bank, in Chicago, late on the
evening of the 31st ult. The knob of
the safe door was blown to atoms and
the ind cator broken. This checked
the progress of the cracksmen, and,
after trylog to torce back the bolts by
means of a jack-screw, and also to bat-
ter in the door with sledge hammers,
they fled. They left their lanterns,
candles, powder and more dynamite
behind.
~Owing to the heavy rain on the
1st the Schuylkill river at Reading
was 74 feet higher om the afternoon
of the 2d than 24 hours before. Huge
cakes of ice floated down the stream
all morning. and 1f these do not gorge
no danger is apprehended. Above
Readicg many small creeks overflowed
was receding. A despatch from Piits-
burg says the rivers are now running
full of ice and are slowly rising, and
river men expeet sufliclent water
send out a “barge’’ shipment of coal
Cincinnati and Louisville, The
Raritan river has risen and is five feet
igh on the wharves at New Bruns.
wick, New J
All the cellars in the
the city are submerged,
heavy rain of the 1st caused the
ware river to rise and cover the
docks and piers at Bordentown, New
poe, + colored Baptists in Forge.
gathered in their
church on the evening of the Slst ult,,
to watch the old year out and the new
come in. Bo great was the crowd that
the floors gave way and the building
Mary Allison and Mas,
ber child were taken from !
! —Two masked robbers entered the
(residence of Rev. Father Bigham.
Pastor of St, Joseph's Roman Catholic
Church in New Brighton, Yenna,,
early an the morning of the 2d, They
forced Father Bigham and the three
female occupants of the house to walk
down stairs at the point of a revolver,
compelled Father Bigham to open a
sale and give them the contents,
amounting to $115, taken in the collec-
tion on the 1st. Several hours later
three men were arrested on suspicion,
and two of them were positively iden-
tiled as the men who committed the
robbery.
—Augustus Lauterbach, a wealthy
tobacco merchant, was killed by being
thrown from his horse in New York
on the 2d.
—Coroner Vauderver, of Long
Braneh, New Jersey, on the 34 im-
panelled a jury in the case of Robert
Hamilton, who was robbed and mur-
dered on the evening of the 81st ult.
Warrants were issued for the arrest
of four persons suspected of being
concerned with the crime, and two
of them were captured, The report
that Mr, Drexel had offered a reward
of $1000 for the arrest of the mur
derers is contradicted by a Long
Branch special, Johu Johnson, while
visiting Marietta, Penna., on the 80th
ult.,, was so badly beaten by three
roughs that his injuries are now pro-
nounced fatal, His assailants have
disappeared. A despatch from Rush
City, Minnesota, says Eric Erickson
has confessed the murder of his wife
some days ago. He is thought to be
demented. His son, 15 years old, tes-
tified that his father twisted a scarf
around the mother's neck and dragged
hier into the woodshed, where she was
found dead. The large family of small
chiidren stayed alone with thelr mur-
dered mother mn the shed for two days,
with nothing to eat but potatoes. The
murdered woman was again about to
become a mother, During a fight in
betroit, Michigan, on the eveuing of
the 2d, Joseph Cogeski and Michael
and Thomas Oblisk: were severely cut
with knives,
—J. H, Avey, one of the vietims of
the railroad accident on the Southern
Railroad, at Greenwood, Kentucky,
dled at his home, 1n Covingt.n, on the
the 3a. His wife is reported tobe in a
critical condition. The other wounded
are said to be doing well.
~—To set al rest all apprehension of
greater fatality than has been reported
at the Cincinnati Southern Railroad
accident at Greenwood, Kentucky, on
the 3ist ult., the officers of that road
have prepared a list of passengers in
the north-bound train, with a statensent
of what became of each one, Those
killed, or who have dled since the acci-
dent, were: Miss Green, J. H. Avery,
Messenger Powell, Baggage Master
Calian, The officials of the ad say
further that if any charred boo +s have
been found they were the Luies of
tramps who might have been stealing a
ride on the trucks, but the crew saw
no one riding there. The only body
burned up was that of Fireman Can-
dee, who was on the engine on the
south-bound train, No passengers
were injured on the south-bound train,
but some of the crew were killed and
some were Injured.
~The rear coach of a passenger
train on the Sauk Centre and Northern
Railroad of Minnesota was thrown
into a ditch near La Prairie, on the
24, by a brokeu rall. Two persons
were injured, one of them, a youug
woman named Mary Weiser, bsing
dangerously if pot fatally burned Ly
failing on the stove,
~George H. Howells, of Louisville,
Kentucky, said on the 34, that the pig
iron market is “booming:’” that fur
naces in the South are running full
blast, and that there is a ready market
for all the product. **Not since the
war,” said he, “bas there been such
prosperous times io the South.”
~The earthquake shock felt in the
City of Mexico on the 2d was percep-
tibly felt throughout Southern Mexico,
and in the city of Ignall was quite se
vere, Some damage to property by
the cracking of walls 1s reported, but
no loss of life.
—A riot between about forty drun-
ken men took place at Alden, about
eight miles from Wilkesbarre, Penna.,
early on the morning of the 3), The
majority of the men, it is sald, were
Poles, who work in the mines about
Nanticoke. Anthony Shinsky, 30 years
old, was left on the roadside in a dying
condition. Eight others were severely
injured, two, it is thought, fatally.
The fight resulted from a christening,
which lasted two days
~A revolt occurred among the white
and colored United States soldiers at
Jeflerson Barracks, Missouri, on the
evening of the 3d, and they had a
battle lasting half an hour, during
which a number were severely injured.
Troopers Livingston, Peterson aud
Krummeknocker, ail white, are in the
hospital in a critical condition. There
trooper, who was pursuing a young
white girl, was arrested by a party of
white troopers, and handed over {0 the
Otlicer of the Day. This appears to
have been tbe cause of the
Desson
2d, and notified him to leave that por-
tion of tHe country or suffer the conse-
quences, The same night, in the same
neighborhood, the wire fence surround.
ing one kundred acres belonging to
Jacob Oaks and William Erath, both
colored, was cut down. The land had
just been paid for and they were fence
ing it in for cultivation. They are, it
is sald, all industrious, hard working-
men,
Two passenger trains on the Mis-
sourl Pacific Railway collided near
Houston, Texas, ou the evening of the
4th. None of the passengers were
killed or injured.
About eleven acres of the leading
mine in Altoona, Penna., are flooded
with water. On the evening of the
30th ult., the miners came to a fault in
the coal vein, and drove the entry
twelve feet through sand and soft
strata, in which was found driftwood.
Suddenly water began to poar through
an opening, and has been falling ever
since at the rate of 10,000 gallons per
hour, The miners all escaped,
-An earthquake of three seconds’
duration was felt on tbe evening of the
3d at 8 o'clock, in Mexcalam, Guerrero,
and one of two seconds on the morn
ing of the 4th, at 8 o’clock, in Tenan-
eingo, in the same State,
-A despatch from Zollarsville,
Penna,, says that several days ago
smoke was discovered issuing from the
ground on the farm of Simon Bane, In
order to ascertaln its ongin a number
of neighbors assisted in making exca-
vations, **When only a few feet down
the ground became 3e hot that the
men had to quit digging.” It was sta-
ted that on the 4th hot pieces of clay
were thrown up and that the smoke
bas become very dense,
~In St. Paul, on the 4th, Ernest
Hoenspel, a workman on the ice pal-
ace, fell from the top of the turret, a
distance of sixty-five feet, and landed
at the bottom in a bed of chopped ice,
He is not expected to recover.
- While men were blasting rock on
the new branch of the Lehigh Valley
Ruliroad, about ten miles from
Wilkesbarre, Penna., on the 5th, a
premature explosion occurred, killing
three men and injuring eight, one dan.
gerously. The killed were: Sechi Fer-
enz, aged 31; George Puranoz, aged
23; S, Calvaizi, aged 50,
— A despatch from Winnipeg says a
collision occurred on the evening of
the 3d, on the Canadian Pacific Rail.
road, at Stewart Station, between two
freight trains. Railroad officials are
reticent, but it is smd that the engi.
peers and firemen of both trains were
killed and others Injured. A Norfolk
and Western allroad freight train ran
mto a rock slide, near Central, Vir.
ginia, on the evening of the 4th, and
was wreeked, The engine disappeared
in the New river, and 25 loaded cars
were demolished. The engiveer and
fireman were killed. A freight train
on the Reading Railroad, having
through orders from West Milton to
Winfield, on the morning of the 5th,
collided with a northbound freight
train near Lewisburg, Doth engines
were thrown from the track and the
southbound cars were wrecked, and
iwo train men were injured. *‘It ap-
pears ihe agent at Winfield bad no
orders Lu stop the northbound freight
and it is impossible at this time to
place the responsibility,’
~~A span in the new Central Via.
duct, In course of construction In
Cleveland, Ohio, fell on the afternoon
of the 6th. It was 90 feel in lengih
and 85 feet above the ground. A large
car, on which there were supplies, was
pushed off the end of the span by acel-
dent, and Io falling it knocked braces
and beams out of place and the span
went also, There were eight workmen
on the span when it fell, H, C Barton
and Daniel H. Opkelman were killed,
Four men were injared.
A despatch from Nogales, Ari-
zona Territory, says: Dr, Eady bought
a 1anch near Durango, which a man
named Baggot also claimed. He was
paying & visit to the place and quar-
relied with Baggot, who killed him.
The murderer went to Durango, where
he was arrested. He was given per-
mission to take care of his horses, and
mounted, firing his revolver, and made
his escape to the mountains. The
that followed had a sharp fight, which
resulted In the killing of one policeman
and the wounding of others. The mur-
derer was captured and will be shot.
The police authorities of Long Branch,
New Jersey, give the following descrip.
tion of “Peta” Downing, the alluged
murderer of Hamilton: He is a colored
man, very black, five feet six joches in
height, weighs about 175 pounds, and
usually wears a thin moustache, black
derby hat, dark blue sack coat without
an overcoat. He had a gear on his
bead exposing the scalp. Thomas Butts.
field, a young farmer of Palmyra, Ne-
braska, was arrested on the 5th, on the
charge of having murdered his father
and mother by poisoning them. The
father died on the evening of the lst,
the mother on the evening of the 3d.
His motive is not known, unless it was
to secure their property. Lie was mar-
ried u few days ago.
~ Eleven tramps entered Charles
Jacob's clothing house and John Mor.
gan’s grocery store in Fiymotithy
Penna., on the evening of the 3d,
stole all the yaluitie foods they could
EE pe Se
under
do gly Te Se
no
=" Kentuck
BRIGLY vaivVe dow Ww pleveal os loss ui
steam, and filled the furnace with pine
knots,
~—Flora Samuels, the mother of a
large family and a dealer in groceries
and jewelry, in Utica, New York, is
missing, She 18 supposed to be in
Canada, She is said to have left debis
amounting to $5000 and is also wanted
for forgery. E. B. Wilbur, a well-
known grain merchant in Buffalo, New
York, left ior Canada on the 2d, hav.
ing, it is reported, defrauded several
Buffalo people out of a large sum of
money. It is said that among the
losers are Triscott & Heathfield,
$4000, and E. 8. McCrea, Freight
Agent of the Grand Trunk road, $13, -
000, Solomon Jacobs, a broker and
photographer, left Providence, Rhode
Island, on the 6th. for New York, to
hunt up $4000 worth of property which
disappeared with his wife and his
clerk, George Morgan Wick, 21 years
old, Among the missing property are
diamonds, valued at $1500, sent to
Jacobs by a Philadelphia firm. The
Postmaster General on the 6th directed
the postmaster at Boston to withhold
payment of money orders and to re.
turn registered mail sent to the New
England Decorative Works, of Boston,
the vroprietors of the same having been
arrested and pleaded guilty to the
charge of using the malls in further-
ance of a scheme to defraud, The
post-office at Millville, Massachusetts,
was “cleaned out” by burglars on the
evening of the 5th,
~The wife of Louls Herbold, a
saloon-keeper, of Hoboken, was found
lying unconscious in the rear of the
saloon on the morning of the 6th. When
she revived she said: “Eugene Schay-
wesker, a former bartender in my hus.
band's employ, entered the saloon and
demanded of me $160, which he said
was due him as buck wages, I told
him to see Mr, Herbold, The next iu-
stant he seized me about the neck with
one band, while with the other he re-
lieved we of my satchel containing a
check for §645, two walches, a breast.
pio studded with diamonds, 510 marks
{Austrian money) and some change
amounting to $5.80." Schavwesker
| was arrested later in the day, He
| posilively denies thal he commitied
Lhe critie and says he can prove an
alibi,
~~ While Herman Gottschalk and
William Boerbel, young men, were ex-
amining their revoivers in a saloon
kept by the former's father m Brook.
lyn, ou the evening of the 5th, Gott.
schalk's revolver accidentally went off
and a bullet entered Boerbel’s brain,
killing him oun the spot, 8, D. Wolf,
aged 20 years, of Lewistown, Pennsyl-
vania, was thrown from a car in the
Peansylvania Railroad yard at Harris-
burg on the 6th, and killed.
~Samuel Bebr, Gged 37 years, a
merchant of Montgomery, Alabama,
committed suicide on the 6th by cutting
his throat. No cause is assignad,
At Onancock, Virginia, on the 5th,
William C. Duer, while out riding
with bis wife and their two children,
cut the woman's throat, killing her
simost instantly, He had been insane
for some time, but was supposed to
have recovered. DBuarglars entered the
res:dence of Mr. Stack, in Comberiand
Mills, Maine, on the evening of the
Sth, and, being discovered, beat Mrs,
Stack so badly that she died on the 6th,
The husband fired five shots at the
burglars, but they escaped, The dead
| woman was B55 years old and her hus.
band 75. The rooms of “Pete” Dowl.
lug, the colored man who is suspected
| of belong the murderer of Robert Hamil-
ton, in Long Branch, New Jersey, was
searched on the 6h. A coat, which
had a number of gray hairs on the col-
lar and sieeves, and a blood-stained
pair of overalls were found.
- Particulars of the collision between
two Cacadian Pacific Railroad freight
trains on a high trestle at Middieion,
Canada, on the mornlog of the 4th,
show that four train men lost their
lives, Ouoe of the engideers, wedged
in under the wreck, was seen to be
alive, and one ef Lis comrades under-
took to remove him Ly grasping his
‘ haud, which was sticking out, but was
horrified by the maa’s fingers breaking,
they having been frozen while he was
in the rus, Xie was rescued in a few
minates, but died in less than an hour,
A fireman was injured by jumping
from his engine when he saw that the
collision was imminent, The damage
to the rolling stock and bridge is esti.
mated at $150,000,
Two freight trains on the Nickel
Plate road collided near Willoughby,
Onio, ear'y on the morning of the 6th,
Fifteen curs were demolished, and one
man was slightly Injured,
i
—
50th CONGRESS,
Congress reassembled on the 44%,
In the Senate Mr. Brown offered =
| asked that leave be granted for the in-
troduction of bills for reference. Con-
sent was given and 802 public bills
and resolutions were introduced under
the call of States, among them nearly
70 bills for the erection of public
buildings in different cities. The
House then adjourned.
In the House, on the 5ih, Mr.
Taylor, of Ohlo, introduced a bill to
restore the duty on lmported wool,
The Bpeaker announced the Standing
Committees. Mr, Mills, of Texas, is
chairman of the Ways and Means Com-
mittee, and Mr Handall, of Penn.
eylvania, chainoan of the Committee
on Appropriations, The House ad-
Journed,
sl A WO
IN THE STEERAGE.
Hardships of the Seekers for Homes
in a New Land.
————
4 geuilieman from the northern part
of Missourl, who was in Omaha, isa
living exemplification of the advanta-
ges which the land of the free and the
Lome of the brave possesses for men of
#M nationalities, A few years ago this
gentlemen landed in this country, one
of a number of tired and wretched im-
migrants. Today he 18 an associate
justice of the county court of a pros-
perous Missouri county, in which he
many friends,
“The scene on the pier previous to
the departure of a vessel is an exciting
one,” said he. *‘It 18 crowded with
emigrants all in a confused and exci-
flock of sheep,
haps English,
The majority are per-
Irish and German,
ted. Each emigrant has a contract
ticket, which, in consigeration of the
transportation to New York, together
with a [ull supply of wholesome pro-
visions, cooked and served by its stew.
ards, The passenger is required to pro
utensils, In my time the weekly al
lowance of food for adults was pre-
scribed by the government and printed
ou the contract Lickel, As I remem-
ber it, it was 21 quarts of water, 1-23
pounds of bread, 1 pound of wheaten
peas, 2 poundsof potatoes, 1 1-4 pounds
of beef, 1 pound of pork, 2
ted, 1 pound of sugar, and salt, pepper,
mustard, vipegar, ete. The steerage
stewards berth the emigrants, and they
examines them for infectious dise:ses
“What is the general
asked the reporter.
“Well,” replied the Missourian,
sider them worthy of respect. Ocea-
who will treat them in a humane, tol-
erating manner, but as a rule they are
worse class, but all are treated alike,
Poles, Germans, English, French, Ital.
ans and people of all countries are
thrown together. A cleanly, thnfty
woman is berthed next to a fGithy one,
and the same with neal
to min le with the dirtiest of vaga-
bonds,
“The steerage is usually cold, dark
and foul smelling. It extends nearly
the entire length of the vessel under the
saloon deck and is cut up into gloomy
apartments. In each of these are four
tiers of berths or bunks, two on each
side. The lower tier is two feet from
the deck and the upper tier is three
feet from the roof. The steerage is
about ten feet in height, in each tier
are probably six berths of eighteen
inches wide and six feet long and made
of boards, These berths generally
emit an unpleasant smell of chlorate of
lime or carbolic acid,
“Officious stewards are moving abont
indulging In a coarse joke here and a
growl at some unfortunate there
Afler the supper, and but few partake
of the first one at sea, the tables are
raised to the roof and the steerage cen-
ter space is clear. Some lamps are then
bghted, but promptly extinguished at
9 o'clock. Three meals are served
every day, and in quality and quantity
they are substantial, For breakfast at
8 o'clock emigrants sit down to do
justice to oatmeal porridge and
molasses, hot bread, coffee and salt
fish, For dinner at 12 perhaps soup or
broth, boiled meats, potatoes and
, For supper at 6, tea and bread
and butter, with molasses. However,
substantial the food may be, the man-
per in which it is served 1s unclean.
Beef and soup are placed on the {able
in rusty looking tins and then a scram.
themselves at cards, checkers and other
games, and alter a time they
fs
i
2
2
2
ill
trip an incident which a saller (oid me
was not an unusual one, Ouse of the
Italians in the steerage had net washed
himself since be had been en board,
and after the storin he refused to leave
his bunk, but elung to it in all its Gith,
On the captain’s order ho was brought
on board and thoroughly cleansed with
ajhose, after which be returned, appar.
ently feeling no better for his clean up,
but 1 am certain the balance of us res.
ted easier,
“When the steamer arrived al quar-
antine a towboat conveys the doclo
on board and he inspects the immi-
grants, If there are no cases of infec.
tions disease the steamer proceeds to
the city, and shortly another steamboat
appears with the boarding officer of the
This official
board and listens to complaints,
**Boon the trees of the Ballery park
come in sigist, the steamer’s pulse cea:
ses, several barges are towed alongside,
and the immigrants with their baggage
are transferred to these, The same
excitement is bere manifest as at the
outset of Lhe voyage. The poor imimi-
grants are b owbealen and driven
about like the same old sheep, and a»
soon as the barges are loaded a small
sleamer takes them in tow apd they
are landed with their load of human
freight at Caslie Garden.”
— a
Qualities of « wri
wilh
Thin corks are usu-
ihe sus
rapmd'y,
The densily of cork varie
quality and age.
volume that have grown mors
i
M. Brisson
gives 0.240 as an average max
and the ordinary density of a ten
mum,
With
extreme lightness are associated othe;
valuable qualities. that of being & poo
and sound; imper-
reason of which it is susceplibie
bottle eorks
which: Is intended to be
form 1s kept in a damp cellar.
used In this
When
workman ute strips, the width of
which correspond with the length of
the future cork. A second workmai
i
size to its diameter, The squares
strung are plunged into bolling wate:
10 make them swell out. They are
then stored in a cool place, and kept in
!
i
by sprinkling, till they pass into the
bands of the cork maker. He applies
iving them a rot-
ge of a wide-bia-
ded knife, drawing them at the same
skilful transforms the
This is the
France,
Workmen in other countries handle the
knife in different manners. It is essen.
manipulation
into a round cork.
to take care that its axis, as it = cut
from the barb, be paralls: with the axis
hand. A good workman can turn ot
in the method described, about ane
tn I
Training for a Carver
A philanthropic old genlieman was
passing along the street, and ween In
front of a five residence hus attention
was attracted by the remarks of a small
boy, about seven years old, who was
playing with another boy on the side.
walk.
“That's a low, mean, sneaking cow
ardly, dirty lie,” the smal boy was
‘aying, “and you're a blangety, desi.
ety, villanous liar! You're a chest, a
pickpocket, a tramp, a defaulter, an
assasin, & vile, contemptible, base de.
praved, dashed, blanked, crawling,
poisonous reptile!”
The kind old gentleman tarned
about dumbfounded, droped his nm.
brella and stared at the youngster in
mute astonishment. Just then a lady
came to the door and he said:
“Madam; is this your boy 9”
“Yes, sir.”
“Well, | consider it my duty two
inform you that hewas just sow using
the most shocking and horrible lang.
vage I ever heard in my life. Why, he
talked worse than an anarchisi¥’
“1s that so?” replied the lady
sweetly, “I'm glad it shocked you--it
shows that Willie is improving. *
“Madam!”’ thundered the old gentle.
man, as he glared over his gr
“ean it be possible that you ave Aware
that your son indulges in sueh lan.
guage?”
“Oh, certainly-—we've been training
him for some time,
“Ave you a heathen?" gasped the old
gentleman as his jaw dropped.
“O, no,” sald the lady as sie
beamed complacently on the astonished
party. **No, we're no heathens we're
Just bringing ourson upto be a New
ork editor. Rip out another edit
rial for the gentleman, Wiilie!”
Oil for Sta, —Sapen