m— FRED. KURTZ, Eprror and Pro’ Centre Hawn, Pa. Tuvues, Jan. 26, 1888. vance. Those in arrears subject to previous erms., Advertisements 20 cents per line for 3 inser tions, and 5 cents for each subsequent insertion, That there should be a coal famine in a mining town issingular. The 1500 in seriously threatened by a coal famine. The Reading's Mount Franklin colliery, which is the only one at, that place, is without coal and the employes on a strike. There seems to be no way out of place at which they can receive coal is Shamokin, 5 miles, and the people, who are now eking out a scanty living, could not afford the heavy expense. A nese M. De Lessepz and his caoal have re- posal to issue lottery loans to obtain funds to carry on the work at Panama, was wade public, and the opinion at the time seemed to be that the Government would permittheir issue. The Ministers discussed the matter at their Council yesterday, and unanimously refused the application. The prospects for obtaining the francs, A NEW WAY TO PURIFY WATER. Probably one of the mostusefuol aod bas just been perfected and put to prac- tical use by Professor Hugo Blanck and R. W. Smith, of Pittsburg. A method of ing of electrical currents through, it has been subjected to the severest tests, the results leaving no doubt whatever as to the effectiveness of the invention. The passage of the electric current through the water kills all germs of dis- ease that it may contain, also leaving it clear of any impure substances. The ex- periments were made with water taken from the Monongahela River in the vi- cinity of the sewer escapes. After being electrified only the purest water flowed from the specially constructed tank. Ap- plications for patents bave been made, et elie tps THE AUSTRA PROPOSED TO BE ESTABLISHED, A bill to establish the Australian sys- tem of voting was introduced in the As- sembly at Albany. It provides that al ballots shall be printed at pablicexpense and that the voter shall retire to a pri- vate compartment and there mark with an X the names of candidates for whom he proposes to vote. Those unable to read may be sided by an inspector of election. The voter is forbidden to show the contents of his ballot or state for whom he voted. No “pedling” of ballots is permitted and except two challengers for each party no person but election officers and voters, in turn, are allowed withio 100 feet of the polling place. A second bill contains this latter provision only. The general bill is a long and els- i i BILL NYE TAKES A HAND. — The Shakespeare-Bacon Puzele Wrestle@' with Consclentiously—Why Bill Favors | the Claims of Bill Shakespearo~Xis Handwriting skillfully Touched Upom— | Its Likeness to Horace Greeley's-Dif- i ference Between Shakespeare and Has | oon-—-A Kind Lift for the Yeomanry. | RUSTING that it will | not in any way im- | pair the sale of Mr, | Donnelly's book, I | desire, says Bill Nye | in the New York World, to oftor here a few words in favor of the theory that William Shakespeare wrote his own works and thought his own thinks. The time has fully wrrived when we Humorist's ought to stand by each other. 1 do not undertake to stand up for the personal character of Shakespeare, but 1 say that he wrote good pieces and 1 don't care who knows it. It is doubtless true that at the age of eighteen he married a woman eight years his senior, and that children began to cluster about their hearthstone in & way that would have made aman in a New York flat commit suicide. Three little children within fourteen months, including twins, came to the humble home of the great Bard and he began to go out and climb upon the haymow to do his writ- ing. Sometimes he would stay away from home for two or three weeks at a time, he entered the house some one would tell him that he was again Yet William Shakespeare knew all the time that he was a great man, and that some day he would write pieces to speak. He left Stratford at the age of twenty-one and went to London, where he attracted very little attention, for he belonged to the yeo- manry, being a kind of dramatic Horace Greeley both in the matter of clothes and penmanship, Thus it would seem that while Sir Francis Bacon was attending a business college and getting himself famil- lar with the whole arn movement, so as to be able to write a free, cryptogamous hand, the hair off his head, while ever and anon bring out his writing materials sounet on an empty stomach Prior to leaving Stratford he is said to have dabbled in the poaching business in a | humble way on the estates of Sir Thomas | he wrote the following et in a free, running hand, and planed it on the knight's gate: encominm or od Your venison Juicy is your venison; Hence | appeond my Ie The rose is red, the violet s blue, The keeper's a chutp snd $0 are you, Which is why 1 remark and my language is piakin Yours truly, Son, High Low Jack And the Game, Let me now once more refer to the matter of the signature. Much has been said of Mr. Shakespeare's coarse, irregular and vulgar penmanship, which, it is claimed, shows the ignorance of its owner, and hence his inability to write immortal plays. Let us | compare the signature of Shakespeare with | that of Mr. Greeley, and we notice & won- | derful similarity. There is the same weird | effort in both cases to out-cryptogam Old | Cryptogamous himself, and enshrine im- | mortal thought and heaven-born genius in | § would fear confusion presiaential vote from its many novel Governor Hill would sigh itif it passed, HOW THE WAR SCARE AFFECTS GERMANY. i § ! i 3 § the coming spring as was never withess- ed before. Ivformation to this effect i i i are so circumstanced that they can possi- bly get away from the contry will do so The men, young and middie-agad, drill- i 3 shot at any more than the inhabitants of less warlike nations would, and the most strenuous efforts are being made by the Government to discourage and prevent Difficuities are thrown in the way of dis. posing of landed or other property, the lists of peisons liable to military service are kept with the most scrupnions exacts ness, the frontier towns and seaports swarm with spies snd detectives, and one steamship line, at least, has been refused permission to add extra vessels to ita service. A SAA DON'T inant hog Do may gon te a feht ~ t it may ron in catarrh. Or int Poa Or into consumption, a Cutarth 1s. dingo angerons, Consum The breathing must be healthy and clear of all abstractions, and offensive matter, Otherwise there trouble ahead All the diseases of these parts, head, 2, Throdt Be mobinl Toles aan ae, Pneumonia in ia death itself. kept | and & chirography that reminds the careful | student of the general direction taken in re- turning to Round Koob, N. C., by a corre spondent who visited the home of a moon- | shiner with a view toward ascertaining the | general tendency of home-brewed whisky to fiy to the head. If we judge Shakespeare by his signature, | not one of us will be safe. Death will wipe out our fame with a wet sponge: John Han. cock in one hundred years from now will be regarded ss the author of the Declaration of Independence, and Compendium Gaskell | as the author of the New York Tribune, 1 have every reason to believe that while William Shakespeare was going about the streets of London, poor but brainy, erratic | but smart, baid-headed but filled with a | nameless yearning to write a play with real | water and a topical song in it, Francis Bacon was practicing on his signature, getting used to the full arm movement, spoiling | sheet after sheet of paper, trying to make 5 | violet swan on a red woven wire mattress | of shaded loops without taking his pen off the paper and running the rebus column of | & business college paper. Poets are born, not made, and many of them are born with odd and even disagree. | able characteristics. Some men are born poets, while it is true that some acquire poetry while others have poetry thrust up on them. Poetry is like the faculty, if I | untarily move the ears. Itis a gift. Itean | Bo Bhakespeare, with all his poor penman- | ship, with his proneness to poach, with his : with Shakespeare. Hs was one of the yeo- men of Stratford, and his early record was against him, but where do poets usually come fromi Do they first breathe in the immortal sentiments which, in after years, enable their names to defy the front teeth of oblivion while stopping at one of our lead ing hotels? Did Burns soak his system with the flavor and the fragrance of the Scotch heather while riding on an elevated train! Did any poet ever succeed in getting up close to nature's great North American heart by studying her habits at a twenty five-dollar german! I trow not. Moreover, every one who studies the history of our groat poots and orators will trow likewise. lord Ten- nyson wrote better things before he tried to divide his attention between writing poetry and being a Lord. Bo I say that from our yeomanry irequently spring the boys whose rare old rural memories float in upon and chasten and refine their after lives even when fame comes, and fills them full of themselves and swells their aching heads as they swoop gayly across the coun- try in a special car, Ido not go us far as some of the friends of Bhakespeare, and say that while he was a lovely character and a great actor, that Bacon was a ham. I do not say that, for Bacon had his good points, The thing that has dong more to injure Shakespeare in the eyes of the historian than aught else, perhaps, was his seeming neglect of his wife. But we snould consid- or both sides of the question before wo pass judgment. The Hathoways were queer people and Anne was unusually so. Her father snubbed her in his will just as her husband did, which shows that Mrs Shakespeare was not highly esteemed even by her parents. The brief notice which Anne received in these two wills means a good desl, for there is nothing quite so thor- oughly unanswerable as a probate snub. Shakespeare in his own will gave to his wife his second-best bed, and that was ail When we remember that it was a bed that sagged in the middle, and that it operated by means of a bedecord which had to be tightened and tuned up twice a week and that the suger-holes in the bodstead seemed ever to mutely appes! for more powder from Persia's great powder magazine, we will be forced to admit that William did not passionately love his wife. 1 know that Shakespeare has been se- verely criticised by the press for leaving his family at Stratford while he himself lived in London, only visiting bome oces- sionally, but 1 ain convinced that he found Friends of the employment bu- Beveral offices were in fact com- ¢ other in the afternoon Shakespeare was a perfect gentleman, having been made so by the Herald's Col lege, which invested his father with cont armor. This coat armor made a gentleman of the elder Bhakespeare, and as William's axle, Willinmm bocame one also, both on his father's and on his mother's side. Of course IR PRANCIS BACON'S FLIRTATION. all this is mere dotall and is dull and unin. teresting, but I refer to it to show thal those things in Shakespeare's like and who, there. fore, say that he was no gentleman, do the great Bard an injustice Ithink I like Shakespeare's expurguated poems best, and 1 often wish that be had confined himself entirely to that kind. 111 had a son who seemed to lean towards poesy and felt like twanging his lyre now sad Ido not say that Shakespearo was the look well in me 10 set up my opinion in op to that of scholars, exports savants who have had more ad. vantages than I have, for | would never take advantage of any ome; sent over to England that will show an ap It will be noticed by the alert and keon- SHAKESPEARE REACHES LONDON, poverty and his neglect of his wife and his children, could write a play wherein the leading man and the man who plays the bass drum in the orchestra did not clsim to have made the principal part, Shakespeare did not wand his plays pab- lished. He wanted to keep them out of the pross iu order to prevent their use at spell ing schools in the hands of uaskillod artists, and so there was a long period of time dur ing which the papers could not get hold of them for publication. this time Francis Bacon was in Is it likely that Bacon, breathing the fumed sir of the « ucking the and chucking the the vr and y's cipher. Being rather a poor mathoma. tician anyway, 1 will not introduce the cipher at this time, bot I will say that al though the whole thing happensd shout three hundred years ago, and has now near. ly passed out of my mind, 10 the bost of my recollection Shakespeare, though he was the son of a buckwheater, and though he married his wife with a poetic leense, apd though he left his family at Stratford rather than take them to live in a London fiat, wrote the most of his plays with the assist. ance of an expurgator who was out of the city most all of the tima, £ Hk i : FE aid i fi A SAN EO AT SAY ASA. a Ao A Merry New Year !! Old Fathnr Time, like the Harvester, annually gathers in the crop and 1887 like its predecessors has been stored away for reference only. 1888, in its gay and youthful attire is upon us, and with it brings new resolutions, inspiration and vigor. 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