— Frederick G. Bechtel fired at one ‘of four burglars who had entered his JOHNSTOWN. - — i #hoe store, in Scotin, New York, on PANIC DURING A THEATRICAL PER- the morning of the 10th, The burglar FORMANCE { returned the fire, fatally wounding { Bechtel, Everett Thresher, aged 65, ow Eb rasC ; | and his son-in-law, Lavid Washburn, TWELVE PERSONS REPORTED KILLED | prominent farmers, got into a quarrel AND FIFTY INJURED, | with James Fitzpatrick, while passing JONNSTOWN, Pa., Dec. 11.--An | his house, neur Atwood, Illinois, on alarm of fire was sounded to-night at | the evening of the Oth, and Thresher 10.30. It was in Dr. Wakefleld’s | mounted the fence to attack his adver- stable In Kernville. | mary, ne dntler ited Sour shots, gue The Uncle Tom's Cabin Company | of which wounde ashbourne mn the was playing in the Parks Opeia raid { arm, another killing Thresher, It 14 and, when the alarm was sounded, the | said that Thresher attempted to as 8 whole audience of 600 people jumped | Stnate Fitzpatrick last fall, A faction to their feet and made a dash for the | toud 1s feared as the result of tue kil- stairway, and a fearful jam aud crush. | log. © Policeman William Davis was ing was the result, shot and perhaps mortally wounded by When the jam occurred a large | ® burglar on Wabash avenue, Chicago, number of persons, thinking the fire | On the morning ot the 10th. Police. was at the Operas House, tried to get | an B. C. Thomas was wounded in in the theatre, making another jam, the arm while trying to arrest the ag- and it was pecessary for the firemen to | $tilants of Davie, Later in the day turn tbe Lose on the crowd to get them Willlam Sennot was arrested and iden- away from the door. tified as one ot the shooters, The screams were terrible, and it --An expiosion of nitro-glycer ne was shocking to see small children | occurred on the morning of the 10th, knocked down ULy big men and tram- | at the Butler Torpedo Company's mag- pled upon. This theatie has always | azine, two miles from Butler. Penna. been noted as a death trap and was | The disaster took place while cans were condemned twelve years ago, but the | baing put into the wagons at the fac- other one was washed away in the | tory. The greater portion of the fac- food, and this one has been in use. tory buildings were demolished, ana The manager tried to quiet the | the rafters of the magazine fell down crowd, but no use, One man jumped | over the nitro-giycerine stored there, from the third-story window and was | but fortunately that did not explode, seriously hurt, and many more would | James O, Woods and William Medill have jumped but for a few cool heads, | and their wagon and horses were blown It Is reported that the police injured | into fragments, It 1s supposed that several persons in trying to clear the | Woods let fall a can of the explosive jam. All the dead were taken to Hen- | while handing it up to Mai, who derson’s Morgue, was in the wagon. Frank Kalett and All were identifled. John Zozody were crushed to death by Coroner Evans and a jury of six {the fall of a derrick, in Allegheny wen viewed the remains and came to | City, Penna,, on the afternoon of the the decision that the victims came to | 10th. thelr death by being crushed and man- —Thomas L. Savin, bookkeeper for gled in the Parks Opera House, J. E. Dall & Co, , dry goods commission A colored man killed was of Cham- { merchants, ia Baltimore, disappeared bersburg, Pa., aged 19, Stanaker, of | on the 3d, and has not been heard of Mt, Pleasant, was aged 20; Lizzie | since, J. E. Dall declares that Savin Claycomb, aged 19; Clara Burns, aged | has ruined him: that he has forged 19; also, Mrs. Burns, mother of Clara, | checks, destroyed the stubs and other- aged 40, was killed. Isaac Foler, aged | wise obtained money belonging to the 60; George Horner, aged 11; Mrs, Nes- | firm. tes, aged 25; E. Bigler, aged 8. —The Caledonian mine, near Crystal The number of injured bas now Falls, Michigan, was drowned out on swelled Lo 50, and 10 of these are seri- | 1),o on, under peculiar circumstances. ously hurt, Two or three of the latter | The miners ran a shaft under the river, will dle, av and, when a blast was exploded, the Postmaster Bawner, Policeman Dec- | water burst through and filled the ker, Stearn, Harris and others acted | mine The miners barely escaped with nobly in rescuing the injured. Women their lives. and men alike were mad, and thers —Adolph Tieman, a bricklayer, fell Was fighting on Main street while from a moving train in Cincinnati. on these inside were being killed. the 10th, and was killed by engine No. Several persons are missing, all Ja- | 217, drawing a freight train. About dies, bat, owing to the confusion, | two years ago his son, Edward Tieman, thelr names cannot be ascertained.’ yu. killed at the same place by the Had not the hose been turned on at same engine, A large fly wheel in the proper time it is hard to tell what Bailey & Co's. iron works, at Harris- would have been the result, burg, on the evening of the 10th, dam- I'he house is a small three-story aging the building and injuring ten or brick building, fronting on Main twelve men, none, however, mortally, street, and, like the South Fork reser- | The post-office In Salisbury, Missouri, voir, has always been considered un- was badly wrecked by an explosion on safe, and while the new one was in {pe morning of the 10th, It is not operation it was little used, and had | known whether the explosion was but a small exit from the second-story caused by a keg of powder In the gro- by a narrow pair of stairs to the street, cery store of J. F. Fidler, adjoining and bad no fire escapes at all. the post-office, or whether it was the NEWS OF © work of burglars, but the latter theory 2 THE WEEK, has the most advocates, ————— —Caplains of vessels arriving at ~James Gilson, aged 23 years, was | New York from the south report “an shot and killed by Mark Cheebo in| excesdingly large number of floating Rome, New York, on the morning of | wrecks” in the path of vessels bound the 9th; Gilson was somewhat intoxi- | north and south. and at the Hydro- cated and made a disturbance near graphic Office it is said that, unless Cheebo’s house, He was ordered | something 1s done to clear the seas of away but refused to go. Cheebo then i such dangers, a marme catastrophe raised a window and fired. Bridget | wilt surely result. A telegram from Byrne, aged 70 years, living alone in a | Sacramento, California, says that re. little cottage in Cincinnati, was mur- i ports from the north show that much dered on the evening of the 8th. It | damage has been done by the water Was known that she had invested in | rising in the Sacramento river and the bonds and Kept them in the house. | tributaries. The levee below Colusa John Smith, who lived in a house in | broke on the morning of the 11th front of Mrs, Byrues coitage, was ar- | flooding thousands of acres of land. rested as the murderer. Mrs, Byrnes, | Men are patrolling the levees, watching before dying, said that he was her as- | for danger, A number of small sailant, Lizzie Jacobs, aged 15 years, | bridges have been washed away. living in Cticago, went walking with —A collision occured between two John Urssell and Paul Stockhart on freight trains on the Northern Central the evening of the Sth. Her brother Railrond at Emigsville, Penna., on the John, aged 19 years, ordered her to go evening of the 10th, by which two home, and a scuflle ensued between the | engines and twenty-six cars were de- boys. Jacobs was pushed against the molished, causing a Joss to the company fence violently, aud bad his neck of about $100,000. Two trammmen broken. were killed and several injured; of the ~ Peter Clausen, 34 years of age, an | latter, W, P, Cole, fireman, died on the employe of the Northesn New York | afternoon of the 11th. The body of Eleectric Light Company; was killled | Jacob Lightner, engineer, who was on the aflernoon of the 9th while re- | buried under the wreck, has been re- pairing a wire on top of « pole at the | covered, Frederick Wills and Curtis corner of Third avenue and Fifty- | Woodmansee, painters, fell from the sixth street, New York city. Like | third story window of a building In Feeks, who was killed several weeks | Birmingham, Alabams, on the 11h, ago, Clausen fell across tue wires after | and were killed. receiving the fatal shock, and portions ~J, Lew Hallet and Robert Thiel. of his body were fired by the electric | man had a fight at Fort Pierre, South current. After some time the body | Dakota, on the 10th, over the owner- was t:ken down. ship of the Fort Pierre Herald. Hal- ~The Chieago Limited Express be- | let hit Thielman over the bead with a tween Ciocinpati and Chieago, on the | club, inflicting injuries which it is fear- Louisville, New Albany and Chicago | ed will prove fatal, Some unknown Railroad was wrecked near Frankfort, | assassins shot and killed C, T. Pulsifer Indiana, on the Sih. Baggage Master | while le was going home from his office, Warren and Mrs, Wulder, a passenger, | in Crowell, Nebraska, on the evening were injured. of the 10th. John Daley, the lunatic, ~A despatch from Scottdale, Penna, , | Who stabbed and killed Joseph C. Ken- says that ex-Hepresentative Callaghan | Pedy, an aged and respected citizen, In has again sworn out warrants charging Washington, D. C,, in July, 1887, com- TY. Powderly and two local members mitted suicide on the 11th in St. Eliza~ of the Knights of Labor with conspir. | Deth’s Hospital where he bas been con- ing to defeat him at the recent electiop, | fined tince the homicide, ~The United States Grand Jury at| =A telegram from Kosinsko, Mis. Richmond, Va., on the 9th, indicted | #18sippi, says that burglars robbed the William L. Jordon, a clerk in the |®afesof J. W. Carter and J. D. Lee, Manchester Post-office, for stealing and | 08 the evening of the 10th, The sum destroying letters, and J. IL, Lindley | taken was between $22,000 and $23. for stealing money from the Money- | 900. ordet office at Belflold. Prescot -A te rom Ari Zona, says heaviest rain storm ever known In that section has just ended. The fall for five days was 4.76 inches, =n the evening of the 8th a seal was captured on the beach at Lon Branch, New Jersey, near the wrec of the bark Germanin. The seal had been shot and died on the morning of the Oth, ~The remains found in the burned Ames building, in Boston, on the 8th Were on the Oth, identified as those of D. F. Buckley, one of the missing fire- men. Co — eholera Is reported to be I iy as pet Kansar, | Tn ~Robert ¥. Dawson, a Detroit lum- berman followed his wife and her 80m, George F. Usman, to Chicago and hag them arrested on the 11th on the charge that they had made two attempts to murder him. Mr, Dawsop says that his wife had persuaded him to transfer All his property to her, and, having yielded, she was anxious to get rid of Lim, ~A destructive storm passed over J Penna, on the morning of the 11th. Some houses were blown down, and others were Worn Jor ub 7 ho. at. ati canoes were | up by roo! carried long distances, The loss Is estimated at $10,000, James Soaveley's four story stove mill, at Lexington, Lancaster | connty, Penna, , on the 11th Srom | the weight of grain on the upper wind and rain | --A thrilling accident occurred to] the Canadian Pacific through express train in the mountaing along the Co- lumbia river on the 7th **A rail gave wuy at a point on the mountain side, high above the river, The engine pas- sed over safely, but ihe two coaches following swung about and toppled over, The bank was nearly perpeundic- ular, and the cars would have tumbled severnl hundred feet below into the flowing river had it not been that the coupling twisted around and held the tremendous weight, Theres were the two cars, one with its load of pussen- gers, suspended between heaven and earth, The weight of the engine and the balance of the train prevented the suspended cars from drawing the whole train down. The suspense was dread- ful. The frightened passengers were compelled to remain in thelr perilous position until the train bands built a platform around and underneath the hanging cars, enabling all to make their escape. The place where the accident oocurred 1s considered the most dangerous point on the moun- tains.” ~It is stated that 280 families in Morton county, Kansas, are in desti~ tute circumstances, and that unless immediate aid is given many of them will die from want ef food and cloth- ing. -The body of Conductor Charles W. Little, one of the victims of the freight wreck on the Northern Central Rail road at Ewingsville, on the morning of the 10th, was found on the morning of the 12th, in the debris. He had been smothered to death. This makes three men killed and two dangerously in- jured. The coroner’s inquest on the 12th resulted in placing the blame for the disaster on Little, be having dis- obeyed the rules of the road. -The elbow of a steum pipe In the new Northwestern Depot, in Milwau- kee, Wisconsin, was blown out on the evening of the 11th, and four men were | scalded, Herman Boetcher, it is feared, fatally, ~While Sheriff Watson and Deputy Sheriff White, of Mercer county, West Virginia, were at the depot in Wheel- ing, on the evening of the 11th. wait ing to take a train, a thief stole aj satchel which was in Watson's care, | The walise is sald to have contained | 5000 in negotiable paper. Barglars eutered the office of C, A, Whyland & | Co., commission merchants in Chicago, on the evening of the 11th, and took from the safe about $5000 worth of securities most of them negotiable. ~Thomas Folllard was shot and killed in Avoca, Wisconsin, on the 12th, by Lyman De Witt. The shooting was the result of anold feud. Wm. Neil shot and fatally wounded Fletcher Centry, In Norborne, Missourl, on the evening of the 1ith, A feud had ex- isted between the two men for some time, - 61st CONGRESS.-~First Session, BEENATE. in the U. ». Senate, on the 10th. Mr. Morrill, from the Finance Come mities, reported adversely the bill to provide for the orgarization of national banks with less cupital than $50,000, and it was indefinitely postponed, Among the bills introduced wis one by Mr. Chandler, to swend the Federal election laws, and one by Mr. Gray, “for the relief of junior officers of the navy.” Mr, Turple spe advocacy of his anti-Trusta resolution. At the close of his remarks, a bil was intr duced by Mr, Evarts for the holding of | a world’s fair in New York, and it was | read a first and second time. After an | executive session the Sonate adiwourned, | £ £ $ * -10 Lie United States Senate, the 11th Mr. Hale, from the Commit | tee on Naval Affaire, reported back | several bills, among them one to pice | mote the efficiency of the enlisted force of the navy, and another for Lhe relief of the sufferers by the wreek of the United States steamers Trenton and Vandalia and the stranding of the Nipsic, at Samea. Mr, Call introduc ed a joint resolution i1equesting {Le President to negotiate with Spain for the establishment of an Independent Republic in Cuba, upon the payment by the island of the money value of public property therein owned by Spain. Mr, Ingalls introduced a Ser. vice and Disability Pension bill, After participating in the ceremonies of the Washingtor Centenary the Senate ad- journed, In the U. E, Senate, on the 12th, bills were introduced by Mr, Sherman, to revive the grade of Lieutenant Gey. O the emigration of colored paople from the South; Mr, Gorman, for a World's Fair in Washington in 1802, ana Mr Stewait, for the free coinage of gold and silver and the issue of coln certifi. cates to circulate as money. A reso lution was adopted for the appointment of a select committee of fifteen, to be called the Quadro Centennial, Mr. Dolph offered a resolution, which was referred, looking to the erection In Washiogton of a memorial hall, “at which shall be received and retained such statues and portra’ts of pnblic men and eminent citizens of the United States, and such historical paintings and other works of art, as may bs pro- vided by law.” After an executive session the Senate adjourned, HOUSE, In the House, on the 11th no busi. ness was fransacted, owing to the cen tennial exercises. In the House, on the 12th, Mr, Butterworth, of Olio, offered & resc- lution for the appointment of a speeial commities of five to investigate the alledged ballot box contract forgery whieh figured so conspicuously in the Ohio election campaign. The resolu tion was agreed to without a division. Mr. Brower, of North Carolina, ine troduced a bill, which was referred to the Ways and Means Committee re. pealing the tax on tobacco. Mr. Dail. zall, of Ivania, introduced joint resolution for the appointment of General A. IL. Pearson ns Manuger of the Soldiers’ Home, to fill Lhe vacancy caused by Ganeral Hartraoft's death, The death of E. J. Gay, of the Third Louisiana D! announced, and Ingin Summer, Jest about the time when fall Gits toratlin’ in the trees, An’ the man thet knows it all ‘Spicions frost in every breeze, When a person tells hisse'f Thet the leaves look mighty thin. Then thar blows a meller breat! Ingln summer's hyere agin, Kind ul smoky lookin’ blues Spins acrost the wountain sides An’ the heavy mornin’ dews Greons the grass up fur an’ wide Natur'raly ‘pears ez ef She waz layin' off a day — Sort. uh drorin’ in her Lieaf "Fore she freezes up to stay. Nary lick o* work I strike ‘Long about this time of year! I'm a sort-uh slowly like, Right when Ingin summer's here, Wife an’ boys kin do the work, But a man with natehel wit, Like I got, kin ‘ford to shirk Elhe hes a turn for it. Time when grapes set in to ripe, All T ast off any man Is a common co'n-cob pipe With terbacker to my han’, Then jest loose me whir the alr Simmers 'croal me, wahm An’ free l- Promised lands ull find me thar; Wings ull fahly sprout on me! 'm a-loungin round on thrones, Bossin' worlds fom shore to shore When 1 stretch my marrer bones Jest outside the cabin door! An’ the sunshine seepin’ down On my old head, bald and gray, Pears right like the gilted crown I expect to w'ar some day ~Bva Wilder McGlasson., She was a young mulatto girl “hired out” to Mra. John Hanson, maid of all work—but maid of no work would have been a far term. | Bhe was full of fun from morning till | She worked as if it was a grand to “catch and her irate as more suitable night. joke, and she stopped 8 breath’ fifty timq« mistress found her floatin river, picking dandelion’s fi in the back porch 5B day, g chips in the the big dog, Dusy, racing with Bruno or little or on the long bench half asleep, Somebody her but sl was Pino ly scolding Her 4 y answered to name evorvtl left thattea-kettle on Didn't 1 tell $y MET, A0 I'se awful sorry. by the fen “You're a bad girl, Cone,” Hanson 1d" “Couldn't help it no bh said hus father done broke | I wanted to hear about it ised a littl wekled Here Susy, I'm thi 303 mae 8 ne and is put off ber for i Was fo do the set for her to do. Hanson's yallar gal known throughout the little river town-—a place which stood on the banks of the | Ohio river, of streets, : Front and Second running parallel with : the river, and then went up hill until it ended in farms on a mountain slope, with fields laid out like a chocker-board | sides of the hills, Doonville, % a school, and two churches, and it was the county seat, Hanson's lived in *“the front,” that is closes to the river bank, and “Hanson's Yallar Gal” was known to all the boat. men who passed up and down the river, It had been raining in the way pecul- iar to this part of the country, for three | days, driving across the open fields in | sheets of water, and the down pour was unceasing. The opposite bank of the river was lost to view, and no human being who could stay in doors ventured | out, The chickens were shut up in the | hen house, and the cows were in the | barn, Cone wandered about the house with little Suay at her side, seeking amuse. ! ment, and even she found it dall. At length she held Susy up to the front window, and told her to count the logs floating by on the foaming river. She | watched and helped Susy to count them for a fow minutes, and then with a sud. den exclamation put her down, and rushed off into the next room. “Laws Mrs, Hanson, the river dona rise fearful,” she exclaimed, ‘‘you'se must look after them their chickens, or they'll all go.” Mrs. Hanson started up and hurried to the window, "There was no doubt about it, the river was rising steadily rapidly, and remorselossly as it always does, creeping on and. on, carrying de- struction in its path. . The house stood high, it had been “ander water” before, as what house on the front street of the river towns has not, but Mr, Hanson was away, and all were not so fortunate as to situa. tion, The little shanties close down by tho river brink would soon float, at the rato the river was rising. the 4 was + boasted two on the boasted store, 8 Already waves were lapping apeinst the chicken house, and the hens set up a peculiar startled ory. This was too much for Pine ( Jone, off came her shoes and stocking'’s, and before Mra, Hanson could stop her she was out in the rain, and trying to reach | the door of the shed. Bhe succeeded with some difficulty, and the frighten- ed fowls rushed out, and some of them fluttered directly into the water n- stead of away from it, and were floated down with the rughicy whirling waters, As Cone glanced up the stream her countenance changed. She rushed back into the house and tore upstairs, “Mrs, Hanson,” she said in a tone of great ex- citement, ‘‘take Susy and go to the branches again, but even then she did not sink. Hauson still clung to the end, and must be saved With remaining strength she had at the long rope, he made ons struggle and wae saved. Cone opened her eyes to sunshine, and the was within her sight. If woeks later, and she lay wenk es which had been draw she turned her even wonderingly from the window to the bent ov ait near the window, hier ho r with eyes fall of gratitude ‘Has the water gone?” she asked. “The flood is over, but we thought face of her mistress w attic. The lower town’s afloat, and I'm going fishing. Where's the clothes | line?” { “Cone! Cone! stay here,” shouted | Mrs. Hanson, but her calls were all in vain, Not daring to wait, she snatched | her child and went up into the attic, and from the front window viewed with | growing horror in her face, the swol- i len rushing river, which was bearing | away upon ity tossing breast trees and roots, animals and furniture, farming | tools and sheds, chicken Coops and | 3 fences, in one mass of whirling ruin, ; Out into the storm, and down toward : i bearing the great roll of rope. There : g was a large tree which from the shelv- It had been washed by many floods and | although its drooping branches almost | firm in the bank. Into this Cone : and cat on to the branches Over the elimbied eat, that leaned | river. She tied a slip knot the end of her rope, and let it over the water, the attic < id Gown up 10 waved her hand Then she looked low and ated by and o beautiful lambs which i bor bleat« d were swept away. What was ths an hanas { $2800 8 that came lifting up hn r help, A woman! Cone AE hand it fell short, and the far ot the Tr her rog utched hat rang out from the never We {i the i above rash of Man was Cone's Others It was very solemn fish- Faia faltered. might como, A ol horses strugeling with the ing now, stream, fled 2 her into the mist, turned her attention It grew more and more ute, to and river, iy $i of or min and he strong oC tree waved fro, me ceased fo lone at first, in the realized “1 “a her to her whole sot was centered 3 - riven ao, hae it that this was bad been sent into the do. She thought several times as she swayed to and fro and threw out her rope, that it might be she all that jut Cone was spry as a cat, Her habit's of chmbing and clinging served her a good purpose now. Three times the rope was thrown wide and a human being with a ery of gratitude was drawn to a place of safety. They went to the house if they could walk, or sunk down when they were to recover strength. Cone did not even turn her head, and was, deaf to all entreaties to time, Presently she saw a boat upside down with a man elinging to it. She It had left the spot she knew who elung to it now, With one terrified glance toward the window where the wife waited, she made ready her rope. She leaned out on the top most bough and as she flung, called out. “Take hold Massa Hanson, and let go the boat.” He caught the rope, but held to the of the one, but the two with the rosh- moment she was in the water, Blie never lost the rope however, and Hanson elinging to the end of it, let go the bont. Together they struggled while the watchers from the shore, whom Cone hall rescued called out to tint they conld do. They thought and feared there was but little chance for her. She secmed swayed by the wild rush of the waters, and to be losing courage, Presently, however, she caught with one hand to & point in the rope beyond her then another und an- other, until like a sailor, hand over hand she climbed the rope up to where the ehinging branches of the tres leaned over the water. Already the roots were being undermined, and the great tree which had stood so many floods was tottering. Cene climbed in among the should lose you with it Cone,” said A Hanson, “Are they all safc?” again. “Yes, and only waiting for you to be well enough, that they 1a thank yi ORE asked a. “I am going down with the river,” she said softly, and closed her eyes to « pen them no more on earth. “Exhaustion from exposure, the doe. tor's explained-—but those whom bad saved said “the angels took her.” -——- she Susperstitions on ‘Change I do not believe that there wat frees of super world absolutely Ifa pigeon should fly into the hall it cannot and men here aver that the market will not go down until 11 is ore? ¢ ze shot, dnd ue unfort ordered. © in the market us ng In the There are fifty men in the body will neither boy 1 olhers that avoid number thirtee: bird aver that a f follows spontan nate al once is 3 { vunin 3x eas or wr sell ou Friday, Car or Invoice as theywonid a pestiles $ good luck against you, bu osely rub agai bad luck if you pur ’ him, Pick up a handful of wheat and : count the grains; if an even number 3 Ye 3 un ie A w | § odd y yl Wii permit a man to nife, but rathe; { will have good luc Ne present you with bim a nickel for man and call him by the wrong the market will go aga'nst These are a few of the petly supersti- ions perinit to : » them, on the day. a i ha OF ye which men worry Another Won derful Dog. A man in Chicago who drives a pret. wagon around town has a curiosity and patent advertbement in the shape of a yellow dog. This dog is | & sort a Scotch terrier, and Le wonderful because he does not, sit Seat with the driver, like ordinary dogs, but nps or up toward his sl feet on the horse's through the street in] A - . LAL #0 Lak # [61 1 the horse's back, wulders, and with collar, as though perfectly position. The horse trots along with a lumbering gait which must be most uncomfortable to his can but the doz} 5 his “‘seal.’” sometimes on thee seddon he fnr he jar Te- » % Ges he it home 18 sirange ine passenger, feet, sometimes on and four, He seem to like appears to enjoy the wondering aud amused him in Lis great feat The driver appears unconscions of sensation his pet is making, i same he enjoys it as much does, two, it, 100, and glances of pe ople “ for the first but all 1 £ fh Window Cleaning as a Trads A novel enterprize in New York is an establishment which makes a business of cleaning windows, Although public attention has only recently been attrac! ed to it, the company was last February, and has already estab lished a fairly paying Gade. The cleaners ‘ll wear uniforms, which con. sist of a blue suit, and a peak-cap with a shield, on which is the company’s name. They all carry ladders, which are painted red and white. At the top, where the ladder tapers to a poirt, there isa square block of rubber, so . that when the ladder is placed agains | a widow, on account of the size of ihe blocks and the elasticity of the rubber, | the pressure is not greal enouzh to break the glass, the rubber alsh pre | venting the ladder from scratching ihe | pane, i Orga iyed The company charges according to the sige of the window; for wusling an ordinary-sized window it charges $1a | month, Each employee cleans from 100 | to 150 windows a day. i The Touch of Nature. { Rev. D. L. Moody was speaking of | equipment for religious work when he | made the appended remark, but doesn t | the principle involved apply, some de- groes at least, to agricultural students of land-grant “universities,” where Held labor is ignored il not despised, and to experiment-station professors wiv, like | Dundreary, “never saw the country, spon honor?” “Boys who begit at «iv. teen and spend their lives $l] twenty. four in preparatory school, college and theological seminary, know no mors of human nature than if they had dropped ont of the moon. They are a good deal like the minister of whom lis old Scotch parishioneer said that he was ine visible six days in the woek and incom. prehensible on the seventh. There is such » thing as being educated away experience, : tant and
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