A - TOE MORE DEVASTATION IN THE WEST AND NORTHWEST. LOSS OF LIFE REPORTED. CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 8.—A evelope struck Norwalk, Ohio, about 5 o'clock this afternoon. The storm came from the northwest, and swept a track about half a mile wide, from the eastern limits of the city and a long distance in the country, The umbrella factory of Fprague & French was in the path of the cyclone. A part of the building in which tairty young women were employed was crushed like an egg shell, Many of the girls escaped, but others wers caught in the falling building. Dora Palmer, aged 19, had Ler skull crushed and died. Nellie Harding was seriously injured about the head. Miss Brush had her collar-bone broken and was otherwise injured. Several other girls whose names are not given received injuries. Barns belonging to Colonel Sprague, M. Humes, John Copsey, John Myers, (). Charles Rarer, Dr. L. A. Severcool, William Perrin, D. C. Wick and John Parker were blown down and other small buildings were wrecked. Trees were uprooted and fences torn down in all directions. The force of the wind was unprecedented In that tection. At 7 o'clock this evening another terrific storm visited the city, the wind blowing a gale and bail stones as big as hickory nuts falling, smashing win- dows and Damage by the around Norfolk. CLEVELAND, Ohio, April to-night, flooding cellars of business four feet, i | tomes before morning, A tornado passed north and south buildings, fences and windmills. miles south, were blown down, Mount CLEMENS, Mich., April 8, — Mrs. Fred Everlein, of Frazer, instantly killed by accompanied the cyclone which passed this neighborhood this morning. RopenrTts, Ils, April 8.—A tre- mmendous hail storm reached here at 7-30 P. M. Great slugs of ice fell, The over Some of the sings measured 7 inches in circumference, weighed 7 ounces PROPHETSTOWN, Ills. April 8.—An Associated Press correspondent has driven over the track storm at this place. He iinds that for half a mie in width and a mile in jength some damage has been done, Three houses, barns have been wrecked, but there is no loss of life. The storm struck the town from the southwest at 7 o'clock last evening, and to 8} and some located just north of Sharon. down & mile or 80 of timber land snd fences the swirling monster jumped foto its work anew at the farm of Christian Wall, east of centre. The large bank barn was torn lute little pieces, which were strewn along over a mile, The large two-story house of Reas- ouable Wall was blown off its founda tion and tipped over on its side, and a house and barn near by demolished, The bank barn of Matthew Bromley, just across the road was given a whirl, Mr. Bromley was caught up and de- posited several rods away, badly crushed under the timbers, He was unconscious to-day and cannot recover, His son landed on the contents of the hay mow. The house of Frank Brom- ley, a quarter of a mile further on, was biown several rods from its foundation, and, taking fire, burned up with its contents, The family escaped by taking refuge in the cellar. An orchard of 050 apple trees back of the house was mowed Just a quarter of mile south- Hughes Frank's. tion was ost complete, eozing from a hole in the head made by a flat iron, An ear Was and legs and arms were broken, cloverfield, 20 rods from the house, lay Mrs, Frank, unconsclouu, with serious internal injuries, She te survive the day. family doz lay dead beside her. ver that was in the house was At the end down upon Spriogleid township. Just southeast of Akron the Louse of tion and scattered over a 10 acre fear for going to the celinr with her baby, was pitched down Lhe cellar was foremost, and the family, én- escaped in - jury. A pen full of pigs were burled Of two carriages in spokes could be was trying the barn only a found, to unhitch his and he was blown away with the horse jes, Daniel Drown owned flve acres of timber, on which not a tree was left standing. (reorge Wise's tep-acre The fohu Ikob and thelr baros blown away, The storm travelled alocg into Stark leaving the debris scattered a stretch of 15 miles. The CoLuvMeus, Ga., April 9.—This utes. The rainfall was two and the bail very heavy. The damage to the properties of all kinds will not exceed $20,000, DExvER, Col., April 3.—The most terrific wind storm for years paased over this city early this morning. Many houses were unroofed and the walls of several hulldings in the coarse of erec- tion were blowe down. Prrrssunc, April 9.-~-Western Pean- sylvania was visited by an unusual rain, wind and artic storm this morn- ing. Great damage was done and two lives were lost, of houses were struck by lightning and several persons were staonned. The rain fell in torrents for several hours, flooding cellars and causing small streams to overflow, At West Elizabeth, two children of George Beattie, a boy and a girl, aged 7. were drowned on their way to school, While crossing a foot log over Lobb's run the little girl lost her footing and fell In the water, and ber Drave little twin brother, in trying to rescue her, lost his own life, At Indiana, Pa, a bolt of lightniog struck the flouring mill of Wegley & Wilson and it was burned. Loss, $15,- 000, la Westmoreland county great dam- age is reported, For two hours the rain fell in torrents, and nearly all the streams overflowed their banks, washing away bridges, At Penn Station a number of famihes were compelled to vacate their houses and seek shelter on high grouud. The Manor Valley Rail- roud, at Claridge, its northern termi- nus, was badly damaged, fully 300 yards being washed away, and traffic entirely suspended. At Tyrone the Juniata is over its banks, houses and lots are inundated and people have been compelled to move to higher ground. The Cone- waugh river and Stony creek are again on 8 “high,” and the lower portions of Johustown are under water. Several bridges Lave been washed away and operations suspended at the mills sitoated along the banks of these sireams. AL 6 o'clock to-night the water was two feet deep around the telegraph offices, Pirrssurae, April 9. A special from Akron, Oblo, says: Two clouds came together Tuesday evening about two miles northwest of Sharon, Medina, eounty, and then began to revolve in tornado fashion and bear upon the village. The tornado’s progress waa mwurked by JUAflng and gTinding sounds, In ten minutes it levelled every- thing in its track over six miles of farm land, for a width of 30 rods, de- molished dozens of building, killed one wan, fatally injured a man and a woman and seriously injured several -olhers, Forests in which were trees two feet 10 diameter were cut down as it they had been corn stalks, The first bulld- ing eanght up was the barn of James Hartman, northwest of Sharon. It landed several rods away, and was torn into kindling, Then in turn were taken the house und barn of Uriah Woersler ee tnd ba barns of Richard with terrific velocity, The shaft over the electric light company's building was blown over, crushing through the roof and damaging the machinery. One man had a narrow escape, The electric lights are extinguished to-night, Some houses were anroofed, and a number of signs blown down. The wind was followed by heavy rain and hall, The storm was very severe in east Ala- bama, RoaNoke, Va., April 9,—Ths great. esl tornado for many years passed over the city this evening. The cast house at the Crozier fron furnace was blown and one mortally wounded, Loss to the furnace company, $5000, Nearly 100 dwellings, in course of erection, were demolished. The Salem furnace was blown down, a heavy loss being reported and buildings in that vicinity were reduced to ruins. Loss, $10,000, blst CONGRESS.~Eizat Session SENATE. In the U, 8. Senate on the Sth, the Rouse bill to admit free of duty arti- cles from Mexico intended for the St, Louis Exposition, was passed with an amendment including the other Ameri can Republics and Canada, and a con- ference was ordered on the bill, The Montana election case was discussed by Mesars, Spooner and Pugh, While the latler was speaking it became necessary to order a eall of the Senate for a quorum, The Montana case was Jaid aside and the Anti-Trust bill, as reported from the Judiclary Commit. tee, was taken up and passed with only one negative vote. Adjourned, In the United States Senate on the Oth the House bill appropriating $75,000 to supply the Silcott dellclency was passad. The Montana case and Chinese Enumeration bills were discussed, Ad- journed. In the U.S. Senate, on the 10th, sev- eral bills were reported and placed on the calendar, among them ope to re- vive the grade of Lieutenant General of the army. The Montana case was discussed until adjournment, HOUSE. In the House, on the Sth, the Mec- Adoo bill to prevent the enlistment of aliens in the navy was passed, with an amendment permitting the enlistment of aliens in case of emergency on foreign stations. The vote by which the bill making sn appropriation to supply the deficiency cansed by the Sileott defaleation was defeated was re- considered, and the bill was passed. The Naval Appropriation bill was con- sidered in Committee of the Whole. Adjourned, In the House, on the Oth, the Senate amendments to the House blll to admit free of duty to the St. Louis Exposi. tion were concurred 19. A conference was ordersd on the Senate bill for a National Zoological Garden in the Dis- trict of Columbia. ‘The Naval appro. griation bill was considered In Com- mittee of the Whole. Adjourned, In the House, on the 10th, the Naval Abpintristion bill wits concluded in m of the Whole and reported to the House. Pending action, the House adjourned. THE WEEK, ~The residence of M. G. Harring. ton, postmaster at Dakota, Wisconsin, was robbed of $1500 on the evening of the bth, —Nineteen prisoners escaped from the jail in Spokane Falls. Washington, on the 7th. The jailer was bound and gagged. ~Matllda I. Shomack, 15 years old, dled at St, John, New Brunswick, on the Tub, from an electric shock. She touched an electric lamp with an iron poker, and at the same time uncon- sciously canght hold of an iron post, thus completing the cireult, — Willard Williams, picknamed “(razy Kelley,” on the Bth sbot and killed Miss Maggie Pritchard in Med- ford, Wisconsin, and then shot him- self, causing a fatal wound. Marcus (, Stearns, who, on the 5th, ina Ot of mental depression caused by illness, fired four bullets into his body, died on the Bth, He leaves property, chiefly ~—An electric storm passed over Eust Liverpool, Ohio, on the 8th, The Methodist Episcopal Church steeple was thrown down, the telephone cen. tral exchange was burned and the ser- vice destroyed, Etlle Sparey, aged 17 Tres Huffman, aged 19 al evening of the 7th, while crossing the river in a boat. The boal was swamp- ed, years, and Years, Mo kridge jewelry factory robbery on January 17th, when $3000 worth stolen, Much of A kit burglar outils The gang had ar- of tools and completa wers also found. but a tip was given the decectives ana the arrests followed, — Charles Green, an boy, was killed while *‘playing brake man” in Watertown, New York, on the morning of the 9ih. Several cars stood on a side track at one point, sev. eleven-year-o'd Between Boys uncoupled one car and jet tant grade, The car He stooped make coupling. than he expected, to pick between ~Frederic Kimball, 35 teller o yoars old, ter, Maswuchuse!ls, bank's funds, for $10.00, The loss will iD NO Way affect the bank's golvency, as it has as- sets of §5.570.(00, and quick assels of more than $2,000,000. The bonds stc- jen were most'y git-edged bonds readily pegotiable, Thelr face value was $49. 50), but their market value was between $4000 and $5000 additional, — Advices from Northern Texas say that 75 per cent, of the whole crop in the counties of Cook, Grayson, Collin, Denton, Wise and Montague has been destroyed by Insects, One of these creatures is very mmilar to the North- ern chineh bug and the other is the common lady bug. The iaiter is the ing wheat, but Is ravagiog oats and corn and even attacking colton, —A house at the Crozier Iron Fur- naces, at Roanoke, Virginia, was blown down by a tornado on the eve- ping of the 9th. Three men were killed and one fatally injured, —A traln on the Northern Central Rallroad was thrown in a ditch, pear Stanley, New York, on the evening of the 9th, by running into a tree which had been blown across the track, Some of the passengers were injured, one im- migrant woman fatally. Emma Stark, the servant girl who Is under arrest in Chicago charged with putting poison in the food she cooked for a family named Newland, which re- sulted In the death of Mr. and Mrs, Newland and the dangerous {liness of thelr two children, bas made a full confession, She sald that she had been betrayed and wished to put an end to her existence, but had no intention of killing the Newlands, She ate some of the corn herself, she says, but it only made ber slightly sick, and, sup- posing its effects would be no more serious on others, she served it for supper, —Two families, consisting of 16 per- sons, were poisoned in Franklin county, Arkansas, 8 few days ago, by eating wild turkey, and 12 of them at last ac- counts were not expected to survive, It is believed that just before being shot the turkey aie some strychnine bait which bad been set for wolves, A ladle of molten iron was upset at the Warren Foundry, in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, on the evening of the Uth, The metal fell on the damp ground and an explosion followed. men were thrown In every direction, apd three were burnad, one fatally. —Goerge B. Grimes, a greoer in Des- Moines, Iowa, heard a burglar in his house on the morning of the 10th, and found him up stairs searching buresu drawers, Six shots were exchanged at short range. The burglar, who gave the name of James Qulan, was mor- tally wounded. Mr, Grimes 10st an eye, and his wounds may prove fatal. John Ford, a burglar, who entored the house of James A. Peach, in Chicago, on the morning of (he 10th, was shot in the hip by Mr. Peach and then turned over to the police, Harry White and his wife were cleaning their furniture with benzine at thelr home in Fredericton, New Brunswiek, on the 10th, when the lighting of a match caused an explc- gion and filled the room with flames, Mr. and Mee, White and their little child were badly burned. During a at Goderiek on the 10th, WUMANLY CHARMS, The Evolution of Modern Grace Health and Beauty. All people agree that beauty lies in to speak roughly, snd yet woman ad with » wasting-discase, have at times a rosiest young maiden. Helen, the “little and black,” it is eaid, and king- them. world bas increased enormously since Old Nile. Men do not leave homes and fight ten years for even the most radiant beauty to-day; nor do the great conquerors think the world well | last for any modern smile. In the days of Helen, and even of Cleopatra, beauty was very probably far more rare than now, Women in sll but the wealthiest classes | protected from the discomforts that de- | stroy beauty and harden feminine lovii- ness, They did heavy manual labor, were poorly fed or protected from wind i | snd weather, and, like the peasants of many of the Latin nations to-day, while | they may have had a certain beaute du i diable in the first flush of youth, the | radience quickly died and left them were illy {ugly servants and beas's of burden. Therefore, when a woman arose who possessed the tru# beauty that age can | pot wither nor custom stele, men went | mad after her, fought to possess her, and possessing her thought the world but a bubble in comparison, Belection | of this sort was, of course, constantly at { work improving the type, and the sur- vival of the fittest, age by age, lifted up the general plane of beauty. As ervili- | gation grew women no longer trudged i with heavy burdens through rain and binding heat after nomsd husbands, { and their feet grew delicate and highly srched, The richer wives resignod the and sate needle work, to poarser labors to their servants, used their fingers only to spin del threads, to make rich { knit, to thrum the strings of mandolin { and lute, to eurl the silken tresses of | their infants and smooth the brows and { bind the wounds of their lovers and warri The palms grew, like Des- TH, lemona'a, moist and tender; the nails, no longer broken with coarse labor, | glemmed like the delicate, transparent nacre of a shell. The skin, protected from the sur and wind grew fair and | clear as rose leaves, the lips ruddy and soft. Their hair, carefully washed and { tended, wound into vine-like curls, and tock the smooth gleam of silk. tours; itself Safficient food gave rounded oon- long hours of sprinkled the dew in soft slumber the violets ol their eyes, and the movements of dance and gay motion made their limbs slen- der and supple, snd at last the modern beauty was evolved. Elizabeth Dis- land, in Cosmopolitan Magazine, ———— reat Old People Well There is nothing in the world more pathetic than the meek, timorous, shrinking ways of eertain old people— wo have all seen them —who have given | ap their old homes into younger hands, and subsided into some out-of-the way corner of it, to sit by the fire-side and table henceforth as if afraid of “making trouble,” afraid of being “‘in the way,” afraid of accepting half that 1s their due, snd going down to their graves with a pitiful, deprecating air as if constant. ly apologizing for staying so long. There is no scorn too deep and sharp for the sons and daughters who will accept this attitude on the part of those to whom they owe so much. Some- times, to be sure, people grow old with by misfortune or affliction, or are peev- ish or unreasonable under the goad of iil-health. Allithe more do they ap- peal to great gentleness and faithful ness, Let it be borne in mind that we, too, are hastening on toward the sunset of life, and that we may ripen into very uncomfortable old people, to demand much more of patience and devo- tion than we, ms children, yield them. The Mayfiower. A vessel named the Mayflower waa recently launched st the Pembroke used asa training ship for boys des- ¢ined for the navy. This ovent has ecansed the London Graphic to recall some facts connected with the historio Mayflower of Pilgrim fame which are not well known. It appears that before making her memorable voyage the Mayflower had been employed as a war vessel, and was the principal ship con- tributed by the city of London to de armada, In the battle with that fleet the Mayflower gave a good account of herself, and played a prominent part in the defeat of the invaders. The final fate of the vessel is said to be un. certain, though there is good reason to believe that in her old age she was em- ployed in the slave trade between Africr and America, Mr, Davidson ish lang B30 x tusk Yo aenuire fan way vibes our baby Is i A Life's Easter Day's. | There are mors Easter days than the glad bells i Ring out, or chanting choirs in chorus sing, | Wheres snow white lilies all their censers swing. When resurrected hopes burst the friell shells Which prisoned them, evolving from their cells Reviving Ife; rare radiant blossoming | With more of joy, than all the past foretells, God xives us Easter days pespient with bloom, And when we seek our dead with tearful face An angel sits in And glorifies with faith the shrine of tears, Commopolilan, ‘THE LEGEND OF MONT ST. MICHEL. | PRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY A. EB AVERY. sky. set. The vast expan thie horizon was red, the ge of und was red, immense bay was red; the abby alone, fined, far from the earth, like a fan- like an air | tastic manor house, castle, improbable, strange and beautiful, re- the dying day. At dawn the next day I went towards it, my eye fixed upon this monstrous jewel, grand as a mountain, carved liko The a cameo and vaporous as gauze, nearer I approached for more admiration; nothing in world 1s, pernaps, As I stood thus spell- bound, a peasant of Normandy sted me, and afterward related to my more perfect. lower ae me the history of the great quarrel, Fach village of France, has a tutelar Baint, ard the fertile imagination of many of the inhabitants spirit with miraculous powers. Michael, guards lower Normandy. Michael and wictorious angel, the “Sword Bearer Saint ge the radiant of Heaven." minator of Satan.” And this is the manner, in which the deceitful, crafty and sly, lower Norman grand understands, and relates the struggle of the saint with the devil. In order to guard himself from the wickedness of the demon, his neighbor Haint Michael built for mid-ocean, this mansion sreh angel: and in truth only a saint in himself, worthy of an sould create for himself such a habita- tion. But as he still feared the demon, he surrounded his dwelling with mov- ing sands, more perfidious than the en, The devil lived in an humble cotlage near the shore, but he possessed mes- dows washed with salt water, fine fertile grounds, where grew great harvests, rich valleys, snd luxurious hill-sides for pasturage, while the Saint reigned pver only the sand. Satan was rich, Baint Michael was poor as a beggar. After some years of fasting, the Saint | tequired great finesse. The devil was {lo all appearance so absorbed in his | pastural occupations. St. Michael meditated for six months | more, then one morning took his way to the main-lsnd. ! Baint coming toward him. He hasten- od to meet and greet him, kissed the hem of his sleeve, and offered him re- freshment. After accepting and drink- sd the conversation by saying, that as time hung heavily upon him, he | thought to propose a matter of busi- aess with his neighbor. The devil, candid and without suspi- sion, replied. “That suits me.” Well then, “1 propose,” said Saint Michael, | “that you transfer to me all your fields.” Satan disturbed wished to first you will transfer to me all your Belds. I will take charge of all the work and laborers, the fertilirers and the seed, in short all that pertains to the proper oultivation of them, then we will equally divide the harvest.” The devil, nsturally idle, replied, *It is & bargain!” only stipulating that he should have some of the delicious mullet canght from the sea, near the solitary mount, which the Saint readily agreed to. They shook hands, spat upen the . ground, to indicate that the business was concluded. “That you may have nothing of which to complain,” remarked Baint Michael, “which do you prefer, that part of the harvest which grows om, or that which grows under the ground?” Satan repliea, “that which grows above ground.” “Very well” said the Saint, and went his way. Six months after in the immense sify, all plants whose roots are savory, but the leaves of which at most are only fit for cattle. Satan had nothing, and wished to break the contract with the malicious Saint. But the Saint had a decided ate_for Se 8s aasure that I had not thought at RAI TCI SE I STR. Si. with oats as large an bell-turrets, with flax, magnificent rape, red clover, peas, cabbage, artichokes, in short | everything in grein and fruits, which ' flourishes in the sun light. i Bataan this time had nothing and was | very angry. Thereupon he took charge of his own meadows and laborers, re- maining deaf to all the propositions of his neighbor, An entire vesr passed From L's wwland manson, Bt Michael surveyed the fertile domain, and saw the devil | directing the laborers, gathering the | harvest and threshing his grain. He was enreged st his powerlessness. Not being able to dupe Satan, be was re- solved upon revenge. The followi Monday he went and invited Lim dine with him. “You have not in your business with me, ‘“‘said he,” this { I know, but I do not wish there should Lg ug to been fortunate | be bitterness between us, and 1 count tc dinner. 1 will serve you with an excellent “menu.’ | Batan, as gluttonous as idle, sccepted the invitation willingly. jon your company On the appointed day, dressed in his best, he took the way to the Mount. Saint Michael seated him at a luxari- | ous table. First was served a ** Vol au Vent full of coxoombe, of kidney with Then two large mullet with cream; then a white turkey stuffed | with chestnuts, preserved in wine; then a leg of mutton tender as a lamb; then | vegetables, which melted in the mouth, biscuit smoking in butter. {| They drank pure cider, foaming and small sausage, | good hot red wine and after e { they drank rieh old | drank sweet, h course brandy. The devil much that he soon | found himself greatly incommoded with and ate so Then Saint Michael arose and cried in a voice of thunder, fore me !| Thon idler! Thou Satan bewildered | took to flight; the Saint seizing a stick persued him. They ran through the { lower halls, turned sronnd pillars, up illness, “This be- fSlwtton’) aerial etair-cases, went along the cor- nice and leaped from gargoyle to gar- goyle. The poor devil, sick unto death, fled, soiling the dwelling of the Saint. He finally resched the last terrace from the top of which could be seen the the far off village, sands and the meadows, He conld not escape; the Saint gave a fearful blow in the back, which hurled him like a ball through space. He shot through the air like a jave- lin and fell heavily before the town of Maratin., His horns and claws buried | themselves deeply in the rock, which tis aid mense bay, the him will retain through eternity the traces of the fall of Satan. Satan arose lame and stunted and will so continue to the end of the ages | As he looked to the far off Mount, which shone like a pinnacle in the set- ting sun, he well understood that if was an unequal struggle and he wonld be conquered in the end. He departed for a distant country, sbandoning to | his enemy his fields, his hills, and his valleys. Thus St Michael, the patron Saint of Normandy, delivered the Normandy peasant from the example of idleness, and giattony, tesching them industry and scbriety. Dwellings of the Poor. From Professor Richard T. Ely’s im- portant paper on “A Programme for Labor Reform,’ in the “Present Day Papers’ series, we quote the following: | “*Siricter sanitary laws are required, and a better organization of the sani- | tary administration of cities. Houses | unfit for habitation shoulda be torn | down, and small parks provided to give | breathing-places for the crowded seo- | tions. The beginning made in New | York City deserves commendation, | While not prepared to recommend at present the construction of houses by | the municipality, we regard Eaglish | experiments in this direction as worthy | of study, Private philanthropy should | concern itself more than bersetofore | with the dwellings of the poor and | strive to make them fit for human bed jugs. Itisa sad commentary on ur | Christian civilization that when thers is more than one man in New York City claiming to be a Christian who, slone and unaided, could reconstruct the entire tenement-house district or districts of the city, the unspeakable wretehedness and squalor of its slums continue almost unabated,” C—O, Was It Instinct. Sir Walter Scott tad a dog that ons the story, and said: “Bot Tay didn’t bite the baker," the dog turned round ia & moment, jumped and frisked about, and was evidently quite restor ed to his own good opinion,
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