THE NEWS. of Ohio, died at Jacksonville, Fla. —= Calvin Hancock, who has been on trial at Bmith port, Pa., for the murder of Frank Wagner, December 10, was found guilty by the jury of manslaughter. ——Alexander Hethering- ton shot Miss Emma Klaus, of B.idgeport Ot, who bad refused to marry him, snd then killed hims If. ——The Olympia: Theater in Anderson, Lad, was burned. Los $0. 000. Theater was usel as the armory of the Columbia Rifles, which Josss all its gun and all other paraphernalia. The firo was caused by a gas jet igniting the scenery on the stage. —— The Kickapoo Indians are re- ported to have gone on the warpath and to bave massacred some Mexicans, ———A fire which occurred at Constable Hook, N. J, destroyed seven buil lings and rendered fifty families homeless. The fire originated in one of a row of frame buildings used for stores and tenements, the occupants being mostly Hungarians, —Geoeral Superintendent Law of ths Fort Wayne Road, was indicted by ths Chicago grapd jury for murder.——The at Gettjsburg, Pa, was brosen cpen by thieves and #70 stolen.——The steamship City of Paris, of the same line as the New York, was entered upon the American regis- try at Puoiladelpbia. Several workmen were injured by the sudden collapse of a buil liog they were engaged in tearing down in Indianapclis, Brigadier General T. R. Freeman, come mander of a biisade in the Confederate army, died at Nosho, Mo., aged sixty-three of Rav. Olympia Brown, promioent Racine. ——Cyrus Lee, his sister and brother burning home, at Greeaville, hundred workmen of the carriage strike. ——An order was filled in the United from a stroke of paralysis received at the close of a two hours’ argument in the Sangs- mon (Ill } Circuit Court. — At Cedar Rap.ds Ia, warrants were sworn out chargisg plying to cities. — At Benton, a small town near Clarksville, Tenn., Bud Garth became involved in a difficulty with two negroes and shot them both, One is dead and the other dying.— A private cablegram from Londsn says Judge Henry F., Sherman, of Cleveland, disd aboard the steamship Lahn whea threo days out from New York. Joseph ns Kikala, a Russian woman, wh said she was abducted from her husband’ home and sent to this country, wandering about New York —Judge Cure of Bridgewater, N. 8, was arrested on the William BE. Curtis, fifty-five years cold, explosion of dynamite at Monroe. His head was literally bloxn off and one arm torn te pieces. ——The Gladstone Company, com posed of Chicago, Boston and Minneapolis eapital'ste, with a copital of §5, 000,000, has Just completed the purchase of about sis thousand acres of laud on Little Bay d'Noq, Mich., including nearly all the unimproved lots in the city of Gladstone, —— Theodore Van Amringe’s pumice stone mills, together with a few storehouses adjoining, situated about a mile from the village of Momaro neck, L. IL, were burned, causing a less of $50,000; insured for about two-thirds thas amount.——Charles W. Ball, a Northern Central flagman, was accidentally killed near York- George M, Woodford, a Wealthy pump tions were largely used in the navy, died a: hs home of heart failure. He was seventy- four yours of age.——The revenue cutier Washington while entering the slip at the office in New York, was run into by Annex No. 4, of the Peansylvania Railroed. partially sunk her.——A big combine of tao- peries is said to be in progress of formation in New York.——Wm, McCredie, ex-teller of the National Savings Bank of Buffalo, was sentenced to five years in prison for forgery the Central Railroad of New Jers:y. stopped the rear crashed into it. E ghteen cats were piled in a heap across Loth tracks. fog at Barnardsville, N.C. got into an alier- eation and bisan shooting. “Big Jim" santly. Roberts died of his wounds, Young ‘Whitemore escaped. ——Major Jobn Wynas, mayor of Lockraven, Pa., died of paralysis. aged ssventy-six rears. His remains willbe taken to Erie for interment. DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES A vonxano at Jacksonville, Texas, wreck. od several houses and damaged property. Tur dead body of Fred-rick leach was found in his rooms at Chicago. He had been dead eight or ten days, unknown to sayond, though he bad seven children in the uity. Ax train on the Central New E land Western Railroad, bilige foute, wis Fus lute by » train following, at Waldon. Two brake Jihis 4%'o Injured, and several oars war - ; the Ca tet dag SV Jud, aged 1D Tear and 13 persons were Jur Pierwil, engimeer, probably AN expres train on ths Pitisburg, Fors J a Ch, CAT Lot ab wrecked #0 miles vast or Uolumbia City, Ind., by n em rail. T rolled dow ome GRUS IN TH BEDS. i ———— Walls in Chicago. Disiroys two Buildings. A despatch from Chicago, IIL, says: Weakened by heavy rains and snows. ths walls of the burned-out building formerly oceupied by John York, dry goods dealer, gave way b.fore a high wind at 1:80 o'clock { in the morning, and eight persons were | crushed to death and four others seriously injured. Tie York building was gutted by fire last winter. The ice covering the walls aided in bolling them togeth.r. It was feared that a change of temperature would weaken the walls by thawing the ice, and these fears were realized. The two houses were de- stroyel were the saloon of John Smith, at 761 Hal tead street, and the jewelry store of A. Kung, at 768 Halstead street. frame s.ructures and both were occupied on | the second stories by the families of the of the places of busine s be- low. Thatall in the buildings wers not | killed seems almost a miracle, but, whi.e | three were taken out alive, one 0: them | Mrs. Amelia Smith, wife of the saloon- | ke«per—can rca coly survive. Tie other | two to eicape were Fred Kunz son of the | i i | Owners | girl. He, with bis bed, was carried torough ! the floor to the basement, A door was i | bed from injury by ike fal.ing veuris Young | Kuuz was rescued, but s ightiy injured, i | The work of rescuing he imprisoned peo- ple, aside from the great danger to the fire men, was attended with much difficulty. It was unknown in what portion of ings ibe missing famiies bad been sleeping, and the firemen, wio were on most be ore the souni of the crash hai died away, were without any guude in their work save Lheir own iustinet, tongues of flame that appeared here and base of the York wall at a poiut which ap peared to be about the ceuter of Kunz's | Jewelry store. and broken timbers. 1bey dug steadily on, but could not locate the voice, At last, bow. ever, came the ery, “Here | am,” snd, at the | same instant, a hand was ihrust thiough to the ojenair. It was the band of young Kunz. His rescue was then but a matter of the firemen where his father and wother had been sleeping, and he wes then removed to t. @ county hospital. Two bundred men wero put to work on the ruin, and by evening all the bodies bad 1 een recovered, Coroner McHale issued an order that the bodies as fast as recovered should be taken 10 the city morgue, to await the action of a coroner's jury, “1 shall secure the best jury I can find i the city,” said the coroner, “and I will make a thorough investigation. I bave elreacy learned that there is a direct responsibility for this matter, and I propose to fix it upon the right party.” i ——— | A GREAT BATTLE-SHIP. Launching and Christening of the In- diana at Philadelphia. The great battle ship Indiana was sucess. fully launched at theship-yard of the Wm Cramp & Sons Company, Philadelphia in the presence of thousands of prople, among them the President of the United States the Se tary of the Navy and other members of the cabinet and quite a large delegation of Con. gressmen and others, who arrived from Washington on a special train over the Bal. timore and Ohio Railroad. The guests stood on the platform for three- quarters of an bour while workmen kn: cked away and rawed the supp ris from under the batt ship. Hydraulic jacks were in | readiness at the bow for use should the ship | stie:. but these were not needed, at 1:45 P. M , the ves.el glided slowly down the ways She settle! beautifully in the water, asd reacted midstream before the ancoors were cast. In a snort time she was mv ored to the jus Jessie Miller, the twenty-one year-old | fully performed the act of christening. 2 | line and is 64 feet 3 nches beam. Her dis | placement is 10,400 tons, but with a full sup. | 24 fee: and d splace 11,600 ton of water, The armor will be as marly imp rvious to i i | teen inches thick and above that and the | water line is to be a casement bolt five inches thick, | of the revolving turrels | 12 100t high. Over the armor belt and over | deck plated with two-inch stee . | The armament of the Indiana will be as | follows: eight S-inch guns, mounted in pairs in he four turrets at the corners of the ca emate, jour O-inch gurs, mounted i: broad side, six-pounders and rapid-firing gums; eigul . one pounders and gatiing guns and six tor- pedo tules, FEET AND HANDS CUT OFF. A Remarkable Quadruple Operation ins Pittsburg Hospital. There was a quadruple surgionl operation performed in the South Side Hospital that altractsd great attention in the medical fraternity, and js by the menibers consider. ed retwarsab’e. There was an attendance of about fifty physicians from all pasts of the State, The operation wes conducted under the direction of the full hospital staff of twenty-eight doctors, with Dr, C. C. Hers man in the lead, During the early part of the Win‘er Sam- PEOPLE AND EVENTS. It is said Mrs. Clevoland will have a pri- vate secretary oo, Her duties will be to attend to the great social correspondence of the admioistration. Her salary will be | 8,000. Thi« asshtint, who was recom- | mended by Mrs. Whitney, is a Mrs, Tuomey, of Washington, a widow, who has travelad agreit deal, and who is the mistress of several languages besides English. How Paris feels toward Del is found in the act.on of the local authorities in Paris and other cities, who, sine s the con- viction of the Panama prisoners, are promptly renaming streels, squares, ete, which bear the name De Lessops. Even the Eiffel Company have ca led a special meet. | lug for the purposes of changlug the name of | the corporation. BoME one has been interviewing J. Lock- wood Kipling in Australia, where he is visit. ing, in regard to the writ n 8 of bis famous { son. He thinks hat Rudyard's best work is in short s ories, snd cites “The City of the Dreadful Night” a«< one of the cleverest bits, “Ab.olutely photographic in its distinct Lahore, it seems, is the city thus realistically por- treyed. “Ona hot night,” says Mr. Look- woud Kipling. “there is no more fearful place in the world than Lahore. Mus, Bunxerr, the daught'r of James Russell Lowell, says, as regards the move. ment to save Elmwood, that ste would not Lowell's: the remainder, which belonged to Mrs. Burnett Gexenal Ramiary Brivgersory, of Mausfisld, Ohio, will succeed General KH. B. Aid Association. He wes born pear Auburn, N. Y, and educated in that city served as tu or in the home of Andrew Jack. until 1850, when he entere | the aw offic: of Jacob Brinkerhoff, at Man<feld Ohio. He was a volunteer in the Union Army, and rose to the rank of brigadier general He has for severa! years been First Vice Presi. dent of the National Prisoners’ Aid Amocia. WORK AND WORKERS. THE trouble between the Erie Railroad and its trainmen is jeportes 10 have Leen compromised at Clove.and, Tue wood workers of St, Louis have or. gasized snd on May | will strike for weighs Bours’ work per day with ten hours’ pay. Tur Louisville and Nashville Railroad has refused 10 nerease the wages «f its sue. gineers and firemen except in a ew individ. ual instances. Toe situstion bss been exe cpt d and there will Le no strikes, As an outeome of labor dsputes and of a recent demand made by the man. factures for arbitration of the differcnces, the various foundrymen of Evansvi 0, ludinoas, acreed to ciose their ssops About 3X0 mou'ders are thus .ocked out, The “Middle lowa” engineers of Chicago, Bwlington and Quincy lai bave mad- a demand on the company in the matiers of pay for overtime sh Jl be p sced ujon the same busis as ductors and brakemen, THe Switchmen's Mutual Ald Association, at Topeka made a deman | upon the Ate. i- son, Topeka and Santi Fe Ksilroad for an increase of 25 per cent, in tae.r wages on the »utire system. The demand was re fused. Itis said that the officers of the swichmen's © gan zation consider the ace tim of the Topeka men premature, and will endeavor to prevent a strike, ALL the switch tend os employed in the yads of the Chica.o and Western Indiana Belt Co., at Chicago, struck fo: incresse i wages. A lyard uraffic of the Loubviile, New A bany and Chicago, Wabash, Chicago and Fas.ora llupoi, Chioago and Ere, Grani Trunk sand Sante Fo Ronis wis pa eclongu rd auty, Toe radroad officials say they wul fil the strikers’ pisces in a few days, A CiicaGo despateh says that the deloga- tion of eng ueers of the Cuicago, Burlington avd Quincey who came from [.wa to Chi oago to visic the officials of the road and se- the iroad that they © li men as Ls overtime did not have to see the officials, as toeir demand « had been granted betore they reached the city. The pew sche iule bad beenn printed and mailed Lee fore the vog neers left bome on their mis #i0., CABLE SPARKS. fiexny Joss, liberal, bas res gaed bis seat in Parlisment, Tux Italian government Is pushing with vigor its prosecution of Sicilian bandita Tue Proacee Kaiunlani, heiress to the throne of Hawaii, sailed for New York from Av rp ol wiboe on candidaie for President in rench Beante, Italy om su«ne on of Leing implicated in dynamite explosions, Crances pr Lessers and his associat convicted of b ivery, bave appealed their case to a higher court. Treas has beet a heavy decline in the pri vs of irish stocks becsuss of a d as to the effect of home rula A DRTACHMEXT of the Spanish civil guard Tux municipal authorities of several Hun. garian cit es nave demande + that civil waar riage shall bs made abligatory. PRAYERS ngainst the bome-rule bill are being offered in all the Pri testant churches of the Di cese of Down, in Ulster, A MOTION to appointacommitt e to inves tigate tre Roman baok seandals was defeated in the Ita {+n Ubamber of Depaties. Tog of manufacturers of Iavana have decide t not to their fac ores jo they receive a modification of the tax ny A BILL was introduced in the House of Comm os by Home Secret sry Asquith pro. viuing the first ot p toward I and disest Llishing the church in Wales. Jauns Ww, Hones and Henpy OG. were committed 10 jail in 0, on charges with the of fraud and ry in ruin of the Hip vi Buildiog Society. Tie committees of the master cotton ners and operatives of Englani have ia to on the wae question, and the strike against a 5 per cent. reduction will eontinue, msi IOI ts DESPERADOES AT WORK. A Little Town in Indian Territory at Their Morey. Just after the Missouri, Kansas & Texas passenger train No 2pull d out of Adair Station, 1. T., three dosjeradoss confronted the agent and robbed him of $8700, Eighteen eitiz ns who appea od on the scene, were made to hold up thelr bands and were Wright in. FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. wo Benate. B2x0 DAv.—~In the Senate the Agricul ual Appropriation bili was placed on the sendar., (he 1 eusion Appropriation till ws passed after discuss on, aad tie confor. ace report on the Military Academy bill ‘as ndopted. A conference was ordered on 10 Bundiy Civil vill, Eulogies were de- veied on the late Beant or Keans, of West irginia, and the usa! reso.utions passed, BIRD Day —In the Senate Mr. Chandler itroduced a resolution directing the Com. itt eo on lodian Affair: to investigate tne wis in reiecence to the 867.5% paid attor- oys under contract, said to have been wongly obtained with the Cheyosune and irapnhoes Ind ans for the sale of the r lands 1 Oklshoma and the Cherokee Outlet. The laval Appropriation bil, with an swead. out for an appropriation for the naval re- ew, was passed. bit Day.—The Postoflice Appropriation iil came before the Senate, and was dis | ussed to some extent ou the question ss to | 36 route of the Southern fast mail. That { u stion was not disposed of when the con. | srence report on the Bundry Civil Ap ro. riation 1 ill was presented. The report led | along financial discussion on the Bher- | san bond amendinent, the result being, | owever, that the amendment was receded | rom by the Sennte. Outside of those two | pi ropristion bills, the Senate had before it, | 2 the morning bour, the MeGarraban iil, | rbich went over, however, without acti u, | nd the Hudson River Br dge bill, whch | ras taken up by a vote of 26 to 24, but dis | | ppedred immediately when the conference | | sport was taken up, a result which rapkied ! un the mind of Mr, Hill and led that Besator | o upbrsid Mr. Allison for his share in the | | egislative struggle. 55TH DAY.—In the B nate the considera. i jon of th+ Postoffl e Approprition bil: was wmpleted, the paragraph io relaiion to the | | mst mail being modified so as 10 1 ave toe | vhole quest on to ths discretion of the Post. | nastier Geaeral. The ladian Appropria ion {5ill was then consivered. Ili contained rn | imendment appropriating eight snd ab A nition dollars to pay the Ubero ees for the uni ceded by them io the Indian Territory, | ying between Oklaboms and Kansas, Toe | amendment provoked some discussion, but | wos eventually agreed to. Then the ! Dedeisncy ti] (the last of the appgorristion %1 8) was acte s upon. Both the McUarra- san and the New vork Bridge bils wore srowded out by the appropriation bill, ! - § House. Pay. ~The Indian Aprropriation The re clution to suspend he rules and pon-copeur in the Benate wmesdinents to the Sundry ¢ ivi bill was aassed and conferees were appointed. The Car-coupler bill was passed under suspen. 11 ¢ conference report on the Miltary Appropriati.n Lill was agreed to. The con- ference report on the will for Dostrict of Columbia highways wes adopted, 55ri Day. —1n the House the report on the dipsomatic avd co sular ap proper iation Lill wae sgieed ta The Als- bata contested « ection case wax consider od and decided in favor of Turpin, the sitting | member. The bill exempting pig tio irom i duty was passed | 50rm Day.—The time of the House was soos stoned pripcipally in « cusidering a mo- | tion made by Mr. Hatch to suspend the rules and pass the Antioption bill The debate was limited to ball as hour, and, as the time was doled cut fn two or three minute pore tions, there was DO opportunity to disc tee ihe fuensure as it desorved to be discussed Mr. Hate made to longest speech, and that did not exceed eight minutes. He them, stating that be had doae bis best to promote | the intereds of the tarmers, left the subject to the House, and the House decided, by a vote of 172 to 124. not to agree to Mr. Hateh's motion -—a two thirds vole being necessary | under & suspension of the rues. Bome un- important bits Des Was rans ted and the | House adjourned 57 Day.—In the House the bill prescrib. | ing the sumber of district attorneys and marshals in Alabama was passed over the Vresideni's veto, Senate smendments to the Postotfice Appropriation bill nad Sundry Civil A: propriation bili was non-© nearred in, mud Lot were sant to the conference. Eilogies wers delivered upon BSenstors Keanna and Hearst, and appropriate 1e.o0iu- Sn bil. was posed, Bon, conference COLUMBIAN POINTS. Tax State of Maine bas applied for space I —— Mas, Canorixz Brooks, of Flushing, I. I, has been commissioned by the Indiana | Board of Lady Mausazers to model a heroic statue of the gosdess of mythology. Tag Hoo, J. J. Giin'iston, special com- missioner from Cevion, who is now ja Cais { cago brings with him complete plans for the { Ceylon Court, the main pavillion of which & | will be a very emborate sod beautiiul | | structa e, | Hm Excellency Depn! Delome, the Span. | | ish Minister, who is aleo Commissioner Gen | i oral for Spain and her dependencies, at the Worid's Fa r, bas returned from Washing ton. He now bas conp eted plans and drav- loge relative to the Spanish exhibit. Secagrany Hurt, of the department of agriculiare, has received a letter from a gent] -nuis In Idabo who w sies to exhibit | twenty to fifty Angora goats. Arrangmenis | | will be made to give space 10 this rare ex | | hibit, The goats were brought irom lodis | | and Asia Minor, i Wonk of inelosity t space { pavilions for the exhibits in it the ag | well advanced. Michigan bas been added to th - roti of States which are prepariag their inclosures fu this department, Fob pie arrived this wok Baie «Cie canes | of oil paintio sholographss drawings, etc, and some ory Tori consigned 10 Cape | tain Aytoun, of the Uslied States Govern. ment ¢xbibit, and also a large consignment of show cases. plaster ornaments, Conus ruc tion aud equipment material for the exbibis to be made by the Van Houten Cocoa firm in the Nether section. Tar t of foreign affairs bas | Joarned ro United Sintes Minister Hoowden at Madrid, Spain, that the Span. ish Government will procsie vaval review which is Le eld at New York and will receive from the Unired States at Havana the caravels “Nina” and “Piuta” and conduct them to New York tor Spay ge th, review, hin, They will wa Chicago under oi Cas fle and Leo ti NEW OIL FIELD OPENED. A Big Gusher Btruck in Buck Run, in West Virginia. A tremendous gusher was struck on Buck Run, five miles from Pennsboro, at a depth of about 1750 feet, The ofl Is running at an estimated rate of 1000 barrels per day, and as the owners were trying to make a mystery of it. They had made no preparation for its preserva. tion. The oil i+ pouring lato the stream and running awey. Telinble oil men say the wellis in the Big Tnjun sand, which insures its stability and the value of the flald, The oil people, Pennsylvanians, are y find, as ib opus 1 PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS, ————— Epitome of News Gleaned from Varions Parts of the Btate. Bunkuanr Moser, aged 02 years, a bum ble slate | icker st Hazleton, it ha been dis, covered is propably heir to the great Moser estate, and thereby worth mi lions, Tae farmers near Mowry's Mils who object 10 the Cresent Pips L ne tore up the pips recently laid, all wed about 4000 barrels of oil to escape, and then setit on fire. Truex masked burglars attempted to hold restod io Milton. Joxaraax Taomas, of Ashley, near Wilkes Barre, stampeded a prayer-mv oli g ing three mo ombers who bad testified agninss him {1 a law suit, Tr Bpecial Committes of the Legislature port, in which it approves the plans of the Fe leral Government for the estab. ishing of Island and calls upon the Legislature to ap- prove this plan aud « pposs the buildng of » Lazaretto on Bombay Hook Island. In view of ihe possibility of a small-poz plague,; all the fumates of the Lancaster County jall were vaccinated. Tae Lancaster County Board of Prison in tbe management « { the county jail. CoUNsEL for the Zsppe Brothers, Italians, &, will seek 10 have the Italisn Govern. prejudice Jed to the verdict, A susBER of the depositors in Roeckafel. | low’s bank, Wilkes-Barre, who are deter many distinct warrants for him in the hope bail. Tex Lehigh County auditors have inves tigated and reported against ex-ongress man Bnowden, who objected to the allow. &noe of certain items in the secount of the | County Commissioners. | Mee Lexa Bexper was found at ber | nome at Lascaster by ber daughter fright. | fully cut about the bead, having evidently Bbhe is not ex | Heory Hildebrand has been | oriested as the guilty man, as in ber lusid moments she charged him with committing the crime. Pavy Brexsiscen, his wife and three children. of Fremont, were taken to the | Bebuylkill County Almshouse, all suffering | from the opium habit, THE report of Btate Treasurer Morrison showed the net debt of the to be $2 60 : Commonwealth The total amount of public del paid daring the year was $1,417 - Hi A number of young coon hunters of New Castle, Lawrence county, were chased by a rEPs on L220 log. and escaped from them with difficulty. Tag strike of the miners at Nanticoke is spreading, and about 23500 men are cut of work. Sunopons in the Bcuth Bide Hospital, Pittsburg, cut off Loth feet aod both ba de of Bamue! Price a raliroader, whose « X1remi ties were fropen during ea posure in the eany part of the Win er. Tax Farmers’ Bank, of Harrisburg, again jo the bands of iis officers, and a per cent. dividend will be paid to depsiloe ih a fow day-. A conflict has arisen among the Judges of Lackawanna County over a question of the propriety of opening ballot boxes during the official counting of "he vote, i A xussen of depositors in the Rockalek jow Bask at Wilkes-Barre held a necting and decided to prosecute the banker. is give an early answer 10 their recent de. mands, to the Be. hichem Irom Works, EE ———— For Ameriea, ————— had, as leader of his caravan, a man Khalifa, or second in command. man had a small English vocabulary, with an unexpected display of bor- rowed patriotism. of a boar-hunt, to take luncheen, and as they were sitting on the mountain. | Star-Spangled Banner.” their feet and shouted. hooray!” The Moorish accent of the words made the occurrence all the more amusing. When the traveler eox- i { i i t familiar toast in a foreign land, the Khalifa laughed and said: “Why sbouldn't they shout for the Stars and Stripes? They are good Americans, as their fathers were before them. Let's hold a political meeting!” He then explained that, sixty years before, the village had been taken under American protection by the | consul, and that it had remaiued luyal ever since Youth's Compan. lon. . a CENTENARIANS DEAD. Mrs, Catharine Ross, ut Nova Scotia, Leaves 208 Grandehldeon, Thres of the oldest people in Nova Sootia Malcom Me. FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS, —— THE BOYHOOD OF LOUIS XIV, Tittle Louis was just four years and eightemonths old when, by the death of his father, he became King of France He received bis courtiers gracefully on the first pccasion when they presented themselves before him; and when he snd his mother stepped out on the balcony to show themselves to the people who swarmed below, he was greeted with shouts of “Vive le Roi!” from the popu lace. Thus began his long reign over France. Immediately after assuming his royal duties, he presided at a council Lifted into the chair of state! he mat there demurely while the council deliber sted, and then signed his first public document, ~-his mother, Anne of Austria, holding his little band, and guiding the pen. The next morning he was taken to Paris. His whole journey was a trinm- phal progress. The people never tired of looking at and praising the lovely child, who sat on his mother's knee and gazed at them with earpest baby eyes It was qn the occasion of mecting his parliament next day that, for at least once in his stately life, Louis XIV. acted like a child. He was sitting upon his throne in the Hall of Baint Louis, the Queen regent on his right hand, the court all around, while in front sat the parlia- ment, composed of grave, dignific d men, awaiting his orders. The Queen stood ear. The King laughed, blushed turned around, sad hid his littl in the cushions of hie seat. Never had parlia ment been more quaintly received! But Anne of Austria was strict in etiquette, Again she took his hand, and again spoke softly in his ear. Gracefully he stepped forward and I am face : " said, “er men, chancellor will inform you of my will.” The little King young, of course, to understand much that went on around him He spent the greater Av ip the ¢ympany of his { chiliiren, formed called les { honor), He drilled up and ivre to sound of a 1 which had dreiighted ip peared, with was 100 mother. A small band o into a military papany and d' honneur {childre: Lis Majesty, severely, marching them 3 £3 belped to snus down the long the been rive n Whenever him, and which he the Queen presented ar to beat, these you much dignity When | is to say, the wedding Nevers, who married the Ki Dapein art al pune in which J» ns of hich rank expected 10 excel, Aune © an ¢ xquisite dancer, and } aused her son to be carefully trained in this grace ful accomplishment, Young as he was be could bow with surpris distinction aod wield his hat skilful in the mazes of the minuet. — St. Nicholas nEsiers ns that {anced at i Marie ng of Poland. 11 ana wore Aus=iria was REVEN TOATE Gil r 1645 he his Adis Was in the ves i‘ £5 00 1 or 35% 1 g was a fine me, rs » THE CHILDREN'S PRIEND ne 1 wchingls *f ibutes of wry of the i Berquin and him in Paris n stories, he Child anecd The {ol shows how i wing kindness and most beantiful st character in childs T friendship betwee the children who | is charming s whieh won for him ren’s Friend.” Ali ] dence in the Montmartre g the childrep of to have their fri i tell them and heir small disagreements, . Their thers fathers, too, i nto : v of consult. ing him about y di ities, and referring to him any du x. which arose between frien Bergui A rendered decisions from which thes children of alarpe growth never appealed Berquin had long wished for his mother to come from Bordeaux te visit him, and at last the old lady consented to undertake the journey Berquin was delighted. He prepared for ber a room exactly like the one she occupied at home. Everything was arranged to make 1K the noblest 4 ” a uw i4l 1&8 uin's ros + Thee the rhicod came their play, ¢ garden ad joined Barg na joi S107 wna ana Just then came the news of her sudden of health, was plunged into a state of iil While his life was in danger, his little friends of the Montmartre quarter never relaxed their vigilance. Some placed themselves as sentinals at each end of the street, and asked the conchmen th drive snother way. Others brought branches every morning to sproad in the that were obliged to pass through. A little group waited at the door of daring breath, listening for news of the invalid. When they heard anything, they passed the word slong to others at the foot of the stairs. These in turn reported it to those at the door, and presently it was Known by all the anxious ones, The Children’s Friend began to re cover, but he was still melancholy, nervous, and unable tosleep. The Hoctor noticed that music and flowers had a calming effect on him. Immediately the children ceased to patronize the froit and sweet stalls, and became stead v customers of the flower-sellers. Henceforth their friend's room was filied with the [reshost aod most beautiful of blossoms, One day they hired two hand organs to come to the garden to play under his windows, This brought to the iavalid’s face the first smile since his illncse. The next evening his ears were greeted with music Jaz amats asothi . A Plann ad barp and three young girls’ voices rendered his favorite songs, and some of io te was repeated for mauy even'ngs. One night, when he es ta singers, and sald, “How have I inspired so much interest and kind feeling?” a volce replied, “Have you never re-read your wa & then? Care and loving atsention §
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