THE AVERAGE MAN.
When it comes to a question of trust
ing
Yourself to the risks of the road,
When the thing is the sharing of bur-
dens,
Ths lifting the heft of a load,
In the hour of peril or trial,
In the hour you may meet as you
can,
You may safely depend on the wis
‘dom ¢
And skill of the average man.
"Tis the average man and no other
Who does his plain duty each day,
Ths small thing his wage is for doing.
On the commonplace bit of the way.
"Tis the average man, may God bless
him,
Who pilots us, still In the van,
Over land, over sea, as we travel,
Just the plain, hardy, averag: man.
So on through the days of existence,
All mingling in shadow and shine,
We may count on the every-day hero,
Whom haply the gods may divine,
But who wears th: swarth grime of
his calling, i
And labors and
And stands at the
blest,
The commonplace,
Margaret E. Sangster,
Weekly.
LOVES SACRIFICE.
|
Romance, |
he can,
the
as
with
earns
last 1o- |
average man.
in Harper's
A Cuban
Tat-tat-tat sound:d in a dreary
monotone from the drums, and slow-
ly, in single file, the miserable prison-
ers came into view. Ragged, dirty,
unkempt, footsore, panting from the
blazing August sky, they wore truly]
a pitiable sight, though they held up
their heads defiantly, and smiled de-
risively at the iusulting epithets and |
grimaces which th: lower classes
heaped upon them, especially in
vicinity of any officer's residence,
The better classes of th: Havauese
showed their sympathy in striking cou
trast to the jeers and jibes of the
baser sort—the men. by their sull:n,
indignant looks; the women, by. fre
quent sobs and tears and smothered
exclamatious.
the
the capture of Crittenden. Lopez's
pedition to Cuba. He and his Spartan]
When they reachéd the Calle de la
Lamparilla, one of the narrow sireets|
of the city, the guards suddenly halt
ed th: column and reverently bared]
their heads. A funeral procession
was approaching from the opposite
direction, and the line was pushed
close towards the houses jutting on]
the narrow footway, scarc:ly worth]
the name of a sidewalk.
A youth among the foremost ris}
oners, who. evidently, had not thel
fortitude of his older companions, |
judging by Lis bowed head and de:p|
defection, now looked up with a wan|
smile of recognition as a pair of
dark eyes brimming with tears gazed |
through a latticed window at the piti-|
ful sight.
“Amalia” he whispered.
“Robereito! Is indeed you?
how terrible! I did pot dream
were with thew.”
“Dearest cousin, save me,” he rs
plied, in Spanish as fluent as her own. |
“We are all condemned to be shot in|
two days, perhaps sooner. [I am too
young to di."
“Would that 1 could. nino querido, |
but, alas! I am powerless as a lamb
among wolves.”
“Amalia, don't say that! You have|
friends among the Spaniards. For the |
{
)
Oh, |
you|
ir
it
love of my mother—"
“Forward, march!” rang on the air, |
and the weary column passed on tol
the dung-ons of Morro castle.
That night the Senorita Amalia do!
Valdez was a dream of lovellness as!
she reclined listlessly among the cush-
jons on a lounge in her handsoms sa.
lon. Tall, exquisitely formed, with!
Jetty tresses framing a softly rounded
face. with “midnight eyss” so large,
so liquid, so lustrous that her admir-
ers exhausted the affluence of thelr
honeyed tongues In praising them:
with a mouth whose twin carnations
perfect in repose, were still more en.
chanting when her smile disclosed the
dazzling teeth within—it was no won
der that she was considered to be the
beauty of beauti:s in the capital
famed for the grace and loveliness of
its women.
The young Captain Antonio de
Ramon, who presently entered, was
80 enraptured with her appearance
that only the presence of the inevi-
table duenna restrained bim from
throwing himself at Ler feet in real
ity, as well as In the foriual salutn.
tion with which Spanish gentlemen
greet all ladies,
“Beso a V lo pies, senorita.”
She responded In the same fashion,
oply kissing Lis sands (figueaddvely)
instead of his feet. But sn: looked
preoccupied, sad, despondent. He
seated himself near Ler, while the
duenna, her gentle Tia Maria, retired
to a distant corner,
“Tell me, my soul,” sald be, “why
are you so melahchioly 7”
A sigh was the only apswer.
“Ab, yes! 1 know your tender heart
aches for the poor prisoners you have
seen to-day. Poor fellows! Theirs
is a terrible fate. But tell me, what
3 It you wished to ask me? Can
Yaere bs: a wish of yours I would not
tify at the risk of my life, if need
7? 1 have your precious billet safe
here,” and he pointed to his heart.
“You bave but to comuiand and I will
“Tia ia,” sald Amalia, turning to
ber aunt, “I have mislaid my pearl
bracelet upstairs. Will you kindly
look tor 1?’
The duenna vanished as If she had
expected the request. On th instant
Amalia sald to him,—
“You have often sworn
love me to distraction; Is it not so,
Antonito?”
What happiness it was for him to
bear from her lips the diminutive
“ito” added to his nam: which, In
itself, is a caress In words,
“My life, with all my heart and
soul,” he exclaimed. But she drew
back.
“No, I give myself only to him who
proves his love,”
“What can I do for you, beloved
Dispos: of me as you will for life.
“It is life 1 ask. Sit here, beside
me, dearest, and I will tell you."
She then related the scene of
morning, the discovery
who had passed the previous winter
in Havana with his family, was now
gmong the prisoners.
“H. 1s the son of my favorite aunt
so young, barely sixteen. He came
here to perfect himself in Spanish.
ger
"
the Cuban cause, He
alas! to dle, unless yon
for my sake, Should
thusiasm for
has return ad,
him
yment.”
Antonio grew pale as he listened.
“Amalia, you cannot break my
heart thus. Ask mo: anything else”
“Antonito mol! I love you" she
sobbed. “For you I would; give
home, relatives, country.
me this one favor. Save
child, end I swear to
wife in another month.
sald that if I would marry
would resign your hateful
sion in the army and seek a home in
Mexico. I will follow
to the ends of the eartl
“You won,” h
pause,
They will die day after to-morrow. I
have but a time, and now
leave you, dearest. If I fall, you will
forgive me, will you not? or I will not
e wy disgrace.”
happy ni
that
become
You
you
commis
poor
hay»
have
short
surviv
“HAPTER Ill.
toby rto
other Colraues
Iay on
in the midst of
to cheer and
boy, exhorting him to meet
doom which they felt was
: than for
had been one of the most
volunteers; had fought
gow near ?
prospect Of
ed to make a
coward
who.
iisery, tried
wei} far him
terrible for Lim
the
’
of
little Eng
moment
er who
the
spoke a
lish cell at this
and roughly bade him rise and follow
to the room. loBerto rose
entered
captain's
trembiingly.
“Courag »,
aged man, “perhaps
for you. If not,
from you a word about Lopez's plans.”
“Never fear,” he replied. making an
ntrol his agitation. “I hate
here he gulped down a sob
“this way, I'l not be a
Good-by.”
guard interrupted
speech by pushing him into the cor.
ridor with musket,
“Here prisoner,
“Very you may
middie
News
said a
is good
my boy,”
it
beware lest he
ta C0
but traitor.
—
ie
ais
the
well;
is
captain.”
retirs, ser-
Antondo lecked
and in a Jow tone briefly related
lattsr's escape.
will receive
“Each
shots
prisoner
the co-operation
frisnd of the Cuban
be
as
careful to simulate death as much
until the word ‘Amalia’
is whisper~l in your ear. Then you
may breathe freely and open your
eves, for you will be temporarily safe.
possible
he least indie.
cretion on your part. the least bung
ling on that of those I have employed,
though only two are in ths sécret,
will ruin me as well ag seal your
fate.”
Roberto thanked him fervertly, and
promised Lim implicit obedience,
“You must pot return to your com-
rades.”
“Poor fsllows* muttered Roberto.
“The light of hope is shining
your eyes, and might betray us,
in
possibie. Enter sergeant,” he sald, as
he entsred the door, “and
this prisoner to a solitary cell
other #ilibusters.”
They passed out, and
groaning deeply, murmured, —
“Oh, my love, what a sacrifice!”
* * - - - * *
Th: courtyard of the castle
thronged with soldiery ag Crittenden
and his unfortunate band were
marched to the death-place just as
day was breaking over the beautiful
bay. Surrounded by hostile soldiers
they still maintained a defiant alr,
oven when the glittering line of bay-
onets faced them, and they knew all
Lope was over.
“Kneel, filibusteros!™
The command was not obeyea. Crit.
tenden proudly refused In the words
that have passed ioto history,
“A Kentuckian kopesls to none but
God.”
A struggle ensued, In which some
were forced to their knees; perhaps
all might have been, had not th: of.
ficer in charge, with a touch of hu-
manity, begun giving _the orders.
At the word “Fire!” so deadly was
the volley that few survived it, and
they but a few moments. Roberto,
happily, had no need to stimulate
death. The shock and strain of the
suspense had caused him to faint, and
the surgeon, who hastened to his side,
Antonie,
velved Roberto’s rigid
ness.
“Carry this body, and this, and
this" pointing "to several-"to the
hospital.”
“If they are not dead now, they will
soon be under his knife,” laughed ons
of his assistants,
When Roberto revived he found
himself in a carefully darkened room.
With joy he heard the word “Amalia”
in a friendly voice. In a day or two
afterward, according to Antonio's
previously concerted arrangements,
he was smuggled, In the disguise of a
watemman, to an American ship in
the harbor and concealed in the hold
all night, The next day he thanked
a glad sense of freedom, the soft
Mexico sea. He pever
returnsd to Cuba, though his future
life was replete with striking adven-
tures,
The gay capital of Cuba was quite
month later to learn of
Antonio, and his marriage imme
the part of her family, to the supreme
ly beautiful Senorita Amalla de Val
dez. Waverley Magazine,
BURIAL UNDER FIRE.
of (luantasamo Bay.
High on the ridge where the marines
pitched their tents om the shore of
Guantanamo Bay, the first Cuban soll
by American troops, are tbe
graves of the men who were killed iu
were buried under fire
Spain. They
of Spanish bullets rose clear above the
of
in
of
The burial squad was composed
marines from the Texas. Wrapped
flags. the honorable winding sheet
killed in battle, bodies
were borne from a tent in which they
soldiers the
made it deep because their fear thar
buzzards was
of death
plied pick
comrades to the
their fear
as they
1
the
risked ana
Chaplain Jones. of the Texas, the
firing squad. a few officers and some
correspondents stood bareheaded about
the From thick cover Ix
the Irregular “puts,
putt. putt” of skirmish fire and the
regular sputter of the machine guns.
guervillaas
thicket to thicket
grave, the
we thought,
Gently the men of the Texas lower
the flag wound “Jollles™ “Soldier
sailor, too,” as Kipling has it
the The chaplain stood
which
into earth.
came the rattle
gan the solemn service,
liberately fell and seldoin
their import been realized
fully than it was there at the edge of
the bullet threshed mingle
“Man that is born of woman”
A bullet pecked the earth at his feet
Others sang over
and twigs
A man or two
of musketry, and be
Slow and de
the words,
has
mor
head, Some leaves
The Spanish were firing
The marines of the Texas raised
their heads for a second and bowed
They made to other mo
Th» officers In command. paic
by the enemy's sacrilege.
The chaplain moved a pace from
where he was standing and turned his
face toward the thicket from which
the bullets were coming. Then the
words fell slowly and gravely, “Man
that is born of woman,” and %0 on to
the end.
As Le faced the fire those who had
sought shelter stood up instantly and
bowed their heads reverently. The
fire slackened, ceased, The earth feil
on the flags and covered them and the
heroes wrapped within, A man or two
dropped a tear and a tender, parting
word to his comrades, and the burial
seaward over the crest of the ridge
Half way down the crooked path
which led to the landing two of the
steadily at the
by a Spanish
and a Mauser bullet
“pinged” above them. They ran for
grave were marked
neral was over and they bad no desire
to make another.
But the men who were at the grave
that day will remember long and with
a solemn sense of their great lesson
the words, “Man that Is born of wo-
SAA
Uprto-Date Wedding Rings.
The wedding ring plays as import.
ant a part in the modern nuptial cere
mony as the minister or license.
There ams to be but one correct
style for this country in the matter of
a wedding ring. It is a perfectly plain
band, with outer surface oval and in-
per flat. It is made of 22.-karat,
which is deemed the most grviceable.
The most popular ving Is of medium
sizge—a little less than a quarter of an
inch wide—~though in effect much nar.
rower because of the oval edges. Un-
less the buyer has some preference
for very narow or very broad band,
he fs advised to take a tnpenny
weight ring, this being the regulation
weight for the medium sles, It costs
$10. The tiny narrow rings have
wear at all the ring must be so deep
that it cuts into the other fingers and
is decidedly uncom ble.
are the oxtiemely
the edge
of the
side
NOTES AND COMMENTS
More than 500,000 sewing machines
are made in this country annually,
which is ninety per cent. of the pro-
duction of the world,
According to the figures recently
compiled by the Manufacturers’ Rec
ord of Balthuore, the export trade of
our south Atlantic and gulf ports has
increased from $223.779.533 in 1888 to
$391.473,736, showing a net ga.a
$167,694.203 in ten years,
When a man torfeits $5,000,000 of his
inheritance In order to marry the wo-
man of his cholee it becomes lmport-
ant to remember that he has another
$5,000,000 securely “salted down.”
With that sum in hand any tolerably
thrifty young man would undertake to
keep the wolf from the door.
The United States has more than six
times the railroad mileage of any oth-
er country, We began seventy-two
venrs ago with a tram road, extending
from the granite quarries at Quincey,
Mass, to the Neponset River, a d's
tance of about five miles, and bave to
day nearly 200,000 wiles of track.
The report of the committee of the
Privy Council on education in Scot
in an estimated population of 4,222,784,
an increase of 8 per cent, for the year,
the number of scholars on the registers
of inspected schools was 716,803, an in
the number in average
attendance being 605,388, an Increase
of 2.1.
The mala difference
Chinese and Japanese,
crease of 1.05
between the
according to u
i% that the Japanese
own
German professor
on superintending
work as well as doiug it,
Chinese are contented to work
nitely under foreign
reason, he
tined to get under
insist their
whereas tho
indefi
For
thinks de
European control
|
guidance,
this China is
journal notes some
China
merchants are educating their sous in
expense of $8 a
gives way to the
sevinn chalr to the car
The anti-foot-binding
thi Chinese Ladies’
the great change
A missionary
¢ ip fy
signs of ! in
Progress Chinese
Euglish schools at an
month
}
The barrow
, and the
and pair.
alick
iso indi
Hye ie
riage
noveinent
Sehiool
which
ate
is going on in China.
§ attanal ol miateh «
international chess match
In an
ducted some tlhe figo between a
of players in Brookiyn and a company
in London, the different
they essively
HOoves,
Were
ording 10
ns
Were sue made,
transmitted bj
what Is called the “human relay
In the office at Cape
Nova Scotia, sat an alert operator, As
Lils ear caught the
click of a message from New York, his
hand pressed a button, and transmit
the to Watervelt, Ireland
waiting with
cable n«
Kye
Cansa,
+ ve
©,
SOON as trained
news
the instrament, despaten
ed the word to London
From the data recently compiled by
The Age nine
months of the present year have witl-
railway
building in the United States than
{ailway the past
nessed greater activity in
has
any corresponding period of time since
1883. According to the data from
which there were 2.200 miles
of railway constructed in the United
States up to October 1. 1888. If this
rate of increase contiones until (he
year expires, there will not less
than 3.000 miles of track laid by Jan
uary Ist next in the United States,
Most of the progress made railway
building up to the present time Las
been restricted to the southwest, al
though Minnesota, in the northwest,
has participated more extensively io
we Cite,
be
in
'
t
other individual state. Texas, Ala
bama, Missouri, Louisiana and North
Carolina have cach made heavy gains
The remarkable growth during the
past three years of the bicycle's popu.
larity in countries where it was be.
fore almost a stranger offers pew and
great opportunities for manufacturers
whose product is strictly first class
and whose enterprise and genius are
coustantly alert, The exportation of
wheels, as is shown by trustworthy
statistics. has come to be an exceed
ingly important feature of the indus.
try In America, and the foreign de
mand for American machines next
year and thereafter is a matter of
much consequence to the manufactur
ers of this country.
demonstrated that cyclists on the oth-
preciate the advantages of strong and
speedy mounts. Whenever our manu-
facturers have made desirable changes
come aware of the fact and to make
investigations regarding it.
The terror of the Spanish authorities
with reference to the possibilities of a
Cirlist uprising has
amusing incldents, For instance, great
excitement was caused the other day
one of the principal streets and shout
ing at the top of his voice, “Long live
Don Carlos! Long live Don Carlos!”
The man was at once arrested, and to
his evideut amazement, taken to the
police station, where be inguired in
great perplexity what offence he bad
committed. When he was told that
he had emitted treasonable eries, his
perplexity seemed only to be increased
and when he was reminded that he
tind been heard cheering for Don Car
jos, he burst out laughing and explain-
ed that the Don Carlos who had arous.
ed his enthusiasm was a certain Don
Carlos Garcia who had just given him
16 pesetas in mistake instead of 15
reals. :
The Duke of Devonshire and Sir
Jolin Gorst signed a report jut luaviad, ed,
tion act Is often a failure so far ns
practical operation Is concerned, It
is estimated that in the middle of 1887
there were (In England and Wales)
597,162 children between eleven and
twelve years of age, belonging to the
class usually attending public eiemen-
tary schools, but no fewer than 19.861
of these were not accounted for on the
school registers. Between the ages of
twelve and thirteen the leakage
total of 689,138 children, and between
the ages of thirteen and fourteen to
the serious number of 373.782 out of an
estimated total of 580.131. The com-
mittee regard this leakage as very
grave, The attemnpt to impart a sound
elementary education to children who
leave school at too early an age must,
they say, result in failure; and the ed-
ucation of people cannot be made sat-
isfactory until this defect has been
cured.
The longest piece of surface rallraod
in the United States on which electric.
ity hag been substituted for steam Is
Buffalo and Lockport, a twenty-
now runs four elee-
tric lacomotives. The point of widest
interest In the change that more
frequent trains are run and at a fase
and
is
traffic
The
twice ax large as
surprise in the matter
that locomotives
used instead of the multiple-unit
tem, Where it not
carry the source of power the use of a
wast? of energy. For
uffalo
regarded
satisfactory demonstra
of clectricity in a
The significant I
ture is the doubling of the traffic with
the increased service, as this points a
way in which the steam rallroads may
wer a part of the business
taken from them by the more conven-
tent street rallways,
are
By S-
is necessary to
locomotive Is a
this reason the
and Lockport
on the
results
road are not
tion the
suburban service,
ol value
en
rem
at least,
When laws
the rignts
are enacted to even up
or the privileges of the
ig to gi
sexes, the purpose generally ve
the women something in the way of je
which she
we selfish law-n
gal privileges from
been barred by
AD #X¢ eption
new
take
This gives
tl
nen. perimps the
law Marviand.
effect January
the husband
rights in his
one, is in a in
which i to on
ext
wife's
sane marital
¥
ine
as the w
in her
have
has under exist
ing law sisband’s
Each will
change gives
property.
iglitx, The
the husband more of
he enjoyed under
dower r
tO
property rights tl
th
inn
now obsolete common-law right of
‘vourtesy.” The wis a cont
gency upon the birth of a child, an}
gave the husband a life interest in all
The
the
latter
fasten on
wife's property the moment she brings
hasband’'s new rights
i into matrimony
after by inheritance,
or acquires it there
gift or purchase
unless steps have been taken to keep
Should he not
or by joining her in a deed of
her property convey it to a purchaser,
hix claim to each plece or parcel to the
extent of one-third continues until
after her death, when he becomes a
hiix one-third, The new
attach even though the par.
ties are separated, bot not absolutely
divoreed, In brief aims to
give both busband and wife, widow
and widower, respectively, the same
or an equal share in each other's prop
under like conditions at death,
and equal rights in property in all re
sped in
him out of it. waive
fem
tenant of
right will
the statute
erty
Curing Sleepicssacss.
“There are many remedies for
jessness,” remarked the village: phil
osopher, judicially. “About many
as an army of skeeters on a sumiuer's
night. Ope formula is to count one
hundred as slowly as if you were
day, and another is
to repeat the multiplication table for.
rards and backwards till you are ut-
terly exhausted.
“You are also advised to imagine
that you are watching a flock of no
‘vonnt sheep jumping over a gat way
sleep
as
every once in a while, and
think steadily of pothing.
“Another rule is to crook and un
crook your little finger slowly and dis-
tinetly, so to d =seribe it, several times.
“There are also all sorts of things
not to eat, any one of which is guar
you to sleep without
of sucew=sful contradiction.
“There is one beanty about all of
these suggestions. They are totally
harmless. They won't hurt you, even
do sou any good. 1
deep, refreshing sleep is to imagine
that it is time to get up. If you can
firmly convince» yourself that the
you'll go to sleep though every house
in the vicinity falls with a crash,
Such, I may add. is the perversity of
human nature.” Baptist Union,
The Fate of the Batchelor.
Every almshouse in the land is fall
of old bachelors, pale, moping men,
who meditate on childhood and its
memories of friends, If old age comes
with wealth then the bachelor realiz-
ex that the swe test things of life can.
not be bought. Hix house is not a
home. Those who walt on him work
pot for love, but for wages. He is
lke a traveler in a strange land, whe
wishes for a g-nuine resting place
and some ene to look at whom he
loves. Pittsburg Dispatch,
THE KEYSTONE STATE.
Latest News Gleaned from
Various Parts.
RETURNED KLONDIKER.
Fransportation Companies Fleeces Minsrs
~Auditor General Preparing to Becelve
Statements From the Banks-Samnuel
Nissley Had Wandored Far and Wide
Since April-Danisl DeTurk Dead,
John A, Krelger, of Johnstown, is home
from Alaska after a fruitless search for
gold, He is thoroughly disgusted at the
many reports that are being circulated
about fabulous wealth at the Kotzebue
Sound Distriet. ‘It’s all a big transporte
ion scheme,” said Mr. Krieger, io speaking
of the trip of himself, bis uncle, William
Gerhart, and the latter's son. “Just a
game to get the people up thers for the
revenue the steamship company sod rails
way lines derive, We did not see anything
ihe color of gold ail the time we were in the
Ketzebus district. In fact, there fsn’t a bit
of the yellow metal there, The steamship
people carried a large number of gold seek-
srs, but their description of the country was
purely a fake. There is just as much goid
n the hills of Pennsylvania as there is in
Kotzebue, There is no lack of provisions.
When we left the Kotzebue Sound there was
snough food there to keep the #00 gold-
seekers five years. Many of the prospectors
thers expected to try the overland route to
the Yukon and try to work the Klondike
fieids, but they will never succeed, for the
reason that they do mot bave enough dog
sams Lo transport their outfits, The only
gold we saw was while we were in Beattie,
There agents of the transportation com-
panies were displaylog bags of gold asd
wliing breezy tales of how easily they plek-
*d it up." Mr. Krieger wade the trip to
which
sank on the return voyage.”
Interest on State Money.
Auditor General Levi G. McCauley an-
aounees that as soon as the blanks are
eady be will send out notices to the differ
:nt banks holding State deposits for their
wesith November 2 next. This will be the
first interest pald by depositories of Btate
funds—2 per cent. on the non-active banks,
and 1l¢ per ceni. op the active banks. Two
of these banks are in Pittsburg, two ig Phil.
sdelphis and one in Harrisburg, The Audi-
tor General states that all asylums, bospit-
ais and other institutions entitied to State
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bave been paid their appropristions in full,
Missing Farmer Returns,
Samuel Nisley, a Drumore Township
met a low friends and mysteriously djsap-
peared. Theories that be had been murder
8d or bad committed suleide were advansed,
and for several weeks the police kept up a
diligent search, but without finding the
It was generally supposed
be was dead, but he surprised his friends by
returniag. He is very reticent and refuses
«0 say bow he left the ofty, or tell soything
about himeel!, except that he left on account
of finanelal difficulties and Las been all over
the country,
Date of Murderer's Execution Fixed
Attorney L. P. Wedeman, of counse! for
Jeorge Van Horn, the convicted murderer
of Josephine Wescott, of Scrsston, bas re-
msived a letter from Lewis E. Beiter, private
secretary to Governor Hastlogs, notifying
Sim that the action of the Sapreme Court in
relusing & new trial to Van Horn has been
sertified to the Governor, and that be bas
fixed Tuesday, January 11, 1809, as the dae
for the execution. A respite will be applied
for to enable Van Horn's sttoraeys to take
an appeal to the United States Supreme
Conrt.
Peanstylvania Ralliroad Sued.
Suit against the Pesosyivania Railroad
Oompany for #15800 has been entered at
Ebsssburg, by Henry Black and his wife for
njuries alleged to have been inflicted to
Mrs, Black, on the Vintondale braneh of the
Pennsylvania Raliroad in September. The
siatm is made that as Bisck and his wife sat
in the car, it was allowed 10 collide with a
soal train, throwing Mrs, Blabk on the front
seat and injuring ber po that she will be a
cripple for life,
Found Dead in His Bedroom.
Charles Erdbart, of West Chester, aged
58 years, was found dead in his bedroom.
He retired io his usual health but was ap-
parentiy stricken while removing his cloth.
ing. Ansulopsy revealed the fact that be
bad burst & bloodvessel in his throst, and
bad died of stranguiation. Deceased was a
inlior by occupation, and came to West
Chester from Wilmington, Del, two years
ag
Pennaylivania Giant Dead,
Daniel P. De Turk, a well-known faimer
of Oley, died, aged 45 yours He was Dewn-
oeratio candidate for Recorder of Deeds
during the last two campaigos. He was
prominent in the Masonic Lodge at Kutg.
town, and alse belonged to the Knights of
the Golden Eagle and P. 0.8. of A. He
weighed 835 pounds. -
Alleged Car Thicl Arrested.
lewis White was committed to jail by
Magistrate Leonhardt, st Norristows, for