TH ® 0 LOCK.
Hear the musle of the clock,
Softly ticking time;
As the water wears the rock,
Se in rhythmic rhyme
Does the ticking of the clock
See to wear out the,
In the bustle of the day
It is searcely heard;
Stil it ticks and ticks away,
Blithe as any bird.
Careless that the sounds of day
Make its volee unheard,
But at night it speaks aloud
In the stillness deep,
When the day-time's weary crowd
Drops to realms of sleep:
Then its voice, exulting loud,
Wakes the stillness deep.
And the wakeful listener hears
Strange and serious things:
Hears the stream of flowing years
As it flows aud sings
Surgings of the future hears,
And clash of coming things!
wodames Raymond Perry in
Companion.
Youths’
THE CRIPPLE’S
SWEETHEART.
By Fiorenee C. Reilly.
Garry Von Ritter, he laziest and most
shiftless man in Farmdale, stood in An
derson’s store, warming his feet at the
stove, The men sitting about on the
barrels eyed hh expectantly. When
Garry walked the three miles from his
lonely, miserable to the
there was sure to be fun for the crowd
there, and Garry's remarkable speech
es were quoted all about the town
Now they waited, hoping that he would
give them something to laugh at
He was very tall, and thin that
his elbows literally pierced the thread
bare material of cont, and
stuck out of his sleeves, all raw an¥i
bleeding from the cold. He had a
heavy, sullen face, and slouching move
ments,
“Well, Garry,” sald
storekeeper, seeing that
seemed disinclined to bros
“How's Elvina?”
“Loouy,” said Garry,
yer know, fellers, 1
made a big mistake in
girl. My old mar said
ryin’ way
think she was right for once.”
A cripple lad, in a far
of the store shifted his seat
and & look of pain came into his
soft men lnughed
Von any one “bend
her
struck
cottage store,
S40
his single
Anderson, the
Von Ritter
1k the silence
sullenly. “Do
begin tor know 1
marrvin® that
ns 1 was mar
amd b'gosh,
beneath me,
sitting
ne «corned
uneasily
rent
eves, The Mis
titter thinking
good-for-nothing
them
ath
drunken son
as being a rather good
joke.
“Yep,”
right for
crazy as a loon.
that mine,
starin’ out of her whi
no attention to
rag doll is egough ter give a
She don't
that's done fer her.
ain't a bit grateful ter
ryin’ her.”
The wen lnughed again.
Grateful! My Lordl”
Hawkins, ipple,
his thin
He thought
sili tO
wont to the distiriet school
gentle, shple Httle thi
about her
He, Abe Hawkins,
and aight, like
t
{
oil not far from the
(:ar Was
Elvina Is crazy sure
ttin in
tend ry. “she
repea
once.
Ter see her se
with
ie (nee
house of her big eves
amd payin’
nothin® than
fell
anythin’
nHiore
CTePps, appreciate
Sometimes 1 think
mar
she * me for
mutiere (I Abe
clenchnd
his
Allen
when sli
She w
the as he
hands and
of little
years
C1
ground top
Elvina
aii,
4:
as
need he
ax 0
oretty, vith
un frig
sad little
then w
other boys.
with =n
gratsdiather. «any
her walking from the ia
old man leaning
ww face
ng.
delicate,
face.
as strong he
She liv i
school, wretched, drunken
a time be had seen
vern, with the
on her shoul
crimson with shame, the
pel eve
ied to ache
neavily
der, li
tears quivering on
lashes, How his heart
with pity for her and uate for the old
man who made her life so unhappy fot
her. It was to Allen, new dead, that
he owed his affliction. He had met the
grandfather and Eivina on the bridge
As the little girl saw him, she stun
bled, and the old man's hand had
slipped from her shoulder, almost fling
ing him on his face. He had turned to
strike the child, and Abe, springing for.
ward to save Elvina from the blow, re
ceived it himself, and then Allen, in his
drunken fury had lifted the boy and
thrown him over the low bridge railing
itito the brook below, injuring his back
and making him a cripple for life, He
thought of all thiz now, as Elvina's
her droo
fdlers of the girl whom Abe had loved
80 devotedly when she was a little,
helpless child and he a big-hearted boy,
who pitied and, when he could, pro
tected her,
statement that she was “crazy.”
mind, never very strong,
given way beneath the
privations she had undergone
cottage of her grandfather, and later
with her shiftless, brutal husband
“Poor, gentle, Hitle Elvina!” He was
Her
langh from the loungers,
“Trade her fer a stove!
Anderson, “This ain't no Indian settle-
ment, where a man can swap his wife
fer a knife or a keg of liquor or any
other old thing.”
“Don’t care,”
“I'll trade Elvina for a stove,
*
sald Garry. doggedly.
I tell
do want a stove. Italian Pete has got
two stoves, and since Marie hung her-
self In Thompson's barn he ain't had
no wife, an’ if he wants Elvina, an’
gives me the stove he kin have her,
whether this is an Indian, or a Dutch
settlement, Give me a pack of fer
backer, Anderson. I've got ter be mak-
in’ tracks fer home,
“Yer ain't got no more sense of mor:
ality than a rail fence, Garry.”
“1 didn’t ask yer anythin’ about mor.
ality. Dido't say wothin' about it.
What 1 did ask yer {et Wis & package
of terbacker, so shet yer head, John
Anderson, an’ give it ter me,” and seiz-
ing the package Anderson handed him,
he walked out of the store, followed
by Abe,
“Garey,
Ritter's arm,
a"
sald Abe, touching Von
“Per you mean it?
you really trade yer wife fer a stove?”
“Sure 1 mean it, yer grasshopper,”
sald Garry impatiently.
“Is the stove new
you?"
“New! Pete ain't quite a fool. Why
would he give me a new stove for a
eras woman? Certainly it ain't new.”
“Garry.” said Abe, with a great desl
of suppressed eagerness, “1 tell yer
what I'll do. I'll give yer a bran new
stove, just out of the store,
let me take Elvina home to my mother,
A bran new stove,
Pete will give
“Yer will?!
think
ax a cripple,
take the things and
“When?”
“This afternoon,
said Garry.
you was a fool as well
but if yer mean it, I'll
give her ter yer.”
if yer bring the
11.
A little later Abe was sitting
kitchen of the large Hawkins
house, while his mother, a
ant, elderly woman,
They had been talking of
“Certainly, my boy,” she
the poor little girl home, and I'l look
after her. She has had a bard lif
poor child, and 1'H best
her happy for the time
but all this will cause a dreadful lot of
talk, Abe. 1 wish you could have
her from that brute in some
way.”
“I wish 1 could
Abe, as he kissed
dear, for
f there
in the
farm-
pleas
him.
rosy,
sat opposite
Elvina.
said, “bring
do my to make
she has to live;
got
other
have, mother,” suid
her, “God bless you
by me in this, Even
t amd I Know
don't we?’
standing
ix tal} We die
doing the right Dg,
11
dt was late in the
noon when Abe
ter's cottage with the
iilly after
Yon Rit
i fuel in
ine slodching out
wid the £1
1, and at last
cottage Abe fol
wretched, fireless
g, her lap full of
Abe re
then, how
raw, cl
up to
SIOVe In
drove
his wagon. Garry oi
and proceeded fo nk
lid not take
£1803
wagon.
him very ln
he walked the
i him. In the
lowed
na girl was »
into
od itiin
ertm biftersweet berries,
hdd at
hi for t
Son
tnembered, ax hie on
hem together
hey were children
ne in her hair, and
berries made her
by
side,
ness ol
contrast
“Yiney,”
astly
her
face look
» walked over
fered
She
he wi
Abe?
then slipped
as she
frist
bat :
Olwsiiontis
tehed
je fittle
faced
fi
wigon, ti * ETippie
whit
indal sure,” he sald,
, and tur
sn added
or
ped and went into
“I'm
eyes
her”
As th
road
£1
and the al
Elvina conghed
There y
bine
exhinusted.
Abe drooped
% ig hi
her 1
enougn 1
blood on her
his head to hide
“God, " he prayed, i
ittle while, long
that we aren't all brates in this
Lord,
Hs
iv.
Has
the tear fg eyes,
si
¢ long enough to snow
Het
HBS Deel 80
Mrs
onstracd,
ured by t
The
man's
it
taken
that tl
such a
Hawking's goin’
to speak to Mrs,
their disapproval
evening a deputation
Knocked at the Hawkinses
door. woeiving no
walked in. Mrs
and the doctor stood beside
“f did all I could, Mrs,
wis saying, “She was too worn out
and too starved Inst any longer. If
she had been attended to in time her
fife might have been prolonged. but
she was consumptive, poor child”
The five citizens stood abashed, Abe
entered the room with white, set face
and trembling Hmbs,
“I suppose you people have come to
make me send Elvioa back to that
brute?” he sald, glancing at them.
“She won't be starveo or frozen or
Khe is dead.
haps you would like to see her?”
They followed him silently into a
little bedroom, and there on the bd,
with a few bittersweet berries on her
breast, her vacant blue eyes closed
child-uge smile on her
all that
dea
wife
CRs
Flvina
ie people
flgnation it
"that tin
Hawkins
Necordingly
of citi
Kite
eRpOnSe,
Hawkins sat ery
her,
Hawkins,"
gate of
sen yy decid
aid express
tint
five fis
hen
thes
ing
he
0
white face, lay
She looked very, and
happy. too, happier
very young
than those
of her young Hle—years so full of mis.
ery. pain and sorrow;
softly left the room.
Mrs. Hawking followed them.
died ramblin’ along about old school
times, and at last she said, ‘Abe, help
me up the rock "Mhage is a lot of bitter
sweet growin’ there, and she put her
poor hana ato Abe s and closed her
blue staring eyes and died, he tnought
she was a child again. . oor dear, she
wasn't much morethan one. Only nine
teen, It's better that she should die,
But Abe will feel it terribly,
in the little réom the cripple was
kneeling beside the bed holding Elvi
na's hand in bis. “Oh, God” he
sobbed, “I thank thee that her suffer:
ing is over and that
die with friendly faces round her”
Then he kissed her pale forehead and
whispered, "You'll never know how
much 1 loved you, little sweetheart”
New York Mail and Express,
WHICH FOOT WALKS THE
FASTE.T?
A Few Simple Experiments Which
Give You the Correct Answer.
You may think this a very silly ques.
tion to ask, but it? There Is no
eateh about It
sirable fact which you
your own satisfaction in a very few
minntes., If you will take any pave-
ment that Is clear of other pedestrians,
that there shall be no interferance,
walk briskly in the centre, you
will find that before you have gone a
yards you will have
very much to one side,
make apy conscious effort, course,
to keep to the cente vou may do it,
and if you will think of something and
to walk naturally, it is 8 han-
you cannot keep a
in
can prove to
Ne)
veered
of
Fr, of
endeavor
dred
line,
The
fo one
this lies
to walk
explanation of in
peculiarity of one foot
than the other. Or, tobe more
perhaps it should be sald that
longer stride than
combined with the qui
walk
other,
‘ker
takes ao the
aid
novement, can
to one than the other,
It is well known, for instance,
in the
in a
ahont
gnsirntes
this,
ROS Oh 10 Hoe
wide
that if
woods, the
and eventually
return the starting
dem the fact also
one foot walks faster than the other
You car an experi
ment in this way if you will place
one is lost
§ i wed
ix to walk circle
fo
his
0
interesting
two
gahout eight feet
stand off abont
to be blindiolded,
walk
the lawn
apart, and then is
feet,
and
You will
ba uals
task,
votrself
endeavor to between them
find it almost impossible
Hi go a bit
the
an
beeause one fool w
than
right or left.
feet walks |
faster the other, elther to
Now, which one of
aster than the other?
Sugar and Its History.
a constituent of most
in or less degree, at
fod of thelr The «
formerly supposed to be
honses of have
found to contain notable
Sugar is
greater
wiki
miy
ch,
wil
rose or saccel
used by
substance 11
carbohydrates
taste. The px
stance, However,
the
sis
tiie
Puke
: ph int containing
fo rst attract
This
abundance
kind.
only
amd it
as a
People Who Eat Arsenic.
The old adage that win
another mans
illustrated by an ac
of the Styrian
h SOFTEApon
at is one man's
fool in sty
count of
recently
poison is
ingiy
ios yneracy ins
publ od in
Io Figaro of Pari
said to eat arses te Asiatic
the European chews tobacco
a matter of taste, There are peo
vary from pm
size of a millet to pills the
of various Kinds of arsenic,
favorite being the white gus
asx ratsbane, They will take it daily, or
on alternate days, or twice a week, ae
cording to circumstances: generally
they abstain from the luxury at the
tisne of the new moon, beginning small
doses with the young moon and ine
creasing them to a maximum by the
full moon. Why this lunar observance
it is hard to guess, unless, ax the corre.
spondent says, the arsenic makes them
strong and healthy and they fancy
that the waxing moon weakens them
and renders the greater proportion of
the restorative necessary. But what
over be their reason, the fact remains
that the regular consumers five to good
ages, nd are strong, healthy and conr-
ageous, New York Times,
Our Six-lach Gun is the Best
The new six<dnch fiftycalibre gun
for the navy now being constructed at
the Washington Navy Yard will be
type iu the
world. It will carry a one hundred
pound shell and will use American
smokeless powder, The present six.
inch gun of the American navy, which
is of forty calibre, was tested against
an English fifty-calibre gun about
three months ago at the Indian lead
proving grounds, and under similar
conditions of charge and projectile
beat the English gun by 400 feet per
wocond mugzle velocity, The Hnglish
gun's best initial velocity was 2.600
she
Aa Niyy
as the ents
opium or
as
ple whose doses
size of a
pea, the
tin ss
MR, JOBSON'S
Had to Admit Fiaally thet You Can't Beal!
the Women,
Mr. Jobson got home from hix office
at 4:10 one afternoon last week and
found a note from Mrs, Jobson saving
S REVENGE.
aud that
for the
ance of a long-haired pianist,
he'd find his dinner all ready
girl to serve it
“That's a good thing, too,” mused
Mr. Jobson sulkily, when he had read
the note, *it's a wonder these mat-
tress-headed geniuses that come over
here to this country and rake in Amer
hating Americans all the
wouldn't eall thelr game at an
that 'ud permit a tolling man's
wife to be on hand at home to give
it." ete,
The opportunity
Jobson to miss,
ef,
good for
80 he declined 10
was too
it on the table, Instead, he slammed
on his hat and went down town. He
wanted give Mrs. Jobson a lesson.
ate an unsatisfactory dinner.at a
restaurant, and then poked around un-
til it was time for a variety theatre to
open its doors, He had to watch a lot
games in or-
and to talk with
to
to put in this time,
thinking he had departed. He
bored exceedingly by theatre time, The
show bored him still But he
for he wanted to get home
as possible, the better to rub it
Mrs, 11 « Lie
had a pre{y poor
was
mare,
fas late
in on Jobson, By Yelock
his evening paper
idle talk with
he didn't want
finally, a tawdry,
that might
him ten years
but was only so much ribaldry to
pow. He took in a couple more
inrd games, after the
wow, and smoked a couple of vile
cared to smoke,
wanted Mrs, Job
and thus perceive the
poor dinner,
of men that to
and
periormance
Inugh out
talk to,
variety
cheap
have
04 Dress
bill
Bi
however,
cigars, not because he
because he son to
his breath
OTIS
* conduct
rials
noes Of
tucked
hone
irning
the bedroom
srely when Mr. J
the gas els going
ing, however, Mr
to find her
and in tears
He was more
ikin't greet hin
$
1
Ys 8
$541
expected ui
Mr. Jobson saw
go fo sleep
Causing
$y
king any kind oi
ivhody by wthods, hey 7
i what ¥¢
sald Mrs
3 Yap”
307
Licey
ire
Josh
tal that" 4
ana
minutes past
nee of our wsaat
Pon
flags
OHtly
adva
&
Of ¢
» minntes in
but, Hse, had
to
I suppose you had gone back
* office to work, It's shameful the
way they're overlooking youn,
old thing.” and then Mrs, Jobson,
knew that Mr, Jobson lindn’t
working at his office, turned over
sithaided into dreamy slumber,
“You can't thought Mr.
Jobson, when be got into bel. He was
thinking of women in general.—Wash-
ington Star.
You poor
wlio
been
and
beat ‘em.’
A Japanese Girls Wedding.
“Marriage in Japan is only a civil
contract, and not in any way a religi
ous one,”
Ladies’ Home Jourpal.
by law and social obligations,
writes Onoto Watanna in the
“It ix protected
selves at all in marital affairs,
times; three times the
times the groom,
Hqguid) nine
bride, three
tween the palr In making the engage:
ment. Toward the end of the cere
mony a singer sings a song dled
“Fakasago,! which narrates the loving
and happy life of an old couple,
the ceremony closes, the last notes of
the singers beautifal melody remain:
ing in the air, charming all. The last
stage of girl life is over,”
A mi
Samonan Opinion of America.
Among the Samoans their war over
the succession never has ended, The
forests have bad their fends hidden
away. It even has been dangerous at
times for Germans to go a.one into the
remoter parts of the larger sia
ively was the Bamonn hatred of the
Teuton. Englishmen webe safe any.
where, but often unwelcome. Ameri
cans were the only ones who could be
assured of a Hearty Welcoins in say
f greatest nation on earth, the most
i powerful and the most just. To them
England, Germany and France were
far inferior to the Americans, who al-
wave had been their friends and al
wavs treated them with justice, The
American flag was the honored fiag
and Amerlean strangers were the wel
come ones. It was pleasant to drive
about the leafy. forest roads or walk
in the villages with the certainty that
every man, woman and child would
smile a greeting. or say chicerily, “Ta-
lofa.” the “love you" that means
the same whether in the “Aloha” of
the Hawallan or the “"Tofa” of the
Maori in New Zealand, for they are all
akin in Polynesia,
to
Chicngo Record,
DRUMSTICKS FOR BASS DRUMS.
Old Style with Stuffed Head, Moder: with
Head of Felt--Double-Headers.
The old style, familiar dromstick
for bass drums is made with the head
of sheepskin or chamois, stuffed with
yarn, Years ago the head of this sort
of bass drumstick, ‘was Rg
shaped; it now made
pear-shaped and secured to thie stick,
which is inserted into the Liead by
winding around the peck ef the head
with waxed cord. That part of the
handle that is thus wound around is
turned with a slight flare in its shape,
$0 that the head cannot possibly slip
off. This sort of drumstick usually
made with a hic handle, though
sometimes with a handle of rosewood
The modern drumstick for
drums is made of felt. Three
of very thick felt of a size sufficient to
form drumstick head are pressed
together into a that
firm and solid, has some de
gree of elasticity, bloek of felt
bored tra its layers to
ive the the head is
turned down to in an lathe, the
felt drumstick made with an
apple-shaped head, At the base of the
head and also at the top there is a
metal cap, the eap the top being
held with a serew ranning ‘hronugh it
into the the head be
thas held betwee
Pre
miade
iu commonly
ix
kor
bass
pieces
the
compact in
and yer
1 his
of
and
body,
in
nsversely
rece handle,
being
ant
end of stick, the
ing un two metal caps.
The handle is of
1 he folt dru
about four
rosewood,
mistick in
it three
has been use
It costs abou
as the old. f
hm
YOOrs,
ashioned
it ore durn
i8 Ir
Aalis HA
in o
factory {
with I
head
flats down more or less
the stitching of the
the course of
» felt head preserves
greater
nied ig
and
titne
certainty
for bass dran
er, having
pearane
tin
filter
pogo
ti b
i
special dimensions to sult
»
~aew York Sun.
A “Lightning Change” Artist.
hed on 1h
pape |
ush fens
AW Aa
soiree dis
Zray roo
easel in Sight,
rience, |
geual termination
observation of either
or minks
Occasionally
into
or projecting
IV OWD ex
§
3
thi jg the
Chaney
fli hf be soon
dart behind
log plank, but much more
frequently they vanish with a sudden
ness that defies the Keenest eyesight,
In all probability this vanishnig
accomplished by extreme repidity
but if this i= the case
may
brashes or
tiie
nation. then the
ntterly impossible to any other warm.
blooded animal of sige. Mice,
squirrels, and some of the smaller birds
fare all of them swift enough at times,
bit except In the case of the humming
| bird none of them =uccesd in accom
the result achieved by the
woeasels--W, E. Cram. in Appleton's
Popular Sclentitic Monthly.
its
Living ia Vencauela,
Any one going to Caracas with an
idea of economy had much better scan
n few figures which the Venezuelan
Herald prints, It costs a good deal to
maintain any sort of social position,
says the Herald, and, therefore, to set:
tle in Venezuela on a small salary is
to partake of the life of the immi
| grant,
A litte house for two--small, clean
and comfortable houses are very rare
rents at from $40 to £55 per month, A
cook costs $10 per month, and a maid,
who does not Know how to sew on a
button, $5, and it requires three maids
to perform badly the service of one un-
trained girl,
Marketing is very high, and clothing
exorbitant, There is no such thing as a
ready made suit. Cabs cost 80 cents
an hour, gas 20 bolivars per 1.000 feet,
and the hotels charge from $2.50 to 810
per day, and are second rate at that
pda
Encougaging Howse Building.
To encourage the removal of old
buildings, the authorities of «Vienna,
Austria, have decreed that if the own.
ors of Fring peeled houses will
THE KEYSTONE STATE.
Latest News Gleaned from
Various Parts.
FIREBUG'S AWFUL WORK
Mach Timbers Destroyed by Fires on Blue
Mountains Smalipox Discovered by
Medien! Inspector in Westmoreland
County ~Filagwman Dazzied by Electric
Light and Falled to Realize the Danger,
An Incendiary Is supposed to be at work
in the vicinity of Manor Station, Westmore
land county, In one night two stables in
which the same man was loterested, was de.
stroyed by fire, On Baturday night the
dairy plant of the Manorfield Stock Farm
Company, five miles up Manor Valley, was
burned, the loss being $20,000, ipeizding
tronty-nine Jersey ‘cattle, The barn 2on-
tained 120 bead of eattie, and all but twen-
vy-nine were saved. The cattle which per-
ished were worth #3500. Bome of them
wers imported from the Island of Jersey,
Dr. M. E. Griffith, of Manor, sold the con-
cern to the Farmers’ and Deposit Bank, of
Greensburg a few years ago, but retained an
interest, On the same night the private
stables of Dr, Griffith was destroyed by fire,
and the firemen say they detected an odor
of burning oll in the rulas, poluting to pos
sible inocendiarism. The loss from the second
Are was $1,200, ¥., 1. Fry, chist of the
Manor Fire Department, says thers is no
doubt but that the fire was incendiary. Dr.
Griffith is unable to explain why aayone
should desire the destruction of the two
stables, but Is convinced that the fires were
of incendiary origin.
Store and Hote! Fired.
John Beed's store building at Falls Cresk,
two miles from Dabols, was partially de-
sifoyed by fire, Citizens saved the buliding
from total destruction, and it was then dis-
covered thst the store bad been robbed and
set on fire, The loss on goods snd bulldisg
will reach nearly £10,000, An attempt was
also made to burn the 81. Elmo Hotel, Da-
bolts. Andrew Murray bad previously been
eincied from the hotel. It Is claimed that
2s returned, and galoing entrance So 8 rear
room emptied the contents of an ofl ean and
set fire to the fluid. The blaze was diseor.
ered before much damage had been done,
Murray was aflterward’s arrested, and he
was taken to ths county jall
Sixtesn Small-Pox Cases.
The discovery of the x stesce of sixteen
eases of small-pox in Westmoreland county
has crested considerable sxoltement. Dr.
RE B., Hammer, medical iospector for the
State Board of Health ia Westmoreland
County, made the discovery. The cases have
been treated as variciold, and they are lo-
cated at Layton, a mining settlement of 300
people, oa the line of the Baltimore & Otlo
Balirosd., In some instances convalescent
eases within the past ten days bave been
No
deaths ocourred,
Flagman Crushed to Death.
F. B. Ryans, of Wilmington, Del. a flagman
Wilmington & Baltimore
talirosd shifting engine, was erushed to
It seems that Ryan and
for.
ward bumpers of the shifter, which was run.
Byau's companion saw the dan.
but
ag are light and did
His one leg was cut off
erushed,
dazzled by
Shot by a Pollceman.
H. Y. Fisher, a Lithuanian, was shot and
Barre, The officer discovered Fisher at-
tempting to enter a residence, When appre-
bended Fisher murderously assaulted the
policeman, The Iatter thereupon shot
The wounded an was taken to a
The officer's bullet lodged in
causing a wound that may
Fisher's hack,
Fires on Blue Mountains.
Fierce and destructive fires raged siong
north of
Hamburg, the serpentine tralis of fire being
Heavy rains durisg the
night fortunately prevented further destrud
tion,
Higher Wages for 2,500 Men,
It has been definitely announced that the
shops are to receive an increase of wages
ranging from 5 to 10 per cent. About 2.560
News in Brief.
The residence of Eugene Whitenight, on
Raliroad Street, Bloomsburg, was completely
destroyed by fire,
Ia preparing for a blast at O'Brien's quar-
ries, Conshohocken, a workmen inserted a
charge in a hole that was already charged,
An explosion feliowed, wrecking the bolier
bouse, but injuriog no one,
The movement in Colwyn Borough to bor- .
ow $10,000, to be spent in the erection of
a modern school building, met defeat at a
special election. The taxpayers voted three
to one axaiast the proposition,
John Thomas, employed on the Bridge
port construction train, in alighting from
his train at the Norristown station, stepped
in front of a passing engine, He was knoeked
down snd ran over, His right arm was cut
off and he was otherwise Injured.
IO. 3
MILITARY DIVISION OF Ccusa.
The President Orders the Six Departinents
Consolidated Inte Four, .
Wasnivorow, D. C. (Special).The fest
important result of Secretary Alger's visit
to Cabh was an order fssusd by the War
Depar. dnt, b Sireetioh of the President,
Lonso) ng the six military departm ont
of the Division of Caba Tho fo