THE PLAYHOUSE,
’ By Nixon Waterman,
It wasn't a house at all, you see
But only a big, flat stone;
Yet they called it a house, did the sis
ters three,
As they tarvied there
tea;
And each wns as glad as a queen might
be, ’
A queen on a golden throne.
and sipped their
And one was like a lily fair,
And one was like a rose;
And one had stolen a happy share
Of blended grace from the other pair;
And all were lovely beyond compare,
My queens of the long agoes.
by the garden
The house was close
gate,
And under the apple trees;
In whose broad branches,
late,
The robin sang to his happy mate
As a lithe limb, feeling his happy
welght,
Swung low in the summer breeze,
early and
And many a golden afternoon
The sisters chatted there,
With hearts as glad as the skles of |
June,
With hearts as soft as a mother's croon
Soon
With a grief they could not bear.
1 RTS BAH OSS, Ro a ———
sake of transient pecuniary relief he
had placed himself in the man's pow-
er. The rich Peruvian held his notes,
which must be met or which would be
destroyed upon the marriage of Marie
to Don Jose,
“And now I desire to see Marie here;
kindly tell her to come to me,” utterd
the Peruvian,
His imperious alr of command made
the blood of the old Venezuellan boll;
but choking back his anger-—for he was
in this man's power-- he returned to the
ball room, leaving the other to pace up
and down the conservatory, filled with
viel, gatly-hued tropical plants.
A soft step caused him to turn, The
beautiful form of Marie approached
nearer. He reached out his hand, and
the girl drew back as the thin, feverish.
ly hot fingers almost crushed ner soft
hand. The grasp of those slender fin-
gers felt to her touch like the clasp of
the very touch sent the
from her heart, and her
“Marie—~for 1 the right to call yon
vour father has given his consent
marriage. No, do not stert, 1
It is
Come
subject. Be my wife.
you a queen among women, and sur
of wealth unlimited. What Is your an-
swer?’
“I thank you as’ before;
ns before, decline the honor,”
but 1 must,
fell from
I wandered far in the paths of men,
I lingered long ana late
To win the golden prize and then
I set my heart for the “home” again,
But the world seemed change nnd
cheerless when
I stood by the garden gate.
In woe I sat me down to weep,
For my heart was sad and lone,
And my gold seemed all so poor and |
cheap.-
There was little left 1 eared to keep,
And 1 wished 1 were wrapped in a
dreamless sleep
And under the biz fiat stone.
-I.. A. W, Bulletin,
THE STING OF THE VIPER.
BY H. 8. KELLER.
“Maledictions upon that white-faced |
fool! The girl was interested, attracted |
by me ere he came. That interest which
I had taken so much pains to foster
might in time have ripened into love.
1 could be patient, for I am a Peruvian,
Now, the lily-fingered dandy from the
North has stepped between me and the
object of my love. The blood of a Pe
ruvian brooks no defeat. 1 will not
submit tamely to Marid's coldness. 1
have her proud old father in my grasp: |
he must clear this white-faced fool
from my path. If he be powerless to
«lo this, then the viper's sting shall do
the work for me.”
Savagely, almost insanely,
fell from the speaker's lips.
Don Jose Le Garde had taken Car
ficas by storm when he first appeared
among its elegant high circles, Ru-
mors of his immense wealth had pre
ceded him, and when he arrived at the
gay Venezuelian city the doors of the
best society were opened to him-—this
fabulously rich silver king of the mines
of Peru.
Impressionable mammas were com
pletely carried off their feet by his |
glitter of gold, and layd many a trap,
each baited by a beautiful daughter, to
capture the charming Peruvian. In the
wine room. the dance hall, at the
gambling table, he carried all before
him. He played, not to win, so he said,
but for the intoxication of the spell of |
chance, He drank, not because he |
was a drunkard, but for the spirit of
trinmph which came to him when he |
saw his boon companions drop. one
after the other, while he remained
clear-headed, sober as ever,
He turned upon his finger ‘the tiny
circle of gold once or twice: tapped it
with his finger tips and smiled sar- |
donically as he rung for his valet. He
was quickly dressed and ready for the |
ball which was ta take place at the
spacious palace of the old Venezuelan |
merchant, Marie's father.
The rooms of the grand pile were
filled with the elite of Caracas. Don
Jose gritted his white teeth and smoth- |
ered an oath under his Inky mustache
as he entered the ball room. There, at
the farther side of the brilliantly light.
ed room, was seated Marie, more
charming than ever, and leaning upon
the back of her chair, bending over her
beautiful shoulders and fauning her
with a searlet-feathered fan, was the
object of the Peruvian's mad hatred
Leon Stevenson, of the United States,
S8ir, a word with yon,” sald Don Jose
touching his aged host upon the shoul-
der.
The old gentleman started, Finced
fit the pair on the other side of the
room, amd followed his guest into the
conservatory,
“You still permit that white-faced fool
to dangle at your daughter's apron.
strings.’
“Don Jose, not so loud, 1 beg of you;
some guests"
“And unless you relieve me of the
hated presence of this rival, every
guest under your roof shall know about
the cloud hanging over the rich Vene
zullan merchant.”
“For the sake of Heaven, do not
speak so loudly! You will ruin me!”
interrupted the old gentleman, laying
his hand upon the other's arm.
“Will you, once for all, command
your daughter to dismiss this Bteyven-
son?"
“fl-can only tr.”
“You must succeed! You have prom.
ised me Marie's hand in marriage. 1
have sworn to take her buck to Pern
as my bride, Until this fair dandy
; North my path was
or
“And why? Do you love the stranger
“That, sir. you have no right to ask."
“And there was no need to ask it. 1
knew it! He stands in my way. I have
never been defeated in my life. Stil 1
elinquish you, Marie. You see this
It's sting is sudden, sure death,
{ zo to congratulate the more favored
one.” And he bowed and passed into
the ball room.
Marie's eyes dilated with horror as
fryer
nx?
Don Jose. She saw him bow to Ste-
Horror of horrors! She saw
their hands meet! She covered her face
with her trembling bands and crouched
down among the beautiful flowers to
hide the fated scene from her sight.
And then a scream, a man's mad ery,
came to her ears. She dashed the palms
ball room.
writhing as though in
agony, was Don
and trying
fair faced
Upon the floor,
the pangs of mortal
Jose. Kneeling by his shle,
to relieve him, was the
Northerner.
One more convulsive struggle to
cateh his breath, to choke back the
strange thing that was crushing his
heart, numbing his brain and blinding
his eyes, and the Peruvian rolled over
upon his back and was dead.
Pressed into the flesh of the palm of
his hand was the head of a tiny gold
viper attached to a ring upon the sec-
ond finger. The palm was livid, and
the face assumed the same horrible col-
or soon after he was taken away. Ste.
venson was as rich as the Peruvian,
and he easily relieved Marie's father
from his pecuniary difficulty. And a
six months afterwards the elite of Car-
who stood by the
man from the
fairest tropical belle,
side of the fair-faced
States,
oD. VIEWS oF POLICE DUTY.
People Who Wast Postage Stamps, lce
Water, Door Keys and Money.
“It's easy to criticise the police de-
partment,” sald a sergeant in the back
rootn of a station-house, “but the gen
al public has no idea of the many
different things we have to do and of
the annoyances to which we are sub-
When 1 was on duty in some
of the south side precincts people used
to come to the station and ask for the
Gectest things. Hardly a day went
by that some one didn’t come around
and ask for postage stamps, while in
jected,
droves for a drink of ice water. When
he remonstrated with them, they'd
say: ‘Vel, don’t ve pay taxes for de
jee, and shouldn't ve drink it, what?
As a mgtter of fact, the ice is paid for
by the policemen themselves, but yon
couldn't make them understand it,
“One night about 10 o'clock. when
I was on the desk, a big, stout German
came in and walked up to the rail
“ ‘Sergeant, my vife is gone out mit
der key und 1 am locked oudt,’ he said.
“Well,” I sald, ‘what can I do about
it?
“Vy. sendt a policeman und make
me get in der house, dot's vhat' 1
didn’t spend my time arguing with
him. you can bet.
“But that was not the worst case by
any means, A poor tailor living on the
top floor of a tenement down that way
committed suicide after a quarrel with
his wife, The man was dead when the
ambulance came. A few hours later
the widow sent her little girl around
to the house to say that she had no
money, and unless some one helped
her out the man would have to be
buried in the potter's field. The police
are often called on in similar cases, so
the boys chipped in all around
and raised $19. I gave that to the
child and sent her away. Soon after
it was time for roll call and another
gorgeant came on duty, He was busy
writing up the blotter when the same
girl returned,
“My mudder says can 1 get any
she said,
“ ‘What? said the sergeant, who had
been asleep and did't know about the
collection.
“My mudder says can I come
around next month an’ git some more
money,” was the reply. She didn't
get any more, and that incident was
somewhat of a damper on charity
fu that particular station for quite a
while.” Chicago Tribune,
Me peice sumference at The Fague
fay urn out 10 De. he suitomary
handshake before time Is called for
BRICKS OF MANY COLORS.
Extensive Use of the Modern Light-Colored
Bricks. Tke Brick Industry.
purposes of the light-colored bricks
about fifteen years ago. Some light
colored bricks were made before that,
had been in the
the bul bricks of Milwaukee; but np
to that time the bricks used here were
almost exclusively red. For a long
time there had been used In fine bulld-
ings, especially for dwellings,
pressed bricks of Philadelphia, Trenton
and Baltimore, all red; the Philadel
of brownstone, but the use of tliese
hns been largely superseded by the de.
mand for the modern light-colored
bricks, the use of which is still increas
ing.
The light-colored bricks a
yellow, buff, brown, gray,
light red, salmon red and cream,
in many shades of these colors; and
light-colored bricks are also made mot-
tled, In many variations of the mot
things: and there are made, too, rough-
faced, The tendency in the past few
years has been toward still lighter
shades in the lHght-colored bricks used,
and there are now made many white
bricks, Bricks are made
any color or shade that may be desired.
The clays commonly found in most
regions burn red. The light eslors and
the various shades of the modern light
colored bricks are produced by the
mixing together in suitable proportions
of various clays and by the firing.
Hard red bricks cost $6 to $8650 a
thousand; the light-colored bricks from
$25 to $40 an thousand. While the fine
bricks are now so extensively used
that they are everywhere and
they are made In great numbers, yet
the number of common red bricks used
is after all a thousand times as great.
The fine bricks are used for a veneer
only, for the face of the wall; It would
simply be wasting money to build the
wall thronghout with them, and they
are backed with suitable common
brick. Of bricks of all kinds taken
together there are used in this city
every year hundreds of millions, and in
the country thousands of millions.
Brickmaking Is very largely a loeal
industry. There are brickmaking
tablishiments all over the country, and
local demands in great measure
supplied from nparatively
near at hand modern
light-colored bricks are not found, and
in which red remains the prevailing
near hand. The use of modern
lighticolored bricks is widespread, bat
there are regions in w hi h clays
adapted to the making of light-colored
bricks are not found. and in which red
remains the of
brick structures growth of
the pe business
has and
8 fnor.
se,
He
are
plants ©
The use of
at
prevailing color the
With the
country the brickmak
grown to great proportions,
the output of single yards
mously increased. In old times from
SL to J00000 bricks In a year
would have been accounted a fair pro
duction for a brickyard Now there
are great establishments equipped
with every sort of modern mechanienl
appliance that can be brought into use
in the processes of brickmaking. and
producing bricks in great variety for
building and other uses, besides mould
ed and ornamental forms for archi
tectaral purposes, and turning out
many millions of brick annuaily.
Some American bricks are exported
to Canada. For many years common
brick and firebric’, have been articles
of exports to ports on the Gulf of
Mexico and to the West Indies, and
fine American bricks for fire.
places are now shipped to Germany, —
New York Sun,
England and Fire Service
The British towns seem to have the
smallest number of paid firemen of
any cities in Europe and America. The
london fire brigade has about S00
men, about the same number as Ber
lin, which bas only a fourth
population, and less than one-half the
size of the Paris corps. Glasgow has
but 100 men to S000 population:
Leeds but 33 to 400,000 people, and
Sheflield 22 men to a population of
350,000, Liverpool, Bristol,
Norwich, Bromley, and
have no separately organized Fire De-
partment, the work of suppressing
fires being performed by the regular
police force,
protection are on a simnlarly unimpor.
tant scale. Thus Leeds spends less
than £5,000 a year, and Sheflicld less
than $10,000 a year: Preston, with a
population of 113.000, reports only £1,-
S00 spent for its fire brigade, and Nor.
wich, with 100.000 population,
£750 a year.
show a somewhat larger range of ex
penditures, Glasgow and
some
hood of $i6.000-about 10 eens per
eapita—and proportionate amounts are
expended by Edicbargh, Dublin, Bel.
fast, and Salford. The London brigade
costs about $950,000, or 20 cents per
capita. But even these exceptional in.
stances are below the per capita ex:
penditures for fire protection in other
European cities of the same size
Municipal Affairs,
I
Elephant Great in Crime.
Few more lmpressive confidences
ean be imparted than one in which a
Hindoo describes how he knows his
elephant intends to destroy him. It
is all wo seemingly trivial, and yet in
reality of such deadly significance, His
story is so full of details that prove
the man's profound understanding of
what he is talkng About that one re.
mains equally amazed at the brute's
power to dissemble and its intended
Not so
placgble hatred often provoked aniply
because a man is in attendance upon
another animal (for it is the role with
tuskers to detest thelr next neighbors),
tellectnal gulde than all stories, true
false, that have been told of thelr
Nuch concentration and fixed
such eareful, unre-
pretense, and, when the time
such desflerate, unhesitating
as homicidal animals exhibit,
COIMEeSX,
No one ean deny that If this creature
caused
where
merciless,
These have
venerate nothing but
hibition of those qualities and traits
described fully accounts for the formu-
“My lord the ele pha aint.” Outing.
High Speed 6 on French Railroads.
Of late years, a few of the French
rallroads, notably the Chemin de For
du Nord, have been paying particular
attention to thelr express train service,
with the result that the last pamed
now holds the leading place, running
several of its crack trains at an aver-
age speed, including stops, of over 54.0
miles per hour.
Of the twenty-five expresses that are
booked to run at a speed of over HO
miles an hour there are six, including
one between Amiens and Calais Ville,
10214 miles, with a speed of between 50
and 509 miles an hour;
between 061.1 and 51.8 miles
hour: seven between 52.0 and
miles an hour, and five having
respective speeds of 54.0, HMR,
55.3, BGA, and 57.7 miles an hour, in-
cluding stops: the last-named run is
made between Pars and Amiens, 819%
miles, while the average of 0638 is
maintained on a continuous ron, with-
between Paris and St. Quen
tin, a distance of 59%; miles.
What a splendid service
be understood when we bear in mind
the fact that the five fastest trains ex
ceed the speed of our own Empire State
Express, which is timed to run from
New York to Albany at the rate of
53.058 miles an hour, taongh they do not
Atlantic City fiver the
Philadelphia and Reading iroad.
Selentific Ameri
weven
an
Lt rd
thawed
out stop,
this is will
equal the on
tal
84]
Standing Up lor Oliver Cromwell
Whether Cromwell actualls
pressed the festival of Christ
diy
#5,
2185
¥
Eup
on to decide But Le is
many
not do, and we may perhaps jodge by
anslogy. He did
in all of the cathedrals,
iit quest]
aocused of doing things
not Suppress masic
nor
of Westminster
organist
i % oo :
(isimiss the organist
Abbey, for ao new
pointed in 1655 by order of Council
fill the vacancy caussd by the
Portman, had held the office
since the reign of Charles 1. Cromwell,
moreover, was a great lover of the or
gan. Nor did he, at any rate
so-called Puritanical reasons,
the drama. Theatres were
account of the civil wars, and the
hibition was only to last
snd causes’ do continue
The revival commenced
when Cromwell was at the
his power-—not
Was ap
who
for any
iro
in 1656,
height of
As some suppose, at the
Restoration. Nor ean the patron of
Milton, the greatest of our poets, of
Walker and Cooper, the greatest na.
tive-born painters of the century, and
of Simon, the prince of coin engravers,
accused with justice of either In
difference or hostility to the fine arts
Notes and Queries,
be
Quick Work on the Bible
Recent events have stirred the
ish and Foreign Bible
prompt feats of translation,
tions of the New Testament in no less
than four tongues are in preparation
for the Philippines. The first three Gos
pels and the Acts in Tagalog, the lan.
guage of the dominant native race
there, are actually printed: St. Luke's
Gospel in llocono is nearly finished;
and the same book in Bicol is ready for
issne, These renderings, It appears are
largely due to the energy of the soci
in Madrid, Rev. R. O.
Walker, who secured the collaboration
of some exiled Filipinos,
Almost the whole Testament has
been transiated Into Pangasinan. An
Brit.
to some
and por
Society
ing of St. John's Gospel in Lusoga, for
uke in those districts east of the Nile
This version has been made bY Rev, F.
Rowling, of the Church Missionary Ro-
ciety, and Is regarded for many philo-
logical reasons as an interesting addi.
dialects in which the sacred books are
London.— Boston Transcript.
SRA NN
Good Sense Talk About Health
There ix it is true, as great an ine.
quality in the inheritance of health as
in the helrship of wealth or brains,
Some are born with a fortune of vigor
and soundness go large that not a life.
time of eager squandering will leave
them poor, and others enter the world
paupers of need so dire that no char
ity from medicine ean ever raise them
to comfort, but most of us have just
that mediocre legacy of vitality which
renders us undistinguishable units in
the mass, It les In the hands of each
to improve or waste that property as he
chooses, for there are self-made men
physically as well as financially; those
who, because of ancestral wasteful
ness, have only a sixpence of th,
and turn it into a fortune; and
are spendibrifis of health who come
to ns sorrowful case as spendthrifts of
gold. The body Is a realm where a wise
and frugal ruler brings hpapiness as
surely as a foolish one insures distress,
and wisdom here, as olsewhere, lies in
learning o and a ven nwa.
OUR FASHION COLUMN.
Ladies’ Waist,
This artistic conception of walst for
a street dress is developed in diagonal
bayadere poplin, stylish terra cotta
and black, The draped vest and stock,
the graceful fronts, symetrienlly cury-
ing toward the vest and over the shoul
der forming a deep collar in the back,
together with the popular Medici col
Inr make it one of the most delightful
A fitted lining forms the
foundation on which is adjusted the
plain, but for a little
fulness at the bottom of the walst,
The Iming closes in the center front
and the draped vest is so adjosted as
to be freely fastened at the right and
hook, in place on the left. The slight
fulness at the bottom of the waist Is
arranged in backward turning
plait at either side the centre with a
slight pouch effect. The are
two-seamed fitting according to
the latest mode,
to the eves,
seamless back,
One
sleeves
close
Ladies’ Eton Jacket.
Never was the popularity of the Eton
more clearly demonstrated than by the
various forms it fnkes Season,
This one is made of fawn colored
broad cloth, decorated with four rows
of machine stitehing. The vest and
belt of & rich golden brown
mirror The popular and pic-
this
being
velvet,
turesque medicl colisr with a plain
stock Inside it finishes the peck. The
revers, wide at the shoulder folded to
a point at the waist line. The portion
of the fronts from the centre to the
dart are seamless and plain with a
circular portion added below the waist
line, THe sleeves are dart fitted and
have a deep cirenlar cuff flaring slight-
Iy over the hand and open at the out-
side seam of the sleeve. One-quarter
of a yard of velvet cut on the bias is
sufficient for the vest and belt
Ladies’ Shirt Waist
This waist ix designed to be trimmed
with insertion put on as illustrated,
one on the box plait and two at each
gide at equal intervals, and three in
the back so arranged ss to meet at
the waist line giving a V effect, in the
back. The insertion should be fast.
ened on the cloth, and the material
afterward cut out and turned back be.
neath it. The shirt waist has no yoke,
the back being seamless and plain,
save at the waist line, In the centre
back there is a little folness arranged
in gathers. The fronts are slightly
full at the neck band and shoulder line
and also gathered at the waist line, the
gathers belng arranged near the cen.
tre. A band for the attachment of a
stock collar Is provided for the neck.
The sleeve is oneseamed, gathered at
the arm's eye and cuff, A sleeve lap
Saisln Yh timting of fhe Cull Fe
Tir OF TE AE Ty or Bi
( 8.000. Sixty-five dwell:
THE KEYSTONE STATE,
Latest News Gleaned from
Various Parts.
we
AGED JOCKEY'S CRIME.
—————
After Killing Maud Reeser, st Brock.
wayville, Fred Walker Attempts Sui
clde-Allsntown Tinsmith Attempts to
nd His Life-West Chester Pastor
Nenrly Crushed—Other Live Nows,
A terrible murder aod attempt at suicide
occurred at Brockwayville, a little village
in Jefferson County, twelve miles porth of
Dubole, Tbe perpetrator of the crime wak
Fred Walker, a jockey, aged 64, who made
his home at Brockwayville, He lies in a
dying condition from the effects of poison,
seif-loflicted., The vietlln was a Woman
koown as Maud Beeser, with whom, it ls
sald, Walker had bees living for some time,
until within a few weeks precsdisg the
tragedy. The Beoser woman finally refused
to live longer with Walker snd his efforts to
make ber return to him proved futile. Wal-
ker drank heavily all of Saturday asd in the
evaning he purchased some laudssum and
walked four miles from Brockwayville to
the home of a family named Blivis, with
whom the Reeser woman was liviog. A rap
on the door brought Slivis down and Walker
asked for the woman, who appeared. Blivis
retired, but was awakened a few moments
later by two pistol shots, and, rushing down-
stalre, be met the ghastiy eight of Mre
Eeeser lying dead with two bullets in her
body. Near ber lay Walker, ciutebing the
empty laudapum baoitie, His expiasation
of the crime was that the woman bad tried
poison him. He will die
Fisherman's Awful Plight,
A singuinr accident, secompanied by al
most Intal results, occurred on ths river
uesr Chester, While bringlog 157 sbad to
the Chester market in a skiff Valentine Lis-
derman, of Marcus Hook, snd a colored
man was thrown isto the river by the skiff
capsizivg. Linderman got entangled in the
net and was beipless. He would have
drowned but for bis companion, who hero-
leally struggled to save him. A boat put off
{rom shore spd brought io the men and skiff
and net, The shad were lost. The singular
part of the socident is that the skiff capsized
in smooth water during a light breezes,
Clergymau’s Escape.
Rev, W. BK Patton, pastor of the First
Baptist Chureb, of Media, bad a narrow es-
cape from belag crushed to death under the
wheels of a trolley car. He was about 10
board a car ou the corner of Jackson and
Washiogion Streets when the iron piste on
the siroel culvert was tipped up by the car
wheels erossiog it, trippisg Mr. Patton and
throwisg bim agsiost the car asd simost
under the whesls, He was caught and held
in the iron culvert until reicased by the
motorman. His injuries consist of bruises
about the bead and shoulders and contusions
of the lower limbs,
Horses Perish in Barn Fire.
The iarge frame barn of George M. Der-
hammer, near Chestant Hill, iu Forks Towe-
ship, was discovered to be on fire. The
strusture was burned to the ground, Tiree
Lorses perished, and several wagons, a lot
of barvess, graio, bay and varius farm im-
plements were burned. The loss wili reach
#3000. The origin of the fire is not defi.
nitely known. It Is thought that an Intoxi-
coated wan crept inio the sara to sieep, and
accidentally set the bay on fire while light
ing bis pipe.
Injared by Sulcldal Leap.
Wilhelm Koons, aged about 62 years, a
tissmite uy trade, attempiod to ovmmit sul-
cide by jampiag out of a ihird-story win-
dow of the Peters House, Allentown, Koons
was badly Injured. Oae of his legs was
fractured in three places and his thigh was
brokes. Koons bad confided to am sc
quaistesce that be bad trouble, He bas
s=veral married chlidren living in Philadel
phia,
Wages Advanced One Third,
Potts Brothers’ Iron Company, at Polts-
town, bas sonounced a further increase of
5 cents per ton on puddiers wages, to take
effect May 1, which will raise the rate #3
per ton, This increase makes an sdvasee of
8334 per cent. within one month. Toe Gige-
gow Iron Company, which is aiso the lessees
of tho Pottstown lron Company mills will,
it is uaderstood, make the same advance at
ace,
Unknown Man Killed.
An unknown man met a horrible death on
the Lebigh Valley RBaliroad, near Furnace
Bridge Station, Allentown, He was walking
on the tracks, and in stepplog out of the
way ol a freight trala, stepped in fromt of
the milk train. The man's head was muti.
Inted beyond recognition, and bis body was
cut up. He was well dressed. Coroner
aot be identified,
Collision Caused Death,
Daniel Werley died pear Greenawald's
Station as the result of a collision, Teams
driven by Morgana Levan and Mr. Werley
collided at the Albany Bridge, and Mr. Wor-
dey was run over, bursting a bicod vessel.
He was 63 years old,
Up Go Their Wages.
The Dessemer Association of Mabosisg
and Shenango Vaileys have decided to grant
an increase in wages 10 biast {uroace em-
ployees of 10 per cent, 10 take effect May 1
The advance was made voluntarily and is
the second within thirty days. Between
4.000 and 5,000 men are affected in the two
valleys,
Meili,
Kulelde Beennse of Grief,
George Jones, of Harrisville, aged 40
yoars, a butcher, committed Se
ering his throat with a knife, A note was
foupd on which was written these words:
“1 eannot longer endure the griel over the
Joss of my Wife, and J go to join her,” Mm,
Jones died about two months ago.
a EI — oi ants
A Sthekier for Facta :
Tired Treadwell-—Ah, dat was tos
bad! You asked fer bread and dey
gives you a stone. Sauntering Sim-.
Naw; it i sight. Git it right! 1
asked dem for bread and dey gives me