FOR GARRISON DUTY,
" Upon the transport’s decks we wind,
Five hundred men and more;
A cheering weeping crowd behind,
A long, long voyage before,
“Good luck, old chap!” “Farewell, dear
heart!”
“We're off! Hurra, hurra!
Beneath the pows the ripples part,
At last we're under way.
"ne
And many a young Heutenant sighs,
And thinks of yvester eve;
And many a private wipes his eyes
Upon a dusty sleeve,
But every heart is brave and true,
in tune with duty’'s call;
Let home and kindred
view,
Stanch soldiers are we all,
fade from
O'er seashore post and mountain fort,
And sand and prairie flowers,
The winds that with the colors
Will miss the kiss of ours;
While men who chased Apache Kid,
And fought at Wounded Knee,
sport
Must now reeount the deeds they did
Por ears across the sea.
We change the oak and pine for palm,
The cactus spike for cane;
And “taps,” the soldier's
psalm,
The echoes woo in vain.
But tho’ mid allen scenes we stand,
An alien sky above,
From here, as from our motherland,
Floats out the flag we love.
—Edwin L. Sabin, in Youth's
panion,
cvening
Com-
The Wager
A CONTEST IN WHICH SCIENCE
SHOW.
By Charles Dwight Willard
of us in the party
Tom, the
climbing,
exempiary
little val
There were five
six, counting Long
After two days’ hard
the burros endured wi
fortitude, we arrived at the
ley high up in the mon
which threaded the stream,
“Jest you all go over into the cabin
there and make yourself comfbl
while 1 "tend to gettin’ this stuff un
packed,” said Long To !
no one there. My parduer,
below.”
“The cabin
cabins,” said
proached it.
what is for economy
guide.
th
through
tains,
trant
appears
the colonel,
in Fidge poles.”
“sleepin riments
gather.
your
said the doctor;
on one side and kitchen on the
In the space between, Keep
fishing-tackle and
We entered the
the twin cabin, which proved
the kitchen side. There was not much
furniture—a table of hewn logs, a chair
of bent saplings, and a rough bench
However, we did not notice h fur
niture as there was, h member
of the party.
high threshold,
stantly attracted
brief roundelay of
the group.
“Well, that
stock-broker.
“H'm,” sald the professor. in a mys
terious tone, and rubbed his chin,
The stove was a plain, small cook
ing range. rather old and roasty. The
strange thing about it was its position.
Its abbreviated legs stood upon large |
cedar posts, which were planted in the |
floor and were over four feet in height. |
This brought the stove away up in |
mid-air, so that the top was about on |
ft level with the face of the colonel, and
Le was a six-footer.
We formed in a circle about the
stove stared at it as solemnly as a
group of priests around a sacrificial
tripod. We felt of the posts—they |
were firm and solid, showing that the |
mysterious arrangement was a perma- |
nent, not a temporary one. Then we all |
bent our necks and opened our mouths |
to look up at the hole In the rgof |
through which the stove-pipe vanished. |
Suddenly the stockbroker burst out |
into a laugh.
“Oh, I understand it now,’
“Understand what?’
onel, sharply.
“Why long Tom has his stove
hoisted up so high from the floor.”
“So do L"” sald the doctor; “but I |
suspect that my explanation is not the
same that any one else would offer.”
“Well, 1 will bet that I am right,”
sald the stock-broker, “and put up the
money.”
“I am In this,” said the judge: “1
have a clear idea about that stove and
wil back it.”
“I want to take a hand”
colonel,
The stock-broker drew a small yel-
fow coln out of his pocket and dropped
it on the table,
“He has the stove up there,” he said,
“to get a better draught. Is this
rarefied mountain air there is only a
small amount of oxygen to the cable
inch, and combustion is more difficult
to secure than in the lower lat.tudes,
I have heard that If you get high
enough up you ean't cook an egg that
is, 1 mean, water won't boll-or some-
thing like that,” he continued, thrown
into sudden confusion by the discovery
that the professor's eye was fixed upon
him with a sarcastic gaze,
“Is that supposed to be science?’ de
manded the professor.
“Well,” sald the stock-broker, dog-
gedly, “never mind the reasons, Fx
perience is probably good enough for
Jong Tom. He finds that he gets a
better draught for his stove by having
it up in mid-air, so he has it there.”
“The right explanations tegan the
professor, “Is the simplest. My idea
is that"
“Excuse me,” interrupted the stock-
you
worms.”
right-hand section of |
to be
S14
for eac
he stepped
had his
by the
ejaculations
as over
attention
stove, and
went
said the
staggers me,”
sald he.
asked the col
sald the
yroker, tapping the table; “are Jou in
The professor made a deposit, and
proceeded:
“Have you noticed that our host is
a very tall man? Like most men of his
height, he hates to bend over. If the
stove were near the floor, he would
have to stoop down low when he
whirled a #ap-jack or speared a rasher
of bacon. Now he ean stand up and
do it with ease. Your draught theory
is no good; the longer the pipe, if it is
straight, the better the fire will burn.”
“Professor,” remarked the colonel,
I regret to have to tell you that your
money is gone. Long Tom told me, on
the way up, that his partner did ail the
cooking, and he is a man of rather
short stature.” The colonel then paid
his compliments to the jack-pot, and
continued: “Now, my idea is that the
stove heats the room better there than
on the floor. It is only a cooking-gtove,
to be sure, but when the winter is cold
it makes this room comfortable. PFelng
up in the middle of the space it heats
it all equally well, which it could not
do If it were down below.”
The doctor greeted this theory with
‘Colonel, he said, “you
‘way off the mark. Hot alr
and the only
to have your stove
According to your
idea, it would be a good plan to put
the furnace in the attic of a house in-
stead of in the basement.”
“I thing.” said the colonel,
could appreciate your argument
ter if you would ante.”
“The pot is mine,” said the doctor,
“vou will all
adopt my idea the moment you hear it,
Tom. who will be here in a
will bear me out.
small; It but
and none goes
of course,
is
“that I
bet-
little floor.
to
very has
waste,
down
long
of it
nut
put
SEH .
Now,
where
ip ead y
if he had He
expected to find it,
Tom could not have nade
underneath,
On all
posts you
stove
we
use of the
will see he
of
a8 yon
widens
will
has done.
t are hooks, on which he
| skillets, U1
lost for
here
and cooking:
What could
t? Under your or-
(43!
itehen ots
varion
oad é Lhe
nails of ROCs
be more conven
stove there is re
a few cockroaches”
wha had been
offered by the others
Im that
1 his face
1.4 at
INC ion
Jud ne
he O \pinions
Tie
smile Oren -
when he
Was overs
i forward
table. He then
as follows:
and
ae
His decision
that pone o have
of
slave
appears
feed the fores,
over the
f you
in the
not in
there
that during
w of venison and
the stove, and
Now, if the
it would be
be of
hooks
They
but thes
some purpose. I Imagi
the winter huge plec
nat
just are
ise at present are for
nie
aver
dried for later.
on the
are
KIOVve Were
far from
1 ee
oor,
to
{OO
the service In
roof
Tom." shout
ad ste
judge was speaking
put down the
with whi
Here comes eld
wi bh pped
door while the
The old trapper
articles of b
arms
varions
aggage I his
were loaded and came into t
He
then at the
we nll stood,
we group and
midst,
admirin’
het
is up 20 high.”
the professor;
stiltex] stove in our
“I see you alr all
anid he, “and I'l
jerin’ why it
“Yes, we have.”
“how did you know it?”
“People most allus generally jest as
soon as they come into the place begin
to ask me about it—-that's how |
knowed.”
“Well, why is it up
manded the stock broker,
glance at the
pot on the table,
my stove,”
ou've been a-
ganic
#0 high?’ de
impatiently,
wide well-devels
“The reason’s simple enough”
Tom, wit}
bicuspids; “you see we had to pack
on burros. Originally there was four
wasn't drawed tight enough on the
mountain, When we got Lere and
left,
pipe—so 1 jest in and b'isted her.
thar she ia. Bay,
money on the table for?”
There was a deep silence,
lasted so long that
repent his question about the money.
“It Ix a ‘all handein.’” sald the doe-
tor. sadly, "and as near as | can make
out it belongs to you." San Francisco
Argonaut.
And
which
The Painters Took the Hint.
Occupying a lovely situation near a
northern olty there stands a mansion
with a fiat roof. Last autumn the
owner decided to have it thoroughly
overhauled, and gave instructions fo
different tradesmen to proceed with
the work.
The plumbers had a good deal to do
upon the roof, and being out of sight,
as they thought, did pot overwork
themselves,
When the painters came to do thelr
part the owner of the mansion called
the foreman aside and showed him
a number of snap-shot photographs,
representing men on the roof of his
house, Home were sitting, smoking,
some were reading, and others were
lying on their backs,
“Why,” said the astonished foreman,
“these are —'s plumbers!”
“Exactly,” responded the owner,
“and these snapshots explain why
they took such a long time over the
Job.”
The painters did not waste any more
time. ~Waverley Magazine,
A good Arabalan horse can canter in
the desert for twenty-four hours in
Sdmaier 354 Sorty Sight howsa 18 Win
ter withoyt dunking. i
BY-PRODUCTS OF MEAT PACKERS,
hs.
the Steer is Put.
The great Chicago
get a great deal more money for
by-products incidental to the
of a steer than the meat sells for.
the average the ment and its
pounds bring $40, while the
ducts bring at wholesale $55,
«om
and halr, $25;
£15;
lows: Hide, horns, hoofs
fats, blood, sinews and bones,
miscellaneous other wastes, $15,
It is only In the large and well-ap-
pointed slaughter-houses that the foll
vitlue of the animals dealt with can be
realized, and these become factories
for a great many products, besides
finding the proper and most profitable
markets for each of the raw products
into which they separate the animals,
Nothing is allowed to go to waste,
and ten years ago one of the largest
butehers in this city declared that the
Chiengo packers were paying the en
tire cost of slaughtering cattle out of
what the butchers here were paying
away. Hides, horns,
hoofs and hair have had thelr markets
for many years and thelr value In
creases steadily. This Is particularly
of horns, for the practice of de
horning cattle has become
in one great Chicago
it was found during a two-year
that the returns only
horn to every three
Horns are pow worth about
The hides go to the tanner
for mixing mortar, The
Plown at
packing
showed
bullocks
S150 a
the
tip Is some Jong halr, and
turned into curled hair
holstering.
If the hoofs are pure white they have
a peculinr value, hey are sent to
for jewelry Thos
which are damaged
go into the for gl
and the residue made into
a valuable fertilizer. In
thing which is not used for other pur
groed in ome for:
even to the tankage wat
of the refuse
its fats. The cm
carbonized and
or tari
be for up
making
black or
kettle to be boiled
strip wl,
44
meal
Er
3
hoof
# +
LACE,
the coarsest
boiled to extract
are eithe
for sugar refinery’
fertilizers,
dried and
agriculture,
in Hqguid form to sagar
not deal. The
knife handles
ring from 870 to
to Germany.
fixe
i
ard the lowed i=
turned Into anoth
oy
¥
Rome of the
refineries,
Fae
Hood
white
and such
£00 a
a great
for
purposes b
and
The
they are
suitable
fon
go mostly
of
gent to mark
main pares the animal as
ets are carefully
of good
Tongues
of «eon
trimmed,
but has
and tails are reg
merce, and oven
cheeks is added to the
and the lips
pickeled. character
the others
but there is no piece
neat ita market
ilar articles
the ment from the
upply for san
off and
of fat is
and finally
marketed In the varion
, olen 0 oil, tallow
oleomargeri Tu
: is
snues are i1t
ach
these are
forms of neat’s foot oil
and stearine and
fore the horns are sold pith
extracted from amd the BH
grade of gelatine is obtained from the
pith
The sinews are all separated to be
“the
them test
ders an
greater
used for
the
of the intestines are
Parts of ti
and value, and
up into
of the
part
jeRe nye
however, a special use
nade
The lining
windpipe is also of particular
being used for a fancy
sausage casing
beer is in breweri
extract, pepsin and many other
are made in some of the biggest
which
Beef
passed
A new use has recently been dis
covered for the contents of the paunch,
which until lately had to thrown
It has been discovered that a
good quality of cardboard can be made
of it and is now being saved for that
Of course, the large receipts
from these by-products are not all pro.
Git, but there is 8 manufacturer's profit
made out of each one of them which
aggregates a handsome sum, and all
of this helps to keep down the price
of the fresh meats to the consumer.
New York San.
be
Bewire of ' Speaking Tubes.
A medical journal is now trying to
frighten us out of the use of speaking
tubes. We know that
even in the pages of a
medical journal, but it is doubtful
whether the speaking tube, to be
ple and tenants, harbors more of them
than other places. It is ill-ventilated,
each end by a whistle, and the small
geutle relaxation by
whistles, even when they have no
message to send, But there is no need |
to put the lips to the tube at all. A
couple of sharp taps with the palm of
the hand will blow the whistle ag the |
other end,
away from the tube® and make one's
self comfortably heard. So we nesd
not hermetically sea) all our speaking
tubes just yet. London Chronicle.
A Clever Maid.
An amusing anecdote is told of the
pride the Empress of Austria took in
ber magnificent chestnut tresses, which
fell down to her ankles,
She used to have them brushed for
hours every day. Her majesty was
particularly anxious that the dresser
who brushed her long braids should
avold pulling out A Wugle hair, This,
, and |
blowing those
maid concealing a small roll of hair in
the above-described fashion, Jumping
up from her rocking-chair, her majos-
ty grasped her attendant’s hand, ex
claiming:
I“ have caught you at last!
ruining my hair!
With a presence of mind which
{ would have done credit to an expert
Cdiplomat, the maid replied, unhesitat-
ingly:
“1 implore your majesty to forgive
{ me; it never happened before, 1 only
wished to have some of my soverelgn's
fhalr to put In the locket which my
little girl wears around her neck as a
talisman.”
Whether the empress
clever Invention or not, 1 do not know,
but shrugging her shapely shoulders
she resumed her Inughing heart
ily. and the next day she presented her
maid with a locket enriched with dia.
mounds, saving, with a mischievous
fwinkle in her eyes:
“1 think this Ix the kind of talisman
your little daughter deserves for hav-
ing such a clever mother!”The Argo-
nint,
You are
1
believed thin
seat
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A BUDDHIST PRIEST'S DISCOVERY.
to Learu He Eats Lobsters in
Drinking Water.
Keung Sal Kwong, a Chinese Bud-
dhist priest, now in New York City,
part of whose religion ig that he shall
not life, found out the other
day his horror that daring his ca-
Horrificd
destroy
to
reer he h
Hon
Mr.
fair,
as killed millions
of living things.
Kwong is getting
One the exi
shown by
upon
up a Chinese
its will be a
fl glib-tongued
ith a like a Jog horn,
was arranging his instra
Of
mlcroseos pe
professor w
This person
and
Mr, Kw
“St
Voice
ent redenr i his show
ong came along.
and gents,”
pracusing
p un, ladies
FETT y viol gr
LITO essOr, fHiereis
“Step up and gee for yourselves
itignted sum of five cents
onderful and whol
the whiter
marvellous, truly w
went on,
suprein
spring water
He
the
eaw the animal
pre fesuor
looked lke
and making
as
£3103
deous faces at thelr
marvelled
to him.
then
Then a sud
cane if th
water he
ing things that his religion said
an should siay.
I've actually been eating lobsters,”
fr. Kwongsaid in dismay,”
trict vegetarian. I'm supposed to
and r
I've been devouring live
a cannibal, It's just as wicked In my
to kill a fiy a= it is to slay
elephant.”
At
! thou!
on carrots lee and
religion
he wor
the wil
an
If there
first the
fi
ROODe man
priest thought
drink Lint Cro
mal
more walter,
told him that
existed in every liquid
no living in a liquid it
because they had been foully
ed by cooking.
The priest was gad and
thought
murders
his
the
1
cull
were anes
rder
mu
1 wv
gio0msy
all
day as he of the
number of
every meal by
When he sat down
of rice and water he
be counld, and he made a wry
every time he swallowed a draught.
committed
co-religionists,
in may throat” be said. “it's positively
awful! To think of a Baddhist eating
lobsters!”
Mr, Kwong asked the microscope
man if be could not arrange for him a
little net so that he might catch the
“lobsters” in his glass and take them
down to the river and let them go be
fore he drank, but the professor said
he dida’t think he conkl
Manufaciering Imitation Jowels
Imitation jewels have come to be so
{finely made that detection is almost
impossible, Even for ordinary wear
they are accounted beautiful, and it
i only the knowledge of their falsity
| that makes them unpopular. For every
ordinary purpose they are as useful as
the genuine pieces. The last jewels to
‘be lmitated with wonderful success
are rubies, and they happen to be a
fashionable stone just now,
The manufactory which has these
imftation rubles on the market is sit
Lguted In London, and it has already
been sald there that the price of real
rubles will certainly fall In conse
quence of the discovery of these won
[derful imitations, Sapphires are also
| manufactured, but they are not con.
sidered wo successful as the other
| stones. Artificial rubles weighing
| forty carats can be produced, but are
"not, as there would be no sale for
stones of that size. An authority has
said that there is no way known to
him by which these stones ean be told
from the genuine ones, The stones, al
instances cut by well known jewelers,
are sold only on the Continent. There
are several companies manufacturing
them, although the best are the pro
duct of one firm. A London jeweler,
questioned ns to the possible result of
these good and cheap imitations, sald
that the stones impossilile to imitate
might become the most valuable and
the most fashionable eventually.
Scottish Night.
HOW WAR INDEMNITIES ARE PAID,
France Settled with Germany by the
ssrption of Her Own Bonds,
1n an article in the New York 1ade.
pendent on “How War Indemunities
Are Pald,” George E. Roberts, Diree-
tor of the United States Mint, says
“Thegold Indemnity exactedof France
by Germany in the treaty of May 10,
1871, was the most stupendous under.
taking of the kind that has ever been
seen, France obligated herself to pay
in all $1.000,000,000, Of this about
$400,000,000 was to be paid within one
year and the remaining $600,000,000
on March 2, 1874. To persons who al
ways think of a payment as requiring
a delivery of seemed that
France, if it had not undertaken the
impossible, must be greatly distressed
in discharging this debt. The total
stock of coin in France at that time
in banks and in private hands was es-
timated at little more than $1,000,000.
000, Hence it was supposed that
France would lose practically ber en.
tire store of metallic money.
“Including Interest, the actual
amount due from France was $1,060.
290.016, and after deducting the value
allowed for the State railway In Al
since apd some minor offsets the amount
paid was equal to $008,1352.001, Of
this $148.473.818 was paid in coin and
bank and S84H,008.273 was set
tied] fn bills of
the French
loans gggregating a
total, To
great banks of
become agents
The bulk
were pianced at
and
ibonds sold abroad it
Abe
cash it
notes,
To provide
made
ayer
exchange.
ernment
little
funds io
two
the
i of thie
io
priohs,
loan,
were
place the
Europe
snd
Of
fibove
regeive
lonns,
with
fhe
home,
the renies
enleulated
practically
the French people, of
was
that
Fra:
the property of French
all we and be
en.
arent
in
8
thus absorbing
nment eouriti
£1 O00 Oy OD, it
mark thant
awed it
when in pes
tak $
bonds, they
in
{over
is
the evican
in the ynmer of
to one inviia
of United
snbweribed for over
ise
DEH AMES ENR)
a 0%
3
i
[ETE ERES PRE LE)
its
and
#iinenis in
“France was
citizens held
bots
sine ks
miy,
and other
loans
* pul on
tise BE
and
eo aver to the
jgents in pas
bills the di
Dill
swoon fi mand
of exchange, under
skilful bankers
!
ito tills of
bankers acting
ian Government,
discharged
and in the
securities.”
Germ
1
the Liigation
fting of
by =n shi
yf certain paper
Thus was
credits
ownership «
Hay Baths the Latest Fad
Latest of all bathing fads is
bath bt hier In Fyrol
i inki ne of
Jiro Ct
me one or of
fag a it pent
devised it when he w
anything else, it
ting merely
, uncured mountain
$41 % nxt be in
ersed
has The
condition
bath is taken
the open air.
the Etsch-
vale
fess
Of 1a
not cured.
and not in
The peasants of the Ty rol,
attach
to the bay bath, and they consider th
ghort hay of the mountains to be par-
ticularly beneficial
One of these “cures” top of
the Sehlern, near Voels, at an elevation
of a mile and a half. At this place the
are free to the villagers, but
others are charged about twenty cents,
American mouey, a week.
To take a hay bath one digs a hole
in the hay and crawls into it, after
having divested himself of all his
clothing. The covering up process is
done by a friend or a regular attend
ant. and only the head is left exposed,
Some one must stay with the patient
during the bath, to give relief, for the
effect of the heat and other influences
is likely to be severe. The heart or
some other organ occasionally i= hand
fit during this curing process. When
the patient has perspired enough be is
dug out by the attendant and rubbed
down, for by this time he usvally is
too weak to exert himself, though he
may be able to get into his clothes un.
aided. At the Aldein bath two patients
have been found unconscious, and
their condition was serious, it being
pot due to a mere fainting fit.—New
York Press,
Unique Wedding Girt,
A girl who for nine years has worked
in a certain Norristown mill was mar.
ried recently, and from the carding,
spinning and weaving overseers, bes
cause she had worked so faithfully,
she received a present as delicate and
rare and beautifal as ever graced the
nuptials of a princess. The men gave
her three handkerchiefs, each of them
#0 light that with a breath they could
be blown to the ceiling, for they were
woven of thistledown.
This stuff is common on the Norris
town meadows, and on the plant, or
floating slowly through the air, Jt re.
gembles a ball of cobweb brushed with
powdered silver. The gathering of it
fs a task, and it is romantic to think
of the three overseers, corpulent and
gray, scurrying in the young girl's hon-
of over the green flelds after the Boat
ing balls on pleasant Bunday mornings.
But to ecard, spin and wenve thistle.
downto wind it on bobbins and to
make a warp of (t-these were the real
tire and despair before they were
achieved, Yet certainly the fabric is
delicate enough el reward the men for
all trouble. A
under roof,
great
ix on the
niths
THE KEYSTONE STATE,
————
Latest News Gleaned from
Various Parts.
———
KILLED BY A FALL.
Peculiar Accident Causes Death of Berks
County Farmer—Two Hungarians Vreb-
ably Fatally Injured at Festivities Near
Hazleton Afflicted Iron Worker Com
mits Bulcide at Fittaburg.
William Moyer, aged 48 years, a farmer ie
siding in Bpring Township, npesr Reading
met death by belng thrown from a wagons to
the ground, a distance of only six feet, He
was spreading manure on bis fleids Friday
afternoon, He threw the manure from the
wagon, which was drawn by four borses,
and would stop at short intervals, While
standing on the wagon the horses started to
move spasmodically, and be was jerked off
the wagon, falling to the ground. He land-
od with bis bead on a stone asd was
stunned, two holes being eut in bis bend,
Alter recoveriog from the shock be was cons
scious until he died from the accident. He
leaves a wife, two sous and a daughter,
Sorions Results. of a Brawl,
A Hungarian brawl st Stockton is likely to
result in the death of two of the partiel-
pante, Theres was a reunion at the residence
of Michael Barsan snd as the festivities pro.
gressed Michael Novack and Micbasl Lag-
sehack were set upon by three countrymen
snd beaten into insensibility. The forwer
has a fractured skull spd cannot recover.
The latter bad an ear almost out off and is
stabbed so badly about the bead and
that his recovery Is doubtful, Michael Bir-
san, the boarding boss, has besa arresicd,
but the other two escaped.
fare
Denth Eather Than Palsy.
Zeno Capek, an ironworker, of Alleghen
preferred death to paralysis and took hi.
life with Parls green, Capek bad been ur-
well for some weeks, He told his physician
be would like to enter ua hospital, The dor
tor bad been endeavoring to conceal from
Capek the fact that he was threatened with
paralysis, but was then compelled to
bim thet no hospital would receive him
that account. Capek took a big doses of
Paris green and died in great agony in
presence of his wife and four ehiidres,
was 45 years old
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Aged Woman Incinerated
Miss Matilda Eiusk, aged S50 years,
Hanover, was so tadly burped about
body that ber death ensued,
her brother and sister, sll of them old peo
pie. About o'clock she arose and lighting
a tallow candle started to prepare breakfast
In sotne manner a handkerchie! which sbe
wore about her neck became ignited, spd
before Ler aged relatives could help her all
ber clothing was ablaze and her body wes
burned to a crisp. She lingered in aswlul
agony for three hours, when death came to
her relied,
of
her
She lived with
Dauphin County's Loss.
The cutting down of the school approprie-
tion by Governor Stone bas bardiy been dis
cussed in Harrisburg, Dauphin county is
out about §5.000. The general oplaion fs
thet the cut will fall harde«t on the country
districts, and that the cities will be better
able to proteet themselves, There is gen.
eral condemnation, however, in the refusal
ol the Legisiature to pass revenue bills,
River Enters a Mine,
Large gangs of men are at work night and
day aod all of Sanday, at bulidiag dams In
the Schooley Mise, back of Sturmerviile,
The recent cave-n has been so severe that
the roof is cracked, allowing water from
the river to find its way into the workings,
The officials are erecting dams at various
points in the workings in an endeavor to
eonfine the flood to 8 certain territory asd
prevent the entire workings being drowned
out,
Gift of 815,000,
Owing to a largely ifncrensed attendances
in Bucknell University fu friends are at.
tempting to raise $75,000 to increase the
fixed snd working capital of the institution,
A friend in New York city bas promised tc
give $15,000 of the amount. Not Jess than
one-third of the amount is to be added tc
the working capital; the rest will be used iv
erecting needed buildings,
Postmistress to Get Higher Salary.
Miss Harriet M. Gault, Mrs. McKinley's
teacher of thirty years ago, and who was
through the latter appointed postmisiress of
Media last August, has been notified that af.
ter July 1 the salary of ber office will be
$2,200, an increase of $100 a year. This ©
due to an increase of business,
Landsdowne a Second-Class PostofMce.
The postmaster of Lansdowae, Issac PP.
Garrett, has bosn notified by the postal de
partment at Washington that bis offices bas
teen raised to the second-olass, and the
salary increased. from $1800 to $2,100 »
year The change ts to go into effect on
July 1.
Drowaed Himeelf in Panto.
Samuel B. Snavely, aged 24 years, com.
mitted suicide by drowning himsel! in the
penstock of Brubaker's Mill, at Brubaker,
where he was employed. No cause is knows
for the deed.
News In Brief.
The Bethlehem Steel Company bas shipped
side armor plates weighing 80 tons for 1h»
Alabama, to Cramps,
Throueh George F. Baer an unnamed res.
dent of Reading bas presented $2,000 worth
of books to the Reading Library.
While William Embree, Charies Goodman
and Miss Mamie Thomas wers boating on
the Schuylkill near their boat was
upset and all three wore thrown Into deep
water. They escaped with djfeuity,
Burglars attempted to break into the resi
dence of Councilman 1. E Baker, Shut,
but were scared away by bis danghter, who
and screamed,