— EXCEPT HIS MOTHER. > Folks all called him to account; Stamped him as a worthless loafer; Said he never wou'd amount To a common striped gopher; And whate'er he might commit— So they vowed to one another They'd not be surprised a bit. (‘That is, all except his mother.) Till a sudden crisis came Sacrifice and courage testing, Leaped to lips a hero's name, Laud from e'en the coldest wresting. And the chap thus signalized Was “that loafer,” and no other! Then the folks all were surprised! (That is, all except his mother.) —Rdwin L. Sabin, in Good Housee- keeping. At Brist W Staion Bristow Station was in the Pan Handle section of Texas, and a more loatly and dreary place it would be | hard te find. There was but one building, which served for freight house, passenger depot, ticket and | telegraph office. Bert Brown, the K. | & M. agent, had to do all the business and cook his own meals over an oil stove. There were four trains dally over the road, but, unless flagged, the two passenger trains went through Bristow at a fifty-mile clip. To the west of the station was a long siding with cattle pens, then a straight track for thirty miles over the prairie. Bert could always count on a visit from three or four tramps a day, and, though the instructions from the di- vision superintendent were to “dis- | courage” them, he took his own course | {n the matter. To “discourage” them | meant to threaten them with pains and penalties and refuse them even a drink of water. To Bert it looked | too much like childish spite, and, | though he may have done some growl- ing now and then, he always had a! bite to eat and a bit of tobacco for the “tourist” whose language was respect. ful. As a matter of ‘act there were times when he could sit down with one of them for an hour and be inter ested in the tramp's adventures by flood and fleld. If Bert did not obey his instruct to the letter the section that section did. He was a burley big fellow, regarded by his employes as a bully and a coward. Agent and boss had word on the subject, however, one summer afternoon he happened along with his car and his gang just as a tramp had reached tho station and was resting in the shade. Bert had not seen the fellow as yet, when he heard a row outside The section boss had spied the hobo and stopped to give him a drubbing. The tramp was a man about 30, and it needed only one glance at his face to prove that he was not born to the road. He had an fntelligent eye and his speech was that of an educated man The boss went hunting for tramps If one was found track walking he received such a thumping taat he could hardly craw! off to a highway, and no freight train with a hobo on the bump- ers could pass the boss that his sharp eyes would not detect the culprit Perhaps it was the man's ramity toward tramps that Bert's heart. The section boss was already slam- ming him around when Bert interfer ed. As the big brute let go of his vic- tim he gave him a whirl and brought him down on the iron rail The hobo lay thera until Bert assisted him to rise. He complained of a pain in his side, but after resting for awhile it seemed to pass off. The story he told was not mew to the agent. Born of good parents and with a good start fn life drink and a spirit of adventure Lal been his bane. He did not men- | fon what occupation he had followed, | anf Bert, in his genial thoughtful way, | vefrained from exhibiting too much | wariosity. After accepting lunch a bracer of whiskey and a few coins, he | Loft the station and continued west | ward. This was toward sundown. The tramp had been gone about an hour when a thunder storm came up, | and for an hour it rained furiously. | A mile to the east of Bristow they were putting in a new bridge over a | small creek, with the rails laid on a | temporary track. It was not Bert's | budfiness to worry about that bridge, | and he hadn't given it a thought when | he received a message from Clairs- | ville, nine miles to the west, that the | section gang had been dumped into the | ditch and all badly hurt. Then arose | the question whether it was his duty to remain at the station and be ready for a call, or to make a trip to the new bridge and see that all was safe, He knew that the creek would be bank full from the downpour, and, as | it was in the dry season when no rain was expected, the temporary tracks might be swept away. After fifteen minutes in doubt and worry he tele. graphed Clairsville that he was going to the creek and at once set out on a run. He had scarcely started when a gale sprang up in his very teeth, and Within ten minutes it was all he could do to make way against it at a walk. Darkness had fallen before he reached the culvert. The bridge was gone! The first train due was a freight at # o'clock. This train would side-track at Bristow for the express bound east. He had brought a red lantern, and this he managed to secure to a pole sus. pended over the track. That would stop the freight, and he would get back to the station in time to flag the ex- press. The wind was howling along at the rate of sixty miles an hour, and a dozen different times in returning over that mile of track Bert was blown flat or clear off the track into the ditch. Even with the gale at his back it took veg Ons boss on had a sr til uni never fierce softened him as long to go back as it had to come, and he was thoroughly played out when he reached the station. Even before he mounted the platform he heard the instrument calling wm and realized that something was up. A surprise awaited him as he opened’ the door. Sitting at the table, with his head on his arms and apparently asleep, was the tramp of the afternoon. The instrument was calling “B"” “B"” as if lives depended on an instant an- swer, and Bert had to reach over the sleeping man’s shoulder to reply. In| a minute came this message from Clairisville: “What the dickens is the matter with you? Are there any more empt- fes on the way?" “What do you mean?’ Bert asked. “I mean that 1 have ditched the seven cattle cars, and want to know if any others got away?” It took some minutes to make mat- ters plain. Several times Bert shook the sleeper and called to him to vacate the chair, but he did not move. The sixteen cattle cars, and after backing The section gang had passed the spot with- out noticing the.switch, and when the of the cars had blown out on the main track and start ed down the road at thirty miles an hour. The other nine would have fol- lowed had not one eof them jumped the track and held the rest. Clairgville had received werd of the runaway and ditched them to prevent a smashup with the express. It was a ghostly telegram that had been sent in Bert's absence. ‘tne in- ternoon had, for some reason, return- ed to the track later on. He must have seen the open switch and sighted the runaway empties He had made his way down to the station to give Bert the information, and finding him gone had sat down to the In strument and warned Clairsville. He had giver Bert no hint that he was an operator, but such was the He had sent the message through good shape and saved the road a big smashup “Here—wakeup—wake up, & shake hands and let me thank you,” Bert shouted as the mystery was solved and he feit his growing big. No reply broke the silence which suddenly and strangely impressed Bert. The hands touched cold. The inquest was held at Clairsville, and the verdict was “heart aggravated by a recent injury.” The recent injury” consisted of three broken ribs The fact that this was received at the hands of the section was not stated, That the poor chap had ever managed to walk a hun- dred rods the doctors declared a won- derful thing. He was nameless, home- less and friendless, and the railroad company had no sentiment and no gratitude, The poor bruised body was laid in a pauper’'s grave, unmark- and und for, and only Bert Brown stood beside the last resting place of Bristow Station's hero New York Evening Sun. Case, in heart he were disease, DOSS od red GREATER THAN PYRAMIDS, Hill in lllinois Surpasses, as a Huge Rock, Egypt's Relic. Monks's Mound, between St. on the boundary Clair and Madison was visited by a party led by Dr. Henry Mason Baum, of Washington. Sixty-three mounds form the group, and it was pronounced by Dr. Baum one of the wonders of the world and the largest antiquity in the United States. “The unanimous view of the party was that the mound was wholly the work of man,” said Dr. Baum. “Pos gibly It was never completed. The principal mound exceeds the great pyramids of Mexico. “Most of the earth used in making the elevations was transported more than half a mile, and the scenes of ex- cavation, where the builders got thelr earth, are still visible in the depressed places. Roughly estimating the la- bor, 1 should say that it required the efforts of 10,000 men for three years to build the mound. All of the earth in ie counties, Illinois, “Years ago a trench was dug into the side of the mound, but not to a sufficient extent to reveal what it con- tained. In order to determine what the mound was used for, it would be necessary to carry trenches from dif- ferent parts toward the centre, and this would not only require skilful ex- cavating, but considerable time and money. This excavating ought to be done before the World's Fair. “The surroundings are much like the Warka neighborhood, in the Tigro- Buphrates valley. Just as the plain stretching out from the Warka was the great burial place of that region, and that around the pyramids of Egypt the burial place of that region, so the Cahokia neighborhood was the place of sepulture of the population that once inhabited the Mississippi valley. As the pyramids of Egypt were the tombs of kings, so possibly were these mounds the tombs of the chiefs or rulers of a prehistoric race. “This remarkable locality-—the richest in the United States from an antiquarian’s standpoint—should be made a national or state park. “One of the wonders of the world is at the doors of St. Louls, If pro vision could be made for a visit to the locality of scientific men of Europe they would carry back with them new impressions of the greatness of the prehistoric race of America-—impres- sions that they do not now dream of. We All Know Them, Give some people an inch and they will take anything that Isn't mailed down.~Ohio State Journal AIDS TO WHITEWASHING. The use of the fruit-spraying pumps makes easy the task of whitewashing stables, henhouses and cellars, and it is much more effectual than the use of the brush, because by making the stream a little larger and more for- gible, which most spraying nozzles ad- mit of, a stream can be sent into cracks and crevices where the brush would not reach. It may not prove as penetrating or as powerful a disin- fectant as the gas from burning sul- phur and charcoal, but it takes next rank, and can be used where it might | not be well to use the sulphuric acid | gas, as in cellars under living-rooms. | If it is to be used as a disinfectant, or | as an indect destroyer, the addition of a little carbolic acid or a little dissolv- ed copperas to the whitewash may be at least in cow stables, because it emits no offensive odor. Let the lime be thoroughly slacked, and strained through a cloth, so that it may be thin enough to work well in the nozzle. And sides, ceilings, corners and floors Applied not the hot weather, It long to dry, and two during take LARGE LITTERS OF PIGS. We never saw a litter of pigs large that the sow did not have milk until they were two We have been told of such a thing as one having more pigs than she had and in such a case it might be necessary to kill the extra put them on another sow, them up on a but are about Aas that hi A 1 80 for them weeks old teats, bottle, ch cases supply weeks old taught t and by eight trou ¥ week h to a taken from three giving more eat up clean, or taking they time the tro larly BOW, than they r whatever leave every earn to eal We that a mash of bran gskimmilk, the more milk the bet the best feed for them, but to have shelled at ugn or shorts good sud corn We after they were a to add or ally increasing the tivator CPR never Ween nmeal to GROWING When the plants inches gently with bordeaux mixture should CELERY are anv they should bw » sprayed the second ter they become si again This spraying will pres blight, and every variet) liable to attacks of these diseases, Cultivation must be constant. A wheel and good tool for the purpose. The between the plants in row be kept clean by hand, and all weeds should be kept out Do not work the ground when the plants are wet, as dirt on the leaves causes rust and rot. As a matter of fact, no plants should when nine inche and is a apace thorough hoe i rake the must rain. In blanching the idea is to shut out air. These boards should be set close to each side of the row and held in be hindered The plants in the that the plants may not to grow and will soon become white above the boards the latter may be | brought together at the top. until the The stalks should be marketed or taken out as soon as they are sufficient. ly tender.—Thomas Alphram, in New England Homestead. INSECT ENEMIES OF FRUIT. The work of spraying the fruit trees and vines is usually done in the | gpring, but even now an examination of the trees will show that they re- | quire nearly as much attention as in spring. The nests of caterpillars can | now be seen In the orchards and in the | forests. The catalpa trees have been | almost completely stripped of leaves in some sections by large green worms that attack the trees almost before their presence is detected. In the! vegetable garden there will be found | worms and bugs innumeicable, and that | they can do considerable harm, even | in a few hours, is well known. An eggplant can be entirely consumed wy | potato beetles in less *han two hours, | and the large green worm will strip a tomato vine in less than half a day. To save the fruit and vegeasahles, there. fore, requires vigilance and work, The scale insect is the most destruc ting enemy of trees, as it attacks ncar- ly kinds, and, its destruction must be attempted with the determination to succeed, A strong solution of whale oll soap has been found an excellent remedy. As the rains carry it away, an application should be made after every rain until assured that the pest has been eradicated. Kerosene aswul gion, which is cheap, will instantly destroy all kinds of caterpillars, and 1s made by dissolving a pound of hard soap in a gallon of boiling water. When the soap is completely dissolved re- move the solution from the fire and add a gallon of kerosene, churniny the mixture for 15 minutes by sumping with a sprayer. A creamy mixture re gults. Add from 10 to 20 gallons of cold water (according to strength de. gired and spray the trees. For peach mixture should not be strong, about one of kerosene to twenty of water being preferred. Buccoss de pends upon getting the mixture on every part of the tree. The mixture can be improved if a gill of crude car bolic acid is added for every gallom of kerosene used.—Philadelphia Ree ord. ton DIPPING FOR PARASITES. Parasites of all kinds are not only injurious to the wool of sheep, but t« the health of the animals as well, and dipping to destroy them should be re sorted to wherever and whenever the) are present at shearing time. There is no other way to remove the trouble some pests except by repeating ping, and sometimes it requires a good many to accomplish the desired end Ticks will worry the thin, weak saeep more than the strong ones, they seem to congregate on them in such pumbers as to cause their death. Some times the ticks appear on the sheep shortly after dipping, and the impres slon is made that the dipping did not free them from the parasites; but thie is a mistake. The trouble was thal dip apa 1 +3 sla bie and by in the sheep were putting the animals back in fested quarters them the the solution kept, their the ticks soon covered again. The living quarters of ated with spraying and washing, ani gheep must also be tr Dy the in this we from a fi and WAY protect i invasion A se the ure sOHIOW mapy Xin weep, and mos summer ail winter rhatever else greater 1 done 10 it than & i Every farmer should have a tarpaulin cover, and put it on at noon and again at night protect from the sun, as well as from sudden showers, the expensive chinery. work it ne 3 of oll costing from 20 to 40 cents per gallon, no farmer need by without a sufficient supply. Don’t smear cog wheels with oll or grease, as the oil gathers sand and dust that very soon cuts the cogs to a small point and causes them to break: where necessary use graphite, or binder canvass any tighter than is necessary to make it do its work, as belt or chain but the entire machine. Paint your wagons, plow and harrow at least once in three years. We can buy colors and grind them with just enough linseed oll to make it of the consistency of thin putty, half as much turpentine as you have buy ready but I do not think them as good. From all the farm implements one time. When the implements are put away use the binder take a can of coal oil or oil hole and oll the knife well. Do will make the machine start up. About found a nut or two that will not stay on. Wet a woolen string in strong brine water and tie it around che pro- jecting end of the bolt, this will rust the joint that will stay tight forever, Again I will say that oil and paint fron. 1f all of us farmers would paint up all the farm implements they will better when used so much.—Louls Campbell, in Agricultural Epitomist. invention for amusing children. THE KEYSTONE STATE. News Happenings of Interest Gathered From All Sources, James Wat Durlnn Pennsylvania Job, $19; Finley, $8; Allabough, Silver dale. $16: Samuel Gault, Wilkinsburg $8: Calvin Williams, Julian, $10; Enos Rogers, Rockhill Furnace, $17; A. Kimmel, Normalville, $10; Daniel Merriman, Pittsburg, $10; Charles H Adams, Stroudsburg, $6; Hannah Wood Athens, $8: Mary Jefferies, Dunbar $8: Isabella McLaughlin, Buena Vista $8: Margaretta C. Robb, Huntington $8: Margaret Brown, Titusville, $8; 1sa bell Atwell, Pittshurg, $8; Elizabeth Watson, Job, $8; Elen Raub, DSayre William H. Harrison, Carnegie : George J. Calhoun, Wash 4 Flisha Willoughby, Roulette, $12 ham Kendrick, v, 38: James McCoysvill Lafayette Saegertown s {)'Brien, burg, $6: Jose $6 iel Sechler Honey Indiana, 310; Julian, $10: Charles $:0: Benjamin F. Null Sherman Lyons, Bellefonte, S. Miller. St. Marys, $10; John Minney Donora, $12: Mary z i ] ith, Hout = heresa ynior k IiNsOn MeGara dale roved the boathouse The 1 resulting DECIUsC i Chester ympetitive ¥ . d belore De et by the order te yp Nears appear on th 10.000 21 tenth annual mere Park, Blo coming from Columbia, coming and Sullivan counties M Cornell. of the State Grange; John farmers msburg Luzerne, addresses Mrs. William Walp, of Seybertsvilie sprang at her opened the door he woman seized an iron poker and after an exciting battle killed the reptile Three cows belonging to Claude Peters, a farmer, near Martinsburg, ate a quantity of dynamite which a gang of Pennsylvani allroad men who were pantry and Held died mission held a meeting at Harrisbure and considered offers of 28.000 acres of forest land in various gounties of the State. but purchased only 400 acres The other tracts offered will be ex- amined by experts before a purchase is made Hon. Thomas U. Shaffer, for 30 years publisher of the Renovo Record, and member of the State Assembly from 1885 to 1880, is dead, aged 30 years, A canning factory to employ 250 hands will be established at Reinhold’s Station Feber. the o-vear-old son of Post master William McKimm, was rus overt by a street car at Oil City and killed While he was carrying his father's dinner, James Hanna, Jr. 11 years old, was struck by a train at Chester and killed. While walking in his sleep, Edward Cross, aged 8 years, of Chester, imag. ined that he was swimming and dived down a stairway, sustaining serious in- juries. A 3-months-old son of Henry Brown, of Fulton Towmship, has three great- aodfathers living. They are omas oopes, Samuel Finnefri and Reason G. Ross. all residents of Fulton Town- ran away from last week and wined a circus, sus was in Allegheny, the boy volun- wered to take his place and made a tooo-foot drop with the parachute. He anded on electric light wires and drop- ped to the ground, 30 feet below, ugin- tared. etn ———————— COMMERCIAL REVIEW, General Trade Conditions. Midsummer quief has gone from distributive trade, and Jradstreet’s says: stimulated by really brillia pects prices ior ducts, business has t crop pros and good farm pro- to £X large and this week fall begun pand. Buyers are arnving in numbers at all markets, promises to see demand further in sed Crea has Manufacturing industry, whick been more than usually active this summer, continues well employed Failures are few and Liabilities small; prices are steady. July railway earn ings returns last show 7 per cent. gain over year. Bank clearings continue to 3 show gains Advices fr irregiiar Susiness Phila nd « boot and shoe trade s 5 AA &4 iq at the yest 19 feiphia the jobbing manulacturers are A Be 4 yr har ¢ »Oston smpments week J bx gs % ias are still the de leather $y we wn A However, ana last year, 12 per cent i2 per cent ry active, taken as 1ast as aeck 40.000 tons i q riatdware LATEST QUOTATIONS it, $4.0 amily, ® Wheat Philadelpl Ne tbc Oats delphia N 2he Hay-—No. 1 timothy, $19.00a19.50; No. 2 timothy. $18.00a18.80; No. 3 tim- othy $17.00a17.50 Green Frais Nutive Blackberries Eustern Shore pet i gart falc bage Native per 1 Waketield, i 1 Cantaloupes — F £1.00 mbers ket 12a20¢; 4 h Caroling. 12a BEggplants, Native, per basket D560 Bhokelberzies per Tc Let ture, Native, per boshel box 30 nions New, basket SUak Peaches, Florida, per carrior $1 Pipeapplos Flotifla, per ciate, $i 2.50. String beans, per busl 308800; wax, 3 jade Tomatoes mae, per six-busket carrier, fancy adae do, fair tg good 208250. Potatoes, Norfolk, per bri, No i $1 00al 25; do, seconds, TOca$l 00 culls. H0alle: do, North Carolina, per bri. No 1, $1 00al 25 Butter, Separator, 22a23¢c; Gathered cream, 31a28c; prints. 1.1b 25ad6e; Rolls 2.ib. 25e26; Dairy pts. Md. Pe.. Va. Fae. i» Baltimore No 2 Beets, retahles Cab per ~ wy Cue harieston, per bas 53 juni Ha 50 per ao, , Fresh-laid eggs, per dozen, 174018 Cheese, Large. 60-1b, 103al0c; me. dium, Jb, 103 ul0y; picnics, 22.1b Wigal(®e. ive Poultry, Hens, 11}4al2¢; old rowsiars, each 25a%e; spring chiockeas, 19a12%e, youug stags, 12a12e. Dacks 11a130. Hides, Heavy steers, association and salters, Jate ki¥, @.1be and up, close se- lection, 1R4a1¥%c; cows und light steers $4alle. Provisions snd Heg Products. Bulk dear rib sides, 180; bulk shouldérs, 10a; bulk beligh, 18; bulk bam bufts, 10% ¢; bacon elear tib sides. 1¥c; bacon shoolders, 1li{¢; sogar-cured breasts, 11%0; sugar oured shoulders, 11Xc; sugar cured California hams, 11¥e; hams canvased or upoanvased, 12 Ibs. Kud over, 148 e; refined lard tieroes, bris and 50 1b cans, gross, 11)5¢; refined lard, second-hand tebs, 11%; refined lard. half.-barrels and new tubs, 11%c Live Stock. Chicago, €attle, Mostly 10albe lowe, ood to prime stoers $8 008 90; mediom § Tha7 75; stockers and feeders $2 50 ab 20; cows, $1 50ab 75; heifers $2 50a 6 50; Cexas- fed steers $3 20ad 50. Hoge, Mixed and butchers $6 75a7 65; good chatoe, heavy §7 40a7 70; Sheep, sheep and lambs slow to lower; good to choice whothers $3 oad U0; Western sheep $2 H0a3 TO. East Liberty, Cattle ; oholoo $7 00a7 80; prime 87 00a7 Hogs, Prime heavy ¥ B0n7 85, mediums $8 00; eavy Yorkers #7 T0a7 50. Sheep steady, Best wothers $4 10ad 30 culls and com. mon $1 H0a2 00; choice lnmbs $5 2540 60. LABOR AND INDUSTRY There is a strike of bricklayers at Kiel for an increase in wages and a re- duction in working hours, Differences between the Carriage Workers’ Union and the employers at Albany. N. Y., have been seettled. At Oakland, Cal. the Southern Pa- sific Company bas acceded to some of the demands made by the machinists. Bricklayers at Glasgow, Stot have secured an advance of 1-2d. an Your, which they had to give up about § year ago.
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