Who Owns the Railroads?
H. T. Newcomb, of the District of
Columbia Bar, has compiled statistics
showing that 5,174.718 depositors in
savings banks of six Eastern States are
directly interested in the joint owner
ship of $442.354.080 of steem railroad
securities, that insurance comnanies
doing business in Massachusetts hold
$S45,880.088 of steam railroad stocks
and bonds, and 74 educational institu
fons depend ou $47,468,827 invested in
similar securities for a portion of their
income. Other fiduciary institutions
own enough railroad securities to bring
such holdings up to more than a billion
and a half dollars, about one-sixth of
the entire capital invested in railroad
property. These investments represent
the savings of the masses, there being
twenty million holders of life insur-
ance policies in the country, as many
more of fire insurance policies, and an
even greater number of depositors in
banking and trust institutions, where
investments are largely in railroad se-
curities
Errors Made by Geologists.
The construction of the great Sim.
pion tunnel has proved ance more that
geology is largely a matter of theo
ries which may or may not fit actual
conditions, even close to the surface
of the earth. The engineers have dis
covered that the geologists were en
tirely at fault as to the temperature
which would be encountered, missing
the mark 25 degrees at the point
wuere hot water was found. The
water conditions in general were un.
like those predicted, and the engin.
eers found that the dips In the rock
strata, which had bean declared on
theory to be mainly vertical, were,
in fact, horizontal.
John Morley on Golf.
Mr. John Morley addressed a meet.
ing of his constituents in Montrose
the other night, and at the close a
“heckler” rose and said:
“1 wish ask the right honorable
gentleman an important question.”
The audience was all attention.
“1 wish Mr. Morley why
does not play golf.” Mr. Morley
ever, was equal to the
“Golf!” he 1: “Oh! I dont
think I'm old « to begin that
yet."—Dundee People's Friend
fo
he
how
occasion
to ask
exclaimed
TRIPLE PLAYS ARE RARE.
But Two Men Have Pulled Them Off
Unassisted. ,
A triple
things in bs
& combination of circumstances
be at least
out.
requires
h
whic
no one
hit the ball
hance for a
this, the
t. But
& man un-
assisted, recorded
One was i of Paul
Hines way back in the early '80s.
The other A 1¢ mind, al
though it in a minor
league
In 1901 Harry O
first
two men on tl
Then the next
in a certain
was playing
West.
went
the
i. he
base for Columbus, in
association Tin canne
Newark,
to
was playing
touched the fir
the runner, was the base
O'Hagan, turning to throw to second,
saw that the runner there had started
who off
at the crack of the bat and was nearly
to third. So, instead of throwing the
ball, he sprinted to second base with
it in his hand, arriving in time to put
the third man out on the play.
Last season the Kansas City clu
of the American association made two
triple plays in one game at Toledo
CHILDREN AFFECTED
By Mother's Food and Drink,
Many babies have been launched into
life with constitutions weakened by
disease taken in with thelr mother's
milk. Mothers cannot be too careful
as to the food they use while nursing
their babes. The experience of a Kan-
sas City mother is a case in point;
“I was a great coffee drinker from a
child, and thought 1 could not eat a
meal without it. But I found at last
it was doing me harm. For years 1
had been troubled with dizziness,
8pots before my eyes and pain in my
heart, to which was added, two years
ago, a chronic sour stomach. The
baby was born seven months ago, and
almost from the beginning it, too, suf-
fered from sour stomach. She was
taking it from me!
“In my distress I consulted a friend
of more experience than mine, and she
told me to quit coffee, that coffee did
not make good milk; I have since as
certained that It really dries up the
milk.
“So 1 quit coffee, and tried tea and
at last cocoa. But they did not agree
with me. Then I turned to Postum
Coffee with the happiest results. It
proved to be the very thing I needed,
It not only agreed perfectly with baby
and myself, but it increased the flow
of my milk. My husband then quit
coffee and used Postum, quickly got
well of the dyspepsia with which be
had been troubled. 1 no longer suffer
from the dizziness, blind spells, pain
bas cured them,
“Now we all drink Postum from my
husband to my seven months’ old baby.
It has proved to be the best hot drink
we have ever used. We would not
give up Postum for the best coffee we
ever drank.” Name given by Postom
Co., Battle Creek, Mich,
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THE KEYSIONE STATE
Latest News of Peunsvivamia Told
Short Order.
uring the excitement of a fire at
th eid of i« Evan f Ed
the residgnee of Morr Evans, « :
ile everal per
y
goods ana
one of the
£4]
Rome
10 Were trying
what they
n window
Il at the of a man who
aying he would take care of it,
trace of the man has been found.
William E. Hughes, cashier of the
Cudahy Packing Company, Pittston,
was arrested on the charge of embezzle
ment made by an auditor of the com
He was held under $4,000 bail
court. Auditor Snyder said that
acounted for t
threw
took
No
feet
pany
for
$3,700 is not on the deposit
sak s
J. McGuire, of ville,
charged with conspiracy, mis
and fraud in the
Butler corporation. A
er and Fred Stage, of Butler,
jointly with McGuire
bail
turning to his
1 1t
8
}
i
ngn
lars 1s in jail
if Liarion,
i §
sdie Ol
harged and
under
} in Frackville,
Isaac Bachman,
found his wife
the premises re
ttom of
known
ident or
ome
}
Wagtns
were bu
about $8000, partially
urance
ons of
y Trac
Thomas
a hear
rizinger,
101
ompany, near
; s, of that place, had
Sche
remanded
and was
trial at court
became violently abusive and hurled in
sulting remarks at the Justice, who final
ly became impatient and, leaping over
i office rail, severely thrashed the
prisoner. Williams is said to have been
intoxicated at the time when he placed
the obstructions on the tracks.
Gas was struck on the property of the
Pittsburg Forge & Iron Works in Wood's
Run, Allegheny. The well reached a
depth of about 1.750 feet, when the gas
was struck. The pressure is said to be
about seventy-five pounds ard is suf
ficient to operate the plant. The com-
pany has been operating seven furnaces
in the mill with gas from another well,
which was drilled six months ago. This
well has an output of about 200000 feet
of gas a day,
Walter Young Schreffler, aged 11, of
Reading, sent a revolver bullet into his
heart, dying instantly. The boy had
been in ill health for some time and was
unable to attend school. This preyed
vpon his mind and he became melan-
choly. The Coroner is endeavoring to
determine whether the shooting was
accidental or suicide,
David Culp was rescued after being
entombed for ten hours in a breast in
the Cameron mine, Shamokin. A bi
rush of coal had made him prisoner.
brother who worked with him was at
the bottom of the mine chamber at the
time and gave the alarm. ' Shortly be-
fore he was released the rescuers heard
him rapping. He escaped uninjured, but
was almost dead for want of air. ‘
The York Cold Storage Company has
arranged to store 150 carloads of eggs
Each car will hold 400 cases and each
case 360 eggs. The total number of
egrs stored will be 21.600.000.
the
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
R. G. Dunn & Co's “Weekly Review
of Trade” says:
Spring trade responds 1
weather, and shipments of mer
have increased rapidly
facilities are severely t:
points there is complais cat
motive
50%
and
Vigation
has not
s demands,
power
on lakes and rive:
opened as promptly as by
The customary das from floods has
rendered
minor
unemploved,
verse features
the resumption of
pecially in building operatic
the farms, The buyers are ving
in large numbers at primary markets
warm weather accelerating preparations
for Easter trade.
Holders and makers of iron and steel
products appear to have secured control
of the situation. It is no longer con-
sidered desirable delay the placing
of contracts in expectation of better
terms.
Failures this week numbered 25% in
the United States, against 226 last year,
and 16 in Canada, compared with 15 a
year
many m and
events
several
of
mporary ad
offset by
work, es
and on
added tc number
but these
are More 1s
oulao
arr
10
ago.
Bradstreet’s says
Wheat, including flour,
the week ending March 23,
bushels, against week,
this week year, 2.401.087
and 2.004.110 In 1002 Corn
for the week ]
3841411
ago, 3.018,
1002.
exports for
are, 1.044.-
805
Bos. 742 last
last
are
676 a year
WHOLESALE MARKETS.
nore Fi Dull and ws
A
Live Steck
New York—Beeves—Medium and
common, low; tb
siow to ioc. lower; good cows, slow
thers dull and weak. Common to choice
. 300 590; 1.40004.50
cows, 1.80@ 1.55 Cables quoted live cat
12¢. per pound; tops
1214¢. dressed weight; refrigerator beel
wg at Big to BYe. per pound
Cables active and firm; ne
Veals, 5.x
aR 30; little calves and culls, 300@400
barnyard calves, 3.350; dressed calves,
steady; city dressed veals, B@iic. per
Tt
to bulls,
teers,
sellin
Calves
and Lambs ~~ Sheep, steady;
Sheep
slow. Fair sheep, 5.50: lambs,
lambs,
Chicago-—Cattle—Market steady. Good
2.50(04.60; cows, 2.8504.50; heifers, 300
@s.00; canners, 1.50@2.30; bulls, 225@
4.00; calves, 3.000. 50.
Hogs—Market 10c. higher. Mixed
ind butchers, 5.00@5.27% ; good to choice
heavy, 5.15@5.30; rough heavy, S00
5.10; light, 408@%20; bulk of sales, 5.18
ws.as.
Sheep Marke: steady. Good to choice
wethers, 4.606.530; fair to choice mixed,
475(0)5.40; native lambs, 8.50@7 60.
MUCH IN LITTLE
Russia has B6 general holidays in a
year,
There are 2,000 rivers in the British
Empire.
A large factory for making "artificial
silk” is to be established at Florence,
Italy.
Of the $5,600000000 of gold in the
world the United States possesses $1,300,-
200,000, or nearly one-fourth.
A Berlin Jot was ese tly called upon
to deal with an action t a wo
man of 30 who was a Dr
The haikwan (customs) tael was val-
ged by the United States Treasury at
54.6 cents in 1903, 63 cents in 1902, and
nl cents in 1901,
ailway carriages transformable into
ambulance compartments for the use of
passengers who have been taken ill have
been provided on the Prussian railways
for express routes
JOVIAL 8!R WALTER SCOTT.
Lightsome and Gay and a Fine Old
Scottish Gentleman.
Every one may be sald to know the
alithor of “Waverley.” but
Croal of Edinburgh, who has been inter
viewed by the Dispatch of that eity
enjoys the distinction of having talke
to the man in the flesh and of bein;
probably the sole survivor among
thoge who heard Sir Walter Scott de
clare himself the author of “Waver
ley” at a public dinner in the assem
bly room in 1827.
“The apnouncement did not coms
quite as a surprise,” says Mr. Croal
“for it had been hinted that Sir Wal
ter would reveal himself. 1 can re
call the suppressed interest of the
gathering throughout the dinner
proper. It was in reply to the toast
of his health that Sir Walter admitted
the soft impeachment. I can remem
ber his closing words exactly They
were: 'l am the sole and undivided
author of “Waverley.” ' Needless te
say there was great enthusiasm. The
company rose en masse and | thought
the roof would come off.”
Scott, Mr. Croal adds. was comgrat
ciated all round. “It was a gay night
and the utmost conviviality pre
valled.”
Asked whether he recollected the
personality of Bir Walter Scott, Mr
Croal replied that he did so vividly.
"He was lightsome and gay and
Jooked the real type of a fine old Scot
tish gentleman, chatting animatedis
with one of the law lor gitting next
to him. He made a first-class after
dinner speaker and, young though 1
was, 1 carried away a last impression
of his kindly social disposition
In the of the
Walter complimented
Kay, the comedian. who
his
Gear i
as
81s
Mac
course evening
Charles
was
upon
Nicol
rassed and
members
ETS ros § rex la
SUCCEeRE In roe
Jarvie Mackay wa
Mr. Croal dist
him saying
I would
the
get
great
now, Mr. Ballle
«i Bir Wal
Big Bag of Jack Rabbits
rabbits were killed
Mrs
who
shot by
B. D
shotgun
rat
| a rr ovr the
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Foster Canadian Immigration,
The Canadian authorities are in
ereasing their efforts to encourage im
migration to the Dominion. They an
nounce that their advertising at the
recent world's fair caused a lively in.
terest throughout the United States
and is likely to be followed by an in:
creased flow of immigration to the
Canadian West.
ITteh cured in 30 minutes by Woolford's
Sanitary Lotion ever Fails. S04 Ao]
, $1. re t
Br IEE Dich Coders [romotly 8
Carl Beers, of Ba , Me, runs & worm
. He raises TT bait.
ldo not haliors Pio Dare far atm.
tion has coughs colds, -Jorx
7 Boren, T-iaity Springs, Ind. , Feb, 15, 1900,
A Forest Behoot hae been established in
the suburbs of Berlin, Germany
A A A AS MN
FITR permanently sured. Kolite or sarvous-
nose after rst day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
Dr. BH. Kuixg, 144d
S31 Arch Bt. Phila, Pa.
come from the sale of grain
Mra, Winslow's Boothing Byrap for ehildren
teething, soften th is, reduces inflamma
tion allays pain cures wind colic 250.8 bottle.
5% he
tamest
ras the
wildest bi
pets. and
generally make
Versys §
vice
Bell Philadelphia, de-
suarterly dividend «¢
Te lephone, of
regular
Inevitable. How Ble Escaped It
When a pRysielan tells 8 woman suf-
that an operation is necessary, the very
thought of the knife and the operatin
table strikes terror to her heart, an
our hospitals are full of women coming
for ovarian or womb operations,
There are cases where an operation
isthe only resonrees, b 1 One con
#iders the great numi
ovarian and womb
l.axdia ham
pouna
Operation
One with
LComponnd »
Lynn, Mass
Miss
for ads
Margret Merkley i
Street, Milwaokee, Wis. , writes:
Dear Mrs, Pinkbam
‘Toss of strength
mins througl
axireme nervousness
the Orne
CTW Tw
r i
The Pest
pelvi
te to seek medics after
maxing an examin 3 2d 11 var
trouble and uloeratd 1 of
an
as
OnROe more strong. vigor
Ovarian and womb tr
ily on the increase among
the monthly t
or too frequent and excessive
n
periods are very pa
or swelling
WwW aown In the
§ iown fn the
GOOD POTATOES
BRING FANCY PRICES
To grow a large crop of good potatoes, the
8c! must contain plenty of Potash
A omatoes, melons, cabbage, turnips, lettace
in fact, all vegetables remove Linge Guante-
® ties of Potash from the soll. Supply
Potash
iberally by the use of fertilizers coniaindog
nol less than 10 per cent. actus! Potash.
Better and more profitable yields are sore wo
wilow
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RESTORED HIS HAIR
Bealp Homor Cured by Cuticura Soap and
Cintment After Al! Else Falled.
“1 was troubled with a severe scalp hu.
mor and Jose of hair that gave me a great
deal of annoyance After unsuccessful of
forts with many remedies and so-called
hair tonics. a friend induced me to try
Cuticura Soap and Ointment. The humor
wae cured in a short time, my hair waa
restored as healthy as ever, and 1 can glad:
ly say | have since been entirely free from
any furtber annoyance. 1 shall always use
Cuticurs Soap, and 1 keep the Ointmen
on hand to wee as a dressing for the hair
and scalp. (Signed) Fred'k Busche, 213
East 57th St, N. Y. Oty.”
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miles of postal TOVEer and: S00
rh
The
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It is