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FAITHFUL WORK.
“Faithful work Is
' appeared in
The expression,
always of the same size,
A recently published article.
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long enough to consider such matters,
besides offering a generous ehare of
comfort and encouragement
the apparent result of their efforts,
It Is true that the world is not always
&8 appreciative as it might be, but
then while the world has a big heart
and, as a rule, a kindly disposition, it
does not always show its appreciation
At the moment, says the Charleston
News and Courier. It is just this ap-
parent lack of encouragement that
makes us lose heart at times and won-
der whether after all it 1s worth while
to do our best. The big things in life
seem to take up so much room in the
public eye that the smaller and just
88 worthy matters are crowded out
At least that is the impression which
many persons form who see the ef
fects of large efforts, whether they be
along constructive, or charitable or ed
ucational lines. In a way these ef-
fects are spectacular; Indeed there is
& large proportion of mankind who re
quire brilliant effects to make them
display Interest in passing events. The
quiet, unobtrusive worker intent upon
results he accomplishes more than up
on the Impression he creates in over
looked many times, and after a while
the want of attention given him and
the lack of encouragement offered him
find expression in his attitude of grow:
ing discontent towards life.
English contemporates may be as
sured that the king will have a cordial
welcome should he come to America,
but to those who profess to belleve
that America lost its head, so to speak,
in the presence of the king's uncle we
beg to say that the visit of the royal
Governor of Canada was met with a
reception that was dignified, but not
excessive, says the New York Herald
The reports that were sent Eng
lish papers were nearly all false, and
«othing in the duke's reception could
in any way be compared with
bootlicking and oily homage that
seen daily In London whenever
member of
public.
to
the
is
any
the royal family appears ip
Throwing away lighted matches. cl
gars and cigarettes is now a misde
Ineanor In New York, and offenders
will be prosecuted. The carelessness
of this prictiee, trivial as it is regard
ed, started the biggest fires
in the history of the world in this city,
ard is responsible: for the recent trag
fc fire In New York, In which
the prices paid was the life of a brave
fire chief C
easily amount to
and this is the first step
ing them as such
one of
one of
asuaities and tragedies so
prevented crimes
toward treat
By the expenditure of a million dol
lars it Is planned to arrange matters
80 that no ship of the American navy
will of hearing of Washingtdn
By establishing wireless stations
the Canal Zone, at San Francisco,
Eawall, In Samoa, In the Philippines
and at Guam, the fleets would be
within range of messages anywhere
within the zone of American in-
teresats No naval battle would be
fought without Washington's knowing
the details at the moment. What an
advance since the Spanish war!
be out
in
in
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A New York butcher has been sent
to jail for a particularly mean method
of cheating. It was his practice when
selling poultry to weigh if with a lead
sinker concealed inside, the sinker be
ing provided with a string by which
he pulled it out before handing over
the bird to the customer But a sharp
customer seized his bird before the
butcher tood it from the scale to wrap
It up, and, seeing the string, pulled it
out and found the sinker and “had the
Iaw" of the butcher. On investigation
other similarly loaded poultry was
found in the shop
A —————————————
At a meeting lately of a fire protec.
tion association it was stated that fire
in the United States cost $500 a min.
ute. Also, that the annual life loss
was 1.600 people, and that 5.000 are
annually injured. This showing Is a
disgrace to civilization. The vast ma
Jority both of life and property loss is
preventable, and the big mistake of
the age is In treating such loss under |
the head of accidents
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8 SILENT ABOUT
Hi AVAL SCOTT
Amundsen Denies He Said Any-
thing About Him.
Point Out
May Have
Geographers, However,
That Both Explorers
Been To the South Pole and
Within a Mile Of Each Other.
AMUNDSEN'S OWN STORY.
Explorer Tells How He Reached
South Pole.
Began
the low
10, _ 1411
work southward,
emperature 44
low gero Fahrenheit,
March 4--The ship
away, hav
February
Way
then degrees
had
{ “the
Fram
salled gnlled
rthest
farthes' north
south
April 22--—-The
and
did not
BLOW al
Very little
throughout
1d open
the winter
August
for five
temperature
tures months
to 76
ct
degrees belo
ber 20
for fin
ed south r final
men in party
Reached depot at 82 deg:
November §b
hegan
summits
November 26-—-Ca
blizzard and
f ice
»
on Novel
and
ascent of steep
’
of 2.000 16 G6
ight
gsnowdrift
tains ©
Crossed ce-covered
15,
December
tained th
plat alike in
December 16
hour for 24 hours
FMM G00 feet
14 Beau
Pole locat
d
Took
to high
tir
© ed o1
ean all directior
observati
evers
Results Include determination
and character «
extent
Barrier
The discovery
King Edward
iy tigscovered
Aa
d "Queen
and takes
exp
Am
lispatch
response
aptain
AMUNDSEN'S REPORT.
Says He Will Submit Charts and All
information,
‘hristiania, Norway Nor
flag has been
Pole by Roald
Antarctic
rejoicing thro
Haakon h
from Hobart, Tasmania
14th-17th December,
planted at the
Ant
explorer, and
ughout Norway
received this
ian
South
ntrepid
is great
King
cablegr
Pole attained
1811 All
(Signed)
All
Amundsen
ndsen, the
there
as
am
well
ROALD
now
reaching the
(Captain Scott, the British
has not been heard from, he
have reached the ge
The Captain denies hav
fessage regarding Capt
the British expedition
NDSEN
as
Pole, but
explorer,
also
AMU
doubts are removed to
an
nay
al
ing cabled any
or
ain Scott
1S
yg A
JUSTICE HOLMES
Now Oldest Member Of the Su
preme Court.
Washington Associate Justice 01]
ver Wendell Holmes, the oldest
member of the Supreme Court of the
United States, celebrated his seventy
firet birthday Friday
Taft took office, three years ago, Jus
tice Holmes, far from being the oldest
member of the highest court, was re
garded as among the younger mem
bers, being many years the junior of
Tustices Harlan, Brewer and Peckham
now
the widow of a man who was hanged.
man who was hanged would take no
more chances
Theatrical booking agents have re
solved to quit giving encouragement to
stage-struck young girls who have run
away from home. This Is lHkely to
help considerably In uplifting the
stage.
SHE ATTAINS CENTURY.
Mas 341
ants.
Waynesburg, Pa Mrs. Harriet
Wildman Ott, oldest resident of
(Gireene county, celebrated her one hun
dredth birthday Friday. She is the
mother of 11 children, 8 of whom are
living. She has 70 grandchildren, 209
great-grandchildren, 063 great-great
grandehildren and one great-great
great grandchild
Mrs. Ott Living Descend.
i
dt iviisstmo od
asia?
it
Kit
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Mayor-elect Has a Majority Of 645— |
Women and the Churches Took
An Active Part
Election,
in the
{
In
beg
year
rhs t
hgh ame
lant
women
tive part
re by
mean
The
Seattle also
th
1¢ Cotterill
amendment
have been beats
je die d to pres
NAVY'S ARMOR USELESS
Hudson Maxim Calls It Hindrance To
Fast Vessels
WN armo after
passing withis hip hen what is
tho #
Lie
of armor plate? The
it knows this
ernments
Lge govern
all progressive gov
f it.’
admit the truth o
SINGER COMMITS SUICIDE.
Mrs. Middecke Shoots Herself
Lying In Bed.
New York Mrs. Josefa
48 vears old, a teacher of
formerly
tha
While
M iddecke,
ng and
under
BIDE:
an operatic
Anton Seidl,
commitied =
soprano
the orchestra
ide by shooting
herself in heart when In bed in
her apartments in an hotel
Rudolph Middecke woman's hus
band, was asleep in the same bed and
wis awakened by the Before
he could summon a phy she
dead. Mr
vife was sufferin
late
leader, id
the
uptown
the
ghot
gician
gad
was
that his
USHess
Middecke
from nerve
FOUR KILLED, ONE INJURED.
They Were Victims Of the Explosion
Of a Boller,
Scranton, Pa
Gilpin tool handle
town, Pike county,
and one fatally injured by the
sion of a boiler. The victims are
George Kraft, Edward Hay, Thomas
Blass and James Roshe, who were lit
erally blown to atoms. The injured |
man is William Biller. The damage
to the mill amounted to $25,000. The
Green:
killed
explo.
factory,
Pa, were
at
determined.
FOUND VALUABLE JEWELS,
Thomas Worth $6,000.
New York.--Less than 12 hours
after she had reported the loss to the
police a diamond and emerald earring
valued at $6,000, lost by Mrs. Ralph H.
Thomas, divorced wife of Frank Jay
Gould, was returned to her by a Mrs.
Sherwin, who had found it at the
Metropolitan Opera House,
PASSES TREATIES I
~~ MODIFED FORM
Action Upsets the Administra-
tion Plans.
FINAL
In Their Present Form Must
Back To Other
May Be
Pigeonhgled,
Treaties
Be Referred
Powers
1
:
Knox as forerunner of in
ged and Secretary
versal
BOMBS DROPPED ON TURKS.
Italians Use Two
in Tripolitan War,
Dirigible Balloons
iripol iv
were gent ou
their VARs
mander on
Tripoli and environs Officers
pred
intrenchments
Askaris
%
dirigibles
Turkish
A battalion of
4 | “eid :
ros E rea,
Itajilan
their
reconnacs
native
i
ial
troops
of fire in carrying out a AnCe
“1
#
3 aitac
ey guperior force ©
Arabs and held thei win well Final
iy thes but
did so it an
open space
drove off the 1 ny iy wel
had nine m
retreat,
reached
vheeled and
directed
volleys er
killed
ana
KILLS BROTHER AND SELF,
Tragedy Follows Quarrel On Farm
They Recently Inherited.
Albany, Ind Wher
34 years old, declared
of is health
the sn hig younger brother, Jacob,
{ declared wid not work, In the
| quarrel which followed on a farm
| recently inherited miles north
New Joseph
| W halen 1,
ACCOUuL
i i work,
ne could not
he w
L,
oD
of
| and then shot himself. Falling to in.
| fiet a mortal wound with the revolver,
he took a razor and cut his throat,
dying a few minutes later,
HEYBURN 10 TAKE A REST.
Eyes Of Idaho Senator in a Serious
Condition,
Washington.—Cn sccount of the
serious condition of ,n:8 eyes, Seu
ator Heyburn, of idaho, has given up |
his work in the Senate temporarily and
has gone to Atlantic City. He ex
pects to remain there at least a month,
Senator Heyburn was taking an active
part in the Stephenson election case
and in the consideration of the arbi
tration treaties.
FIVE ARE KILLED
IN TRAIN WRECK
Scores Injured When Limited
Jumps Track.
CAUSED BY A BROKEN RAIL
End Of
banon-—
! Accident Happens At
Bridge Near West Le
Nearly Every Passenger
Was Hurt.
the a
1
nearly
Red wor
Danville,
Killed and
jured at
west of West Lebar
aderaliment of the
train, westbound, on
road All the «
Ars
turned
upright «
ag SOON
ured
MODEL INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.
Plans For Institution in Mountains Of
South Are Discussed.
AR ngton N in I ¥
beer
ishment somewhes I
uth of a
WwW large be
ved toward the
the
quests have
extabl
moun
districts
iriai
the Southern
t
Association
model
in
ils
school
posed Ins
RICHESON’'S LAST CHANCE GONE
Defeats
Penalty.
Massachusetts
Bill
Legislature
Abolishing Death
Bogtor Because of
ig breakdown Sher
prevent
steps to Rey
who ig awaiting execut
| der of his sweetheart
from learning that the
iefeated by a vole
bill ishing
Richeson is in
Cag hand
Af Rood
ed said the
want him
aboli
« alth
iff
a8 can
Sher today,
ba expect
but I do not
He has only a short ti
1 do not « have }
the Legislature's action
unduly excited
me to live, and
1
are to im Know of
SEVEN KILLED IN MINE.
Eight Others Probably Dead As Re
sult Of Explosion.
Merritt B.
taken from the
lieries
Reven bodies
ong Yak
Dian
The rescuers brought ne
that
We ie
the surface there wag every rea
that eight other
and in all
sof to believe men
ability
expnlosio
were entombed, prot
dead The force of the
terrific
II Was
Paterson
gi}
¢
{
Alexander was
the main y 30
and
was blow
hurled from
the engine
more than
yards to
house
a ton
a fan weighing
fn out
BABY SWEPT OVERZOARD.
[Child Was On Deck Of Steamer In
Costa Rican Harber.
New Oricans «The 17. months-old
baby of Mr. and Mre. A. J. Brooks, of
1020 West Thirtyninth street, Kansas
{ City, Mo.,
{the steamer Orleanian in the harbor
{at Port Limon, Costa Rica, last Fri
‘day and drowned.
TO HONOR MAINE DEAD.
ington, March 22.
Washington. Public funeral honors
in charge of the Navy Department
{dead, in this city, on March 22. ac
‘made public. The program will be
{dependent upon the freeing of the
| hulk of the wrecked battleship from
[the cofferdam in Hevana harbor on
! March 15, as is now fanned.
ALL OVER THE
STATE
Huntingdor
Civil veteran,
eeventy-nine
War
Cars
Wind
The
Hen
(af
His
apparatyu
decided to
ern fire
Lew w ¥
Mngor {
i" z Ts 5
william Bra
have to
crushed leg
Bub
and
yw ing
redict
some
par
farmers are already
3 Go
he ear
these
1.04 sport
Clara Lincoln Pars
estate
sonal
cl
of fifty
and real
ldren. vw hich
them when the
majority
ony
lation
ane This borough, with a pops
thousand,
is not
ontractore are
NE raed
betueen four
ing
empty
and five
h
¥
ig outgrow fts boots. 7
a house
making
fifty new
apd «
arrangements to «
lings durmng the spring.
A new ghoe factory ale be added
to the industrial plants
Allentown. Ir. Frank J. Slough.
one of the Bosrd of Trustees of the
State Homeopathic Insane Asylum. st
Rittersville, last week celebrated the
golden jubilee of his beginning as a
practitioner, bavi heen graduated
from the Hahnemann Medical Col
lege, Philadelphia, on Mareh 3. 1880
Gettyveburg. Philip W. Group,
ane
will
Rev
He had baan
in his usual health and was seated in
a chair when seized with the fatal il
York. Because of the scarcity of
water for the power plant and other
industries at York Haven, a force of
workmen war engaged in blasting a
channel through the ice gorge. Dyna-
mite was used, but only slow progress
was made, the ice being piled fifteen
apd twenty feet high,