A Lt ER oe — © 44, The tramp is a product of our civiliza. tion, asserts the New York World. There are about 2,000,000 of them in this coun- try. : India and Ceylon are increasing their production of tea to such an extent that it is expected that they will furnish seventy-five per cent. of the amount con- sumed in Great Britain this year. China is a great sufferer from this change. » A cynical Italian’ journalist has been telling his countrymen how to make their fortunes. All they have to do, he says, is to go to America, work as laboe- ers until they have saved $400 or $500, and then return to Italy, buy a title and again go to America and marry eso heiress! The Minister of Instruction in Bavaria | : | gaimng in strength, that will demand the | repeal of the anti-Chinese laws is giving much consideration to the mode of writing adopted by the students in the schools. Instantaneous photography has been used to obtain illustrations of dif- Von Maller, the Minister, has taken a course in writing ferent methods, and ¢ in order to correctly inform himself. A correspondent writing to the Atlanta Constitution from Pensacola, Fia., SAVS that the yearly consumption of timber is something appalling. There is little left on the water courses, and lozziar rail- roads are pushed into the interior to sup Old that in twenty years there ply the demand. lumbern will tree left. All accounts from British Iadia coneus in stating, notes the Philadelphia Record, that the rapid extension of milroads and telegraphs is working changes in that country. wrodigious social At last the Hindoos are shaking off their tha the tions, their sloth and system of caste, and are enter on a new civilization. Some idea of the immense transporta- tion facilities of the United States can be gained by the fact that the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia turned out on an average three locomo- tives per day during last year. These engines are worth $18,000 each, and represent the output of but one among a score of prominent shops, a very small percentage of the machines manufactured going to foreign countries. There is a man in New York, alleges the Commercial Advertiser, who has the magazine fever in its worst stage. His idea—which he is going to carry out, he saya-——is to start a local magazine in each of the large cities of America, with local writings by local authors, and a corps of editors at each “l twenty magazines in all,” said he recent ly. He will certainly have his haads ful. One magazine is about a very comfortable plenty man. post. shall have for any ordinary I —— To marry in haste and repent at leisure has been a common fault in most fault in most communities, It is satislactory to find that it is becoming less common ia England. The proof of this, which is found in the registrar-general’s annual report, is about the most welcome piece of news the document contains. There has been a steady rise, it appears, in the average age at which men and women take upon themselves the responsibility since of contracting ever 1873. matrimony “When I see,” says a retired physician to the New York Tribune, ‘‘that more than 10,000 medical students have grown into full-fledged phyvicians in the United Btates during the last two years, I am in- clined to rejoice at the fact that I am no longer practicing. The extraordinary increase in the number of doctors, the evolution of the patent medicines from absurd quackery to scientific remedies, and the growth of the prescribing habit among druggists make it hard work for the doctor to earn a living. Of course, the specialist makes a big income, but there are many really clever physicians | to-day who fied it hard work to make both ends meet.” What the world needs to-day is not more medicine, but less of it. Not new methods of shutting out sunlight and the only true elixir of life, but more pure air | to breathe, pure water to drink, pure food to eat, loss overwork and overworry, more rational methods of labor with many toilers with brain and hand, more whole some exercise and a calmer, more cheer ful frame of mind. Tens of thousands die before their time through consuming fear of unseen and purely imaginary foes, and other tens of thousands through false teaching, the influence of false ideas, and, in consequence, of senseless violation of nature's plainest laws. Instead of losing ous grip on life, we of this generation ought to be getting a firmer bold, Our boastful modern ways aro pitifully weak and unreliable, asserts the Philadelphia Telegraph. It will take a hundred Kochs to lift us above the everswelling tide that is sweeping mankind so helplessly along toward the end of all things hu- i snap, JE i i ie A Ni hd Athletic young ladies are coming to the front again, announces the Boston | Transeript, and muscular development is | quite the rage among fashionable girls, | This has a very threatening aspect. A future generation of powerful mothers. | in-law is something which cannot be sneered at. The amount of money paid by Great | Britain for meat from foreign countries has been increased of late years. In 1880 it was larger than it had been in any other corresponding period. But in 1800 the amount of the preceding year was far exceeded. Up to December the amount paid in excess of that of the first eleven months of 1889 was nemly $15,- : 000,000, A San Franciscan says: “There is a strong sentiment on the coast, and is | the been for in near future, If it bad not Chinese cheap labor California and the ! whole Pacific coast would have been at least twenty-five years behind the time, | and the people are beginning to realize ! » that fact.” “‘No one,” argues the Baltimore Ameri- can, ‘*would think of depending upon wild strawberries for the supply of the markets, vation of naturally as the cultivation of strawber- Ten years from now the culti- oysters will be accepted as ries. We have about exhausted nature's bounty, and we must help nature to re- pair that exhaustion. Oyster farming 1s "” both a demand and a necessity banner New ress. The season of 15890 was the year in ocean steamship travel for Mail and angers arrived at th York, declares the Er; More pass is port than ever before history, the steamers making a total of 914 trips, bringing 454.071 371,503 passengers. cabin and Three hundred and four of these trips were made by lish steamers, and during the were forty-nine births, sixty three deaths suicides on the and eleven passenger steamers included in the above. A municipal youngster of marvelous growth, thinks the New York Telegram, is Fairhaven in the State of Washington, Its population in the mouth of Septem. ber, 1889, was 750. later it had 7000 residents, factories, Exactly one year with hand rail It is some hotels, churches, roads, steamships and newspapers. situated in the angle where the waters of the Gulf of Georgia and the Strait ofgJuan de Fuca meet and its hustling citizens feel that they are endowed with a **mani fest destiny” of very large dimensions. “Real estate,” said a Washington man, to the Man About Town of the New York Star, ‘is about the | thing you can own if you want to realize on it ina hurry. [own several houses in Washing wanted to mi N I ton, but last week I £5000 for a special purpose lender in Washington could would advance me the money on security, and had I been forced to sell realized one-quarter of Yet real could not have the money I had actually invested. according to all the calculations of estate men my houses are worth from twenty to thirty per cont. more thaa I paid for them.’ Says the New York Press: *'On the rear end of a big empty truck that went rumbling up the Bowery the other cold morning there perched a ragged, bright eyed bootblack. He had his diminutive “kit” under his arm, and as he jolted slong he knocked his dangling feet to- gether to keep them from freezing in the frosty air. Also he made disrespectful and unbecoming gestures at his less for tunate fellows who were trudging along the sidewalks or standing shivering on the corners. At Grand street there was a Bowery ‘jam, " Teams, wagons and street cars got themselves tangled to- gether with much alacrity and dispatch, while their drivers swore at each other calmly and delighted small boys volun. | teered shrill advice from the outside, The bootbiack’s truck was in the midst Another truck pushed | The end of the | pole struck the bootblack savagely in the side and he fell to the pavement. They picked him up and took him to a nearby drug store. Even as they laid him down agin he gasped once and died. Excopt for a few coppers, his pockets were empty. No one know saything of him, and there was absolutely no method of | identification. He had dropped out of the city's life as suddenly and with as lit. tle stir as a starved sparrow that is hit | with a stone and falls into the gutter, Had he parents or friends! No one | knew, thousand costly churches, no one cared, The boy had not been so far wrong when, mounted on his truck, he had crowed over his less fortunate comrades on foot, For he had ridden straight into a land where there Is neither cold nor hunger nor ragyedness nor weeping Aud they are with us still.” of the ‘‘jam." up closely in its rear, ADMIRAL PORTER DEAD. Fatty Degeneration of the Heart Killed Him. A Bketoh of the Naval Hero's Long Career, Admiral David D. Porter, who has been ! in failing health for some time, died sudden. ly at 8:15 o'clock a few mornings ago, at his residence in Washington City from fatty de- generation of the heart, Dr. Wales, the physician attending Ad miral Porter, was hastily summoned to his bedside, but the Admiral was dead before he arrived. All the members of the fami! were at home at the time, Although death came suddenly, it was not unexpected by the family, Sketch of His Life, In the death of Admiral David Dixon Porter the country loses the lust of a trio of naval commanders who sustained in the Civil War the finest traditions of the old navy. Though far from being alone in this record pf gallantry, the names of Farragut, Foote and Porter have a pre-eminencs of their own, In every man his ancestors live over again, and the blography of David D, Porter begins in the person of that David Porter, born in Boston, 1750, Five generations of Lis family have served in the navy. Alexander, the grandfather of Commodore David, com manded a Boston merchantman, Kiving his | aid to the colonies, and his son, Captain David, the Commodore's father, commanded vessels commissioned by General Washing tan in the Continental service, Commodore David Porter's career was distinguished throughont, culminating perhaps in his gallant fight of the Essex in the barbor of Valparaiso, Chili. This breach of neuteality was a favorite reprosch of Americans agninat the British until we found it needful to follow thelr example in taking the Florda David Dixon Porter was born in Chester Penn. June 8 1518 and thus lacks a few months of completing his eighth year. David D Pa hi experience in the Mexican sevice being then fourteen years of age S20 be was ap pointed midshipman io the United States Navy, and astained his loutenancy in 1841 He ire Mexican war bad charge of the nav ndezvous at New Orleans, and w 0 every action on soventy during the « al 1 RS engaged er ved od for Years Mail » be Isthmn Pana of the Civil War he of the frigate In Far ry on & Gulf rleans, Pos now commanded the having destroyed of fifteen vessels, left the redoct vkson and Fort St Philip to Porter while he procsdsd to the The forts sure fered In April, 1562 azul in ail the lat perations between New Orleans and is Porter then assisted Far tors Vicksburg, where he effectively bombarded | the forts and enabled the fleet to safety For his services at Vicksburg Porter ree oni ved the thanks of Congress and the com. mission of Fear Admire! dated July 4, 1868 the date of the fall of that town. He ran past the latteries of Vicksburg and cap tured the Confederaty forts at Grand Gulf which pat hia in imusicstion with Ges eral Grant. In the spring of 154 Porter oo operated with paigo, and later pass in in the same year was trans ferred ww the North Atlantic squadron, and reduced Fort Fisher, Geueral Terry com manding the land foros. Rear Admiral Por ter received a vole of thasks from Congress, which was the fourth that he reccived during the wer Hear Admiral P Vice-Admiral on awhile as Superintendent Acsdeny, and was then Wastiington August 15 1570 he was appointed Admiral of the Navy, the highest grade in the sorvice, In 1888 Porter pub “incidents and Aneced of the Civil tole rier iad to be 1808 sorved of th: Nawal transferred to was pr wm July tedyencd Was How 0 3, 8 danghte Anne Patter ‘ nmodore D. T, Patter. nn. He leaves one son in the Navy, one in we Marine Corps, besides two sthers in pri ile, and two dav hier arried in 189 r of Co as FIFZY MILLION HOGS. Plenty of Swine Left Notwithstanding the Large Number Slaughtered The estimates of numbers and values of farm animals, made at the end of sach your and returnable in January to the Dept ment of Agriculture In Washington, have jist been consolidated. There appears ve bean little change in numbers except on the Pacific coast and in certain portions of the Rocky Mountain area, where the win tor of MSG) was unusually severe, Losses ware aepscially heavy on the Pacific slop The number of horses on farms as reported Is 14000750, and the average price of all ny $97, a decline from last year of $1.54 o number of mules is 2 206 533 having an average value of §77.5%5 a decline from last year of thirty. seven cents The number of milch cows is 16,010. 501. an inorease of 06,708 from last year. The aver py value por head is $21.60, which is lows by fifty-two cents than last year's average There is a tendency to inoreas of dairying in the South, especially in the mountain region, which offers inducements of cheap lands sad abundant Other cattle aggregate BONTE O48 including those on ranches. The highest value is MM in Con. necticut; the lowest B5.46 in Arkansas and in Texas $8.50 The estimated number of sheep is 43,451. . | 138; the average value $2.51, or an increase of twenty-four cents or more than ten other kinds of farm animals have | Sn reduce the price temporarily, DEATH OF A HERMIT, He Beggoed for Food, Though He Had Amassed a Fortune, Thomas Thomas, & hermit, aged mventy. five years, residing at Carmantown, N. J, died a fow days ago after several month suffering from a cancer, The deosased was sinoe his wife's death has lived Apparently, in tius city of a id Banks in the Red River eam. | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastorn and Middle States, Tie strike of coke workers and miners in the Connallsville (Penn. region is general. All the plants have closed down. Order pre- vails at all points. Over eighteen thousand men are idle Tue Conemaugh River at Johnstown, Penn., has just given up another flood vie. tim. The body, which is that of a woman, is fairly well preserved except that it is head- Joon Tar Connecticut House In ford voted to recede from concur with the Senate, James Reorarn, the well-known sboli- tionist lecturer, journalist, author and Lrish nationalist and Vice-President of the Anti Poverty Bociety, who was ran down by a | horse car in New York City, died from the | #fects of his injuries, in the fifty-inth year | of his age. A WESTBOUXD passenger train was wrecked at Groveland, N. Y. Two passengers were killed and several! injured. The State Senate at Albany, N. Y.. con firmed the nomination of James F. Pierce, to be Superintendent of the Insurance De partment; six Republicans voted for him | HamroLp E. SBravivixe, Cashier of the | First National Bank aod Treasurer of the | North Middlesex [ostitation for Bavings, at | Ayer, Mass, has disappeared and with him | has gone about #20 000 in cash. The two in | stitutions have closed thelr doors {| Tux official statistics of low of life and | limb in the Third Anthracite Coal Mining | District of Peansyivania for the your 1860 | show that this was the most disastrous year | ln the history of the region. One hundred | men were killed, fifty-five of whom lett | widows, with a total of seventy-six orphans Eow and Ruck was killed and Pass Board man and James Long fatally injured by an sxplosion of gas in the colliery at Shamokin, Penn i ALLAN M. Murray, sixty years of Barga, Mich, lost $400 in Penn, by the green goods game. When he made complaint to detectives he was locked ap, much to his surprise, under a recent act it Congress, which makes the negotiator | the guilty, The men played the game got away WITHIN twelve days four men, a ployes, were killed on the system of elo roads in New York City Witriam H M. Sisrane once and broker, was srrested in N harged with having swindled wher, a Philadelphia man. out LANC linners in ton, FPhiladelphis, Pittsburg Samuel Morey, who came into pro: nence during the Garfleld-Hanoock Pre dential campaign of 18%), died a few days ag He was arrested in « st Nashua N ection with the fam Morey letter, and in Ludlow Street Jail was a petisiconsd veteran the Grand Army, a A——o segsion at Hart- its position and Nelson age, of Philadelphia, game equally a banker ew York City August Heck ns birt hday New York City Buffa Maratogs ti. pent several dave New York. Mores 1d a member of DWARD Wenknzmses and his team were in Williams township, Penn. by a svedn of the road over an ore mine Miss Carnanrer Daxer. the §7.000.000 heiress, took the final vow and became Sister Mary Catoarine at Pittabarg, Penn Tux one hundredth anniversary of Peter Cooper's birthday was ocslebrated by a large gathering at the Cooper Institute in New York ity Canes H. Murray, Supervisor of the last census in New York Oity, refused, on orders from Buperintendent Porter, to give information about it 10 the Assembly Inves tigating Committen South and West, Two boys, aged ten and twelve, sons of a German farmer named August Ford, were | found dead two miles northwest of Utica, Minn. They were caught in the blizzard Juoge W, H CLaGoerr was elected United States Senator by the Idaho Legisia- ture, he will contest the previous eection of Dubos Naruasint, Ouse, bookkeeper 1 Farnsworth & Ruggles, San Francis ( al. has boom arrested charged with the embes tement of $50,000 mone J. Gimmsox “Whisky Trust” was [I. and bed in £2 00 bribing a gauger to ory The Kentucky Union Land and Railway Company bas gone into the hands of a re ver, temporariiy, as a means of pr wwalnst numerous suits A COLLISION ox Secretary of arrested in Chi he is charged with Dow up an anti-trust List tection currel at Ingleside beiwoen a sb-bound Wabash extra ind an east-bound freight train Ww Bush and Keefer, brakemen were killed John Broderick, a cond and Joba CO oy, a fireman, of wore ser ujured Lh wetor the Wabash JupGr Wnsox Lewis who has been ao tive in the prosecution of the desperadoss who have been carrying on bloody feuds in the mountain regions of Kentucky, has hewn shot and killed by his own Ridney Lewis son Six weeks since J. A. Hale, a contractor at Durve's stone quarry at Ranger, Texas, killed a Mexican in self-defense. Next day ibe dead Moexican's brother went on the hunt for Hale. He found bim near Canyon Switch and attacked him with a knife. Hale shot him dead Eck. Nomrox, of Louisville, Ky., has re | signed the Presidency of the Louisville and | Nashville Railroad A SPAN of the Baltimore and Ohio bridge under repair at Fairmount, W., Va, fell into | the Monongahela River. Charles Joyoe was | killed and William Thompson fatally and John Makin slightly injured Tur Windsor, Commercial, City, Wichita and Depot hotels, five wooden structures of Wichita, Texas, were burned, together with sx business houses, | Ex-Ssponerany or rae Ierenion ALExax- pER Huam Hotues Sroant died at Staun ton, Va, in the eighty fourth year of his age. BY a boller explosion in the flouring mill of Churchill & Owsley, at Windsor, Mo. | Hugh IL. Smith and Tom Tillberry, boiler | makers, who were at work on the boller, | and Walter Beaman, saginesr, and Charles Hturtevant, a miller, were inetantly killed The large mili was blown to atoms, ITatiane stopped work on the World's | | Fair site in Ch a, HL, through fear of the mobs of red workin, Mus, Hrowis WesoLaxn, wife of an TIN. nols physician ment with Kooh's Iymph in Milwasukes, Wis. She disd at Passavant H Er i z i 2 is the first victim of treat i Spins wn Wie © ——— 1 —— 000 due in the quarter ending March 4, The Litter amount reprosonts the present avail. nble cash balance of the Treasury, so that the only Treasury surpius that will exist uftor these payments shall have been mot i= now estimated at less than $10,000,000, By direction of the Presddent, Colonel Ji W, Forsyth, who was suspended by Genera Miles for his conduct of the fight at Wounded Knee, has boen restored to his ommand., This action wes taken ps a re suit of the investigation of the Wounded Knee fight. Tue Judiciary Committes has recom- mended that Judge Boardman, of the West. trn District of Louisiana, be impeached, Tue Indian Chiefs called at the White House in a body and paid their respects ts the President. They were accompanied by { the Commissioner of Indian Affairs | several interpreters, | place in the East Room. Tue President has approved the act for the construction of a tunnel under the waters of the bay of Nz York between | Middleton and New Utrecht | Tue Postmaster-Genera! bas establishe! | an experimental system of free delivery | among twelve towns and viiages, for which | purpose Congress had approoriated $10,000 | Iho intention is to have free delivery tested | In different parts of the country al The reception took Foreign, A rew days combats near Mier, Mexico, bet ween customs guards and smugglers, in which four of the guards were killed end one of the smugglers | , : 72 i third timber set, he found it so low that { there was scarcely room for the raft ! on looking between the water and the roof, i he noticed that just beyond the timbers was wounded, Tuner Chiiian men-of-war have seceded from the revolutionary fleet, and have ar rived at Montevedeo in safety A DECREE bas been issued under the au thority of the King of Italy, foriddden auy one to emigrate under the age of twenty-four unless accompanied by thes father of the emi grant, This is intended to put an end to the padrone traffic in childrsa M. Vicror Mace, a Paris has disappeared, about 84,000, 000 Mr, Panxert has coming to an agreement w Mr. O'Brien has onoerning the reason for negoti t INFORMATIE Plata districts shows that | the mais orog was in 1% France) banker leaving due 0 depositors hope of Md slate pure « rend Thos be 1 the Rio de la Repu i reduoed what the crog ¥ } ATE and drouth have A quarter of 1 nited Btates stes] cruiser Baltimor sallod fr Toulon, Fran for Chi Mir. Maxsrn to the British rladstc H An Whe ous H sent made vacant lnugh; his ma jor ToovsANDS sleging the Mavor is dead wdive of Egypt of his Ministers : K resiguation Messrs. Ditrox axp O'Braex, the Iris agitators, were taken from london, Eug land, to Ireland, and lodged in Clonmel Ja Tee Newfoundland Legislature has braided England for not ratifying a csiprocity convention with and there is talk of annexation HE German General von Braun oom mitted suicide in Berlin by shooting himself with a revolver the United State DisraTouns recsived in regard to the rev. olution in Chill say that the Bouses in the towns of Pisagua and Iquique bave been set on fire by shells thrown during a bombar ment by the insurgent fleet A WOMAN about twenty known as “Carroty Nell” was found dead in the Whitechapel district of London, Eng land. and is supposed to have beens murdered by “Jack the Ripper the was lying on her back, with ber head nearly severed from her body Mus, LaFraxc: were burned to death in at St. Albert, Canada A NATIVE of the osntly ran amock and Lieutenant and tw five years oid, and her tw their dwelling “han States in [adi Maj N Nenovs de whol Jameson ad TREATED LIKE SLAVES, Ferrible Safferings of Polish Im- migrants in Brazi’ tho wy respondent of who was de i Uy hat paper to report of wuntry bas redurned from his M. Dygasioski made a tour of the Froviness of San Paulo, Parana and Santa atharina He asserts that every possible stacle was thrown in way by the Gov rnment of Brazil, and it was only with the greatest difficulty that he ascertained the uth concerning the emigration question Bome time ago, besaye, Brazil decided to mport 10.000, 000 emigrants, and the North serman Lloyd Steamship Com may bad al- ready landed 140,000, receiving $100 each for them. Immigrants were not allowsd to oun | ~olonies, but were scattered in forests sod alandoned to die of hunger, fever and make bites or 10 be devourad by beasts of prey. Unable to communicate with friends, i few who survived made their way back to Rio Jaoeiro, begging food of planters, for which they were corapelied to render slavish rvioes Arriving at Rio Grande, 8. Dygasinski found 700 of bis unfortunate countrymen dy- og, huddled together in a wooden chapel, while thousands were campi in the open wir, lo the streets of cities ro in the prime val forest alike Courier, n the condition and treatment nam his C——— Toe most powerful and best organised body the British workers is the Coal Miners’ Union. Of the 500,000 wen employed in the mins of Eogland, Scotland and Wales, 100,000 are organized. There are five | of their members directly representing these imations in Parliament. And sombinations of workers, will ay hb of the political power and gain supremacy over “wosted interosts Tue Coroner of New York City under ad vice from the Corporation Counsel, has formally notified all thé hospitals and in stitutions of that city where Koch's lymph is in use that any person dying in their charge who had been treated by the lymph his office raust be informed, so that an investigation oan be made, Honmrsee reports of depredations by wolves have been received from Ssanda, 0 there ware two desperate | | one | on it came unti organ ichasl | Davitt says these unions, with other great | RESCUED ALIVE Thrilling Experiences of Three Imprisoned Miners. Bhut Up in a Nanticoke (Penn,) Colliery for 115 Hours, John Rinesr, William Cragle, and Michael Bhetiong, the thres mem caught by a mine flood in slope 3 of the Busquehsnns Coal Company at Grand Tunnel, opposite Nunti- | coke, Penn., were rescusd alive from their underground prison, after basing confined 115 hours. The point where they wers found was fully 4000 fest from the mouth of the slope, and almost 39) fest from the main gangway where the water rushed in upon the place in which they were at work. | they remained captives in the floodsd mins, without food or drink, and in total darkness, for 115 hours. The story of the rescos, as | told by George Bendell, who was the first to {| reach the three men, is thrilling. When the mins pumps had got the water down to & point which would allow the use of | & boat, Bendel], finding no boat available, ob upon a raft bonrds, snd ANEWAY, constructed of bLrattiocs pushed along through the He man 1 toget under two ow sets of timbers by lying flat Bpon the float and pulling himself along by the roof of the mine, Reaching a But, arise in the top of the gangway There upon be slid into the water from the raft, shoved raft under the timber, swimming alongside, and so passsl the ob- struction He lost his lamp in the attempt and called for a light In answer William Bowen and Anthony Jones pluszed into the murky abyss, wading part of the distancs and swimming the rest to where th yy could reach Bendel Bowen got to him lighted lamp over the With this Eendell pus nm to the other side of the dip and got out wate As he went up along the bratticewor, about sixty feet from the timbers, he heard a call “For I's sakie, hurry up, boys and get us from bere It was Rineer calling sponded : “All right, men; fast as we can ran . where he could the first and pusied his top of the timber of hie x to him. and he we re. are coming as back thr call to Bow the ie Ww “ alive, ated, and the phoked men at the pam ps 74) Then he water Ww “1 have found alive up by the the slope where other from their 1 ny b some of them had not been out since beginning the work of before Then Bendell went back to the me one he reached was Rineer, wh um and cried with he s&h bless you, Geoige. Being told that it was nearly low enough to permit their escape out, the msn all offered up thanks to God for delivering them from death. It was nearly 5 o'clock before the men could be taken down from the cross-beadis where they had found a refuge. They float al a ume on the raft across the gaag- way, and then were carried to a place where they could receive medioal treatment. The only nourishment allowed them was milk in very small quantities At € o'clook the men were taken from the mine and removed to thelr bomes—-Cragie and Rineer to West Xantiooke and Shetiong to Grand Tanned The two villages want wild over the rescue of the men, who had Deen given up for dead by the mine: officials and all familiar with the working of the mune, excepting those who had a sight hope the men might have escaped into the airway. This they could not do, however, and their lives were only saved by a narrow margin. The story told by the rescued men is as follows They were at work off {rom the main gang. way about ape bundred fest when they heard the distant rour of the rushing They feared there was danger, ping their tools, ran from way The water was already but when they reached th volume of the torrent upon them. Itwass race for turned and ran back t from, the water in swelling now and then to their fee t with hasten ing step they kept safely sd of it until they reached a or heading, running from Rineer's gangwey to the old workings of the mine, and abou ty feet from the point whore they had been at work. This cross beading is sixty feet in length, and runs up at a pitch of forty degrees. Its head was the highest point in the mine the men id reach, Beyond it the old workings pitched down in either direction deep into the mine, but there was no way of escape through them Up the pitch they crawled to get away from the water, and up the siope it came after them until they reached the top of the beading. It was useless to go further, and they prepared themselves to mest the fate which seemed in store for them. One miner's lamp still fickered and coast ts dim light about them, sod looking down the heading they could see re- flected in the water a dance of light as the flood kept ing toward thers. On and it was almost within their reach. until it was within #\cht feet of them. Then it stopped, and finally settled until 1 stood about ten fest below them Nhat in by water on one side and no wa of escape on the other, the men still he tliat help would reach them from the outside. Trey believed that their fellow workmen would leave nothing undone to rescues and in this faith awaited the signs that wou tell then the work of rescue was under way, After a time the great mine pumps, &X fort away, were heard throbbing and draws. ing on the walter The moment was a thrilling one to them, and gave them reat encouragement. Then the soli amp which bad guided them in flight from the food gave out, and they were Ioft in inky darkness. They now did not dare to move from the logging that gave them rest, for a single misstep upon the mass of broken rock that clutered the head. ing would have plu ahyse which was fi , BR they t they came ws reaching the we
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