.&&? 20 vrrr-rw ,,,., uM.wcijwjhnmpij i ipiiliiPPppTJylfl'l'p1rITSBxjBQ-'!DISP.TOHf'' SUNDAY. wJTTNEf4189l!l'' ' P rl ' W!P" ' -' --1 i. .. w - DIATOHf SUNDAY, PBISdRJO, 36. Bcmarkable Story an Outcast American Told to, Lieu tenant Skufeldt. KIKE YEAES IN CHAINS Fastened to the Walls of a Russian Prison in Bleak Siberia. BUILT BIS LIVING TOMB HIMSELF. Turned Loose at Last Without a Single Word of Explanation. T1IE SEQUEL EN" A SACRAMENTO COURT gLSfe rSOF c-s:xs6. toting tTTKITTEIt FOE THE DTSrATCJI. "We had heard of him in a misty sort of tray in Eastern clubs in nfter-dinner talks or ic semi-confidences told over Japanese mats in leafy tea houses. Little by lit tle, then here, then there, he had become a sort of reality to ns in the vrardroom; and in various naval minds on the China station, dim mental pictures of an old American chained to the Russian walls of a gloomy prison, excited tree indignationand desul tory sympathy. It Tvas not for many months after this tha the reality indeed stumbled on the stage of at least my own experience. We had wrsAgs -'5l Tr Fur n TP9T nr trrrt Tientsin and J'rotoi-ptoil.t. yearning lor bhanghai, tiring of Shanghai and yearning for Hong kong, till the heat of a Tonquin summer drove us north w itli its spice-laden breaths over the muddy Yellow Sea back to Japan. On Iho Water at Yokoliama. Here ships galore, ships with stately masts and spider yards, square-trimmed ngainst a cloudless sky; ships with stumpy spars and crowds of shouting men tumbling bales and boxes into great lighters groaning alongside; plenty, too, of lone, low, rakish neniuers wim leau-coiorea ernes ana snore stacks vomiting black emoke against a back ground of dwarfish hills and trees and low roofed houses Yokohama. We made her out soon enough, though It had been manv months 6inee we had been in company. Her black hull, with its long row of square white ports, each dotted with a gun: her loftv masts and masses of heavy rigffing: the quiet dignity with which she rode the blue -naters of the bay amid the noisy fleet of native junks and sampans,but above all the flutter of blue and red and many stars at her peak. It was the flag ship, with the pennant of an admiral fly ing at her mizzen. She didn't intend to give us much rest, either, for almost before our booms were out her boarding officer was alongside and in to see our captain. Wo had our "tailing orders" that very night, und early the next morning, pitching and rolline about, were flying beiore a heavy easterly gale to the N." and W. and the in hospitable coasts of Asiatic Itussia. Tlio Spirit of Itnsslan Espionage. Spread along the shores of one of the fin est harbors of the Eastern World, stands, in a rambling sort of way. the queer convict town of .Russian Ylad ostok. An air of Eussian mystery comes over one from the moment that the anchor drops from off the bows of a foreign craft. Everything is in accessible. The great arsenal is sealed to vibitors; the post and telegraph offices are very caves oJ secrecy: even the inhabitants seem to tread the narrow roads that run by the sta with the uncertain and suspicious Fteps of those that are watched and sus pected. The entire population is convict, either political or criminal, or the descend ants of such. There is a military club and a military park where a military band plays to an idle crowd of loungers in long coats and shaggy beards with big odd caps on their heads. It is the Eastern eye of the greatest of modern despots, the Czar; the tin of the middle linger of tiiat modern hand of power that spreads from the confines of civilized Europe to the shores of the Japan Sea. Our Cap tain had been ashore several times; once in uniform u ith an aide to attend him: f everal times in plain clothes and finally in all the jiaal regalia of his rank. This fast visit of ins seemed to settle the reason of our unex pected visit, for the following morning we put to tea and returned to Yokohama. A 31) stcrions Stranger on Board. with quick glances cast about him, so pecu liar, that my interest in him revived, anM motioned to a public house near by, and suggested that he go with me and tell me his story. He followed me across the nar row street in his shambling way and took a seat opposite me at one of the little wooden tables. There was no one else in the room. He leaned his hairy head upon. his out stretched hands and told me this: "I am an American, sir, though they say I look like a Slav. I was born in the west, in one of the then new States, 58 years ago this coming month. My real name is Simp son, though I have had many since. Ills Same "Was Only a Number. "For nine years it has been 536, in the Eussian tongue; that was the number I had on the iron collar I wore about my throat You see, sir, I was of the rowing and law less kind that makes tails out of heads of everything and sweeps round and round in the eddies and gullies of life. I didn't stay on the farm long, but wandered further Westill I floated over the Eockies and fetched up in California in the early fifties. Then from camp to camp, from good luck to bad and up arain till I came out the mines with a good 520,000 in a 'Erisco bank and a fair smattering of engineering. So I gave up a roving life and made a hitch to settle down and enjoy myself. I took to studying too, and paid ray wav in a school where they taught building and such. "I married during these vears, the daugh ter of a chum of mine in the old days, who owned a small hotel and was doing a flour ishing trade. She was a pretty little thing, with wavy flaxen hair that she had a way of letting tumble down when she got to talk ing and shaking her head to convince me. Well, sir, I followed her advice and took half out of the bank and put it into the hotel and married her. So when tha Occi dental went up it took with it my half and I drew the rest out of the bank and with my wife and children, we had two then, I came out To Japan to Start Afresh. "I made out to do pretty well at first. this one, 'that is the man the architect, Simpson.' "I recognized my friend, then, Major Protoplovski. I never saw him again. Seven long years before anyone, other than my jailor, pushed aside my door. Years, sir, that make my blood tingle at the thought; years, sir, that the iron upon my neck clasped no more closely about mv throat, nor clanked the chains against the damp walls of my cell, than did the spirit of despair in my heart Little by little I had managed to write with my blood upon a piece of linen they had used to bind up a sore the manacle had made upon my wrists, my name and birth and begging that the news of my cruel imprisonment might be sent to my "family and to the nearest Ameri can Consul. This I gave secretly to my second visitor, an English clergvman, who had been permitted to see me, they think ing that I was about to die. Released Without an Explanation. "Weeks rolled by into months and these into two long years, and there came neither my release nor my death. One day, it was in the early Siberian winter, there came the sound of unusual voices outside my cell and the shuffling of strange feet Presently a flood of light poured in upon me and strange people stood about, while one read from a paper he held in his hands. When that was done they unloosened my manacles and took me from my dungeon. Through lone narrow corridors" my dazed memory could not place they pushed me till an open court yard was reached, and I found myself in a crowd of convicts seated on rough wooden benches and eating black soup from wooden bowls thev held between their knees. From their greater liberty I knew them to be po litical prisoners. "Theie was snow upon the barren ground and it was cold, and I had nothing to cover me but the rags my long confinement hadleft upon my body. A bowl was given me, sir, and I ate the soup. That night and for three days following I ate my soup twice a day and slept beneath one of the wooden benches, nraved acain for death. None Europeans in my trade were tew then, and came, but worse; they took me from my FOR EYE AND HAND. Introduction of the Sloyd System in the Public Schools, CASE OF PRINCIPAL JOHNSON. Drawing in Pittsburg and the Prang Model ing in Allegheny. EDUCATIONAL GOSSIP IN GENERAL THE COlfTlCT PEIS03T. But we had a passenger. He had come on the day before we sailed,in a peculiar old boat, pulled by two rough Eussian sailors who had helped him up the side with an old 'rank covered with hair and brass-bound on i he corners. Little attention was paid Jo him at fiM as he stood near the mast -with his shagg coa, buttoned to the chin about Tim ln.n I'tai Droiciky. g him, and his great hands thrust in the depths of its baggy pockets. He wore oa his head a round fur cap, which every now and then he would scrape off, to pass his fingers across his face or to throw back his tangled grayish hair. He kept his eye upon his solitary trunk always, amid the hurrying Failors and the hoarse shouts of the "getting under wav." Finally they carried it below, r:i'i !e followed it ia'a meek tort of way till i' disappeared down the forrhatch. iji. x'cmed to b" a quirt, inoffensive man, x 'i j !!!; his a'loitcd place at the mess clolh : che petty ofcictrs, and after that sat in Seourc co-ncrs to smoke his pipe in silence or to comb with his fingers his long un kempt beard. We, in the ward room, had c-ily a general idea that he was some out cast in hard luck to whom we were giving a passage free of expense, out of charity. Getting at the aian'a Story. It was not, in fact, for some weeks after oar arrival at Yokohoma that I stumbled tcross him again in the streets. He wore the same old coat and cap, was smoking the tame ponderous pipe and staring about him in the same half-curious, half-lazy way. He tool; a:t, hand from his pocket and raised it t.'his fai e as I passed. I turned back and ipok to liim: "Well, hew are you making cut""' "About the some, sir, about the same; nothing to do and nowhere to turn, I'm tome years behind my time, and the crowd have sort of left me passed and left me be hind." His appearance was so odd generally, and the hesitancy in his speech, punctuated the Japs had a craze for foreign buildings and foreign railroads and foreign clothes, so I had a good deal to do. I -built a prettv house in Tokio and took my wife and chil dren there. One day I got a letter in a big square envelope with a neavy seal and a coat of arms. It was an offer lioni the Com mandant of the Eussian military station at Yladvostok to come over and help them to plan some public buildings they wanted to put up. well, sir, I did go alter a bit, and took with me a kit of clothes and besides some cash in gold about SG.OOO in United States bonds, that I thought I could turn a ready penny on in a rising Government town. So I bid eoodby to my little wife and children. We came down, hand in hand, the broad walk that ran to the gate in. the fence all covered over with trailing vines and sweet smelling flowers. 'eGoodby,' she said, 'goodby, Ben," and threw back her long hair all tumbled over her teary face as usual, 'write us often and I'll bring the boys down to meet the steamer that brings you back.' "So I kissed her and lost sight of her and her yellow hair in a turn of the road. Building a Convict Prison. "Well, sir, about ten versts back from the coast, on the road to Irkutsk from the con vict military settlement of Vladvostok, I settled down, and under the supervision of a Eussian Commissioner began the plans and watched the construction of a convict prison. At the head of this commission was an officer of the Eussian Secret Police bv the name of Protoplovski, a major in rank and a kind and companionable man. In the two or three years that followed we became great friends, and he knew all my.ideas as well as I knew them myself. Many a time we had gona over my drawings together and wound up at the shanty we called neadquar ters with a social glass of 'vodka' and a good dinner. Of course I missed the wife and little children, and never tired of tell ing the major about them; so that withtny talk of them and the rising prison we did not mind the increasing snows or the gloomy flays ot approacliing storms. "One early morning, it was near mid winter, 1 went out alone on my usual tour of inspection; that finished, I was hurrying back to be in time for my breakfast with the Major, when there passed me the usual post 'drousky,' with its running horses, high collars and jangling bells. I had stepped to one side of the road to let it pass on the way to Vladvostok, and had lifted my cap to the driver, when I noticed for the first time that three strangers, closely wrapped in long gray military coats, were seated hud dled together in the bottom of the vehicle. The Message of the Strangers. 'It swept by me a little way and- then suddenly came to a halt, and the three strangers alighted and advanced toward me over the snow. The leader of them, for I so adjudged him to be by height and bearing, addressed me in Eussian: 'Are you Mr. Simpson, the architect of the new convict prison of Vladvostok?' "I bowed 'yes,' and the three whispered together a moment over a paper that the leader held in his hand. Then he added: 'We Reg that you will conduct us to that prison and allow the 'drousky' to go and bring over Major Protoplovsci to join us. We are prison officials from Irkutsk with instructions to confer with you as to the progress of the building and the possibility of directing from Irkutsk attain of political exiles to Eastern Siberia." "I walked back with the officers and In troduced them to the head governor of the prison who had arrived but a few days pri ir to this date with a small prison garri 6on. I took particular pride in the under ground dungeons and was very minute in my descriptions of them, I well remember. ProtoplovsUl Did Not Come. "Upon my return we all went to the Governor's room to await the arrival of Protoplovski. But he did not come as the winter night settled down and I became somewhat uneasy, as well as the others ap parently, for one after another they went to the only little window and looked out upon the advancing night and down the long, bleak, snowy road. As the gloom wrapped the bare room in darkness, they left me, one by one, till I sat alone and waited. An hour after this the door opened violcnTl v and a man came in with a lantern nml stood in front of me. I heard the Miund of grounding arras in the stone cor ridor outside and the murmur of sudden voices. This one struck me roughly on my shoulder and said, 'Follow me, sir. " 'Where?' I asked, 'and by whose or der?' " 'By order of the Governor General of the military district of Irkutsk.' "Well, sir. that was the warrant, and that was all of it For nine long, inter minable years I lay in one of the most in accessible underground dungeons that my own ingenuity had planned and executed, a solitary prisoner, fastened by an iron collar and chain to the wall waiting death. I never but twice had a visitor in all that wretched life. Only Two Short Visits. "Hie first came but a few davs after mv confinement, the door of my cell was opened gently, and four men stood at its entrance. They were all dressed alike in the long, flowing gray coat and round-top heavy cap of the Eussian official. One held with one hand a torch above his head, and resting the other on the shoulder of a companion, jointed at me in my chains. 'Yes, said convict comrades and drove me from the prison gates. It seemed a dream to me, sir, but I wandered back to Vladvostok some how; but I could not find a-friend. No one had ever heard of Major Protoplovski or the American architect So I wandered from door to door, begging alms and sitting as the long nights came on upon the sea wall looking across the bay. The Sight or Stars and Stripes. "One morning my heart gave a great leap. I believed my eyes to be lying to me and I rubbed and rubbed them, for anchored off the Naval Club was a Etately ship with the flag of free America floating in a Eus sian breeze. Well, sir, the day after that, as I was standing on the little "wharf where your boats came in, I was accosted by a Eussian subaltern officer accompanied by the rough looking men who carried be tween them, sir, my trunk, the trunk, sir, I had not seen for ten years and long since thought destroyed. The official addressed me, Are you the convict Simpson? " 'I am 536,' I said. " 'All right.' "So they pulled me off to your ship, sir, with my trunk and all and left me there. There is little more to tell that you do not know. Everything in my trunk was as I left it, clothes and books and instruments, but not a paper, not a pin, not a dollar. I have not complained, it is useless. I went up to Tokio when we got here, with some money your sailors gave, and sought out the little flower-grown hill upon which my cot tage stood. All had changed, the very house disarm eared. UDon its site stands a two-story building, a half Japanese, half English hotel, they told me. No one had over heard 'my name nor of my wile and boys." lie covered his wrinkled, time-worn face with his hands as he finished, and I could see the moisture of his eyes glisten between his fingers. I begged him to come on board again as I gently laid the few foreign coins I had before his bowed head and left him. But he never did. A Sceno in Sacramento. Half a dozen years had rolled by me when, one idle hour accompanied by an old and curious friend, I strolled into the new Court House just completed at Sacramento. The usual crowd of ill-fortune tossed hu manity was gathered behind the iron fence that barred off petty offenders against the law. We entered just as a seedy figure clad in an old coat, buttoned to the chin, stepped into the prisoner's box. A tall Sergeant of S once rose m ms place and addressed the udge. "This man Eoberts, Your Honor, has been defrauding people with a story of a lost wife with yellow hair and a couple of children, and about a missing trunk that the Eussians won't give him back, sir, his 56,000 that are gone, sir, and" "Same story, officer?" "The same, Your.Honor?" "Thirty days." I leaned forward and looked closely. The old prisoner stepped down from the box in a dazed sort of way, made a feeble attempt to say something, looked about him with a blank smile, and ran his fingers through his long and tangled hair. It was my friend Simpson, the architeot 536 of the convict prison of Vladvostok. Mason W. Shxtfeldt. Lieutenant "U. S. N. B right's Disease of the Kidneys. " The symptoms of this dread disease are puffiness ot the face, especially under the eyes, sometimes of the feet also, dull, heavy pains in the back and loins gradually in creasing, restlessness and weakness, palpi tation of the heart, indigestion and urinary sediments. At the appearance of the first symptom Pe-ru-na should be taken in table spoonful doses six times each day, or, if more convenient, two tablespoon fuls three times each day before each meal. This remedy strikes at once at the very -oot of the disease. It at once relieves the con gested kidneys of their stagnant blood, pre venting the escape of serum from the blood. Pe-ru-na stimulates the kidneys to excrete from the blood the accumulating poison, and thus prevents the convulsions which are sure to follow if the poisons are allowed to remain. It gives great vigor to the heart's action'and digestive system, both of which are opt to lau rapidly in this disease. tFora complete lecture on Bright's dis cas.e, its cause and cure, send for the Family Physician No. 3. Sent free to any.address by The Peruna Medicine Company, Colum bus, O. A Woman's Life Saved at nillsboro, Pa. A neighbor woman was afflicted with cramp colic. My wife thought it would coBt her life. She gave the woman Cham berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Eemedy according to directions and it gave perfect satisfaction. I do heartily recom mend it to do all it is recommended to do, and feel thankful for the good it has done. Joseph Bekkey, Hillsboro, Somerset countv, Pa. wsu Only Four Hours to Cleveland. Special train Tuesday morning, June 16. Leave P. & L. E. E. E. station at 7:30 A. m. (8:30 city time). Tickets only fa Good five days. Hanover awnines-at Hamaox'& Son's. .39 Penn avenue. The Industrial Committee of the Central Board of Education met yesterday at 3 p. si. to make arrangements for the introduction of the Sloyd system of industrial training, which the Central Board of Education adopted at its last meeting. The ex perimental school will he opened at the Forbes School with pupils of that school on tho first Monday in September. The Industrial Committee Candidly stated that the first steps of arranging tho new room, was to them quite a problem, and inquired of Superintendent Luckoy, who was present, if he knew of a teacher who would take charge. Mr. Luckey stated that Miss Esselins, teacher of the Sloyd svstemat the give an outline of the work proposed. This lady was intioduced and gave a list of the tools required and tho estimated cost in the schools of Boston. For 12 pupils, the num ber ia each class, including benches and tools, the school can be run at a cost of $256 89. After the lady gavo her Information, Mr. Phelps asked her if she could recommend anyone to the committee who would take charge of the new departure. She at once replied, "I will recommend myself." A sub-committee, consisting of Messrs. Phelps, J. O. Brown and Mr. Yagle, was ap pointed to confer with Miss Esselins, asking what compensation she required to take charge. Slie asked $900. Miss Esselins was then elected teacher at that salary, and sho will supervise the fitting of tho room, to be ready by September. The Chairman ot the meeting then appointed Messrs. Kollar, Yaglo and Torrence to assist Miss Esselins in her duties. This lady has been at the California Normal School for two years, and previously taught three years in Sweden, which country is her home. Superintendent Luckey, who is a great ad vocate of industial education, was inter viewed by a Dispatch reporter after the meeting, and said: "I think the Sloyd sys tem is the best system for the publio schools. It differs from the systems of other cities, in that theirs is so costly while the Sloyd will he comparatively inexpensive, outside of the salary of the teacher. It is a mistaken idea to think that all the pupils 'will be made mechanics. The primary idea is to have them cultivate their hands, teach them observation and mental discipline. The Sloyd system embraces the advantages of physical culture as well as those I have pointed out" If the school is a success a room in which will be taught industrial education will he established in every sohoolhouse in the city. At the meeting it was developed through an oversight that Mrs. Van Wagoner was not re-elected supervisor of drawing. To remedy this difficulty Dr. Kearns, of the Committee on the Course of Instruction, will call a meeting for this purpose. The State Teachers' Association. The thirty-seventh annual meeting of tho Pennsylvania State Teachers' Association will he held in Public School Hall, Bedford, Pa., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, July 7, 8 and 9. Tlte features of the pro gramme are as follows: Tuesday, at 10 a. m., addresses of welcome: Hon. John M. Boynolds, Bedford; Hon Jac. n. Longeneeker, Bedford; responsos: Super intendent C. A. Babcoek. Oil City; Prof. E. C. Lavers, Pittsburg; report of Higbee Memo rial Committee, Prof. J. P. McCaskey, Chair man, Lancaster. Tuesdav, 2 o'clock r. m., inaugural address. Dr. Q. M. Phillips, West Chester; report of Committee on Closer Supervision, Dr. E. O. Lyte, Chairman, Millersville; "Defects in the Present Method of Licensing Tedchors in Pennsylvania," Superintendent B. C. Young man, Clearfield county; Prof. W. H. Cover, Altoona; Superintendent J. M. Borkey, Som erset countv; Prof. E. W. Moore, Braddock; Superintendent K. F. Hoffecker, Montgom ery county; Superintendent George J. Luokey, Pittsburg, followed by general dis cussion. Tuesday evening, addresses, Hon. James A. Beaver, ex-Governor of the Common wealth, and Hon. H. L Gourley, Mayor of Pittsburg. . Wednesday, 9 o'clock a. m., "History as a Preparation for Citizenship," Miss Annie E. Lyle, Millersville: "Patriotism in the Publio Schools," Superintendent N. r. Kinsley, Franklin; "The Academic Side of Normal School Training," Dr. A. E. Malthy, Princi pal Slippery Eock Normal School; Superin tendent L. S. Shimmell, Huntingdon: Prof. J. B. Welsh, Principal Bloomsburg Normal School, followed by general discussion. W ednesday, 2 o'clock P. M., nomination of officers and selection of place of meeting; "Scientific) Temperance Instruction," Miss Leila A Cooper, Allegheny City, Pa.:Mrs Anna Moore, Altoona,Pa.,followed by general discussion; the "Teacher of The Twentieth Century," ex-President E. H. Magill.Swarth more College; "University Extension,"Seo retary George Henderson, Philadelphia. Wednesday evening, addresses, Hon. Robert E. Pattison, Governor of the Com monwealth, and Dr. J. O. Wilson, Brooklyn, "Yellowstone and Yosemite." Thursday, 9 o'clock A. M., "Pennsylvania State Teachers'AssocJation" Prof.George L. Maris, West Chester: Superintendent HI K. Buehrle, Lancaster; Prof. H. S. Hockenberry, Carbondale; Prof. J. H. Michener, Philadel phia; Prof. W. W. Woodruff, Newton, fol lowed by general discussion; address, Kev. E. P. Prettyman, State Superintendent of Maryland. Thursday, 2 o'clock p. m. Memorial exer cises on the life of Hon. J. P. Wiekersham. ...i.M Af htnHinhlnol nntn.ir -.. n A R. Bieriy, Millersville, and a number ot addresses. Thursday evening A social reception at tho hotels of Bedford Springs. The music will bo under the direction of Prof. W. B. Hall, of Lancaster, assisted by Prof. John L. Shroy, Doylestown, cornetist. Besides, popular solos are expected of Miss Ida M. Lindsay, of Pittsburg, and JIliS Ida M. Pecht, of Huntingdon. Next Tear's Corps for Braddock. The Braddock Township Board of Educa tion met Friday evening and reorganized as follows: President, Robert E. Stewart. Esq.; Secretary, A C. Coulter; Treasurer, Braddock National Bank. The only change made was James 11. McCrady, of Rankin, superceded John McKelvey, of Swissvale, who had held the office from that district for ten years. President Stewart has been given that office yearly successively since he first went on the board, 12 years ago. The election ot teachers for tho entire town ship was then made and resulted as follows: North Braddock Sohool Superintendent, Prof. 0. D. Coffey; High School, Prin cipal, Miss Mary K. Price; Interme diate, Miss Georgia E. Lowry; Miss Mary R. Kennedy, Miss Emma Slater, Miss Belle Simpson, Miss Ida Boyle, Miss Flora Packer, Miss Ada B. Sloan, Miss Clara H. Davis, Miss Mildred Morris, Mrs. AnnaE. Wharton: pri mary, Miss Sara Gilfillan. Bessemer School Principal, Prof. C. B. McCabe: intermedi ate, Miss Mary JOnes; primary, Miss Jennie Hammill. Copelaud School Principal, Miss Mary J. Marshall; intermediate, Miss Jennie Braznell, Miss Sallie M. Walton, Miss Mary I. Bell; primary, Mirs Lily B, Price. Swiss vale School Principal, Prof. J. A Keener; intermediate, Miss Belle Murray, Miss W. Miller, Miss C. A Mofflt; primary. Miss Fan nie Newell. The salaries of all the teachers in tho township were increased in proportion to their grades voluntarily, and in many cases are auite larce. Prof. Carson D. Coffev. Superintendent of the North Braddock School, has already served eight successive terms as superintendent of that school. His salary this year was increased Irom $1,000 to $1,200 per year. Tho salary of Miss Mary K. Price, of Wilkinsbnrg, superintendent oft Not th Braddock High bcliool, was raised i'iom$00 to $70 per month. Slie has been teaching at that school for H years in suc cession,"and she is still quite young 26. Tho salaries of tho principals of the Swissvale and Copeland schools, Prof. J. A Keener and Miss N. J. Marshall, respectively, were raised from $75 to $90 per month. The Stevens School Board. Tho Board of Directors of the Thad Ste vens sub-district at Its last meeting organ ized by electing Henry C. Bankard, Presi dent, Samuel Harper, Secretary, and Andrew G. Strieb, Treasurer. The following corps of teachers have been re-elected for the ensu ing terra: Grammar Department, Miss Ida M. Garbooh; Primavy Department, Anna R. Mitchell, Clara M. Kay, Emma O. Kiefer, Sadie J. Campbell, Maggio A Allen, Mary C. White and Ella White. W. M. McCulloueli was re-elected principal and Mary E. Rogers assistant principal lor a term of three years. The board discussed various plans for making the an nual plcnio, to be neld at McKeers Rocks Thursday, June 25, one of the most enjoya blo ever given by the sohool. After adjourn ment the board was taicen in onarge by tna I Prlnolpal and teachers and conducted into I an adjoining room, where they regaled J themselves with a collation of hasty pud ding and milk; after dispensing with the first course they were again conducted to another room, where a table groaned under the weight of ice cream, strawberries, cake, coffee and other delicacies. Everything passed off pleasantly and the participants on this festive occasion arc unanimous in the opinion that Principal McCullough and his able and agreeable corps of teachers know how o make theirfriends happy. Teachers of the County. County Superintendent Hamilton held a teachers' examination at Etna Friday. The olass numbered 72. Examinations had al ready been held at Turtle Creek, Coraopolls. Elizabeth and Sewickloy. In all 235 appli cants have passed through the trying ordeal, About 700 are examined each year. Mr. Ham ilton is assisted by Profs. Kendall, of Home stead; Cook, of Chartlers borough, and Cof fey, of Braddock. Chartlers borough will receive a visit from these gentlemen Wednesday. Tho class at that placo wUl number at least 100. The teachers of Allegheny county can congratulate themselves on account of the tidal wave of increasing salaries that is sweeping over tho county. Braddock and Homestead lead the list with salaries raised to $1,400 each for their principles and a fair increase in salaries of lower grade teachers. Sewlekley, North Braddock and other .bor oughs aro following in the same line. The educational interests of Allegheny county are surely booming. The Standard of Drawing. Mrs. Van Waggoner, the supervisor of drawing, will, at the close of school, spend a week at Asbury Park and then go to her home at Kingston, N. Y. Sho is much pleased with the progress mado'in drawing since her advent here, and noxt year, when tho system i3 fully understood, she predicts a remarkable standard of drawing in Pitts burg. The trouble In the beginning was that when the system was first introduced no teacher was here to explain it, and con sequently each teacher had an interpreta tion lor nersou. aeiub atace xeacaers' .as sociation, to bo held at Bedford, there will be an exhibit of drawing from the Pittsburg schools. At the opening of the Mt. Wash ington School a splendid exhibit of indus trial drawing in its progressive steps will be ready for inspection. Prang System of Models. For tho last two years the Allegheny schools have been working at the Prang system of modeling, form study and draw ing. The system involves considerable ex pense, and in order to give the Board of School Controllers an idea of the work ac complished, Superintendent Morrow three weeks ago sent notice to each teacher in the city to prepare at least 12 specimens of her pupils' work to be placed on exhibition at the High School. This work is now com pleted and has been received by Mr. Morrow. It consists of free-hand drawings, borders and other decorative work in colored paper, cutting and pasting of objects such as the cube, cone, pyramid and modeling in clay of leaves, apples, etc. News That Created a Sensation. To say that the dropping of Prof. Johnson as principal of tho Moorhead School Friday night had a cyclonic effect on educational circles yesterday morning would be putting it mildly. So lar all the elections have passed off smoothly. Ithas now become pub lic that for a month there have been lively times in that school district. One of the leading candidates was Prof. McCIure, of the Mooro school. He had strong religious backing. Mis3 Mackrell, however, was the winner over all candidates. Tho name of Miss Erwin does not appear in the published list of teaohers elected, and there is considerable comment as to whether this was an oversight or not. Pleasant Affair at Mt. Pleasant. The middle-year entertainment of the Mt. Pleasant Academy occurredFriday evening. The features of the programme were as fol lows: Oration, "The Progress of Socialism," A. B. Long; essay, "Fragments of Time," Mamie T. Berthel; oration, "The Annexation of Canada,', O. S. Burchinal; essay, "A Glimpse Beyond," Agnes Clare Barnes; ora tion, "Tho Parochial School," Chauncey Lobingier; oration, "Coke Ia Kin"," A. W. Stephens; oration, "WageE," A C. Rohland. The first prize, a gold medal was awarded to O. S. Burchinal,. ol Uniontown. Gosiip of the Schools. TooronBow the first batoh of provisional certificates will be issued to the successful candidates at the late May examination. StxpEBisTEirozirr Moebow, of Allegheny, heads a large delegation of Allegheny teach ers who will attend the International Teach ers' Association at Toronto in July. Later tho majority of the party will view tho beautiful scenery of the Thousand Isles. The Allen School Board organized last Monday. M. M. Garland is President, R- L. Jones, Secretary, and Rinohart Herbster, Treasurer. -Principal W. W. Kennedy and tho present corps of teachers were re elected. The Allen School will have the earliest picnic of the season. It will bo held at Idlewild next Monday. The grove was engaged for tho after dates. The organization of the Humboldt School resulted as follows: President, F, Eglinsdorf; Secretary, C. B. Deets; Treasurer, John Ru dolph. It was decided to hold the annual picnic of the school at Kinney's Grove on the 26th. The board has been contemplating the addition of threo rooms to the main build ing on the property which was lately bought, but the present strike has delayed opera tion. At the Mt. Washington schools tho thre6 last days of tho school year will be given mostly to enjoyment. At the new building, the Whittier, reception day is announced for Wednesday, June 21; at the old building, reception day is slated for Thursday, the 25th. On Friday the climax of pleasure wiU bo, for that day will be known as Jubilee Day. A brass band will be in attendance and ice cream and other dainties served to the pupils. For Pain in the Stomach. We made use of Chamberlain's colic, cholera and diarrhoea remedy on two occas ions for pain in the stomach. Eesult satis factory in a very short time after taking thetnedicine. I hesitate not in giving my opinion in favor of the medicine. At least it has done all claimed for it as far as we have tried it, E. D. BOOK. Blain, Perry county, Pa. VfSu There Is a Tide. In the affairs of men, which taken at the flood leach on to fortune. The great sale of lots at Kensington is the tide. Don't fail to go with it and secure a lot. They're Elegant for tho Money. Here's an extra special bargain we will offer to-morrow: We place on sale 250 men's cassimcre sack suits, neat patterns, checks, plaids and hair-line stripes, good, desirable colors, dark grounds, with light mixtures, etc., for only 56 75 each. Eecollect that these suits are only to be had on Monday,. as there's only a limited quantity. P. a C. O., Pittsburg Combination Cloth ing Company, comer Grant and Diamond streets. S3 To Cleveland and Betorn S3, Via P. & L. E. E. E. All trains of Mon day, June 15, and morning trains of Tues day, June 16. BraniER maiden Sitting in swing, Man swings maiden, Quite the correct thing. Man and maiden Taking a ride. Man says to maiden Be my bride. Maiden answers man, If you'll buy A lot at Kensington I will try. NEW ADVEETISEMENTS. FOR WARMWEATHER! A TOUR of our stores these warm days is really refreshing. There's a suggestion of coolness and comfort in the seasonable goods so temptingly displayed. What is more, our stores in themselves are the coolest in the city, so that shopping Here is a pleasure on the hottest days. There's noth ing "stuffy" about the place, and patrons won't return home feeling tired after making their purchases. But after all the great magnet of attraction is our exhaustless variety of Fine Summer Wear which is.offered at prices much lower than quoted by any other house hereabouts. , r K tiQ, We show all styles and all qualities at prices from 3c to 20 1MI1O. each. Just see the beauties at 25c, 50c, 75c and $1. flfAIQTQ' 2S y5 Indies' and Misses' Waists from 50c to wVMIOiy. $675. Notice particularly the elegant waists offered atsoc, 62c, 75c, 85c, 95c, $1 15, $1 25 and $1 50. Full line of Black Sateen and Surah Silk Waists. "That Man is Wise Who Does Everything in Its Proper Time." When you are suffering from constipation, sick headache, dyspepsia or any stomachic or liver troubles, you will do wise by using the Carlsbad Sprudel Salt, Which is imported from Carlsbad. It is Nature's own remedy. Only be sure to buy the genuine article, which must have the signature of "Eisner & Mendelson Co., Sole Agents, New York," on every bottle. jell WRAPPERS: SUMMER SUITS: PARASOLS: Perfect fitting Wrappers and hundreds of styles to choose from at 75c, 85c, 98c, $1 25, $1 50 to 5. You won't find such values elsewhere. We have a beautiful assortment of the latest and most stylish Summer Suits-. As to values we will merely say that it will be to your interest to see the goods and compare prices. Big reductions have been made on Parasob. Prices were never so low before. Look at the Si lot which has been reduced from $2, $ 2 50 and S3. TUIM IINnrRWPAR' Don't buy trash when we are offering I illll UllULnif tnn. the finest at these figures: Ladies' Gauze Vests, 25c, 33c, 38c. Misses' Gauze "Vests, i2c, 15c to 35c. La dies' Eibbed.Vests, 10c and 15c. Ladies' Lisle Vests, 18c, 22c and 25c Ladies' extra fine Lisle Vests, 35c, reduced from 50c. Ladies' fine Bal briggan Vests, 45c. Gents' Balbriggan Shirts, 37jc, 50c, 75c and $1. Qiimmor PrkreoQ We keep the Perfect fittine OW1I II HOI UU1 OCLOi kinds and guarantee they will give satisfaction. "Cool Wave" we sell at 5005 "Zephyr" at 75c; "R. & G." and "Thomson's" at $1. m ITT A mm 1 Fine Black Silk Mitts at 25a Fine Milanese Silk Mitts, 33c Still finer Milanese Silk Mitts, 38a. Extra fine Milanese Silk Mitts, 50a The very best English Mitts, 75a Misses' Silk Mitts, colored, 10a Misses' Silk Mitts, black, 25c, 33c, 38a Colored Tafetta Silk Gloves, 15a Misses' Tafetta Silk Gloves, 15a Black Milanese Silk Gloves, 33a Black Milanese Silk Gloves, heavy, 50a Black Milanese Silk Gloves, extra heavy, 75a All of these are positive bargains, tho like of which has not been offered this season. Q4-voiit I-Jo-t-o- A imiflense line of Leghorn and Garden OUdW llClLvD. Hats from 25c up; Silk Hats, P. K. Bon- Our stock is the largest and most care- nets, etc., at greatly reduced prices, fully selected to be found anywhere. T irlr Uror A complete line of French Lisle Hose at in- iilOiv3 J. IUOCi teresting prices awaits your inspection nice goods at 35c, 38c, 44c, 50c and 68c. JpSee our immense assortment of Cream Blazers. We have an end less variety of these popular goods at prices that will make-decided inroads on the stock. Come early for choice. Very penj)aump 510-518 MARKET STREET. Jeltrrssa CE STILL ,A.1" CARPETS HTPR FURNITURE URING THE PAST WEEK KEECH HAS BEEN OFFERING GREAT BARGAINS IN HOUSEFUR NISHINGS, CARPET REMNANTS, OILCLOTH REMNANTS, FINE LACE CURTAINS, AND IN FACT IN EVERY DEPARTMENT OF THE BIG PENN AVENUE STORES. THE SUCCESS OF THIS SALE HAS BEEN PHENOMENAL. NO SUCH OPPORTUNITY HAS EVER BEFORE BEEN OFFERED. STOCK MUST BE CLOSED OUT TO MAKE ROOM FOR NEW GOODS, AND THEY'VE GOT TO GO. IT'S THE BIGGEST AND BEST CHANCE YOU EVER HAD TO SECURE ANYTHING IN THE HOUSEFURNISHING LINE AT PRICES THAT ARE BELOW COMPETITION, KEECH GUARANTEES THE GOODS Ki PRICES. CARPETS -AHD- t CURTAINS In Carpet Remnants we are showing some 200 odd pieces, embracing all kinds Ingrains, Tapestry and Body Brussels, Moquettes," Axminsters and Velvets, in lengths of from 5 to 20 yards. The Ingrains are going at from 15 to 50 cents per yard. The Brussels and others at from 85 cents to 1 1 65. The best values ever offered. In Curtains the inducements will surprise you. Fine Point Lace, of beautiful new patterns, from $4 50 to 25 per pair. Also lot of Chenille and heavy . Portieres WILL BE CLOSED OUT AT 50c ON THE $1. Cash or Credit. MATTINGS -ron- SUMMER. Positively the finest line of China and Japanese Mattings ever offered in this city at factory prices. Keech buys in large quantities and you get the benefit. Plain and fancy mixed patterns, cool and comfortable and clean, and of the best makes. Plenty to select from, too. ALSO Cocoa Mats of all sizes and at lowest prices. They wear well, they look well, and, as they are of the best manufacture, they are worth the money .we ask for them. While in this department ask to see the Peerless Cosmopolitan CARPET- SWEEPER. The Best Made. LAWN- SETTEES CHAIRS. I A very complete line of Lawn and Porch Chairs and Settees. There has been a brisk demand during the week, but Keech has plenty to select from. Some very tasty designs are shown, handsomely painted in various colors. They are right in season now. See them this week. AND Don't overlook our bargains in BABY COACHES and REFRIGERA TORS. Double the stock of any other house- in this city, and, of course, at the very lowest prices. Seeing is Believing. SEE THEM AND YOU'LL BE CONVINCED. In Furniture suitable for Summer Cottages, Keech is showing some special designs. Your attention is called to the fact that Keech can fit up your home from basement to attic at a net saving of 25 per cent Everything that leaves the Mammoth Penn Avenue Stores is guaranteed to be as represented. THERE'S SOMETHING JN THAT, for you are secured. CASH OR CREDIT. QQQQ$&b&Qj$Q-frQQ$&&G&WQ$ XX Ji .Ci J ii frOO-0-O CASH OR CREDIT. 4H4fr$0 923, 925, 927 PENN AVENUE, NinSeet. OPEN SATURDAYS TILL 10 P. M. SSpecial-attentiongiven to Making and Laying Carpets, and Furniture Upholstery. mm J
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers