THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1900. 3 GOSSIP FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITOL PENNSY DISCOURSES UPON THE SITUATION. Amusing Scenes at the "Old Ladles' Sewing Circle" Senator Pettlgrew Starts the Bow Eloquence of Wol cott A Beer Garden Scene Talk Regarding the Vice-Presidency. JONAS LONQ'S SONS. THE SIQ STOKE. JONAS LONG'S SONS. JONAS LONQ'S SONS THK TWKNTIKTH OKNTUHY STORK. JONAS LONG'S SONS Special Correspondence of Tho Tribune. Washington, Jan. 10. Tho "old ladles' cowing olrclo" lins been busy this week ventilating Philippine politics. It Is not exactly the right thing to apeak ot tho United States senate In this belittling way. but the petulant, noisy, djspep- tlc, dear old gentlemen will nil talk nt once and they nre responsible for tho comparison. Senator Pettlgrew started tho row this time. Ho Is always In a row. Ho disagrees with everybody on every subject and Is the most Ill-natured man In the senate. Nobody likes him and ho scorns to like nobody. No hodv cares to associate with him and his lclsuic moments are absoibed In the contemplation of his own person ality. It Is little wonder that he Is In tensely disagreeable. It might be other wise had ho been differently construct ed, because be Is a man of more than ordinary Intellectual vigor. Of coure he tongue-lashed tho administration nnd the Republican party. All the mean, nagging, exasperating, baseless accusations a bitter, caustic, unbridled tongue could make he mailo. When his impotent tirade had ended, tho pt evi dent was up to his neck In the blood of dead American soldiers, nnd Agtiln nldo was a hero and patriot. It Is nec essary to know Pettlgrew to appreci ate tho nightmare effect on tho nerves when he announces his puiposo to nd dress the senate. It makes little dif ference what he says, only one man In the senate ever pays the slightest at tention to It. Senator Woleolt seems to be his bctc-nolr. He, too, has a sharp, stinging tongue. Ho tells Pettlgrew that he is a nuisance nnd an Ishmael Ito and unlit to bo In the senate, and Pettlgrew appears to enjoy tho dis tinction of even this sort of notice. Any sort of denunciation, In Pettlgrew 's es timation, Is better than the Indiffer ence nnd silence of tho senate. He w 111 talk for hours to empty seats with the hope that he may say something menn enough to nttract the attention of the Colorado senntor. With this senator, Pettlgrew's appearance Is a question of opportunity. It Is the means to an end. In this Instance Senator Bever Idge was tho Inspiration of Wolcott's vindictive phllllplc. Pettlgrew fur nished the opportunity. Wolcott has the presence and bearing of a well bred man. He Is always faultlessly, If not fastidiously, dressed, nnd whether ho changes his hosiery and trousers three or four times during tho day, he Is the most carefully groomed man In the senate. He has a rich, rotund oIce and talks In pure, tetse English. He Is a paragraph talker, and his speeches bristle with Impressive periods and siv nge Interrogation points. In the mat ter of personal Inllucnce and popular ways in the senate, he has tho advant age of Pettlgrew In generally being on the decent side of public questions. But tho unseemly attempt to forever anni hilate and extinguish tho able young Indiana senator, was nn egregious and humiliating failure. He got the accla mation of a few Democrats, but tho galleries, which hitherto have never failed to fervidly respond to his foren sic outbursts, heard his peroiatton with rigid and ciushlng silence. He took his sent, nnd Immediately, with a look of disgust and rage, he sought tho wooing nnd comfoitlng seclusion of the s-ennte cloak-room. A Beer-Garden Scene. Apprehension that tho Agulnaldo re hellion might be crushed, when the (Philippine question could be llscussed on its merits, the house minority used the urgency deficiency bills ns nn op portunity to precipitate a beer-garden scene. Little of a positive, dliect char acter was said that might commit the Democratic party to an avowed or au thoritative position In tho Philippine matter. What was said by individual members had tho emphatic qualifica tion of personal, not party responsibil ity. Ono incident of the mobocratic de bate can be taken seilously. Mr. Sib ley's manly and vigorous defense of Secretary Oage dumbfounded the min ority. And when ho declared with dramatic emphasis that the Demociatic party had no dennlte policy, except to live and succeed on calamity and do presslon, even Sulzer diopped his red, bushy, alleged Henry Clay head, and seemed lost In despair in having the cold truth forced down his capacious throat. Democrats at once denounced nnd disowned him. That was expected. But who supposed that the Wanamnker organs were so lost to all sense of com mon decency as to wantonly accuse him of fcoulid political motives. Con sidering Secretary Gage's action fiom the standpoint of a successful business man, Mr. Sibley courageously defended tho premier of a hostile political ad ministration. It was an honest, con scientious, brao nnd commendable ac tion. Yet the Wnnnnmaker advertising bureau despltfully nnd contemptuously treat It as a soidld and base appeal for the Republican nomination for con gress. The Vice-Presidency. There Is much talk now about tho Republican -.Iri-prosldentlnl nomina tion. According to cunent gossip Sena tor Piatt, of New York, will numo the candidate. Perhaps theie Is not a grain of truth In the story. It Is en tirely possible that the Philadelphia convention will name the candidate without regard to Senator Piatt or tho numerous New York candidates, if President McKlnley Is re-elected, nnd that now seems altogether certain, It Is equally certain that ho will not bo a candidate for a third term. The con vention may hunt for n flgmuhead to complete tho ticket for l'JOO, and It mav not. There was excellent piesldentlal timber In Vice-President Hobart. Per haps tho convention didn't know it. Perhaps the next convention will have learned something and will nomlnato a vice-prcsldentlal candidate who will succeed Mr. McKlnley In 1901. Tho pivotal state of Indiana will have to bo considered in this calcula tion. The Tribune correspondent has suggested Senator Beverldge ns mora than a possibility in this connection and It will be well enough to keep an ryo on tho coming man. It must ho understood once for all that his reputa tion has not suffered through Senator Wolcott's perturbation. But there are others. Gossip says that Attorney General Orlggs would not accept the nomination. Ho was the close friend of the lamented Hobart. Not that he would not wear his mantle as a mark of his personal consideration, but he Is sot a man for the monotonous routine EXTRAORDINARY SALE STATIONERY Begins here today. You have but to glance at the prices that no sale of similar goods ever held in Scranton is to be com pared with it. This advertisement will not appear again- so come today, if you would share in this extraordinary offering. For Patented Cabinet Photograph Envelopes. 1 For Big Lot of 12-inch Rulers. C For Choice of Great Variety of Lead Pencils. For Different Sizes in Perforated Scratch Pads. vvwv 1 For Package of 25 Pay Envelopes. For Big Bottles of Jet Black Ink. I For Box of Dennison's Gummed Labels. For Fine Paper Composi tion Books. 5 Whole Quire of Best Quality foolscap Paper, 4c. For Quire of Hurd's Finest Paper worth 25 cents. For Loose Packages of 50 Bill Heads. 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The attorney-geneial would bo an ornament in tho postoftico department, and the postmaster-general would b equally conspicuous In the attorney geneial's oillce One Is a piofound law yer of extraordinary perceptions; tho other the gieat executive ot the cab inet. Perhaps the nomination might be ns distasteful to General Smith as to Attorney-Oeneial Griggs, but It Is well enough to know that New York lias no monopoly on the vice-presidency. Ptnnsy. CAPITAL AND LABOR. "Taylorville Miner" Tells the In structive Stoiy of the Gieat Mine Sttike of 1870-71 and De duces Its Lessons. Especial timeliness attaches to the following communication, thu third In thi scr'es oi leniiniicenees which a etewin miner gles of the labor ttoubles In this allev: Editor of Tho Tllbunr Sir: Having gone ow r tho conlllcts uo twetn capital uml lubot lit the aulhiacito coal Hi ids during tiie cirs lSUj mid WJ, now wo come on to the grc.it btrlke or lTO unci 1S71. This Htiiko wus luaugiir- attil on th ihs-l do ot December, li"u. and the conlllct was wuged for six lucg month'. This wan one of the longest lights that ever took place In the nuthra lte coal Melds. It was begun against a i eduction. To this the miners objected without producing any reason for thu ob jection savo only that tho corpoi.itlors liud bun paving cuorn.GUs big wages lor tho picvlous Hftiin months, nnd now tho minus m ide a counter move by claiming bisls or November prices. Tills was thu great him nnd try tho nilncis nuido dur ing tho rtrlko: "U.isls or Nov i nibs. price and nothing liss will wo accept" I desire to icl.itu one. Instance that occurred ubout tho llrst week of tho Mi Ike. There was a mat-s meeting to bo held In tho Hound Weeds and tho Pino Hrook miners came up In a body beating a banner in front of them with this in scription, "Solid for Six Months," mid that motto gave great cnthiiblnsm to tho other miners, so that tho phruso becamo nn "very day sentenco relutid by nl most every mnn, woman nnd child In fv ery village and hamlet In the anthiaclto coal fields. a PKoi'iurnc cny. "Solid for Blx Months" was all the go and, euro enough, wo managed to wage that sorrowful strike for blx months. Well, let us seo how did we succeed In that strike Did wo gibi ns much u ,cno point in this struggle? Did wo com pel the companies to concede ns much as n small portion of our demand? Not ono lotn; but wo hud to surrender uncondi tionally without realizing a single thing but plenty of misery and poverty to tho creat majority of uh. I sy the great majority of us, because the miners arc ctmposed of two classes of men. like all other branches of workmon tho sav ing, Industrious, economical and tt.o spendthrift; and it's cty often the cao that It's tho spendthrift that bliouts tho loudest for a strike. And well ho may. for ho knows that ho will bo as well oft at the end of tho stilke ns at tho begin ning. To him It is Imniati'Ual how long It will last, lor, ns ho was nt tho begin ning M) at tho end he will linvo no houso rent, no butcher and no ctoro bills that Uo ever irtends to ray to trouble him in tho lorst; nnd if jou don't believe mo in tills statement Just ark of uuy good hearted business men from Tnvlorvillc to Provldcrco how did tho people treat him after tho six months strike after ho had given nil ho had to help them along i'l their day of need and snuggle what did many of them do towards him.' Noth ing, and that will cover evcr thing; ami thesu strikes, we know, have driven many a prosperous business man tu llnanclnl straits so that he becamo men tally deinrged nnd also as 11 result of thco great strikes some business miin bavo been driven to n premature grave. Such aro only some of tho Instances nt tho dlsastious results of past strikes. no mohk credit. ISut by what I can Hud out amongst business men Irom Taylorville to 1'iovi dence buch Unancial disaster will never ofcur ng iln, for should a btriko taliu place eveiy pcrbon will luivo to st mil on his own bottom and padellu his own canoe; llvo on his own it sources anil :it on his neighbor as In former strikes; ana I s.tv, although being a miner, Clod bless tho business men for such n rctolutiuii. It Is to their own benellt, to tho btnetlt of tho community they live In and to that of tho honcbt. intelligent miner. I made tho assertion in my last letter that the btriko ot the Delawaic, Lacka wanna nnd Western mlnoi.s was hiought ubout by agitation and intimidation In 1st,1). I dpsiro to call jour cttetlon to tho mass meeting that was held by us on tbo plot wheio tho French Hoot hotel stands today to prove that It w.ik out siders who wcio Insisting on attending to our own business nhTairs. A number of Hdo Parker can call to memory that hundieds upon hundud of miners fiom tho Womlng valley, the middle coat Held, and even from Bclnivlkil! county were prtsent ut that memorublo meeting. Wo wanted to transact our own business but they would not ulluw us. Well can I remember how, when tho piesldcnt ot tho meeting would not cntcttain their motion, they shouted, "Put him down," "put him down!" but with nil their rumpus they failed tint diy. 'Iho lol lowlng morning, when tho Oxford minors wcro going to work, what was con fronting them on the breaker but a ple turo of a collin with tho Inscription writ ten under It: "Woo unto tin in tint en ter this shaft today." Now If that Is not intimidation, what Is? The so aro factb ot what took place In those dais. My article is getting lather long-winded, else I would say Hom tiling about mining coal by weight and not by measure. I say, let well enough alono or else) wo will burn our fingers In this matter. Tajlorvlllo Miner. To the Public. I want to let tho people who suffer from iheumutlsm and sciatica know that Chamberlain's Pnln Uulm re lieved mo after a number uf other medicines and a doctor had failed. It Is tho best liniment I have ever known of. J. A. Dodgem Alphaietta, On. Thousands have been cutod of iheti matlsm by this lemetly. (Jii'j applica tion relieves the pain. For sale by all druggists. Matthews Tit others, wholesale and retail agents, THE "HARNESSING" OF NIAGARA Niagara Falls Destined to Become the Leading Electrical and Indus trial City of the Woi Id 75,000 Niagara Horsepower in Actual Use Tremendous Developement Now Going On. Unquestionably the greatest Indus trial wonder the world has even known wns the successful "lutnesslnj;," bev eral wais ago, of AineileM's and tho world's mightiest and must silbllui; cataract Niagaia' Tor euis it hael been the dieam of scientists and the monied kings of the enith, nnd when the foice f the famous watotfull was at Inbt, after many ais of experi menting and the expenditures of many millions of dolhus, converted Into oloe tilcnl eneigy to do tliei bidding of man, Is It to b? vvoneleieel at that Nikola Tesla, the gieat ele-ttleal genius of tho age, e'litlnt.slnstKilly exelaliiied: "Niagaia power will make Niagara tho greatest city In tho woild! ' Tesla, looking for the llrst time upon the gieat whliliug dynnmos in tho power-house' of the Nligai.t Falls Power Compiny nt Niagara, saw plc tuieel In his mind's eve a vast city Btl etching fmm one end of the Niagara fiontler to the othei; u gttMt Indus tilal community tho like ot which the woi Id has never yet known; a splcnellil city of gieat factoiies, whose wheels should be elilveu by tile silent, won detful eleetilcnl foiee generated fiom tho mighty nisli of wntois past th city's doom: a elty of millions of peo ple, of untold wealth, tho manufactur ing and Industrial center of the whoto civilized wot Id. That was TesU'.s lslon of tho fu ture of Niagaia, and Just so suiely as electricity Is to bee the coming lulhur force In the Indiistilnl llfu and activity of tho civilized woihl, just so suiely Is It NIagaia's manifest destiny to bo tho gieat edertileal nnd Inelustilal city of the idith. Niagaia eleetile power has been In uso only a few ycni.s, but nlieady It Is being used to opeiate u l.ugo num ber of tho gitutest Industrial plants In lluflalo and Nl.igiu.i Falls. Over 75 000 horso-pow er has s'i far been de veloped at Niagaia Falls. A large number of gieat manufac tures havo been established oa tin Niugui.i dining tho last lew years and under tho magical Inllucnce of Niagaia Falls power tho cheapest and bebt mo tive power In tho woild, havo pros pcued and cieated wealth. It is a fact of tecent Inelustilal history that there Is seatcely a big manufacturing plant nt Niagara Falls that han not at least doubled its sizo and capacity in tho lust two or tlneo yeais and these weio the years of panic and hard times! In less than five yrais, Nlagari power will bo In general use all over tho Niagara Frontier. Imi ortant new plants aro constantly b-lng attracted to tho present city of Niagaia Falls and with the great re vival of business nnd prosperity from ono end of the land to the other, hun- The Entire Stock of Sheet Music To Be Sold by Us Beginning Today From the Warerooms of Finn & Phillips At Half Cost THE OPPORTUNITY of a lifetime to musicians the most phenomenal chance to accumulate an up-to-date music library at small cost. Here is the story in a nutshell: The firm of Finn & Phillips have determined to devote their entire business to the selling of musical instruments and the publishing of music. With this object in view, they have sold to us their entire stock of Sheet Music, comprising sev eral thousand selections in both vocal and instrumental. Having bought the stock at our own price, we share the good fortune with the thousands of trade-folk who own pianos and organs, and at eight o'clock this morning it is yours at 7Q GENTS A SHEET. Nothing reserved; nothing held back for future sales. No matter what the cost may have been, it is for you to choose at Ten Cents. There are Marches and Quick steps, Songs and Dances, Waltzes and Rag-time, all published within a year or so. Some of it is just from the presses the immense hits of the day. Not a Sheet Worth Less Than 40c to H50. Below may be found a few of the titles as we see them at random. Positively none will be sold to dealers and none will be exchanged. The extraordinarily low price makes it imperative that we follow out these rules. Entire Main Aisle Wyoming Ave. entrance, will be devoted to the selling today. Gov. Roosevelt's Bough Riders. Country Club Phillips. Coon's Holiday Two-Step. Uncle Sara's Navy Phillips. Selections from Bunaway Girl. Selections from the Geisha. Selections from Girl from Paris. All of Chauncey Olcott's Songs. May Irwin's Coon Songs. Just One Girl. The Church Across the Way. Always. Georgia Camp Meeting. The Ameer Selections. My Honolulu Lady. The Honolulu Cake Walk. 11 Green's Cake Walk. Dance of the Brownies. Cotton Blossoms Two-Step. Mollle I Love You Wooler. Se-Koven's Recessional. Nordica Schottlshe. ALL OF JOHN PHILIP SOUSA'S Selections from Fortune Teller. An Old Fashioned Girl. Impecunious Davis. Campln' on do Ole Suawanee. One Touch of Nature vocal. Dearest Flower, Forget Me Not Wooler. The Angel's Anthem. Jolly Musketeers. Only One Daisy Left. Somewhere a Heart is Waiting. Moonlight Serenade. MARCHES. These titles form a small part of the collection. There are religious vocal solos, and many solos, duos and so forth for the cornet, mandolin, guitar and other instru mentsall at the same pi ice; and in addition to the above ioo Musical Albums in both vocal and instrumental; containing the very 'jCn choicest selections. Finn Si Phillips' Price, 50c. 75c and $1.00. Today at 3L Jonas Long's Sons dredj of manufacture! In nil parts if the United States nui making ln eiulries ns to Niagaia power i.nd many of them nro getting mndy to remove their plants to Niagaia. The men who have Invested their millions lu tho Niagara Falls Power Company, the younger but the gi eater and the more vigorous power company at Niagara, nie nmoniT the leadlntr eapltallsts of this country. Their names aie house-hold words. Pome of them are1 John Jacob Attur, 'William K. Vanderbllt. J. I'leipnnt '.loigan, Kdwnid U. Adams. 1"). O. Mills, Isaao N. Stllgman, Mori Is K. .loaup. Augtut Uelmont and other banktis from New Yoik and Huston The Niagara rails Power Company wns oiganlzed In 10. Tho woik of "hain"ssliiB Nl.ig.ua" was undertaken lu 1SS' and up to thu piestent tint" about 57,000,0(10 has been spent on the Immense wotk of thin company and lis allied companies. Tliftt' Is not space hcie to descilb? nioie than the few main featuies of this wondi'iful power-plant. The sur face canal, a mile and a half above the P.ills, is L'"0 feet wide, 1-' fe-et elee and extends Inwaid l.Ti'O fe-et. It will MMVe- w.Ui'l- sullleient to geneiate 100, 000 boise-powei. At It" side stands thij powei-housf, beiieaih which is tho wheel-pit, 400 feet lonp and ir.8 leet deep. The power Is geneialed at tho bottom of the wheel-pit, where thy watei. pouilmr Into gieat steel pen stocks, escapes and In escaping- whltls tho Immenso tuiblnes nt the lato ot 2V) levolutliins a nilnure. 1'ioin the" tin bines, whli ling with them, the shaft. 2S liuhes In diameter, leaehes into tho power-hou-i', wheie it Is ci owned by tin' i evolving llelds en tho dvnamo. Heie tho dlie-et motion ricilvcd fio'H the water Is (ouveiteel Into electilcal energj. Pi oni the power houo tho eloetllo run Hit is sent out to points nil over the Niagaia Fiontler. The transmis sion line to Duffalo is nnu of the most lemniUahle uehlevemenU of Its Kind In r-xlste'iice. lleaehltir the- city, tint Tails ede'ctilc.il power Is delivered to sovei.it btatlons lu widely Mpni.tll paits of the city nnd fiom these Is sent out to rustomeiH In the respej tlve dlstilet. Niagaia Tails Is nlieady the gieatest center of the elect lo-cheinlcal manu facturing industry In the world. Miinv new plants of this kind havo been established at Nlacaia Fails with in tho last few je'ais and these nio among the most suieessful Indu'tiles In the woild of m mutiifture today. Among them aie tho well-known Cnr boiuiiduin company, which manufai! ttiio cniboruiiduin, the new nbiuslve. This company has bi-on ro hiiccessful that It has JiiHt doubled the capacity nnd sizo of Its oilglual plant em tho Ameiic.in side of the river and has also established a Uouilshlntr factory acioss tho ilvcr In Ontario, where it gets Its power fioin tho Canadian Falls Povvr Company, the Canadian branch of the big Power Companv. Other leading' electio-clumlcal plants nro the Union Caibldo company, man ufacturers of calcium carbide: Slathie eon Alkali works, manufactuiers of soda ash; tho Niagara Klectro-Cheml-cal company, manufacturers of perox ide of sodium; tho Oldbury JOIectro. Chemical company, manufacturer of electro-chemicals; and tho nowly-cr-ganlzed National Electrolytic com pany, manufacturers of rhlorato of potash. Seven buildings aro being construct ed for the Ohlbury Chemical comj any, who aro u concern from Oldbvry (near nirmlngham), England. Their estab llshmcnt has been In existence for ovor fifty vears, and they nro well known lu Great Britain ns onu of tho largest liiniH manufactuilng elect! o-chemlcal pioducts. The land for their plant at Niagara Falls covers about two and one-half acres. At Pint 400 horsi power will bo used. The three greatest ludttstiles of NlajJ nia Tails nio the Niagaia Tails Ta per mill; the Union C.ubide company nnd the Pittsburg Reduction company. These nre among the rreatest manu factories in this countiy nnd each ui,es over T.d'C boise-puwi'r fiom tho great cataract, Peslde-. a laigo num ber of other lndustiles, paper and Hour 111111.4. muchlne Miops, i-tc etc., all the elect! lu l.illw.ivs, the local lighting companies and the cltv water works aie supplied with power fiom the world's gieutos,t cataract. CAUSED BY CHILDHEN. Catnstiophes That Have Resulted in Loss of Life and Property. It is not ofte-n that a child In a naughty mood does so much dumage as was occasioned lecently In an Indian village In Malabar. A little lad of six, having been scolded by his mother, thti'iitened to set lire to the house and did io. lu hot weather on tho plains, and especially In a native vil lage', wheie' the houses He thick and wheio (lie engines aie unknown, a Hie soon s-pie.uls, and thu one that was Mudled by this mischievous urchin lasted two bouts and destioyed llfty sev en houses. On the 2Sth of November, IS";, a med dling "middy" opened a valve In the Iron Duke, nnd the ea lushed In. He Hist tried to shut thu valve, and then, becoming filghtened, inn nway to an other patt of the ship. Ills cowardice caused damage to the extent of 85,000, and came veiy near losing the country one ot Its llnest men-of-war. This was bad enuuglt, but Kime tluee or four jeais later a big ship, thu Esperanto, fiom San Fianclsco, to Callao, was totally lost owing to tho action of a bnby of five, a little gill, In meddling with the compasses. Tho Ill-fated ves sel huel on boaul ninety-seven pnssen geis and ciew, and of these all but eleven perished. Among tho saved wns tho innocent causo of the terrible cutastioiihe. Theiu have been muny cases of fatal theater panics being willfully caiihol by mischievous childicn. One of th most tenlble of all, however, was bi ought about ciulto Inadvei tently. At the YlctoiU Hall, Kundetland, on June 10, l&H a few I'lilldien In the gall. iv htuiteel to nui down slabs. In order to secuie their slmie of Mime tovs that weie being dlsti United In the body of tho building by a conjuier named Fay. Othei.s followed their example, the staits became blocked, and In the end no fewer than ISC unhappy little ones weio clashed to death. On tho evening of October 11. 1STS, a policeman on duty near tho Coliseum Jluslu Hall, Elveipool, noticed an un usual commotion at the en tu nice. Dis heveled boys and glils, their clothing in many Instnnces toin fiom their backs, and some of them coveied with blood, weie pouring fiom thu gallery, while fi mil within the building came thu sound of shrieking und wild cries for help. Heullzlug whut was happen ing, the constablo seized an ax and smashed In two of the extra doois; but desplto this timely assistance thirty seven unhappy people lost their lives, and moie than twice that number wch badly hint. The cauo of tho panic was a .joung Hooligan of ten, who thiew a lighted match Into the nudl toilum, and then lalsed a cty of "Fire!" A similar piece of folly perpetrated by a gill Initiated an almost precisely similar stampede umong tho occupants of the gallery of thu Star Theatre, Olus gow, on November 1, 1SSI, when fifteen persons were killed nnd as many in. Jured. At the Suirey Music Hall, Shemeld. again on September 13, 1S5S, a lad In thu galleiy In selecting a match fiom a box for tho pmpnse of lighting bis pipe, accidentally set file to the re mainder. A glil sitting next to hltn cried out, and instantly theio com menced a wild lush for the doots. Luckily the gallery htalicuse was wliM and the lllght shoit; otherwise tho loss of llfo would piobably have been very great. As It was, five poisons perished. To go faither back still, a panic, oilglnatlng In piecisely the same way, caused tho loss of eighteen lives in thu winter of 1SU7, at Sadler's Wells Thea ter, then one of the most fashlonablo lesorts In London, whllu ns recently ns January 18, 1887, a false alarm of tire, ittlsed by a .voting Jewish girl, cost the lives of seventeen peisons at a Hebrew dramatic club In Spltalflclds. Tho iccent teiiiblo accident to tho Scotch express, caused through two lads playing with a luggage trolley, will be at once lecalleel by nine out of evciy ten people who read these lines. Well nigh fen gotten by this time, however. Is the even iimio shocking catastropha near He dual, In which no fewer than thirteen people were killed and about forty Injured. It occuired through the mischievous conduct of a paity of school bo s, who lemoved tho Hplkes that held ono of the rails to tho sleep ets. Only the other day, It will bo ic membeied, two lnds weio arrested for tampering with the signals on a subur ban line, and the evidence' cleaily proved that a toirlble accident would have been Inevitable but for a chancn dlscoveiy of tho mischief. One of the woi&t colliery accidents that has ever taken placo lu tho united kingdom was that which, on November 8, 1807, plunged into mourning nlmort the whole of the Khondda Valley dis trict. A llttlo pit lad employed at th Ferndale mine opened his safety lamp contiary, of comse, to regulations anil caused an explosion which blew to atoms himself and nearly 200 of bis matcf. Another explosion, atti Unli able to a similar cause, was that which killed tltty-four miners at Astley pit, near Manchester, on Apill 14, 1S7I, An Unconscious Error. A shoit time fllnco the daughter of a inllllonulro drovo up to tho door of .i jewi'lei's bhop, went In, and selectesi a tuuiuolso nnd diamond ring valued at $.'."10. Sho mudo out her check for that sum und passed it to tho assistant, iu lates thu Hoston Tiaveler, ,, The aleit onug man glanced at it and then looked iuqulilngly up at thJ voting woman and said, "Theiu la souu mistake heie, I think." Tho voting woman (lushed, and naked If thu ehi'ck was not for the right amount. Shu was told It was, but "Hut what?" Mio exclaimed frigidly, "I)u you mean that my check Is not acci'ptableV" The assistant acknowledged that ho know who tho young woman was, hut explained that tho check was not mado out Just ns It should be, and ho handed It back. The glil ran her eye over It and then tinned a deep cilmson. "Oh!" sho ex claimed, !il see!" - Md .tUcn sjje brpfaded to make nut nnoiher(Check. She had ilgned tho first one, "Your own "iweethcart, Jessie." J
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