MY GARDEN Into my garden of fancy I wander when twilight In dm, land iMt ia the breath of my dream flowera As I gather them one by one. Daisies white becknn me gaily Cajoling with winaome grace, I'm back in the awll land of childhood In the Sun'a and the Wind'a embrace. Roc with paaaionate story Caresainglv lean to my hand, Till the aorcery of their rare perfume Dear me far to Elyeian landa. Violeta blue and true hearted Like friendahipa that garland oor way, Make fragrant th air all abont me And bring hearteae for wuning day. Lilie in raiment clotial Exhaling rapt paean of lore. Transport me in viaion ecstatic To the Garden of God abOTe. Fair blooming blosaoma of fancy A chaplet of magic you aeem. Enrircling my daya with a weetne That ia born in my twilight dream. oaephine Robinon, in Home Magazine. The Salvage of the Madigan Baby. By MARY ROBERT RINEHART. James William was nit hungry He dropped his Bpoon listlessly and let go of his tilted bowl, watching ft sway drunkenly, and settle Into equilibrium again without enthusi asm. All around there was the scrap ing of spoons or Iron-stone china, the scratch of small shoes on the rungs of chairs, and the subdued hum ot little voices. The windows were wide open, and from beyond the dusty screen came the clatter of pass ing wagons and the cool splash of water from the asylum hose as John washed down the brick-paved court yard. James William leaned back and drew a long breath: then, with su perb Indifference to his red-and-whlte-barred bib, he wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. Next to him, seizing an opportune mo ment when his neighbor's eyes were fixed on the window, a red-haired boy seized the bowl with its soggy remnants of bread and milk, and greedily devoured them. It was an indication of the depth of James William's gloom, that when he no ticed the theft he failed to resent it. Outside a push cart drew up be yond the iron fence a puBh cart containing a dingy tin can, whose lid was fitted down over a sheet of brown paper. "Ice cream!" called the vendor shrilly. "Ice crea-am!" James William sighed not that he cared about the Ice cream, but that, being sad anyhow, It brought back to htm the memory of his mother, of the sizzling days on Wy lle street when the car tracks burned one's bare feet, and the paint rose in blisters on the wooden shutters; when the advent of the ice-cream man, with his penny spoonful of sticky dellclousness on a bit of brown paper, was the only cool mo ment of the day. Faintly, perhaps, he regretted his mother; there were visiting days when other mothers cam.p with offerings of newly-mended stockings and a surreptitious gift of candy. James William sometimes hod a heartache at those times, a queer little pain that he hid under a cloak of contempt, with a lump in his throat, that boy like, he com bated with a gibe. "Hello, mother's baby," he would say huskily, when some mother hav ing taken a red-eyed farewell, a little mattress would be left bulging at the side with a bag of molasses taffy under it, taffy that in the heat had melted Into a knobby lump and whose flavor was so strongly tainted with portions of the adhering paper bag. But it was of none of these things that James William thought as he gazed broodingly through the screen; It was not homesickness that made his mouth twitch and his eyes blink furiously at the upper windows of the house across the street, blazing scarlet in the setting sun. Instead, there waB passing through his mind a chaotic succession of passion, anger, resentment, humiliation. James William had been taken off the fire corps! What did It matter that the next week the "Fresh Air" outings began? What Balve was it to his injury to have Miss Adams say she knew it was an accident, but that there were no accidents In a Are corps, and that a boy who would fall headlong down the stairs from the dormitory would be apt to fall with a, baby In his arms, with goodness knows what ter rible results! And his father was a fireman, 'too! That was what hurt. The father who had brokeu up the home after the mother's death, and sent his boy to the asylum because he couldn't stand the familiar surroundings he was a fireman, with a record unsur passed for bravery. The boy wor shiped his father, and he took his exile and their few meetings doclly. But he watched the papers for the doings of No. 11 Fire Company, and the sound of an engine goag put hU heart in his throat. I i . Well, most children in orphan asylums are lonely at times. It had all occurred during the fire drill the night before. The B 1 ward was the, dormitory of the fire corps; there twenty-eight embryo firemen went to sleep every nlgbt. Usually they slept, moist and quiet, until morning, nut once every month there came a tremendous moment. when some tlmo In the night the clapper of the big gouu over the mantel would give a whirr and then set up a deafening clamor that brought every small boy out of his bed In an Instant, wide awake, and set his feet in a bee-line for the door. Just underneath B 1 ward was the babies' dormitory, where twenty eignt pink-cheeked, round-faced in fants lay placidly indifferent to the clamor around them. Before .the nre gong had finished a dozen lm penous Btrokes, the twenty-elKht small boys were standing straight as drum-majors, each beside a white iron crib; a signal, and a nroceaalon of night-gowned figures made for the door and the stairs, each boy this time with a mildly surprised but generally resigned baby a life-saving corps which deposited its salvage on the bricks of the courtyard. To James William In bed seven teen, fell the responsibility of Elea nors Louise Madigan, in bed seven teen below. It was u long time be fore James William convinced Miss Adams that a boy with a crutch and one leg gone from juat below the kneo was an eligible fireman. But after one knew James William one forgot the crutch, or rather, per haps, one considered it a part of James William, and as such, never noticed It at all. There were few oys In the asylum who could do more with two legs than this ten year-old boy did with one and a frac tlon. To Miss Adams, however, the fraction was an impassable barrier to the salvage corps, until one day James William picked up the Madl gan baby from a wicker go-cart In the yard and darted Impishly up the fire escape with her In his free arm. At the top he paused, looked down In triumph to the breathless crowd be low, and disappeared' jauntily through a window. That the board of lady managers was holding a meeting just insldo rather added to the dramatic effect, of his entrance. But the Madigan baby kicked her feet aid squealed with joy, and James William received a reprimand and a commission on the fire corps, pro vided he avoided any more practical demonstrations of his ability. And then he fell down the Btalrs! Some one had tripped him, and deliberately he knew that. He looked down the long table to where the Wiggins boy was catching flies and putting them down nls neigh bor's back. It was quite likely to have been the Wiggins boy. When things happened to James William It usually was the Wiggins boy. The more JameB William looked the more he became convinced of the Wiggins boy's guilt he bore an almost un natural air of Joy, and he seldom looked up the table'; , James William drew a breath and looked at Miss Adams. Somehow she, too, seemed to avoid his eye. The boy listened rebelllously to the little prayer after the supper, without Joining. He half wished the whole place would burn down that night; maybe they would be sorry when there was nobody to save the Madi gan kid. He had heard it whispered that the Wiggins boy had been as signed to the Madigan baby. He knew that the Wiggins boy was a coward. He knew that In case of real fire the Wiggins boy would think only of saving himself. All these things rankled in his mind as James William went to bed that night. He could not get to sleep; he lay wondering If the Wig gins boy had really token his place on the life-saving corps; who it was had tripped him tho night before; how Miss Adams could be so cruel when she seemed so kind. It was very hot In the dormitory; the light from the street lamps shone on the high celling; a few mosquitoes, tak ing advantage of an unlocked screen, hummed about the little cots. The air seemed thick and stifling; James William decided to get up and get a drink. And then he missed his crutch. He hopped out on one foot and looked under the bed, but it wasn't there. Then he felt around the bed clothes, but still no crutch. After a time he gave It up and sat on the edge of his bed, impotently raging. At last he dropped off into an un easy sleep. At the first stroke of the gong he was on the floor, feeling instinctively for his crutch; all around small boys were Jumping from their beds, rac ing for the door, leaping down the stairs. Then James William remem bered. It might be against the rules, but what was the use of following the drill If he could not do It prop erly II he hod no baby to carry out? He got sheepishly back Into bed again and drew the sheet oer his face. After a minute or so James Wil liam pushed the sheet down and coughed. It was close under there. Then he sat up and looked around. The night looked queer. It seemed red, for one thing, and around It were little luminous circles that deemed to waver and shift. Then he noticed that everything In the room wavered curiously; tho big gong was dim, the gong which John pol ished so religiously every Friday. And then even as be looked at It the gong began to ring again not slowly this time, but madly. In strokes which seemed to fall over each other and merged in one de moniac clamor. Then James William knew what It wrb. This was no practice alarm. It was fire, real fire this time and oh, the pain of it. He was no longer on the life-saving corps. He was tumbling again for his crutch, with the same result. From away down stairs came the faint tramp, tramp, of barefooted children marching out to safety. James William began to cough again; there was a queer fuly f . i 1 . Tl ir in Vila I...-..1 .....I I , .1 ' uuu 11 VHI warm. Then holding to the bed, he hopped on his one foot toward the door. As he opened It a chokiug blast of block smoke drove him back. There was a flickering light from some place that gleamed for a min ute and was smothered, only to burst up again. James William closed the door into the dormitory behind htm. 3Bfl holding by the wall, blinked Into the siaok. Than per haps it was heredity, perhaps It was a breath from the long-ago past he dropped down and crawled to the stairs, his mouth close to the floor. His progress was slow and pain hands, as though the fir tsrlgtrt burst through any moment. The air was worse, too, as he crept down the stairs. At the landing below he stopped. There wan a weight on his chest, and his heart was thumping In his ears. And then at that mo ment he remembered Baby MeAlgan. James William was only a boy, but he had flre-flghtlng blood in him. He was breathing hard now, and he re membered suddenly that he had no crutch that If the Madigan baby was still in the dormitory he could not carry her out. But even as he remembered ho was crawling on his blistered knees toward the Infant night nursery. The air was a little better in there, and from the far end James William could hear a choking, gasping cry. He could hop now, holding to the beds. Through the smoke he saw the Madigan baby Bitting up and blinking. If the Wiggins boy had been told oft to take her he bad met James William's expectations! James William hopped over and plckod her up. "Hello, kid," he Bald, steadying himself against the bed; "fergot yon didn't they?" Through the open door into the corridor came a rush of smoke that burst Into red tips of fire. Jamea William set the baby down, and picking up a water pitcher, smashed the glass In the window near by. A little air came In, but it seemed only to feed the fire, licking around the door now. The baby was gasp ing and the boy put her on the floor. Then he stuck his head out through the broken pane. Everything below was dark; tho fire seemed all up stairs. And then just Inside the win dow he saw the gaping mouth of the clothes chute. Behind, the baby was whimpering dismally The room was ablaze now at the far end; some of the beds were burning, and fanned by the air from the window, sparks began to drop scorching on the boy's half-clad figure. James William looked around deBperately. He called out the win dow, but his thin little voice was lost In the roar. The clothes chute yawned beside him; gradually he felt (ts possibilities. "I could drop some bed clothes down," he thought, "and it wouldn't be much of a fall." The baby crawled over and pulled at his little white nightshirt. '"But there's the kid; if I go first there'll be no one to drop It, and if I drop It, and then go down, I'll be like to kill It, fallln' on it." And then heredity began to tell. James William hopped over and gathered a great armful of bed clothe.?, stuffing them down the chute. Then he gathered another armful, and wrapped the baby loose ly in them, her head out. The baby yelled vociferously as he gave the bundle a push, and it sank slowly from view down the chute. James William drew a long breath, then pulling himself by his hands, he got out on the window sill, and Bat there. Outside on the street the engine was pumping now, and below him In the side yard the boy thought he could make out the Wiggins boy dancing around and shrieking that there was somebody upon that win dow sill. The fire behind him was very close now. He was terribly frightened. His heart didn't seem to beat at all, and his hands were numb. Things began to look queer, too. Then everything seemed to come to an end. When James William came to him self he was lying on the brick pave ment Just Inside the Iron fence with somebody's arm under his head. "Did you get the .r.dlgan baby?" he asked weakly. From somewhere It seemed far off he heard Miss Adams' answer. "No, James William," she said chok lly, "I'm afraid we'll never got the Maifigau baby." Then James William sat up. "You didn't?" he asked. "Why I dropped her down the clothes chute." Some of the people vanished Into the darkness; James William closed his eyes. Perhaps he went to sleep It seemed like a dream, anyhow, for big strong arms were holding him close, and near by Miss Adams was calling some one to bring a blanket for the Madigan baby. Janieb V 11 liara opened his eyes and looked up. Above him was a smoke-streaked face surmounted by a helmet. Tho face was familiar; the voice was odd, though thick, and of course It was ridiculous almost tearful. "Bully for you, little Jim." It was his father, Bure enough! "Good loy! I'm proud or you, sure!" Then to Miss Adams, "Can you find some clothes for the youngster? I reckon I'll keep him with me after this." Woman's Home Companion. From Force of Habit. Ily M. WORTH COLWELL. The young lady assistant-editor had received a proposal of marriage by letter, from her most ardent ad mirer. She promptly sat down by her typewriter and wrote the follow ing: My Dear Mr. Dubb: I regret to say that after carciully reading your letter of the 3d lust., I rannot accept your proposal, which you so kindly submitted, and same Is returned herewith. The rejection ot a suitor does not necessarily imply that he to lacking in merit. Any one of a number of reasons may render him unavailable. He may have been forestalled by similar material, or he may he too long or too short, or he may lack style. His financial 're sources may not be up to the re quired standard, or he may not movo in high enough society, etc. The undersigned is always vT7 glad to fxamlne proposals ot this kind, but begs, however, to be ex cused from detailed criticism. All such proposals must be accompanied by a stamped and addressed envel ope .and are submitted at owner's risk. Thanking you for your courtesy in offering the enclosed, I am Yours very truly, MAY MADOE MONTMORENCY. From Puck. Of A MARBLE SCRAMBLE. WORDS OF WISDOM. No man ever really worked until he started In to avoid work. Freedom of speech has blasted many a reputation for wisdom. Practical religion Is the kind that helps you to live, and not only to die. Judging by the epitaphs on tomb stones, sinners are rare articles in this world. One advantage of being on the water-wagon 18 the fun you have fall ing oft again. The moro a man knows about any subject the more cautious he Is about discussing it. It death came to call on a man more than once, the man might lose his respect for It. Tho world seldom recognizes the worth of a man until too late for it to help the man. Success in politics is the ability to keep the dear peopic from asking for explanations. Conscience Is that part of one's mental make-up that tells him some one is wise to him. It seems to be mighty hard for the average mortal to act sensible when out In a crowd. Some people cannot understand that there is a difference between genius and eccentricity. Happiness comes when a man real izes that ho himself could not have improved on this world. Opportunity has a bad habit of coming to call lust when you happen to be away from home. If there had been no scissors In vented, there would probably have been more geniuses In the world. From the Jacksonville Times-Union Philosopher. The Busy Bee. When you eat a spoonful of honey you have very little notion as to the amount ot work and travel necessary to produce it. To make one pound of clover honey bees must deprive 62,000 clover blossoms of their nec tar, and to do this requires 2,750,000 visits to the blossoms by the bees. In other words, one bee to col lect enough nectar to make one pounds ot honey must go from hire to flower and back 2,750,000 times. Then when you think how. far these bees sometimes fly in search of these clover fields, ottener than not one or two miles from the hive, you will begin to get a small Idea of the number ot miles one ot the indus trious little creatures must travel In order that you may have the pound of honey that gives them so much trouble. It may also help you to under stand why the bee Is immutable enough to sting you if you get In its way. When one has to work so bard to accomplish so Uttle, It Is quite Ir ritating to bo interfered -vltti. Phi" adelphla Record. Loneliness of a Great City. If you live In a large city you are lost. You are swallowed up by the ocean of people around you. You go down Into the deep and that's the last ot you, except perhaps an occa sional bubble that may come to the surface near where you were last seen. There nre so many people you can't escape drowning. You can't make friendships as you do In a smaller place, where the indi vidual isn't entirely effaced by the mass. Society is not what it is in the smaller place, where the human ele ment enters In altogether. In the larger place your comings and goings are not noted by your friends even, and never by the newspapers unless you are one of the high financiers or packing-house bunch. The births and weddings in your family are of no more Interest outside your own flat than are tho wreotbs of smoke curl log up into the empyrean; no merry crowd of interested neighbors with their warm congratulations. The deaths bring little sympathy from the rumbling, rattling world outside; no sorrowing acquaintances who have stood by you through the long sick neBs; there Is Uttle or none of that evidence of loving kindness that comes from neighbors and real friends In a small city or town, where the dollar-mark Is not written so large and so indelibly on everything. It is a paradoxical law that where there are so many people there are fewer friends, and when you dimin ish the number to a troutler com munity where neighbors are miles apart your friends are ready to take their lives In their hands for you. Fremont (O.) Post. Why It is a Jolly Thins; to Re Born In Florence, Mass. To be bo:n in Florence, Mass.'ls one of tho jollleflt things that ran possibly happen to a young Ameri can. This will he so, at least, so long as Julius P. Mala lives, for ev T year Mr. Main stocks up with TV'"" marbles and 1000 pennies, and then scatters the same before the village postofflce for the children of the community to scramble for. Mr. Main says he does it "Just for fun" and because he likes children, and he certainly does get enough fun out ot it to last him a year. As for the chil dren, they look forward to It as they do to the Fourth of July or Thanks giving. The twelfth penny scramble has Just taken place, and one thousand children assembled to gather up Mr. Main's gifts. The hour set for the scramble was 1.30 o'clock, and long before that time children began to congregate, until the roadway was choked with them and the town con stable had to make ah opening to permit the trolley cars to pass through. There were as many girls as boys In the crowd, and they en tered Into the rough and tumble play with Just as much vim as tholr broth ers. Both boys and girls were dressed for the occasion, tho boys In overalls, sweaters and caps, which they promptly lost when tho struggle be gan, and the girls In their oldest calicoes and ginghams, with no hats at all, for the penny scramblers are no respectors of persons, and fem inine millinery would faro hardly In tho fray. Most of the girls brought bags to stow awny their treasures in, while the boys put their faith and their booty In their trusty and capa cious pockets. There are no printed ruleB for the contest, but It is generally under stood that wo children over twelve or under five are to take part in it, and rarely do the boys and girls dis regard this unwritten law. They al so understand that they nre not to strike or kick one another In their efforts to get the marbles and pen nies, but they may fight with all their strength. That is, Mr. Main says, they may fight fair, but there must be no fouls. In general, he re quires the football code to be fol lowed. When the marbles are thrown out, the boys and girls enter Into the contest together, and no con sideration is shown to the weaker sex. In the struggle for the pennies, however, the greed for gold renders the boys more brutal, so they are re quired to remain on one side of the street, while the girls have the other. There is a desperate scramble over the pennies, but when a boy or girl actually gets' hold of a coin no one has a right to take it away. In the case of the marbles, tho wise chil dren know that quality Is better than quantity. So before they do any fighting they watch carefully to see if there are any alleys In the hand ful which Mr. Main has thrown out, for what boy or girl does not kndw that an alley Is worth fifteen com mon marbles? Mr. Main always distributes his own gifts, and as he strides through the crowd of eager children, sowing the pennies and marbles broadcast, he makes a striking figure, for he Is over six feet tall, and on these occa sions he always wears a long butch er's frock, reaching to the tops of his cowhide boots, with a fur cap pulled close over his eyes, the rest of his face being almost covered by a bushy beard. When the contest Is all over, the children muko for the candy depart ment ot tho village store, and tho coins for which they have fought bo earnestly are turned Into lollypops, "Jaw breakers," taffy on a stick and black licorice. New York Tribune. NE0S Pennsylvania SAYS PROBERS DRUGGED HER. Austrian Woman AcOSHOd Of Mnrder Make Sensational fharge. Scranton (Special). -Sensatlonnl charges which threaten to Involve the country In a controversy with the representatives of the Austrian Government are made by Morris Muscovltz, attorney for Mrs. Klndra Howrsto, the child wife accused of the diabolical murder of her hus band by pouring oil on him and set ting him on Are. The charges are directed against the county officials and Edward Jor kovlts. They arc accused of sub jecting the Howrsto woman, who Is Ignorant of tho English language and cnatoms, to cruel and unjust treatment In the examinations sub sequent to her arrest on a charge of murder. Moscovltz declares the woman made no confession, but that words were put In her mouth by Jerkovltz, who mted as interpreter. It Is also charged that she was taken from the county jail and examined after bolng given a large quantity Ot whisky. NO PA88; NO TRIP. (Jlrl Outwit nurKlnr. Washington (Special). As Henry Loutltt, mine Inspector of tho fifth district, approached his home nt Monongahsjs, he found It surrounded tiy officers and citizens. On inquiry he learned his daughter had frus trated an nttempted burglary. Miss Lutltt, glancing out of a window, had seen a man trying to enter a lower window. She notified the police by telephone and on the arrival of officers the man fled. Mayor Elwood, who lives near, was ulso notified and sighting a man run ning down the street, gave chase and captured him. He gave his name as Chris Lang, of Pittsburg, and was placed In the lock-up for a hearing. Doing Wlthont Their Usual Trip Vm Atlantic Oty. Pittsburg (Special ) . AtlanC City Is not the Mecca of Plttsburgsr this year. Instead ot their bel. 30,000 at the resort at this time the year, as has always been th case before, the number of Pittsburg ers there at the present time will not reach 1,000. And all becaufe the Pennsylvania, along with othST railroads, has shut oft free passe. In years past the Pennsylvania re quired from three to four sections of the special trains that they ran for their Atlantic City excursions. This yesr one excursion was arrang ed, and the usual special was pro vlded. But it was not needed. Juat wo persons showed up with ticket. Then the special train order wa canceled, and a "special" coach wa attached to a regular train, but stUI only two passengers were aboard when the train pulled out. Not only Is the man who rode oa a pass remaining at home, but many of those who formerly paid their fares nre doing likewise. This la accounted for by the fact that th man who paid his fare usually aoj companled a man who rode on a pass. Because he had a pass, this man would be willing to help pay the traveling expenses of the man who didn't have a pass. In that way the expenses ot both would b) decreased. Blow May Cause His Death. Chester (Special). Chester courts will probably have another murder ( Hue at Its next term. Amos Archer a neero on the Dredger Cataract, hit Horace Johns, a German deckhand, In the head with a bowl and Iron bar, Inflicting Injuries that may cause his death. Johns Is In a precarious condition In the Crozer Hospital, and the physicians feur that his skull Is fractured. Tho fight started In a dispute at the dinner table. Archer has been held without ball to await the extont of Johns' Injuries. "He Used to Be My Papa." An Instance of the complications that follow the numerous divorces obtained by rich residents of New port, was related by tho Rev. Floyd W. Tomklns, rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, In his sermon to the First Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, on Sunday after noon. Dr. Tomklns vouched for the truth of the story and said the Inci dent occurred at Newport last sum mer. Two boys were at play, when one pointed to a man pausing in an automobile. "That's my new papa," exclaimed one ot the boys; "I think I'm going to like him." "He Isn't so much," remurked the other child. "How do you know?" indignantly de manded the first boy. "I guess I ought to," was the reply. "He used to be my pupa" Philadelphia Record. i istingulshcd Artists as Sign Painters. Col. Healey, C. M. G., who we un derstand has painted the sign ot the Swan Inn at Rayne, Essex, has had some very distinguished prede cessors lu this humble field of art. Mr. Firth, the veteran R. A., has a very- clear memory of painting the signboard for a Lancashire Inn called the Pilgrim. "My friend, Augustus Egg," he says, "painted one aide of the sUn and I the other. Egg's pil grim "was knocking at one side of the sign, on which a door was limned; on the reverse my pilgrim was leaving the hostelry refreshed. thankfully casting his eyes heaven ward." Many years ago two other famous academicians, Messrs. Leslie and Hodgson, while on a Ashing expedi tion at Wargrave-on-Thames, devoted their leisure to repainting the sign board of the George and Dragon, the hostelry at which they were staying, Hodgson picturing the saint refresh ing himself from a tankard ot the landlady's best "October." - "Old Crome" once exercised his skill on the sign of the Sawyer's Inn at Norwich; George Morland was the artist ot a cricketers' sign at Chert Bey, and, we believe, a small Surrey lnu boastB a clever painting of the Fox and Pelican by Walter Crane. Westminster Gazette. Woman Finds Unidentified Body. Carlisle (Special). Mrs. Annie Ehrhart. of this place, discovered the body of a well dressed and pros perous looking gray-haired man of about fiO years of age lying near an old limekiln In Western part of Car lisle, partly hidden by a thicket, n short distance from the main road to Shlnnensburg. There were two bullet wounds In the man's head and a revolver lying at Uls side pointed to suicide. A do nosit book on the Chambersburg Valley National Bank, bearing the name ot D. F. Ryder, was found on the body. Heirs Claim A Graveyard. Altoona (Special). Ownership of the trravevard where for years Utah vllle. Clearfield County, has burled it dead. Is In dispute. It was pre sented to the town by a wealthy resident, who failed to deliver deed for tho plot, and recently it was purchased from the heirs. The new owner has notified all lot holders to pay for their lots or remove their dead. Fearing that he may compel them to do the latter, the relatives of those lntorrcd have Instituted suit to prevent him from carrying out nis plan. Crippled Saving A Tree. Lock Hnvon (Special). Miss Ly- dla Shadle. one of two slaters who conduct the Jacob Shadle farm, In Nlnenose Valley, near Rauchtown met with a peculiar accident which may crloplo her for life. While a young man was moving the grass near the house Ml3s Shadle approach ed the mower and bent over young fruit tree to save It and allow the horse to go by. ine oriver. however, drove too near the woman and the knives of the mower caught 5ne of her ankles and cut the flesh to the bone. Milk Saves Life In Express Wreck. York (Special). An express car on the Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad containing William H. Ray, of Delta, brakeman, and about 1200 gallons of milk and cream, rolled down an embankment near Long Green. The brakeman received no other Injuries than bruises and a bad shaking up. The embankment Is 25 feet high and when the car reached the bottom It was reduced to splinters. COAL TRADE BOOM IS ON. Break Renling Ofllrluls Exjwct To Mid-Summer Record. Reading (Special). The Reading Company's collieries having resumed after an Idleness since tho Fourth,! the company resumed Its dally move ment of coal. The shipments to mar ket from now on will aggregate 1,700 carloads a day. The demand for anthracite con tinues good and It Is expected that July, barring the three Idle days of last week, will be very active. Th. orders from the West are coming fll lively and some difficulty is being; experienced In securing cars In which to load the fuel. Much of the coal shipped West Is carried In box cars. Rot Threatens State Fruit. Harrlsburg (Special). State Eco nomic Zoologist Surface said that the hot moist weather which haa prevailed for a number of days has had the effect of causing insect pests and plant diseases to multiply with, their "ustomary rapidity. Fruit IS rott 'ic -apldly. "Immense loss of grapes and peaches by rotting threatens the, fruit growers," Prof. Surface's not) ot warning continued. "Unless pre ventative measures are taken, the potato crop Is also likely to Buffer great loss by rot and blight." Prof. Surface continued with the recom mendation that a good standard fungicide be used and applied frequently. BRIEF NEWS ITEMS. Too Much at Once. Caller "Do you think the doctor 1 going to help you, Mr. Jones?" Jones He may. It I cau only fol low orders. He told me to drink hot water thirty mluutea before every meal, but I'll be blamed It it ain't hard work to drink hot water for 1111 i'ii'i.i .i a -i . ,. nun y a i ii i u,m r. v. i . -- - - tul; th woodwork felt hot under ui J thirty minutes. Harpar'i Weekly, Density of Population in Germany. According to the latent statlstlca the population ot the German Em- fplre Is 60.605,183. The averuge density of population Is 2u J to cue square mile, as against 28 in the United Stat.-s Saxony Is greatly crowded. Its 5789 square miles con tain 4,501,350 people, or aa aver age ot 778.9. ChemnlU contains 1064 persons to the square mile, making It one ot the most densely populattd districts ot the world. Mirage on Lake Ontario. Persons who happened to be in tall buildings this morning or on any elevation where the lake was visible saw one of the most wonderful mirages that have been noted in this section In a loug time. From the office of the Chamber of Commerce the mirage was plainly visible to the naked eye, the Canallan shore loom ing up as If It was no further oft than the northern limits ot the city. By the use ot field glasses the outlines of buildings along the coaat could be een, and those who witnessed the phenomena all agreed that It was the clearest mirage they have ever Been. Rochester Union and Advertiser. Umbrella Flirtation. An umbrella carried over the wom an, the man getting nothing but the drippings of the ratn, signifies court skip. When the man has the um brella and the woman the drippings It indicates marriage. Human Life. Pennsy Conductor Crushed To Death. Chester (Special). James Ander son, conductor at t'.ie Thurlow freight yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was crushed between a shifting engine and freight car and received Injuries which resulted In his death while being removed to the Chester Hospital. A record run was made by the ambulance, but he died as he was being taken In the receiv ing ward. Old Bank Not Included. Harrlsburg (Special). Attorney General Todd in an opinion to it. ink lug Commissioner Berkey holds that tho act of June ., lu. wmch re quires every person, firm or unin corporated association "who shall hereafter engage In the banking bus iness In this State to report to, and be under the supervision of tho Com missioner of Banking" does not ap ply to such Institutions as were in existence when the act passed, but only to those beginning business af ter the act passed. 1 Five Destroys Embroidery Plant. Columbia (Special). The plant of tho Triumph Embroidery Company In which fine ombroldsry and shirts wore manufactured was destroyed by ftre. 81k firemen were Injured an a number overcome by smoke tua wer uarrlcd from the burning building. Tho loss will reach $75,- 000, partially covered Dy insurance Three hundred employ jut of employment. ;b will be Th best way ta laaaalnt how Kir : It I to go to tvtven I how i-oay U IS to Vt out i!ebt The site for York's new post office: has beon fixed at the corner of Duk and Philadelphia Streets. The ap proprtatlon Is $76,000 and the build ing Is to coBt $250,000. .The loca tion Is not favored by the majority of the business men, who say it M not centrally located. Rupert Gun Club marksmen reck lessly using firearms narrowly escap ed Inflicting serious Injury on pas sengers on the Columbia and Mon tour Electric Railway. Several ol the passengers, as well as the crew, were struck by shot and the service of a physician were required for several, although their Injuries were not serious. Columbia County Commissioners finding tb;e county badly in need of cash have notified ail tax collectors In the county that all duplicates prior to 190G must be settled within ten days or their bondsmen will be pro ceeded against. Some of the collec tors still owe money on the dupli cate of 1902. The 10-year-old daughter of Mr. A. R. Buzzard, or Hawthorn, near Clinton, died after being hit on the bead with a skyrocket which was accldently and prematurely discharg ed on the Fourth. The rocket struck the little child in the eye. Prof. Herbert R. Brunnor, a mem ber of the faculty of the Boys' High School and principal of the Evening High School, Reading, resigned in a letter In which he criticizes the' administration of Prof. Robert 8. Birch, principal of the former school, who had charged him with insubor dination. Lightning played a strange caper on the farm of Jerome Trexler, in Berks County, during the storm, when a colt was killed and another crippled. The animals bad sought shelter under a tree when a bolt struck the top of the tree and de scended but part way and glanced off, killing one of the animals. Tho other was so severely stunaed that It Is feared It may become useless. Schuylkill County's number ot school children Is steadily decreasing and the assessors' returns show that Pottavllle will lose a big slice of the State appropriation. The decrease since last year Is 153. The DUlsburg branch ot the Cum berland Valley Railroad will be com pletely electrified In pursuance of the plan of the Cumberland Valley Railroad to make a test of the com ploto electrification of a steam road. Robert Rodgers, of Allentown. fell backward while stepping from a car, sulking tho back ot a seat with such force that he sustained a frac ture at tho base ot the skull. Nathan Buch, of Lltltz, ran Into a' swarm ot beos while cutting hay; and the Insects stung the horses, which ran away, throwing Buch from, the reaper and badly Injuring him. Adams County la excited over th reported discovery of petroleum In sufficient quantities to make the operation of wells profitable. A syn dicate of New England capitalist will develop the find and are now erecting derrick to make test. ' Adams County Commissioners havo paid out $174 .in bounty dar ing the last ten days. Nineteen, foxoa, two minks and 184 weasel were killed in the county during that tlmo. It's up to ti man to foot Ills bltla .fttr reeulvtng a handaom legacy.
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