SWEET POVERTY. "I am glad I was bom to poverty." The Laird of Skibo. 0 blessed, long loat poverty, how sweet yon aeera to be, Aa I look back on thoae dear daa when you enveloped ma! What happy houra indeed were thoae, what momenta of delight, When aupperleaa I uaed to aeek my attic-room at night! What joy it waa on icy moma face the bitter wind, With clothes by far too thin before, and even worae behind; To paaa the anowbound freezing atreat with patchea on my panta, Waa joy of a peculiar kind unknown to high finance. How aweet the taate of canned corned beef, waahed down with watered milk! What comfort waa there in no socks, unknown td aocka.df eilk! I'd gladly awap my patent pumpe for thoae old ahoea forlorn That fitted both my feet at once, and never knew a com. How I recall thoae dii of bliea when Saturday waa through 1 counted up the wage I'd earned a dollar twenty-two And with what pride I aought my home, and cried with joy immense To tell my orphaned father of a rai5 of eeveu rente! No mueio hath the world to-day like that in timea of yore, When, baying night and day, the wolf sang iu.t outaide my door. No joya in nches can compare to thoae I uaeci to aee ' In thoae fair days when L wna steeped in abject poverty BUT YET. you need not aak me, friend, to swap my present cares, Whereby I'd join the pauper crew, and you the millionaires, For I am not a selfish man, and, though roy wealth annoys, I'd never in my life deprive a poor man of hia joya. John Kendrick Bangs, in Life. THE SPELL OF THE MAJJI. mm Her MajeBty beamed over the oof fee cups at the Boy. She had arrived In town unexpectedly Just aa he waa about to start for their summer home at Daisyhurst to spend his Saturday to Monday holiday. She explained that she had grown tired of the country and thought It would be a jolly idea for them to go slumming In the city. Her Majesty's definition of slumming Included the most expensive dinners obtainable on hotel roof gardens, trolleying, and table-d'hoting and wild suppers in German restaurants. "I'm sick of cows and chickens and pigs," she declared, as she bolted Into the Boy's office. "I've a bad ;ase of New Yorkltls. I want to go up and see the monkeys In tile Zoo and be helped over Broadway by a big policeman." So on Sunday morning they found themselves having a very Informal breakfast In the closed-up house where the Boy had been keeping sachelor hall. "How delightful It seems to see four face at the table once more!" exclaimed the Boy. "I've stopped breakfasting at home since you went away. Home is not tho sj.me- place without woman's gentle present. " "I should say It Isn't!" exclaimed Her Majesty; "I found thirty-seven jnipty beer-bottles under the piano lud soiled collars hung all over the rubber plant, just as though It were I ChrlstmaB tree!" "I entertained the Don't Worry Club here one Friday evening," ex plalned the Boy, "and they seemed to Imagine that I had invited them for a week-end party. They didn't go home until Monday, and I had to lend them all clean collars. They were In t, decorative mood when they left, and so hung their own collars on. thentree." "Then the Idea of tho cat!" ex claimed Her Majesty, in an annoyed way. "You mean the kittens, I suppose, " said the Boy. "Well, I couldn't help that, you know." "Then the geraniums in the win dow boxes are all in bloom," pouted Her Majesty; "It was so mean of them to bloom while I was away!" "That was the most reuferkable thing!" exclaimed the Boy. "I've discovered that cigar asn&s will make plants bloom. I've bacn using the window boxes as ash trays. It worked so well with the Bowers that I realized that there are undis covered and perhaps valuable chemi cal properties in cigar ashes. .lust as aa experiment I put some In the canary's seed, and, do you know. It has grown quite fluffy." "I have decided," said Her Majes ty, seriously, "that it is a wife's duty to stay by her husband's side during the summer time. I shall not return to Daisyhurst. I have decided to send for my trunks." "Don't think of such a thing!" ex claimed the Boy. "I am Quite con tented, I assure you." Her MajeBty looked sharply at barn Then her face softened. "Ah, yes," he said, "you say that because you are so self-sacrificing, so noble." "Not at all! Not at all!" protested the Boy. "Since I have beeu away," wit,on Her Majesty, "I have had more time to think of serious things. WThen I wont away I thought of nothing but new gowns." The Boy looked up in alarm. Ho thought this angelic mood suggested illness. Her Majesty had a cectded appreciation for new gowns nor mally. "They were very pretty gowns." ho remarked, gallantly; "they worth the mouey." "They aro all worn out now.'' said Her Majesty, "to rags!" Tho Boy started apprehensively and looked keenly across the table. He was accustomed to gentler meth ods for the extraction of new gowns This was more cyclonic than Her Majesty's usual orm. I'm thoroughly sick of dressing," she went on, "Tho wotfJfcn at Daisy hurst think of nothing else and talk of nothing else. We women uro mis understood because of the attention we pay to our gowns. Men think we are Idiots!" "Nothing of the sort," said the Bay. "We know better." "The best proof of it fa beside you," said Her Majesty, indicating a copy of the Daily Jollier as yet un folded beside tho Boy's plate. "In that paper you will find a certain page or pages devoted to women." The Boy foung highly colored upplemont and handed it across the table. Her Majesty opened It With an air of distaste. , "Here, for Instance," she said, "is I a charming article for Sunday morn jlng reading, Eleven Way to Kill Cockroaches.' " ' "One way would seem to ba suffl- clent," mused the Boy. I "Then cornea an illustrated diecus 'aton of methods to rid the complexion of impurities callod 'blackheads ' Ugh!" "It Is clean literature, at all events," reflected the Boy. "But not elevating, you'll admit," went on Her Majesty. "The Jollier seems to run to the Insect world to day. Here Is a half column on the subject of bugs in cereal foods!" 'It does sound a bit crawly, that's a fact." admitted the Boy. "Then, right in the middle of all this positively nauseating matter, are recipes for the making of luncheon dishes. Can't you see how hideous It all is how exquisitely vulgar? It Is a mass of unpleasant ideas placed In repulsive association with the sub ject of food." "Women don't care to read serious stuff," said the Boy; "they like to read about other women's moles and freckles and bleached hair and In growing eyelldB, even If they don't have 'em themselves." We want something better than soup bones, blackheads and bugs all In a bouquet," said Her Majesty. "The men who get out these things have an Idea that women have no soul above buttons." "Or bugs," said the Boy. "It is quite true we are frivolous we know we are frivolous. 'Men are never frivolous, they are foolish. But they don't know it." "Oh, give over! give over!" said the Boy. "Thousands of copies of this pngo go out over the country to-dny rep resenting American womanhood. It is a journalistic insult!" Her Majesty seemed almost on tho verge of tears. The Boy watched her narrowly. "Tell me," said he, "when did you begin this serious line of thought? You showed none of these symptom when I left Daisyhurst last week." "Since then my soul has awak ened," said Her Majesty, looking deeply into the eyes of the Boy. "The day after you left a Hindu lec turer came to the inn and gave one of his wonderful talks on the soul. He was a dreamy-eyed, tall, silent man and wore a white turban." "Ah!" said the boy, Interestedly. "Well, you know what those Daisy hurst women are. Thoy Immediately surrounded him with all aorta of silly chatter, and wanted hi auto graph and his photograph. He treated them as though they were children. "I went out on the piazza. I didn't care to mix with them at all. I had on my blue chiffon gown, and a white lace hat, and the MaJJi noticed, he told me afterward, that I wasn't like the others." "Who told you?" asked the Boy. "Majji. That was his name. The others called him Mr. MaJJi, but he explained to me that was silly. In his own country he said he was a Maharajah or an Ahkound or some thing. He introduced himself to me and asked mo to stroll with him to ward the ocean." "Oh, he did!" said the Boy. "Of course, this made those cats jealous, to begin with. They were Bimpiy lurlous!" "Do you mean to say that you went?" asked the Boy. Why, of course! He was a stran ger. "Yes that's just it." "But he isn't like other men! He is a Hindu priest. And he has beau tlful ideas. He said that when he looked in my eyes he could see my soui smiling at him In recognition He said we had known each other a inousana years ago." "Dear me!" aald the Boy. "His theories of life are verv bean tlful. The only thing that really mailers aro soul transitions. And look here!" She stretched one hand across the table with tho pink nalm were i upwaru. "Just look at that faint star un der the life line. That indicates tha me real romance of my life hann't yet unfolded. It is to sweep me away uae a mignty wave! ureal Scott!" said the Boy; does MalJl look like u fighting man r "He doesn't entertain any thoughts but those of love, harmony, and the soul. He thinks women are far, far above men. He taught me for the nrst time to appreciate how wonder ful we are. He found new lines In my paim every day." "Where did these seances occur? asked the Boy. un tne beach. We walked Hnwn there every morning and sat under my green umbrella. Those women ub at the Inn had Held glasses watch lug us all the time. We pretended to be Uirting Just to make them mad." "That waa very aoulful," aaid the Boy. "How did you tear youraelf away from all this enchantment?" "Ah, there is the marvelous thlug! All this time, while MaJJi waa ex plaining to me the beauty of the aoul and the romance you aee, he didn't know at first that I waa married at leaat he Imagined that I er was a widow." "Did he?" aaid the Boy. "do on!" "All the time I was thinking of you alone here in town. You aee, you were my romance, but he MaJJi didn't know! I questioned him to tell me more and more about the romance, but he aatd It would Just happen. He aald there were a great many thlnga ao rayaterloua that we juat felt them." "la MaJJi still a Daisyhurst?" asked the Boy, with terrible Iniene ity. "No. When I told him I was com ing Into town to see you he became disgusted with the place and every thing. He went on he said. He was always going on on on. It waa really beautiful to hear him. "But those women at the Inn had begun to gossip. They talked and talked and whispered whenever MaJ Ji even said good morning on the piazza. You know they have a very odd way of saying good morning?" "No I didn't know," aald the Box "They bow very low from the waist you know, very seriously and solemnly." "I aee," aald the Boy. "But when MaJJi left Daisyhurst 1 drove down In the bua to Bee him off and when I got back, would you believe It! those horrid old things sat around and pretended te be read ing or embroidering and didn't aee me! I swept past them and went to my room and cried. Then I packed a grip and took a. train for town. I left no word where I was going I Just thought I'd leave them in the dark." "Oh, you are a clever girl!" said tho Boy, smiling at Her Majesty. "Now, I think you'd better put on a gown and we'll go directly back there." "To Daisyhurst! Why?" "Never mind. There are some very mysterious things that you Jnst feel. I Just feel as though we had better go back to the Inn and alt on the beach under your green umbrella." "But why?" "There are eleven ways to kill cockroaches," remarked the Boy mys teriously. "But one will do," said Her Maj esty, thoughtfully. "Exactly!" said the Boy, smiling Into her mystical eyea. New York Times. A German Invention promises a new area In the production of lead pencils. In the new process of manu facture a "Oomposltlon made princi pally from the potato takes the place of the cedar In the pencil. "People everywhere are going blind because of the glare of white cement sidewalks." says Dr. Frank Foster, of Warsaw, I ml In a letter to the City Council. He attributes the Increased number of spectacles to this cause, and snggesta that dark colored material be nsed In the con struction of walks. The highest tree in the world, so far as has been ascertained, Is an Australian gum tree of the species of eucalyptus regnans. which stands in the Cape Otway range. It is no less than 415 feet high. Gum trees grow very fast. There Is one in Florida which shot up forty feet in four years, and another in Guatemala, which grew 120 feet In twelve years. This corresponds to a rise of ten feet In a year, or nearly one foot a month. News of Pennsylvania Prehistoric Remains in Mexico. For the last two weeks Mr. Leo pold Batres has been excavating one of the small artificial hills to the southeast of the Pyramid of the Sun. This is one of the tumuli that form the row of the Street of the Dead. Here have been discovered a number of rooms which are apparently a part of an ancient temple, with rooms and patios. Below these, stairways lead to a largo room some thlrty-flve feet In length. Apparently there are oth er rooms on this level connected with one another. These are the first subterranean houses that have so far been found In the valley, and they show that In this burled city the houses were two and three stories high. The upper stories had been destroyed by Are, but the lower remained untouched, and upon them there still remains the red paint which was the characteris tic color of Teotlhuacan. Among the interesting things found is the skeleton of a man sup posed to have been one of the an cient Toltec kings. Beside the hu man skeleton was that of a ttger, and both were painted red. In addition to these there were also found large quantities of sen shells, obsidian beads, jade and obsidian idols, knives. snakes and polished stone masks rep resenting heroes who lived three thousand years ago. Many spiral shells were also encountered which had holes drilled through them, show ing that they had been used as beads They were beautifully polished. Many copper, bronze, chichehulte and perite objects were also found among the others, showing that the dead man must have been of great importance in his day. Many of those were beautifully polished and of extraordinary size. Mexican Herald. October always begins on the same day of the week as January, April as July, September as December. Feb ruary, March and November begin on the same days. May. June and Au gust always begin on different days from each other and every other month in the year. The first and last days of the year are always the same. These rules do not apply to leap year. Experiments have shown that, as a general rule, Australian coals are not specially liable to spontaneous combustion, with the exception of those coals that are rich In Iron pyrites. If the pyrltous portion, com- i monly known as "brassy tops," le ex posed to the weather there is then a ! liability of spontaneous combustion, and it Is important for the working of the coal that these "brassy tops" be absolutely got rid of In the mine if air be admitted at all to the seam. The American Institute of Social Service has received from Berlin an exhibit containing forty-five speci mens of different kinds of dust mineral, animal and vegetable pro duced In various industries, and like ly to be Inhaled by workmen. AIbo the same number of photographs showing the microscopical character istics of these various dusts. Models In wax represent human lungs as they are affected by occupational dusts; other models show normal lungs for comparison, while still others show the effects of lndustri-' poisons on the system. FUR I'SEI) IN MAKING HATS. Misdirected Letters. More than 11,000,000 pieces of mail went astray In these United States last year because they were not directed even well enongh for the experts to decipher tfae names and addresses. Millions of this immense total went to the dead tetter office, where a lot of It was opened, the ad- dreases of the writers ascertained and the letters or packages returned. But in a good many cases the writer's ad dress is never found and the letter la really "dead" when neither the send er nor the prospective receiver can be discovered. Assistant Postmaster General De Gruw wants to get people Into the habit of writing tholr own addressee on the outside of envel opes. This he says, would save trou ble for all hands, as the letter, If de fective in address, could be returned at once to the writer. This simple precaution would save many a piece of mall from an early death and bur ial in the dead letter office. Kansas City Star. The Stinger Stung. It was at an Indiana hotel of some pretentiousness. A traveling man had had his order filled. With the meat and vegetables and other materlul was one tea biscuit. Looking with what he considered great roguishneas at the waitress, he said: "Bay, Bister, do you know that that one biscuit looks to me as If It were awfully lonesome in here all by It self? " "Very well," replied the girl, with out the twitch of a facial muacle, "I'll take It (back Into the kitchen with the othera, then." And to thla day that traveling man doean't know whether he fooled the dumbeat girl on earth or was out witted by the keenaat one. Chicago News. From the Coypu, a South American Rodent Thnt Itescmbles the Iteavcr. Along the river banks and In the lowlands of South America there Is found a medium sized rodent which I in many respects resembles our North American beaver. This animal is known as the coypu, and its fur Js spoken of in the fur and hat trades as nutria, aays Fur News. Its chief difference from the beaver Is in the tall, which more nearly resembles that of the otter. A fully grown coypu is about thirty-five Inches in length, including the tail, and the length of the body alone is from eighteen to twenty-two Inches. The fur of the coypu Is short and silky and much resembles beaver fur, while the overhalrs are stiff and of a yellowish brown in color, varying from one to three Inches In length. Nutria first came into use about the year 1810, being used as an imita tion of beaver in the making of hats. Later on, the best skins were brought into use by furriers, who worked it up In imitation of beaver, otter and seal, for which purposes it Is still used. The skins suitable for furriers' use are sold by the skin, while those which are good only for hatters' furs are sold by the pound. Present prices for skins suitable for furriers' use are sixty cents to $1.20 per skin, prices for skins for cutting (hatters' furs) thirty-six cents to forty-four cents per pound. It is said that about seventy-five per cent, of the to tal catch of this fur is used In the United States and about thirty per cent, of the catch is used in hat mak ing. The coypu Is hunted and trapped from May until October by Indiana and Gauchos, who catch large num bers of the animals. After skinning, the pelts are dried In the open air and in this condition are sold to lo oal dealers In the trapping districts. Collectors truvol through the country once a year and buy up these lots of skins, which they ship to Now York, London and Hamburg. Maps For Balooniata. According to The Aarophlle, It la proposed to supply maps specially prepared for the use of aeronaut, giving the position of the principal objects, such as the benda of rivers, factories, railway Junctions, etc, which can easily be distinguished from the car of a balloon. Similarly, all tbe great centres of light will be Indicated on the inapa tor use in night traveling. Pall Mall Gazette. Growth of Canada. Canada, like the wldow'a cruse of oil, seems to grow with the using. J One supposes there Is an ultimate frontier somewhere between wheat fields and eternal Ice, but where shall we find it? The old geographers fixed It at the international bound ary. Then it was supposed to be at . Winnipeg. For years Edmonton was the "Last House." and yet 400 miles north of Edmonton good wheat Is grown and milled. The fact Is that no attempt has yet bean made to fix the northern limit of the soil whlca invites agriculture and offers rich reward to the willing farmer. Na tional Magazine. SIX TOADSTOOL VICTIMS. Physician Is Dead And Three Others Rltfsrctetl To Die. Washington (Special) Dr. Phillip Dlnsiuore, aged 50, of Deep Valley, one of the lending physicians of Greene County, Is dead and his sis ter, Mrs. Jennie Evans, aged 40; his son, Thomas, aged 24, and Mrs Evans 7-year-old daughter, Opal, are dying from eating toadstools In mistake for mushrooms. The family partook of the poison ous growth at the evening meal and nt 3 o'clock In the morning Dr. Dlnsmorn was dead. Two other members of the family in addition to those named are violently 111. but will recover. Dr. Dlnsmore was Waynosburg College graduate and had a diploma from the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia. DEATH PICTURE FOR WIFE. Coal Minor's Singular Token For Widow In Austria. Washington (Special). A ghast ly scene was enacted at tho burial of Michael Bakczkl, an Austrian coal miner, whose body was Interred In the Independence Cemetery. Be kezkl's last request was that his death picture be sent to his wife In Austria. When tho funernl cortege reach ed the burial ground the body was rudely dragged from the coffin and placed In a sitting posture against the fence, while a photog rapher snnped the corpse surrounded by laughing friends. The body was then bundled Into the casket, lower ed Into a grave and the funeral concluded. (iltOl XI) TO DEATH. Machinery Started While Two Men Were Insidr Rock Grinder. Allentown (Special). While at work repairing Inside of one of the raw rock grinders at the Fogelsville plant of the Lehigh Portland Ce ment Company, George Reed, aged 30 years, of Berks County, and a foreigner named Mike iiollun, were caught by the starting of the ma chinery and ground to death. The men had evidently been for gotten when the mill was set In motion and their presence Inside was not discovered until the machinery failed to operate properly when their mangled remains were found by men who Investigated. SENT TO JAIL AS SCOLD. Concession From Street Rnilwny. Scranton (Special). Besides pay ing $6000 arrears In pole tax, the Scranton Street Railway Company has agreed to contribute annually $15,000 to the city exchequer. This action has been due to diplomatic relations which Mayor Dlmmlck has Instituted. Scranton gave awa- mil lions of dollats in franchise many a year ago and all It can now do is to accept gratefully any "conces sion" made by public utility corporations. Girl Tries To Join Nnvjr. Pittsburg (Special). Ella Doeh Ing, aged 20, so Iove3 her brother that she tried to enlist In the navy, at the local recruiting station, so that she might be with him. The girl, who is 20. balked only when taken in a private room to be examined physically. Then she broke down and confessed she was wearing a suit of her brother's clothes, left by him when ho enlisted six months ago. Ate Poison For Candy. Cony (Special). Mrs. M. Flaher ty, who resides one mile east of this city, was taken seriously ill, and Dr. Christie was called. He left some medicine In powder form which contained strychnine. A little 15-months-old child playing about the houso got hold of the medicine and ate all the powders, dying In terrible agony before medical assistance could be callod. Remedy Worse Than Disease. Pottsvllle ( Special Y. While boys were endeavoring to "smoke out" lice In a chicken pen at Palo Alto, the wind turned the smoke to fire, which assumed such proportions that the fire departments of both Palo Alto and Port Carbon were called out. The only serious damage sus tained was to Martin Collier, whose 10B3 is $1200. Chester Woman's Tongue Made Life Unbearable To Neighbors. Cheater (Special). For the first time In this city the old blue laws relating to a woman being a com mon scold were enforced, although the charges were moderated by Mag istrate John Steckman. who issued the warrant for Mrs. Delta Erner as a general nuisance. The com plaint was sworn to by police officer Meredith, who, when testifying, said thnt the woman was a general acold In the neighborhood where she re sided on Howell Street, and that the ducking stool should be used on her. Fourteen neighbors testified that Mrs Erner was a general nuisance and common scold and that nights she became Intoxicated and It was Impossible to sleep In a house with in a block of where she resided. Mrs. Erner was held In $.100 hall and not having the money was sent to Media jail to await trial at the September term of Court. A sad feature of the woman being jailed Is that she has four small children who are dependent upon her for a living. WOMAN FIGHTS OFF HOHHEH. Saves $1000 ny Vslng Baseball Rut Anil Sll tgun. Butler (Special) Mrs. Thomas Cooper, wife of Jefferson Town ship farmer, - $1000 from a burglar by a c . vuse. Mrs. Coop er was alone i:i tha house when a stranger knockel. She refused to allow him to enter and he pushed open the door. "Throw up your hands," he or dered, pointing a pistol at Mrs. Cooper. Instead, she grabbed a baseball bat, struck the Intruder, slammed the door shut and locked It. The man burst the door open and again attacked the woman. She fought until exhausted and then told the robber to go to an outer room for the money. She knew thit $1000 was secreted upstairs and meant to defend It. She secured a double-barreled shot gun from a closet and when the burglar saw It he fled. THREE GENERATIONS IN JAIL. Mude Insane Ry Remorse. Pottsvlllo (S p e c 1 a 1). Joseph. Fehr, one of three men held for the murder of Joseph Popper at McAdoo, has suffered such remorse during his Imprisonment that he has be come Insane, and his ravings In his cell has furnished District Attorney Reed his first clue to tbe Inside facts of tho murder. $50 For Heart Halm. Reading (Special). Miss Alice Moyer, who sued David W. Brunner, of this city, for $5000 damages for alleged breach of promise of mar rlage, was awarded $50 by arbitra tors who heard the case. Peary Ruys a Marine Rellr. Commander Robert B. Peary, U. 8. N., has purchased of her Damarle eotta owners the ancient pinkey achooner Mary, and will have her restored in an effort to perpetuate this vanishing style of craft. The 1 Mary U strongly built and In good . condition. She la the second oldeat xneicnuui vessel uuuer uia Aiiiericau flag, having beeu built at Portumputh In 1811. Commander Peary la much interested in these ancient crafts, and haa for some time been attempting to aocure one to preserve aa a type ex ample, aa the pinkey build will sous be extinct. Keuuabec Journal, Cool Strike Averted. Pittsburg (Special!. At a con ference of officors of District No. 6, L'nlted Mine Workers of America, and officers of the Pittsburg Coal Company, all grievances that threat ened to bring on a strike of 14,000 men were amicably adjusted, and danger of a strike averted. It Is understood the ".ompany, ac cepts the conditions or tee miners' organization which wll ofi'er 2000 men who have beeu on strike to re turn to work at once. Brukeiuan Loses Both Legs. Bethlehem (8pecial) In attempt ed to board hia train here after a bursted air hose had been fisted, Harry Stewart, of Mauch Chunk, a New Jersey Central brakemjui, stumbled and had his legs caught under the wheels, both of which were severed and which had to be amputated later. The rocotit hailstorms have In jured the huckelberry crop on '.he Pocouo and there Is a scarcity of the delicious fruit. Prices are high. Milton Detectives Break Up Gang Of Robbers. Milton (Special). With the ar rest of David Keys, an old Civil War veteran and a resident of this place for many years, of complicity in the robberies prepetrated here recently, three generations are now lodged in jail as members of this gang. Thoy are David Keys, who guard ed the plunder; Charles Keys, his son, who was arrested In Harris burg for floating much of the stolen goods down the river in stolen row boats and who seems to be the lead er of the gang, and Clarence Starks, the grandson, who Is one of the most desperate characters In town There are now eight of this no torious ring in coonty prison and many more arrests will follow as some of the thieves are very- young men and willing to Implicate the balance of the crowd. TAPS WIRE FOR AMBULANCE, Injured Lineman Brings Help In Singular .Manner. Norristown (Special). After fall ing from a pole and breaking a leg In two places. Frank Harvey, a line man in the employ of the Bell Tele phone Company, crawled on his hands and knees a considerable dis tance, tapped a wire and summoned the nmbnlance. Harvey was taken to Charity Hos pital In a serious condition. He was working on top of a pole In Ply mouth Township when It snapped off near the base. Imitates Carrie Nation. Sclinsgrove (Special). Mrs. Re becca Melser Cross, because her hus band was drunk. Imitated Carrie Na tion. She smashed the mirrors and bottles in the Mclservflle. Snyder County, Hotel and ended up by hurling an Iron cuapldor at the 280-pound landlord, putting him to rout. Scolded, She Took Her Life. Shenandoah (Special). Because she was scolded for going to a dunce. Miss Mary Bolavage, a pretty Polish girl, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. William Woodnutt. of Philadel phia, a guest at the Assembly Inn at Pocono PtneB, was painfully In jured at the Miller Ice plant by one of the Ice chutes falling across his breast. The Board of Directors of the Mif flin County National Bunk have elected William P. Woods, formerly assistant, as cashier, to succeed Wil liam Irvin, deceased G. Newton Spyker, son of the late county treasurer, Alfred W. Spyker. has been appointed by the Hunting ton County Commissioners to com plete his father's term, which will expire the first Monday of January. 1909. John Mertlno, of Scranton, aged 6, lost most of his fingers and has polled the symmetry of his face because of undue curiosity with re gard o a railroad torpedo which he found along the Delaware and Hnd son tracks. Laying It on tbe rail, he pounded it with a stone, with the usual results. Mra. John McCarthy, aged 7S years, tripped on an upturned piece of carpet and was thrown headlong down the stairs of her Water Gap houae. She lived only a ahort time after the fall. Prof. F. H Ottman haa realgned as a member of the facul.y of the Reading Boys' High School. I Falling Into a tub of acaldlug Mater left on the floor by the mother, 2-year-old Michael Hakella. of Mahanoy City, was burned ao badly that death is expected. Mrs. Amos Warner, of Chanceford Township, York County, white rld lug in a binder rutting wheat, was thrown off and dragged for some distance, when the machine struck g stoue She died from the effects if her lujurlea ADOPTER HY CHINAMAN. White Hoy Heroines Hon Of A Mon golian With Parents' Consent. Pottsvllle (Special). Recorder Charles Folmer filed at the court house here a deed of adoption by which Charles Sing, a Chinaman. and proprietor of a laundry on Coal Street, Shenandoah, adopts a whlta boy of Philadelphia parentage. ine boy s name la Charles Hunt. and his mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, Mrs. D. E. White. Anna White Hunt and Anna Elizabeth Hunt, are parties to tha agreement. They agree that tha boy's name ahall become Roy 3oo Sing, that Charlie Sing shall be hia father, and In return the boy be comes the legal heir of the China man. The latter is American In all his habits. I AI L AFFECTED MEMORY. Man's Mind A Blank Concerning Incidents Of A Day. Nazareth (Special). Elmer Sou- erwlne. connected with a clothing house here, sustained a fall which has deprived htm of all memory of the incidents of the day. He visited Philadelphia on busi ness and returned to transact busi ness near Deladole. While walking a railroad track with a friend ha fell Into a coal chute, dropping siz feet and landing on his hands and knees. He cannot recall any Incident connected with his trip nor with the fall. He Is rational, recognizes an about him and talks of every thing except the ovents of tho one day. MILL OWNER LOSES HIS ARM. Preparing To Open Establishment He Meets With Accident. Moadville (Special). C. L. Conn, of Emlenton, who a month ago bought the Cussewgo flouring mill here with a view to operating It and, also erecting a woolen mill, la in Spencer Hospital with his right arm cut above the wrlBt. While getting the flouring mill in shape to resume, his hand waa caught and drawn between a pair of heavy rolls and so badly crushed that It had to be amputated. $50,000 For Wife's Love. Wilkes Barre (Special). Claim ing the remuneration for the loss of his wife's love should be $50,000,' William D. HopkinB, of West Nantl coke, commenced Euit against Wil bur D. Redman for that amount. He claims that Redman fascinated Mrs. Hopkins, caused her to lose her love for her husband and then In duced her to run away with him. The pair were captured last week jy the troopers of the State Con stabulary after a ride of twenty-five miles at Grand Tunnell Norristown Needs Money. Norristown (Special). For the extension of sewers and construction of permanent paving, as well as im proving the town's newly acquired park aud paying the municipal float ing debt, town council passed an ordinance providing for an increase of $250,000 indebtednesa. The question will be submitted to the people at the general election already bonded to the extent of $600,000. Spark From Pipe ignited Collar. Mahanoy City (Special). Raising burning match to his pipe on the mountain, Joseph Shallac ignited his rubber collar. In a moment a seething flame encircled his neck, burning him very seriously before . companion succeeded in tearing off both shirt and collar. No Money For Entertaining. Pittsburg (Special) Mayor George W. Guthrie announced that be will veto the resolution appropriating $2500 for the entertainment of tha national convention of Firemen in October. "I cannot approve that esolutlon," the Mayor said. "It is I legal to take money for such a .nirpose and besides we haven't the funds to spare." Trui Foiemiin Killed. Downlngtown (Special). Robert Paul, a Pennsylvania track foreman, vas Instantly killed not far from hia home at Whttford. four miles east this place. He was waUIng on 'he tracks towards where the repair ?ang was to go to work when ha was struck by a fast train and ln itantly killed. Reaten By Highwaymen. Shenandoah (Special). George Anercarro was held up on tho out skirts of town by two highwaymen. Anercarro resisted the men when they beat him, stabbed blm In tbe back, causing a serious ir not fatal wound, robbed htm of $50 and a watch valued at $75 and left him on the roadside where pedestrians (ound him. Austria's fishing Industry suffers from the handicap that the fisher men are nearly all In the clutches of usurers. They are compelled to bor row money when the catch Is poor ind they are never able to get out of debt again. Thirty-five years ago the consump tion of Portland cement was 3,000 barrels per year, and now it baa reached 4,000,000. It is said that last year's output would be sufficient to construct a aldewalk 16 feet wide encircling the globe. A complete set, of tbe signatures of the aingners.'of the Declaration of Independence recently sold in New York for $2,H50. A Portsmouth (N. If.) man has i near complete tet and which Includes tWt of Hut ton Gwinnett, which ia very rare. A mouument is about to be erect ed to the memory of Frederick Au gusts Bartholdl, the sculptor who de signed and executed the atatue ot Liberty. Thla memorial will be plac id In the public square of Colmar, Alsace, the birthplace ot K. ajf holdi, who died in
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