For February festivities that takj place on or near the fourteenth of the month, there are this year a hoat of charming novelties. The old-fashioned valentines are, of course, out of date for everybody but children, yet the sentiment of the day still lingers In the hearts and darts and paste board Cupids used on the new candy boxes. What, for Instance, could bo a prettier remembrance for any young man to give his "best girl," or even a young woman for whom he had no particular regard but to whose family Ike was Indebted for Invitations to dinner or tea, dances or other func tions of the season, than one of these candy-boxes? Two different styles aro shown on this page one covered with bright-red paper and decorated with a big bow of red ribbon, having In the centre Cupid himself, with his bow and arrows; the other simpler, but Just as effective, covered with white crepe paper and decorated with a gilt arrow pierced through two hearts. If these boxes are wanted for souvenirs at luncheons or parties they can easily be made at home by a clever girl, for tho crepe papor Is very simple to manipulate. The heart shaped pasteboard boxes can be bought ready-made at mosl stationery stores, and the hearts and arrows cut out of red and gold paper respec tively, declares McCall's Magazine. Even easier to make is the little round box shown at the top of the left-hand corner of this group. Any of paste, and a twist of baby ribbon. The white Ice cream baskot Is mad In exactly the same way, with th substitution of white paper for red and a littlo pasteboard Cupid stuck on the handle In place of the heart and arrow. The favors for a valen tine dance, children's party or cotil lion are simply fancy paper hearts fastened on slonder sticks, wound with paper and decorated with ribbon streamers. The candle shade makes a nioBt effective table decoration. It ia of white paper, decorated with red hearts and gold arrows, and tho top and bottom of the shade are fin ished with twists of the paper touched up with gold paint. St. Valentlne'B Day was originally the day dedloated to the Incoming of spring. The Romans kept it In honor of Pan and Juno, and the festival, which lasted several days, was callod "Lupercalla." The early Christian church, desiring to effect a change in this much-abused feast, very adroitly reconstituted the old practice of the lottery of lovers' names. In place of the names of real youths and maid ens, whose appellations, written on slips of paper, were drawn by the young people of the time, the church substituted the names of the saints. The Idea had its own beauty, and the notion of dedication was thus pre served In a more spiritual sense than In the old Roman festival. This feast, and not the existence of the real St. Valentine. Is the origin of the gallant Japanese Women To-day. We do not deny that In the days of old Japan women were taught and trained to hold and did occupy a po sition Inferior to that of man, al though as mothers they were regard ed with the highest respect and devo tion. But those days are gone, and to-day our daughters are given full freedom to live and act with perfect equality as their sisters of the West, while our mothers retain their old position of honor and esteem. To k!o (Japan) Times. Nffj The Fear of Age. Why do so many women regard age with such affright? Viewed from the vantage ground of youth, It seems to them that the end of youth means the end of love, and to many women tho end of love is even more appalling than the end of life. They forjet that the love which depends only on youth and beautv is a hicrIv to take to Itself wings in the heyday of life as later. Nothing Is potent enougn to hold an emotion as vans cent and unstable as thistledown. Tho Gentlewoman. CAM BY-BOX WMlTtatPt CMt - VKonATtn with HEARTS li :eR-coTiu.f6ft. B T, I L flS b cANbrtJox with-. 00V AMOnaow (I ict-cixt-An CMAmjOTTt-Russt box V -A, "V IUD MrART CANDY- BOX W1H rwiATon,t cwio A MfcAlftT CANDLt-SMACt; round pasteooard box can be used as a foundation for this. It Is covered with white crepe paper and a big red heart pasted In the centre. It adds to the appearance if the ectges of the box are touched up with a line of gold paint, as shown In our Illustration. For serving refreshments at a val entine party there Is nothing more effective than heart and arrow Ice cream or charlotte russe boxes, and the best thing about them Is that they can be so eaBlly and quickly made. Buy some rather thin bright-red pasteboard at a stationery store, and also a sheet of white pasteboard. Then get some of the ordinary pleated paper cases that are used for char lotte rusae, blBqult glace, etc. An arrow Is cut out of the white paste board, painted gold or covered with gilt paper and pasted across the large heart that has just been cut from tho red pasteboard. A circle Is then cut out of the heart, through arrow and all, the ice cream box inserted in the opening and held in place with a little paste. The paper baskets can be even more quickly made, the foundation being the same sort of pleated paper caso. In making the red paper basket, this Is given a handle formed of wire, with red crepe paper twisted around It and a heart and arrow pasted at the top. The paper itself Is simply covered with a frill of red paper, held In place by Just a touch observances of the day; for It wou.d be very hard to say which of the three early Christian bishops so named the 14th of February Is Intended to commemorate. Sarah Rcrnhardt's Book. Sarah Bernhardt says some pleas ant things about the Boston woman lh her "Memories of Mv Life." She was struck by the "harmony and Boft- nesH or tnelr gestures." and the Bos tonlan race seemed to her "the most refined and mysterious of all Amer ican races. The women adore music, the theatre, literature, painting and poetry," she writes. "Thev know everything and understand every- tning, are chaste and reserved and neither laugh nor talk very loudly." New York Tribune. The Inferior Female Mind. The Christmas honor list nt don University Is a rather curious one. At tlrst sight one would almost think that the unlversltv male Institution. In the first class nonor list In classics the names of two women standalone, in the second class five out of seven names are feminine, and in the third class seven out of nine are of the same gender. Even more remarkable, in view of an cient assertions about the Incapacity of the female intellect tor severe stu dies, is the mathematical honor class. Here one woman stands alone in thn first class. In the second class there are no names, and in the third only one man. Somewhat similar Is the record In the examination for the de gree of Bachelor of Science first class, one woman and one man; sec ond class, one woman. New York Tribune. Some St. Valentine "Don'ts." Remember that you want to enjoy the St. Valentine party as well as your guests; therefore observe these rules: Don't fret and worry every hour of the preceding day until you are ner vous and sensitive to everything that goeB wrong. Don't rush your frames too close on each other's heels. Young people like to talk. Don't seem to bo making an effort to entertain them at every moment. Suggest the gumes when the talking grows a little less spirited. That Little Valentine Boy. His other name is Cupid. That Is what the old Romans called him. He had still another name given him by the early Greeks, EroB. But what ever he may be called, he Is the same Jolly little sprite that you paint, draw or paste on your valentines as tho love fairy. He looks very harmless with his chubby-baby cheeks and his loving eyes. But look at him closely ana you will find In those eyes sparks of mischief glinting through the love, like points of mica In a quartz rock. In a Railway Station. It was easy In the lax time of waiting at the Grand Central Station for the leisurely coming of a way train to enter into conversation with a cordial neighbor, a middle aged, shrewd, yet refined faced, woman, who ventured a remark about being glad her day's shopping was over; she was evidently from the far-away suburbs. "Don't you like to watch people?" she questioned, wtth delighted un expectedness. "I do. And I always make up my mind what they are. That man Who has just come In Is a minister; he doesn't dress especially like it, hasn't one of those collars on wrong side, either; but I know ho Is a minister by his face and the cut of his side whiskers. Do you see those two women? I am sure they are club women, they look so earnest. There Is a married couple opposite us whom I have been noticing. She has the say of things. Can't you always tell when you see a man and his wife together which one rules? Oh, here's my train! Goodby!" New York Tribune. MAKING VALENTINES. "Tying Love-Knots." A picturesque Bt. Valentine con test, which will not cost the hostess but a few dimes, is to provldo each girl with a length of colored satin ribbon, suggests The Dollneatlor. This Is the only apparatus needed for the game of "Tying Love-KuotB." Bach man Is to be the timekeeper for each girl and he must talk to her all the time she is tying an artistic love-knot out of the ribbon. He keeps his watch In hand, and tries to divert her attention and make her answer his questions. Three minutes Is the time limit, and if she succeeds In making tho knot, he must wear It through the evening, pinned to his cravat. If she falls she must keep at It until she succeeds. A Vindictive Glee. "I hopo I shall get a few cointo val eutiaes," said Miss Cayenne. "You hope to get some comio val entines?" "Yes. Every one you get is a sure sign that you have made some enemy teal perfectly wretched." A Dream of Beauty. A valentine dining room 1b a dream of beauty with the walls hung with green vines and pink hearts. In the centre of the table have a heart of white snowdrops with pink ribbons running to each plate, which is also marked by a pink heart nanio card or namented with a bunch of snowdrops for the ladles and a pink cat nut Ion for the gentlemen. Serve oysters or chicken in heart shaped pastry shells, tomato or "love apple" salad, ices or cream in heart shaped forms and cakes lu the same shape iced In pink. An Excuse For Coquetry. Feminine coquetry has one capital excuse its cause is entirely mascu line. For the craving of women for elegance, luxury In dress and their extravagance In Jewelry and other or namentation are merely an outcome of their desire to please man, to at tract his attention and conquer him. As Slg. Cadalso discovered not long ago, the instinct is irresistible even among women in prison, writes Pro fessor Lombroso, in the Chicago Tri bune. Complete Isolation from the outer world, the fact that they can never be seen by men, is not sufficient to stifle in them the desire of being beautiful and elegant. Prison rules In Italy are most strict, especially so far as the dress of the prisoners Is concerned. Powder, scent, cosmetics and all other handmaids of vanity are forbidden, but coquetry is strong er than rules. Several prisoners fo id the means of powdering their faces. They pa tiently licked the walls of their calU. masticated the whitewash and thus obtained a kind of white paste, with which they proudlycoated their faces. One woman was found with her cheeks covered with rouge like a bal let girl. No one could realise how she had managed it. Her cell was thoroughly but vainly searched. Eventually the mystery was solved. In the nightgowns used by the prison ers there are a few red threads. Thto .woman had patiently pulled out these threads one by one, had soaked them in water, and in this original way had made some rouge tor her private use. Paolo Lombroso. of every dye; contemplato, too. the changes that are rung on the defini tion "brunette" and "blonde." Be sides, if there is one point upon which women are usually good Judges for themselves It Is color. While, however, roughly speaking, white is for everybody, mauve for the very fair, blue for the brunette and red for the blonde, I would add that, age should be circumspect In a de cision as to color schemes. With white, black, gray and purple at her command, why should the woman of sixty Insist upon pink, which Is cer tain to make her appear years and years older than she really is? It Is Just the same with Jewelry. When my daughter was about to be married I took from the bank a sum of money that her grandfather, the founder of our house, had loft by will to be expended upon a wedding present for her. Tho amount was sufficient to purchase n necklace of diamonds. But I did not wish such a possession for my daughter. Instead of presenting to her In her grand father's name an ornament composed of stones of which not one would be really uncommon, I bought Just a single stone a solitary blue dia mond, flawless, superbly cut; In point of fact, perfection. Few people may notice that diamond when my daugh ter wears It, but she owns a gem that Is Immaculate, and that Is enough foi me and for her. Worth, In Harper'f Bazar. t ROOSEVELT ON . : WOLF-HUNTING . It MMlHHij.l Mr. Roosevelt's recent attack on eome of those who write of wild animals makes his own descriptions. In his book called "Good Hunting" (recently published by the Harpers, the descriptions hnvlng been written for one of the Harper periodicals be fore Mr. Roosevelt was President), of high Interest. Here, for example, is something In regard to the timber wolf: "Wolves are very shy, and show extraordinary cunning both in hid ing themselves and In slinking out of the way of the hunter. They are rarely killed with the rifle. I haye never shot but one myself. They are occasionally trapped, but after a very few have been procured In this way the survivors become so wary that it is almost Impossible even for a master of the art to do much with them, while an ordinary man can never get one Into a trap ex cept by accident. "More can be done with poison, but even In this case the animal speedily learns caution by experi ence. When poison is first nsed In a district, wolves are very easily killed, and perhaps almost all of them will bo slain, but nowaduys It Is difficult to catch any but young ones In this way. "The most successful wolf-hunter on the Little Missouri In 1890 was a man who did not rely on poison at J NEWS OF PENNSYLVANIA 9 ITItE MEAT IMPROVES HEALTH Pittsburg (Special). The most in teresting subject discussed at tho closing' day's session of the Pennsyl vania Live Stock Association was the Pennsylvania meat inspection law, in which the results of the law were ex plained by Dr. Leonard Pearson, State Veterinarian. "The State meat inspection law passed by the Legislature provides only ten Inspectors," said Dr. Pear son. "Much good has been accom plished, but it is impossible for ten men to cover Pennsylvania and make frequent visits or properly Inspect the hundreds of local slaughter houses. Some of these plants sre maintained In a most disreputable way. Federal. State and city Inspec tion has resulted In wonderful Im provement, but more State and city Inspectors will be necessary to Insure Inspection that will safeguard the public at all times agaltist the dis eases transmitted by Impure meats." Dr. Pearson pointed to the usual ly healthy condition of the Jews as evidence of what can be accomplish ed by properly safeguarding the meet supply. After reviewing the efforts of the JewB to secure pure food since the time of Moses, ho said that statis tics show that In the crowded Oretto of New York and other districts of NO THANKS FOR $2000. Bcranton (Special). A grateful and unknown man rushed up to David Jenkins, sexton of the Taber nacle Church of West Scranton, and claimed a wallet which the sexton had found on the sidewalk. "I'm glad to get that," ejaculated the owner, "and I am fortunate In having found It. There Is $2000 In that pocket-book." Then he hurried away without even saying "Thank you." Jenkins had examined the wallet and round that It waa stuffed with bonds and currency. KINDLED rail with ooo. A Happy Mnrrlagc. A few marriages are happy. Thlt cheerful fact Is gleefully recorded here, In the hope that it may mak a bright spot in all the doleful record of divorces and desertions of which every newspaper Is full. A man, I woman and a small girl seen on th train this morning, are proof of th statement. The small girl had the man's nos and the woman's eyes. The woman was gay and pretty, with fluffy gold hair and beautiful furs, and a round, white chin with a dimple a Arm chin, though. And when she talked the little girl looked at her in open admiration, and the man who wa dark and smooth-shaven, with slight ly gray hair, and a fine, clear-cut boyish face and wrinkles around his eyes, as If he laughed a lot listened as If all her words were golden. And when he talked, she listened the sam ay. And they laughed together exactly like a happy boy and girl, who ad mired each other more than anybody else In the world. And tho HttU maiden, who was about ten years old, and rosy and happy, sat and looked at them as if she, also, thought them the most extraordinary people. The woman was lovely, and cppnble and sensible, and happy. Any on could see that at a flash. And th man was perhaps not quite so reso lute a person, but fine and gentle and appreciative, and very much in lov with his wife, and just as happy. That was plain. And it was such a tremendous re lief to look up from the aforesaid record of divorces and desertions in tho morning paper and behold this Jolly contradiction to the lie that all marriages are failures, that one, had all one could do to keep from step ping across the aisle and asking for the recipe, for the benefit of aU the poor wretches who bungle and lose at the game these two wore playing with such evident Joy. Philadelphia Bulletin. dense population the Jews are afflict all, but on dogs. He was a hunter ! pd ,0BS tnan any other clusti of peo named Masslngale. and he always had p,e- Ho 9ald thftt tuberculosis a pack of at least twenty hounds RnionK the Jews Is only one-third or Tho number varied, for a wolf at bay onf ,f'""'th what 11 ls among their I. frrihi a.. , ! neighbors. - - - - --n. '-.' , " .in jnna unr those of a steel trap and teeth thai cut like knives, so that the dogs were continually disabled and sometimes killer1, and the hunter had always to be on the watch to add animals to his pack. "The only two necessary requi sites were that the dogs should run fast and fight gamely; and In conse quence they formed as wicked, hard biting a crew as ever ran down and throttled a wolf. They were usu ally taken out ten at a time, and by their aid Masslngale killed two hun dred wolves In the course of the year. "Of course there was no pretence of giving the game fair play. The wolves were killed as vermin, not for sport. The greatest havoc was in the springtime, when the she-wolves were followed to their dens, which were sometimes holes In tho earth and sometimes natural caves. There were from three to nine whelps In each litter." CHICKEN THIEF SHOT. WORDS OF WISDOM. Gaining In Favor. A souvenir of St. Valentine's Day which Is gaining In favor is the box of assorted sweets. These bou-bon ! boxes are heart shaped, sometimes j Jeweled, of gold or sliver, though l latterly band painted ones ride the ; top wave of popular favor, the price being in proportion. An ostrich may be striuned of Its plumage every eight months. Exploded Theories of Colors. I will not Insult the Intelligence of my audience by insisting upon the now exploded theory that there are certain colors exclusively dedicated to the brunette and others the soe possession of the blonde. When crude dyes only were obtainable, It was perhaps necessary to say to the dark woman, "For you there must exist only yellow and pale blue," and to the bloude, "You must look upon no other color save green and light red." But now contemplate tho nuances Wide collars of lace are inset with camoos. The colored slips are beinit brought Into favor again. The WOOd colors arn esnnrlnliv soft and rich la .the new foulards with their satin surfaces. Combination effects continue mod ish In laces and the use of soutache Introduces a touch of novelty. Fine floral patterns are character istic of the new embroideries which are commencing to appear. Fringes and tassels. lonir nun fnv. ored amopg fashionable women, are coming to their own again. The hyacinth Droves to havo heen the flower selected most often this season by the debutante for her bou quet. Of all the gowns that urn hnlnv made tor wear anions the hlrria ami flowers there are none prettier than the batistes. There are many silky jacquard ef fects among the new fabrics, some times in self color and again In a con trasting shade. The latest fad in boning a collar Is to place a single bone at "the centre of the back Instead of on either side, rounding the collar from the front to this high point at the back. Delft blue is one of the colors that develops well upon the heavy white linen foundation of the turnover col lars; simple dots of two sites with scalloped edge form a favorite de sign. The brush is brought into use even In the decoration of the evenlnir coif. fure, the bits of lace foliage, that muko up many orettv head IrimHmi I showing touches of color in keeping wun tne gown. A plain duty, like a plain girl, has few wooers. A little push Is often more lasting than a strong pull. The best way to get a girl to marry you is to try not to. The fellow who has too much to say always succeeds in saying It. It is perhaps better to crack a smile than to burst into laughter. We can't all be Btars. but that is no reason why we should be clouds. Lend a man money and he will be grateful enough to return for more. The Sunday dinner demonstrates that the better the day the better the feed. A woman Is a paradox. It Is when she Is fair that she takes the men by etorm. The only way you could find tho brains of some people would bo with a club. Opportunities generally grow where it la most dangerous to look for them. We only know there Is plenty of room at the top from those who have been there and fallen off. We can always think of a lot of reasons why other people ought to be satisfied with what they have. When a fellow tells a girl he Is not worthy other she should take him at his word and not look for proof. The people who come early to avoid the rush generally find that every one else has done the same thing. When a man admits that he has made a fool of himself he can't un derstand why the rest of the world doesn't share his astonishment. "It may be better to have loved and lost than never to havo loved at all," says a married friend of I mine, "but both have their advan tages." From Musings of a Cynic, in the New York Times. Shenandoah (Special). Exhaust ed after a long chase, Isaac Bevan, of this borough, was riddled with bullets from two revolvors which his pursuer. Anthony Slnklewlcz, emp tied Into his body as he lay help less In a snowdrift. All twelve shots took effect, one passing through the neart. causing almost Instant death. Sluklewlcz had for some time been annoyed by chicken thieves and fix ed up a burglar alarm. He was awakened by this alarm, and he and a boarder nt his home armed them selves and gave chase to the thief by moans of tracks in the newly fallen snow. The chase led for more than a mile, when Bevan dropped over rrom exhaustion. Soven chick ens were round In a bag which he carried. He wob unarmed. Slnkle wlcz gave himself up to the authorl tios and has been charged with de liberate murder. Two Shenandoah murderers ore now under sentence of death at the county prlBon In Pottsvillo Charles Warzol, who will bo haneed March 12 for killing a 16-year-old girl be cauBo she refused to marry him, and Felix Hadzlus, for tho murder of tils boarding mistress and her 4 year-old son, who had their tin-oath gashed from ear to ear. Hazleton (Special). Leon Rep. kavitch, a hotel keeper at West Ha zelton, never believed in banks and, when several days ago he collected a debt of $600, he secreted the mon ey In the parlor stove. Vt ben his wife returned from church with several friends she kin dled a fire and the $600 went up in smoke. When Repkavltch saw the fire ho fell over unconscious and It was sev eral hours before ho was revived TOOK POISON FOR MEDICINE. Scranton (Special). Mrs. Barney Mitchell, a bride of a few months, la lying In a serious condition as the result of drinking creollno by mis take for a remedy for throat trouble. She had forgotten that the bottle had been removed from Its custom ary place and taking up the creollne poured tho fiery fluid down her throat. Her face was frightfully burned and the Internal injuries are if such a nature that her recovery Is doubtful. ROBBED BY FRIEND. Pittsburg (Special). George El liott, formerly purchasing agent for the Republic Iron & Steel Company, and a man of prominence In corpora tion circles, was heW for court by iiiagisiraie it. mi; j. Brady on a charge of larceny, made by W. C. Brown, of 7522 Bennett Street. At tho hearing Brown testified that Mr. and Mrs. Elliott visited his home, and while there Elliott stole three diamond rings valued at $500, the property of his wife. These rings Elliott pawned, it is said. In the meantime Brown never suspect ed his friend E1UU, but had his own servants put unler surveillance. No trace of the missing jewelry was secured until tho pawnsheets chroni cled a ring with the Initials "W. C. B." The pawnbroker furnished a description of the man who made the pledge and it fitted Elliott, who wbb arrested. Leg Broken; Goes To Church. Wuynesburg (Special). Rather than break a record of continuous attendance at church services, Rov. j F. A. Bright, pastor of the First Christian Church, was hauled to tho church in an automobile despite the fact that he was suffering from a I broken leg sustained earlier In tho i evening. Mr. Bright was on his way to church when he slipped on the , icy street and fell. ' Mr. Bright has been in the mlnis I try twenty years nnd has never mlss ' ed a service. He waa taken home and after the broken bone was set Insisted on being takeu to the church. His physician reluctantly yielded. Hoarded Money. ' In the side of an old well where It had lain undisturbed for 2200 I years an earthenware Jar containing 1 600 pieces of the time of Alexander i the Great has been .found. Ope hun dred of these were specimens of the silver tetradrachm of Alexander the Great, a coin corresponding in weight to our half dollar. The pieces are i very thick and are made of silver of great purity. The obverse bears I the head of Hercules In a lion's skin; the reverse shows Zeus seated in a chair. All bear the name of Alex ander In Greek. Monograms and mint marks of great Interest were found on many pieces of this lot, and some of the pieces bore the Greek word for the mint marks, designat ing the towns or cities where they were struck. The coins are all In very hlgb relief, so that only two or three could be stacked together with out their tumbling over. The find was made at Luxor. Scientific American. Sophomores (jo To Jail. Sellnsgrove (Special). Three mem bers of the Sophomore class of Sus quehanna University were arrested here by Pennsylvania Hallrond Detec tive Hi it tun for causing a disturbance at the Pennsylvania Station, when the freshmen were taking a train to attend their banquet. The scrappy Sophomores were taken to the county jail at Middle burg. President Charles T. Aiken hurried to the county seat and secur ed the students' release, furnishing ball for their appearance at next term of court. Insane From Jilting. Scranton (Special). Mary Korche. who waB Jilted a few months ago on the eve of her wedding day, is try ing to starve herself to death in police headquarters. Wandering aimlessly about the streets she was found In the bitter cold and Investigation has proved that the failure of her fiance to ap pear at the altar unbalanced her mind. Cut For Refusing To Shave. NorrUtown ( Special ) . Because he refused to shave a man who was under the influence of liquor, John Oliver, proprietor of a barter shop on Cherry Streot, was slashed sev eral times with a razor across the arms and chest and badly injured. The man then left the shop and has not yet been captured. Oliver was too weak from loss of blood to give chase. His condition is serious. Woman Attacked In Her Home. Johnstown ( Special ) . According to the story told by the victim, a masked man attackod Mrs. F. W. Stolle on the back porch of her home, choking her until she fainted, throw her upon a couch In the kit chen, and ransacked the dining-room, Becuring $30 in cash. Perished In Sight Of Home. Mahanoy City (Special). During a raging blizzard In this region dur ing the night, Patrick McDonald, of Pappabandck, lost bis way In tho storm and dropped unconscious with in sight of his own homo at day break and died from cold and exposure. STATE ITEMS. VEIN OF IRON ORE FOUND. Same True of Spelling. When I was In England, before the "enteto cordlale," I discussed the metric system with an Eturhshman The English system of weight and measures, he admitted, was complex, but he said It was precisely bec.m.,. of Its innumerable difficulties that It constituted a marvelous lnst minuet for making supple the young brains which filled the English schools. Journal of Paris. Spoiled a Good Thing! It was so cold on Chestnut street that the two Arctic explorers felt at home. "By, the way," said Pearman, "don't you think Columbus rather overestimated?" "Why la. be overestimated?" Welly asked. "He discovered America the first time he went to look for it." Phila delphia Bulletin. Asbestos shingles, made of asbes tos fibre and cement, absorb about 111 per cent, of tbelr weight In water. Plttston (Special). Drillers bor ing for coal on the mountains west of here accidentally struck a ten Inch vein of Iron ore. The find has greeted great excitement among the farmers, and farms that were tor sale have been withdrawn from the market. The driller believe there Is suf ficient Iron ore to make the valley as great an Iron producer a It is an anthracite producer. Dropped l lend Bwueplng Snow. Norrlstown (ft p e c I al). While sweeping the snow from the side walk In trout of her residence, Mrs. Mary Devlin, 66 years old residing at 16 East Washington Btreet, dropped dead. Coroner King deci ded that death was due to valvular disease of the heart. Student Skater Drowned. Collegeville (Special) . With three of hi schoolmate almost with in arm's reach, Rafael Sabortdo, of Havana. Cuba, a student at Urslnus Academy, drowned wblle skating on ill Perklomen. The Hnmburg Silk Company hns been awarded a contract by the Unit ed states Government to furnish 60,000 bluck Bilk mufflers, for use in various departments of the navy aud army. Just as a Mahanoy Plane teamster was driving over the public road on the mountain abovo Gilberton, the earth collapsed. He was obliged to whip up his team to escape being swallowed up in an immense breach which carried the road into the work ings of Gilberton colliery. Mrs. Kathrlna Beckman, 98 years old, of Sbamokln, was burned to death. Her dress was Ignited by a stove while she was alone In tho bouse. John Ressler was found almost frozen to death near Sn'ydertown with the thermometer below zero. Ho had been flung from a sleigh by his horse running away nnd lay sev eral hours on the road with a num ber of ribs fractured. Mat bias Yergy, aged 61, a Penn sylvania Railroad foreman at Al toona, dropped dead at his work while talking about the snowstorm. Neighbors prevented a fire in nn Altoona coal house from soreadlna to the dwelling where Henry Flcke lay critically 111 by shoveling snow on the Humes, until the firemen ar rived. Members of Conyugham Post, O. A. K . of Wilkeabarre, celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the forma tion of the post. State Commander William T. Powell, Assistant Adju tant General Charles A. Snyder and Senior Department Commander Ma jor O. A. Parsons were the guest of honor. When Conductor Lewis A. Morn ingstar, of Huntingdon, stepped from his train after being thirty hour ou duty he was attackod by a slight stroke of paralysis and felj across the track. Eight or ten mine In the Pitts burg district are closed and more than 1000 miners are Idle because the coal operator insist upon using a now kind of powder recommended by the State mine Inspector, be cause it is less dangeroua. The new powder 1 more expensive aud the inin. -is are demanding a concession in the wage scale. Emanuel B. Seedenburg, for three year chief of police of Altoona, and an BXcounctrtnau, dtod of cancer of the etomacb, aged fifty-three. He was engaged in the contracting bus iness, and leaves a wife and family. Making a misstep while going up. stairs Frank Davis, of Altoona, dropped a lighted lamp, whloh ex ploded, and sat fire to hta clotblog. His wife and two children and a boarder were painfully burned sav ing hi life bud the houaa. Franco is responsible for ths game of blllards. Devlgne Invented It In 167i.
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