AT HOME.
When a tnnn't tired
In lioilv nd mind,
Ilmne's the only place
Hint he'i nnxioim to find,
It mnv lie a palace,
A cuttim or hut,
It makes little difference
When lio'n tiled, but
It' home.
There nre numerous clubs
And pleasure resorts
That provide entertainment,
Refreshments anil sports;
There nre houses of worship,
With music and prayer,
But when a man's tired
lie scks refuge from car
At home.
At home he is greeted
By nffection's caress;
Ho doffs all pretensions
(If manners or of dress;
He tosses the baby
And torments the dog,
He goes to beil enrlv,
And sleeps like a tog
At home.
The home is the heart
Of our comfort and cheer,
Made so by the presence
Of those we hold dear;
By the thought that we're shut in
From all that annoys,
And nothing can enter
To disturb our joys
At home.
Christian Advocate.
Suet 3Lthe Jfatber
All the afternoon the wind had
been marshaling the storm clouds.
With the falling of night It had in
creased to a gale, and whirling snow
filled the air. But indoors, where
mother was preparing supper, were
light and warmth and cheer. A loud
stamping of feet ut the back door
announced the return of father and
the boys from finishing the chores.
A moment later, with a shout as of
the Joy of battle, they were Inside
shaking the loose snow from caps
and coats, and through the open door
lias swept tho keen northwest wind,
searching every nook and cranny of
the large, comfortable one-room
hewed log house.
"It's going to be a cold night,
mother."
"Yes, father, but we shan't suffer,"
answered mother, as she placed on
tho table a great pile of slices of
fragrant, toothsome "rye and Injun"
bread.
"No," said Rier, tho older of the
boys, "neither will the stock. I tell
you, we gave 'em a good feed and
lots of bedding, and they're as cozy
and comfortable as you please. , That
log barn, where the horses are, Is
'most as warm as this house."
"You bet!" shouted the noisy
Marsh. "And didn't it seem good to
get into the cows' nice shed, out of
the wind? I think it'd be fun to curl
up there under a pile of straw and
stay all night."
"Well, I think," remarked sister
Emma, as she placed the steaming
bowls of hot milk beside the plates,
"I think, silly, that before 8 o'clock
you'd be glad to come in and curl
up between warm blankets under a
pile of mamma's comfortables! "
Sister Emma was fourteen and
Wise. "Come, now, If you've got
washed and combed, come to the
table or I shan't get the dishes done
to-night."
The family were settling down for
a long, pleasant ewening. Mother
was rocking little Anna to sleep and
crooning a lullaby that to her babies
waB the sweetest music in all the
world, though she never could sing a
tune in her life. Father had taken
needle and thread and was sewing on
a pair of pants for one of the boys,
for father had been a tailor in his
younger days. Emma, her dishes
done and put away, had sat down
with her knitting work a woolen
Btocking for herself. Rier was
Btufflng the stove with hickory wood.
A heavier blast than any beforo beat
against the house so furiously that
the eyes of the small boy of the group
bulged out, as he asked:
"Will it blow tho house down,
papa?"
Just then there came a knock at
the door, and an awkward, bashful
young fellow was admitted a neigh
bor's son. He was welcomed to the
circle and given a chair near the fire.
Turning his back to the stove, he
at down astride the chair seat, with
his arms resting on its back. Father,
always intent on hospitality, tried to
engage him in conversation, but suc
ceeded in getting only monosyllables,
till suddenly the boy burst out:
"It s a mighty fine night! A fellow
could have a mighty fine ride, if he
bad a mighty fine sleigh, and a
mighty fine beast." The boyg snick
ered, and Emma dropped a stitch,
but their guest rushed on: "Our best
beast got cut. We reckoned ole
Mother Berry done It. but we hain't
named it to "or yit."
"Oh, I don't believe Mother Berry
did It," said father soothingly. Fa
ther always had a good word for the
absent. "You haven't told us how
your mother is."
"Marra's Dowerfu
'And your father, isn't be any bet-
"No, DBO Sava ha fool, oil i i
other." Having thug delivered hlm-
.o... u Beemea to nave nothing more
to say, and goon "reckoned better be
goln'."
"Poor old Mother Berry!" ' said
father, when he was gone. "She has
a temper of her own, but I don't be
lieve she meddled with Bolan'a
horses."
"How good home seems such a
night as this, with the fire roaring
inside and the wind roaring outBlde,"
remarked the elder son, who already,
at eleven years of age, bad gained in
home the sobriquet of "the parson.
"Marsh, let's have some nuts."
So the two boys cracked Jokes and
nuts tor a while, and rehearsed for
future use the droll speeches of their
evening visitor. Tbeu Rier picked
tip a book be always had one at
hand and Marsh climbed the ladder
to snuggle down In the warm nest
that awaited blm In the roomy attic.
At 8 o'clock the book was laid aside,
and Rier followed up the ladder.
Emma was soon asleep beside little
Anna in one of the two beds which
occupied two corners of the great
room. By and by their mother
climbed the ladder and jut an extra
comfort over the boyB, and tucked
the edges carefully under the feather
bed, with a breathed thought of
thankfulness that they wire so warm
and snug, and safe at hojne.
Father went to the dioi and looked
out Into the whiteness of the night,
white above, white below, and white
through all the air. The wind still
raged, the cold had Increased, the
great logs of the bouse popped with a
sharp report under the jrlp of the
Frost King. Father came In and
wound the clock, while mother looked
after some lust things for the night.
Then they, too, lay down, but father
did not sleep. He heard the clock
ticking off the minutes as they passed
five, ten, fifteen, half an hour. It
struck 10. Then father spoke.
"Mother!" hesitatingly.
"Yes, father," she answered drow3-
y.
"I can't sleep."
"What's the matter? Are you
cold?"
"No, I'm warm. But I can't forget
Mother Berry. Jane, I'm afraid the
Berrys are cold."
"Well, Franklin, I don't see as we
can do anything about it. You'd bet
ter go to sleep." And mother dozed
off once more, and the clock went on
ticking.
Fifteen minutes past 10. Again
came the call. "Mother! " There was
a note of decision In the voice this
time. Father had made up his mind.
"Well, father!" And It would not
be strange If the voice showed a trace
of Impatience.
"Haven't you any bedding you
could spare?"
"Yes, there's plenty of bedding,
but"
"Well, I wish you'd get up and
make up a bundle, and I'll carry it
over to Uncle Billy's."
"Oh, father, in this storm! I
wish "
But mother knew it was no use to
In the window by the light behind
her. And with the boyish abandon
so characteristic of this friend of God,
he flings his arms high and gives
shout that goes ringing far on the
frosty air, and sends old Judy to hei
Btall at breakneck speed. Mother
looked up at him a little severely a:
she met him at the door. Perhaps
his jubilant spirits had Jarred on het
over-tense nerves. Her greeting wag
the one word "Well," with the ris
ing inflection.
"Oh, mother," he laughs, "take the
broom and sweep me first."
Beside the red-hot stove, sipping
another bowl of hot milk, he told the
story. ,
"I found Mother Berry and blind
Billy hugging the stove to keep it
warm. They had piled everything
they had In the house on the bed
where three of the children were
sleeping, and, mother, the baby was
In the oven! "
"What did they say to you?"
"Now, mother, never mind what
they said. That isn't what matters.
They needed it. That's enough for
us. I'm warm as toast now. Let's go
to bed. What time is it, can you
see?" he asked, as his head touched
the pillow.
"Just five minutes of 1."
Mother heard the clock strike, but
father was fast asleep. Practical
Farmer.
THE GREAT DESTROYER
BOME STARTLING FACTS A BOOT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
I Woman's Position.
The Duchess of Marlborough con
tributes to the North American Re
view the flrat of a series of threo arti
cles on the important and timely
question of "Woman's Position." In
this article, which exhibits no little
learning as well as thoughtful re
flection upon her subject, the Duchess
makes an historical retrospect, de
scribing the relations of women to
the community at periods which rep
resent different stages of social de
velopment. Beginning with the con
ditions existing in the times and
places when nomadic life prevailed,
she considers the circumstances In
which the weaker sex found itself
among the Hebrews and the Greeks,
giving an entertaining account of the
status and influence of certain women
among both these peoples who took
a prominent part In their history.
As to woman's earliest relation to
society, the Duchess says:
"Professor Thomas, In his lnterest-
Wlint is n Sntoon?
From a man in tha penitentiary, who
was sentenced there fur a crime which he
Committed while drunk.)
A bar to heaven, a door to hell
Whoever named it, named it well!
A bar to manliness and wealth,
A door to want and broken health.
A bnr to honor, pride and fame,
A door to sin and grief and shame
A bar to hope, a bar to prayer,
A floor to darkness and despair.
A bar to honored, useful life,
A door to brawling, senseless strife)
A bar to all that's true and brave,
A door to every drunkard's grave.
A bar to joy that home imparts,
A door to tears and aching hearts;
A bar lo heaven, a door to hell
Whoever named it, named it well!
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WHAT the soul Is no one can tell: but that there can be
evolved out of the course of time and events such a
power to be independent of them, such a sense as
cannot be atrlbuted to them, is a revelation of something
incipient at the start, and supreme in manifestation, which
no one can deny. Here Is an intensive direction of life
which works magic. The fairy tales of the touch that
opened mountain walls, disclosing vales of paradise or in
poverty brought priceless Jewels, are truer than any ped
agogy that would consign them to the limbo of supersti
tion, for thoy picture what actually takes place when the
spirit realizes its power and enters the gates through the
barriers of circumstances to drink of the streams that flow
by the .throne of God. And It Is no far step from such re
deeming of the time to knowledge and possession of the life
beyond all time the eternal life. Of what is beyond the
future, of what happens when this life ends, prophets and
sages, poets and seers know nothing more than any of us.
But of the meaning in things now, the Inner quality which
gives a hold on Immortality here, they do tell us much that
In the crowding of material things we easily miss. From
expecting length of years as the reward of righteous living
they lead us to see a more lasting endurance than a long
life exhibits. They show us how immortality is not so much
In quantity as in quality of life. It Is therefore not a con
tingent possibility, a hope or faith merely, but within the
reach of every life; and he who does JuBtly, loves mercy
and walks humbly with his God, will find the clouds of
doubt lifting and see his dally path lighted with the light
that never was on sea or land the light of the Eternal, in
whom we live and move and have our being forever. By
M me iiev. jonn w. Day.
tllltl(sltlMllMe
The Most Dangerous Tempters.
A man who has mingled much with
the business and social world was
discussing the drink habit, in an in
terview with a representative of the
San Antonio Express:
"It is all nonsense," he said, "for
young men to say that they cannot
resist the temptations of the saloon.
As far as my experience goes, the
Fnloonkeepers of San Antonio and
the men of San Antonio seldom urge
a young man to drink. They say,
'No. I never drink,' or 'I would like
to bo excused this time,' that is the
end of it. It is all a mistake, about
a young man being forced to drink if
ho mingles much with the men of the
town. He can refuse very easily, if
ho wants to; and when it la once
known that a man never drinks, he
is seldom asked to do it. But the
real hard people to get away from are
tha women. You can go into a recep
tion where the punch is strong
enough to knock you down, and the
first woman you meet will say, 'Do
come and have some punch.'
" 'No, thank you, not now.'
" 'Oh, yes; just one glass with me.
"If by a certain amount of rudeness
you are able to escape this woman,
the next one you meet will say: 'This
Is the most delicious punch. Let me
help you.'
' 'What! Don't drink much?
What kind of a man are you? I as
sure you this is quite harmless.'
"A matronly woman comes along
and says: 'You must taste this
punch; It is made from my special
recipe and I am proud of it.'
" 'Don't drink? Well, Just this
time to please me. I've raised my
children on this punch.'
"And bo on through the evening.
A young man who is strong enough
to resist the temptations of society
has nothing to fear from the sa
loons." This Is the testimony of not one
young man, but several, and it is no
uncommon thing to hear men and
boys say: "Why will women urge a
fellow to drink the way they do?"
There is something peculiar about
wlno or liquors of any kind you are
always urged to take It. You can re
fuse bread and butter, meat and po
tatoes, and even coffee without a
word of remonstrance, but never
wine.
i:i:.sci i:s .u;i:i coiple.
Tcn-Ycnr-Oltl Hoy Draft Grandpur.
cnts From Hot Of Fire.
Sellnsgrove. Possessed of abnor
mal strength for his years, 10-year-old
Joseph Hoch, seeing his aged
grandparents slowly roasting to
death, dragged Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Hoch from the ashes of a smoulder
ing wood Are.
Mr. Hoch was making eoap on his
farm Just beyond the borough limits
of Sellnsgrove. As the aged man
wns anxious to discontinue his work
lie drew from under the Kettle the
large pieces of wood. Then a) he
was leaning over the wind BhieJd, he
lost his balance and fell into thu
em bers.
Realizing his plight Hoch called
frantically for help, and his screams
were answered by hi aged wife. She
trudged across the lawn, and reach
ing over the fender to grab her hus
band, lost her balance. Caught In
this heated death-trap, they remain
ed for an hour, as u stirring breeze
drove upon them the beat of the fire.
Appalled by the sight he beheld,
the youth threw down his school
books, and pulling desperately nt
"Grandma's" waist, extricated her,
and then lifted up his grandfather,
too.
JVM PS FROM EXPRESS.
MINISTER'S SOX A SVICIDH.
Despondent Over III lleiiltli Wllmcr
Heyer Shoot Himself.
Norrlstown. Wllmer Beyer, 23
yeurs old, a son of the Rev. George
John Beyer, the well-known evange
list, committed suicide here by
shoot ing himself In the head with a
32-callber revolver at his father's
residence om Barbadoes Street.
The young man had been despond
ent over hiB poor health. His mother
heard the report of the revolver and
when she reached the bedroom,
found her son a corpse. Ho had
placed the muzzle of the revolver in
his mouth and pulled the trigger.
IIVfiGKIt fiVILTV OF ASSAULT.
Youth Embraced Young Girl Who
Had IJivii "Skirt Dancing."
Media. Michael Curry was found
guilty of assault for having placed
his arm around the waist of Rebecca
Schtitt, the 13-year-old daughter of
Frank Schutt. of Lelpervllle. Judge
Johnson sentenced Curry to pay a
line und did not inflict a Jail sentence.
The defendant and Mrs. Beebe, in
whose house the assault occurred,
both testified that tho young girl had
taunted Curry by n "skirt dance."
Curry admitted that, he bad hugged
the girl after she hud gone through
the performance, but lie denied in
tent to commit a crime.
KILLED IX FOLDING BED.
Pittsbuigcr Loses His Life And Wife
Is Seriously Injured.
Pittsburg. Charles Murray, 39
years old, was killed and his wife
was seriously injured, when they
were caught In a folding bed that ac-clde-ntly
closed while they were
asleep.
The couple moved and went to
sleep in a folding bed that is said
; to nave been set up hurriedly. A
I it n II trh t f onlaplmr I ha ..,.. ImmJ
i . , , llPr mother and father enclosed in
their folding bed.
Woman Turns Somersault Hut Lunds
Feet Down Twice.
Chester. "Sure, Mist r Conduc
tor, I must get off here and If you
don't stop, I'll Jump off." declared
Mary Harris, n domestic, who Is em
ployed in a Prospect Park family,
when she learned that the train upon
which she was riding from Chester
to that borough did not stop at
Mooro Station.
The conductor smiled and told the
girl she would have to go on to Phil
adelphia; that she was on an express,
and he could not stop for her. "Hut
I'll pass you back," he said.
"Pass me nothing
Mary, ns she made a break for the
rear platform, and before the con
ductor or brakeman could stop her 1 i,.,.,.,,,.., ..,..,., tt um ii.
the girl jumped from the train upon 1nh Or Silk Weavers,
the station platform. She lighted, ork. When the weavers of the
upon her feet, turned a complete j York Silk Mill threatened to strike
somersault, but was on her feet ( unless their wages were increased
again in an Instant The train was ; tlle compan. conceded ln part to
stopped and backed to the station , ,h , deman(l!) and tn0 11
the conductor thinking the girl had ; and women r(,tlIrned to wrk. Wheu
been injured. i ,,, flnnnrli ,i0r0ir,n i,
"Vn n,UM ..of havo Moll Viqv . " . "
stopped for me in the first place,
angrily cried Mary when one of tho
trainmen inquired if she was hurt.
! height the weavers were cut 12 V6
REPEAL (M-YEAR-OLI law.
protest when father had made up his
mind. Besides, she, too, had learned
tu her pioneer experience not only
how to give material comforts, but,
what Is of far more value and costs
more, how to give up her own com
fort and to give ot her llfo. The
bundle was made up, and the blessed
father went out Into tha night and
tho storm, and mother sat down by
the stove to wait, and to feed the fire,
and to listen. Now she beard tho
barn door slam shut. Now be would
be springing on old Judy's back; the
hootbeats came to her ears, muffled
by the snow; then they ceased. He
must be crossing, the creek by this
time, now climbing the bluff opposite.
She went to the window and strained
her eyes to look out into the night.
If perchance she nr.gnt see bis dark
form against the white ground. But
the air was filled with blinding snow;
ber horizon was bounded by the win
dow pane. The wind smote the house
with great blows. No other sound
reached her. She went back to the
fire and her vigil, but her heart was
out on that bleak stretch of prairie
that father must cross before going
down to the poor little bouse under
tho hill, where lived Mother Berry,
blind Uncle Billy, ber husband, and
the four little Berrys.
It was half past 11. Ho ought to
be there by this time. But two miles
is a long way on such a night. Would
he find the Berrys snug and warm
in bed, aud sound asleep, and bis
night ride a fool's errand? Or a
sudden fear chilled ber heart would
he find the house at all? It was such
a blind trail!
The clock struck 12, and still
mother waited. Father must face
the storm coming home, the Icy
northwest blast it be came at all!
Mother was Inclined to worry. An
other half hour He should be here
by this time. Again she went to the
window. The clouds were breaking
A gleam ot light was struggling
through here and there. Even as she
looked the wind swept the sky clear
and the full-orbed moon looked down
on a white, white world. And there
across the creek on the hillside In
plain view was old Judy carefully
picking her way down the unseen
uncertain path. Of course, old Judy
wouldn't get lost! Mother might
have known that! The man on her
back Is as white a (be waste of snow
around blm. But she ean see him
now, and he soes her form outlined
ing work, 'Sex and Society,' tells us
that 'the maternal system ot descent
1b found in all parts of the world
where social advance stands at a
certain level, and the evidence war
rants the assumption that every
group which advances to a culture
state passes through this stage.'
"In Australia and Africa, with few
exceptions, descent was formerly
reckoned ln the female line; on the
continent of America, in China and
Japan traces of this system are found,
and ln parts of India it Is still ln full
force. Among the American Indian
tribes and the aborigines ot Aus
tralia, missionaries and ethnologists
are able to bear witness that 'the
women were the great power among
the clans as everywhere.olse.'
"As a natural consequence, laws ot
rank and property follow the strictest
maternal Hue, and women had ln
some cases the right to dismiss their
husbands, keeping the children to
succeed themselves and be members
of their own clan.
"And, after theestablishment of the
male system, the women still held
property a survival from maternal
times. A form of divorce pronounced
by a huBband was: 'Begone! For
I will no longer drive tby flocks to
the pasture.' "
Big Caribou Herd.
A herd of 600,000 caribou ig be
yond Sixty Mile River and the vast
band Is traveling toward the Tanana
River.. The news was brought to
Dawson by Chris Williams, who says
that laBt year and during the summer
the herd trampled down the forests
and went to the White River slope.
Later it turned back and passed
across upper Sixty Mile and then
seemed to turn westward toward the
bead of the Tanana slopes. They are
traveling In a procession twenty miles
wide. All that are left ln the vicin
ity of Dawson are some straggling
bands. Indians have followed them
and are bringing some of tbe meat
to Dawson, but on tbe wbole the hord
Is getting too far away to get car
casses back to Dawson with any prof
It. Dawson Correspondence Nome
News.
While tho British send on as av
rag) two telegrams a head each
year, according to , Government sta
tistics, the. Americans send only one
and one-ioulh and toe Germans nine-tenths.
The Uses of Adversity.
"Grogan," said the head of the de
partment store, eying him sharply,
"you've quit drinking, haven't you?"
"Yes, sor," nnswered the red-headed
Hibernian who worked in the packing
department. "I haven't taken a
dhrlnk av nnnything sthronger th'n I
iced tay f'r three months." I
"I am glad to hear it, Grogan. I'll
make It an object to you to stay quit.
But how did you break yourself of
the habit?"
"Be hittln' me thumb-nail wid a
hammer whin I was packln' a box o'
goods."
"I don't see how that could cure
you."
"Well, Mlsther Barker, it was this
way. If I'd been sober, d'ye motnd,
I'd niver have done it, but I wasn't.
Whin I whacked me thumb instead
av the nail. I was thryin' to dhrlve, it
made a black spot at the root av me
thumb-nail. I says to mesilf, 'Gro
gan, I'll punish ye f'r that. Ye sha n't
have a dhrlnk av ayther beer 'r
whusky until that black spot has
gone.'
"Well, sor, it was two months be
fure it had growed out to the end o'
me thumb on' I cud cut it off, nn' be
that time I'd lost all me appetite f'r
beer an' whusky.
"Thin I says to mesilf, 'Grogan. I'll
reward ye f'r that. Ye'ro a sober
man now, an' ye'll stay sober." That's
tho whole story, sor." Youth's Companion.
per cent. A strike was averted when
Superintendent John uyer promised
that an additional 4 Va per cent, had
been taken off the cut in wages.
'Salome" Outdone In Saloon.
Allentown. In License Court here
Philadelphia detectives, who were
emnloved bv the State Anti-Salnnn
way for a return of the old-time Uague to Katuer evldence against
Fourth of July celebration by pass-1 nne local hotel and saloonkeepers
ing an ordinance repealing the old against whom remonstrances were
borough ordinance of 1 848, which filed, testified that in one of the
prohibits the sale and discharge of places that they visited a young wom
lirceraekers within th-5 city limit. an did the "Salome" dance that beat
It was under this law Mayor Mar- ! Oscar llanimersteln's star's dance "to
Lebanon Will Have Heal Old-fasb.
ion Fourth Of July.
Lebanon. Ci'y Councils paved the
IS
" The Saloon n rarnsite.
Business men aro coming to rsaKz'j
that there are two wealth producers
on earth one is the hand and tho
other the head. All wealth is created
by work. For a oity or Stale to be
prosperous two things it muse have
men and wome'n with steady hand
and cloudless brain who are at work.
These are our money-makers. Sa
loons make no money. They gather
iu a lot of It from thoso who do make
Ir, but wealth Is produced only by
those who toll with the hand or head.
The saloon is the greatest curse to
the business producing Interests that
is known to civilized men, and the
business men are coming to reaiizj
It. They know that it unnerves tho
hand and paralyzes the brain of
everyone under its Influence.
Tho Best Way.
The most successful way to pro
mote abstinence from liquor, says
Forward, is to invite men and women
to give their hearts to Christ. The
P.L-ht against habits Is vain without
His help, but when He holds the
hand of the tempted man the victory
is sure.
Tho Real Source.
The temperance movement Is not
due to loctl or ephemeral causa,
writes Dr. Samuel J. Barrows, In tbe
Outlook; it springs from a public con
viction which the United S ates Su
preme Court has well rtndered,
namely, that "the public health, the
public morals aud the public safety
are endangered by the genera! use of
Intoxicating liquors;" and that "the
idleness, disorder, pauperism anj
crime existing In this country are
largely traceable to this evil."
, Oklahoma Dono With It.
Oklahoma , voted, nt the recent
election, to abolitin the dispensary
syitcm, and Governor Haskell has
now declared It at au end. It Is said
that tbe uctlon leaves the citizens of
the State without any lawful way of
purchasing liquor for even medicinal
purposes, which makes It Impossible
to work oft on the druggist the old
icuj ot "a misery In the bones.'
LnKgliing Si'hcols.
What will drunkards' wives ' dn
when all tbe saloons are wiped out?
Start laughing schools. I
quart last year compelled a "aufe
and sane" celebration nnd aroused
the ire of merchants by prohibiting
tlient from selling explosives. The
Mayor said that if the people did not
want their laws enforced they should
repeal them. The merchants have
been agitating the repealer ever
since and it lias now passed Councils.
EXTOMF.EO MIXERS ESCAPE.
Hut Two Dead And Fourteen Seri
ously Itiirnc In Colliery.
Wllkes-Barre. A terrific explo
sion followed by n fire in the colliery
of the Pennsylvania Coal Company at
Port Blanchard, near here, caused
the death of two men, severely burn
ing fourteen others and shut in fifty
workers who, for five hours, It was
believed had little chance for esrap
ing. That they finally made their
way out through a maze of old work
ings heavy with smoke and the dead
ly fire damp, Is considered almost
miraculous, and their escape caused
rejoicing anions the anxious hun
dreds gathered at the mouth of the
shaft and who expected each moment
to bo informed that all were dead.
ADMITS KILLING HIS FATHER.
Crushed Robbing Coal Pillars.
Pottsville. Engaged in tho dan
gerous occupation of robbing pil
lars, which consist in removing coal
from the solid anthracite columns
left to support the roof of a mine
chamber, Michael Bisiutain, aged 31
years, of MinersvUle, was caught by
n heavy fall of coal at Pine Hill col
liery and his llfo Instantly crushed
out.
Illoiv For Scrmiton Saloon Kevpcrs.
Scranton. In the Tripp Park sec
tion of the Twenty-first Ward It has
been discovered that a reservation In
the deed forbids tho sale of liquor on
the premises. As there are seven
saloons or hotels located thce and
ten others desiring to enter, gloom
settled upon the countenances of the
applicants in License Court.
STATE ITEMS.
Man .Makes Maitlinu: Confession,
Ksaipcs, And Is taught.
Clearfield. After admitting his
name was Alexander Kosenbloom,
and having stated that lie had killed
his father at Windber in IUU7, and
taking the body to New Jersey,
where he buried it, a man who an
swers the description of the fugitive, Bixty years in this locr.lity
made His escape rrom ueorgu r.inn
ger, a farmer.
The man later wai captured by
the police after a desperate strugglo.
He is being held to await the arrival
of the Windber authorities.
Trying to board a Philadelphia &
Reading train near Pottsvllle, Harry
Mertz. aged 13, fell beneath the
wheels and was crushed to death.
Captain James Boyd UobUoii, for
mer Columbia County Solicitor, and
a war veteran, was found dead in
bed at his home at Espy, of paraly
sis of the heart. He was 71 years
old and is survived by a wife and
seven children.
Thomas Corcoran, the oldest man
in Chester County, died at his homo
in Elk Township, near Oxford. H"
was 103 years old and bad lixed
COMMERCIAL EOL0M1
Weekly Review of Trads and Latss?
Market Reoorts.
Bradstreet's says:
While there has been some expan
sion in house Jobbing trade In drv
goods, millinery and kindred lines
and business ln agricultural Imple
ments, seeds and fertilizers has been
large, the unsettlement caused by
price reductions ln the Iron, steel
and other metal markets, the weak
ness fn securities and the nearer ap
proach of tariff revision have all
made for a degree of uncertainty
not so plainly visible for a Ions;
time past. Weather conditions, too,
have played a part In arresting re
tall trade, country roads are in bad
shape farmers deliveries are affected
despite attractive prices for grain,
and there has been, in fact, an ap
parent Blowing down in the current
of trade, which, however, temporary
it may be, has tended to make com
parisons with a year ago at this time,
largely favorable as they still are,
lees satisfactory than was expected
Borne time ogo.
Business fttllurcs In the United
States for the week ended February
25 are 244, against 282 last week,
311 ln the like week of 1908. 194
In 1907, 180 in 1906 and 20ft ln
190J.
Wholei .inrV.
New York. Wheat No. 2 rfJ,
123c, elevator; No. 2 red. 125.
f. o. b. afloat; No. 1 Northern Du-
luth. 124, f. o. b.
hard winter, 122, f,
Corn No. 2, 74c.
72,i, f. o. b. afloat
nominal and
o. b. afloat.
2.
afloat; No.
o. b. afloat,
elevator and
No. 2 white
No. 2 yellow, 7SV4. f.
Options without trans-
May
72 94;
20; turkeys, 12
Western chlck-
14V4016; tur-
a frazzle. Other orgies equally as
shocking were testified to.
actions, closing c. higher.
closed 73 Vic; July closod.
September closed, 72.
Oats Mixed. 26 32 lbs., 66V4C?
f7Vac.j natural white, 26fi56 lbs.,
StUifiO; clipped white, 34042 lbs.,
5 8 ft 63.
Butter Barely steady. Receipts,
5.487. Creamery specials (official,
31); creamery held, common to spe
cial, 22(6 29c.
Eggs Firm. Receipts, 19,820.
State. Pennsylvania and nearby
brown and mixed fancy, 24 ( 25c;
do., fair to choice. 24(ff24V4: West
ern, first. 23i: seconds, 23if2S'4.
Poultry Alive, firm; Western
chickens, 13c: fowls,
f; 1 8 ; dressed, firm.
ens, 12 if 16; fowls.
keys. 16 Tf 23.
Philadelphia. Wheat C high
er: contract grade February, 122 4?
123c.
Corn lie higher; February,
70 H T( 70 Vs.
Oats Scarce, firm; No. 2 white,
natural, 59 '4 ri 60c.
Butter Steady. Extra Western
creamery, 30c; do., nearby prints,
32.
Eggs Steady. Pennsylvania and
other nearby firsts, f. c, 24c. at
mark: do., current receipts In re
turnable cases, 23 at mark; Western
firsts, f. c, 24 at mark; do., current
receipts, f. c. 22 23.
Cheese Firm. New York, full
creams, choice, 1415c; do., fair
to good, 14 Ti 14 V4.
Live Poultry Firm; fowls. 1CV4
I 17 Vic: old roosters, 10V4W11;
spring chickens, 11 'if IS; ducks, 15
4j 16; geese, 12'3I14.
Baltimore. Wheat The market
for Western opened steady; spot.
123VaC.: March. 1.22. No life In
the market as both sides are in a
waiting attitude. Prices became
firmer and advanced m the dnv pro
gressed, cio-ilng at the beat. At tht
mid-day call spot wus quoiod at 124c
Corn Southern steady on prime
corn of both colors. Graded lots ot
No. 2 white corn afloat are qmtab!e
at 73 ?i 74c per bush., and yellow
or mixed corn alloat at 70 0 7')
per bush. Track yellow corn for
domestic delivery is wortU 71V4b
72c. i er bii'ni. lor cur lots on bpot.
Oats We q-jete: Whiter No. 2.
TiSftSSVic: No 3. 56H4J57V4;
No. 4. 5455. Mixed No. 2. 55
55 ic; No. 3, 54 Qi 54 Vi.
Hay We quote, per ton: Tim
othy -No. 1, large bales, J 1 4.50
15; do., small blocks, $1 4.50 it 15;
No. 2, ns to location. $13?J 13.50:
No. 3, $10.50(ft 1 1. 50. Clover mixed
Choice. 12i 12.50; No. 1, $11.50
W12; No. 2. SlOtftill. Clover No.
1. 11212.50; No. 2. $1011.50.
No grade hay, as to kind, quality
and condition, $6 (ff 9.
Butter Creamery fancy. 31 i
31 V4: creamery choice. 29f30;
creamery good. 23426; creamery
imitation, 203 24.
EggST The market Is steady and
unchanged on hen eggs, but duck
ckks nre lower. We quote, per don.:
Maryland. Pennsylvania and nearby
firsts. 22c: Western firsts, 22; West
Virginia firsU, 22.
Live Poultry Market firm, with
demand for attractive stock. We
quote, epr lb.: Chickens Old ben
heavy, 15c; do., small to medium,
15; old roosters, each, 25(930;
young, choice, 17 18; do., rough
and staggy, 14. Ducks, 15c; White
Peklns, 16.
THIS AND THAT
loo Fumine Kwirwl.
Strcudsburg. The mild and wet
weather has brought the Ice business
In Monroe County to an end and an
ice famine is feared. The houses
are but little more than half filled.
As the season Is growing late, the
chalices are that no more Ice can bo
cut.
Give Bridegroom Wild Hide.
Chester. Harry Clendennlng, who
was quietly married several evenings
ago to Miss Mao E. Marshall, in Wil
mington, was taken In hand by
friends, placed In a wild animal cag j
belonging to the Hurgreaves Circus,
and headed by a number of his fel
low employees of tbe American Steel
Foundry, was hauled through the
city. He took tbe treatment good
naturodly and did not get angry un
til be returnod borne and found hi
wife ln tears.
Find Rewarded Hero.
York. I. II. Brlndle, ot thU city,
who was asked to locate E. S. My en,
belr to $25,000, which was bequeath
ed to .blm by a Carlisle woman at
her death, has been found at 1413
Vernou Street. Ilirrinburg.
Locked In Cold Htorago Vox,
Cbestor. James Tickle, a grocer
clerk in an Upland stort, accidental
ly locked hlmelf In a refrigerator.
Ills muffled cries wcio heard and be
wus later taken, out nearly (rozon.
Cuba's population Is CO. 7 per cent,
white.
Loudon's newest Dreboat can
pump 900 tons of water an hour.
Gasoline can be used as a solder
ing flux for very neat work on tin.
A German life preserver consists
of a hollow rubber belt, to which Id
attached a small metallic cylinder
filled with carbon dloxid liquified.
This may be turned by u tap Into tho
belt where it volatilizes, lutlatlng tuo
belt.
Lace dressing, tho process between
weaving and finishing, long was con
sidered an unbealthful occupation be
causo carried on In a hot, humid at
mosphere, until the British govern
ment Investigated and found that tho
workers enjoyed better health than
those employed In other branches of
tho lace Industry.
Tbe Mexican Herald announces
that a movement Is on foot for tho
erection of a craiu olevator at Mexi
co City. At present tbe only one In
that republic Is tbe smull elevator on
the CoaUacoalcos River, near 8anta
Lucretla. in Vera Crux.
Tbe book having the largest cir
culation is tho telephone directory
of the city of New York. An edition
of 1,000.000 copies Is printed twice
every year to meet the demands ot
subscribers to 450,000 telephones
which are ln use ln tbat city and its
suburbs.
Police Constable H. Coles, station
ed at Ealing, London, holds tbe rec
ord among humane otllcer. having
recently brought bis nine-hundredth
case of cruelty to horses before the
Brentford bench. Fines amounting
to more than $10,000 have been im-
; posed on drivers In these cases.
Live stock.
Chicago. Cattle Market ' strong
to 10c. higher. Steers. 5.007.00;
cows, $3.60 6.60: heifers, $3,250
6.00; bulls, $3.40 5.25; calve
:t.ro 8.50; stocLers and feeder
$3.25 ii 6.60.
Hogs Maket 10 to 15c higher.
Choice heavy, $6.7006.75; butch
ers. $6.606.75; light mixed. $.4(
6.55: choice light, $.56&-C&;
packing. $6.506.65: pigs. $5.2SO
6.10; bulk of sales, $6.50t.65.
Sheep Msrket strong to 10c
higher. Sheep, $4.25(3 5.75; lamba.
$6.507.80; yearlings, $5.00(1
7.15.
Kansas City. Mo. Cattle Cholv
export and dressed beet steers. $5 99
rij6.76; fair to good, $4.755.85;
Western steers, $4.60ftS.3S; stock
era and feeders, $3.6006.15; South
ern steers, $4.75 4? 6; Southern cows,
$2.75414.75; native cows. $O6.0;
native belters, $3.6016.50; balls.
$3.30(4.75; calves. $4 0 7.26.
Hogt Market 10 4815c. hlgW.
Top. $6. DO; bulk or sales. t.I0tf
6.45; heavy, $6.4006.50.
gbeep Market for ahoop 10c.
higher; lambs 10 01 5c. lower
Lambs. $6.90 0 7.55; yearlings.
$5.75G'6.85; wethers, $&5.75:
ewes. $4.E05.35; Blockers .$
foeders; $3 4.75.
Pittsburg, Pa. Cattle Choice,
$4.20t6.S5: prime, $5.9006.16.
Sheep Prime wethers, $6.80 &
gft; culls and common. $126 4
8.60: lambs, $5.6008; veJ eslves.
$fj9.50.
Hogs -Prime henries $6.96 fs
(.96; mtdlums. $.86W6 i0r hcatr
Yorkers. $6.7506.85; UsV. Yrrker.
$.50ir6.60; pigs. $3b.': roMJ.
$5.60' 6-1 6.
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