I' HAVE been for some tlmo gather ing bits of queer gossip and tradi tion about George Washington. A large number of his papers are on file In the State Department at Washington. The National Museum baa one of the largest collections of Waablngtonla In existence. Alexan dria is full of unpublished traditions of George Washington. I spent a couple of days there some time ago, and though I found no one living who bad ever seen Washington, I got a fairly good idea of him from the stor ies concerning him which have been banded down from father to son. Mount Vernon is only nine miles from Alexandria. Washington got the most of his supplies at Alexandria. He went there to vote, and until a tew years ago the little office in which be did business there still stood. It was at Alexandria that Washington met General Braddock. and with him started out on that dis astrous campaign. , His last review f troops was made from the steps of an Alexandria hotel about a year before his death, and when I last vis ited the town I was offered a mahog any bed which had stood in this ho tel and on which, it was said, Wash ington had slept many a time. How Washington Really Looked. From the traditions of Alexandria, and from any other sources, 1 have tried to make up in my mind s eye a picture of George Washington as he really was. He was exceedingly tall, and, when young, quite slender. He bad enormous hands and feet. His boots were No. 13 and his ordinary walking shoeB No. 12. He was a man of muscle. During bis service in the army he weighed 200 pounds, and was so strong that he could lift his tent with one hand, although it usual ly required the strength of two men to place it on the camp wagon. I mean, of course, when it was folded op and wrapped around the polos. Washington could hold a musket with one hand and fire it. He was a good hot and a good swordsman. The pictures of the father of his country make one think that Washington was brunette. His face Is dark and somber. The truth is he had a skin like an Irish baby, nnd his hair was almost red. He had a broad chest, bnt not a full one. HIb voice was not strong, and dur ing his last days he bad a hacking cough. His eyes were cold gray, and It Is said that he seldom smiled, al though there Is reason to believe that be had considerable humor about him. His nose was prominent. He was particular as to his appearance and fastidious in dress. He wore plain clothes and always kept himself well shaven, acting as his own barber. Knocked Washington Down, Washington was an eminently lair man. He had a quick temper, bnt as a rule he kept It under con trol. Sometimes, however, it got the beat of him. This was the case once In Alexandria. One of the county of ficers told me the story as we stood on the second floor of the market house In Alexandria and looked down at the open court v.lthin It, which Is now filled with hundreds of boo.ths where the farmers bring their pro ducts for sale on market days. "It was on that spot, " said the officer, "Washington was knocked down by Lieutenant Payne. Payne was a can didate for the Legislature against Fairfax, of Alexandria. Washington supported Fairfax, and when he met Payne here, he made a remark that Payne considered an Insult, and Payne knocked him down. The story Washington's Headquarters While Di recting Survey of Washington City, 1701. I . : n ." ,;.-)" (f v. Vt like lightning through the town that Colonel Washington was killed, and some of his troops who were sta tioned at Alexandria rushed in and would have made short work of Payne had Washington not prevent ed them. He pointed to his black eye and told them that this was a person al natter and that he knew how to handle It. Every one thought that this meant a duel. TJ:e next day Payne got a note from Washington asking him. to come to the hotel. He expected a duel, but went. Washing ton, however, was In an amiable mood. He felt tbat he had been in the wrong and said, "Mr: Payne, I was wrong yesterday, but If you have sufficient satisfaction, let us be trlonds.' There was a decanter of wine and two glasses on the table which Washing ton had ordered to smooth over the quarrel. The two drank together and became such strong friends after that that Payne was one of tbe pallbearers at Washington's funeral." Washington as a Drinking Man. Every one drank In the days or Washington, and the father of bis country always had wines upon . his table, l have nowbero aeen it stated that he ever drank to excess, although he usually consumed five glasses of afaderia wlue at dessert During hla youth he was a very fair politician, and among tbe Items of bis election expenses wbeo be was a candidate for the house of burgesses of Virginia were a hogshead and a barrel of whisky, thirty-five gallons of wine aad forty-three gallons of beer. George Washington was simple In lia tastes, and during hla youth ha waa a hearty eater, but was not par ticular as to what ha had. Ha want ad plain food aad plent of It. Dur ing bis later years ha ata very little. Uia breakfast at Mount Vernon was of corn cakes, honey and tea, with possibly an egg, and after that he ate no more till dinner. He kept, how ever, a good table, and usually had friends with blm. 1 have a book written by Maclay, which gives his experiences when he was In the United States Senate at the time Washington was President. Maclay dined with Washington a number of times, and scattered through his diary are bits of gossip about Wash ington. At two of the dinners he describes Washington as amuBlng himself between the courses by play ing the devil's tattoo upon the table with his fork. At another time he says: "The President kept a fork in his hand when the cloth was taken away. I thought it was for the pur pose of picking nuts. Me ate no nuts, but played with the fork, striking on the edge of the table with It." A George Washington Flsli Story. Washington, a. this time, had some trouble In keeping up his establish ment. When the Revolutionary War closed he had plenty of land, but lit tle money. He had exhausted his private fortune during the war, and he had to borrow enough to take him to New York to be inaugurated as President. The result was he was quite careful of his expenses, and would not tolerate extravagance. An Instance of this kind occurred one day when he lounl the first shad of the season on his table. The President amount of tobacco, large numbers of cattle, sheep and horses, nearly all of which he willed to his wife. This will Is now kept in a wooden box, the top of which is covered with glass. It was torn in two some time n'go by some careless sightseer, and since then no one has been allowed to han dle it. The account books which are kept here In the State Department show that Washington was very care ful about keeping a record of his ex penditures. He put down everything, and among other items you see here and there the amounts which he lost at cards. In April, 1772, he lost 1100 in this way at the house of Rev. Bouscher, and a little further on there Is an item stating "Paid for toddy for self, Walker and others, at a little Jamboree near the Drummond Lake, five pounds." During the time he was candldato for the house of bur gesses of Virginia, when he bought the whisky above spoken of, his losses at cards and at the horse ra s are frequent. The curious thing about his accounts Is that there was almost always a deficiency at the end of the year which he could not account for. This made no difference, however, with his starting a now year with a fresh account, for one Item at this time Is as follows: "By cash, either lost, stole or neglected to charge, 144 pounds, 8 shillings and 11 pence." In other words, he was short that year over $700. Economical, nut Not Stingy. Through his letters now owned by the Government one may see here and there certain correspondence which shows that he was very hard up at times. In 1785 he wrote that he could get no wheat on credit, and that he had no cash to pay for It. Three years later he urges a man to .LlaUjBlSLl 0.1 II Protection of Cows. Far better to rig up a pine-brush shed than to let the cows or calves shiver during a bitter cold night in the lea of an old straw stack. When storms are brewing see that all the stock Is safe and warm. Then you can go to bed satisfied and sleep. Either feed your stock well or sell it; don't have anything lean, hungry, cold and sore-cyed. Farmere' Homo Journal. Sod Basin For Trees. The landscape gardeners of one of New York City's parkways have devised an attractive way of protect ing the base of tree-trunks by arrang ing a square border of sod, two feet wide, around each one of the trees bordering the boulevard. In this way the soil between the border and the tree-trunk may always be kept loose, allowing the moisture of rains to sonk iuto the ground und nourish the roots. Were it not for this sod basin the frnvel path, coming close to the tree, would, in time, become firmly trodden down, causing tho tree to suffer ac cordingly. The idea Is one that could be adopt ed elsewhere to good advantage. MARTHA WASHINGTON. n VS &i.tW:: VP'S'1 fS -; J'lti w y X .M i' .y: i'!?-. I I t ' IfnrvcstinK Alfulfu. The first point to accentuate as wo approach the subject of harvesting is the pre-eminent value of the leaves. These contain from seventy-five to eighty per cent, of the protein of the whole plant, that valuable compound that goes to produce milk and meat. It has been estimated that a ton of properly cured alfalfa leaves i8 equal in protein to 2800 pounds of wheat bran; and when It is also estimated by careful observers that the loss of leaves In harvesting, even under favoring circumstances, ranges from fifteen to thirty or more per cent., It is readily seen that the harvesting Is an Important part In alfalfa hay-inak-Ing. From Coburn's "Tho Book of Alfalfa." was very lend cf Dsn, and wnen tne shad was brought into the dining room' his nostrils dllater as tbe sav ory odor struck them, and he asked: "What fish Is that?" "A shad," replied tbe steward, ex citedly; "a very fine shad. I knew your excellency was extravagantly fond of this fish, and was bo fortunate as to procure this one in the market. It was the only one, sir, and the first of the season." "But the price, man? The price? The price?" demanded Washington, sternly. "Three three three dollars," stammered the steward. "Take it away! Take It away!" said Washington. "It shall never be said that my table sets such an exam ple of luxury and extravagance." And so tbe $3 fish was taken from the table, to be devoured by the ser vants. The Richest Man of His Time. As the years went on Washington's lands Increased In value, and when he died he was one of the richest men of bis time. He owned lands and stock and negroes, and bis estates amount ed to' thousands of acres. He bad houses in Alexandria and property in Washington. He had valuable lands near the present site of Pittsburg. He was throughout bis life a money mak er, and I was told at Alexandria that when he was a boy he got $5 a day and upward for hla surveying. He put his surplus money Into lands, and an advertisement in a Baltimore paper of 1773 states that he bad 20,000 acres of land for sale on the Oblo River. His will, which is now kept about twenty miles from Washington, in the safe of the old Court House at Fairfax, Va., gives a detailed state ment of every article be possessed down to tbe calves and sheep. His personal estate was then put down at $532,000, and this Included a vast pay the $1000 which he owes him, and says he has put off the sheriff three times already, and that he needs this money to pay his taxes. He was not afraid to dun bis debtors, and he is said to have been one of the shrewd est dealers among the planters of his time. He was always preaching econ omy to his servants, but on the whole was somewhat lenient, as, for in stance, he employed one man, a car penter, making a contract with blm for a year and providing therein be was to have four days in which he might get drunk about Christmas. Washington was economical, but not stingy.. He could not endure waste of any kind, and he went over his estate doing hlB best to stop the leaks. In one of his letters home he urges that the greatest economy be used In feed ing the hay at the mansion house. He writes: "I enjoin upon you to particularly guard against Mrs. L. Washington's Charles and her boy In the stables, both of whom are impudent and self willed and care not how extravagant ly they feed or even waste, for I have caught the boy several times littering his horses with bay. I see no sort of necessity for feeding the horses either grain or hay when they are not used or any horBe that Is at liberty and able to provide for ltaclf. I can plain ly perceive that in a little time there will be nothing either for my negroes or horses to eat without buying It, which will neither comport with my Interest or inclination. By Stuart's report I find he still continues to feed horses with corn Instead of cut oats, as I directed. What two saddle horses are those which stand In the mansion bouse report? 1 know of none but the one Mr. Whltllng used to ride." The planter who demanded reports like that must have been a good busi ness man, FRANK O. CARPENTER. a 'if.2 v Scientific Forestry. A Consular report comes from Ger many which shows that scientific for estry Is a practical and money-making proposition. It is stated that the Ger man Empire has nearly 35,000,000 acres of forests, of which forty per cent, belongs to the Stale. German forestry methods have resulted in raising the average yield of wood per ncro from twenty-two cubic feet in 1830, to sixty-five cubic feet in 1904. During the same period it has trebled the proportion of the sawed timber secured from the average cut. In fifty-four years it Increased the money returned from an average acre of forests sevenfold, yet to-day, the Ger man forests are in better condition than ever before. Farmers' Home Journal. Feeding Frosted Corn. Untimely severe frosts sometimes damago the corn crop so that its mar ketable value Is considerably lowered, but in this event, as in other cases, the hog comes to the rescue. Soft corn Is considered excellent for swine, nnd especially for tho young; in fact, many breeders believe they can obtain better gains from soft corn than with the sound, hard grain. In soft corn the maturing of the grain has been checked, thereby arresting the devel opment of the starch content or fat producing element. When used It is advisable to add, for finishing, some corn that Is well matured. Immature corn that is frozen and even some what soured may bo fed to hogs, but if there is on hand a greater quantity in that condition than can be used on the farm before warm weather sets in It should be disposed of while tho weather Is cold. Ordinarily It may be used In cold weather without dan ger, but it should not be carried over into the warm season, as it will fer ment nnd become unfit for use. From Coburn's "Swine iu America." WASHINGTON'S HOME, MOUNT VERNON. ' - V tc ' C!"S v'h A An Unusual Picture, Showing tbe Impressive Portion of tbe Munition Turnad ' Away From thu River. From a Hitherto Unpublished Photograph by George R. King. Christian Endeavor World. The Shoulders of tho Horse. Coming now to what Is meant by "barnessy" shoulders in a saddler, the torm is mora or less erroneous, for the reason that the position of the shoulders should be oblique In har ness as well us In saddle horses. Those who use the term mean to con vey the idea that the shoulders are more or less upright and the withers more or less thick and meaty. ' This formation, as already detailed, pre supposes a short neck und a stilted way of going, both of which are very bad faults in a saddler. A certain Amount of Jerk-and-slam actlou may go with straight shoulders, but all the most accurate actors in the high stepping classes have possessed slop ing shoulders; Indeed, a very decided slope is necessary to enable any horse to show the correct sort of actlou, which may be described as that the fore foot should apparently be follow, lug the circumference of a rolling wiieel. Forest King was the greatest actor we have ever had in this coun try. Anyone who remembers the set of hlj shoulders will grasp tbe point siuglit to be made instantly, when it is seated that the truest and best ac tion is never associated with straight Ehoulders. ' At that, however, much stralghter shoulders will do for ordlnory harness uses than for thu saddle, for In the leather they have not to sustain the superimposed weight of tbe rider. Hence the appli cation or rather misapplication of the terra "harnessy" la describing or ditcusBlr.3 tho shoulders of saddle horses. -Brocders' Gaxette, Ilmd Milkers. Dr. David Roberts, the Wisconsin State Veterinarian, writes us on this subject: A cow or heifer Tvitb a niee, large, well dveloped udder with four gol size tents placed squarely upon same, scpun like a source of pleasure,, pro viding that they are easy milkers, but the sum sort of a cow or heifer being termed as a hard milker Is as a rule a source of annoyance, especially to those who do the milking. . Owing to the fact that a cow or heifer is a nice, easy milker, they are usually milked out clean at each milk, lus. la this way tboy at e suabled to keep up their regular flow of milk, while on tho other hand if they be hard milkers the milker becomes dis couraged and Impatient, and falls to draw out the natural quantity. The cow or heifer will then soon show the effects of this by drying up on her milk. In this way many a valuable cow has become practically worthless as a milk producer. Hard milking In cows or helfors can be positively overcome in a short period of time and In a very econom ical way, not by the uso of the milk ing tube, but by the use of the teat plug. The teat should be washed with an antiseptic solution, the teat plug should be dipped in a like solution, then in a little ointment and passed into the point of the teat, and being self-retaining, should be permitted to remain in the teat from one milking to another. In this manner hard milking can be made a thing of the past. T. V- V. f T. t T. V. T, t f T. t NEWS OF PENNSYLVANIA i Gold and Gilt. Trofcssor Frasor, of the Illinois Agricultural College, makes a plain difference In "Gold" and "Gilt," the names of two cows on the college farm. He says: They were brought up alike on a farm near Elgin, 111., and obtained their early education in the same herd of 100 cows. Here at the university, with the very same surroundings and equal opportunities, they have drifted apart in character, and their progress has been in opposite directions. It is not a difference of hide, or horns, or temper; it Is not that one is wild and the other a pet. It'ls not a difference of beauty or Intelligence, but solely a difference In .the way they have worked, a difference In the money they have earned for the owner. All the milk of these cows has been weighed and Jested for three years. A record has been kept of every pound of feed consumed by each ani mal, both summer nnd winter. Each year Gold produced on tho average 11,390 pounds of milk, con taining 405 pounds of butter fat, but during the same time Gilt averaged only 3830 pounds of milk, with 138 pounds of butter fat. These cows were both cared for in tho same way; they were given the same kinds of feed and allowed to eat all they wanted. Gold nte one half more than Gilt, but produced three times as much milk. Equal amounts of feed made in the one case 188 pounds of butter fat and in the other 100 pounds. The one cow produced nearly twice as much as tho other from exactly the same feed in kind and amount. Counting the butter fat at twenty three cents per pound and taking out the exact cost of feed in each case, the one cow brought in a profit of $34.59, while the other lacked $3.02 of pay ing for her board at market prices of feed each year. This comparison, exact and com plete, for three years, und including the record of both milk and feed, means a great deal more than a Blngle year's comparison or one in which it is necessary to introduce nn estimate. It would be gratifying, indeed, if it could be truthfully Bald that these two records are extreme and excep tional, and therefore do not stand for any general condition of the dairy business. But tho very opposite is truo. Pays l-niilty. Allentown. George N. fU'haeffer, the Schnecksvllle thicken fanner, who killed Leopold Ermann, of Philadel phia, on November 18, lftOS, was hanged in the rorridor of the jail hen. The trap was sprung hy James Van Hlse, of Jersey City, New Jersey's official hangsman, who used his own sea (To Id, and who was assisted by his brother-in-law, Edward Donham. Schaeffer was pronounced dead In eight minutes, his neck having been broken. The body was cut down In fifteen minutes. The crime for which George Schaeffer was hanged here was one of the most horrible in the annals of Iehlgh County, ills victim, Leopold Krninnn, of 130" North Seventh Street. Philadelphia', was an Intlner nnt Jewelry salesman, who for thirty I years had peddled among the fanner? i of Lehigh nnd Northampton Counties. I In whose homes he wus u moHt wel- I come visitor. No Witter At Mine Fire. Shamokin. The big pipe line hav ing been frozen up by the zero weath er, the work of fighting the Philadel phia end Heading Coal and Iron Com pany's Bear Valley shaft mine fire has been gravely handicapped. Fri day the fire, which had been burning in the out-eropplngs, Ignited solid pil lars of coal, causing much alarm to officials. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of fuel Is In danger of being lost. General Manager William Richards is giving his personal at tention to the work of fighting the fire. He says the fire, which wns I discovered lust Suturduy In the out cropplngs, was caused by forest fires ' Stop Search. i Jersey Shore. After nil nil-day i search in the ruins of the tire, hopes ! of finding the body of little Willie O'Connor, who was burned to death, I has been given up I The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Draven- stadt, the other two victims, were tuk- en to Wllliunisport in one rotlln. I Richard O'Connor, father of the ! burned boy spent the day digging in ' the ruins. Aged Widower Dies Of V. vf. Reading. Grieving over the death I of his wife on January 22, Peter M. 1 Mliier died at the old homestead. where the couple had spent, forty years of their fifty-two years' of hap i py married life. Mr. Miller was in j his eigthleth year. He became ill on I the day his wife died. His dying request was that he should be buried i Just as his wife was in the same I kind of a casket, with the same min ister and the same bearers. Ienves $115,000 To Oinrity. Altoona. Mary Ann Ilodnett's will disposes of an estate of $2."), 000, of which $6,000 and her home goes to the bishop of Altoona for the C'res son Orphanage, $500 each for the Sae.red Heart and St. Mark's parishes. $300 to the rectors of the same, and after a few personal bequests are paid, the remainder is to be divided between the sisters of the two par ishes named. Hurt Am Work Is Done. Bloomsburg. Just as he was plac ing the last weatherboard on u new house at Numl lia, Columbia County, Charles Rhoades slipped and fell, striking a scaffolding fifteen feet be low, breaking his Juw nnd fracturing several ribs and an unn. Ills con dition is serious. Woman Detective Wins. Pittsburg. Amusing the court with the recital of her experience as a scullery maid, Mrs. Jennie Jamison, an agent of the state Pure Food Com mission, through her testimony was Instrumental in convicting for tho second time Jesse M. Bowers, charg ed with selling oleomargarine. .Mrs. Jamison told of encountering Bowers at a restaurant owned by u Mr. and Mrs. Schultz. She said: "When I told Mowers that I want ed fifteen pounds he looked at me In a puzzled manner, grew white, and asked for Mr. nnd Mrs. S'chult. I told Mni they were out and he said: " 'Well, If I thought she was going fo betray nie to those pure food peo ple I would not sell her so much. This does not look straight to me. I will not sell Bfi much to her aptnln. You know those pure food people do all kinds of things to pet a fellow nt'd I !i :n not allowed to sell this stuO' as It Is colored.' " Bowers was fined $.",00 with Six months' imprisonment. Tlnve Killed. Pittsburg. A feud among minors which has for months terrorized the residents of Midway, a mining town near here, culminated In the killing of three men, who were shot down In their own homes. Two men. who are believed to have done the shoot ing, have tied and members of the State Constabulary are pursuing the fugitives through the woods. The populace is aroused to fury and a lynching Is not Improbable If the fugitives, one of whom is John Marks, a grocer, and the other, Tony I'urny. n miner, are captured snd brought to Niidway. Two Dogs Kill Forty Hens. Mnuch Chunk. Two young dogs owned by Josiah Strohl, n farmer residing about ten mlb-s Iroin this place, killed forty of his laying hens in one day. The dog.:, which are both young, played with tho hens until all were dead Killed As Kevue Was eur. Shenandoah. The body of Florenx Knrlofsky, who was entombed In Shenandoah City Colliery, was recov ered. Kerlofsk'y was alive Sunday afternon, but perished in a Ferond fall just when the rescuing force was within a few feet of him. Sliumn Steel S'Hkers Win. Sharon. - The American Steel Foundries Company has settled dif ferences with its niolders and core makers liv granting an advance in wages. The core makers will get nn Increase of 3.1 rents a day and tho niolders 2." cents a day. Cancer Victim Chokes To Dentil. Lancaster Samuel Zlnn. a wealthy contractor of Marlindale, died suddenly, a victim or cancer. He was eating dinner when his throat became paralyzed and he choked to death in the presence of his family. He was fifty-seven vears old. Disappearance of Lakes. Whether the globe on which we dwell is gradually drying up or not is a question that has been much de bated. Recent discoveries in central Asia have been regarded by some as favoring an affirmative answer, but others have replied that the observed phenomena are simply periodic changes. Dr, WalBer. of Zurich. champions the affirmative view on ine ground that a great number of European lakes have certainly dis appeared within tho last 230 years. The canton of Zurich, for example, had 149 lakes a quarter of a century ago, and only seventy-six to-day. He believes 'that a similar tendency to disappearance has affected the lr.kes cf Germany and Russia. Youth's Companion. Train Hits Auto Ti-m k. Chester. The Beacon Light Com pany's automobile repair wagon was struck by a fast freight at the Four teenth Street crossing. Elwood Cain, who was operating the car, jumped from tho machine nnd escaped with a sprained ankle. The auto, which was demolished, was hurled across the street. Willliim I. Volin fie In West. Lancaster. Word was received here of the death nt Pasadena, Cali fornia, of William Preston Yohn, a native of Montvllle, this countv. He graduated from Franklin and Mar shall Col'ece and Uie I'nlversity of Pennsylvania Law School. He prac ticed law In Philadelphia with the firm of Simpson & Brown. Younjc Counter Killed. Shenandoah. W!:ile John Con stise, aged 14 year., was coasting at Lest Creek, n suburb, his s'ed struck a wooden footpath. He was thrown on his head, being killed Instantly. Burned Woman Dies At Chester. Chester. Mrs. Patrick Cassldy, an aged woman of the Ninth Ward, who was burned several evenings ago while preparing supper, died at the! ('mutf llftunltof f.,it,t I.. I, ...., u ! Woman Lawyer leaves S(,00). Willies-Burro. The will of Minn Laura Cannon, the well-known wo man lawyer, who died from Injuries sustained in an automobile accident, was probated here. She left an es tate valued at $80,000. An Exaggeration. Her hair looked like a stack of sea moss with strands of oakum and kelp and dried alfalfa twisted through It. Occasionally she pushed tbe bunch back Into place, and it trembled like a living thing. "The trouble with the new fash ions in hair," she drawled, "is the unfortunate fact that the shop girls seize upon the latest arrangements, don't you know, and grossly exagger ate them." She pushed back the stack as she spoke, and six puffs, three short curls, and a yard of fuizy filler fell to the floor with a noiseless thud. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Taking Precaution. A young "Briefless" was pcraai'ju latiug the courts with an air of scarcely being able to And time to do anything when his boy tracked him down in one of the corridors. "Oh, sir!" said the boy, "there's a man at your office with a brief, sir." "What, a brief! Great heavenB!" And tbe young fellow began to run through tbe passages as fast as he could, for fear tho prey should es cape hlia, "Stop, sir, stop!" cried the boy, who could scarcely keep pace. "You needn't hurry, ir; I've locked him in!" il. A. P. Neatly Hit OfT. Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, at on of her dinners at the Bungalow, her picturesque residence at Short Beach, Conn , hit off in a neat epigram a notorious difference in the world's treatment of the sexes. To say," sbe observed, "that every, body fs talking about a young man U an eulogy, but to say tbat everybody is talking about a young woman la an elegy." Washington Star. The pen point production of Btr mlntham, Pu;lind, is 220,000,00 a Nprinuhuven Club's fleet inn. Media. At the annual meeting of Springhaven Country Club It was de cided that the dues for all clauses of membership shall remain the same and that an extra charge thall be made to every member for the privi lege of playing goir. thl charge to be $l.r). Dr. E. Marshall Harvey was elected a director for two years, and the following for three years: Josenh E. Haines, George L. Cutler. Dr. Chas. H. Schoff, Charles It. Lou? and John C. Tawney. Asks Court To Punish His Son. Altoona. Three days ago John Leary wns arrested as a runaway boy, nnd when escorted before Magistrate John D. Irwin, said his home was In Philadelphia. Irwin wrote to the father, Michael Leary. and yesterday received a reply that the bov was ln- corrigible. The father asked that the I iaa d oeait with as severely as tbe iuw wouia anow. Miners Get 7 Per Cent- Advance. Shenandoah. On account of the selling prices or coal at tidewater, Commissioner TVelll nnlifl .it ,k anthracite coal operators that mine worsers were to be nald 7 per cent, above tbe basis for February. Bents Off If iKhwjivnu n. Pottsvllle Held nn hu i.n hi.,t. waymen as he was returning borne rum ine Damiuei or tho Pottsvllle Hlrh School footfall ter.m, Knr p0u telger, raptaln and full-back of the cbamnlonshln eleven nut k..k - u . assatUnts to rout, although he sus- miuru iiHinini nruises and cuts In the unequal battle. As a result of the encounter Pot telger la In bed. He carried a large sum of money, together with a gold watch and other valuables. Burkncll Issues Itoport. Lowlsburg The new BucknellUnl versify cstalogue shows an attendance of 700 students, of whom 627 are in the college. Thera are over fifty In structors in the varloua departments. Tho chief event of tbe year was t' e opening of East College, devote chiefly to engineering, erected at a cost of $85,000. ' Pounds Dynamite With HatrhrU Shenandoah. Anthony Gregus, 14-year-old school boy, found a dyna mite cap. He struck it with a hatchet It exploded, taaring off hla left hand and badly iojuilng his side. Joseph S. Gillard Dies. Chester. Joseph S. Giltord died at his home from a eo'irilleat Ion of din. eases, aged tjii years. For several years he wns In charge of t!ie rhip t'iti,' shoo at the Perm Steel Casting Company's plant. In bis early days he was a school teacher. Itailnnid To Aid Minersv.'lle. Pottsvllle. Philadelphia & Bead ing Hallway officials, after a coher ence with business men of Miners ville, gave assurance that tlie town will bo donated a new passenger sta tion, additional truin service itnj freight extension. Col. William L. Nichols Dies. Glendolen. Colonel William L. Nichols, a veteran of of the Civil War. and a well-known contributor to his torical periodicals, died at his .home In Glendolen ns the resu't of paraly sis. Colonel Nichols who was in his elghtv-flrst year, had been Justice of tho Pence In Darby township and In Glendolen borough for more than thirty years. Drops Spnrk Iu Cap llox. , Hazeltou. A spark falling from his lamp into a box of 100 dynamite caps, as he wns taking one out to en-pare for a blast, John Eckcrt. a Harwond miner, sustained injuries tbat will prove fatal. Wllkes-Psrre. Tho grocery store of Miller and Fophcn. Charles Solo mon's shoe store and H. Levlnskl's wholesa'e liquor Btore In the town of Luzene, near here, were destroy ed by fire. Loss, $40,000. Chester. At a meeting of the re isia"ve CommlMee or tn poj of Trade a resolution was idnned Urg. Ing Senators Penrose nnd Oliver anl Congressman Sutler to do alt In their rower to defeat the postal salnga bank bill. G'e-Tn fcleen On Track; Del. Wl'llamsnort. J. A. Cssselberrv. 29 vears ld, of Troctor, this county while walking from Powell to Mon-rot-town. at down on the Fusoue'-an. na ind New York- Pallroad to await sever! friends. He fell Into a dox.. A 'flTht trln struck Mm t-ai-. ed Injurea V at caused his death. Some of the earliest exporfations of palm oil were made from Liberia, so that Llber'a was not only the first to commercially plavsava and Intro, dure tt to Eurone anil A nmri. . k It was imom the first to commercial ize and Introduce pclra oil to tbe foreign markets.
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