OUR LITTLE ONES. They are such tiny feet; Ttaejr have none such little way to meet The year which are required to nreak Their steps to erenneaa and make Them go More sure and Mow. They are such little hand; Be kind. Thing are ao new, and life but stands A step beyond the doorway. All around New day has found Such tempting thing to ahine upon, and so The handa are tempted hard, you know. They are auch new, young lives V Purely their newness shrives Them well of many sins. They tee so much That being immortal they would touch, That if they reach ,Ve must not chide, but teach. They are auch fond, clear eyea That widen to surprise At every turn; they are so often held To suns or showers showers soon dispelled By looking in our face; Love auks, for auch, much grace. They are such fair, frail gifts; Uncertain aa the rifts Of light that lie along the aky They may not be here by-and-by Give them not love, but more above And harder patience with tba love. Gtorge Klingle. On the Trigger's Pull. by uwendolen Overtoil. ' There la always trouble of one sort t another when a woman meddles vita fnose things which do not con cern her sex. I Obviously, carbines were none ot Hiss Mlvart's concern. If she felt that she had to play with fire-arms, he should have kept to Flobert rifles. Nothing would do, however, but that she must learn to shoot a carbine, .nd the result was that the whole post rose up and cut Burton to a man; so that there was no peace for Kim any longer in that regiment, and bad to seek transfer to another. (There were other reaultB, also, but they come further on. 1 Some thought that what Miss Mivart did was done on purpose, and tome thought that It was a piece of Idiotic silliness. The latter based Iheir argument upon the general frlvolousness of her ways, and upon the Innocency of her round, blue eyes. fThe former held to the belief that Miss Mlvart was one of those women favorites of Fortune who look greater fools than they are. They said, with m certain show of reason, that Geor gia Mivart was a child of the service auid not an importation from civil life. She had been born in a garrison sind bad played with rows of empty, green-rimmed cartridge shells at an use when most little girls play with wper dolls. She bad bummed snatches of the bugle calls before she could talk, and the person she had sulmlred the most and obeyed the best Cor the first dozen years ot her life bad been Kreutzer, Captain Mlvart's tow-headed Btrlker. A few years of tioardlng school back East could not jhave obliterated all that, i Besides, the veriest civilian, who feas never come nearer to a carbine than to watch a Fourth of July militia parade, might reasonably be expected to know by intuition that in a .target practice competition every trigger has got to pull Just so bard, whatever the regulation number or fraction of pounds may be. Otherwise It is plain that the nearer you come to a hair trigger the better your aim will be. i However, whether Miss Mivart was fully aware of what she was doing, aobody ever knew, unless perhaps it was Grevllle and be, like Zulelka, ever told. But Burton bad a bad time of It, and all his beautiful score (rent for worse than nothing at all. That, though, was the end. And the beginning ought to come first. The beginning was when Miss Mivart undertook to learn to shoot a carbine. There was a target practice compe tition going on at the post; not one which is of any interest to the service, r even to the department at large; Just a little local affair, devised to keep np the spirits of the troops and to lighten tbe monotony ot life. There were three contests, one tor troops and companies, as such; one for individual privates, and one for the officers. This last was to finish off, and then there was to be a big hop. Every one knew from the first, when Burton and Oreville shot with their troops, that the officers com petition would lie between them. This made it interesting in more ways than one, because the rivalry was not con lined to the target range, but extend ed to the Winning of Mlaa Mlvart's and and heart, and every one be lieved that this would settle a matter she did not appear to be able to settle tor herself. Not that she was to blame for that. Any one, even a per son mucn more certain of her own mind than Miss Mivart was, would have been put to it to choose. Tbey were both first lieutenants, uu uom cavalrymen, and both good to look upon. Burton was fair and u.miio was uttra, duc ane had no fixed prejudices regarding that. 8be sad often aald so. Also, both were as auch In love with her as even aha ould have wished, and were more man willing that all .the world should see Jt than which nothing Is more Pleasant and soothing to a light minded woman. The rifle contest lasted ten days, during which time the air hummed with tbe ping and sing ot bullets over on the range, and with tht calls ot be markers in the rifle-pits. Only cores and records and bets were thought and talked about. Miss Mivart herself bad bet, with all the daring wickedness of a kitten teasing a beetle. She even went so far as to bet on both Burton and Ore- vine at once. The adjutant under took to explain to her that that was tailed "hedging," and was not looked Don as sltogether sporty. Miss Mivart was hurt. Was It really dis honest, she wsnted to know. The Adjutant felt that he had been unkind. He hastened to assure her that It was not not dishonest In tbe least; only that It look away from the excitement of the thing to a certain extent. Miss Mivart smiled and shook ber head. Xo, she didn't think that It did, be ue, ot course, she knew which one wanted to have win. Tit adju tant admitted tbat that might possi bly be just as Interesting for herself and the fortunate man. And which was he. If he might ask. Miss Mivart shook her head and smiled again. No, she didn't think be might ask. As the man himself didn't know, she could hardly tell any one else just yet, could she? She bad ber own ideas about fair play. "I can shoot a carbine myself." she told the adjutant, with her cleft chin proudly raised; "and my shoulder is all black and blue. Mr. Burton is teaching me." "Oh! " said the adjutant, "and what does Grevllle think about that?" The adjutant was married, so be was out ot the running. "Mr. Grevllle Is teaching me. too." said Georgia; "and here he comes for me now." Burton was safe on the target range, over behind the barracks. Miss herself. Grevllle, therefore, thought that she was angry, and his heart was filled with contrition. Yet he was old and wise enough to be a flrBt lieu tenant. He walked beside her back to the post In a state ot bumble dejec tion she could not understand. The next morning It was Burton's turn. Grevllle was over on the range now, vainly trying to bring his record up to where Burton's was. This time Miss Mivart fired at a white paste board box cover, and bit It three times out of twenty. She was jubilant and so was Burton, because she was mak ing such progress under his tuition. "That's an easy carbine to shoot, Isn't It?" she asked, as they wandered home; "It Isn't at all hard to pull the trigger." Burton glanced nt her, and she met his eyes Innocently. "It's Just like any other trigger," he told her. "Tes, of course. And Is that the very same carbine you use In the com petitionthe one you shot with yes terday, and will use this afternoon when you finish up?" He told her that It was. "Well," she said complacently, "I think I'm doing very nicely, don't you? I hit the target three times, and my first finger doesn't hurt a bit this morning." Tbat afternoon the competition came to an end, with Burton a good many points ahead of Grevllle. And that night there was the big hop. It had been understood from the first that the man who won was to take Miss Mivart to the hop. So she went over with Burton, and gave him one third of her dances. Grevllle had an other third, and the rest were open to tbe post at large. Grevllle did not look happy at all. It was not the target record he minded. He never thought about that. It was having to go down the board walk to the hop room behind Burton, and to watch Miss Mivart leaning on his arm, and looking up Into his face from under the white mists of her lace hood. He was not consoled at all when she looked up Into bis own face even more sweetly at the beginning of the second dance, and whispered tbat she was "ad sorry." Now, as the second dance had been Grevllle's, the third was Burton's. Utilizing Straw. Owing to Its abundance straw Is added to barnyard manure, but It can be made more serviceable If made fine with the feed cutter before being used. While straw may soon rot after being mixed with manure, yet In a fine condition It Is a much better ab sorbent and can be forked into the manure with advantage. When load ing and spreading manure there Is a saving of labor when handling that which Is fine, and the manure will be more valuable because the loss of am monia will be arrested by the use ot suitable absorbent materials. Eplto mist. Pedigreed Stock Tradi. If you expect to sell hogs at fancy prices you must produce fancy hogs. Too many breeders are content with a fancy pedigree, expecting the blood lines of the animal to carry It Into popularity. While it is very essential that an animal have a desirable pedigree. It is all the more essential that the animal Itself possess Individual merit. As Boon as breeders of pedigreed hogs come to a full understanding that the animal produced must pos sess greater merit In connection with the pedigree then the people will readily pay a good price for It. regard less of whether or not public demand Is strong for such animals. Farm ers' Home Journal. 1 WHAT IS MUSIC? MANY DEFINITIONS BY FAMOUS MEN. T Is In music, perhaps, that the soul most nearly attains the great end for which, when Inspired by the poetic sen timent, It struggles the creation of sunernal beau.tv. It may be, Indeed, that here this sublime end Is now and then attained In fact. We are often made to feel, with a shivering delight, that from an earthly harp are stricken notes which 2 could not have been unfamiliar to the angels. Edgar X Allen Poe. ft Music is the language spoken by angels. Longfellow. I Music is the child of prayer, the companion ot religion. X Chateaubriand. Music loosens the heart that care has bound. Byrd. MubIc is love in search ot a word. Sidney Lanier. $ Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. Samuel j Johnson. Music Is a shower bath of the soul, washing away all that A is impure. Schopenhauer. j In music all hearts are revealed to us. Shorthouse. T My language is understood all over the world. Haydn. $ Music is a thing of tbe soul; a rose-lipped shell that mur- jtj murs of the eternal sea; a strange bird singing the songs of another shore. J. G. Holland. fWbat love is to man, music la .to the arts and to man kind. Von Weber. . Music is the first, the simplest, tbe most effective of all $ instruments of moral Instruction. Ruskin. j $ It is music's lofty mission to shed light on the human m 3J soul. Schumann. jj m Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday j life. Auerbach. g JjJ Music is the only sensual qualification mankind may In- jj , dulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious q feelings. Addison. S Jg Music is to the mind as air is to the body. Plato. jj A Music Is a higher manifestation than all wisdom and 3 jj philosophy. Beethoven. jj $ Music Is the only perfect language ot all .the higher jj m emotions. Abbott. g Music Is the only one ot all the arts tbat does not corrupt jj HI the mind. Montesquieu. Jj Were it not for music we might in these days say the 3 9 beautiful is dead. Disraeli. jj I We cannot imagine a complete edcuation of man without 3 n music. It is the gymnastics ot the affections. In suitable sj $ connection with, exercises, it is necessary to keep body and jj Z soul in health. Rlchter. j Mivart and Grevllle went In tbe other direction, by the back of the officers' row, over In the foothills across the creek. Grevllle nailed the top of a big red pasteboard box to the trunk ot a tree, and Miss Mivart hit it once out ot sixteen times when she was aiming at the head of a prairie dog at least twenty feet away to the right. The other fifteen shots were scattered among the foothills. Then her shoulder hurt her so that she was ready to cry. Grevllle would have liked to have her cry upon bis own shoulder, but, as she didn't, be did some fancy shooting to distract her. He found a mushroom can, and threw It Into the air and filled It full ot holes. She had seen Burton do the same thing that morning with a to mato can. In fact, from where she sat now, on a lichen-covered rock, she could see the mutilated can glittering in the sun, over beyond the arroyo. So she thirsted for fresher sensations. "I'll tell you," she said to Oreville, as he held up the mushroom can for her to inspect tbe eight hole he had mads with five shots, "let m toss up your hat, and you make a hole through the trademark In the crown," It was a nice, new straw hat. Ore ville had sent East for It and It bad come by stags the day before. It had cost him, express paid, four dollars and seventy-five ceuts. This, too, at a time whan anything ha had left after settling his mess and sutler's and tailor's bills, went Into stick pins and candy and books and music and riding whips for Miss Mivart. But he took oft tbs hat and gave It to her without a lingering glance at that high-priced tradomark within. And be felt tbat It was worth tour times four dollars and -seventy-five cents when she picked up tbe tattered re mains, at last, and asked It she might have them to hang In her room. Then she looked down at her grimy hand and considered tbe first finger, crooking it open and shut. "I think It's going to swell," she pouted. "That Is a perfectly awtul trigger to pull." ' Grevllle did what any man might have been expected to do. Ha caught tbe hand end kissed It. Miss Mivart looked absolutely unconscious ot It 8he might hav been tea mllu away That was the way It had been ar ranged. As the band began tbe waltz. Miss Mivart stood beside Grevllle In the centre ot quite a group. The commanding officer was In the group, so was Burton's captain, and so was the adjutant. There were some others as well, and also some women. Miss Mivart may have chosen that position, or It may almply have happened so. Anyway, Just aa the waltz started. Burton, light-hearted and light footed, came slipping sliding over the candle-waxed floor, and pushed his way into the midst. "Ours," be said triumphantly. But MIbs Mivart did not heed him at once. She was telling them all how she had learned to shoot a car bine as well as any one, and they, the men, at any rate, were hanging on het words. "Mr. Grevllle taught me," she said, "and so did Mr. Burton." (This was the first either had known of the otb er s part in it, ana they exchanged a look.) "They taught me with their own carbines, too. Tbe very same ones they used themselves in the com petition. But I shot best with Mr Burton's carbine. He must have fixed his trigger to pull more easily; It was almost like, what do you call It, a hair-trigger?" She looked about for an answer, and saw on their faces a stare ol stony horror and surprise. They bsd moved a little away from Burton, and tbe commanding officer's steely eyes were on hi face. The face bad turned white, even with the sunburn, and Burton's voice was just a trifle) unsteady as he spoke. "This Is our dance, I think, Mist Mivart,". ha said. "No," she told him, "I think you are mistaken. It is Mr, Grevllle's dance." And she turned and laid het hand on Grevllle's arm. Argonaut. A Yearning For Home. "Wars you ever homesick?" asked the. statesman who has been abroad. "Frequently," replied tbe blunt col league. "X feel that way every time you pass out one ot those long speeches." Washington Star, The supply ot ostrich fea,thtr comes generally from Africa. How to Tell a Frpsh F.jjs. It is easily possible to tell the dif ference between a fresh ess and a cold storage egg without breaking tbe shell, and dealers in the District Of Columbia who sell stored eggy for "strictly fresh" ones may be prose cuted and convicted, according to statements to-day of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the Government's chief chem ist, at the "high cost of living" hear ing being conducted by a House sub committee. Dr. Wiley had a large number of fresh eggs and some ot the cold stor age variety. Dropping them into a large vessel of water containing ten per cent, salt solution, the fresh eggs Immediately sank to the bottom and the refrigerated ones floated on the surface. When asked how he knew the eggs were fresh. Dr. Wiley re plied that one of his Inspectors saw the hens lay them yesterday. Feeding Lambs. One of the most Inviting and profit able ot the animal Industries now is the feeding of lambs for the city mar kets. A few feeders are undertaking this line of feeding with great suc cess. No other young animal makes so large and profitable a growth as the lamb, no other young animal be gins to feed profitably so early as tbe lamb does. Lambs are very little trouble to feed; all they need is a rail or board pen open at the bottom sufficiently for them to crawl under; set this pen In the pasture. They should be fed meal In a V-shaped trough. The ewes cannot enter but will try to and thus encourage the lambs to go In; they will soon learn to eat, and the appetite will increase rapidly with their growth. As newly weaned lambs as a general thing bring the highest price in the market, this method ot disposing of the lambs Is to be encouraged. A Reader, in the Indiana Farmer. Alfalfa Will Grow Everywhere. While experts have been declaring that alfalfa would only grow in cer tain soils and In certain climates it has proven adaptability to nearly all climates and almost all soils. It pro duces with a rainfall as scant as four teen inches, and in the Gulf States flourishes with sixty-five Inches. It gives crops at an elevation of 8000 feet above sea level, and In southern California It grows below sea level to a height of Eix feet or over, with nine cuttings a year, aggregating ten to twelve tons. An authenticated pho tograph in possession of tbe writer shows a wonderful alfalfa plant raised In the (Irrigated) desert of southern California, sixty feet below sea level, that measured considerably more than ten feet in height. Satis factory crops are raised, but on lim ited areas as yet, In Vermont and Florida. New York has grown it for over one hundred years in her clay and gravel; Nebraska grows It in her western sand hills without plowing, as does Nevada on her Bage-brush desert. The depleted cotton soils of Alabama and rich corn lands ot Illi nois and Missouri each respond gen erously with profitable yields to the enterprising farmer, while Its accum ulated nitrogen and the sub-soiling it effects are making the rich land more valuable and giving back to the crop worn the priceless elements of which i . , i. i .... , un iiov uuou in MuctesBive generations J despoiled by a conscienceless hus- uanary. from uouurn s "The Book of Alfalfa." Poultry Success. Success with poultry Is had by "knowing how." This Is not learned in a day, or even a year, as we have found by experience. In 1876 at the World's Fair they had royal birds Asiatics, European and Mediterranean, but no barn yard fowls. This was a world's fair and the barn yards were not In it. In our boyhood days this barn yard tribe furnished eggs in profusion. When we saw those royal birds we thought they offered royal road to success, but our Idea of royalty then differs from what It Is now. Experience with those royal birds showed that royal birds, like royal people, are "poor stuff" to build success upon. The Asiatics were too Indolent to keep healthy, and the corn crib low ered rapidly. Europeans were too quarrelsome. It took a large range to hold them and outside ot egg pro duction they were not suitable. We then secured Houdans and Rocks; these proved more profitable than any ot tbe former kinds. When the R. I. Reds came around we found in them m dtal fowl tor th farm. and so far they have proved ahead of anything ever tried. What Is necessary for success? Three things are most essential: Right kind of hens. Right kind of shelter. Right kind ot food. These three given by the right kind of man or woman Insure success, es pecially when in charge ot the wo man. Right kind of hens are first; Early hatched pullets; good healthy one year olds, after moulting. Best kind ot shelter does not mean costly houses. Rooms should be warm, light, dry and roomy, and well protected from all draughts of cold winds. Best kinds of feeds are a variation of the grain, green feeds when possi ble; when not, tbe want supplied with damped clover or alfalfa hay; ani mal food or In place of it milk; fresh water at all times. Whole corn should be fed at nights; If roasted, so much the bet ter. As ti breeds. For farmers the Mediterranean breeds are well adapted, where wide range is given. They will not bear cIobo confinement. The Reds are the best all around breed we have tried, docile and quiet In habit, good foragers, and require little feed when not penned. In se curing fowls one should buy only of reliable breeders, as only the best should be used for building up a flock. Secure breeds of early matur ity, good size, shape and good egg producing qualities. J. H. H., in the Indiana Farmer. Farm Notes. A well fowl needs no medicine. Don't doctor and dope unnecessarily. The breeder Is. a bigger factor than the breed In modern poultry culture. The very best stork will not be long In degenerating if not properly fed and cared for. Sweet apples that are not salable are greatly relished and an excellent feed for the fowls. Scald out the drinking vessels every few weeks; it kills germs and prevents diseases from starting. The poultry house is more con venient, more easily cleaned and more easily kept cleaned if everything in it Is readily movable. Regularity In feeding and other general management Is Important with poultry, and especially don't for get to be regular in cleaning up. The best medicine for any animal or fowl is preventive; hence their food and general surroundings should be such as to promote health. It is disputed as to whether to feed soft food In the morning or evening, but the general tendency now seems to favor morning feeding of mashes. One of the best feeds for poultry la green bone. It stimulates health and egg-production, and can be se cured cheaply at any meat market. Don't neglect it! If your chicken house roof leaks, fix it or get out of the poultry busi ness. Chickens are as well off out doors as in a house that permits drafts and dampness. A few tobacco leaves crushed in the bottom of each nest will be a great help in exterminating vermin both In the nest and on the bodies of the heus which visit the nest. It is rank nonsense to allow the droppings to lie In the house, week in and week out, engendering' disease and breeding lice; and then the poul tryman wonders why bis hens don't lay. Look out for a supply of grit dur ing the winter months. It la urapco then because the ground is frozen. but it is of more vital importance than in the summer. Hens must have teeth. The man who keeps on year after year breeding the best in Mb chosen variety, gardless of the public fancy for new b,ieds, will get good prices for his birds oftener than he will miss them. From "Timely Poultry Hints," in the Epitomlst. Confucius. Confucius regarded his own litVna a failure. He spoke against ambition. yet he coveted high office, nothing less than that of political adviser to some great ruler. A man of the hleh. est lineage in China, he was yet poor, ana early supported himself by teach ing, rtis pupils showed him an ex traordinary devotion. The nick of the young men In his native State of LiU sat at bis feet, and it was they who transmitted his tremendous in fluence. But Confucius saw not his Immortal success but his temporal failure. Only a few brief years did circumstances permit him to exercise bis practical genius for government. He became first a magistrate, then chief criminal judge In Lu, and, to quote Professor Lee-cm rim. ceased." Confucius, however, became dissatisfied with the ruler whom he served, a weak man who neglected bis' duty and gave himself up more and more to dissipation. So be resigned his post and banished himself. Lon don Spectator. A Cat Twenty Vears Old. John Ferguson, ot Clark's Mills, Without much doubt haa the oldest cat in York County, It not In Maine. He is ot good old fashioned New Eng land breed, none of tbe fancy variety, and was raised as a kitten In th fam ily. If he lives four months longer he will be twenty years old. Tho cat's appetite la not ao rahuai it once was, and he isn't bothering much bdouc rats ana mice, but his health is fairly good, and uo child In York County gets better care than tbe Ferguson family gives this venerable fellno. Lewlston Journal. ' NEWS OF PENNSYLVANIA Youth Turns Burglar. Pittsburg. "The life of a burglar appealed to me. There's action 1n It," said Stephen Austin, a college graduate, who, upon being arrested confessed to holding up two drug. store proprietors and several pedes trians In the Oakland and East End sections. His crimes bad terrorized these sections for the past ten days Austin was trying to adjust a re volver In his hip pocket when it ex ploded. The accident led to his ar rest as a suspicious person, and upon being questioned he confessed to a long string of robberies, reciting In detail how each one was committed. "I was just doing these email jobs," be said, to keep living. I was wait ing for a big haul I had In sight. When I came to pull It off the plain clothes men were so thick about the place that I had to wait." Austin refuses to name his unl verslty, but says his home Is In In diana, near Terre Haute. His con fession made to Superintendent of Police Thomas X. McQuade, and his answers, according to the supcrlnten. dent, were straightforward and dis pelled all doubt as to the truth of his statements. His dotoils of his crimes also tend to substantiate the truth of the prisoner's statements. He selected young men, he said, be cause they were easily Intimidate J, and he round It a "cinch to work In this city." After holding up the drug stores Austin aald he would change his clothing and return to observe the police searching for clues. Aistln said he had worked the same practices In Chicago, Cincinnati and Columbus. Grangers In Oleo War. Harrlsburg. Members of the Ex ecutive and legislative Committee of the State Grange asked Governor Edwin S. Stuart to use his best efforts to drive from Pennsylvania all sellers of oleomargarine which Is not proper ly branded, and expressed to him the desire of the farming and dairying interests of the State that manufac turers be restrained from using any coloring matter whatever In the but ter substitute. They asked that the act of 1901 relative to the licensing of oleomargarine dealers be more strictly enforced, and that licenses be refused to persons who had been cov vlcted of selling the product Illegally. Remarks were also made by Thom as Sharpless, of West Chester, rep resenting the State Dairy Union; John A. MoSparren, Lancaster; Represen tative Jerome Allinan. Juniata Coun ty, and Colonel H. C. Demmlng, Harrlsburg. Trolley Leave Track. Chester. A trolley car on the Up land division of the Chester Traction Company jumped the tracks and col lided with a pole. The violent Impact threw the passengers from their seats. Miss Florence Guyer. of Upland, was struck by flying pieces of glass, whirh inflicted lacerations on her face and hands. The front of the car was bad ly damaged. It was so cold In New York part or tbe winter ot 1779 that residents of tbs vicinity were compelled to cut down tie tall trees that stood at! what Is now the head ot Wall Street to niako kiadUag wood. Fight At Christening. Chester. According to her testi mony berore Alderman Holt, Mrs. Barbara Schennlao was roughly used while playing the part of a peacemak er at a christening held at the home of Helka Colllca. the defendant, whom she charged with striking her In the face and knocking her to the floor. She said Colllca and her hus band engaged in a lively mlx-up when she tried to separate them. Then, she alleges, Colllca knocked her down and left ber lying In a semi-conscious condition on the floor while he pro ceeded to thrash her husband. At the hearing Colllca begged for mercy when the aMerman bound him over for court. Mrs. Schennlse finally took pity on him and withdrew the charge. Fatally Shot. West Chester. J. C. McN'amara, a wealthy farmer In Elk Township, was shot and fatally wounded by William Burke in the Farmers' Home. It appears that the two men had a dispute over a few dollars owing Burke, who proceeded to MeNam ara's home with a shotgun loaded with buckshot. Tbe farmer seeing the gun Bald: "Hurke, If I pav you $10 you won't shoot me. will you?" Burke replied he wouldn't. While the farmer was at a desk getting the money Burke shot him, the con tents of the gun lodging in his stom ach. McNarania is in a dying con dition. Burke fled and has not yet been overtaken. Ilurglar Gets A Meal. Chester. A burgular. with a keen appetite an In search of shelter for for the night, broke Into the Chester Grocers' and Butchers' Association's headquarters, maJe a fire to warm himself and prepared a meul from canned goods. A can of sardines, one of pineapple and another of salmon were used, and the only traces of the intruder's visit were a broken window and the empty cans on the floor. Increase Stork To $,7.V.0(0. The Mldvale Steel Company, of Philadelphia, filed notice at the State Capitol of an Increase of $9,000,000 In Its capital stock, the Increase being from $750,000 to $9,750,000. Tho company paid the State a bonus of $30,000. Diphtheria At Ilwrvllle. Chester. An epidemic of diphthe ria Is raging in the village or Lei per. vllle, two miles north of this city. There arJ -utte a number of cases, but no deaft.a have been reported. The publlo schools rsve been closed on account of the contagion. Glad Fop Indian Appropriation. Carlisle. Carlisle people were gratified at hearing of the passage in Congress of the bill carrying an appropriation of $170,000 for the further maintenance of the Carlisle Indian School. Killed By Train. Bristol. John Bailey Cutler, aged 69, a resident of Fallslngton, Falls Township, w,as struck by an east bound express train on the Pennsyl vania Railroad at Wheatsbeaf and was Instant)? killed. Being deaf he did not bear the approach of the train. $2,500 For Five Toes. Sunbury. The Reading Railroad Company In court gave $3,500 to Miss Martha Kress, because a train amputated five toes from hir foot. Pies; Divorce Cure. Reading. Harvey Grelger claims the pie-eating championship of Read ing and is anxious to meet anyone who disputes his title to fame. He Is very proud of his recent success In a match held at the Red Men's Fair, which he won by consuming two im mense huckleberry pies in three min utes with bis hands tied behind bis back, defeating three crackerjack pie eaters. "The pie is the national emblem, In my opinion," said Mr. Grelger. "An. drew Carnegie ought to do something for the pie-eaters, for we are the de fenders of the national food produce American pies. Persons who eat pie are always good humored and of kindly dispositions, and they make good citizens. If more husbands were fed on pie every day, there would be fewer divorces in this country." Shoots HiniHClf. Butler "111 get you." shouted Bowman R. Sevhorr aoa fin a ho slept in the office chair of Redlck's livery stable. "I'll get you." he kept repeating, and drawing a heavy revolver he be gan firing. Two shots struck tho office walls, and a third hit his own head, Seybert rolled from the rhair and awoke from a sleep to rind him self on the floor bleeding. At the first shot, John Conrad, a stable hand, fled out a window. beyburt said he was dreanlng that he was pursued bv ed to kill him, and that he fired in seir-uerense. His wound is serious. Free Hoy; Illume Company. Carbondale. James McCool, a boy under 15 years of aie, employed as a hoisting engineer by the Morse Hill Coal Company, of this city, in viola tion of the State mining law and orders of Inspector P. J. Moore, caused the death of Michael McDon ough a few day ago. by leaving his engine and letting a trip of cars run away. The Coroner's Jury, however, ex onerated the boy, owing to his vouth. and held the coal company responsi- oie lor tne man s death. A year ago the Inspector ordered McCoot's dismissal. The officials obey ed, but engaged him again a few weeks later. He gets 10 cents an hour for 10 hours a day. Traffic Tied Vp, Corry. With snow banked twentr feet high on either Hide of the Penn sylvania track between here and Brocton, N. Y., a powder snow tied up all traffic. Four freights are some where in the cuts and passenger trains are being sent to Buffalo by the Erie and the Lake Shor- I'mhihitionlMts Name Ticket. Bethlehem. Prohlbitionlsta nt tho Eighteenth Senatorial District held a caucus here and prepared both State ana county slates for the next election. John Herbst, or Chapman Quarries, was nominated for State Senator, and Morris W. Arner. of Boston: Titus Strock, of Bethlehem, and BenJomin E. Bender, of Belfast, for Assemblymen. OpjMHtc I toad Bond Nsuc. Altoona. Hlair County Pomona Grange went on record as being o; posed to the county Insuing bonds to the extent of $400,000 ror the Im provement or the roads of the county, "because there Is no definite or stand ard plan which Justifies the expense" The resolutions condemn the move ment "as premature and under the present road legislation as tending to pave the way for praft and misuse the people's money." Thieve PtoiiiIko To Cull Again. Chester. "Have your ducks fat-' tened up and we will call later ror them," were the contents of a note that John Robinson found tacked on the door or bis chicken house t!n other morning. He round that thi thieves had gotten away with fifteen or his choicest rowls, but did not take any or the ducks. This makes the sixth time Robinson's chicken house was visited by thieves during the past two months. Drinks Iodine In MNtake. Chester. George Welsh, a youne man to Crum Lynne. was aJmitted to the Chester Hospital in an un conscious condition suffering from the effects or a dose of iodine which ho drank in mistake for Jatuacla ginger to relieve him or a pain in the atrio men. Welsh's life was saved by the use of n stomach pump and restoratives. ItaKe For Trolley Men. Altoona. Employees of the Al toona and Logan Valley Street Rail way Company have been notified that they will be granted an Increase of 5 per cent in wages, to take effert April 1. The system Is owned by the American Railways Compuny. Too Much '"o- 7" ' ;, ork. Hy wielding a po:.er :n a vigorous manner Kerwln Folkomer. or this city, succeeded In driving freu' bia home twn wnnlH.ha Kn.iFi.. if.. was reading when be hard inieoie trying to effect an entrance. Hlo"-n r out the light and grabbing a revolver and poker. Folkomer met tbe men at the door. One of them nver1 him with a revolver, but this h wrested form the fellow's grasp an! theu got busy with the poker. New Trolley Line For Johnstown. A 8tate charter was Issued to the) Johnstown Traction Company to on erate the trolley lines In thst cltr and vicinity. Including boroughs In Cambria and Somerset Counties The capital Is $500,000, of which il. M duPont holds all but six shares. Bees Train Kill Her Huhhand. Shamokln. Stephen Koachln was killed by Pennslyvanla Railroad passenger train near here. In view of his wife, who was walking on another track. Command In Vision. Franklin. Saying he had been commanded by the Lord. In a vision, to rebuild the United Brethren Church, near his home, R. a. Dey, a reputable farmer, startel to rals $1,200 for that purpose. The build ing was destroyed more than a year ago. It was erected by Baptiots. who later sold It to tbe United Brethren. Mr. Dey says be had no tbousht of the building for tlx months beforo the vision. Mr. Dey has secured $200, the peo ple having tbe utmost confident la his integrity. .
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