A PROSPEROUS YEAR.
THE PENNSYLVANIA It.AILUOAD COM.
I'ANV'rS ANNUAL Itlil'OKT,
LOSS BY THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD.
A Large Net Gain During the Year—The
Destruction of the Company'* Prop
erty In the Conemanglt Valley—The
Cost of Kepalr—lmprovements Under
Way—Some CouipartMuna With Oilier
lloarl*.
The annual report of tlie Hoard of Di
rectors of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company for 1889 just made pubi c
shows the gross earnings on the whole
system to have been $122,917,337, or SO,-
408.044 larger than in 1888, and the net
earnings were $89,100,209, an increase of
$3 334.202.
These-are the largest earnings in lite
history of lite company, a remarkable
fact when it is remnnbeicd that curing
the whole month of June, owing to the
Johnstown flood, the main line of the
road was partly closed up. The number
of tons of freight carried was 122,104, .18,
an increase of 11,220,274 tons, ami ihe
number of passengers carried was 78,128,-
957, an increase of 4,120.871. The lines
both east and west ot Pittsburg comprise
7844 miles.
Dividends to the amount of $5,327,270,
or 5 percent., were paid and the balance,
$3,328,041, was transferred to the credit
of profit and loss less deduction on ac
count of the floods, $2,489,954. The bal
ance to the credit of profit and loss was
therefore increased $338,087, and the
item now stands at $20,008,055.
That part of the report referring lo ilie
loss of the company'by the June floods
reads as follows :
"On the 31s' of May the extraordinary
rainfall began, and following marly the
trend of the mountain rangu over which
your system of lines passes, caused an
unparalleled destruction of properly, not
only upon your Main Line, hut many of
the other roads forming your system.
In the Juniata Valley three of the larg
est and most expensive double-track
bridges, two of which bad recently been
inbuilt, were entirely destroyed, together
with several miles of track.
TUB JOHNSTOWN FLOOD.
" The greatest destruction both of life
and property took place hnwev
cr on the western slope of the
mountain, in the Couemaugli Val
ley, where a reservoir (originally
constructed by the Statu of Pennsylvania
for its canal system) gave way, and com
pletely destroyed your road for a distance
, of over ten miles, including several large
bridges, and nil the machine-simps,
round-houses, and yard f icilities nl (Jon
emaugli, itl the foot of the mountain, lite
destruction being so complete that it was
almost impossible to fix the locution fotm
erly occupied by your property. Among
the properly damaged and destroyed were
twenty-four passenger cars, 501 Ireigl.t
cars, thirty-four locomotives, some of i tie
latter, notwithstanding their weight, be
ing carried more thau a mile by the fence
of the flood. While this loss of property
was appalling in its magnitude, yet it was
more thau overshadowed bf tue great de
struction of life and properly in the man
ufacturing ci'y of Johns'own, a short dis
tance below Couemaugh, in tlie same
vuiley.
•' In addition to the destruction of pinp
erty on your Main Lin many of the
largest and most important bridges ou
the Philadelphia and Brie road weie en-
tirely destroyed, while cntlie Blinira ami
' Wiilhunsport line (leased to the Northern
Central liailroad Company) several miles
of railway, including many bridges, were
washed away.
" The lota! amount expended to- Dec
ember 81si, 1880, in repairing the loss
caused by the Hoods to your system was
$3,475,423.01, leaving still a considerable
sum lo he expended to restore it to its
original condition. This outlay does not
include the indirect loss from the sus
pension of trattle and the serious interrup
tion lo the working of your entire system
caused thereby.
" The services of as many of your offi
cers and employes as could be spared
from your system of lines both east and
west of Pittsburgh were concentrated
night and day unon the work of repair
ing these disasters ; and notwithstanding
their ma.giii'iidc Ihe nwveni nt of
traffic was resumed within eight tins.
Too much credit cannot be given lo them
for their skill, energy, and unremitting
devotion lo this work, to which is largely
due the fact lliat your properties wen
able tu recover so promptly from tin
serious disasters which had overtaken
ihem."
I.ONTKM PI.ATKD I .VIPKOVKMKNTs.
Tile improvements under way include
locomotive shops al Altoona, a bridge
over the Ohio river at Pittsburgh, tbe
C instruction of the cut-oil from Down
ington to a point near Trenton and a new
line from Downington to Lancaster via
New Holland, important improvements
on tlie New York water front, and large
expeditures to avoid grade crossings in
Philadelphia and other cities.
* The business of tbe Philadelphia. Wil
mington & Baltimore, Northern Central,
Cumberland Vallev, and other auxiliary
lilies are not included iu tbe above fig
ure.-. If they were the gross earnings
would be more than $130,000,000. The
gross turning of tbe Pennsylvania Bail
road in 188!) were $85,000,000 larger than
its largest trunk line rival, the New York
Central, nnd more than double those of
the Beading, triple those of Ihe Lacka
wanna, and more than live times the
amount earned by the Baltimore A Ohio,
On the lines east of Pittsburgh, fbe com-
puny earned $61,514 445, tlie net earn
ings were $10,375,487, an increase of sl.-
143,192. The gross e rrnings per mile on
the main iine were 481,788 against $77.-
034 during (lie previous year. The main
line and branches made $10,870,341 net,
the New York division $138,712. and the
Philadelphia & trie lost $10,310. The
profit on the New York division is the
lirst. for many years. The pencentage of
local freight lo the whole trnttie fell from
87.08 per cent, in 1888. to 80.89 per cenl.
in 1889, the change being made by opera
tions on the New York division. The
percentage of through freight was 13.13
per cent, against 12 42 per cent, last year.
On the main line the percentage of through
freight was but 7.11 per cent, on
the Philadelphia & Brie 9.50 per cent.,
and on the New York division but 30.58
percent. On the main line the percent
age of through East bound freight in
creased 4 23-100 per cent. The local
freight shows an increase of 7 51 100 per
cent. East bound and 18 49-100 per cent.
West hound. The average earnings from
each passenger per mile was 2.082 cents,
against 2 092 cents in 1888; the cost of
transportation was 1.527 cents, against
1 543 cents in 1888, and the profit was
0 555 cents per passenger, against 0.549
cents in 1888. The average distauce trav
eled by each passenger was 18 1-10,
against 17 9-10 miles in toe previous year.
The net gain on business west of Pitts
burgh for the year was $1,184,009. There
was an increase of 5,089, 480 in the nam
her of tons of freight carried, and 1,193,-
929 in the number of passengers.
The income account shows that out of
net profits east of Pittsburgh, for the year
amounting to $10,992,747, $2,333,835 was
deducted for payments of interest, sink
ing funds and extraordinary repairs and
improvements. The balance which is
tlie net profit ot ihe Company, from a
stockholder's point of view, is $8,055,911
against $7,040,982 in 1888. These profits
are equivalent to more than 8 per cent
on the stock of the C utipauy on which a
dividend was payable.
■ml list rial Urlm-alion at Iml Inn a.
In I lie Manual 'Training Department, ot the
In liana Normal, Pn„ to rollers learn how lo use
their hands. We have two large shops titled
up. We have an expert. at tlie head ot It.
teachers learn designing In folding paper, In
cutting paper and in lay ing paper. They learn
color-work, modeling, moulding, carving, Jdn
ery, forging, making physical apparatus, sew
ing and cooking, .spr ing term opens March Sist.
Tlie Ait outage* ot .Morl-rii Appliance*
Well I Itristrat-rl in Iti-nnelt Nee*' tele
phone Line lo GeUtowm
-Mr. Bennett Nets, of (leistmvn, says
that his telephone line is Living hint great
satisfaction. Although hot in operation
a short lime numerous parties of his
friends have alrea ly taken advantage of
the convenient arrangement to order sup
per, so that when they arrive t verything
is ready for them. Quite a distinguished
parly from tins city, in this way hud an
elegant feast prepared for them on Tues
day night. If lie coal I only get some
modern appliance fur bringing him tlie
morning paper Mr. Nees thinks he won d
have all the advantages of residents in
lite city, in addition to the pleasures of
country life.
Avoid ippe.truiicvM.
A worthy gentleman, having an un
usually red nose was long suspected of
being a tippler on lite sly, by those not
will acquainted wiili ins strictly tem
perate habits. II s unfortunate disti ure
uicnt was readily cured by the use of
Ayei's Barsaparilla.
Poor iitiioinity t
The common lot Is one or sorrow Bay-at least
-tlie pessimism, they who look at the worst
side, certainly what WOUid otherwise he a
m ight existence, 1 often shadowed uy some ail
ment that ovei iiungs It like a pail, obscuring
perpetually ihe radiance thai, else would light
ihe path. so. han allmeut, and a very common
one. Is nervousness, or in other words, weak
ness or lire nervoussysiein. a condition only Ir
remediable wUeie irieittcreot or linpiopermeans
are t..ken lo relieve it. 'ihe concurrent experi
ence ol neivoua people who hate petals ently
used nostetier's Moia cU i.ltiers Is, itut It con
quers entirely super ensltlveuess 01 the nerves,
a.s well as dlneases-so called- which li e luvbed
a d sustained by their caronlc weakness, is
the nerves gain stamina from the great tonic
the trouble disappears. Ine tlie Hitters tor
inalivli, rUiuuiaiUin, biliousness ami kidney
troubles.
♦
II Millard's Tlirnal ami l-iiog Italsain.
Fed I hroal and lung l roubh s I his remedy has
nooqu l, H Is gua anieed to cure consumption
111 Is tliisi stages, anil even in advanced stages
of t lint disease it relieve- coughing and induces
sleep. You may li ive. i cougu or a eol i at any
lime, i her lore no house old, especially with
•libdrcn, alroul 1 be williout li. r'or all alTee.
tlons of ino throat, lungs and chest, croup,
ivhuoplng cough, hoarseness, sprung or hi oil
irid all pilinonury dlseas slf has no equal.
Prepared only by itheumailc syrup co„ jack
son i leh, A k youe druggist for It.
l-'nr sale at slater s drug st ore. corner ol M iln
street and Park Place, Jotitisioii u. Pa.
icb-gf-sd-w-iy.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Co! .oris,
When she was a Child, he cried ferCastorla,
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria,
Mrs. M. J. Carroll, of tlie Ninib ward,
relumed last night ou Fast Lint: from
having visiietl friends on tlie mountain.
We wish in call utu iiuon hi me adver
tisement of Chamberlain Institute in this
issue. Tliis school has had an unblem
islicd reputation for forty years. Dr.
Howards, tlie prisenl Presitleat, has been
connected with it for twenty y ars, antl
parents and guardians may safely com
mit the intellectual, moral, and social
training of their children to his care. It
will he noted Hint the spring term opens
Murclv 18th.
Klieiittiiitlsui Can be Cured,
It has banted the skill or our besi. physicians,
nnd there are 10-duy inore men. women, and
i h lib i suffering ri oni thlslenlhie (Use in- tin n
e,cr In-fore, and the optiilou seems unlversui
that li it s incurable, but this is a mistaken
Idea, for b can Ik- cured by using as directed
lilbburits itheumailc syrup and strengthen
lug Plasters Prepared by Itheumatlc Syrup
i ompuny. Jackson, Mich. I'dcegl tierbottletr
six buttles fur tt>; 0-. we will send It to any a- -
dress on receipt of price. t-or.Halo at Slater's
drugstore, corner of Main street and Park Place,
SISTER ROSE. GERTRUDE.
She Is Oioln-- to tin .villi to >1 InlKtf-r to the
Lejiortt.
Miss Amy Fowler (Sister Hose Oer
trudo), a member of the Third Order of
St. Dominic of the Roman Catholic
church, is 011 her way through the United
States to Hawaii to take up the work left
by Father D union at his death among
the lepers.
How simple this announcement, yet
how much is involved in it. An English
girl, having learned of the sacrifice of
one who fell a certain victim to the most
dreadful of till diseases, freely offers her
self to take his place as tin- soldier steps
into the tracks of his comrade shot down
in a storming party, with this differ
ence—that the soldier acts under a fever
ish excitement and may not lie killed,
while the woman gives herself deliber
ately, and for her there is no ho[ie
The oldest and best known legend of
the sacrifice of a young girl is that of
Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon
. and Clytemnes
'~j > tra Iler father.
Jv- IJ\ so goes the Jeg
f \y' \ ''lid, having of-
I ) \ fended the God
/ / •. dess Diana, vowed
V,-, 1° "> nke ulone
'regy merit by a saeri
flee of the most
W beautiful tiling
VJ born within the
•' 11 year hap
•tl it fill petied to l>e Iphi-
I> I m Jii cnia. Agameui
;" VY /SI M noti long delayed
/ Vf I hit sacrifice, hut
\y -j |t when tlie Trojan
expedition ap-
SISTEU ROSE OERTKI'D E. , , , ,
m- ii •• ■> i .i preached, an d
[From Pall Mu I Budget. ■ ~ ,
tlie Greek fleet
was detained by a calm, Chalchus. the
soothsayer, told him that he must keep
his promise. When Iphigenia was brought
to tlie altar she disappeared, having been
carried olf by the goddess to Tauris,
where she became a priestess.
Such is tin- legend iliat has been for
centuries perpetuated in song and story,
on canvas and in marble, till the whole
world is familiar with the name Iplti
genia. Yi t how much more is there in
the case of Sister llose Gertrude to stir
the emotions. The Trojan girl was sent
to the altar by her father in obedience to
a vow. The English girl goes of her
own free will to spend what time may
be granted between her arrival at Ha
waii and her death from the disease—
which, unless she' is curried off earlier
by other means, is sure to follow—among
stricken IK in -.s l. pt in a pen to prevent
their contaminating the rest of the
world.
The woman who thus offers herself is
the dun hi <r i cat English clergyman
in ih E| !s<opal church. Some seven
yett'.s ;;g ~ v.-hen she was about twenty,
she ent'Tol the Roman communion
Very r.iv.i after she listened to a sermon
in which tl e speaker gave an account of
the h p< i colony at Kalawao and Father
Dumicn's l.'.liot'S there. An inspiration
came to her that she should devote her
self to this same work. She wished to
go at once, but her friends begged Iter to
at least wait till she should be older and
should know something of the terrible
disease. Sue acceded to their wishes for
a postponement, hut did not abandon
Iter purpose. Five years passed, and
then she begun her preparations. Going
to Paris, she was trained under the cele
brated Pasteur and in the hospitals there,
in order that she might gain a scientific
knowledge of leprosy. With this train
ing she may at once care for the lepers
and study the disease which afflicts them.
The body in which dwells this heroism
is very email, weighing scarcely a hun
dred pounds. The face is oval, the eyes
bluish gray, the hair dark. The sister
is as modest and retiring as she is heroic.
Her father and mother and two sisters
are living in England and her brother is
a farmer in Manitoba. She was educated
at the Ladies' college, in Bath, England,
and brought up by Iter father in the
Church of England, but, when she be
came a woman, began to doubt if site
was in the right fold, and after six
months'study joined the Roman church
She lias always loved to care for the sick
and began to be a nurse at the Pryor
Park mission, in London, following up
her training in a London hospital.
At Kalawao .Sister Rose will have
charge of the leprosy hospital containing
sixty lepers. Before leaving England she
was presented with a complete set of in
struments for the study and cultivation
of the leper bacilli as is done at Paris in
Pasteur's institute. She will study mi
crobes with a view to discovering how
they develop under different degrees of
temperature, and as she attains results
will forward them to the Leprosy so
ciety in London.
The case of this little nun is one of
those singular instances where the great
est heroism is contained in the smallest
and frailest human compass. And how
important the work she may be destined
to achieve!
riio TuiMiyMOit Family.
The cut lu re given is from a drawing
reduced from a page picture made direct
from a photograph for a recent number
of The London IV. I! Mall Budget. It
HON. IIA'.LAM TENNYSON.
LADY TENNYSON. LORD TENNYSON,
shows Alfred Tennyson and his wife and
Hon. Hallam Tennysou at home, and
presents a new aspect of the poet lau
reate's fare.
JIAVAI. SECRETARY THACY.
SUDDEN INTERRUPTION OF A BRIL
LIANT AND SUCCESSFUL CAREER.
Early Striiggli-i Hint TrlnmjiliK— Iti-llltßiit
Military Carver —Takes High Itank al the
New York liar- The Ueeelier-Tllton Trial.
Heated Campaign aiitl Fitting Reward.
Benjamin Franklin Tracy, whose able
administration of tlie navul department
of the United States was so suddenly in
terrupted by an appalling calamity, was
born in Owego, Tioga county, N. Y.,in
1830 and passed his early life on a farm,
attending only tlie winter terms of an
academy. From boyhood he was notice*
ably vigorous, earnest and reliable, und
when admitted to the bar. in 1851, lie
soon made his mark in law practice. So
rapid was bis rise and so great the popu
lar confidence in him that in 1853,
and again in 1855, he was elected district
attorney, though his party was in a mi
nority in tlie county.
THE TRACY MANSION.
In 1801 lie was elected to the legisla
ture, in which he was made chairman of
the railroad committee, and won fame
by defeating the first skillful organiza
tion to place a surface railway on Broad
way. He entered on the light almost
single handed, but his exposure was so
effective that lie soon gained adherents,
and the scheme went into local history
as "a deservedly defeated job." Tlie
time came when New York city regret
ted that there was not a Tracy at tlie
head of the same committee in tlie
house. On June 22, 1802, Governor
Morgan personally requested Mr. Tracy
to raise a regiment in the counties of
Broome, Tompkins and Tioga. He soon
did that and assisted in raising another
and was commisioned as colonel of tlie
first—the One Hundred and Ninth New
York
His career in tlie Army of tlie Potomac
was brilliant At the close of the battle
of the Wilderness he was carried from
the field exhausted, but refused to go to
a hospital, and, after a brief rest, led his
regiment through the three days'fight at
Spottsylvani.u Being completely broken
down lie was then compelled to leave the
service for a time, hut soon took com
mand of the One Hundred and Twenty
seventh United
§ States colored
troops. Hecame
out of tlie war a
brigadier gen
eral, resumed tlie
practice of law qh
one of the firm of
iienedict, Tracy
& Benedict, and
for a few years
SECKETAKY TItACY l ' le public heard
comparatively lit
tle of him, though lie held the office of
United States district attorney for the
Eastern district of New York from 1800
to 1870.
No other fame, probably, is so evanes
cent as that of a successful lawyer—es
pecially a city lawyer, anil most of all
one whose work is chiefly done in his
office and concerns property interests
chiefly—and it was, therefore, as a new
man that Gen. Tracy came into prom
inence as counsel with Mr. Evarts and
others for Henry Ward Beecher in the
protracted and exciting trial of 1875. It
was in this connection that the first direct
charge of unprofessional or not strictly
'honorable conduct was made against
Gen. Tracy—a charge disregarded by the
public at the time, but revived in heated
political contests afterwards. Theodore
Tilton's friends indignantly declared that
Gen. Tracy had listened to Tilton's ac
count of the matter and afterwards con
sented to act as counsel for Mr. Beecher.
The statement was as indignantly denied,
and goes into the limbo of the insoluble
along with so many other statements
concerning that remarkable case.
The public likewise remained in igno
rance of llie fact that Gen. Tracy was a
great lover of line horses; that he was
often present when big races were run
and allou e l bis own horses to bo put on
the track, though he never bet himself,
until that heated
campaign of
18SG, which lore
Brooklyn circles pV: tf'r+\
all to pieces and rasjßv ' \
ventilated the 'ri
lives of many. fit®v
Gen. Tracy was
candidate for dis
triet attorney of
Kings co n 111 y V.
against James J. V ijjj)
llidgwav, then
tli e Democratic MRSI TRAC ' V •
occupant of that office; there was a
"great uioral reform movement" in
progress, and the campaign was savagely
personal.
Tho charge as to liking a good horse
never hurt anybody in Brooklyn politics,
but (Jen. Tracy was defeated under cir
cumstances which made him enthusi
astically activo against the Democrats in
1888. The success of the Republicans in
New York that year* was chiefly due to
Brooklyn, and Gen. Tracy received much
credit for it: it so happened also that lie
was the one man on whom all parts of
his party in llie slate could unite, and
his appointment was therefore a pecu
liarly happy one, It is 110 tccrecl that
lie took the naval portfolio somewhat re
luctantly, as his great wish was to be at
torney general, which would certainly
seem aiore in line with his talents and
pursuits.
For New York as a state, however, tlie
naval secretaryship is vastly more im
portant than tlie other place, and Gen.
Tracy lias most ably served the best in
terests of his city and party while serv
ing his country in away to command
general approval. The official and semi
official intercourse between him and hi?
predecessor, Secretary Whitney, was a
most pleasing episode in tlie political
movements of the day, and their per
sonal relations, with suggestions for iin
provementof tlie navy , have been highly
honorable to both. In addition to ac
cepting the plans for defensive actior
(coast defenses and tlie like) which liavi
been settled for some years as the na
tional policy, Secretary Tracy purposed
to go much farther, to the construction
of line of battle ships ready for offensive
action if desired, and on this point will
come the first discussion of his policy.
Geu. Tracy's domestic circumstances
have been of tlie happiest, and the
Brooklyn friends of Mrs. Tracy now re
call with grief some of her expressions
on leaving that city to tlie effect that she
did not hope to be as happy in Washing
ton as at her old home. . Sue united two
qualities not often found together—an
extremely charitable disposition and
good judgment in giving. She was one
of tlie founders of the Home for Friend
less Children.
Personally she did not like "society in
big doses," as one interviewer expresses
it: small parties, small gatherings of per
sonal friends she greatly enjoyed. Her
place among tliecabinet ladies, however,
was well sustained; and the young and
fair, as well as the official society, were
looking forward to a winter of unusual
enjoyment when death invaded tliecabi
net circle—and with such rapid blows!
Scarcely had tlie American people time
to express their deep sympathy with
Secretary Blaine in his double affliction
when they were shocked by the.appalling
calamity to the Trncys.
In Brooklyn society there is, besides
the general sorrow, a deep and special
grief for Miss Mamie Tracy, who was a
charming and cultured lady with much
musical and artistic talent, and it adds
not a little to the grief of her frietids that
she, like her mother, did not favor going
to Washington. Mrs. Tracy's maiden
name was Belinda E. Catlin.and she was
a native of the same county as lier hus
band—Tioga, N. Y. Their three children,
Emma Eloise (now Mrs. Wilmcrding),
Frank B. and Mary Farrington, were
also born there, in Owego. Miss Mamie
was 20 years old, and received most of
her education in Brooklyn, and was loved
and admired by all who knew her.
New York** Wrecked Hank*.
When G. 11. Pell and P. J. Claasen
bought the control of the Sixth National
bank in New York, by a very cunning
but not altogether cotnmendahl • piece of
financiering, they paid for it out of its
own treasury. Having already two state
banks in their control after the Sixth
National deal was consummated they
were in possession of three metropolitan
banks. Had it not been for the suspi
cions of Cashier Colson they might have
worked the combination to even better
advantage to themselves and to less nd
if pa fea cyv oi
COLSON. CLAASEN.
LELAND. rELL.
vantage to the depositors than they did
as it was. lie reported his fears to the
clearing liou.se, and an investigation re
sulted. Mr. Leland, the former presi
dent of the Sixth National, was at first
freely censured for not having inquired
more particularly into the antecedents
of the buyers. Most of the criticism was
withdrawn, however, when ho handed
over SoOO.OOO of tho purehaso money to
socuro depositors and stockholders.
Hon. !. C. Power.
Hon. J. C. Power, Republican, is one
of the "Big Four" now waiting for the
United States senate to decide which two
of thetu are to vy"TT , ~>.
hold sea's in that &"• V,?, : .v
body for Mon- f
tana. 110 is em- L, t „„, Sp j
phaticnlly "a tys v - ;
western bustler," |
one of the kind so ... i/
often described in ,f
romance, of th,
west, one whose
business career is : "f . i T'-'i
a sort of romance, " \ £- '/ /.'(Jis'
yet who makes \ll) /
romance subsidi-
ary to business. J - c. POWER.
As carpenter, surveyor, town boomer,
government contractor and heavy inves
tor in railroad and steamboat stock, he
has been always active and often success
ful, is very nearly the wealthiest man in
Montana anil is still active. Ho was
born in 1839 in Dubuque, lowa, and has
kept on the border ever since. Ho is be
low the medium size and rather sallow
in appearance, but his bright eye re
deems his face, and lie is ever on the
alert. He entered politics four years
ago, was a candidate for governor last
your, and was defeated by tho Democrat
J. K. Toole. Ho represents tho western
half of the state.
Strict Economy.
Science brings about economy, and In
these days of varied manufactures, and
perfect facilities for carrying tliem on,
there is very little waste material in any
branch of trade. The Sunday Call in de
scribing the slaughter of cattle at New
ark, N. J., says that no part of a steer
is lost save its dying breath.
Nothing is wasted from the tip of the
tongue to the brush on the end of the
tail. The blood is caught and sold to
make albumen for sugar refineries and
other manufactures, or to form a cheap
substitute for the hard rubber and other
plastic material used in the manufacture
of buttons. When the meat is dressed
the contentsof the stomach are removed,
dried and baled as manure, and tliestom
ach itself is prepared as tripe.
The hide goes to the tanner, the head
is skinned and denuded of flesh for the
sausage maker, the horns go to the
comb maker, who knocks out the pith
and sells it to the glue manufacturer,
who is ever ready to take all the refuse
from any part of the steer. The horny
coverings of the hoofs aro almost as use
ful as horn for making buttons and sim
ilar articles, and the feet can bo used for
oil and glue.
The shinbones make the finest of bone
handles, and nil the rest of the bony
structure, which the butcher 13 unable
to sell with the meat, finds its way event
ually to the manufacturer of bone fertil
izer and bone black.
A few of the tails are utilized, in cold
weather, in the manufacture of oxtail
soup, hut usually "the tail goes with the
hid," ami becomes spoiled for domestic
use while lying about in the tannery.
Every scrap of the animal's skin, even
the pate, as the skin of the head is called,
is used, in one way or another, and the
refuse of the tanneries becomes unim
portant part of the income of those
establishments.
Th OKI Man.
Bow low the head, do reverence to the
old man. once like you. The vicissitudes
of life havo silvered his hair and chang
ed the round merry face to tho worn vis
age before you. Once the heart beat
with aspiration, crushed by disappoint
ment, as yours, perhaps, is destined to
he. Once that form stalked promptly
through the gay scenes of pleasure, the
beau ideal of grace: now the hand of
time that withers the flowers of yester
day has bent that figure and destroyed
that noble carriage. Once, at your age,
he possessed the thousand thoughts that
pass through your brain, now wishing
to accomplish deeds equal to a nook in
fame; anon hnaginging life a dream that
the sooner ho awoke from the better.
But lie has lived the dream very near
through, the time to awaken is very near
at hand; his eye never kindles at old
deeds cf daring, and the hand takes a
firmer grasp of the staff. Bow low tho
he-ad, hoy, as you would in your old ago
Ka —Stoniervilln Journal.
SILKS.
If you want a handsome wearable
Silk Dress for Spring and Summer, liny
the material of us. Samples cheerfully
furnished upon request.
SURAHS
COLOHED:
19 ir.cli at SOe a yard.
1!) inch at (55c a yard.
20 inch at 75c a yard.
24 inch Standard at SIXO.
24 inch at $1 20.
BLACK :
19 inch at CO cents.
21 iuclt at 7.5 cents.
26 inch at 75 cents
25 nch at 85 cents.
23 inch at SI.OO.
25 inch at sl.l 0.
24 inch at $1.20.
I Itese arc leaders— s> h eted from dozens
of gntdes ot Surahs, also Gros Grains,
Failles, Atmureß, etc., etc., colored and
black, the best values we ever offered.
Dress (Soods.
Our complete tmw Spring -tick s nar
eomph te. This means iht gra trit st array
of beautiful goods shown in tl is couatr .
Goods and prices are all on "he buyer's
side of the bargain.
Send for samples.
OIIIITAINS.
Complete new Spiii:g st< ck. Wiitefor
Curtain Circular.
Our 1800 Spring Catulotui will he ready
in March. Si-,id your mom and you will
receive it.
-I OS. 11011NE & CO.,
(>OO-021 I'etiu A venue,
l'rnsßUiiGH, PA.
NOTICE.
jV OTIOE is hereby given to the
i 1 stockholders of the l eople's Building and
l oan Association that the Annual Meeting of
the Association will be held at. the ofllee of K J.
O'Connor, Solicitor. 80 Franklin street, on tho
17th of March, at 7:1) 1 o'clock o. m., for the pur
po-e of electing others for i lie ensuing year. Bo
nce is also given tent a limited numberot shares
In t he second scries of stock will lie Issued to date
from the third Monday of March, ikdo. The
hooks will bo open tor subscription from tie
loth to the 17th of March at the ofllee of the
Solicitor. JAMES KINU, Secretary.
Johnstown, l'a., March 5,1881). atd-iv
A mil NIST RAT OR'B NoTlOfl
-Notice Is hereby given that betters ot
.id . Intstra'lon on the estate ot Charles K.
Ilitllen, late of the borough of Johnstown,county
or cauibrla and state ol Pennsylvania,deceased,
Uave been grant el to James King, to whom all
persons Indebted to said estate ure request! d to
make payment, i.nd those having claims or de
mands will make known the same wTlioui de
lay to the undersigned.
James kind. A tin Inlstrator.
Jo' as' wvn. January l. hski