’s many an odor that's rare and sweet, { Yet nothing, my Beart allows, Hs half so fragrant or half so pure = | As the smell of the cedar ‘boughs. “Thare’s many @ sound that's strong and Ba : at thi customers swept in. ssHosizzy counter Mr. Berlin, answering their inquiry. 80 near to her. |i. #Do not be troubled Miss Elkins,” “I'he ‘said, in a low tome. “I'll explain matters to the chief. You shall not be fined for what was not your fault.” to the left,” said | pi -| things have turned out, this madcap ' And Eda started to think he had been: deat, dear little Eda!” | ell,” said old Scratchall, scheme of Miss Elkins's—Mrs. Berlin's; I her senses. Suppose he’d married some one else! Why, she'd have lost the farm.” 7; i Eiki mean—is all very well. But I did think, just at first, that she had taken leave of | Ni~E true bi who have been found against TIONS. New Haves, Conxx.—The Democratie State Convention was held here. The men- tion of Cleveland in Chairman Bradley’s 1 speech aroused unbounded enthusiasm. e delegates arose in their seats, cheered and threw up their hats, and when it sub- sided, three cheers were called for and given lustily for the cx-President. Hut the echo had not died away when a Hill man called for three cheers for the Senator from New ais ; A A COLLECTION of finely mount animals will be shown in the F buildings. ARR A TELEPHONE exchange having, thought, about 600 instruments, tablished in the Exposition grounds. It is the intention, if possible, to for a grand international rega York, and then there was more cheering, but not the enthusiasm which greeted Cleve- land's name. There were even some hisses at the name of Hill. The platform denrands a revision of the tariff, and the removal of the duties on raw materials. It also de- mands a stable currency of gold; silver and aper, founded upon coined money oO: the east obtianable fluctuation in value. Cleve- land was strongly indorsed. The Delegates- at-Large selected were: Alvin P. yde, Charles French, James B. Shannon and E. B. Benedict. no 5 Word was said os to in- t e $ structing the delegation for any particular released young b ariin, In, doing this, be Ey A round of cheers greeted the also was badly burne e Mart Y | name of Cleveland during the reading of died. ; the platform. A Gas explosion in the basement of Heck's | Concomn, N. H.—The Democratic state Bazar, at Latrobe, did $200 e, besides | convention methere. The platform de- severely burning Mrs. Heck. rs. Heck | clares in favor of tariff for revenue ouly, had gone into the cellar with a lghted | denounces freesilver and indorses. Cleve ato, ; ’ land as follows: ‘““We recognize in Grover Cleveland a great leader in tariff reform, who, with an energy that never failed, with a directness that never swerved, with a sub- lime faith that never faltered, fed the way gilad— Many a dear refrain— “Yet nothing can thrill like 2 come From a bird that sings in the rain, {There's many a thing in the world to love {That the world can understand, 1And yet there’s nothing that’s half so dear salt and fresh water yachts during position. THE model of ths Victory, brated flaz-ship, will be brought to th position by Manager Abud, of the Prince ales’s Theatre, London. : INVITATIONS are being sent to guished guests toattend the dedication monies of the Exposition next : Some 20,000 or 25,000 invitations are sent out. . J It is announdgd that the Pope has di that specimens ofithe beautitul mosal tures, made at the wosaic works in can, shall be exhibitedat the Exposition that at least one picture shall be made .pressly for the Fair. y Ir is announced that the gin F sition Board intends to repro at Fair Mount Vernon, the famous 3g last resting of George Washi this is done a large and interestin of Washingtop relics will be exhib structure. : Dr. Hesry J. REYNOLDS and 8 Foster, Chicago tourists, recently © to the summit of South Dome, one. highest points of the Yosemite painted in enormous letters on one most icuous cliffs the words: the World's Fair in Chicago, in 1893, A COMPANY has been granted the, privile of carrying visitors by lake to and fi om Exposition grounds. It is pl at least fourteen steamers. sake front’ in Chicago and four boats, two of them Ww and all having a capacity of 5000 e make trips every half hour. A New JERSEY pottery firm is large numbor of in of fine bition at the Fair. completed is igh and valued at $1 the most perfect and beau the potters’ art ever produced in try. { OveER three hundred fl orange trees "were planted in last year by planters from Ca MARKETS. PITTSBURG. ; THE WHOLESALE PRICES ARE GIVEN GRAIN, FLOUR AND FEED. WHEAT—No. 2 Red.......$ No. 3 Red... danse CORN—No. 2 Yellow ear... High Mixed ear,..... Mixed ear........ But neither Miss Elkins nor Mr. Berlin knew what Miss Minster was perfectly well aware of—that the grease spot was caused by the careless handling down of the oil can of the carpenter who was loosening a hinge on the counter door. «If you're going to discharge any of the ‘young women in my department,” said Mise Minster to Mr. Yardley, the acting member of the firm of Yardley & | Yard} ¢6t had better be Miss Elkins. <1 She ain’t worth her salt.” Eh?’ said Mr. Yardley, who was not without perceptive powers of ‘his own, and who had been rather favorably im- pressed with the blue-eyéd novice ini the white goods department. ¢] cannot quite agree with Miss Min- ster,” said a calm voice behind the acid- tongued Superintendent. ‘So far as my judgment goes, Misf Elkins is an excellent clerk, and is constantly im- proving in all respects.” And Miss Minster looked around with a startled air. ‘Contrary toher expectations, Eda was retained, and by means of the machinery of gossiping tongues, that belongs to every such establishment, she soon learned through whose beneficent agency it was. tHe has been so kind to mel” she thought. ‘Oh, I wish—I wish I could do something for him! But that never could be possible.” ee Eda was just bexinning to be reckoned ‘among Messrs. Yardley & Yardley’s first- class Saleswomen, when one day a letter arrived at Mrs. Timson’s humble door for her. f : A distant cousin on the Canada frontiers was dead, and there was no: heir save herself for a fine farm, well wooded and watered, and containing a picturesque old house, said to be close on a century old. Piri gs . «You'd better sell it,” said old Mr. Scratchall, the lawyer. It’s worth five or six thousand dollars at least, and n scarce ew What to do. If Mr. n had been in town she would cer- tainly have written back to New York to his counsel. But he was traveling no one quite knew where. and think it-over,” said go iE But not until Mr, Yardley, on his re- turn from Japan, stopped a day or two 4t Six Rivers, to view the famous cas- cade there, did Walter Berlin ever dis- cover Eda’s sweet plot. “1%” said Mr. Yardley, pushing his spectacles on the very apex: of his bald head. “Thanking me for the present of this house and farm? Why; man alive, I had nothing to do with it!” Berlin looked across at Eda. Sudden color suffusad her cheeks. If ever in- nocent guilt betrayed itself in a woman's pure face, it was now, © Why, of course!” said Scratchall (who had been invited to dine at the farm to meet the traveler from Japan), answering the look on Berlin's face. “I wonder you never suspected it before.” “Dear little conspirator, was it yout” said he. 7 i 5 And there was nothing for it but for Eda to confess and receive absolution on; the spot. . Zaita Bhandee, the Irish soothsayer with the Hindoo name, was right. The line of love had prophesied correctly, and Eda was happy with the ‘‘dark man with black eyebrows. ’—Saturday Night. Seem I ———— ‘| A Comparison of Wind Instruments. The most important of the wood wind instruments is the clarinet, with a wide range and a qualify superior to that of the oboe. While the clarinet, the oboe, English horn and rarely heard musette are played with a mouthpiece, the shrill piccolo and “soulless flute are | the mellow earth. played from the side. The bassoon i8 | gx 8x a long instrument with an upturned fun- RAIN S10 RM OF rsr—Durin, the heavy : ume; Thi ; rain os near Carbondale, the downpour nel and a pipestem mouthpiece. Itisthe of water was accom nied by a shower of | gurgler and the bubbling-laugh instru- | S81 Af FEES Gly the inhablians ny ment of the orchestra, and some .very | auc they resemble: catfish sand measured comical effects are possible with it. inches in length All the wood winds depend upon ge, Frrtd CarvEwtEr, who the vibration of reeds for the pro- | Shipp'shill, feur miles from Tunkhnanock, duction of their tones and differ | Was struck by lightning snd killed, The from the brass instruments to the ; extent that the latter depend upon the lips of the performer for the production sonse was struck by a .which descended BO She was standing by the stove of the notes which the vibration of the reeds supplies. Cornets are usually at the time and was violently thrown to the spoken of as trumpets, and are the lead- Before aid could reach her she was ing instrument of the brasses. French: horns, difficult to play, with a mellow- ness of tone equaled by no other brass instrument and a circular grace- fulness of contour which makes them readily recognizable, are among the most frequently used in the in-. struments. The Frenchhorn is sn evolu. tion of the hunting-horn, and is still known in Italian ds the corno di cacis, If unrolled its convulutions would measure. as much as seventeen feet in length. The |y large bell end plays a peculiar role, as, the hand is Yusctiadsh and the tone, : can be greatly modified by stuffing,” | eds akéh of tha violliy ; etes, on the farm of bis brotherin Amwell township. a Megs. Patrick Borax, for Sty five resident of Heckscherville, d on last'at the advanced age of 105 years. was born in Kilkenny county, land. An 8-year-old son, of John P. Martin, Warden of the Schuylkill county, Prison, Pine Grove, climbed into a hogshead con- taining some straw and set fire to the straw. | a companion upset the hogshead and thus H W. Curry;of-Washington coun Fe aEirgen with burning heystacks, arns thie notes that : Nelson’ ears a riday She ' BY HELEN FORREST ‘GRAVES. ; OMETHING about the line of love—oh, it’s all right, ‘my pretty dear!” said An Carlisle, the steam laundry, with all the machinery, belonging to Kieffer & Hef- finger, {Naa bummed be 5s na 3 Sear rights livery, (amag HV 4 through the reverses of 1884 to an over buildings slight ly 4 atnaged, holo victory in 1890, and under whose Tax 100th birthday of Mrs. Nancy Christ, continued leadership there will be achieved a negress, was celebrated at Harrisburg. a crowning triumph in 1892.” Delegates to ‘The hay press and flour and feed ware- ; the National convention were chosen. Sue : "| Couxcr Buorrs, 1a—At the Democratic Jooms of Welton & Parsons, and Sve dwell State convention here, John C. Bills of {ngs Ware Ped on a high wind, ignited an Scott county, was intreduced as the tempor- Soar X ed the Drentlein icehouse, a quarter | 8TY chairman. Permanent Chairman Mark- : bo ToXle away. Total I "895/000; insur- | ley in his speech declared that the tariff -3 88.000 y- shi 1 issue was paramount to the liquor issue. He ance, ' : denounced the McKinley bill and appealed for the nomination of Boies for President. J. H. Shields, of Dubuque; L. M. Martin,of Des Moines; Edward Campbell, of Jefferson, and J. F. Duncombe, of ¥ort Dodge, were chosen delegates at large. S.L. Nash, col- ored, was selected an alternate, The plat- form declares that all limitations upon the liberties of citizens not required in the in- terest of good morals and government are odious and tyrannical. Protection is classed in this limitation, and the declara- tion is made that tariff reform isthe para mount issue in the presidential campaign, Free raw materials for American factories démanded, and it is asse that the free list should be extended to include many articles of necessity, and there should be a reduc tion of impor duties all along the line. In regard to the currency the. platform says: “Recognizing the national obligation to maintain a sound and honest currency of equal value in all its forms and of a suitable volume to preserve a just proportion be- tween its purchasing power and the cost of the Jrodsicts of labor at liberal wages, we reaffirm our adherence to a financial system based upon equally free bi-metallic coinage, and oppose all legislation calculated TO- duce either of the precious metals to a i- tion of a commodity alone by establishing the other as a single standard for the meas- urement of values.”” ~ After reciting the vir- tues of Governor Boies, the platform in- Jorses him as a’ candidate for presidential honors, and pledges him the electoral vote of Iowa and unqualifiedly instructs the delegates to support him. SupALiA, Mo.—The Democratic State con- vention met here. The platform adopted indorses the principles of tariff reform; de- notnces the McKinley bill; the billion dol- lar congress and Senator Sherman's bullion der; Bethlehem, uncorked a two-onnce bot- storage bill; demands the restoration of a $1% of carbolic acid, and poured the contents | parity between gold and silver; indorses the ‘| administration of ex-President Cleveland bdom n and I hi ei its" ohie,b fs? ; So the and requests the delegation to vote for his neon. Al v DY ea OX Zaita Bhandee, the ‘sA'Hindoo soothsayer. . J) (Her real name was > Bridget Kearny, and : her birthplace Coun— ty Cork, in the green little. isle of Erin.) &It’'s long and it's deep, and he'll love you long and truly, sny dear. A dark man, with black eye- brows and cheeks like roses—ah, rare good luck he'll have in getting you, i sweet lady! _ What nonsense!” laughed Eda Elk. 4ns, coloring like a sweet pea bloom. She was only a Philadelphia shop girl, out on a day’s excursion with some of ‘her mates; but as she emerged from the fortune teller’s tent she caught herself wondering who the ‘‘dark man, with black eyebrows and cheeks like roses,” could possikly be. . ! «Jg sounds like Mr. Berlin, ‘the new floor ‘walker, don’t it?” said Julia Kes- _ ley, one of the ribbon counter girls, Don't be silly!” said Eda impatient- _ 3y.. ‘Mr. Berlin has never spoken a word to me beyond the commonest politeness, and hardly that.” Julia tossed her head. ssWell,” said she, ‘I suppose there are more dark men in the world than one. You can take your choice of them, Miss High-and-Mighkty!” It was hard to go back to the store the next day and resume the tedious . routine of everyday work after that bright Eda... a . |! glimpse of true love and sunshine; but She had scarcely been absent a fort- it is the fate of womankind, and Eda | night, but when she returned there had was compelled to submits . | been changes. : Old Mr. Yardley had re- * She was a. novice at her work, and | tired from business. The firm was Tol there wers humiliations innumerable inifland & Yardley now. - Miss Minster had her path, She was a deal too pretty to | set up an ‘¢emporium’’ of her own, and suit Miss Minster, who was superintend- | Julia Kesley had a long story fo tell her sent. of the hosiery ‘department, and a | of how Mr. Berlin was ‘in, Cadwallader dea} too young to satisfy old Hopkins, | Hospital, irom the result of a railway the cashier; who held that no woman un- | accident on his return from his last busi- der thirty had any idea of making change ness trip. © yuh a ¥ ia in the correct manner. « “Hopelessly crippled,” said Julia, with , sn the ghoulish relish whereby some people dwell on the details of frightful acci- dents. © ‘And quite without means, they say, for he's always been supporting an old uncle, or some such relation. Folks are saying the Yardleys ought to pension him off; but they ain’t legally respon. sible, and no one seems willing to do ‘anything. -I guess likely he'll have to Dor, of Greensburg, sentenced il- tena quo sellers as follows: Pat Devine, fine three to workhouse; ; 8 illism 3320! 350 in ye and six months to workhouse; I. / 4 a or. $50 fine and 20 days to jails 3 & largest oat field in Pennsylvania is oi the farm of Col. James" Young, at Mid- i :' Tt contains 135 acres. Twenty- GletOmT o Sitehed to eight plows turned up 47 DuriNG a severe thunder storm ‘that pre- vailed at Chester, ulius Tuprewn, a German residing at Norw: was struck by light- ning and instantly EK led, as driv along the road, accompanied by two frien and his wife, One of the men was severely burned on the arm and horse was in- stantly killed ; GANG of thieves are working Jeannette, and neighboring towns. Robberies occur almost nightly. The latest victim | Charles Altman, a tobaceonist.: Goods to the amount of $70 werestolan... .. ., . Tae 15- months-old child of Levine Boo- No. 2 Western... ... FLOUR—Fancy winter pat’ Fancy Spring patents..... Raney Straight winte XXX Bakers....... Rye Flour. .....covaivine en HAY—Baled No. 1 Tim’y.. Baled No. 2 Timothy..... Mixed Clover. .cc.civoss ey Timothy from country... STRAW — Wheat. Oats. ..... at iiaresiares FEED—No.1 WhMd@7T Bow Middlings.ic.eeee TAN... cocdisdsviasianeode ¢ Chop saves 96 90 49 4 44 iad 88 83 84 8 85 85 25 7 sess sees he | nomination. The resolutions were adopted. Delegates were chosen for the National con- vention. : “wa ProENIX, Ariz.—The Territorial Repubhi- can convention met here. Delegates to the National Republican convention at Minne- apolis were chosen. Weds sanadar easiest DAIRY PRODUCTS! BUTTER—Elgin Creamery . . 25. Fancy Creamery...as.aeei 24 Fancy country Toll....... Choice country roll "Low grade & cooking.... CHEESE F'1l cr'm mild New York Goshen. ‘Wisconsin Swiss bricks.. ‘Wisconsin Sweitzer..." «.. Limburger. ..... eere amen i FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. APPLES—Fancy, § bbl... Fair to choice, § bbl.... BEA¥S—Select, § bbl..... Pa & O Beans, § bbl..... Lima Beans,,.iceesicoses ONIONS— Yellow danvers § bbl.... Fellow gnies, 2 bbl anis Crate. cc. ns CABBAGE"# head... io. POTATOES— rish on track: @ bu . Kilndri'd Jer'y sweet® bb POULTRY BIC. DRESSED CHICKENS— just as the pit is changed | _ 7 - y placing the ‘‘mute” on the bridges Te ck _passenger _ The trombone, with its long sli Boniay: di pn gh ir 8 8 inadon we Fo Soy SR RECESS ¢ egies meng Dougnico Garcon Ttalian, was fatally. hot at Erie; by Shaley Rochet; an Ara fo ‘hose wife ET ay wonder the wheels rolled heavily, « J It was only the second day after this that Mr. Berlin found Eda crying softly, 4n a dark corner of the reserve Gepart— ‘ment, surrounded by a wilderness of ‘pasteboard boxes and paper parcels. “Why, what is ‘the matter, Elkins?” said he kindly. ; «Miss Minster’ sent me up for six boxes of X and a half,” sobbed Eda, 4¢gad—and 1 must be very stupid, for 1 ican’t tellionebox from another. And it’s so dark here, and it's against the rules to light a match, and my head does ache so!” Mr, Berlin put down his stock-book, i and came to her assistance. ¢‘Here,” said he, smiling, ¢‘don’t cry . go. This isn’t a national tragedy. (I'll :gshow you where the X and a half boxes are.. But this isn’t your business. Miss Minster ‘should have sent a cash boy.” Xda dashed away the tears. +]-—I don’t think Miss Minster likes me,” faltered she, ssNot like you! That's strange!” He spoke from the top of a little step- | old uncle is dead.” ladder with a kindly glance backward |* ¢‘That's sof Well, here's your name over his shoulder. = The words were [on the outside—‘Walter Berlin, Esq.’ simple, but their meaning carried cheer So, if it ain’t for you, who is it for?” and encouragement to Eda’s desponding chuckled the head nurse, heart. Slowly and .languidly the invalid She went down stairs in a far happier | opened the letter; but, as he read its mood. \ contents, his eyes brightened, his breath Mr. Berlin followed her after a few | came quick and fast. ty moments, ‘and spoke quietly to Miss | ‘dt must be from old Josiah Yard- Minster. ley,” said he. ¢‘Hoc always said he owed «The reserve rooms are scarcely the | me more than any money compensation place for our young ladies, Miss Minster,” could repay; but I thought he had for- said he.” ‘‘Hereafter, if you need sny- | gotten all about my saving his life that thing from there, let me know, and I|day of the gas explosion in the basement will send a cash boy or one of the |of the store. And he isin Japan—and porters.” : I can’t write to thank him, because he Miss Minster acquiesced; but she was | has left no address. A farm—and I not exactly pleased, and glared at Eda | have always so ‘longed for country life. amord uncompromisingly than ever. Oh; it seems as if existence were begin- " «There, she said, some’ two hours ning again for mel I never dreamed that : 5 ohio oY afterward, “I knew how it would be if | Josiah Yardley had so kind a heart1” of the scheme. of M. Rolland will do | Mrs MarTIN BA anton endsda you girls had your lunch upstairs! A | After that day, Walter Berlin improved | more to conquer. the desert for France A ; I ho : er 1 great grease spot on the glove counter rapidly. There was no longer any. than any scientific or warlike expedi- ten Parke section of the city. The man and six pairs of Suede tans ruined. Yes, | question of relapse. | tions ever could have done.—Chicago | was so intoxicated at the tire that he could ruined!” : : il * * » * * x | Herald, offer no resistance. e murderess also at- x : : CA x tempted to kill her son Frank because he at- Eda grew pink—then pale. Just a year afterward, Mr. Berlin sat tempted to interfere in behalf of his father. “1 haven’s been near the glove |on the wide, old-fashioned porch of the Her mind is believed to be affected. .counter,” said she. ‘I did eat my lunch | Canada farmhouse, where the shadows of era SUREC up here, because there are rats - black | the huge, tamarack. trees swayed back SEVEN, PERSONS SUFFOCATID. beetles down in the packing basement; | and forth, his crutch on the floor beside They Were Asleep When a Fire Broke but I ate it under the stairs where it | him, the model of a new variety of Out in the House. «couldn’t possibly barm anything.” beehive in his lap. BrrLIN, May 14—Seven persons have been “Then,” saxd Miss Minster, with the At the doorstep was Eda Elkins, who | belong the melons. The trunk grows to suffocated by the burning of a house at air of a criminal lawyer bullying a wit- | had stopped on her way home from the | about fourteen feet high, with a diameter Krefeld, Rhenish, Prussia. They were mess, ‘‘how came this grease spot here?" | postoffice. “ dant | of from three to six feet.. The rind is |asieepet the time the flames broke out, and Fs could fot tell. “There was some: | - ‘So-you are really willing to take a | white as chalk and perfectly smooth, and | Were smothered by the smoke while en- thing about Miss Minster that paralyzed | poor lame man fora husband?” he asked, | the clumsy trunks among the green shrub- deavoring to make their escape. - her reasoning faculties and struck her | smiling. ey ©. | bery look more like marble columns than The Hungarian Horror Lessenihg, «dumb, { ‘Haven't I assured yon of that fact | anything else. These plants attain a | Pursra, May 16.—The latest advices re You don’t “know,” repeated Miss | often enough. already!” gaily retorted | wonderful age. Wellstedt reports hav. | ceived here from Fuenfkirchen, where a Minster. ¢1 thought not. You can't | Hda. A Tolan ing found a Kadbub, not far from | huge waterspout burst Friday, flooding the deceive me: The price of those six) Yes, and I can give you a good home, | Tamarid, in the bark of a gamhen trunk, | collieries in that place, are that 31 of the pairs of tan Suedes will be taken out of | now that the small fruit venture has | an Arabian inscription bearing the date | miners supposed to have perished have been Jour salary next Saturday night, Miss Terminpied 2 ne soln Mg of 1640, The wood is not solid and | brought outof the pit alive. Elkins. SRE tenderly tal ig y compact like that of the trees we know Sy y é Eda looked aghast. She had bgen out. but fall of sap and cutsliken turnip, A. Broke the World's Record. nknife is sufficient to cut a stairwa; Brawixanan, ALs. May 12.—Henry Klink pe ; : 3 3 Jr.,in a walking match at East Lake this' | EB gen out | (‘But how strangely e of employment some time, and owed | turned outl How surprised into the trunk of a gamhen, over which LTA nt : the flowers as abe racticd = afternoon, broke the worl¥'s half mile re. money for her board Soi. Timeon, hor I came to Hh bl thout he were teaching the : ; ble land Without her full | were teaching 1 by reducing it from 2:53 to 2:45. Klink People’s Party Convention: ; ‘OMAHA, NEB., May 14.—The National Ex- ecutive Committee of the People's party to- day decided to call the convention for July 92, instead of the 4th, that is, temporary or- ganization will be effected that day so the «~ominations can be made on July 4, NEWSY GLEANINGS. Exports continue heavy. CHOLERA is raging in India. THE wheat crop of Ohio is short. PARIS is crowded with Americans. YELLOW fever is abating in Brazil. NEw YORK has 4500 school taachers. CHICAGO landlords are raising the rents. THE celery flelds of Michigan are flooded. wa SHOWER of fish fell at:Crawfordsville, effective instrument in martial music, : and lends itself also with peculiar ease ks Joy Scrip, an employe in a coal mine at Larimer, was fatally crushed ‘by a fall of slate. ‘to the production of 08: sive tones. From the pompous, majes- tic and gay to the grave, solemn funeral, the whole range of musical pression belongs to the trombone. T tuba is less well known and is a heavy’ brass instrument with three to five valves, rendering possible all chromatic tones within its range of four octaves. It is of the trumpet class, and is usually heard in conjunction with the trombone. Its large, flaring upturned bell and lozenge shape wall enable the novice to. pick. 1t out among the brass instruments of the band ‘or orchestra. Miss «| anythi go on charity for the rest of his days, poor fellow!” : “Oh—chanty!” gasped Eda. “Mr. Berlin! Oh, that would be dreadful” The sun was shining, yellow and vivid, on the white-washed walls of the great, bare-looking hospital ward where Walter Berlin lay, trying to realize the force of the blow that had come upon him. : . Not thirty yet, and his life career over! Surely, surely it must be impos- sible! s¢A letter for Mi. Berlin,” said the head -nurse, cheerfully, entering with the mail-tray. + ¢¢It's a mistake,” sald Berlin, drearily. There’s no one to write tome, since my 5 x 5 HUNTINGDON'S county SresSury is empty and there isno money to pay the expenses ‘May court. The legal assessment, 10 levied. : Frum trees of all kinds in East and West ‘Mahoning townships, Indiana county, are joaded with blossoms, and if there are na “more killing frosts these townships will have even a larger fruit crop than thai of last year. As spidemic of mesasles of particula: violence has been prevalent for some time in the northern parts of Venango County: the malady becoming complicated with chest troubles in much the same manner as the grip. From the vicin- ity 2 Chapmanville four deaths are re- orted. : i Parner Harry Roeper, residing neay 8 it. station, Schuylkill county, acci- dently shot and | killed his 12-year-old son. Roeder had taken a gun out to destroy a erow's nest pear his barn, but it would not go off. Returning in doors he proceeded to examine it carefully to ‘gscertain the cause of its failure to shoot, while the boy stood watching him. In SOHANT untable way the piece was discharged and the entire load giles od 6 boy's abdomen. : He fell dead at athe s feet. : James Krurow; of Pittston, while under gperation or a dislocation of the right shoulder, died in the doctor's chair of heart failure. . Watering the Desert. The desert shall blossom like a garden. If the civil engineer, Rolland, is right, this prophecy is near fulfilment. Rol- land has submitted a report to the Academy of France upon waters found under ground in the Sahara. His ex- amination of the ground was confined to the region about the oasis of El Galeah, and proved so rich a supply of water that he believes the whole desert can be converted into a network of fertile oasis, Heis at present engaged in prepering a chart and a description of the region which will indicate the spots where ani artesian. boring is, in his esti. mation, certain to bring a voluminous | § in jet of water to the surface. Sucha crea- rari] of Sores gand deel: bhed tion of new wells the people inhabiting | ¢ $100. BAF 8-hOUSe gk HAITY Nasr the vast desert will look upon as a miracle, and they will be prepared to bow down before and acknowledge the supremacy. of the workers. of such miracles. In other words, the execution pS SRIcULTRAL conditions continue favor- able. Ix 1891 mobs in the South lynched 118 per- sons. ; ; TEE Russian grain embargo has been MARTIAL law has been preclaimed in ragzil. Russia is massing troops on the Polish frontier. HeRearTER the Welland Canal will be closed Sundays. THE young King of Spain is said to be de- veloping a SE ioncy to fits. REPORTS from the Delaware peach belt are promising for a fair crop. IN spite of the low prices for iron nearly every Southern furnace is in blast. GEORGIA expects to ship at least 9000 éar- loads of watermelons North this season, CHINESE held a convention in Philadelphia and protested against the exclusion bill. SCURVY, typhus and smallpox have broken out in Russia in the train of the famine. An English syndicate has boughti the Keeley gold cure rights for England and ance. : ... TBE appropriations of this session of the Filty-second Congress will aggregate $485,- ,000. : Riv, BILLION pounds: of gahibago have : Ie een shipp rom one county in Virginia 8 last fall. y = BL Row Was Had New ENGLAND lumbermen are unable to A W No-2 t xe handle their cut on account of low water in | GATS No. 2, White SLE the rivers, BUTTER—Creamery Extra. TANNERS from the South and West, in | EGGS—Pa., Firsts session in New York, decided to stop tanning NEW YORK. hides for sixty days. : FLOUR—Patents......cusess Tae colored colonists in WHEAT-—No, 2 Red... : country, around Kingfisher, Oklahoma, are | RYE—Western...... suffering from starvation. St CORN Tingraded Mixed. Tag total quantity of wheat availablein | QATS—Mixed Western the United States, both coasts, as well asin | BUITER—Creamery. . Canada, April 80° amounted to 51,870,838 | EGGS—State and Penn ushals. : NE TrERE is drought in Durango, Mexico, and a Kansas rain-making company is: under contract to produce two inches in San Pedro for $30,000. . : Tez largest horse in the world, standing SenLy eno honae high and weighing 1200 | pounds, owned by T. BE. Ridgway Fort Worth, Texas, died a few days ago. 3 LORD SALISBURY has advised the British missionaries in China to avoid anything | which might give rise tosuspicion or distrust among the people or tending to shock the ‘ National prejudices, \ . JosEPH BERTAND, a half breed Indian of the Pokagon tribe of Pottawattomies, died at South Bend, Ind., a few days since at | the 268 ot 110, He is positively known to ‘a been 105 years olds RL Dressed turkeys B LIVE CHICKENS— Live chickens @ pr.....e. ive Ducks @ pr.. Live Geese ¥ pr. Live Turkeys §b....... EGGS—Pa & Ohio fresh.... FEATHERS— Extra live Geese § ..... No 1 Extra live geese@D Mixed. iveevnrrivranaes a MISCELLANIOUS, TA LLOW:-Conn ey, @ Bs SEEDS—West Med'm clo’er Mammoth Clover.......s Timothy prile..eessssss Timothy choice... Blue gr: ; Orchard grass. Millet... so..." Buckwheat. . RAGS—Country mixed.... HONEY—White clover.... Buckwheat. .oonaveresins gS C. A. MiNgsABT'S clothing and notion store at California was robbed of about $250 Ct pk Be DO het pt F 03 Lo y £5-88588885on (BEE BESUR BER o Tax hearing in the South Fork Fishing cub case has been postponed until May 26. Harry Hyatt, watchman on the Balti. more & Ohio road at Ohio Pyle, was killed by a train, sees suasy ©: The African Pumpkin. The ¢¢African pumpkin,” or gamhen, 18: very different: from the well known American fruit of that name, being a tree with a short but abnormally thick trunk, but it is of the ponipion family, to which the Black Jack EAST LIBERTY, PITTSBURG Prime 93 to 100-1 sheep. . Common 70 to 76 I sheep. sass es shes ane lady. her full India Philadelphia hogs. it would be impossible to meet | herel How more than Corn Yorkers......
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