of then mong; jf the ept ag Ken=- tor f niting advis-— Fe PisSCo-— sided } com=~+ 2X Cep- ed by * that 20 had” ce of added tee ons: ecom- 1 TN 188= ps are Con- ques- he re- Come- 1 Cor-- rganic: three: ssions: poste. uly I d, and? 2 is to= ers by etters- ied by nding: ; trod 1 the icate,. card: sturnss vill he bo alk d. ing of r drew” flags. uous- were: flags, S, om tand,, . Fel on. oF Ko | ~ Bend out the snnlight, the sunlight of cheer, * Send it afar in scintillant mirth, rei omeeer ph * Blessings of pleace; that will rise from de- "| ds the Growler there. BERS LESSEE So— srs . SEND SUT THE SUNLIGHT Shine on earth’s sadnpess-till ills disappear== Souls are in waiting this message to hear. end cut the sunlight in letter and word; Speak it and think it till hearts are all stirrel— Hearts that are hungry for prayers still un- x heard, : - fend out the sunlight each hour and each day, Rn «Crown all the years with its luminous ray; Nourish the seeds that are sown on the way, Bend out the sunlight! ’tis needed on earth, Better than gold in its wealth- riving worth! ‘fend cut the sunlight on riclf and on posr— Silks sit in sorrow, and tatters endure— _All need the sunlight to strengthenand cure. end out the sunlight that speaks in a smile, «Often it shortens the lonz, weary mile, «Often the burdens seem light for a while, Send out ths sunlight —the spirit’s real gold! “Give of it freely—this gift that's unsold; Shower it down on the young and the oidl Bend out the sunlight, as free as the air! Blessings will follow, with none to compare, spair! Bend “out the sunlight, youn have it in you! «Clonds may obscure it just now from. your view, Pray for its presence! come true. * ==Ellen Dare, in the Metropolitan, Your prayer will A Race Between Tongue and Hoof, OU want anything?’ in a decidedly tersely tone, was the greeting old Joel Gringer gave the tall young school- master, who stood fumbling the latch of the front gate. That wasn't the . right way to encourage / = the - young man, and ¢ "shrewd Joel Gringer knew Tt. Te wanted to make him go through the torture of telling him plainly ‘that he had come to see his daughter so that he could put an end to the thing then and there. : ¢Hm! I—I—just wanted to know if Miss—hm—hm-—is at home,” and. the “young fellow relieved hisnervousness by «digging up the gravel walk with his left “toe. ¢¢] thought your business was to teach the children to speak the English lan- guage, and here you can’t do anything but him and haw. I’m at home, and so Anything else?” “No, sir,” with a loud ahem; ¢‘I was _ just going up the road to Mr. Mason's, and I wanted to know if the family were all well—that’s all.” And the bashful young fellow seemed to have found his ‘wits somewhere, for he turned coolly AWAY. : The old farmer's eyes were not so sharp as he prided himself they were, or he “might have seen the flutter of something white, three distinct times, from the nar- rowest opening in the blinds above, and have guessed why the young man was so “easily satisfied. He watched the straight, lithe young form until it seemed only a shadow _against Neighbor Mason's barn. **Gone on to Mason's,” was his gruff| answer to his wife's questioning look. +:Only wanted to inquire after the health’ -of the family. 8’pose he thinks the dees- trick is assessed to pay him for goin’ round an’ doin’ that—ha, hal We'll see how his fractions will. work in this house. Much good it will ‘do him to talk it over with John Mason,the old—" ¢¢Sh— 1” hissed cautiously into his «ear, and a warning finger told him to leave uncomplimentary references to the neighbor—with whom he had been em- broiled in a bitter lawsuit, and between whose farms a ‘‘devil’s lane” prevented any joining of line fences—unsaid. 4¢There’s Mason's hired man again, “Well”? : ¢+The old man sent me over to say them there hogs o’ yourn’s been into the back cornfield ag’in an’ he won’t turn “em out t1ll doomsday nor let me. They're there yit an’ making the interest on £5000 fly like sixty—that's what the old aman lows the field’ll fetch him. = Better not take that there pup along, had yet? Hi! wait till I can get out!” The last exclamation was caused by preparations for unchaining the huge bulldog Growler; and Ben Stone made .one leap over the fence.’ = . s¢Said my say out. witnesses enough, I reckon, tothe scrim- mage there'll be. Laws! but there’ll be smash to pay for to-night, sures my mname’s Ben Stone.” In a hollow in the road, not twenty rods from Joel Gringer’s house, the thick green turf by the wayside served as a cushion for the feet of two restive steeds that would stamp at the troublesome fies. The nervy fellows—two of the anost tireless travelers John Mason's sta- ble could boast—champed their bits rest- lessly and tossed heir heads. Adown the green, thorny breastwork that defended Jodl Gringer’s possessions from the Wayside grazers fhtted a slight figure, crouching and. halting, and then darting swiftly forward toward the little dell which seemed to be the rendezvous sought. $4]s that you, Nannie?’ a hoarse, ex-' «cited whisper met her a few rods distant from the horses. ¢:Sh—] Yes; but do let us hurry! Tm afraid every minute those hogs haven't done justice to the obstinacy of heir nature, and, father—" : s«Well, give me your foot, and off we ' .go. We'll show Joel Gringer whether I ‘am competent to teach a girl addition.” ¢sAnd are you sure the preacher un- derstands? « &t8ure, darling, he's to be at Brother Btillwell’s to-night, on his way to the Kildeer appointment. Now, old fel- “dows, do your best. | Lh two fleet coursers, like two weil mated He'n the dog's | 2 neck and nostril to nostril skimmed the birds of flight. Away back on’ the last ridge, a mile or more away, the moonlight glistens on something bright—a silver plated buckle or saddle decoration—and then there comes a clear, ringing sound, as when steel strikes flint. As the clatter of the hoofs rang down the road past John Mason’s two unusual night incidents might have been wit. nessed, the gleam of a light across the fields swaying and flickering as though carried by an excited, unsteady hand, and a man leaning against the door of John Mason's stables, whittling a stick and musing over something which evidently pleased him much. ¢‘He, hel I never helped take them out of here. Can't prove it by me who's takin’ to stealin’; h’ain’t I been behind the haystack tryin’ to hammer the bung in that barrel? There's one consolation; if them there horses have to go fur, the've been well fed an’ every shoe is as sound as a trigger —ha, hal” ¢¢He's coming! Oh, hurry, Dick! W cannot reach Mr. Stilwell's in time; it's—" «Three miles yet, and—" «You know Fleetwood's gait; Mr. Mason never had a horse that could out- run him, What shall we dot Ob, if only we were—"' «Married, and I could call you my own; thea I would not run a step, but conld defend my right to you in the eyes of the law. = Listen! what's that ahead?” «The Corners are just down there, you know, and some one may be coming on the cross-road.” «That is the direction from which the preacher comes. What if it should be __But no; he's going straight ahead of us. Yes, there he turns! Whip up and let’s overtake him.” A quarter of a mile; half a mile; three- quarters. The sound of hoofs in both directions are growing distinct. y ¢Call him, Richard! He may stop. Oh, if it only is!” «But your father will hear, too, and hasten! Hello, there? Waki” In a moment the overtaken party was seen, sure enough, to be the very preacher they were riding hard and fast to find. But while the situation was being -ex- plained, the footsteps of the pursuing horse were heard close by, and in a min- ute another ‘“Hello!” rang on their ears, hoarse and infuriated: ¢‘Stop!l stop, I command youl. Young man, I'll horse. whip you on the spot if you don’t give me my daughter?” The two looked at each other in de- spair, But the preacher, backwoods- man that he wag, was ‘a man of wit and resources, and of heart as well, ‘Keep on,” said he quietly, ‘and ride as fast as you can. Join your hands and sit firm in your saddle when I tell you. I have it all on the top of my tongue.” Clatter, clatter—clink, clink! rang the sharp hoof beats! Nearer and nearer they came together; but the word’srolled off the preacher's lips, as he rose and sank in his stirrups, faster than the speed of the racers. : Nearer. and nearer sped Fleetwood until his hoarse panting almost drowned the preacher's words. But a few rods separated them. _¢¢Join your right hands,” came the sharp command. «Halt, I command you, in the name ofem? a Ta . ¢4Pyt spurs. Foreasmuch as Richard W. Anderson and Annie Gringer have consented to—" . © Hold up there! I'm an officer of the law!” demanded another voice, drown- ing the rest of the preacher's ‘‘foras- much.” : But the wild wedding party dashed forward, and the preacher's lips worked fast. «In the name of the Father—”. s«¢Halt, or you suffer the penel—" ¢¢And of the Son and—" st(Give me my daughter, you villian.” ¢tAnd of the Holy Ghost, I pronounce that they are husband and wife. Amen.” . There was & halt then, and explana. tions that disarmed ‘the man of the law and sent old Joel Gringer back to his belated supper with vain cursings of his luck. The supper at Stilwell's was flavored with pleasanter reflections, and Ben Stone had many an opportunity to won- der aloud in his sly way: «How under the sun them hogs ever did git into old man Mason's cornfield jest when Dick Anderson wanted to steal Joel Gringer's daughter,” —New York Press. The Greatest Eaters. The Korean is the greatest eater in the world, and, more than any other man inthe world, he lives to eat,” The aver- age man the country over eats anything he can get his teeth on, and he will take chance. : I had sixteen chair-bearers in a trip which I took into the interior, and these bearers stopped at every village and at almost every house to rest and feed. They would dart off, one by one, into fields of turnips by the wayside, and for the next half-mile would go along eating raw turnips. The bigger a man's stomach is in Korea, the more wealthy he is supposed to be. Some of the wealthy ones wear bustles over their stomachs, in order to increase the size of theirfronts, and the King usually makes a present of food to those who have audience with him.— Yankee Blade. renner REI rene, A Monster Building. The great cathedral in the City of Mexico is the largest in America, and cost nearly $2,000,000. Its foundation was laid by the Spaniards in 1573 on the site of an old Aztec pyramid, and the building was finished in 1667, Against its western wall leans the celebrated séOalendar Stone,” covered with hiero- A cast of this remarkable work of an. tiquity was exhibited at the New, Orlear Patter, patter! click, cli ‘Exposition of 1884-1885 a dozen meals a day if he have the |: glyphics and weighing twenty-five tons. | test, POPULAR SCIENCE. A great deal of indigestion is due to the foolish drinking of icewater at every meal. Virginia, Maryland ard North Caro- lina each has two species of lizard pro- vided with three eyes. STATE BASE BALL LEAGUE, burg of the murder of Wm. Miller. «= by falling slate. - an incline at Derry a coupling broke an John Nagle was instantly killed. Seranton k an Irishman and a negro. meeting., White is still at lar ge. someone used buckwheat ins crop of the grain has sprung up. Thiel college. H. Dill, President of the defunct the U. 8. Court at Pittsburg, ty Mr. Dill's friends and by doing so they lose all they had in $100,000 capital. Mr. Dill and bis friends just $100,300. instances have been ruined. in some localities, itis feared, will go. OSSIFICATION, as the some years 2zo to extreme cold Speer, aged 72. burned to the ground. with very little insurance. Mills, Pa. the largest plant in store were destroyed. The total reach $250,000; insurance, $30,000: him three horses; a hack, a carriage of the stable. to Jonnsonburg. paid board bill, bushels of grain and barrels of burning a cooper mill, two dryin and about 300,000 feet of lumber. 40, without attention. He will die. ieve Mr. Greenawald. into an excavation. to railroad companies. Shen Pescione, Tecently arrivin taly. The wedding will be’ week . partially insured. weeks. 1 from its effects. a club that it is feared that he will die. char, daughter. compelled the chil nights in a stable. side of Pittsburg. ZACHARIAH JACKSON, wounded. Company near Uniontown. | PEOPLE'S PARTY CONVENTION. Ths Executive Committee Issues a Call for Five Delegates Per County. on Saturday and issued the following call: To the People of Pennsylvania: ne 22, 1892, November election. In the absence of an county would be a fair basis. action of the St.Louis Convention to meet at el ernment from ruption that have c same by the D years. : Pittsburg... 5 0 1.000[Lebanon.... 2 3 .400 | by Siemens Brothers in 1878, fourteen Harrisburg 3 2 .600|Danville.... 2 3 .400 | years ago. Reading .... 3 3 .500/Altoone.....1 3 .250 Ld 2 . Allentown. 3 3 .500Johnstown 1 3 .250 Dr. Tanner, of fasting fame, thinks OLIVER SMITH was acqmitted at Greens GEORGE WORKMAN, an employe of the Mammoth mines, near Dunbar, was killed WHILE a train of five cars was descending the cars coming in contact with a mill at the bottom were scattered in all directions. THE cavile in of a water works trench at illed three men yesterday--a Pole, Thomas WHITE shot and instantly killed John McHenry, a colored man, at the Wil- low Grove school house, Rodgerville, Greene county, Thursday, while attending a band WHEN the faculty of the Grove City col- lege plowed a lawn, intending to sow grass, ad, and a fine Mgrs. Jeremian Fritz, of Litchfield, who died ‘last Monday, bequeathed $5,000 to Tue embezzlement suits Sgaiust Rev. W. Clearfield Bank, which were to come up for trail in were with- drawn and the ex-bank President will leave Pittsburg a comparative poor man, but freed from the charges which imperiled his liber- relatives will make good all deposits and stock, githonsh e bank, which was $57,000 of stock out of the This settlement will cost THE recent rains have swollen the creeks in various parts of Westmoreland county and great damage has been wrought. Along Sewickley creek the growing crops in many Many of the sinall bridges have been washed away, and should the rains continue the county bridges result of exposure was the cause of the death at New Castle of Isaac At Milesburg, dwelling of Wm.Gassmyer, with four other dwellings and a barber shop Loss very heavy, DoRFLINGER’S cut-glass factory- at White the United States, was destroved by fire. The loss will reach over $100,000. Twelve large buildings attached to the glass-works and O’Conner’s loss will NEISE ANDERSON, a Swede, a half partner in the livery business with Burgess McIn- tire, Johnsonburg, dissappeared,taking wi an some harnesses, comprising the whole outfit He and his companion were overtaken near Smethport and brought back Anderson also leit an un- Tur large grain warehouse of Gerberick, Hale & Co., of Bellefonte contalning 40,000 200 flour, was destroyed by fire. The fire spread to the lumber yard of P. B. .Creder & Son, ‘sheds, he loss is estimated at $60,000, with an insurance of SyrLvestEr Connerry cut his throat at Beaver last Friday and lay nearly a week . Frrperick Sooner, of Philadelphia, has been appointed chief clerk in the audito: eneral’s office at Harrisburg, and will re- Tur borough of New Brighton was sued by Henry M. Close, of Beaver Falls, for $15- 000 damages for injuries received by falling ATToRNEY GENERAL HENSEY has given an opinion to the governor that special police- men cannot be appointed for street railway companies. The law he says, only applies CARMINE JULIANA, of Pittsburg, came fo Lawrence county a few days ago and is said to have paid $100 for the hand of Mar- from on Sunday, but the wedding feast will progress. all *this Tar Judge Brownfield mansion at Smith- field, occupied by Mrs, E. Feather, daughter and sister, was burned. The occupants nar- rowly escaped. The loss is about $2,500, THE Acme cocoa-matting mills, just out- side of York, was destroyed by fire. Th mill had only been in operation about three Loss, $25,000 to $30,000; insured for CHARLES MYERS, aged 63 years, a resident . ot Mountville, while despondent, swatlowed a quarter of a pound of paris green and died James GrirrIN died at Johnstown, leaving his property, $25,000,to the Catholic church. His entire family was lost in the flbod. During a row at Manordale, William Glunt beat his brother David so. badly with Daxier Carsox and wife, of Rochester are d with cruelty to their three-year-old It is alleged that the mother has to spend days and McKeesport issoon to have an $80,000 opera Douse. the finest in the county, out : of Hollidaysburg, while endeavoring to escape from Constable Lyman, wasshot by the officer and fatally Anam Fisurr was fatally injured by a fall of slate in the mine of the Redstone Coke The leaders of the Peoples’ party of Penn- sylvania met in executive session at Indiana In pursurance of the action of the State Executive Committee, the undersigned hereby call a State @ Court House at Frankiin V or the purpose of nominating a full Sta e ticket to be voted for at YH esta) lished basis for the representation for this first con. vention, it is believed that five delegates from each e hereby invite all our fellow-citizens who believe in and indotse the ontl Gov- the mi-management, fraud and cor- haracterized the conduct of the emo-Republican party for the last 23 a ary 2 os 3 ¥ The trolley system of electric tram- cars was infroduced in Berlin, Germany, that to go without eating, for forty days once every ten years would add to the lifetime of man. Dr. 8. Weir Mitchell, the Philadelphia specialist and author, is said to be one of the foremost living authorities on the subject of snake poisons. A German physician of some note has given it out as his solemn conviction that civilized man is gradually but surely losing the sense of smell through dis- use. The true physiological method of treating burns or scalds is to at once ex: clude the air with cotton batting, flour, scraped potato, varnish, white of an egg, paste, or anything that is most quickly obtained. Dr. Daniel Brown, of New York City, uses a new method of his own in apply- ing bandages, and it 18 being favorably received by the profession. His method is to take the place of the roller bandage, The injured part is wrapped with cotton, or, if required, a splint is applied, and then a single or double piece of cheeze- cloth is sewed on. For ten or twelve years. endeavors have been made in Europe and America to utilize the storage battery for the run- ning of street cars; but each attempt made or systemintroduced has developed, or been accompanied with, serious ob- jections and difficulties which have so far prevented a practical success of a storage battery car. A fest has been made in California of a mixture of ramie and wool in the manufacture of cloth, It was perfectly successful. The result: was a fabric stronger and lighter than pure wool, which, it is predicted, will take the place of silk. Those who have labored to introduce ramie culture in California are greatly encouraged. Dr. T. Potapenko, who has been in Russian cavalry regiments for several years, communicates to the Vrach some remarks on the periodic ophthalmia of horses which appears to be of malarial origin; for on examining the blood of affected animals he invariably found both within and without the red corpus- cles micro-organisms which appeared to be identical with the plasmodia found in the blood in malarial fever in the human subject. A simple mode of purifying water is to sprinkle a tablespoonful of powdered alum into a hogshead of water, stirring the water at the same time. This will precipitate all the impurities to the bot- tom, after being allowed a few hours to settle, and will so purify it that it will be found to possess nearly all the fresh- ness and clearness of the finest spring water. A paltul containing four gal- lons may be purified in this manner by using no more than a teaspoonful of the glum. : : 3 i It Ticked Through the Revolution. In an old-fashicned, low, Dutch style stone house on the banks of the Hudson, at Nyack, N. Y., is the home straight as an arrow and unusually SOLDIERS COLUMN A NIGHT IN A STORE-ROOM. Sharing Poor Quarters With Dorothy L. Dix. In the winter of 1864-1865, the Union forces were concentrated in front of Peters- burg and Rich- mond. There was more or less skirmish- ing and fighting all the while be- tween the two \ = great armies fa- Ne ve fl (7% S : LR £ cing each other N Bo No the last des- = perate struggle. = The hospitals 7 were overcrowded sr = at City Point and Point of Rocks. Every cot was occu- pied, every tent was crowded, and the thousands of troops coming down quarted wherever they could find a vacant place. I had not been quartered in the ca- bin of a steamer bound for City Point very long till Miss Dorothy L. Dix came in. After the usual greetings, she informed me that she too ,was going to City Point. Miss Dix was the stateliest woman I ever saw, and was very dignified in mnnner and conversation. Although at that time she was about sixty years old, she was tall, slender. Her hair,which was abundant wus very dark brown, almost black, and was combed and coiled on thre top of her head, except two locks in front which!were combed smoethly over each ear and carried in a loop up over the coil on top of her head. This peculiar manner of dressing her hair seem to add to her height and dignity. Her dress was exceedingly plain, but neat, and her linen collars and cuffs were always immaculate. She wore mo jewels, not even a breast-pin. She re- quired the same degree of plainness on the part of her nurses. / It was not long after the boat left the dock at Waghington till we had passed Alexandria and Mount Vernon, and were steaming on to Fortress Mon- roe at the mouth of the Patomac, with the ocean in full view. There was al- ways a long stop at this point, as it was not only a strong military station, well fortfied and strongly guarded by troops and gunboats,but it was = great hospital center. Thousands of sick and wounded lay sorely stricken in these great barracks and tents by the sea. It was about 9 o'clock that evening when we reached City Point. We had discussed the question of lodging be- fore we left the boat, and Miss Dix had said: “I have no concern. There are al: ways plenty of cots, and I'll find room in some of the nurses’ tents,” and she urged me to go with her. But I was equally as confident, and assured her that the Christian Com- mission elways had a nice place for me, with every accommodation, and I could get to'my work earlier in the morning if I lodged there, and so we separated, each going her own way. When I reached the quarters of the of the Sarvents, a family whose de- scendents have occupied it for over two centuries. - The house is filled with relics of ye ancient tyme, especially in rusty old swords, flint locks, muskets, caunon balls, grape and canister shot and links of the iron chain which was submerged across the Tappanzee during the Revolution to prevent the passage of the British ‘fleet to West Point. There dre many other relics, but the most high- ly prized of all is an eight-day clock which rings out the hours as regularly and keeps as splendid time as it did when it was first placed in the old house by Philip Sarvent in 1755, when he bought it from Whitlock in New York e | and conveyed it by sloop to his house, The clock hasa history, as it ¢‘fit inter the Revolution.” Twenty years after- ward, when the old house was shelled by settlers and patriots, the clock was con- remained for over seven years. / . now resides in the old.house. He was sands, would tempt him or his children to part with the relic. equal to the task for another century. —New York Advertiser. eee ERs Vol The First Iron Ship. | The story of the first iron ship is told by Mr. Lindsay in his work on ¢‘History of Merchant Shipping and Ancient Com- merce.” He writes, Forge, near Bilston, about the year 1787, vessel built of iron; and again in 1815, boat on the Mersey. he first iron boat that fic New York Bun, being n salt wal the British fleet -and the redcoats were pillaging the homes of the honest Dutch veyed back in the country to Clarkstown, | and there buried under a barn, svhere if Garrett Sarvent,a grand old patriarch of eighty years, a grandson of Philip, for many years Assessor and Mayor, and widely known and highly respected throughout Rockland County. Tn an interview recently he declared that his love and veneration for his grandfather's clock and the historical associations con- nected with it was so strong that no amount of money, even if it was thou- It has kept such fine time for 187 years, and is possibly $A steam vessel was for the first time fitted into a vessel. of iron; she was named the Aaron Manby, and was constructed at the ‘Horseley Company’s Works for the joInt account of Mr. Manby and Captain Napier—afterward Sir Charles Napier.” Mr. Grantham, in his work on ship- building, describes an iron canal vessel built bya Mr. Wilkinson, of Bradley and this is believed to be an early in- stance of a really working commercial Thomas Jevons launched a small iron * Bhe was built by Joshua Horton, near Birmingham, and fitted up at Liverpool, and is credited wi ted Christian Commission, Mr. Cole, of | Boston, the Chief Agent, was standing beside a tent,in deep§thought. When ! he saw me he lifted up his hand in dismay. | “I haveno place for you, every foot lof space is occupied,” was his greet ing. “How about the little tent where I stayed the last time?” “Tt is full of delegates lying on the ground on their blankets. I've given up my own little corner to Dr. and have no place to sleep myself.” “How about the storeroom?” . His face brightened. “I'never thought of that; but it’s full of barrels and boxes and is not in order.” “No matter, there will be shelter and room, and there is a lock on the door, and I'll get on all right.” A candle and some matches were procured, and, accompanied by the agent and his assistant, I went into the storeroom nearby. It was a great, rough, strong plank barricks; barrels and boxes were piled up nearly to the roof. There was a vacant place where they handled the supplies, near the door. : “There is not a cot on the premises, they have been taken for the sick and wounded; what will you do?” “I'll sleep on the floor, of course,” I answered cheerfully. But they turned some of the boxes around and gathered up all of the straw and shavings that were in sight that had been used in packing, and put them together, and I placed my satchel for a pillow, and after I had assured them that it would be all right, they left, and I locked the door after them. till there was a knock at door. I went very close to the door and called: “What is wanted?” and she has no place to stay« Can she come in?” 2 > “Certainly. Of course she can.” stately women, with all her dignity a shelter as that. My candle lighted bish that were all about us. and with the stub They had not been gone ten minutes “Mrs. Wittenmyer, Mis Dix is here And I opened the door, and that upon her, which was really a part of herself, entered, glad to find even such up the building sufficiently to show its unsightliness and the dust and rub- As Miss Dix was old enough to be my mother, of course there was but one thing to do, and that was to give up my bed of shavings and straw to her, f an old broom try to clean another part of the floor for myself. She generously offered to dir vide her bed, but there was not enough to divide, so I spread my blanket- shawl down on the rough, uneven floor * tor my bed, and took my satchel for a pillow. I was weary and anxious, end for a few moments I felt the service was too hard to be endured much longer. But there came another train of thought,as I heard the booming of the cannon at oo great distance. : “How glad to the brave men on fhe picket line, where to sleep is death, the men in the trenches and working the guns, would be to have a good dry floor to sleep on, and the right and privileges of sleep,” I said to myself. Somehow my bed grew soft and my pillow downy, and all the clouds of care and self-pity cleared away before the magic power of patriotism and sympathy for the brave men who stood so gallantly for my country and its flag, and I never in my life had a bet- ter bed or a sweeter night’s sleep.— ANNIE WITTENMYER, in Home and Country. NEWSY GLEANINGS. © FarM work is much advanced. Froops have damaged Cuba’s crop. 3 FrosTs in Illinois have ruined the peach crop. GERMANY decides to prohibit pauper im- migration. DuLuTH, Minn., is building ten “whale back” steamships. : THE crop of spring suicides was lager this year than ever before. hh NEw YORK CITY has grown $42,000,000 richer during the past year. Frur is slightly injured by frosts in can tral sections of New Xngland. i FRUIT prospects are good in Missouri, anc apples promise a good yield in Ohio. THERE were last year 43,659 deaths in New: York City agalnst 40,103 during 1890. HUNDREDS of cattle perished in the re- cent cold rains in Northern Nebraska. == IN Iowa tho season is some fiftson days late; in Oregon, vegetation four wesks late. THE caterpillar plague has reappeared along the southern ev of ‘North Caro- ina. : THE class of 1892 in the Divinity School of Yale University graduated thirty-seven men. Sa ' THE new rifle for the United States Army will be of thirty caliber and uses smokeless powder, ; i FRENCH emigrants to the United States number 1000 per week on the Grand Trunl Railroad. : REPORTS show that bees throughout the country have, with few exceptions, wintered unusually well. x LARGE numbers of Chinanen are going from Canada to Havana, Cuba, where they hope to find homes. Tot SECRETARY ELKINS has directed that the new military post at Helena, Montana, be named Fort Harrison. LAST year 147 people were killed outright and 6000 wounded in the streets of London Some of the latter died. £ THE State of Hermosillo, Mexico, has made iv a felony to employ Yaqui Indians and has ordered a war of extermination against them. 3 3 THE marriages reported in New York City last year were 15,764; there were 14,- 992" in 1890. Five colored men married white woman. ~bige : SECRETARY FOSTER has given his endorse- ment of the plan to issue 10,000,00) fifty cent pieces of special design as souvenirs of the World’s Fair. AL THE exports of petroleum products from the port of Batoum, Russia, in 1891, amounted to 268,000,000 gallons. The pres- ent price for crude oil is as low as five cents a barrel. = THE recent fight near Mier, Mexico, be- tween Government troops and Garza’s men, in which ten of the latter wera killed, has completely wiped out the so-called revo- lutionary movement, ; DETECTIVE CHARLES W. GARDER and Miss Florence A. Collins were married a few days ago in the head of the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, by the Rev. A. H. Claflin. Tax United States Court of Claims has given the heirs of General Robert E, Lee a verdict for $217,000, as damages to the estate, caused during the war, by cutting timber off of it by the Federal troops. | Ax Indian who killed a squaw at Kyo- quot, British Columbia, has settled the affair satisfactorily. He gave the {ribs an Indian girl to replace the one he killed, and this has evidently been mutually agreeable. THE warm sun; are starting the nsual snow slides and avalanches in the Cascade and Olympic Mountains, in Washington. PROMINENT PEOPLE. 5 Tas Emperor of Austria is learning short 3 and. a] GALDSTONE is emphatic in his opposition to woman suffrage. 3 _CHAUNCEY. M. DEPEW was born at Pecks- kill, N. Y., on April 23, 1834. : PierRE LOT, the famous author, whose real name is Julien Viaud,is a Lieutenant in the French Navy. FANNY CROSBY, the author of “Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior,” is now living in New York City atthe age of sixty-five. : GENERAL BooTH, of the Salvation Army, is about to make a tour of Helvetia, many, Denmark and Scandinavia. PROFESSOR Sousa, the well known leader of the Marine Band in Washington, has been offered a salary of $10,000 to go to Chi- cago. : T. JEFFERSON Cooripek, United States Minister to France, will occupy in Paris the house formerly occupied by ex-Mini IGNATIUS DONNELLY'S book on the Shakespears-Bacon cipher proved a loss 0 his publishers, who are suing him for money advance : ) CoLoNEL JoBN TEMPLE GRAVES, of Rome, Ga., accepted the invitation to make the annual oration over the graves of the Union , soldiers at Andersonville. | Si HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON has been honored in Chicago by having a schoolhouss | named for him; and a bust of the story -teller was unveiled therein last week. : Miss E. JEAN NELSON, who won the hon ors of the interstate collegiate oratorical contest at Minneapdlis, is only : mineteen years old. She is a member of the junior class of the DePauw University, in Indiana. HARRY EVERETT BABBITT, a young lawyer OO he Wass ass huse recently appointed a CO Of ace, is a deaf mute, and desired the DDB for the convenience of people who are ilarly afflicted. CHIEF-JUSTICE FIELD, of the setts Supreme Co! is ex 5 of children, and on Yelurning to his home romping wi bor! : Iris said that Andrew Carneg from the active management Li iron concerns’in favor Frick, the second largest owner an
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