niath 5, an ushels places reatly Ww of alian; Latin axons e cus- orties, ed ‘or. colTSe y that ractice y LOW. '& 78 6 FH ESed td Ppp DM > & TO 2 We JI Se Sr Sr = < DvC0 ~F wt So SN 5 son's 4 siontas of + and a when the ! ‘ornaments. . which envelopey if good-sized pearl ir 3 the pearl is hidden station of mother of found’ when “the sew: formeT So 111 the general facru | pearl, and it is onl h 1 asked tf 8 her's day br . 3 Lake sid Tepotist. as to the > “season ison. The ort. S358 the Globe- Democ:at, is {nll of fishing and : uilds, which are moving inually ‘aver the placid waters of the Gulf of La Paz, and ers ‘and ‘other landing places are people preparing to embark, or At 0- thirds of the entire popula- Lucas to Bunlege Mexican Govern: years. This measure was ta vent the exhaustion. of the fisheries. The barques which engage in this indus- try are boats of from twh to thres tons burden, manved ordinarily by six men including the “diver, who is, of course, awaiting the return of the fishermen. 18400 a share. ch only allowed one on mes séction to be worked upon every two & nto pre- | such me rep sen ns Luc y Baldwin who had $3,000, ank at one time, aod whe ely respofisibie for the fatlure. ol the Canfornia ng ab «anot time. After getting control of the he ran the stock®up to $333 by. making another’ mine of he forced its shares to $3! consolidated value of 1 He ¢ aetion $3,000, 000, orth “85 is 5’ now.” he sad, § , We got up: ‘pames of poker Ss lost $10, 000 ¢ at a’single sitting, and went out in the Street the next day. te. even up. on $sThers is a great deal that night bs the most important personage on board, | would read stranger than fiction, but the He is usually provided with a water. proof suit; metal hemlet, lead weights for the breast and shoulders, or copper’ “or lead shoes, which weigh altoether some 150 pounds. The boats generally gather in. roups of twenty ‘and leave the port at midnight 30 as to reach the oyster beds at early dawn. When all have arrived, a cannon shot is fired as a‘sighal, and the. diving sommences. ~~ When the diver is below his compagions watch the’ signal and baul up the baskets of oysters as a) wud I as He can sll and finally bring up | 3 i himself, as he ean known to resist the enormous pressure for a longer time. = Before the diver’s suit was introduged’ fn these parts it was the custom of the native fishermen to anoint their bodies with oil and dive to the bottom with nothing about them but a Delt to which the basket was attached in which the’ oysters were thrown. Even now the practice exists among some few divers, but the sword fish, the sharks, ana the devil fish, of different varieties, which abound in the waters of the gulf, render this work extremely dangerous. < The diving goes on from six o ‘clock in the mor g untilmid-day, when anothers signal is fired to announce that the fish- ing is over, and the rest of the day is | employed in ‘opening the oysters. Form: erly: it was customary to pay the pearl divers. one: quarter: of the proceeds, but now the owners of the fishing outfits pay their divers and helpers a fixed salary. The pearls are separated or classified by runninz them through different strain- ing pans, commencing with the largest ‘and running/down to the smallest, after "which operation they are appraised and sold invariably by the weight, A flotilla of pearl fishing boats is supposed fo gather some three tons daily of oysters, and it 18 estimated that one iba thousand bivalves contains a pearl, During the season of 1881 there was a larger amount of pearls extracted than at any former ‘period; and sone of the Specimens were remarkable for their size and beauty. A black pearl taken out that season by the divers of Juan Hidalgo weighed twenty- eight earats, and was sold in Paris for $10,000, This year there have been sent over 3150,000 in pearls to Paris and New York, and the season 18 not Je ~ . through, The pearls of this section were held in . great esteem in’ Mexico and Peru three hundred years ago. Daring the first quarter of the seventeenth century An- tonio de Castillo, a Spanish colonist, who was living south of Mazatlan, made an enormous fortune in the pearl fisheries, About this time, also, Captain Iturbe Ortega engaged in the same business and took some very valuable pearls to Mexico, oue of which he sold for $4500, This gave great impetus, to the industry. | The most precious pearls to be found to-day among the crown jewels of Spain were taken from the fisherics near La Paz before the French war of .inter- vention, and they have always been in great demand since the time of Cortez. in 1867 an American ‘embassador to: the | Court of Spain said that he had seen ‘pearls of the size of a plover’s egg among the crown jewels of that: country, and that they were - esteemed a3 among the most valuable of the Bpanish jewels. The value of the mother of pearl shells 1s from $10 to $12 per one hundred pounds. The proceeds of these are suffi- cient tu pay all the expenses of the fish- ing, and the pearl is a net gain when found. Several years aco. it was quite a problem to tind some use for the pearl oyster ‘shells, and they accumulated rapidly on the hands of their owners. But now they are sent to Europe, whence they are returned to America in the form of buttons, kuife handles and several other articles. The price of pearls fluctuates less than that of diamonds because their production is lesser and more regular, At present. the black pearls are held in greater esteem than the white ones, although they are much inferior in point of beauty, The Indians on the coast appreciated fully the beauty of the pearls, and used them with great profusion in their It was ‘their custom to givé their children a dower of pearls and the ceremony was a very soleman ane, and partook of a religious nature. . There are many theories regarding the {ormation of the pearls. The most com: mon is that of some foreign substance. like a grain of sand, finds its way i the shell, and by the irritation which it seasitive b of Watet ower eighty OF | that he wanted $300,000 margin by 3 best of it cannot be made public; until the fen who figured in it are dead. We d stand on the street and take men’s Jiput down the figures on our shirk sleeves’ to keep track ot it. Bank broke 1t owed from twelve o four: ‘teen millions. It had plent real estate, but no ready money. I took $1,100,000 of its stock to start 1t up again, and the stock is now worth $2000 ! Tae festosation of this bank, with 1 how a oy d me, Rallsto notified my broker o'clock. At that hour an express wagon backed up tc his office with $300,000 in $20 pieces.” Mr. Baldwin, Besides owning the 600- | room hotel, which bears his name, in San. Francisco, and which cost $2,400, 000, owns 50,000. acres in Los Angeles Qounty. Ho has expended half a mil: ‘Lion building irrigating ditches to reclaim his orange groves will remember how they would drive all day in the beautiful shaded avenues without getting off Bald win’s land. He also has 5000 acres in San Bernardino and 15,000 acres in ether parts of California. The Berzars of Malta. Begzars swarm so in Malta that ac: of Maltese life, the oniy WAY to avoid being pestered by them is to put out tha ‘hollow of your hand and aaticipate thew with their own winning *‘Give. me somer thing,” ¢‘Me plenty poor mam,” <‘Me very “large family.” Some of these beg- gars are supposed fo * have acquired a ood deal of money, and it 13 said that the priests order people'to live on beg: ging for awhile as penance. On the the other hand with those who will work reluctance to name a price for t their ser- vices. The answer is **What you like" which tempts the stranger«y reply, that he *twould like to give nothing at all.” The poorer Maltese have, it seems, a ready wit. - An Euaglish officer,’ failing to make a Maltese understand what he meant, called the poor man #a fosl.” Understanding this much, the man, who had traveled about a good deal, thouzh he did not understand English, replied by asking. “Do you speak Maltese?” “No.” +*Do you speak Arabic?’ ¢No.” Do you speak Greek?" ¢No.” Do you speak Italian?” “No.” Then, if I be oue fool, you be four fools!’ Inillus: tration of a curious sort of discrimin- ating roziery which appears to be char: acteristic of the Maltese dealers, Mr, Hardy tells a story of a naval friend who stopped one Christmas time in the great market in Valetta before the stall of a Joe” with whom he bad had many deal: lines. The color of one of his turkeys, all trussed and ready for the spit, at: tracted him. The breast of the ‘victim was of a bluish purple, the legs were scraggy and also discolored, but. other- wise the bird seemed to be well fed. Pointing to it, be asked, ‘‘How much.” Joe fell “back, and, beckoning to him, explained matters ‘thus: “Dat not for you, signor, dat for de hotel:’’ Thenin a mysterious but impressive whisper, he added, ‘*He die.”—London News. renee erm Tha First Map of Amoriea. cA mong the relics appertaining to the discovery of America brought ont in con- nection avith the Columbian celebration,” said the Spanish Consul at this port re- cently, ‘is the first geographical chart of America, which is preserved in Spain. The chart is 1n the possession, of the. Naval Museum of Madrid, and is said to be the original autograph of the navi- gator, Jian dela Cosa, a pilot of re- nowned reputation in his ‘time, and of whom Columbus ad a very high opinion, The ‘chart or map i8 signed tn the Puerto de Santa Maria, in the year 1500, but Juan de la Cosa, who actompanied Columbus as pilot or sailing master on hig. first and second voyages, was at work on it during the voyage with Alfonso de Ojeda in 1499. Tks said to be the best of all ancient it map, discovered territories, and has tation of being the first ma tant, showing, as known whole of Europe and Africa, a portion of Asia and the : then discovered. It was executed with | great précision, Tepu. tha faint trace of the old en- ‘written of the mien: of ‘those ‘times that word he continued, ‘for $300,000 and | Whe the California | ying 1 to | it, and those persons who have visited |: cordinz to ‘the Rev. J. BE. Hardy's sketch it is hard to do business owing to ‘their | liged to stand in. a iclose, | in its correctness and extent of 1ts newly mandi ex 1500, the and is luxuriant in gold | and coloring, Baltimore ia.) Ameri | x WoRDS or WISDOX. : The breskig of 9 heart lexvesjn0 traces, * Bad mén excuse their feults; good men leave them. : Love, that. needs forgiveness, has, for its fitst duty, to forgive. He who waits to doa good deat at once will never do anything, You cannot dream yourself into a char. acter; you must hammer and forge you:- “self one. Repentance i is npt so much remorse for what we have doug as the fear of conse- qaences. <A good deed is never lost; he whe SOWS courtesey, reaps. friendship, and he who plants Kindness gathers love. “Hyprocrites are wiaked; their defects with so much care that | their hearts are poisoned by them. Whatever the world may say there ars some mortal sorrows; and our fives ebb away less through our blood than Sirough our tears. Bo: long as you can say efather” and smother” there is a love on the earth which bears one ia its arms; it is only when the parents ars gone thatone is set down on the hard ground. * Prehaps you have nothing in the world but akind, sweet smile; then let that fall upon some peor life that has mo smile in it. Remember that a dew drop slisteningz in the sua is Just; as beautiful as a rainbow. Thera is nothing of a man but the word that is kept or broken—sacred as life orunsta le as water. By this we’ judee each other, in philosopay ani practice, and by this test shall - be ruled the ultimy judgment. Each of us as we travel the way of tits “has the choice according to our working ‘of turning all the voices of nature into one song of rejoicing, or of witherinz and quenching her symphony into a fear ful withdrawn silence of condemuation or'into a crying out of her stones and » shaking of her dust against us. The Tight faith of man is sot intended to give him repose, but to enable him to - do his work. It is notintended that he should look: away from the place be lives in now, and cheer himself with thoughts of the place he is to live in next, but that he should look 'stoutly into this |’ world, in faith that, if he does his work well here, some good to others or him- self will come of it hereafter. can pith tion for ita The two chief articles of food are wasted are bread and fat. our cooks recognize the value of either of these, althouzh the Preach cooks know the value of the former under its most imposing name of chapelure. In plain English this is stale bread dried in the oven and broken down, or nearly pulverized, by being rolled with 3 heavy stone bottle; not on any account with the rolling pin that is used for pastry, because the hard crusts indent the wooden rolling pms and even scratch the marble ones, and this is apt to make the pastry heavy. These crumbs should be assorted and kept in bottles, brown and white bread separately and: coarse and fine crumbs also separately, and they are then ready for use when needed. The preparation is an easy matter when the cook gets into the habit of « callect- ing all the clean bits of bread and put- ting them to dry in the oven over night, and any leisure moment can be spent in pulverizing. and siffing the crumbs. ‘Chey are used in many ways-—‘or fried fish, for hams, for puddings.’ It is a vexation to prepare crumbs every time ‘that they are needed, while, if bottles of chaoe- lure are at hind, of various decrees of fineness; the dishes that require “crumbs can be prepared at very short notice. Sr I mn Faithfalness. A poor, hallew itted creature was ob- hot room, twelve hours a day, stitching harness, He had heard from | some ‘preacher that every-day work could be ennobled, but he had only a aim idea of the man’s meaning. One day he looked out and saw a horse dash madly by with a car- riage containing a woman and child. (A man leaped from the curb, cauzht the hotse by the bridle, and was dragged along by the infuriated animal. But the i l, the horse was. stopped, the nd child were saved. thought passe through the mind ot i De a! “Sup- pose the sewing on that bridie had. been poorly done, with bad | thread. Then the bridle might have broken, and the ’ "man, us well as those in the carriage, would have been injured. How do } Know but that sewing: was: some of my work, Animated by that srond thought, he stitched away like a hero, determined to do his humble work well for the sake of others, From that time he ennobled ‘his calling, as everyone may do who has the spirit of the Master, Whose life has xi ours worth living. Epworth Her. ald. : they hide : pens and inks, letters, etc., | fort, and what a. sight! SOLDIE RS COLUMN cuT DOWN B3 BY MINTES. This Happened to Rate a Large Tree in i $0f:she Zin Ind: GEN. GRANT \ in Vol 11 of his £ : Memoirs speaks a of atreel8inches in diameter be- ing cut down by musket-balls. 1 want to tell vou what I know about that. We of the 7th Ind. were 1n line b fore the Johnnies near Spotsylvania Conrthonse on the morning of May 12, 1864, when the good news came down our line that Hancock's Second Corps had charged that morning just before daylight and capiured 4,000 prisoners, two field officers, 20 cannon, a great many small-arins, and several stands of colors, Of course we were much pleased at this news, and threw up our hats and shouted with all the force of our lungs. | About this time our regiment was ordered ‘to make a forced march to the left: and after marcaing four or five miles we heard the roar of heavy musketry it#onr front. and pushing forward across ow and up a little hill, we came u ‘and relieved 8 regiment that had been fi ririg in frent of arebel fort since early ‘mosning, which had not yet surrendered, to “Hancock! We were drawn up within 100 leet of the fort, and ‘our orders were to fire as fast as balls pouring over this fort, so that the Johnnies could not ra‘se their heals above the breastworks to fire at us without bei ng “hit with our bullets, = We ecntinned firing until latein the eve ning, when, after our guns had beconte 80 dirty we could hardly get a ball down them, we were relieved and moved back to our old position in the line just beyond the fort, and in aline with our firing stood a large tree, which, when our regiment was reliev- ed appeared to be almost cut down, and when the regiment started back to its old position, Capt. Jeffrey requested me to stay ‘and see if it did actually fall. In about two hours after our regiment left the fort, the Johnnies shot up the white flag justas the tree ‘ell tothe ground. 1 was so glad it was over and started up the hill to the fort where Haneock’s Corps had charged early in the morning. It had been raining all day and part of the night before, and the mud was | deep. The dead and wounded. had been re- moved, knapsacks, portfolios, writing paper were scattered T.got on top of the Worse = than a slagughter-pen!-—muddy, bloody, and as wet cas if they iad swam the river. There were "200 in the entrenchments, every one of them more or less. wounded, and many dead. They were calling for food and help. The scene was so deeply stamped all over the hill:side. yesterday, though it is 28 vears ago. After ‘talking tothe wounded for some time I1e- turned toyny regiment; and I never could tell why our regiment had been brought so far to do that work, when there were others so much nearer. itis said a part of that tree. had been taken fo Washington City. Is that true? Also, I would like to hear from other com: rades what they know ‘abont this particu: lar fort.—A. D. SerixGer in National Tri: bune. x PREMONITIONS. A Comrade Thinks Soldiers ars Somat times Warned of Death. ‘Do soldiers have premonitions of their death before going to battle? Yes, I think that they do, an | numerous cascs have been - cited truthfully that occurred during the late eivil war. I will relate the following incident, which canie under my personal obseryation: and which seemsa clear case of premonition that soldiers are impressed with a strong foreboding that they are to meet death in battle, and invariably it has proved frue. My regiment during the afternoon of May 19, 1864, moved across the Tredericksburg and Spottsylvania turnpike and through the gap inthe stone wall on tothe historical Harris Farm, taking position upon a rolline interval of ground south of the Harris Man- sion. Here the regiment formed in line and rested for a short time, the first battalion resting on the right, with the 3d: battalion resting on the left, near La strip of woods. The boys were laughing and joking, there being no signs of a battle, or that there would be one. Spon the scene changed, however, as Isaw Cos. D and F enter the woods in our front, and listened to the continuous roar of mus: ketry that followed; for they had struck Rodes’s Division, of Ewells’s Corps, and there was sharp business ahead for the boys. I stood under the colors, and as I looked down thie long line of blue Isaw many faces that wore expressions of calmness, and oth" ers of determinations, and some wére pale and anxious. | As I stood there with 01d Glory flapping against my face, I'shall nev- er forget the pale features and anxious look of Capt. Wm. G. Thompson, who, laying {his hand upon my arm, remarked: “Well, Corporal, how do you feel about going into battle?’ “Captain,’’ I answered, ' “this looks like business, and some of us have come to stay; but I am going to trust in’ Providence, and think that I will come out all right.”’ Here: marked, *'I am goingto be killed, andl can: not help feeling so.” The Captain's words were Setifiod; for within twenty minutes after the regiment went into action Capt. Wm. G. Thompson, as brave a man asever drew a sword, was carried to the rear mortally wounded — Wx. Crane, in National Tribune. A ——— “aotice that trailing dresses are liable to sweep up cholera germs. If the warning will only cause a removal of | the trail, he Asiatic plague will not red pear us in vain. ; possible, and we kept & constant stream of upon my memory thatitseems' but as SOME scientific autnorivy nas servea: | TALMAGES SUNDAY SERMON. FAR WISER TH THAN WB - Are Feathery Songsters That Fly to Their Hom in the South. “Dr. Talmage's text: Sunday was Jere- miah 8:7: “The stork in the heaven know-th her ap- pointed time; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow A the time of their coming; but my people know:th not the Judgment of the dr When God would set fast a beantifm thought He plants it in a tree. When He would we it afloat He fashions it intoa fish. hen He would have it glide the air He moulds it into a bird. My texts ® speaks of four birds of = beautiful instinet—the Towed familiarly to come, in Holland and Germany, and build its nest over the door: way; the sweet dispositioned turtle-dove. mingling ‘in color white, and black, and brown, and ashen, and chestnut; the crane, with voice like the ¢c ang ofa trumpet; the swallow, swift as a dart shot out of the bow of heaven, ialing, mounting. skimming. sailing—four birds startel by “the ‘prophet 25 centuries ag yet tlying on through the , with inn truth under glossy wing and in the clutch of stout claw. The prophet. almost blinded from looking into the dazzling heavens, stoops. «down and begins to think how much superior the birds are in sagacity about their safety than mei about theirs. I propose, so far as God may help me, this morning, carrying out of the sir have more sagacity than men and I begin by particularizing and saying that they mingle music with their work. 1 suppose ‘their song gives elasticity to their wing, and helps on with the journey, | dwindling a thovsand miles into four hun- dred. ould God that we were as wise as they in mingling Christian song with our every day work! 1 believe there is such a thing as A the piteh of Christian devo- Hon in the morning, and keeping it all the day. I think we might take some of the lest, heaviest, most disagreeable work of Jul life, ‘and set it to the tune of “Antioch” ‘or ‘Mount Pisgah!’ Itisa good sign when you heur a workman whistle. = It is a better Tt is st1l a better sign when you hear® him sing ihe words of Isaac Watts or Charles esle; 1 Sonok believe that the power of Chis. tian song has yet beer fuuly tried. I. _ believe that is you could roll the **Old*Hun- dred’! doxology through Wall street, it would pr an end to any financial disturb- ance! I believe that the discords, and the sorrows, and the sms of the world are to be swept out by heaven-born hallelujahs! Go- ing through the wilderness of . this world let us remember that we are on our way to the summery chime of heaven, and irom the migratory ‘populations flying through this autumnal air learn: always to keep singing. ‘the Church of God will never be a triumphant caureh until it becomes a singing church. I go rurther, and remark that the birds of the air are wiser than we, in the fact that,’ in their migration, they fly very high. During the summer, when they are in the fie'ds, they often come within reach of the gun: but when they start for the annual flight southward, they take their places and = go straight a8 an arrow. to the mark. We fly so low that we dre within eas range of the world, the flesh and the devil. We are brought down by temptations that ought not to come within a mile of reach: ing us. So poor is the type of piety in the ehtarch of God now, that men actually caricature the idea that there is any such thing as a higher life. Moles never did believe in eagles. But, my brethren, because we have not reached these Heights ourselves, shall we. deride the fact that there are any such heights? We go out and we conquer our tefapta- tions by the grace of God, and lie down. On the morrow those A tations rally themselves and attack us, oe by the grace of God we defeat them again; but staying all the time in the old encampment we have the same old battle ta fight over. Why not whip out our temptations and forward march, making one raid through the enemy’s country, “stopping not until we break ranks after the last victory? Do my brethrén, let us have some novélty of combat, at any rate, ‘by changing, by go- ing on, ‘by making advancements, trading off our stale prayers about sins we ought to have quit long ago, going on toward a higher state of Christian character and ronting out sing that we have never thought of yet. Again, I remark that the birds of the air are wiser than we, because they know when to start. lt you should go out now and shout, ‘Stop, storks and cranes, don’t be in a hurry!” they would say, “No, we cannot stop; last night we heard the roaring i in the woods bidding us away, and the shrill flute of the north wind has sounded the retreat.” We say, "Wait until itis a little ‘later in the season of mercy. Wait until some of these green leaves of hope are all dried up and liave been scattered. Wait until next ‘year.’ After a while we start, and it is too late, and we perish in the way when God's wrath is kindled but a little. There are, you know, exceptional cases where birds have started too late, and in the morning you have found them dead onthe snow. And there are those who have perished half way between the world and Christ. 'Thev waited until the last ‘sickness, when the mind was gone, or they. were onthe express train go- ing at 40 miles an hour, and they came to thé bridge and the ‘draw was up” and they went, down. Some of you have felt the pinching frost of sin. You feel it to-day. Youare are not happy. I'look into your faces, and I know you are not happy, There are voices within your soul that will not be silenced. telling you that you are sinners; and that without the pardon of God you are undone forever. lp What are you going to do, my friends, with the accumulated transgressions of this life- time? Will Jou stand still and let the ava- lanche tumble over you? Oh that you would £2 away into the warm heart of God's mercy. he Southern grove, redolent with magnolia and cactus, never wait for Northern flocks as God has waited for Jor Another frost is bid ing you away—it is the frost of sorrow. Where do you five sow! "Oh," vou say, “I have moved.” you move? You say, ‘I don’t want we 3 a house now as formerly.” Why do you want as large a house? You say, ‘My fam- ily is not so large.” "Where have they gone to? ‘Eternity I" Your mind- goes. back through that last sickness and through the almost superfiatural effort to save life, and through those prayers that seemed unavail- ing. ‘and thredgh that kiss ‘which received no response becatise the lips were lifeless, and I hear the bells tollinz and I hear the hearts breaking-—while I speak. I hear them break. A heart! Another heart! Alonel alone! alone! You may have noticed that when “the chaffinch or the stork or the crane starts on its migration, it calls all those of its kind to come, too The treetops are full of chirp and whistle and carol and the long roll-call. The bird does not start off alone. It gathers all of its kind. Oh, that you might be as wise in this migration to heaven, and that ou might gather all your families and your { friends with you! I would that Hannah might take Samuel by the hand, and Abra: ham might take Isaac, and Hagar might take Ishmael Start for heaven yourself, and take your children with you.” Come thou and all thy house into the ark. Tell your little ones that there are realms of balm and sweetness for 4 those who fly in. the ‘Bwifter than pal § stroke, put. ont for | heaven. | Like the crane or the stork, stop not night nor day until vou sud the ight ace or stopping. ; y stork, of such strong affection hat it is-al- the idea of the text, to shew that the birds | sign when you hear him hum a roundelay.’ right direction. KILDED BY A RUNAWAY CAR. THREE MEX LOSE THEIR LIVES AND TWO WOM EN ARE SERIOUSLY INJURED. A runaway car on the incline plane ax the Phillips Glass Works, at Mapleton, ran into a erowd of passengers at the Pennsyl vania railroad station, killing Archie Dill, William Temple and John Barclay instant ly. Nerva Wilson and: Daisy Banks were seriously injured. A hundred or more persons were standing on a side track, which connects the Phillips company’s works with the Pennsylvania railroad, awaiting the arrival of a passenger train. the ranaway car, heavily laden, ran into them. the side track is very great and the carcame down with tremendous velocity. THE OHIO LOWER THAN EVER BEFORE. The depth of water in the channel of the Ohio at Bellaire, O , is but seven inches, “Captain William Dillon; inspector of hulls for the port of Wheeling; who is one of the oldest rivermen hereabouts, says that this stage is the fowest that has been known for He remembers that in 1836 there bb years. was but 10 inches in the channel at Wheel- ing, and he recalls pushing a baby carriagd loaded with butternuts across that time. the rivera$ year, and had to remain there all summer. TUDICIAT DECISION ON ONE POINT IN THE BAK- ER LAW. Judge Yerkes at Norristown gave as his * opinion upon the right of the voter to take a friend in the booth with him to mark the ballot. The judge says thatifa man hap- pens to forget his spectacles he cannot be deprived of his vote because he cannot see, but may call in a friend to help him. One who is unable to read may also have a friend inthe booth to tell him how fo mark bis ballot; or a voter may, says the judge, have a ballot marked beforehand, fake that in the booth and mark the one given to him by the election officer’ by comparison. CALLERY JUNCTION IX RUINS. The Ettle village of 'Callery Junction, where the Butler branch of the Pittsburg and Western railroad diverges from the. main line; was completely wiped out by fire Saturday morning. The settlement consisted only of about a dozen frame buildings, and high wind, lack of water and fire appara precluded any attempt to stop the flames. The fire broke out im Patrick Murray's pool room, and in less than two hours the village was a heap of smouldering ruins. is about $16,000, with very little insurance YOUNG MAN AND WOMAN KILLED. An accident on the Delaware, Lackawans na & Western road at Lehigh resuited in the death of two young people, Edward C. Solar and ‘Ella Cole, who had been calling on a friend and who were returning upon the track. An engine was backing and they thought it svas on the other track. The girl was killed instantly and the young man died soon after. Their home yas but afew vardsaway: TWO KILLED ON THE BALTIMORE & OHIO. The Baltimore & Ohio ‘fiver, westbound, struck a cab containing Michael Kane and wife of Phliadelphia at Darby junction, killing both the occupants and scattering their remains along the track half a mile. ‘The driver was throw 40 feet in the air, but escaped with slight injuries. In a freight wreck on the Philadelphia & Reading railroad at Birdsboro, Berks county, many cars were destroyed and engineer Mitler and Fireman Kensel were badly in- jure THERE js a water famine in the vicinity of Scottdale amit M¢, Pleasant, Westmore- land county, and if a fire should start nothing can be done to stop it. * Ar Taylorstow.i, stonethrowers have beem bombarding private houses nightly. Armed Pasties are patrolling the country seeking a clew WHILE an unknown Slav was endeavor. ing to crawl under a freight train at Bell wood, the train moved and the man's hed was cut from his body. Tae Lehigh tand Wilkesborre Coax Company has begun the construction of the largest coal breaker in the world at Ashley. The plant. will cost $250,000 and will employ about 2,000 men and boys. Ar Pottstown, the Miner's Journal build- ing, occupied by.real estate offices and var- ious clubs was destreyed by fire. $75,000. Mgrs. Nicnoras Rear, aged 78. of Butler, while walking on the West Penn track was struck by an engine and instantly killed. Ar Bellefonte, Pa., fired destroyed three large stables, two smaller buildings and ths large residence belonging to Dr. Robers Hay s, together with the Bush Arcade. Loss, $20.000; insuranee, $10.000, ONLY A STICK. Greatness is not usefuluess. There are many things too great to be usoful. What would a ¢rowbar be worth in repairing a watch? Persons sometimes beiittle them- scives, and seem 1o regard themselves of no account. 8uys Marion Lawrence to Sunday school teachers: “Don’t allow yourselves to get dis couraged in your work. One of my teachers came to me one day and said. ‘I cannot teach this class, T am only a stick.” I replied, ‘Do you know what the Lord aid with a stick? He opened the Red Sea witha stick. He brought water out of the rock with a stiek. You go back to the class and bea stick, be a good stick. That is all the Lord wants of you.’ The trouble is that we want tobe something that we arenot. If weare crooked sticks the Lord will* find crooked places for us to fill.” No man should be discouraged about his place, his opportunities, or lus calling, but each’ for himself should look to God for guidance. for help. for wisdom that cometh trom above; and those who look to God with loving joyous trust, will find that he will never forget them or forsake them, but will guide their efforts to his glory and the good of other men. may be as useful as the work of the great, for it is not by might nor by power, but by my spirit saith the Lord of Hosts. [The Christian. JOHN CLARE, sevanty-tour years old killed by a train at Sparkhill, N. x.) the other evening, Just ten years ago he was struck by tne same train, under the charge uf tne same con luctor, at the same hour and. near the sane spo t that time he was thrown up. in tha; was unonct, : Tag wiountain ir Ws of Cloverdale, 1a dam: : biserly about it tr Suddenly The wonder is that many more were not killed or wounded. The inclineof The loss And the work of thesmall : The Juniata,’ a’ small steamer, ran aground on Wheeling creek bar that i
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