LIFE AND DEATEHy
What's for tiia babe? ;
, Why, mother’s eyes, y
T'win patches of those summer skies
That beamed on him in Paradise. A
‘What's for the child?
With fays to skip
To taste the honeysuckles’ lip—_ _
The butterfly’s companionship.
“What's for the boy?
v - The haunted wold,
The equirrel’s nest in leafy hola,’
‘The rainbow’s fabled pot of gold
‘What's for the youth?
To dream of fame,
In shifting sand to write his name,
‘With sighs to fan a passion’s flame
‘What's for the man?
Courage to beat
The load of wisdom anl of care,
And some true heart its weight to share
And what's for age?
3s Pain’s prison bars,
Comfort that every trifla mars,
‘ Dimness and fear—and then the siars!
~George Horton, in Harpet’s Weekly:
A SPOT OF INK
BRT was seven or eight
years since I had seen
my friend George
Breval when I met
him one day at the
Bois de Boulogne, in
the Avenue des Ac-
cacias. We shook
hands, and, as we
were talking over old
| times, a little Italian
beggar, carrying an
& accordion, came up
2% to ask alms.
ME “Get away with
you!” cried George, with a brutality
that shocked me me.
s¢Why. oid fellow,” I'said; as the lit-
‘tle girl ran off confused and frightened,
| ¢+You were not always so hard on the
poor. It seems to me that we even
thought you soft-hearted!”
<I had not seen life in those days,”
he answered, with a sardonic smile. ¢‘]
koow now that existence is a struggle
for all classes. Besides, kindness is
weakness, a morbid condition, a begin-
ving of brain-softening. That is a
scientific fact, a recognized fact, and for
my part, Ibelieve that kindness leads—"
¢«*Leads to 1ts own reward $”
«No; to a lunatic asylum, or the poor
house.” :
¢¢Ok, nonsense!”
¢“Would you like a page from my own
experience? Ten years ago, while was
I still in my teens, I was studying law,
and lodged as you know on Rue Racine.
One winter evening, when it was snow-
ing, I was about to enter my home in
company with Andre Filsac—do you re-
members him?”
‘Perfectly.
He used to carry tales
at schaol, and he died of jaundice,
didn’t he, when one of his brothers fell
heir to a fortune?”
¢¢That's the man, Well, we were at
tLe front door, when I saw a child lying
across the threshold, a little Italian like
the one who begged just now with an
accordion slung around her neck. She
had fallen asleep on the snow, and the
snow lay white above her, and was grow-
sng deeper every minute. Gf course she
was in danger of freezing to death.
‘Wath the greatest difficulty we awoke
her, and then she began to cry and said
she was afraid to go back to ber master.
For as she had not the fifty sous he re-
quired her to bring daily, she was sure
he would beat her. There was no use
in our giving her the money and send-
ing her away, for her eyes were closing
with sleep, and we knew that she would
lie down again and never awake. We
looked abcut for a policeman, but there
was not one within sight. Isaid some-
thing about taking the child up to my
rooms.”
“Don’t do that, replied Andre. You
know nothing about this little vaga-
bond. You will only be the dupe of
your own charity.”
; “Just like Filsac,” I interrupted.
& «tHe was not sympathetic; but he had
good sense. However, I took no heed
of his observations, but led the girl up-
stairs, warmed her by a good fire, and
gave her some tea and biscuits. I let
ber sleep in my own bed, and I slept
myself on an old lounge in my -little
ante-chamber.”
+ “You did well, George!’
¢¢Wait a minute. Tae next morning,
when { rose, I found the child up and
dressed. She bid me good-by, thanking
me prettily, and I sent her away with a
gold piece in her hand. But, after her
departure, I found my room in horrible
disorder. She had rummaged through
everything. Worse than that, she had
stolen one of my handkerchiefs.”
_ “A handkerchief?”
¢¢Yes—a hideous, ridiculous, red em-
broidered object, sent me by my auat,
Mme. de Kermandec. It was a present
I kept piously, but never used.”
«tA small loss, then. No? What of
it?” !
¢“What of it? The theft had dreadful
results for me. My aunt came to Paris.
She asked why I never used the hand-
kerchief she had embroidered for me. I
grew embarrassed, hesitated, tried to
explain and contradicted myself. She
insisted that I had given it away. She
grew angry and refused to be pacified.
She died and disinherited mel”
¢sPoor George!”
" «It makes you laugh? I don’t think
it funny myself. And since then every-
thing has gone against me. Iam a law-
yer without a client. I placed my all
with a banker who absconded, and, to
crown my misfortunes, I have fallen in
love!”
s+Then, why don’t you get married?”
¢Impossible! She is a princess!”
40h} then—" =
¢:Look! yonder she goes!” exclaimed
my friend, *‘Do you see that landau
mear the old gentleman with white
whiskers and a hooked nose? She is
here at this hour every day—our eyes
have met—and judge of my folly! It
singular—marked —in the way she looks
at me.”
+ “Why, that 18 the Drincess Olga
Dragomiroff.” 2
“You are acquainted?”
$¢Very well acquainted. ge oranl-
father is the millionaire Neopolitan
banker Ghirolandi. There is to be some
grand ‘tra-la-1a’ to-morrow afternoon at
their house—=a musicale, followed by a
dance. Shali I present you?”
“Could you?”
. “Nothing easier. Our families are
f very intimate. Ghirolandi's friends are
- our friends.”
“Then I shall be delightea—too de-
lighted—to accept. But what's the use,
{ since I love without hope?”
“Who knows? Princess Olga is rather
eccentric. She is, perhaps, capable of
{ taking a {ancy to you.”
¢*Thnanks—much obliged.”
“Don't be vexed. Will you oo with
me?”
“Yes, I will go."
Olga and her maternal grandfather,
the immensely rich Orlando Ghirolandi,
lived at Paris inea fine house on Rue de
la Bostie. They moved ia the most
select circles and entertained with mag-
nificence. :
People sometimes wondered why the
princess did not marry. Everyone
agreed that she was virtuous, charitable
and devout, after the manner of Rus-
sians, who still keep a certain depth of
mysticism in. spite of the friction of nine-
teenth century cynicism.
But the young iady was odd to the
very limits of eccentricity, even, some
people said, to the limits of rudeness.’
She was a good musician and played
well on the violin. But, after executing
some classical concerto so as to excite
the admiration of connoisseurs, she
would dash off into an absurd refrain
of a popular melody and would seem de-
lighted with the annoyance of ker au-
dience. When she went out walking
with her grandfather, or her prim Eng-
lish companion, she never failed to stop
the little street musicians and ask them
a torrent of outlandish questions in an
outlandish Italian patois she had learned
dear knows where. One of her most
unaccountable eccentricities was that she
persisted in appearing everywhere, even
in a ball dress, with an embroidered
handkerchief bearing initials not ber
own, and stained with a spot of ink that
was beginning to turn yellow. One or
two of ner most intimate friends had
ventured to ask her why she carried
such a strange object, and she bad an-
swered very gravely: ‘Hush! it has a
history!”
Bhe treated all remonstrances with fn.
difference, even those of her grand-
father, who spoiled her. Pretty and
rich, the singular little princess might
easily have made a good match; but she
declared that there was only one man
in the world she would marry, and that
it was extremely unlikely he would ever
ask her hand. .
Affairs were thus, when I receive
Signor Ghirolandi's permission to pre-
sent my friend George Breval. George
was already very much in love. Olga
received him prettily and granted him
the waltz he begged. But although he
was said to be the most graceful man in
Paris, he behaved like an awkward
schoolboy, and was so afraid of saying
anything foolish that he scarcely opened
his mouth.
- Mademoiselle,” he remarked at last,
s¢the more I look at you the more certain
I feel that I have seen you somewhere—
that we have meet before.”
¢You are right,” she answered seri-
ously; we have meet before, and if we
ever grow well enough abquainted I may
tell you where.” /
¢*Won’t you tell me now.”
¢No; not yet.” .-» *
¢Ig this the mysterious handkerchief
that is supposed to be your fetich#’ he
queried. **May I look at it? It reminds
me of one I lost under peculiar circum-
stances.”
She drew it gently away, turning it so
that the initials could not be seen.
‘Some other time,” she said, *‘I may
tell you all about it.”
George had to wait her good pleasure;
but his curiosity was piqued, and he
thought of little beside the charming
princess.
One day, some weeks after, he re-
peated his questions and pressed for a
reply. “Tell me,” he said, *‘where
have we met before?”
Olga seemed strangely embarrassed.
She colored deeply, looked down and
twisted a corner of her hideous hanker-
chief. Then, raising her clear, candid
eyes to his she answered *‘It was in
your room, don’t you remember? Take
this, and then you will know.” She held
out the handkerchief. . ¢‘Don’t you, re-
cognize it?’ She added: ¢‘Those sure
your own initials.”
¢¢It is mine! my handkerchief! Then
that little beggar—was it, could it
be—1"
¢¢]t was I.”
*“You are joking?”
«Not at all. My history is extraordi-
pary, perhaps, but not impossible. = My
father, Prince Dragomiroff, left Russia
under the Czar’s displeasure. He went
to Naples and married the daughter of
the banker Ghirolandi. After I was
born, my parents purchased a villa in
Sicily, and when I was eight years old I
was stolen by brigands, of whom there
are still a number in Sicily. Taey sold
me to a man who dealt in street musicians,
who treated me very cruelly. I was with
his band for some years, and developed
so much talent for the accordion that I
was well'beaten if I failed to bring baci
fifty sous each day.
¢iOne evening, half dead from hunger,
cold and fatigue, I dropped down across
your door and fell asleep. I should
probably have died there like an aban-
doned kitten, if you had not taken me
in. You gave me food and shelter, and
gave up your own warm bed. I awoke
early, and naughty child that I was, be-
gan to rummage through all your things.
I foand a handkerchief on your desk,
and it seemed to me so pretty, with its
red embroideries, that I took it in my
hands to examine it. In some way, 1
geems to me that there is something
gever knew how, I upset a small ick
bottle and stained the handkerchief.
Imagine my terror! I dressed myself
hurriedly. hid the ink-stained object in
my pocket, and, as soon as I heard you
stirring iz the ante-room, I asked you
to let me go. Some months passed. My
parents died, one of grief at having lost
me, the other by assassination from a
political section. My grandfather was
searching everywhere to find me, and he
succeeded. Now, dn vou understand
| me?”
“Yes; but—"
+iBut it remains for me to thank vou
for having saved my life, and to return
your bandkerchief, unless you will give
it to me as a souvenir.”
¢‘Princess—""
‘You may call me Olga.”
But he did not avail himself of this
permission. ¢¢I will give you the hand-
kerchief,” he said, as if he had not
noticed her interruption. *‘I am happy
to be able to gratify even a whim of one
who has, ‘all the gifts from all the
heights.” When you marry you may send
it back to me.”
«Have you not heard,” she said im-
patiently, ¢‘that I shall marry no one,
since the only man I would accept will
never ask me?”
«Why will he not?” asked George,
looking troubled. :
«He thinks me too rich, I suppose.
You know I 2m to have a dower of many
millions.”
“Then the offer ought to come from
your grandfather, or from you,” replied
George.
They stood for a moment gazing at
each other in silence; then the princess
burst into a merry laugh. ‘What im.
propriety you are advising,” she cried.
+¢Yon would not take me, would you, if
I said you were the man I meant?”
*‘Olga! do you mean it?”
¢‘Maybe so.”
* * * * * -
George has now always a kind word
and a coin for the little Italian beggars.
And he has ceased to be a pessimist.—
From the French in the Voice.
Amusing Experience With a Squirrel.
¢¢In Memphis,” said Charles F. Elmire,
of Union City, Tenn., ‘‘there 13 a little
park called Court Square, situated in
the center of the city. The parkkeeper
told me that there were over 500 squir-
rels that made their nests in the big
shady trees. They afford boundless
amusement to the children and to the
weary foot travelers who stop in the
park to rest, One day last week I
bought a bag of peanuts, and while I
sat down on one of the seats eating them,
the squirrels gathered around - me like
blackbirds would flock to a cornfield im-
mediately after planting time. I con.
cluded to try an experiment. Iblew up
the paper bag, tied a string around it
about six inches long and to the other
end fastened a ‘goober’ aud threw it on
the ground. ‘There was an old bob-
tailed squirrel —the father ofthe flock —
that tackled it. He picked up the
sgoober’ between his paws and started
to open the shell when he discovered
that there was a string tied to it. Then
he began to run, still holding the nut
between his teeth. He jumped off about
fifty feet and turned his head around to
see if the bag and string was still be-
hind. They were. Well, -sir, you
should have witnessed the actions of that
squirrel after he saw that the bag still
pursued him. Up a tree he went; down
one side and up another, the way he
went. After he had chased himself
about ten minutes, he stopped and
sgorter’ turned his head around slow like
to see if the bag was still there. It was.
Then he started again, and of all the
running I ever saw that squirrel did it.
He moved about among the branches
and limbs like a streak of lightning.
Finally, out of breath, he stopped again
and the expression he wore on his face
seemed to indicate that he was saying zo
himself ‘well whatever you are you are
not in it now.” I guess I've got you.”
But when he turned his head around and
saw that the bag and string were right
there, he fainted dead away.”—3S¢. Louis
Republic.
The Lady and the Big Gray Cat.
“Kindly assist me with this baiket—
careful, please!”
The speaker, a large, handsome wo-
man, had just entered the depot. Dia-
monds bobbed playfully in her ears, and
the dress she wore would have mada
Worth weep for joy.
Passenger Agent Cummings promptly
took the basket. It was of medium
size, richly trimmed with satin and
decorated with vari-colored ribbons.
The contents were covered by a quilt
beautifully decorated with needle-work.
It weighed in all nearly forty pounds.
Mr. Cummings was amazed that's woman
of her evident wealth should be carrging
such a heavy burden. Lr
Suddenly he felt a strange jolting in
the basket. The quilt was heaving up
and down. Mr. Cummings thought of
babies, dogs, snakes, chickens and mud
turtles all in less than a second. It was
with a feeling of relief that he deposited
the mysterious bundle on a seat by the
side of the woman.
‘‘Come, Dick,” shesaid, pleasantly.
Instantly the quilt went up witha
volcanic burst, and out popped, like a
whiskered Jack-in-the-box, a huge gray
cat. It was the largest that Mr. Cum-
mings had ever seen. Dick stood nearly
eighteen inches high, and was long and
broad in proportion. His weight ex-
ceeded thirty-five pounds. After show-
ing nim proudly the lady snapped her
finger and the hugh cat jumped back
into the .basket.
Dick is the Goliah of his race. He
wore about his neck a richly ornamented
gold band bearing a medal from the re-
cent Paris cat show. His owner, the
lady, never traveled without kim. close
at her side. Dick was given a drink of
water, which he received with a rare
display of feline majesty, and then Mr.
Cummings bore him out to the Baltimore
and Ohio train, which left at 3:15.—
Chicago News Record.
rn rman
Chicken raising is a profitable and im.
portant Kansas industry, —~ -—
FOUR NEGROES LYKCHED.
They Had Murdered Two White Mer-
chants on the Highway.
Defails of a quadruple lynching at Taze
well Court House, Va., are received. Twa
white men. A. Ratcliff and Ben Shortridge,
were waylaid Monday night and murdered.
They were common merchants who had
came to the town for goods, and were sup-
posed to have money.
Suspicion pointed to four negroes as be-
ing the murderers. Searching parties were
sent out. The first arrested was Jerry Brown
and after satisfactory evidence to his guilt
had been obtained a rope was placed about
his neck and he was scon dangling from a
tree. Later the other three, Spencer Branch,
John Johnston and Sam Ellerson, were ar-
rested by the county ctficials and started for
the court house. :
News of the murder had reached Buchan-
an county, where the murdered men resid-
ed, and a mob was immediately organized,
and started toward Richlands. This party
forcibly took charge of the three negroes
and swung them up in short order.
BEYOND OUR BORDERS.
The striking bakers in Marseilles attacked
the bread carts and bakeries, throwing the
bread into the streets. A settlement of the
strike followed. :
There was riot yesterday among the starv-
ing poor on the Thames embankment, Lon-
don, because the police prevented them
from marchiog to the parliament buildings
to display their poverty.
By an explosion of fire-damp in a mine at
Recklinghausen, Westphalia, 18 miners
were killed and 17 injured.
Big Vote For Canada’s Annexation.
A big political meeting was held at Essex
near Windsor, Ont., the other night to dis-
cuss the future of Canada. At the close of
several speeches a vote was taken and re-
sulted as follows: Fo remain in statu quo, 21;
independence 12; imperial federation 3;
political union with the United States 413.
—TuE American ship Robert L.. Belknap
from Hioga bound for New York, sank
near the Natunas Islands. but all hands
veached shore in open boats.
Pennsylvania Legislature.
TwerrrH Day.—In the Senate among the
bills introduced were: Mr. Markley—Toli-
sense mi k producers and venders and ap-
point milk and diary inspectors in cities of
first and second classes. Mr. Ross—Giving
the superintendent of the banking depart.
ment additional powers, authorizing him to
move promptly against delinquent banks,
and ask for the appointment of a receiver,
and prohibiting any foreign corporation to
receive any deposit or transact any banking
business until it shall have filed in the office
of tne superintendent of banking a certified
copy of the statement required to be filed in
the office of the secretary of the common-
wealth. Mr. Woods—To prevent deception
or fraud by owners or agents having con-
trol of any stallion kept for service by p>
claiming or publishing or fraudulent ped.
grees, etc. Fifty bills passed first reading.
The house was not in session.
THPRTEENTH DAY.—In the Senate a reso.
lution offered by Penrose for the appoint:
ment of three senators and six memoers of
the house to consider majority and minori-
ty reports of the quarantine commission ap~
pointed to select a site for the establishment
of a quarantine station on the Deleware
river wasadopted. The Governor submit-
ted a communication in connection wih
three reports in which he urged speedy ac-
tion to prevent the cholera from obtaining
a foothold in this state. Losch’s concurrent
pension resolution passed by the house Fris
day last was adopted. Porter introduced
senatorial and representative bills similar to
those of two years ago.
Bills were passed finally :© Neeb’s bill re-
quiring the execution of murderers in the
penitentiaries. To enable eleemosynary
corporations to secure their property from
liability to be wasted or encumbered by
managers or beneficiaries of the estate. To
validate partitions of real estate in cases of
testacy made in orphans courts prior to act
of May, 1889, Further defining evidence of
stock ownership.
Among the bills favorably reported were
the following: To provide for the forma-
tion of Folopomative ‘banking associations.
Meredith, of Armstrong, to enable boroughs
not divided into wards to establish high
schools. Brown, of Westmoreland, to ex-
tend the time of killing squirrels, wood-
cocks, pheasants and grouse.
Bills were introduced as fo'lows: Ban-
non, McKean, to repeal the act of 1x91
changing the time and manner of making
the registry of voters and the duties of reg-
istry assessors. Becker, Philadelphia,defin-
ing the words‘ ‘wantonly or cruelly ill-treat”
as applied to animals, to include cutting,
burning, maiming or otherwise inflicting
pain for the purpose of demonstrating facts
already known and ascertained, as, by way
of illustration, class demonstration or other-
wise. Woods, Mifflin to reimburse coun-
ties for mony expended for the reconstruc-
tion of bridges destroyed by the flood of
1889. Hackenburg. of orthumberland,
to provide for the election of burgess every
three years and to abolish the office of as-
sistant burgess.
In the House, Lytle, Mates, Fuller, 8kin-
ner and Thornton were announced as the
committee by Speaker Thompson to inves-
tigate the charges against State Printer
eyers.
Bills were introduced: Seyfert, Lancaster,
amending the marriage license act so as to
give nota:ies public the same right as jus-
tices of the peace relative to the taking of
oaths. Boyer, Philadelphia, increasing the
compensation of electors to $5 a day and pro-
viding for mileage. Quinnan, Lackawanna,
prohibiting corporations from employing
eace officers or to assume the duties of
tate, county or municipal cfficers.
FouRTEENTH Day.—In the Senate to-day
bills were reported as follows: Making
Lawrence and Jefferson counties separate
judicial districts; appropriating $163,000 for
the re-equipment of the National Guard and
300,000 each for the next two years for its
maintenance; providing for the erection of a
State building for Western Pennsylvania for
feeble-minded children; to reimburse coun-
sies for money expended for the reconstruc-
tion of bridges destroyed in the flood of 1889;
to provide for a State naval militia.
This bill was introduced. Mr. Penrose,
Philadelphia—Providing for appointment of
game commissioners, and authorizing these
officers to appoint game wardens.
Bills providing for the abolition of the
publication of mercantile appraisers’ lists
and the abolition of the office of mercantile
appraiser, reported affirmatively, were re-
committed.
A communication was received from the
Governor,announcing that he had signed the
Ohio River-Lake Erie ship canal resolution.
The House devoted most of the session to
t he discussion of an amendmeult to the bill
providing for the licensing of lying-in-hospi-
tals. The amendment provided that not
only the name of mother and child be reg-
istered in such hospitals, but also that of
the father. The amendment was defeated.
These bills were introduced: Mr. Kunkél,
Dauphin—Giving the husband the same
right in the wife's estate, as the wife has in
the husband's estate, in case of contested
wills. Mr. Cotton, Allegheny—To give
women the right of suffrage. Mr. Talbot,
Chester— Prohibiting the furnishing of
cigarets to minors. - Mr. Fow, Philadelphia
FrrreexTH Day, —In the Senate to-day the
following bills were reported favorably:
Providing for printing 2 5J0 copies of the
revised, corrected proceedings of the late
extra session of the Senate to members of
Legislature, to authorize issuing of certifi-
cates of authcrity 0 insurduce associations,
known as Lloyds; appropriating $55,000 for
the improvement and repair of the banks
and channel of Vil Creek, damaged by the
flood of 1892: providing for a State Board of
Undertakers.
The following bills were introduced: Bak-
sr. Delaware—Preparing a large number of
amendments to the Ballot Reform law, to
better effect the purpose of the act; provid-
ing further regulations for safety of persons
employed in mercantile and manufacturing
establishments. Herring, Columbia—Pro-
viding for the closing of all polls at all elec-
tions in Pennsylvania at 4p. m. Bills were
finally as follows: Exempting county
commissioners from the operation of the
law re:u'ating payment of traveling ex-
penses of directors and county commission-
ers, conferring on purchasers of property of
manufacturing corporations the rr and
franchises of the latter; providing that
liquor license fees may be paid into the
proper local treasuries; empowering bor-
oughs and cities to establish a police pension
fund. Two of Senator Neeb's bills passed
the Senate on second reading. The first
prohibits members of the Board
of Control in cities of the second class from
holding any office of emolument or being
employed by said beards. The other pro
vides for physical culture in the publig
schools of the cities of the first and second
class. Mr. Neeb's bill establishinz a police
pension fund passed finally. The bill author-
izing coroners to jappoint deputy coroners
passed finally. Tuesday evening was fixed
for delivery of eulogies on James G. Blaine.
The Senate then adjourned until 9 p. m.
Monday.
A bill was introduced in the House to-day
by Representative Marshall, of Allegheny,
providing for the health, safety ant com-
fort of the miners in the bituminons regions
of the State. The bill provides that the oper-
ator or superintendent of every bituminous
coal mine shall mnake, or cause to be made,
an accurate map or plan of such coal mine,
or a scroll of not less than 100 fe.etto an
inch, The bill is similar in other respects
to the Gorman bill, except that it reduces
the minimum amount of air to 100 feet.elim-
inates the liability clause and limits the
number cf men inashaft toa hundred.
The Gorman bill has been reported favor-
ably from committee. A resolution was
adopted, on motion of Mr. Lawrence, that a
special meeting of the House be held on
Tuesday evening next, to receive the report
of the committee appointed to prepare reso-
lutions with relation to the death of James
G, Blaine, and to take such other action as
may seem proper. A bill was offered by Mr.
Bliss excusing members of the National
Guard and ex-soldiers from jury service.
The bill to prevent the sale and manufac.
ture of cigarettes containing tobacco was
called up on second reading. The House
devoted considerable time to the discussion
of the measure, which finally passed. The
House then adjourned.
SIXTEENTH Day.—Senate not in session.
Among ihe bills favorably reported in the
House to day were the following: Author-
izing licenses to be issued to unnaturalized
foreigners on condition that they pay an
annual tax of $3; providing for compulsory
education in the schools of the State; mak-
ing election day a legal holiday; 10 increase
the salary of the superintendent of* public
institutions from $2,500 to $5,000.
These bills were introauced: Mr. Burke,
of Lackawanna, providing for the examina-
tion and registration of miners in the an-
thracite and bituminous coal regions and to
prevent the employment of incompetent
persons in the mines. Mr. Laudenslager,
of Dauphin, to abolish the office of mercan-
tile appraiser, require his duties to be per-
formed by the District Assssor, and pro-
viding for the payments of the mercantile
revenues into the county treasuries,
Mr. King, of Clearfield, offered a resolu-
tion. which was adopted, asking . for the
. appointment of a joint legislative committee
to inquire inso the feasibility of having a
large section of Pennsylvania forests secur-
ed for the purpose of establishing a natural
State park. A preamble to the resolution
recites the destruction of the forests of the
State to such an extent that grave fears
exist that the animals will soon become
extinct on account of it and suggests their
protection by means of a forest park. After
the reading of a number of bills the first
Sime the Ho use adjourned until Monday at
p. m.
A Very Good-Natured Strike,
The most remarkable labor strike
of which there.is anv account in the
annals of labor disturbances is that
in Manchester, the principal cotton
manufacturing center in England. It
is npt a contest regarding wages nor
‘the hours of labor. It is not a con-
test for the recognition of the labor
unions. From the best accounts it
appears to be a mere holiday season
for the capitalists owning the fac-
tories and for the employes whose
savings enable them to lay off for a
while without suffering for want of
food and other comforts of life.
It is said in a report from the scenc
of the strike in Lancashire that a five
minute’s conference between the em-
ployers and the cmployes might set-
tle the whole affair. But neither
side wants to settle it. Neither side
makes any compiaint, has specified
any wrong nor demands any redress.
The employes will not make any de-
mand which the employers are not
ready to grant. The demands and
concessions would correspond with
each other.
Early in the present year there was
a great demand for cotton yarn in the
mills supplied by the spinners in the
various villages of Lancashire. The
employers then advanced wages 5 per
cent. in order to procure the increased
labor required in their factories. Of
course overproduction followed this
period of stimulation. = A’ large Ssup-
ply of unsalable yarns was accumu-
lated. A decline in price tollowed.
The mills now want to stop produc-
tion and return to the former rates
for labor,
The employes admit that their late
increase of wages must be abolished.
But they have a large reserve fund in
the treasuries of their trade unions.
They expect to go to work again at
the reduced wages when their sav-
ings are exhausted. They are taking
a holiday, which they greatly enjoy.
The mill owners are saving all the
cost of labor while they are working
off their stocks. It isa pleasant ar-
rangement all around. and the men
will return to work as soon as their
work is needed.
On this mere question of techni-
cality—it might be called a question
of etiquetve — 60,000 men aré living
on their accumulated savings of ten
years, and the mill owners are peace-
fully awaiting their return to the
wheels and spindles in the mills
DUEANE—T' believe the physician
{8 right who said cholera is a crime.
Gaswell—That accounts for the effort
—To permit the sale of liquor in public
parks: to prohibit the exposition of physi- |
cal deformities in public. {
being made to arrest it.—Pittsburg
Chranicla
A MINE EXPLOSION.
TWO MEN FATALLY INJURED AND SEVEN OTHERYP
SEVERELY BURNED.
Conygham shaft Friday. Nine men were
severely burned and two of them will die.
The injured are: Thomas Dolan, married;
Edward Ward, single; M. Ramsey, single:
Samuel Fausett. married; I’. Mohan, mar-
ried; Thomas Keenan, driver boy; William
Johnson, married.
Two others, John Morgan and James Hop-
kins, are fatally burned and cannot recover.
_ It is said that the accident was due to leav-
ing one of the main doors open in a gang-
way road. This caused an accumulation of
gas, which became ignited from the nak
lamps in the hats of the miners.
AN AWFUL FATE.
A LAMP EXPLODES AND TWO LITTLE GIRLS ARE
BURNED TO DEATH.
HornrLipay:BURG.—A horrible accident oc
curred in Woodbury township, this county,
Saturday evening by which two little child-
ren were cremated. Albert Glass and his
wife had gone to call on a neighbors’'s fam-
ily abont a mile distant, leaving their two
children, aged about 10 and 7 years, respec-
tively, alone in the house. A short time
after the parents had Ceparted a glass coal-
oil lamp which was sitting upon the kitchen
table was pulled over by the little girls and
it exploded. throwing the burning oil over
their clothing and setting fire to the house.
The children were burned to death before
help could reach them from the next farm
and the house was reducd toa pile of ashes.
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PENNSYLVANIA EDITORS.
E. F. ACHESON ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THR
STATE ASSOCIATION.
HARRISBURG.—At the twenty-fifth annuil
meeting of the State Editorial Association
here, E. IY. Acheson, of Wasnington, was
elected president: H.L.Taggart, of Philadel-
hia, Lucius Rodgers, of McKean and J.
V. Malory, of Carbon, vice-presidents; R,
H. Thomas, of Cumberland, secretary and
treasurer and Mrs, J. W. Stafer, of Lancas-
ter, correspondin« secretary. The Exeeu-
tive Commitye& consists of Cyrus IL, Fox,
of Berks; J. B. Seal, of Dauphin; J. Irvin
Steele, of Schuykill; P’. Gray Meek, of Cen-,
tre; George M. Bresbin, of Clearfield; W. W
Trout. of MiflinandJ. W. Grier. The
summer meeting will probably be held in
Reading.
and
SMOTHERED BY WRAPS.
4 CAREFUL MOTHER PROTECTS HER BABE TOO
WELL FROM THE WINTRY WINDS,
woman, and her 4-months-oid baby, with a
Mrs. Snyder, left here in a sleigh to return
to their home near Ellwood. The baby was
wrapped warmly to protect it from the cold,
and ss they were passing through Eastvale,
Mrs. Altmyer remarked that the child wa
unusually quiet. ASV rapbing it she found
the infant dead smothered by its wraps.
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RELICS OF THE COLD SNAP.
QUAILL in many parts of the State were so
weakened by the cold and the lack of food
that they were caught by hand.
For the first time in more than 20 years
the swift water of the Shenango at New
Castle were completely frozen up.
Ar some places in the Susquehanna the
ice is said to be packed and irozen to a
depth of 40 feet. : .
A DEER, driven from the mountains by
the Jesh snow, was killed by a locomotive
on the Pennsylvania Railroad near New
Florence.
S~ow has now covered the ground for 39
days and the farmers are predicting a big
crop of wheat.
BROCRWAYVILLE, in Jefferson county, re-
ports the thermometer down to 22° below
zero. This isabout the lowest in Western
Pennsylvania.
Ati sort metre
STUDENTS TAKE A TOWN.
BELLEFONTE. —Last Saturday night about
two dozen students from the State Col
went on a racket to Pine Grove Mills. Afters
terrorizing half the town, they invaded the
Methodist Church, broke up a religious
meeting and sent the people home panic
stricken. A suffocating powder was thrown
around. and some of the worshipers had tc
be carried home because of the loss of con-
sciousness. None of the students were ree-
ognized, The trustees will endeavor ta
hunt down and punish the perpetrators.
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GOT ONE-FIFTH OF HIS CLAIM,
HovrinaYsBURG.—[n the case of J. H. Wal-
lace vs. the Pennsylvania “Railroad Com-
pany, a jury awarded plaintiff $4,000 dam-
ages, The Pennsylvania while straighten
1ts main line below Tyrone in 1891, removed
a limestone mountain. Plaintiff had been
selling the ore on this mountain to Carnegie
& Co., of Pittsburg. In his suit he er
$20,000 damages,
A BIG FIRE IN ALTOONA.
Arroona.—Woodcock’s Arcade, a four
story brick building on Eleventh ave-
nue, was damaged $40,000 by fire of an in-
cendiary origin, insured for about one-third.
Among the other losers are Frederick Hes-
ser, dry goods; J. Kramer, wall paper and
dry goods; Lewine and Stuger, wholesale
dry goods; the World's Museum and six pri-
vate families. The goods of these were
worth about $75,000 and were badly dam-
aged by water.
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none
KILLED ON HIS WEDDING DAY.
JouNsTrowN.—Samuel Edwards, 25 years
old, was instantly killed while walking om
the track. He wasto have been married
same evening.
Ar Shamokin, a huge icicle fell 600 feet
and struck George Betz, who was at the bot-
tom of Nelson shaft, inflicting fatal injuries.
PETITIONS are circulating at Harrisburg
and elsewhere asking the removal of German
carp from the streams of Pennsylvania.
A FARMERS’ institute will be held at Can-
onshurg, February 3.
New Castri has had 32 fires in two weeks
all believed to be incendiary. >
THE eleven Western Union Telegraph line.
men tried last week for breaking the Sab-
bath by repairing the line on that day, were
convicted Monday and sentenced to’ pay a
fine of $4 and costs. The Justice’s decision
states that the work in regard to the wires
was necessary, but that other work, such as
digging trenches, was done, that might have
been done at another time.
By the discharge of his gun while he was
climbing a fence, Simon Browse, a farmer
of Selin’s Grove, lost his life.
Betsy McCuspy, living near Greensburg,
supposed to be poor, died the other day, and
in her home a tin can containing $1,200 was
found, with other valuables.
James WrLriams, aged 12 years, a son of
Isaac Williams, was kicked on the head by
a vicious horse near Ohio Pyle and had his
skull fractured. It is feared he will die.
A MINER named Joseph Pilgrim, of
Clairidge had his neck broken by a= fall of
slate. His recovery is out of the question,
Box (on a bridge)—Say, mister, i$
you don’t look out you'll be fined.
Teamster—Why will I? Boy—That
sign says “walk your horses,” don’s
it? Teamster— Jesso. Boy — Well,
yours are standing still. —Street &
WILKESBARRE.—An explosion occurred in °
Braver Fares. —Mrs. Altmeyer, a German
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