SCS, ce, Great stars and s on Blar- ning the nce, over Aberdeen was the sical pro- cians and ing from ED. ed Thurs- nor and or Fuller rnor Dil- the day. through- and tiled is in the charming z. her from h,brought gain into ng. The k, in Ad- inued by s until 5 re crowds. ock filled 1 the lake ublic on shed will 0,000 has The art lding. sy brought 1y night, ither side in in the Visitors ion build- with the of thous- | from the tered the ‘rom the bbons of ested the out over The gilt 1ding was the effect, the peris- PORT. , Show a {ment of" condition yn. of 2.1 eing 75.3 in May, 1 winter ran, 71; 72; Kan- states is decline of onth. It ia,against win zes range Carolina. le to the in the ic states. advanced vheat-pro- 1siderable ska, where rmination ind much rge areas to other Missouri plant was damaged her, In ter great- ther since it of re- me of the diana and 1inch bugs pal wheat reported r and un- poor and Irowning. red a de- onth. Its nst 85 for re of New higan 80, ions have d growth en the re- hwestern. y is 88.0 es of prin- ire: New nois, Mis- rado. In aged by condition 1g lands plowing ent again- series of SS. ions Are it Wash- e fourth the cen- nter and er portion week has on, on ac- he weath- vheat and here seed- TOR Tess, akotae, is and zd- are more ous week. a stand- no corn nd pota- nd grass > wheat, ind corn- usands of nd wilk on about rable for uplands hindered ature re. at, oats, nly. lamage to lS; grass, WwW growth delayed. nue back- besought live with him, The man for ere both ears of Newberry r the pos- d as @ as 7 crm. "it after he was gone. SINGING OF YOU. Blossoms and blossoms and blossoms! and birds singing of 'em so sweet ! Pressing the down of their bosoms 'gainst the flowers that fall at your feet! Clinging and swinging and flinging their souls to the heavens so blue— O, sweet to my soul is their singing, because they are singing of you! Singing of you In the dawn and the dew— Singing of heaven and singing of you! Blossoms and blossoms and blossoms! and just sparkling with beautiful pearls, Twining themselves for your tresses, and fall- ing and kissng your curls! And all the birds swinging and flinging their souls to God's heavens of blue, And my soul dreaming soft in their singing, because they are singing of you! Singing of you In the dawn and the dew— Singing of heaven and singing of you! —Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. BLACKMANS GULLY. BY H. M. HOKE. T wasa cold January ight when James Blake, on his way to Mary Graham's home, came through the dense woods crowning the top of Blackman’s hill. The night was long remembered in the neighbor- hood. A heavy snow had fallen the previous day, succeeded by a rain which a sudden north wind had frozen to a slippery crust. The moon, one night on the wane, was a half hour above the eastern mountain, silvering the long stretch of snow, and turning the ice on thetreesinto diamonds. Blake stopped a moment on the summit of the hill, to admire the spectral beauty of the night, and to cast an awed glance down to the hideous gully into which the steep and jagged side of the hill fell. The place was upon the farm of young Rodney Blackman, and ever since the accident death or murder of the elder Blackman there many years before, it had been regarded with aversion and horror by the country folk. It may be that Blake stopped, too, more firmly to set his courage for his errand. He was a prosperous young mechanic in Templeton, the village whose lights twinkled in the valley to his left, and was going to learn Mary Graham's final unswer to his declara- tions of love. Beset by the customary obstacles, the principal being elusive- ness or coquetry on Mary's part, he had wooed her for two years. He was now determined to have the question settled that night. Mary’s father was a well-to-do far- mer. Mary herself was a vigorous country girl, who might well have been an ideal of rural beauty, and who set upon herself an estimate by no means too low. She was not backward in making known the standard by which the successful wooer must measure. ‘Whether James Blake so measured was a much discussed question in the lo- cality. It was admitted that he was an ideal of muscular and honest man- hood, and if his means did not quite equal Mary's prophesied dowry, he had a capital of vigor and determina- tion well worth #zking. into consider- ation. Another of the obstacles had been set up by Farmer Graham. He declared that, having no son of his own, the man who won Mary must come and live on the farm and learn to care for To many this would have been—and, indeed; was— more of an inducement than an obsta- stacle, but Blake was interested and successful in his business enterprises, and he stoutly asserted that the woman he married must leave all for him. It was to adjust this difference, as well as to get & final answer from Mary, that he knocked that bitter January night at the front door of the Graham farm- house, and was bidden ‘Come in!” Mary sat knitting by the wood fire in the capacious chimey place, and seldom have hearth flames brightened a pret- tier domestic picture. James put his hat on the table, pulled a chair over near her, and, after a few prelimina- ries, began to state the purpose of his call. ‘Mary, do you know how long I've been coming to see you now?” “It must be,” she replied, pausing mischievously, as if she did not know the exact time to the day, ‘a year, anyhow, isn’t it?” “It was two years ago yesterday.” “Is it, indeed ?” she said, in captious astonishment. ‘I wouldnt have thought it.” “Mary,” he 2zid, in mild censure, “I'm serious to-night, and I'd like you to be, too. I think you remember as wellas I do that it’s two years since the first night I brought you home from the protracted meeting in Templeton. I have told you often that I love you and want you for my wife, but you have been pleased to turn away the subject, and I see you are disposed to hold me off to-night. I want to tell you that I came to get yes or no.” He paused, and she looked up inreal wonder at the decisive tone marking the last statement. ‘Yes, I'm in dead earnest to-night,” he continued. “What is your answer ?” There was no sound save the click- ing of her knitting-needles but she gave hor head an independent toss, and pursing her lips in like spirit, she replied— ‘‘And suppose I don’t choose to give you any answer to-night 2” “Well, no answer this evening will mean ‘no’ to me. You have had time to find out if you can love me as go husband, and if you cannot tell me now I'll think you don’t want me, and {ll never ask you again.” ‘Very well,” she said willfully, ‘‘youn needs’ . I==\‘not so anxious to go to! Templeton to live anyhow. I'm satis- fied here. There are plenty of young men who'd be glad enough to come here to live as father wishes. You are the only one that refuses to, and I'm sure no one is trying to compel yon. Why, even Reginald Brown, with all his money and his fine house, was here this afternoon, and told me he was will- ing to come any time.” ‘“‘Reginald Brown,” contemptuously. Brown was the richest young man of the neighborhood, and therefore con- sidered the best catch. It was asserted that Mary Graham would never marry Blake as long as there was a chance of capturing Brown, and the former well knew of such opinion. Brown uad been West for a number of years, end there had been whispers of wild, if not criminal, doings there, but, in view of | his financial worthiness, they remained whispers and finally died away. ‘“Take care what you say about him,” said the girl, a note of alarm escaping her. ‘‘He was here to-day, as 1 said, and he is very bitter against you. He did not ‘threaten you openly, but he said many things to show that he hates you and that he means to be even with you for the snub yon gave him at the | meeting last week.” | “Just like the coward,” Blake said angrily, ‘‘to come with his threats to a woman. Why doesn’t he come to me and make them?” | “Reginald Brown is 8 man not to be defied,” Mary said, putting down her knitting to conceal the trembling of her hands, ‘‘and you had best not be so outspoken. If he should hear you, you might regret it.” “‘Pshaw,”” he cried impatiently, “I’m not afraid of him. If you want hia Mary, just say so; don’t try to scare m2 away.’’ She looked doubtfully at him a m™mo- ment: then anger flashed over her face, and she said : “I’m not trying to scare you away. Mr. Brown has probably the same right to consideration as you. He was here to-day, as I have said, just as you came to-night, to get a final an- swer from me.” he exclaimed “And what answer did you give him?’ he asked impulsively. | “Have you aright to ask that? But I will tell you anyhow. I gave him the same answer I will give you. I will take my own time to answer. I won't give it to anyone until. I am ready. I have no answer to give you to-night. That is your answer.” The young n:an¥rose slowly, took his hat from the table and walked toward the door. Deep despondency was up- on his face as he turned there, and said : “Mary, 1 see it all now. You love Brown. You love him when he comes to you, trying to win you by threats of a rival. That isn’t manly.” ‘“‘Haven’t you done just as much? You have called him names to-night.” “He deserves them. I don’t fear his threats and I'm going to leave you to him. TI’ll take the liberty, though, of saying that you’ll never be happy with him. I repeat that he is a cow- ard. Good-bye.” He turned again, and, with sudden impulse she moved one hasty step toward him, but determination came back to her face, and she restrained her impulse and let him go out. He hastened down the walk to the road, and turned aside into the path leading past Blackman’s Gully. Mary walked back to the chair and resumed her knitting, but soon let it fell to the floor. She was restless: looking into the fire a moment, then rising and walking to and fro. Once she put on her shawl and a red hood and stepped to the door, but there she stopped, took them oif, and with a forced laugh said: ‘‘Nonsense, it was only imagination, or the frost on the pane,” and sat down again by the fire. “Of course it was only the frost,” she repeated. ‘I am like a child. But I didn’t do wrong. If he is so in- dependent about not wanting to come here to live, I can be independent, too. And then the way he demanded my answer. I just won’t stand it, and Ti-—- She was interrupted by the distant crunch of the frozen snow under run- ning steps. They came rapidly near- er, and when they turned into the yard, sire leaped up and stood ready to receive the comer. Her father hur- ried in, his face pale and startled. ‘Mary, get a bed ready at once,” he said. ‘“There have been terrible doings this night.” “What?” she asked forbodingly. “You will know soon. A man has been thrown over into Blackmean’s Gully. As I was coming home I saw him lying part way down the steep side, where he had lodged against a tree. It’s mighty lucky it’s moon- light, or he'd have frozen to death, if he’s not already. I roused the neigh- bors and they're bringing him here. Be quick and prepare the bed.” “Father,” she asked, tremulously catching his hands, ‘‘tell me right out. It’s James; I know it’s James. Isn’t it?” ‘Yes, it’s James,” The willfulness with which she had driven him away died now like a spark on the hearth, and gave place to an anxiety which would have rendered her helpless to get ready for his coming had not her father sternly bade her obey. The unconscious man was brought in and placed in the bed.: While a physician, who had accompanied the carriers, was examining his injuries, Mary followed the men down stairs. She was thoroughly active and earnest now, and calling their attention in the sitting-room, she said : ‘‘Men, Reginald Brown has done this. I know it. He was here this afternoon and he threatened Mr. Blake. Mr. Blake was here to-night, and when I told him of Brown’s threats he called him a coward. At the mo- { ment he called him a coward I saw a face in the window there. I told my- of the frost on the pane, but mow I know it was Brown looking in. He heard Mr. Blake call him a coward, and he has pushed him into the gully for that and other reasons. Go and do your duty.” The accusation was as a draft of air upon their smouldering hatred of Brown. The whispers of the life he had led in the West sounded again in their ears as loud corroborating voices. There was not a man in the crowd tc whom James Blake had not shown hil fairness and generosity. Of cours the scoundrel Brown had committe¢ this deed. He had thought to cove: the act under the probability that s man could easily slip into the gully on such an icy night. One of the men, 8 burly, resolute fellow, who had often denounced Brown, constituted himself leader and marched the crowd off te Brown's residence. Notwithstanding his protestations of innocence, he was rudely taken from the house, hurried before a Justice, and lodged in jail to await the result of Blake's injuries. These were a broken leg and rib, and an internal injury which the doctor pronounced serious. In addition, ke had been almost frozen. Had he not prov- identially lodged against a tree, he would have been dashed to pieces on the rocks in the gully, or, escaping these, would surely have perished in the awful cold of the night. The nar- rowness of the escape sent a shudder through all the community, and as the facts of the case were freely and closely discussed, opinion as to Brown’s guilt became fixed, and indignation increased as the horrors of a lonely death in Blackman’s Gully were graphically de- tailed. Meanwhile, with remorseful solici- tude, Mary Graham watched over James through the long hours of un- consciousness. He was near death; but at last one day, when she and her father sat by the hearth, talking in alternate hope and despair, the doctor came down from the sickroom and'told them that the young man would live, that he had just come out of a quiet sleep; and that, in view of theserious- ness of the charge against Brown, a question as to his guilt would not harm the sufferer. Mary and her father ascended to the sickroom, and James feebly welcomed them. ‘“James,” said the farmer, ‘do not excite yourself at the question I am going to ask. You know, I suppose, that you were found down in Black- man’s Gully. A man is in jail accused of pushing youn down, and a word from you will decide his guilt. - Did Regi- nald Brown push you into the gully?” “Brown push me into the gully?” Blake repeated, weakly, but in great surprise. ‘*“Why, what made you think that? = Of course he did not. I was careless, and I slipped on the ice and fell dowh myself.” Farmer Graham hastened away, and James, reaching out his trembling hand, asked: “Mary, I know I mustn’t talk, but how about my answer? Areyouready yet?” > “Oh, James, how cruel I was to you,” was all she could say; but he knew from it what the joyful answer was-—an answer which he was only too glad to meet by relinquishing his re- solution not to come and live on the farm. —Yankee Blade. ee errr Cast-Iron Pillars. ¢“Have you ever noticed,” said a St. Louisan, ‘those massive iron pillars now standing erect in the basement of the new Planters’ House? Well, did you ever stop to think of the immense weight they will be compelled to sup- port steadily for many, many years? Oh, you have? But I suppose you have thought the manufacturers just made those pillars and sold them with- out knowing anything about how much weight they would bear or how long they would bear it. Let me tell you about that. ‘Those pillars are cast in the same manner as cast-iron stoves—by running the liquid metal into sand molds; but alongside of each pillar is cast an iron bar from the same metal. The bar is precisely an inch square and flve and one-half feet in length. When cold it is subjected to a very simple test. Fach end of the bar is placed upon a table and weights are suspended from the centre by a rope. It must bear a tensile weight of 500 pounds to the square inch. The test may begin with 400 pounds and be gradually in- creased until the bar is found to be perfectly supporting the required weight. If it breaks, for instance, at 480 or 490 pounds, then the pillar cast from the pot of metal which . cast the bar is discarded, broken up and put into the pot again, with more pig iron added. The pillars, you know, are largely made from scrap iron, and the manufacturers cannot know the strength of the cast until it is tested. The addition of pig iron, in the event of failure, brings the cast up to the standard. ‘Six or eight of the pillars designed for the new Planters’ House had to be recast iv this way.”—St. Louis Repub- lic. ’ Ee Growth of a Snake’s Rattle, The growth of the rattle of the rat- tlesnake has been studied by Doctor Feokistow, who finds that tne rattle is frequently shed; and, after being shed (his snakes were kept in a very warm room), in three or four months two rattles were present, their appear- ance having nothing to do with the casting of the skin. The snakes were made to register the vibrations of the rattle on smoked paper, and it was found that the vibrstion was a com- pound one, consisting of the vibration of the tail as a whole, and of the rattle independently of the tail vibrations. The approximate figures of vibrations were for the tail seventy-five, of the rattle 110 a minute.=New York Inde- salf at tka time it was =alr the shape pendent. ' RAN FROM IMAGINARY GYPSIES AND KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS. THE INDICTMENTS QUASHED. THE DELAMATERS WILL NOT SUFFER WRECKING THE MEADVILLE BANK. MeapviLnLe.—In the Court of Quarter Sessions here Judze Henderson tiled opin- ions quashing all the indictments, nine in number, against the Delamaters for em- bezzelment. The Courts action is severely criticised by the depositors of the wrecked bank. FOR REC WAS DROWNED. Huntinepox—Glen Dewey, aged 6 years, of Paradise Furnace, while running from im- aginary gypsies, fellin Big “rough creek and was drowned. THE DEADLY OIL CAN AGAIN. GrEENsBURG.—The other night a 13-year- old daughter of John Griffith, living near Ligonier, lost her life while attempting ta kindle a fire by the aid of kerosene. The can exploded, her clothes took fire and she burned to death. Mrs. Jack Rinry and Mrs. T. McDonough, of Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland county were sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and undergo imprisonment for three months for illegal liquor selling. J. Nugget was fined #500 and six months to jail for the same offense. AN epidemic similar to the distemper is afflicting the cattle in the vicinity of Espey- ville, Mercer county. A large number of animals have died and about 50 are serious- ly sick with the mysterious disease. Ar Pottstown. John Jones has been bun- coed out of $2,500 by three strangers. They represented themselves as book agents and sons of bankers in Norristown. The victim i3 70 years of age. AtHomestead the 33-inch mill has broken the record. Friday a finish beam 185 feet long was rolled; 119 feet was the highest record before. ELMER BrAIr was run down by a Penn- sylvania Company car at 2 New Castle street crossing. Blair lived near Stoneboro. He died in a few hours. THE comptroller of the currency autho- rized the First National bank of ~ Verona, Allegheny county to commence business on $50,000 and with the following otficers: R. B. Elwood, President; George S. Marcum, cashier. TroyMas Roppy, attorney for the Dela- mater creditors, declared he will ask for new indictments from the present Crawford county grand jury. The creditors are ang- ry at the new turn of affairs. Six valuable cows belonging to Manager Taylor, of the Robesonia Iron Company Reading, were killed by order of the Stare veterniary surgeon, They were afflicted with pleuro-pueumonia. TrOMAS MCINTYRE, aged of 14, of Whit- ney, carelessly handling a revolver and the weapon discharged, the ball taking effectfin his side. producing a probably fatal wound. By a majority of 638, the voters of Hunt- ingdon decided to bond the indebtedness of the town by an aeditional $50,000 for street improvements. The entire town will be macadamized. Micrakrn DrLvroxN, a Philadelphia & Irie railroad watchman, shot and fatally wounded Patrick McSwiggan at Erie. Mc- Swiggan attacked the watchman because he had interfered with a man who was taking company coal and was beating him when the watchman shot his assailant twice, onca in the head and once in the breast. PENNSYLVANIA STATE LEAGUE. The following table shows the standing of the state base ball league: WwW IL prot Ww LL Pcl Easton... 7 1 .875/Harrisb’g 4 4 .500 Johnsto'n 9 2 -8lnScranton . 4 6 .400 Allento'n 5 3 .625/Danville.. 1 125 Altoona.. 6 4 2600! York. ee 0 .000 Pennsylvania Legislature. SEVENTY-SECOND Day.—In the Senate to. night these house bills passed finally: To establish boards of arbitration to settle ques- tions of wages and other matters of variance between capital and labor; to provide for more effectual protection of the public, and relative to appointment of special deputies, marshals or policemen by sheriffs and mayo s. In the house nearly 100 bills passed first reading. Nothing further of importance done in either branch of the Legislature, and both houses adjourned earlier than us- ual. SEVENTY-THIRD DAv.—In the senate to. day these House bills were passed finally; To enable borough councils to establish boards ot health, to authorize the election of a chief burgess tor three years in the several boroughs, who shall not be eligible for the next succeeding term of office; to es- tablish a medical council and three State boards of medical examiners and to provide for the examination and licensing of prac- titioners of medicine and surgery, and to further regulate the practice of medicine and surgery. These senate bills passed finally: To give additional protection to women and children in mercantile indus- tries and manufacturing establishments; to require pawnbrokers to make daily reports of the number and character of articles re- ceived by them to the proper police depart- ments; to more clearly define the value of policies of insurance issued by life insurance companies doing business in this State. The senate pa-sed the Farr free-text book bill on third reading, and it now goes to the governor. The bill provides that the books now in the hands ot the pupils shall not be discarded for new books, which will prevent extravagance. The measure embodies the Philadelphia system, which has been in practice for seventy-five years, and which 138 commended by educators throughout the country, The measure is to be follow- ed with an appropriation of $500,000, which will be in addition to the 810.000,000 to the public schools the next ten years. The bill is unquestionably one of the most import- art that has passed this legislature. The senate bill to exempt from the pay- ment of merchantite licenses all dealers in merchandise whose annual sales are less than £3,000 was defeated. These house bills passed finally: To pro- hibit persons. by sale,gift or otherwise, from furnishing cigarettes containing tobacco or cigarette papers to minors and providing penalties. ‘To secure to mechanics journey- men and laborers the right to file liens against real estate for the amount of wages due for work or labor done in and about the construction, alteration or ° repairing thereof. For the first time in many a session, a revenue bill has been defeated in the House The Niles bill came up this morning on special order tor third reading and final passage, and was laid out by a very decisive vote of 120 to 69. ‘I'wo road bills passed the house finally to-day. Nesbit's measure car- ries an appropriation of $1,000.000, and pro- vides for a county supervisor; township raad taxes to be paid in cash and State ap- propriation to be distributed according to the number of miles of road in the county. It imposes a full tax of ¥1 on every inhabi- tant and repeals all local laws. The bill passed, yeas 106, nays 51. The Losch road bill skinned through by a bare constitution- al majority. It enables the taxpavers of townships and road districts to contract for - making roads at their own expense and pay- ing salaries of township or road district of. ficers, thereby preventing the levy and col. lection of road tax therein. The Marshall bill repealing the act of 1833 to prevent con- solidation of pipe line companies was de- feated. The legislature has fixed on noon, June 1, as the day for tinal ment. Thursday adjour SevexTY-Fourtit DAv.—In the Senate ilis bill was passed finally authorizing water companies to relocate roads destroyed and to acquire land to preserve water supply from contamination. These also passed finally: For establishment of state naval militia: for preservation of county records; to authorize county commissioners to procure, bind and preserve weekly newspapers published in their counties; for punishment and preven- tion of cruelty to animals: to require public records to be kept in English laneuage; to authorize notaries public to administer oaths in divorce proceedings; to empower courts of quarter sessions to tix place of holding general elections. Senator Markley of Montgomery, is de- termined that the management of the State hogpitals shall be sxamined, and to-day ne introduced in the Senate a resolution havi :g this object in view. The governor's veto of his resolution to investigate the Warren in- sane hospital has evidently not discouraged him, for he is confident that the resolution will go through the legislature and receive the sanction of the governor. Farr’s compulsory education bill was pass- ed finally by the senate to-dav and is now readv tor the governor's consideration. After some routine business the Senate ad- jonrned, In the house these bills passed finally: To provide for insurance of the public build- ings; to authorize retention of the two mast- er roll clerks in adjutant-gezeral's depart- ment, making an appropriation of $169,700 to the We tern penitentiary. ° At the night session of the house a large number of appropriation bills passed second reading. ‘Ihe Governor has signed these bills: To prohibit members of boards of control of school districts in cities of the second class from ho'ding any office of emolument un- der or being employed by said boards; to empower councils to increase the maximum license of transient retail merchants in cities, boroughs and towns; to prohibit the payment of the expenses of taking out naturalization papers by members and officers of political organizations and by candidates; to prevent deception and fraud by owner or agents who may have control of any stallion kept for service. The senate bill to prevent and punish the loan, gift, sale or distribution of indecent writings or pictures, and to authorize their seizure, was reported tavorably. The bill to establish an industrial school for soldiers’ orphans passeed second reading in the house. It carries an appropriation of ¥210,000. Mr. Boyer's bill to tax inheritances other than collateral, which it is estimated would swell the revenues of the State $500,000 a year, was passed finally. Mr, Wertheimer’'s bill, permitting distill- ers to sell liquors in original packages of not less than twenty gallons without license, was defeated by a vose of 75 to 72 this morn- ing, but the vote was reconsidered after noon and the bill passed, receiving only the necessary 102 votes. The house concurred in the senate amend- ments to the medical examiners’ bill and it has gone to the governor, the house then adjourned. Gov. Pattison sent two vetoes to the house to-night. One of these was on the bill an- thorizing the sheriff of Philadelphia to ad- vertise sales in three daily papers. The other veto was of the bill for the publication of the history of the birds and mammals of Pennsyivania in the qua terly report of the state board of agriculture. : SEVENTY-FirTH DAY. — The Senate ad- journed until Monday evening to-day after a two-hours’ session, because of the small- ness of the number of bills on the calendar. These house bills passed finally: To en- ¢ourage and authorize the formation of co- operative banking associations where the profits derived from the business after pay- ing all legitimate expenses shall accrue to the depositors and borrowers of the associa- tion in proportion to the deposits or loans; 10 repeal the act approved April 1, 1854, entitled, An act supplementary to an act re- lating to roads, highways and bridges: to regulate and establish the fers to be charged by justices of the peace, aldermen, magis trates and constables. The Losch Arbitration bill passed the Senate finally today, but one vote being cast against it. It provides that in case of such disputes either or both parties thereto may apply to the Court of Common Pleas for the appointment of a boarp of arbitra- tion. If the Court considers the matter of sutficient importance to warrant such ac- tion, it may issue an order to both parties to chouse three arbitrators. each, the Court to appoint three more, or, if one side re- fuse to choose representstives, the Court shall appoint six. The board thus con- stituted shall have power to send for per- sons, books and papers, and wilful failure to appear and testify is made a misdemean- or, punishable by fine and imprisonment. The finding of the board shall be filed with the Court. While the law makes arbitration compulsory, neither party thereto is bound to accept the decision, the only object of the law being to lay before the pubiic the facts in the dispute, in the hope that public opinion thus informed in the case will bring about an amiciable settlement. In the house the amendment or the sen. ate tothe Farr compulsory education bill, prescribing the manner in which it shall be proved thata child attends private school was concurred in. A communication re- ceived from the governor announcing his approval of these bills: Making it a misde- meanor for any person to represent an un- authorized or fictitutous insurance com- pany in this state; to authorize the superin- tendent of public instruction to grant teach- ers permanent certificates to graduates of recognized literary and scientific colleges;to provide for the election, qnalification and compensation of auditors in independent school districts; to protect life and limb of those employe | in the contruction of new buildings; to authorize corporations organ- iz2d for profit to pension employes; repeal- ing that part of the bill dividing cities into three classes which authorizes councils to draw by lot yearly certain municipal bonds; to enable borough councils to establish boards of health. The governor's objections tothe bills pro- viding for the publication of a history of Pennsylvania Di and mammals in the quarterly reports of the state board of agri- culture and relating to the publication of sheriff's sales in the Philadelphia papers were sustained. These bills passed finally: To repeal seventh section of an act to enlarge jurisdic- tion of justices of the peace in Erie county; to repeal bounty for destruction of foxes in Fayette county; to repeal act of 1846, which relates to roads and duties of road commis- sioners in Erie county; to repeal bounty for the killing of foxes and mink in Greene county; to provide for the creation and regulation of municiral liens and the pro- ceedings for the collection thereof. To pre- vent the selling and hawkieg of merchan- dise, wares and other goods in cities, bor- oughs and townships within the State with- out a license; to authorize the erection and maintenance of eel weirs and fish baskets for a limited period each year for four years; to extend the provisions of the me- chanics’ lien law so as to include servant girls, washerwomen, clerks and others in its operations; to repeal the act increasing the pay of the auditors and commissioners of Crawford covnty and the fees of the di- rectors of the poor of that county,the house then adjourned. SevENTY-S1XTir DAY.—Senate was not in session. In the House Mr. Talbot, chairman of the committee on elections, introduced a bill to allow each of the contestants and contestees in the four election contests be- fore the house $1,000. Senator Meredith's bill to authorize street railway companies to change their route, and to validate any such changes heretofore made, was reported favorably, as were senate bills to protect trade union lahels and to provide for the incorporation of boulevard companies. Among the senate bills pas-